Jul
24
About 6 weeks ago I was approached by S.T. Patrick of Midnight Writer News to do an interview for his show after a few weeks we finally managed to do this. Listening back to it one month after I did it I have to say I did not do too bad. I am very critical of myself when I do these things, and the good thing is that after listening to 50 mins of it I haven’t turned it off yet!
I am talking about the research done and of course, the 2nd floor lunch room encounter, T.S.B.D., Dallas P.D. and Prayer Man all pass the avenue during this interview.
A thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Thank you S.T. Patrick.
Go HERE to hear the interview and read up about it on the Midnight Writer News Website.
During the interview I mistakenly refer to me as having received the JFK Lancer Pioneer Award, which is wrong it was the New Frontier Award actually. Apologies for the mix-up.
Jul
09
Oswald in the corridor Nov 22nd, after his Tippit arraignment which was at 7:10 PM.
A week ago I posted a silent version of this video , I then found this one with audio attached to it from a Canadian TV program. And since hearing the audio now, I can safely say that this is the same moment as in the video posted below this one, but all the way from the other side. Kinda cool. This is where it pays of looking and comparing at the film material of those happenings inside that corridor. There was a lot made that day and the weekend after, but so little has been released in decent quality.
This is after Oswald’s arraignment inside Fritz’s office for the Tippit murder.
This door leads to the jail elevator.
Third floor plan Dallas City Hall. Click pic. to enlarge.
And then from that very same door Oswald emerges at about 19:50 hrs, the Patsy sequence. Again requesting legal representation and exclaiming his innocence of shooting The President.
Think about it in a time frame of roughly 40 minutes Lee Oswald, twice mentioned the hearing without legal representation. Not allowing him to have any, and steadfastly denying he shot anyone.
Jun
25
Interesting set. Thanks to Malcolm Blunt for sending me these.
Shanklin to Sorrels and handing over a list of photographers around the crime scene. The list is missing of course.
Gordon Shanklin to Forrest Sorrells. Click pic to enlarge.
Doorway Man discussed with Bill Shelley and Roy Truly.
Doorway man statements by Bill Shelley and Roy Truly Jan 31 1964. Click pic to enlarge.
Doorway man statements by Bill Shelley and Roy Truly Jan 431 1964. Click pic to enlarge.
Oswald’s description over the police radio, most interesting doc.
Gordon Shanklin memo regarding Oswald’s description over the police radio and DPD involvement. Jan 9 1964. Click pic to enlarge.
Gordon Shanklin memo regarding Oswald’s description over the police radio and DPD involvement. Jan 9 1964. Click pic to enlarge.
Gordon Shanklin memo regarding Oswald’s description over the police radio and DPD involvement. Jan 9 1964. Click pic to enlarge.
Jun
21
Here is a nice high res. image of Lee Oswald’s ring from the marines and his bracelet.
Lee Oswald’s Marine Core ring and his bracelet. Pic. courtesy Dallas Municipal Archives. Thanks to Malcolm Blunt. Click to enlarge.
May
27
Greg Parker posted this on FB recently, he pretty much IDed Baker in footage from the evening of the 23rd (about 30 hours after the assassination) of Baker seeing Oswald while he is about to be escorted through the hall and ducks away.
Now let me be very cynical for a change, but if I didn’t know any better then Baker looks at the guy who is being railroaded for the murder of The President, and after what has been going on about the second floor lunch room encounter that had only been public knowledge earlier that day and he cannot bear to look at him any longer after clocking him. That’s what the cynic inside tells me after looking at the man’s body language. I look too much at this stuff, but it’s one of those tells. Like Oswald’s face when he hears “You have been charged for murdering The President”. One of those moments were a picture starts to speak a thousand words.
There has to be more footage of this, as I have never seen this transfer of Oswald on the eve of Nov. 23rd before. It was from a documentary that I only had in a low resolution so never bothered to properly check it myself. Thanks to Greg Parker we all can see Baker on the 23rd no less. Closer inspection also reveals that this encounter is coincidental as Baker just tries to make his way past when the door has just opened with Oswald coming out.
I shall post some screen shots of this footage Greg pointed at. A very short snippet of The Lost JFK Tapes docu.
-
- Marrion Baker Nov 23 1963
-
- Marrion Baker Nov 23 1963
-
- Marrion Baker Nov 23 1963
The video below will play the clip once in real time, and once in a crude slow motion.
Go to the Marrion Baker page to see more pictures.
Before people will bring J.W. Courson into the picture. Well his face shows something of a likeness, but it is not him..
Marrion Lewis Baker, click pic. to enlarge.
May
20
Thanks to Malcolm Blunt I have been handed a document on Wesley Liebeler, who was one of the senior lawyers of the W.C. And although this document has been described at 22november1963.org.uk , there is no active link to the document itself. Liebeler is ploughing through and raises his questions, offers feedback and proposes amendments to Chapter IV of the Warren Report dated Sept. 6th 1964. Compared to the date that the Warren Report was issued to L.B.J. on Sept 24th 1964. Not that much notice was given to Liebeler’s remarks since not a lot changed in those 18 days.
Ladies and gents have a good read, as some of his observations are golden.
What is mentioned by Wesley Liebeler are: the rifle, the finger/palm prints on the boxes, Buell Wesley Frazier, the description of Oswald after his departure from the T.S.B.D., Amos Euins, questioning the 2nd floor encounter, Victoria Adams’ descent, the bus ride, the line-ups, the revolver, the arrest at the T.T., Johnny Calvin Brewer, Walker shooting, Marin Oswald, the rifle scope and its firing tests.
Even though the document is mentioned at the site above, you only get to read a summarisation, whereas now you have the whole thing at your own leisure.
I love the ending of the document: “I forgot to mention that some question might be raised when the public discovers that there was only one eyewitness to the Tippit killing, i/e one person who saw him kill him. All the rest only saw subsequent events. Mrs. Markham is nicely buried there, but I predict not for long.”
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
-
- Wesley Liebeler on Chapter IV of the Warren Report.
May
10
On Fri the 27th the missus and I made our way to Canterbury to attend the 16th DPUK Canterbury seminar. I had a two hour presentation to give on the Saturday and also had scheduled two interviews, one with Malcolm Blunt and the other with John Newman on Sunday. Besides that I managed to get Jim DiEugenio to do his “JFK and his foreign policy” talk. We had some rain but other than that it was ok. Barry Keane and I shared a flat in the centre of Canterbury and we joined the rest of the posse (about a dozen at that time) in the pub for a couple of pints and from thereon we made our way to Pinocchio’s an Italian restaurant where Dealey Plaza UK has been going on the evening before the seminar ever since organising it in in Canterbury.
I myself left a bit earlier than the rest and managed to get really drunk at the flat in the time span of one hour, it took me by surprise to say the least. Waking up the next morning and not remembering how I got to bed at all was already the first indicator of a raging hangover that lasted pretty much all day. And it was not just me, Barry Keane who had the honours of doing the very first talk felt it too ;) But we managed to pull through, there was simply too much at stake. I myself felt like Richard Nixon with that sweaty patch just above my lips and had to wipe it several times while the booze was making its way out through my pores.
Professional indeed….
The whole weekend was great fun and obviously flew by rather quick. I enjoyed the entire program and could I do 4-5 days of this? Easy!
I would like to thank Stuart Galloway, DPUK’s outgoing secretary, for setting the seminar up like he has been doing for the past decade, he did a marvellous job. Thank you Stuart for everything you have done!
Thanks to all the speakers as well for sharing your time and knowledge to us.
The audio of the above interview of Malcolm can also be heard at the The Lone Gunman Podcast with an intro by yours truly.
The John Newman video will be inserted in a few days. But the Lone Gunman Podcast of the audio of this telephone interview can be listened to HERE.
Apr
08
On March 24th Gayle Nix Jackson was kind enough to share her time with about fifteen DPUK members above in the Flying Horse pub. We let her do most of the talking, about her new and above all very good book Pieces of the Puzzle: An Anthology. I recommend it especially for those that read books with a keen interest in the case.
We started with about ten of us and by the end of the talk that had grown into fifteen. As you will be able to hear from the videos we had quite a few laughs, and with the audio difficulties considered we managed to pull of a largely unscripted chat that was of great fun to us all.
Stuart Galloway was kind enough to film the screen of our talk and I took a few quick shots with my iPhone shown below. Enjoy as much as we had two weeks ago.
Finally I will not be posting much until just before Canterbury. I have two Q&As to prepare and sort my own two hour presentation out, and there is loads that needs to be done for it. Busy few weeks ahead. I hope to show a batch of videos of Canterbury in May.
