Jul
05
Jul
04
ROKC has managed to get to NARA and get a few boxes shown with HSCA documents of some of the TSBD employees, and we found a few bits of interest. It was surprising to see that certain folders were kept in the CIA classified section. As of now I have no knowledge whether these are to be released next year.
Danny Garcia Arce in his HSCA statement: “Lee Oswald rode down in the elevator with us…..” which contradicts the whole elevator race story. They may have surely had some of these races, but not at that time.
Danny Garcia Arce statement HSCA 1978. Click pic. to enlarge.
Roy Truly’s and Marrion Baker’s FBI statements from Sept 23rd 1964 were rushed back to Washington, probably to be there to be included with the Warren Report which was printed already and to be handed to LBJ the next day. They wanted to make sure these statements were back in time. The timing of this is nothing short of amazing.
Cover letter to have the FBI statements by Roy Truly and Marrion Baker being sent back to Washington a.s.a.p. Click pic. to enlarge.
Jun
11
Thanks to Malcolm Blunt for handing me this document from the HSCA while at the DPUK Canterbury seminar last April. This CIA document, sadly undated, shows Lee Oswald’s activities from Nov 22nd to the 24th.
The fact that the CIA went through all the witness statements and testimony and put them in chronological order is interesting by itself. There are even two pages with diagrams of who was were.
Interesting indeed.
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
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- Activities Oswald, Lee Nov 22-24 1963
May
10
Some Shel Hershorn shots, quite rare (not any more :) ) and show a possible sniper position, which has a way better view than the so called sniper’s nest on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository.
I have no idea when and why they went into the DalTex building to take these pix of a possible sniper’s position.
ROKC Exclusive scans from the Richard E. Sprague collection at NARA.
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I asked Bob Prudhomme what rifle was being used in these shots and he replied the following:
“This is a sporterised 6.5mm Carcano, but not the short rifle model that Oswald allegedly used. This is a sporterized 6.5mm Carcano M91 (or M91/41) long rifle. Three things give it away.
1. The distinctive protruding Carcano magazine.
2. The very obvious split bridge on the receiver, requiring the bolt handle to be almost vertical when extracting a cartridge.
3. The M91 and M91/41 were made with straight bolt handles. If you look closely, you can actually see where a gunsmith has heated this handle up with a torch, and bent it downward, giving it a more sporty look.
I might also point out that, if this is a Carcano rife (and I believe it is one), there is no way a scope could be mounted directly above the receiver, as shown here. It would have to be offset to the left of the receiver, as can be seen on C2766.
There are two reasons for having to offset the scope to the left on a Carcano.
1. As I pointed out, the bolt handle stands straight up when extracting an empty cartridge, and would hit a scope directly above the receiver. Even the bent down handles will interfere with a scope.
2. As the Carcano must be loaded with a clip, there is no way a clip can be inserted into the magazine with a scope directly above the receiver.
Then there is the issue as to when these were taken, well….at the education forum the discussion pointed to an old thread started by Don Roberdeau about Mack White who was in Dealey Plaza as an eleven year old.
I quote: “At one point, my father pointed out the so-called “sniper” window to me. As I was looking up, my eye wandered away from the window to the fire escape on the building across the street–the Dal-Tex building-where I saw two men taking turns looking through the scope of a rifle mounted on a tripod.
I was alarmed. “What are they doing?” I asked.
“It’s part of the investigation,” said my father.
So the police were checking out an alternative sniper perch. Evidently, that morning, there was still something resembling a real investigation. The investigation, of course, would end the next day with Oswald’s death.”
May
01
I went through some of the contact sheets ROKC managed to snag from Richard E Sprague’s NARA collection.
Here is another batch.
All photos: Jim Murray.
Apr
30
What are the odds that both of Truly’s secretaries have the same conversation with the TSBD’s vice president just after the shooting?
Pauline Sanders who stood on top of the steps of the Texas School Book Depository, and Mrs Robert Reid who stood with Truly and Campbell near Elm St. both discussed the trajectory of where the shots came from just after the shooting, but with a few neat little twists.
Reid makes mention of it in her handwritten statement of Nov 23rd 1963, but there is one important fact that seems to be overlooked by many:
In it she says “I remarked to Mr. Campbell who was standing near by that I thought that the shots had come from our building. But I heard someone else say no, I think it was further down the street“
In the FBI affidavit of Nov. 26th 1963 there is no mention of this conversation at all. Nor is there any mention of this in the Secret Service Report of Dec 4th.
And when it is time for her testimony in front of the Warren Commission that ‘someone else’ who replied to her on Nov. 22nd has become O.V. Campbell instead!
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Pauline Sanders makes mention of the O.V. Campbell conversation on Nov. 24th in her FBI statement, and she does not repeat it anywhere else nor does she get called up to testify so that’s that.
But Sanders does have a telephone conversation with Reid and a truckload of hearsay is being relayed (with regards Oswald’s so called encounter with Reid in the 2nd floor office). And the whole thing is jotted down in support of Reid’s and Sander’s testimony.
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- Handwritten affidavit Mrs R Reid
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- Pauline Sanders FBI affidavit FBI Nov 24 1963
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- Pauline Sanders FBI affidavit FBI Nov 24 1963
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- FBI Statement R Reid Nov 26 1963
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- Mrs R Reid Secret Service Report Dec 4 1963
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- Mrs R. Reid WC Testimony
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Apr
27
DPUK Canterbury Seminar 2016 Videos.
DPUK Canterbury Seminar 2016 cake.
Here are the videos of the Dealey Plaza UK Canterbury 2016 Talks.
I have kept my 2 hour talk offline, as in about a month there will be a set of movies that will be very similar to this talk, you will have to do with my moderated talk with Malcolm Blunt.
This interview will also be screened at next week’s LoneGunmanPodcast where I will be talking about the Dealey Plaza UK seminar and a few bits about Prayer Man and the up and coming movies.
Saturday April 23rd.
Alaric Rosman – Confusion Over The Rifle.
Larry Hancock – National Security Response on Nov . 22nd v Other Major Events.
Paul Brown – Fingerprints Of Intelligence Part 2.
Sunday April 24th.
Barry Keane – Address in Memory of JFK.
Malcolm Blunt Q&A with Bart Kamp.
Greg Parker – Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cold War.
Bill Beadle – Presidential Assassinations
Jean Shields – Friends & Family.
Apr
22
This coming weekend, as mentioned before I will be giving a talk at the Dealey Plaza UK conference in Canterbury, and the next day I will moderate a Q&A with Malcolm Blunt.
I have worked on the software that I used for the movie and there will be more sources to show for the fakery of the 2nd floor lunchroom encounter.
It is my intention to show more media on Lovelady, Shelley, Molina, the 4th floor ladies, the 5th floor African Americans and Roy Truly.
And the interrogations of Oswald and the main players involved with that , this will be discussed in more detail.
The Camera section will be more concise, but one cool revelation is to be added about the history of the discovery of Prayer Man. This has not been shared publicly yet.
Finally the search for the images gets a bit of an update.
I am partly going to use this talk to see where to improve before I start making new movie clips which I hope to make a beginning with in May and release these over this Summer they shall be released in approx. 25 minute segments.
In the mean time I am looking forward to two days of JFK nattering and downing a few jars! I shall be reporting about this event next week. I also hope to publish the talk with Malcolm Blunt as well.
