Feb
09
As I have mentioned before on the Prayer Man FB page I have been quite busy with putting a new website together for Dealey Plaza UK. Part of that website was trying to put some archives in there as well. It started with the Harold Rydberg materials, but shortly after I was asked to do the Harry Livingstone archives, or part of that as well. Malcolm Blunt asked me to do this to which I readily agreed. The work is still ongoing and means less online appearances unless there is something worthwhile to make mention of.
This research then also led to me digitising parts of Malcolm Blunt’s old Dallas collection. Malcolm does a lot of deep agency research and the Dallas material is from the period before that when he stayed in Dallas and in Washington in the 90’s.
So here I will show you a note made by Jim Hosty no one else has seen before or even bothered to share or simply overlooked it . It comes from the National Archives and it was Malcolm who found it. Who else as hardly anyone spends any real time at the National Archives in Washington than Malcolm!
Written on the backside of a D.P.D. affidavit sheet of paper, Hosty outlines what Oswald’s movements were and what he said.
Hand written notes by Jim Hosty. Click to enlarge.
What do you think P. stand for? Presidential? Yeah I agree. Presidential parade.
What this document does is:
1/ kills off a so called second floor lunch room encounter.
2/ places Lee Oswald outside while the Presidential motorcade went past the building.
This document is hand in hand with Will Fritz’s handwritten notes that mentions “Out with Bill Shelley in front”
Will Fritz handwritten note of Oswald’s interrogation.. Click pic. to enlarge.
Both attendees to the first interrogation of Lee Oswald wrote down where he claimed he was, not on the 6th floor, not waiting in the lunch room.
But outside with Bill Shelley while the Presidential parade went past.
Lee Oswald is the Prayer Man!
Prayer Man a.k.a. Lee Harvey Oswald. Click pic. to enlarge.
Mar
03
Since August 2017 I came across a few more items so I decided to include these and release this new update. I am honestly not sure whether there is much left to include in this paper. I reckon time will tell. Since getting awarded by Lancer and Dealey Plaza UK this paper has doubled in size. More to read no doubt and more to bitch about by Richard Gilbride and Brian Doyle. Snooch to da mooch darlings ;)
The following has been added:
- More info and a link to Roy Truly’s ‘deleted’ testimony video. Page 4.
- Video link and transcript of an interview with Sylvia Meagher in which she discusses the 2nd floor lunch room encounter in depth. Added on pages 9-11.
- Malcolm Couch still added showing Baker’s bike parked on Elm St. Page 20.
- Detailed drawings of the TSBD front entrance. These were made by the FBI in early Dec. 1963. Pages 30 & 31. Thanks to Gary Murr.
- More testimony and a line of text of Joe Molina added to “Who saw Baker going up the stairs” chapter, page 38.
- Detailed drawings from the FBI on the 2nd floor of the TSBD, pages 63-64. Thanks to Gary Murr.
- Press and Sun-Bulletin Binghamton, New York · Sun, Dec 8, 1963 article added, page 73.
- Added Martha Reed’s affidavit in the chapter Oswald’s location during the so called 2nd floor encounter and just after, page 82.
- Added two documents from Arch Kimbraugh’s collection with statements made by Roy Truly on the day he left for his W.C. testimony. Pages 102 and 103. Thanks to Malcolm Blunt.
- Report by Charles Batchelor in the Where did Baker and Truly go after the Encounter chapter. Pages 107-109.
- Jack Revill’s list of all persons’ details taken upon leaving the T.S.B.D. Pages 111 and 112.
- The Carolyn Arnold sub-chapter has been re-written in part and has a few more photos/graphics/statements/book excerpts added. Pages 124-139.
- FBI report with the timings of the re-enactment. Pages 159-161. Thanks to Malcolm Blunt.
The paper can be viewed HERE.
Sep
13
Thanks to Denis Morissette and Steve Roe and our ROKC scan we have a James Bookhout ID.
Awesome work lads!
1968 newspaper clipping, thanks to Steve Roe.
James Bookhout (light suit and smoking a pipe). Pic Jim Murray-Black Star. ROKC Scan from the Richard E Sprague collection at the National Archives.
Sep
05
For those not knowing: I have been in the hospital a lot. I had eleven (!) operations on my foot from June 8th and in that period I was either in a hospital bed or heavily sedated in bed at home. I used this time period mainly to work on the next paper, when I had the clarity and will power to do so. Glad I did spend all that time on it, as it turned out to be much of a bigger mission than originally anticipated. The amount of ‘players’ of various law enforcement agencies involved and the legal side of this subject proved to be daunting tasks to take care of.
Just over 300 pages and filled to the brim with documentation, photographs and links to many videos about the many participants inside the D.P.D. bureau while Lee Oswald was in custody and being interrogated. Originally believed that there was not much around and that this would be the thinnest chapter of the 4, but due to the many people involved its size increased considerably and a picture has manifested itself nevertheless. And that is the main point of this excercise, to show a better overall picture of this particular situation inside the JFK Assassination.
You can download the Anatomy Of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Interrogations paper: HERE.
48 MB big!!
Jan
13
Robert Hughes
On Nov 26th 1963 Robert Hughes hands over his film which he shot while the motorcade was turning from Houston on to Elm St. on Nov 22nd 1963.
The FBI initially investigates and reckons there is a person visible in the window where the so called sniper’s nest is located. But they change their mind once the film is being studied in Washington.
Although the FBI had the Hughes film in its possession 4 days (Nov 26th 1963) after the Big Event, the WC decided not to use it. This is an important FACT! Actually the WC barely used anything from that day while they were aware of most photographs and film footage they choose not to admit it into evidence.
In a memo dated Nov 26th it says it appears that there may be someone in the 6th floor window.
This is repeated in a memo on Nov 28th by A. Rosen to Alan Belmont
Alan Belmont writes on Nov 28th, the same day he received the memo from Rosen without any further evidence besides jumping on the band wagon that he can see one person in the window.
A memo by Robert Barrett makes the same claim, let’s also add that this particular finding comes from Dallas first and foremost. The FBI lab in Wa. has not had their hands on the Hughes film yet and investigate this particular claim. And this shift from Dallas to Washington is where things seem to change!!!
The FBI makes 10 copies of the film according to the memo on Dec 9th (check out all the signatures!) and guess what? They reported they could NOT SEE ANY HUMAN FORM in that window.
But it is getting better! In a memo (which includes Belmont as one of the recipients btw!) from Dec 10th by W.D. Griffth it is repeated that no human form is visible.
Not only does the FBI investigate this in WA. and comes to the conclusion I just mentioned.. They want a second opinion and the FBI sends it to the Navy Photographic Interpretation Centre and they conclude the same.
Richard E. Sprague adds on that there is no rifle showing either. From a timing perspective this makes it rather difficult to conclude that 3 shots have been fired from that very same window.
Memo Nov 26th 1963
FBI Memo Rosen to Belmont Nov 28th 1963
Memo by Robert Barrert Nov 30th 1963
Memo Dec 9th FBI-10 copies of Hughes film made
Memo Dec 9th 1963-1
Memo Dec 9th 1963-2
FBI Report stating they can not see any human form in Hughes-1
FBI Report stating they can not see any human form in Hughes-2
WD Griffth Memo Dec 10 1963
Sprague, Richard E., Monographs
Oct
03
Stan Dane’s book is out and I am jealous, the man is a machine!!!!
Stan, it’s a fabulous piece of work and a welcome addition to JFK Assassination research. Anyone whois interested in JFK assassination research should get this, I mean $ 9.00, it’s a steal.
Get it!!!!
Buy the Kindle edition HERE
Print editions to follow.
