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Hi Everyone, I’ve been following this forum for quite a while now and always found it educational and insightful so recently decided to join in order to more directly engage with sone of the experts and researchers here. I recently managed to get what I was told was the only copy of “Reasonable Doubt” in the Irish library system and had a few questions regarding Henry Hurt’s work. Given the later ARRB revelations and other discoveries and information I wonder if some of these points have been refuted or if more context has been learned. Hoping authors/researchers familiar with these key areas like@James DiEugenio , @Bill Simpichand @Larry Hancock may be able to help. Apologies if this is a large post but I’d appreciate any information regarding these 12 points: 1) is Mr Hurt and members of his research team still alive, and are their archive/research materials available anywhere? 2) While Robert Easterling in general lacks credibility is there any aspect of his story that Hurt corroborated still considered viable? For example as Easterling potentially driving Oswald from New Orleans? 3) Page 168 in regards the Tippit murder Hurt quotes an unnamed officer: “Most Dallas policemen interviewed by the author either do not want to discuss the Tippit case or say that they have no reason to doubt the official version of their comrade's death. However, one officer, now retired, asserted flatly and without prompting that he believed Tippit was killed as a result of a volatile personal situation involving his lover and her estranged husband. He added, "It would look like hell for Tippit to have been murdered and have it look like he was screwing around with this woman. . Somebody had to change the tape. Somebody had to change thecartridge hulls. Some- body had to go to the property room and change those hulls and put some of Oswalds hulls in there--hulls that fit Oswald's gun. This retired police officer claims that others on the force share his beliefs about the Tippit murder--and that some of these policemen will be inclined to talk about it once they have retired and their pensions are secure.” Was this officer ever later identified, and have any other DPD members ever made similar remarks since (on or off the record)? 4) what is the current consensus on the relevance of Oswald and Ruby both having post office boxes having post office boxes at the Dallas Terminal Annex, the closure of Oswald’s New Orleans post office box, and the undelivered message to Ruby “*An odd message from Chicago for Jack Ruby reached Dallas about 9:00 AM. on Sunday. The message was from an officer of the American Guildof Variety Artists, the mob-dominated union that normally provided Ruby with strippers. The message, never delivered,from the officer to Ruby was: "Tell Jack not to send the letter today, it would be awkward in Chicago.' This was before Ruby's sudden infamy. The message has never been adequately explained.” 5) Has there been any further evidence about Louise Latham and her involvement in getting Oswald employment? “Then Mrs. Latham made several curious statements that seemed almost defensive. She said that she interviewed Oswald "five or six times" and that "I never sent him for a job he didn't get." There is no record that Louise Latham ever sent m Oswald to any job other than the one at Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall. Mrs. Latham, a well-educated woman who had worked successfully in New York and Princeton, New Jersey, before going to Dallas declined to elaborate. Mrs. Latham said that she had never been interviewed on this subject by anyone” 6) on pg 238 Hurt relays the story of an anonymous marine who served with Oswald who was recruited for intelligence purposes. Has this Marine ever subsequently been identified? “There is at least one example of U.S. intelligence recruiting a Marine out of the service in order to work in Cuba, a Marine who served with Oswald in Japan. This man, who is credible on other points, told the author in interviews between 1977 and 1982 that the cover name of the group he worked for was Security Entorcement. He and his fellow mercenaries were never sure of the identity to the real organization, although he said they believed it to be the CIA. Certainly the organizations description sounds much like that of various CIA-sponsored groups now known to have been working for the overthrow of Castro during those years. The recruit interviewed by the author is still in this kind of work and has acknowledged his recruitment on the condition his name not be disclosed. His account supports the proposition that U.S. intelligence did, at least in this one instance, recruit a Marine acquaintance of Oswald as he mustered out of the military service.” 7) how credible are Donald E. Deneselya claims about seeing a debrief report on Oswald on his return to the US? 8 ) Has anything interesting ever been discovered about the “Orthodox Old Catholic Church of North America” religious organisation that David Ferrie belonged to? 9) Has any additional evidence potentially linking Oswald to the Dodd investigation of mail order weapons ever come to light? 10) Are Judge Edward Gillian’s claim that Oswald asked him about LSD considered credible and has anything else been learned? 11) Have the photos claiming to depict a Rambler in Dealy Plaza been debunked? Hurt displays an image of Oswald with his arm around a man Marina is supposed to have described as a friend from Cuba. Hurt implies this man resembles a French OAS agent, has the man ever been conclusively identified? 12) has any additional information regarding Thomas Eli Davis and his potential involvement come to light in later years?

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested at the Texas Theater theater with a re bored Smith & Wesson two inch commando model revolver that had been purchased from Seaport Traders, in California and sent by mail to A.J. Hidell. During an ensuing struggle, Oswald allegedly pulled out this revolver and arresting officers claimed that they heard the hammer from this revolver snap but the gun didn't go off. This has caused some Conspiracy researchers to theorize that Oswald had been given a defective gun that was later switched out with one that works. In 1978 the HSCA firearms panel fired four test cartridges through the Oswald's pistol. Evidently they were unaware that the FBI had fired close to 100 rounds through the gun in an attempt to corroborate if the gun had misfired like the arresting officer claimed, the FBI were unable to make the gun misfire. At the scene of the Officer Tippit shooting two types of bullets were found in Tippit : Four Western .38 special and Remington-Peters. The Western .38 shell casings are made for the revolver and the Remington-Peters are made for a .38 special which is a semiautomatic. Interestingly these shells are different lengths and have different diameters. This has caused conspiracy researchers to hypothesis that someone else was a the scene of the Tippet case, and use witnesses who saw more than one person as corroboration. Dallas police dragged their feet in turning over the shells, when they finally did there were no initials of the officer at the scene on the casings. In this video we will see that some manufactures of the .38 special (semi auto) do and don't fit into the cylinder of the revolver, during firing tests in the video a couple of times, due to length and diameter of the shell, the gun misfires due to a light primer strike due to the round not being meant for the gun and not properly fitting. Thus brings us to two questions does the 1960's Remington-Peters ammo fit in the cylinder? And if it does, does the .38 special (semi auto) ammo cause light primer strikes, and is that the answer to officers claiming they heard the hammer snap in the theater?

This witness fascinates me. She was in Rush to Judgement and then seemingly disappears. Is it true, no researchers would ever be able to track her down? I am curious - did she have kids or relatives that she may have told about what she saw? Is there no obituary or death record for her? Did she run away due to fear or because she wanted to be left alone? I tried to get info on Ancestry.com, and she is like a ghost. An Acquilla Elizabeth Clemons married a Robert Legway prior to 1963 in Dallas. Do we have other witnesses who seemingly disappeared and can not be accounted for in history? There must be a trail or family members to talk to. A lot of key people have passed on, but they left families with possible info. The Tippit case witnesses are extremely compelling because like what Joseph McBride says it's like Rashomon with their descriptions.

and does that stain on the sidewalk where the shooter passed by have anything to do with it...??? https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184765/m1/1/zoom/?resolution=1.5&lat=1512&lon=750

Looking at the Tippit Case from a Different Angle A Theory by Staffan H Westerberg and Pete Engwall The killing of Dallas police officer JD Tippit is one of the undying questions in the JFK research community. To think one could solve the murder is perhaps a bit optimistic after all these years. Tippits death has always been surrounded with mystery and disinformation: Did a jealous husband kill him, or was it a random killing that happened by accident? JD Tippit as a narcotics dealer or a getaway driver for Oswald to the Red Bird Airport? The murder on 10th and Patton is not short of theories, but we think that the Dallas policeman had an important function that day – he was scheduled to die with the sole purpose of becoming the vehicle with which JFK’s killer was to be caught. As it were, before Tippits death the Dallas Police didn’t have any hard evidence to be able to explain to the American people how they were able to arrest Oswald for the murder of the President. Read more

just a little curious item on yet another "mysterious" death... obviously it's probably nothing, but still interesting. An 18 year old friend of JD Tippit's son, soon after riding in a car with him and two others, was shot dead on a sidewalk in Dallas Jan 20, 1968. The shooter then chased the other three in their automobiles, after which the shooter, for some exceptionally stupid reason - or to turn himself in?, returned to the shooting site where the police were investigating. http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg Subject Index Files/T Disk/Tippit J D Son-Brother/Item 03.pdf I'm sure some of you have already seen this. but whatever...

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