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Alright!....Robert, if you read this, can you dig up a 1979 obit on our Mr. Reed in the greater,

Ft. Worth area? I've had no luck finding one....so far.

The Panama Canal spillway =

Title: The Panama Canal spillway = el Canal de Panamá spillway ...... Estelle Reed (Mrs. Stuart L. Reed). Mrs. Reed, who has been in charge ...

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00094771/00498 - Cached

http://files.usgwarc...28/gallzb28.txt

BIRTHS 1928, LZ - USGenWeb Archives - census wills deeds genealogy

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... Reed,Estelle Margaret 7-16-1928 F Estelle Chisholm Stuart Leslie Reed

http://wc.rootsweb.a...tchett&id=I0197

Name: Stuart Leslie REED

Sex: M

Birth: 26 JAN 1908 in Fort Dupont, Delaware

Death: 13 DEC 1979 in Glenrose, Texas

So, Reed's father was Charles T. Reed, and Fort Dupont, DE, in 1908, was an active military base.:

http://forum.skyscra...ad.php?t=166243

This Surname is a military/intel....fill in the blank......

namebase has approximately 75 listings under this name

including the

REED FAMILY and

REED FOUNDATION

REED IN JFK FILES

Commission Document 577 - FBI Letterhead Memorandum of 07 Mar 1964 6 pages re: Oswald DALLAS Exhibit D-84 is three enlargements made from 35 mm

transparencies taken by Stuart J. Reed P O Box 196, Balboa Heights Panama Canal Zone depicting the apprehension of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963 in Dallas,

Texas in front of the Texas Theater. made available by Mrs F. A. Holley, 1207 Sunnyside Place daughter of Stuart Reed

[Reed who was from the Panama Canal Zone was the one who took the photos and then gave them to his daughter....

and Oswald 201 file Vol 25 Dyna Color Corp WC Doc says Stuart L Reed 201 file says Stuart J. Reed and Stuart L. Reed, he was staying at the St Charles Hotel in New Orleans notice his profession is not stated....

http://www.maryferre...85&relPageId=85

Personages residing, or more accurately, stationed at Balboa Heights, Panama Canal Zone, have come up before on the Forum

CE2985 page 484 JUDGE REED also stated that he had known that Tippit

had attended the Veteran's Administration Vocational School held in Clarksville, Texas in the 1950's

http://www.maryferre...2&relPageId=520

page 4,

ARRB MD 199 - Article in RT image (March 76, 7992 issue: Vol. 5, No. 7 7) which is a reprint of an Interview of Edward Reed Originally Published in the November 21,1988 Issue of RT image "Radiographer Remembers JFK"

http://www.maryferre...oc.do?docId=730

On November 22, 1963 Edward Reed was a 20 year-old naval hospital corpsman

2nd class

Commission Document 105 - FBI Clements Report of 21 Dec 1963 re: Ruby pg 23

Found in: Warren Commission Documents

FD-302 (R. 3.340) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Doti 12/20/63

Mr CHARLES E REED 2408 Robert Circle Arlington Texas Manager American Casualty & Life Insurance Company 2210 Richard Street

advised he did business with Jack Ruby during the period 1955 to 1958.

http://www.maryferre...17&relPageId=23

page 363, Martha Reed

REED, MARTHA -----

Sources: WC Vol 22, p. 669; CE 1381; CD 706(zz)

Mary's

Comments: TSBD employee standing on Elm EAST of Houston at 12:30 pm, 11/22/63. Witnessed assassination.

REED, STUART L., JR.

Sources: -----

Mary's

Comments: Worked at Terrell State Hospital. He took photos of LHO being taken out of Texas Theater from across street. Wife: Betty. In 1963 and in 1999, Reed is listed at above address?

WYSONG, HARRY EDWARD

Sources: CD 1150, p. 3

Mary's Comments: Married Marilyn Owens (aka Diana Hunter), February 1964. By June 19, 1964, he had committed himself to Terrell State Hospital for "homicidal tendencies."

Warren Commission Hearings, Volume XXI

Price Ex 2-35 - Statements of Parkland Hospital personnel concerning the treatment of President Kennedy and Governor Connally

page 249, hospital to release the body to Miller Funeral Home.

After a brief period the telephone call came through and Sgt Reed and I witnessed the conversation

between Oswald's brother and Mr. Struwe

REED, CAROL (MRS.)

Sources: WC Vol 22, p. 668; CE 1381; CD 706(yy)

Mary's

Comments: Employee of Southwestern Publishing Co. (in TSBD) standing on Elm at 12:30 p.m., 11/22/63. Witnessed assassination.

REED, EDWARD F.

Sources: CD 7, p. 282 (Sibert & O'Neill Report)

Mary's

Comments: Present at JFK's autopsy in Bethesda.

Stuart Reed - he was at Panama Canal Zone furnished Transparencies

of Oswald Arrest in front of Texas Theater, stayed at hotel in New Orleans

then took ship back to Panama after giving slides to his daughter.

See WCD 577

Tom, can you provide a link to a document that states Stuart Reed worked at Terrell State Hospital

mary ferrell's bio page on him says he worked but doe not provide any reference for this claim.....

What is below should be helpful....

http://familytreemak.../COL1-0205.html

Reed, Stuart Leslie 26 January 1906 13 December 1979 Birthplace: Fort DuPont, Delaware. Death Location: Glen Rose, Somerville County, Texas.

Reed, Stuart Leslie 13 May 1935 Galveston, Brazoria County, Texas.

Reed, Stuart Leslie November 1977

August 3, 1947

Dallas Morning News

Estelle Reed and F. A. Holley Are Married

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Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA) - August 26, 1986

Deceased Name: REID , WILLIAM

Died Sunday, Aug. 24, 1986, at his residence in St. James. He was 79, and a native of New Orleans . Visiting at St. James Catholic Church, St. James, 9 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Burial in St. Michael Cemetery, Convent. Survived by numerous cousins including, Mrs. Mary Ceasar, New Orleans , and Mrs. Francis Cayette, St. James. Preceded in death by parents, Matherin and Henrietta Reid; a sister, Alice Reid; and a brother, Thomas Reid. Brazier-Watson Funeral Home,Donaldsonville, in charge of arrangements.

END

New Haven Register (CT) - January 27, 2009

Deceased Name: REID , WILLIAM MacDONALD

William MacDonald Reid passed away January 26, 2009 in East Haven. Born in New Orleans , LA in 1929, he is the husband of Marjorie (McGillis) Reid and the son of the late William and Janet (Capener) Reid. He served in the Coast Guard and the Navy Reserve and was also a Boy Scout Leader and Camp Director.

He retired from Yale University.

Besides his wife of 53 years, he is survived by his daughter Janice Reid and son William Reid III and his wife Pamela; grandsons Sean and Forrest and many nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Episcopal Church of the Holy Advent, 81 E. Main St., Clinton, CT 06413 or to Forgotten Felines Inc., PO Box 734, Clinton, CT 06413. Swan Funeral Home of Clinton has charge of arrangements.

[Note There is also a William Reid.....in the WC Docs we worked at WWL-TV

SEE

REID, WILLIAM (? REED)

Sources: CD 75, pp. 219, 284; CD 1351, p. 14

Mary's

Comments: News Director of WWL-TV. Furnished names of individuals who knew LHO.

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St. Petersburg Times (FL) - May 29, 2011

Deceased Name: REED , William F.

REED, William F., 85, of New Port Richey, died May 26. Survived by wife of 64 years, Betty; daughter, Cheryl A. Di Nenna; grandson, Robert, Jr.; great-grandchildren, Linda and Robert, III; cousin, Sherri Olaguez; and loving dog, Lucky. Bill served with the Marine Corps 5th division in WWII and in Korea. He was with the U.S. Postal Service, D.C., for 30 years. He was past treasurer of Calusa Cruise Club 1982. Dobies Funeral Home, Seven Springs Chapel, 372-2550 dobiesfuneralhome.com

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Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) - October 4, 2009

Deceased Name: Col. William B. Reed

MS United States

Col. William B. Reed, 95 (USAF retired) resident of Gulfport for over 50 years, died peacefully Weds. Sept. 23, 2009 in an assisted living facility in Charleston SC. He is survived by a daughter Pat Reed Ike of NY state, two granddaughters Dayna Reed of Charleston SC and Andrea Begel of NYC and two great grandsons, Corey Bullock of Charleston SC and Emmett Wallin of NYC. He was proceeded in death by his beloved wife Nina DeWitt Reed (2000) and his son Bill (2007) a graduate of Gulfport High School, class of '59. Col. Reed had a full and interesting life. He was born in Texas and by the age of 5 was living in New York City with his mother, a Zeigfeild Follies show girl and movie actress. He want away to Military school at a young age and attended University of Tenn. and Purdue. Receiving an aeronautical engineering degree from the latter. He was an early test pilot with the Army Air Corps and was still flying jet fighter planes into his fifties. Logistical planning was his specialty and he taught at the Air War College and The Air/Ground Operations School at Kessler AFB, (where he was also Deputy Commandant) and wrote several books on the subject. During WW2 he was Wing Commander of a photo reconnaissance outfit and came up with and pre-tested the concept of flying in under the radar to photograph the beaches at Normandy just before the invasion. He received many decorations including France s highest honor for the Normandy work. Other interesting jobs included five years at The Pentagon with The Atomic Energy Commission and several years in Turkey doing logistical planning for the region. He was a base commander in Korea during the Korean Conflict. He served for 30 years, retiring in 1968. He was an avid golfer and was both Air Force Champion and later Miss.Seniors Champion. He devoted much of his later years to golf, organizing Seniors Tournaments, rating courses and acting as a rules official for the USGA. Col. Reed was a devoted family man and as those who knew him would testify was a "gentleman" of the old cloth. He was kind, considerate, honest and caring to his last day. By his wish he will be cremated and laid to rest with his beloved wife in Arlington Cemetery. He would wish for no other tribute but that you would do something kind for someone in his memory.

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Bakersfield Californian, The (CA) - October 30, 2008

Deceased Name: William 'Bill' Reed

1940 - 2008

William "Bill" Reed 1940 - 2008

William Reed was born in Long Beach, California on February 5, 1940 and joined the angels in Heaven on October 28, 2008 at the age of 68. Born to James and Lillian Reed, he was raised in Westminster until he graduated from Huntington Beach High School and joined the United States Army. After serving four years in Germany, he went to work on oil rigs for Signal Oil and Gas, eventually retiring from Phillips Petroleum Company as a Production Superintendent. Over a thirty year period he worked in Huntington Beach, Bakersfield and Rio Vista. After retiring from Phillips Petroleum Company, he became an independent contractor for smaller oil companies in the Bakersfield area. Bill was always regarded as a hard-working, knowledgeable and respected employee and peer.

Bill was married to Jeanette Reed on July 29, 1965 and had three children; Dale, Jeff and Michelle. His family was always his pride and joy. Although he achieved great success in business, his proudest moments were seeing his oldest son follow him into the oil business, seeing his younger son become a Deputy Sheriff in San Joaquin County and watching his daughter develop into a loving mother and wife. With Bill, his family was always his greatest accomplishment.

Bill is survived by his wife, Jeanette; sons, Dale and Jeff; his daughter, Michelle; son-in-law, Robert Paoletti; daughter-in-law, Joann; and his 7 grandchildren Kearsten, Katelynn, Kara, Victoria, Jarrett, Haleigh and Nicolas.

The Reed family sends a special thanks to CBCC and Optimal Hospice for the loving care given during our time of need. No services. www.bakersfield.com/obits

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Stuart Reed

Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA) - December 21, 2008

Deceased Name: Reed , John Stuart 'Jack'

John Stuart "Jack" Reed, born Feb. 16, 1941, in Columbia, S.C., passed from this life at 3 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. He first moved to Baton Rouge in 1960, just out of service in the U.S. Air Force. Most of his family had moved here in 1959. He traveled extensively all over the world and finally settled back in Baton Rouge, where he lived and worked for many years. He moved with his family to California about 23 years ago for work. He finally resided for about a year in Phoenix, where he died. He will be sorely missed by his four children, Neal, Stuart and Sonya Reed, all of Hemet, Calif., and Stephen Reed, of Virginia; three sisters, Anne Reed Savell, Margaret Reed Torina and husband Carl, all of Baton Rouge, and Lucy Reed Klein and husband Walter, of Atlanta; and his best friend of many years, Ben Savell, also of Baton Rouge. Jack worked in commercial construction in Louisiana for many years and was well liked by many. He was preceded in death by his beloved mother, Louise Lee Reed Odom, and father, Wilfred H. "Bud" Reed, who were both of Columbia; beloved Reed grandparents, Wilfred "Pop" and Annie "Nana" Walker Reed; and grandparents, George and Gertrude Lee. By his request, his remains were donated to science. He will be missed greatly by all who loved him.

Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA)

Date: December 21, 2008

Edition: Main

Page: 21A

Record Number: MERLIN_3963687

Copyright © 2008 Capital City Press, Baton Rouge, La.

END

Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - July 16, 1993

Deceased Name: Lawyer Patrick Michael Reed , founder of parochial school sports leagues, dies

Patrick Michael Reed, a longtime Dallas lawyer and founder of a football and basketball league for local parochial schools, died of a stroke Tuesday at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. He was 74.

A memorial service was held Wednesday at St. Monica Catholic Church in Dallas.

The Waco native received his law degree in 1942 through a specialized program at Baylor University and Southern Methodist University. He served in the Pacific with the Marine Corps during World War II.

Mr. Reed moved back to Dallas in the late 1940s and became a founding partner of the downtown law firm Reed & Holley .

In the 1950s, he began a football and basketball league for parochial schools in Dallas. The leagues no longer exist.

During the 1960s he became general contractor for a construction company that built homes in Richardson, Garland and Carrollton.

Mr. Reed returned to practicing law in the 1970s and opened the firm of Reed & Reed with his wife, Katherine. He remained there until 1988.

Other survivors include two sons, Michael Reed of Plano and Randall Reed of Dallas; two sisters, Leslie B. Snell and C.R. Greene, both of Arlington; and four grandchildren.

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http://www.maryferre....do?docId=11481

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - April 1, 2001

Deceased Name: Martha Edna Holley Reed

FOREST HILL - Martha Edna Holley Reed, 71, moved from her earthly home into her heavenly mansion Friday, March 30, 2001, at a local hospice.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Monday at Emerald Hills Memorial Chapel. Burial: Emerald Hills Memorial Park. Visitation: noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, with the family receiving friends from 2 to 5 p.m., at Emerald Hills Funeral Home.

Martha was born Oct. 16, 1929, in Sachse. She owned and operated several restaurants in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. She also worked at Mary's Cafe and the butcher shop. She was a very hardworking and independent person. Martha was a loving mom and granny always praying for her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a faithful member of Avenue L. Baptist Church and loved to sing and play gospel music. We know God gave us a special mom and she is now walking hand in hand with Jesus. Martha was preceded in death by her mother, Willie Lee McGee; father, Frank Virgil Holley ; and brothers, Roy Lee and James Virgil Holley .

Survivors: Sons, Charles Franklin, Bobby Joe, Jimmy Ray, Clarence Lee, David Lee Reed and wife, Tammy, all of Fort Worth; daughter, Phyllis Wallace of Fort Worth; stepmother, Helen Louis Davis; brothers, John Holley , Robert Holley , Jim Holley ; sisters, Ruby Busbey, Martha Sipes, Theda Taylor, Myrtle Jordan; 17 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Emerald Hills Funeral Home Kennedale, (817) 572-1681

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)

Date: April 1, 2001

Edition: FINAL

Page: 11

Record Number: 11027862

Copyright © 2001 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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Roanoke Times, The (VA) - November 13, 2003

Deceased Name: HOLLEY , Beatrice Reed

83, of Bedford, died Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003. Arrangements by Roselawn Chapel Funeral Home in Martinsville.

Roanoke Times, The (VA)

Date: November 13, 2003

Edition: METRO

Page: B4

Record Number: 0311130143

Copyright © 2003 The Roanoke Times

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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 1, 2008

Deceased Name: Leonard Reed

Voice of America Official

Leonard Reed, 90, a Voice of America journalist whose belief in a more independent editorial policy led to his departure from the broadcasting agency, died of colon cancer July 25 at his home in Chevy Chase.

Mr. Reed joined what would become the U.S. Information Agency in 1946 as editor of a magazine for India. He later moved to the Voice of America, where he became the Munich-based European bureau chief. He conducted some of the first Voice of America broadcasts from Warsaw and Moscow.

Returning to the United States in 1965, he became chief of Voice of America's worldwide English-language broadcasting. After a policy dispute regarding coverage deemed insufficiently supportive of the Johnson administration's Vietnam War policy, Mr. Reed was removed from his post by Leonard H. Marks, then-director of USIA and a former executive with Johnson-family broadcast outlets in Texas.

John Charles Daly Jr., the Voice of America director and former host of "What's My Line?," resigned in protest.

Mr. Reed, a 17-year USIA veteran at the time, was transferred to what The Washington Post described as "a lesser job editing a magazine in the press and publications service."

The Post also noted that Reed, "popular among Voice employees, long has been an advocate of making the Voice more independent of USIA."

After spending two years with the Agency for International Development, he rejoined USIA as editor in chief of "Amerika Illustrated," a glossy magazine distributed in the Soviet Union under an exchange agreement between the two countries.

He retired in 1973, after four years as editor, and devoted himself to volunteer work teaching English to Asian refugees and to freelance writing. His articles appeared in a number of publications, including Harper's, The Post and Washington Monthly, where he was a contributing editor.

In a 1975 article in The Post, he recounted the challenge a retiree faces in trying to convince friends and acquaintances that he was happy doing nothing.

"I have adopted the upright and honorable course which my instincts first dictated," he wrote, "and I recommend it to other retirees: lie. Invent imaginary projects you've undertaken and describe them in great detail. Get these work-ethic freaks off your back.

"Then relax and do nothing."

Actually, Mr. Reed was an avid tennis player who took to the court five times a week well into his 80s.

Mr. Reed was born in Montgomery, Ala., and received his undergraduate degree from New York University in 1939. During World War II, he served on a Navy minesweeper in the North Atlantic and later was the commanding officer of a submarine chaser in the Pacific.

His first wife, Judith K. Reed, died in 1986.

Survivors include his wife of 20 years, Joyce Reed of Chevy Chase; two children from his first marriage, Jonathan Reed of Las Vegas and Susan Silver of Timonium, Md.; two stepchildren, Adam Shub of Mexico City and Rachel Shub of Geneva; and six grandchildren.

Washington Post, The (DC)

Date: August 1, 2008

Author: Joe Holley

Edition: F

Page: B8

Record Number: 080108XB08Le273143

Copyright © 2008 The Washington Post

I think this a significant area, Tom.....Robert

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Stuart Reed - he was at Panama Canal Zone furnished Transparencies

of Oswald Arrest in front of Texas Theater, stayed at hotel in New Orleans

then took ship back to Panama after giving slides to his daughter.

See WCD 577

Two specialists from the Secretary's of the Army's Dallas Field office

will conduct a 10-day conference leadership institute for sixteen civilian

executives from Army stations in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri starting

Oct. 19.

The institute will be held in Kansas City.

Conducting the meetings will be Stuart L Reed, training officer

for the Dallas office and Vernon P. Barchett, the units personnel

management analyst.

The Dallas office headed by Pete Tamburo handles civilian personnel

administration matters for eleven Southwestern and Midwestern states

Tamburo said Monday that the institute in Kansas City effort is part of a

continuing effort by the Department of the Army to improve the efficiency

of its executive personnel.

Think about how the FBI went to such lengths to disguise the fact that he

was at least at one time a specialist of the Secretary of the Army,

stationed in front of the Texas Theater on 11/22/63......

The other Reed's need to be looked at for genealogical connections, this could be

a family affair.....

Tom, can you provide a link to a document that states Stuart Reed worked at Terrell State Hospital

mary ferrell's bio page on him says he worked but doe not provide any reference for this claim.....

http://www.maryferre....do?docId=11481

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - April 1, 2001

Deceased Name: Martha Edna Holley Reed

FOREST HILL - Martha Edna Holley Reed, 71, moved from her earthly home into her heavenly mansion Friday, March 30, 2001, at a local hospice.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Monday at Emerald Hills Memorial Chapel. Burial: Emerald Hills Memorial Park. Visitation: noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, with the family receiving friends from 2 to 5 p.m., at Emerald Hills Funeral Home.

Martha was born Oct. 16, 1929, in Sachse. She owned and operated several restaurants in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. She also worked at Mary's Cafe and the butcher shop. She was a very hardworking and independent person. Martha was a loving mom and granny always praying for her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a faithful member of Avenue L. Baptist Church and loved to sing and play gospel music. We know God gave us a special mom and she is now walking hand in hand with Jesus. Martha was preceded in death by her mother, Willie Lee McGee; father, Frank Virgil Holley ; and brothers, Roy Lee and James Virgil Holley .

Survivors: Sons, Charles Franklin, Bobby Joe, Jimmy Ray, Clarence Lee, David Lee Reed and wife, Tammy, all of Fort Worth; daughter, Phyllis Wallace of Fort Worth; stepmother, Helen Louis Davis; brothers, John Holley , Robert Holley , Jim Holley ; sisters, Ruby Busbey, Martha Sipes, Theda Taylor, Myrtle Jordan; 17 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Emerald Hills Funeral Home Kennedale, (817) 572-1681

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)

Date: April 1, 2001

Edition: FINAL

Page: 11

Record Number: 11027862

Copyright © 2001 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 1, 2008

Deceased Name: Leonard Reed

Voice of America Official

Leonard Reed, 90, a Voice of America journalist whose belief in a more independent editorial policy led to his departure from the broadcasting agency, died of colon cancer July 25 at his home in Chevy Chase.

Mr. Reed joined what would become the U.S. Information Agency in 1946 as editor of a magazine for India. He later moved to the Voice of America, where he became the Munich-based European bureau chief. He conducted some of the first Voice of America broadcasts from Warsaw and Moscow.

Returning to the United States in 1965, he became chief of Voice of America's worldwide English-language broadcasting. After a policy dispute regarding coverage deemed insufficiently supportive of the Johnson administration's Vietnam War policy, Mr. Reed was removed from his post by Leonard H. Marks, then-director of USIA and a former executive with Johnson-family broadcast outlets in Texas.

John Charles Daly Jr., the Voice of America director and former host of "What's My Line?," resigned in protest.

Mr. Reed, a 17-year USIA veteran at the time, was transferred to what The Washington Post described as "a lesser job editing a magazine in the press and publications service."

The Post also noted that Reed, "popular among Voice employees, long has been an advocate of making the Voice more independent of USIA."

After spending two years with the Agency for International Development, he rejoined USIA as editor in chief of "Amerika Illustrated," a glossy magazine distributed in the Soviet Union under an exchange agreement between the two countries.

He retired in 1973, after four years as editor, and devoted himself to volunteer work teaching English to Asian refugees and to freelance writing. His articles appeared in a number of publications, including Harper's, The Post and Washington Monthly, where he was a contributing editor.

In a 1975 article in The Post, he recounted the challenge a retiree faces in trying to convince friends and acquaintances that he was happy doing nothing.

"I have adopted the upright and honorable course which my instincts first dictated," he wrote, "and I recommend it to other retirees: lie. Invent imaginary projects you've undertaken and describe them in great detail. Get these work-ethic freaks off your back.

"Then relax and do nothing."

Actually, Mr. Reed was an avid tennis player who took to the court five times a week well into his 80s.

Mr. Reed was born in Montgomery, Ala., and received his undergraduate degree from New York University in 1939. During World War II, he served on a Navy minesweeper in the North Atlantic and later was the commanding officer of a submarine chaser in the Pacific.

His first wife, Judith K. Reed, died in 1986.

Survivors include his wife of 20 years, Joyce Reed of Chevy Chase; two children from his first marriage, Jonathan Reed of Las Vegas and Susan Silver of Timonium, Md.; two stepchildren, Adam Shub of Mexico City and Rachel Shub of Geneva; and six grandchildren.

Washington Post, The (DC)

Date: August 1, 2008

Author: Joe Holley

Edition: F

Page: B8

Record Number: 080108XB08Le273143

Copyright © 2008 The Washington Post

I knew when I saw he was from the Balboa District, Panama Canal Zone

he was intel.......Remember Harrod Miller.

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note he was also ''well known in the Canal Zone scouts'' (which LBJ was quite active in (as well as JFK ('29-'31), and other presidents)

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00094771/00656/4j

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I think the following link indicates that Southeastern Louisiana University has copies of Stuart L. Reed’s fourteen slides in their John F. Kennedy Assassination Papers collection (near the bottom of the page under "Kennedy, John F., Assassination Papers Supplemental Material - - Slides").

http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/programs/csls/historical_collections/archival_collections/h_k/kennedy_john_f_assas.html

Oops! This was covered by Tom Scully in his post #6 - sorry.

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Robert,

SL Reed. Jr's daughter married a Holley. The Reed Holley obit in your last post seems difficult to connect because that woman would be age 81 now.

Her father and brothers are mentioned in her 2001 obit. Our Reed's daughter married an F.A. Holley, according to the info you posted.

So the Holley Reed woman who died at age 71 in 2001, was born a Holley, was not directly related to F.A. Holley, our Reed's son-in-law, and there is not mention of her spouse, ? Reed. She is the right age to have been a sister of FA Holley, but he is not listed as her brother. She is too old to be the daughter of our Reed's daughter, Estelle Reed Holley and FA Holley.

I have been interested for some time in the Leonard Reed who influenced John C Daly to resign from USIA, and Leonard Marks, worried that LBJ was "lonely" laid out in a coffin. Marks supposedly organized a group of LBJ friends to "keep the corpse company" in an overnight vigil.

I cannot understand how Earl Warren's daughter made the sudden transition from being the almost fiance of Conrad Hilton, to the wife of John C Daly, alcoholic regular at Toots Shore's. Earl Warren was also a fixture at Shore's so he had to have observed Daly there, first hand. It is also a mystery how Earl Warren became so close to Toots Shore. How did Earl Warren's career path mesh with numerous visits to NYC?

I find the biographer of Leonard Reed interesting. Is it a coincidence his name is Joe Holley?

If Mary Ferrell was correct about SL Reed working at Terrell Hospital, it seems it must have been after his 1968 retirement and return from the Canal Zone to Dallas. I documented his 31 years of service as a civilian employee of the Dept. of the U.S. Army. If Reed was employed at Terrell after his retirement from the army, I don't see any relevance. We can assume that Mary had almost nothing on Reed. The release he signed for the 35 mm slides he had left behind in Dallas, indicate the FBI was aware he was employed in the Canal Zone and was in a rush to head back there via a (comparatively slow) boat from NOLA.

Yet as recently as earlier this year, the only info about his background on this forum were a post or two linking him to an unrelated Stuart L Reed, Jr., associated with a sod farm in NJ. I find the lack of info on Reed all the more curious since he had family in Dallas, you show he had worked for the Army in Dallas, and he retired in Dallas. He snapped important slide images, yet he seems the most overlooked person in that category.

The information in the posts on this thread is now more detailed than what is available anywhere else on the background of Stuart L Reed, Jr. I would like to know why no one in Reed's family has claimed rights to any of the images he snapped, they are historic. Maybe it was because they were snapped with government owned equipment in the course of a government instigated assignment?

BTW...was George DeM a member of National Campers and Hikers Assoc.?

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Group 15. A collection of wacko letters. A ballad in Wade's name sung at the local Lions Club. A couple of requests for Wade's autograph.

Steve Thomas

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...Tatum was president of the Lion's Club of Dallas, the Salesmanship Club of Dallas, and the State Fair of Texas. He served on the Southern Methodist University Board of Trustees and Board of Governors....

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Dallas Morning News 10-1-1977

Golden Weddings

Mr. and Mrs. Reed

Estelle and Stuart Reed of 3108, Maple Leaf Lane

will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary

with a reception given by their children from 3 to 5 pm

at St. John Presbyterian Church, 3701 Westmoreland.

The Reed were married Oct. 1, 1927 in Galveston.

Reed retired in 1968 as the executive Director

of the Panama Canal Zone Civil Service System

after 32 years in the Army.

Reed also served with the Department of the Army

in Italy. Mrs. Reed is a retired Red Cross first aid

and water safety worker.

The Reed’s have two children, one grandaughter

and one great-grandaughter.

Also From the James Powell Thread

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......Mull on the connective tissue of what follows below re: Powell and Oswald, and tell me if you think a linear tale emerges....

If you take a close look at the accompanying photo [sorry for the quality, but I'm barely competent with a scanner], you'll see two red circles. The top one identifies the building in which Powell worked, the Rio Grande Building on Elm St. where the 112th MIG was situated.

The bottom circles shows a bus, purportedly driven by Cecil McWatters with one LHO aboard. For those who have always wondered why LHO walked east to catch a westbound bus, it should be noted that LHO reputedly boarded that bus within a block of the 112th MIG offices. This could be written off as entirely coincidental, were it not for the 112th MIG's apparent prior knowledge of LHO/AJH, as stipulated by Col. Robert Jones in his HSCA testimony. Draw whatever inferences you choose.

More to the point, however, is that the photo below was one of two reproduced in Robert Groden's "The Search For LHO," both of which depict that same bus making its way along Elm St. toward the TSBD.

Both photos were taken by Stuart L. Reed, who also snapped at least one shot of the TSBD and a number of shots of LHO being arrested and escorted outside the Texas Theatre [also contained in "TSFLHO"].

The quality of Reed's photos is remarkably good, suggesting that if he was an amateur photographer, he was quite gifted. More pertinent, however, is that it seems Stuart Reed snapped the TSBD not long after the assassination, as well as Oswald's getaway bus with Oswald on it, and the subsequent arrest. Had Reed been a news photographer in Dallas, one could easily attribute his ubiquitous omnipresence at all the hotspots that day to his connections with local police and members of the press. Yet, it appears Reed had no such source of immediate inside information.

In a case already claustrophobic with coincidences, we seem to have yet another synchronicity. A private citizen photographed the building from which the assassin's bullets were purportedly fired, the very bus on which the purported assassin made his getaway [in two photos, as though trailing its progress], and the purported assassin's capture. The odds of this happening randomly are no doubt beyond the norms of statistical probability.

Reed's photos [or at least copies of 14 JFK-related slides] seem to have found a repository at the Southeastern Louisiana University, and I think Reed devoted himself to running the family's sod farm in New Jersey in the interim. He would have been in his mid-20's in 1963, as I recall, and I think he may have been serving an active military hitch at the time, but cannot remember anything specific. I believe others here know something more about Stuart Reed, and I'd welcome any additional details about this remarkably lucky photographer.

from Post by on the James Powell Thread

I would tend to think that James Powell and Stuart Reed's activities were not mutually exclusive on November 22, 1963.

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Guest Tom Scully

There are several sources of the detail that Stuart L Reed's father, Charles Thomas Reed, passed away in Loveland, CO, on 23 November, 1963. If it were possible to establish that father and son were not estranged, would this information increase suspicion that Stuart Reed's photography assignment took precedence over all else occurring simultaneously, even to the point of his making a quick exit to NOLA, instead of to Loveland, Co for a memorial service, and then aboard a slow boat from NOLA to the Panama Canal Zone?

http://www.tribalpages.com/family-tree/purvisfamily/66/9685/Charles-Reed-Family

According to this internal FBI communication, dated 26 November, Stuart L Reed was in NOLA and planning to leave at 4:00 pm for Panama on a "boat" the FBI offices in both Dallas and NOLA claimed not to know the name of.:

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/R%20Disk/Reed%20Stuart%20L/Item%2003.pdf

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Who was it that first suggested that the bus in Reed's photograph was Cecil McWatters?

Has this ever been answered? I see Bernice said RCD was the first - but I suspect she was referring to the fist here on this board. I would really like to get to the bottom of that question.

I would also ask what proof is there that the two photos showing a bus were actually taken in the immediate aftermath of the assassination? Obviously some of the photos in the set were... but that doesn't necessarily mean all were...

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Hi Greg:

I got that from Robert Groden's The Search For Lee Harvey Oswald, pages 120 and 121. Two previously unpublished photos, credited to Reed, show what the captions say are the McWatters bus. The first caption includes: "He was aboard the bus when this previously unpublished photograph was taken." The second photo's caption includes: "McWatters's bus was stuck in traffic on Elm Street."

I would post them again, because they are good vivid colour shots, but my scanner is pooched.

Reed photographed the TSBD after the assassination, and Oswald's capture at the Texas Theater. Some will say that the photos of the bus are irrelevant because Oswald wasn't on it. I would contend that, to the contrary, the fact that he photographed at least twice a bus that would only later be identified as Oswald's means of escape still tells us something about Reed's presence and purpose in Dallas. Think: of all the mundane traffic photos he might have taken, of all the buses in Dallas, he for no apparent reason squeezes off several shots of the McWatters bus.

What was so fascinating about that particular bus that Reed felt compelled to capture it in photos more than once? I would like to see the totality of Reed's photography that day, in order to see how many photos were not in some way related to Oswald.

In the first photo, when Oswald is allegedly already aboard, you can see the Rio Grande Building perhaps a block or so behind the bus. If it seems counterintuitive for an escaping assassin to walk many blocks east in order to catch a westbound bus, the fact that he allegedly caught it almost directly in front of the building housing 112th US Military Intelligence may be illuminating. It is also where purported Umbrella Man Stephen Louis Witt was employed.

Small world, Dallas. Quick photographer, Reed.

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Thanks Robert. I've seen the two photos. What I'm trying to get at is who and how it was established it was McWatters bus - and how it was even established the photos were taken that day.

I agree if itreally is McWatters' bus, they are important even though LHO was not on the bus.

Hi Greg:

I got that from Robert Groden's The Search For Lee Harvey Oswald, pages 120 and 121. Two previously unpublished photos, credited to Reed, show what the captions say are the McWatters bus. The first caption includes: "He was aboard the bus when this previously unpublished photograph was taken." The second photo's caption includes: "McWatters's bus was stuck in traffic on Elm Street."

I would post them again, because they are good vivid colour shots, but my scanner is pooched.

Reed photographed the TSBD after the assassination, and Oswald's capture at the Texas Theater. Some will say that the photos of the bus are irrelevant because Oswald wasn't on it. I would contend that, to the contrary, the fact that he photographed at least twice a bus that would only later be identified as Oswald's means of escape still tells us something about Reed's presence and purpose in Dallas. Think: of all the mundane traffic photos he might have taken, of all the buses in Dallas, he for no apparent reason squeezes off several shots of the McWatters bus.

What was so fascinating about that particular bus that Reed felt compelled to capture it in photos more than once? I would like to see the totality of Reed's photography that day, in order to see how many photos were not in some way related to Oswald.

In the first photo, when Oswald is allegedly already aboard, you can see the Rio Grande Building perhaps a block or so behind the bus. If it seems counterintuitive for an escaping assassin to walk many blocks east in order to catch a westbound bus, the fact that he allegedly caught it almost directly in front of the building housing 112th US Military Intelligence may be illuminating. It is also where purported Umbrella Man Stephen Louis Witt was employed.

Small world, Dallas. Quick photographer, Reed.

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Robert,

What I'm trying to get at is, who determined it was McWatters bus? I take it Groden was the individual who captioned the version you have? Is he the one who decided it was McWatters' bus?

The FBI, together with Reed's daughter, determined that 10 in the series were "assassination-related" - the rest were family snaps and not necessarily taken on 11/22. According to Reed, the TSBD ones were taken about an hour after the shooting... which basically puts him in two places at once...

In the end, the FBI decided only 3 had any value - the arrest shots.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=111185&relPageId=84

At the moment, it's just any old bus that could have been taken any time while Reed was in Dallas.

A longshot thought: What if those two photos were taken on a day prior to the assassination to identify a bus on which a "getaway" could be made - or said to be made? This doesn't work however, if there is no way to identify the bus from the photos.

Thanks Robert. I've seen the two photos. What I'm trying to get at is who and how it was established it was McWatters bus - and how it was even established the photos were taken that day.

I agree if itreally is McWatters' bus, they are important even though LHO was not on the bus. Is there something in the photos that indicates it must be McWatters

Hi Greg:

I got that from Robert Groden's The Search For Lee Harvey Oswald, pages 120 and 121. Two previously unpublished photos, credited to Reed, show what the captions say are the McWatters bus. The first caption includes: "He was aboard the bus when this previously unpublished photograph was taken." The second photo's caption includes: "McWatters's bus was stuck in traffic on Elm Street."

I would post them again, because they are good vivid colour shots, but my scanner is pooched.

Reed photographed the TSBD after the assassination, and Oswald's capture at the Texas Theater. Some will say that the photos of the bus are irrelevant because Oswald wasn't on it. I would contend that, to the contrary, the fact that he photographed at least twice a bus that would only later be identified as Oswald's means of escape still tells us something about Reed's presence and purpose in Dallas. Think: of all the mundane traffic photos he might have taken, of all the buses in Dallas, he for no apparent reason squeezes off several shots of the McWatters bus.

What was so fascinating about that particular bus that Reed felt compelled to capture it in photos more than once? I would like to see the totality of Reed's photography that day, in order to see how many photos were not in some way related to Oswald.

In the first photo, when Oswald is allegedly already aboard, you can see the Rio Grande Building perhaps a block or so behind the bus. If it seems counterintuitive for an escaping assassin to walk many blocks east in order to catch a westbound bus, the fact that he allegedly caught it almost directly in front of the building housing 112th US Military Intelligence may be illuminating. It is also where purported Umbrella Man Stephen Louis Witt was employed.

Small world, Dallas. Quick photographer, Reed.

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One photo is west and the other east. The shadows seem perpendicular to the street direction. It is easy to figure out the approximate time aand the approximate place the photos were taken. If they are taken from approximately the same place then they could be sequential photos of the same bus. When were the tickets found and that number bus picked as the one Oswald took?

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