Len Osanic

A follow-up from Jeff C: "I don't necessarily want to question the knowledge of folks who have spent a lot more time with this footage, but what is available and listed as WFAA-TV Part 10-Part 11 (posted on YouTube) has the appearance of being contiguous - even as it fades after the Zapruder interview as the anchor says they are returning to NY. The reasons for saying this are that a) Jim Hagerty does not appear again after this segment the following sequence after returning to the Dallas station features the host make direct reference to Hagerty's comments about the bubble-top c) they are still referring to a rifle found on the "fifth floor". None of this is consistent with this segment being done "much later", and a "much later" segment being pasted in is not consistent with how this footage plays out (i.e. it doesn't seem to happen anywhere else). It may be simply an academic point, but I believe this is strong evidence that Lee Oswald's name first crossed the airwaves here on ABC-TV at around 2:40 PM CST. If so there is an irony in that Oswald's name is contained in a sentence which also conatins the word "conspiracy". ABC was the least watched network that day, but they scored some scoops. (There is another irony within this ABC footage: Jim Hagerty, coincidentally one must assume, is voicing a Phase One scenario - "this has to be a planned conspiracy". Hagerty appears on the Youtube WFAA-TV in parts 8-11. Hagerty hired, and mentored to an extent, Peter Jennings - who, of course, decades later hosted ABC's notorious "Beyond Conspiracy" with its fierce defense of the Phase Two scenario.) WFAA-TV Part Ten also features an extended clip from Love Field in Dallas, beginning of the motorcade , which is really astonishing. Part Eight has an amazing first hand account from reporter Bob Clark, who was in the third or fourth car of the motorcade - interesting observations on the limo stop and LBJ at Parklands. Part Fourteen has raw footage from Oak Cliff including the wallet dropped beside Tippit and brief clips from inside the Texas Theater at the time of Oswald's arrest. "

Jeff, who originally posited the question, has followed up: "JFK Countercoup published an account of early AP and UPI wire service reports on March 12, 2012. AP sent out wire report mentioning Oswald by name and age at 2:35 PM CST. That is probably what is on the ABC desk in NYC. So the time of the broadcast can be pushed to around 2:40-2:45 CST. Affiliate WFAA-TV adds the TSBD and Russia angle about a half hour later - attributed to DPD captain Gannaway. Note: DPD are already at the Paines, and were greeted with "We've been expecting you", although it is clear that there was definitely no way of hearing LHO ID from arrest from the media." David Andrews - don't thank me, thank DVP who collected and posted all this stuff to YouTube. Annoying as he can be, he has done good service here.

The ABC network desk in New York ID's Oswald by (likely) 2:30 CST. It can be timed because it immediately follows Abraham Zapruder's appearance on the local affiliate. Zapruder left for Kodak by 2:45 PM, so his TV appearance was somewhere between 2:10 & 2:40, probably closer to the former. They seem to be far ahead of the curve on this info.

Here is a forwarded question from Jeff Carter, who has been working with me on the 5o Reasons series: Watching same-day TV coverage of the assassination and I am curious when Oswald was first identified by name in the media. The earliest I have found is interesting. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbiS7AaUDfA (at aprox 2 minutes 45 seconds). Footage originates from ABC's network studio in New York, where news anchor Don Goddard is on camera with network VP and former Eisenhower press man James Hagerty. Over the course of several segments, Hagerty had been making a case that this has the appearance of a well-planned conspiracy. He is finishing up a discussion of the difficulties of Secret Service protection in large-city motorcades when Goddard says: "Well, this adds one to the case for conspiracy then. and the Dallas Police are apparently trying to add another - they have arrested a 24-year-old man, Lee Oswald in connection with a slaying of a Dallas policeman and presumably also the slaying of a secret service man in another part of Dallas which happened shortly before the President…" Hagerty inhales and cuts Goddard off to praise quick reaction by the Secret Service in speeding away from Dealey Plaza. (Based on eyewitness report from ABC reporter Bob Clark, who also interestingly said that the motorcade came to a complete halt, which Hagerty does not mention). (The story of a dead Secret Service man has been attached to the news from Oak Cliff up to this time, but soon is dropped. ) This sequence occurs soon after Zapruder's appearance on the local affiliate (WFAA-TV), which began approx 2:10 PM CST - so the Oswald ID as delivered by Goddard happens somewhere between 2:20 - 2:25 PM CST (certainly before 2:30). Not only that, Goddard appears to read this information from a piece of paper which has been sitting before him since they returned to air immediately following Zapruder. Interestingly, the local affiliate WFAA follows up about a half hour later with information attributed to DPD captain Pat Gannaway that the "suspect" worked at the TSBD and lived in Russia (WFAA Part 14). Oswald's name and age are not mentioned. Would this mean that Oswald's name and age was available to ABC's network office in NYC before it was announced to reporters in Dallas?

A short video I made regarding Ed Lansdale in Dealey Plaza Nov 22 1963

Len Osanic is the host of Black Op Radio which started broadcasting In 2000. Archiving interviews of researchers in the community. His interest in JFK him to work with Col. L. Fletcher Prouty until his passing. He produced his CD-ROM and continues run his website http://www.prouty.org/. He lives in Vancouver B.C. Canada.

A few years ago I wrote a song from the other point of view in mind. What would Gen. Ed Lansdale think, want to say? I thought it was ironic that he quit the CIA, air force cover job, The end of Oct 63 and went to work for C.A.R.E organization, the first into third world counties... hmm. That and he was photographed in Dealey Plaza Nov 22/63 and had a hand in sending Col. Fletcher Prouty to the south pole for all of Nov 63. Lansdale was "Gen Y" in Oliver Stone's film. Anyway I feel he would have been proud of his work and even though he couldn't... would have liked to brag. I also imagined a secret dinner afterwords to thank those involved, so as not to mention who did what... but that Allen Dulles would thank them all. That way I could name names I got from a document from Fletcher but keeping it to lyrics in a song. The quote "very clever planning" is Fletcher Prouty. "The Ballad Of Ed Lansdale" http://www.blackopradio.com/lansdale_song.html Len Osanic PS. Turn it up loud <g> The war machine drills, hammers, saw is all me and I played Guitar and arranged it. Singer is Ralph White. It's not the most complicated thing I produced, but it was the biggest recording... 102 tracks used! Let me know what you think. osanic@prouty.org ============== =======================

Hello, I just posted an interview with filmaker Mark Sobel who has produced a new film 5 years in the making... "The Commission" based on the Warren Commission. It stars; Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, Corbin Bernsen, Martin Landau, Joe Don Baker, Henry Gibson and others... For more details check Black Op Radio archived shows, #168 The film will be shown in Dallas this Sunday. Don't miss it! Thanks, Len Osanic http://www.blackopradio.com/ =========