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Positions of vehicles ; posted at jfk research; rich's forum, by Greg Burnham dec 15.2007

The lead car, an unmarked white Ford: Dallas

Police Chief Jesse Curry (driver) Secret S

ervice Agent Winston Lawson (right front) Sheriff Bill Decker (left rear) Agent Forrest Sorrels (right rear) SS 100 X, a 1961 Lincoln Continental: Agent Bill Greer (driver) Agent Roy Kellerman (right front), Nellie Connally (left middle) Texas Governor John Connally (right middle) First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (left rear) President John F. Kennedy (right rear) Halfback, a convertible: Agent Sam Kinney (driver), Agent Emory Roberts (right front) Agent Clint Hill (left front running board) Agent Bill McIntyre (left rear running board) Agent John Ready (right front running board) Agent Paul Landis (right rear running board) Presidential aide Kenneth O'Donnell (left middle) Presidential aide David Powers (right middle) Agent George Hickey (left rear) Agent Glen Bennett (right rear) 1964 Lincoln four-door convertible: State highway patrol officer Hurchel Jacks (driver) Agent Rufus Youngblood (right front) Senator Ralph Yarborough (left rear) Mrs. Lyndon Johnson (center rear) Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (right rear) Varsity, a hardtop: A Texas state policeman (driver) Vice Presidential aide Cliff Carter (front middle) Agent Jerry Kivett (right front), Agent Woody Taylor (left rear) Agent Lem Johns (right rear) Press pool car, (on loan from the telephone company): Telephone company employee (driver) Malcolm Kilduff, UPI (middle front) Merriman Smith, UPI (right front) Jack Bell, AP Robert Baskin, The Dallas Morning News Bob Clark, ABC (rear) Press Car: Bob Jackson, The Dallas Times Herald Tom Dillard, The Dallas Morning News Mal Couch, WFAA-TV

the following information is from...Joe Backes...

http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/12th_Issue/fredonia2.html

Sheldon Inkol spoke next on the topic of the Downtown Lincoln Mercury car dealership.

"The Presidential limousine could have cleared Dealey Plaza without making a single turn simply by staying on Main Street. Once through the triple underpass Main merges with Commerce St. and by making a standard right turn onto Industrial Boulevard William Greer could have taken the President directly to the luncheon site with the cost of only a few extra minutes. Had the motorcade followed this alternate route Greer would have been steering the limousine to within 200 yards of the Downtown Lincoln Mercury Ford Motor Co.

"Now there are several connections between Downtown Lincoln Mercury and the assassination of President Kennedy. In early November of 1963 a man who identified himself as Lee Oswald test drove a new car there. On November 22, the car dealership provided several cars that were used in the motorcade. Phil Willis, who was a luxury car salesman there as well as being a friend of Lyndon Johnson, was a [became a] famous photographer in Dealey Plaza. The husband of noted assassination researcher Mary Ferrell, as well as a distant cousin of hers both worked at Downtown Lincoln Mercury in 1963.

"Jack Lawrence was a salesman at Downtown Lincoln Mercury and he has been 'identified' as one of the killers of President Kennedy in assassination literature.

"Another salesman at Downtown Lincoln Mercury at the time of the assassination was investigated by the FBI in 1964, after the Warren report was published. And in 1968 one of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's investigators sought to link a different suspect, Robert Lee Perrin, to the car dealership. At about the same time another former Downtown Lincoln Mercury salesman became an object of suspicion under obscure circumstances and was later thought to be somehow connected to the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

"And I just got in the mail within the last few weeks something from Vince Palamara, who sent me a document that I believe has never been revealed before, and I will just briefly read part of it, 'On May 16, 1975 a Mr. James Alresen (sic?) stated that he was visiting Downtown Lincoln Mercury on the day of the assassination, immediately afterwards he went out to the car lots so he could turn the radio on inside one of the cars to hear the news bulletins. He stated that as he listened to the radio he observed three young men running down a parapet wall made of concrete which is located on the west side of the railroad cars parallel to the triple overpass where the assassination occurred. He stated that the three young men were heading North from Industrial. (Which is away from Downtown Lincoln Mercury.)

Sheldon then went into some detail on the topics he touched on briefly in his opening. Albert Bogard was a Downtown Lincoln Mercury salesman who accompanied Lee Oswald on the test drive. Oswald terrified Bogard by taking him on a wild ride at speeds up to 85 miles an hour. The Warren Commission placed the incident on November 9, 1963 and dismissed it because Oswald's whereabouts are known for that day and because supposedly Oswald did not know how to drive. Sheldon pointed out that Bogard had no reason to lie, his story did not change much over the years and he had corroboration from 4 co-workers. Bogard also passed a lie detector test administrated by the FBI. Sheldon thinks that someone who identified himself as Lee Oswald did test drive a car with Bogard.

Another salesman placed the incident on November 2, 1963. This would allow the real Lee Harvey Oswald to be involved. Sheldon explained that the real Lee Harvey Oswald for him was the one killed by Jack Ruby. Oswald worked only a few minutes away from the car dealership. Bogard showed Oswald every car in the showroom and the lot, went on the test drive that covered about 13 miles. Less than three weeks later the assassination occurs. Inkol thinks that if Bogard was fooled by an impostor that impostor had to be nearly identical with Oswald and there can be no innocent explanation for an impostor.

However, Inkol thinks it was the real Oswald who test drove the car. If this is true then Oswald was expecting to acquire some money within a couple of weeks. Apparently there was some kind of conspiracy of silence at the dealership not to tell the authorities. Jack Lawrence took it upon himself to alert the authorities about an Oswald who visited the dealership and was promptly fired shortly after making the call. FBI agents questioned Bogard the day after the assassination.

Word of this Oswald test driving incident reached NBC reporters from California, Gene Barnes and Ted Mann (sic?) who heard that Bogard went to Shreveport on Saturday, November 23, 1963 and flew there to interview him. How did the FBI react to NBC's initiative? According to the Los Angeles Herald Examiner written October 1964. It is written by Walter Winchell. "Isn't it true Mr. Chief Justice that a filmed interview with Mr. Bogard and other salesmen, one of whom was actually fired for tipping the Feds, has not been made public because some law men allegedly requested the network not to use it?"

Unbelievably, Inkol does not give the Chief Justice's response, or if there wasn't one he didn't explain that. He just went on.

On December 9, 1963 Bogard provided a written statement to FBI agents and they warned him that this statement may be used against him in a court of law.

http://spot.acorn.net/JFKplace/09/fp.back_issues/12th_Issue/fredonia2.html

Edited by Bernice Moore
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I have some questions about the "MOTORCADE ROUTE CHANGED AT THE LAST MINUTE?" In the years since President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, many conspiracy theorists have latched onto the completely-unsupportable notion that the motorcade route was changed at the eleventh hour just prior to President Kennedy's drive through downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963.

What I'd like to know most of all is if the change took place on the eleventh hour just prior to President Kennedy's drive through downtown Dallas who all knew about it if it wasn't made public? Hmmm?

I do not believe the motorcade route was changed at the last minute, because no change was necessary. The Secret Service designed the route. They selected the Stemmons Freeway. An SS advance team always inspects an entire route weeks before a motorcade. It surpasses the bounds of credibility to think the SS missed the fact the freeway entrance was on Elm. The previous presidential motorcade in Dallas (FDR's) took Main Street all the way downtown. The only reason to use the newly built Stemmons Freeway was to force JFK's motorcade off Main and onto Elm, via a path that turned right onto Houston for one block, then left onto Elm – which was conveniently a 120-degree turn (almost a U-turn) at 11 mph – to plant the president like a sitting duck in the killing zone.

Biography: http://educationforu...st&p=235641

The only reason to use the newly built Stemmons Freeway was to force JFK's motorcade off Main and onto Elm, via a path that turned right onto Houston for one block, then left onto Elm – which was conveniently a 120-degree turn (almost a U-turn) at 11 mph – to plant the president like a sitting duck in the killing zone.

I have no logical debate nor can I refute your theory, hence the president was killed there which is fact, the ongoing argument that the route has been changed within the eleventh hour of the "original path" would only raise the question as to (IF) there was indeed a chance (1) who suggested the change, (2) who approved the change, (3) how many knew of the change?

Could the shooter(s) behind the "Grassy Knoll" have the same advantages had the motorcade continued down the route FRD took? Although, it would have seemed be be a much longer route to take to enter Stemmons Freeway the shooter(s) would have been at a disadvantage and clear head-shot would have been near impossible with as many spectators around.

Has every name been accounted for on who had personal knowledge the apparent motorcade route? <Just saying>. Wondering too.

This is my understanding: Kennedy advisor Kenneth O'Donnell made the decision to hold the 1963-11-22 Dallas luncheon at the Trade Mart. Eight days before the luncheon, on 1963-11-14, Gerald Behn, Secret Service Agent in Charge of the White House Detail, tasked Special Agents William G. Lawson of the Detail and Forrest V. Sorrels in charge of the Dallas office to design a motorcade route from Love Field to the Trade Mart. (They had first been advised of the Texas trip on 1963-11-4.) They planned a route that included the Stemmons Freeway, which necessitated the hairpin turn onto Elm to access the onramp. So no change in route was needed to make it pass the TSDB. And if Lawson and Sorrels had not chosen to use the freeway but kept the motorcade on Main Street, I do not find credible Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell or anyone else having authority to overrule a locked-in Secret Service decision.

The Secret Service pointed the finger at Kenneth O'Donnell. Forrest Sorrels chose the Trade Mart, and O'Donnell did not live long enough to exonerate himself.

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