Three Red Flags Against Decker

[Trygve V. Jensen]

On 12/21/2015 at 6:01 PM, Richard Gilbride said:

From the pilot car at 12:30 PM, during the initial reaction to the shots, Sheriff Bill Decker called in over Channel 2:

"Have my office move all available men out of my office into the railroad yard to try to determine what happened in there and hold everything secure until Homicide and other investigators should get there." (XXIII p. 913)

At 12:34 motorcycle officer Clyde Haygood radioed in that he'd spoken with a guy who'd told him the shooting came from the TSBD building, and by 12:36 Sgt. David Harkness had a witness with him who told him it was from the 5th floor. (XXIII p. 914)

Yet there is no record of Decker's response to these reports about the Depository. The pilot car arrived at Parkland at 12:37, and the probability is good that Decker used a hospital phone to contact his office.

Luke Mooney, who had initially been searching the railyard area, reported on that day that another deputy "came up and told me and officers Sam Webster and Billy Joe Victory to surround" the TSBD building (XIX p. 528). Mooney's testimony clarified that these instructions had been relayed from Decker (III p. 283).

Decker did not notify his deputies to search the Depository for 3-plus minutes after the 1st radio broadcast that the building was the source of the shots.

Mooney's after-action report contained additional information, pertaining to his attempt to use the west freight elevator.

"...we went up one floor and the power to the elevator was cut off." The mystery was not what happened- the power was cut. The mystery was who had done it.

Decker did not inform any news provider about this power outage. Nor did this information find its way into any investigative report of any agency investigating the assassination.

About 5:00 PM Decker phoned Captain Fritz and requested that he come see him immediately. Fritz dropped what he was doing and complied (JFK & the Unspeakable p. 274). Whatever they discussed, in greatest privacy, remains unknown. But their pow-wow occurred while 14-year-old Amos Euins was being held for questioning at Decker's office.

And Euins, who at 12:35 had told a Dallas news director that he'd seen a colored man up in the TSBD with a rifle, at 8:00 PM produced a Sheriff's statement that read: "This was a white man, he did not have on a hat."

Whatever Decker & Fritz discussed in private, part of it concerned the alteration of Euins' eyewitness account.

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Decker misdirected his deputies for several critical minutes, ensuring that the Depository hit team made a clean getaway. His coverup of the elevator power outage reveals that he knew this was a critical piece of information, one that would betray the TSBD employee-complicity in the plot. And his alliance with Fritz was central to blaming the crime on the white-guy scapegoat, Oswald.

Decker was a key conspirator.

Who put him in that position, and let him get away with what he did on November 22nd?

Interesting thread, - thanks.

Semi-on-topic; https://www.docdroid.net/lSN9jmf/5acb8f7906114-oswaldwhereabouts.pdf

(Surely been posted earlier, - just in case some people had not seen it, - or if anyone can extract some relevant information from it) ;

A timeline ( 8 am - 1 pm ) , that as above post do, -- include the names Decker, Fritz, Euins, Haygood, Harkness, Mooney, Webster, -- and of course Oswald.

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Derailing - Edit (sorry): ---- "2H208. His (Euins) original statement says white man. He testified that Sheriff’s office must have made mistake when typed his affidavit as he only said white spot on head. Id. When asked what color, said he could not tell b/c only saw hands and bald spot. Couldn’t say if it was negro or white. Id. at 207. Says he saw 14 or 15 inches of “pipe”. Id. at 206. Saw hands on trigger mechanism but not scope. Id. at 204.  Could not say noise came from pipe he was looking at when heard first shot. Id. at 209. Heard construction worker tell policeman that he saw someone run out of rear of building. Id. at 206  20 "

------ "White spot" ; When engaging fantasy-mode, associations may go in the direction of : " dust on Williams head" (Jarman; after shots (dust on stomach in Allen photo)) , or "a hat that looked like a wool stocking hat with a tassel in the middle of it" (Mercer) .

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Dillard : https://www.jfkassassinationgallery.com/displayimage.php?pid=3125&fullsize=1

Allen :  https://www.flickr.com/photos/153357684@N03/26121965477/in/album-72157667055480028/

"Fantasy - mode" is most of the time , - anything but constructive, - and at this point in time, - just contributing  to the derailing of the original topic of this thread, --- and at the same time contributing to steal precious time.

Edited April 10, 2018 by Trygve V. Jensen