Robert Howard

I kept trying yesterday to remember who Judith Coplon reminded me of, and I remembered it was Elizabeth Bentley, who died less than two months after JFK did.......There are some other thought provoking details in this post as well...... September 6, 1933 Sorge arrives in Japan, via Paris, USA Vancouver. He resides at Number 30 Nakasaka, Cho Azabu, Tokyo or Number 30 Nagasaka Machi, Azabu ku Similarities between Richard Sorge and George DeMohrenschildt 1. Sorge’s great uncle, whom Sorge alleged was his grandfather and DeMohersenschildt lived in the USA. 2. Sorge’s father, and DeMohrenschildt’s grandfather both working for the Nobel oil interests in Baku. 3. Sorge’s first wife was named Christiane; Jeanne DeMohrenschildt George’s daughter (1940) is named after her mother but adopts the name Christiane. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=40389&relPageId=32 Fall? 1940 Guillame “Bill” Hoorickx, Belgian artist living in Paris in 1965, 66 years old tells of first wife living with Mikhail Makarov aka Carlos Alamo, Molotov’s nephew? in Brussels. Hoorickx, Makarov and Czech agent for British munitions firm Rauch go around together Hoorickx gets date with Princess Sherbatov for Makarov as Alamo, a Uruguyan just before learning Makarov’s true identity. George DeMohrenschildt says Mrs. Max Gali Clark is Princess Sherbatov, Hoorickx’s second wife is Anna, a Russian Red Orchestra:35 page 129 Warren Commission CD 294 Maurice Hyman Halperin Traveled to the USSR in October 1958 On 15 July 1960 Maurice Hyman Halperin and his wife Edith Frisch Halperin applied at the US Embassy in Moscow, USSR for a renewal of their passports. Halperin is reported to have stated that he had been in the USSR since December 1958 as a visiting professor of the Social Sciences Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences on a contract which expires in 1961. In 1948 Elizabeth BENTLEY an admitted former Soviet agent admitted that she had become acquainted with Halperin in the latter part of 1952 through arrangements made by Jacob Golos a known Soviet espionage agent. She further stated that during the time Halperin was employed by the Office of Strategic Services in Washington D.C., he supplied Golos with information to which he had access in his office. In late 1953 Halperin left the United States for Mexico after refusing on constitutional grounds to tell the United States Senate Internal Sub-Committee whether he was ever a member of the Communist Party. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=10695&relPageId=130 Elizabeth Bentley Is Dead at 55; Soviet Spy Later Aided U.S.; Wartime Agent Went to F.B.I. in 1945--Testified at Trial of Rosenbergs Figure in a Political Era 'On Borrowed Time' White Resigned in 1947 Remington Convicted Special to The New York TimesThe New York Times December 4, 1963, Wednesday NEW HAVEN, Dec. 3--Elizabeth Bentley, a Soviet spy in the United States during World War II who later aided the United States, died today in Grace-New Haven Hospital. She underwent surgery for an abdominal tumor yesterday. Chicago Tribune (IL) - December 04, 1963 MISS BENTLEY, SPY WHO QUIT RED ROLE, DIES Testimony Helped Put Rosenbergs in Chair Deceased Name: Elizabeth Bentley New Haven, Conn., Dec. 3 (AP) -- Elizabeth Bentley, 55, the communist spy who renounced her Moscow ties and helped to unmask a web of war time Red treachery in this country, died today. After renouncing communism, Miss Bentley served as government witness at two of the anti-communist trials of the 1950s -- the atom spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed, and the perjury trial of William Remington. Miss Bentley had been in Grace-New Haven hospital since Nov. 18 and underwent abdominal surgery on Monday. Before she became ill, she had been teaching English in a Middletown, Conn., school for girls. Cloak and Dagger Life Her life was one of turbulent cloak-and-dagger contrasts. Miss Bentley had neither the looks nor the inclination for the traditional role of Mata Hari, the World War I German spy who employed sex for purposes of espionage. She pictured her role during World War II as that of stealthy courier for the Russian underground in this country, spurred on in her espionage duties by her ardor for Jacob Golos, then chief of Red secret police in the United States. Golos died in 1943 and two years later Miss Bentley walked into the FBI office in New Haven to renounce communism and begin a new career as government informer and witness against American communist conspirators. Boasted of Her Contacts Born in New Milford, Conn., Miss Bentley was graduated from Vassar college and studied also at the University of Florence in Italy. She joined the communist apparatus in Washington in the 1930s and Golos became her first Russian contact. In war time Washington, Miss Bentley boasted of more than 40 contacts with American Communists holding key positions in such super-sensitive agencies as the Pentagon and the office of strategic services. Bared Browder Link At the trial of the Rosenbergs, Miss Bentley testified she relayed orders from Moscow to Earl Browder, war time head of the American Communist party, and collected information in this country for transmission to Russia. She linked one of her contacts to the Rosenbergs. Miss Bentley's accusation that one of her government contacts was William Remington led to a loyalty investigation against the young commerce department economist, formerly with the war production board. Remington twice was convicted of lying to a federal grand jury in his denial that he was a Communist and sentenced to 3 years in prison. END The really strange part is that Bentley, IMO was being used by the FBI in Philadelphia. also see google books Clever girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the spy who ushered in the McCarthy era By Lauren Kessler The Meredith Gardner thread, here on the Forum, also delves somewhat into this area. See http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6182&st=0

Well, I looked for a good place to post the following, and decided since she was, in addition to being a novelist, a poet...... I am not suggesting Sylvia Plath's death is necessarily sinister, there may have even been a hereditary/genetic issue, but the Barnhorse thing seems pretty weird. PS Hope All is Well...Haven't seen you on the Forum lately Sylvia Plath Birth: Oct. 27, 1932 Death: Feb. 11, 1963 Author, Poetess. The daughter of Aurelia and Otto Plath, Sylvia's father died when she was eight, a trauma that affected her deeply for the rest of her life and became the subject of one of her best known poems, "Daddy." Sylvia was writing from the time she was very small and had her first poem published when she was eight years old; she had stories and poems being published almost constantly for the rest of her life. An excellent student, Sylvia went to Smith College on a scholarship funded by the author Olive Higgins Prouty. In the summer of 1953, Sylvia worked as a guest editor for "Mademoiselle" magazine. After returning home, she suffered a nervous breakdown and tried to kill herself, ending up in the psychiatric ward of Boston's MacLean Hospital. These events in her life later turned up on Sylvia's only novel, "The Bell Jar." She returned to Smith to finish her degree and then went to Cambridge with a Fulbright scholarship, where she met Ted Hughes. Sylvia and Ted were married in 1956 and had two children, Frieda and Nicholas. In 1962 the marriage fell apart when Sylvia discovered Ted was having an affair, and she moved with the children from their country home in Devon to a flat in London where Yeats had once resided. During the winter of 1962-1963, Sylvia wrote what are considered some of her best and most famous poems, which were published posthumously by Hughes in a collection titled "Ariel." Early in the morning of February 11, 1963, Sylvia sealed her children in their bedroom, turned on the gas in the kitchen, and killed herself. Among her posthumous works are two editions of her journals, some of her letters home to her mother, a collection of short stories ("Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams"), and her collected poems. Sylvia gained more fame dead than she ever had when alive, and Ted Hughes was forced to replace her headstone several times over, as vandals (who blamed Hughes for her death) chipped off the surname 'Hughes,' leaving just 'Sylvia Plath.' biography prepared by Jennifer M. Parents: Otto Emile Plath (1885 - 1940) Aurelia Frances Schober Plath (1906 - 1994) Children: Nicholas Farrar Hughes (1962 - 2009)* Spouse: Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)* *Point here for explanation Cause of death: Suicide Inscription: Sylvia Plath Hughes 1934-1963 Even amidst fierce flames - the golden lotus can be planted Burial: St Thomas a Beckett and St Thomas the Apostle Church Heptonstall West Yorkshire, England Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) began publishing poems and stories by the time she entered Smith College in 1950. In 1955 she won a Fulbright Scholar in Cambridge University, where she met writer Ted Hughes, whom she married in 1956. Plath was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for her Collected Poems. Her novel, "The Bell Jar," is a classic of American literature. This work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, successful -- but slowly going under. Plath takes us with Esther through a month in New York as a contest-winning junior editor on a magazine. Her strained relationships eventually leading her to madness. Such deep exploration of the psyche is rare in any novel. It points to the fact that "The Bell Jar" is a largely autobiographical work about Plath's own summer of 1953, when she was a guest editor at Mademoiselle and experienced a breakdown. http://www.salon.com...0/05/plath_bell Dallas Morning News, The (TX) - May 6, 1999 Deceased Name: Priest, SMU professor Ruth Barnhouse, dies Psychiatrist was character in Sylvia Plath novel Dr. Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse, one of the first women to become a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, has died. She was an author, feminist, psychiatrist and professor of pastoral care at Southern Methodist University. Before her career in Dallas, Dr. Barnhouse was immortalized as a sympathetic doctor in Sylvia Plath's autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar . Ms. Plath was one of the young doctor's first patients while she was a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital near Boston in the early 1950s. Dr. Barnhouse, 75, died Wednesday at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Her family asked that the cause of death not be revealed. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul Episcopal Church in Nantucket, Mass., where she had lived after retiring and moving from Dallas in 1997. "She touched so many things, so many people," said Maura McNeil, founder of the Women's Center in Dallas. Dr. Barnhouse moved to Dallas in 1980, becoming professor of psychiatry and pastoral care at Perkins School of Theology at SMU. In 1985, she and the Rev. Tamara L. Newell were licensed by Dallas church officials to preach, minister the sacraments and conduct the liturgy of the Episcopal Church. Dr. Barnhouse had been ordained a deacon in 1978 and a priest in 1980 by the Diocese of Massachusetts, but Dallas bishops had not allowed female priests to practice. Dr. Barnhouse received her medical degree from Columbia University Medical School and did a psychiatric residency at McLean Hospital. She went on to earn a master's degree in theology from Weston College School of Theology. During the 25 years she lived in Boston, Dr. Barnhouse was staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and a clinical assistant in psychiatry at Harvard University. Ms. Plath was Dr. Barnhouse's patient in 1953 and 1954. In The Bell Jar , Dr. Barnhouse was the sympathetic Dr. Nolan. Ms. Plath also wrote of Dr. Barnhouse as "Dr. B" in her published letters. The poet laureate of the American feminist movement killed herself in 1963. Before moving to Dallas, Dr. Barnhouse was adjunct professor of pastoral theology at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. from 1978 to 1980. During her time in Dallas, Dr. Barnhouse practiced psychiatry for up to 10 hours a week, taught at Perkins and was a liaison with St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church. Dr. Barnhouse was born near Grenoble, France, where her parents did religious work. Her father, Donald Grey Barnhouse, had a national weekly radio show on the NBC Blue Network, which originated from his sermons at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia beginning in 1927. Dr. Barnhouse is survived by six sons, Chris Beuscher of Boston, Robert Beuscher of Nantucket, William Beuscher of Cambridge, Mass., Thomas Beuscher of Houston, John Beuscher of East Hampton, N.Y., and Francis Edmonds III of Weisbaden, Germany; a daughter, Ruth Tiffany Naylor of Lexington Mass.; two brothers, Donald Barnhouse of Philadelphia and David Barnhouse of Pittsburgh, Pa.; a sister, Dorothy Barnhouse of Bremen, Germany; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. What's in a Name? February 16, 1956 Dallas Morning News, page 19 Rites Set Thursday for Pair Who Died Only Hours Apart Double funeral services for Mr and Mrs Frank Barnhouse of 1422 S. Ewing who died within twelve hours of each other Tuesday will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Heights Church of Christ, 2200 South Marsalis. August 10, 1957 3 Texans in Gotham Set Outboard Mark NEW YORK (Sp.) Three weary, grimy, Texans in an outboard motor boat flying Texas and Confederate flags, arrived at the battery Friday after a record-breaking 2,630 mile night-and-day trip from Houston. Henry Barnhouse, 39, Charles H. Neill, 45, and William Cloud, 50, made the gruelling trip in 10 days and 21 hours. The three— mechanical department employees [linotypers] of an Austin Newspaper, the "American and Statesman," left Houston, July 29th. The length of their run set an unofficial record for sustained trips in an outboard boat. The previous record was set July 21, by two Miami business- men, who traveled 2,500 miles from Miami to Chicago in nine and a half days for their adventure. The Texans used a new type 17-foot glastron fiberglass boat powered by two-35-horsepower Johnson motors. The craft was equppied with a radio telephone and depth-finder. The boat with a banner saying "Houston to New York," on its side, came scooting across the harbor, circled the Statue of Liberty and nestled up to a float at Municipal Pier One at 10:08 a.m. On hand to greet her husband was Mrs. Frances Barnhouse, wife of the boat's "captain," and daughter Rose 13, Robert 10, and John 9. Another son, David, 3 1/2, stayed home with a grandmother in Austin. November 6, 1960 PHILADELPHIA, PA. (AP) Dr. Barnhouse Dies The Rev. Dr. Donald Grey Barnhorse well known radio Bible teacher, died Saturday in a hospital here. He was 65. Dr. Barnhouse traveled all over the world, teaching the Bible by radio. He was a minister of a Presbyterian church here. PS I would like to know more about Dr. Donald Grey Barnhorse, especially his genealogy. March 24, 2009 Son of Sylvia Plath Commits Suicide By ANAHAD O'CONNOR Nicholas Hughes, the son of the poet and novelist Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, killed himself at his home in Alaska, nearly a half-century after his mother and stepmother took their own lives, according to a statement from his sister. Mr. Hughes, 47, was a fisheries biologist who studied stream fish and spent much of his time trekking across Alaska on field studies. Shielded from stories about his mother's suicide until he was a teenager, Mr. Hughes had lived an academic life largely outside the public eye. But friends and family said he had long struggled with depression. Last Monday, he hanged himself at his home in Alaska, his sister, Frieda Hughes, said over the weekend. "It is with profound sorrow that I must announce the death of my brother, Nicholas Hughes, who died by his own hand on Monday 16th March 2009 at his home in Alaska," she said in a statement to the Times of London. "He had been battling depression for some time." Mr. Hughes's early life was darkened by shadows of depression and suicide. Ms. Plath explored the themes in her 1963 novel "The Bell Jar," which follows an ambitious college student who tries to kill herself after suffering a nervous breakdown while interning at a New York City magazine. The novel reflected Ms. Plath's own experiences, including her early struggles with depression and her attempt at suicide while working at Mademoiselle in New York as a college student. After a stay at a mental institution, Ms. Plath went on to study poetry at Cambridge University, where she met Ted Hughes, who was on his way to world fame as a poet. The two were married in 1956, and had two children — Nicholas and Frieda — but separated in 1962 after Mr. Hughes began an affair with another woman, Assia Wevill. Ms. Plath killed herself at the age of 30 by sticking her head in an oven in her London home on Feb. 11, 1963, as Nicholas and Frieda slept nearby. Six years later, Ms. Wevill, who had helped raise Nicholas and Frieda after Ms. Plath's death, killed herself and her 4-year-old daughter, Shura. Ms. Wevill styled the murder-suicide in the same manner, using a gas stove. Mr. Hughes, who became Poet Laureate in 1984 and was widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of his generation, resisted speaking openly about the deaths for many years. But in his last poetic work, "Birthday Letters," published in 1998, he finally broke his silence and explored the theme. He died the same year, as the book — in some ways considered a quest for redemption — was climbing best-seller lists. Mr. Hughes was said to have protected his children from details about their mother's suicide for many years. But in at least one poem he seemed to indicate that Nicholas, who was only 1 at the time of her death, was pained even as a small child, recalling in one stanza how Nicholas's eyes "Became wet jewels/ The hardest substance of the purest pain/ As I fed him in his high white chair." Nicholas had a passion for wildlife, particularly fish. As a young adult he studied at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a bachelor of science degree in 1984 and a master of arts degree in 1990. Afterward, he traveled to the United States, earning a doctoral degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he became an assistant professor at the School of Fisheries and Ocean Science. According to the University, Mr. Hughes was an expert in "stream salmonid ecology" and carried out his research in Alaska and New Zealand. He resigned from the faculty in 2006 but continued his research, the school said. One graduate student there, Lauren Tuori, recalled a peculiar habit of Mr. Hughes's, saying he would often "seek out a larch tree in a forest of spruce." She added, "Alaska could use more biologists like Nick who still display wonder at the small things around them." Correction: An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to Mr. Hughes as an evolutionary biologist. He was a fisheries biologist.

My interest in this post, involves Robert Lamphere not that Judith Coplon isn't interesting, I kept looking at various Governmental Report's in reference to the period prior to the Kennedy Assassination, that would reference cryptography, Signal Intelligence Service, various codebreakers which would always reference FBI codebreaking, I finally got around to realizing that Lamphere was a major part of that area...... Here is what I have on him; The FBI-KGB War Excerpt from his book page 316 Philby was long suspected to have ghostwritten the biography of Gordon Lonsdale,.......even that was a lie his real name was Konon Trefemovich Molody Robert Lamphere, A cryptology and counterintelligence expert, Robert Lamphere was instrumental in identifying major Russian espionage agents, including Judith Coplon and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Born in 1918 and raised in Idaho, Lamphere attended the University of Idaho in an accelerated law program, then transferred to the National Law School (George Washington University) while working for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He graduated in 1941, and shortly thereafter joined the FBI. Lamphere was first assigned to the Birmingham, Alabama, field office; seven months later, he was transferred to New York City, where he served from 1942 to 1947. Most of his cases in his first three years in New York involved Selective Service violations. By 1945, his work focused exclusively, as a member of the Espionage Squad, on counterintelligence. In 1947, Lamphere moved to Washington where he worked in developing evidence to ensure the conviction of alleged communist spy Gerhard Eisler. Returning to New York briefly after the conclusion of the trial, Lamphere was permanently transferred to FBIHQ, where he spent the rest of his Bureau career. The major cases on which he worked included the Judith Coplon and Rosenberg espionage cases. Lamphere played a crucial role in American counterespionage history. In the postwar period, he worked closely with military cryptologists in the National Security Agency (and its predecessor agency, the Army Security Agency) to identify the Soviet intelligence operatives and their American recruits cited in cover names in Soviet consular messages that NSA had intercepted and deciphered. By comparing the deciphered information to FBI intelligence files, Lamphere was able to identify members of the Soviet espionage networks of the World War II and Cold War periods recruited by Soviet intelligence operatives among Americans and their allies. Code-named Venona, this project succeeded in breaking up several Soviet spy rings. The existence and success of the Venona project was publicized in 1995 when the National Security Agency released the decrypted Soviet messages. Lamphere retired from the FBI in 1955 to accept a position with the Veterans Administration, where he worked on investigations, security, and internal auditing. When he resigned in 1961, he was deputy administrator, the second-highest position in the Veterans Administration. He then worked in the private sector. After retirement, Lamphere wrote The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story, published in 1986 and reissued with three new chapters in 1995. Lamphere has lectured extensively and has served as a discussant in television productions concerning espionage-related issues. pages 338-339, The FBI : A Comprehensive Guide - Anton Theoharis 1. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) - February 17, 2002 Deceased Name: ROBERT J. LAMPHERE FBI AGENT SUPERVISED INFAMOUS COLD WAR SPYING CASES Robert J. Lamphere, an agent of the FBI who supervised the investigations of some of the biggest espionage cases of the Cold War, including those of the Rosenbergs, Klaus Fuchs and Kim Philby, died Jan. 7 in a hospital in Tucson, Ariz. He was 83. The cause of death was prostate cancer, but he also had Parkinson's disease, said his wife, Martha, his only survivor. He lived in Green Valley, Ariz., and Hayden, Idaho. Mr. Lamphere was not as well known as his friend James J. Angleton, who headed counterintelligence operations at the CIA. But he had a hand in every major Soviet spy case from the end of World War II through the mid-1950s. At one point, he was working 22 hours on some days, conducting what he called "a raging monster" of an investigation of a Soviet spy ring. He was in daily contact with J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director. Mr. Lamphere was involved in deciphering the code used by the KGB, the Soviet intelligence apparatus, in spy communications until 1945. Using the code, he helped unearth clues pointing to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as spies in 1953. Messages were not always clear at first. Code names and descriptions of meetings did not necessarily identify an agent immediately, but as more became known and connected with other information, a vast spy network was exposed. "We had no idea that such a thing as the Rosenberg case would develop when, in the spring of 1948, we began these investigations based on the 1944-45 KGB messages," Mr. Lamphere said in his 1986 memoir, "The FBI-KGB. War: A Special Agent's Story." But step by step -- and spy by spy -- he followed a trail through the cases of Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold and Ruth Greenglass to the Rosenbergs. Mr. Lamphere said he did not think Mrs. Rosenberg should have been executed because she had acted under her husband's direction and because, as the mother of two boys who would be orphaned, she would draw sympathy. Robert Joseph Lamphere was born in Wardner, Idaho. He graduated from the University of Idaho and attended its law school before finishing his degree at the National Law School in Washington. He joined the FBI because he was "attuned to the idea of being among the very best," he said, and worked first in Alabama. He was transferred to New York City, where he made 405 arrests in three years. When he was transferred to the Soviet-espionage squad, he worried that it would not be as satisfying as the criminal cases he had been working on. It turned out to be anything but monotonous. He was soon told of the top-secret Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb, because of evidence that Soviet agents were stealing information. "The enemy just went on and on," he wrote. "When you get rid of one spy, another would take his place." His largest contribution was in using deciphered Soviet cables to build espionage cases. After Hoover received an anonymous letter in 1943 reporting espionage by Soviet agents, analysts were assigned to break the Soviet code. In October 1948, Mr. Lamphere joined the project full time. He worked with Meredith Knox Gardner of the Army Security Agency, a brilliant linguist who spoke six or seven languages, including Sanskrit. "I would bring Meredith some material and he would print in a new word over a group of numbers," Lamphere said in an interview with The Washington Post in 1996. "Then he would give a little smile of satisfaction. He was a brilliant cryptanalyst." The messages were sent from 1943 to 1945. The Soviets changed the code well before Philby, head of British intelligence in Washington, was briefed in 1949 by Mr. Lamphere on Venona, as the project was code-named. The Soviets already had an undercover agent on the project. But even if Venona did not yield up-to-date information, it spoke volumes about the maze of Soviet espionage networks, who the agents were, what had been sought and what was obtained. One document that was decoded over several years was a report on the progress of the Manhattan Project. It was written by Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British physicist who had been attached to the research group at Los Alamos, N.M., and had gone on to work at the British atomic energy research center. Information gathered by Mr. Lamphere led Fuchs to confess that he had been passing information to the Soviets. Mr. Lamphere was sent to London to get Fuchs' full story. He found that the spy's American contact, known as Raymond, was Harry Gold. Then, like links in a chain, more spies were found, including the Rosenbergs. An even higher priority than catching the spies, however, was safeguarding the secrecy of Venona. President Harry S. Truman was not even told about it, and it was publicly revealed only in 1995. Mr. Lamphere left the FBI in 1955. For the next six years, he held high positions in the Veterans Administration. Afterward he was an executive of the John Hancock Mutual Insurance Co. Mr. Lamphere, who spent years deciphering the dark secrets of Soviet espionage, was strongly critical of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's crusade against Communists. "McCarthy's star chamber proceedings," Mr. Lamphere wrote, "his lies and overstatements hurt our counterintelligence efforts." END 2. Record, The (Hackensack, NJ) - February 27, 2002 Deceased Name: ROBERT J. LAMPHERE , 83; LED FIGHT AGAINST SOVIET SPIES Robert J. Lamphere, an FBI counterintelligence specialist who supervised many of the most notorious postwar Soviet espionage cases, including the atomic spy case that led to the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, has died. He was 83. Mr. Lamphere, a resident of Green Valley, Ariz., and Hayden, Idaho, died of prostate cancer Jan. 7 in a hospital in Tucson, Ariz. The key to one of the United States' greatest Cold War counterintelligence coups was the top-secret breaking of the Soviet wartime code, which led to deciphering intercepted messages that had been sent by the Soviet consulate in New York and its embassy in Washington to Moscow between 1944 and 1945. Information gleaned from those deciphered messages and the FBI investigations presided over by Mr. Lamphere led to unmasking not only the Rosenberg spy ring but many other Soviet spies. Cracking the Soviet wartime code was a long, tedious process, and little progress had been made when Mr. Lamphere was transferred from the New York field office to the Soviet espionage section at FBI headquarters in Washington in 1947. The several pages of partly decoded Soviet messages that he found in the section's safe were mostly blank, containing deciphered words and code names that were virtually meaningless. But Mr. Lamphere was impressed that cryptanalysts in the Army Security Agency had managed to make even a few partial breaks in the supposedly impregnable Soviet code, and he proposed offering the FBI's assistance in providing information that might help them further crack the complicated numerical code system. "The KGB messages were to change my life," Mr. Lamphere wrote in his 1986 book, "The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story." "More important, they were to affect the course of history: In the coming years, their revelations would lead directly to decisive actions that the FBI took against KGB operations in the United States." Born Feb. 14, 1918, in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of Idaho, Mr. Lamphere grew up in Mullan, Idaho, where his father leased the rights to mine underground ore deposits. After attending the University of Idaho and its law school, Mr. Lamphere completed his degree at the National Law School in Washington, D.C. Attracted both by the FBI's elite "crime-busting" image and "the idea of being among the very best," Mr. Lamphere joined the FBI after law school in 1941. After leaving the FBI in 1955, Mr. Lamphere worked at the Veterans Administration, where he rose to the rank of deputy administrator within five years. From 1961 to 1981, he was an executive with John Hancock Mutual Insurance Co. He is survived by his wife, Martha. 3. State, The (Columbia, SC) - February 27, 2002 Deceased Name: ROBERT LAMPHERE -- Worked on Soviet spy cases TUCSON, Ariz. -Former FBI counterintelligence specialist Robert Lamphere, who supervised many of the most notorious postwar Soviet espionage cases, died Jan. 7 of prostate cancer. He was 83. Lamphere was instrumental in providing FBI assistance to experts in the Army Security Agency who would eventually break the Soviet's top-secret code, one of the United State's greatest Cold War achievements. Officials deciphered intercepted messages that had been sent by the Soviet consulate in New York and embassy in Washington to Moscow in 1944 and 1945. Information gleaned from those deciphered messages and the FBI investigations presided over by Lamphere led to the unmasking of spies, including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of passing secret atomic-bomb information to the Soviet Union. They were executed in 1953. Lamphere was born Feb. 14, 1918 and joined the FBI in 1941. After leaving the FBI in 1955, Lamphere worked at the Veterans Administration. From 1961 to 1981, he was an executive with John Hancock Mutual Insurance Co. 4 New York Times, The (NY) - February 11, 2002 Deceased Name: Robert J. Lamphere , 83, Spy Chaser for the F.B.I., Dies Robert J. Lamphere, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who supervised the investigations of some of the biggest espionage cases of the cold war, including those of the Rosenbergs, Klaus Fuchs and Kim Philby, died on Jan. 7 in a Tucson hospital. He was 83. The cause of death was prostate cancer, but he also had Parkinson's disease, his wife, Martha, his only survivor, said. He lived in Green Valley, Ariz., and Hayden, Idaho. Mr. Lamphere was not as well known as his friend James J. Angleton, who headed counterintelligence operations at the Central Intelligence Agency. But he had a hand in every major Soviet spy case from the end of World War II through the mid-1950's. At one point, he was working 22 hours on some days, conducting what he called "a raging monster" of an investigation of a Soviet spy ring. He was in daily contact with J. Edgar Hoover, the F.B.I. director. Mr. Lamphere was involved in deciphering the code used by the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence apparatus, in spy communications until 1945. Using the code, he helped unearth clues pointing to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as spies in 1953. Messages were not always clear at first. Code names and descriptions of meetings did not necessarily identify an agent immediately, but as more became known and connected with other information, a vast spy network was exposed. "We had no idea that such a thing as the Rosenberg case would develop when, in the spring of 1948, we began these investigations based on the 1944-45 K.G.B. messages," Mr. Lamphere said in his memoir, "The F.B.I.-K.G.B. War: A Special Agent's Story" (Random House, 1986), written with Tom Shachtman. But step by step -- and spy by spy -- he followed a trail through the cases of Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold and Ruth Greenglass to the Rosenbergs. He said that a frame-up of the Rosenbergs, long suggested by their supporters, would have required that the F.B.I. set out to get the couple years before the agency even knew who the Rosenbergs were. Mr. Lamphere said he did not think Mrs. Rosenberg should have been executed because she had acted under her husband's direction and because, as the mother of two boys who would be orphaned, she would draw sympathy. He thought Mr. Rosenberg deserved the death penalty but only if in announcing it the judge made it clear that the sentence would be reduced if he cooperated with the F.B.I. Mr. Lamphere recommended the sentences to Mr. Hoover, who sent them to the court in his own name. Robert Joseph Lamphere was born on Feb. 14, 1918, in Wardner, Idaho. He graduated from the University of Idaho and attended its law school before finishing his degree at the National Law School in Washington. He joined the F.B.I. because he was "attuned to the idea of being among the very best," he said, and worked first in Alabama. He was transferred to New York City, where he made 405 arrests in three and a half years. When he was transferred to the Soviet espionage squad, he worried that it would not be as satisfying as the criminal cases he had been working on. It turned out to be anything but monotonous. He was soon told of the top-secret Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb, because of evidence that Soviet agents were stealing information. "The enemy just went on and on," he wrote. "When you get rid of one spy, another would take his place." His largest contribution was in using deciphered Soviet cables to build espionage cases. After Mr. Hoover received an anonymous letter in 1943 reporting espionage by Soviet agents, analysts were assigned to break the Soviet code. In October 1948, Mr. Lamphere joined the project full time. He worked with Meredith Knox Gardner of the Army Security Agency, a brilliant linguist who spoke six or seven languages, including Sanskrit. "I would bring Meredith some material and he would print in a new word over a group of numbers," Mr. Lamphere said in an interview with The Washington Post in 1996. "Then he would give a little smile of satisfaction. He was a brilliant cryptanalyst." Former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in a speech in 1997 called the men's collaboration "intellectual dedication that Americans have a right to know about and to celebrate." The messages were sent from 1943 to 1945. The Soviets changed the code well before Mr. Philby, head of British intelligence in Washington, was briefed in 1949 by Mr. Lamphere on Venona, as the project was code-named. The Soviets already had an undercover agent on the project. But even if Venona did not yield up-to-date information, it spoke volumes about the maze of Soviet espionage networks, who the agents were, what had been sought and what was obtained. One document that was decoded over several years was a report on the progress of the Manhattan Project. It was written by Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British physicist who had been attached to the research group at Los Alamos, N.M., and had gone on to work at the British atomic energy research center. Information gathered by Mr. Lamphere led Mr. Fuchs to confess that he had been passing information to the Soviets. Mr. Lamphere was sent to London to get Mr. Fuchs's full story. He found that the spy's American contact, known as Raymond, was Harry Gold. Then, like links in a chain, more spies were found, including the Rosenbergs. Mr. Lamphere said Mr. Fuchs told him that information he provided probably hastened Moscow's development of an atomic bomb by several years. An even higher priority than catching the spies, however, was safeguarding the secrecy of Venona. President Harry S. Truman was not even told about it, and it was publicly revealed only in 1995. Mr. Moynihan has suggested that revealing Venona's existence much earlier might have been better, to dramatize for doubters that Soviet espionage was, indeed, widespread. Disclosure might have prevented persecution in cases where evidence was scant, he said. Mr. Lamphere left the F.B.I. in 1955. For the next six years, he held high positions in the Veterans Administration. Afterward he was an executive of the John Hancock Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. Lamphere, who spent years deciphering the dark secrets of Soviet espionage, was strongly critical of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's crusade against Communists. "McCarthy's star chamber proceedings," Mr. Lamphere wrote, "his lies and overstatements hurt our counterintelligence efforts." Robert

Ted Callaway. Old news. I think Donnie Benavides talked about it, I'm pretty sure Callaway did too. This is new news. I'm surprised, given Tom's attitude about this whole thing. Will have to drop by to visit with him sometime when I'm in the area. What's it called? Where did you run across it? Well I saw it Friday at the Half-Price Books store on Shadybrook; like I said I was unimpressed. So I didn't really pay that close attention. It was written in the Libra/DeLillo style, in the sense that there were, what looked like conversations not part of the Warren Commission or HSCA Elsurs or accounts given; Which was why I was so uninterested. Imagine my surprise when I saw your post, this morning and google book searched and ditto amazon.com with nary a result. The only thing I can say is I guess it possibly could have been an advance copy, or co-written with his name last, or I simply am mistaken, which I doubt seriously. I even went back there today to at least get the title, ISBN #, specifically for you and it had apparently been bought already. I do know his name is Temple Ford Bowley, and he got the reward recently from the City of Dallas..... I am sure something about this will pop up, but if your hoping for a magnum opus, I am warning you, you will be disappointed.

Robert, The above excerpts from your recent post on this thread triggered my curiousity as to whether the GHW Bush / Tom Devine connections to DeMohrenschildt, and DeMohrenschildt's connections with Oswald, and the oil exploration ventures of DeMohrenschildt, Edward Hooker, Bush, and Devine, and Bush / Devine associations with JMWAVE and the odd Bush / Devine "top secret" trip to Vietnam, a month before the Tet Offensive, all have U-2 and other aerial reconnaissance as the common thread. In this post today, on the Thomas J. Devine thread, I have made the point that Richard Bissell was probably one of Devine's MIT economics instructors, and that Bissell and two of Devine's older Sigma Chi fraternity brothers were in on U-2 program planning from the beginning.... I apologize for the length of this but I believe it will prove to be worth it. I will immediately get to the point, the rest will be a closer look at details. What you are reading is an excerpt from the testimony of Curtis La Verne Crafard...... It directly pertains to Collins Radio. Mr. GRIFFIN. Page 11 is a half sheet of paper and there is nothing written on the front or back of what is left of that. Now on page 12 there are some items "supporter, shaving cream, after shave lotion, tooth brush, code 10 hair cream." Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. Are those in your handwriting? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. And they are personal items? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. That you purchased for yourself? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. How long after you began to work for Jack was that entry made? Mr. CRAFARD. I believe about 2 or 3 weeks after I went to work for Jack. Mr. GRIFFIN. How long before you left? Mr. CRAFARD. That would be at least 4 or 5 weeks before I left. Mr. GRIFFIN. That is on the front part of page 12 and there is nothing else on the front part of page 12. On the back part of page 12 there are a number of entries. beginning next segment Mr. GRIFFIN. We are on page 16 and we are looking at the first entry on the page. What does that entry appear to be? Mr. CRAFARD. "K. Hamilton." Mr. GRIFFIN. Does that mean anything to you? Mr. CRAFARD. No; the rest of the page, I would say that it was somebody had called in for reservations. Mr. GRIFFIN. It says, "9--3 couples between runway." Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. And that page 16 is a half sheet of paper and there is nothing more on the page, and turning it over on the back part of that half sheet of paper there is an entry. What is that? Mr. CRAFARD. "Mr. Miller Friday 15 people Collins Radio Co." It would be somebody called in for reservations for 15 people. END That is the end of the passage which pertains to Collins Radio, as mentioned earlier the rest is a closer look at Crafard's testimony, and more information at the end regarding Collins Radio and Miller, a recurring name, partly due to the commonality of the surname, bur the name, I will submit, whether by coincidence or factuality has significance. Mr. HUBERT. Will you state your full name for the record, please? Mr. CRAFARD. Curtis LaVerne Crafard. Mr. HUBERT. Where do you live, Mr. Crafard? Mr. CRAFARD. 1219 Birch Street, Dallas, Oreg. Mr. HUBERT. How old are you? Mr. CRAFARD 23. Mr. HUBERT. When precisely were you born? Mr. CRAFARD. March 10, 1941. Mr. HUBERT. What is your present occupation? Mr. CRAFARD. At the present time I am unemployed. Mr. HUBERT. Now, the subpena that you were served with calls for you to bring any documents that you may have concerning the matter under inquiry, and I would like you now to make a return, as it is called, as to the documents you do have so suppose you present those that you brought with you in response to the subpena. Mr. CRAFARD. All I had was the subpena from the Jack Ruby murder trial. Some news clippings from the Ruby trial, and then more or less a diary I have been keeping for a little while of my own movements. Mr. HUBERT. Now, Mr. Crafard, concerning the diary about your movements, do you have any objection if we have photostatic copies made of the pages on which you have made entries? Mr. CRAFARD. No objection whatsoever. Mr. HUBERT. Do you wish to retain the original of this yourself? Mr. CRAFARD. Unless it is of some use to you. Mr. HUBERT. Well, it may be, but on the other hand, I don't want to take it away from you unless you feel that you don't want to keep it or have no use for it yourself. Mr. CRAFARD. Well, I would like to have the book because it comes in handy for a lot of things. Mr. HUBERT. Mr. Crafard, who were your parents? Mr. CRAFARD. Mr. Hugh Crafard, Mrs. Alice Irene Crafard. Mr. HUBERT. Are they still living? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Are they living together? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Where do they live? Mr. CRAFARD. At 1219 Birch Street, Dallas, Oreg. Mr. HUBERT. Have you any brothers or sisters? Mr. CRAFARD. I have one brother living. He is in the Army stationed in Los Angeles, Calif. Mr. HUBERT. What is his name? Mr. CRAFARD. Edward D. Crafard. Mr. HUBERT. Is he married? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Does he have children? Mr. CRAFARD. Two. Mr. HUBERT. You don't have any other address for him than that which you have given us? Mr. CRAFARD. I can't give you the address. All I know he is stationed there in the Army. Mr. HUBERT. You don't know what organization in the Army? Mr. CRAFARD. The Missile Corps, antiaircraft. I have three sisters. Mr. HUBERT. All right, will you state their names, please, and whether they are married? Mr. CRAFARD. Corabelle Crafard, she is married. Mr. HUBERT. To whom? Mr. CRAFARD. [Deleted]. Mr. HUBERT. Where does she live? Mr. CRAFARD. She is residing in Clare, Mich. Mr. HUBERT. Are they living together? Mr. CRAFARD. He is in the "pen" right now. Mr. HUBERT. Penitentiary? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Which one? Mr. CRAFARD. New Ionia State Penitentiary. Mr. HUBERT. What State is that in? Mr. CRAFARD. Michigan. Mr. HUBERT. Do you know what offense he has been convicted of? Mr. CRAFARD. As far as I know, B and E, breaking and entering at night. Mr. HUBERT. How long has he been in the penitentiary? Mr. CRAFARD. About 7 months, I believe, now. Mr. HUBERT. What term is he serving? Mr. CRAFARD. Two-and-a-half to fifteen. Mr. HUBERT. All right. Go on to the next sister. Mr. CRAFARD. Norma Lee Crafard. Mr. HUBERT. Who is she married to? Mr. CRAFARD. Owen Neal. Mr. HUBERT. N-e-a-I? Mr. CRAFARD. N-e-a-1. Mr. HUBERT. Where do they live? Mr. CRAFARD. Dallas, Oreg. Mr. HUBERT. Do they live together? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Do they have children? Mr. CRAFARD. They have two children. Mr. HUBERT. All right. What is---- Mr. CRAFARD. Alice LaLaine Crafard. Mr. HUBERT. What is her husband's name? Mr. CRAFARD. She is not married. She lives with my parents. Mr. HUBERT. How old is she? Mr. CRAFARD. She is 17. Mr. HUBERT. Have you had any brothers or sisters who have died? Mr. CRAFARD. I have one brother that died. Mr. HUBERT. What was his name? Mr. CRAFARD. Gary Harold Crafard. Mr. HUBERT. How old was he when he died? Mr. CRAFARD. Nine years old. Mr. HUBERT. When did he die? Mr. CRAFARD. 1954, I believe it was. Mr. HUBERT. Now, you have told us where and when you were born. Now, I ask you where you were born? Mr. CRAFARD. Farwell, Mich. Mr. HUBERT. How long did you live there after your birth? Mr. CRAFARD. I am not sure of the length of time we lived right there. We lived around Farwell for 4 years, right around there. Mr. HUBERT. After those 4 years where did you go? Mr. CRAFARD. Went to California. Mr. HUBERT. What part? Mr. CRAFARD. San Joaquin Valley. Mr. HUBERT. How long did you stay there? Mr. CRAFARD. Approximately 6 years. Mr. HUBERT. That is until you were about 10 years old? Mr. CRAFARD. Ten years old. Mr. HUBERT. Did you go to school there? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. How much schooling did you finish there? Mr. CRAFARD. First four grades. Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember the particular place in San Joaquin Valley that you lived? Mr. CRAFARD. Well, I went to school at Woody, Calif., and Fairfax, Calif. Mr. HUBERT. All right. After leaving those places, and particularly the San Joaquin Valley, where did you and your parents move to? Mr. CRAFARD. We moved back to Michigan. Mr. HUBERT. What place, in Michigan? Mr. CRAFARD. Clare. Mr. HUBERT. C-l-a-i-r-e? Mr. CRAFARD. C-l-a-r-e. Mr. HUBERT. That is when you were 10 years old? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember it? Mr. CRAFARD. I can remember going back; yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. How long did you live there? Mr. CRAFARD. We lived in the vicinity of Clare then for about 4 years. Mr. HUBERT. Did you go to school there? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; until I graduated from eighth grade. Mr. HUBERT. Then what happened? Mr. CRAFARD. We moved to Port Huron, Mich. Mr. HUBERT. H-u-r-o-n, Mich.? Mr. CRAFARD. I attended school at Yale, Mich., Yale High School for 2 years, and then we moved back to California to the San Joaquin Valley again. Mr. HUBERT. Same place as before? Mr. CRAFARD. No; we moved to a little place called Plainview where I attended school for a year, Strutmore High School and from there we went to Oregon. I dropped out of school and enlisted in the U.S. Army, September 18, 1958. Mr. HUBERT. Now, do I understand you to say then that you had 3 years of high school education? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Was that--were those satisfactory years? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. I mean you have credit for those? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. You lack 1 year to graduate? Mr. CRAFARD. I lack about 6 months of finishing high school. Mr. HUBERT. Where did you enlist? Mr. CRAFARD. I enlisted in Salem, Oreg. Mr. HUBERT. And what assignments were you given? Mr. CRAFARD. I enlisted in the antiaircraft. Mr. HUBERT. That is U.S. Army? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Where did you get basic training? Mr. CRAFARD. Fort Ord. Mr. HUBERT. How long did you stay there? Mr. CRAFARD. I was in Fort Ord for 2 months and then I went to Presidio, San Francisco, where I was stationed at an air defense school for a period of 2 months and then I was assigned to D Battery, 2d Missile Battalion, San Francisco Defense Organization. From there I went to Germany in April of 1959. I was transferred to Germany to Deisley Kersne, and I was stationed with the D Battery, 2d Missile Battalion there. I stayed there until November of 1959 then I was transferred back to the United States where I was discharged November 10, 1959. Mr. HUBERT. How long did you serve altogether? Mr. CRAFARD. Thirteen months. Mr. HUBERT. Is that the usual tour? Mr. CRAFARD. No, sir. The usual tour is 3 to 4 years. Mr. HUBERT. Well now, what caused you to get out sooner? Mr. CRAFARD. As far as I understand it is the next thing to a medical discharge. Mr. HUBERT. What was it based upon, do you know? Mr. CRAFARD. General, under honorable conditions. Mr. HUBERT. You have a discharge reading general, under honorable conditions and you are now taking from your pocket a document which is a photostatic copy, I take it? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; DD214. Mr. HUBERT. Of Defense Department Form 14. later Mr. HUBERT. So that in fact you were with your parents after you moved from Michigan to Dallas, Oreg., for approximately 1 year? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Of which time you say you worked about 7 months? Mr. CRAFARD. I went to school for about 6 months out of it, about 5 or 6 months out of the year, I attended high school. Mr. HUBERT. Did you finish? Mr. CRAFARD. No, sir. Mr. HUBERT. What high school was that? Mr. CRAFARD. Dallas High. Mr. HUBERT. Oregon? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. You were not earning anything then? Mr. CRAFARD. No, sir. Mr. HUBERT. I take it that you left Dallas, Oreg., about April in 1961, is that correct? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Where did you go next? Mr. CRAFARD. I went to California where I joined the carnival. Mr. HUBERT. What part of California? Mr. CRAFARD. Let's see, in Oroville, Calif., where I joined the carnival. Mr. HUBERT. Oroville? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. What carnival was it? Mr. CRAFARD. Royal West Golden Gate combined. Mr. HUBERT. Royal West Golden Gate combined? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. What type of carnival was it? Mr. CRAFARD. It was more or less about the general run of the mill for a carnival. Mostly rides. Mr. HUBERT. When you say "carnival" you are talking about a place where they have these rides for children and so forth? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. How big a carnival was it, I mean, how many people were involved? Mr. CRAFARD. It is pretty hard to say exactly. Mr. HUBERT. What did you do with it? Mr. CRAFARD. I was working with the circus that was attached to the carnival. Mr. HUBERT. Animal circus? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. They all traveled as a group? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. HUBERT. How long were you with that, in that sort of a group? Mr. CRAFARD. I worked that for about 3 or 4 weeks. Mr. HUBERT. That is all, 3 or 4 weeks? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. All right, where did you go to next? Mr. CRAFARD. I traveled through Georgia where I joined another carnival in Georgia, Jerry Lepke Ten in One. Mr. HUBERT. What sort of a side show was it? Mr. CRAFARD. He had the sword box, ladder of swords, fire eater, two-headed baby show, and a snake girl show. Mr. HUBERT. What did you do at that carnival? Mr. CRAFARD. Roustabout and barker. Mr. HUBERT. How long were you with them? Mr. CRAFARD. I was with Lepke for about a week. Mr. HUBERT. All right. After that? Mr. CRAFARD. Then I went to Michigan. Mr. HUBERT. Where did you stay there? Mr. CRAFARD. I visited with my sister and my brother-in-law again for a little while for about 2 weeks. Mr. HUBERT. Which one? Mr. CRAFARD. Tenniswood. Then I went to Detroit where I joined a kiddyland setup. Mr. HUBERT. That is sort of a carnival strictly for children? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; parking lot carnival. Mr. HUBERT. About what time was that then? Mr. CRAFARD. I believe that was in the fall of 1961. Mr. HUBERT. How long did you stay with that organization? Mr. CRAFARD. I was with him for about 2 weeks. Mr. HUBERT. Then what did you do? Mr. CRAFARD. I went back to Dallas, Oreg. Mr. HUBERT. When you got to Dallas what did you do? Oregon, I mean. Mr. CRAFARD. I went to work part time at the Muir and McDonald Leather Tannery and then I went to work for Boise Cascade Valzets Division for the Boise Cascade Plywood. I worked for them until in June of 1962, June 10th, 1962. Mr. HUBERT. How long then did you work for them? Mr. CRAFARD. For about 6 months, I believe it was. Mr. HUBERT. What were you making there? Mr. CRAFARD. I was making, I believe, $2.25 an hour. Mr. HUBERT. About what did it amount to by the month before taxes? Mr. CRAFARD. About $400, $450. Mr. HUBERT. You were not married at this time? Mr. CRAFARD. No, sir. Mr. HUBERT. Were you able to save money? Mr. CRAFARD. I was spending my money just about as fast as I made it. I was traveling, paying for transportation back and forth to work, buying clothes. By that time I had bought a motorcycle or a motorbike, and I bought a few items, I bought a refrigerator for my mother or a dryer for my mother at that time. Mr. HUBERT. Now, we have some information that you worked for Federal Aviation Agency through July and October of 1960 in Los Angeles? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; in Los Angeles--I believe they were out of Los Angeles, where I worked for them that was over in Nevada. Mr. HUBERT. What kind of work did you do? Mr. CRAFARD. Surveyor's assistant. I had forgotten I had worked for them. Mr. HUBERT. Can you tell us anything about your employment with Stewart-Hill in Berkeley, Calif., 1052 Dwight Way, Berkeley, Calif? Mr. CRAFARD. 1 don't remember even. Mr. HUBERT. That would have been between July and September of 1960? Mr. CRAFARD. I don't remember. Mr. HUBERT. Do you remember working for the Teer Plating Co., Dallas, Tex. Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Tell us about it, please. Mr. CRAFARD. I believe I worked for them 2 or 3 weeks, something like that. Mr. HUBERT. How much did you make with them? Mr. CRAFARD. I was making a dollar and a quarter an hour while I worked for them. I believe when I left there my last check was either $65 or $85. Mr. HUBERT. Is that the first time you had ever been in Dallas, Tex.? Mr. CRAFARD. Let's see, I believe it was, I am not certain of that. Mr. HUBERT. That was between April and June of 1961, was it not? Mr. CRAFARD. I believe so. The way I have traveled around, I had a lot of jobs I even forgot about almost. Mr. HUBERT. What was this Muir Co. you were talking about? Mr. CRAFARD. It was a leather tannery. Mr. HUBERT. In Dallas, Oreg.? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Muir McDonald? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. At 111 Street. Is that Dallas, Tex., or Dallas, Oreg.? Mr. CRAFARD. Dallas, Oreg. Mr. HUBERT. You worked for them for about almost year, with a couple of time outs, didn't you? Mr. CRAFARD. Altogether I worked for them about 18 months. But including the time I worked part time and I worked part time for them for a while while I was working for J. C. Tracy. Mr. HUBERT. What was J. C. Tracy? Mr. CRAFARD. That is a cannery in Dallas, Oreg. Mr. HUBERT. So that during one period you were working two jobs--with Muir McDonald and with J. C. Tracy? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir; I worked for Muir and McDonald an hour and a half, 2 hours, maybe 3 hours a week. Mr. HUBERT. Did you ever work for Ablon Poultry Co.? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir; that was after I was married. Mr. HUBERT. That was where? Mr. CRAFARD. In Dallas, Tex. At that time I was residing at the Letot Trailer Park with my wife and family. Mr. HUBERT. When did you leave Dallas, Oreg, then? Mr. CRAFARD. When I went to work there, you mean? Mr. HUBERT. You had gone to Dallas, Oreg., I think it was in the spring of 1961, wasn't it? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. And you stayed there really about 18 months, right, working for Muir McDonald? Mr. CRAFARD. All together. Mr. HUBERT. When you left Dallas, Oreg., you were not married, were you? Mr. CRAFARD. The last time I left Dallas---- Mr. HUBERT. No; I am talking about the time you left in the latter part of 1962 or early 1963. Mr. CRAFARD. I was married June of 1962. Mr. HUBERT. So your wife lived with you for some time in Dallas, Oreg.? Mr. CRAFARD. For about 6 months we was living in Dallas, Oreg., from June 10 until I believe in December. Mr. HUBERT. Where were you married? Mr. CRAFARD. I was married in Dallas, Oreg. Mr. HUBERT. Where was your wife from? Mr. CRAFARD. Originally from Texas. Mr. HUBERT. What was her name? Mr. CRAFARD. Her maiden name was Wilma Jean Case. Mr. HUBERT. C-a-s-e? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Had she been married before? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. What was her husband's name? Mr. CRAFARD. Donald Johnson. Mr. HUBERT. How many times was she married before she married you? Mr. CRAFARD. Just the one time. Mr. HUBERT. Where did you meet her? Mr. CRAFARD. I met her in Amarillo, Tex. Mr. HUBERT. When? How long before you married? Mr. CRAFARD. I believe it was in 1961. Mr. HUBERT. What part of 1961? Mr. CRAFARD. In the spring, I believe, it would have been in March of 1961. Mr. HUBERT. You knew her about 15 months then before you got married? Mr. CRAFARD. All told; yes. Mr. HUBERT. Were you working in Dallas at the time you met her? Mr. CRAFARD. I wasn't employed at the time I met my wife. Mr. HUBERT. How did you meet her? Mr. CRAFARD. I met her at the Salvation Army in Amarillo, Tex. MILLER, LEORA ----- Sources: WC Vol 24, p. 403; CD 4, p. 497 Mary's Comments: Her name and number in Larry Crafard's notebook. Her phone number was also listed to Barbara Jeannette Davis. (???) Below is a strange WC Document, it is a copy of a letter, mailed to Jack Ruby from......Oregon Lenora, [D] Remember Him? Well Jack now that Things have sorta quieted down I will drop you a fue lines, Jack you probley dont Remember this Picture or that is this Picture of This Person, But I will sorta reFresh your memory a Little, now think Back not to far for it was say about Last May I Came into your night club and this Fellow was with me I interduced this Person to You and while we were sitting their in come this other Fellow and up jumped this Fellow I interduced to you and he went over to where this Person was and brought him Back to where we were sitting he interduced him to us Both Remember Yes the one and only Oswald he shouted and you jumped up and started to through this Person out in the pictre and said you will never get me, than in a fue days I came back into your night club and their you and This Person Oswald sit, This Person of which introduced Oswald to you and me he is Back East now I'am going back in a Fue days, he said as long as Oswald is dead now he hoped that you will never talk, I will Tell the old gang hello For I Know you would want me to So Long For now Jack will Try to get to your Trials "FRED" CE 2825 Page 265 http://www.maryferre...bsPageId=146372 also http://www.aarclibra...H26_CE_2824.pdf the above letter enclosed a photograph of a white male bearing the following printed notation the top left corner the letter was postmarked Portland, Oregon on December 20, 1963 and bearing no return address and addressed to Jack Rubinstein, in care of the Dallas County Jail. The following individuals were shown the photograph of an unidentified white male and have no information as to his identity ANDREW ARMSTRONG, acting manager and bartender Carousel Club, January 8, 1964 DIANE HUNTER, dancer Carousel Club and former employee Vegas Club BILLIE HADLEY, waitress Carousel Club, January 8, 1964 WALLY WESTON, Master of Ceremonies, Carousel Club, January 20, 1964 GEORGE B. MOSSE JR., acquaintance and former employee Sovereign Club MARGIE NORMAN, former employee Carousel Club, January 9, 1964 BILLIE HADLEY, waitress Carousel Club WALLY WESTON, Master of Ceremonies, Carousel Club, January 20, 1964 Lieutenant K.P. Knight Identification Bureau Dallas Texas Police Department, January 20, 1964 [Notice the capitalization of letters in the note that are not normal grammar, I do not normally have a lot of interest in Warren Commission letters which give the appearance of being written by someone with a 5th grade spelling ability, but conversely, the point becomes, there is an inherent contradiction with assuming that is what you are looking at in sum total, considering the curious dynamic of capitalization of letters where they would not normally be called for, but that is a judgement call.... and is in the realm of my opinion, what is not an opinion, in fact is that unless someone can correct me, almost 50 years after the assassination, the photo has not been a point of contention, reference et cetera, where's the photo? ] other Crafard testimony .... Mr. GRIFFIN. What do you know about Craven, what was his background? Mr. CRAFARD. All I know he come from Hollywood, was supposed to be some producer from Hollywood. Mr. GRIFFIN. And how about the Miles fellow? Mr. CRAFARD. Deke Miles, as far as I know, was a director from Hollywood, a Hollywood director. Mr. GRIFFIN. How did you happen to decide to go to Dallas, Tex., in the fall of 1963? Mr. CRAFARD. Because I knew there was one of the biggest fairs in the country held in Dallas, Tex. and I had some friends working over at Dallas, Tex., and I figured this would be as good a place to get a job with a carnival as anywhere. Mr. GRIFFIN. How did you happen to go to Dallas the first time you moved there the year before? Mr. CRAFARD. I was going there to have a reconciliation with my wife. Mr. GRIFFIN. And you stayed about 3 months; is that it? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; about that. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did you live with her at that time? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. GRIFFIN. Where did you live? Mr. CRAFARD. Letot Trailer Park on Lombardy Lane. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did one of you own a house trailer? Mr. CRAFARD. We rented a house trailer. Mr. GRIFFIN. Do you drive an automobile? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes, sir. Mr. GRIFFIN. When Ruby bought the lumber from the dance-band show that closed, what was he going to use that lumber for? Mr. CRAFARD. Remodeling on the inside of his Carousel Club. Mr. GRIFFIN. Did he use it for that purpose? Mr. CRAFARD. No. Mr. GRIFFIN. What did he do with the lumber? Mr. CRAFARD. He stored it. Mr. GRIFFIN. Where did he store it? Mr. CRAFARD. Downstairs below the Carousel Club. end segment Mr. GRIFFIN. Carlos Camorgo, Mexico City? Mr. CRAFARD. It doesn't mean anything. The only thing I believe he had a stripper, pictures of a stripper, from Mexico or South America, that he had some papers from her indicating she had been there sometime in the past. Mr. GRIFFIN. You believe he employed a stripper from Mexico? Mr. CRAFARD. She was either from Mexico or South America. Mr. GRIFFIN. How long ago had he employed this stripper? Mr. CRAFARD. I don't know how long ago. I saw some pictures with her name on it, Spanish name. end segment Mr. HUBERT. When did you first hear that Oswald had been shot? Mr. CRAFARD. I had heard that Oswald had been shot Sunday evening. Mr. HUBERT. Where? Mr. CRAFARD. It must have been while I was getting through Chicago. Mr. HUBERT. Where did you hear that? Mr. CRAFARD. Over the radio. Mr. HUBERT. What radio? Mr. CRAFARD. The car radio. Mr. HUBERT. Did you know that Ruby had done it? Mr. CRAFARD. No; I didn't find out who had done it until the following Monday, the following morning, Monday. Mr. HUBERT. Where did you find that out? Mr. CRAFARD. I heard that over the radio. Mr. HUBERT. As a matter of fact, Larry, I suppose all of those cars you were in had radios, didn't they? Mr. CRAFARD. A lot of people don't listen to the radio when they are riding like that. That was the first I'd heard of it--- was Sunday evening, the first I heard Oswald had been shot. Mr. HUBERT. Sunday afternoon, wasn't it? Mr. CRAFARD. How is that? Mr. HUBERT. You said it was while you were working your way through Chicago. Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. Which took you two or three different cars; about 2 hours or so? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. It was in one of those that you heard it? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. There was no announcement that Ruby had done it? Mr. CRAFARD. I don't believe so, because I didn't know Ruby had done it until Monday morning. Mr. HUBERT. How did you find that out? Mr. CRAFARD. I heard that over the news. Mr. HUBERT. In a car? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes. Mr. HUBERT. During the night when you were driving from Chicago to Lansing, during the period from 5 in the afternoon to about midnight, didn't you hear any radio announcements about any of this matter? Mr. CRAFARD. No. Mr. HUBERT. Did that car have a radio in it? Mr. CRAFARD. I believe so....... later..... Mr. HUBERT. In any case, what you are telling us--it is your best memory now that you heard it over the radio that Oswald had been shot. That is as much as you did hear? Mr. CRAFARD. That is right. Mr. HUBERT. You did not hear who had done it or even the type of person who had done it, or what business the person was in who had done it, and that you never discussed it with anybody that you rode with in any one of those rides in Chicago and with the ride to Lansing? Mr. CRAFARD. So far as I recall, I don't recall--I lmagine it was discussed, but I don't recall discussing it. I don't remember it. Mr. HUBERT. Let's put it this way: If you had discussed with anybody the killing of Oswald, the man accused of killing Oswald, you would remember that now, wouldn't you, Larry? Mr. CRAFARD. Yes; I would, if I discussed anything about who had been accused of it, but, like I say, the first knowledge I had of who had shot Oswald was Monday morning. Perjured Testimony? Collins radio employees named Miller...... see Arthur Collins Radio Wizard and the link below Another boyhood friend in Cedar Rapids who also had an interest in radio was Clair Miller. [see http://www.lib.uiowa...nyRecords.html] "Arthur had big expensive tubes as a kid while all the rest of us had were peanut tubes," Miller told a reporter in 1965. The article quoted another neighbor's recollection of early days in the Collins family neighborhood: "We sensed that Arthur was different, but we did not know that he was a genius. When the rest of us were out playing cowboy and Indian, Arthur was in the house working on his radios." [Note there was a Clair Miller who was in the 305th Bomber Group in WW II] Clair Miller was also an employee of Collins Radio in the Sixth Avenue House see Arthur Collins Radio Wizard pages 24, 149, 151, 152, 264 as well as Bill Miller page 223; Clair was hired as Arthur's first fulltime employee in June 1932, probably in Cedar Rapids, IA, he served as a salesman, but he doubled at any other job which needed doing; marketing along with engineering. he served two years in the factory....... Dallas Morning News February 18, 1960 German Subsidiary Formed by Collins Radio Company The formation of a German subsidiary company to promote the sales, service and manufacture of Collins Radio Company equipment was announced Tuesday by James G. Flynn, Jr., vice-president. The new subsidiary, Collins Radio Company GMBH, located at Flughafen Rhein-Main, Frankfurt, Germany, will be engaged in the manufacture of airborne equipment of Collins design. A spare parts service center and complete test facilities employing factory-trained technicians for Collins equipment will be maintained by the new company. The spare parts depot and service center of the subsidiary will also serve Collins customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. William Dunn has been named manager of the new Collins subsidiary and Floyd Gleason will be in charge of technical activities.

Troposcatter in South East Asia Merv Norton Introduction Some people know the background of Backporch tropo scatter system in Vietnam but few people know the origin of the origin Intergrated Wide Band Communications System [iWCS] and the AN/TRC-32 Troposcatter Terminal. I have been fortunate to be involved in the events leading up to the CINCPAC proposal for the IWCS and its final design and installation as well as the creation of the AN/TRC-32 troop terminal. Before the beginning In the late 1950’s I served in the Japan Signal Batallion and served as the Radio Officer of the U.S. Army Japan. The signal officer was Colonel Tom Riley (In 1965-66 Colonel Riley was the Signal Officer of the US Army, Vietnam and reported to General Westmoreland, CG Vietnam and to Brig General Bob Terry, the CG, 1st Signal Brigade.) One day my boss Major Ralph Keefer [later Lieutenant Colonel] were summoned to Colonel Riley’s office. Also present was a colonel from Washington. This colonel had just returned from Indonesia where he was involved in a project for the transfer of Philco Troposcatter equipment to the Indonesian Army. This Indonesian Troposcatter Equipment became the foundation of the ICWS which was not even conceived until more than five years later The Indonesian system was quite interesting to us since we were in the process of planning a troposcatter system for Japan. This system, the Japan Tropo System was approved and funded in 1960 and completed in 1961. For more information on the system read Japan Troposcatter System Backporch tropo system During the period 1960-1963 I was assigned to the Army Signals Corp Research and Development Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey as their liason officer to the Air Force Rome Air Development Center (RADC) at Griffiss AFB N Y. While at RADC I became familiar with the Air Force developed AN/MRC-85. The AN/MRC-85 was a 10-kilowatt quadruple diversity tropo scatter terminal housed in three semi-trailers and using permanently installed 60-foot antennas. Page Engineers was awarded a contract to install the Backporch Tropo Scatter System in Vietnam using the Air Force AN/MRC-85 equipment. These AN/MRC-85’s were moved from Europe and Alaska to Vietnam. This installation was completed in 1963. Backporch interconnected Phu Lam (Saigon) Nha Trang, Qui Nhon, Pleiku and Ubon AB in Thailand. http://www.mervnorton.com/Articles/Tropo-SEA.pdf Japan Tropo Scatter System Mervin L. Norton LTC, US Army (Ret) [January 2004] Introduction I was stationed in Japan from 1956 to 1960. My first assignment was as Commander of Company C, Japan Long Lines Signal Battalion with Headquarters in Sendai, Japan. Our unit operated an maintained the US military communications from just north of Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido. We operated military AN/TRC-24 radio relay equipment with a channel capacity of 12 channels. We ran three systems in parallel. In the Tokyo and throughout the southern area of Japan other units operated GE pulse position microwave with a channel capacity of 23 channels. There were two or three systems in parallel in the southern route. Three contributing events There are three major events that happened at about the same time that all contributed to the idea of a Japan Tropo Scatter System. First event During the 1958-1959 time frame there was a reduction of military forces in Japan and a Washington decision to terminate all of the US Army operated and maintained communications systems and use leased communications facilities. This action was completed and I was transferred to the US Army Headquarters in Camp Zama, Japan as the Radio Officer. As time progressed the US military communications did not decrease as had expected but actually increased. Additionally, the Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Public Corporation (NTTPC) could not provide the communications required by the US military. NTTPC was a government controlled organization that did not have a budget for new facilities. In order to get new facilities there must first be a documented requirement, the funds for new requirements had to be requested in the budget which resulted a two year delay before new requirements could be fulfilled. Second event During this same time frame, The Department of the Army made plans to extend the Pacific Inospheric Scatter System (PACSCAT) from Okinawa into Japan. This system originated in Hawaii and extended through Pacific islands to Okinawa. In 1958, The US Army Signal Engineering Agency sent an engineer to Japan to conduct a site survey for two inospheric scatter sites, one in southern Japan and one along the coast southeast of Tokyo. Don Brown, a civilian communications engineer from our office, and I accompanied this engineer on the survey to southern Japan. A tentative site was selected on the southern tip of Kyushu, the southern most of the major islands. Third event The US Air Force was assisting the Japanese Air Self Defense Force in improving their Air Defense System. Nippon Electric Company (NEC) had just completed the development of tropo scatter equipment. The Air Force was negotiating with NEC to provide a tropo system to interconnect the AC&W sites in Japan. Concept I found out about the NEC development and began to make visits to NEC without the knowledge of any of my superiors. I met with Dr. Morita, Chief, Microwave Branch and obtained technical information, installation cost information and operating and maintaince cost information. With an understanding of the tropo scatter system cost factors, the knowledge of the cost of leased service and the knowledge that it took two years to get leased service, the thought of a tropo scatter system began to evolve. I conceived of a system that would provide all of the US military communications from Tokyo south to Okinawa and Korea at a cost savings over leased service that would also eliminate the need for an extension of the Pacific Inospheric Scatter System from Okinawa to Japan. Page contract for Japanese Air Self Defense Forces Tropo System One day I was walking down the hall at NEC with Dr. Morita. I saw a very tall man walking up in front of us. It was obvious that he was not Japanese. I ask Dr. Morita who he was. Dr. Morita said, "Haven't you met Mr. Hames of Page?". This is how I met Stan Hames. Stan and Tom Nichols were both assigned to NEC to inspect the production of tropo equipment for the AC&W Tropo system procured by the US Air Force for the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces. I did not meet Tom until several years later. How did Page get the job of supervising NEC? This is another story. When the Air Force began their procurement effort they had to use the only procurement activity in Japan which was run by the US Army. The Air Force told the Army that since the Army would do the contracting that they had to provide all of the technical supervision of production and installation. The US Army Japan position was that was not their responsibility. This problem got elevated to the US Army Pacific where our Signal Officer decided that it was not the Army's responsibility but the Army would accept the responsibility. The reason for this decision was that if the Army did not accept this responsibility that the Air Force would use that against the Army in the continuing fight on the assignment for communications responsibility in various areas through the world. The Army contract to Page for the Pacific Scatter System was modified to have Page provide this support. My boss thought I was crazy After several days of conducting map studies in my home, I was able to determine the feasibility of a tropo scatter system from the Tokyo area, south and extending to Okinawa. Once I was sure of my facts, I talked to my boss, Major Ralph Keefer. Ralph and I were close friends and he had some respect for my technical ability. When I told him we could install a 60 to 120 channel tropo system that would pay for itself in less than a year he thought I was crazy. The told me to leave his office and not come back without his permission. For about the next 10 days I came nowhere [near] his office for I knew he meant what he had said. Off duty it was a different story. We socialized together, partied together and played golf together but the subject of tropo was never mentioned. Conspiracy Finally he sent for me. He ask me to repeat what I had previously told him. He listened very intently. We then entered in what would we considered a "conspiracy". When two decide to do something without the knowledge of their superiors that is a conspiracy. He and I arranged to make secret trips to NEC After a few more secret trips to NEC, I was able to make the first of several written proposals for what we called the Japan Tropo System. The initial proposal was for a system from the Tokyo area south to Okinawa. We then presented this concept to our commander, Col. Thomas Riley. Col. Riley approved our plan but said he wished we had briefed him earlier. Briefings in Japan and Korea During the next few weeks I briefed the Air Force and Navy in Japan on the concept and the system concept was expanded to continue on to Korea and extended northward to Chitose AFB on Hokkaido, just south of the Sapporo. After we successfully "sold" the concept to all of the military forces in Japan, Maj. Ralph Keefer went to Korea, our superior headquarters, and got the support of all of the US Forces in Korea. A copy of the original system diagram follows this article. After a considerable amount of telex traffic, formal and informal telephone calls to the US Army Pacific, in Hawaii, we were invited to make presentations in Hawaii. Briefings in Hawaii Ralph and I traveled to Hawaii. We met with the Signal Officer, US Army Pacific, but he gave no indication as to whether he approved our plan or not. He said he would get in touch with us later. It became later and later and later with no word from the General. All of his staff, including our close friends, were also very closed mouth. After more than a week of waiting and doing nothing, Ralph and started to enjoy some refreshments in our room. This activity extended on into the night and the it was so late that the Officers Club dinning room was closed. The staff at the club suggested that we go off base to a bowling alley where we could get a meal. We did and decided to bowl. I had a 88 and Ralph had a 94. You can see that we had really enjoyed our refreshments earlier in the evening. The next morning we were summoned to the General's office and told that we would brief representatives from all three services and the joint command the next morning. We were shocked but we found out why we had been kept in the dark. The General and his staff had supported the plan from the beginning but did not want for us to get our hopes up until they had worked with all of the military headquarters paving the way for our briefing. A formal message had been prepared to the Department of the Army recommending approval of the plan. Ralph made the presentation and everything went well. We returned to Japan the next day, mission completed. Approval from Washington There was one more step. We had to get approval from the Department of the Army and get the necessary funding. We had an ally in the Pentagon. Maj. Fred Stivers was a good friend of mine and Ralph's. We contacted Fred informally to help pave the way for Ralph to go to Washington. Ralph went to Washington and made presentations. Shortly thereafter the program was approved and funded. Engineering During all of the time that these briefings were being conducted, our engineer, Don Brown was very busy. We had obtained some information from the Bureau of Standards on the design of tropo systems. This was long before the computer and Don did all of the complex, lengthily tropo computations using pencil, paper and a slide rule. Don was a superior engineer who was very precise in his work. A few years earlier he had been the principal engineer in the design of the Kanto Plains Microwave System. NEC built the system From the beginning our concept was a sole source contract to NEC with NEC performing all of the operations and maintaince. As I understand it, several years after system completion the O&M responsibility was transferred from the Army to the Air Force. The Air Force decided that the O&M had to be competed. An American firm won the contract but fell flat on their face in short order and NEC was again given the O&M contract. Completion I left Japan in June 1960 and lost contact with the project for three years. When I was transferred to Washington in 1963 I was happy to learn that the system was installed by NEC as originally conceived with essentially no changes. The US Forces in Japan had a greatly improved communications system with 60 voice channels going north and 120 voice channels going south with 60 going to Korea and 60 going to Okinawa. Site visit During the summer of 1963, during an extended trip throughout the Far East, I was able to visit Japan and visit one of the Japan Tropo stations. I visited Fuchu Air Station which was the major hub for the Tokyo area. It was a very impressive site. The path north to Sendai used octuple diversity, four frequencies and two 45 foot antennas and two kilowatt power amplifiers. NEC did not have two KW power amplifiers so they used two one KW power amplifiers in parallel. Since there were four frequencies there were eight, one KW amplifiers all in a row for the path to Sendai Operational after 30 years While visiting the Defense Communications Agency Engineering Office about 10 years ago, I determined that the Japan Tropo System was still operational some 30 years after the initial activation. http://pageneers.org/Japan3.htm

Some Forum members may wonder why I did not post the following on "The Mafia did it," thread...the reason why is because I do not believe the mafia did it, although there are obvious signs and facts that there was involvement, to wit.... There are two books, the Outfit by Gus Russo page 95, and an obscure book entitled Frank Nitti: The Story of Chicago’s Notorious Enforcer by Ronald D Humble The author, Ronald Humble asserts that Dave Yaras was the handler for Guiseppe Zangara..... To keep things on an even keel, I would like to mention if one is interested in a factual account, as opposed to the possible agenda setting types of books, there is an excellent account of the dynamic of JFK/Connally/Oswald Roosevelt/Cermak/Zangarra in The Five Weeks of Guiseppe Zangara by Blaise Picchi, if one is going to tread those waters, you will need a factual account of the ins and outs of what happened et cetera, Picchi's book is the tour de force, on that subject..... Don't leave home without it...... Chapter One Of The Five Weeks of Guiseppe Zangara "A SORT OF RECEPTION" At about seven o'clock on the evening of February 15, 1933, Vincent Astor's yacht, the Nourmahal, anchored at Pier One of Miami's municipal docks, near Bayfront Park. Vincent Astor, the son of John Jacob Astor--who had died in the Titanic disaster--was one of the richest men in America. The five-year-old German-made Nourmahal, 263 feet long, was one of the largest private yachts in the world. It had a cruising range of 19,000 miles and a maximum speed of sixteen knots. For twelve days, it had been leisurely cruising the Bahamas, stopping here and there for fishing and excursions while February snow covered the northern states and blizzards raged on the Great Lakes. Among the guests on board was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, in seventeen days, would succeed Herbert Hoover to become the thirty-second president of the United States. The nation stood at a crossroads. In 1929, the booming U.S. stock market had suddenly collapsed, precipitating the worst depression in American history. Countless thousands of homeless men--"bindle stiffs" they called themselves--drifted from place to place, sleeping in "Hoovervilles": makeshift collections of lean-tos and tents in woods, dumps and near railroad tracks throughout the country. People were hungry and there was no organized method of feeding them: there were only bread lines where private charities and, to a lesser extent, local governments, doled out food. American intellectuals, as well as millions of workers and union members, had become convinced that capitalism was a failure. Some were looking with hope at Russia, where the Communist revolution was now fifteen years old. Others wanted an American Mussolini. Huey Long, "Kingfisher," had built a political empire in Louisiana on his motto of "Soak the Rich" and was working to establish a national constituency. Father Charles Coughlin, for one, was gaining a wide following by preaching his brand of fascism. Americans could not see a way out of the Depression. Some prominent business leaders were even suggesting that the new president take office with "dictatorial powers." In November 1932, the Great American Experiment was in deep trouble and many Americans were truly afraid. On election day that November, the people officially placed their hopes of salvation in the hands of the Democratic nominee for president, Franklin Roosevelt, and his running mate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Nance Garner of Texas. Roosevelt, born into a wealthy, aristocratic New York family, was a distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt. He was not well known outside the northeast, although he had been elected governor of New York in 1930, had run in 1920 as the vice presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket with James M. Cox, and had served from 1913 to 1920 as assistant secretary of the Navy. When Cox lost the election to Warren G. Harding, FDR had retreated to his home at Hyde Park to assess his future. It was then that this young, physically active patrician was stricken with polio and lost the use of his legs. He rallied from this blow and began a regimen of physical therapy which included bathing in the hot pools of Warm Springs, Georgia, and reentered politics to win the governorship of New York. Everyone knew that Roosevelt was handicapped (in Italy he was called " Il Paralitico ") but Americans made very little of it, perhaps because they were never shown the extent of the paralysis. At that time, the country saw political figures only in newsreels in movie theaters: Roosevelt was never filmed in motion, nor was he photographed being helped to stand or "walk" by his son James, or by aides and Secret Service men. He was able to stand in public for posed shots and to "walk" to a podium with heavy leg braces hidden under his trousers, and with the help of these men. Roosevelt's affliction was known to the American public, but only as an intellectual abstraction.. In early February 1933, the president-elect conferred with advisors at Warm Springs, preparing for his March fourth inauguration--the last time, incidentally, that a presidential inauguration would be held in March. His plan was to go to Jacksonville, Florida, for a rally and board the yacht Nourmahal there for a two-week fishing vacation in the Caribbean, after which he would return to Jacksonville where he would entrain for New York and finish work on his inauguration. Roosevelt traveled in his private railway car to Jacksonville. His party, in addition to his entourage of secretaries, aides and Secret Service men, consisted of four guests: Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit, Judge Frederick Kernochan, George St. George and Dr Leslie Heiter. These were what the press called FDR's "boon companions." Roosevelt's reception in Jacksonville was enthusiastic: the newspapers had been heralding his arrival for days, describing in detail his itinerary and parade route. Thousands of citizens met him at the train station where he entered an open car with the city's mayor, John T. Alsop, Jr. (who turned out to be FDR's distant cousin), and David Sholtz, the governor of Florida. The motorcade wound its way through the Riverside residential section to Hemming Park in the city's center; cheering crowds lined the route. A crowd estimated at 25,000 had gathered at the park; a police band and the American Legion drum and bugle corps played "Happy Days Are Here Again." The next morning Roosevelt delivered a short impromptu speech in front of the Windsor Hotel, thanking the citizens for their courtesy and praising the city. Then he was driven off to the docks to board the Nourmahal . During the voyage, Robert H. Gore, publisher of the Fort Lauderdale Daily News , suggested that, on the yacht's return, Roosevelt attend a grand rally in Miami, where the president-elect could meet influential party leaders and leave for New York from there instead of from Jacksonville. Roosevelt thought this was a good idea: the weather in Miami was balmy and he could use the elegant Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel as a base. Robert Gore had ruled out Fort Lauderdale as a site for the rally, because it could not accommodate large political events. The Jacksonville Florida Times-Union reported that Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago was one of the out-of-state politicians who planned to meet with Roosevelt in Jacksonville before the president-elect boarded the yacht. Cermak was not able to arrange this, but, since Roosevelt was now going to conclude his vacation in Miami, the mayor decided to travel there with James Farley, national chairman of the Democratic Party, who was soon to be named Roosevelt's Postmaster General. After twelve days of cruising, the Nourmahal sailed into Miami's Biscayne Bay just as the winter sun was setting. As the ship was tied up to the municipal docks, the passengers were enjoying a festive farewell dinner. Then, while the staff cleared the table, reporters were ushered into the dining room. FDR, in high spirits, told the press he had done "a lot of fishing and a lot of swimming and I didn't even open the briefcase!" They had visited a different place each day and he had spent a whole day bone-fishing off Andros Island. He had hooked "a whale of a fish" but lost it when it dived and the line broke. He had had twelve "perfectly grand" days, he said. But he did not want to talk about politics. He was asked whether Senator Carter Glass of Virginia was to be named Secretary of the Treasury; whether James Farley would be Postmaster General and Cordell Hull of Tennessee would become Secretary of State. Roosevelt said that he was holding to the tradition that presidents-elect did not name their cabinets until twenty four hours before inauguration. After the reporters left, Roosevelt conferred about his cabinet appointments with Professor Raymond Moley, his chief economic advisor. This was a quick conference, because Roosevelt had to leave shortly for "a sort of reception" at the Bayfront Park amphitheater. The mayor of Miami, Redmond Gautier, had come on board to escort FDR to the park. The city had planned a rousing welcome-home party with concerts, speeches and parades featuring the American Legion Honor Guard and the drum and bugle corps from the Harvey Seeds Post as well as a contingent of Shriners, units of the drum and bugle corps of the Miami Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Riverside Military Academy band. Roosevelt was to deliver a short, impromptu speech from the bandstand, as he had done in Jacksonville, and to accept a telegram signed by several thousand Miami well-wishers. After that he was to be driven to the train station several blocks west of the park, followed by a parade of the American Legion Honor Guard, the Shriners and the bands. From the rear platform of his railway car he would bid a brief farewell to the crowd: already 2,000 people had gathered at the station. Then, by ten P.M., he would be en route to New York. The local newspapers had been publishing the precise details for days: the times of the events, the convoy's route, which motorcar Roosevelt would be riding in and who would be riding with him. National political figures and presidential advisors would attend the festivities, as well as many members of the south Florida political establishment, including mayors and judges. This was an important event for Miami. In 1933, the city had existed as an incorporated entity for little more than thirty-seven years, having been carved from the wilderness in 1896 when Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway first steamed into the settlement. The city's growth had been rapid, buoyed by a growing tourism base and the unbridled activity of real estate agents. Several presidents had visited the area on fishing holidays, but no official visit had been paid by an incumbent president. In January 1928, Herbert Hoover, then president-elect, had paraded in triumph down Flagler Street, the main thoroughfare: he was the first Republican to carry Florida in a presidential election. His opponent had been Al Smith, a Catholic, and the Republican campaign had profited from anti-Catholic sentiment. The population of southern Florida was white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in religion and Democratic in politics. There were few Jews, Hispanics or Republicans, and blacks did not vote. Some beach hotels were openly "Gentiles Only" and all public accommodations were labeled for "Whites" or "Coloreds." Since 1921, the Ku Klux Klan had been a force in Miami, cooperating with police and "guarding" the city against Bolsheviks, Socialists, labor leaders, Jews, Catholics and foreigners in general. Columns of hooded, robed Klansmen marched for blocks during parades, funerals and other public displays in the city. Many prominent citizens are believed to have belonged to the Klan in the 1930s, including high-ranking public officials and at least one chief of police. In 1931, after one of the wildest sessions in its history, the Florida legislature voted to permit on-track gambling at horse and dog races. The conservative governor, Doyle Carlton, Sr., raised in a strict Protestant family in this Bible-belt state, considered this legislation immoral and vetoed it, but his veto was overridden. The conservative northern counties had originally backed the governor, but they accepted a compromise: all of the state gambling revenue would be distributed equally to each of Florida's sixty-seven counties. Thereafter, for decades, some rural Florida counties would impose low taxes or none at all, supporting themselves entirely on income from the southern Florida racetracks. So, with its sandy beaches, luxurious hotels, warm winter weather and racetrack gambling, Miami in 1933 was already one of the country's most popular tourist meccas. The permanent population of the county was only about 150,000, but one million visitors were said to have come to the city in that year. Nineteen-thirty-three was, in fact, a particularly busy tourist year; rents had been lowered to a quarter of their pre-Depression rates. On that balmy February evening, newspapers advertised four-day tours of Havana, Cuba, for $42.50, including hotel, meals, sightseeing in new Packard automobiles and excursions to the Prado and Sloppy Joe's. For twenty-five cents, one could attend Elizabeth Van Dyke's lectures on feminine hygiene, including herb formulas and beauty tips, and there was "nude sunshine bathing" in a private solarium at the Dallas Park Hotel on the Miami River. Sears Roebuck was selling ladies' silk dresses for $2.95, spring hats for $1.00 and a genuine two-point diamond ring mounted in fourteen karat white gold for $1.98. A carton of Old Gold cigarettes cost ninety-nine cents. In the second race at Hialeah that day, "Roosevelt" came in first, paying $3.35. In local news, Edward W. Overmiller pleaded guilty in court to possessing two barrels of moonshine at his Brickel Avenue home; he was sentenced to a $500 fine or six months in the county jail. He did not have $500. Morning radio featured "Little Jack Little" on the CBS affiliate WQAM and "Betty Crocker" on NBC's WIOD. Each evening at six P.M., H.V. Kaltenborn read the news for CBS. And Miami radio signed off at one A.M. after each day of offering fare like "Amos `n' Andy," "Spy Story," "Buck Rogers in the 21st Century" and "Just Plain Bill." Then there was the Olympia, the most impressive movie palace ever built in Miami, with Elizabethan balconies and rococo appointments, housed under a celestial ceiling sparkling with stars when the lights were turned down. And it was air conditioned at a time when air conditioning was a rare luxury. The Olympia stage offered vaudeville acts and big bands along with movies. That February day, Eddie Cantor and George Jessel performed to a packed house, "Even if you don't understand Jewish you'll gurgle with merriment," a reviewer wrote the next morning. Films playing that evening were Hard to Handle starring James Cagney, and 42nd Street with Warner Baxter, George Brent, Ruby Keeler and 150 Busby Berkley chorus girls. But that night most people were not at the movies. They were gathered at Bayfront Park, a forty-acre strip of land about a hundred yards wide and a quarter of a mile long, sandwiched between Biscayne Bay on the east and Biscayne Boulevard, lined with palm trees, on the west. The park had been created from Biscayne Bay in the late 1920s at a cost of $2.5 million. The mouth of the Miami River lies a few hundred yards to the south of the park; parking lots for fishermen and docks for yachts formed its northern boundary, and just across Biscayne Boulevard stood the eastern edge of the downtown business district. At the southern end of the park was the amphitheater and bandstand: an elevated stage with a concave back wall. These structures were, in a time before the perfection of microphones and amplifiers, useful venues for concerts and political speeches. The Bayfront Park bandstand was exceptionally ugly: a gaudy three-story yellow stucco structure with a concrete open-air stage protruding from its front and center, facing north. About four feet above this outdoor stage was an interior stage, extending into the building. Overhanging the protruding stage was a large, cumbersome portico painted green, yellow, orange, silver and red. From the center of the stage, steps descended to a semicircular paved area, and it was on this pavement that Roosevelt was to speak from his car, which was parked parallel to the bandstand and facing west. Topping this architectural nightmare were three onion domes, one on each end of the roof and the third on top of the portico. The amphitheater had been constructed in the 1920s for a Shriner's convention, which might explain the intended Oriental look of the building, although Byzantine buildings were popular in Miami at that time. (Opa Locka, a suburb to the north of Miami, consisted of structures with onion domes, minarets and balconies on streets named Ali Baba and Schaharazade.) There were semicircular rows of seats facing the amphitheater on a slightly inclined concrete apron. These slatted wood and metal folding seats, which could accommodate 7000 people, were permanently fastened to each other and to the ground. At nine in the evening, Roosevelt's party left the yacht and boarded three waiting vehicles: two open police cars and a small sedan. Hatless, wearing a grey suit, FDR was helped down the gangplank and into the lead car, a big open Buick, by his private aide and bodyguard, Gus Gennerich. For these public appearances, Roosevelt wore ten-pound leg braces which allowed him to walk with canes and assistance while the knee hinges were locked, and to sit when the hinges were unlocked. After helping FDR into the back seat, next to Miami mayor Redmond Gautier, Gennerich got into the car along with Secret Service agent Robert Clark and Marvin McIntyre, who was to be the president's appointments secretary. The driver was Fitzhugh Lee, a Miami policeman. The second vehicle, also a convertible, held several Secret Service men, and in the last car were Roosevelt's associates: Raymond Moley, Vincent Astor, Judge Kernochan and Kermit Roosevelt. By ten minutes after nine, the small motorcade had driven the hundred or so yards to Biscayne Boulevard, a wide highway divided by a large median with parking for hundreds of cars. As the motorcade proceeded, it was joined by several other vehicles occupied by prominent people. The parking areas in the median and on either side of the boulevard were filled. People had begun to gather in the park since six P.M. and by seven o'clock there was standing room only. Hundreds of people were still walking toward the bandstand as Roosevelt passed slowly in his open car, waving and smiling, greeted by cheers and applause. Roosevelt had told the national press corps that his comments would be inconsequential, so most of them had decided to skip the park rally and go directly to the depot to wait for him. Consequently, there were only local reporters at the bandstand, along with a few wire service stringers and one newsreel team. Roosevelt's green Buick convertible began slowly nosing its way through the largest crowd assembled in the history of the city, estimated at 25,000. Vincent Astor, riding in the last car, commented that this was a dangerous situation. There was the president-elect, exposed in the rear seat of an open car that was moving at walking pace through a massive crowd. Moley agreed, but noted that the situation was better now than it had been during the campaign, when they had had to rely only on local police and Roosevelt's personal bodyguard. At least now, Moley said, the president-elect was protected by the Secret Service. In fact, according to best estimates, the president-elect had six Secret Service operators with him, together with several dozen policemen, acting as motorcycle escort, drivers and crowd control. This contrasted with protection afforded outgoing President Herbert Hoover who, two days earlier, had attended a political dinner in New York City with an entourage of eight hundred Secret Service agents and local police. This would be the last time FDR was to have such relatively scant protection. When he returned to New York from Miami he was met by a thousand-man police guard. Copyright © 1998 Blaise Picchi. All rights reserved. END

After reading Revill's testimony and mention of Gannaway and the Special Services Bureau, I would think that the "games management officers" [as opposed to "game officers"] might be part of the squad investigating gambling...possibly being pressed into duty supplementing the OTHER detectives in the DPD. I still think that may be a direction worth pursuing...and that the Fish and Game area might be a [pardon the pun] red herring. This document lists a reference to Chesley Jones, Alcohol Tax Unit, on the same page is a reference to Roberrt Ray McKeown, gun runner figure, which is not exactly mutually exclusive to the previous article I posted. Not the reference to 1958, which is also the same period as the article. http://www.maryferre...30&relPageId=56 A word of caution, I doubt seriously you are going to find a document that references and Alcohol Tax Unit agent, or an agent of the Texas Game Management Agency as participating in the search of the Texas School Book Depository. If you get some type of confirmation of that fact, my prediction is that it will come via the same manner that the whole issue began through a policeman or media person who was actually there that day in the Depository; obviously just an opinion. Update . . . . Dallas Morning News; 5-27-1964 New Wardens for North, East Texas Announced; .....the new wardens their hometowns and assigned areas include Wayne Chappell Richard Corley Gully Cowsert Jr. C. W. Forsythe Waymond Gerza Norman Hooten, Garland, Crockett County Ronald Jackson Jay Pemberton Raymond Urban February 23, 1967 Dallas Morning News Ruby Will Filed by Ex-Deputy the will filed by Norman H. Hooten, 26, a former Dallas county deputy sheriff as beneficiary....... DA Is Interested In Shooting Case 3/31/1967 A spokesman for New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison who is conducting a probe into the assassination of President Kennedy indicated his office may contact Norman Hooten who was the target of an unsuccessful attack from armed men in a speeding automobile Thursday night. Hooten a Galveston county game warden, is writing a book on conversations he had with Jack Ruby, while Ruby, who shot presidential assassin suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was being held in the Dallas County Jail ........Hooten said Thursday, he was fired upon by men in an automobile which followed him as he turned off a deserted street inside the League City city limits....... http://www.maryferre...99&relPageId=63 Sometimes it's not how fast you cross the finish line, but that you manage to cross the finish line at all......

From the Did You Know Department Chicago Tribune (IL) - January 06, 1974 YARAS Deceased Name: David Yaras David Yaras, beloved husband of Pat; nee Pozucek; dear father of Ronald (Sandra) and Leonard (Dyaan) Yaras; grandfather of five; fond brother of Rose Stayton and Louise Wolff. Services Monday 10 a.m. at the Blasberg Funeral Chapel, 720 71st St. Miami Beach, Fla. Entombment Woodlawn Memorial Park. Name: David Yaras Residence: Chicago Ward 16, Cook, Illinois Estimated Birth Year: 1913 Age: 7 Birthplace: Illinois Relationship to Head of Household: Son Gender: Male Race: White Marital Status: Single Father's Birthplace: Mother's Birthplace: Film Number: 1820327 Digital Folder Number: 4300478 Image Number: 01080 Sheet Number: 2 Household Gender Age Parent Abe Yaras M 47y Parent Calea Yaras F 44y Samuel Yaras M 22y Fannie Yaras F 18y Louisa Yaras F 12y Rose Yaras F 9y David Yaras M Name: Sam Yaras Death Date: 16 Mar 1956 Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas Gender: Male Race: White Death Age: 58 years 9 months 1 day Estimated Birth Date: Birth Date: 15 Jun 1897 Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Father's Name: Adolph Yaras Father's Birthplace: Austria Mother's Name: Unknown Mother's Birthplace: Austria Occupation: Vending Machine Salesman Place of Residence: Dallas, Dallas, Texas Cemetery: Chicago Jewish Waldheim Cemetery Burial Place: Chicago, Illinois Burial Date: 16 Mar 1956 Additional Relatives: Film Number: 2114666 Digital Film Number: 4165414 Image Number: 1470 Reference Number: cn 12325 Robert....The obituary below reveals more about what it does not say than what it does .March 17, 1956 Dallas Morning News, page 3 Deaths and Funerals YARAS, Sam 4847 N. Central Expressway survived by wife, Viola Yaras. Dallas; three sisters, two brothers; remains forwarded to Chicago Ill., for services and internment. WEILAND-MERRITT. TE-8141. Shooter, Radioman Spotter?

Well there is a major correction here, see below and my comments after the text...... page 97; 1964 Greater Dallas Alphabetical Telephone Directory Beckley Club Cafe 113 W. Jefferson WH 6-0859 FBI 44-24016 Ruby HQ File, Section 27 Mr. J.P. Smith advised he is the owner and operator of the Beckley Club, 113 Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas. Mr. Smith advised he carefully looked over the photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald as well as Jack Ruby when seeing them in the local newspaper and cannot recall either man as being in the restaurant. He stated that it was a natural thing for him to do as the restaurant is located in the general area where both had lived. Mr. Smith stated that to his knowledge neither man had ever come into the cafe. He had discussed this with other employees right after the shooting incident and none of the employees can recall ever seeing either individual. http://www.maryferre...13&relPageId=97 FBI 105-82555 Oswald HQ File, Section 62 12/4/63 GENE ROBERTS, 1657 Nob Hill Street, Dallas, Texas, WHitehall6-4822 advised on November 22, 1963 at approximately 1:05 P.M., he was sitting in the Beckley Club drinking coffee. He said the lady that owned the cafe had a radio on the counter and that they were listening to reports of the assassination of the President. A white female and male were sitting at the back of the cafe and walked to the front, whereupon the white male asked "What's going on?" Mr. ROBERTS stated that the President had been shot and the unknown white male stated that this was the best news he had heard. The white female with him said he should not have said that. Mr. Roberts advised that the cafe owner also heard this comment. Mr. Roberts advised that the white male was about 20 to 25, appeared to be of Cuban or Puerto Rican or foreign extraction, 5'10" to 5'11," dark complexion and dark hair. He advised the white female was about 18 to 20, 5'2" to 5'3" slender build, dark hair. Mr. Roberts advised he finished his coffee and then drove down past the area where Officer Tippit was shot and noticed a number of squad cars in the area. He said he asked some woman nearby what had happened and they told him that a police officer had been shot and the body had been removed. At this time Roberts stated he observed the same white male and female from the cafe walk into a house directly across the street from where Officer Tippit had been shot and enter a side door. He said this was about 405 E. 10th Street. He said the white male was wearing a light green cloth jacket with leather patches on his elbows when he entered the house and had the same jacket on when he came out alone about two minutes later. He said he was straightening the jacket as if he had something hidden inside. He said the white male kept looking back and forth over his shoulder and never inquired of any police officers what had taken place. Roberts advised that he thought this was quite unusual and notified a police sergeant on the scene about this individual He advised the police sergeant told him that the man did not fit the description of the person that had shot Officer Tippit. On 12/3/63 at Dallas, Texas File DL 89-43 By Special Agent Robert E. Basham and James J Ward:jj Date dictated 12/4/63 Next page Mr. Roberts advised that he had numerous friends on the police department and city council and he got in touch with some of them and arrangements were made for him to see Detective Joe R. Cody which he did shortly thereafter. He said he and Cody went to the area of 405A E. 10th Street, Dallas, Texas, which Detective Cody determined was occupied by a Mr. and Mrs. PETER CIMINO. He said he made this determination through checking the mailbox and cars parked in the area. He advised that he thought that the sergeant at the scene should have arrested this man and found out who he was since he did act very suspicious as far as he was concerned. Roberts advised that since the above he had heard a few rumors and wondered whether or not they had been checked out. He said that he learned from a Constable T. A. Vines, offices in Oak Cliff Court House, Beckley and 12th Street that the woman was the night manager of the Dobbs House, Beckley and Colorado, allegedly has claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby used to come into her restaurant two or three times a week during the early morning hours. He said he further heard that Lee Harvey Oswald had purchased his bullets for the rifle he was using from Ray's Gun Shop on Singleton Blvd. END As far as explaining how I missed noticing the Beckley Club; I noticed the reference the first time I posted the document, but thinking I had heard of every cafe, restaurant and eatery.... Dobbs House, Phil's Delicatessen, Lucas B&B, et cetera I had never heard of it, so I assumed it [the reference] was a mistake Well, you know what they say about assuming...lol So I am trying to get back on the right track..... I've looked at every repeat, in the last two pages of this thread, of the phrase, ..."that the woman was the night manager of the Dobbs House, Beckley and Colorado, allegedly has claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby used to come into her restaurant..." ...and I am now failry certain that the reference was not related to Mrs. Cimino...she remains a complete mystery, because the word "who" has not been included in the phrase.: The report was no longer about "Mr. and Mrs. Cimino" at that point, because this phrase had come after the last reference to Cimino.: "...Roberts advised that since the above he had heard a few rumors and wondered whether or not they had been checked out...." ...and the rumors were then described, they included info attributed to an unidentified woman WHO worked at night, (Mary Ada Dowling ?) and about where rifle ammunition had been purchased. Well Tom , I was actually hoping you would jump in here, hopefully I haven't missed any major points you've raised, if I have please let me know. Peter Cimino Age 68 View Details Kingsport, TN Kingsport, TN Morrisville, PA Linda A Cimino Alice Regina Meeks One small problem I have removing Peter W. Cimino from the list is the fact that if you check his age description by Gene Roberts and contrast that with the age of the baseball pitcher, it is a definite match, not only that he has physical features, that, at least in my estimation, could in a particular situation, such as the Tippit shooting, where things were happening fairly fast be mistaken for a Latin, when in fact he was Italian, or of Italian lineage The fact that there is the reference to a Mr. and Mrs. Peter Cimino while seemingly eliminating him as the pitcher is problematic for two reasons 1. There are no Cimino's in the Greater Dallas Residential White Pages Wouldn't there be cause to think there would be, whereas with the baseball pitcher, who was only here part of 1963, it would be understandable. 2. It is agruable that if, there was evidence that someone other than Oswald shot Tippit, and the ballistic evidence alone [Remington Peters cartidges] supports that view, then it is not out of the realm of possibility there would have been some deliberate hijinks to obfuscate or muddle the waters. (Such as purporting to being married when, in fact, their was no marriage on record). Do I have a point? Then there are some other issues as well (see below) Commission Document 355 - DOJ Criminal Division Listing of Witnesses Interviewed pg 590 Found in: Warren Commission Documents Lois Meeks 326 E Woodin Waitress Webbs Waffle Shop 110 S. Murphy Observed Ruby as customer in cafe from 4:45 to 6:00 am, November 23, with two other men. They were reading the papers and discussing the assassination. Knew Ruby prior to that time as occasional breakfast customer. http://www.maryferre...6&relPageId=591 DMN 7/18/62 Richard Lucas, Bride on Trip to Colorado Richard Lucas and the former Sara Ann Skaggs and bridesmaids were Miss Linda Meeks, Miss Nelda Grigsby, Mrs Lacy Williams of Galveston AGENCY : WC RECORD NUMBER : 179-40003-10122 RECORDS SERIES : 08: NUMBERED COMMISSION DOCUMENTS DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : DOJ FROM : [No From] TO : [No To] TITLE : [No Title] DATE : 02/04/1964 PAGES : 1 DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT SUBJECTS : MEEKS, WILLIAM CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 00/00/0000 COMMENTS : LISTING OF WITNESSES INTERVIEWED IN RUBY INVESTIGATION BY THE DOJ; BOX J01 Robert: I am not suggesting that either of the two obituaries listed below are the same William Meeks as the person referenced in 179-40003-10112, but only as possibilities. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX) - July 28, 1992 Deceased Name: William B. Meeks FORT WORTH - William B. Meeks, a retired heavy equipment operator, died Sunday at a Fort Worth hospital. He was 74. Graveside service will be at 4 p.m. today in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mount Olivet Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Meeks was born in Memphis, Tenn., and lived in Fort Worth for most of his life. He was a heavy equipment operator and foreman for the city of Fort Worth, and had been with the city for more than 30 years when he retired in 1981. Mr. Meeks was an Army veteran of World War II and served with the 36th Division. He was a member of the Black Powder Gun Club and was a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Survivors: Wife, Evelyn Meeks of Fort Worth; son, Dewane Meeks of Long Beach, Calif.; and two daughters, Jean Willett and Sue Meeks, both of Fort Worth. Watertown Daily Times (NY) - June 14, 1992 Deceased Name: WILLIAM D. MEEKS , VETERAN OF WWII, DIES William D. Meeks, 77, former resident of Philadelphia and Newport Richey, Fla., Town of Philadelphia Justice for 22 years and 33-year veteran of the Navy, died Saturday afternoon at the Carthage Area Hospital, where he had been patient since May 16. There will be no funeral or calling hours. The body will be cremated. A memorial service will be conducted at a later date at the convenience of the family. Donations may be to Three Mile Bay Rescue Squad in his name. Frederick Brothers Funeral Home, Theresa, is in charge of arrangements. He is survived by his wife, Alberta, and an aunt, Jennie Meeks, Watertown. Mr. Meeks was born April 8, 1915, in Theresa, a son of Adam and Florence Zanker Meeks. A 1933 graduate of Philadelphia High School, he worked two years for the Sinclair Oil Co., Philadelphia, then enlisted in the Navy in 1935. During his Navy career, which spanned 33 years, he was a medical technician aboard the U.S.S. Trenton. He traveled extensively while in the Navy, and at the end of World War II he was an administrative officer in China where he made inspections in various regions including Peking. Mr. Meeks retired from the Navy in 1958 as a commissioned warrant officer. While in the Navy, he married Alberta Ruth Buckley on May 12, 1945, in the chapel of St. Paul the Seafarer, Fort Emory, Coronado, Calif. Mrs. Buckley also served in the Navy. After he retired from the Navy, the couple moved back to Philadelphia where they built a home. He was elected town of Philadelphia Justice in 1961, a position he held until 1983. In 1967 he started his own backhoe business and also worked as a substitute mail carrier. The couple moved to Three Mile Bay in 1983 and spent winters in Newport Richey, Fla. Mr. Meeks was a life member and past commander of the Robert Markwich American Legion Post 798. also see Mrs. Markham and the 2nd Gunman alt.assassination.jfk Also has the issue of someone allegedly taking Tippit's revolver ever been confirmed, addressed? T F Bowley has written his JFK Book, I thumbed through it at a book store, and was singularly unimpressed....Anyone else? AFFIDAVIT IN ANY FACT THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF DALLAS BEFORE ME, Mary Rattan, a Notary Public in and for said County, State of Texas, on this day personally appeared T.F. Bowley w/m/35 of 1454 Summertime Lane, TE6 5965 who, after being by me duly sworn, on oath deposes and says: On Friday November 22, 1963 I picked up my daughter at the R. L. Thornton School in Singing Hills at about 12:55 pm. I then left the school to pick up my wife who was at work at the Telephone Company at Ninth Street and Zangs Street. I was headed north on Marsalis and turned west on 10th Street. I traveled about a block and noticed a Dallas police squad car stopped in the traffic lane headed east on 10th Street. I saw a police officer lying next to the left front wheel. I stopped my car and got out to go to the scene. I looked at my watch and it said 1:10 pm. Several people were at the scene. When I got there the first thing I did was try to help the officer. He appeared beyond help to me. A man was trying to use the radio in the squad car but stated he didn't know how to operate it. I know how and took the radio from him. I said, "Hello, operator. A police officer has been shot here." The dispatcher asked for the location. I found out the location and told the dispatcher what it was. A few minutes later an ambulance came to the scene. I helped load the officer onto the stretcher and into the ambulance. As we picked the officer up, I noticed his pistol laying on the ground under him. Someone picked the pistol up and laid it on the hood of the squad car. When the ambulance left, I took the gun and put it inside the squad car. A man took the pistol out and said, "Let's catch him." He opened the cylinder, and I saw that no rounds in it had been fired. This man then took the pistol with him and got into a cab and drove off. The police arrived and I talked to a police sergeant at the scene I told him I did not withness the shooting and after questioning me, he said it was all right for me to leave. I then went on to the Telephone Company office at Ninth and Zangs. /s/ T. F. Bowley SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME THIS 2 DAY OF December A.D. 1963 /s/ Mary Rattan Notary Public, Dallas County, Texas

i know my eyes are getting worse but i don't think that's the cause of not seeing the faintest resemblance between masen and either harvey or lee. maybe he looks different in person. i don't know what ellsworth saw and i wasn't there. i just don't see it. I don't see it either, but apparently those who suspected they saw Oswald and then learned that it was Mason thought there was a resembalance, and Dick Russell devotes most of his chapter on Masen on the mistaken identities and the resembalance he noticed himself, years later. I don't believe that Masen was one of those who intentionally impersonated Oswald, as he was most certainly impersonated, and Larry Crafard, Don Norton and others are suspects in this intentional deception. Nor do I think Manuel Rodriguez intentionally impersonated Oswald, Rodriguez being the Alpha-66 guy who was twice mistaken for Oswald, by an informant at the Alpha 66 house on Harlandale and on the road in Oklahoma. I thought Masen was hooked up with the Alpha-66 guys on Harlendale, but the ARRB says it was the DRE. Here's what the ARRB Final Report has to say about Masen: 15. John Thomas Masen John Thomas Masen was a Dallas area gun dealer who was arrested on gun smuggling charges two days before the assassination of President Kennedy. During the fall of 1963, Masen supplied arms to the Directorio Revolucianario Estudiantial (DRE), an anti-Castro group based in Miami. The FBI interviewed Masen during the assassination investigation regarding allegations that he may have sold 6.5 mm Mannlicher-Carcano ammunition to Lee Harvey Oswald. Some researchers have alleged that Masen had connections to Oswald. The Review Board requested access to FBI files on John Thomas Masen from the following locations: Headquarters, San Antonio, Dallas, and Miami. The FBI reported that the Miami field office file had been destroyed, but the Review Board designated as assassination records the Headquarters, San Antonio, and Dallas field office files in their entirety. These files describe the FBI's investigation of Masen in 1963 and 1964, and his association with the DRE http://www.fas.org/s...rb98/part08.htm I would like to inject a couple of points, I don't think it is sensible to make a judgement as an Oswald impersonator, based on the above photograph, alone. Anytime you see DRE and destroyed documents in the same paragraph, a red light should go off in your head. A couple of years ago, I read the entire 430 page Lopez Report, the report itself is good, but there was one very noticeable flaw, that had nothing to do with the quality of Eddie Lopez's work, it was in the parameters the HSCA placed upon Lopez, specifically there was not a single sentence towards even a speculative look at an Oswald impersonator, something I felt was suggestive of Robert "Bob" Blakey not wanting to upset the applecart over there at Langley.......and I still feel the same way. You obviously don't have to be an intellectual giant to realize that Oswald impersonations in 61-63 were about as common as seeing "Kilroy was here" on the sides of US naval vessels, at one time. If there is ever a new investigation, the issue of who, what, when where and forget the why of the issue should be one of the main focal points. PERIOD On the same last note, one of the more recent JFK assassination TV Specials about Jack Ruby has a segment of an interview with Bob Blakey speaking of George Joannides of JMWAVE and his assertion that "had he knew" the whole story of George's coming out of retirement to "liason" with the college kids researching CIA Files he would have never believed a word the agency said, or words to that effect. Once you have put the cork on the bottle, in intelligence related political investigations re-opening it is as rare as a Stradivarius, for there to be "another look;" few people realize that if the Black caucus in Congress had not obtained the allowance that the new investigation of the JFK assassination would also include the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., there would not have been enough congressional votes for there to have been a followup to the Warren Commission by the HSCA.....

One of the advantages of studying history is realizing that every country has its own version of manifest destiny, unless we are speaking of Micronesia as an example... Study the various quotes regarding the Kennedy assassination by figures such as Richard Nixon, J Edgar Hoover, etc., and the quote "bad for the country"........ And at the same time remember that the knowledge of historical fact is directly related to the family... So one of the big problems regarding "Mighty Wurlitzers" and controversial issues is that each new generation must be educated in the truth of history.... Irrespective of political expediency and wherever it takes you..... A real problem in a country where politicians wrapping themselves in the American flag is about as common as seeing a traffic jam on your morning news.... Is that anyone's idea of a culture that is interested in the truth at any cost...... I believe the most taboo sentence in the United States does not have to do with radical Islam or playing the race card, but is the simple sentence "reform the government" Any significant politician in the 20th century who sought to defy the war machine [that is an integral part of American history] found themselves in a very bad spot; an understatement if there ever was one. Consider that our government's greatest contribution to restoring public confidence in its institutions would be a real pulling back the veil on the remaining classified documents regarding the 1960's assassinations, and the fact that not one of the media outlets in America, has seconded the idea and you get a real picture of how things work, or don't work. Some people probably hate dissenting voices for the same reason that others who voice unpopular sentiments do. The idea it is un-American to sincerely criticize your country for non-partisan reasons, and with the desire to work for the common good under any circumstances; the whole mindset of such people is that we live in a country that is so perfect, there is no need for improvement. Does the current state of the Union resemble a divine or secular utopia? I love my country, but that is the whole point. It's our country, just as much as it is the upper 2% on the richest American's or members of the Bohemian Club, or trans-nationalist's in our government or anywhere else. And if you love your country, you speak out when you see something that is not right, not stand around watching naked emperors in front of television cameras and commenting how well dressed they are, or reading and watching about "grass-roots" political movements, that are dedicated to preserving the status quo, or worse.

BTW, The cafe that Gene Roberts and Pete Cimino were at shortly after the assassination, was no doubt the Dobbs House, which makes all of this take on an added significance, IMO Robert Yes, and wasn't Pete Cimino's wife, who he was with at the Dobbs House at the time of the assassination, a waitress at another place of relevance? BK Well there is a major correction here, see below and my comments after the text...... page 97; 1964 Greater Dallas Alphabetical Telephone Directory Beckley Club Cafe 113 W. Jefferson WH 6-0859 FBI 44-24016 Ruby HQ File, Section 27 Mr. J.P. Smith advised he is the owner and operator of the Beckley Club, 113 Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas. Mr. Smith advised he carefully looked over the photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald as well as Jack Ruby when seeing them in the local newspaper and cannot recall either man as being in the restaurant. He stated that it was a natural thing for him to do as the restaurant is located in the general area where both had lived. Mr. Smith stated that to his knowledge neither man had ever come into the cafe. He had discussed this with other employees right after the shooting incident and none of the employees can recall ever seeing either individual. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=57013&relPageId=97 FBI 105-82555 Oswald HQ File, Section 62 12/4/63 GENE ROBERTS, 1657 Nob Hill Street, Dallas, Texas, WHitehall6-4822 advised on November 22, 1963 at approximately 1:05 P.M., he was sitting in the Beckley Club drinking coffee. He said the lady that owned the cafe had a radio on the counter and that they were listening to reports of the assassination of the President. A white female and male were sitting at the back of the cafe and walked to the front, whereupon the white male asked "What's going on?" Mr. ROBERTS stated that the President had been shot and the unknown white male stated that this was the best news he had heard. The white female with him said he should not have said that. Mr. Roberts advised that the cafe owner also heard this comment. Mr. Roberts advised that the white male was about 20 to 25, appeared to be of Cuban or Puerto Rican or foreign extraction, 5'10" to 5'11," dark complexion and dark hair. He advised the white female was about 18 to 20, 5'2" to 5'3" slender build, dark hair. Mr. Roberts advised he finished his coffee and then drove down past the area where Officer Tippit was shot and noticed a number of squad cars in the area. He said he asked some woman nearby what had happened and they told him that a police officer had been shot and the body had been removed. At this time Roberts stated he observed the same white male and female from the cafe walk into a house directly across the street from where Officer Tippit had been shot and enter a side door. He said this was about 405 E. 10th Street. He said the white male was wearing a light green cloth jacket with leather patches on his elbows when he entered the house and had the same jacket on when he came out alone about two minutes later. He said he was straightening the jacket as if he had something hidden inside. He said the white male kept looking back and forth over his shoulder and never inquired of any police officers what had taken place. Roberts advised that he thought this was quite unusual and notified a police sergeant on the scene about this individual He advised the police sergeant told him that the man did not fit the description of the person that had shot Officer Tippit. On 12/3/63 at Dallas, Texas File DL 89-43 By Special Agent Robert E. Basham and James J Ward:jj Date dictated 12/4/63 Next page Mr. Roberts advised that he had numerous friends on the police department and city council and he got in touch with some of them and arrangements were made for him to see Detective Joe R. Cody which he did shortly thereafter. He said he and Cody went to the area of 405A E. 10th Street, Dallas, Texas, which Detective Cody determined was occupied by a Mr. and Mrs. PETER CIMINO. He said he made this determination through checking the mailbox and cars parked in the area. He advised that he thought that the sergeant at the scene should have arrested this man and found out who he was since he did act very suspicious as far as he was concerned. Roberts advised that since the above he had heard a few rumors and wondered whether or not they had been checked out. He said that he learned from a Constable T. A. Vines, offices in Oak Cliff Court House, Beckley and 12th Street that the woman was the night manager of the Dobbs House, Beckley and Colorado, allegedly has claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby used to come into her restaurant two or three times a week during the early morning hours. He said he further heard that Lee Harvey Oswald had purchased his bullets for the rifle he was using from Ray's Gun Shop on Singleton Blvd. END As far as explaining how I missed noticing the Beckley Club; I noticed the reference the first time I posted the document, but thinking I had heard of every cafe, restaurant and eatery.... Dobbs House, Phil's Delicatessen, Lucas B&B, et cetera I had never heard of it, so I assumed it [the reference] was a mistake Well, you know what they say about assuming...lol So I am trying to get back on the right track.....

BTW, The cafe that Gene Roberts and Pete Cimino were at shortly after the assassination, was no doubt the Dobbs House, which makes all of this take on an added significance, IMO Robert

OWEN, GEORGE W., JR. Sources: Dallas City Directory 1963; Deep Politics, Scott, pp. 234, 240-241; Silent Coup, Colodny & Gettlin, pp. 131, 134 Mary's Comments: In 1963, Owen is shown in Dallas City Directory as president of The University Club of Dallas, 1415-1/2 Commerce, Dallas, TX. Dave Cherry was bartender at the University Club. (The Carousel Club was located at 1312-1/2 Commerce, Dallas.) Owen was also a scout for the Dallas Cowboys and later became associated with the New Orleans Saints. His second wife was Maureen "Mo" Biner who later became Maureen Dean, the wife of John Dean of Watergate fame, and who has in recent years broadened his horizons and is simultaneously an author, columnist, and commentator on contemporary politics, especially the foibles of the Republican Party. DMN July 4, 1973 Mrs Dean Reported to Have Dallas Connections Maureen Dean, who has become the "mystery woman," as the fashion-plate wife of ousted White House counsel John Dean, formerly was a Dallas airline stewardess and model and reportedly has another Dallas connection. According to friends, Mrs. Dean was married in 1967 and 1968 to George Owen of Dallas, at the time he was employed as director of player-relations for the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans. Owen, now an associate in a Dallas real-estate investments firm, refused to answer any questions Tuesday. "He's not granting any interviews," a secretary in the plush Preston Towers office of Henry Kyle said. While sports figures in New Orleans and Dallas (Owen formerly was on the business staff of the Dallas Cowboys) appear familiar with the marriage, Mrs. Dean did not acknowledge it on her marriage license application to Dean. She lists herself in the application filed at Alexandria, Va., in October as Maureen Elizabeth Biner, a widow, married only once before (to the late Michael Biner a Los Angeles area stockbroker). Biographical data on the 27 year-old, platinum-blonde who has sat behind John Wesley Dean III throughout his five long days of nationally televised Watergate testimony has not been easy to come by. American Airlines verified that Maureen Elizabeth Kane (her family name) of Los Angeles was graduated from their Stewardess College at Greater Southwest International Airport April 14, 1966. She was based in Dallas until Oct. 1, 1966, when she left the company...... Before coming to Dallas to become a stewardess, Mrs. Dean attended Santa Monica City College, was a secretary-receptionist for an insurance agency in California and was hostess in the Tea Room of Bullock's, near Los Angeles. (According to the story, Michael Biner was killed in an automobile accident) Of all the topics that intertwine in the Kennedy saga, baseball was not one that I ever contemplated being on the list, but it is on the list. Looks like Bill Kelly was right, as I jumped the gun on coming to the conclusion that Peter William Cimino the baseball pitcher, could not have been the same Pete Cimino described by Gene Roberts..... It was, as a matter of fact definitely the same Pete Cimino In 1963 he began the season as a pitcher at the AA level for the Charlotte Hornets, a few months later he was a relief pitcher for the AAA Dallas-Ft. Worth Rangers managed by Jack McKeown Brief background of the Dallas Ft. Worth Rangers In 1960 the Dallas Eagles and their old archrival, the Fort Worth Cats, were combined into one team as the Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers and competed in the American Association. During its years in the association, the team split its home games between Burnett Field and LaGrave Field in Fort Worth. Then, when the American Association disbanded in 1962, the Rangers joined the Pacific Coast League. The Dallas-Fort Worth team competed in the Pacific Coast League in 1963. Fort Worth businessman Tommy Mercer bought the franchise and returned Fort Worth to the Texas League in 1964; Dallas remained in the Pacific Coast League. Related Dallas Morning News Stories Jan 23, 1960 “Yep, He Did” Cimino’s 114 point game for Bristoe High School, on January 22, 1960, January 31, 1963 “Rangers Sign Four Hurlers” the four rookies are Joe Balinsky, Pete Cimino, George Balinsky and John Quinn March 25, 1963 “Out at the Plate, but a Hit at Home” - “Dallas Fort Worth tackles Columbus of the International League, a Triple A farm team of the Pittsburgh organization here Monday, and Mgr. Jack McKeown has nominated Ted Sadowski, Al Schroll and Pete Cimino to pitch.” August 24, 1963 “Bears Claw Rangers” - “Some pitching help was reported on the way, however. Righthander Pete Cimino, who was with the Rangers in spring training and the early days of the pennant race, has been recalled from Charleston of the Sally League, where he pitched a 3-hit shutout, Thursday night.” September 9, 1963 “89ers Split Win Division” - “Oklahoma took the Burnett Field nightcap after the Dallas-Ft. Worth Rangers had won the afternoon game at Fort Worth 4-3, to sew up the Pacific League’s Southern Division title Sunday.Two rookies, Jim O’Donoghue and Pete Cimino combined in the afternoon to beat [OK89ers] Jerry Nelson.” September 10, 1963 “Twins Call up 3 as Rangers Scatter; 1964 Team Assured” - “Bonakowski and pitcher Pete Cimino will play in the Florida Instructional League at St. Petersburg beginning Oct. 1” FBI 44-24016 Ruby HQ File, Section 36 http://www.maryferre...2&relPageId=226 Mr. Albert Schroll, residence 711 East Colorado professional pitcher for the Minnesota Twins Baseball Club, currently employed as a salesman at the Fink Paint Company, 2605 Elm, Dallas advised he had first became acquainted with Jack Ruby in about the middle of September 1963 when he came to Dallas. He was never a member of Ruby’s clubs but was allowed to enter the club because of his status as a baseball pitcher. Ruby appeared interested in sports and suggested at their first meeting that he might be able to employ Schroll in the capacity of bouncer in one of his clubs. Schroll was thereafter employed one evening at Ruby’s Vegas Club and “off and on” for approximately one month at the Carousel Club. His duties were to assist in the seating of customers and to keep down possible rowdyism among them. He had no association with Ruby outside of his employment. From his observations of Ruby, it was his opinion that Ruby was a highly emotional individual, which has led him to believe that the shooting of Oswald was in no way premeditated. Mr. Scholl had never heard of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the Presidential assassination and was aware of no connection between Oswald and Ruby. He was not aware of any reasons why Ruby shot Oswald, During his employment at Ruby’s club, Mr. Schroll became aware that several police officers of the Dallas Police Department frequented the clubs and appeared friendly with Ruby He was not aware of the names or identities of such officers. The SA writing up this document cannot seem to make up his mind how he wants to spell SCHROLL's name. Cimino is not that unusual of a name, there are other Cimino's of interest....as indicated below 1965 photo of Pete Cimino second from left in back http://yeahminnesotatwins.tumblr.com/ re the above URL re the Minnesota Twins, there is a four letter popular expletive deleted that prefaces yeahminnesotatwins it, the four letter word is sometimes referenced as an F-Bomb MARY FERRELL ADVANCED SEARCH RESULTS CIMINO Books With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit pg 383, by Myers, Dale K. (1998) Cimino and others begin to gather at Tippit's body Benavides climbs from his truck and joins the gathering crowd Then he makes his way to Tippit's squad car to notify police Mrs Mary Wright and...... With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit pg 601, by Myers, Dale K. (1998) Endnotes 601 IBID [Note Frank Cimino's account describes the 90 seconds that elapsed between the shooting and the arrival of Ted Callaway and other witnesses Although Cimino himself did not see the...... Contract on America: The Mafia Murders of John and Robert Kennedy pg 365, by Scheim, David E. (1983) Mobster became chief of police of a Chicago suburb When Rocco Salvatore was tried for a speeding violation in 1966 Melrose Park Police Sergeant Dominic Cimino attested to Salvatore's fine character and told the court that Salvatore needed his driver's license for his business Cimino was later temporarily suspended from the Melrose Park Force when it surfaced that Sam’s business was acting as a chauffeur and bodyguard for Chicago Mafioso Sam Battaglia. But in 1967, Dominick Cimino became chief of police of Melrose Park. Shortly afterwards reports surfaced that Cimino often met with Charles [Chuck] Nicoletti, a mob enforcer and terrorist. “News accounts related that Chief Cimino was observed conferring with Nicoletti almost daily.” citation Cressey, Theft Of A Nation Dealey Plaza Echo Volume 8 Issue 2 Helen Markham and Document 106 Part II by Alaric Rosman testimony of Mrs Virginia Davis) Scoggins (3H 336) Frank Cimino (CD 7/411 Unindexed WC document Facsimile at Myers p 538 Documents “US v Cimino 427 F 2nd 129. Cert. denied, 400 U.S. 911 above see google scholar NO TITLE pg 3 Found in: FBI - HSCA Subject File: Irwin Stanley Weiner NO TITLE Dated 6-17-75 Page 2 LC# A-98319 Martin Palm prints and fingertip impressions submitted of Suspect JOSEPH ARMANDO DE VITA FBI #993 430 K8 Fingerprint card submitted of Suspect ) JOSEPH JACK CIMINO DOB 10-17-1947 http://www.maryferre....do?docId=94763 RIF#: 124-90087-10152 (06/17/75) FBI#: 87-126535-76 NO TITLE pg 33 Found in: FBI - HSCA Subject File: Irwin Stanley Weiner EE COVER PAGE CC 87-40262 close to as VICKI CIMINO the daughter-in-law of DOMINIC CIMINO Chief of Police Melrose Park Police Department VICKI was married to JOSEPH CIMINO and it is possible that RIF#: 124-90087-10146 (05/12/75) FBI#: 87-126535-73 Schroll, according to various sources, never pitched in the big leagues again after 1961, It is said he was born in New Orleans, and died in 1999, strange although irrelevant,? that both Cimino and Schroll have/had ties to the Minnesota Twins. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=schroal01

I believe Greg makes a very good point. The Forum is, and has always been a place where researchers and famous writers and not so famous writers are villified and subject to ridicule because any individual attestation of fact, whether it is regarding a document, premise and "theory" becomes cannon fodder for resident big names, little names or whathaveyou, to take potshots because the aforementioned do not "agree" with "their" concept of the big picture.....many times, said persons wouldn't know that the declassifcation process under the JFK Records Act makes their "theories" about as viable as a proverbial Introductory JFK 101 course .......... Examples...where do I begin...attacks on Joan Mellen, courtesy of [fill in the blank] attacks by RIP Gerry Patrick Hemming on Tosh Plumlee, really nasty attacks within the Zapruder film analysis community on Jack White, or Jack White towards anyone who does not accept every jot and tittle of Harvey and Lee.....[And I am sympathetic to Jack, he had the added humiliation of being hammered at the HSCA hearings because he pointed out some things that they did not want to hear, so they treated him badly, anyone who knows their stuff should know that.....] attacks on anyone who points out that Lee Harvey Oswald could possibly not been the assassins of President Kennedy, JD Tippit USMC Private Schrand by such esteemed persons as in the 1960s-70's era, J Edgar Hoover, Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, Lawrence Schiller and government spokespersons associated with or synonymous to "The Mighty Wurlitzer." When Jim Garrison, according to whomever you ask "investigated," "butchered," or "covered-up" his foray into the Kennedy Assassination, the Warren Commission had such an all-time low in credibility, comments were made by scribes and lawyers regarding not wanting to even include documents from the Warren Commission in the trial of Clay Shaw; but in 2011 the Warren Commission has been transformed into a phoenix that has risen from the ashes, as documentation worthy of being canonized alongside the Constitution of the United States, as boxing promoter Don King once said "Only in America." . Where did the problem develop? A lack of civility which has taken on a new dimension with the resultant dynamic of "pot calls kettle black?" Some of this is completely understandable when you consider the bonafide JFK researcher has had to cope with: In no particular order. 1. Proven Bogus documents 2. CIA assets who have deliberately included "government conspiracy theories," ie Castro, KGB Chicoms did it, who in turn, were linked to groups with names practically out of a John Le Carre novel, See The Schickshinny Knights Of Malta. 3. Visitors to the Forum, who have been so strident other Forum Members felt so "at a loss," understandably so.... they modified their settings so they wouldn't have to read the limpid regurgitations emanating from aforementioned person Anyone remember "Lynette?" Which reminds me of a particularly humorous anecdote..... The story taken from the Middle Ages, [another epic period for governments and institutions killing ants with sledgehammers]; regards an itinerant traveler who chances upon a village on one his lengthy travels, as he approaches he sees the Devil himself sitting on a ledge on the outskirts of the town. Utterly incredulous, the traveler says "what are you doing here? I would have thought you would have been in the village creating havoc within the populace, and inciting them to acts of evil against one another." The Devil, shrugged his shoulders and said, "they are doing quite well without me." Translation: We have met the enemy and he is Us? There is also the bitter, acrimonious [understatement] feelings between supporters of the Lee Harvey Oswald did it school,and believers of a conspiracy. In all due respects, the defenders of the Warren Commission are afforded the same rights to their opinion's, interpretations of fact here as well, the only stipulation is that they show some idea of understanding basic rules of civility and honesty. I have been trying to contribute for ages here, pointing out areas of interest, suspicious relationships and factual obscurities which, I believe deserve more attention One of these areas is cryptology; I have devoted an entire thread on the subject, which is about as active a thread as a dormant volcano, and yet even though, as recent a post as yesterday where Luis Castillo, the MKULTRA-like assassin sent in 1967 to possibly kill Ferdinand Marcos, as government hypnosis experts determined, was associated with codes. As were William Dalzell, graduates of Bletchley Park's Government Code and Cipher School, who later were associated with President Kennedy's cabinet... including William Bundy, brother of McGeorge Bundy JMWAVE certainly had an interest in the subject. Reel 21, Folder C - AMMUG-1 PRODUCTION FILE pg 10 Found in: HSCA Segregated CIA Collection (microfilm - reel 21: AMMUG) CASTILLIAN ENGLISH CUBAN To use cipher codes Cryptoanalysis Cryptorym pseudonym Code system Cipher Key code To code a message Decipher decode Cover story Agent 'spotting Guard watch http://www.maryferre...21&relPageId=10 Or Home/Archive/Documents/JFK Assassination Documents/JFK Documents - Central Intelligence Agency HSCA Segregated CIA Collection/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 17/ NARA Record Number: 104-10075-10220 JMWAVE CABLE RE CIPHER MATERIAL [11/28/63] http://www.maryferre....do?docId=40681 FOLLOWING CIPHER MATERIAL ISSUED JMWAVE CO FOR RESUPPLY AMCOG-3, ODLONG PBRUMEN AMCOG SICPLAN VALON: DECIPHER PADS AP1212, 6819, AP1213 3365 AND AP1214, 3819 But apparently new research is not much of a priority to some people here, unless it dovetails nicely with their own preconceived ideas re same. Cheers

I have never heard that Edwin Collins was "Angelo." My views on the Odio incident are basically unchanged from what I've written - it was part of the set-up of Oswald, which does not mean it was not a "second Oswald" who was present with Angel and Leopoldo. I just wanted to let you know, Mr Russell, that I have read dozens of books on the assassination of JFK, and that your most recent book in it's own context, surpasses The Man Who Knew Too Much. I came away with several things from the book, but I don't want to insert myself into a Question and Answer format, so I will simply say that the material on Castillo alone was both extremely illuminating, and I thought literally contained leads, if he was really in Dallas that day, instead of being programmed to say he was in Dallas that day. I am sure you realize my point. One last thing I thought I would share with you, is regarding ostensibly a decade later version of Luis Castillo, that is mentioned on the website serendipity and in Weberman and Canfield's book regarding someone circa 1972 named Larry Trackman, who, also was allegedly trying to assassinate Ferdinand Marcos. What I discovered was.... Lawrence Trackman, [next paragraph is spelled as Truckman] identified as "an American adventurer" by the Rome newspaper "Il Messaggero," 1972 no date included.They report Trackman was arrested in Manila, Phillipines because of his alleged involvement in an assassination plot against Ferdinand Marcos. He told interviewers that Kennedy was "The victim of a plot by 15 Cuban and American mercenaries enlisted for the Bay of Pigs invaison." The group could have been Interpen-IAB.......Truckman was allegedly under the influence of sodium pentothat at the time. The text above is what appeared in the 1993 update by Weberman/Canfield page 149 no footnote reference Also See http://www.serendipi...smith_chron.htm Since there was no footnote in Weberman's book regarding Lawrence Trackman, I continued to look, and today I did find something in the files at maryferrell.org under the category of Angelo Bruno a document dated Jan 13, 1964 contains a list of persons making telephone calls from the New York City telephone number TN 7-8670, which is listed to System Merchandise Corporation, 19 West 44th Street in New York City. On June 25th 1963 first name not listed last name Yetman, apparently placed a call to Larry Trackman in Buenos Aries, Argentina tel number 414031. * While I would definitely not assume the two names are the same person, conversely, I would not assume they weren't. Further complicating matters is at the end of the document there is another spelling of said person, this time Larry Tractman. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=74 * http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...sPageId=1348086 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=85 The Buenos Aries telephone number kind of shocked me...... Have you ever heard the story regarding Trackman? Thank you Mr. Howard for your kind words about my work. I came across the Larry Truckman story back-in-the-day, but was unable to ferret out anything more about it. I think there was an article in 1975 on AP. At some point, this listing from the 1964 Dallas Residential WhIte Pages (May 1964) may be of interest. A note here, as far as research for 1963 phone numbers in Dallas goes. The perfect information database would be the above and the 1963 Dallas Residential WhIte Pages. Although it sounds strange, the 1964 Directory is preferable as a source to myself because it is the source that is after the assassination and not before, and is within 7 months of November 1963, whereas the 1963 Directory is 6 months before; to each his own. page 146 Castillo Luis E 2712 Raleigh Pl LA 6-5065 page 811 Vega Frank 5145 Miller Ave. TA 7-5235 Vega Helen 3114 Conklin RI 8-1705 Vega John 2315 Hondo LA 8-4496 Vega John Nick Mrs. 4226-B Cole Ave. LA 1-0167 Vega, Mary Jessie 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega, Nicholas 2816 Dawson St HA 1-9739 Vega Pablo 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega Roy 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega Santiago 3114 Conklin RI 8-1705 There are a lot of Castillo's. Seriously, I would rather have access to whatever phone numbers agency documents had for Castillo, or relatives circa 63-67 in the Continental US. I doubt the Luis Castillo would have even wanted to have his name in a phone book period Hey Robert, Just a note to let you know that I'm following you down this alley. I don't know where its going, but I'm following you. BtW, I was warned twice not to follow up on Luis Castillo, but tell me to sit down and I stand up. bk BK Thanks Bill. Regarding your comments, in a way, its hard to believe that some people are so intimidated by the search for truth. On the other hand, its not so hard to believe at all. And I feel the same way, no goose-stepping creeps are going to scare me into staying within the lines. An FBI Report regarding Robert Ray McKeown mentions that although the following activities did not fall under FBI jurisdiction, information passed on to the Alcohol Tax Unit and the Bureau of Internal Revenue had continued the investigation and charged with conspiracy "to smuggle guns and related equipment to Cuba" Robert Ray McKeown and among others Dr Carlos Prio Socarras...... R. Castillo, 34 male resident of Miami, Florida citizen of the United States by naturalization. Pedro Luis Chaviano Reyes, also known as Luis Chaviano, F. Castillo, Gilbert Pawtoja, male 44, resident of Miami, Florida, citizen of Cuba. see CD 797 http://www.maryferre...195&relPageId=5 Although I found an RIF Page Only, and I do not know if there is anything on this guy, I did some checking FBI DOCUMENTS RE FERNANDO ALONSO CASTILLO AND OTHER ACTIVITIES WITH CU http://www.maryferre....do?docId=64936 And found Miami Herald, The (FL) - January 8, 1992 Deceased Name: Castillo , Fernando A. Castillo, Fernando A., 84, of Miami. Services 10 a.m. today, St. Michael Church. Flagler Memorial Park. Rivero Miami Chapel. HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 42/ NARA Record Number: 1993.07.20.15:03:55:870280 SUMMARY FOLDER OF OS/SAG INVESTIGATIVE FILES http://www.maryferre...9&relPageId=132 http://www.maryferre...do?docId=103859 mentions Castillo quite a bit HSCA Segregated CIA Collection Box 37 GARRISON INVESTIGATION OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: LUIS ANGEL CASTILLO A A labor record in New York has entries for 1963, 1964 and 1966. An Antonio Eloriga, a Phillipine citizen does reside in Chicago. but there is no derogatory information on him http://www.maryferre...do?docId=101326 Poppa? Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) - May 12, 2010 Deceased Name: Sergio Manuel Vega Sergio Manuel Vega Sergio Manuel Vega Sergio Manuel Vega passed away April 17, 2010, in Pretoria, South Africa, after a long sickness. He was born Oct. 7, 1940, in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, to the late Maria (Torres) and Ramone Vega Molina. Sergio served in the United States Army and worked for Abbott Laboratories. He received a master's degree in business from Lake Forest College, Lake Forrest, Ill. Sergio's passions were many: he loved spending time with his family, playing golf, traveling, cultivating his garden and strumming his guitar. Sergio was well known for his easy charm, quick wit and mischievous grin. He spent the last decade of his life living with his wife, Elize Vega, in South Africa after they married in 2001. Elize was at his side at the time of his passing. She is the Sergio was also married to Rosina (Hellstern) Vega of Antioch, Ill. They were married 19 years, from 1981 through 2000. Abbott Laboratories pops up in JFK files from time to time; such as this file on Jose Ignacio Rasco Bermuda, where they "intervened." http://www.maryferre...50&relPageId=23

I have never heard that Edwin Collins was "Angelo." My views on the Odio incident are basically unchanged from what I've written - it was part of the set-up of Oswald, which does not mean it was not a "second Oswald" who was present with Angel and Leopoldo. I just wanted to let you know, Mr Russell, that I have read dozens of books on the assassination of JFK, and that your most recent book in it's own context, surpasses The Man Who Knew Too Much. I came away with several things from the book, but I don't want to insert myself into a Question and Answer format, so I will simply say that the material on Castillo alone was both extremely illuminating, and I thought literally contained leads, if he was really in Dallas that day, instead of being programmed to say he was in Dallas that day. I am sure you realize my point. One last thing I thought I would share with you, is regarding ostensibly a decade later version of Luis Castillo, that is mentioned on the website serendipity and in Weberman and Canfield's book regarding someone circa 1972 named Larry Trackman, who, also was allegedly trying to assassinate Ferdinand Marcos. What I discovered was.... Lawrence Trackman, [next paragraph is spelled as Truckman] identified as "an American adventurer" by the Rome newspaper "Il Messaggero," 1972 no date included.They report Trackman was arrested in Manila, Phillipines because of his alleged involvement in an assassination plot against Ferdinand Marcos. He told interviewers that Kennedy was "The victim of a plot by 15 Cuban and American mercenaries enlisted for the Bay of Pigs invaison." The group could have been Interpen-IAB.......Truckman was allegedly under the influence of sodium pentothat at the time. The text above is what appeared in the 1993 update by Weberman/Canfield page 149 no footnote reference Also See http://www.serendipi...smith_chron.htm Since there was no footnote in Weberman's book regarding Lawrence Trackman, I continued to look, and today I did find something in the files at maryferrell.org under the category of Angelo Bruno a document dated Jan 13, 1964 contains a list of persons making telephone calls from the New York City telephone number TN 7-8670, which is listed to System Merchandise Corporation, 19 West 44th Street in New York City. On June 25th 1963 first name not listed last name Yetman, apparently placed a call to Larry Trackman in Buenos Aries, Argentina tel number 414031. * While I would definitely not assume the two names are the same person, conversely, I would not assume they weren't. Further complicating matters is at the end of the document there is another spelling of said person, this time Larry Tractman. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=74 * http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...sPageId=1348086 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=85 The Buenos Aries telephone number kind of shocked me...... Have you ever heard the story regarding Trackman? Thank you Mr. Howard for your kind words about my work. I came across the Larry Truckman story back-in-the-day, but was unable to ferret out anything more about it. I think there was an article in 1975 on AP. At some point, this listing from the 1964 Dallas Residential WhIte Pages (May 1964) may be of interest. A note here, as far as research for 1963 phone numbers in Dallas goes. The perfect information database would be the above and the 1963 Dallas Residential WhIte Pages. Although it sounds strange, the 1964 Directory is preferable as a source to myself because it is the source that is after the assassination and not before, and is within 7 months of November 1963, whereas the 1963 Directory is 6 months before; to each his own. page 146 Castillo Luis E 2712 Raleigh Pl LA 6-5065 page 811 Vega Frank 5145 Miller Ave. TA 7-5235 Vega Helen 3114 Conklin RI 8-1705 Vega John 2315 Hondo LA 8-4496 Vega John Nick Mrs. 4226-B Cole Ave. LA 1-0167 Vega, Mary Jessie 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega, Nicholas 2816 Dawson St HA 1-9739 Vega Pablo 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega Roy 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega Santiago 3114 Conklin RI 8-1705 There are a lot of Castillo's. Seriously, I would rather have access to whatever phone numbers agency documents had for Castillo, or relatives circa 63-67 in the Continental US. I doubt the Luis Castillo would have even wanted to have his name in a phone book period Hey Robert, Just a note to let you know that I'm following you down this alley. I don't know where its going, but I'm following you. BtW, I was warned twice not to follow up on Luis Castillo, but tell me to sit down and I stand up. bk BK Thanks Bill. Regarding your comments, in a way, its hard to believe that some people are so intimidated by the search for truth. On the other hand, its not so hard to believe at all.

I have never heard that Edwin Collins was "Angelo." My views on the Odio incident are basically unchanged from what I've written - it was part of the set-up of Oswald, which does not mean it was not a "second Oswald" who was present with Angel and Leopoldo. I just wanted to let you know, Mr Russell, that I have read dozens of books on the assassination of JFK, and that your most recent book in it's own context, surpasses The Man Who Knew Too Much. I came away with several things from the book, but I don't want to insert myself into a Question and Answer format, so I will simply say that the material on Castillo alone was both extremely illuminating, and I thought literally contained leads, if he was really in Dallas that day, instead of being programmed to say he was in Dallas that day. I am sure you realize my point. One last thing I thought I would share with you, is regarding ostensibly a decade later version of Luis Castillo, that is mentioned on the website serendipity and in Weberman and Canfield's book regarding someone circa 1972 named Larry Trackman, who, also was allegedly trying to assassinate Ferdinand Marcos. What I discovered was.... Lawrence Trackman, [next paragraph is spelled as Truckman] identified as "an American adventurer" by the Rome newspaper "Il Messaggero," 1972 no date included.They report Trackman was arrested in Manila, Phillipines because of his alleged involvement in an assassination plot against Ferdinand Marcos. He told interviewers that Kennedy was "The victim of a plot by 15 Cuban and American mercenaries enlisted for the Bay of Pigs invaison." The group could have been Interpen-IAB.......Truckman was allegedly under the influence of sodium pentothat at the time. The text above is what appeared in the 1993 update by Weberman/Canfield page 149 no footnote reference Also See http://www.serendipi...smith_chron.htm Since there was no footnote in Weberman's book regarding Lawrence Trackman, I continued to look, and today I did find something in the files at maryferrell.org under the category of Angelo Bruno a document dated Jan 13, 1964 contains a list of persons making telephone calls from the New York City telephone number TN 7-8670, which is listed to System Merchandise Corporation, 19 West 44th Street in New York City. On June 25th 1963 first name not listed last name Yetman, apparently placed a call to Larry Trackman in Buenos Aries, Argentina tel number 414031. * While I would definitely not assume the two names are the same person, conversely, I would not assume they weren't. Further complicating matters is at the end of the document there is another spelling of said person, this time Larry Tractman. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=74 * http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...sPageId=1348086 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...mp;relPageId=85 The Buenos Aries telephone number kind of shocked me...... Have you ever heard the story regarding Trackman? Thank you Mr. Howard for your kind words about my work. I came across the Larry Truckman story back-in-the-day, but was unable to ferret out anything more about it. I think there was an article in 1975 on AP. At some point, this listing from the 1964 Dallas Residential WhIte Pages (May 1964) may be of interest. A note here, as far as research for 1963 phone numbers in Dallas goes. The perfect information database would be the above and the 1963 Dallas Residential WhIte Pages. Although it sounds strange, the 1964 Directory is preferable as a source to myself because it is the source that is after the assassination and not before, and is within 7 months of November 1963, whereas the 1963 Directory is 6 months before; to each his own. page 146 Castillo Luis E 2712 Raleigh Pl LA 6-5065 page 811 Vega Frank 5145 Miller Ave. TA 7-5235 Vega Helen 3114 Conklin RI 8-1705 Vega John 2315 Hondo LA 8-4496 Vega John Nick Mrs. 4226-B Cole Ave. LA 1-0167 Vega, Mary Jessie 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega, Nicholas 2816 Dawson St HA 1-9739 Vega Pablo 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega Roy 2705 Louise HA 1-9737 Vega Santiago 3114 Conklin RI 8-1705 There are a lot of Castillo's. Seriously, I would rather have access to whatever phone numbers agency documents had for Castillo, or relatives circa 63-67 in the Continental US. I doubt the Luis Castillo would have even wanted to have his name in a phone book period

BANKSTON, DOLORES F. (NEE MERIDITH) (MRS. J. M.) Sources: WC 25, p. 716; CE 2505; CD 106, p. 22; CD 355, p. 44 Mary's Comments: Met Ruby through Bob and Kathryn Heiser four or five years ago. Her husband, known as "Red" Bankston, Garland Car Dealer, committed suicide 5/15/64. Her name on Ruby's memo pad 11/24/63. Ruby once offered her money when she was ill. Mrs J. M. Dolores Meredith Bankston Red Bankston DMN January 18, 1963 Cedar Hill to Vote on Leash Law ....James Red Bankston has sold his Ford Agency to Courtesy Motors Corp of Englewood and Denver, Colorado The same day that Red Bankston’s death notice appeared in the Dallas Morning News another obituary appeared on page 23, that of De Witt Carmichael. 3507 Granada. Survived by wife Mrs. Vida Carmichael One of the pallbearers listed was W.O. Bankston May 16, 1964 Auto Dealer Found Dead GARLAND Texas - J.M. “Red” Bankston, 47 year-old Garland auto dealer, was killed Friday when a bullet pierced his chest Justice of the Peace Theron Ward ruled the wound was self-inflicted. Police said they went to Bankston’s home at 914 Patricia after receiving a call from his mother They said they found a .357 magnum pistol near the body. Investigators said the wound indicated the weapon was pointed at Bankston’s heart. A spokesman for the Justice of the Peace said he found nothing which would indicate foul-play. Re above....Well, I guess that was that. When I read the Decker autobiography, I don't recall it ever mentioning Red Bankston's death....odd.

Robert, I don't know if this is our man "H. C. Hill," but he certainly looks interesting. - BK HILL, THOMAS More on Thomas Hill There are 4 NARA Docs on Thomas Hill So far, I have only been able to find one on Mary Ferrell's Website It is a 3-8-1960 LHM to J. Edgar Hoover from the Dallas SAC of the FBI. The document subject is Robert Welch Jr., and Hill is mentioned. The document states "On 2-23-60, Mr. Thomas Hill 609 Lawson Road, Garland, Texas advised SA James Hosty, Jr., that on the previous evening he had attended a meeting at the home of some friends of his. This meeting was presided over by an individual also named Thomas Hill, reportedly from Dallas, who stated that he was a full-time paid coordinator for Robert H Welch, Jr., in organizing the "John Birch Society." Mr. Hill stated that he had four part-time volunteer helpers and that the John Birch Society is now organized in fifteen states. Mr. Hill the paid organizer, told the Texas assembled group that he had previously attended Southern Methodist University (SMU), however, quit SMU because he considered it Communist controlled, and that it was after this that he went to work for Robert Welch, Jr. This meeting consisted of playing four thirty-minute tapes setting forth the aims and purposes of the John Birch Society, which is allegedly anti-Communist in nature. Mr. Hill, the complainant in this matter, stated that it appeared to him that the John Birch Society considers anyone even slightly liberal to be a Communist and he does not believe any of the individuals present at this meeting will join the John Birch Society. It appears they wish to organize the John Birch Society into groups of eight to ten persons who will meet in residences, the main purpose being to organize as many persons as possible to pressure Congress to enact what they allege to be anti-Communist...... I believe out of all of the listings Hill & Martin Ice Cold Storage, is the most compelling Thomas Hill is certainly right up there. I have also discovered a significant amount of Bray's who lived in Dallas, then there is the man himself......... Not H.C. Hill mind you, but I know the associations jumped out at me, perhaps they will you as well. Who Was John Birch? On Aug. 25, 1945, ten days after the end of World War II, a slender, 27-year-old captain in the Army Air Forces named John Birch was kitted in China by a band of Communists. Sixteen years later, John Birch lives on as the rallying symbol of the archconservative, anti-Communist John Birch Society. Yet Birch himself remains a shadowy figure. Who was he? How did he live? And how did he die? JOHN BIRCH was born in Landour, India, to a husband-and-wife team of missionaries. When John was two years old, his family returned to the U.S., and he was raised in New Jersey and Georgia. In 1939 Birch graduated from Georgia's Baptist-controlled Mercer University as the top man in his class, leaving behind him a record that is still recalled. "He was always an angry young man, always a zealot," says a classmate. "He felt he was called to defend the faith, and he alone knew what it was." Says a psychology professor: "He was like a one-way valve: everything coming out and no room to take anything in." In his senior year. Birch organized a secret "Fellowship Group" and set out to suppress a mildly liberal trend at Mercer. He and twelve colleagues collected examples of "heresy" uttered by faculty members (example: a reference to evolution), whipped up support among Georgia's Baptist clergy, finally forced the school to try five men on the charge. Mercer eventually dismissed the cases, but not before admonishing 75-year-old Dr. John D. Freeman, a world-famous Baptist leader, for using a theologically "unsound" textbook. That summer Dr. Freeman quietly retired from Mercer. Says a professor: "It broke him." Birch went to China as a missionary in 1940, and was caught there by Pearl Harbor. In 1942, as he was trying to find a way to enlist, the war literally dropped in on him. He was taken one night by a native to a man who had fallen out of the sky. The fallen: Lieut. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. Birch led Doolittle and a group of the survivors of the Tokyo raid to safety, then joined the unit that later became General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and began a remarkable career in air combat intelligence. Wrote Chennault later: "Birch was the pioneer of our field-intelligence net." Traveling up to 100 miles behind enemy lines, Birch radioed back word on prime Japanese targets. He directed the building of three airstrips within enemy territory. For his work, Birch was awarded the Legion of Merit, got a posthumous Oak Leaf Cluster for "exceptionally meritorious service." Birch was eventually transferred to the Office of Strategic Services and was assigned late in the war to a tiny, scorpion-infested base at Sian in North China. Baptist Birch is remembered as a loner with a somewhat overbearing manner. In his diary, Major Gustav Krause, commanding officer of the base, gravely noted: "Birch is a good officer, but I'm afraid is too brash and may run into trouble." When the Japanese surrendered, Birch led a routine mission to discover how far south the Chinese Communists had penetrated. His group bumped into a Chinese Communist force. As the scene has been reconstructed, Birch argued violently with the Communist officer who wanted to disarm him. Birch was seized and shot after his hands had been tied. The Communists then bayoneted him at least 15 times and tossed his body on a heap of junk and garbage. "In the confusing situation," said Krause last week, "my instructions were to act with diplomacy. Birch made the Communist lieutenant lose face before his own men. Militarily, John Birch brought about his own death." Thus, in his lifetime, John Birch was a legitimate hero. But in both his life and his death he was almost as controversial as the organization that has been named after him. http://www.time.com/...72243-2,00.html This post is for those who remember the earlier mention of the Bendix Corporation, a name that is referenced in the lawsuit associated with Edward Bray, since court transcripts of those proceedings are not available to most, if not all of us, I have wanted to discover something that might provide some contextualization of Bendix Corp's place in the 20th century world, within some type of political framework...... The following is an excerpt from a book, in which Bendix is mentioned along with some other companies you just might be familiar with...... Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History by Wells, Wyatt C. Publication: New York Columbia University Press, 2001. Introduction In the wake of World War II, the United States sought to impose its antitrust tradition on the rest of the world. Before the war, businesses operating across national borders had lived with a basic contradiction: the laws of most industrial countries tolerated and even encouraged cartels, whereas the statutes of the United States, the world's largest economy, banned them. Most cartels finessed the issue, making arrange- ments with U.S. companies that ventured abroad, agreements that exploited loopholes in the American antitrust statutes. Still, the potential for conflict always existed. Antitrust, which Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas once described as a "social religion........ END excerpt page 104-105 Moreover, Byrnes pointed out that Dupont was deeply involved in the Atomic bomb project code-named S-1. Another unsigned memo transmitted to Roosevelt reported that the head of the project, General Leslie Groves,"states work of Dupont's executives is key to the success of S-1 and any diversion of their time would be disastrous." Roosevelt finally resolved the matter in mid-June. He wrote to Lord Halifax, "It seems to me the Attorney General's view is appropriate and I have accordingly so advised him." He did order Biddle to extend the deadline for filing the answers to July 31, 1944 and permit the defendants to amend their answers later, if they so desired, which protected the companies against a summary judgement. The motives for Roosevelt's decision are unclear. He may have agreed with Biddle that by delaying the filing of an answer, the government would set a bad precedent. He may have concluded that, with the success of the Normandy landing on June 6, the needs of mobilization no longer overrode the antitrust laws. The positive public reaction to the announcement of the suit in January could have convinced Roosevelt, a thoroughly political creature, that the case was good politics. The President [FDR] may have seen the suit as a way to strike back at the Dupont's who had been particularly fierce critics of him and the New Deal, or he may simply have concluded that after so many defeats, the anti-trust Division deserved a victory. In any event, although it caused an inconvenience, the preparation of answers does not seem to have particularly hampered Dupont's or ICI's* contributions to the war effort. President Roosevelt's decision had consequences far beyond the filing of a few documents in court. His show of support heartened the Antitrust Division and made it clear that prosecutions would indeed resume after the war. A few days after Roosevelt's decision in the ICI/Dupont case, Attorney General Biddle asked for permission to proceed with trials in two other cases involving international cartels. The first concerned an agreement between ICI, Dupont Rohm & Haas of Philadelphia and I.G. Farben governing the sale and production of certain plastics and the second sought to overturn accord between Bendix and European firms involving the rights to various aviation aviation instruments. Biddle insisted that in both suits the prosecution would need only a couple of weeks to present its case. The attorney general argued that, in the plastics case, the war had not ended but had merely suspended agreements, and these "would require that Rohm & Haas and DuPont withdraw and stay out of the important Latin American market upon the termination of the war." It was necessary, therefore, to invalidate them as soon as possible. In the Bendix case restrictions had actually continued in force during the war, although because the U.S. government purchased the entire output of the aircraft industry they had little impact. Nevertheless Biddle wanted to act before the end of hostilities to free "this industry now of artificial, uneconomic and unlawful limitations to in order to ensure sufficient preparations for the postwar development of the aircraft industry in this country." In both cases the President gave the Justice Department authority to proceed. The cases themselves were not that important — in fact, the courts eventually decided against the Justice Department in the plastics suit — but they offered more proof that the vigorous prosecution of cartels would proceed. The Antitrust Division also went after the Webb-Pomerene corporations. These organizations, authorized by congress in 1918, allowed American firms to cooperate in export markets. During the 1920's and the 1930's, US companies had often negotiated with international cartels through Webb-Pomerene corporations, a practice that the Federal Trade Commission, the regulator's of these organizations had tolerated. In March 1944, however the Justice Department filed suit against the American Alkali Export Association....... * Imperial Chemical Industries END But it was the following which really made me realize there is much more to Bendix than, at least I ever knew. http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/ead/mums514.htm Carl Oglesby Papers, 1942-2005 63 boxes (32.5 linear ft.) An activist, writer, lecturer and teacher, Carl Oglesby has participated in, written about, and analyzed some of the most important events in the recent history of the United States. His experiences before, during and after the Vietnam War as a political activist changed the trajectory of his own life and contributed significantly to the American political discourse on many subjects such as Vietnam War, Watergate, World War II, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. In his long career as writer and activist he has addressed many issues, spoken at hundreds of universities and protests as well as traveled the United States debating various political issues. Oglesby was born in 1935, an only child living first in Kalamazoo, Michigan and later in Akron, Ohio. He was raised in a deep-South Christian Fundamentalist environment, one he both revered and resented, later in life referring to himself as a "silent Christian." He attended Kent State University for almost four years in the mid-fifties during which time he married Beth Rimanoczy in Kent, Ohio. In 1957, he left the university without receiving a degree. During this time, Oglesby began writing plays. His first play Season of the Beast, produced in Dallas, Texas in 1958, was promptly shut down for being a "Communistic Yankee atheist's attack on down-home religion." Although Oglesby didn't know it at the time, this was not the last time he would be accused of being a Communist or an atheist. Despite his interest in playwriting, Oglesby sought out steady work. He became a copy editor for Goodyear Aircraft Corporation for a year before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1958. There, he headed the Technical Writing Division at Bendix Systems, a defense contractor, until 1965. Although he befriended many people in Ann Arbor who were politically active, Oglesby shied away from engaging in much activism. He felt proud of his middle class home on Sunnyside Road, his family and secure job, and was reluctant to challenge the establishment that employed him. Even though Oglesby knew that Bendix was designing systems to distribute chemicals and poisons over the Vietnamese jungle, he "was not above" his work at Bendix. He and Beth were fully prepared to raise their children in the American, middle-class tradition, even if it meant not being as politically active as they would have liked. In 1964, Oglesby began working as a writer for the Wes Vivian Congressional campaign. At a meeting, he was asked to produce a position paper on the Vietnam War in the event the issue came up during the course of the campaign. The paper Oglesby crafted not only provided him a crash course in Vietnamese history, but it also found its way into the University's literary magazine, Generation, along with his new play The Peacemaker. The play depicted the classic feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, and the inclusion of Oglesby's position paper in the same magazine gave his play about an age-old family feud a modern, political twist. More importantly, the unexpected publication of his position paper led him to his first introduction to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), an introduction that would change the course of his life and force him to choose what role activism would play in it. Oglesby's first real ideological struggle with his middle-class lifestyle and career, however, came the previous year when President Kennedy was assassinated. Despite the fact that he and his colleagues faced a looming deadline, Oglesby was concerned that the flag had not been lowered as a sign of respect to the fallen president. When he tried to urge management at Bendix to lower the flag to half mast, he encountered a strange scene in which the executives seemed actually to be celebrating Kennedy's death. Although Oglesby continued working at Bendix for several more years, he became more and more aware that his political sensibilities might be in conflict with his safe, middle-class lifestyle. In particular, as the Vietnam War was becoming more an issue of public debate, Oglesby was forced to acknowledge that his nice, secure job in the defense industry might actually be contributing to it. Indeed, his friends in Ann Arbor began to challenge him, asking how he could reconcile his job at Bendix with his own sense of values. As it turns out, he couldn't.

Thank you Gary. That is most helpful. Looking down the opposite end of the telescope, as far as I know there is no record of the time the Dallas Police received the Davis phone call, although here you would expect that the Police SHOULD have routinely time-stamped the receipt of such a call. Has anyone ever bothered to check and see if Dale Myers assertions re Oswald, the Smith & Wesson ie US Mail, were accurate? Some of the sources he cited in attempting to depunk Newcomb/Adams assertions that Oswald was possibly investigating weapons purchases via mail order for the Dodd Committee and the issue of signing for the package were Murder From Within, Fred T. Newcomb and Perry Adams, 1974 Unpublished Manuscript; U.S. Congress, Senate, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Senate Judiciary, Hearings to Study the Interstate Traffic in Mail-Order Firearms, 88th Congress, 2nd Session, 1963, Pt. 14: S1448-11, Pt.15: S1561-1 7H375,7H376 Michaelis Exhibits The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Research Center, Dallas White Pages, 1964 [Note: Archivist Gary Mack notes that the REA* Express phone number was RI2-5431 and the post office number was RI9-3140.] *Railway Express Agency The whole text can be found here. http://groups.google...2e5c66?hl=en&

Telephone Calls of Eugene John Murret Date 11/30/63 BILL DATED 7/5/63 October 27, 1963 DDD Call to Beaumont, Texas Area Code A/C 713 Telephone Number TW 2-9473 BILL DATED 10/6/63 September 30, 1963 Station to Station Call to Beaumont, Texas, AC 713 Telephone TW 2-9473 BILL DATED 9/5/63 August 14, 1963 Station to Station Call to Newark, New Jersey AC 201 Telephone # HU 5-1541. September 1, 1963 Person to Person call to Allen Waller Atlanta, Georgia AC 404 Telephone # TR 2-1765 BILL DATED 8/5/63 July 6, 1963 Call from “Murrett” in Fayetteville, Arkansas from a pay-phone HI 2-9591 [con’t. next page] http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=57682&relPageId=173 to M. Herdohoff New Orleans, Louisiana, Telephone # 891-2298 July 7, 1963 Station to Station call to Beaumont, Texas AC 713 Telephone # TE 8-3943 July 7, 1963 Collect call from Barling, Arkansas, station to station to John Murret at coin phone 883-0926 July 11, 1963 Station to Station call to Beaumont, Texas AC 713 Telephone # TE 8-3943 July 15, 1963 Person to Person to Gene Murret Mobile, Alabama, AC 205, telephone # 342-6465 July 18, 1963 Person to Person call made to Miss Els beth Kulik c/o Eastern Airlines, Houston Texas, Telephone #644-1261. Call made by John Murrett billed to Hunter 8-4236 by the 3rd number Billing System. Toll Ticket contains notation that John Murrett is son of Dutz Murrett. July 16, 1963 Person to Person from Murrett to Allen Waller, Atlanta, Georgia AC 404 Telephone #TR 2-1765 FBI 105-82555 Oswald HQ File, Section 10 pg 174 BILL DATED 7/5/63 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=57682&relPageId=174 July 1, 1963 - Station to Station to Beaumont, Texas A/C 713 Telephone TE 8-3943 June 19, 1963 telephone call to Elisabeth Kulik (room 299) San Antonio, Texas, A/C 512 Telephone # DI 4-4581. June 8, 1963 The Trade Winds Motel, Biloxi Mississippi Area Code 601 Telephone #ID 5-2351 June 6, 1963 (person to person) to Reverend (name not shown) at The Trade Winds Motel Biloxi Mississippi, Area Code 601 Telephone #ID 5-2351 Toll records for HU 8-4326 prior to July 1963 have been destroyed and current toll records concerning calls made after November 5, 1963 will not be available until the regular billing date December 5, 1963 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=57682&relPageId=175 <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> KULIK, ELSBETH ----- Sources: WC Vol 26, p. 773 Mary's Comments: Airline stewardess; called at Eastern Airlines, Houston, from New Orleans pay station; charged to Murrets. END Travel time by car from Mobile, Alabama to Biloxi, Mississippi is about 1 hour and 8 minutes. According to google maps I believe this material alone poses three specific questions. 1. Are these phone calls related in any way to the Oswald family trip to Springhill College, Jesuit Studies, where Lee gave his address regarding Life in the Soviet Union? 2. Do the above records provide reason to believe that all of the names associated with the "Ferrie trip to Galveston," including the phone calls is not complete, or at least, should not be viewed as an isolated event re same? Among the knowledge base of "what we know now, that we didn't know then," in large part due to the works of George Michael Evica and historians in general, it is a fact that religious organizations had, [and probably continue to have] been utilized for intelligence purposes. 3. Isn't it at least a possibility that Eugene Murrett's request for Lee to come to Mobile, to enlighten the seminarians about life in the USSR, was not made with the best intentions? PS If anyone noticed the disparity in the spellings of Murret, Murrett..... it is because at best the compilers of the the Warren Report’s Supporting Documents didn't bother to get it right, and at worst they were instructed to deliberately misspell names to hide associations and possible incriminating evidence. Eugene John Murret Was in Springhill College’s seminary, preparing to become a Jesuit priest in 1963 when he invited Lee Harvey Oswald to address the students regarding life in the Soviet Union. He later became Executive Council to Governor McKeithen of Louisiana from 1969-71, and is reported to have investigated Jim Garrison; but his political ascendancy didn’t stop there. In 1993, he became a Circuit Court Judge for U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver, the Judicial Administrator for the Louisiana Supreme Court and then on to USAID where he received the title of Administrator Justice Sector Development Project (JSDP) Also See google translation for USAID JSDP New USAID Sector Development Project is a three year partnership activities funded with 4.9 million dollars that will continue the success of the first JSDP (2004-2009) while at the same time launch a significant new reform initiative. JSDP II will continue its significant partnership initiative of its predecessor with its High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJDP) Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the courts. In addition, JSDP II will launch a new partnership with prosecutors as an ambitious new engagement with civil society. JSDP II will support the rule of law in Bosnia.......... photo of Eugene J Murret at the URL below JSDP Administrator Eugene Murret (l) and translator listen as Court President Hajrudin Halilovic ® discusses improvements to the court. http://www.usaid.gov...2008-11-10.html <br class="Apple-interchange-newline">