Don Roberdeau

Good Day.... FYI.... You can read excerpts and search into McKNIGHT's book, "Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why," here.... http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/0700613900

Gerald McKnight is working on a new book about the Kennedy assassination he said will highlight evidence drawn from recently obtained documents. He said its scope will be more expansive than his "Breach of Trust," dealing with many aspects of the case, including what he said is documented proof that the government used threats of deportation to get Marina Oswald to cooperate with its investigation, as well as evidence Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union may have been part of an Office of Naval Intelligence program to insert sleeper agents.... http://politicalassa...ing-third-book/

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap:

West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Good Day.... FYI.... http://www.frederick...?StoryID=132961

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Local Author Digs for Truth

Former Hood professor uses information act to unearth government documents

Originally published March 11, 2012

By Brian Englar

News-Post Staff

Photo by Graham Cullen

Former Hood College professor Gerald McKnight is working on a book.

When local author and former Hood College professor Gerald McKnight researched his first book in the 1980s, he sought government documents related to COINTELPRO, a secret FBI program aimed at surveilling, infiltrating and disrupting domestic political organizations.

He filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the documents, but according to McKnight, the government was less than forthcoming with the information about the program, eventually deemed illegal.

"I got a letter back from the Justice Department saying 'who the hell are you and what the hell do you think you're doing here?'" McKnight said. "It was like 'what spaceship did you come to this country in that you expect to get this information?'"

But McKnight wasn't going away, and after spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer, he got a hearing on his request. The Friday before the hearing was to take place, the Justice Department informed McKnight that it no longer opposed the release of the documents.

"They pushed me to see how serious I was about this," McKnight said.

The result of his efforts was his book, "The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., the FBI and the Poor People's Campaign," which details FBI attempts to destroy King and derail the Poor People's Campaign, a 1968 march on Washington by thousands of impoverished Americans that King didn't live to see.

McKnight ultimately prevailed in his battle for transparency, and he said the money he was forced to spend on a lawyer limited the scope of his research.

"I got a book out of it," McKnight said. "But it could have been a lot better.

For his second book, "Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why," McKnight relied almost entirely on documents obtained through the efforts of the late Frederickauthor Harold Weisberg.

Weisberg's legendary struggles with the government over the release of information related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy included several lawsuits and pried loose thousands of documents from resistant federal agencies.

"He was at this from the day after Dallas until he died," McKnight said. "When you look at what he was able to get out of the Freedom of Information Act, it's just absolutely remarkable. And not only did he use the act to get documents, he also used his lawyer and his ability to force the FBI to bring forward certain members of the agency and they were under oath where he could question them."

Weisberg died in 2002. In 2005, The Frederick News-Post filed a FOIA request and learned the FBI kept a file on Weisberg. The FBI believed Weisberg was a communist, and a number of internal memos chronicle the government's effort to block Weisberg's access to information regarding the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr.

McKnight said he is still using the documents obtained by Weisberg, along with many recently released documents in the National Archives assassination records collection, for a planned new book about the Kennedy assassination.

McKnight said other documents related to the assassination are still being withheld, including what he said are as many as 2.4 million pages on Lee Harvey Oswald from the Office of Naval Intelligence. Other withheld documents include nearly 300 pages dealing with George Joannides, a CIA case officer McKnight and other researchers believe is key to demonstrating that Oswald was an asset of U.S. intelligence.

Former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley has been fighting to have the documents made public since 2001, but the CIA has successfully argued that their release would cause "extremely grave damage" to national security.

The 1992 JFK Records Act requires agencies to release all documents relevant to the assassination by 2017, but McKnight said he is skeptical that all the information, including the Joannides documents, will ever see the light of day.

"There may not be any files left," he said. "Either the stuff that he will get will be so innocuous that it won't be any use to him, or the CIA will go to the government and simply try to exercise a provision that there are reasons why these files cannot be released."

McKnight said the Joannides documents are only a small piece of the puzzle when it comes to the JFK assassination, and that many important documents already available to the public haven't been fully explored.

"There is so much stuff that can be done," he said. "It would take a whole team of interested and capable people to go through it all."

(END QUOTE)

You can read excerpts and search into McKNIGHT's book, "Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why," here.... http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/0700613900

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap:

West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Good Day .... FYI....

http://www.smdp.com/...-read-this.html

(QUOTE)

opinion and commentary

Laughing Matters

Hoping the CIA doesn't read this

By Jack Neworth

Cold War Warrior: Francis Gary Powers next to a U-2

reconnaissance plane. photo by Cold War Museum.

February 10, 2012

Perhaps I'm a tad paranoid because today I'm writing about the 50th

anniversary of one of the most controversial moments in the Cold War.

And one that the CIA had its greasy tentacles all over. By the way,

some historians postulate that we didn't so much win the Cold War

against the Russians as we outspent them.

Some think those were better days. Sure there was the threat of

nuclear annihilation, but at least the country wasn't broke and planes

weren't flying into skyscrapers. (Not to mention those unbearable Bin

Laden basement tapes.)

In memory of that era I wrote a satirical screenplay, "The Last Straw,"

about rogue KGB and CIA agents longing to re-ignite the Cold War.

Instead of saving the world from communism, grumpy CIA operative

Rollie Southern curses that he's reduced to having to learn Arabic

from Berlitz tapes on a recorder made in China!

But, dear readers, that's the end of the comedy portion of today's

missive as I reflect back on May 1, 1960. Up to that point that was

clearly the most ominous day in the life of 30-year-old American pilot

Francis Gary Powers. The son of a Virginia coal miner and raised

during the depression, he was on a CIA spy mission when he and his U-2

reconnaissance plane were shot down and captured in Russia. (At the

subsequent trial Powers potentially faced the death penalty.)

When the truth came out the incident embarrassed America in the eyes

of the world. It also derailed President Eisenhower's highly

anticipated peace summit with the Soviets scheduled for only two weeks

later.

The ultra-sleek U-2 was basically a glider equipped with a jet engine.

Precarious to fly, it could, however, cruise above 70,000 feet, out of

range of Soviet artillery. Or so we thought.

Powers, who had flown numerous and dangerous spy missions for years,

was now a powerless pawn in a Moscow show trial. He was sentenced to

10 years, three in a cold, foreboding prison and seven to be in a work

camp.

But, after 21 months in a Russian prison, we finally come to what took

place 50 years ago, today. On a foggy pre-dawn at the Glienicke Bridge

in Berlin, and in a scene right out of a spy movie, Gary Powers was

exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. But, while Abel was greeted in

Russia as a returning hero, Powers was not.

Powers was subjected to weeks of intense CIA debriefing and public

criticism. (And even death threats.) The left criticized him for his

part in the war machine and the right for his not having killed

himself and destroyed the U-2 when faced with capture. (Ignoring that

those were never his orders.)

There were much publicized Senate hearings that, if they went poorly

for Powers, there was talk that he might be charged with treason. But

after his Senate testimony, Powers received a standing ovation and a

commendation that he had "performed well under dangerous

circumstances." (A slight understatement considering Powers had been

shot down from 70,000 feet.)

As it happens, in my Dec. 16, 2011 column ("Drone, drone on the

range") I mentioned Powers and the U-2 incident. Gleaned from Internet

sites, I noted that Powers had suspected CIA sabotage of his flight to

destroy the upcoming summit with the Russians.

My column posted at 5 p.m. and seemingly at 5:05 I got an e-mail

emphatically denying that Powers believed the sabotage scenario. As

perhaps only I can, I assumed the CIA was reading my columns!

When I finally stopped hyperventilating, I noticed the e-mail was from

Gary Powers Jr. So, to set the record straight on the so-called

sabotage, I stand corrected. (Actually, I'm sitting.)

Powers Jr. did share something about his father and Lee Harvey Oswald,

whose military training included radar and had been stationed at a U-2

base. Powers Sr. thought it likely that Oswald divulged to the Soviets

the U-2's cruising altitude. (Which begs the eternal question, how did

Oswald get back into the U.S., but don't get me started.)

Francis Gary Powers was a Cold War warrior mistreated by his

government. But there is some justice. This past December, the Air

Force announced that in 2012 it will posthumously award Powers the

prestigious Silver Star.

"It is vindication of my father 50 years afterwards,' Powers Jr. said.

"Dad is one of our American heroes."

I second the motion.

Gary Powers Jr. founded The Cold War Museum to honor veterans and

preserve Cold War history. To learn more go to www.coldwar.org. Jack

can be reached at Jnsmdp@aol.com.

(END QUOTE)

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap:

West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Good Day.... FYI, there will be a presentation and open forum about

the assassination on 2-7-12 at the Dixie State College in St. George,

UT....

http://www.stgeorgeu...ng-dixie-forum/

<QUOTE>

Overview of JFK assassination at upcoming Dixie Forum

Written by St. George News on February 1, 2012 in Community News, Life

- No comments

ST. GEORGE – Dixie State College's noontime "Dixie Forum: A Window on

the World" will feature a historical overview of the assassination of

President John F. Kennedy on Feb. 7.

The forum is free as always and will be presented by retired history

teacher Steve Armstrong in the Dunford Auditorium of the Browning

Resource Center on the DSC campus.

Armstrong's presentation will include a description of the facts

surrounding the assassination, the subsequent investigation leading to

the Warren Commission report released in 1964, along with the 1978

report of the House Select Committee.

Armstrong delivered his first presentation on this subject in the

early 1970s, and he continues to update and revise his knowledge and

materials. He has spoken at national conventions in Chicago, Phoenix,

Orlando and Los Angeles, along with several state and local teacher

conventions, workshops, and high school classrooms.

"As our nation approaches the 50th anniversary of JFK's death,"

Armstrong said, "I believe that it's important to examine the facts

and the controversies surrounding this tragic American event. Whether

you were alive at the time or are now seeking knowledge of the JFK

assassination, you are sure to find this a stimulating, interesting

presentation."

Armstrong taught AP American History and AP American Government during

his 35-year teaching career. He was also an AP reader and continues to

do consulting work for The College Board.

For further information on DSC's Dixie Forum series, please contact

DSC Forum advisor Professor Marius van der Merwe at 435-652-7924 or at marius@dixie.edu.

<END QUOTE>

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap:

West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Mark Wahlberg is one of many lucky people who nearly ended up on one of the hijacked 9/11 planes. Wahlberg was scheduled to fly on one of the doomed flights from Boston to L.A., but decided to leave a week earlier in order to see a friend's movie at the Toronto Film Festival. But Wahlberg has never stopped thinking about what could have been. No, not his tragic, untimely death. Wahlberg thinks he could have defeated the hijackers and landed the plane, according to an online excerpt of an interview in Men's Journal:

On being scheduled to be on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center

"If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn't have went down like it did. There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, 'OK, we're going to land somewhere safely, don't worry.'"

http://www.nymag.com...st-emailed-24h5

EDIT - Formatting

.... Good Day Len .... WAHLBERG had, actually, originally reserved a seat on United Airlines flight # 93 on 9-11, not American Airlines flight # 11.

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap:

West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Truly explained in his interviews and testimony that Dougherty was essentially retarded, and easily confused. Everything backs this up. I've often wondered, however, if this wasn't by design. If Dougherty were to have been part of the conspiracy, or to have been coerced by a family member or someone he trusted into helping someone shoot Kennedy and escape, no one would have been the wiser, as he was below suspicion.

Hi Pat.... OTTOMH, it also reminded me about the invented "slow" museum janitor character that thief EDWARD NORTON portrayed in the film "The Score" (2001), with ROBERT De NIRO Jr.

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap:

West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Good Day.... FYI.... http://www.statesman...ng-2074907.html

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Hello Don,

Thanks for the information.

In January, 1983, shortly after I received copies of the autopsy photographs, Pat Valentino and I went to Dallas where we showed the pictures to as many of the Dallas doctors and nurses that could be located.

The last doctor we saw, en route back to the airport, was Dr. Giesecke.

None of the doctors had seen the photos before, and in the Epilogue to the 1988 (Carrol and Graf) edition of BEST EVIDENCE, I described their reaction.

I just spoke with Pat, and he is checking his records, because--as he just reminded me--we made a tape of our impressions immediately afterwards.

The two of us may prepare a small write-up, and if we do, I'll post it here.

DSL

1/3/12 9:50 PM PST

Los Angeles, CA

.... Very interesting, to be sure, David .... Will definitely look forward to reading it when you get a chance to write it.

Hopefully the write-up will be about all of the Parkland doctors that you and Mr. Valentino were able to speak with, and details not (yet) provided in the BE epilogue, and not limited to only Dr. Giesecke.

Have you read the article by Dr. Donald W. Miller Jr., "What Kerouac, Kennedy, Lincoln, and Practicing Medicine Have Taught Me About Liberty" (its link is provided within the "Men of Courage" homepages website, page 3).... Dr. Miller worked with Dr. Perry in later years.....

A quick question.... in your times in Dallas, did you ever obtain access to the west-facing roof line of the Dal-Tex?.... say.... around 40' north of its southwest corner, in vertical alignment above the middle column of the DT paired windows?

:{ )-]

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One

Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap: West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Barry.... Appreciate that, very much.

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap:

West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Good Day.... FYI.... http://www.statesman...ng-2074907.html

<QUOTE>

<END QUOTE>

.... brief details from my personal list of 7,221 persons/suspects that were

related/possibly-related to events before/during/after the assassination....

.... On 11-22-63 ADOLPH HARTUNG "Buddy" GIESECKE JR., the Parkland Assistant

Chief of Anesthesia, helped JENKINS "establish ventilation," then after GIESECKE

attached EKG monitoring equipment to JFK (about 5-minutes), he was

then called to trauma room #2 to administer anesthesia to CONNALLY, and, he

was also involved in CONNALLY's first, second and third surgeries;

.... warrenatti-testified he saw on JFK "a very large cranial wound with loss of brain

substance and it seemed that most of the bleeding was coming from the cranial

wound" and "It seemed that from the vertex to the left ear and from the browline

to the occiput on the left-hand side of the head the cranium was entirely missing.";

.... warrenatti-testified he did not see JFK's neck front wound;

.... warrenatti-testified that discussions about the JFK and CONNALLY procedures did

take place among the Parkland staff, and, for a man from the "American Medical

Association, as a historian. We discussed it with Dr. Mike Bush, who then reported

it in the Anesthesiology Newsletter, which is a publication of the American Society

of Anesthesiologists," and he met with a Secret Service Agent whose name he did

not recall;

.... He became a volunteer U.S. Army veteran sometime after graduating

medical school in 1957 (doctor);

(some references for him)

"The JFK Medical Reference"

"Three Patients at Parkland Hospital" (January 1964)

06H072

WCR66

"Rush to Judgment" (book)

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage : President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence,

Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map : Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films & Photos,

Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Key Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report : "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Still Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report : Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery : "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film

Documented 2nd Headsnap:

West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

T ogether

E veryone

A chieves

M ore

For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Good Day, + , Good Year....

FYI.... http://www.guardian....over-secret-fbi

I am surprised that Tony did not mention anything about Hoover and his

FBI-regime's "most thorough investigation in history" of the JFK

assassination.

(QUOTE)

The secret life of J Edgar Hoover

For half a century, the FBI director waged war on homosexuals,

black people and communists. Now, a controversial film by

Clint Eastwood is set to reveal some of the explosive truth

about him. Here, his biographer Anthony Summers tells all

Anthony Summers

The Observer, Saturday 31 December 2011

Article history

PHOTO caption: Long arm of the law: J Edgar Hoover in 1936.

Photograph: New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images

J Edgar Hoover was a phenomenon. The first Director of the FBI, he

remained in office for 48 years, from his appointment after the First

World War to his death in 1972, achieving fame and extraordinary

power. For public consumption when he died, President Richard Nixon

eulogised him as: "One of the giants… a national symbol of courage,

patriotism and granite-like honesty and integrity." He ordered flags

to fly at half-mast and that Hoover's body lie in state in the

Capitol.

In private, on hearing that he had died, Nixon had responded merely:

"Jesus Christ! That old cocksucker!" Months earlier, closeted with key

advisers, he had held forth on the need to persuade the elderly Hoover

to resign. "We have on our hands here a man who will pull down the

temple with him, including me."

Nixon, soon to be disgraced and forced to resign, was of course

himself no paragon. Most presidents before him, though, had had cause

to fear Hoover or been troubled by what his FBI had become. Harry S

Truman wrote during his presidency: "We want no Gestapo or secret

police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-

life scandals and plain blackmail… Edgar Hoover would give his right

eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him."

Hoover himself, meanwhile, had a personal secret that – in his era –

could have destroyed him if revealed. Clint Eastwood referred to it

this year before the launch of his movie, when he assured the J Edgar

Hoover Foundation that J Edgar would not "portray an open homosexual

relationship" between Hoover and his long-time male companion, Clyde

Tolson.

Eastwood stretched the truth. Though there is just one passionate kiss

between Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer, the two actors portraying

them in the movie, the relationship with Tolson is a central theme. In

real life, all Washington knew was that the pair dined daily together,

vacationed together, did everything but move in together, and the

whispers flew. When a magazine article in the 1930s referred to

Hoover's "mincing" gait, and a diplomat commented on his "conspicuous

perfume", Hoover struck back. He gathered derogatory information on

the offending journalist, and asserted – falsely – that he did not use

perfume. Real information on the Hoover-Tolson relationship surfaced

only long after both men were dead, during research for my book.

A surprising find was the account by Luisa Stuart, once a celebrated

model, tracked down because she featured in a droll photograph taken

with Hoover and Tolson one New Year's Eve in the late 1930s at the

Stork Club – the place to be seen in New York at the time. In the

photo, Hoover is shown holding his hands up as Stuart, armed with a

toy shotgun, "threatens" him. Later that night, in the dark of a

limousine when they left the club, she remembered: "I noticed they

were holding hands all the way, just sitting there talking and holding

hands with each other… I was so young and those were different times.

But I'd never seen two men holding hands."

Joseph Shimon, a former Washington police inspector, recalled a taxi

driver reporting the pair had been "kissing and ass-grabbing" during a

cab journey. Harry Hay, founder of America's first gay rights group,

remembered that on vacation in California, in "a circle in which they

didn't have people who weren't gay… They were nodded together as

lovers."

The Eastwood movie includes a bizarre scene that depicts Hoover, after

his mother's death, donning one of her dresses. It is a nod towards

allegations I first reported, that he on occasion cross-dressed. I had

information from three sources, two men who said an "easily

recognisable" photograph of Hoover in an evening gown circulated in

the gay community in 1948, and an account by a millionaire's former

wife of secret sex parties that she claimed to have witnessed in the

late 50s. Hoover, the woman said, had been "dressed like an old

flapper, like you see on old tintypes".

Bill Clinton, who as president in 1993 was mulling over who to appoint

as FBI Director, thought the cross-dressing reports were hilarious.

"It's going to be hard," he grinned during a speech at a press

function, "to fill J Edgar Hoover's… pumps." That I published such

allegations at all, however, to this day draws roars of fury from old

Hoover loyalists.

Other accounts of the Director's alleged sexual activity, if true,

would certainly have destroyed him had they become public. A former

Bureau inspector and trusted associate named Jimmy Corcoran said years

later that Hoover, youthful at the time, had once asked him to deal

with a serious "problem". He had been arrested on sex charges

involving a young man during a trip to New Orleans. Corcoran, who had

powerful contacts in the state, said he intervened to hush the matter

up.

There is, too, a claim that as late as 1969, when Hoover was in his

early 70s, he dallied with teenage boys during his habitual summer

break in California. An element of corroboration came from Don Smith,

an officer on the Los Angeles police vice squad, who told me of

interviews he conducted with youngsters during a pedophile

investigation. "The kids," Smith said, "brought up several famous

names, including those of Hoover and his sidekick".

For me, the most significant, credible information on Hoover's

sexuality came with the discovery that Hoover for a while consulted

Marshall de G Ruffin, a Washington psychiatrist who became president

of the Washington Psychiatric Society. De Ruffin's widow Monteen

recalled learning from her husband that his distinguished patient was

"definitely troubled by homosexuality". After several sessions,

however, "Hoover got very paranoid about anyone finding out he was a

homosexual, and got scared." As if to compensate, Hoover lashed out at

and sought to expose other homosexuals. For years he had his agents

infiltrate and monitor homosexual-rights groups, while he sounded off

publicly about "sex deviates in government service".

My conclusion after five years' research was that while Hoover may

have spent much of his life repressing his private urges while

building an image of himself as the acme of sexual purity, he did

sometimes lapse – risking catastrophe every time. Having studied the

information I assembled, two noted specialists in psychiatry and

psychology said they believed Hoover's sexual torment was very

pertinent to his use and abuse of power as America's top law-

enforcement officer.

Dr John Money, professor of medical psychology at Johns Hopkins

University, thought Hoover "needed constantly to destroy other people

in order to maintain himself. He managed to live with his conflict by

making others pay the price." Dr Harold Lief, professor emeritus of

psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, concluded that Hoover

suffered from "a personality disorder, a narcissistic disorder with

mixed obsessive features… paranoid elements, undue suspiciousness and

some sadism. A combination of narcissism and paranoia produces what is

known as an authoritarian personality. Hoover would have made a

perfect high-level Nazi."

The eight decades of Hoover's life tell their own story. As early as

his teen years, his mind was closing on issues that were to dominate

his era. In the school debating society, he argued against women

getting the vote and against abolition of the death penalty. He could

never bear to come second in anything. When his father began to suffer

from mental illness, a niece told me, Hoover "couldn't tolerate the

fact. He never could tolerate anything that was imperfect." Another

relative said: "I sometimes have thought that he really had a fear of

becoming too personally involved with people." William Sullivan, a

close FBI associate, thought his boss "didn't have affection for one

single solitary human being".

Hoover joined the Bureau – at that time just the Bureau of

Investigation (the word "Federal" was only added in the 1930s) – as

America's first great Communist scare was getting under way, and

handpicked as his assistant a man named George Ruch. One of two key

associates to name their own sons J Edgar, Ruch expressed astonishment

that left-wingers should even "be allowed to speak and write as they

like". Hoover and Ruch favoured deporting people merely for being

members of radical organisations, and used the Bureau to spy on

lawyers representing those arrested in the infamous Red Raids of 1920.

One of them, on whom he was to keep tabs for half a century and deem

"the most dangerous man in the United States", was future Supreme

Court justice Felix Frankfurter.

Hoover never joined a political party and claimed he was "not

political". In fact, he admitted privately, he was a staunch, lifelong

supporter of the Republican party. He secretly aspired to be president

and considered running against Franklin D Roosevelt, whom he thought

suspiciously left-wing. Hoover publicly expressed support for Senator

Joe McCarthy shortly before McCarthy claimed Truman's State Department

was harbouring 200 members of the Communist party. His agents slipped

file material to the senator for use in his infamous inquisition,

while publicly denying doing so.

The favourable publicity Hoover enjoyed was partially deserved. He

cleaned up a Bureau that had been notorious for corruption and

inefficiency, replacing it with an agent corps that became a byword

for integrity. One veteran defined the ideal new recruit as a man who

had to represent "the great middle class", who "will always eat well

and dress well, but will never get that sleek Packard or sumptuous

house. He belongs to the Bureau body and soul".

Hoover brought modernity and co-ordination at a time of

disorganisation. He built the first federal fingerprint bank, and his

Identification Division would eventually offer instant access to the

prints of 159 million people. His Crime Laboratory became the most

advanced in the world. He created the FBI National Academy, a sort of

West Point for the future elite of law enforcement.

While all this was positive, Hoover's Division 8, euphemistically

entitled Crime Records and Communications, had a priority mission.

Crime Records pumped out propaganda that fostered not only the image

of the FBI as an organisation that spoke for what was right and just,

but of the Director himself as a champion of justice fighting "moral

deterioration" and "anarchist elements". Hoover used the department to

preach the notion that the political left was responsible for all

manner of perceived evils, from changing sexual standards to

delinquency.

Crime Records portrayed Hoover as the dauntless scourge of serious

crime. In the movie J Edgar, long sequences are devoted to his

supposed role in tracking down the murderer of the aviator Charles

Lindbergh's baby son. In real life, while Hoover postured as the

Sherlock who led the probe, the case was in fact broken thanks to work

done by another federal agency. Similar phoney self-promotion featured

in the fight against the bandits of the 30s, Bonnie and Clyde, Machine

Gun Kelly, John Dillinger and Alvin Karpis. Hoover hogged the

limelight when the thugs were killed or captured and was jealous and

vindictive when it fell instead on one of his proteges.

Late in the Eastwood movie, his companion, Clyde Tolson, peruses a

memoir Hoover has just completed about his life and career. Then,

reproachfully, he remarks that the account is a pack of lies. There

was no real-life memoir, but the line is perceptive. Issues of fact

versus fabrication and distortion, truth versus outright lie or self-

delusion, dominate Hoover's story.

Hoover's public position on race, Southerner that he was, was that of

the paternalistic white nativist. Less openly, he was racially

prejudiced. He shrugged off the miseries of black Americans,

preferring to claim they were outside his jurisdiction. "I'm not going

to send the FBI in," a Justice Department official recalled him saying

testily, "every time some n woman says she's been raped." FBI

agents paid more attention to investigating black militants than

pursuing the Ku Klux Klan.

In the 60s, Hoover went to extreme lengths to establish that Martin

Luther King and his movement were under Communist control. When

surveillance established only that King was having sex with women

other than his wife, FBI aides worked to "neutralise" him by slipping

prurient information to the press. When the civil rights leader was

awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Hoover was enraged. When thousands

mourned King's assassination, Hoover went to the races. He later tried

to prevent King's birthday being declared a national holiday.

All this took place against a personal background of which few are

today aware – a rumour that Hoover himself had black ancestry. Early

photographs do show him looking somewhat negroid, with noticeably wiry

hair. Gossip along those lines was rife in Washington and – true or

not – Hoover must have been aware of it. Did anxiety on that front

shape the way he behaved towards blacks – just as he lashed out at

homosexuals while struggling with his own homosexuality?

Research into the sex angle, meanwhile, may explain why – at the very

time in US history that organised crime was on the rise and could have

been effectively countered – Hoover failed to act. The man who had

found fame for hunting down the bank robbers and bandits of the 30s

let the Mafia flourish.

It seemed at first, before the Second World War, that Hoover would

clamp down on the mob. Then, abruptly, he turned off the pressure. In

the 50s, he actively obstructed the Kefauver Committee, which

concluded there was indeed "a nationwide crime syndicate known as the

Mafia". Not so, said Hoover. When a 1958 report by his own agents also

said the Mafia was real, he dismissed it as "baloney". The FBI would

take vigorous action only very belatedly, in the 1960s, under pressure

from Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

Former officials I interviewed, including three former attorney

generals and several former assistant directors of the FBI, were at a

loss to explain why Hoover refused to tackle the threat of organised

crime. "Hoover's attitude," said Neil Welch, a senior former agent who

eventually distinguished himself fighting the Mafia, "was so contrary

to reality as to be a reason for great speculation."

Hoover himself, it is now clear, had contacts with organised criminals

or their associates in circumstances that made it possible – likely

even – that they learned of his sexual proclivities. More than one top

mobster claimed the outfit had a hold on Hoover. Meyer Lansky, the

syndicate's co-founder, was said to have "pictures of Hoover in some

kind of gay situation" and an associate quoted Lansky as claiming, "I

fixed that sonofabitch." Carmine Lombardozzi, who was known as "the

Italian Meyer Lansky", said: "J Edgar Hoover was in our pocket."

Blackmail was the tactic that worked for Hoover, too, in his dealings

with politicians. The title of my biography of him, Official and

Confidential, derives from the name of a file group that was held in

locked cabinets in Hoover's office. By an official count after his

death, the Director held 883 files on senators and 722 on congressmen.

Many documents were shredded after Hoover's death, but those that

survive speak for themselves. An example is this 1959 report:

Dear Mr Hoover,

You may be interested in the following information… (NAME WITHHELD)

she had spent the afternoon of 3 June 1959, with Senator (NAME

WITHHELD) in his private office. She also said she had sexual

intercourse with the senator during the afternoon "on the couch in the

senator's office…"

Sincerely yours,

James H Gale, Special Agent in Charge

Such reports, I learned, were used to bend politicians to Hoover's

will. He might need their co-operation to procure funds, to gain

political muscle, or to avert investigation of operations he preferred

kept hidden. An aide to Senator Edward Long, the Democrat from

Missouri, was to swear an affidavit describing what occurred when Long

was planning hearings on the FBI – with a special focus on electronic

eavesdropping. A senior Hoover aide came to call, and the conversation

went as follows: "Senator, I think you ought to read this file that we

have on you. You know we would never use it, because you're a friend

of ours… We just thought you ought to know the type of stuff that

might get around and might be harmful to you… They handed him the

folder… Long read it for a few minutes. they went on their way.

The next thing I knew we had orders to skip over the FBI inquiries."

Hoover snooped not just on politicians but on officials high and low,

on Supreme Court justices – at least 12 of them – even on presidents.

He built files on writers, actors, on citizens across the spectrum who

caught his malignant eye. Many feared what the Director might have

found – whether he had compromising information on them or not.

In life, Hoover denied time and again that there were such "secret

dossiers". Acting Attorney General Laurence Silberman, the first

person to peruse the secret files after Hoover's death in 1972,

learned otherwise. "J Edgar Hoover," he told me, "was like a sewer

that collected dirt. I now believe he was the worst public servant in

our history."

The Director more than got away with his excesses. He was showered

with honours. Even today, in spite of the ugly truths that have

surfaced since his death – an official probe found that on top of

everything he had also been personally corrupt – the sign on the

façade of FBI headquarters in Washington proclaims, in gold lettering,

that it is the "J EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING".

"American society", mused Dr Lief, the psychiatrist who thinks the

facts indicate Hoover would have made a perfect high-level Nazi, "has

a strangely polarised attitude towards its heroes. On the one hand

people love to find the idol has clay feet, to find the flaw in the

famous man. On the other, they are reluctant to take the hero off his

pedestal. This is a curious contradiction in our society, and

sometimes a dangerous one."

Anthony Summers is the author of eight non-fiction books; the most

recent is The Eleventh Day, on 9/11. A new edition of Official and

Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover, is published this

month (Ebury, £8.99). The movie J Edgar is out on 20 January

Best Regards in Research,

++Don

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Pallbearer for Kennedy to speak in Salisbury

PHOTO

James Felder, right, carries the casket of John F. Kennedy.

SALISBURY — When he thinks back to the night of Nov. 22, 1963,

James L. Felder sees Jacqueline Kennedy getting off Air Force One

at Andrews Air Force Base still wearing the blood-stained dress

from her husband's assassination in Dallas.

Early the next morning, back at the White House, Felder watches

the widow cutting a piece of her husband's hair as a keepsake

before the casket's lid is closed again.

Or Felder is standing over the slain president's gravesite, taking

the folded American flag, checking it to make sure no red is

showing and solemnly passing it on.

These images have stayed with Felder, an Army sergeant who

headed the casket team (pallbearers) for President John F. Kennedy.

Felder stood close by as the president's body, embalmed and

restored by a Washington mortician after an autopsy, was moved

from a table at Bethesda Naval Hospital into a mahogany casket.

He guarded the casket and carried it with seven other men into the

White House, up and down the Capitol steps, and in and out of St.

Matthew's Cathedral.

He marched beside the caisson bearing the casket to Arlington

National Cemetery, where his team took Kennedy to his grave.

PHOTO

James Felder checks the flag for red at the funeral for John F. Kennedy.

PHOTO

(JAMES LEROY FELDER sometime after his service, wearing a business suit)

Wherever he goes, even 48 years after the assassination, Felder

still answers questions about his duties during those four dark

days in November 1963, from JFK's killing in the Dallas motorcade to

his burial three days later in Arlington.

"I never boasted about it (but) I kept getting these questions of,

'How were you selected?' " says Felder, now 72 and living in

Columbia, S.C.

After his two years in the Army, Felder became an attorney and a

strong figure in civil rights and voter education activities, forging

friendships with men such as Vernon Jordan and the Rev. Jesse

Jackson. He settled in Columbia, S.C., served briefly as a state

legislator and retired several years ago as chairman of the

Department of Business and Economics at Allen University.

Today, Felder has come full circle and is president and chief

executive officer of the S.C. Voter Education Project. He will be the

speaker at Friday's Salisbury-Rowan NAACP Harvest Banquet,

where the focus of his talk will be four historical leaders of the civil

rights movement.

His role as a pallbearer for President Kennedy is a lesson in how

circumstances — so random at the time — conspire to put a person

in an unexpected spot, such as on the lead left handle of a slain

president's casket.

A native of Sumter, S.C., Felder attended Clark College in Atlanta

where he was the football team's quarterback and president of the

Student Government Association. He participated in civil rights

protests and sit-ins, spending time in Atlanta jails and courtrooms

as a result.

Graduating from Clark in 1961, Felder hoped to enter Officers

Training School for the Air Force in March 1962 — the first available

opening — but the Army drafted him before that could happen.

He went "kicking and screaming" — his words — to basic training at

Fort Jackson, S.C., and eventually was one of 10 men from the

base chosen to try out for the Army Honor Guard stationed at Fort

Myer, Va., near Washington.

He survived a tough, two-week elimination process and was one of

only two from Fort Jackson to make the Honor Guard, part of

Company E of the Third Infantry. Nicknamed the Old Guard, because

it is the oldest military unit on active duty in the country, the

company is charged with defending the nation's capital in case of

attack.

All the men are infantry trained and combat ready. Otherwise, they

conduct ceremonial duties in and around Washington, including

burials at Arlington National Cemetery and the guarding of the

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Felder served with the second platoon — casket bearers for funeral

services. Over 19 months, he participated in more than 1,000

funerals at Arlington.

During Kennedy's inaugural parade in 1961, the new president

noticed there were no black soldiers in the Army Honor Guard, and

he sent a verbal order that men of color should be added to the

unit.

When Felder joined the Honor Guard in 1962, he was only the 10th

African American to be part of the company, which had some 200

soldiers.

As a college student, Felder had campaigned for Kennedy's

election. As a soldier, he first stood near him as part of the Honor

Guard greeting a foreign dignitary at Washington's National Airport

and later on the White House's South Lawn.

As he rose in seniority, Felder sometimes served as "presidential

orderly," whose main duties involved running short errands for

Kennedy or holding his umbrella in the rain. Felder says he and the

president sometimes indulged in small talk while they waited for

the next thing to happen.

Felder describes himself as a "short-timer" by Nov. 22, 1963, the

day President Kennedy was killed. He had only 57 days left in the

Army, and most of those days he planned to eat up with leave.

Interestingly, about a month before the assassination, Felder

belonged to a specially assembled honor guard — representing

each branch of the military — that was preparing for the expected

death of former President Herbert Hoover.

But the unit quit its rehearsals when Hoover's health improved,

never guessing a similar honor guard would be needed soon for

Kennedy.

Two weeks before the assassination, the senior ranking soldier of

the casket-bearing platoon left the company, making young Felder

the ranking sergeant.

Military protocol called on the Army to head the special honor guard

for Kennedy, and because Felder had just become the ranking

sergeant, it was up to him to lead the casket team.

"If Kennedy had been assassinated two weeks earlier, I would not

have been in that position," Felder says.

Felder was taking a leave day Nov. 22, 1963, and went to a job

interview at the Department of Interior. He and his wife, working at

the Federal Power Commission, then planned to leave for

Thanksgiving vacation in Sumter.

The assassination canceled Felder's leave. His casket team met Air

Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, then followed the body to

Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the autopsy was performed.

Felder and his men provided security at the hospital morgue, where

he had to bodily throw out two intrusive photographers and keep

reporters at bay.

A new casket arrived with the funeral home attendants who

embalmed the body and put Kennedy back together again. Felder

and his men rolled the casket down the hospital corridor into a

waiting Navy ambulance about 3:45 a.m. Nov. 23, and the body

arrived at the White House by 4:30 a.m.

In the East Room, Jacqueline Kennedy, with Sargent Shriver and

Robert F. Kennedy by her side, opened the casket to view the body

of her husband and to retrieve a lock of his hair.

Felder says he can swear to this day that the president's body was

in the casket, despite many rumors to the contrary at the time.

Felder personally stayed on watch at the East Room until 1 p.m.

that Saturday, when he was relieved and able to catch a two-hour

nap in the White House's theater.

At first the casket team consisted of six men — two from the Army

and one each from the Marines, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard.

Because of the half-ton weight of the new casket, Felder saw that

two more men (from the Navy and Marines) were added.

Worried about navigating the 36 Capitol steps leading into the

Rotunda Sunday morning, Nov. 24, the team practiced for hours on

the Arlington Cemetery steps leading to the Tomb of the Unknown

Soldier.

A couple of soldiers sat on top of the dummy casket to simulate the

weight of the president's mahogany version.

Felder used silent commands such as nods and winks to guide his

casket team, and he instructed these pallbearers to saturate their

white gloves with water for better two-handed grips.

On the day of the funeral, the casket team marched 3 miles next to

the caisson — the same one that bore President Franklin D.

Roosevelt's body in Washington 18 years earlier.

A million people stood along the route between the cathedral and

the cemetery. An additional 75 million watched on television. At

Arlington, Felder's team called on all of its reserve strength for

carrying the casket up the hill to the gravesite.

At the end of Taps, Felder tugged on the flag to initiate its folding.

His final check for red led to the flag's delivery to Jacqueline

Kennedy, who would be buried beside the president many years

later.

Not long after Felder had returned from the Thanksgiving holiday,

his 28-year-old company commander died unexpectedly, and Felder

had to again lead a special honor guard.

Spent emotionally, he made it his last funeral at Arlington.

It took 30 years, but Felder transferred his memories from 1963

into a book titled, "I Buried John F. Kennedy." He says he did it for

his children and grandchildren and for history's sake.

By now, he guesses that he has given hundreds of talks to civic

clubs, churches and veterans groups about those dark days.

Not too long ago, Arlington National Cemetery remodeled its

visitors center. It includes a huge mural showing Felder carrying

JFK's casket.

"That really touched me," he says, "and my grandchildren were

there to see it."

Contact Mark Wineka at 704-797-4263, or

mwineka@salisburypost.com. Felder will have copies of his book

available for sale at the NAACP Harvest Banquet Friday night at the

Holiday Inn.

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Best Regards in Research,

Don

Donald Roberdeau

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Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

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Dealey Plaza Map Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations,

Witnesses, Films & Photos, Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important

information & Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report: "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Hidden Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report: Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery: "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film Documented 2nd Headsnap: West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

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Breakfast with JACK RUBY

CURRENT PHOTO of Jerry Coley, captioned, "With a copy of The

Warren Report and other related memorabilia spread before him,

Jerry Coley, remembers having breakfast with Jack Ruby[sp] and

other events on Nov. 22, 1963."

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"People say there were three shots," he said, "but you couldn't

tell it by me." All he remembers is the noise and "people running

everywhere."

Posted: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:14 pm

By GARY EDWARDS The Monitor Staff | 0 comments

There was a time in the newspaper business that being a journalist

and having a college degree weren't necessarily seen as being

compatible. In fact, for most in the business, the school of "hard

knocks" was valued well beyond a degree from Yale, Harvard or

any other school.

It didn't seem to matter what department one worked in.

Journalism was a disease to be coveted by writers, photographers

and advertising sales people. Simply being able to say one "worked

for the paper," was enough.

It gave one access to events that others only dream of hearing

about.

None of that was lost on a young Jerry Coley.

By 1963 Coley had spent a two-year stint in the Army and had

worked at the the Dallas Morning News for several years.

He'd figured out that mail room pay wasn't as good as the $40 a

week the advertising folks were making and he sought

improvement in his life style.

Along the way to "financial gain" he'd meet a large number of

interesting people, perhaps none more so than a self-described

former Chicago mafia enforcer by the name of Jack Ruby.

It was Thursday in Dallas, Nov. 21, 1963 and Coley said the staff at

the Morning News was excited about the coming visit by President

John F. Kennedy.

For the ownership and some of the management of the newspaper

it was a huge occasion, for they were Catholic and Kennedy was

the first Catholic president.

Coley remembers the political temperature of the city as

conservative, with some tension related to the conservative views

of retired two-star Army General Edwin Walker, but there was

nothing that would prepare anyone for what happened the

following day.

Friday morning Coley was at work when Ruby came by on what

was more or less a routine trip to the paper to pay his advertising

bill for the strip club he operated in Dallas. Ruby, Coley and others

had breakfast together that Friday in the newspaper cafeteria and

Ruby, who often stayed to make small talk, did so again Coley said.

Ruby would brag about his "girls" and fish money rolled up and

secured by rubberbands from his pocket.

He talked about his days in Chicago and his connection to the mob

and in general, Coley said, Ruby simply hung around the paper.

As Coley recounts how Nov. 22 unfolded, he sits behind a kitchen

counter in what has been his Wood County home since he retired

in 1996. There are a number of magazine articles spread before

him, including diagrams of where the parade route traveled, where

Coley was standing and more.

Well before the president would ride through Dallas, Coley had

already arranged his sales schedule so he'd be downtown to watch

the passage of the caravan and thus he was within yards of Dealey

Plaza as the presidential vehicles passed by, turning right and then

back to the left.

Coley had noticed that Ruby was still at the paper as noon

approached and he would think back later and wonder "if he loved

the President so much why couldn't he walk three blocks to watch

him" pass by in the motorcade.

As the group of vehicles turned the School Book Depository, Coley

remembers hearing a "noise."

"People say there were three shots," he said, "but you couldn't tell

it by me." All he remembers is the noise and "people running

everywhere."

He rapidly worked his way in the direction of the depository and

was stopped by a "county mountie with a shotgun" who told him to

"get the hell out of here."

Which didn't exactly mean Coley left the area.

He remembers people crying and he remembers something else.

Several feet away from the street, above the well-documented

grassy knoll, he found a significant amount of blood.

He ran back to the newspaper, finding Ruby still in the office, on a

phone and crying.

It was a day or so later when Coley found an advertising

photographer, Jim Hood, and ultimately he led Hood back to the

scene of the blood, where he said Hood photographed it.

There were personal moments he'll not likely forget.

They included death threats by telephone calls to his wife saying

Coley needed to "shut your mouth" or they were going to kill

Coley's family.

Then there is the matter of the blood that Coley asked Hood to

photograph.

Several days had gone by and Coley had returned to work when

two men in dark suits appeared at the newspaper. They "flashed

green plastic cards" that appeared to Coley as though they were

FBI agents.

They were interested to hear about the breakfast with Ruby and

then near what appeared to be the end of the interview, Coley

said he asked the men if they knew about the blood on the steps.

There was some discussion between the two visitors off to the side

and following that, the men confiscated the film and the only print

Hood had an opportunity make and then one of the men said to

the two newspaper employees, "boys this never happened if you

know what I mean."

The following day, Coley said, he went back to the spot where he'd

seen the blood and the area was spotless, as though it had "been

chemically cleaned, there was nothing there," he said."We didn't

talk about this for 13 years," Coley said.

For a variety of reasons it took until sometime around 1980 before

Coley began to talk about the blood.

By then the others familiar with the situation were no longer in any

danger of potential retribution and Coley was beginning to feel

comfortable with talking about it.

He was interviewed for a TV program, "Unsolved Mysteries" and

while the interviewers were quite interested in talking about the

blood, it was not used in the finished product.

To his knowledge there has never been any discussion about that

blood by anyone, including those charged with investigating the

assassination. He doesn't know why.

Was Ruby used by someone else to kill Lee Harvey Oswald? Coley

doesn't know the answer but he does have a nagging question to

this day.

Why didn't Ruby walk those few steps to watch the president's

motorcade? If he loved the president as much as he professed,

why wouldn't he want to see him in person?

As for the newspaper family at the Morning News, Coley said, "It

took a couple of years before the paper got over the shooting."

Dallas, he said, was seen as "the city of hate," which he saw as a

"stigma not deserved."

Today, the 78-year-old Coley lives with his wife Bonnie and son

Scott, just East of Mineola, far from the life he knew at the

newspaper.

He's comfortable speaking about the unspeakable and from time to

time he shares his memories with civic clubs and church groups.

But always there will be unanswered questions relating to that

November day in 1963.

His photographer friend died in the next year or two after the

president's death in what Coley describes as questionable

circumstances in a plane crash.

He has other questions that he knows will never be answered to

his satisfaction, or that of others... not in his lifetime at least.

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Best Regards in Research,

Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage: President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence, Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations,

Witnesses, Films & Photos, Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important

information & Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report: "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Hidden Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report: Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery: "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film Documented 2nd Headsnap: West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

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Memories of JFK assassination haunt former Secret

Service agent and North Dakota native (with audio)

MOORHEAD - Nov. 22, 1963, is on Clint Hill's mind every day. The

former Secret Service agent assigned to protect Jackie Kennedy the

day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated is still haunted

with guilt nearly 50 years later.

By: Amy Dalrymple, INFORUM

MOORHEAD - Nov. 22, 1963, is on Clint Hill's mind every day.

The former Secret Service agent assigned to protect Jackie

Kennedy the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated is

still haunted with guilt nearly 50 years later.

The Washburn, N.D., native and Concordia College graduate was

on the running board of the car behind the presidential limousine in

Dallas. He heard the first shot and jumped onto the presidential

vehicle in an attempt to shield the Kennedys from gunshots. Hill

made it just as the first lady was reaching for the top of Kennedy's

scalp.

He received recognition for "extraordinary courage and heroic effort

in the face of maximum danger."

But Hill, who battled depression and alcoholism for years as a

result of that day, still wonders if he could have done more.

"I still have a sense of responsibility and a guilt feeling I should

have been able to do more, because I was the only one who had

that chance," Hill said in an interview last week with The Forum.

Hill, who served five presidents during his time with the Secret

Service, will return to Concordia this week to accept an Alumni

Achievement Award.

"I tried to tell them that I didn't think I was worthy of the honor,

but they insisted," said the 79-year-old, who now lives in the

Washington, D.C., area.

Hill also will give a public talk on Wednesday night, along with Lisa

McCubbin, co-author of "The Kennedy Detail," which gives the

Secret Service agents' account of the assassination.

North Dakota native

Hill was born in 1932 in Larimore, N.D., and was adopted as a baby

by Chris and Jennie Hill of Washburn.

Hill graduated from high school in Washburn and attended

Concordia, where he majored in history and physical education and

excelled at football and baseball.

After Hill graduated from Concordia in 1954, he served in the U.S.

Army as an intelligence agent.

Hill's Secret Service career began in 1958.

When Kennedy was elected, Hill anticipated he would be assigned

to protect the president because he had been assigned to

President Dwight Eisenhower.

He was shocked to learn that he'd instead be protecting the first

lady.

"I was very upset about it," Hill said. "I didn't really want that

assignment."

But it turned out to be the best job in the Secret Service at the

time, Hill said.

Jackie Kennedy and Hill built up a trust and became friends, though

she always called him Mr. Hill, and he always called her Mrs.

Kennedy.

"We shared secrets, and we got to know each other very well," Hill

said.

That historic day in Dallas was unusual because the first lady was

campaigning with Kennedy, something she often shied away from

doing.

During the motorcade, Hill was positioned behind Jackie Kennedy

on the follow-up car and was scanning people taking photos from a

grassy area off to the left.

Then he heard an explosive noise over his right shoulder, and his

eyes scanned past the presidential vehicle.

"I saw the president grab at his throat and kind of move to his left.

I knew something had happened," Hill said.

"I jumped from the follow-up car and ran toward the presidential

vehicle," he said. "My attempt was to get on the back of the

presidential car and place my body above the president and Mrs.

Kennedy so that I would shield them from anything that was a

possibility of happening.

"There was a second shot, apparently, but I didn't hear it because I

was running.

(MY INSERTION....HILL first started to jump from the SS followup vehicle

at Z-290 to 308, then, he was running on Elm Street)

"Then the third shot happened just as I was approaching the

presidential vehicle. I slipped, had to regain my steps, got up on

the car. The president had been hit in the upper right rear of his

head with that third shot.

"There were blood and brain matter and bone fragments

throughout the entire area, including myself. He slumped to his left.

Mrs. Kennedy came up from her seat onto the trunk of the car

trying to grab some of the material that came off his head. … I

grabbed her and put her back into her seat. When I did that, the

president's body fell into her lap.

"The right side of his face was up, and I could see his eyes were

fixed. There was a hole in the upper right rear of his head. It

appeared to me that he was dead."

Hill gave a thumbs-down to the follow-up car, and agents yelled to

the lead driver to go to Parkland Hospital. Hill continued lying on

the back of the car to shield the Kennedys as the car sped 80 mph

to the hospital.

'Downward spiral'

After the assassination, Hill continued to be assigned to the first

lady and the children until the election.

He was then assigned to President Lyndon Johnson and served

him during the tumultuous time that included the assassinations of

Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.

Hill also protected Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

In 1970, a promotion had Hill working an administrative desk job,

and for the first time since the assassination, he had time to think.

That day in Dallas was never far from his mind.

"I gradually deteriorated emotionally, and that affected my physical

well-being," Hill said.

In 1975, doctors said he wasn't fit for the Secret Service, and he

retired at age 43.

Hill returned to North Dakota and worked on his sister's farm for

about six weeks, "trying to get everything out."

That year, he also spoke about the assassination for the first time

in a famous interview with Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes." Prior to

that, Hill hadn't talked about that day with anyone, not even his

family.

Hill's emotional state only worsened in his retirement.

"By 1976, I was once again in a downward spiral, and that lasted

until 1982," Hill said. "I had a great big bottle of scotch and a carton

of cigarettes, and I laid on a couch in my very dark basement."

Then in 1982, a doctor told Hill he either had to change or die.

"I decided I wanted to live," Hill said.

Without any help, Hill quit drinking and did some security work for

Chrysler, Mesa Petroleum and Billy Graham during the 1980s.

Decades after the assassination, Hill was still not talking about that

day. He declined to be interviewed in 2003 for the 40th anniversary

of the event.

"I didn't want to talk about any of this type of thing and never did,"

Hill said. "We as agents never talked about the assassination

among ourselves. I never discussed it with any member of my

family."

Then fellow Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine and journalist Lisa

McCubbin began working on the book "The Kennedy Detail."

Hill said McCubbin convinced him that it would benefit history if he

revealed details of that day from his perspective.

Contributing to the book proved to be beneficial for Hill, and he's

now talking more openly about that day for the first time, nearly 50

years later.

Hill and McCubbin also are collaborating on a book, "Mrs. Kennedy

and Me," that will be published in the spring of 2012.

In 1990, Hill did something he wishes he would have done earlier:

He returned to Dallas and walked Dealey Plaza and looked out the

window of the sixth floor.

"I came to the conclusion that on that particular day, because of

everything involved, the weather, the angle of the building, the way

the street was configured and the way the motorcade was running

at the time that I did everything I could, and I really couldn't have

done any more than that," Hill said.

Readers can reach Forum reporter Amy Dalrymple at (701) 241-5590

If you go

What: Speech by former Secret Service agent Clint Hill and Lisa

McCubbin, co-author of "The Kennedy Detail"

When: 7 p.m. Wednesday

Where: Concordia Knutson Campus Center Centrum

Info: The event is free and open to the public. A Q&A session and

book signing will follow.[/font style]

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Best Regards in Research,

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Donald Roberdeau

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Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage: President KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and Assassination Evidence, Witnesses, Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations, Witnesses, Films &

Photos, Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important information & Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report: "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Hidden

Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report: Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out....

http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery: "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film Documented

2nd Headsnap: West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll"....

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Retired National Archives official charged with stealing sound recordings

By Lisa Rein

The former chief of the National Archives' audio-visual holdings has been charged with stealing nearly a 1,000 sound recordings over a decade.

Tuesday's charges against Leslie Charles Waffen come a year after federal agents raided his home, seizing dozens of boxes from his Rockville basement.

The U.S. Attorney's office in Greenbelt charged the 40-year Archives official with theft of federal property, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a possible fine. Waffen had retired from the Archives shortly before last year's raid.

Charging documents say agents seized 955 "sound recording items"during the raid, although the items are not specified.

Waffen's attorney, Michael Fayad, said he was "not in a position" to comment on the charges.

The audiovisual holdings contain more than 90,000 film, sound and video recordings made by government agencies and private sources. Many are presidential recordings, kept at presidential libraries and museums. Many more are kept at the Archives' facility in College Park.

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Federal agents raid home of recently retired National Archives official

By Lisa Rein and Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writers

Friday, October 29, 2010; 8:16 PM

Federal agents raided the home of a former official at the National Archives this week and seized up to 20 boxes from his Rockville basement, weeks after his retirement from the government's record-keeping agency.

Leslie Waffen, 65, was chief of the Archives' audiovisual holdings, which contain more than 90,000 film, sound and video recordings made by government agencies and private sources. Agents with the U.S. Marshals Service and the Archives' inspector general executed search warrants a day before government watchdogs criticized the agency in two reports Wednesday for failing to properly safeguard sensitive information.

U.S. Marshals spokesman David Ablondi said his agency, Montgomery County police and Archives investigators arrived in the 500 block of Saddle Ridge Lane at 7:45 a.m. They appeared to wake Waffen and his wife, said a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. The Archives agents arrived with a moving truck and a list of items they were searching for. Warren directed them to his basement, where they identified and removed "10 to 20 boxes," a law enforcement official said. The agents loaded the truck and left after about 45 minutes.

Ablondi and Archives officials declined to say what was in the boxes.

David S. Ferriero, who took over as chief archivist at the National Archives and Records Administration last year, acknowledged the raid in a statement to employees Thursday and commended the inspector general's office for "their commitment to ensuring the restoration of stolen property back to the National Archives.

"I will not tolerate any violation of the law that protects both records and property that belongs to the U.S. government and the American people," Ferriero wrote. He noted that his staff is improving training, requiring new policies and buying new equipment "to ensure that our holdings are safe."

The government's sound archives date to 1896. A 2004 New York Times article described the efforts of Waffen's team to preserve the only known audio recording of the John F. Kennedy assassination. His department also had custody of the Zapruder film, the famous 8mm color home video of the assassination.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who has tracked Archives security concerns for years, said in a statement: "There's a lot of work to be done because these problems have needed correction for years. I hope there will be a plan to get the organization back on track quickly."

Auditors with the Government Accountability Office said the agency is leaving itself open to hackers as it preserves records electronically. Auditors found the agency did not protect its computer networks with strong firewalls, used weak passwords and failed to encrypt sensitive information.

The report also highlighted a "large and persistent" backlog of paper and media records that need to be preserved.

Sen. Thomas E. Carper (D-Del.), who also follows security issues at the Archives, said the findings alarmed him.

"The items in jeopardy are more than just pieces of paper, collectibles or electronic files - they are priceless links that connect us to our nation's history and help tell the story of America," Carper said in a statement. "So I am sure it is unsettling to the American people - as it is to me - that the monumental task of preserving these valuable artifacts is not always being performed to the standards we all should expect."

Lawmakers criticized the agency last year after the disappearance of a hard drive with sensitive data from the Clinton administration. The drive contained national security information, more than 100,000 Social Security numbers, contact information for Clinton administration officials, Secret Service and White House operating procedures, event logs, social gathering logs and political records.

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Staff writers Ed O'Keefe and Dan Morse and staff researcher Alice Crites contributed to this report.

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The remastermind: Dictaphone expert helps refine JFK recording

By Steve Lathrop

Albany Democrat-Herald

It has been 45 years since Bill McWilliams first became immersed in the continuing investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

"I was right in the middle of it all," he says.

He still is, in his own way.

From his home in North Albany, McWilliams works with engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Loboratory in California, trying to determine the exact number of shots fired in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Widely considered an expert Dictaphone technician, McWilliams was recruited by researchers who are using advanced techniques in sound reproduction to provide them with first-hand information on the machine and the assassination as they search for additional evidence.

It was McWilliams who serviced the now-famous Dictabelt #10 at the Dallas police station the day of the assassination. It is the machine that recorded events as they crackled forth from a motorcycle policeman's open microphone.

"I heard it all as it happened," McWilliams says.

The research, which has been going on since 2005, was authorized by Leslie Waffin [sp] of the National Archives, who released the machine to the lab to apply the latest techniques in sound reproduction.

Dr. Carl Haber and Dr. Vitaliy Fadeyev have led the research using a digital optical camera called a Smartscope to scan the grooves of the belt and create a digital image of sound patterns.

It is fed into computers programmed to clean up the sound removing excess noise, static and voices.

"The sound is reproduced without the stylus riding on the grooves," said McWilliams. "And the computer can eliminate any unnecessary noise."

Already involved for more than a year, McWilliams supplies equipment, specifications and mechanical data for the dictabelt recordings.

"It's a slow process. They are still working on it," he said. "Ultimately they are trying to find out if there were more shots fired."

The day of the assassination, McWilliams not only heard the event, he witnessed the transfer of the mortally wounded president from the ambulance to the hospital, which was located directly behind the Dallas Police Station.

"I believe there were more shots fired," he says. "Maybe this will answer that question."

In addition to his work on the assassination investigation, McWilliams never is far from a Dictaphone, which were in wide use between the late 19th- and early 20th century. Dictabelts that had grooves cut into a plastic belt, rather than onto a wax cylinder, were introduced in 1947. Then the tape recorder gained popularity, and Dictaphones fell out of favor.

McWilliams may be the world's largest provider and repairer of vintage machines. His shelves are lined with wax cylinders, vacuum tubes, cassettes and magnetic tape analog recording and dictating equipment — technological relics that predated tape recorders and cell phones.

"He's known all over the country," said his wife Dorothy.

Working from a large shop behind his home, McWilliams and his son Doak have created a website and also sell parts on eBay.

"I don't deal much with the computers," he admits. "I don't really trust them." He doesn't ignore them, either; he simply prefers being able to use his hands. His entire inventory has been indexed by hand to back up the computer log.

McWilliams spent 33 years with Dictaphone after his graduation from Texas Institute of Technology. He eventually becoming a regional service director.

The Korean War veteran retired in 1989 and moved to Albany in 2000.

He now owns about 200 machines dating back to 1889, a year after Dictaphone — then Columbia Graphophone — was created.

"I've always collected," he says. "Some are pretty unique."

His largest is 6 feet tall, and 300 pounds and the smallest is a hand-held device that fits into a shirt pocket. Also included is a 1953 model that was the world's first audio machine to announce the time.

"There are probably no more than two or three of them in the world," he said.

The collection evolved into repair work, parts sales and consultation. It also has star quality.

"I get a lot of calls to rent or loan machines to movie prop companies," he said.

The Kevin Costner movie "Thirteen Days" and the PBS series "Meaning of Grace" both used vintage Dictaphones from McWilliams' inventory.

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The sound of 40-year-old gunfire in Dealey Plaza Applying today's technology to fragile recording of JFK assassination

12:10 PM CDT on Saturday, July 31, 2004

By KATHARINE GOODLOE / The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON – It could be the ultimate artifact for historians and conspiracy theorists alike: the only sound recording from the moment of John F. Kennedy's assassination, made by a Dallas police motorcycle radio.

Many scholars believe it can answer a mystery from Nov. 22, 1963: three shots or four?

Spurred last year by the 40th anniversary of the assassination, researchers at the National Archives are trying to preserve and copy the recording, which is too fragile to be played again and has never been authentically copied. It could, they say, offer the only hard evidence of how many bullets were fired that day.

Researchers have long studied inferior copies of the recording. Some say it shows three shots were fired at Kennedy's motorcade and concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone; others say it shows four shots were fired and concluded Oswald was aided by a second gunman.

So as the Archives aims to copy the recording, they're also reviving the debate surrounding it.

"There is not closure on this issue," said Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. An authentic copy of the recordings, he said, "might be able to resolve part of the Kennedy assassination, one way or the other."

The controversy surrounding the assassination, though, has also surrounded the recording. The Dallas Police Department created the original recordings inadvertently. A radio stuck in the "on" position relayed sounds of the killing to headquarters, where they were etched onto dictation belts. But they are alternately noisy and inaudible, so years passed before anyone examined them for echoes of gunfire.

They lay untapped during the Warren Commission investigation, the first government inquiry into Kennedy's assassination. That panel concluded Oswald was the lone gunman, firing three shots at the motorcade.

Controversy about the dictation belts' contents was revived during the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation, and the belts became the linchpin of their 1979 report. The recording, the committee said, indicates four shots were fired – including one from the grassy knoll. Their conclusion that Oswald likely did not act alone set conspiracy circles ablaze.

But some scholars point to the delay in finding the tapes as reason to question their authenticity. Others conducted studies on the recording's sound waves that both rejected and reaffirmed the House committee's findings. Even now, the debate continues.

"The evidence remains controversial and probably inconclusive from the standpoint of history," said John Tunheim, a federal judge in Minneapolis who chaired the Assassination Records Review Board. "It really has gone back and forth."

One step toward reconciling the debate, experts said, is producing an authentic copy of the recordings for use in future research.

That's the goal of the National Archives, which received the set of five dictation belts from the Justice Department in 1990, as many of the assassination records were made public. But the keynote belt, which recorded the actual killing, was worn and split from use by Dallas police, the FBI, the Secret Service and other government inquiries.

Too fragile to be played again, but too important to be ignored, the Archives simply stored the belt without copying it in the hopes future technology would enable them to reproduce the recording without harming the original. More than a decade later, that day is almost here.

Although many of copies of the dictation belt exist – some are even available online – most are not well documented, and none is deemed authentic by the Archives. That designation matters because a bona fide copy would validate further research.

"The question of what is authentic and what is not is debated every day by researchers," Mr. Tunheim said. "So when you make a copy, it's important to be done under perfect circumstances."

The Archives revived a push for an authentic copy of the belt after a spate of calls from researchers near the 40th anniversary of the assassination in November. Most wanted an authentic copy of the main dictation belt, said Leslie Waffen, who oversees custody of the belt for the Archives.

"We couldn't say to them that we had a true and actual copy of the belt," Mr. Waffen said. "We said we really ought to look into this further and see if there's anything available, technology-wise, for us."

What they found is optical scanning, which digitally charts the grooves in the dictation belts and reproduces them on a data map. The end product would be a visual display, which Mr. Waffen said is likely to be more useful to researchers than an audio one.

"You have to get beneath the noise to pick something out of there," he said. "We're hoping the optical scanning method will allow people to do that."

The technique would also avoid further wear on the original belt – a key factor in the Archives mission to preserve its authenticity. The Archives hosted a forum this summer to discuss the method, but decided the technology is a year away from being feasible, Mr. Waffen said. No official estimate is available, but Mr. Waffen expects the procedure will cost less than $1,000.

But will such a copy further research or merely fan existing conspiracy theories?

Mr. Mack, who was one of the first people to believe the recordings included echoes of gunfire, said their continued study could yield three outcomes. It could confirm the Warren Commission's report, uphold the House committee's report, or do neither, he said.

"Many people have tried to resolve which group of scientists is correct," he said. "The Dictabelt itself is a starting place."

Whatever the research generates, scholars said it's unlikely to snuff out the conspiracy theories that have gripped Americans for the past four decades.

"There's always been a swirling controversy with the Kennedy assassination, and there always will be," Mr. Waffen said. "But at least in this case we can provide a solid piece of material researchers can turn to."

E-mail: kgoodloe at dallasnews.com

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Best Regards in Research,

Don

Donald Roberdeau

U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, plank walker

Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly

For your considerations....

Homepage: President JOHN F. KENNEDY "Men of Courage" speech, and

Assassination Website Homepages Detailing Evidence, Witnesses,

Suspects + Outstanding Researchers Discoveries and Considerations.... http://droberdeau.bl...ination_09.html

Dealey Plaza Map Detailing 11-22-63 Victims precise locations,

Witnesses, Films & Photos, Evidence, Suspected bullet trajectories, Important

information & Considerations, in One Convenient Resource.... http://img831.images...dated110110.gif

Visual Report: "The First Bullet Impact Into President Kennedy: while JFK was Hidden Under the 'magic-limbed-ricochet-tree' ".... http://img504.images...k1102308ms8.gif

Visual Report: Reality versus C.A.D. : the Real World, versus, Garbage-In, Garbage-Out.... http://img248.images...ealityvscad.gif

Discovery: "Very Close JFK Assassination Witness ROSEMARY WILLIS Zapruder Film Documented 2nd Headsnap: West, Ultrafast, and Directly Towards the Grassy Knoll".... http://educationforu...?showtopic=2394

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For the United States:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/

Don, it may be a long shot, but Hershorn's work is housed here: http://www.lib.utexa.../cah-00124.html

Hi Michael.... Thanks.... Yes,

i also found that link while reading through Mr. HERSHORN's obits.

GMTA

Best Regards in Research,

Don

Thanks Don,

Your efforts are deeply appreciated.

Keep us posted on what you learn.

Bill Kelly

jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com

Hi Bill,

Positively count on it.

Like a steel, well documented, cage.

Please send me a private PM with the Best day(s) + time(s) to phone you.

Best Regards,

Don

Good Day Michael ....

Thank You very much.... I wanted to ask Mr. HERSHORN what (and/or who, etc)

specifically caused him to want to, + then obtain his access to the Dal-Tex Building

the same weekend of the attack + take a rifle up into it and capture his following

photos from a Dal-Tex 7th-floor window

(even though that very same attack weekend the lame-stream media and

"investigating" "officials" were all flapping-their-gums about the warrenatti-

apologists, supposed, "lone-nut" "snipers lair" located right next door)....

http://img29.imagesh...daltexshell.jpg

.... from my public file....

http://img176.images...iesanglessl.jpg

http://img19.imagesh...duplicatest.gif

http://img80.imagesh...eationdalte.gif

http://img132.images...addaltexir6.gif

http://img213.images...ex122303lx8.gif

http://img821.images...plicatesang.jpg

In one of Mr. HERSHORN's obituaries it mentioned that at the time of his

death he was (unfortunately) self-afflicted with alcoholic-dementia, so he

may or may not have remembered why and/or who specifically caused

him to take a rifle up into the Dal-Tex the same attack weekend, so I will

still contact his wife to learn what he shared privately and publicly.

Best Regards in Research,

Don