Bernice Moore

This Willis 6 below is Jack's copy....It came originally from Gary Shaw.... The one I have posted abive, has a black arrow on such..that Wilis marked on them....when he sold his sets of photographs. Jack's is earlier or closer to the original....though the copy I have appears to be a better quality...?..above.. That is M/O Clyde Haygood's motorcyce parked that can be seen.... and his white helmet just showing on the left, bottom under the Fort Worth, Turnpike sign.....he was on his way up the knoll to the overpass south corner of where the overpass meets the wooden fence......So the Cabluck photo taken of him standing up on such from the bus has not passed as yet.. I have no idea if this may help but here is information on Jimmy Darnell from POTP : Trask......on some of the timing.... Jimmy Darnell: POTP : Trask He had been at Love Field, WBAP had Bureau Chief Kerr and cameraman/reporters Robert Welch and Jimmy Darnell on assignment. and had been instructed if any incident occurred during the motorcade that he was to stay at the scene.He was their representative in the motorcade, earning a degree in a double major in Journalism and Education and had been working for WBAP-TV since Jan.61.His wife Ruth worked for the Burglary and Theft Bureau of the DPD, as a secretary. In camera car #3 ,some 8 cars behind the Presidents ,allocated for the local press, a 1964 Chevrolet Impala, grey, Darnell sat in the rear drivers side of the seat, with Bob Jackson and Tom Dillard. He jumped from the car at the time of the shooting along with James R. Underwood and still cameraman Tom Dillard. (Just before the car was moving around the corner onto Elm. page 423 ).In two brief FBI reports dealing with Darnell's activites, it relates: Darnell "....stated he heard the first shot and thought it was a back-fire from an automobile. The second shot he thought was a firecracker. He stated, however, after the second shot he realized from the confusion that something had happened and he jumped out of the car and ran towards the President's car. However,he was unable to see anything and did not get any photographs. He said he noticed parents were throwing their children to the ground and covering them with their bodies and that he took photographs of this activity." ... ( FBI report by agents Richard E. Harrison & George W.Carlson. 11/29/63).page 422 After jumping from the car Darnell ran down the South side of Elm Street ,westerly towards the area where he had seen bodies falling....... Raising his camera to his eyes, he managed to record some 9-1/2 seconds of activity in two film sequences. In the first five second shot Darnell has pointed his camera across Elm St. as first a car and then the station wagon (the 11th and 12th cars behind the President's vehicle.)-(page 422...also shows a frame of Darnell's, across the street can be seen AP photographer Jim Altgens looking to his right, ........... apparently waiting for a chance to cross the street. To Altgens right can be seen the Newman family on the grass. Bill Newman is on his knees and with his right hand hits the ground three hard whacks venting his frustration. A man runs by from camera right down the sidewalk ,while a young boy runs down the grassy incline towards the same direction. This view was also made by still photographer Harry Cabluck from aboard a press bus in the motorcade as it passed by....... Just after this Darnell shoots a shorter clip as the third bus in the motorcade carrying the "official" party and a black and white police cruiser passes in the foreground. Panning to the left Darnell follows the vehicles as they speed towards the railroad overpass while people dash across the street towards the grassy knoll.This film and other brief clips made by Darnell were shown on NBC, coupled with other films and narrated by Robert MacNeil as part of the days synopsis..........It was broadcast nationally at about midnight Eastern Time that Friday.page 423, He is seen on the South side of Elm, to his left in a long dark coat and white pants is Mary Moorman, now back on her feet, looking westerly down Elm St. her polaroid visible in her left hand. From the right the influx of people begin to pour into the area.The wood panel 1964 Mercury Colony Park station wagon that proceeds the first Bus ( it appears in Bond).........to me the distance dividing the two is approx. 25 to 30 feet .page 210) Seconds later Bond clicks off another shot as the first bus approaches the underpass. A sedan carrying Morning News reporters, had squeezed into the motorcade between the two buses......and are shown in the camera's view. (Bond 6..page 211). The Newman family ( Bond 7..page 211), has gotten up from the ground. He remained in Dealey Plaza area for some time, filming and interviewing witnesses, along with Mary Moorman and Jean Hill. page 423.......... One of the first broadcast witnesses was with Jean Hill. Jimmy Darnell had come upon her in the press room. At 1.21pm CST, WBAP's Tom Whalen played over the NBC network an interview arranged through Darnell, which he had just audio-taped a few minutes earlier. Darnell was later joined at the Court Building by NBC cameraman Henry Kokajan, who had brought with him WBAP's only sound camera which had originally been set up at the Trade Mart......... By about 3.16 CST ,NBC was again reporting through its WBAP affiliate on witnesses to the shooting, and Moorman's photo of the President was shown on camera followed by a filmed interview of the two women. (page 237-8). Following his work in Dealey, Darnell went back to Love Field and was able to film the President's coffin being loaded onto AF 1 at about 2.15pm. taking it from the perimeter of the secure area. Head of police security for Love Field, Newton Fisher ,is said to have confiscated Darnell's film, saying ........... "That's sacrilegious. !!" Three film clips shown on Fri. night by NBC along with other Darnell shots do show long shots of the ambulance arriving at AF1 ,and might in fact have been Darnell's work?. POTP.....page 423. *********** From The Great Zapruder Film Hoax..re Love Field and filming the Coffin. Gary Mack ARRB statement 11/18/94. Dr.Hall: Do you have any knowledge , --snip--of any former public officials who took with them materials related to the assassination that are now held in private hands that would otherwise be deemed public documents? Gary Mack: One comes to mind, A local photographer who worked for the NBC affiliate named Jimmy Darnell, filmed the loading of the President's casket on to Air Force One........... He filmed it from close range, and after he was done, a Dallas Police Officer ( Newton Fisher) came up to him and said you shouldn't have done that, that is sacrilegious, give me your camera. Jimmy had just joined ( Jan. 61) the station and hadn't been in the business very long and he did turn over the camera or gave him the film, and the officer ---Jimmy knew the officer's name and he told me the officer's name, and I don't recall it. It will come to me in a minute.......... I called him (the officer, Newton Fisher?)and he had no knowledge of such a film and didn't recall doing that, but was not really surprised, it was not the kind of thing he would be enthusiastic to admit.. He said if he had done that, he would have given it to Chief Curry, which means it would have gone to the FBI, so the station filed a FOI request right away and got an answer within like four days that their files do not have any such film....... Since there is such controversy, and legitimate controversy, I should add about the condition of the President's body in Dallas versus the body in Washington, I would douibt very highly there would be anything significant in this film of loading the body onto Air Force One, but you never know, and what else was on that film has also vanished........ From......page 477-8. TGZFH. Dr.Jim Fetzer *********** After leaving Love Field ,Jimmy Darnell went to the DPD and stayed there into the early hours of Sat. morning." I filmed Oswald when they brought him into the "show up" room ".Oswald's brief showing to the hoards of press at an assembly room late that Friday. Darnell's wife Ruth had been re-assigned, temporarily into Chief Curry's office to help answer the deluge of phone calls from all over the world........ Jimmy was off duty on Sat, and on duty Sunday,and at Parkland Hospital to catch up on Governor Connally's condition, he was there and filmed Oswald being brought in following his being shot by Jack Ruby. POTP: page 430. Jimmy Darnell also took footage of the TSBD's exterior view of the building and the unfolding activity around it. page 519.POTP. He also filmed the pool of red liquid, in a 5 second snippet of film for WBAP-TV, (which BTW later became KXAS-TV.) from the top of the knoll steps..panning left and tilting slightly down to show the pool,of liquid. A small crowd milling around, people walking around it, also filming the Police in and around the knoll, and railroad yard to the west. Filming officer James Foster on the sidewalk at the top of the steps near the red liquid, with the wood fence at his rear.... .... From......National Nightmare page 91. Below is a Wilma Bond photo...# 5 ?? That is he, Jimmy Darnell, facing the bus filming, in the brown suit, Mary Moormen is seen to his left.. No where, so far, have I noticed what particular type of Camera that Darnell used, would you or anyone know.?? .... Thanks...B....

Jack........ B..

Hi Bernice - I reviewed the frames again - I don't believe that this isn't a fair analysis. It seems clear that frames are missing - at a minimum between z312 and z313. So the movement of the film here jerks forward some one foot or so for the background. The paper backing doesn't 'appear' suddenly, it is jerked into our view. Using Moorman as my reference point. - lee ************ Lee: Now we meet again, at missing frames... I have been studying this particular gif...and I believe I am seeing what could be a " now you do Not see it, then a sudden Now you do."...? In reference to the backing.... ....Have a look at the distance all appears to move between these two frames...# 312 & 313....and the suddeness of it.......the head shot also appears what, painted in.?? or is it moi..? .....I know little of film cameras, except for what I have tried to comprehend, through the studies so my marginal knowledge is not reliable.... Perhaps you understand their workings more fully.... or someone who does, could give us a grain from their brain.... .David perhaps?..Jack ???.. Thanks........B

Hi Duncan: It is not only that the parking pole is there, in his drawing ,that was not on Nov.22/63, but that the Pole Light is not on the grass, they were all on the sidewalk, next to the road.. Bill: I checked the Bonds and others and there are no Parking signs on any separate poles , they were all attached to the Pole lights, which were located on the street in the cement sidewalk, next to the roadway.. within that strech that I have seen within the photos..... Miles : Quote "...If you are old enough, you will be among the millions who were shocked & stunned & who will remember what they were doing & where they were when the news of the assassination became known. If anyone should remember it would the assassin. Or would it? Was the assassin shocked or stunned? Maybe not. His mind works differently. There is no surprise for him. Only the blinkered trance of concentration. Now, in the case of Files, he never said that his drawing was drawn from memory. But, Files knew his field of fire well enough to identify the sign which he was concerned might interfere with his shot."" ********************* I do not agree Miles, as Files has stated he was behind the fence for some time before the Motorcade arrived, that I think would have given him more than sufficient time, to have studied and known his surroundings, where the light pole was, not on the grass, and that the parking pole did not exist.......This drawing must have come from a photo shown to him or seen within a book. article, program, whatever....See below..... ....... I also disagree with you, as you are now showing the sign in front of him, the sign has always been to his right, as he has shown in his drawing...and I thought you also agreed in the past, re the Holland photos etc...though I could be mistaken, I do think that is where you have situated him for some time now...??..before the sign......within many of the photos that you have posted...... but then again, what sign ?? which was he meaning....obvious from his drawing, he meant the Freeway Sign right ??..But Not... apparently.........See below.. It is curious somewhat to me that you have now moved his line of sight , to below the sign....therefore it appears to be in his way.....? ........so please read below....and check your photo that you posted above .. Miles Quote "Now, in the case of Files, he never said that his drawing was drawn from memory."" But he has said and those that have supported him, have stated that he had never seen nor watched nor read anything pertaining to the assn. in the past......but.......See below..... Miles Quote "Was the assassin shocked or stunned?"" No to the contrare so he was not nervous, therefore quite capable to pay his centred attention on his surroundings. I would think.....See also below.... Bill : Quote ""Yeah ... Something is getting deeper and its smell is no mystery IMO. Thats like asking 'What if Ray Charles wasn't blind.' Or what if Files wasn't even in Dealey Plaza ... now things are starting to make sense. "" Could very well be.... Below is a page from Files book, you will notice what he has stated about the "Sign" ??? I know, it will in all likelehood, be put down to an editing error, that is the usual that is given, by some..... but what with all the changing of his postions down through time, and the reasons for such that we have read, that never quite seem to satisfy........ there has been something wrong within.....and .......Bill..Quote ""now things are starting to make sense. ""....a very good possibility imo.. B..... ********************************************* James Files - The Early Days? Below, on the left side of the page, is a scan of a letter sent by James Files to Joe West on July 30, 1992. In light of the claims and counterclaims concerning Files' involvement in the assassination, this letter is rather curious. Assertions were made throughout the mid 1990s that Files was not well read on the facts of the Kennedy assassination and most of what he said came from his own personal experiences. However, this letter seems to contradict those claims. Here is what a review of the text shows: In the first paragraph Files says he can not "be of some help to you [West]." In the second paragraph Files affirms what he said in paragraph # 1 and maintains he knows so little about West's inquiry into the Kennedy assassination that his "knowledge of [West's] investigation is not worth the cost of your coming to see me." Although Files' supporters said he was not well read on the Kennedy assassination, in the third paragraph he admits to seeing movies and reading books about the event. He claims, incorrectly, that Phillips committed perjury. Phillips did what many government officials do to this day - they develop hazy recollections of events, parse their words, or place themselves in a position of plausible denial. This was and is done intentionally to AVOID the charge of perjury. Files then uses the Fallacy of Appeal to Popularity by claiming that West is probably already aware that Phillips is guilty of perjury. In the fourth paragraph Files suggests "the man in the beat up fedora type hat wearing the old brown leather bomber jacket" looks like Frank [Fiorini] Sturgis. Files spells Sturgis' name incorrectly and never reveals, to West, what personal information led him to his conclusion. Files records "The last I heard, he's [sturgis] alive and doing well." The fact that Sturgis was "alive and doing well" at the time of Files' letter to West was information available to anyone with an interest in the case. However, sixteen months later Sturgis would be dead of lung cancer. He died on December 4, 1993, just 5 days short of his 69th birthday. In the last paragraph he wonders "how my name surfaced for your investigation." From an article that appeared in the April 11, 1994 Beaumont [Texas] Enterprise it seems that in April of 1992, a Beaumont FBI agent Zack Shelton, most likely in deference to FBI policy, gave Files' name to Joe West, a private citizen. One can only wonder how Files went from an unknowing convict who doesn't know how to spell Grassy Knoll, into the "Grass Knoll" [sic] assassin and from obscurity to the subject of a 70 minute "documentary." See Confession of an Assassin. Chicago: MPI Home Video,1996 [iSBN# 1-56278-898-1] Dave Perry Joe West 23 Campbell Houston, TX 77055 Thursday 30 July 1992 Dear Mr. West: In regards to your letter of 24 July, I sincerely wish that I could be of some help to you. But that is not possible. Please forgive me for not calling, but at the present time we are in total lock-down status. One shower, one phone call per week. I use that call, to call home, sorry. I realize investigations cost money, and my knowledge of your investigation is not worth the cost of your coming to see me. The two items that I know, outside of the movies and the books are, #1. David Phillips perjured himself while giving his testimony during the, "House of Assassinations Committee." And I'm sure that you already know that. Item #2, The Grass knoll, the man in the beat up fedora type hat wearing the old brown leather bomber jacket. I AM NOT saying it was Frank Sturgiss, but it sure looked a lot like him. The last I heard, he's alive and doing well. That's all I know. But I am rather curious as how my name surfaced for your investigation. At that time, I was under a different name, that [man deceased?] in 1964. Sorry that I cannot be of more help. Sincerely http://davesjfk.com/files.html ***************** .......from 1996.. Reprinted courtesy of JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly. All Rights reserved. Used by permission THE MURDER OF JFK-- Confession of an Assassin by Edward Bell (This article originally appeared in JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly. July 1996) In the video--The Murder of JFK-Confession of An Assassin (MPI, #MP 7148), James E. Files, an inmate of Joliet State Penitentiary, confesses to being one of two assassins firing at JFK in Dallas on November 22, 1963. According to Walt Brown's Treachery in Dallas, this makes him one of 28 "suspected shooters in the Kennedy assassination."1 This confession is the result of an investigation launched by the late private investigator Joe West in 1989.2 In a press release of May 11, 1990, West claimed he had new information from an unidentified source directly implicating John Roselli and Charles Nicoletti in the murder.3 This was followed by a November 1990 appearance on CNBC cable's Morton Downey Jr. show. On that program, West made the following revelations: "There was a firing squad in Dealey Plaza. That firing squad was made up of a coalition of the CIA and the Giancana crime family out of Chicago. The firing squad was sent well-trained to Dealey Plaza for one purpose. That was the assassination of the 35th President of the US--John Kennedy...The top hit man for the mafia in the Western Hemisphere--a part of the hit team that executed upon the Mafia Commission's orders. First of all Sam Giancana, secondly John Roselli, thirdly Charles Nicoletti. These men were interrogated before their deaths and each of of them confessed to this Mafia hit man. I have a video recording of him. I have a sworn affidavit from him in which he says each of them confessed that the Giancana crime family was working with Jack Ruby in Dallas for this assassination. It was all preplanned." In the 1996 MPI video, producer and interviewer Bob Vernon states: "In 1989 Houston private investigator Joe West launched an independent investigation to find the true killer of president John F. Kennedy. After three years of disappoint-ments and dead ends...West suddenly received a tip from an FBI agent who asked to remain unnamed. The tip led West to Joliet and a prisoner named James E. Files...Through months of personal visits and detailed correspondence, Files began to reveal his participation in the JFK killing. Files was nearing a full confession when West took sick and passed away in 1993. It took 13 months after Joe West's death, but on March 22, 1994, associates of West videotaped an interview with Files, in which he admitted to being one of the shooters on November 22. He also implicated organized crime members--Charles Nicoletti, Johnny Roselli, and Sam Giancana." If Vernon is correct, West and Files did not meet until 1992. If this is true, it would be interesting to know whom West was alluding to in 1990 in his press release and on the Downey show. James E. Files (Sutton) was born in 1942. He grew up in Chicago, gaining Mafia ties by being a driver for Giancana "hit man" Nicoletti. According to Files, he trained Cubans at No Name Key for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. This is where he met his CIA controller--David Atlee Phillips. It was through Phillips that he also met Lee Oswald in early 1963 while running guns to Clinton, La. As a results of the efforts of Jim Garrison, we learned that it was in Clinton that numerous witnesses placed Oswald together with Clay Shaw.4 " "Lee Harvey Oswald had the same controller as I did--David Atlee Phillips." This statement may have validity if one believes Phillips and Maurice Bishop are the same person and that Antonio Veciana was accurate in his sighting of Oswald and Bishop when he spoke to Anthony Summers in 1978.5 It was also Phillips who allegedly gave Files the Remington Fireball pistol that he used to shoot JFK with in Dallas. Whether Phillips would have used his real name, not an alias, is a question to consider. In June 1963, Files was told by Nicoletti: "We are going to do Kennedy." According to Files-- "First we originally planned to do the assassination in Chicago, but a lot of people didn't like that idea so it was moved to a different location." It should be noted that neither Thomas Vallee nor Joseph Milteer are mentioned by Files. One week prior to the assassination, Files says he drove a 1963 Chevrolet loaded with weapons to a motel in Mesquite, Texas. The day after he arrived, Oswald allegedly showed up and took him to a place south-east of Mesquite. There, Files "test fired the weapons and calibrated the scopes." Oswald was with him "for a few days" where they drove through Dallas, "so I would know all the streets." Files also claims: "Lee Harvey Oswald could drive; he didn't have a driver's license, maybe, but the man could drive! Hell, he drove military trucks even." (q.v. Benson, Who's Who in the JFK Assassination, pp. 44-45; re: A.G. Bogard) On Nov. 22, Files claims he went to the Dallas Cabana Motel where he picked up Las Vegas Mafioso John Roselli. They then drove to a Ft. Worth pancake house where Roselli met Jack Ruby. Here, "Sparky" allegedly gave Roselli an envelope containing Secret Service ID and a map of the motorcade route. When asked if the CIA had anything to do with the killing, Files said, "Someone in government organizations had a heavy hand in it because they supplied Secret Service ID for different people. I don't know who used it but I saw the ID that morning of the assassination." In this assertion, Files is either putting Ruby close to the CIA or contradicting his story. Files and Roselli drove back to the Cabana Motel in Dallas to pick up Nico-letti, who was conversing with Eugene Hale Brading when they arrived. Brading did stay at the Cabana the night of the 21st, and was photographed and arrested in Dealey Plaza on November 22.6 It should also be noted that Roselli and Nicoletti figure into the "Gemstone File" and Chuck Giancana versions of these events, respectively. Files says he then drove Roselli and Nicoletti to Dealey Plaza, where they parked next to the Dal-Tex Building. Files and Nicoletti walked the plaza. At 10:30 am, Nicoletti asked Files how he would feel about "backing him up on this." Files, who was "honored," was then asked where he would like to position himself, and where he thought the best place for Nicoletti would be. It's hard to believe two men involved in a conspiracy to kill the president would have waited until two hours before the assassination to decide where to locate themselves! It is also hard to believe that Nicoletti would casually ask Files to "back him up," only two hours before the hit on JFK. This is also in direct conflict with Joe West's statement in 1990 that "the firing squad was sent well trained..."7 According to Files, the two men returned to the car where they picked up their weapons. Files got a briefcase containing the Remington Fireball pistol and Nicoletti took a rifle of unspecified make. Files claimed he turned his jacket "inside out--plaid side showing" and went to his firing position "Behind the tree, behind the fence" on the knoll. On the video, producer Bob Vernon tells Files "there was a picture made of you behind the fence. It was taken by Mary Moorman." Thanks to the efforts of Jack White and Gary Mack, the blowup of the Moorman photo apparently shows three people. One is most likely eyewitness Gordon Arnold, one appears to be a man in a t-shirt, and the other is the "badgeman" figure with a muzzle flash in front of him. The "badgeman" figure is wearing a police uniform and therefore cannot be Files, since he was wearing a jacket, plaid side showing. (See "The Men Who Killed Kennedy, pt. 2, The Forces of Darkness" for an in-depth look at the Moorman photo). Files is vague as to the exact number of shots and also does not specify what floor of the Dal-Tex Building Nicoletti was allegedly firing from. He also is not sure if anyone was firing from the Depository. He claims Oswald "never fired a shot...his plot [sic] was to plant evidence to mislead everybody." Files, along with Canfield and Weberman's book Coup d' Etat, claims Frank Sturgis was in Dealey Plaza on that fateful day. This was investigated and discounted by the HSCA (6 HSCA 260-261). According to Files, Ruby was also in the plaza that day. This has also come up in the recently unearthed Cooper footage and is well examined by Richard Trask in Pictures of the Pain, pp. 177-178. There is an interesting exchange be-tween Vernon and Files: V: "How much were you paid" for the assassination? F: "I had received $30,000." V: "Before you told me you received $15,000--you just said 30?" F: "In the beginning I said 15 because I didn't think it mattered much what the amount was...I never took checks, he gave me cash." Files was later asked if he knew who killed David Ferrie: "Yes I do know who killed ...Ferrie. He died of a ceverial [sic] brain hemorrhage,...brought on in a pacific [sic] way. (For a complete account of Ferrie's death, see DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed, pp. 151-153). In this last exchange between Files and Vernon, Files leaves us with what is probably his only cohesive thought: V: "When people see this interview on TV, what do you think people with think?" F: "Most of them, I don't think they will believe me." I certainly don't.... [ed. note: Our readers are asked to give their thoughts on this and the other (Morrow, Chauncy Holt) "confessions."] This article cannot be reproduced in any print or electronic medium without written permission from the editors of JFK/Deep Politics Quarterly PO BOX 174 HILLSDALE NJ 07642 USA. All rights reserved 1996. NOTES 1. Brown, Walt. Treachery in Dallas (New York: Carrol & Graf, 1995) pp.343-344 . 2. The Murder of JFK: Confession of an Assassin (MPI Home Video #MP7148.1996) 3. Livingstone, Harrison Edward. Killing the Truth (New York:Carrol & Graf, 1993) pp.259-260 4. Garrison, Jim. On the Trail of the Assassins. (New York: Sheridan Square Press,1988) pp.105-108 5. Summers, Anthony. Conspiracy. (New York: Paragon House, 1991) pp.328-329 6. Benson, Michael. Who's Who in the JFK Assassination. (New York: Citadel Press, 1993) pp.51-52 (heading under "Eugene Hale Brading") 7. The Morton Downey Show (cableCNBC-TV, Fort Lee, NJ. November 1990) ----------------------------------------------------------------- JFK/DEEP POLITICS QUARTERLY. PO Box 174. Hillsdale NJ 07642 USA Editors: Jan Stevens, Walt Brown. "Let the word go forth..." ****************** And for now from 1994......... [[ Review and comments by Martin Shackelford ]] "Confession of an Assassin" James E. Files, Joliet State Penitentiary March 22, 1994: Notes on the Videotape (1996, Bob Vernon, UTL Productions/MPI Video) Introduction: James Files was interviewed by Joe West, who had been tipped off by an FBI agent. West tracked Files to Joliet State Penitentiary in Illinois, where he was serving a sentence for shooting a policeman. West died, and the investigation was delayed, but finally an interview with Files was arranged on March 22, 1994. After further delays, the interview was offered to MPI Video. James Files worked for Chicago organized crime figure Charles Nicoletti. The Interview: Files states that his name was James Sutton until late 1963, when it was changed to James E. Files with the aid of the government, so that he could marry and live a normal life free of harassment and other risks which might have arisen from his activities with a radical Cuban group. Files served in the 82nd Airborne in Laos from 1959 for about 14 months. He was involved in training people to do ambushes. After that, he did some race driving, and his abilities attracted the attention of Charles Nicoletti, who recruited him as his personal driver. At that time, Tony Accardo ran the Chicago Mob. On November 22, 1963, Files went to Dealey Plaza in Dallas about 10 a.m. He checked the area, discussed the assassination plan with Nicoletti. It began with Nicoletti around five months earlier. Files had a connection with the Bay of Pigs operation. He was at No Name Key (gives two other names for it also). His CIA controller was David Atlee Phillips. Nicoletti asked Files if he wanted to help him kill "a friend of yours," knowing that Files hated Kennedy. At first, files thought it was a local hit, but Nicoletti told him the target was JFK. John Rosselli, out of Miami, was involved. Files met Rosselli through Phillips. The original plan was to hit JFK in Chicago, but no one was comfortable with doing it there, so the idea was dropped. About a week before the assassination, Files drove to Mesquite, Texas, with the weapons for the operation, A day or so after he arrived, Lee Harvey Oswald came to him to show him around the area. Oswald also took him to locations where he could test and calibrate the weapons. As far as he knows, Oswald didn't know what the plan was. Files explored Dallas routes, with the idea of getaway options. On November 22, Files drove to the Cabana Motel, where he met Rosselli around 7 a.m.. They went to a pancake house in Fort Worth, where Rosselli met with Jack Ruby, while Files served as lookout. Ruby handed Rosselli an envelope, and left. They opened the envelope in the car: it contained Secret Service identifications and an updated motorcade route map; Rosselli commented that he saw only one change, the double turn in Dealey Plaza. They returned to the Cabana. With Nicoletti, Files went to Dealey Plaza around 10 a.m. They looked over the area further. Nicoletti asked if Files would back him up as an extra shooter, if needed, and Files agreed. As his location, he chose the area behind the fence on the grassy knoll. He suggested Nicoletti fire from the Dal-Tex Building (Nicoletti had a rifle). They separated, Files going to the railroad yard area and making preparations. He had a briefcase with a Remington Fireball inside. As the limousine began coming down Elm Street, Files heard shots from behind it, and assumed that was Nicoletti. He noticed JFK was hit, but only in the body; and that Connally seemed to be hit. If he was going to fire, he had to do it before he risked hitting Jackie, as they had been told not to hit anyone but JFK, and especially not to shoot Jackie. He fired-just after Nicoletti, it turned out, both hitting JFK in the head. Files' bullet hit JFK in the left (actually, right, as he later explained) temple. He put the gun into the briefcase, turned his coat from plaid to gray business suit (reversible), and walked away via the Elm Street extension to Houston Street. He had bit the shell casing, and left it sitting on the fence, as a calling card, but no one realized it had been bitten until 1994, he said. At Houston, he got into a 1963 Burgundy Chevrolet; Rosselli was in the back seat, and Nicoletti in the front passenger seat. They were in a parking lot, and exited turning right onto Houston, went 5 or 6 blocks, then turned left, and near the freeway dropped the two off at another car. Files returned to his room in Mesquite, cleansed himself with hot was to remove any traces of powder, showered, changed, then took care of the guns. Nicoletti's rifle was in the trunk, the briefcase was under the steering wheel; both were taken care of, then placed in a special gun compartment inside the car. The next day, he drove to Southern Illinois, and on Sunday, he drove on into Chicago. He had been instructed to drive only during the day and not to attract any attention. Sometime later, Nicoletti gave him $30,000 for the job, although they hadn't ever discussed money. Files said he first met Lee Harvey Oswald in early 1963, in connection with gun-running, in C.linton, Louisiana, via David Atlee Phillips. Both were doing CIA work at the time. There was obviously some government involvement in the assassination, as otherwise they wouldn't have gotten the Secret Service identifications Ruby gave them. Phillips had given him the Remington Fireball for an earlier job. Files said he saw Frank Sturgis among the crowd of people on Elm Street. He also saw Eugene Brading, whom he had seen at the Cabana with Nicoletti and Rosselli. Files knew Sturgis from anti-Castro activities, as did Rosselli. Files didn't see Oswald at all that day. He and Oswald never discussed the assassination plan. He would not comment on the murder of J.D. Tippit, except to say that Oswald didn't kill Tippit, and the man who did was still alive at the time of the interview (a later reference possibly referring to the same man indicated he is now in his '80s), and had originally been assigned to kill Oswald. The man came to see Files in Mesquite after the assassination, saying there was a screwup and he had killed a cop. Files said he saw Ruby in the Plaza, below the knoll near the sidewalk. He said everyone reacted slowly to the shots. As he walked away from the knoll, he noticed two men in suits behind him, turning people back. He said he didn't see Zapruder, and wasn't sure what he would have done if he thought he had been filmed, but he carried a Colt pistol, and might have shot him. He also didn't realize Mary Moorman's camera had photographed him, and declined the interviewer's request that he autograph a copy of the photo. The Remington Fireball was designed in 1961, but had a tendency to blow up, so was re-designed. It fired a .221 cal. long round. It was a bolt-action pistol with a telescopic sight, effective at 100 yards; not unlike a cut-down rifle. The shells were custom-made, with a mercury load, and fragmented on impact. They were fired at 3100 feet per second. Files believed Giancana gave Nicoletti his orders, and that Accardo had to know about it. In response to a question, Files said he was receiving no money for this interview. He talked about West's first contact, telling West he must have him confused with someone else. Then West calling, and getting into some things Files didn't want discussed in a prison-recorded phone call, so he told West to come and see him if he wanted to talk with him. First they talked only about sports and so on. The second time, Files felt more comfortable with West. As time went on, he began to open up to him more. West had a plan to reopen the case by getting Files to testify in court, first seeking immunity for Files. Files said he had been threatened by both government and organized crime people for discussing the case, but wouldn't specify individuals, as he refuses to give up the name of a living person for any offense. He said the FBI visited him. He had knowledge of the death of David Ferrie, but wasn't willing to discuss it, except to say the brain hemmorhage was caused intentionally, and he had identified the area in Ferrie's brain to look at . He had talked to Joe West because he came to like and respect West. He felt no remorse for his actions in Dallas. He was bitter about the Bay of Pigs. He knew Richard Helms. Antonio Veciana was a good friend, and not involved in the assassination. Nicoletti flew to Dallas via commercial airline. Rosselli said he had been in D.C. and caught a MATS (Military Air Transport Service) flight to Dallas, thanks to the CIA. Files didn't know any details because he doesn't ask questions; he only knows what he was told. In the 1970s, with Senate investigations, things began to get uncomfortable. Giancana didn't know Files had fired a shot, only that Nicoletti had. Files thinks Rosselli, who was in Chicago at the time, may have killed Giancana, as he was one of the few who would have had the access, and he left town right afterward. Rosselli was later killed. Files was involved in guarding Nicoletti, as there had been indications he was a target. In mid-March 1977, Nicoletti gave Files a package, which Files buried. Nicoletti was killed March 29. In April, Files was snatched and brutally interrogated, but didn't give up the package's location. After he was dumped, severely injured, and recovered, he carefully returned to the location where he had buried the package, dug it up, and found inside the Secret Service identifications, the motorcade route map, and Nicoletti's diary. He destroyed all but the diary, which he still has somewhere. He freely admits having worked for organized crime, though he says he was never a member of the Mob. He felt he had lived a good life, doing as much as "a hundred other guys." He was born January 1942 in Alabama, but his family soon moved to Chicago, where he grew up the only English-speaking kid in an Italian neighborhood, and soon became accepted by the community. He did little jobs for mobsters from the age of 11, as they tipped well. He became known as a kid who wouldn't give up anybody, who could be relied upon.. He had his first car at age 14. After his service in Laos, the CIA recruited him to train Cubans. He also raced stock cars. He loved Nicoletti, who was quiet and deadly. Rosselli was flashy, talked too much, loud, boisterous. Giancana was a lovable old man, but like a bulldog if you crossed him. Aside from Nicoletti, the other person he has been closest to is still alive, in his 80s. David Atlee Phillips was cool, good-natured, and once told him he could "kill more people with a typewriter than you can" with a machine gun. Lee Oswald was very intelligent, very quiet, and led a secluded life. Files believes Oswald planted evidence on November 22, but fired no shots. From what he knew of Oswald, he didn't believe Oswald would be a shooter. He never saw Oswald fire a weapon. Although Oswald didn't have a driver's license, he knew how to drive. Files didn't know why he went to Russia, but assumed the government was involved. Files stated that he didn't want to be a part of history. He hadn't picked the target. He just followed orders. He would rather no one had ever found him, and hoped they would forget about him. He didn't think people watching this interview on TV would believe him. Nicoletti hit JFK in the back of the head, Files hit JFK in the right temple. Files was "known for head shots." He declined to say how many people he had killed. He said the two great lies were religion and history. He said history was a self-serving account by a country to conceal its selfish motives. Religion killed more people than wars. "I never disobeyed an order." Besides, he said, nobody he knew really liked Kennedy, including military, Secret Service and FBI people; history later called him great because that's what they say about Presidents. Files worshipped Nicoletti. Nicoletti was strictly Mob. Rosselli worked with both CIA and Mob. Files was told that Nicoletti was dirty, that he had talked, but he never believed it, especially as Nicoletti had given him his diary to hide. He said the government kills people, without question. He doesn't know who killed Nicoletti: if he had, he would have gone after them. He wasn't afraid of death, only of failure to complete whatever he set out to do. Epilogue: Deaths of Giancana, Rosselli, Nicoletti. The FBI dismisses the credibility of Files' confession.. PROBLEMS with the James Files "Confession": 1) David Atlee Phillips, CIA propaganda expert, would seem an unlikely case officer for a Mob driver and hit man on No Name Key. This seems to be an attempt to tie Files credibly in with Oswald (the Veciana sighting in Dallas of Oswald and Phillips, as Bishop, together), but is doubtful. Also, although John Rosselli was active in Florida preparations for the Bay of Pigs, it is likely that someone other than Phillips introduced him to Files, if Files was at No Name Key. The only thing that sounds much like the real Phillips is the quote near the end about the power of the typewriter. 2) Lee Harvey Oswald as tour guide. 3) The plaid reversible coat and the bitten shell casing seem, on the surface, to provide confirmation, but both were details known prior to Files telling his story to anyone. I had heard about the shell well before Files says the fact that it was bitten was discovered (he says 1994). Some people seem to have confused the bitten casing found in the Plaza with the dented casing found in the Depository-these are two separate shell casings. 4) In connection with Oswald, Clinton and gun-running, David Atlee Phillips again seems inserted artificially into the story here. Oswald and Ruby were both connected to New Orleans people involved in gun-running, but inserting Phillips into the Clinton story is, again, highly doubtful. This is not to say Phillips' role was an innocent one, just that Files seems to be inventing things, or perhaps he was fed inventions. 5) Files overlooks the fact that the Elm Street crowd was well-photographed. Frank Sturgis was not among the crowd; nor at that point was Eugene Brading in that area; nor was Jack Ruby on the sidewalk below the knoll. None of this is difficult to check. All the relevant photos are in Groden and Trask. 6) The Secret Service man on the knoll now becomes two men in suits turning people away. There were men turning people away in the area BEFORE the assassination, but not after. It sounds as though Files flubbed some of his borrowed details. 7) He HAD documentary evidence, but he destroyed most of it. How convenient. My guess is that Files was, indeed, Charles Nicoletti's driver, and was involved in the preparations for the Bay of Pigs, but that he is also a good con artist, skillled at blending fact and fiction, which I what I believe he has done here. http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/03/MS/1-vr.html B.........

********* James Files drawing is not correct in the least Antti.... The detail has been copied from a photo that has been taken some years since..... That is not how the view appeared that day from behind the fence...... on Nov.22.63.......not at all....... There was no separate pole with the parking sign, the sign was attached to the light post. The light post was on the outside of the sidewalk, next to the street, not on the grass...... Compare for yourselves.. Many things have changed again and again, since that day within Dealey..... Thanks.... B......

Dear Bernice; Thank you very much for the cache of information available at Mary Ferrell. "Twenty five feet south" looks to be the first recorded location of the fragment and I think it fits accurately with what I'm trying to put across. I do want to take sharp exception in regards to your graphic that uses the frame number 312. There is no white spot in 312. As a matter of fact, I have thought that if this thing is a piece of paper, or Moorman's polaroid tab we would see the corner of in in 312. But we don't. No white spot until 313. No white spot until bullet impact. I have never seen a version of Zapruder that shows any white spot (or even hint of it) at 312. As I've said in my article; examine 327, 328, 329, 330. The reflection is in the trunk lid. Because something is flying over the trunk. "... a shot took off the right side of his head..." "His ear flew off." Jim Newman. There are numerous examples where eyewitnesses note things flying through the air; inclucing Ruby Henderson "saw what she" 'thought was a piece of paper fly out of the car'. Thank you again for your input; your thoughts ideas and knowledge are greatly appreciated. Frank ********** Hi Frank: That is correct, there is no white whatever in Zap frame 312..as per others and Dr.David Mantik's studies.. I believe that is in the book.....Assassination Studies ... If you look more closely perhaps you will see that it is not there....and suddenly appears.. There were a few witnesses that mention such as they thought they saw like a white confetti fly up... I do think this was the brain matter...along with parts of the skull....imo.. and yes I agree with you there us definetely something seen , flying up as well as to the back....over the the trunk..of the limo.. B..... Hello Bernice; First thank you for the nice, yet contrasty (whoops makin' up words again) frames of Nix. I've searched for a matched frame to try to see the flying skull fragment in both Nix and Muchmore. Very difficult especially with the copies I was using. Muchmore has people in the way of most of that action. I continue to work with Nix on a frame that shows the fragment right above the President and First Lady. Also difficult in the copies I have, but I'm hoping I can get a match. In my article I wrote about the fragment drifting to the back of the limo. I'm now more inclined to point out the car driving under the fragment; in addition to the drift backwards; I think that is more accurate. The wind created by the car itself; the bow wave if you will, could have had an added effect on the fragment. Thanks again, your expertise is amazing. Frank ************** Hi Frank : Contrasty, I like that one also... I wanted to let you know the black Gifs, are not my work, I am a collector, and I have lost the name of the researcher who created them for us, so they are not to my credit, but I am a packrat..and do save the information...so a thank you to whomever.... also I include a closer look at the black gif.. I have here a couple of small gifs, also, that may help you in some way, they are of Jackie, reaching onto the back of the limo. In Zapruder as well as the Nix. They do not seem to correlate in some ways, though the filming angles were different I realise, so FWTAW. In the Zap gif I do think you can actually see her right hand, grasp the piece of his head, and start to return to the back seat , as Clint Hill has reached her, that she held onto till she handed it to a Doctor at Parkland, telling him it might help..... .....there also appears to be other pieces that have flown backwards and landed on the trunk.. The one that appears to be a larger piece that goes straight up, in the black gif.......I do wonder if that could be what they called the Harper fragment...that disappeared....? Many thanks carry on...... B.....

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Dear Bernice; Thank you very much for the cache of information available at Mary Ferrell. "Twenty five feet south" looks to be the first recorded location of the fragment and I think it fits accurately with what I'm trying to put across. I do want to take sharp exception in regards to your graphic that uses the frame number 312. There is no white spot in 312. As a matter of fact, I have thought that if this thing is a piece of paper, or Moorman's polaroid tab we would see the corner of in in 312. But we don't. No white spot until 313. No white spot until bullet impact. I have never seen a version of Zapruder that shows any white spot (or even hint of it) at 312. As I've said in my article; examine 327, 328, 329, 330. The reflection is in the trunk lid. Because something is flying over the trunk. "... a shot took off the right side of his head..." "His ear flew off." Jim Newman. There are numerous examples where eyewitnesses note things flying through the air; inclucing Ruby Henderson "saw what she" 'thought was a piece of paper fly out of the car'. Thank you again for your input; your thoughts ideas and knowledge are greatly appreciated. Frank ********** Hi Frank: That is correct, there is no white whatever in Zap frame 312..as per others and Dr.David Mantik's studies.. I believe that is in the book.....Assassination Studies ... If you look more closely perhaps you will see that it is not there....and suddenly appears.. There were a few witnesses that mention such as they thought they saw like a white confetti fly up... I do think this was the brain matter...along with parts of the skull....imo.. and yes I agree with you there us definetely something seen , flying up as well as to the back....over the the trunk..of the limo.. B.....

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Per studies...backing...suddenly appears... Harper Fragment Information http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=3 B.....

Hi Lee: Hope all are well....nice to have an exchange with you.. Aw the scrambled Wily Wiegman, one of my favorites, been around that block many times, it is a fascinating film and will drive you to distraction......As to what you may and may not see according to ones view........as it runs from the corner of Elm to the underpass....and so much is so distorted as he ran...but not quite all.. But always imo worth another look... These below are what Chris Davison did for us, on another F, I do believe some time back ? when it was being discussed...one more time.... much better than my own....and ....again..many thanks..... ..Again fascinating, and I do wish this particular photo, film ? which may have been taken would have come to light.....Never know it may have, or it may yet.... Thanks.... Take care....no more hanging from building walls... B......

No Duke not everyone in Dealey has been identified, I do wish... That is David Wiegman in the fedora filming.....in Cancellare.. He was in the Press car 1."the reel car" the first with photographers aboard..A yellow 1964 Chev.Impala convertible. He worked for NBC--a TV cameraman..and was attached to the W.H every day for 8 years........he was 37 yrs old.at the time.. He hopped from the car near the corner of Elm & Houston , setting his camera on,and hung around his neck began filming immediately..as he ran...... the corner, the front of the TSBD the doorway, running, on down to the knoll, filming as he went, the pedestal , pergola area, the underpass, as the XP 100 disappeared under... I wish he had momentarliy stopped running, took some film and then continued, but he did not, as a result much of his film, was useless as it is distorted.. though there are some good frames.... He then ran and hopped into one of the camera convertibles and onto Parkland.... Here are a couple of his frames, TSB doorway and also the Limo disappearing under the overpass..... B........

Chris : I believe what you are seeing as the wall, could bethe turned up sun visors on the XP 100.... B

Sunday, December 09, 2007 Morley won! ( Many links within ) Somewhat miraculously, Morley won (found here, with link to the judgment) his appeal of a lower court sanction of a CIA end-run around a Freedom of Information Act request with respect to the CIA’s records on George Joannides (Morley writes about the case here, good general summary of the case here, and a long Morley article on Joannides and the newer scientific evidence on the assassination here). The Court found that the CIA technically complied with the Freedom of Information Act, but ignored the JFK Act (which was ironically enacted because the FOIA was inadequate to force documents out of the CIA!). The CIA has been attempting to weasel out of its JFK Act disclosure obligations, and, at least temporarily, until the appeal, has been put in its place. The CIA’s intransigence is telling in the light of all the publicity given to the recent voluntary disclosure by the CIA of its ‘family jewels’. When it comes to material of real interest, the CIA is much less generous with information. The records on Joannides are a live issue as Posada Carriles is still a political problem in the United States. It is likely that Joannides handled both Posada Carriles and Bosch (Joannides’ CIA job was to destabilize Cuba – something the CIA is still at work on – and Posada Carriles was deeply involved in destabilizing Cuba), and the information the CIA is trying to hide is probably still embarrassing. Of course, the records may be doubly embarrassing depending on the involvement of Joannides in the Kennedy assassination. http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2007/12/morley-won.html B........

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued October 22, 2007 Decided December 7, 2007 No. 06-5382 JEFFERSON MORLEY, APPELLANT v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, APPELLEE Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 03cv02545)....... http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common...12/06-5382a.pdf B........

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Miles: Can you please state the source, that the man on the top right on the steps, in your photo, you have marked, below....is older...in the Bowers subject thread, thanks... I do not see plaid....I see a red toned coloured jacket, whatever....the photo is too poor to analyse.. imo....for such details.....and BTW..if you think that plaid jackets, back then, came in one colour, red, then that is in error. Why are you diverting this thread back to the Bowers, Hudson, steps scenario..?...there is a long thread on such, which you could have easily gone back to.... What you are doing is called hi-jacking a thread....there is always a reason, and it does get tiresome...... and I for one do not appreciate such...when overdone repeatedly.. B......

Many thanks Chris; Yes, the umbrella is, as Jack White has stated in his research all these years.....and now clearly, imo.... And DCM is signaling with his hand raised.. You are very talented with the gifs and photos.... always a big help...and appreciated.. Robin: I do hope you will soon load a new site... Best to you both...B

As for Mr. Mallet, it looks to me like something behind his arm that is distorted because of the camera movement. Could be part of the wall, or someone's head. JWK Something further in the background..... This is how it appears before it was colourized.... which does distort photos.... B....

Fellas...... Ron you may be interested in these..... FWTW......here are two Gifs..... Showing, the umbrella being turned, perhaps a spinning action, and the other showing it possibly being raised and lowered, prehaps at the same time.. Whatever....... B..

Lee, Thank you! The verb "Helicoptering" isn't my invention. The whole article was written by Frank Caramelli, I used the same verb as Frank! That's all. ***************** Marcel : How nice to see you,....been quite awhile... The article presented on your site, was extremely well done, and the result of that has been almost a complete meeting of the minds, that in itself says a lot.. As for the word Helicoptering, there are it seems new words being included in the Websters Dictionary, each and every year as time progresses, so who knows ?? and as we all do and have at times slain the English language, who is to tell whom, what words to and not to speak.....that shall be the day.....imo..... I do believe some take themselves too seriously.....Good Lord, if so, I do not know of one member here that has not slain such in the past....let alone along with many "spullin mistooks"... As for a new possible theory re the assn research, well you should at times read some that have been presented here in the past...... Thanks again, always a pleasure.....carry on.... Best B......

Alan & Duncan..... Just keeping in mind that Sam also mentioned two sets of footprints leaving in different directions... See Post 231 http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...225#entry120445 B.....

Don: I do not think you can see what you call the mallets handle in the black and white original, also I believe there are a few other discrepancys....that can be seen. I am thinking that it could very well be, when coloured, a few leniencys were taken.. Once touched in such a way they are really never the same, what do you think after comparing both..? B....

Cliff: McCloy-Rankin document..... B...