Steve Thomas

Bart, I wonder if the Edgar S. Boyd, former Commander of the 112th was related to Elmer L. Boyd of the Dallas PD. This is from the first document in the pdf's you provided: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ddlGVngkyakzpaO4hmqMreuINx2zGC8i\ Commanders of Region II, Dallas: Steve Thomas

Jim, I was thinking the other night. What would you think of the idea that a member of the Electoral College could not be a member of a political party? That way, they would not be beholden to anybody. Steve Thomas

I would like to nominate Donald Trump for the Noble Piece Prize. Steve Thomas

Disinfectant Don

I got to thinking that it was around this time that the FBI was tasked with breaking up the Cuban exile camps and foiling their attempts to conduct raids on Cuba from U.S. soil. Coincidence? Steve Thomas

Doug, I don't remember if this was suggested in the article, or I read it somewhere else, but what if it wasn't Oswald who was seen going in and out of the house on Harlandale, but rather, it was John Thomas Masen. As far as I know, the only witness who said it was Oswald, was Walthers' mother-in-law, and she told Walthers that it was Oswald after seeing him on TV. It would make a lot of sense if was Masen she saw. http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11250#relPageId=2&tab=page (see page 3) ATF Agent Frank Ellsworth sets up a sting operation involving John Thomas Masen. Masen gets some of his guns from thefts from National Guard armories. Manuel Rodriguez and George Parrel have approached Masen about buying arms. Masen has told Ellsworth that Rodriguez and Parrel hadve tried to buy bazookas, machine guns, and other heavy equipment from him, had previously made purchases from him, and that they had a large cashe of arms in the Dallas area. Oswald has been seen entering and leaving a house at 1026 Harlendale St. in Dallas that Orcarberro is renting. Just as he is about to bust Masen, the FBI and local police swoop in and arrest Miller and Whitter on November 18, 1963. Ellsworth is forced to prematurely arrest Masen on November 20th. Could many of us have been wrong all these years? Steve Thomas

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/obituaries/2012/09/12/jack-revill-longtime-dallas-police-officer-and-acting-chief-dies-at-82/ Jack Revill, longtime Dallas police officer and acting chief, dies at 82 This is for Paul Brancato. Paul asked if Revill was in the Reserves:: "He joined the Dallas Police Department in 1951 as an assistant radio dispatcher and motorcycle patrolman. He was assigned to the narcotics bureau in 1953, where he was a detective and became commander of the unit. Mr. Revill was drafted and served in the Army in the late 1950s, Mrs. Revill said." If Revill was born in 1929, and wad drafted in the late 1950's. that would mean he was drafted in his late 20's - close to 30 years old. That seems to me to be like kind of late to be "drafted". Steve Thomas

I thought this was kind of interesting. What is not explained is why Revill and Frazier were sitting in an unmarked car in a black neighborhood sometime after midnight, and why a third un-named Detective was skulking around. The Pastor won his appeal. https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/court-of-criminal-appeals/1959/30540-3.html Brown v. State Annotate this Case 322 S.W.2d 626 (1959) J. Von BROWN, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee. No. 30540. Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas. April 8, 1959. *627 Robert C. Benavides, W. J. Durham, Filemon Valdez, Dallas, for appellant. Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., James K. Allen, Ben Ellis, H. Dustin Fillmore, and Merle Flagg, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State. WOODLEY, Judge. Appellant was convicted and assessed a term of five years in the penitentiary for assault with a prohibited weapon, the indictment alleging that while unlawfully carrying on and about his person a pistol he did, with said pistol, willfully commit an assault upon Jack Revill. The evidence from the State's standpoint was that Jack Revill and W. B. Frazier, Detectives of the Dallas Police Department, on September 3, 1958, were seated in an unmarked Ford automobile on a public street in a colored residential area in South Dallas shortly after midnight; that a third officer was in the area at their direction. A Cadillac automobile, being driven in reverse, approached and the two officers ducked their heads so they could not be seen and the Cadillac passed and stopped. Appellant suddenly appeared at the right door of the officers' car and pointing a pistol at Revill said "Get out of the car with your hands up or I'll kill you." Both Revill and Frazier complied with the order. Lt. Frazier showed appellant his badge and card identifying him as a police officer, as both he and Revill had stated, and appellant "reluctantly" re-holstered the pistol and then surrendered it to Lt. Frazier and was taken to jail. The court in his charge gave the usual definition of assault and battery and instructed the jury that the law provides that if any person shall willfully commit an assault or an assault and battery upon another with a pistol while the same is being carried unlawfully by the person committing the assault he shall be deemed guilty of an assault with a prohibited weapon and, upon conviction, shall be punished by fine not to exceed $200, or by imprisonment in jail not to exceed two years, or by confinement in the penitentiary for not more than five years. "Willfully" was defined as meaning that the act was committed voluntarily, intentionally and purposely as distinguished from an act done carelessly, thoughtlessly, heedlessly or inadvertently. This defined the word willfully as used in common parlance. Willfully when used in a penal statute means more. It means with evil intent *628 or legal malice, or without reasonable ground for believing the act to be lawful. Thomas v. State, 14 Tex.App. 200; Shubert v. State, 16 Tex.App. 645; Caldwell v. State, 55 Tex.Cr.R. 164, 115 S.W. 597, (malicious mischief); 45 Words and Phrases Willful 207. It includes evil intent and malice as well as set purpose and design. Mercardo v. State, 86 Tex.Cr.R. 559, 218 S.W. 491, 8 A.L.R. 1312. The charge instructed the jury that the State must prove to the jury's satisfaction that the pistol was being unlawfully carried by the defendant at the time of the assault and in that connection instructed the jury "that it is unlawful for any person to carry on or about his person any pistol." Applying the law so given, the court authorized a conviction upon findings by the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that appellant, with a pistol, "the same being a prohibited weapon, as above defined", willfully committed an assault upon Revill and that the pistol was then being unlawfully carried by appellant on or about his person. Except for the "unless you so find beyond a reasonable doubt you shall acquit * * *" the charge submitted no defense to the charge that the pistol was carried unlawfully or to the charge that the assault by pointing the pistol was willful. Appellant, a Negro minister, admitted that he pointed a pistol into the car and ordered the occupants to get out with their hands raised, but denied that he added "or I'll kill you." His testimony, supported in part by other evidence, was: He was the pastor of the Lighted Church of Prayer, which was located in the next block from the car in which he found Officers Revill and Frazier; that he conducted services on the night in question; that a number of threats had been made by unknown parties leaving K.K.K. cards under the door of the church, and the Community House directly across the street "got burned" in May, and the Board of Trustees of the church authorized him to buy a pistol. Appellant had in his possession some $5,000 which he was taking to the bank the next morning to pay a church debt. After services on the night in question appellant and Grady Anderson, who drove the church's Cadillac, remained for a while and appellant called the police who came and took into custody a man who was crawling behind a car in a private driveway. Appellant reported this man as "a prowler." When he first saw this man he was closing the door of the church's Cadillac parked at the church. The man appellant believed to be a prowler is a white man, as are Officers Revill and Frazier. The patrolmen who responded to appellant's call approached the "prowler" with their pistols drawn and handcuffed him and and took him away. Shortly thereafter, as he was preparing to leave the church with the $5,000, to go to his room at a hotel, appellant "saw a white fellow duck down "neath the hood" of the car a block away and "thought he was a companion to the prowler that I had just called the officers out on and they had carried away." Appellant testified that he then "went into the church and got the pistol out of the drawer" and got in the Cadillac. He told his driver, Anderson, "Let's go back there and see if that's not the companion of that prowler they just carried away." Anderson backed the Cadillac past the Ford car, which had no markings. Appellant testified that he could see no one in the Ford, "they was laying down on the seat"; that he got out after passing, opened the door of the Ford and pointing the pistol told them to get out of the car with their hands up. Appellant was not aware of the fact that the "prowler" was in fact an undercover officer who was in the vicinity under orders of Officers Revill and Frazier, or that the unmarked Ford automobile a block away *629 was an official car and the white man he saw "duck down "neath the hood" or his companion were officers. He testified that the "prowler" was "fooling with" the church's Cadillac parked at the church and was "pushing the door closed to the car"; that while waiting for the police to arrive in response to his call he saw the "prowler" go across the street and duck down in some bushes. Appellant pointed out the "prowler" who was stooped behind an automobile parked in a private driveway across the street from the church and the patrolmen took him away in handcuffs without advising or giving appellant any reason to believe that the man was an officer. Appellant testified that when he saw the man duck down `neath the hood of the Ford he went back into the church and got the pistol and went to investigate, to see if he was a companion of the "prowler." He was correct in his suspicion that the occupants of the car and the man he called the police to arrest were companions, but learned for the first time after he drew his pistol and ordered the occupants of the Ford to get out with their hands raised that these companions were not intent upon harming him or the church, or taking the $5,000, but were officers engaged in the performance of their duties in enforcing the law. Appellant objected and excepted to the charge and to the court's definition of the term willfully. The evidence set out above demonstrates that the court's failure to require a finding by the jury that, in pointing the pistol at Jack Revill and ordering him out of the car with his hands raised, appellant acted with evil intent or malice as well as with a set purpose and design, deprived appellant of his defense and hence of a fair and impartial trial. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded. Steve Thomas

Hosty's interview with Edwin Steig is in CD 206 page 646. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10672&relPageId=649 Kaiser spelled his name wrong. Steve Thomas

Jim, I was trying to nail this down for another reason. From: Road to Dallas, by David Kaiser.page 318 The "Stieg" in question is Edward Stieg. He is being interviewed by FBI Agent, Hosty. The DRE bank meeting took place at 8:00 at night in a room "over" the bank. Stieg said he had attended the "public" meeting. Edwin Walker also attended this meeting I think this picture is from the earlier meeting in the afternoon for Spanish speaking persons. Judging from the cars parked outside, I think this picture was taken at ground level. This picture may still be from an Alpha 66 meeting and not a DRE meeting. I just don't know. Sylvia Odio said that her sister Annie had attended a DRE meeting.I was trying to figure out if one of these two women was her sister. Steve Thomas

David, I think this came up in a discussion about whether this picture came from an Alpha 66 meeting or a DRE meeting. On December 21, 1963, Anna Silveira of the DRE told FBI Agent James O'connor in Miami, FL. that two meetings of the DRE had been held in Dallas, TX on October 13, 1963. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=57746&search=%22bank_in+a+shopping+center+in+dallas%22#relPageId=24&tab=page One meeting for Spanish speaking people was held at 1:00 PM and was attended by about 70 people. A second meeting for English speaking people was held at 8:00 PM "in a conference room over a bank" and was attended by about 30 people. If you look out the windows of that picture, this appears to be at ground level in the middle of the day.. There seems to be more than 30 people, and to me, they appear to be Hispanic looking people. I would venture to say that this is the first meeting Anna Silveira talked about that took place at 1:00 PM. Steve Thomas

David, I don't know who Dalman is and can't tell you about 3114. On May 20, 1964, Manuel Rodriguez voluntarily appeared at the Dallas FBI offices and spoke to Wallace Heitman. He told Heitman that the members of SNFE met at bi-weekly meetings at 3126 Harlandale. (Although in his Report, Heitman spelled it Hollandale.) http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11481#relPageId=222&tab=page This Report was dictated on May 22nd and typed up on May 25, 1964. Oswald was seen going in and out of a house on Harlandale St. in Dallas. (I think the address was 3126, and he was seen at least once I believe. The source for this was Sheriff's Deputy Buddy Walthers in his after-action reports) See: http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/html/WH_Vol19_0276b.htm Walthers mistakenly gives the address as 3128 Harlendale. (wrong number and wrong spelling). In his 11/26/63 follow up Report, Deputy Sheriff, Buddy Walthers wrote that the Cubans who had been at the Harlandale house had moved out between seven days before the President was shot and one day after he was shot. See: http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/html/WH_Vol19_0276b.htm Steve Thomas

David, It was 3126 Harlandale. Steve Thomas

David, Here's a question for you... What was the name of the organization that Henry Wade gave out at Oswald's midnight press conference, and which Jack Ruby corrected him? What are the chances that Buddy Walthers and Henry Wade both made the same mistake? And, if not a mistake, what was the common source of information for both Walthers and Wade? Steve Thomas

Karl, If you go this site, https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/JFK_Assassination.html and scroll down the right hand side of the page, you will find the Commission Documents, and a whole lot more. Oswald's writings in CD 206 begin on page 226 here: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10673#relPageId=231&tab=page You can also find his handwritten diary in the Portal to Texas History here: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339322/m1/1/ Steve Thomas

John, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24916337?seq=1 Journal Article The Truth Is Out There: Citizen Sleuths from the Kennedy Assassination to the 9/11 Truth Movement KATHRYN S. OLMSTED John, Not all heroes write books. Steve Thomas

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Jim Looking at a few of the preceding, and following pages, it looks like the FBI was tracing long distances calls from the pay phone at Jerry Duncan's Enco Service Station on Zangs Blvd, across the street from Oswald's residence at 1026 N. Beckley. It looks like researchers were trying to determine if it was LHO, or someone else, who was making calls from that phone. Steve Thomas

Results of Summary Court-Martial of Lee Harvey Oswald July 9 1958 https://ncisahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Results-of-Summary-Court-Martial-of-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-July-9-1958.pdf This seems so wrong on so many levels When was the last time you ever heard of a Marine Private dumping a drink on his Sergeant, inviting him outside, and calling him yellow. No Marine Private I ever heard of – at least not one who expected to live very long. Oswald, the teetotaller Oswald? The same Oswald who used to get onto Marina because she drank wine? That Oswald? Steve Thomas

Sandy, If the shooters had spotters who may, or may not have been in radio contact via walkie talkies, there would be no need for umbrellas or anything else. Over and above that, any umbrella man or dark complected man would be out of view to any sniper looking through a scope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU69lMs2FMg Steve Thomas

Larry, http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/hosty.htm Mr. HOSTY. On October 3, 1963, I received a communication from our New Orleans office advising that Lee Oswald and his wife Marina Oswald had left the New Orleans area a short time before. According to the communication, Marina Oswald, who was at that time 8 months pregnant, had left New Orleans with her small child, 2-year-old child, in a station wagon with a Texas license plate driven by a woman who could speak the Russian language. Lee Oswald had remained behind and then disappeared the next day. I was requested to attempt to locate Lee and Marina Oswald. Mr. STERN. Did the request come to you personally? Mr. HOSTY. To the Dallas office, and the case was then reopened to me. Dallas was an auxiliary office to New Orleans, and it was reopened. I had previously handled the case. It was reopened and assigned to me. Mr. STERN. And by what office? Mr. HOSTY. By the Dallas office, reopened the case in Dallas. Mr. STERN. By the supervisor? Mr. HOSTY. Supervisor of our squad, yes. Mr. STERN. And what squad is that? Mr. HOSTY. The internal security squad. Mr. STERN. What did you do on October 3 and thereafter? Mr. HOSTY. Well, there wasn't too much to go on, just a woman driving a station wagon with a Texas license plate. I went to the immigration office to check to see if they had any information, tried to determine if we had any persons around the area, I tried to think of anyone who spoke Russian who had a station wagon and who was a friend of Marina Oswald's. I went to Fort Worth and checked in his old neighborhood, Lee and Marina's old neighborhood, attempted to locate Robert Oswald, his brother, and determined that Robert Oswald had left the Fort Worth area, had moved to Arkansas. I then sent out a lead to the Little Rock office which covered the area of Malvern, Ark., where Robert Oswald was living, and requested that he be contacted to see if he knew where Lee Oswald was. Then I continued checking through the Dallas and Fort Worth area attempting to determine if the Oswalds had returned to the Dallas or Fort Worth areas. Mr. HOSTY. I then received a communication on the 25th of October from the New Orleans office advising me that another agency had determined that Lee Oswald was in contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City in the early part of October 1963. Mr. STERN. Did they tell you anything else? Mr. HOSTY. No. Just very briefly that there had been a contact. Mr. STERN. Did this increase your effort to find him? Mr. HOSTY. Very much so, yes. I became curious then. Shortly thereafter, on the 29th of October, I received another communication from the New Orleans office advising that they had a change of address for Lee and Marina Oswald to 2515 West Fifth Street, Irving, Tex. Mr. STERN. You received that information when? Mr. HOSTY. On the 29th of October. Mr. STERN. What did you do then? Mr. HOSTY. Well, I went to--I checked the Dallas crisscross. Unfortunately Irving is a suburb outside of Dallas and people residing in Irving are not covered in the city directory, so it is very difficult to determine who resides at a given address in Irving. I then went out on the same date, on the 29th of October 1963, to the neighborhood of 2515 West Fifth Street, made inquiry at 2519 West Fifth Street, made what we call a pretext interview, and talked to a woman, whose name at that time I didn't know, but who I now know to be Mrs. Dorothy Roberts. Steve Thomas

Bob, Thank you. These are fascinating. Steve Thomas

Ray Hawkins and T.A. Hutson both participated in the apprehension of Lee Oswald. Ray Hawkins call sign was 211 T.A. Hutson call sign was 284 J.D. Tippit is shot. Multiple units respond. A search of the houses in the vicinity is undertaken. The search of the houses proves fruitless. A suspect is spotted at the Library. Multiple units respond. Sometime between the search of the houses and the sighting of a suspect at the Library, Hawkins and Hutson make a stop at a Mobile Gas Station at 10th and Beckley to make a phone call, supposedly in response from a request from Dispatch to call in. I do not find any reference to this phone call in the Dispatch tapes. Is it odd that Tippit and Hawkins are making phone calls on a landline telephone right around this same time period? And what was Hutson doing that he burned out the clutch on his motorcycle? Either the motorcycles in the DPD were poorly maintained, or Hutson was doing some pretty wild riding. (Hawkins) “We had just finished the accident at this time and I was driving an officer, Baggett, and I proceeded to Oak Cliff to the general vicinity of the call after checking out with the dispatcher, stating that we were proceeding in that direction.” http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/hawkins.htm From the Dispatch tapes - Between 1:16 and 1:19 PM: DIS 211: 211. DIS: 211. 211: We're clear, Industrial and Stemmons. We'll go out there. DIS: 10-4, 211 "We arrived in Oak Cliff and there were several squads in the general vicinity of where the shooting had occurred---different stories had come out that the person was--the suspect had been seen in the immediate vicinity." Mr. BALL. Did you go to 10th and Patton? Mr. HAWKINS. We drove by 10th and Patton--we didn't stop at the location. Mr. BALL. Where did you go then? Mr. HAWKINS. We circled the vicinity around Jefferson and Marsalis and in that area, talking to several people on the street, asking if they had seen anyone running up the alley or running down the street, and then they received a call, or I believe Officer Walker put out a call that he had just seen a white man running to the Oak Cliff Library, at which time we proceeded to this location. Officer Hutson had gotten into the car with us when we arrived in Oak Cliff, and there were three of us in the squad car--Officer Baggett, Officer Hutson, and myself. Mr. BALL Hutson is also a patrolman? Mr. HAWKINS. Yes, sir. Mr. BALL. A uniformed patrolman? Mr. HAWKINS. Yes, sir; he is a three-wheel officer. (Hutson) http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/hutson.htm Mr. HUTSON. As I was being released, (From Elm and Houston) I heard the radio dispatcher come on the radio and give a Signal 19, and that a shooting involving a police officer in the 500 block of East Jefferson... Mr. BELIN. When you heard this news about this shooting in Oak Cliff----by the way, where was your regular station ordinarily? Mr. HUTSON. I worked west of Vernon on Jefferson. Mr. BELIN. Is that Oak Cliff? Mr. HUTSON. Yes; that is West Jefferson Boulevard. Mr. BELIN. What did you do after you heard about the shooting? Mr. HUTSON. I got on my motorcycle and I proceeded down through the triple underpass and up onto R. L. Thornton Freeway to Oak Cliff. Mr. BELIN. Where did you go? Mr. HUTSON. I exited off Jefferson and went to the 400 block of East Jefferson Boulevard and began a search of the two-story house behind 10th Street where the officer had been shot. Mr. BELIN. All right. Mr. HUTSON. And after we searched this area, I got in the squad car with Officer Ray Hawkins, who was driving, and Officer Baggett was riding in the back seat. Mr. BELIN. Why did you get inside the squad car? Mr. HUTSON. The clutch on my motorcycle was burned out and I couldn't get any speed and I just barely made it over there, and I didn't know whether I would be able to start and go or not. Mr. BELIN. Then what did you do? Mr. HUTSON. We proceeded west on 10th Street to Beckley, and we pulled into the Mobil gas station at Beckley and 10th Street. Mr. BELIN. That is a Mobil gas station? Mr. HUTSON. Yes. Mr. BELIN. All right. Mr. HUTSON. And Officer Ray Hawkins and Officer Baggett went inside of the Mobil gas station. And I am not positive, but I think they used the telephone to call in. I am not positive, but I believe they gave us a call for us to call. I mean their number to call in. At the time they were in the service station, I heard the dispatcher give a call that the suspect was just seen running across the lawn at the Oak Cliff Branch Library at Marsalis and Jefferson. I reached over and blew the siren on the squad car to attract the officers' attention, Officers Baggett and Hawkins, and they came running out of the service station and jumped in the car, and I told them to report to, I can't remember, Marsalis and Jefferson, the suspect was seen running across the lawn at the library. From the Dispatch tapes - 1:34 PM 22: They've got him holed up, it looks like, in this building over here at the corner. 22: (?) ...were you be? 85: 85, library. DIS: 10-4. 211: 211 out at that location. DIS: 10-4. Hawkins is circling the area around Jefferson and Marsalis (where the Library is). (which is about six blocks east of where Tippit has been shot) He heads west and picks up Hutson in the neighborhood of 10th and Patton. They continue west on 10th till they get to Beckley and 10th, where they make a phone call at a Mobil Gas Station. While they're in there on a phone call, Dispatch announces that a suspect has been seen at the Library, so they head back east again. Why didn't Hawkins mention this phone call when he testified before the Warren Commission on April 3, 1964? http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/hawkins.htm Why did he and Baggett fail to mention this phone call in their after-action reports in the DPD JFK Archives? The first six lines of E.R. Baggett's and Ray Hawkins' Reports on the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald in the DPD Archives read word for word. Neither mention the stop at the Mobil Gas Station. Baggett: Box 1, Folder# 4, Item# 13 http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box1.htm Hawkins: Box 2, Folder# 7, Item# 18 http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box2.htm Why didn't Hawkins call in to Dispatch that he was “out of service”? Why did it take both Hawkins and Baggett to make this phone call? E.R. Baggett is a patrolman temporarily assigned to the DPD Special Service Bureau. http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pdf/WH19_Batchelor_Ex_5002.pdf Why did neither Hutson or Hawkins call in to headquarters notifying them that Hutson is now with Hawkins? If Hawkins is on the phone to headquarters, why does Hutson need to turn on the siren alerting Hawkins and Baggett that the suspect has been seen at the Library? Who are Hawkins and Baggett talking to? Why is there no record in the Dispatch tapes of this call to Hawkins to call in to Headquarters? Why didn't Hutson call in to Dispatch that his motorcycle was disabled and needed a tow truck? Why hasn't Hawkins' telephone call from the Mobil Gas Station received the same attention as Tippit's phone call from the Top Ten Record Store? What do you think of the idea that Tippit's call at the Top Ten Record Store and Hawkins' call at the Mobil Gas Station are related; as in "I can't find him.", or "He's not here.", meaning Oswald? From the account's I've read, Tippit was behaving erratically, and the stop at Top Ten was a rushed affair. A fellow officer has been shot. There is an armed and dangerous suspect on the loose. Hawkins responds to the Tippit shooting, but doesn't stop at 10th and Patton. He goes to the Library neighborhood at Jefferson and Marsalis and starts circling the neighborhood. He drives back to 10th and Patton, picks up Hutson, and then he and Baggett stop and make a phone call from a Mobil Gas Station at 10th and Beckley, leaving Hutson in the car. When Hutson blows the siren to let them know that a suspect has been seen at the Library, they go rushing back over there. Is it possible that Tippit and Hawkins were calling the same people? Ray Hawkins: From Mary Ferrell Database Dallas Police Department Patrolman. Friend of Jack Ruby. Name in Crafard's notebook (Ruby's). https://www.maryferrell.org/php/marysdb.php?id=4658 DPD Archives Box 18, Folder# 6, Item# 13 p. 2 http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/box18.htm Ray Hawkins 5119 Live Oak TA 1 5196 Had a membership card to Carousel Club. Said he had been in there 2 or 3 times and that Ruby said he would give him a permanent pass but never received. Memo from Westbrook to Curry dated December 12, 1963 WC Hearings and Exhibits 25H168 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1141#relPageId=198&tab=page However: There was a permanent pass to the Carousel Club issued to a Ray Hawkins at City Hall. Pass# 227 CE 1322 p. 502 https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1317#relPageId=532&tab=page When Kenneth Croy testified to the Warren Commission on March 26, 1964, he said, Mr. GRIFFIN. Where do you live? Mr. CROY. 1658 Glenfield Dallas, Tex. “Mr. GRIFFIN. What is your occupation? Mr. CROY. I have several. Mr. GRIFFIN. Let's have them in order. Mr. CROY. I am in the real estate business. I have a Mobil service station...” 1658 Glenfield is roughly a mile southwest of the Texas Theater posting by an unknown author in the ReopenKennedyCase Forum 1/29/2014 “Croy’s home by the way was 1658 Glenfield. This was the same street that J. D. Tippit lived on until 1961. Glenfield was also the same street that Carl Amos Mather used to live on a few blocks from Tippit’s house when they first became friends. For those unfamiliar with Mather he is connected to proceedings becuase a license plate number was taken down by garage mechanic T. F. White close to the Texas Theater immediately after Oswald’s arrest that was traced back to Carl Amos Mather’s car. The occupant of the car seen by White bore an uncanny resemblance to Lee Harvey Oswald and Carl Mather, when interviewed, told of his friendship with J. D. Tippit. Tippit's old house of 1919 Glenfield, even though he and his family no longer lived there in 1963, was still in his possession and the property was rented out As far as I'm aware it was never investigated who it was rented out to. Croy’s house was three blocks from the house Tippit owned. During his Warren Commission testimony it is interesting to note that Cro was not asked if he knew Officer Tippit”. .Are ivory-handled revolvers standard issue for a traffic cop? https://tvnooz.com/2013/11/12/killing-kennedy-the-cop-who-slapped-the-cuffs-on-lee-harvey-oswald/ Lee Harvey Oswald handcuffs valued at $250,000 http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/news/memorabilia/lee-harvey-oswald-handcuffs-valued-at-250-000/22042.page November 30, 2016 "The Dallas Police Department made its officers and detectives buy their own handcuffs, thus allowing Hawkins to retain his private property after the assassination." The lot is estimated to bring in $250,000 ahead of the December 3 close date. https://goldinauctions.com/Lee_Harvey_Oswald_Handcuffs_Used_to_Arrest_Oswald_-lot27299.aspx Oswald was bundled into a patrol car and taken downtown. Hawkins followed and then went about fulfilling the routine written reports and pertinent interviews. The handcuffs, no longer needed once Oswald was secure in the Dallas Police holding cells, were returned to Officer Hawkins. These are the handcuffs that captured President Kennedy’s assassin. The Smith & Wesson cuffs were originally issued to Officer Hawkins when he joined the Dallas Police Department in 1953. Bearing the serial number “38468”, Hawkins used these rare and iconic cuffs throughout his entire career and retained them after he left the force. The Smith & Wesson handcuffs remain a silent reminder of that fateful day in Dallas when the Nation changed forever. The handcuffs are accompanied by a signed and notarized affidavit from Ray Hawkins describing his actions on November 22, 1963 and the role these handcuffs played the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald. It is also noteworthy to mention that this is one of the very few significant JFK-Oswald items that is not in the National Archives. The Dallas Police Department made its officers and detectives buy their own handcuffs, thus allowing Hawkins to retain his private property after the assassination. https://goldinauctions.com/ItemImages/000027/27299c_lg.jpeg Ray Hawkins March 30, 1932 - November 16, 2015 http://www.restlandfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Ray-Hawkins-2/ T.A. Hutson worked Traffic Division Traffic Control Second Platoon 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pdf/WH19_Batchelor_Ex_5002.pdf Ray Hawkins worked Traffic Division Accident Prevention Bureau 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pdf/WH19_Batchelor_Ex_5002.pdf Obituary of Jean Hawkins http://www.newhopefh.com/obituaries/Jean-Hawkins-29640/#!/Obituary Steve Thomas

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http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/to-beat-covid_19-think-like-a-fighter-pilot To Beat COVID-19, Think Like a Fighter Pilot “COVID-19 is now squarely inside our collective OODA loop.” OBSERVE ORIENT DECIDE ACT "Boyd’s main strategic argument was that a faster, more maneuverable plane flown by pilots with quick reactions can overcome more powerful adversaries by “getting inside” their loop, changing the facts of the engagement so quickly the opponent can’t keep up. Boyd’s theories were integral to the development of the highly successful F-16 and F/A-18 aircraft, and the OODA loop model has since spread to other strategic realms like sports, politics, litigation, business, and crisis management.” Steve Thomas