Steve Thomas

I just got this (8/3/09) from a friend in Dallas: The apartment complex where Jack Ruby lived at 223 South Ewing Avenue is burning and has just gone to the third alarm. 1:11 p.m. It sounds like there are more less just containing the fire and taking a defensive mode. It apparently started in room 206 which was either Ruby's apartment or next door as I see one report stating he lived in 206 and another saying 207. Steve Thomas

Dave, I believe this was discussed at length on the Lancer Forum. Unfortunately the search function over there returns an internal server error. I believe that there is an affidavit on file somewhere from the officer who was called out of bed to come over and administer the test, but I can't remember his name. Ian Griggs might know. Steve Thomas

Robert, In 1958 - 1959, Jess Willard Lynch was the cook and manager of a boarding house owned by Bertha Cheek at 5212 Gaston St. in Dallas. He supposedly rented a room to two Cubans. One for 7 weeks and one for 4 weeks. See CD 1268. Steve Thomas

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On November 9, 1964 J. Edgar Hoover wrote a letter to J. Lee Rankin concerning the statements made by Sylvia Odio. In support of his letter, Hoover attached several FBI reports. One of those is an unsigned memo of an investigation that took place in Miami, FL on October 2, 1964. In that memo, Sylvia recalls that the Cuban families living in the Crestwood apartments would get together for social occasions and that on one occasion the son of "Masferrer" (and I'm not sure if she is saying the son of Kiki or Rolando) got into a fight with another individual that deteriorated into a general disturbance to which the police were called. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=130 It seems to me that I've seen reference to that fight before, but can't recall where. Does anyone know any more about this fight? Steve Thomas

"I am not in accord with Nixon. Nixon was more liberal than Kennedy or Johnson" Steve Thomas

1969 Interview with Robert K. Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the KKK. "The House Un-American Activities Committee was a left wing organization" http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/ Steve Thomas

Robert, I have this in my notes: “The Milteer Documents” by Harold Weisberg as printed in Frame Up by Harold Weisberg, 1971. Transcript of the discussion between Somerset and Milteer on November 10, 1963: Somerset: A man who killed two Negroes in Athens, GA “is from Chattanooga. He knows Brown, he knows all of them, his uncle is in the Klan there…. So he has been involved in quite a little bit of stuff, according to his story about Nashville, Chattanooga, and Georgia.” (Weisberg said that the Brown referred to is believed to be Jack H. Brown, who like Kenneth Adams who was implicated in the burning of a Freedom Riders bus). Weisberg wrote, “He [brown] operated a gas station in a Chattanooga suburb. He has been reported to be a “contact man” for the United White Party; to have arranged for the Klan to be entered into the Chattanooga softball series; to have been a NSRP presidential elector; to believe that the Klan needed a flag and to have offered to design it; to have died of a heart attack in 1965.” Somerset indicated that Brown, “intimated that he backed the bombings of killing the Negroes in Birmingham…” Steve Thomas

Bill, It's interesting. He had two brothers who were married to a woman named, "Olga". http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=690693 Steve Thomas

Ron, That's the kind of mistake for which I have to keep looking out? :-) Steve

Antti, Larry Sneed's, No More Silence contains a lot of oral history from the motorcycle policemen. If my memory serves me right, it was Stavis Ellis who told Larry about the high speeds going to Parkland and how the motorcycle cops were scared to death that the limousine was going to clip them in the rear. I think they hit speeds of close to 90 mph. At one point there was a railroad track , or maybe it was Industrrial Blvd that crossed Stemmons and both wheels of their motorcycles left the ground and they were flying through the air. As a side note, after some of them were relieved, they were kind of bummed out because they didn't have a job to do anymore and wound up guarding the corridors of the third floor of DPD headquarters. Steve Thomas

Bill, I think you can look at just about anybody who was in the Special Services Bureau, although some specialized in subversives, some in vice etc. You can find a list of them here: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=138 Around 11:00 PM on November 22nd, a cable was sent from The Commanding General U.S. Continental Army Command to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Strike Command in Fort Macdill, FL. This cable summarized a telephone call between a Captain Saxton in U.S. Strike Command and a Lieutenant Colonel Fons in the 4th Army Headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, TX. Part of the information in this phone call contained the following: "Assistant Chief Don Stringfellow, Intelligence Section, Dallas Police Department, notified 112th Intelligene Group, this Headquarters that information had been obtained from Oswald revealed he had defected to Cuba in 1959 and is card carrying member of Communist Party." (Stringfellow was a Detective, not an Assistant Chief) Steve Thomas

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John, CD 913 is a March 30, 1964 Report of Robert Gemberling. Included in this Report is information relative to the "Kill the Kennedy Klan" bumper sticker and persons receiving mail at an address in Garland. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=174 However, Gemberling's report INCLUDES the names of the people. The mail being reported on dates from late December and early January, 1964. Heitman's Report of April 29th is a copy of Gemberling's March 30th. Among the people receiving mail at 806 E. Monica Dr. were Raul Castro and Juan Quintana. The Rambler was owned by Raul Castro. (See Wallace Heitman’s interviews with Castro and Quintera.) See here for a Heitman interview of Raul Castro Baile: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=69112 See here for an interview of Juan Quintana Maya: http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=69111 FBI’s JFK Assassination File, Section 47 p. 66 http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...bsPageId=761400 is a 2/26/64 order from Hoover to Shanklin to investigate Castro and Quintana Among the Miscellaneous CIA Series, there is an unauthored FBI Report of the various anti-Castro groups in Dallas: JURE, 30th of November, Alpha 66-SNFE, etc. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=4 On pages 4 and 5 of that Report, Manuel Rodriguez Orcarberro furnished the following list of the present officers of SNFE. Among that list of people were Raul Castro and Juan Quintana. On May 25, 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.) (Where Oswald was said to have been seen) http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...p;relPageId=222 Why did you say the car was parked east north east of DPO? Steve Thomas

John, Can you tell me more about this car? Steve Thomas

Walter Potts passed away January 7th. He was Homicide Detective and searched Oswald's room at 1026 N. Beckley on the afternoon of 11/22/63. Steve Thomas

Michael, Do you know if your brother had any information about the planned assassination attempt in Chicago in early November of 1963? Steve Thomas

Pretty classy http://www.nerve.com/dispatches/nerveedito...ndex.asp?page=1 Steve Thomas

Wim, Other researchers have calculated that it was after 2:00 PM. When they got to the Dallas Police Headquarters, LHO was already there. Steve Thomas

Roy, Can you find a way to sort the Warren Commission sessions by date? Because, at least going by the Mary Ferrell site, there was no Executive Session on July 9th. They jump from June 23rd to September 18th. In volume 15 of the Hearings, the timing of interviews seems to jump from the testimony of Seth Kantor and William Crowe taken on June 2nd to the testimony of Dallas Police officers like Will Fritz, Charles Batchelor, Jesse Curry and Cecil Talbert taken on the days of July 13th and 14th. Steve Thomas

Bass, Billy Lee Born April 17, 1932 in Roane, TX to William & Gladys Bass, left this earth to serve & protect the Lord on October 24, 2008 in Mesquite, TX at the age of 76. Throughout his 26 years of service in the Dallas Police Department, Billy was one of few men who went from Patrol Officer up the ranks to #8 on the seniority list. He was handpicked by the city to be appointed to the county as Special Investigator for Henry Wade. Billy was also the 1st uniformed police officer to get the call on the JFK assassination and one of the last remaining survivors who was involved with the case. Billy is preceded in death by his 1st wife of 27 years, Wynell Bass; granddaughter, Samantha; and 1 sister. He is survived by his loving wife of 27 years, Dorothy Bass; children: Steve Bass & wife Marlene, Rick Bass & wife Jerri, Cheryl Sipriano & husband David, Tracy Bass & wife Sheryl; 9 grandchildren and 18 great- grandchildren. Visitation for Billy will be from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, October 26, 2008 at the funeral home. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Monday, October 27, 2008 at Laurel Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with the interment to follow. Steve Thomas

Robin, I think (stress think) that the man went into the RR yards, and she went to the front of the TSBD. I have looked for him in the Hughes film, but haven't spotted him yet. Steve Thomas

Lt. Carl Day of the Dallas Police ID Bureau died Thursday. He was 94. Steve Thomas

Robin, Do you think that what she is wearing on her head could account for the weird shape of the Black Dog Man's head? Steve Thomas