Ron Ecker

Larry, In the link below on the Cabana (later the Bill Decker Jail), it talks about the prisoners on the Stemmons side having "great downtown views." That would certainly suggest a good view of the freeway. http://www.dallashistory.org/cgi-bin/webbb...ig.pl?read=8163 Ron

Lee, I certainly think a scan of one document, for research purposes, out of a folder of notes and manuscripts would fall under the fair use doctrine. Ron Ecker

Lee, What is the source for this note from Cutler to Sprague and Sprague's comments? Thanks.

Larry, The Cabana Motel, where I believe Braden and some other shady characters stayed on the night of 11/21 and where I believe Ruby visited, was near Stemmons, was it not? As I recall it was near where Continental Ave/St met Stemmons. Did the motel have more than one floor? I'm wondering if it might not have been a perfect location for some motel guest(s) to be watching the freeway and set off a car bomb by remote control as the limo went by. I'm also reminded of the report that some men were seen sighting with rifles on Continental on the night of 11/20. I wonder how close to Stemmons and the motel they were.

Larry, I've finished your book. Great stuff. I have a question about Johnson, but not Lyndon Baines. In the Hargraves interview in your book, they talk about Robert Evan Johnson as someone who may have important papers, on stuff "that nobody ever even thought to cover up" (p. 277). Hemmings is said to believe that Johnson was the famous "Raoul" in the King assassination. Johnson was also involved with Hall and Sturgis in "burning" Hemmings's Dallas connections (p. 279). Hargraves says that Johnson's files would lead to one Rita Wilson, "who has the pictures of just about everyone in the camp in those days" (p. 305). So my question is, what do we know about this Robert Evan Johnson with this treasure trove of stuff, a character I had never heard of till reading your book? I've looked for him in other books, but the closest I've found is Robert Emmett Johnson in the book Deadly Secrets. This Johnson was "a paramilitary journalist and mercenary schemer who had once been on Trujillo's payroll" (p. 291). And coincidentally (?) he worked in Montreal with a man named Raul Dagnais, in a plot against Duvalier.