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Agree 100% JF. And I guarantee you a many episode anthology series with the theme you suggest would have a rock solid viewer base. Easily bigger and more loyal than 80% of any of the others we have seen. Even though the number of Americans who actually lived through the JFK presidency era and still relate to his name, his charisma and the shock and sadness of his murder are a small minority now, there is just too much fascinating content to his story. Thousands of colorful, mysterious, intriguing, nutty, dangerous and even physically attractive and sexy side stories and characters. One of the main and most important aspects of such a series would of course be as you stated; the over-all aftermath of JFK's murder on us as a nation and society. I know that as a 12 year old on 11,22,1963 I was not so young that JFK's killing did not shake my perception of reality in so many ways. Even though I was unable to articulate this at all at that age. What shook me 10X more however was when I watched ( on live nationally broadcast TV ) sleazy Dallas strip joint owner Jack Ruby leap from the press crowd in the Dallas PD basement to blow Lee Harvey's guts apart while Oswald was being walked right next to Ruby and handcuffed to two police guards on his side in a room full of dozens of other armed Dallas PD personnel. As I've posted many times here, I was alone in my bedroom and watching this on an old junky black and white TV that was going to be thrown out when my stepfather finally bought a new color TV. I salvaged it instead. When Ruby leaped out and fired into Oswald ( it was a loud shot even on TV ) I spontaneously and unthinkingly jumped up and off my bed and began shouting "NO WAY, NO WAY,NO WAY!" Over and over I kept shouting this to no one but myself. Even at that young age, every fiber of my gut, heart and brain instincts told me this murder of handcuffed Oswald right inside the Dallas PD building was just "too" improbable. Too suspicious. Too impossibly wrong. A set up. I knew or sensed even then that Oswald himself was the "only" main key we all had to ever know the truth about the JFK event. His killing instantly told you we would now never know what the truth was. It was a deep sickening realization. I also knew ( like millions of other TV watching Americans for sure ) that Oswald was one of the most threatened persons ( if not the most threatened ) in our history. The TV newscasts and newspapers were reporting this fact continuously. From that minute ( Ruby shooting Oswald ) on, I was suspicious of the whole JFK murder event. And every other rational person seeing this should have been too. An episode of an anthology as you perceive, focused just on the Oswald murder in the Dallas PD basement should show a montage of simulated TV audience shock reactions just like mine all across the country. To highlight the power of the suspicion causing trauma that event seared into the minds and guts of millions of Americans just like me. Because that event alone triggered the greatest wave of mistrust in our government ever. Initially more than JFK's shooting death which we did not see " live and in person." Mistrust that was incredibly strong ( unprecedented ) for decades after, and even though us live TV witnesses are biting the dust more and more, there is still mistrust with our second generation probably from the suspicion born stories shared by their mothers and fathers about that event and time period. "Hearing and reading" about JFK's murder on 11,22,1963 was shocking to the max. But actually witnessing Oswald being loudly shot ( the shot and Oswald's loud pain shout ) in the gut on live national TV was more powerful in it's traumatizing effect on tens of millions of Americans. Traumatizing with great suspicion and doubt. If America had actually been shown the Zapruder film the night of 11,22,1963 or even the next day, the trauma effect would have been 10X deeper than just reading and hearing about it. Getting back to an anthology series, I know the audiences would be held in a strong grip and get hooked on watching each show. Mainly because the whole incredible story is true and so full of the most colorful and intriguing characters and drama a script writer could ever dream up. Heck, whether or not the documentary "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" was wantonly put together and overly dramatic with an ominous and maybe a little hokey scoring accompaniment I still found it so compelling I had to watch every episode. I still think the TMWKK has greater value and credibility that it's detractors. If even half of what the interviewees shared is true, it's a gold mine imo. And imagine if this documentary had never been made. And we never got to see and hear what these 1st, 2nd and 3rd hand witnesses saw, heard and experienced regards the JFK event and all those suspect characters attached to it. The funeral home director and the late night FBI visit with Oswald's postmortem body. I could list 50 more like him and his individual story. Jack Ruby had so much intrigue movies were made just about him. Books written just about him. One anthology episode would not be near sufficient to cover big Jack. Let us see Jack Ruby being sent to Cuba to personally pass a message to one of the highest ranking Mafia members in the country, Santos Trafficante in a Castro jail cell. And weigh that fact against the constant proclamations that Ruby was just a nobody running a constant bill owing and stripper pay shorting joke of a sleazy strip joint who's only Mafia connection was probably passing on some small gambling operation profits to the local Dallas mob folks. I hope such a series like you suggest JF happens. The JFK murder truth is no less important now than 60 years ago. It changed our lives and our nation's and our society's course way too much to simply wave it off as something that isn't still majorly important because it happened so long ago.

Roger Stone. Political Dirty Trickster/ Dandy Extraordinaire. Imagine being in the "Who's Who" annals with that one main epitaph. Wrote a JFK assassination book "The Man Who Killed Kennedy" based mostly on generic takes from already published authors and an end of life confession ( I was a bench warmer/LBJ/Cord Meyer claim ) by E. Howard Hunt. And a second book "Stone's Rules" "How To Win At Politics." A "how to" book on sabotaging political opponents through any means possible no matter how unethical, immoral and illegal. Sports the largest Nixon facial rendition tattoo in history, covering his entire upper back which he proudly displays at every occasion if given the slightest opening to do so. Loves wearing "Dandy" type apparel such as Bowler hats, hugely oversized round shaped glasses, loud and flamboyant color and design suits with pocket scarfs, Italian leather boot type shoes, etc. Known also for his unusual shaped head with seems quite pointed with an extremely flattened back. Friend/advisor/confidant of Donald Trump. Pardoned by Trump immediately after being charged with crimes. Dandy A dandy is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance, in his cult of the Self. A dandy could be a self-made man who strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background, especially in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain.

The brave, courageous and very often great personal time, effort and even expense sacrifice truth seeking effort by thousands of concerned and dedicated Americans and even those in other countries, into the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations ( and always against constant powerful and organized resistance and even personal risks to those most committed to this effort ) has produced this incredibly important side benefit. This righteous truth and justice seeking effort journey ( all self-motivated ) has led us to discover quite unexpectedly truly ominous dark secret doors and rooms that when opened reveal a substantially powerful and influential nefarious group world outside of and unchecked by our elected government. And whose agendas and activities sometimes violated basic human rights and even constitutional law beyond our every day average citizen sense of normal and moral reality and imagination. This thread's content is just one of those dark secret doings we have uncovered and exposed. Truly frightening stuff. Through the JFK assassination research effort we have also discovered the true depth of power corruption in this country during and after the JFK, MLK and RFK events. Secret agendas and actions by no constitutional oversight secret groups. Extremely powerful and well funded beyond our belief. The agencies? JFK and RFK adversaries. JFK wanted to scatter them to the winds. Of course organized crime, especially their working with these secret agencies with mutual agendas. Wild Bill Harvey respected Mafioso Johnny Roselli ( he has my back ) more that anyone connected to JFK and RFK? Corporate interests. LBJ friendly and generous with big government contracts. Main stream media corruption at the highest levels with planted journalists and editors and owners. Texas oil ( wealthiest men on Earth at that time) and also tight ( Murchison's Del Charro motel )with organized crime. Huge funding of the most extreme right wing JFK hating groups such as the JBS and the Minute Men? Hoover and organized crime? LBJ and his personal shady business doings and his association with the "real" king of Texas Ed Clark. JFK and RFK hating segregationist groups with loads of money and influence and widespread support through large membership citizen groups...millions of Americans! White Council and the KKK? Hot headed JFK hating Cubans who probably cheered when they heard of his death. Even military corruption. Chief of staff generals who hated JFK for putting them into their places when they tried to bully or intimidate him with agendas and opinions that rattled JFK's senses of their own sanity. One great truth we have discovered in this JFK truth seeking effort with no doubt now is how much more corrupted we ( America ) were in JFK's time and well beyond. By nefarious wealthy and powerful groups ( outside of our elected government ) who exerted more control over our lives than we ever dared imagine. JFK, MLK and RFK were all done in by this massive multi-tentacled corruption alliance in it's entirety, imo anyway. Dark, dark room and agenda discoveries for sure. Eisenhower in his final MIC speech was trying to inform us about this reality to the extent of the ever growing corporate influence state versus a common good, average citizen rights defending one our forefathers sought. Don't you think? Thank goodness for our intrepid life long dedicated and sacrificing JFK truth seeking heroes. Besides their JFK truth discoveries, they've gifted us with much more than we ever knew or imagined regards digging up and shining light on the true "dark agenda" history and state of our country, how it has hurt us as a nation and society and the probable make up of these most powerful nefarious influences in our lives since 11,22,1963.

Just thought I'd post this part of Lee's mother Marguerite Oswald's initial Warren Commission testimony. "So then I went back to Crowell, Tex., and I was not satisfied in my mind because the way they lived. They only had a two- bedroom house. As you know, Robert has two children. And there was another couple with another child.So Lee immediately began looking for work.So I decided that I would quit this job and help the children all I could. So I did. I gave notice. And I came to Fort Worth, and I rented an apartment at the Rotary Apartments, which is on West 7th and Summit. And Lee and Marina then came to live with me.Mr. RANKIN. How long did they stay at Robert's?Mrs. OSWALD. They stayed at Robert's approximately 2 or 3 weeks, sir. So then they came to live with me. While there, I said to Lee I am ahead of my story. Lee and Marina had sent me wonderful gifts, and I have the gifts, from Russia. A box of tea, very fine tea, a Russian scarf, pure linen napkins, embroidered with my initial, a box of candy for Christmas that has a Russian Santa Claus on it. >>> I said to Lee, "Lee, I want to know one thing. Why is it you decided to return back to the United States when you had a job in Russia, and as far as I know you seemed to be pretty well off, because of the gifts that you have sent me. And you are married to a Russian girl, and she would be better off in her homeland than here. I want to know." <<< He said, >>> "Mother, not even Marina knows why I have returned to the United States.<<< And that is all the information I ever got out of my son." >>> "Not even Marina knows why I have returned to the United States." <<< We all know of Lee Oswald's mother's extremely aggressive mother's bias in promoting and defending her son's innocence. Mixed with her pushy, bossy nature she was a very unpleasant and off putting person. Still, I can't dismiss this intriguing quote she recited and attributed to her son ( she WAS right there with him 1 on 1 ) any more than hundreds of other contradictory and suspicious thought provoking ones shared by countless other's in Oswald's world. The Oswald enigma continues.

Yes GD. Everything either makes sense or it doesn't depending on whether Oswald did the JFK shooting or did not. And/or if he was somehow involved or he wasn't. Did Oswald shoot DPD officer J.D. Tippit? Brutally with over-kill shots? If so, why? I know I am just restating the most basic 59 year old questions and thoughts that a beginning JFK event student would ask. But sometimes, even us older long time students fall back to these almost out of years of circular examination and contemplation with no definitive answers frustration? Kind of a "let us start from the very beginning" reboot? Hoping that in so doing, maybe one can see or find something revealing that was somehow missed? I'm sure many older JFK truth seekers do this from time to time. Worthy of posting? I don't know.

Puzzling that Oswald was trying to flee for his life after walking away from the TXSBD but had no specific place at all to go? He had absolutely no escape plan after he supposedly shot JFK from the TXSBD except to take public transportation back to his room, arm himself and then take off again walking quickly down nearby streets? To where? It was so irrational and no thought spontaneous. Suspiciously so. Was Oswald that dumb that he didn't have an escape plan after doing something he knew would instantly create a massive man hunt by hundreds of trigger happy police? He had an escape plan for the Walker shooting. Oswald wanted to live not die. You would think he would have had a better escape plan than the mindless one he tried. Plus, he gave Marina all his cash handy money the night before. Having $150 dollars ( easy $1,500 in today's dollars ) in your pocket back then sure might have helped in a more thought out after JFK survival plan. Was Oswald's entire effort a suicidal one? Like he knew he would be killed soon after the event. But, he has a last minute change of heart and decides "aww heck" I might as well at least try to get away."? He ends up in the downtown store area and again tries to evade capture and death by ducking into a theater? Guess Oswald wasn't suicidal. But for a guy who was fairly street smart his escape plan was the worst and most mindlessly meandering and risky anyone could figure.

Maybe big man Trump just needed extra toilet paper so he grabbed whatever documents he could for this? LBJ used to leave his bathroom door open while still conversing with some of his Oval Office visitors. They could hear his ... doings? Egads! And don't forget Dallas FBI agent James Hosty following his boss's orders and dumping Oswald file papers down their toilets as well, right after Ruby whacked LHO.

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Shaw became poor? Living in some middle class apartment somewhere with spartan furniture and loud neighbors on the other side of his walls? Shaw had no pension? Others didn't pay his legal fees? Wasn't he close to retirement age at that time anyway? Shaw lost his reputation? Now there's a totally subjective debate. He wasn't invited anymore to the highest social circle events? Was he avoided by previous friends? Sounds like had never had any "real" close friends anyway. Many saw Shaw as a victim, even a hero. If he felt repercussions from homosexual inferences that came out in the trial ( S&M whips, chains and black hood found in his home ) you could say this was unfair. I haven't studied how his life changed after his trial in the income and lifestyle department so I can't say for sure how much he lost in that realm. Guy Bannister and David Ferry also took huge hits to their reputations, even without trials. However, when you are investigating one of the greatest and most important crimes against our nation and society in our history and it was reported by many people that these specific people may have been in contact with the main guilt labeled suspect you have no choice but to dig deeper into their backgrounds and activities even with the risk of exposing personal things about them that may effect their public reputations. In this case and context with Shaw, Ferry, Bannister etal ... you have no choice if you have committed to the full truth - imo anyway.

Trump law breaking reveal number 1,476 ... House oversight panel chairwoman Carolyn Maloney on Thursday said she was "deeply concerned" the records were not promptly turned over to the National Archives when Trump's term ended in January 2021 "and that they appear to have been removed from the White House in violation of the Presidential Records Act." Maloney said she was also concerned by recent media reports that Trump "repeatedly attempted to destroy presidential records, which could constitute additional serious violations" of the law, which requires the preservation of written communications related to the president's official duties. Separately, a report on Thursday said that White House staff periodically found documents clogging Trump's toilet in the White House during his tenure. "Staff in the White House would periodically find the toilet clogged" and would then find "wads of clumped up, wet printed paper ... either notes or some other piece of paper that they believe he had thrown down the toilet," in his bathroom, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN, citing reporting in her forthcoming book and adding it was unclear what types of documents were found. In a statement, Trump acknowledged the boxes of records were transported to the Archives after "discussions" he called "collaborative" and said he had been told he "was under no obligation" to hand over any White House materials, though he did not say who gave him that directive.

Agree totally JB. Blacks voted for Big Jim. I think they sensed he wasn't a generational deep South racist in the way you described them. I also don't think Garrison was any more homophobic than most white Southern males during that time and probably less so. And don't forget Garrison was charged with sham crimes himself later on. Pure harassment and get back for his Shaw indictment. If Shaw's trial was unfair, what do you call Garrison's phony charges one? Like Shaw, Garrison was also acquitted right away. Every time I read "Poor Clay Shaw" postings I cringe. Garrison lost his marriage in great part because of his massive time and energy commitment to his JFK/Oswald investigation. What did Clay Shaw really lose because of Garrison's charge against him and the resulting trial? Shaw was a long time highly paid person ( by whom is not certain ) who lived a very grand, indulged and privileged life. Beautiful antique filled living quarters, fancy expensive cars, first class international travel, the finest apparel and probably dining ... butler too? Unlike Shaw, Jim Garrison never lied about his background and true political leanings which in many ways were old fashioned patriotic conservative. And how important is it to anyone who cares about the JFK truth and wanting to know as much as they can about the person labeled as his killer - Lee Harvey Oswald - and his background and motivations including his suspiciously highly visible political activity life in NO in the months just before he moved back to the Dallas area? In the greater scope of the JFK assassination of which Lee Oswald was charged, was the information Garrison's investigations uncovered and revealed about him not important? Not at all or even just a little bit? If Jim Garrison never existed, think of what we would "never know" about Oswald in that time period. Practically nothing. No one else in this country would've ever picked up this truth seeking mantel and done any meaningful investigation. There would just be one deep dark whole missing from the Oswald background truth seeking story.

Makes sense. Driving Oswald to Clinton ( not quite sure of the town name ) so Oswald could register to help himself find work and then sitting in his black fancy car parked nearbye where he was seen by some locals while Oswald was in line to do so is a little too close for such a higher up don't you think?

The promoting of these aggressive political and social protest events with strong violence potential is Trump's and his worked up cult worshipping follower's trademark now. Trump keeps pushing this dangerous consequences envelope to the most extreme edges and ever more brazenly. It's Dr. Strangelove madness! Even sadistic. Like a person that likes to start brawls in a bar or wherever, because the fighting action turns him on. Yet, even more ominous is that half the country ( blind Trump followers ) thinks all of this is okay and even support it! Without realizing how dangerous these violent, nation dividing actions are and how much it is threatening the entire fabric of our democratic republic! And the Republican members of Congress and the Senate who condone and even defend these Trump inflamed and encouraged rebellious events are equally responsible for their nation and democracy damaging consequences.

I assume the Dallas PD back then was a pretty tough place to be interrogated.

The man is supremely self-serving, self-obsessed, amoral, immoral and completely void of "any" ethical conscience throughout his inner core to a total sociopathic degree. Kinzinger: Trump was the 'worst president America has ever ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elIg5r8GpqE Speaking out after being censured by the Republican National Committee, Rep. Kinzinger (R-IL) shares with New Day what he will tell his son about former pres...

I listen to all of your posted podcast interviews in their entirety. Am taking a break at the one hour mark of this one. Always interestingly informative, thought provoking and entertaining as well. Laughed heartily at your analogy of the Trump propaganda machine's desperate damage control Orwellian alternate reality plantings into the main stream media regards the very violent January 6 coup attempt as "legitimate political discourse" being as absurdly ridiculous as "a tail gate party that got out of hand" or "just tourist milling about." Ha! I encourage every forum member to listen to your podcast interviews. They are really missing out if they don't.

That Sixth Floor Museum "living history" interview of Robinson? They really had him sit for this? Did Robinson retell the story you mentioned in your last post? The DPD basement bathroom story? Is there a website for the museum where they list all their interviews and provide access to them? Is this Museum interview of Robinson on You Tube?

Greg, Arnold Rowland was an excellent witness. They could not impeach him and his testimony. Carolyn Walthers shared several very specific details of her "men in the windows" statements. Interesting and important ones imo. I do think she got the floor number wrong. Even she equivocated on this...saying it was the 3rd or maybe the fourth floor? Do you know how easy it is to get multi-story building floor numbers wrong. Some miss the first floor in their count. Others just don't make the count instantly in their minds. A two or three story building maybe so, but 6 to 7 or higher? Walther's sighting story mentioned two men. Neither of dark complexion. One even had on a brown suit coat! Have you ever seen the photos of Harold Norman and or Junior Jarman sticking their heads outside of their 5th floor open window? No mistaking their skin color. And Jarman and Norman and their third buddy sure weren't wearing a brown suit coat that day. Walther's also mentioned the window abutting her men with guns sighting one as dirty enough to be somewhat obscured. Wasn't the window next to the 6th floor snipers window truly dirty like that? I will always not just believe what Rowland and Walthers shared regards their TXSBD building window sightings, but their good and honest integrity as well.

Interesting points for sure. Agree with your take on Mae Brussel's "Last Words Of Lee Harvey Oswald" compilation. Oswald lied a lot. We know that. But without an official notary record or tape recorded record, we can never be sure that what his interrogators presented for the record was totally honest, and "especially" what they may have left out. All we know for sure is everybody left in the higher power and control chain after JFK was removed breathed a huge sigh of relief over Oswald's whacking. Fritz, Curry, Mayor Cabell and all the way to LBJ and Hoover for sure as well imo. Unlike average American's who felt no relief from Oswald's killing. Instead, they felt sickened with ominous suspicion and doubt...and cheated. Cheated from finding out what Oswald may have shared to the world about what he was about and what he knew. The average American felt Oswald was all we had and the most important piece of evidence in getting to the truth of the JFK murder. Losing that evidence right inside the DPD building while handcuffed to guards was simply gut wrenching, even nauseating. And the birth of the greatest and longest lasting societal mistrust event in our history. If Oswald ever stated to Fritz he was in anyway connected to "any" of the intel agencies ( including even part time informant work for the FBI in New Orleans ) Fritz must have just about had a heart attack. "STOP!" "Tell us no more! If Oswald mentioned anything like this in his interrogations, more than anything else he did, he sealed his immediate death sentence by doing so. Even while in DPD custody! Fritz had more to know about Oswald than anyone else after sitting and interrogating him for hours and days. Yet, he shared the least. I too feel that Fritz's complete silence was motivated by personal and family safety fear. Someone much higher up the power and control chain would of course have told Fritz to never reveal what Oswald may have shared in this regard. Heck, we know now we already had much held back about Oswald by other investigative agencies in the days, weeks and months following Oswald's murder. James P. Hosty kept from the Warren Commission the fact that under his boss's orders he personally destroyed certain portions of their Oswald file as soon as Ruby whacked him. Catholic Hosty violated his sworn hand on the bible "The Truth, WHOLE TRUTH and Nothing But The Truth. So Help Me God" oath he took just before he testified to the WC. Hosty keeping his and his agency's actions of destroying any part of their Oswald file info hidden was clearly an act of destruction of evidence and dishonored and violated the "Whole Truth" part of his oath to the WC. Hosty's oath of loyalty to his employer superseded his bible sworn truth telling oath to the WC and to "the American people." Since by "selective and purposeful omission" Hosty didn't tell the WC the "whole" truth about what he and his employer knew about and had on Oswald. And because of that proven and admitted oath dishonoring deception by Hosty it's totally reasonable to believe that Hosty and his employer knew and held back "even more" about Oswald than just the destruction of what ever part or even whole file they had on him.

"Legitimate Political Discourse." I think the creators of this perverse Orwellian misnomer were laughing themselves when they presented it to the Trump organization for media use in their super desperate campaign of self-preservation, alternate reality pushing craziness. Laughing at how millions of Trump cult followers will probably parrot this ridiculous false reality sound bite no matter how crazy stupid it is and how crazy stupid it makes them sound and look when doing so. What's next? T-Shirts and bumper stickers with: "I HEART THE JANUARY 6 PATRIOTS" ? "RIGHT ON JAN 6 RIOTERS!" ?

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I was 12 on the morning of 11,22,1963. Just before 11:00 am or so ( California time ) I was in physical education class and playing basketball on the outdoor asphalt courts when fellow student John Norman came running out from the main junior high school buildings to tell our PE teachers they had to end the class and bring us kids back into the school. We did so, re-dressed into our regular clothes and were told to report to our home rooms. There was a strange apprehensive silence all around. I can still remember seeing teachers crying. By 11:30 am our entire junior high school was shut down and us kids were sent home. Walking down to and through our small downtown area, which was deserted of traffic but with business doors open where you could hear radio and TV broadcasts, I sensed the ominous sadness of the moment and continued on walking another mile to our home where my mom was glued silently to the TV. I would surmise that probably most of the rest of the country was probably experiencing this same shocked, saddened, disturbed and confused thought and feeling experience. But it was a quiet reaction scene. Not much talking and no talk of suspicion and conspiracy at that time. We were all just glued to the TV. With some reading of newspaper headline stories. Even my brutish 6 ft 3 in. - 250 lbs. normally boozed up, raging, cursing and wife beating step-father (who hated JFK with a murderous passion) quieted down that weekend. His daily work day routine was to come home from work, start knocking back shots of hard liquor, turn on the nightly news and whenever Kennedy's name and face were mentioned and shown, go into a red faced, bulging eyed cursing rage, shouting what a jew, commie, queer ( and especially) ni--er lovin' bastard JFK was. I remember him actually shouting once or twice - "somebody ought to shoot that bastard!" ( JFK ) However, when it actually happened even he was stunned...and quiet. Like even he couldn't believe it. Nobody knew what to think or make of the assassination. No talk of conspiracy in our family those first two days. Again, I think this was typical. Lee Harvey Oswald's name and face and personal background and history were so instantly and hugely broadcast in the news reports as JFK's killer, you figured he was the assassin with only some general thoughts and questions. Some of these thoughts and questions regarded how quickly the DPD found Oswald and how the national media so quickly and massively displayed him and his personal life and history on TV that very Friday night. Add to this the dramatic scene of a crushing circus of shouting reporters with their cables, cameras and microphones crammed right inside the very inner sanctum of the DPD building headquarters. Heck we even got some glimpses of Jack Ruby himself mingled into that horde of reporters! Even back then however, I think everyone assumed that any and all interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald would be recorded. Or at least with a stenographer present? Just weeks earlier the Miami PD had set up a hidden recorder to record the conversation of Joseph Milteer in a local Miami hotel room who the Miami PD and others knew was a serious threat to JFK. Recorders were available to and in use with every big city American police department...no? But not with Dallas and Lee Harvey Oswald? Wonder if the Dallas FBI had secretly recorded any of Oswald related persons through phone taps prior to 11, 22, 1963? Oswald's Raleigh call as well? Quality tape recorders were everywhere. But none present in the interrogation of Oswald? My guess is that Captain Fritz's practiced style of interrogation ( and probably thousands of other American police departments at that time as well ) was to "purposely" not tape record interrogations. That way, those interrogations could not be used against them if they wanted to use unethical and even illegal means and comments to pressure their suspects in their questioning. Heck, the only way we knew of Captain Fritz's cursing and shouting threats to Buell Wesley Frazier, including a raised arm and fist to physically hit Frazier when they were alone in an interrogation room, was because Frazier himself later told the public of this. If there is an even decently respected research summary accounting or book in the JFK event annals that focused solely on the DPD and their actions in the whole JFK/Oswald/Ruby affair, please refer me to it? Also, a thought about a story I cannot verify with any knowledge credibility; Wasn't it reported that just days before 11,22,1963, Roy Truly and maybe others brought in rifles to show off to some of their workplace colleagues? Kind of a macho good ole boy thing? "Hey Kelly, check out this finely crafted piece of hardware!" "I could take out a running 6 point stag from 250 yards with this baby." First thought if true, what an odd and kind of inappropriate even creepy thing to do in a large workplace with dozens of women employed and present there? I could see fishing poles and reels, maybe even a sling shot or boomerang ... but high powered rifles? But then, what a pseudo-innocuous way of bringing in a rifle to hide somewhere in the TXSBD building without arousing too many uncomfortable feelings, suspicions and questions?