Kevin Balch

He said he was looking for the suspect not the jacket. Poor wording on my part. If he actually was looking under the cars how could he miss the jacket? My guess is he embellishes his stories. He did work for a used car lot. I don’t think Reynolds shooting has anything to do with Tippit or the JFKA. If they waited two months to get his statement, they must not have thought it too important.

I’m going through “Hit List” and one of victims is Betty McDonald who was a dancer at Jack Ruby’s club and who provided an alibi for the only suspect in the shooting of Warren Reynolds. Betty McDonald was later arrested for an unrelated matter and was found dead in her jail cell. I reviewed Reynold’s FBI statement taken on January 20, 1964. In the statement, Reynold’s is pretty sure the gunman he saw leave the scene of the Tippit shooting was Oswald which what he told the Warren Commission. So the shooting of Reynolds two days AFTER talking to the FBI could not have changed his testimony and it can’t be a motive for shooting Reynolds or the death of McDonald. I’m not sure how useful Reynolds would have been as a witness. When he was on the porch of the used car lot, he was at least 100 feet away from the northwest corner of Patton and Jefferson. Jefferson is about 60 feet across so Reynolds Reynolds was probably no closer to the suspect than maybe 70-80 feet. Why would anyone be worried about Reynolds when Callaway already ID’d Oswald? It’s strange that Reynolds claimed to look under the cars at the Texaco station yet did not find the suspect’s jacket.

Why didn’t the Dallas Police announce Oswald’s name over the police radio when they announced Charles Givens was missing from the book depository?

Why wouldn’t LBJ be even better able to control a Texas investigation? Perhaps Eugene Rostow became alarmed at the possibility of an antisemitic backlash after Jesse Curry announced the death of Oswald and emphasized that Jack Ruby’s last name was Rubenstein. It would fit in with the timing of Rostow’s call to Moyers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Ds5dNzWRw

Most of those that are open to considering the DalTex building as a shooting location focus on the roof or the windows on the Houston Street side of the building. I’ve noticed the the Elm Street side windows would work as well and would not have the disadvantage of the people on the fire escape.

Castro was livid with the settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis. A second honeymoon had to be arranged in the spring of 1963 to reassure Castro of the nuclear capabilities of the USSR. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/36000/Sharma - Castro USSR Paper.pdf?sequence=1

If fear of losing US nuclear superiority was a motivation for the JFK assassination, it is yet another example of the assassination not accomplishing what it’s planners hoped for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_arms_race#/media/File:US_and_USSR_nuclear_stockpiles.svg

How much time elapsed between the photos? If I recall correctly, some obseved boxes being moved after the shooting. If true, it suggests that whoever did so was pretty comfortable in their surroundings. The escape from the sixth floor has always been a troublesome issue in my mind whether it was Oswald or somebody else. Has anyone ever looked into how much glare would obstruct the view of the various witnesses from the positions they made their observations from and the angular position of the sun at that time of day/year? I imagine the windows were also dirtier on the upper floors when the TSBD was a warehouse when compared to the museum it is today.

Look at the the dresses of Moorman, Hill and Babushka Lady. The nominal windspeed was 12-15 mph with gusts of 20+ out of the WSW. https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/tx/dallas/KDAL/date/1963-11-22

Can anyone explain why Lisa Howard went so far to oppose Robert F. Kennedy in the 1964 election for United States senator from New York as to join “Democrats for Keating” to support RFK’s Republican opponent Kenneth Keating who was a hawk on Cuba? Her public support for Keating cost Howard her job with ABC and set back her career so it was obviously something she felt strongly about. This would appear to be inconsistent with seeking genuine rapprochement with Cuba. Was RFK an opponent of an opening to Cuba? https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/29/archives/democrats-form-a-keating-group-120-liberals-say-kennedy-is-using.html

How did the smell of gunfire reach the street against the direction of a 20 mile per hour wind when no one on the north side of Elm St. smelled it? Why isn’t Gordon Arnold visible in the Willis photo that displays the figure of what has been labelled “Black Dog Man”? Why didn’t Lee Bowers describe the men he saw behind the fence as wearing a police uniform and a construction helmet as proclaimed in the Badgeman theory? How did no one notice the assassin in a police uniform emerge from behind the fence, already broken down in tears, encounter Gordon Arnold on the ground, kick him, demand he remove the film from his camera and then retreat behind the fence? Wouldn’t this conspicuous act defeat the purpose of being disguised as a policeman, especially when he should have been focused on discretely escaping? What Yarborough most likely saw was others on the north side of Elm falling to the ground and it was twisted into the account presented in TMWKK.

It is the word of Ralph Yarborough relayed through Jim Marrs.

Perhaps, but there remains no confirmation that LBJ was listening to a walkie talkie prior to the assassination.

If the intention was to frame a single assassin, why would a triangulation scheme be used that requires hijacking and altering the body, modifying photographic and other evidence and apparently a clean up squad to eliminate troublesome witnesses when a single assassin with a proper rifle or working with another shooter in the DalTex building could easily do the job just as effectively, make it look like a single shooter and with far less risk? If the assassins were anti-Castro Cubans and LBJ had no invasion of Cuba as a precondition for cooperating, why didn’t the Cubans get pissed and take out LBJ when they realized no invasion of Cuba was going to take place after taking such a big risk themselves? Why did Oswald insist on getting a lawyer from across the country who, as far as I know, never tried a murder case?

Why would it be expected that Ivy League adventurers born with a silver spoon in their mouths would be competent at covert and paramilitary operations? I think Barnes was the only one that had any military experience in WW2.