John Dolva Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 Ian, can you (or someone) provide a link to further info on this DeWitt, please? Or full name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernice Moore Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 (edited) Ian, can you (or someone) provide a link to further info on this DeWitt, please? Or full name? http://en.wikipedia...._assassination)the umbrellaman, john, lewis steven de witt.... http://en.wikipedia....ki/Umbrella_Man .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Man_(JFK_assassination) ..........fwiw there is ,much on the web and threads here at the forum...b Edited September 14, 2010 by Bernice Moore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted September 14, 2010 Share Posted September 14, 2010 OK, thank you, Bernice. That person had been mentioned as Witt. The ''De'' puts it in a whole new context. Is there any known connection of this person with Ohio or Columbia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Howard Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 No. The, for lack of a better description, "phony Oswald with blond toupee" is designated MEX, 63-23 in John Armstrong's CD, which supplements the book. The previous image is 63-22...which is below.....This is Claude Capehart unless I am mistaken. I would not make any claims regarding what connection, if any, exists between the two photos; but I do find it noteworthy, that the individual in MEX 63-22 seems to have blond hair on top, while having darker blond? or dark hair at the sides. What does everyone else think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack White Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 That is not Witt. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Howard Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 That is not Witt. Jack This is not a complete document, but I did go to the trouble of including some rather pertinent data. Home/Archive/Documents/JFK Assassination Documents/JFK Documents - Central Intelligence Agency/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 40/ NARA Record Number: 104-10110-10377 BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: CAPEHART, CLAUDE BARNES http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=14169 Birth: 15 Ocotber 1924, Omeka, Oklahoma Marital Status: Robert Mary Nee: BALTEY b. 2 Dec 1922, Winsboro, La.; Address: Same as Subject. Parents: Capehart, Henry Hayes b. 15 Oct 1876, Stamps, Arkansas; Deceased. Capehart, Laura Jefferson; Nee: GARBROUGH; b. 1 April, 1873, Memphis Tennessee; Deceased Children: Capehart, Neal Henry; b. 11 Aug. 1953 Bakersfield, California; Add: Box 7011 Reno, Nev. Military: September 43-July 46, U.S. Army Sergeant # 39145469 Claude Barnes Capehart aka Claude Buster Capehart Social Security 566-22-5896 Date Added: June 1973 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 (edited) No. The, for lack of a better description, "phony Oswald with blond toupee" is designated MEX, 63-23 in John Armstrong's CD, which supplements the book. The previous image is 63-22...which is below.....This is Claude Capehart unless I am mistaken. I would not make any claims regarding what connection, if any, exists between the two photos; but I do find it noteworthy, that the individual in MEX 63-22 seems to have blond hair on top, while having darker blond? or dark hair at the sides. What does everyone else think? re having blond hair. Having been through no fault of my own lived with blond hair for quite a while It has certain qualities that have to do with sun exposure. ie trimmed hair may reveal a darker previously covered area that then with sun exposure again becomes a more blond blond (if there is such a thing. we all are blond at some time a wise friend once told me). re the image : no comment edit typo Edited November 22, 2010 by John Dolva Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Blank Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 No. The, for lack of a better description, "phony Oswald with blond toupee" is designated MEX, 63-23 in John Armstrong's CD, which supplements the book. The previous image is 63-22...which is below.....This is Claude Capehart unless I am mistaken. I would not make any claims regarding what connection, if any, exists between the two photos; but I do find it noteworthy, that the individual in MEX 63-22 seems to have blond hair on top, while having darker blond? or dark hair at the sides. What does everyone else think? actually to me at least it bears a resemblance to jimmy carter. not hinting at anything beyond that. i would bet my last dollar he wasn't involved. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Howard Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 (edited) No. The, for lack of a better description, "phony Oswald with blond toupee" is designated MEX, 63-23 in John Armstrong's CD, which supplements the book. The previous image is 63-22...which is below.....This is Claude Capehart unless I am mistaken. I would not make any claims regarding what connection, if any, exists between the two photos; but I do find it noteworthy, that the individual in MEX 63-22 seems to have blond hair on top, while having darker blond? or dark hair at the sides. What does everyone else think? actually to me at least it bears a resemblance to jimmy carter. not hinting at anything beyond that. i would bet my last dollar he wasn't involved. lol. For those whose interest surpasses posting comments, the following is, by my definition, worth mentioning....... page 30; Commission Document 106 - FBI Clements Report of 31 Dec 1963 The name Bill Capehart was found in an address book in some of Ruby's property. William D. Capehart, 6834 Carolyn Crest Drive, advises he is commonly known as Bill, that he met Ruby seven or eight years ago. Mr. Capehart advises he is co-owner of the A&B Bag Company. He stated they deal in burlap bags. He stated that seven or eight years ago, a representative of a company which sells pizza food, called upon him and wanted him to handle the ingredients for making pizza. He stated that since he was in the bag business, these two items did not complement each other from a sanitation standpoint, therefore he had turned the offer down. He could not recall the name of this individual, but remembers that the representative asked him who might be interested in handling their product. Capehart stated he could not recall where he heard it, but that he told this individual, that he heard Ruby, who operated the Vegas Club on Oak Lawn was very interested in pizza food products. Capehart went with the representative to the Vegas Club on Oak Lawn where he met Ruby for the first time. Capehart stated he saw Ruby once or twice after this, but has never known anything about the man. He has not seen him since him that time. He did not know of any connection between Lee Harvey Oswald or Ruby and knows nothing of any other associates. http://www.maryferre...06&relPageId=51 http://www.maryferre...wRec.do?id=1929 Tel. Number UN -5262 [is missing a digit] In the 1964 Dallas Residential Telephone Directory William D. Capehart's phone number with same address is listed as TA 6-5262 http://www.maryferre...06&relPageId=51 Sources: CD 4, p. 767; http://www.maryferre...5&relPageId=779 CD 106, p. 30; CD 355, p. 143 Edited November 22, 2010 by Robert Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Simpich Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 No. Can we take one more crack at this? Today, thanks to Greg Parker giving me the correct spelling of Ed Rabel's name, I found the transcript of Ed Rabel's coverage on the Cuban discussion in 1978 about Azcue seeing Oswald at the consulate. John Armstrong reports in his book that Azcue provided photos of the man known as Oswald inside the Cuban consulate to CBS reporter Ed Rabel. The blond man portrayed is clearly not Oswald. "One photograph showed a man in a light colored sweater walking toward the lower left of the picture. The second photograph was of a man walking towards the right." Rabel reports on CBS Evening News a slightly different story - that the Cubans published “a photo” which they say was the man impersonating Oswald as he left the consulate in 1963. “The photo, they said, was taken by other CIA agents stationed in an espionage center near the consulate…the photograph is apparently a copy of the one the CIA released to the Warren Commission, but later withdrew.” Near as I can tell, the Oswald photo Kathleen posted on this page is the only blond Oswald photo on the internet. Could someone post the other photo from Armstrong's book (I lost my disk ages ago)? And could someone explain where these photos came from? In other words, if Azcue gave two photos to Rabel, how did the photos get from Rabel to Armstrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zach Robertson Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 (edited) Bill, Here are both photos and the story: I don't know how Mr. Armstrong got the photos, Jack White may know that story, but these were pictures taken by the Cuban government in the fall of 1963. This man visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City and called himself Lee Harvey Oswald. On a Friday afternoon on 9/27/63, Oswald arrived at the consulate, he handed them an application to obtain a Cuban visa right there on the spot for a Monday departure on 9/30/63, even though he had no Soviet visa. When Oswald was refused the visa, he acted out and caused an unforgettably boisterous scene. Despite American claims, none of the consulate employees who were present could positively identify Oswald as the person at the Cuban consulate that day. Cuban consul Eusebio Azcue was emphatic in testifying that Oswald was not the "dark blond" man angrily demanding an instant visa. on page 646-47 of Harvey and Lee by John Armstrong: The Cuban's description of Oswald Oswald's visit to the Cuban Consulate, and his physical description, were described by Silvia Duran during her interrogation by the DFS on November 23, the day after the assassination. A 10 page statement was signed jointly by Duran and the DFS and was given to the Warren Commission in May 1964, but only after several revisions. The original version of this report, which was given to the CIA station in Mexico City, described Oswald as "blond, short, dressed unelegantly (sic), and whose face turned red when angry." These descriptions were removed before the report was given to the Warren Commission. Cuban consul Eusebio Azcue and Silvia Duran remembered the Oswald who visited their consulate had thin, blond hair, stood about 5-foot-6, and was over 30 years old. Azcue saw Lee Harvey Oswald on television after the assassination and said he "did not even resemble" the man who visited the consulate. On April 1, 1978 Azcue was interviewed by the HSCA and said that he would never have identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who visited the Cuban Consulate in Sept. 1963. On Thursday Aug. 3, 1978 Azcue was interviewed on television by CBS evening news reporter Ed Rable. Azcue produced photographs (above) taken in the Cuban consulate, of the man who identified himself as Lee Harvey Oswald. One photo showed a man in a light colored sweater walking toward the lower left of the picture (left). The second photo was of a man walking toward the right (right). Neither of these photos looked anything like the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy. Duran would go on describe the Mexico City Oswald as having blond hair and blue eyes. In 1978 HSCA investigator Edwin Lopez located and interviewed two CIA assets who worked inside the Cuban Consulate during Oswald's visit. Both people said the person who visited the consulate was not the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy and both told Lopez that they reported this to the CIA station in Mexico City. Thanks for all your great work Bill, Zach Edited April 19, 2011 by Zach Robertson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack White Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Bill, Here are both photos and the story: I don't know how Mr. Armstrong got the photos, Jack White may know that story, but these were pictures taken by the Cuban government in the fall of 1963. This man visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City and called himself Lee Harvey Oswald. On a Friday afternoon on 9/27/63, Oswald arrived at the consulate, he handed them an application to obtain a Cuban visa right there on the spot for a Monday departure on 9/30/63, even though he had no Soviet visa. When Oswald was refused the visa, he acted out and caused an unforgettably boisterous scene. Despite American claims, none of the consulate employees who were present could positively identify Oswald as the person at the Cuban consulate that day. Cuban consul Eusebio Azcue was emphatic in testifying that Oswald was not the "dark blond" man angrily demanding an instant visa. on page 646-47 of Harvey and Lee by John Armstrong: On April 1, 1978 Azcue was interviewed by the HSCA and said that he would never have identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the man who visited the Cuban Consulate in Sept. 1963. On Thursday Aug. 3..., 1978 Azcue was interviewed on television by CBS evening news reporter Ed Rable. Azcue produced photographs (above) taken in the Cuban consulate, of the man who identified himself as Lee Harvey Oswald. One photo showed a man in a light colored sweater walking toward the lower left of the picture (right). The second photo was of a man walking toward the right (left). Neither of these photos looked anything like the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy. Duran would go on describe the Mexico City Oswald as having blond hair and blue eyes. In 1978 HSCA investigator Edwin Lopez located and interviewed two CIA assets who worked inside the Cuban Consulate during Oswald's visit. Both people said the person who visited the consulate was not the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy and both told Lopez that they reported this to the CIA station in Mexico City. Thanks for all your great work Bill, Zach The two photos were released to the press by the HSCA with a caption which asked for the help of the public in identifying them. I somewhere (from Jim Marrs) have a copy made from the actual AP newswire images. Obviously neither man even resembles LHO. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Bartetzko Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 That is not Witt. Jack This is not a complete document, but I did go to the trouble of including some rather pertinent data. Home/Archive/Documents/JFK Assassination Documents/JFK Documents - Central Intelligence Agency/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 40/ NARA Record Number: 104-10110-10377 BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: CAPEHART, CLAUDE BARNES http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=14169 Birth: 15 Ocotber 1924, Omeka, Oklahoma Marital Status: Robert Mary Nee: BALTEY b. 2 Dec 1922, Winsboro, La.; Address: Same as Subject. Parents: Capehart, Henry Hayes b. 15 Oct 1876, Stamps, Arkansas; Deceased. Capehart, Laura Jefferson; Nee: GARBROUGH; b. 1 April, 1873, Memphis Tennessee; Deceased Children: Capehart, Neal Henry; b. 11 Aug. 1953 Bakersfield, California; Add: Box 7011 Reno, Nev. Military: September 43-July 46, U.S. Army Sergeant # 39145469 Claude Barnes Capehart aka Claude Buster Capehart Social Security 566-22-5896 Date Added: June 1973 I believe there is a photo of someone in front of the TSBD who looks like Claude Capehart. I have been unable to find it, but if I recall, it bears a resemblance to these embassy photos. Anyone have a copy of that photo and can post it? This Capehart thread is interesting and Jim D did a story on Claude Capehart in his publication Probe V4 #1 entitled "The Capehart Caper" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Graves Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 That is not Witt. Jack This is not a complete document, but I did go to the trouble of including some rather pertinent data. Home/Archive/Documents/JFK Assassination Documents/JFK Documents - Central Intelligence Agency/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection/HSCA Segregated CIA Collection, Box 40/ NARA Record Number: 104-10110-10377 BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: CAPEHART, CLAUDE BARNES http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=14169 Birth: 15 Ocotber 1924, Omeka, Oklahoma Marital Status: Robert Mary Nee: BALTEY b. 2 Dec 1922, Winsboro, La.; Address: Same as Subject. Parents: Capehart, Henry Hayes b. 15 Oct 1876, Stamps, Arkansas; Deceased. Capehart, Laura Jefferson; Nee: GARBROUGH; b. 1 April, 1873, Memphis Tennessee; Deceased Children: Capehart, Neal Henry; b. 11 Aug. 1953 Bakersfield, California; Add: Box 7011 Reno, Nev. Military: September 43-July 46, U.S. Army Sergeant # 39145469 Claude Barnes Capehart aka Claude Buster Capehart Social Security 566-22-5896 Date Added: June 1973 I believe there is a photo of someone in front of the TSBD who looks like Claude Capehart. I have been unable to find it, but if I recall, it bears a resemblance to these embassy photos. Anyone have a copy of that photo and can post it? This Capehart thread is interesting and Jim D did a story on Claude Capehart in his publication Probe V4 #1 entitled "The Capehart Caper" I couldn't upload the Jim Murray photo but here's link to it on Robin Unger's great website: http://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=41&pos=18 --Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Howard Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 (edited) I couldn't upload the Jim Murray photo but here's link to it on Robin Unger's great website: http://www.jfkassass...album=41&pos=18 --Thomas 104-10110-10377 BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: CAPEHART, CLAUDE BARNES aka Buster Barnes Capehart Birth: 15 Ocotber 1924, Omeka, Oklahoma Marital Status: Robert Mary Nee: BALTEY b. 2 Dec 1922, Winsboro, La.; Address: Same as Subject. Parents: Capehart, Henry Hayes b. 15 Oct 1876, Stamps, Arkansas; Deceased. Capehart, Laura Jefferson; Nee: GARBROUGH; b. 1 April, 1873, Memphis Tennessee; Deceased Children: Capehart, Neal Henry; b. 11 Aug. 1953 Bakersfield, California; Add: Box 7011 Reno, Nev. Military: September 43-July 46, U.S. Army Sergeant # 39145469 Claude Barnes Capehart aka Claude Buster Capehart Social Security 566-22-5896 Date Added: June 1973 The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald pg 248, by Groden, Robert J. (1995) Another revelation of a false Oswald was reported on the first installment of the 1975 CBS television miniseries The American Assassins, during which an interview with ex-gunrunner Robert Ray McKeown by Dan Rather was shown. McKeown said he received a visit from "Lee Harvey Oswald" a few weeks before John Kennedy's murder. The man claimed that he was interested in buying bazookas and machine guns and intimated that he represented others. McKeown said that a tall Latino named Hernandez accompanied "Oswald. According to McKeown "Oswald was this little guy small blond-headed. Oswald was certainly not a small man. Nor did he have blond hair; it was brown. And what of his companion. Who was he? It is interesting to note that on August 9, 1963 when Lee was arrested in New Orleans for fighting with three anti-Castro companions, one of these three men was a tall Latin man with a mustache named Celso M. Hernandez. Robert: Groden goes on to posit that Oswald was potentially working with Hernandez, [if the Hernandez who was at McKeown's was the same person as Celso Hernandez] since the N.O. fight helped establish Oswald's pro-Castro bona-fides, At this late juncture it might be worth a conjecture, even if it is highly speculative could Hernandez, if he indeed visited McKeown been working with Capehart? CIA records state that Capehart worked for two different private business contractors on U.S. government classified projects but the records the Review Board examined do not show that CIA ever employed him as an officer, staffer, asset or source. The records indicate that at least one of the private contractors for whom Capehart worked Global Marine, Inc., did have CIA contracts........ The CIA Holds two files on Capehart—an Office of Security File, and a medical file page 108 Final Report of the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board - By John R. Tunheim Judge [David Minier] Sues Over JFK Information He Wants CIA To Answer Questions Over Mystery Man [Capehart] http://www.maryferre...bsPageId=222330 Capehart allegedly told a "female friend" in Chowchilla i.e. Madera County who did not want to be identified, [still feared retribution] that, [besides working for Hughes Glomar Explorer] he was in the TSBD at the time of the assassination........ the CIA after the agency refused to tell Minier whether Claude Barnes Capehart had ever been employed by the CIA and whether Capehart was in Dallas in November 1963 when Kennedy was assassinated In 1979 Fore and Minier prepared to meet with Capehart for an interview....but another one of those mysterious deaths, that the HSCA laughed to scorn. He died of a heart attack in 1989. After he died, Minier said "things kind of dried up." buried Kern County Cemetery Delano Kern County California, USA Claude B. Capehart 1924-1989 Roberta M Capehart 1922-1992 http://www.findagrav...6903740&df=all Robert: I find it interesting that none of the documents seems to indicate his height, weight etc... And there is another oddity, in that if you scour the files, most of the documents are circa 1973 But here is one that isn't FORM REQUESTING NAME CHECKS AT VARIOUS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES (CAPEHART) http://www.maryferre....do?docId=14178 It's dated four days after the assassination...... He has or had a son, who still may be living. Edited April 19, 2011 by Robert Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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