John Kennedy White Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Borrowing from Robin's pic in the Purvis thread... cropping on the man with the hat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Unger Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 (edited) Borrowing from Robin's pic in the Purvis thread... cropping on the man with the hat... Many people over the last year have commented that the man looks suspiciously like Howard Hunt. ! However the resolution of the photo does not give us a good look at a face, so we will never really know. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/AAhunt1.jpg Edited January 6, 2009 by Robin Unger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 This is just going on memory from what may have been a clearer photo of the person: I couldn't help being struck by the similarity of the way Captain Robert Crowder, Texas Ranger, company B, Dallas 1963 set his mouth. Robert Crowder died of a heart attack on November 26, 1972 in Dallas, Texas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Adams Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 (edited) Guys, I know that this picture and the identity of the person shown have been heavily discussed in the past on the forum, but I would like to add my" two cents worth" anyway, FWIW. After John Dolva mentioned Captain Crowder, I googled a picture of him sitting on his horse. Possibly some similarity there, but the bigger question is; did Captain Crowder say where he was in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963? And, maybe more importantly wouldn't a Texas ranger wear his Stetson? Again, just some food for thought. Also, I might add, I'm not sure that my "two cents worth" would actually be appraised that high. Terry Edited January 6, 2009 by Terry Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 (edited) The fellow above looks like an out-of-place Easterner, or somebody dolled up to look like one. That get-up is the all-weather spook uniform of the Hunt decades. A tweed hat, car coat, and a pipe used to be able to see an old intel hand through anything. Note the Homburg on the head of the man ID'd on Houston Street, and later in Dealey, as John A. O'Hare. Another Easterner look - last seen on Humphrey Bogart in "Sabrina." Somebody bought a new hat for the occasion, and it's not a Stetson. In the full version of the Dealey photo (Cancellare) at right above, Robertson and O'Hare seem to have latched on to an African-American bystander in a suit and hat, falling in step with him and using him as a "beard" to cross the center grassplot and reach the foot of the knoll. Again, they look like Easterners trying to blend in with locals. Otherwise...why would that guy be walking in step with Robertson and O'Hare?... I wish I could post the full shot, but my copy is huge. Edited January 8, 2009 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dolva Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Guys,I know that this picture and the identity of the person shown have been heavily discussed in the past on the forum, but I would like to add my" two cents worth" anyway, FWIW. After John Dolva mentioned Captain Crowder, I googled a picture of him sitting on his horse. Possibly some similarity there, but the bigger question is; did Captain Crowder say where he was in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963? And, maybe more importantly wouldn't a Texas ranger wear his Stetson? Again, just some food for thought. Also, I might add, I'm not sure that my "two cents worth" would actually be appraised that high. Terry No that's quite reasonable...if I wanted people to recognise me as one. Funnily enough the Texas Rangers (who weren't far away, have never (to my knowledge) been discussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernice Moore Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 John, Gents...... For your perusal....... B..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 (edited) That's a strange grouping in the detail of Robertson, O'Hare, and a dark-skinned bystander in the large Cancellare above. Is that an African-American or a Cuban? Did the Agency twins fall in step with him, as I offered previously - or is he joining step with Robertson? Even in the immediate wake of the tragedy, it's unusual to see this cross-racial grouping in the South of 1963 - or, for that matter, in the North of that time as well. (This poster born 1959, with a long memory.) Edited January 7, 2009 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kennedy White Posted January 7, 2009 Author Share Posted January 7, 2009 John, Gents......For your perusal....... B..... Thanks, Bernice! You took the comparison right out of my mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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