Dallas Times Herald Editor’s Notes

[Denis Morissette]

This is a great source of very early material from the Dallas Times Herald before they even printed their first edition of their November 22, 1963 newspaper. It took me several hours to copy them at the Dallas Central Public Library. Lucky you, you’ve got them for free. 
 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1M579IE0NLpX3Ry-PxP03r6GNGZp9HoRz

[Tom Gram]

I just flipped through it briefly but looks like there’s some really interesting stuff in there.  Great find. 

[Denis Morissette]

19 minutes ago, Tom Gram said:

I just flipped through it briefly but looks like there’s some really interesting stuff in there.  Great find. 

Yes. I’m guessing that these notes are what the editor, his name is in one of the pages, was told over the phone by his reporters. 

[Denis Morissette]

I forgot to mention there’s a ton of newspaper articles.

[Jean Ceulemans]

 

24 minutes ago, Denis Morissette said:

I forgot to mention there’s a ton of newspaper articles.

Thank you for your time and effort, and for sharing this!

[Denis Morissette]

My Dallas research trip last November was really worth the money I spent. Next time I’ll go if the 6FM Research Room is open.

[Greg Doudna]

DISREGARD WHAT ORIGINALLY WAS HERE--IT IS OBSOLETE. CLEARER PHOTOS CLEARLY SHOW THE READING IS "STREET DRESS" (as pointed out below by Jean-Paul Ceulemans and confirmed by the clear photos now provided by Denis Morissette).

Edited April 26 by Greg Doudna

[Richard Bertolino]

4 hours ago, Tom Gram said:

I just flipped through it briefly but looks like there’s some really interesting stuff in there.  Great find. 

A serious researcher would offer to pay Denis for his great find, otherwise he might end up complaining about the expensive food at his grocery store.

[Denis Morissette]

55 minutes ago, Richard Bertolino said:

A serious researcher would offer to pay Denis for his great find, otherwise he might end up complaining about the expensive food at his grocery store.

I did complain at the supermarket. Soon enough, we’ll have to eat only twice a day because food is now so expensive.

[Richard Bertolino]

43 minutes ago, Denis Morissette said:

I did complain at the supermarket. Soon enough, we’ll have to eat only twice a day because food is now so expensive.

Just cut back on your Starbuck lattes!

[Jean Ceulemans]

6 hours ago, Greg Doudna said:

Thank you Denis Morissette for your work on this!

The last line of image #437 reads: “Jean Hill said I though [sic] I saw someone in the motorcade in street DRAIN shoot back at the person running up the hill”. 

From my memory of reading her later book, I recall her saying she thought she saw Secret Service shooting back at a Grassy Knoll shooter, but I recall no reference of Jean Hill speaking of a storm drain.

Then image #441 seems oddly to repeat the same news story of Jean Hill with slight rewrite of wording, and the parallel there reads:

”I thought I saw someone in the motorcade in street {•re•t} (?) shoot back at a person moving up the hill.”

What does the word after “street” in #441 read? The word is NOT “drain”. Is the word “crack” or “break”? Can anyone decipher that word?

Why does it read “drain” in one iteration (reading Jean Hill saw someone in “street drain” shooting “back” at someone on the GKnoll), whereas in the parallel, the “drain” is gone and replaced with some other word (which I cannot make out)?

What was going on with that? Why two versions of the same Jean Hill news story? 

Is this a heretofore-unknown first-day witness claim to have seen a shooter firing out of a storm drain? Was that Jean Hill news story published?

Thanks to anyone who can explain this little mystery! 

I think it leads to a man in plain clothing, it is confusing, would come from street dress(ing).

Edited April 25 by Jean Ceulemans

[Denis Morissette]

One article on Moorman and Hill is based on these notes. I also included a Fort Worth Press article. 
 

https://postimg.cc/gallery/Z9Xvfry

Edited April 25 by Denis Morissette

[Jean Ceulemans]

21 hours ago, Greg Doudna said:

Thank you Denis Morissette for your work on this!

The last line of image #437 reads: “Jean Hill said I though [sic] I saw someone in the motorcade in street DRAIN shoot back at the person running up the hill”. 

From my memory of reading her later book, I recall her saying she thought she saw Secret Service shooting back at a Grassy Knoll shooter, but I recall no reference of Jean Hill speaking of a storm drain.

Then image #441 seems oddly to repeat the same news story of Jean Hill with slight rewrite of wording, and the parallel there reads:

”I thought I saw someone in the motorcade in street {•re•t} (?) shoot back at a person moving up the hill.”

What does the word after “street” in #441 read? The word is NOT “drain”. Is the word “crack” or “break”? Can anyone decipher that word?

Why does it read “drain” in one iteration (reading Jean Hill saw someone in “street drain” shooting “back” at someone on the GKnoll), whereas in the parallel, the “drain” is gone and replaced with some other word (which I cannot make out)?

What was going on with that? Why two versions of the same Jean Hill news story? 

Is this a heretofore-unknown first-day witness claim to have seen a shooter firing out of a storm drain? Was that Jean Hill news story published?

Thanks to anyone who can explain this little mystery! 

437 to me really reads street DRESS(ing), referring to a non-uniformd person (more often one would say  plain-clothes officers...) 

[Jean Ceulemans]

441 is street dress again

[Denis Morissette]

I asked Darwin Payne of the DTH who was probably one of the sources of these notes. He recently published a book on the JFK assassination. He didn’t have much to say.