TSBD occupants

[John Dolva]

This brings to mind a curious Dallas arson a saturday night Jan '64 of a "golden pheasant restaurant" above which was a 'blueprint' company. Though why anyone would want to destroy blueprints in this context evades me. Just logging the note in case something else comes up

John,

The 'blueprint' company was the Dallas Blueprint Co.

The guy who owned the restaurant was Charles D. Bryant. He was charged with arson but eventually aquitted. It sure was a strange case as two workers testified that in the months leading up to the fire, Bryant had offered them money to burn the establishment down.

I did find some interesting connections to the Dallas Blueprint Co. but will have to go through my notes to find them.

James

another 'curiosity'

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu6K5Qf1FLfkA...pdf/Martens.pdf

Leyton Martens, who lived with Dave Ferry in nov. 1963, worked for the "New Orleans Blue Print co".

[John Dolva]

James, it's the difficulty of getting information that is most intriguing. The fire is on record as one of the worst in Dallas history. 750 firemen attended.

A member of the staff making derogatory comments about Marie Tippit and the Dallas Police Department

is probably unusual. The apparent lack of followups is strange. It smacks of some interference. Something must be known by someone. It's usually money and power that can influence such things. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of looking into this.

John,

The derogatory comments about Marie Tippit seemed completely out of context here but Charles Bryant went down that road in his testimony. Being that the fire happened so close to the assassination and emotions were running high, Bryant may have been attempting to deflect attention from himself while simultaneously painting Morton Smith as someone of poor character.

The timing of the death of Dallas Blueprint Co. employee Tom Canon (September 1963), is also curious here. There is a possibilty that the Oswald backyard photos were fabricated at this location.

Pure speculation of course.

James

Possible Golden Pheasant Restaurant fire related docs (stumbled across in DPD files)

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Edited January 1, 2008 by John Dolva

[J. Raymond Carroll]

What I was curious about was if there was a map of the offices, showing which company was behind each window, etc.

I don't do windows but, thanks to impetus provided by Duke Lane, I happened to read Eddie Piper's testimony in WC Vol. 6 today and found this little tidbit, FWIW.

A search of this website

http://www.jfk-assassination.de/warren/wch/vol6/page384.php

using the names mentioned by Piper is bound to lead to information about the windows.

Mr. Ball.

The different offices?

Mr. PIPER. Oh, I pick up mail first---on the fourth floor is Scott Pharmacy, and I come down on the third floor and I pick up there in the hall, you know, they have a hallway there and they put it out on the table---the packages and the mail, and I pick it up there unless they've got a name on the boards to see them in the ,office and then I go in the office. That's on the third floor. I come down on the second floor and I pick up for Southwestern. I goes in the office and that's the only office I go in there at Southwestern. Like I say---unless there is anything on the board that says see Ion Cunningham, and then I go in there. That's on the second floor, and from there back down to the first floor, and I unloads on the table on the first floor and that's when I'm through---I don't go back no more.

[Lee Forman]

Steve Thomas has posted some info from a reverse phone directory on another thread. (Thanks, Steve) In looking at it, I realized there were more occupants in the TSBD than I'd previously believed. Does anyone know if there's a map of the TSBD anywhere in the Warren Report, explaining where each company's offices were located?

Pat,

This may be of some limited assistance - got it thanks to the suggestion [someplace here on the forum] of Tom Purvis.

- lee