Carl R. Booth, Jr.?

[Steve Thomas]

In Mary Farrell's database, there is this entry:

LAST ALCOHOL & TOBACCO TAX FIRST MID/AKA

ADDRESS 607 Wholesale Merchants Bldg., 912 Commerce St., Dallas, TX

'PHONE (214) 749-3304)

SOURCES CD 853A (2); 1/14/64 memo from Carl R. Booth, Jr., Supervisor in Charge, to SA in Charge, US Secret Service, Forrest Sorrels.

COMMENT Memo sets out activities of 8 investigators of A&TF who rushed to TSBD 11/22/63 and searched building (among them, Frank L. Ellsworth)

In the Mary Ferrell Foundation pages of Warren Commission Documents, I don't find a CD 853A.

Has anyone seen this memo from Booth to Sorrels?

Steve Thomas

[Guest John Gillespie]

In Mary Farrell's database, there is this entry:

LAST ALCOHOL & TOBACCO TAX FIRST MID/AKA

ADDRESS 607 Wholesale Merchants Bldg., 912 Commerce St., Dallas, TX

'PHONE (214) 749-3304)

SOURCES CD 853A (2); 1/14/64 memo from Carl R. Booth, Jr., Supervisor in Charge, to SA in Charge, US Secret Service, Forrest Sorrels.

COMMENT Memo sets out activities of 8 investigators of A&TF who rushed to TSBD 11/22/63 and searched building (among them, Frank L. Ellsworth)

In the Mary Ferrell Foundation pages of Warren Commission Documents, I don't find a CD 853A.

Has anyone seen this memo from Booth to Sorrels?

Steve Thomas

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Steve,

Please pardon my ignorance on these matters but what is "CD", as in CD 853A (2)? Does it refer (since "SOURCES" appears to be a heading) to the storage mode of a record such as a Compact Disc or is it merely the identifying code of an archive of any material?

Thanks,

John G

Edited December 22, 2006 by John Gillespie

[James Richards]

Steve,

I can't help you with the Booth memo (and not wishing to divert this thread) but there is this potentially interesting piece. A few years after the JFK assassination, there was a push to have all guns licenced with the federal government. Booth was behind the effort in Dallas.

Amongst the various weapons to be licenced were umbrella guns. What the ... ?

I wonder how many Dallas residents had this sort of thing in their armory?

James

[Steve Thomas]

John,

Steve,

Please pardon my ignorance on these matters but what is "CD", as in CD 853A (2)?

CD stands for Commission Document - as in Warren Commission.

You can find them online here:

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...o?docSetId=1008

There are about 1,500 of them. Some of them are over 1,000 pages long.

CE stands for Commission Exhibit.

You can find them here:

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...o?docSetId=1006

Steve