Ford Hardtop

[John Dolva]

Who was the assisstant that was supposed to be there but rang in saying he couldn't be as his infant was sick. Hence Brewer was there instead and whoever found things different from as he expected?

[John Dolva]

EDIT:: a slightly different account:

"At about 1:36 p.m., while Johnny Brewer was standing at the front of the store behind the hosiery counter, he heard sirens approaching from the east.

"I heard a siren coming down East Jefferson headed toward West Jefferson," Brewer told investigators. "Just then, a man stepped into the foyer - the lobby there in front of the store. The front doors to the store are recessed about 15 feet from the sidewalk and there are show windows on each side. He stepped into that area with his back to the street. His hair was sort of messed up and looked like he had been running, and he looked scared, and he looked funny. He had a brown sports shirt on and his shirt tail was out. Just after he stepped into the foyer there, the police car made a U-turn and went back east down Jefferson - they turned around right at Zangs and Jefferson - just a short distance from the store. The man looked over his right shoulder toward the street, as the police car headed away - you could still hear the sirens. Then he stepped back on the sidewalk and walked west on Jefferson toward the Texas

Theater."

About thirty seconds after the man left the recessed lobby at Hardy’s Shoe Store, Brewer - who had resumed his duties - apparently heard another siren approaching. This time, the police car didn’t make a U-turn, but instead sped past the shoe store, heading west on Jefferson avenue.

Intrigued, the young shoe store manager stepped out onto the sidewalk and looked up the street to see what was going on. By the time Brewer had scurried the twenty feet to the sidewalk, the man had walked nearly fifty yards further west on Jefferson, and was now in front of Thomsens Furniture Store, next door to the Texas Theater."

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"The manager of a shoe store saw Oswald leap into the entrance way of the store as a police car, its siren wailing, shot past. Catching his breath, Oswald ran up the street and entered a movie house. The shoe store manager alerted the theater staff."

"A nearby shoe store manager, Johnny C. Brewer, and the theatre cashier, Julia Postal, saw Oswald enter the lobby of the theatre from where he went on into the theatre proper. Johnny C. Brewer, the shoe store manager, and two patrons of the theatre--John Gibson and George Jefferson Applin, Jr.--were present in the theatre and testified before the Commission on the circumstances of Oswald's arrest at the Texas Theatre. Only 6 or 7 people were seated on the main floor of the theatre.

Johnny Brewer testified before the Commission that he saw Oswald pull a gun and that he saw it taken away from him by a policeman"

Johnny Calvin Brewer - WC testimony

Mr. BELIN. You were made manager of the Hardy's Downtown Shoe Store?

Mr. BREWER. Yes, sir. It wasn't April Fool's. I thought they were firing me, but it turned out they weren't.

Mr. BELIN. Did he call you in yesterday to tell you?

Mr. BREWER. Day before yesterday and told me to get ready for an audit, that I would be going to town, if I wanted it, and I said yes.

Mr. BELIN. Would this be considered a promotion?

Mr. BREWER. A better store, more volume, and make more money. It would be considered a promotion

...

Mr. BREWER. I looked up and out towards the street and the police cars----

Mr. BELIN. When you looked up, did you step out of the store at all?

Mr. BREWER. No; I was Still in the store behind the counter, and I looked up and saw the man enter the lobby.

Mr. BELIN. When you say the lobby of your store, first let me ask you to describe how is----how wide is your store, approximately?

Mr. BREWER. About 20 feet.

Mr. BELIN. All right, is the entrance to your store right on the sidewalk?

Mr. BREWER. The entrance to the store is about 15 feet from the sidewalk, front doors.

Mr. BELIN. The front doors?

Mr. BREWER. Yes; they are recessed, and then there is windows, show windows on each side.

Mr. BELIN. This would be, if we were if we would take a look at the letter "U," or see the letter "V," your doorway would be at the bottom part of the letter and the show cases would be at the sides of the letter, is that correct?

Mr. BREWER. Yes.

Mr. BELIN. What you call this lobby, that is the area between the sidewalk and your front door, is that correct?

Mr. BREWER. Yes, sir.

Mr. BELIN. All right, you saw a man going into what you referred to as this lobby area?

Mr. BREWER. Yes; and he stood there with his back to the street.

Mr. BELIN. When did he go in now? What did you hear at the time that he stepped into this lobby area?

Mr. BREWER. I heard the police cars coming up Jefferson, and he stepped in, and the police made a U-turn and went back down East Jefferson.

Mr. BELIN. Where did he make the U-turn?

Mr. BREWER. At Zangs.

Mr. BELIN. Do you remember the sirens going away?

Mr. BREWER. Yes; the sirens were going away. I presume back to where the officer had been shot, because it was back down that way. And when they turned and left, Oswald looked over his shoulder and turned around and walked up West Jefferson towards the theatre.

Mr. BELIN. Let me hold you a minute. You used the word Oswald. Did you know who the man was at the time you saw him?

Mr. BREWER. No.

Mr. BELIN. So at the time, you didn't know what his name was?

Mr. BREWER. No.

Mr. BELIN. Will you describe the man you saw?

Mr. BREWER. He was a little man, about 5'9", and weighed about 150 pounds is all.

Mr. BELIN. How tall are you, by the way?

Mr. BREWER. Six three.

......

Mr. BELIN. All right. After you saw him in the lobby of your store there, what you call a lobby area, which is really kind of an extension of the sidewalk, then you saw him leave?

Mr. BREWER. Yes, he turned and walked up toward----

Mr. BELIN. Had the police sirens subsided at the time he turned, or not?

Mr. BREWER. No; you could still hear sirens.

Mr. BELIN. Did they sound like they were coming toward you or going away?

Mr. BREWER. They were going away at that time.

Mr. BELIN. Going the other way?

Mr. BREWER. Yes.

Mr. BELIN. How could you tell?

Mr. BREWER. They were getting further in the distance.

Mr. BELIN. Then what did you see this man do?

Mr. BREWER. He turned and walked out of the lobby and went up West Jefferson toward the theatre, and I walked out the front and watched him, and he went into the theatre.

Mr. BELIN. What theatre is that?

Mr. BREWER. Texas Theatre.

Mr. BELIN. Why did you happen to watch this particular man?

Mr. BREWER. He just looked funny to me. Well, in the first place, I had seen him some place before. I think he had been in my store before. And when you wait on somebody, you recognize them, and he just seemed funny. His hair was sort of messed up and looked like he had been running, and he looked seared, and he looked funny.

Mr. BELIN. Did you notice any of his actions when he was standing in your lobby there?

Mr. BREWER. No; he just stood there and stared.

Mr. BELIN. He stared?

Mr. BREWER. Yes.

"Brewer had arranged to have Friday 22nd November 1963 off work and it had been agreed that his assistant would take charge of the shop in his absence"

So, the day before the expectation was that the assistant was supposed to be in charge of the store 11/22.

The circumstances were such that Brewer was there.

His testimony seems to indicate that he had served Lee previously.

Or had he seen his assisstant serve Lee.

Either way it was 'arranged' that Brewer would be there. Does anyone know anything more about this?

Does anyone know who the asisstant was?

Edited April 13, 2007 by John Dolva

[James Richards]

This might be worth mentioning.

In September of 1963 there was the case of John Stanford who was identified by FBI informants as the executive secretary of the Communist Party in Texas. At the time, the Subversive Activities Control Board was taking a serious look at this guy.

The main undercover agent for the FBI in this matter was William Lowery. The other FBI paid spy was not named but was said to be a Dallas shoe store manager. Mmm, I wonder?

James

[Thomas Graves]

[...] it was 'arranged' that Brewer would be there. [...]

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John,

Just to play Devil's Advocate here, don't you think it's remotely possible that Brewer's assistant's kid really was ill that day and that that's why the assistant took the day off? (I do love your "theory," however. Keep up the good work.)

--Thomas

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[John Dolva]

[...] it was 'arranged' that Brewer would be there. [...]

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John,

Just to play Devil's Advocate here, don't you think it's remotely possible that Brewer's assistant's kid really was ill that day and that that's why the assistant took the day off? (I do love your "theory," however. Keep up the good work.)

--Thomas

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Thank you.

Certainly, Thomas, I agree, hence: 'arranged', a better more equanimous word would perhaps help.

Knowing who the assistant was could be important.

The Devils Advocate is an important role, there should be more of it, and no offence taken.

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FBI informant as shoe store manager in September 1963 is intriguing.

His promotion on the day before testifying to the WC equally so.

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[James Richards]

FBI informant as shoe store manager in September 1963 is intriguing. (John Dolva)

The FBI plant, William Lowery, also worked as a shoe salesman. He was under cover for some 18 years. The unnamed person is definitely food for thought.

Another curiosity is the amount of shoe retail shops within a stone's throw of the Texas Theater, literally next door to each other.

Hardy's Shoes

Brown's Self Service Shoes

Name Brand Shoes

Paul's Shoes

Austin's Shoes

Is this normal practise for so much competition so close?

James

[John Dolva]

James: "The FBI plant, William Lowery, also worked as a shoe salesman."

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Some more info, some of it apparently contradictory. Needs sorting out.

Harry D.Holmes FBI informant DA-T7

John C. Brewer FBI informant??? DA-T?

Assistant (name?) FBI informant??? DA-T?

Brewers superior? FBI informant???? DA-t?

"Jack Tatum, sitting in his red 1964 Ford Galaxie a block east, noticed the same man turn and walk toward the police car. Tatum turned left onto 10th street and drove slowly west past Tippit's car."

Then a few minutes later:

Brewer - had taken new Ford Galaxie to work on 11/22.

Connections???

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Mark (from Henry Wade topic) :"Henry Wade's time as an FBI guy, giving his symbol number (345), his code name (James) and his confidential informant number 6"

"Hoover says Henry Wade handled 11 informants"

So: Henry Wade - Harry Holmes connection?

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Robert: (with some corrections/changes)"The following listing is from the Harvey & Lee [Compact Disk] under the TOC Chronology section Jan 20th thru March 20th, 1963 [Dallas] #63-43 The jpeg image from the document is too large to upload, but here is a copy, as far as information requests this is pretty much it.

Dallas T-1 Royal Canadian Mounted Police,

Criminal Investigative Division

Ottawa, Canada

Dallas T-2

Dallas T-3 Legat, Mexico City

Dallas T-4 Mrs. Jane Petta aka Mrs. Joseph F. Petta

Hostell, El Jordan Coffee Shop

Brownsville, Texas

Dallas T-5 George Clement Reid

8651 Groveland

Dallas, Texas (Request)

Dallas T-6 Roy F. Armstrong

U.S.Postal Inspector

Dallas, Texas

Dallas T7 Harry Holmes

U.S. Post Office Inspector

Terminal Annex(overlooking Dealey Plaza)

U.S. Post Office

Dallas, Texas

Dallas T8 ?

Dallas T9 ?

Dallas T10 ?

Dallas T11 ?

Dallas T12 ?

Dallas T-13 Germinal Messina

Louisiana Division of Employment Security

New Orleans, Louisiana (Request)

Dallas T-14 Charles Hall Steele, Jr.

1488 Madrid

New Orleans, Louisiana

Dallas T-15 R.L. Adams

Employment Interviewer

Texas Employment Commission

Dallas T-16 Otis Withers

Assistant Vice-President

Fort Worth National Bank

Fort Worth, Texas"

Edited April 13, 2007 by John Dolva

[John Dolva]

"Jack Tatum, sitting in his red 1964 Ford Galaxie a block east, noticed the same man turn and walk toward the police car. Tatum turned left onto 10th street and drove slowly west past Tippit's car."

Then a few minutes later:

Brewer - had taken new Ford Galaxie to work on 11/22.

Connections???

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"In the case of Tippit, he appeared to be killed by a hitman, based on the testimony of Jack Tatum before the HSCA in 1978, who had been previously too afraid to come forward."

When he did come forward, in 1978, he was Director of Photography of Office of Photo Department of Hobiezelle Hospital, 3500 Gaston ave, Dallas, TEXAS (Baylor Hospital is 3600 Gaston). What was his job in 1963?

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The Tatums are prominent "Old South"

Clarence Albert Tatum, Jr

"The New Handbook of Texas" (in six volumes), Volume 6: Tatum, Texas, 21 miles NE of Henderson on the Rusk-Panola county line, was settled in the 1840s by Albert and Mary C. Tatum for whom it was named. In 1848, the Tatums built a plantation in the area; it was so large that the boundaries were said to be "out of gunshot sound of the mansion." The plantation was very grand, with a long hall for dances, where over the years thousands of guests wrote their names on one wall.

Tatum, Clarence Albert, Jr. (1907-1986). Clarence Albert (C. A.) Tatum, Jr., civic leader and president of Texas Utilities Company, was born on June 25, 1907, in Dallas, the son of Clarence Albert and Annie Elizabeth (Wright) Tatum. In 1928, he graduated with a physics degree from SMU. He was immediately employed in the commercial department of the Dallas Power & Light Co. By 1953 he was elected president and chief executive officer. He continued that postion until 1967, when he became CEO of the Texas Utilities Co. He retired in 1975 but continued as a consultant until his death in 1986.

In 1960 Tatum headed the Dallas Citizens Council.

He was awarded a Liberty Bell Award by the Dallas Bar Association and the National Brotherhood Citation by the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1962. He believed that Dallas would grow and encouraged plans that would help it do so in an organized fashion. The idea of buying the Cotton Belt Railroad and turning it into Dallas North Tollway was his; later he became chairman of the Highway Committee of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Tatum was president of the Lion's Club of Dallas, the Salesmanship Club of Dallas, and the State Fair of Texas. He served on the Southern Methodist University Board of Trustees and Board of Governors.

He was on the boards of the Dallas Summer Musicals, the Excellence in Education Fdtn. and the Southwestern Medical Foundation.

In 1959 he received a Dallas Hospital Council Award as chairman fo the St. Paul Hospital building campaign.

He was president of Circle Ten Council, Boy Scouts of America in 1962 and 1963*. He was a Methodist. On December 16, 1936, Tatum married Caroline King.

They had two sons.#

Tatum died on October 1, 1986, at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas and was buried at Hillcrest

Memorial Park.

*see LBJ and Boy Scouts

# Was Jack Ray Tatum one of these sons?

OR

son of:

John Corley Tatum

Wilmington (NC) Morning Star, October 25, 1999...

He was born December 28, 1920, in Corsicana, Texas, the son of the late G. Liston and Alice Corley Tatum. He was predeceased by his first wife, Joan Lewis Tatum.

Mr. Tatum attended Kemper Military Institute, Rice University and the University of Texas.

He was a pilot in the U.S. Air Corps during World War II, serving in India.

"Capt. John Corley (Kay) Tatum, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Liston, Tatum. Volunteered for flight training. in Jan. 1942 and received "wings" and commission in 1943. Trained at Randolph Field and became a twin-engine instructor at Lackland AFB, Waco. (on completion of training served as an instructor at various fields) Served with Air Trans. Command, with the 1333 AFB Unit in Chabua, India. He flew "the Hump" from India to China. Discharged in Jan. 1946." - (??? CAP + Chennaults Tigers???)

He joined his father as an independent oil operator in Corsicana, Texas, making his home there until he moved to Wilmington in 1996.

He is survived by his wife, Jane Bashford Tatum; his son, John Tatum Jr. of Dallas, Texas; his daughter, Lee Usnick of Houston, Texas; his stepson, Frederick Lewis III of Wilmington, N.C.; grandsons, John, Thomas, and Paul Tatum and William, Samuel and Thomas Usnick; brother, Dr. G. Liston Tatum of Port Republic, Maryland; and sister, Alice Tatum Andrews of Dallas, Texas."

"Ens. George L. Tatum, Jr.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Tatum, Sr., Corsicana. George was born June 4, 1919, was Civilian Physicist, Naval Ord. Lab. from Feb. 3, 1941, until called to active duty on Nov 11, 1944, and sta. in Ordnance Lab., Navy Yd., Wash., D.C. Assignments: Design of Degaussing coils, measurment of ships' high frequency acoustic flds., torpedo exploder design and testing. Returned to civilian job Naval Ord. Lab. Oct. 17, 1945."

"2nd Lt. John C. Tatum

Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Tatum, Sr., Corsicana. John was born Dec. 28, 1920, volunteered for Army Air Corps May, 1942; on completion of training served as an instructor at various fields before he transferred overseas and flew "Hump" from Chabua, India, Assam Prov. Returned to U.S. to be hon. discharged Dec., 1945."

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...34|1|1|1|80483|

and a Tatum was the publisher of "the Southern Review" nov '64. Here also described as the editor. (remember Greaves topic?) Speaking to APWR, as well as General Walker.

http://www.mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents...43|1|1|1|43755|

anyone have a photo of Jack R. Tatum from around '63

Edited April 13, 2007 by John Dolva

[James Richards]

"In the case of Tippit, he appeared to be killed by a hitman, based on the testimony of Jack Tatum before the HSCA in 1978, who had been previously too afraid to come forward."

When he did come forward, in 1978, he was Director of Photography of Office of Photo Department of Hobiezelle Hospital, 3500 Gaston ave, Dallas, TEXAS (Baylor Hospital is 3600 Gaston). What was his job in 1963?

John,

In 1960, a man named Jack R. Tatum was stationed at Fort Monmouth and worked in the operations photographic laboratory at the Army Signal School. He was back in Dallas by mid 1962.

Could this be the same guy?

James

[Thomas Graves]

[...] "John Corley Tatum... Trained at Randolph Field and became a twin-engine instructor at Lackland AFB, Waco. [...]

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Isn't Lackland AFB in San Antonio?

--Thomas

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Edited April 13, 2007 by Thomas Graves

[John Dolva]

"The war also brought the Waco Army Flying School, established eight miles north of the city, and the Blackland Army Air Field,qv set up at nearby China Spring"

so the article probably refers to the Blackland Army Air Field, and not Lackland AFB. However another article states he trained at various fields, so he could very well have been at Lackland AFB San Antonio, as well.

Anyway, it's whether one of his sons is Jack Tatum that's the issue.

"In 1960, a man named Jack R. Tatum was stationed at Fort Monmouth and worked in the operations photographic laboratory at the Army Signal School. He was back in Dallas by mid 1962."

sounds a likely candidate.

Wonder if he worked for a photographic business in 1963? Seems likely. If so which one?

[Thomas H. Purvis]

FBI informant as shoe store manager in September 1963 is intriguing. (John Dolva)

The FBI plant, William Lowery, also worked as a shoe salesman. He was under cover for some 18 years. The unnamed person is definitely food for thought.

Another curiosity is the amount of shoe retail shops within a stone's throw of the Texas Theater, literally next door to each other.

Hardy's Shoes

Brown's Self Service Shoes

Name Brand Shoes

Paul's Shoes

Austin's Shoes

Is this normal practise for so much competition so close?

James

Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: DORSEY'S SHOES INC.

Type Entity: Business Corporation

File Date: 10/22/1952

Registered Agent (Appointed 3/29/1955): CHARLES E. DUNBAR JR., 420 HIBERNIA BLDG., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 3/29/1955): SUMTER D. MARKS JR., 420 HIBERNIA BLDG., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 3/29/1955): LOUIS CLAVERIE, 420 HIBERNIA BLDG., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

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Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: NEW ORLEANS-DELMAR SHOE COMPANY INC.

Type Entity: Business Corporation

File Date: 12/17/1953

Registered Agent (Appointed 12/17/1953): CHARLES E. DUNBAR, JR., 420 HIBERNIA BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 12/17/1953): SUMTER D. MARKS, JR., 420 HIBERNIA BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 12/17/1953): LOUIS B. CLAVERIE, 420 HIBERNIA BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

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Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: DUANE'S SHOES OF GRETNA INC.

Type Entity: Business Corporation

File Date: 02/20/1958

Registered Agent (Appointed 2/20/1958): SUMTER D. MARKS JR., 420 HIBERNIA BK BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 2/20/1958): LOUIS B. CLAVERIE, 420 HIBERNIA BK BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 2/20/1958): ASHTON PHELPS, 420 HIBERNIA BK BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

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Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: DOLLY SHOE CO., INC.

Type Entity: Business Corporation

File Date: 01/24/1955

Registered Agent (Appointed 1/24/1955): CHARLES ROSEN II, 1801 HIBERNIA BK BD., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 1/24/1955): FELIX H. LAPEYRE, 1801 HIBERNIA BK BD., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

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Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: GREEN WAVE CLUB

Type Entity: Non-Profit Corporation

Mailing Address: 308 CAMP ST., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115

Domicile Address: 308 CAMP ST., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115

File Date: 09/27/1966

Registered Agent (Appointed 9/27/1966): CHARLES DUNBAR, HIBERNIA BLDG., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 9/27/1966): CHARLES ROSEN, II., 22K BARONNE ST., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

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Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

Type Entity: Non-Profit Corporation

File Date: 12/22/1960

Registered Agent (Appointed 12/22/1960): FERNAND F. WILLOZ III, 1214 BOURBON ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70116

Registered Agent (Appointed 12/22/1960): HUBERT BADEAUX, 8241 HICKORY ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118

Registered Agent (Appointed 12/22/1960): FELIX H. LAPEYRE, 2207 STATE ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118

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Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: THE POLITICAL LEAGUE

Type Entity: Non-Profit Corporation

Mailing Address: 710 PERE MARQUETTE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Domicile Address: 710 PERE MARQUETTE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

File Date: 02/04/1963

Registered Agent (Appointed 2/04/1963): HUBERT J. BADEAUX, 8241 HICKORY ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118

Registered Agent (Appointed 2/04/1963): F. D. V. DE LA BARRE, 4122 PITT ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115

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Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: VALESCERE FOUNDATION

Type Entity: Non-Profit Corporation

Mailing Address: 710 PERE MARQUETTE BLDG., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Domicile Address: 710 PERE MARQUETTE BLDG., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 7/21/1966): ANDREW P. CALHOUN, JR., 717 PERE MARQUETTE BLDG., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

Registered Agent (Appointed 7/21/1966): F.D.V. DE LA BARRE, 710 PERE MARQUETTE BLDG., NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

President: ALTON OCHSNER, JR., M.D., 1407 STATE ST., NEW ORLEANS, LA

Vice President: ANDREW P. CALHOUN, JR., 1303 HENRY CLAY AVE., NEW ORLEANS, LA

Secretary/Treasurer: F.D.V. DE LA BARRE, 710 PERE MARQUETTE, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112

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Louisiana Secretary of State

Detailed Record

Name: LOUISIANA ROYALTIES, INC.

Type Entity: Business Corporation

Registered Agent (Appointed 7/15/1960): F.D.V. DE LA BARRE, 1501 AMERICAN BANK BUILDING, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

President: THOMAS D. BURBANK, 1500 AMER. BANK BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

Vice President: RONALD W. MISTROT, 1500 AMER. BANK BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

Secretary/Treasurer: LOUIS J. ROUSSEL, 1500 AMER. BANK BLDG, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

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Now one may have some appreciation as to exactly why the "Yankee's" gave up and left New Orleans.

[John Dolva]

James: The FBI plant, William Lowery, also worked as a shoe salesman. He was under cover for some 18 years. The unnamed person is definitely food for thought.

Another curiosity is the amount of shoe retail shops within a stone's throw of the Texas Theater, literally next door to each other.

Hardy's Shoes

Brown's Self Service Shoes

Name Brand Shoes

Paul's Shoes

Austin's Shoes

Is this normal practise for so much competition so close?"

"Alabama: Dallas Mills was a manufacturer of cotton sheeting. The company was chartered in 1890 by T.B. Dallas, and began operation in 1892 as Alabama's largest cotton mill, manufacturing sheeting. In 1891 the company announced that the Dallas Cotton Mill was to be located in Huntsville. At the time Huntsville's population was 1,327 citizens.

The mill village extended from Oakwood Ave, South to O'Shaughnessy Avenue, and West to Dallas Ave. Employees were provided homes, medical care, churches, library, lodge building, YMCA, concerts, a kindergarten, and schools.

The mill closed in 1949. Dallas Village was incorporated into Huntsville six years later in 1955. Genesco Shoe Company then used the mill building for a distribution operation until 1985."

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Billy Graham: "Throughout his career, Graham had critics of varying degrees of intensity. The criticisms generally fell into four different categories. Fundamentalists accused him of "ecumenical evangelism," that is, corrupting his message by accepting help and support from pseudo-Christians. Liberal Christians often wrote that he cared too much for evangelism and not enough for helping to ease the social ills of society. Some also attacked the crusades for being mechanical spectacles which moved people through emotionalism and left little in the way of results. Some evangelists felt he was too close to rulers and men of power who used him to increase their own legitimacy. These criticisms became particularly persistent in the mid-1970s because of Graham's friendship with Richard Nixon, then enmeshed in the Watergate scandal."

"Subseries 1.1.5: BGEA Board files

Arrangement: Mixed with no reordering done by the archivist

Date range: 1961-1987

Volume: 1.2 cubic feet

Boxes: 126-127 (click to see corresponding section of Container Box List)

Type of documents: Correspondence, telegrams, meeting agenda and minutes, reports to the BGEA board

Correspondents: Board members (Alan Emery, EV Hill, Maxey Jarman, Bill Mead, Harold John Ockenga, Robert Van Kampen, William Walton), Walter Smyth, Billy Graham, Joel Aarsvold, Alexander Haraszti, Sterling Huston, Eva Prior"

"James Franklin Jarman began manufacturing $5 shoes in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1924 and incorporated the following year as Jarman Shoe Company. His son, Walton Maxey Jarman, soon joined the company, dropping out of MIT to do so. Maxey, as he was known, first worked a year at the Nashville plant as a laborer earning $10 a week, then began selling the company's product.

Maxey didn't want to be an electrical engineer, but he did want to build something. In 1933, at age 29, he got his chance. The senior Jarman made Maxey company president and moved up to chairman. Maxey changed the company name to General Shoe Corporation, and, despite the troubled economy of the Depression, started moving the company into shoe retail. He took this step since many shoe stores simply were not interested in more shoe brands, and he saw stores owned by General Shoe as the best way to distribute the company's footwear.

Maxey established four retail chains, bought a tanning plant in Michigan, and, to keep everything in-house, began producing shoe boxes. Through a subsidiary, he provided the manufacturing plants with cement, chemicals and finishes. Maxey became chairman in 1938 upon his father's death, and in 1939 he took the company public, offering 150,000 shares at $15.25 a share.

Opening brand name shoe stores in key cities helped make the Jarman and other General Shoe brands popular. Once that occurred, big independent retailers wanted to have them in stock. The company-owned stores also served as laboratories, providing immediate signals as to what the factories should make. By 1941, General Shoe had sales of $24 million, selling its shoes through its own 43 retail stores and 10,000 other outlets. In 1946, the company made a second stock offering, at $40 per share, with the proceeds going into its general fund.

Maxey Jarman was a devout Southern Baptist and an avid reader. He was reserved by nature, and the results of company psychological tests (which he took under an assumed name) indicated he was too shy to succeed in management. Yet he loved his business, had a great curiosity, and worked hard to overcome his shyness. He also had an entrepreneurial flair.

Aided by the postwar economic boom, General Shoe started the decade by manufacturing and selling $84 million worth of shoes and making a net profit of $4 million. Maxey continued to buy other shoe companies, including Massachusetts' W.L. Douglas Shoe Co., which made men's shoes, and Nisley Shoe Co., with 45 retail stores in the Midwest. Most of the company's brands were moderately priced, in the $10.95 to $18.95 range. With the 1951 purchase of the Johnston & Murphy Shoe Company, Maxey took his company into the high-price ($27.50-$39.50) end of the shoe market. J&M was 101 years old at that time, and its customers had included Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Ford. Part of J&M's marketing strategy, in fact, was to send a pair of shoes to the White House when a new President took office. Within 18 years of becoming head of the company, Maxey had built it up from a single plant in Nashville to the fourth largest shoe company in the United States, with 23 plants, over 200 stores, and 10,000 employees.

But he didn't stop there. Over the next four years he bought 15 more shoe manufacturers and retailers, becoming the country's second largest shoe company. In 1955, the Justice Department brought an anti-trust suit against General Shoe, charging that the effect of the purchases since 1950 "may be substantially to lessen competition or to tend to create a monopoly." Although the company claimed it made only five percent of the shoes manufactured in the United States, it settled with the government out of court in February 1956. General Shoe agreed not to buy any shoe companies for eight months. Then, for the next five years, the company could not make any mergers or acquisitions in the shoe industry without government approval. The decree also required General Shoe to buy 20 percent of its shoes from other manufacturers and enjoined it from requiring independent shoe retailers to buy a specific portion of the company's products.

The success of General Shoe provided Maxey a model for expansion outside the shoe industry. His company was involved in both manufacturing and retail, and General Shoe offered shoes for every taste, from $1.99 to $200. The consent decree may have been the impetus for Maxey to apply that model to the apparel industry.

Five months after the settlement, General Shoe announced it had bought a 65 percent controlling interest in the Hoving Corporation, which controlled seven Bonwit Teller stores and jeweler Tiffany & Co. According to a July 28, 1956 article in Business Week, General Shoe paid over $10 million in cash for the shares. The move built on General Shoe's 1953 purchase of Whitehouse & Hardy, a chain of men's shoe and clothing stores.

In 1957, Maxey's son, Franklin, joined the company as a trainee. In June that year, the company continued its move into clothing retail with the purchase of 100 percent of Henri Bendel Inc., a high-fashion women's specialty shop based in New York. That move seemed to make particular sense since General Shoe already owned Frank Bros. and I. Miller, which operated Bendel's shoe department.

Early in 1959, Maxey gave a clear indication of his plans when he changed the company's name again, to Genesco, dropping all reference to shoes. Shortly thereafter, Genesco moved into the apparel manufacturing business with the purchases of girdle maker Formfit Co. and Kingsboro Mills, Inc., a lingerie manufacturer. In 1960, the company bought L. Greif & Bro. Inc., which made men's clothing. The title page of Genesco's annual report that year proudly announced the company was "First in apparel and footwear." The company had sales of $321 million (not counting $40 million of sales to its own retail stores), with shoes accounting for about half the volume.

...

By the end of 1962, Genesco operated 80 factories in 17 states, manufacturing 51 brands of shoes, making girdles and lingerie for women and suits for men, and selling its products through its 1,500 retail outlets. And Maxey kept buying. While most acquisitions were shoe or apparel companies, in 1963 the company went slightly afield with the purchase of the S.H. Kress & Co. chain of variety stores. ..

In 1968 Maxey achieved his dream. Genesco became the world's first apparel company to reach $1 billion in sales."

"The move built on General Shoe's 1953 purchase of Whitehouse & Hardy, a chain of men's shoe and clothing stores." could this be Hardy's Shoe Store then in Dallas 1963? If so we can know Brewers Boss.

and : " Part of J&M's marketing strategy, in fact, was to send a pair of shoes to the White House when a new President took office."

there would be a new pair of shoes to be sent to the White House shortly.

funny huh?

Edited April 14, 2007 by John Dolva

[Chuck Robbins]

J.William:

Is this any better....and the car in the other photo, is it the same vehicle...??

B......

If that is a car behind him this guy is only 4 ft. tall.

Maybe it is a truck?

[John Dolva]

James: The FBI plant, William Lowery, also worked as a shoe salesman. He was under cover for some 18 years. The unnamed person is definitely food for thought.

Another curiosity is the amount of shoe retail shops within a stone's throw of the Texas Theater, literally next door to each other.

Hardy's Shoes

Brown's Self Service Shoes

Name Brand Shoes

Paul's Shoes

Austin's Shoes

Is this normal practise for so much competition so close?"

"Alabama: Dallas Mills was a manufacturer of cotton sheeting. The company was chartered in 1890 by T.B. Dallas, and began operation in 1892 as Alabama's largest cotton mill, manufacturing sheeting. In 1891 the company announced that the Dallas Cotton Mill was to be located in Huntsville. At the time Huntsville's population was 1,327 citizens.

The mill village extended from Oakwood Ave, South to O'Shaughnessy Avenue, and West to Dallas Ave. Employees were provided homes, medical care, churches, library, lodge building, YMCA, concerts, a kindergarten, and schools.

The mill closed in 1949. Dallas Village was incorporated into Huntsville six years later in 1955. Genesco Shoe Company then used the mill building for a distribution operation until 1985."

________________

Billy Graham: "Throughout his career, Graham had critics of varying degrees of intensity. The criticisms generally fell into four different categories. Fundamentalists accused him of "ecumenical evangelism," that is, corrupting his message by accepting help and support from pseudo-Christians. Liberal Christians often wrote that he cared too much for evangelism and not enough for helping to ease the social ills of society. Some also attacked the crusades for being mechanical spectacles which moved people through emotionalism and left little in the way of results. Some evangelists felt he was too close to rulers and men of power who used him to increase their own legitimacy. These criticisms became particularly persistent in the mid-1970s because of Graham's friendship with Richard Nixon, then enmeshed in the Watergate scandal."

"Subseries 1.1.5: BGEA Board files

Arrangement: Mixed with no reordering done by the archivist

Date range: 1961-1987

Volume: 1.2 cubic feet

Boxes: 126-127 (click to see corresponding section of Container Box List)

Type of documents: Correspondence, telegrams, meeting agenda and minutes, reports to the BGEA board

Correspondents: Board members (Alan Emery, EV Hill, Maxey Jarman, Bill Mead, Harold John Ockenga, Robert Van Kampen, William Walton), Walter Smyth, Billy Graham, Joel Aarsvold, Alexander Haraszti, Sterling Huston, Eva Prior"

"James Franklin Jarman began manufacturing $5 shoes in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1924 and incorporated the following year as Jarman Shoe Company. His son, Walton Maxey Jarman, soon joined the company, dropping out of MIT to do so. Maxey, as he was known, first worked a year at the Nashville plant as a laborer earning $10 a week, then began selling the company's product.

Maxey didn't want to be an electrical engineer, but he did want to build something. In 1933, at age 29, he got his chance. The senior Jarman made Maxey company president and moved up to chairman. Maxey changed the company name to General Shoe Corporation, and, despite the troubled economy of the Depression, started moving the company into shoe retail. He took this step since many shoe stores simply were not interested in more shoe brands, and he saw stores owned by General Shoe as the best way to distribute the company's footwear.

Maxey established four retail chains, bought a tanning plant in Michigan, and, to keep everything in-house, began producing shoe boxes. Through a subsidiary, he provided the manufacturing plants with cement, chemicals and finishes. Maxey became chairman in 1938 upon his father's death, and in 1939 he took the company public, offering 150,000 shares at $15.25 a share.

Opening brand name shoe stores in key cities helped make the Jarman and other General Shoe brands popular. Once that occurred, big independent retailers wanted to have them in stock. The company-owned stores also served as laboratories, providing immediate signals as to what the factories should make. By 1941, General Shoe had sales of $24 million, selling its shoes through its own 43 retail stores and 10,000 other outlets. In 1946, the company made a second stock offering, at $40 per share, with the proceeds going into its general fund.

Maxey Jarman was a devout Southern Baptist and an avid reader. He was reserved by nature, and the results of company psychological tests (which he took under an assumed name) indicated he was too shy to succeed in management. Yet he loved his business, had a great curiosity, and worked hard to overcome his shyness. He also had an entrepreneurial flair.

Aided by the postwar economic boom, General Shoe started the decade by manufacturing and selling $84 million worth of shoes and making a net profit of $4 million. Maxey continued to buy other shoe companies, including Massachusetts' W.L. Douglas Shoe Co., which made men's shoes, and Nisley Shoe Co., with 45 retail stores in the Midwest. Most of the company's brands were moderately priced, in the $10.95 to $18.95 range. With the 1951 purchase of the Johnston & Murphy Shoe Company, Maxey took his company into the high-price ($27.50-$39.50) end of the shoe market. J&M was 101 years old at that time, and its customers had included Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Ford. Part of J&M's marketing strategy, in fact, was to send a pair of shoes to the White House when a new President took office. Within 18 years of becoming head of the company, Maxey had built it up from a single plant in Nashville to the fourth largest shoe company in the United States, with 23 plants, over 200 stores, and 10,000 employees.

But he didn't stop there. Over the next four years he bought 15 more shoe manufacturers and retailers, becoming the country's second largest shoe company. In 1955, the Justice Department brought an anti-trust suit against General Shoe, charging that the effect of the purchases since 1950 "may be substantially to lessen competition or to tend to create a monopoly." Although the company claimed it made only five percent of the shoes manufactured in the United States, it settled with the government out of court in February 1956. General Shoe agreed not to buy any shoe companies for eight months. Then, for the next five years, the company could not make any mergers or acquisitions in the shoe industry without government approval. The decree also required General Shoe to buy 20 percent of its shoes from other manufacturers and enjoined it from requiring independent shoe retailers to buy a specific portion of the company's products.

The success of General Shoe provided Maxey a model for expansion outside the shoe industry. His company was involved in both manufacturing and retail, and General Shoe offered shoes for every taste, from $1.99 to $200. The consent decree may have been the impetus for Maxey to apply that model to the apparel industry.

Five months after the settlement, General Shoe announced it had bought a 65 percent controlling interest in the Hoving Corporation, which controlled seven Bonwit Teller stores and jeweler Tiffany & Co. According to a July 28, 1956 article in Business Week, General Shoe paid over $10 million in cash for the shares. The move built on General Shoe's 1953 purchase of Whitehouse & Hardy, a chain of men's shoe and clothing stores.

In 1957, Maxey's son, Franklin, joined the company as a trainee. In June that year, the company continued its move into clothing retail with the purchase of 100 percent of Henri Bendel Inc., a high-fashion women's specialty shop based in New York. That move seemed to make particular sense since General Shoe already owned Frank Bros. and I. Miller, which operated Bendel's shoe department.

Early in 1959, Maxey gave a clear indication of his plans when he changed the company's name again, to Genesco, dropping all reference to shoes. Shortly thereafter, Genesco moved into the apparel manufacturing business with the purchases of girdle maker Formfit Co. and Kingsboro Mills, Inc., a lingerie manufacturer. In 1960, the company bought L. Greif & Bro. Inc., which made men's clothing. The title page of Genesco's annual report that year proudly announced the company was "First in apparel and footwear." The company had sales of $321 million (not counting $40 million of sales to its own retail stores), with shoes accounting for about half the volume.

...

By the end of 1962, Genesco operated 80 factories in 17 states, manufacturing 51 brands of shoes, making girdles and lingerie for women and suits for men, and selling its products through its 1,500 retail outlets. And Maxey kept buying. While most acquisitions were shoe or apparel companies, in 1963 the company went slightly afield with the purchase of the S.H. Kress & Co. chain of variety stores. ..

In 1968 Maxey achieved his dream. Genesco became the world's first apparel company to reach $1 billion in sales."

"The move built on General Shoe's 1953 purchase of Whitehouse & Hardy, a chain of men's shoe and clothing stores." could this be Hardy's Shoe Store then in Dallas 1963? If so we can know Brewers Boss.

and : " Part of J&M's marketing strategy, in fact, was to send a pair of shoes to the White House when a new President took office."

there would be a new pair of shoes to be sent to the White House shortly.

funny huh?

from the Crypt:

Some curious coincidental Trivia - Months and States have 'official' flowers.

Washington, DC State Flower - 'American Beauty Rose'

(Rosa 'American Beauty')

Bred: Hoopes, 1909, USA

Description: Double, spring flowering, dark pink, fragrant.

Color: Deep pink (med. red)

President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline arrive in Dallas Love Field Airport on Nov. 22, 1963 where Mrs. Kennedy is presented with a bouquet of red Roses.

- the month of June : The special flower for June is the Rose.

So, in many ways one can say that The Rose flower state, the Rose of the month June, the red roses given to Jackie

and a probable owner of J. C. Brewers place of employment, Genesco corp. with a tradition of sending a new pair of shoes to each new President in Wash. DC, leading the Police to Oswald, getting promoted on the day before testifying to the Warren Commission.

Wash DC was soon to get a new pair of shoes.

__________________

OK, I recognise that absurdity that can easily be flung at this.

However Oswald seemed particularly insistent that it be known that 'Junie needs a new pair of shoes'. (Three instances of last words)

Twice to Marina, once to Robert to make sure he tells Marina.

Does this mean he was letting someone know that he knew something?

Was this meant to set something in motion, or did it seal his fate, or...what?

What really happened at Hardy's shoe store? Only Brewer ever has said he only ducked in to the front part of the shop outside the door? Did he enter? Was the expected assistant gone? Was Oswald being shadowed by someone (Tatum) in Brewers new Ford Galaxie?

Brewer (apparently) was alone in the shop, yet he nowhere (AFAIK) mentions locking the door behind him as he went to follow Oswald, get the Theatre employee to call the police, and stay to witness the arrest. This would have covered many minutes, maybe half an hour.

Does this make sense?

Who else was in the shop, who else was watching the unlocked shop?

Who is this (apparently) missing link?

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James: "Is this normal practise for so much competition so close?"

GENESCO corp was close to monopolising the shoe trade. They had become under scrutiny about this in the '50's.

Go in to any supermarket and go to say the toilet roll section, or the washing powder section. Lots to choose from. Right?

Wrong. Very often one finds that the apparently wide choice all stem from one head corp with multiple brand, dummy corps etc to give an illusion of choice/competition.

Edited April 15, 2007 by John Dolva