HW 54756 Trip Report Page 8 test. They declared Jarnigan believed the "fanciful" story. ‘Turner went to see Jarnigan and interviewed him regarding these events. He found him to be impressive and believable. RONNIE CAIRE. . An interview in early 1967 revealed that Caire had met ARCACHA in December of 1961 when he came to Caire's office to raise money for the Cuban Revolutionary Front. (CRC). This led to the formation of the Crusade to Free Cuba. Those induced to head up the drive were: GILL MELLIN, Vice President of the Whitney Bank and CARLOS GRIMADER, an accountant who kept records for Cuban groups (i.e., CRC). The money was used to finance many different things including acquisition of PT boats, etc. The Crusade lasted 3 months, but was a failure. Caire says he lost $10,000 _and Arcacha pocketed most of it. Caire's office on the 7th floor of the Cigali Building in 1964 (the corner office on Canal Street side). After the Crusade, Arcacha.worked for Caire (from 2/12/62 to 9/18/62). Then Arcacha went to Mexico around July or August 1962, probably under an assumed name, with NESTOR MARQUEZ-DIAZ, an attorney and economist from Algiers, Louisiana and a teacher at Nicholl's College. Caire was impressed with the veracity and character of CARLOS QUIROGA. Quiroga had warned Caire early.on in DoclId: 322745514 Page 10
HW 54756 Trip Report Page 9 the Crusade not to trust Arcacha. MAYOR WALTER SCHIRO also warned Caire about Arcacha. Arcacha disappeared in late 1962, rumored to: have gone to Miami, and .later Houston and Dallas. He had been working on the Pan American Life Insurance Company ‘account when he left. ERNESTO RODRIGUEZ was said to be the leader of the anti-Arcacha faction. Arcacha was replaced by LUIS RABEL as local front leader. Arcacha had mentioned GUY BANISTER on occasion although Caire never saw the two of them together. -Arcacha had “told him about ~ driving a truck load of plastic explosives from Houma, LA to New Orleans prior to Caire's meeting Arcacha. Caire said LEE HARVEY OSWALD once applied for a job when Caire was at the Cigali Building. Oswald came in one day about the time of the WDSU interview. Arcacha once introduced Caire to a man from Miami who Caire thought might have been named TONY OR MANUEL VARONA. Caire did not know Ricardo Davis, or Ferrie. He vaguely recalled the name MIGUEL TORRES and "runner" for the Crusade. He remembered BRINGUIER, MIRO CARDONA, LUIS SANCHEZ, LUIS BODEFOL, TOMAS CAMPA. Arcacha knew MANUEL GIL of the American Sugar Can association. (Gil had been with Alpha 66 or the CIA, Caire thought.) Docld: 322745514 Page i1
HW 54756 Trip Report Page 10 . GUY BANISTER.- According to Turner, Guy Banister was connected with the training camp in Algiers, La. _with NINO DIAZ. He trained Cuban exiles for di- -versionary activities to be conducted during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Turner, probably because both he and Banister had FBI connections, showed a good deal of interest in Banister and felt that his activities in New Orleans in the early 1960's in- dicated he (Banister) had connections with various intelligence agencies. In conclusion, it should be mentioned that William Turner worked, for a time, on the Garrison investigation which led to the trial of Clay Shaw. Turner conducted witness interviews for Garrison and spoke very favorably of Garrison when we visited with him. Turner felt that Garrison was on=the right track in his investigation, but failed to explore the organized crime phase of the case.aswell as the Cuban angle, Docld: 322745514 Page 12
Mr. “William Turner: December 28, 1977. 163 Mark Twain Avente San Rafael, California 94903. - “Dear Bill: “on behalf of Patricia’ corr, John Hornbeck | and: ‘myself, “I wish to thank you for your willingness to share: your. day. - with us last Thursday. We all appreciated the’ fact that. -it was -an extremely. busy time for you and want. you to . - know. that we benefited greatly from having talked to you. We are. in’ the process “of ‘reviewing the material from your manuscript | and will respect your desire to keep it under | ‘tight security here at the Committee. _We look forward to ~ .xeceiving the additional material which you indicated you oe would send to. us. sin the near future. “Thank you again for your time. and. attention. . Sincerely, | ". Betsy Palmer Page “13
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Ci ONT EMPORARY AUTHORS 73 . Van Clief, That's What Friends Are For, Four Winds, 1968; Peggy Parish, Granny and the Indians, ‘Macmillan, ‘1969; Tamara Kitt, Jake, Abelard- Schuman, 1969; Beatrice ' Schenk’ De Regniers, Catch a Little Fox, Seabury, 1970; F.N. Monjo, Poor Richard in France, Holt, 1973; Lydia Marie Child, Over the River and Through the Wood, Cow- ard, 1974; Freya Littledale, The Elves and the’ Shoemaker, 4 ‘Scholastic Book. Services, 1975; Bette Lamont, Island Time, Lippincott, 1976. AVOCATIONAL INTERESTS: Theater (has acted, di- rected, and designed avocationally), music. BIOGRAPHICALICRITICAL SOURCES: Young Read- ers’ Review, September, 1968; Lee Bennett Hopkins, Books ‘Are by. People, Citation: Press, 1969; Publisher's s Weekly, ; July | 14, 1969; Horn. Book, August, 1969. # “i * - TURNBULL, | Andrew (Winchester) 1921-1970 February 2, 1921—January, 10, 1970; American biographer and literary. ‘scholar. Obituaries: New York Times, January 11,1970; Washington’ Post, January 12, 1970; Newsweek, January 19, 1970; Publishers’ Weekly, February 9, 1970; ' Antiquarian Bookman, February | 16, 1970. (See index for CA sketch) . , : ee * TURNER, Frederick CQair) ' 1938- PERSONAL: Born October 3, 1938, in Cambridge, Mass. ; 3 son of Clair Elsmere (a. college professor) and Naomi (Cocke) Turner; married ‘Caroline Tingey Craven, August 27, 1960; children: Frederick C. II, Elizabeth Wingate, Car- oline: ‘Truxtun. Education: Harvard University, A. B. (magna. cum laude), 1961; Fletcher School of Law. and Di- plomacy, M.A., 1962, M.A.L.D., 1963, Ph.D., 1965. Poli- ~ » tics: Democrat. "Religion: Unitarian Universalist. Home: 30 DATI6 Timber Dr., Storrs, Conn: 06268. Office: Department ‘of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn. 06268. CAREER: Harvard ‘University, Cambridge, Mass., assis- tant.to director of Latin. American studies, 1963-64; Univer- sity of Connecticut, Storrs, assistant professor, 1965-68, associate professor, 1968-70, professor of political science, 1970—. Visiting lecturer in political science, Yale Univer- sity, 1967-69. Member: Center for Inter-American Rela- tions, American Political Science Association, International Political Science Association, Latin American Studies As- sociation, American: Association’ of University Professors. Awards, honors: First place in distinguished faculty awards program, University of Connecticut, 1968; University of Connecticut Alumni Association award for faculty excel- lence in teaching, 1969; grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-73, and National Science Founda- tion, 1972-76. WRITINGS: The Dynamic of Mexican Nationalism, Uni- versity of North Carolina Press, 1968; Catholicism and Po- litical Development in Latin America, University of North Carolina Press, 1971; Responsible Parenthood: The Politics of Mexico's New Population Policies (monograph), Amer- ican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1974. Contributor: Lewis Hanke, ‘editor, History of Latin Amer- tcan Civilization: Sources and Interpretations, ’ Little, Brown, 1967, 2nd edition, 1973; -Samuet Bailey, editor, Na- tionalism in Latin America, Knopf, 1970; Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo and Michael C. Meyer, editors, Latin (DocTd: 32245514 Page 15 ae : PERSONAL: Born April 14, 1927, in Buffalo, N.Y.; son of Ay e gion: Roman Catholic: Home: ‘163 Mark Twain Ave., Sant le) Rafael, Calif. 94903. Agent: Joan Daves, 515 Madison Ave. on = jNew York, N.Y. 10022. - : American Scholarship since World War II, University of Nebraska Press, 1971; Investigaciones contemporaneas. sobre historia de Mexico, University of Texas Press, 1971; Nathaniel: N. Wagner and Marsha J. Haug, editors, Chi- canos: Social and Psychological Perspectives, Mosby, 1971; Latin America and the Future of Its Jewish Communities, Institute of Jewish Affairs : (London), 1973. Contributor t to. professional journals. AVOCA TIONAL IN TERES TS: English literature, espe- cially the novels of D. H. Lawrence. TURNER, Philip’ 1925-, PERSONAL: Born December 3, 1925, in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada; son of Christopher Edward (a cler- gyman) and Emma (Johnston) Turner; married : ‘Margaret ‘Diane Samson, September 23, 1950; children: Simon, Ste- - phen, Jane.. Education: Worcester ‘College, Oxford, B.A., 1950, M.A., 1962. Address: St. Francis, 1 West Malvern, Rd., Malvern, Worcestershire, -England: Agent: Bolt & Watson, 8 Storey’ s Gate, London SWI, ‘England. CAREER: Ordained priest’ of Church: of England, 1951; curate in Leeds, 1951-56; priest-in- -charge, Crawley, Sussex, 1956-62; vicar of St. Matthews, Northampton, British Broadcasting Corp., Midland Region, Birmingham, Teligious broadcasting . organizer,. 1966-70: Author of chil- dren’s books.and plays. Military service: Royal Naval Vol-~ unteer Reserve, 1943-46; became sub-lieutenant: Member: - - Society of Authors. Awards, honors: Carnegie Medal. for best. children’ s book published i in United Kingdom, Library a Association, 1965, for The Grange at High Force. . WRITINGS—Children’ s books: Colonel Sheperton’s. Clock, Oxford ‘University Press, 1964, World Publishing, 1966; The Grange at High Force, Oxford University Press, . 1965, World Publishing, 1967; Sea Peril, ‘Oxford University. Press, 1966, World Publishing, 1968; The Bible Story, Ox: — ford University Press, 1968; Steam on the Line, World Pub- lishing, 1968; (author of text): Brian Wildsmith’ 5 Illustrated. Bible Stories, F.. Watts, 1969; ‘War on the Darnel, World. : Publishing, 1969; Wigwig and. Homer, Oxford University | Press, 1969, World Publishing; 1970; Devil's Nob, Hamish ‘Hamilton, 1970; Powder Quay, Hamish Hamilton, 1971; Dunkirk Summer, Hamish Hamilton, 1973.. Plays: Christ in the Concrete City, S.P. C. K., 1956; Tell It with Trumpets, S.P.C:K;:, 1959; Cry’ Dawn in Dark Baby- lon, S.P.C.K., 1959; This Is the Word. in “Word Made — Flesh,:' S.P.C.K., 1962; Casey, S.P.C.K., 1962; So Long at the Fair, Joint Board. of Christian Education of Australia and New Zealand, 1966; Men in Stone, Baker Plays, 1966; Cantata for Derelicts, United Church Publishing House (Canada), 1967; Madonna in Concrete, S.P.C.K., 1971. BIOGRAPHICALICRITICAL SOURCES: Books and Bookmen, May, 1968. , TURNER, , William W. 1927-" William Peter (a printing executive) and Magdalen (Weyand) B | Turner; married Margaret Peiffer (a registered nurse), Sep a tember 12, 1964; children: .Mark Peter, Lori Ann. Educa ui “4 tion: Canisius College, B.S., 1949. Politics: Democrat. Reli BOS RR ER OS EO | 1962-66;
CAREER: Federal Bureau of Investigation, special agent in various field offices, ‘1951-61; free-lance. writer in California, '1963—; Ramparts (magazine): San Francisco, Calif:, senior editor, 1967—. Investigator and consultant, National Wire- tap Commission, 1975. Military service: U.S. Navy, 1945- 46; served in, Pacific Theater. Meniber: Authors Guild, In- ternational Platform Association, Press Club of San Fran- cisco. WRITINGS: The Police Establishment, Putnam, 1968; /n- visible Witness: The Use and Abuse of the New Technology of Crime Investigation, Bobbs-Merrill, 1968; Hoover's F.B.1.: The Men and the Myth, Sherbourne, 1970; (with E. Asinof and'W. Hinckle) The ‘Ten Second Jailbreak, Holt, ‘1973; (contributor) Investigating the FBI. Doubleday, 1973. Author and editor of police science material for **Police Evidence Library,’’ Bancroft-Whitney Co. Contributor to Nation, Cosmopolitan, Saga, and Cavalier. WORKIN PROGRESS: The Cuba Project, for Houghton; ‘The Death of Robert F. Kennedy: C. onspiracy and id Coverup, for Random House.. SIDELIGH TS: Turter told CA that he “‘becaine interested in writing as a career when I was sent to Dallas as ani ex-F BI man by Saga to cover the aftermath of the John F. Kennedy | _ assassination. . ‘T gradually became convinced that Kennedy _ Was. the victim ‘of a political conspiracy. . . Am recognized “Turner i ran as.an ‘assassination, conspiracy” candidate in the Democratic ‘primaries in California's Sixth Congres- i sional. District. He says. he polled “an unexpectedly large E number of votes.” Andy Truskier, reviewing Hoover's FBI, inept.”’ The Ten Second Jailbreak was made into the film “Breakout.” - BIOGRAPHICALICRITICAL SOURCES: Time, ‘June 17, 1968; Book World, June 23, 1968;. ‘Ramparts, + August, 1970; Nation, February 8. A971. TUTOROW, Norman E. 1934. : PERSONAL: Born July 23, 1934, in Mishawaka, Ind.: .; son ‘of Virgil Walter (a mechanic) and Violet Evelyn (Chadwick) Tutorow; married Sue Carol Fanning (a secretary), No- ‘vember 25, 1954; children: James Andrew: Education: San Diego State. College (now University), A.B. (with high hon- ors),. 1958; Stanford University, ‘M.A., 1960, Ph.D., 1967; San Jose State College (now University), M. A., 1965. CAREER: Instructor in philosophy, West ‘Malley Jr. Col- lege, Campbell; Calif., and Foothill Jr. College, Los Altos ‘Hill, Calif., 1964-67; San Jose State College (now Univer- sity), San Jose, Calif. , Instructor in ‘history, 1964-67; Univer- sity. of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, Calif., assistant professor of history, 1967-69; Los Angeles Federal Records Center, * Bell, Calif., chief of the archives branch, 1969-70; Golden State Realty, Sunnyvale, Calif., founder, owner ‘and real estate broker, 1970—; Anthony’ s School, Menlo Park, Calif., instructor.in ‘real estate, 1973—: Foothill Jr. College, , alif., instructor in real estate economics, 1973—. Consul- o.: San Francisco Federal Records Center, 1970-71. Mili- tary service: U.S..Marine Corps, 1952- -55; became sergeant. Member: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society of American Archivists, Na- “HW54756 Docld:32245514 Page 16 writes that Turner “reveals the FBI as a highly political and ba totally corrupt institution, built around the political ambi- tions of one man, and despite its reputation, extraordinally CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS “3 tional Association of Real Estate Boards, National Institute a of Real Estate Brokers, California Historical Society, 1 Southern California Historical Society, California ASssocia- 2, tion of Real Estate Teachers. “WRITINGS: (With Don E. Fehrenbacher) California: An pal Mustrated History, Van Nostrand, 1968; The Early Years of RaLeland Stanford, New Yorker Who Built the Central Pacific F Railroad (pamphlet), Dewitt Historical Society of Tomkins ,jCounty (New York), 1969; Leland Stanford, Man of Many hi|Careers, Pacific Coast Publishers, 1970. Contributor to Pic- Ee turescope, Wisconsin Then and Now, East Texas Historical Journal, and The Quarterly Review. WORK.IN PROGRESS: Research on California politics i in | the 1850’s.¢ - * *  & x TYLDEN-WRIGHT, David’. 1923- f PERSONAL: Born May 19, 1923, in London, England: son Bs of Royds (a soldier) and Constance (Abel) Tylden-Wright;, ei married Diana Louise Lindsay (a doctor), October 10, 1952; 24 children: Royds, Jenny, Susan, Gerard. Education: Edu- 4 cated at Eton College, 1936-41, Oxford University, 1945-47, 4 and in Paris, ‘1948-50. Politics:. Conservative | ndependent | Religion: Church of England. Agent:. Curtis Brown Ltd., Craven Hill, London W23EW, England. 1 . staff-writer,- 1951-57; farming as Heréford breeder in Whit- shire, England, 1958-68, and Northumberland, England, 1968—. Military. service: British Army, officer in Scots Guards, 1942-45; invalided out with wounds. Member: Boo- dles Club. . WRITINGS: The Image of France; Secker & Warburg, 1957; Anatole Frarice, Walker & Co.,.1967, WORKIN PROGRESS: A book on farming. experiences: a biography of Albert Camus; revising an earlier manuscript on war experiences, _ “ AVOCATIONAL INTERESTS: Sports, particularly racing and golf. BIOGRAPHICALICRITICAL SOURCES: Observer Re- view, September 3, 1967; Times Literary Supplement, Sep- tember 9, 1967; Punch, October 11, 1967; New York Times Book Review,. December 17,. 1967; New Yorker, January 6, 1968; Listener, , January 25, 1968. tt * xx TYSDAHL, B(joern) Stohan) 1933- PERSONAL: Born October 20, 1933, -in Oslo, Norway: son of Asbjoern (a clerk) and Nelly (Knudsen) Tysdahl; married. Bjoerg Lagset, May 30, 1959; ‘children:.Jon, Anne, Merete. Harald. Education: University. of Oslo, Cand. Philol.. 1959, Dr. Philos., 1968; Pedagogisk Seminar, Oslo, Dip. Ed.. 1960. Religion: Lutheran. Home: Prost Chiristies v. 19, 1347 Hosle, Norway, Office: British Institute, University. of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo 3, Norway. CAREER: University of Oslo, Osio, Norway, fellow, 1961- 65, lecturer, 1965-72, reader in English literature, 1972—. Visiting lecturer, University « of Sussex, 1970. WRITINGS: Joyce and Ibsen: A Study of Literary biflw ‘ence, Humanities, 1968: (co-author) - Verdens Litteratur- historie, Volumes X1-XII, Politiken (Copenhagen), 1974. Contributor to English Studies, Edda, James Joyce Quar- terly, and hewspapers in Norway. : WORK IN PROGRESS: Studies. on psycholinguistics and literature, and on William Godwin’ s novels. as one of the established. critics: of. the -Warren: Report.” Es “CAREER: Times Literary Supplement, London, - England, a
- In time.there developed: a ‘network of Kennedy assassi-. nation buffs, linked coast-to-coast by a bush telegraph of , manifold ramifications. When one uncovered: a Startling 7 “other; methodically ecompi ing the evidence, it was s only, @. gradually that: thes “HW 54756 Docld:32245514 Page 1?
to assassinate “the President, but: almost invariably they: Jb would indicate they: thought othérwise: a. playful. ‘smile, io a wink, a sardonic. turn around the corners of the mouth. . p published, her own. “Mrs.. ‘Deschamps put. together’: a hun- are giit “panoplies” = photostats of collected: evidence’ We. interviewed lawyers, reporters, Cops, laborers, j jani- . ~-tors, simple housewives, an exotic dancer; most of them ey asked us ‘not to use their names. From time to time we 3 "checked: in at the, Midlothian. Mirror to compare: ‘notes’: with Penn’ Jones.. “Occasionally: he would take us to his * “farm”, a few. miles away, where he keeps | his collection. of * barbed wire, and where he has installed a waterwheel to «= irrigate the hilltop (‘the only working waterwheel in Ellis County, a Jones’ ‘boasts). Once we were sitting in that “ bucolic § ‘setting, discussing the gory details of this grisliest : of murder: cases, . when all at once the incongruity struck ~. us. ‘ds enormously | funny—the barbed wire collection, Lyn- s “ “don Johnson, the “Texas Mafia,” the waterwheel, ‘the - “< mysterious deaths, the Grassy Knoll, the presumptuous- ~ ” ness-of our investigating a regicide—and we threw our’ “s : im: ‘“heads back, broken. up with laughter. Penn, who has all. . : pursed for, long-distaiic : phone. calls, travel and research formidable cackle, laughed the hardest. You have to laugh ok oe “materials. Motivated’ by. anything: from:an. affection for: on. this case, or you can begin to doubt your sanity. ae : 7 President Kennedy toaplain zeal for truth, affiliated only “ On another trip, we stood up and talked for.15 minutes. - "in the most informal way, they.’are the-embodiment of. - ‘with Bertha Cheek, a friend of Ruby’s and sister ‘of the — ~ what is finest in the ‘American tradition, and a- living ir in: ne ‘lady, who “kept ‘Oswald’s rooming house, while she was ee . dictment of government-by-closed-shop. .: tel explaining why. she couldn’ t grant us an interview—unless. ~ At first we refused to take the sleuths.seriously. Every: we paid her $1000. “Marina Oswald is getting money for » " "one secretly wants. to: be.a detective. Here was the “crime”. “her story,” said SEXY, fortyish Bertha, a prosperous realtor. a of the century,” apparently unsolved,: with.a. mountain of : “Why. should T give mine away?” ‘: SHA . poorly evaluated: evidence’ at the disposal: -of anyone will . aie “We: ‘spent’ six hours over vodka and orange juice with, _ ing to shell out 76 bills.’ To the private-sleuths it was ” * Wanda Joyce Killam, a former Begirl in Ruby’ s Carousel © o. “, irresistible; to us it. was: ‘something ‘of a joke..Then we’ Club and widow of one of the mysteriously dead. Wanda, ~ <1} "-geviewed their work and realized that they were doing the an’ ‘attractive bottle blonde, looked a bit frowzy, not ex-- "11° cjob the Dallas police, the FBI and the Warren Commission _ : pecting. visitors, : ‘and .was’ embarrassed. about. it. She °. Ne Harold Feldman on ria direction. of caheae ‘Add. to ‘them = the book-writers~ Mark Lane, the most persistent public ' a : should have done in the first place. . “A . * ‘rambled on about how wonderful a guy Jack Ruby isand . And if many will, treat these amateur. investigators as |. some minor details about her murdered. ‘husband; but " some unique : breed ‘of kook;. the Dallas police take them © ~ nothing startling, ‘nothing we did not already know. We. ., seriously. When Shirley Martin, a housewife from Ho-- “bid! a cordial goodbye to Wanda, who is a warm, pregar- miny,: Oklahoma,. made. trips to Dallas to interview wit- . ious person, and talked. about the apprehension that TP ~ nesses, the: police would tail her, openly following her car”. ‘ chilled. her features during most of our visit. But by this — cat short, ‘distance,’ and. stay. in her’ shadow, until she left’: ‘time we had grown suspicious of anyone who wasn Ptafraid. . town. ‘The FBI: takes ¢ one of the “sleuths”” seriously enough “es Three years after the Kennedy assassination—and two .... to. tap his. phone. wo's San: Francisco. seule report thal soy $: after it was allegedly “solved” by the President’s “s Comimission—fear: still walks with the man or woman who “knows ‘even ‘part of the truth of what really happened on *. ‘Novernber 22, 1963. -If Penn Jones has done nothing else, — ee ‘he has. shown us that. Iti is a fear beyond the ken of most 7 » N. OUR TRIPS TO DALLAS, Bil Turner, [,- and ‘Americans,. who know only the ever-present, constipating “editor Stan. Sheinbaun interviewed many per= “fear of being honest and natural with one another. The. 7 allas fear is a fear for life, and livelihood. We saw it in | ‘thee eyes of those who crossed paths with key figures’ in the: ;
“y 7 Jack Ruby’ s strippers told us. “Don? t put my name in. - |) ° your paper. Please] Jove life too much,” « --:2-> _+. fT) > More, than all the persuasive and yell-documented @a_sébooks on the subject, it was that fear that reached us, in _ our intestines; convinced us the Warren Commission was wrong. If Lee Harvey Oswald did the job all by himself, . then what are these. people afraid of? Whom are they ok F | ci : : The Kennedy: “Curse”. : } tionably his discovery of a series of mysterious ‘ deaths, possibly related to the assassination of , Earl Warren & Co.; and print it in the Dallas area, is a ni : ‘sign of hope for the survival of independent journalism. ©. Jones’ first scoop.was the story of a meeting at Jack | th police headquarters. In his original editorial, reprinted on "page 32, he disclosed that three of the five present at the Are meeting—Jim Koethe, Bill Hunter and Tom Howard—- 7 : have died mysterious deaths. Of the survivors, Jim Martin, — “who curiously enough: represented. the.accused killer 0 ~ Koethe and got-him off without prosecution, is still prace - - ticing jaw in Dallas. George Senator, at this writing, is - “living in. upstate te New York. He has: s-said d repeatedly that © “he fears forchis'life. "0° 16. “= = ‘ : These were not the only ones to have died mysteriously sy who possessed crucial scraps of knowledge : about the kill- __ings of President Kennedy, Officer J. D. Tippit or Lee . Harvey Oswald. At least 10 such persons are known to © . have been murdered, to have committed suicide or died in © a suspicious circumstances since the Kennedy assassination. Scores of ‘persons similarly knowledgeable have been _ ‘beaten, shot, threatened, intimidated or run out of town. And at least a dozen others brushed by the event have oo voluntarily left Dallas— gute sensibly it would seem. - _ tot KOETHE—KARATE e chor] - swathed in a blanket.on the floor of his bachelor apartment on September 21, 1964. .Police said few “the cause: ‘of death was asphyxiation from a. broken bone at the base of the peck—apparently the Te-. . sult of a karate chop. > ENN ‘JONES’ biggest reportorial coup is “unques- < Wade sce inatnued the jurors not to indiet—an mI extraordinary move for a chief prosecuting oficer with as - edie sthe President. That he would print it,: when Siconeacasease bent ~ practically nobody was printing anything but kudos for © ~” Ruby’s apartment on Sunday, November 24, 1963, sev- - “eral hours after Ruby shot and killed Oswald in’ Dallas AHE BODY of they young Dallas reporter was s found - = 966: MYSTERIOUS DEATHS “parents believe he was killed for other reasons. “Whoever:- ~ ransacked. his apartment, they point out, was careful to re--’ ovehis notes forabook he was preparing, incollaboration ~withtwo other journalists, on the Kennedy assassination. '. Within a week a 22-year-old ex-con from Alabama named Larry Earl Reno was picked up selling Koethe’ s° personal effects and held on suspicion of murder. |. Reno’s lawyers were Mike Barclay and the ubiquitous: Jim Martin, both friends of Ruby roomie George Senator.” * “Martin am Senator, one recalls, were with Koethe at that - | enigmatic meeting on November 24, 1963. When the Reno . case came before the grand jury, District Attorney Henry — had. The grand jury returned ano-bill. : Reno, however, remained in jail on a previous charge. *: When they finally sprang him, in January 1965, he was re- arrested within a month for the robbery of a hotel. This . "time the prosecution, led by: a one-time law partner of Mar-. tin’s, had. no qualms about getting an indictment, and a. 7 conviction. Reno was sentenced to life for the hotelrobbery. ~ At the trial his lawyers called no witnesses in his defense. || Dy [BILL HUNTER—SHOT DEAD] = UNTER COVERED the Kennedy assassination -| “more or less on a lark. He was a police rée-- porter for. the Long Beach paper and a: good ‘one, with a knack for getting along with cops: . He drank ‘with them, played’cards with them in the press . ||... -. room—he was a sharp and lucky player—-and they would Th ‘ often call him at home when a story broke. Hunter was a _ big man, described by friends as rough, jovial, “very - physical,” ‘with an attractive wife and three children. There was no real need for the Long Beach paper to _send a reporter. to Dallas, but Hunter, who grew up there, ° desk. In Dallas he ran into Jim Koethe, with whom he had worked in Wichita Falls, Texas. Koethe asked him to. ‘come: along to the meeting in Ruby’s apartment; they -- arrived to find Senator and Tom Howard having a drink... Bill Hunter was killed just after midnight on the morn-- Senator testified before Warren Commission counsel that _ he “could not recall” the meeting in‘ Ruby’s. apartment Hunter was seated at his desk in the press room of the” ~ Tooag Beach public safety building when detective Creigh _ ton Wiggins Jr. and his artner burst into the room. A . |] : single bullet fired from Wigsi terin the ||: Robbery appeared to be thes motive, » although Koethe’s s heart, killing him almosti The mystery novel he: . Editor’ $s note: Pena Jones now w has some 50. persons on his. list of mysterious deaths. “ Pee, : WE-54.756--Decla1399455445- Page 496-00 was reading, entitled Stop This Man!, slipped blood- “spattered from his fingers. oes ; "RAMPARTS 63” managed to promote a free trip for himself with the city - |}. op ‘ing of April 23, 1964—only a few hours after George. |
“WW 5A756.. Docld: 32948914. Page 20050) . Wiggins’ story underwent ‘Several changes. “His final | version was that he and his partner had been playing cops | “and robbers with guns drawn when his gun started toslip | yere Con: . " from his hand and went off. The two offi victed of j tary manslaughter. Sentence _was sus: Pepded. Thee were sony conaictions ia Wiggins Ne Tone . frie “still not satished” with theofficial - the Houston Post that Ruby had been in the police station . _ Friday night with a gun. He dickered with a national. mag-_ mae verdict, He declines to comment about any possible. : connection between. Hunter’s death and. the Kennedy | assassination: “But I’d believe anything,” he says. It isa _ -. curious footnote that Shelon's brother Keith ‘was. among the majority of Dallas newspape newspapermen who found it ex:. edient to lea ‘after cov ination  Ksith was president. of the, Dallas Press Club and gave up * cd jtical columpist Herald to settle in'a’small north Texas town. One reporter | a ” who was asked to resign: put it-this way: “ it looks like a ~ Studied effort to remove all the knowledgeable newsmen — SE _who covered the’ assassination.’ “frome HOWARD—HEART ATTACK) aay \ LTHOUGH™ DALLAS; like any other ‘American city, is i slowly being taken over by the well-groomed: A image-conscious. wonders: rolling off our col: EA lege assembly. lines, there is still a lingering ~ "appreciation for-the “characters” —the Bob Thorntons 7 the Jack Rubys, the Tom Howards—throwbacks to an-. other age when the Old ‘West~valuesreigned supreme. - Everyone around official Dallas. knew Tom Howard, that Ap familiar figure in-the white Stetson who always seemed to -. Show up } where the action was. He was a defense attorney - in the old rough-and- -tumble Texas fashion, operating out ’ of a store-front office, devoid of the usual law ‘books, across from police headquarters..During his career he’ handled about 50 murder cases, and was more than once Ok cited for contempt of court for fist fights a and shouting : _ matches with the prosecution. - Howard. was a friend of District Attorney Henry Wade, although they often opposed each other in court, and it . "was not uncommon: for them to meet for a sociable drink - : after court adjourned. ‘He was also close ‘to Ruby « and | Sin athe onthe fringes of the Dallas underworld:....*. wT. Like, Jack Ruby, Howard’ s life. revolved. around: the ~ police station, and it was not surprising ‘when he and Ruby © -(toting his gun) showed up : at the station on the evening of the assassination. Nor was it, unusual when Howard ar-" rived there shortly . after Ruby shot Oswald, ‘two 0 days " Tater, asking to see his old friend. He ueg . ' Howard was shown into a meeting room to see a L bewil- dered. Ruby, who had not asked for any lawyer, and for “x64 RAMPARTS <=  - ={i966:. “MYSTERIOUS DEATHSE = the next few days—until Ruby’ s brother Earl soured on ' Howard and hag him relieved—he was Jack’s chief attor-. ney and public spokesman. Howard took to the publicity. ~ with alacrity, called a press. conference, wheeled: and: - _ dealed. He told newsmen the: case was a “once-in-a-life-_ ’* and that “‘speaking’as a private citizen,” he time chance thought Ruby deserved a congressional -medal.: He. told ‘azine about an Oswald-murder story. He got hold of a picture showing the President’s brains flying and tried to , Sell it to Life. Ruby’s sister even accused him of leaking . - information to the DA. All told, it was never quite clear, - -whether Howard was working for Ruby or against him. ~ Howard met frequently with his client in- the days im- a] _-mediately following the death of Oswald. From this, along - | - with his ties with both police and hoodlum. circles in, {> Dallas, anid his presence at the Ruby-Senator apartment - -‘heeting that fateful Sunday, one would assume he was — oe _ the repository of a wealth of privileged information about “the events of November 1963. And we know he was an . irrepressible talker, privy to-the intrigues of petty crimi-. ~ nality but hardly one to be trusted with any secrets sur- _Tounding the Kennedy assassination. . o On March 27, 1965, Howard was iaken to the- hospital , by an unidentified person and died there. He was 48. The ‘doctor, without benefit of an autopsy, said he had suffered _aheart attack. Some reporter friends of Howard’s arenot | so sure.. They observed that for three. days before his” ~ death, the normally gregarious Howard seemed preoccu-: pied and uncommunicative, and did not appear to recog- . - “nize friends. Qge Dallas reporter says flatly that Howard was bumped off , othersaremorecircumspect. “AsfarasI’m © . concerned the case is closed,” one of them says. “ You're ; not going to catch me messing in that hornet’s nest.” - anne ROBERTS— HEART T ATTACK) a aged the rooming house where Oswald was a. of the key witnesses before the Warren Commission. She testified that “around 1 o'clock, or + oe _ Maybe: a little after’? on November 22, Oswald rushed “ ‘into the rooming house, stayed in his room for “not over ~ “3 or 4 minutes” and walked out zipping ona light-weight | | ~ jacket. The last she saw of him he was waiting at a nearby .. ’ bus stop. A few: minutes later, one mile away, Officer _ . -Tippit was shot dead; Oswald was accused. of thecrime. — 7 .:Mrs.. Roberts also testified that during the brief time. | “Oswald was in his room, a police ¢ car with two uniformed. . Cops ir in vit t pulled up in fi ront of the rooming house, and that °- RS. ROBERTS, the . plump: widow who man- {| a living under the name O. H. Lee, was one -- anne
she did not recognize either the car or the policemen. She . . -heard the horn honk, “‘just kind of ‘tit-tit’—twice,” and ‘ after a moment saw the police car move off -¢ down the | street. Moments later Oswald left the house. - ||. The police department issued a report saying g all I patrol - ears in the area (except Officer Tippit’s) were accounted. ~ seek to resolve the question: what were policemen doing honking t orn outside Oswald’s rooming house 30 inutes after a Presidential assassination? Their swift toa though it seems as plausible €-as anys other RS anation of this bizarre incident. ployers: and identified her as the Oswald rooming house lady. As a result she was dismissed from” three house- - “lL keeping and nursing jobs i in April, May and June of 1964. - : alone; no telling how many jobs she lost after that. Rela- — tives report that right. up until her death: a year. and.a 7 half later, Earlene complained « of being. “worried to’ death” 2 arene 4 : Reynolds’ front porch; it was clearly deliberate because ‘ Mrs. Roberts.died January 9, 1966, in » Parkland. Hos- i ".the same week a man stopped Reynolds’ nine-year-old . by the police. 27) 5% pital. Police said she suffered.a heart-attack in her home. No autopsy was pe: ormed. _ INANCY 5 JANE ve MOONEY—HANGED) ~ 7” ARREN "REYNOLDS was 1s just minding his. used ‘Reynolds gave chase for a short piece, being careful to” || keep his distance, then-lost the fleeing man: He didn’t” a: |. know it then, but he had apparently witnessed the flight of. § the killer (or one of the killers) of Patrolman Jefferson - Davis Tippit. Feeling helpful, he gave his name to a pass- _ ‘ing policeman and offered his cooperation: TV cameras ° . zeroed in on him, got his story. Warren Reynolds, | the e : : oo) 4.) ding house at the same time Lee Harvey Oswald lived there. . - amiable used car man, ‘was: making history.” _~ But in“one of those curious oversights which riddle the. L Kennedy-Oswald-Tippit investigation, Reynolds was not: - questioned by any police’agency until two months after’ °*: _the event. When the FBI finally talked to him on January. Vad ‘che fellow” boarder, were Killam’s only tenuous links to the ; - Kennedy, assassination. For all that, he was inordinately . 4 ~ vidual.” The FBI reporta added, however, i in most unpolice- 2 21, 1964, the agent’s report of the interview sai -would hesitate to ‘definitely identify Oswald as “the indi- HW 54756.) =[1966: “MYSTERIOUS DEATHS} .- - in the head as he was closing up the car lot forthe night; |e: ss nothing was stolen. Later, alter consulting at length with | for. The Warren Commission let it go at that. It did not -departure would indicate they certainly were not coming . rehend him. It is perhaps too far fetched to imagine - that they were giving Oswald ‘some kind of. signal, al- . After testifying in Dallas in April of 1964, Mrs. Roberts ” oh ‘was Subjected to intensive police harassment: They visited a . her at all hours of the day and night, cofttacted her em- © : i was not arrested. Within a few hours Miss Mooney was — ~> fered her money to get in his car. Fortunately she had the . 7 presence of mind to run like hell. Through all this, Rey ... nolds had the distinct impression he was being intimidated. _ _ Today, after giving the Commission ‘a firm identification - car lot. on East Jefferson when he heard the . “ of Oswald as the Tippit fugitive, he is breathing easier. “‘I - shots two blocks away. He thought it was - i _ probably somebody’ s marital quarrel. Then "he saw a man having great difficulty tucking “‘a pistol an automatic” in his belt and running at the same time. . *. manlike fashion: “He advised hei is of, the opinion C 1 Oswald at : is the person. ...”. Two days after ialking to the FBI, |. Reynolds w was, shot retired General Edwin Walker, he told Warren Commis- sion counsel that Oswald definitely was the 1 man ‘he saw . fieeing the Tippit murder scene. °° '.. =: fe ts, “A young hood named Darrell’ Wayne Garner was ae | ‘rested for the murder attempt. He had made a long dis-. tance call to a relative and in some drunken bragging, admitted shooting Reynolds. But Garner-had. an alibi, and her name was Nancy Jane Mooney, alias Betty” } (McDonald, who used to take her to music in - . Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club. Garner was freed. _ Nancy Jane, a mother of four, was picked. up about a | week later—for fighting with a. girlfriend, over 2 man— . ‘and jailed on a disturbing-the-peace rap. The girlfriend | ~ dead. Police said she hanged herself with her toreador . pants, in her private cell at the Dallas City jail. - '. Garner was free, his alibi-witness was ‘dead, and Rey- nolds was going to pieces out of fear. A week after Nancy . Jane. was hanged, someone unscrewed a light globe on - some screws had to be removed to get at the globe. And ~ daughter as she was walking home from school and of don’t think they're going t to saat me e any more,” he said. _ toa KILLAM=THROAT sum) | = a OUSEPAINTER HANK KILLAM was 6 30 and Fy weighed 250 pounds—“‘a big hunk of man,” . - said his wife Wanda, who used to push ciga- , rettes and drink with the customers at Jack Ruby’ s club. bts Hank. and Wanda were. “good friends ¢ of] John Carter, another painter, who lived. at Mrs..A. C. Johnson’s room- Carter. worked several painting jobs with Hank and used to visit at the Killam home: — os * To all appearances, his wife’s ‘15-year association with — Ruby -and his friendship with John Carter, Oswald’s interesting to the: “federal agents” “who visited him re- | wae _RAMPARTS, 65
peatedly after ‘the assassination, causing ‘him to lose’ one job after another. In addition to questions about Killam’s - connections and whereabouts at the time of the assassina- _ “tion, the interrogators were especially interested in. his ; _ political views; Killam said he had none.* - . Certainly Killam was most absorbed by ‘the assassina- tion, even obsessed. A few hours after the event he came - home “white as a sheet,”? Wanda said, and stayed up all - _night watching television. accounts of the assassination: He bought all the papers ¢ and diligently clipped the stories . ~* about Kennedy’s. death. ~ ; Just before. Christmas, Killam packed u up ‘and left for ; ‘Florida, where he had. family, taking his assassination’. clipping files with him. But the “agents” got to Wanda. “They browbeat me ‘into telling where. he was,” Wanda _ said. “I guess ’m just a girl, that finds it very h hard to ) say no to people.” ~~. Hank gota job i in ‘Tampa, selling.c cars. Sat : his brother-i -in-_ ~ Jaw’s lot. Again the “federal police” hounded him, visiting - ~ the car lot so often. that even his brother-in-law was per-.. * _-suaded to let him go. ‘They harassed his second 1 Tampa : ‘employer as well, until he lost that job too.” a vIn mid-March he called Wanda i in Dallas to say he had 7 ny ‘a new job lined up and would be sending for her soon. “T : - was all excited,” said. Wanda, “because Lioved that man.’ / Then in the early morning ‘hours on: St: Patrick’s: Day — 1964, Killam received:a: ‘phone call at his. mother’s home. “Hank and Wanda were in fact FBI men, or whether they " ever properly identified themselves as such. If the FBI did * interview Killam, there’ is no indication in the 26 volumes _ or the Warren Report. A check of the index to Commis- iid Editor's note: A few’ months ago, John Carter’ Ss brother, Henry. ; Carter, was murdered § in Dallas; the case remains s unsolved. ce. wb “R54 7 56 " Immediately he left-the house. Not long afterward they found him on a sidewalk; in front of a broken. plate glass - window, his jugular vein cut. He bled to.death en route to. ' the hospital. His wallet: and diamond ring were missing.. ~ It is not clear whether the “federal police” who visited sion documents in the National Archives reveals, no men- -tion of Killam: But then a number of FBI documents relat- , ‘ing to the assassination-are withheld, along with most of - the documents prepared: by. the-CIA. What is clear is that somebody considered Hank Killam a very y important guy: 7 omni WHALEY—HEAD-ON COLLISIO few who. had: the opportunity to talk alone - with the accused killer of. Kennedy | ‘between “366. RAMPARTS | < 5 -poolar 377 nia Baye ry “. asking questions.” “F ‘HALEY WAS THE OSWALD’ CABBIE, one of the : ‘ y the assassination and Oswald’ s arrest. He ‘testified that Oswald hailed his cab at the: Greyhound bus ° station, then graciously offered the cab to a. waiting lady, — ; * that Eddy’s murder was a case of mistaken identity and — Le that Domingo, the Tippit witness, was the intended victim.. =[1966: ‘MYSTERIOUS | DEATHS} : : -who declined his offer. +. Whaley said he drove Oswald to. the intersection of. Beckley .and Neches—half a block. ‘from the rooming house—and collected a dollar. Later he © identified Oswald as his fare in a questionable police line- * ~ up, although police records are confused and he may have ' picked out another man... : ‘Whaley was killed in a head-on collision « ona bridge . over the Trinity River, December 18, 1965; his passenger : was critically injured. The 83-year-old driver of the other © car was also killed. Whaley had been with the City Trans-: portation Co. since 1936 and hada perfect accident record. He was the first Dallas cabbie to be killed on-duty since. . 1937. When Penn Jones went to interview the general’ manager of the cab’ ‘company about Whaley’s death, he. - ~ was: literally pushed out of the office. “If you’re smart,” said the manager, “you won't be coming around here ~ ee . [EDWARD » BENAVIDES—SHOT DEAD] _ ‘OMINGO BENAVIDES, @ dark, slim auto mechanic, A ‘was a witness to the murder of Officer Tippit : and testified that he “really got a good view” of the slayer. He was not asked to see the’ po- lice lineup in which Oswald appeared. Although he later ' . said the killer resembled newspaper pictures of Oswald, he. ‘described the man differently: “I remember the back of — *. his’ head seemed, like his hairline sort of went. square + instead of tapered off . / squared’ off and made his head look flat in back.” Do-. . it kind of went down and- -mingo reports he has been. repeatedly threatened by police, and advised not to talk about what he saw. . In mid- -February 964, his brother y, who resem-. bled him, was fatally shot in the back of the head in a beer joint on Second Avenue in Dallas. The police , -arrested the killer, an unknown,. and it was written of as one. more barroom incident. mo Domingo’s father-in-law, J. W.. Jackson, was so’ win. 7 pressed with the police investigation of Eddy’s death that he launched a little inquiry of his own. Two weeks later Jackson was shot at in his home. The assailant secreted himself in the carport, fired once into the house, and when °. Jackson ran outside, fired one more time, just missing his head. As the gunman clambered into an automobile in a. - -neaiby. driveway, Jackson saw a police car coming down ; the block. The officer made no attempt to follow the gun- |] . man’s’ speeding car; instead, he stopped at Jackson’s . house and spent a long time inquiring what had happened. Later a police lieutenant advised Jackson, “You'd. better — ‘lay off of this business. Don’t go around asking questions; - that’s our job.’ * Jackson and Domingo are both convinced |
“AW “54756 DovEd:39245544—-Page-23 " [oororay KILGALLEN v7 We KNOW of no serious ‘person 1 who really ‘believes that the death of Dorothy Kilgallen, ‘the- gossip. columnist, was: related to the “YY | Kennedy assassination. Still, she was pas- ; -sionately interested in the case, told friends she firmly believed there was a conspiracy and that she. would find © out the truth: if it took her all her life: - a Miss Kilgallen Was the first to make Sublic the existence 7 of Acquilla Clemons, a witness to the Tippit killing whose 7 umes. She was also the only reporter . ever to interview Jack Ruby privately since the killing of Oswald. During ‘the Ruby trial, which ‘she covered for the now defunct °° New York Journal-American, Judge. ‘Joe. B.. Brown. “granted her 30 minutes alone with Ruby in the judge s_ is chambers; the other reporters were furious. « - One of the biggest’ scoops of Miss Kilgallen’s s “aréet : - came when she pirated the transcript of Ruby’ s testimony “before the Warren Commission and ran it inthe Journal- _ American. Thousands of New Yorkers. were shocked at y { { the hopelessly inept questioning of Ruby by Chet Taste | i Varren’s almost deliberate failure to follow up N the leads Ruby was feeding him. _ ci » Miss Kilgallen-died in her bed on November 8, 1965. Dr. James Luke; a New York City medical examiner, said _ the cause of death was “‘acute barbiturate: and alcohol a intoxication, ‘circumstances undetermined.” Dr.. VOET SD al ; no way of determining that: 7 ‘As we say, Dorothy Kilgallen probably does not st belong “on any list of Kennedy-related deaths. But questions do ~-remain. An editor of Screen Stars magazine, Mary Bran- . num, says she received a phone call. a few hours before’ ; ” Dorothy’s body was discovered, announcing that she had - been murdered. Miss Kilgallen’s ““What’s My Line’ make- ‘up man said that shortly before her death she vowed she - ; would “crack this case.” And another N ‘biz . h 11966: MYSTERIOUS DEATHS Texas School Book Depository.) But more than that, he fro * was in a unique position to observe some pretty strange: . behavior in the Knoll area during a and immediately before, iz the assassination. |. ~~ Bagi te . : assassination site.” cars and their drivers. ~°: -/.- Luke ~ top of the Knoll at the edge of the parking lot, within 10 ~said there were not high enough levels oF either alcohol or : -or 15 feet of each other—‘‘one man, middle-aged or slightly _ barbiturates to have caused death, but that the two. are - _ “additive” and together are quite enough to kill. This cause of death, he observed, is not at all uncommon. Was | ~ it suicide? Accident? Murder? —Dr. Luke said there y was EE BOWERS TESTIMONY | is is perhaps as s explosive a as any - “. recorded by the Warren Commission. He was” “one of 65. known witnesses to. the President’ Ss : = assassination ‘who’ ‘thought shots’ were fired from . "the area of the Grassy Knoll, {T he Knoll. is west of f the [ Bowers, then a towerman for the Union Terminal Co... ey: was stationed in his 14-foot tower directly behind the.- “Grassy Knoll. As he faced the assassination site, he could .. - see the railroad overpass to his right front. Directly in - front of him was a parking lot, and then a wooden stock- ade fence and a row of trees running along the top of the ; ’ Grassy Knoll. The Knoll sloped down to the spot on Elm ~ . name does not. appear once in the Warren Report or vol- - Street where Kennedy. was. killed. Police had “‘cut off”. > traffic into the parking area, Bowers said,“ ‘so 0 that anyone . moving around could actually be observ : ' Bowers made two significant observations which he” - revealed to the Commission. First, he saw three unfamil- . jar cars slowly cruising around the parking area.in the 35 " minutes before the assassination: the first two left aftera ~ .. few minutes.. The driver of the second car appeared to be. : a talking into “a mike or a telephone’ “the was holding ~ something up to his mouth with one hand and he was . . driving with the other. » A third car, with out-of-state” plates and mud-up to the windows, probed all around the parking area. Bowers last remembered seeing it about . eight minutes before the shooting, pausing “‘just above the. ||”. He gave detailed descriptions of the ||. _ Bowers also observéd.two unfamiliar men standing'o on older, fairly heavy-set, in a white shirt, fairly dark trousers. Another younger man, about mid- -twenties, in either a” plaid shirt or a plaid coat or Jacket.” “coming from. They were the only strangers. he. remem- ~_bered. seeing. His description shows a remarkable simi-. _Tarity to Julia Ann Mercer’ s description of two unidentified. men climbing the Knoll (see Jones’ editorial, p. 38).. .-. ’ When the shots rang out, Bowers’ attention was drawn. . to the area where he had seen the two men;,he could still - " make out the one in the white shirt—“the darker dressed _ man was too hard to distinguish from the trees.” He ob- - served ° ‘some commotion” at that spot, “! - something _ out of the ofdinary, a ‘sort of milling around .+.which | | sme ‘ attracted my eye for some reason, which I could not iden- ; tify.” ” At that moment, he. testified; a. motorcycle police-- man left’ the Presidential motorcade and roared up the Grassy Knoll straight to where the two mysterious gentle ; : men: were standing behind: the fence. The policeman ‘ - dismounted, Bowers recalled, then after a moment climbed . on his motorcycle and drove off. Later, in a film interview | with « attorney Mark Lane, he explained that the ‘ ‘commo-. Both. were facing a . toward Elm. and Houston, where the motorcade would be -
: tion” that caught his e eye may y have been Ha flash of light | - or smoke.” His information dovetails with what other “witnesses observed from different vantage points. . - On the morning of August 9, 1966, Lee Bowers, now * the vice-president of a construction firm, was driving south from Dallas on business. He was two miles from _ Midlothian when his brand new company car veered from : : the road and hit a bridge abutment. A farmer who saw it — “said the car was going 50 miles an hour, a slow speed for 7 oe that road. There were no skidmarks to indicate braking. i io 41. There was no autops || Thad-sufisred a heart attack. A doctor from Midlothian, who rode in the ambulance with Bowers, noticed some- .- ". .Tippit. But Harold Williams did not follow the example — at of the other six known witnesses to a Ruby-Tippit associa-._ a 2 it. Wile jf} ; thing peculiar about the victim. “He was in a strange state ’_ of shock,” the old doctor said, “a different ki __TPve never seen anything like-it. - Bowers’ widow at first insisted to Penn Jones that there | -was nothing suspicious about her husband’s death. Then ~ n she became flustered and said: sh hey told him not to talk.”.. P3793 > “Warren's s in n Trouble” hp, ALLAS IS'A CLOSE-MOUTHED. place. Without ques- ‘A: tiomit isa-city that feels uncomfortable about 7 all the bad publicity it has been receiving. And - SF it patently doesn’t ‘like -all:these foreigners - poking around, interviewing witnesses, dredging up more. . dirt about Dallas. Still, there are so many cases of obvious ~ - intimidation of witnesses that it appears to amount to . more than an acute case of hypersensitivity. One notes that all of the mysteriously dead, with the exceptian of - * Bowers, had some association with Ruby or with the murder of Patrolman.Tippit; many of the intimidations _ seem to fall ‘into a similar pattern. — * Bowers died of his wounds at.1 p.m: in a Dallas hospi- ‘and he was cre-- - mated soon. _Jdnated soon afterward. Doctors saw no evidence that he . gck - Shan_an-accideat victim experiences. I can’t explain it. - Lane, implied Benavides would {i 966: MYSTERIOUS I DEATHS} seeing Oswald there herself. She: was also “under thei im- ' - known to her were involved in.a plot to assassinate Presi- | “dent Kennedy, and that she would be killed if she gave -_any information. to the authorities. Later in the Secret - ¢ tents one oe Earn “and denied any knowledge of a ploU-SHeCOnUAUGS to > . fe ha fwice been threatened. . . ' Harold Richard Williams was working asa che! at the _ Mikado, a Dallas bottle club, when it was raided in early November 1963. One of the arresting officers, he said, was J. D. Tippit, and seated next to him in the cop car—“‘so close you’d think they. were lovers”—was Jack Ruby. _ Williams told attorney Mark Lane he knew Ruby, who “used to furnish us with girls,” and got a long look at - tion; he continu lis mout liams said the police talked to him in December 1963 and advised him that he had not seen Ruby with Tippit. --intimidation involves those who knew some- - 4 -» thing about the murder of Jefferson Davis Tippit. < @ ~ Shirley Martin of Hominy, Oklahoma, who has § 2" been repeatedly tailed by Dallas police, is not the only independent investigator to have noticed unusual “heat”. _ when checking out details of the Tippit killing. Earlier this AT ‘year Mark Lane located Domingo Benavides, a. witness to - the shooting whose brother was mysteriously killed (see . ~ above), and arranged to meet him at Lane’s motel for a filmed interview the next morning; Lane offered him $100. - ' That night two men from the homicide squad came to the motel and inquired of Lane’s film crew why they were so interested in Benavides. “What did you offer our boy $100 for?” they asked. According ‘to the film crew, the police- men knew the exact time of Benavides’ appointment with . ere, and gen- Wilma Tice. a Dallas housewit , told the FBI she saw erally showed _a great deal mote concern about their arkland Hospital right a _ tion, when he was supposed to have bee e. Her ‘Observation was confirmed by Seth Kantor, a.White . House newsman ‘and ex-Dallas reporter who knew Ruby ~ nual and said he talked with him at the hospital, Mrs. Tice sassina- footage on the Tippit murder than about the killing of Kennedy. Benavides never showed up. ' Another witness to the ‘lippit ing. a nurse named - _ Acquilla Clemons who described the slayer as short and stocky and said he fled with a tall, lanky man wearing -Teceived threatening phone calls—‘it would pay-you to khaki trousers—neither of whom resembled Oswald— - -_keep your mouth shut”—and once. while her husband was’ . at work, a ladder was found d wedged against I her door SO" : it could not be opened. tales Tee * Little Lynn, alias Karen Bennett Carlin, ¢ a. . plumpish “t9,year-old stripper at the Carousel, told the Sesset. Serv- _- she would not be killed on the way towork, ~ We have ar ny. egun to describe the intimidation to. ice she heard another Ruby. entertainer say he’d seen ‘oGswald at Ruby’s club, and she ‘‘vaguely remembered”. 1,68 RAMPARTS .-* “has been repeatedly threatened. According to Mark Lane .- She was visited. a few days after the event by a gun-toting | > man: “He just told me it'd be-best if I didn’t say anything . ‘because I. might get hurt.” She said several policemen © came to see her after that, and one expressed hope that ~ HE MOST CONSISTENT of the seeming patterns of - ||
which important witnesses have been subjected, Enough - i i ate inve gon, We, want to know why people in D - keeping the truth about Ruby and Tippit from getting out. . [rem] “solved” by the Warren Commission. The gross “ee the Commission did not adequately investigate Tippit’s : “Movements priorto his death, or the curious presence os near. the scene.of off-duty Patrolman Olsen, a close asso- on a tip from. “sleuth” David Lifton—he uncovered five _ witnesses to Tipit’ s whereabouts in the last. minutes ‘of - . “Volkland and his wife Lou, both of whom knew Tippit, _? him at a gas station: and waved to*him. They observed. “. Tippit sitting. in his. police car at a ‘Gloco gas station in and J. B. “Shorty” Lewis, all. of whom: knew. Tippit, con- a speed”—on a bee-line toward Jack Ruby’s apartment and -. in the direction of where he was killed a few minutes later. :: What could Tippit. have heard or seen to cause him to a : leave. his observation post at the Gloco station and roar _* up the street? Police radio ‘logs show no instructions. to move. We know that cabdriver Whaley said he drove Os- ° 7 “spot near the rooming house. Is it -possible that Tippit "spotted Oswald in ‘the cab, recognized him, and for Some ‘reason took off to intercept him? If we. recall. that while 5 iz Oswald was in the rooming house, Earlene Roberts ob- 7 ‘served a police car pull up. in front and honk the. horn, and the. police statement. that. all cars in the area were’ ace Earlene, who was blind i in one eye and whose si .saw two policemen in ‘the car; all patrol. cars in the area : that day were one-man cars and Earlene, with: her, Poor 4 HW~54956---BocEd:329945514—Page--25 ~~ [1966: ‘MYSTERIOUS DEATHS _ should be reduced to this sort of speculation ; that Turner, /\*. in‘one quick trip to Dallas, could learn more about Tip- . ” pit’s movements before his death than the combined . investigative resources of. the police, FBI and Warren + “Commission. Ls a HE . TIPPIT KILLING WAS NEVER ‘conclusively _ .-faults in its chain of evidence pointing to Os- dill. wald as the lone cop-killer have been exposed in _ several recent books; we won’t go into it here. Certainly, - “reported his position at Lancaster and’ 8th. But at. 1:08, : “- the approximate time of the shooting according to at least " one witness, the dispatcher. received two garbled -trans-- ; : ciate of Jack Ruby’s (see! Penn Jones’ storyon Olsen above). - On Bill Turner’s last whirlwind trip to Dallas—acting . "are known to have been in service. Dallas police thought’ 7 they came from 78—Tippit. Yet no. one made any attempt . ” his life: There is no indication that the Commission or any “police agency was even aware of them. Photographer Al ©. . - garbled transmissions® phonetically.. Provided the tapes. * |] “- ~ “said that 15 or 20. minutes after the assassination they saw have not been destroyed, it is still possible to voice-print - ||: <> those transmissions. They may Provide a key to the mys~ . tery ¢ of Tipit s death. "Oak. Cliff, watching the-cars:coming over. the Houston ©. Street viaduct-from downtown Dallas. Three‘employees * eet, .. Of the Gloco-station, Tom Mullins, Emmett Hollingshead cnn firmed the Volklands’ story. They said-Fippit- stayed atthe * ~ station for “‘about 10 minutes, somewhere. between 12:45 ‘and 1:00, then he-went tearing off down Lancaster at high | : help but wonder if the Warren Commission was set up to-. do anything but allay public fears of a conspiracy. Wit- . killer theory, like Helen Markham, Howard Brennan and: . Marina Oswald, were coddled and the discrepancies in. wald across the Houston Street viaduct (past the Gloco™ ~ ~~ station at the same time: Tippit was reported: there) toa = were impugned and browbeaten; Commission counsel Governor Connally seriously, although it was supported : by a preponderance of evidence. Connally and: his wife | “both testified that they were positive that the governor | - counted for—except Tippit’ s—then it is possible indeed. a . was. had struck the President. But the Commission had its own © - failing in the other, said ‘she. ‘thought the number on‘ the. = +O. cat WaS-T0T; Tippit’s car 1 number was 10, Earlene said she * itive recollection just didn’t fit. The Commission’s theory ~ “4 ‘held ‘that a bullet (Exhibit 399), found under:a stretcher’. ‘mat_.in the unguarded basement of Parkland, Hospital. -. : " vision, may have mistaken Tippit’s Ss uniform jacket, hang- ing ona coat-hanger in his car, for another cop. The Com-. mission should at least have. investigated the possibility. - ‘It is scandalous. that three years after the event we ~ Even the evidence the Commission did have was  serutie | oa, nized in the most perfunctory way. Tippit’s-last known. | radio transmission, for example, was at 12:54, when he missions from a patrol car. The FBI interpreted them as. |} 2 coming from 58 and 488, although no such call numbers -}} to -de-garble the transmissions, despite the existence of “voice-printing” techniques capable of reconstructing 7 [re 0 OVERLOOKED > EvIDENCE) “WE EMBARKED ‘on our + limited investigation to. | ~ get a story, not to solve the case. We are not . » Cops, God knows. But we came: across SO © ~ much” ‘overlooked evidence that we can’t: nesses who supported its Oswald-lone-assassin-and-cop-- their hopelessly confused. testimony ignored. Witnesses - who told a different story, like Jean Hill and Patrick Dean, openly accused police sergeant Dean of testifying falsely and of falsifying his reports to the chief of police. ~ The Commission even refused to take the testimony of was hit by a second shot, and that the first and third shots - theory, the “superbullet” theory, and the Connallys’ pos-.. || cof “RAMPARTS 69.
. downward trajectory, entered Connally’s back, shattered the fifth rib, emerged from his chest, broke his wrist into ments, and then fell out, somehow becoming wedged in a Stretcher: (never established to have been Connally’ 8), > beautifully whole and undeformed, without even a recog- - - nizable trace of blood or tissue on its’ surface. Unbeliev- - able? — perhaps; but because both Kennedy and Connally © _ were hit from the rear in less time than it takes to fire . - -Oswald’s bolt-action rifle twice, the. Commission had to have a <superbullety theory. Otherwise there would have : _ had to be two assassins firing from the rear (not to men-— “tion. anyone firing from-the. front), or, ‘conceivably, one assassin other than- Oswald firing from the rear with an We automatic weapon. And this Possibility, t to the ‘Commis-. : - sion, was inadmissible, ‘Before ‘the Commission discredited Connally’ s testi- - mony they should at least have heard all the important - witnesses. Ramparts found one: the Commission never - : talked to; they never even asked him for an affidavit. He © yl ‘is William’ Stinson, an aide to Governor Connally at the : time of the assassination: : : Today, although officially em- ~ ‘ployéd by the Veterans Administration, he has an office in © *.the White House.. Stinson. told us he was ‘inthe operating . - room, wearing a sterile-uniform, when. the doctors oper- ‘ated on Connally at Parkland Hospital. “‘The last thing ‘they did,” said. Stinson, “‘was to remove the bullet from the governor’s thigh—because that was. the least thing “imagen waswrongwithhim” 2 It was a startling: disclosure. For: if a“ bullet was em- ‘I! - bedded in Connally’s thigh, then “Bullet 399” could not . have done the herculean task it is credited with, and the : Coramission’s theory of what happened on November 22 is knocked into a cocked hat: Intrigued, we contacted Dr. ali Tally’s thigh. He told us that bullet f ragments, not an entire -bullet, had been removed from the thigh—itself a startling - ered to find out or deliberately ignored. Even with these ‘showed too much metal Temaining. ‘in Connally’ s_thigh- .. finding ‘ ‘more than 3 grains of etal” j in the governor’ Ss "of its substance,” ‘joined -autopsy doctors Humes. and - «Finck in concluding: Bullet 399 could not have caused all Ce . of Connally’ s wounds. - ve What: went on at Parkland Hospital? Why w wasn t Stin- W never asked about. the governor’ S wounds? One thing i is : clear: ‘that someone -had ‘better re-examil 370 RAMPARTS > HW. 44756:.Docld:392455. os had pierced President Kennedy’ s neck from the: rear ona. ' tically matched to Oswald’ s S rifle was a plant. pieces, leaving fragments, entered his thigh, leaving frag- : Charles. Baxter, who assisted in the operation on Con- © - revelation, and a fact the Commission either never both- _ fragments removed, autopsy doctor Humes said the x-rays ~bone’ ‘to have been ‘caused by Bullet 39 9: Dr. Robert Shaw, _wrist, and finding Bullet 399 to have lost “literally none , -. son called to testify? ‘Why, was Baxter, who did testify, «©. ” the, * “Super / MYSTERIOUS DEATHS} — “pullet” theory, and consider the possibility that Bullet 399—the only - assassination. bullet that has been. ballis- . 0 © ONE is as s furious about the overlooked evi- dence as Penn Jones. Hardly a week goes by  that_he doesn’t come across some startling Arturo Alocer Ruiz, a Mexican attorney, and was in- trigued enough to fly-south with another reporter to visit - “attorney Alocer in his walled Spanish fortress in Mexico a ves City. Alocer confirmed what he had told the FBI, giving |}. : additional details. Jones described him as “elderly, very dignified and very certain of what he saw.” © ~ ~ Alocer was in San Antonio with his wife and a friend of - ~ hers on November 21, 1963, during President Kennedy’s | ‘visit to that city and the day before his fateful trip to: . _ Dallas: At.9 in the morning the Alocers left the Gunter wy Hotel to go shopping and noticed a. particularly obese ||; - woman standing near the entrance to the hotel. When - [t. they returned about'l p.m. she was still there, apparently -||° waiting for the Presidential motorcade which was about _ ‘to pass in front of the hotel. They. took careful note of her - because’ of her appearance. They watched’ the motorcade pass, and noted that she left immediately thereafter. The - following day the Alocers were watching TV accounts of ' the assassination when the interviews at the Oswald _ rooming house came on. Mrs. A. C. Johnson, the land- lady, was on the screen, and Earlene Roberts, the plump housekeeper. And in the background Alocer, his wife and her friend were all startled to observe the same obese lady . . they’d seen in San Antonio. Two days later, after Ruby. ., shot Oswald, the Alocers again-saw the obese lady on TV; this time she was introduced as Eva Grant, sister of Jack . Ruby. Eva Grant, a night club operator, was not ques- ‘tioned on her whereabouts on November 21. But she was - not the only Ruby clan member reported watching Presi-._ dential motorcades on November 2Ist. One scared Dallas “resident says he saw Jack Ruby himself in Houston when be re. on perenne anmmemene - the. President. ‘toured that city later the same afternoon.. Ruby i is unaccounted for between 3 and 7:30 p.m. on the 21lst—ample time to 0 fy to Houston, observe the motor- cok, cade and return. - [THE MISSING EVIDENCE) m ENN JONES and the “sleuths” have marshalled an Ay impressive body of evidence to show that the ; “Commission ‘ ‘solved” neither the assassination - . ~ nor the murder of Tippit. They have exposed: || “the Commission’s religious determination not to track — , agént’s report or police affidavit buried in the. ° || - 26 ; volumes, only to discover the Commission ignored it : ||. entirely. Recently he dug up an FBI interview with ~ |
& only be a frivolous one. WW.-54756—Doold+32245514--page-27-- . ne -down, leads pointing to other possible’ assassins and cop | killers. And they have shown hoy the.time limit given by President Johnson to the shorthanded Commission— _ “before the 64 elections” —meant the investigation could A Presidential assassination can shake thev very ff abric of society: And if it is the result of conspiracy, as the evi- gered as long as those-responsible for its planning. and execution are still at large. The “mysterious deaths” and intimidations alone. are compelling. enough reason for a new investigation, if. only to establish whether or not t they ‘are related to. the Kennedy assassination. * ne Tt is time to Teopen. the investigation. And. iti is high - time that the impressive quantity of missing evidence be. .. “found,” and that the mountain of withheld evidence be - declassified and made available to the public. No matter . what Penn Jones digs up, no matter what any private citizen uncovers about the. assassination, the case cannot | “be solved until the suppressed evidence is released. - Among the missing evidence are the 22 color and 18. - plack and’ white, photographs taken at the President’s- ' autopsy. Not ‘even the Commission, nor the autopsy ‘doce "tors themselves, were permitted to see: them; the. Com- “mission saw only an ISTE SRETNES TOSS On 2 an. autopsy _ doctor’ s memory of the wounds. The. photographs were” ed over undeveloped to the Secret Service, according __to FBI and Secret Service reports in the National Archives. - The Secret Service. states, in another Archives document, “11966: ‘MYSTERIOUS 1 DEAT “should ask i is who s liced the Zapruder film? ‘And. by? ae : The Stemmons Freeway sign anda streetlamp post hear | - where the President was shot have been unaccountably r ence now available indicates, then the society is endan- 4to the Tippit murder—all are- missing. Where are ‘they? oved, as well as a manhole.cover. reportedly hit by a. bullet. Where are they?. Jacqueline Kennedy’s freely given’ testimony about her husband’s wounds has. been “de- leted.”” Whereis it? An 18-page statement to police by key assassination witness S. M. Holland; notes by Captain - Fritz and an FBI agent of their interrogation of Oswald; at least two motion picture films of the assassination con- fiscated by the FBI; 23 of the 54 documents supplied by the Texas attorney general’s office, many of them relating}: _ More than ‘one-third of the assassination-related docu- . ments in the National Archives are withheld by the “inter- | - ested agencies.”” About half of the FBI reports and 90 per : -. cent of the CIA reports are:still classified. ve "Much evidence has been willfully. destroyed or + altered, - The White House ordered the interior of the President’s '. limousine cut up and destroyed; Johnson now drives | ‘around in the same car, newly outfitted, in which John. - Kennedy met his death. Governor Connally’s suit, which — Johnson’s crony Cliff Carter signed for, was sent to be. ; . .dry- -cleaned and pressed before it could ever be: examined. _ as evidence, Navy Dr. Humes, who performed the autopsy _ on Kennedy, said he burned his original autopsy notes in his fireplace. The post’ office. box application Oswald — ostensibly filled out in the name of ‘“‘Hidell” has been’ - ~ destroyed, despite postal regulations requiring they be . “that “every item of tangible evidence” in ‘its. possession “kept for.three years. The list goes on and on. a _ was turned over either. to the Commission. during its life, - to the National Archives after the Commission disbanded, or was “‘placed in the custody of individuals designated by . ’ the late President’s family. » Archivist Simmons says the - photographs are not in the Archives. No one seems to know where they are. Also missing are the x-rays of Ken- 7 A nationally syndicated columnist for the Hearst news-'- . papers recently had an interview with Lyndon Johnson... -}} S ’. He asked if it were true that Warren had been reluctant to” ‘head the Commission. Johnson replied in the affirmative. - nedy" s body, which were. never seen THMISSION. Another key piece of evidence is. the Zapruder: film. "Abraham Zapruder, a Dallas clothing manufacturer, cap- tured the assassination sequence on. movie film. The original_was purchased _by Life magazine—‘ “mainly to . eep it off the market,” says Richard Pollard, ‘director of photography. Pollard says the original i is uncut in any way. “Not so with the copy of the film seen by the Commission _ and placed on file at the Archives. Not only are Zapruder’ frames_3 through. 434 missing (showing the. Grassy" Knoll), but a. splice z appears, just about the time the Com-. mission says Kennedy i is first shot.. The top of frame 208 . ' is crudely spliced onto the bottom of frame 212; the inter- vening frames are missing. One of the first things anew. he-Felease_o investigation should cal o1 the. entire’ | - Zapruder fil he. ‘second thing a new investigation ¥ SE “HE WARREN COMMISSION was appointed by Lyn- ‘don Johnson, was responsible to Johnson and. -- respected a lawyer-client relationship with John- _ son. It was truly “the President’s Commission.” _ Warren, he said, had sent a note through an intermediary : . that he would not accept. the Job. “But I | ordered him to,” . said the President. ‘The Hearst reporter asked. if the President had tread the- i Ay recent books about the Kennedy assassination. No, John- , son replied, but an aide had given him a full report. a “What do you think?” asked the columnist. . The President looked down for a’‘moment, knitted his "brow, ‘then fixed his doe eyes on the reporter and said:. ae “Warren’s in trouble.”
stice | and 1 Procedure’ headed by Senator Edward, Y, Long: Of Missout For ‘over a year now the subcom- » “mittee: has been busily’ exposing a thicket of electronic ; Ahooping “by. ‘government agencies, mainly: the much- an ‘maligned: Internal Revenue Service. But when Long’s group cautiously. peeped inside the FBI's closet in Miami ohare it heatd testimony from a private detective that he , had bugged ' ‘under: FBI hire). and Kansas City (where the G-men had’ ‘tuned’ in‘ on the conversation of suspected |} | :- : racketeets), it gingerly. shut the door. - : «For one ‘thing, Long was sternly taken to task by ‘his home. state: newspapers for trifling with. the sacrosanct FBI. For another ‘in- December 1965, he received a visit at his. Missouri home. from nO: less @ personage ‘than sion, reportedly undertaken at’ ‘the behiest of the President . : ‘himself, was to prevail upon | the senator to lay off the FBI. . f e: moved fron the agenda ‘and the stentorian senator. con- ? eentrated instead on n eliciting admissions of bresing and stepped. before the Supreme: Court to advise that the bug * found in the’ suite of] Fred Black Jr.; the convicted lobbyist, had been installed } nthe express authorization of: J. Edgar . “commanded tie ‘headlines. Chr 7 ‘AS the bugging controversy heats up p this fall it: will be a “fascinating game to:see: if Hoover has enough Spy cases up his sleeve to go around: