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IN MEMORIAM: Penadsaat.... FROM LARRY HOWARD BERNARD "BUD" FENSTERWALD, JR. The JFK Center's main goal is to gather information on the assassination and com- WELCONIE! This first issue of municate that information to the public. To DATELINE DALL4S is dedicated to the this end, the Center has been a total success. memory of Washington Attorney Bernard The Centex has obtained over 30 Photo- Fensterwald- Jr.. who died of a heart graphs that have never before been published attack on April 2. 199L He was 60. has discovered over 100 new leads, and has Feristerwald's contributions to 3.35314Sfla- identified some of the unknown witnesses non research were -mammoth" according to who were in strategic locations before, dur- Larry Ray Harris. co-author of Cover-L'p and ing and after the assassination. (Not to men- Director of Research at ihe JFK Assassination tion a large number of uttriguing stories— I Information Center. guess it comes with the territory. l In addi- Fensterwald considered the Warren Com- tion, we have over 29,000 signatures on our mission Report to be "unadulterated crap". petitioned to re-open the case in Dallas. Harris said. In 1969. Fensterwald founded the As new mformation develops, the Cen- Committee to Investigate Assassinations to ter continues to update its displays so that channel ongoing research on the deaths of the researchers and the public can view all of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King. Jr. latest information when they visit the Center. Fensterwald was also instrumental ire The JFK Center takes no position nor helping enact the Freedom of Information chooses sides with any particular individual Act (FOIA 1. Harris recalled. "Without the or organization in the research community. FOIA, assassination research might not have The Center intends to remain neutral in order advanced to the stage it has and a clearer un- (Above) The late Bed Fensterwald, to supply information to everyone. derstanding of the events surrounding the I'd like to thank everyone who has helped events of November 22. 1963 in . us keep ihe Center open for the past 3 years, Funeral seervices were held at Temple In 19134, Fiseiterwald founded the Assas- despite the efforts of some who would like the Ohabai Shalom in Nashville. He was bu- sination Archives and Research Center in Center's doors closed forever. Washington, D.C., and three yaws ago was ried at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia lliere must remain an alternative view of co-founder of the JFK Assassination Informa- what happened in Dealey Plaza on November tion Center in Dallas, publisher of this news- PARKLAND AND BEThESDA MED4CAL 22, 1063. The JFK Center will continue to letter. INTRIESSES SPEAK UP fight for this cause. Larry Howard, Director of Operations of The JFK Center held a press conference the JFK Center, said that Fensterwald "will be Wednesday. April 30th at the request of Harri- missed mostly for his moral support." son Edward Livingstone, author of High Fensterwald made a trip to Dallas the Treason and high Treason 2. Honored atten- INSIDE... weekend before his death_ "1 remember him dants included surgical and autopsy medical saying that he would live to the year 2039 to witnesses from Parkland Hospital Dallas and View Fromll Capital Hill 2 six the National Archives opened." Howard Bethesda Navel Hospital in Maryland. Behind the Picket Fenix 3 said. -He was our guardian angel. Without "The autopsy photographs and X-Rays of Forgotten Witnesses. Bud, there would not have been 3 JFK Center. President Kennedy are faked or forged," ac- JFK, The Movie 4 He will be missed by everyone involved with cused Mr. Livingstone. Arlene Spector, a Unpublished Photos 5 the Center." lawyer who helped the Upon My Death 6 Fensterwald was a graduate of I larvard investigate the ass.issinalion. covered up the Witness to Histury Umversity, where his classmates included facts of the murder. "1 think Arlene Spector Student Essay on WK. 9 John F. Kennedy and Clayton Bertrand Shaw. belongs In Jail. This is treason., and this is Viewpoint 10 His legal clients ranged froni Martin Luther an accessory after the fact," Mr. Livingatune Cuban. King. Jr.'s accused assassin, James Earl Ray. said boiling with controlled rage. Classifieds. 12 to Watergate burglar James McCord. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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VIEW FROM Both of these bills are taking back seat to the Stoktm-Boren bill - Joint Resolution 4-154. DATELINE: DALLAS CAPITAL HILL This bill. cited as the "Assassination Materials by Bill Kelly and John Judge Disclosure Aix of 1992 (AlviDA)," 5 distin- PUBLISHED BY TILE guished and impartial private citizens, none of JFK ASSASSINATION Suddenly, with the tip of the hat to Oliver whom shall have had my previous involve- INFORMATION (INTER Stone, there is a national consensus to release ment with any investigative or inquiry relating the all the files related to the assassination of to the assassination of President Kennedy." ouvetoe of Opotsborm: This group will decide what is "assas- LW? y Howor0 JFK. Yet, the files remain closed and will re- sinatton related material" and review requests Morro/ of Arcrivr• main so until the public pressures Congress to by agencies to delay the release of specific take decisive action to release them. documents to the public. There arc many DIrocton of R... oh: lof ,r Ftar fro The ball is moving however, although it problems with this bill. For instance, the is still uphill. It is bang dribbled in the Con- president has ultimate veto authority over the 11•111.0. Of C

I FORGOTTEN WITNESSES by Mark A. Oakes

Concerning the IFK assassmation. one testimony I was always concerned about was the testimony of Dallas Patrolman I. W. Fos- ter. lie told the Warren Commission that lie worked his way over to the south stile of Elm Street to see if any shuts had hit." "Were you successful''", asked W.C. Lawyer Warren Ball "Yes", replied Foster. "I saw where they caught the corner of the manhole cover, and went into the turf." Also m support of this are several newspapers pictures and photographs showing Detective Buddy Walthers and an unidentified FBI man picking up picking up something from the grass. Two other bystanders. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman saw a bullet furrow close to where lean Hill was standing (confirmed by a policeman) and reported this to the FBI. BEHIND THE PICKET FENCE Refer to Commission Document 1513, (Above) Ed Points to where he saw the man As Cold by cycwimcis Vtrgil -Ed" tbrinun Pgs 2, -11-4o, The FBI told the Hsrtmans that with the rifle run behind the fence. the mark in the grass was caused by a bone Virgil 'Ed" Hofmann, 54, of Grand Prai- fragment! The Hartman*: also told the FBI rie, Texas, said he left work at Texas Instro- "I looked down at the cars passing under that the furrow lined up with the North Side of Mena shortly before noon on Nov. 22. 1961, the bridge. When I saw that the president had ELM on his way to the denttst. Ho trman parked his been shot, I was very confused and very TaS47FBI1 changed their testimony, saying, car slung SICMISAAIS Freeway, hoping to get a shucked. I turned around and didn't quite " The Hamm said that the mark in the grass glance at the motorcade as it proceeded under- know what to do. I saw a policeman and ran lined up with the School Rook Depository!" I neath the highway. HotTman had a bird's-eye over to hint. I couldn't talk I couldn't commu- into-ntiewed these people on video, and they view of the area behind the grassy knoll. Here nicate with him. I thought he was going to both have documentation to back up their sto- is his account. shoot me. I was so scared that I just ran away. ries. "I saw a man standing by the fence and "When I heard that According to the Hartmans. I was the the rifle was on the ground. He picked it had been arrested, I was relieved_ I thought first researcher to get a video taped with them. up and aimed toward his target. I was just he was the man 1 had seen behind the fence, I.W. Foster told me the same thing although casually looking around when the man aimed "Later. as my wife and I watched televi- he has been mentioned in several books, and his weapon. I WAS wondering what he was do- sion. the newscast showed the Texas School the Hartman:: only in COVER-UP (Gary ing. Book Depository, I told my wife that some- Shaw/Larry Harrisi and Crossfire ( Jim "Alta a few moments. I thought he had thing was wrong since I had seen the man be- Marrs). Per my request. the Hartmans went to lit a cigarette. I saw smoke from the rifle. hind the fence. 1 was way upset because I had the A.S.K. conference in Noventher of '91. The man turned and ran along the fence hold- seen the man with my own two eyes!" The bottom lino is that James Tauge's wound ing the rifle as he was running. 1 had thought accounted for three shots. These witnesses that it had looked like a gun. He had a black Hoffman. who has been unable to hear confirm additional shots, hat on and a blue jacket. His jacket was open or speak since birth, said be had a hard time communicating his story with officials. and I could see the rifle. He then tossed the DEALEY PLAZA nile over the railing_ There was a man stand- Haffman'a story was relayed to the FBI in ThwitarrOis coramissioo took 178 itaUrents ing there ready to catch the rifle as he threw 1467 and 1977, and to the House Select Committee in Assassinations in 1979, but to *um witimbtai la Diu* Plan: it. • 49 believed shots came tram behind "After the man threw the rifle, he then no avail. The FBI slated that "since the Warren Commission found no evidence of a • 78 had "DO opinion" turned around and walked casually away as if • 30 cane ap with answers that didn't fit nothing was wrong. I didn't see his face, but man shooting the president from behind the grassy knoll, then the Dallas office is no in with any evidence he was a white man probably in his forties. • 29 believed that shots were fired train "After the second man caught the rifle. longer conducting an investigation into his testimony." the Grassy knoll he disassembled It, placed it in a gun ease • 61 behered that some gunfire cane and ran along the railroad tracks where he Iran in hart of the motorcade was concealed by train cars. He was wea- Mr. Hoffman is a frequent and wel- comed visitor the Center. • Sixteen people in or near the S. Book ring a white shirt with stripes, like a train con- D. said shots cane from the knoll dueler's shut. JFK DATELINE: DALLAS

I the crew and cast were only six weeks into Several of the articles were extremely JFK THE MOVIE shooting) calling Garrison's investigation a derogatory to all parties involved; Oliver By Belita Nelson "fraud" and saying that "Oliver Stone is chas- Stone, Jim Garrison. and Larry Howard all ing fiction:. (we feel that the only fiction in received more than their fair share of The tasking of the movie, JFK. has been this case was than created by the Warren Com- CUM. Some of the reviews might even he de- the single must important catalyst in our quest mission). As the fall of 1991 approached. scribed as inflammatory. One such article for the truth since the Center was published in CrQ and tells of opened it's doors in July 1989. We the retirement of the legendary would like to acknowledge our sm- Pauline Kael because "she cere appremanun and gratitude to couldn't bear to watch another director Oliver Stone for choosing Oliver Stone film." But that was the Center as the major consultant kind in light of the criticism of and technical advisor. Larry N. Ho- Jim Garrison. In held headlines. ward and J. Gary Shaw. Co- GQ announced. "Garrison has Directors of the JFK Assassination gone down in history as a cheap, Information Center and Larry Ray headline hurting demagogue." Harris, 1/ireetor of Archives served The essence of all this fervor as consultants. The script for the scents to be a concerted effort by movie was based on Jim Garrison's members of the press to totally book, On Tice Trail of the Assassins discredit everyone from Oliver and Crossfire by Jim Marrs. Film- Stone to the JFK Assassination ing began on April 15. 1091. The Center and even those devoutly movie opened on December 20. dedicated researchers who search From the beginning of the for the missing pieces in their filming the movie created a cantro- spare time. They sought to make verity that has been unequaled in 1FK the laughing stock of the cinema history. One such scathing year. We are glad to report that criticism began with an editorial by they failed miserably. JFK has Jon Margolis. writer for the Chita- been a blockbuster; and in more ge Tribune as early as May 15. ways than One. rIs a senior high 1991. Mr. Margolis, writer ac- school debate eoach. I pursue but eused Stone of an "attempt to re- one real goal: that of teaching my write history" and went on to say students to think, really think fur that "some insults to intelligence themselves. With one such stu- and decency rise (sink?) far enough dent, the movie JFK succeeded to warrant objection." Mr. Margo- where I had failed. A student hs felt that JFK was such an instill whom I had literally given up on (We feel that the real insult to to- came in to talk to me yesterday. telligence and dmency is the fact He was excited and asking me the American people have never questions faster than I could re- had complete access to the truth spond. it 3-VMS John (not his real surrounding the assassination of name) had gone to see JFK over John Kennedy, that the American the weekend. And new he wants government locked the files in the to know everything. He lett the beginning, that a proper. legal in- school library with Plausible De- vestigation never occurred. But nial, Crossfire, On The Trail of perhaps the greatest insult to intel- Assassins. and Best Evidence. ligence is the fact that this was the many of the major magazines got into the act. He also told me that he wanted to beginning of a complete disintegration of faith Esquire featured a frame of the lapruder film buy Double Cross. And he set up an appoint- and trust in our government.) on its November cover with the caption: JFK ment with me to see some of the research that All this fervor and only one month into The Movie - Oliver Stone Reshools History. I have in my personal files. Alter telling John filming! But the Margolis editorial was only Both Texas Monthly and Life Maga- about the JFK Assassination Center, you can the begiening. George Lardncr Jr., in a Wash- zines cover stories featured the movie in their bet that hell be visiting soon_ Thank you ington Post editorial entitled "Dallas in W011-• December issues. Several other major muea- Oliver Stone, for I'm Aire NOW. John will he deriand: Oliver Stone and JFK1 a thinkin? contnbuung member of our soci- eines- such as Time, McCalls. US, CrQ, and assassination". reviews the movie, (although Details also covered the movie. ety.

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UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS r Did You Know? I. On Sunday morning. November 24, It is out desire to print in each issue of Dateline Dallas at Igu3. u t7rat a_m.. a all was least one picture that we believe has never been seen before. made from Chica- Here are two pictures green to Larry Howard while on the set dur- go by a man named Al Sharp. Mr. Sharp was an ing the *rung of JFK. The lady did not say her name, nor where officer for the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), a she obtained the photos. She thought the Center would benefit onion that was mob-dominated. The call was mule io torn Palmer in Dallas. Mr. more then she would. Palmer worked for and was also an Apparently, these are photos from Love Field on Nov. 22, officer of the ACiVA. 1963. The print date on the back o them is 1983 These photos The rneviage said. -Tell Jack not to send can be seen in the JFK Center's Archwes in Dallas the letter today. It would he awkward in Chica- go. You must get this message to Jack no mar- ter what. It is urgent!' Undoubtedly, the Mafia used AGVA an a conduit to communicate with lack Ruby. Also. the At had offices as 54-4 Camp Street in New Orleans.

2. Jack Ruby was associated with numer- ous Organized Crime characters as well as OA gun runners and anti-Castm eadcl.. Ruby was once an informant for the FBI. and much evi- dence oignects that lee Harvey Oswald also worked for the Bureau. Texas authonues re- ported his informant number was T. l 7n and he was mud $200 a month.

3. There are morn metal fragments renum- ing in John Connally's body today than are missing from the maeic bullet (Commission Ex- hibit 109) that the government elaiMarallUed his OWN-h.

3. George J. Applin, one of only two -Tex. as Theater witnesses testifying for the Warren C ammission remained silent for fillren years heron: acknowledging that he it-cognized Jack Ruby as one of the main floor patrons not iden- tified by the cotnmismon: "Ruby was sitting down. just winching them. And when Oswald pulled 3 gun and snapped t at his (policeman's) head and MISSC41 and the darn thing wouldn't are. that's when I tapped him (Ruby) on the dioulder and told him he bad better move because those guns were waving around. He mu turned around and looked of me. Then he turned around and started watching them.'

5. The Warren Commission placed Ruby at the Carousel Club at l An employee at the club said that Ruby arrived ahem* 2 bourn alter the assassination, at 2 or 2:30. Time test showed that Ruby could have driven within the speed limas horn Parkland Hospital to the the- ater and back to the Carousel by 2:95 pin.

0. N.° one ever found a box of 6.5 mm am- munition for Oswald% ntle among his posses- 90t15 or evidence that he had purchased any. JFK DATELINE: DALLAS 6

I him, too. (You notice these things without monitored the connection again, not believing moving). my ears. District I had all the connections for "Don't von call here again. You will be Kennedy's speech at the Trade Mart (going to contacted. They are not suspicious of him, the White House, UP, API, and the FBI). no." Now then mad frustrations of switching I dosed the key and reported the call to all of these connections to District II, and Mr. the Assistant Chief Operator. Later. I was re- J.A. Potts and Mr. Paul Cheap= (over both lieved of the position and told that Mr. Ander- districts) were there. Parkland Cen- son wanted to see me. He was behind me and Larry Howard was given this tes- tral Office on Melrose appeared Unit 11, Dis- walked to the District office. He had the toll tament by the son of the author after trict H. I am on District II, a service assistant. ticket in his hand and told me I might be ques- her death. Their names remain anony- My job is training people and moving traffic. tioned by the FBI. I told him I didn't care if I mous in this article. The original Someone at our lunch table said we'd bet- lost my job. because I loved President Kenne- manuscript is on file at the Center's ter go back to work, they probably need us. I tt/. Archives. did not want to go back for fear that I would Reaching the district °Mee, Mr. Potts hear that President Kennedy was dead_ was at his desk, his head lowered like he was I got up to go back to work about 12:50 - writtna. Mr. Cheatum interviewed mc and all :55. The switchboard was lit up like a Christ- 1 told him were the octet words of the con- mas tree. Everyone went to the board to help versation. I also told hint hat the Irving caller FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1963 the operators, including myself. The Assistant said. "Just a rainure." and that was why I was (8:34p.m.) Chief Operators and Chief Operators took our on the line. Mr. Cheatum told mc the in- posts. Every signal I answered, there was a formation would be given to the telephone I was awakened this morning with only radio or television in the background blaring company's investigators for the FBI. one thought in mind: could I afford to get ex- out about thew shooting. Over and over dis- I led the district office, escorted by Mr. cused from work to go to the parade to see the tomer% (all but one) would put us in the know Anderson. He told me to take the position greatest man of our times, the President of by saying, "Did you know the president was with open communication from Parkland Hos- The United States, Jelm F. Kennedy" shot? Have you heard the president was shot pital to FRI Headquarters at the White House Thinking that everyone loved him as In Dallas? I can't believe it, must be a joke and stay on the line and not release them - not much as 1 did (with the exception of a neigh- about the president..." —as always when a di- once was there a conversation between two bor who worked in the Republican Party &lion- strikes. p,sople. After I went on my break 1 did not whom I had words with in the front yard - Then I picked up an Irving signal take the same position. more on her later, and Mr. Edwin C. Clark. (Blackburn exchange) about or near 2 p.m. After work I stopped at Wyatts grocery President of AT&T - who made a .speech in The radio or TV was a very loud. A woman store for some kidney for our two eats. My Texas which was put into a pamphlet form placed a call to North Richland Hills (Butler neighbor Mrs. Norris, whom I've mentioned and distributed among telephone people dur- Exchange) which is a fringe office of Fort earlier, walked up to me and said. " Well, ing the campaign trying to sway people, of Worth. I gave her the area code (817), dialed what do you think of your President Kennedy. which I did not appreciate). Anyway, I de- the number on a direct Fort Worth circuit and now?" cided there would be such a crowd that 1 could asked for her number. She evidently did not never get a glimpse of my favorite couple. hear me for the radio was announcing the CONTINUED ON THE .NEXT PACE much less get to shake his hand and let him news. The number in Fort Worth answered. know how I had fought for him in my small Again. I asked for the number. way. The Irving customer said, "Just a mi- ACCESSORIES Here are the events that happened to me, nute." 1 thought she was talking to me, so I AFTER THE FACT events that have caused me to count the days waited. and hours until I became 55 roars old and When she returned to the phone THE WARREN COMMISION, could retire, so I could pay a moral dept to so- (approximately 3 - 10 seconds later) she THE AUTHORITIES & THE REPORT ciety (as my lips have been sealed by the Fed- blunts)! out. "Will Lee get the bonus loot?" eral Communications Law). A man at the Fort Worth number said. I was on my lunch hour (12-Ip.m.) and "What are you calling me, and don't men- SYLVIA NIEAGHER Mr. Allen, Traffic Chief. Distract 1,4100 Bry- tion my name on the phone. Kennedy has "By far the most meticulous and an Street, Dallas. Texas. was also on his lunch to be dead for to get the bonus." compelling indictment of the Warren hour. The telephone in the cafeteria rang "He Is dead." the Irving customer soot about 12:35-:40p.na.. an emergency for Mr "They've just announced it on the radio." Commission Report ever made. The Clark. The president has been shot." (silence) I closed the key, gunned. I do have a significance of this hook can nut he You could hear your heart heat. Mr. Allen witness to this, whom I did not report because overstated." stumbled around the cash register. hitting the I will not involve an innocent person. rail the food trays slide on - he's a large man. I then made a call book check on the Irv- -senator Rickard S. Scliwelker IR-P Senate Select Carmelite as larellIgeace annul like Lyndon Johnson and sons favors ing number (for the correct number charee a 1 JFK DATELINE: DALLAS

OPEN UPON MY DEATH Thorn. a JET (janitor'. had ordered the lockers CONTINUED... of those on vacation to be emptied - all of the materials were to be put in a box - so the lock- Saturday - November 24, 1963 ers could be painted. The box was supposed to be at the end r,1- the locker room. I searched "I did nothing. but prepare meats and but found no box. He told me it was probably watch T V." put in one of the store rooms and he would find it the next day. I told him I had material Sunday - November 25, 1963 in the locker for the FBI. (Ile was not in our office when the president was assassinated). "I asked my husband to drive me down "Mr. Anderson had been transferred to where Presieknt Kennedy was that and let me rVkansas. Mr. Cheat= to St. Louts. A Mr. take some pictures so the gnu. nIcluldren would Smith was our Traffic Manager now. The have some authentic pictures of his story. He next day, they told me that everything in the did not want to. but he did. He took his movie box was burned. I filed a grievance and had camera and I took an old Kodak - the film is Mr. Smith give me a letter and one to the still in the camera and not developed - I don't Union stating that I was not responsible for want to see it nglit now. We had to drive lost company material - dated July 12, 1965. down Commerce Street past City Hall (there They paid me by check for my personal be- was a large crowd there). We did nut stop, longings. I bad Mr. Smith call and get Mr. but one block past the crowd we heard a Anderson in Little Rock. Ark., on the line. I commotion_ Looking back, people were run- talked with him and asked how to get dupli- ning every way and before we reached the end cates of the material for the FBI. He said that Audry Bell and Harrison E. Livingstone of Commence Street, we knew that Oswald the ,[formation was given to the telephone had been shot. There were large trucks with company's attorney's or special agent;, but the PARKLAND AND BETHESDA ... T.V. cameras. spotlights. crews and all the FBI had never asked for any information con- necessary equipment for news and reporters. cerning President Kennedy's death and was "Political hogwash." was the response Everyone had a camera of sonic kind. not volunteered. WHY? given by a Washington spokesperson for Mr. "There were many floral otTerings in "Mr. Thon was reprimanded and sent to Spector. Dealy Plaza. My eves were wet with tears. It St. Loins. Mr. Potts mitred_ Using the power of eyewitnessc-s. Mr. was all so sad, gloomy and frightening_ We "My attorney advised me that my posi- Livingstone graphically illustrated that the ac- were there for about an hour, then went home. tion with the company was hardly enough to tual wounds observed by Parkland medical We watched all of this tragedy on T.V. and try to force the company to give MC a copy of personnel were purposely altered to support read the newspapers. I sent Mrs. Kennedy a the information - the clock time on the toll the "lone gunman" theory and deceive Chief note of sympathy. ticket, the length of the conversation, the Justice Earl Warren. The photos showed an The record of the call I took and number called and the calling number. intact back of the skull, with X-rays showing heard part of was recorded and sealed and lie advised me to write it all down in the face missing, supporting a shot from be- addressed to the FBI and placed in another longhand to be opened upon my death. hind. All witnesses satti there was no damage envelope addressed to my attorney in case Maybe my debt to society will be paid some- to the president's face, also verified by autop- of my death. I locked the envelopes in my day." sy photographs. locker at the telephone company - I kept them Dr. Richard Brooks Delany, a doctor who there in case I was questioned again so l could treated Governor Connally, said he observed a easily reach it. YOUR RIGHT TO massive wound on the side and rear of the "I talked with the Priest, Father Huber, FEDERAL RECORDS president's head. who administered the Rite of Absolution to A Bethesda medical technician. Paul President Kennedy. I told him that I had in- Questions and Answers on O'Conner, who helped prepare Kennedy's formation. but did not say that I had a moral the: body • believed that the photographs had been obligation to society when I could talk. My airbrushed and that President Kennedy's body attorney was told the same thing. • Freedom of Information arrived in a body bag inside a shipping casket- "The telephone company, the FBI nor the Act not the heavy bronze coffin be left Dallas in. Warren Commission have contacted me. I • Privacy Act A theory dismissed by Mr. Livingstone. have kept this mfomiatton inside of me. Other medical witnesses attending the 'The first week of July. 1965, I was on conference and concerned with setting the re- vacation. Returning to work. I had Contact: no occa- cord straight were Audry Bell, a Parkland sion to go to my locker for several days. Then nursing supervisor, and Jim Metzler and Jim I needed some training material and opened U.S. General Services Jenkins both from Bethesda Navel Medical the locker Ion the 5th flour) and it was empty. Administration Center. I asked Mrs. Smith on the 4th floor) where Washington D.C. 20405 Witnesses admitted that they were not my things were. 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Another witness surfaced at the JFK understand. Then as he entered the row of We took the bus home and it was at Center to tell his story of what happened seats, he said, 'Stand up'. that time that we found out that the president that fateful day inside the Texas Theater. "The man started to stand and said some- was dead, the governor shot and the man that His statement and the actual names of the thing like, 'All right.' came and sat dawn in front of us was - parties involved are on file in the JFK Cen- "The policemen said, 'Get your hands up.' Lee Harvey Oswald. ter's Archives. Below is the witness' state- "At that time, as his hands started up, 'Hob died in a car wreck in 1973. ment verbatim. all of a sudden his hands went down, and the policeman and the man lunged at each Here are some questions asked Or November 22. 1963 other and were locked up. At that split se- David and his replies: cond. there were policemen all user the rwo. "I was in the ninth made, and the Presi- The man pulled a pun. I did not see it until Q: What are the details of the knife being dent of the United States was coming to town. it was taken away from him. found? The school district had approved an excused "Wheel the policeman had ham secure, A: "In regards lot the knife. we had come absence if you went to see the president and they moved him down the row of seats to back from the manager's office to the the- brought a note to school the following day. Aisle 'A' as they led him out. He was wearing ater area, and an officer was looking down Bob* and 1 (David) decided to go downtown a white T-shirt and carrying another shirt— the aisle where Oswald had been sitting. and sex the president. My mother gave us plaid. I believe. He had a cut on his forehead_ He bent over and picked up a knife and enough money to stop on the way home to see There are pictures being taken at this time. showed it to another officer standing a few a movie. remember an the flashes. I would have been feet away. That officer said, "That's where "Downtown, we were able to see only a in them because as he was led by the back he was. Must he his." glimpse of the president as he drove by be- wall and I was within 4 feet of him. Police at cause of the crowd. We took the bus back to this tune were searching the area around the Q: Did Oswald always sit alone? South (sic) Oak Cliff to the Texas Theater en seat he was sitting in. They found a switch- A: "Yes." Jefferson Blvd. to see the show before we blade knife. Q; Was the woman with the kids went home. We entered the show and sat in "At this time, a plainclothes police offi- pregnant? the center section on the hack row next to the cer took us in the manager's office and asked A: "I do nut recall." lett hand aisle (see Diagram). Bob sat in the us why we were there. We Told hint and asked Q: Was there anything about Oswald that first seat and I was in the in the second. At what was going on. He told its that a federal attracted your attention before his arrest? the rime there were two men sitting down in official and a state official had been shoe A: "The only thing that caught my atten- from in the middle of the section and a lady Then they asked if we had a ride home. tion was that he entered the movie law and with two gnall children sitting in the right- moved toward the center of the row of hand section of the seating. (David's diagram of the theater) seats." "During the movie. 1 noticed a man mov- ing down the row of se'its to my nght. taking about the fifth or sixth scat from the aisle on STAGE the third tow from the back. At about the same time, l started seeing shadows of people A 13 moving on the screen. The hoax lights came on and there were °Dicers, police and plain- X X clothesmen all around the sides, front, and of Two \len the theater. At this time, an officer told Bob and me to get up and move back behind the SEATS SEATS wall of the theater. We did, but quickly moved back into the aisle to see what was go- SEATS ing on. I thought it might be a robber because there were several jewelry gores in the area. Xxx "As we walked back into the aisle, three Lady officers were approaching the two men in the 2 Kids front oldie theater. The men stood up and the police seemed to be asking questions of them Oswald as they searched them. At that time, one of X the three officers who had been with the two Bob/ David men in the front started running up the aisle_ X X As he approached the thud row where the man was sitting, he said something that I could not

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DOUBTS LINGER- weight when one learns more about the man all of lie grassy knoll in Deady Plaza also was a these people have tin crimmon. Lee Harvey Oswald. source of controversy during the investigation- Over THE DEATH OF JFK Before he supposedly assassinated the Nest- 50 witnesses thought that several shots came from dent. young Oswald worked for the government- the grassy knoll. Kennedy aide, Kenneth O'Dontiel. A Student Essay Hy While he served in the Marines, be was given an stated that he heard two shots coming from the knoll. Meredith Nixon exam in Russian. a sign of intelligence training that and William and Gail Newman. standing at the base would have been handled by 0.1N.L In I 95o. Oswald of the knoll. heard shots coming from behind them. John F. Kennedy committed suicide, political apparently defected to the Soviet Union. and pledged Other questions that arise concern several men who arcade,' says Lam Howard, Director of the JFK his allegiance to them_ After 15 months there, he ap- said that they were Secret Service agents. Many wit- sasonetion InfOrrntaion Center in Dallas. 'He was plied to return to the U.S. with his Russian wife. Al- nesses were "turned back' from the knoll by men getting out of Vietnam - getting nit of the Mafia though our country was still suffering from remnants who claimed to work for the Secret Service. Howev- dumping Lyndon Johnson in 1964. lie fired Allen of the 'Red Scars'. neither the State Department er. the government denied deployed agents on or Dulles from the C.L A.. said he was going to break up nor theirs obiecterl to this request and the U.S. Stale around the knoll area (Oxford 1142). the CIA into a million pieces. make peace efforts Depirtment loaned him the money for the return trtp. AU of this evidence points to serious doubts with Castro and Khrushchev, raga the nuclear test- On the day of the assassination, several witnesses about the incidents before, during, and after that fate- ban treaty. Civil nghts was going staving. fie had saw Oswald en the second floor lunch room at about ful day in Dallas. November 22, 1963, when the Bobby to succeed him: he had Teddy after Bobby. the same time of the shooting. Mrs Robert Reid. a hopes and dreams of our nation died along with one So the real people who had the power in this country. clerical supervisor, observed Oswald drinking a Coke of our greatest presidents. Questions arise as to the military-industruil complex, decided that Kenne- on the second floor around 1:1:25. However, the whether Oswald was a liaison from our own govern- dy was soft on communism and was a threat to na- F.B.I. misstated this time as 12:15 (Oxford 11 44). ment who Was net up to take the blame for the creme tional security and world peace. So, they got rid of After his errest, he was given a name test which of the century that may have been planned and ex- him through rouge elements of the CIA. with the showed that he hail not fired a rifle in the previous 24 ecuted by our own intelligence agencies. These Mafia as a Junior partner. And from that point on. hours. and during his goes:Mang by the Dallas P.D. doubts and suspicions have been nagging at the they coveted it up from the top — the Warren Com- no notes were taken and there and there no lawyer American conscience for over 25 years. However, mission. which Johnson set up with Dulles on the was present ;(Oxford 1 23). In 1X963. Dallas Police the only way for our minds to be at ease and for our panel.' (Seal I5S) Chief Jesse Curry. backed up many theories when he stun president to truly red in peace is for all the evi- Although diem are other theories, Mr. Howard's a Fold newsman. -We dun's have any pmof that &nee, incriminating Or not. to he laid out on the table statement summaries the slew of many researchers Oswald rued the ntle, and never did. Nobody's yet for the public to see. The day that our government who feel that the assassination of John F. Kennedy been able to put him in that building with a gun in his and we ourselves have the integrity to stop running was not the act of a lone -Marxist" assassin, hut rath- hand," (JFK Assassination Center Archives) fmm the problems of that year. and become totally er was a highly covert operation. which reeked of Questions also arise as to whether the gun honest with reg,ani to what happened. is the day that SleCarthyism. masterminded by his encores in the claimed to have been the murder weapon, and the we can truly call ourselves a civilized nation. federal guvernment who felt they were in danger be- Warren Commission's "main" hulkt theory would cause of his innovative foreign policies. stand the test of being investigated again. The tint Many experts feel that Kennedy's new under- weapon found on the scene was not the cheap. Mail- standings with the Soviet 1 "pion and his idea of non- order. Stanotieher-Camano, but rather a highly accu- John F. Kennedy violence in Vietnam may have led to his munler. In rate %Mier which hues disappeared (Ciarnson I 11). (1917.1n611 Apnl 1961, President Kennedy acquired many en- Furthermore, a film taken by Dallas Cinema Associ- ernes when he dented air support fur the in- ates shows the Book Depository shortly after the as- " THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT" vasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He also sassination_ The police brought down the title and William Manchester authorized the signing of the nuclear test hen treaty triumphantly held it up for all to see. However, this with the LSSR in 1963, and the immediate witbdiaw. role had no sight ttwunted on both the ('arsons Before breakfast an Thursday, No- al of L000 American military advisors in Vietnam. and Masser had sights. This vale also disappeared. vember 21, 1963, the President of the saying. -dill never iced draftees over there to light" Evidence also suggests that perhaps the Cassano was United States drew on his back brace, recalkd his advisor. Kenneth CtDunncl. He also not the murder weapon. The careens, had a badly laced his shoes, the left one of which had planned to withdraw all of the American forces in maligned scope. and no .unmuntiton clip was ever a quarter- inch medical lift, slipped into Vietnam by 1965 (Garrison 2061. All of these ureters found for the rifle. Without this. the cartridges must the clothes his valet had selected, an- were promptly resianiled After his death- Ise loaded by hand. making fast shouting as Oswald chored his conservative tie with a bright Much of the mail evidence in Ike case gives was claimed to do impossible. Die Warren Cornaus- PT boat clip, and pocketed a black leather indication of C.I.A. invohement with a conspiracy, eion's 'magic" bullet has also been the source of wallet containing 526 in bills, a gold St. the assassination. and the concealment of vital clues Much sainlmVercy. Since they claim that only three Christopher medal which was clipped to as in whether or not Oswald worked slime, was the hullers were fired. they had to conclude that the "Ma- it, and Massachusetts driving permit only marksman. and whether he even pulled the trig- gic' bullet caused all seven wounds which could not 0533320. As usual, his signature was ger at all. In the summer of 1963, usiwakl was in- be accounted for. The conurlisalOn said that the Na- as legible as a doctor's prescription, but the text identified the licensee as John F, volved with two men who were possibly working for to, fired from 2110 Il.. away, entered Kennedy's back. Kennedy of 122 Bowdon Street, Boston. the C.L.A._ Guy Banamer, a former F.B.I. agent, and exited his throat. hit Governor Connally in the hack. It warned that unless the license was re- David Ferric an anti-communist pilot. both helped ripped through his chest entered his wrtst, then newed, his right to drive in the Common- train Cuban exiles to he guenllass for the C di- lodged in his thigh. later. the bullet was found on wealth would expire on May 29, 1965, saumus invasion of the Bay of Pigs (Gamson 204). stretcher in Parkland Hospital, in almost onstine making hen subject to arrest by Massa- Bannseier's office, where Cuban cedes and weapons condition. When the House Select Committee on As, chusetts State Police, and it gave a terse came regularly, was right across the street from the sassituoions reexamined the evidence in 1 XTe. they description of the potential offender: New Orleans branch of the Office of Saved Intelli- did several tests with similar bullets, (inc bullet fired height MOO, hair code 4 (brown), eye gence (0.N.I.). His previous office was across the through a cadavers wrist to duplicate t -onnally's code 6 Way'. date of birth 05/290 7. street from the offices of the CI-A- and F.B.L. Al- wrist wound. was GO crushed as to be unrecoantrable The small card was the only identification though separately these pieces of evidence only (Oxford H 42). amount to suspicion, together they carry a lot of Qs carried. JFK DATELINE: DALLAS 10 1

enforcement agencies. Unfortunately, the list Stone and the movie IfK in trying to bring the VIEWPOINT of facts that prove a conspiracy to kill Presi- conspirators to justice, the crime of the centu- by D. Bradley Klcxia dent Kennedy is too lengthy to enumerate ry might be solved. here. The movie JFK mat not provide all the Oliver Stones movie IFIC received eight Despite the unavailability of some of the answers. but by renewing interest in the Ken- Academy Award nominations. including for evidence that proves the existence of an 4.5.5.15- nedy assassination and garnering public opin- best picture 1901 and for best director. Mr. 5inat:un corispuncy, there is no question of the ion in support or the release of records. Mr. Stone has already won the Golden Globe existence of evidence contrary to the Warren Stone has placed momentum behind the con- award for best director for WK. In view of Commission's findings that the commission tinuing investigation. Mr. Stone's detractors the as-eolades from movie experts and general chose to consider unreliable or ignore alto- should either join the process or get out of the applause from the attending audiences. one gether. so that it could stick with the story way. might wonder why Mr. Stone has been the presented to it that Lee Harvey Oswald acted victim of such viscous attacks by =tam poli- alone. ticians and so called political pundits, includ- While the Warren Commission could ing members of the political news media. disregard the accounts of witnesses, who arc Kennedy While the motives of some of Mr. Stones after all human and therefore subject to error. Theodore C. Sorensen persecutors are unclear. it is not surpnzing it could not totally ignore r the Zapruder (Special Council to the Late President) that apologist for the much aligned Warren Ilecause of the timing established by the film, Commission would stoup to belabored, if not the Warren Commission staff was forced to Across the muddy Potomac from the desperate. attempts to save face. The futility invent the "single bullet" or "magic bullet" Lincoln memorial a green and gentle slope for those who have attempted to discourage theory to try to reconcile the physical evi- rises gradually to what was once the home movie goers was demonstrated by polls done dence that would otherwise point to a conspir- of Robert E. Lee. From halfway up the even before the release of the movie JFK. acy. hill one can see on a clear autumn day the which showed that the overwhelming majority The fact that the Warren Commission's majesty that is Washington. The three of Americans had already accepted Mr. smelt assassin allegation was totally depen- marble monuments and memorials —to the Stones message that President Kennedy's as- dant upon the unlikely magic bullet theory men who forged in the Presidency an in- sassination was the result of a conspiracy. cannot be overstated. It can be. however, Un- strument of power and compassion— Since the release of JFK, polls conducted derstated. and frequently is by the warren remind a grateful nation that it has been by different orealuzations have shown that Commission apologists who are often heard to blessed in its gravest trials with its ureatest 73% of the _American public thinks that a Con- say that the magic bullet theory is possible. leaders. In the distance the dome of the spiracy was involved in the Kennedy assas- Even if it were conceded fur the sake of Capital covers a milieu of wisdom and fol- sination. On Feb. 7. a survey of 30,000 argument that the magic bullet theory is with- ly, Presidential ambitions and antago- viewers of NBC's Today Show found that 94 in the realm of scienti tic possibility, that does nisms. political ideals and ideologim To percent disbelieve the Warren Commissions not make it remotely plausible, much less the right is the stark and labyrinthine Pen- allegation that a lone assassin was responsible probable. The notion that any prosecutor tagon, guiding under Presidential com- for President Kennedy's murder. could prove the magic bullet theory to an un- mand the massive armed might on which The U.S. House of Representatives' biased jury beyond a reasonable doubt is hinge our security and survival. on the House Select Committee on Presidential As- laughable. grassy slope itself, reminding us that sassinations concluded after its investigation Regrettably, in 1963 and 146-1 the United "since this country was founded, each gen- in 1979 that there almost certainly was a con- States did not have the skeptical investigative eration of Americans has been summoned spiracy to asseo“ioate President Kennedy. Of media that developed a decade later, nor a to give testimony to its national loyalty," course, the House Commons: did have evi- public distrust for government that resulted are marked with simple stones "the graves dence that was not presented to the Warren from the Watergate scandal. Therefore, no of young Americans who answered the call Commission, such as the results of sophis- real pressure was placed upon the Warren to service." And away to the lett. its white ticated acoustical tests that demonstrated there Commission to actually find the truth. sandstone hidden behind a screen of green- were more shots fired at the presidential mo- However. by hypoihminng a government ery, is the oast of executive power, the torcade on November 22. 1963, than Lee conspiracy in JFK, Mr. Stone has successfully scene of heroic dramas, comedies and Harvey Oswald could have fired alone. Tests ignited a consensus to release sealed govern- tragedies than any stage in the world. also showed that there was al last one shot ment records, including records of the inves- fired from the front of the president's vehicle tigations by the Warren Commission, the from the area of the grassy knell. }louse Select Committee on Assassinations, Additionally. it is now undisputed that the FBI and the CIA. OPEN THE ALES both the CIA and FBI withheld evidence from It has now been more then twenty five the Warren Commission. Furthermore. new years since the Warren Commission released REGISTER YOUR VOTE Ti) OPEN THE FILES evidence of the involvement of conspirators, its widely repudiated report. If the politicians, CALL including the Mafia and renegade members of pundits and minnbers of the media who have THE JFK HOTLINE the intelligence community. has been devel- steadfastly remained apologists for the War- oped by independent researchers and investi- ren Commission had devoted the same time 1-909-776-2945 gators without the assistance of law and energy that they have spent attacking Mr. (1.975 PER Mr's) JFK DATELINE: DALLAS

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The "Cuban" AT LOVE FIELD In the foreground of this picture seems to The "Umbrella Man" and the "Cuban" be our mystery man the "Cubim" leaning on a have been a curious mystery to researchers of limousine from the motorcade. The cameras the assassination for years. Jack White of Fort hanging around his neck would have been a Worth, created a disTlay at the JFK Center good way to go unnoticed because of all of the IN SEARCH 41411\ showing the movements of these two suspi- newsmen at the scene. Is this the "Cuban"? OF TIE TRUTH" cious people which is extremely popular. Fig- If it IS, it makes what he was doing with the ure .? shows the "Cuban" sitting on the curb in "Umbrella Man" in Deals" Plats even more Call the : Dealey PE= next to the "Umbrella Man". suspicious and sagniticant. Also, his picture Last year, Tom Blackwell of Dallas, do- hiss surfaced on a picture postcard taken at JFK nated the book The War We Were by Robert Love Field (Figure 3i. Assassination McNeil to the Assassination Archives. On We found the pictures, you make the Hotline sage 23, staff members found a most tntrigu- call! Write to the JFK Assassination Informa- to be tag picture (see Figure i 1 that appears tion Center, Att The "Cuban" Photo, 603 1-900- 776-2945 that of the "Cuban" in a scene at Parkland Munger Box 40, Dallas. Texas 75202 if you Hogottal. have any more information or photographs of IS1.95 per min.1 the Parkland Hospital or Love Field scene. vol ▪

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