Post by festus50 on Jan 17, 2010 18:33:52 GMT -8
The time is 2:35PM central time. The place is the office of the US Attorney 301 Post Office Building, Dallas Texas. The year is 1964. Roger D Crag s going to give his testimony before the President’s commission by David V Belin assistant council to the Warren Commission.
Now, am I going to bore you with the entire testimony of Mr. Craig? Hell no however I will cover the important parts of Roger’s testimony, in fact I’ll let Deputy Craig tell it to you in his own words;
NOVEMBER 22, 1963 Dealy Plaza Dallas
“As I have earlier stated, the time was approximately 12:40 p.m. when I ran into Buddy Walthers. The traffic was very heavy as Patrolman Baker (assigned to Elm and Houston Streets) had left his post, allowing the traffic to travel west on Elm Street. As we were scanning the curb I heard a shrill whistle coming from the north side of Elm Street. I turned and saw a white male in his twenties running down the grassy knoll from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository Building. A light green Rambler station wagon was coming slowly west on Elm Street. The driver of the station wagon was a husky looking Latin, with dark wavy hair, wearing a tan wind breaker type jacket. He was looking up at the man running toward him. He pulled over to the north curb and picked up the man coming down the hill. I tried to cross Elm Street to stop them and find out who they were. The traffic was too heavy and I was unable to reach them. They drove away going west on Elm Street.”
This is HUGE because of what Roger is describing in his testimony. ‘The driver of the station wagon A LATIN LOOKING MALE WITH BLACK WAVY HAIR, WEARING A TAN WIND BREAKER TYPE JACKET. Remember this part of the testimony for further reference. I’ll cover this later now back to a critical excerpt from Deputy Craig’s testimony;
“When I entered the Book Depository Building I was joined by Deputy Sheriffs Eugene Boone and Luke Mooney. We went up the stairs directly to the sixth floor. The room was very dark and a thick layer of dust seemed to cover everything. We went to the south side of the building, since this was the street side and seemed the most logical place to start.
Luke Mooney and I reached the southeast corner at the same time. We immediately found three rifle cartridges laying in such a way that they looked as though they had been carefully and deliberately placed there -- in plain sight on the floor to the right of the southeast corner window. Mooney and I examined the cartridges very carefully and remarked how close together they were. The three of them were no more than one inch apart and all were facing in the same direction, a feat very difficult to achieve with a bolt action rifle -- or any rifle for that matter. One cartridge drew our particular attention. It was crimped on the end which would have held the slug. It had not been stepped on but merely crimped over on one small portion of the rim. The rest of that end was perfectly round.
Lying on the floor to the left of the same window was a small brown paper lunch bag containing some well cleaned chicken bones. I called across the room and summoned the Dallas Police I.D. man, Lt. Day. When he arrived with his camera Mooney and I left the window and started our search of the rest of the sixth floor.
We were told by Dallas Police to look for a rifle -- something I had already concluded might be there since the cartridges found were, apparently, from a rifle. I was nearing the northwest corner of the sixth floor when Deputy Eugene Boone called out, "here it is." I was about eight feet from Boone, who was standing next to a stack of cardboard boxes. The boxes were stacked so that there was no opening between them except at the top. Looking over the top and down the opening I saw a rifle with a telescopic sight laying on the floor with the bolt facing upward. At this time Boone and I were joined by Lt. Day of the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Homicide Captain, Will Fritz. The rifle was retrieved by Lt. Day, who activated the bolt, ejecting one live round of ammunition which fell to the floor.
Lt. Day inspected the rifle briefly, then handed it to Capt. Fritz who had a puzzled look on his face. Seymour Weitzman, a deputy constable, was standing beside me at the time. Weitzman was an expert on weapons. He had been in the sporting goods business for many years and was familiar with all domestic and foreign weapons. Capt. Fritz asked if anyone knew what kind of rifle it was. Weitzman asked to see it. After a close examination (much longer than Fritz or Day's examination) Weitzman declared that it was a 7.65 German Mauser. Fritz agreed with him.
At that exact moment an unknown Dallas police officer came running up the stairs and advised Capt. Fritz that a Dallas policeman had been shot in the Oak Cliff area. I instinctively looked at my watch. The time was 1:06 p.m. A token force of uniformed officers was left to keep the sixth floor secure and Fritz, Day, Boone, Mooney, Weitzman and I left the building.”
YIKES!! Belin is probably thinking; “Why is this man testifying? He knows too damn much!!” That and ‘ol Fritzy should have a puzzled look on his face because he was thinking; “who is the jackhole in the department that planted the WRONG GUN??!!”
Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly owned a Mannlicher- Carcano 6.5 caliber rifle that was sent to him using the alias AJ Hidell and here is the kicker, they sent the rifle to a PO BOX!!
Let us go to the actual police dictabelt. This real Dallas Police recording can the JFK assassination home page online.
12:45PM DISPATCHER
Attention Elm and Houston is reported to be an unknown white male, all squads. Attention all squads. The suspect in the shooting at approximately thirty, slender build, height five feet ten inches, weight one hundred sixty-five pounds, reported to be armed be found at with what is thought to be a 30 caliber rifle. Attention all squads. The suspect from Elm and Houston is reported to be an unknown white male about thirty, slender build, five feet ten inches tall, one hundred sixty-five pounds, armed with what is thought to be a 30-30 rifle. No further description at this time, or information.
GImme a frickin break here! JFK is assassinated at 12:30PM but they have a description, a pretty damn good description of the shooter? The only person to go before the commission is a man by the name of Howard Leslie Brennan, yes a man with impeccable eyesight, Christ I saw pic of Brennan and he had on a pair of glasses with lenses as thick as the bottom of Coke bottles, “Oh, but Mr. Brennan was standing across the street from Elm and he happened to look up at the 6th floor window and auh yeah and he saw this and that.” Other witnesses saw other things but they were never called to testify before the commission.
Back to the dictabelt;
President. 5 (Deputy Chief of Police George L. Lumpkin) What building?
233 (Ptm. J.T. Fortsen) 233. Dispatcher The Texas School Book and Depository Building, 5, at Elm and Houston.
Dispatcher 233.
233 He's thought to be in this Texas School Book Depository, here on the northwest corner of Elm and Houston.
102 (Ptm. B.L. Jones and M.D. Noll) 102 out at this location.
Dispatcher 10-4, 102 and 233.
81 (Ptm. J.L. Angell) 81.
Dispatcher 81.
81 We're going north on Industrial from Corinth.
Dispatcher 10-4.
Dispatcher 87, 78, move into central Oak Cliff area.
78 (Ptm. J.D. Tippit) I'm about Kiest and Bonnie View.
87 (Ptm. R.C. Nelson) 87's going north on Marsalis at R.L. Thornton.
At 12:45 PM cars 87 and 78 are instructed to go to Oak Cliff. Craig later wrote in 1971 about how car 87 was to leave Oak Cliff so the only car in the area would be #78 and as you can see this car is driven by officer Tippit.
12:54 PM
78.
78 (Ptm. J.D. Tippit) 78.
Dispatcher You are in the Oak Cliff area, are you not?
78 Lancaster and Eighth.
Dispatcher You will be at large for any emergency that comes in.
78 10-4.
WHAT?
?!!!!
“Oh nothing much going on downtown 78 only the leader of the free world has been assassinated but if a REAL emergency should arise then we’ll give ya a holler good buddy, 10-4.”
Tippit was never anywhere else but in Oak Clff, that was his beat. Why would thy call car into Oak Cliff anyway?
All righty then, so this UNIDENTIFIED cop rushes onto the scene like an Oliver Stone movie, right after they identify the wrong “murder weapon” and declares that an officer has been shot. Craig does what every trained deputy wuld do, he looks at his watch and it reads; 1:06PM.
Dictabelt time 1:16PM
.
Dispatcher Unit ending in 6.
(Long pause, 15 seconds)
Citizen Hello, police operator?
Dispatcher Go ahead. Go ahead, citizen using the police radio.
Citizen There's been a shooting out here.
Dispatcher Where's it at?
Dispatcher The citizen using the police radio . . .
Citizen Tenth Street.
Dispatcher What location on Tenth Street?
Citizen Between Marsalis and Beckley. It's a police officer. Somebody shot him. What -- what's . . . 404 Tenth Street.
Dispatcher Can you hear me?
(Man and woman's voices in background)
Dispatcher 78.
Citizen It's in a police car, number 10.
Dispatcher 78.
Dispatcher (?) 78.
Citizen Got that?
Citizen Hello, police operator. Did you get that?
Dispatcher Attention. Signal 19, police officer, 510 E. Jefferson.
Citizen Thank you.
35 (Ptm. J.M. Lewis) 35.
259 (unknown) 259.
Dispatcher The citizen using the police radio: Remain off the radio now.
I’m getting ahead of myself here so lets go back to Roger Craig.
According to Officer Baker, Dallas Police, he talked to Oswald at 12:35 p.m. in the lunch room of the Texas School Book Depository. This would give Oswald 30 minutes or less to finish his coke, leave the building, walk four blocks east on Elm Street, catch a bus and ride it back west in heavy traffic for two blocks, get off the bus and walk two more blocks west and turn south on Lamar Street, walk four blocks and have a conversation with a cab driver and a woman over the use of Whaley's (the cab driver) cab, get into the cab and ride to 500 North Beckley Street, get out and walk to 1026 North Beckley where his (Oswald's) room was located, pick up something (?); and if that is not enough, Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper where Oswald lived, testified that at 1:05 p.m. Oswald was waiting for a bus in front of his rooming house and finally, to make him the fastest man on Earth, he walked to East Tenth Street and Patton Street, several blocks away and killed J. D. Tippit between 1:05 and 1:08 p.m. If he had not been arrested when he was, it is my belief that Earl Warren and his Commission would have had Lee Harvey Oswald eating dinner in Havana!
Later that afternoon I received word of the suspect's arrest and the fact that he was suspected of being involved in the President's death. I immediately thought of the man running down the grassy knoll. I made a telephone call to Capt. Will Fritz and gave him the description of the man I had seen and Fritz said, "that sounds like the suspect we have. Can you come up and take a look at him?"
I arrived at Capt. Fritz office shortly after 4:30 p.m. I was met by Agent Bookhout from the F.B.I., who took my name and place of employment. The door to Capt. Fritz' personal office was open and the blinds on the windows were closed, so that one had to look through the doorway in order to see into the room. I looked through the open door at the request of Capt. Fritz and identified the man who I saw running down the grassy knoll and enter the Rambler station wagon -- and it WAS Lee Harvey Oswald.
Fritz and I entered his private office together. He told Oswald, "This man (pointing to me) saw you leave." At which time the suspect replied, "I told you people I did." Fritz, apparently trying to console Oswald, said, "Take it easy, son -- we're just trying to find out what happened." Fritz then said, "What about the car?" Oswald replied, leaning forward on Fritz' desk, "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine -- don't try to drag her into this." Sitting back in his chair, Oswald said very disgustedly and very low, "Everybody will know who I am now."
At this time Capt. Fritz ushered me from his office, thanking me. I walked away saddened but relieved that it was the end of the day and I could go home, where I could try -- at least for a little while -- to put the tragedy and the day's events out of my mind. I was soon to find out that my troubles had only begun -- for I had seen and heard too much that fateful day.”
If the dictabelt reads 1:16PM then how did this “unidentified” cop know Tippit was shot at 1:06PM? “Well somebody from their home saw the shooting and called right away, Norm.” Great then why didn’t they testify before the WC? Aquilla Clemmons saw two men involved in the shooting of Tippit. Was she called to testify before the commission? Hell no! She is on YouTube, being interviewed by Mark Lane if you wanna see it.
Let me tell you about another man by the name of Walt Brown PHD. Way back when Walt was a teenager he was playing football in his front yard when he heard that Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Since that day Walt Brown has accumulated four thousand-four hundred pages on the JFK assassination. He wrote a wonderful book; “The People vs Lee Harvey Oswald.” It deals with a fake trail of Lee while he is still alive which I recommend highly. Anyway Walt thinks there had to be two Oswald’s.
One Oswald took a bus and then a cab to his boarding house then walked a mile and shot Tippit. The other Oswald hopped in the Nash Rambler and drove to Oak Cliff and killed Tippit.
DIctabelt time
1:33PM
Might can give you some additional information. I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man. That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven, a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand.
Remember the man in the car with the jacket that Craig described? Oswald didn’t have black way hair either. The man the cops are describing here is the man that killed Tippit or the “Oswald” that killed Tippit not the patsy Oswald.
Let’s look at that last recording in again.
0-4.
221 (Ptm. H.W. Summers) 221.
Dispatcher 221.
221 Might can give you some additional information. I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man. That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven, a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand.
Dispatcher 10-4. For your information, 221, they have the suspect cornered in the library at Marsalis and Jefferson.
221 (Ptm. H.W. Summers) 10-4. This man can positively identify him if they need him.
Dispatcher 10-4. They do have the suspect under arrest now.
221, hang on to your witness.
Dispatcher Hold on to him.
19 (Sgt. C.B. Owens) 19.
Dispatcher 19.
19 It was the wrong man.
Dispatcher 10-4.
Dispatcher Disregard all the information on the suspect arrested. It was the wrong man.
And one more
0/2.
Dispatcher Go ahead, car 2.
550/2 The shells at the scene indicate that the suspect is armed with an automatic 38, rather than a pistol.
Wow! Hold on a second here perhaps they did have the right man in the library? They let him go because he wasn’t the patsy? Okay but the last recording is important because the suspect did kill Tippit with a 38 automatic BUT the pistol found on Lee Harvey Oswald at the theatre was a revolver not an automatic.
Sorry for bouncing around here but did you catch how Fritz asked Oswald, “What about the car?” Lee then said, “That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine.” Who mentioned anything about a station wagon?
Most researchers believe Mrs. Paine was a CIA handler. Her and George De Mohrenschildt were working for the CIA to take care of the patsy to make sure he had a job in the Book Depository. I’ll get into this later.
“In fact, a glaring example of the quality of the Committee's investigation is the fact that one of the key individuals in Oswald's life a women named Ruth Paine, was never called as a witness by the Committee. She just slipped through the cracks of the investigative plan. Yet it was Ruth Paine who played an important role in the life of the Oswald family immediately before and after the assassination. It was in Ruth Paine's garage that the Warren Commission said Oswald stored and retrieved the rifle used in the assassination. Ruth Paine was instrumental in Oswald getting his job at the Texas School Book Depository. Ruth Paine's husband, Michael, worked for a major Defense Department contractor and had a government security clearance. A once-classified document recently revealed that it was on Ruth Paine's telephone that a "confidential informant" overheard, immediately after the assassination, a male voice say he didn't believe Oswald killed Kennedy, and then added, "we both know who is responsible.
Ruth Paine was never even interviewed by the Committee.”
The above clip is from Gaeton Fonzi’s web site. Fonzi did some great work for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Ruth Paine did testify before the Waren Commission which online if you want to read it.
“”I was fascinated by what Veciana was revealing and knew I had stumbled upon something important. Bishop obviously was an intelligence agency connection -- a direct connection -- to an anti-Castro group. The CIA had always denied -- and still does -- a supervisory role in the activities of anti-Castro groups after the Bay of Pigs. The Agency claimed it only "monitored" such activity. Here was Veciana, the key leader of the largest and most militant anti-Castro group, revealing much more then just a monitoring interest on the Agency's part -- revealing, in fact, an involvement in two Castro assassination attempts the CIA had not admitted to the Church Committee. I wonder how the guys at the committee would handle this one, I remember thinking to myself, if they gave a damn now that they were frantically trying to wrap up their final report.
It was all fascinating but not especially relevant to the Kennedy assassination. I could see no connection with Veciana's activities in Miami and what had happened in Dallas, although Veciana did say his secret meetings with Bishop took place, over the years, in cities besides Miami, including Dallas, Las Vegas and Washington, and in Puerto Rico and Latin America. However, when Veciana started talking about chapter of Alpha 66 he had set up across the country, it gave me the opportunity, with out making reference to the Kennedy assassination, to asked him about he one in Dallas. He told me he had spoken at some fund- raising meetings at the home of the Alpha 66 delegate there. I asked him I he knew Jorge Salazar. That was the name mentioned in theat Dallas deputy sheriff's report about the gathering of Alpha 66 members at "3126 Hollandale." But I did not mention that to Veciana, nor that Lee Harvey Oswald was reportedly seen there. "No," said Veciana, "I do not know the Salazar that is mentioned is the magazine article in Dallas. And I never saw Oswald at the home where we met." I was taken back that Veciana should mention Oswald at all, but then I realized, as Veciana himself would point out to me when he went back to his bedroom and returned with the magazine, that the Hoch and O'Toole article had been published in The Saturday Evening Post. Veciana said he had just read the article the day before. "...No," he was saying , "I never saw Oswald at that place where we held the meetings...." I was jotting that down in my notebook and was not looking at him, but I heard him continue..." "...but I remember once meeting Lee Harvey Oswald." I did not look up. My mind fell off its chair. I restrained myself from reacting with a ridiculously overly casual, "Oh, recall I simply asked in a forced monotone: "How did you meet him? Where? When?" Veciana said he met Oswald with Maurice Bishop in Dallas sometime near the beginning of September, 1963. There, in that modest green house in Little Havana, almost 13 years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the reality of what I was involved in suddenly struck me. The killing of a President was no longer a series of lingering mental televison images, bold black headlines, thick stacks of documents, books and files. It was something that had actually happened, and there were living people with direct strings through time to the moment. As much as the substance of the information itself, it was the absolutely coincidental and credible way it came up, the manner in wich the interview had developed, which so stunned me. First impressions are inherently circumstantial judgements, but I had no doubt then -- and have none now -- that Veciana was simple and truthfully revealing what he knew.” - Fonzi
This is another clip from the book; “The Last Investigation” by the Fonz. So who is this Maurice Bishop fella? Auh, nobody special, he was the third highest man in the CIA at the time, AKA David Atlee Phillips, Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division, a man of many talents indeed.
Oh no, Lee Harvey Oswald is related to intelligence operations! Yes he was and I think he was involved with ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) at first. I think he was sent over to Russia on some kind of a Defector Program. There were other American defectors over in Russia at this time – 1959 -1960 one of which is a man by the name of Robert E Webster, a Cleveland man. Webster renounced his citizenship a week before Oswald arrived in Moscow. I did read somewhere that LHO dd ask about Webster when he arrived at the Russian Embassy. Webster was in the Navy years before 1959 but at the time of is defection he was working for the Rand Corporation, a man in his thirties who was over there on business however I wonder why he would renounce his citizenship?
I wanna go back to Fonzi’s book for a second;
“At the time, Schweiker was a member of what was officially named the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, headed by Idaho Senator Frank Church. The Church Committee, as it became known in the press, had been making deadlines since early in the year by revealing how the FBI abused its power by harassing dissident political groups and conducting illegal investigations, how the CIA, Army Intelligence and the National Security Agency were involved in domestic snooping and how the intelligence agencies had planned assassination attempts on foreign leaders. For Schweiker, despite his long stints in both houses of Congress, these were eye-opening revelations. "I've learned more about the inner workings of government in the past nine months than in my 15 previous years in Congress," he later told a reporter.
Schweiker had never been moved to take a special interest in the details of the Kennedy assassination. He had assumed, as did most Americans then, that the Warren Commission Report reflected a comprehensive, objective investigation. He had never had the inclination to critically question the Report closely because that inclination would have had to include the assumption that certain government officials and agencies could have been involved in at the very least a cover-up. Schweiker did not want to believe that. However, when the Church Committee discovered that United States Government officials -- specifically, CIA agents -- had made alliances with the Mafia and other members of Organized Crime in planning assassination, Schweiker was traumatically shaken. "That was so repugnant and shocking to me that I did a backflip on any number of things," he later recalled.
One of the backflips included his old assumption about the validity of the Warren Commission Report. It was particularly upsetting to Schweiker when he discovered that CIA Director Allen Dulles was aware of CIA assassination plots against Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and yet withheld that information from his fellow members on the Warren Commission. The significance of that for Schweiker was enlarged when he came across an old Associated Press story which indicated that Castro had told a reporter just several weeks before Kennedy's assassination that if the United States tried to eliminate Cuban leader, then the U.S. leaders themselves would be in danger. "Nobody paid any attention then because nobody knew we were trying to kill Castro," Schweiker later said. "But that statement had to have meaning, particularly to Allen Dulles." Schweiker thought Dulles's failure to tell the Warren Commission of the Castro plots was "a cover-up of sensational proportions."
Fonzi was doing investigative work the Schweiker subcommittee of the Church Committee which led to the HSCA.
I read in Gus Russo’s book; “Live By The Sword” 1998 (the year of publication)
Fonzi’s book came out in 1993. Gus quotes LBJ as saying; “Bobby (RFK) wanted me to put Allen Dulles and John McCloy on the Warren Commission.”
I’m not sure if Gus is correct on this quote or not but I’m sure Allen Dulles did his best to cover-up the CIA’s role in Cuban activities for Bobby and the Kennedy family. John McCloy was president of the World Bank at one time and well according to Jim Marrs a Nazi so I don’t know why Bobby would want him on the Commission.
RFK said he was going to investigate the killing of his brother after he became president but why wait until then? Because holy cow if the people find out that the Cubans and the CIA were involved and maybe the Russians it’s WWIII baby, lights out! Bullshit, what good is there to the powers that be if the world is blown to bits? Russo’s book by the way is one of those; “Oswald acted alone” books.
In Gus’s introduction he mentions hwn he was a teenager and watching the News regarding the JFK assassination. He remembered hearing about how they found a German Mauser rifle n the sixth floor of the DBD. I’d like to find that news clip.
Another little ditty in Gus’s “LHO acted alone book” is the story of the dentist and his kid at the rifle range in early November of 1963 where they sat next ot a man that looked just like Oswald, firing this old piece of crap rifle. Anyway Gus tells the story of how Lee picked up all the shells after he was done shooting his gun. Yo Gus! If Lee picked up all his shells at the rifle range then why didn’t he pick up those three shells on the sixth floor of the DBD?
Let me get back to Roger D Craig to close this segment out
I first saw my testimony in January of 1968 when I looked at the 26 volumes which belonged to Penn Jones. My alleged statement was included. The following are some of the changes in my testimony:
• Arnold Rowland told me that he saw two men on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository 15 minutes before the President arrived: one was a Negro, who was pacing back and forth by the southwest window. The other was a white man in the southeast corner, with a rifle equipped with a scope, and that a few minutes later he looked back and only the white man was there. In the Warren Commission: Both were white, both were pacing in front of the southwest corner and when Rowland looked back, both were gone;
• I said the Rambler station wagon was light green. The Warren Commission: Changed to a white station wagon;
• I said the driver of the Station Wagon had on a tan jacket. The Warren Commission: A white jacket;
• I said the license plates on the Rambler were not the same color as Texas plates. The Warren Commission: Omitted the not -- omitted but one word, an important one, so that it appeared that the license plates were the same color as Texas plates;
• I said that I got a good look at the driver of the Rambler. The Warren Commission: I did not get a good look at the Rambler. (In Captain Fritz's office) I had said that Fritz had said to Oswald, "This man saw you leave" (indicating me). Oswald said, "I told you people I did." Fritz then said, "Now take it easy, son, we're just trying to find out what happened", and then (to Oswald), "What about the car?" to which Oswald replied, "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine. Don't try to drag her into this." Fritz said car -- station wagon was not mentioned by anyone but Oswald. (I had told Fritz over the telephone that I saw a man get into a station wagon, before I went to the Dallas Police Department and I had also described the man. This is when Fritz asked me to come there.) Oswald then said, "Everybody will know who I am now;" the Warren Commission: Stated that the last statement by Oswald was made in a dramatic tone. This was not so. The Warren Commission also printed, "NOW everybody will know who I am", transposing the now. Oswald's tone and attitude was one of disappointment. If someone were attempting to conceal his identity as Deputy and he was found out, exposed -- his cover blown, his reaction would be dismay and disappointment. This was Oswald's tone and attitude -- disappointment at being exposed
Finally, at 10:15 a.m. Bi rrived and we went to the Waffle House across the street for coffee. There, as big as life, sitting on a stool was the man in the sport jacket -- from the white Chevrolet. Well . . . we sat down and had coffee. We talked about how each of us was doing -- just shot the bull -- and Bill never did bring up the subject which he had said he wanted to discuss with me!
When we finished we started to leave and the man in the sport coat jumped up and beat us out of the door. We paid our checks and walked out the door and my shadow was nowhere in sight -- believe me, I looked. We crossed the parking lot and stopped at the traffic light, as it was red against us. For some reason I stepped down off the curb before the light changed. As I did, Bill fell flat on the sidewalk. I was about to find out why. At that very instant a shot rang out behind me and the hair just above my left ear parted. I felt a pressure and sharp pain on the left side of my head. I bolted for my car leaving Bill lying on the ground. I heard him say, "You son of a bitch" and I jumped into my car and drove home as fast as possible. When I arrived home I told my wife what this good friend had done for me. I pondered the idea of moving my family to some safe place.
Roger’s boss set him up to be shot. They finally got to Roger in 1974 when he was found shot to death. It was decided that he died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Sure.
Now, am I going to bore you with the entire testimony of Mr. Craig? Hell no however I will cover the important parts of Roger’s testimony, in fact I’ll let Deputy Craig tell it to you in his own words;
NOVEMBER 22, 1963 Dealy Plaza Dallas
“As I have earlier stated, the time was approximately 12:40 p.m. when I ran into Buddy Walthers. The traffic was very heavy as Patrolman Baker (assigned to Elm and Houston Streets) had left his post, allowing the traffic to travel west on Elm Street. As we were scanning the curb I heard a shrill whistle coming from the north side of Elm Street. I turned and saw a white male in his twenties running down the grassy knoll from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository Building. A light green Rambler station wagon was coming slowly west on Elm Street. The driver of the station wagon was a husky looking Latin, with dark wavy hair, wearing a tan wind breaker type jacket. He was looking up at the man running toward him. He pulled over to the north curb and picked up the man coming down the hill. I tried to cross Elm Street to stop them and find out who they were. The traffic was too heavy and I was unable to reach them. They drove away going west on Elm Street.”
This is HUGE because of what Roger is describing in his testimony. ‘The driver of the station wagon A LATIN LOOKING MALE WITH BLACK WAVY HAIR, WEARING A TAN WIND BREAKER TYPE JACKET. Remember this part of the testimony for further reference. I’ll cover this later now back to a critical excerpt from Deputy Craig’s testimony;
“When I entered the Book Depository Building I was joined by Deputy Sheriffs Eugene Boone and Luke Mooney. We went up the stairs directly to the sixth floor. The room was very dark and a thick layer of dust seemed to cover everything. We went to the south side of the building, since this was the street side and seemed the most logical place to start.
Luke Mooney and I reached the southeast corner at the same time. We immediately found three rifle cartridges laying in such a way that they looked as though they had been carefully and deliberately placed there -- in plain sight on the floor to the right of the southeast corner window. Mooney and I examined the cartridges very carefully and remarked how close together they were. The three of them were no more than one inch apart and all were facing in the same direction, a feat very difficult to achieve with a bolt action rifle -- or any rifle for that matter. One cartridge drew our particular attention. It was crimped on the end which would have held the slug. It had not been stepped on but merely crimped over on one small portion of the rim. The rest of that end was perfectly round.
Lying on the floor to the left of the same window was a small brown paper lunch bag containing some well cleaned chicken bones. I called across the room and summoned the Dallas Police I.D. man, Lt. Day. When he arrived with his camera Mooney and I left the window and started our search of the rest of the sixth floor.
We were told by Dallas Police to look for a rifle -- something I had already concluded might be there since the cartridges found were, apparently, from a rifle. I was nearing the northwest corner of the sixth floor when Deputy Eugene Boone called out, "here it is." I was about eight feet from Boone, who was standing next to a stack of cardboard boxes. The boxes were stacked so that there was no opening between them except at the top. Looking over the top and down the opening I saw a rifle with a telescopic sight laying on the floor with the bolt facing upward. At this time Boone and I were joined by Lt. Day of the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Homicide Captain, Will Fritz. The rifle was retrieved by Lt. Day, who activated the bolt, ejecting one live round of ammunition which fell to the floor.
Lt. Day inspected the rifle briefly, then handed it to Capt. Fritz who had a puzzled look on his face. Seymour Weitzman, a deputy constable, was standing beside me at the time. Weitzman was an expert on weapons. He had been in the sporting goods business for many years and was familiar with all domestic and foreign weapons. Capt. Fritz asked if anyone knew what kind of rifle it was. Weitzman asked to see it. After a close examination (much longer than Fritz or Day's examination) Weitzman declared that it was a 7.65 German Mauser. Fritz agreed with him.
At that exact moment an unknown Dallas police officer came running up the stairs and advised Capt. Fritz that a Dallas policeman had been shot in the Oak Cliff area. I instinctively looked at my watch. The time was 1:06 p.m. A token force of uniformed officers was left to keep the sixth floor secure and Fritz, Day, Boone, Mooney, Weitzman and I left the building.”
YIKES!! Belin is probably thinking; “Why is this man testifying? He knows too damn much!!” That and ‘ol Fritzy should have a puzzled look on his face because he was thinking; “who is the jackhole in the department that planted the WRONG GUN??!!”
Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly owned a Mannlicher- Carcano 6.5 caliber rifle that was sent to him using the alias AJ Hidell and here is the kicker, they sent the rifle to a PO BOX!!
Let us go to the actual police dictabelt. This real Dallas Police recording can the JFK assassination home page online.
12:45PM DISPATCHER
Attention Elm and Houston is reported to be an unknown white male, all squads. Attention all squads. The suspect in the shooting at approximately thirty, slender build, height five feet ten inches, weight one hundred sixty-five pounds, reported to be armed be found at with what is thought to be a 30 caliber rifle. Attention all squads. The suspect from Elm and Houston is reported to be an unknown white male about thirty, slender build, five feet ten inches tall, one hundred sixty-five pounds, armed with what is thought to be a 30-30 rifle. No further description at this time, or information.
GImme a frickin break here! JFK is assassinated at 12:30PM but they have a description, a pretty damn good description of the shooter? The only person to go before the commission is a man by the name of Howard Leslie Brennan, yes a man with impeccable eyesight, Christ I saw pic of Brennan and he had on a pair of glasses with lenses as thick as the bottom of Coke bottles, “Oh, but Mr. Brennan was standing across the street from Elm and he happened to look up at the 6th floor window and auh yeah and he saw this and that.” Other witnesses saw other things but they were never called to testify before the commission.
Back to the dictabelt;
President. 5 (Deputy Chief of Police George L. Lumpkin) What building?
233 (Ptm. J.T. Fortsen) 233. Dispatcher The Texas School Book and Depository Building, 5, at Elm and Houston.
Dispatcher 233.
233 He's thought to be in this Texas School Book Depository, here on the northwest corner of Elm and Houston.
102 (Ptm. B.L. Jones and M.D. Noll) 102 out at this location.
Dispatcher 10-4, 102 and 233.
81 (Ptm. J.L. Angell) 81.
Dispatcher 81.
81 We're going north on Industrial from Corinth.
Dispatcher 10-4.
Dispatcher 87, 78, move into central Oak Cliff area.
78 (Ptm. J.D. Tippit) I'm about Kiest and Bonnie View.
87 (Ptm. R.C. Nelson) 87's going north on Marsalis at R.L. Thornton.
At 12:45 PM cars 87 and 78 are instructed to go to Oak Cliff. Craig later wrote in 1971 about how car 87 was to leave Oak Cliff so the only car in the area would be #78 and as you can see this car is driven by officer Tippit.
12:54 PM
78.
78 (Ptm. J.D. Tippit) 78.
Dispatcher You are in the Oak Cliff area, are you not?
78 Lancaster and Eighth.
Dispatcher You will be at large for any emergency that comes in.
78 10-4.
WHAT?
?!!!!“Oh nothing much going on downtown 78 only the leader of the free world has been assassinated but if a REAL emergency should arise then we’ll give ya a holler good buddy, 10-4.”
Tippit was never anywhere else but in Oak Clff, that was his beat. Why would thy call car into Oak Cliff anyway?
All righty then, so this UNIDENTIFIED cop rushes onto the scene like an Oliver Stone movie, right after they identify the wrong “murder weapon” and declares that an officer has been shot. Craig does what every trained deputy wuld do, he looks at his watch and it reads; 1:06PM.
Dictabelt time 1:16PM
.
Dispatcher Unit ending in 6.
(Long pause, 15 seconds)
Citizen Hello, police operator?
Dispatcher Go ahead. Go ahead, citizen using the police radio.
Citizen There's been a shooting out here.
Dispatcher Where's it at?
Dispatcher The citizen using the police radio . . .
Citizen Tenth Street.
Dispatcher What location on Tenth Street?
Citizen Between Marsalis and Beckley. It's a police officer. Somebody shot him. What -- what's . . . 404 Tenth Street.
Dispatcher Can you hear me?
(Man and woman's voices in background)
Dispatcher 78.
Citizen It's in a police car, number 10.
Dispatcher 78.
Dispatcher (?) 78.
Citizen Got that?
Citizen Hello, police operator. Did you get that?
Dispatcher Attention. Signal 19, police officer, 510 E. Jefferson.
Citizen Thank you.
35 (Ptm. J.M. Lewis) 35.
259 (unknown) 259.
Dispatcher The citizen using the police radio: Remain off the radio now.
I’m getting ahead of myself here so lets go back to Roger Craig.
According to Officer Baker, Dallas Police, he talked to Oswald at 12:35 p.m. in the lunch room of the Texas School Book Depository. This would give Oswald 30 minutes or less to finish his coke, leave the building, walk four blocks east on Elm Street, catch a bus and ride it back west in heavy traffic for two blocks, get off the bus and walk two more blocks west and turn south on Lamar Street, walk four blocks and have a conversation with a cab driver and a woman over the use of Whaley's (the cab driver) cab, get into the cab and ride to 500 North Beckley Street, get out and walk to 1026 North Beckley where his (Oswald's) room was located, pick up something (?); and if that is not enough, Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper where Oswald lived, testified that at 1:05 p.m. Oswald was waiting for a bus in front of his rooming house and finally, to make him the fastest man on Earth, he walked to East Tenth Street and Patton Street, several blocks away and killed J. D. Tippit between 1:05 and 1:08 p.m. If he had not been arrested when he was, it is my belief that Earl Warren and his Commission would have had Lee Harvey Oswald eating dinner in Havana!
Later that afternoon I received word of the suspect's arrest and the fact that he was suspected of being involved in the President's death. I immediately thought of the man running down the grassy knoll. I made a telephone call to Capt. Will Fritz and gave him the description of the man I had seen and Fritz said, "that sounds like the suspect we have. Can you come up and take a look at him?"
I arrived at Capt. Fritz office shortly after 4:30 p.m. I was met by Agent Bookhout from the F.B.I., who took my name and place of employment. The door to Capt. Fritz' personal office was open and the blinds on the windows were closed, so that one had to look through the doorway in order to see into the room. I looked through the open door at the request of Capt. Fritz and identified the man who I saw running down the grassy knoll and enter the Rambler station wagon -- and it WAS Lee Harvey Oswald.
Fritz and I entered his private office together. He told Oswald, "This man (pointing to me) saw you leave." At which time the suspect replied, "I told you people I did." Fritz, apparently trying to console Oswald, said, "Take it easy, son -- we're just trying to find out what happened." Fritz then said, "What about the car?" Oswald replied, leaning forward on Fritz' desk, "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine -- don't try to drag her into this." Sitting back in his chair, Oswald said very disgustedly and very low, "Everybody will know who I am now."
At this time Capt. Fritz ushered me from his office, thanking me. I walked away saddened but relieved that it was the end of the day and I could go home, where I could try -- at least for a little while -- to put the tragedy and the day's events out of my mind. I was soon to find out that my troubles had only begun -- for I had seen and heard too much that fateful day.”
If the dictabelt reads 1:16PM then how did this “unidentified” cop know Tippit was shot at 1:06PM? “Well somebody from their home saw the shooting and called right away, Norm.” Great then why didn’t they testify before the WC? Aquilla Clemmons saw two men involved in the shooting of Tippit. Was she called to testify before the commission? Hell no! She is on YouTube, being interviewed by Mark Lane if you wanna see it.
Let me tell you about another man by the name of Walt Brown PHD. Way back when Walt was a teenager he was playing football in his front yard when he heard that Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. Since that day Walt Brown has accumulated four thousand-four hundred pages on the JFK assassination. He wrote a wonderful book; “The People vs Lee Harvey Oswald.” It deals with a fake trail of Lee while he is still alive which I recommend highly. Anyway Walt thinks there had to be two Oswald’s.
One Oswald took a bus and then a cab to his boarding house then walked a mile and shot Tippit. The other Oswald hopped in the Nash Rambler and drove to Oak Cliff and killed Tippit.
DIctabelt time
1:33PM
Might can give you some additional information. I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man. That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven, a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand.
Remember the man in the car with the jacket that Craig described? Oswald didn’t have black way hair either. The man the cops are describing here is the man that killed Tippit or the “Oswald” that killed Tippit not the patsy Oswald.
Let’s look at that last recording in again.
0-4.
221 (Ptm. H.W. Summers) 221.
Dispatcher 221.
221 Might can give you some additional information. I got an eye-ball witness to the get-away man. That suspect in this shooting is a white male, twenty-seven, five feet eleven, a hundred sixty-five, black wavy hair, fair complected, wearing a light grey Eisenhower-type jacket, dark trousers and a white shirt, and (. . . ?). Last seen running on the north side of the street from Patton, on Jefferson, on East Jefferson. And he was apparently armed with a 32 dark-finish automatic pistol which he had in his right hand.
Dispatcher 10-4. For your information, 221, they have the suspect cornered in the library at Marsalis and Jefferson.
221 (Ptm. H.W. Summers) 10-4. This man can positively identify him if they need him.
Dispatcher 10-4. They do have the suspect under arrest now.
221, hang on to your witness.
Dispatcher Hold on to him.
19 (Sgt. C.B. Owens) 19.
Dispatcher 19.
19 It was the wrong man.
Dispatcher 10-4.
Dispatcher Disregard all the information on the suspect arrested. It was the wrong man.
And one more
0/2.
Dispatcher Go ahead, car 2.
550/2 The shells at the scene indicate that the suspect is armed with an automatic 38, rather than a pistol.
Wow! Hold on a second here perhaps they did have the right man in the library? They let him go because he wasn’t the patsy? Okay but the last recording is important because the suspect did kill Tippit with a 38 automatic BUT the pistol found on Lee Harvey Oswald at the theatre was a revolver not an automatic.
Sorry for bouncing around here but did you catch how Fritz asked Oswald, “What about the car?” Lee then said, “That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine.” Who mentioned anything about a station wagon?
Most researchers believe Mrs. Paine was a CIA handler. Her and George De Mohrenschildt were working for the CIA to take care of the patsy to make sure he had a job in the Book Depository. I’ll get into this later.
“In fact, a glaring example of the quality of the Committee's investigation is the fact that one of the key individuals in Oswald's life a women named Ruth Paine, was never called as a witness by the Committee. She just slipped through the cracks of the investigative plan. Yet it was Ruth Paine who played an important role in the life of the Oswald family immediately before and after the assassination. It was in Ruth Paine's garage that the Warren Commission said Oswald stored and retrieved the rifle used in the assassination. Ruth Paine was instrumental in Oswald getting his job at the Texas School Book Depository. Ruth Paine's husband, Michael, worked for a major Defense Department contractor and had a government security clearance. A once-classified document recently revealed that it was on Ruth Paine's telephone that a "confidential informant" overheard, immediately after the assassination, a male voice say he didn't believe Oswald killed Kennedy, and then added, "we both know who is responsible.
Ruth Paine was never even interviewed by the Committee.”
The above clip is from Gaeton Fonzi’s web site. Fonzi did some great work for the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Ruth Paine did testify before the Waren Commission which online if you want to read it.
“”I was fascinated by what Veciana was revealing and knew I had stumbled upon something important. Bishop obviously was an intelligence agency connection -- a direct connection -- to an anti-Castro group. The CIA had always denied -- and still does -- a supervisory role in the activities of anti-Castro groups after the Bay of Pigs. The Agency claimed it only "monitored" such activity. Here was Veciana, the key leader of the largest and most militant anti-Castro group, revealing much more then just a monitoring interest on the Agency's part -- revealing, in fact, an involvement in two Castro assassination attempts the CIA had not admitted to the Church Committee. I wonder how the guys at the committee would handle this one, I remember thinking to myself, if they gave a damn now that they were frantically trying to wrap up their final report.
It was all fascinating but not especially relevant to the Kennedy assassination. I could see no connection with Veciana's activities in Miami and what had happened in Dallas, although Veciana did say his secret meetings with Bishop took place, over the years, in cities besides Miami, including Dallas, Las Vegas and Washington, and in Puerto Rico and Latin America. However, when Veciana started talking about chapter of Alpha 66 he had set up across the country, it gave me the opportunity, with out making reference to the Kennedy assassination, to asked him about he one in Dallas. He told me he had spoken at some fund- raising meetings at the home of the Alpha 66 delegate there. I asked him I he knew Jorge Salazar. That was the name mentioned in theat Dallas deputy sheriff's report about the gathering of Alpha 66 members at "3126 Hollandale." But I did not mention that to Veciana, nor that Lee Harvey Oswald was reportedly seen there. "No," said Veciana, "I do not know the Salazar that is mentioned is the magazine article in Dallas. And I never saw Oswald at the home where we met." I was taken back that Veciana should mention Oswald at all, but then I realized, as Veciana himself would point out to me when he went back to his bedroom and returned with the magazine, that the Hoch and O'Toole article had been published in The Saturday Evening Post. Veciana said he had just read the article the day before. "...No," he was saying , "I never saw Oswald at that place where we held the meetings...." I was jotting that down in my notebook and was not looking at him, but I heard him continue..." "...but I remember once meeting Lee Harvey Oswald." I did not look up. My mind fell off its chair. I restrained myself from reacting with a ridiculously overly casual, "Oh, recall I simply asked in a forced monotone: "How did you meet him? Where? When?" Veciana said he met Oswald with Maurice Bishop in Dallas sometime near the beginning of September, 1963. There, in that modest green house in Little Havana, almost 13 years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the reality of what I was involved in suddenly struck me. The killing of a President was no longer a series of lingering mental televison images, bold black headlines, thick stacks of documents, books and files. It was something that had actually happened, and there were living people with direct strings through time to the moment. As much as the substance of the information itself, it was the absolutely coincidental and credible way it came up, the manner in wich the interview had developed, which so stunned me. First impressions are inherently circumstantial judgements, but I had no doubt then -- and have none now -- that Veciana was simple and truthfully revealing what he knew.” - Fonzi
This is another clip from the book; “The Last Investigation” by the Fonz. So who is this Maurice Bishop fella? Auh, nobody special, he was the third highest man in the CIA at the time, AKA David Atlee Phillips, Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division, a man of many talents indeed.
Oh no, Lee Harvey Oswald is related to intelligence operations! Yes he was and I think he was involved with ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) at first. I think he was sent over to Russia on some kind of a Defector Program. There were other American defectors over in Russia at this time – 1959 -1960 one of which is a man by the name of Robert E Webster, a Cleveland man. Webster renounced his citizenship a week before Oswald arrived in Moscow. I did read somewhere that LHO dd ask about Webster when he arrived at the Russian Embassy. Webster was in the Navy years before 1959 but at the time of is defection he was working for the Rand Corporation, a man in his thirties who was over there on business however I wonder why he would renounce his citizenship?
I wanna go back to Fonzi’s book for a second;
“At the time, Schweiker was a member of what was officially named the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, headed by Idaho Senator Frank Church. The Church Committee, as it became known in the press, had been making deadlines since early in the year by revealing how the FBI abused its power by harassing dissident political groups and conducting illegal investigations, how the CIA, Army Intelligence and the National Security Agency were involved in domestic snooping and how the intelligence agencies had planned assassination attempts on foreign leaders. For Schweiker, despite his long stints in both houses of Congress, these were eye-opening revelations. "I've learned more about the inner workings of government in the past nine months than in my 15 previous years in Congress," he later told a reporter.
Schweiker had never been moved to take a special interest in the details of the Kennedy assassination. He had assumed, as did most Americans then, that the Warren Commission Report reflected a comprehensive, objective investigation. He had never had the inclination to critically question the Report closely because that inclination would have had to include the assumption that certain government officials and agencies could have been involved in at the very least a cover-up. Schweiker did not want to believe that. However, when the Church Committee discovered that United States Government officials -- specifically, CIA agents -- had made alliances with the Mafia and other members of Organized Crime in planning assassination, Schweiker was traumatically shaken. "That was so repugnant and shocking to me that I did a backflip on any number of things," he later recalled.
One of the backflips included his old assumption about the validity of the Warren Commission Report. It was particularly upsetting to Schweiker when he discovered that CIA Director Allen Dulles was aware of CIA assassination plots against Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and yet withheld that information from his fellow members on the Warren Commission. The significance of that for Schweiker was enlarged when he came across an old Associated Press story which indicated that Castro had told a reporter just several weeks before Kennedy's assassination that if the United States tried to eliminate Cuban leader, then the U.S. leaders themselves would be in danger. "Nobody paid any attention then because nobody knew we were trying to kill Castro," Schweiker later said. "But that statement had to have meaning, particularly to Allen Dulles." Schweiker thought Dulles's failure to tell the Warren Commission of the Castro plots was "a cover-up of sensational proportions."
Fonzi was doing investigative work the Schweiker subcommittee of the Church Committee which led to the HSCA.
I read in Gus Russo’s book; “Live By The Sword” 1998 (the year of publication)
Fonzi’s book came out in 1993. Gus quotes LBJ as saying; “Bobby (RFK) wanted me to put Allen Dulles and John McCloy on the Warren Commission.”
I’m not sure if Gus is correct on this quote or not but I’m sure Allen Dulles did his best to cover-up the CIA’s role in Cuban activities for Bobby and the Kennedy family. John McCloy was president of the World Bank at one time and well according to Jim Marrs a Nazi so I don’t know why Bobby would want him on the Commission.
RFK said he was going to investigate the killing of his brother after he became president but why wait until then? Because holy cow if the people find out that the Cubans and the CIA were involved and maybe the Russians it’s WWIII baby, lights out! Bullshit, what good is there to the powers that be if the world is blown to bits? Russo’s book by the way is one of those; “Oswald acted alone” books.
In Gus’s introduction he mentions hwn he was a teenager and watching the News regarding the JFK assassination. He remembered hearing about how they found a German Mauser rifle n the sixth floor of the DBD. I’d like to find that news clip.
Another little ditty in Gus’s “LHO acted alone book” is the story of the dentist and his kid at the rifle range in early November of 1963 where they sat next ot a man that looked just like Oswald, firing this old piece of crap rifle. Anyway Gus tells the story of how Lee picked up all the shells after he was done shooting his gun. Yo Gus! If Lee picked up all his shells at the rifle range then why didn’t he pick up those three shells on the sixth floor of the DBD?
Let me get back to Roger D Craig to close this segment out
I first saw my testimony in January of 1968 when I looked at the 26 volumes which belonged to Penn Jones. My alleged statement was included. The following are some of the changes in my testimony:
• Arnold Rowland told me that he saw two men on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository 15 minutes before the President arrived: one was a Negro, who was pacing back and forth by the southwest window. The other was a white man in the southeast corner, with a rifle equipped with a scope, and that a few minutes later he looked back and only the white man was there. In the Warren Commission: Both were white, both were pacing in front of the southwest corner and when Rowland looked back, both were gone;
• I said the Rambler station wagon was light green. The Warren Commission: Changed to a white station wagon;
• I said the driver of the Station Wagon had on a tan jacket. The Warren Commission: A white jacket;
• I said the license plates on the Rambler were not the same color as Texas plates. The Warren Commission: Omitted the not -- omitted but one word, an important one, so that it appeared that the license plates were the same color as Texas plates;
• I said that I got a good look at the driver of the Rambler. The Warren Commission: I did not get a good look at the Rambler. (In Captain Fritz's office) I had said that Fritz had said to Oswald, "This man saw you leave" (indicating me). Oswald said, "I told you people I did." Fritz then said, "Now take it easy, son, we're just trying to find out what happened", and then (to Oswald), "What about the car?" to which Oswald replied, "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine. Don't try to drag her into this." Fritz said car -- station wagon was not mentioned by anyone but Oswald. (I had told Fritz over the telephone that I saw a man get into a station wagon, before I went to the Dallas Police Department and I had also described the man. This is when Fritz asked me to come there.) Oswald then said, "Everybody will know who I am now;" the Warren Commission: Stated that the last statement by Oswald was made in a dramatic tone. This was not so. The Warren Commission also printed, "NOW everybody will know who I am", transposing the now. Oswald's tone and attitude was one of disappointment. If someone were attempting to conceal his identity as Deputy and he was found out, exposed -- his cover blown, his reaction would be dismay and disappointment. This was Oswald's tone and attitude -- disappointment at being exposed
Finally, at 10:15 a.m. Bi rrived and we went to the Waffle House across the street for coffee. There, as big as life, sitting on a stool was the man in the sport jacket -- from the white Chevrolet. Well . . . we sat down and had coffee. We talked about how each of us was doing -- just shot the bull -- and Bill never did bring up the subject which he had said he wanted to discuss with me!
When we finished we started to leave and the man in the sport coat jumped up and beat us out of the door. We paid our checks and walked out the door and my shadow was nowhere in sight -- believe me, I looked. We crossed the parking lot and stopped at the traffic light, as it was red against us. For some reason I stepped down off the curb before the light changed. As I did, Bill fell flat on the sidewalk. I was about to find out why. At that very instant a shot rang out behind me and the hair just above my left ear parted. I felt a pressure and sharp pain on the left side of my head. I bolted for my car leaving Bill lying on the ground. I heard him say, "You son of a bitch" and I jumped into my car and drove home as fast as possible. When I arrived home I told my wife what this good friend had done for me. I pondered the idea of moving my family to some safe place.
Roger’s boss set him up to be shot. They finally got to Roger in 1974 when he was found shot to death. It was decided that he died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Sure.
