[[ the following series was posted on alt.conspiracy.jfk on Aug. 22,'96 by
     bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)  = his comments remain          ]]
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FIRST REPORTS OUT OF DALLAS
TAKEN FROM THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 11/28/63

Here are more tidbits from an article Oswald Planned to Ride by
Scene, taken from the Dallas Morning News, 11/28/63.  Again, the
earliest reports are the most accurate.  All EMPHASES are my
own.

        (Up till now this story tells of Oswald's escape from
the TSBD, the Tippit killing and him fleeing from the scene.  I pick
it up at this point. M.P.)

Oswald was reported in a used furniture store that occupies a tall,
weather-beaten green frame building at 413 E. Jefferson.  About the
same time, spectators at a service station further west up the street
saw him run into a vacant lot, where police say the killer discarded
his newly acquired jacket and three pistol shells.  (This makes ya
wonder just how many shell where found.  If three were found here
and the Davis sisters found two and so did Benavides, that makes
Oswald carrying a seven-shooter.  M.P.)
        Then followed a chase in and out of alleyways in the
Jefferson - Beckley - Cumberland - Zang area.
About 1:45 p.m. Julie Postal, cashier at the Texas Theater at 231
W. Jefferson saw a hurrying stranger rush past her into the theater.
TO THIS DAY, SHE CAN'T RECALL WHETHER OR NOT HE
BOUGHT A TICKET.  "I was so upset listening to the radio about
the President and all," she said.
(Brewer rushed up, Postal called the police and the story
continues): The cashier immediately called police - who had just
sped en masse to a false alarm at the Dallas Library branch on
Jefferson, further to the east.  The police sirens wailed again.
        Oddly enough, it was at th