Notes for Section 4 of Constructing the Assassin
1. 1 H 65; 1 H 46.
2. 2 H 222, 226, 243.
3. 1 H 65.
4. 1 H 72; WR 666; John Armstrong, "Harvey and Lee: The Case for Two
Oswalds, Part 2," *PROBE,* Vol. 5, No. 1, November-December 1997
(hereafter JA 2), 26.
5. 2H 226.
6. 2 H 248.
7. 2 H 226.
8. 2 H 226.
9. 6 H 377.
10. Interview with J. W. Stark; Dale Myers, *With Malice,* 57.
11. FBI memo of December 3, 1963, by Carl E. Walters;
FBI RIF 124-10087-10197; Myers, 57-8.
12. Interview with J. W. Stark, Myers, 57.
13. John Armstrong, JA 2, 26.
14. 3 H 201.
15. JA 2, 26.
16. 6 H 383, 19 H 499.
17. CD 5.41; Meagher, *Accessories after the Fact,* 225.
18. WR 600, 613.
19. WR 605; CE 491.
20. WR 3.
21. Groden, *The Killing of a President,* 208-9.
22. Groden, 158, 207.
23. WR 253; Jim Marrs, *Crossfire,* 318; JA 2, 27.
24. 2 H 201.
25. CD 285; HSCA *Hearings,* Vol. XII, Conspiracy Witnesses report; JA 2,27.
26. 6 H 266; JA 2, 27. Over the next few years, Roger Craig -- the Sheriff's
Office 1960 Officer of the Year -- found himself hounded out of the
Sheriff's Office and Dallas; several attempts were made on his life.
He had such a difficult time providing for his family that, this
author is sad to report, Craig later began to embellish upon his
original testimony, presumably for the slight bit of added income
that may have been generated. As virtually all of his original 1963
statements have been corroborated by other witnesses and evidence,
his testimony from this period is credible.
On May 15, 1975, Roger Craig committed suicide by shooting himself with
a rifle. He was 39.
27. Michael L. Kurtz, *Crime of the Century,* 132.
28. Kurtz, 189.
29. Author's interview with Dr. Michael L. Kurtz, October 5, 1998.
30. CD 5.70; 12 HSCA 18; JA 2, 27.
31. FBI report by SA Earle Haley; JA 2, 27.
32. JA 2, 27; John Kelin, "Yet Another Eyewitness," *Fair Play* #17,
available on-line at: LINK 3
33. Robert Groden, *The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald,* 245; JA 2, 27.
34. 3 H 274.
35. WR 161; 6 H 409.
36. WR 621, 626. Oswald would later be mistakenly identified by bus
driver Cecil McWatters as a young man who boarded the bus and later
laughed out loud when a pedestrian informed McWatters the President
had been shot. McWatters realized the next day that he'd identified the
wrong passenger as the one who laughed -- it was actually Roy Milton
Jones. McWatters became aware of his mistake when Jones boarded
McWatters bus the following day. Although McWatters explained this
insignificant mistake to the Warren Commission (2 H 280), and it is
related in detail in the *Warren Report* (WR 157-9), some researchers
still try to use McWatters' error as a basis for discarding the
testimony of both McWatters and Mary Bledsoe -- and the silent
testimony of the bus transfer, which was punched with McWatters'
own distinct hole-punch at approximately 1:00 pm -- that Oswald was
on the bus. 37. WR 636.
38. WR 163.
39. WR 161.
40. 6 H 439-42.
41. 6 H 443.
42. 6 H 443-44.
43. Myers, 50-5.
44. 6 H 439.
45. This author accepts the findings of Dale Myers' *With Malice,* which
posits that Lee Harvey Oswald -- Harvey Oswald in our narrative --
was alone responsible for the murder of Officer J. D. Tippit. This
opinion is based primarily on the hard evidence, about which Myers
has seemed to resolve many previously troubling questions.
Myers' book can be ordered at:LINK
4
Another valuable resource on the Tippit murder is Bill Drenas article,
"Car #10, Where Are You?", which traces Tippit's movements of November
22, 1963, in minute detail. The article is available on-line at:
LINK 5
46. Interview with Jack Davis; Marrs, 353. Davis would later host the
"Gospel Music Spotlight" on a Dallas Christian radio station.
47. WR 178.
48. WR 178.
49. WR 179; Walt Brown, "Top Cop" M. N. McDonald, *Probable Cause,*
February 1993, available on-line at:
LINK 6
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The record is muddied in regard to what kept the gun from firing. All
these years the record has shown that the pistol misfired, merely
denting the cartridge that it was supposed to fire. Sergeant Gerald Hill
testified to this before the Warren Commission, and even said he saw the
dented cartridge (7 H 55). However, when interviewed in mid 1998 by Walt
Brown, Hill and several other policeman interviewed off the record
retracted this information. Hill said he and a couple of other officers
specifically saw the hammer mark on the webbing between McDonald's thumb
and forefinger (Walt Brown, "Talking with Gerald Hill," *JFK/Deep
Politics Quarterly,* July, 1998). While I've requested that Brown ask
Hill to explain this discrepancy at some point in time, it is nonetheless
the opinion of both myself and Brown that Hill is a candid and reliable
witness, and his account confirms McDonald's own (Author's e-mails with
Walt Brown, July 1998).
50. About the Wallet; Comments from Hosty LINK 7
51. WR 179; 7 H 40.
52. 7 H 41, 158.
53. JA 2, 28.
54. JA 2, 28.
55. JA 2, 28. And on Collins Radio (and more)Here
56. WR 180.
57. WR 600.
58. WR 626 -7.
59. WR 612.
60. WR 606, 623, 627.
61. 1 H 69.
62. WR 608, 624, 628.
63. CE 323.13; Michael Leahy, "Lee Harvey Oswald: A Brother's Burden,"
Arkansas *Democrat-Gazette,* November 16, 1997, available on-line at:
LINK 10
64. 1 H 462.
65. 7 H 329.
66. WR 627.
67. 6 H 270.
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid.
73. 4 H 245.
74. Affidavit of H. W. Hill, October 1, 1964; John Armstrong, "The FBI
and the Framing of Oswald,"*PROBE,* Vol. 4, No. 3, March-April 1997
(hereafter JA 6), 23.
75. Ibid.
76. Newsreel footage.
77. 2 H 261.
78. Kantor Exhibit No. 3, 366.
79. Newsreel footage. 80. Available on-line at:
LINK 13
82. Ibid.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid.
85. Ibid.
86. Ibid.
87. Proctor, Ibid.
88. Proctor, Ibid.
89. Canfield and Weberman, *Coup d'Etat in America,* 148.
90. Ibid.
91. Summers, 146-47; Proctor, Ibid.
92. JA 2, 29. 93. JA 2, 29.
94. JA 2, 29. DPD Detective Gus Rose, who found himself under the barrel,
remained bitter for years about the FBI's conduct. When questioned by a
reporter who thought Rose had simply made a mistake, Rose snapped, "I
know a camera when I see it."
95. JA 2, 30-1.
96. Robert Groden, *The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald,* 205.
97. Groden, 243.
98. M. Duke Lane,"Grave Doubts," available here:LINK
14
99. Marrs, 548.
100. Ibid. As reported in the BBC documentary *The Men Who Killed Kennedy,*
morticians Paul Groody and Alan Baumgartner claim that the body
exhumed in 1981 was not the one they buried in 1963. Texas
researcher M. Duke Lane tracked down a copy of the exhumation
report, which proves each of Groody and Baumgartner's observations
to be
completely mistaken. See citation #98.
101. JA 2, 31.
102. JA 2, 31.
103. 18 H 437, 440; JA 2, 31.
104. JA 2, 31.
105. Marrs, Crossfire, 547.
106. *I Am a Patsy! I Am a Patsy!* (unpublished manuscript); HSCA Vol. XII.
See:LINK 15
A version of this manuscript has been copyedited by this author. It is
available on-line here LINK 16
107. JA 2, 31.
108. JA 2, 32.
109. 8 H 129.
110. 8 H 4.
111. 8 H 18.
112. 8 H 38.
113. 8 H 47.
114. 8 H 51.
115. Jean Stafford, *A Mother in History,* 22.
116. Ibid.
117. Ibid., 12.
118. Ibid., 71.
119. Ibid., 32.
120. 1 H 162.
121. 1 H 163.
122. JA 2, 32.
123. Garrison files; JA 2, 31.
124. JA 2, 32.
125. JA 2, 32.
126. JA 2, 32.
127. JA 2, 32.
128. JA 2, 32.
129. JA 2, 32.
130. JA 2, 32.
131. JA 2, 32.