Post by Rob Caprio on Apr 13, 2021 12:09:19 GMT -5
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The Warren Commission (WC) concluded Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit (JDT) despite them providing NO evidence supporting this conclusion. We have covered this topic in other posts, but I have NOT touched on the witnesses that were IGNORED by the WC in this area. This posts will remedy that issue.
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Probably the most famous witness IGNORED by the WC in regards to the shooting of JDT was Acquilla Clemons. She was working at 237 E. 10th (one block west of the shooting) and did not see the shooting. She claimed to see the shooter and a man who appeared to be working with the shooter. She did a filmed interview with Mark Lane for his book Rush To Judgment and here is an excerpt from it.
Lane: Mrs. Clemons, where were you on November 22, 1963?
Clemons: I was working for Ms. Smothers, 327 East Tenth, just down the block from where Tippit was killed.
Lane: Did you know Officer Tippit?
Clemons: Yes, I saw him, pretty many times.
Lane: And, did you hear the shots?
Clemons: Yes, I heard the shots.
Lane: And what did you do?
Clemons: I ran out into the street and looked down the street, and I ran back down the street where he was lying, and I looked at him.
Lane: Now, when you heard the shots, and went out of the house, did you see a man with a gun?
Clemons: Yes, I did.
Lane: What was he doing?
Clemons: Oh he was reloading it, and I say he was reloading his gun.
Lane: And, how would you describe that man?
Clemons: Well, he was kinda chunky. He was kinda heavy, wasn’t a very big man.
Lane: Was he tall or short?
Clemons: He was kinda short guy.
Lane: Short and heavy.
Clemons: Yes.
Lane: And was there any other man there?
Clemons: Yes there was one on the other side of the street. All I know is he told him to go on.
Lane: Mrs. Clemons, the man who had the gun, did he make any motion at all to the other man across the street?
Clemons: No more than told him to go on.
Lane: He waved his hand and said go on?
Clemons: Yes, said go on.
Lane: And then what happened with the man with the gun?
Clemons: He unloaded it and then reloaded it.
Lane: And what did the other man do?
Clemons: The man kept going, straight down the street.
Lane: And then did they go in opposite directions?
Clemons: Yes, they were, they weren’t together, they went this way [indicating opposite] from each other. The one done the shooting went this way, the other went straight down past the street, that way.
Lane: What was the man, the man who did not do the shooting, but the man who went in other direction from the man with the gun, what was he wearing, if you remember?
Clemons: Well, as far as I can remember he had on, looked like light khakis and a white shirt.
Lane: And was he tall or short?
Clemons: He was tall.
Lane: And was he heavy or thin?
Clemons: He was thin.
Lane: But the one who did, the one who had the gun seconds after Tippit was shot, he was short and heavy?
Clemons: Yes, he was short and kinda heavy.
Lane: Did you testify before the Warren Commission about this?
Clemons: I haven’t said anything to anyone.
Lane: Did anyone come to see you after murder of Officer Tippit?
Clemons: Yes, he was a man, came, I don’t know what he was. He came to my house talked to me, but I don’t what he, looked like a policeman to me.
Lane: He did. Did he have a gun?
Clemons: Yes, he wore a gun.
Lane: Mrs. Clemmns, how long after Tippit was shot did this man with a gun come to visit you?
Clemons: About two, about two days. It was about two days, said I might get hurt, someone might hurt me, if I would talk.
Lane : About what you saw?
Clemons: What I saw. He just told me to, be best if I didn’t say anything because I might get hurt.
IF you don’t believe her story (a story she told basically verbatim to both Tom Johnson and Earl Golz in 1965) then answer this question for me please. IF LHO was the SOLE shooter as claimed, and he was in jail and then killed, and she did NOT say anything to anyone, how did anyone know she saw anything? What was the purpose of the visit then? IF you think she is lying about all of this, then you need to show what you are basing this on as to call someone a liar with NO evidence is just slander. Also, it should be noted, she said she went OUT of the house and into the STREET in her interview, so why has it always been said she was “sitting on the porch” when the shots were fired? The confusion seems to come from the fact that Jimmy Burt and William Arthur Smith were sitting on the porch and this somehow got placed on Clemons.
The WC’s own star witness for this area, Helen Markham, would tell the local media (and then Mark Lane) the man she saw was “short, a little on the heavy side and had bushy hair. In fact, as seen in other posts, before Sgt. Gerald Hill testified that the first man that came up to him said, "The man that shot him was a white male about 5'10", weighing 160 to 170 pounds, had on a Jacket and a pair of dark trousers, and brown bushy hair."
So we see her description of one of the men as being short and kinda heavy is corroborated by Markham and the “first man”who came up to Sgt. Hill. Why did the WC NOT bother to call her and hear what she had to say? For the record—she did NOT say either man she saw was LHO.
Another set of witnesses totally ignored by the WC were Frank and Mary Wright. The Wright’s house was located a half a block east of the shooting at 501 E 10th. Frank Wright who was nearly a block away said he saw a man standing over a policeman who had just been shot, but he did not see the man with a gun. The man got into a car that was facing in the opposite direction of Wright and he then drove off. Wright described the car as a gray, 1951 Plymouth coupe. He would be the only witness to say the assailant drove off in a car. Mary Wright called the police to report the shooting. It has been said that he too said two men were involved in the shooting, but this is all we really have to go on since the WC, Dallas Police Department (DPD) and the FBI saw fit to IGNORE THEM. Why would they do this IF they were searching for the truth as claimed? Fortunately for us, others did not ignore them.
In an article called Witnesses by George and Paticia Nash Wright said the following thing.
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I knew there had been a shooting. I saw a man standing right in front of the car. He was looking toward the man on the ground. He stood there for awhile and looked at the man. I couldn’t tell who the man was on the ground. The man who was standing in front of him was about medium height. He had on a LONG COAT. It ended just above his hands. I didn’t see any gun…His car was a grey, little old coupe. It was about a 1950-1951, maybe a Plymouth. (Emphasis mine)
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He was adamant about what he saw and said nothing would change his mind. The article made a good point too about Mrs. Wright calling the police to report the shooting, so why did the DPD NOT seem to know where they lived to question them? Ditto the FBI? For the record—they did NOT say it was LHO that they saw shoot JDT. LHO was NOT wearing a long coat that day. Nor would LHO have the time to just stand there for awhile either as he had a very compact timetable to keep IF you believe the WC's version of events.
Another witness to the shooting who was ignored by the WC, DPD and FBI was B.D. Searcy. All we get is a couple of mentions by Callaway about him in his testimony.
Mr. BALL. What did you do?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I hollered to this guy behind--B. D. Searcy.
Mr. BALL. What did you say to Mr. Searcy?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I told him to keep an eye on that guy, I says, "Keep an eye on that guy, follow him. I am going to go down there and see what is going on." So I ran, a good hard run, from here down around the corner.
Mr. BALL. 10th and Patton?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes.
Why is Callaway ordering Searcy around like this? Why didn’t Callaway follow the man instead?
Mr. BALL. Did you ever ask Searcy if he followed him?
Mr. CALLAWAY. He didn't follow him. He said something about "Follow him, hell. That man will kill you. He has a gun." So instead of following him, he went back over and got behind the office building.
Mr. DULLES. Did he see him at any time?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes; he saw him the same time I did; yes, sir. I never could figure out why he didn't just follow that man. You could follow 50 yards behind him and keep a guy in sight. Chances are you wouldn't get killed 50 yards away.
Again, why didn’t Callaway follow the man then as it seems he had much more experience with this kind of thing than Searcy did.
Mr. DULLES. Had you had previous military service?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes, sir; I was in the Marine Corps 6 years, World War 11, and during Korea.
Why send a person with no experience after a man with a gun? Why didn’t the WC call Searcy to see what he did see and why he didn’t follow the man (if he didn’t) instead of relying on Callaway to speak for him?
Another witness not called was Jimmy Burt. He was sitting on the porch of 505 E. 10th with William Arthur Smith when the shooting occurred. We have to rely on Smith’s testimony because he was called by the WC, but Burt was not.
Mr. BALL. Now, on November 22, 1963, were you working any place?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Didn't have a job?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir,
Mr. BALL. Where did you spend the day that day?
Mr. SMITH. 505 East 10th.
Mr. BALL. Why were you there?
Mr. SMITH. Visiting a friend.
Mr. BALL. What is his name?
Mr. SMITH. Jimmy Burt.
Mr. BALL. So, you spent the whole day there?
Mr. SMITH. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Did something happen a little after 1 o'clock there that day that you noticed?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir; policeman got shot.
Mr. BALL. Now, at the time the policeman was shot, where were you?
Mr. SMITH. In the front yard, at 505 East 10th.
Mr. BALL. Who was with you?
Mr. SMITH. Jimmy Burt.
Mr. BALL. That was about how far from where the policeman got shot?
Mr. SMITH. One block.
Mr. BALL. That would be about a block east, wouldn't it?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
The irony here is the WC did NOT see fit to call Jimmy Burt, but instead called a man on PAROLE who was afraid to give his name to the police!
Mr. BALL. Did you give your name to the police?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Why?
Mr. SMITH. Because I was on probation. I thought it might hurt my probation record.
It seems this man with a record also hung around with the WC’s star witness’s son too.
Mr. BALL. All right; you did tell someone you had seen it, didn't you?
Mr. SMITH. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Who?
Mr. SMITH. This boy I ran around with.
Mr. BALL. What's his name?
Mr. SMITH. James Markham.
Mr. BALL. Is he the son of Helen Markham?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
Why was Jimmy Burt not called as a witness? Other witnesses totally ignored by the WC were:
1) Ambulance driver Clayton Butler
2) Ambulance assistant Eddie Kinsley
3) Dudley M. Hughes, Jr. –he took the call at the funeral home and dispatched the ambulance to the scene. He would put the time of 1:18 p.m. to reflect the time he took the call, but he dispatched Kinsley to the scene since it was only two blocks away. Butler radioed the time he got there was 1:18 p.m. How can that be?
4) Mr. & Mrs. Donald Higgins—417 East 10th
New information has come out about Mrs. Higgins as author Barry Ernst has covered her in his book The Girl On The Stairs: My Search For A Missing Witness To The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy. Here is an excerpt of what she said.
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“How can you be so sure of the time?”
“Well, I was watching the news on television and for some reason the announcer turned and looked at the clock and said the time was ‘six minutes after one,’” Mrs. Higgins explained. “He said it just like that, ‘six minutes after one.’ And you know how you always do, you hear the time and you automatically check your own watch. So I just looked up at the clock on my television to verify the time and it said 1:06. At that point I heard the shots.” “
Are you positive of the time?”
“Yes, I am. I’d bet my life on it.”
“Do you know what this means then?” I persisted. Mrs. Higgins looked at her husband and then back at me, but said nothing. She knew. “And the man you saw running away,” I said. “What did he look like?” Mrs. Higgins got noticeably upset and asked if I was writing a book. I assured her I was in Dallas only to satisfy my own curiosity. She remained quiet. “Can you describe him in any way, tell me anything about him? Any description?” Finally, I said, “Was that man Lee Oswald?” Mrs. Higgins stared at me, not harshly, but more like my mother used to when she was trying to make a point.
“He definitely was not the man they showed on television,” she sighed. “Is that what you wanted to hear?”
As long as it was the truth. I thanked Mrs. Higgins for her time and trouble.
“Be careful,” she told me on my way out her front door. (pp. 90-91)
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This is firm CORROBORATION for the time Roger Craig stated and the WC’s own witness, Helen Markham, stated for the shooting. This leaves us with T.F. Bowley. Here are the relevant portions of his affidavit.
I was headed north on Marsalis and turned west on 10th Street. I traveled about a block and noticed a Dallas police squad car stopped in the traffic lane headed east on 10th Street. I saw a police officer lying next to the left front wheel. I stopped my car and got out to go to the scene. I looked at my watch and it said 1:10 pm. Several people were at the scene. When I got there the first thing I did was try to help the officer. He appeared beyond help to me. A man was trying to use the radio in the squad car but stated he didn't know how to operate it. I know how and took the radio from him. I said, "Hello, operator. A police officer has been shot here." The dispatcher asked for the location. I found out the location and told the dispatcher what it was. A few minutes later an ambulance came to the scene. I helped load the officer onto the stretcher and into the ambulance. As we picked the officer up, I noticed his pistol laying on the ground under him. Someone picked the pistol up and laid it on the hood of the squad car. When the ambulance left, I took the gun and put it inside the squad car. A man took the pistol out and said, "Let's catch him." He opened the cylinder, and I saw that no rounds in it had been fired. This man then took the pistol with him and got into a cab and drove off. The police arrived and I talked to a police sergeant at the scene I told him I did not witness the shooting and after questioning me, he said it was all right for me to leave.
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His comment about the time being 1:10 p.m. is very relevant here as the WC would claim JDT was shot by LHO at “about 1:16 p.m.”. Bowley corroborates Craig, Mrs. Higgins and Markham in showing JDT was shot before the time the WC gave us. Notice too that he said JDT’s pistol was lying on the ground, but from reports we have gotten JDT did NOT draw his weapon. This would be corroborated by William Scoggins too in his testimony.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do after that?
Mr. SCOGGINS. Well, I got back in my cab to call my dispatcher, you see.
Mr. BELIN. Yes.
Mr. SCOGGINS. And then I got out of the cab and run down there; the ambulance had already arrived by the time I got there, and they were in the process of picking the man up, and they had done had him, was putting him on the stretcher when I got there, and they put him in the ambulance and took him away, and there was someone that got on the radio at that time and they told him he was going to report it, so they told him to get off the air, that it had already been reported, and he picks up the officer's pistol that was laying on the ground, apparently fell out of his holster when he fell, and says, "Come on, let's go see if we can find him."
Aren’t most holsters equipped with a latch of some kind to keep the pistol from falling out? Also, this comment is different from others as they said the pistol was first put INTO the squad car and then removed. We know he did NOT draw because of comments like this.
Representative FORD. When you saw the pistol it wasn't in Officer Tippit's hands?
Mr. SCOGGINS. No, sir; oh, he never did have a pistol in his hand, as far as I know.
Mr. BELIN. You saw him when he was falling?
Mr. SCOGGINS. Yes; he was holding his stomach.
Mr. BELIN. You saw him holding his stomach as he fell?
Mr. SCOGGINS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did he have anything in his hands?
Mr. SCOGGINS. If he did I couldn't see it, and I don't think he ever got to his pistol from what I saw.
So again, how did JDT’s pistol just fall out of his holster? This is an important question because of what Bowley stated in his affidavit. He said he put it in the squad car, but some man took it out and said “Let’s catch him.” He said the man then took the pistol and got into a CAB and drove off! Scoggins was a CAB DRIVER! But, Scoggins claimed they gave the pistol to a man he thought was a police officer, but wasn’t.
Mr. BELIN. At about what time, do you know offhand?
Mr. SCOGGINS. About 1:30, I guess, approximately 1:30; between 1:30 and 1:35, I would say. We cruised around several blocks looking for him, and we--one of these police cars came by and this fellow who was with me stopped it, and we got back in the car and went back up to the scene, and he give them the pistol, and that time is when I found out he wasn't an officer.
IF he wasn’t an officer, then who in the heck was he? Why did the WC just ignore this comment? To add more confusion to the situation we have another version from witness Ted Callaway. He said this before the WC.
Mr. BALL. When you got there what did you see?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I saw a squad car, and by that time there was four or five people that had gathered, a couple of cars had stopped…The officer was laying on his left side, his pistol was underneath him. I kind of rolled him over and took his gun out from under him. The people wonder whether he ever got his pistol out of his holster. He did.
Mr. BALL. The pistol was out of the holster?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes, sir; out of the holster, and it was unsnapped. It was on his right side. He was laying with the gun under him.
This is the third witness that said the pistol was out of the holster, but we have been told JDT DID NOT DRAW his pistol, so who UNSNAPPED THE HOLSTER?
Mr. BALL. What did you do?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I picked the gun up and laid it on the hood of the squad car, and then someone put it in the front seat of the squad car… I got the gun out of the car and told this cabdriver, I said, "You saw the guy didn't you?" He said, yes. I said, "If he is going up Jefferson, he can't be very far. Let's see if we can find him." So I went with Scoggins in the taxicab, went up to 10th, Crawford, from Crawford up to Jefferson, and down Jefferson to Beckley.
Here we see it stated that it was Callaway that took the gun out of the squad car and left with Scoggins to chase the shooter, but Scoggins did NOT mention Callaway once in his testimony! Nor did he mention getting into his cab to chase the shooter. What is going on here? How did JDT’s holster get UNSNAPPED when he never drew the weapon himself? How did they drive off with it when Scoggins said he gave it to a man he thought was a police officer? What happened to this pistol?
Can any WC defender answer these questions? Again, we see the WC ignoring evidence that contradicted their conclusion. Sadly for them, they included a ton of evidence that did NOT support their conclusion and showed us a conspiracy took place.
Once again, they are sunk by their own evidence and by their omission of so much information and evidence. Remember, Ford said they reached the conclusion of a single shooter based on what they SAW alone, and when one sees how carefully they made sure they ONLY saw what they wanted to see (i.e. things that fit their preconceived outcome) no wonder they kidded themselves into reaching their conclusion of a single shooter.
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The Warren Commission (WC) concluded Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit (JDT) despite them providing NO evidence supporting this conclusion. We have covered this topic in other posts, but I have NOT touched on the witnesses that were IGNORED by the WC in this area. This posts will remedy that issue.
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Probably the most famous witness IGNORED by the WC in regards to the shooting of JDT was Acquilla Clemons. She was working at 237 E. 10th (one block west of the shooting) and did not see the shooting. She claimed to see the shooter and a man who appeared to be working with the shooter. She did a filmed interview with Mark Lane for his book Rush To Judgment and here is an excerpt from it.
Lane: Mrs. Clemons, where were you on November 22, 1963?
Clemons: I was working for Ms. Smothers, 327 East Tenth, just down the block from where Tippit was killed.
Lane: Did you know Officer Tippit?
Clemons: Yes, I saw him, pretty many times.
Lane: And, did you hear the shots?
Clemons: Yes, I heard the shots.
Lane: And what did you do?
Clemons: I ran out into the street and looked down the street, and I ran back down the street where he was lying, and I looked at him.
Lane: Now, when you heard the shots, and went out of the house, did you see a man with a gun?
Clemons: Yes, I did.
Lane: What was he doing?
Clemons: Oh he was reloading it, and I say he was reloading his gun.
Lane: And, how would you describe that man?
Clemons: Well, he was kinda chunky. He was kinda heavy, wasn’t a very big man.
Lane: Was he tall or short?
Clemons: He was kinda short guy.
Lane: Short and heavy.
Clemons: Yes.
Lane: And was there any other man there?
Clemons: Yes there was one on the other side of the street. All I know is he told him to go on.
Lane: Mrs. Clemons, the man who had the gun, did he make any motion at all to the other man across the street?
Clemons: No more than told him to go on.
Lane: He waved his hand and said go on?
Clemons: Yes, said go on.
Lane: And then what happened with the man with the gun?
Clemons: He unloaded it and then reloaded it.
Lane: And what did the other man do?
Clemons: The man kept going, straight down the street.
Lane: And then did they go in opposite directions?
Clemons: Yes, they were, they weren’t together, they went this way [indicating opposite] from each other. The one done the shooting went this way, the other went straight down past the street, that way.
Lane: What was the man, the man who did not do the shooting, but the man who went in other direction from the man with the gun, what was he wearing, if you remember?
Clemons: Well, as far as I can remember he had on, looked like light khakis and a white shirt.
Lane: And was he tall or short?
Clemons: He was tall.
Lane: And was he heavy or thin?
Clemons: He was thin.
Lane: But the one who did, the one who had the gun seconds after Tippit was shot, he was short and heavy?
Clemons: Yes, he was short and kinda heavy.
Lane: Did you testify before the Warren Commission about this?
Clemons: I haven’t said anything to anyone.
Lane: Did anyone come to see you after murder of Officer Tippit?
Clemons: Yes, he was a man, came, I don’t know what he was. He came to my house talked to me, but I don’t what he, looked like a policeman to me.
Lane: He did. Did he have a gun?
Clemons: Yes, he wore a gun.
Lane: Mrs. Clemmns, how long after Tippit was shot did this man with a gun come to visit you?
Clemons: About two, about two days. It was about two days, said I might get hurt, someone might hurt me, if I would talk.
Lane : About what you saw?
Clemons: What I saw. He just told me to, be best if I didn’t say anything because I might get hurt.
IF you don’t believe her story (a story she told basically verbatim to both Tom Johnson and Earl Golz in 1965) then answer this question for me please. IF LHO was the SOLE shooter as claimed, and he was in jail and then killed, and she did NOT say anything to anyone, how did anyone know she saw anything? What was the purpose of the visit then? IF you think she is lying about all of this, then you need to show what you are basing this on as to call someone a liar with NO evidence is just slander. Also, it should be noted, she said she went OUT of the house and into the STREET in her interview, so why has it always been said she was “sitting on the porch” when the shots were fired? The confusion seems to come from the fact that Jimmy Burt and William Arthur Smith were sitting on the porch and this somehow got placed on Clemons.
The WC’s own star witness for this area, Helen Markham, would tell the local media (and then Mark Lane) the man she saw was “short, a little on the heavy side and had bushy hair. In fact, as seen in other posts, before Sgt. Gerald Hill testified that the first man that came up to him said, "The man that shot him was a white male about 5'10", weighing 160 to 170 pounds, had on a Jacket and a pair of dark trousers, and brown bushy hair."
So we see her description of one of the men as being short and kinda heavy is corroborated by Markham and the “first man”who came up to Sgt. Hill. Why did the WC NOT bother to call her and hear what she had to say? For the record—she did NOT say either man she saw was LHO.
Another set of witnesses totally ignored by the WC were Frank and Mary Wright. The Wright’s house was located a half a block east of the shooting at 501 E 10th. Frank Wright who was nearly a block away said he saw a man standing over a policeman who had just been shot, but he did not see the man with a gun. The man got into a car that was facing in the opposite direction of Wright and he then drove off. Wright described the car as a gray, 1951 Plymouth coupe. He would be the only witness to say the assailant drove off in a car. Mary Wright called the police to report the shooting. It has been said that he too said two men were involved in the shooting, but this is all we really have to go on since the WC, Dallas Police Department (DPD) and the FBI saw fit to IGNORE THEM. Why would they do this IF they were searching for the truth as claimed? Fortunately for us, others did not ignore them.
In an article called Witnesses by George and Paticia Nash Wright said the following thing.
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I knew there had been a shooting. I saw a man standing right in front of the car. He was looking toward the man on the ground. He stood there for awhile and looked at the man. I couldn’t tell who the man was on the ground. The man who was standing in front of him was about medium height. He had on a LONG COAT. It ended just above his hands. I didn’t see any gun…His car was a grey, little old coupe. It was about a 1950-1951, maybe a Plymouth. (Emphasis mine)
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He was adamant about what he saw and said nothing would change his mind. The article made a good point too about Mrs. Wright calling the police to report the shooting, so why did the DPD NOT seem to know where they lived to question them? Ditto the FBI? For the record—they did NOT say it was LHO that they saw shoot JDT. LHO was NOT wearing a long coat that day. Nor would LHO have the time to just stand there for awhile either as he had a very compact timetable to keep IF you believe the WC's version of events.
Another witness to the shooting who was ignored by the WC, DPD and FBI was B.D. Searcy. All we get is a couple of mentions by Callaway about him in his testimony.
Mr. BALL. What did you do?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I hollered to this guy behind--B. D. Searcy.
Mr. BALL. What did you say to Mr. Searcy?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I told him to keep an eye on that guy, I says, "Keep an eye on that guy, follow him. I am going to go down there and see what is going on." So I ran, a good hard run, from here down around the corner.
Mr. BALL. 10th and Patton?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes.
Why is Callaway ordering Searcy around like this? Why didn’t Callaway follow the man instead?
Mr. BALL. Did you ever ask Searcy if he followed him?
Mr. CALLAWAY. He didn't follow him. He said something about "Follow him, hell. That man will kill you. He has a gun." So instead of following him, he went back over and got behind the office building.
Mr. DULLES. Did he see him at any time?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes; he saw him the same time I did; yes, sir. I never could figure out why he didn't just follow that man. You could follow 50 yards behind him and keep a guy in sight. Chances are you wouldn't get killed 50 yards away.
Again, why didn’t Callaway follow the man then as it seems he had much more experience with this kind of thing than Searcy did.
Mr. DULLES. Had you had previous military service?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes, sir; I was in the Marine Corps 6 years, World War 11, and during Korea.
Why send a person with no experience after a man with a gun? Why didn’t the WC call Searcy to see what he did see and why he didn’t follow the man (if he didn’t) instead of relying on Callaway to speak for him?
Another witness not called was Jimmy Burt. He was sitting on the porch of 505 E. 10th with William Arthur Smith when the shooting occurred. We have to rely on Smith’s testimony because he was called by the WC, but Burt was not.
Mr. BALL. Now, on November 22, 1963, were you working any place?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Didn't have a job?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir,
Mr. BALL. Where did you spend the day that day?
Mr. SMITH. 505 East 10th.
Mr. BALL. Why were you there?
Mr. SMITH. Visiting a friend.
Mr. BALL. What is his name?
Mr. SMITH. Jimmy Burt.
Mr. BALL. So, you spent the whole day there?
Mr. SMITH. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Did something happen a little after 1 o'clock there that day that you noticed?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir; policeman got shot.
Mr. BALL. Now, at the time the policeman was shot, where were you?
Mr. SMITH. In the front yard, at 505 East 10th.
Mr. BALL. Who was with you?
Mr. SMITH. Jimmy Burt.
Mr. BALL. That was about how far from where the policeman got shot?
Mr. SMITH. One block.
Mr. BALL. That would be about a block east, wouldn't it?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
The irony here is the WC did NOT see fit to call Jimmy Burt, but instead called a man on PAROLE who was afraid to give his name to the police!
Mr. BALL. Did you give your name to the police?
Mr. SMITH. No, sir.
Mr. BALL. Why?
Mr. SMITH. Because I was on probation. I thought it might hurt my probation record.
It seems this man with a record also hung around with the WC’s star witness’s son too.
Mr. BALL. All right; you did tell someone you had seen it, didn't you?
Mr. SMITH. Yes.
Mr. BALL. Who?
Mr. SMITH. This boy I ran around with.
Mr. BALL. What's his name?
Mr. SMITH. James Markham.
Mr. BALL. Is he the son of Helen Markham?
Mr. SMITH. Yes, sir.
Why was Jimmy Burt not called as a witness? Other witnesses totally ignored by the WC were:
1) Ambulance driver Clayton Butler
2) Ambulance assistant Eddie Kinsley
3) Dudley M. Hughes, Jr. –he took the call at the funeral home and dispatched the ambulance to the scene. He would put the time of 1:18 p.m. to reflect the time he took the call, but he dispatched Kinsley to the scene since it was only two blocks away. Butler radioed the time he got there was 1:18 p.m. How can that be?
4) Mr. & Mrs. Donald Higgins—417 East 10th
New information has come out about Mrs. Higgins as author Barry Ernst has covered her in his book The Girl On The Stairs: My Search For A Missing Witness To The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy. Here is an excerpt of what she said.
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“How can you be so sure of the time?”
“Well, I was watching the news on television and for some reason the announcer turned and looked at the clock and said the time was ‘six minutes after one,’” Mrs. Higgins explained. “He said it just like that, ‘six minutes after one.’ And you know how you always do, you hear the time and you automatically check your own watch. So I just looked up at the clock on my television to verify the time and it said 1:06. At that point I heard the shots.” “
Are you positive of the time?”
“Yes, I am. I’d bet my life on it.”
“Do you know what this means then?” I persisted. Mrs. Higgins looked at her husband and then back at me, but said nothing. She knew. “And the man you saw running away,” I said. “What did he look like?” Mrs. Higgins got noticeably upset and asked if I was writing a book. I assured her I was in Dallas only to satisfy my own curiosity. She remained quiet. “Can you describe him in any way, tell me anything about him? Any description?” Finally, I said, “Was that man Lee Oswald?” Mrs. Higgins stared at me, not harshly, but more like my mother used to when she was trying to make a point.
“He definitely was not the man they showed on television,” she sighed. “Is that what you wanted to hear?”
As long as it was the truth. I thanked Mrs. Higgins for her time and trouble.
“Be careful,” she told me on my way out her front door. (pp. 90-91)
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This is firm CORROBORATION for the time Roger Craig stated and the WC’s own witness, Helen Markham, stated for the shooting. This leaves us with T.F. Bowley. Here are the relevant portions of his affidavit.
I was headed north on Marsalis and turned west on 10th Street. I traveled about a block and noticed a Dallas police squad car stopped in the traffic lane headed east on 10th Street. I saw a police officer lying next to the left front wheel. I stopped my car and got out to go to the scene. I looked at my watch and it said 1:10 pm. Several people were at the scene. When I got there the first thing I did was try to help the officer. He appeared beyond help to me. A man was trying to use the radio in the squad car but stated he didn't know how to operate it. I know how and took the radio from him. I said, "Hello, operator. A police officer has been shot here." The dispatcher asked for the location. I found out the location and told the dispatcher what it was. A few minutes later an ambulance came to the scene. I helped load the officer onto the stretcher and into the ambulance. As we picked the officer up, I noticed his pistol laying on the ground under him. Someone picked the pistol up and laid it on the hood of the squad car. When the ambulance left, I took the gun and put it inside the squad car. A man took the pistol out and said, "Let's catch him." He opened the cylinder, and I saw that no rounds in it had been fired. This man then took the pistol with him and got into a cab and drove off. The police arrived and I talked to a police sergeant at the scene I told him I did not witness the shooting and after questioning me, he said it was all right for me to leave.
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His comment about the time being 1:10 p.m. is very relevant here as the WC would claim JDT was shot by LHO at “about 1:16 p.m.”. Bowley corroborates Craig, Mrs. Higgins and Markham in showing JDT was shot before the time the WC gave us. Notice too that he said JDT’s pistol was lying on the ground, but from reports we have gotten JDT did NOT draw his weapon. This would be corroborated by William Scoggins too in his testimony.
Mr. BELIN. What did you do after that?
Mr. SCOGGINS. Well, I got back in my cab to call my dispatcher, you see.
Mr. BELIN. Yes.
Mr. SCOGGINS. And then I got out of the cab and run down there; the ambulance had already arrived by the time I got there, and they were in the process of picking the man up, and they had done had him, was putting him on the stretcher when I got there, and they put him in the ambulance and took him away, and there was someone that got on the radio at that time and they told him he was going to report it, so they told him to get off the air, that it had already been reported, and he picks up the officer's pistol that was laying on the ground, apparently fell out of his holster when he fell, and says, "Come on, let's go see if we can find him."
Aren’t most holsters equipped with a latch of some kind to keep the pistol from falling out? Also, this comment is different from others as they said the pistol was first put INTO the squad car and then removed. We know he did NOT draw because of comments like this.
Representative FORD. When you saw the pistol it wasn't in Officer Tippit's hands?
Mr. SCOGGINS. No, sir; oh, he never did have a pistol in his hand, as far as I know.
Mr. BELIN. You saw him when he was falling?
Mr. SCOGGINS. Yes; he was holding his stomach.
Mr. BELIN. You saw him holding his stomach as he fell?
Mr. SCOGGINS. Yes.
Mr. BELIN. Did he have anything in his hands?
Mr. SCOGGINS. If he did I couldn't see it, and I don't think he ever got to his pistol from what I saw.
So again, how did JDT’s pistol just fall out of his holster? This is an important question because of what Bowley stated in his affidavit. He said he put it in the squad car, but some man took it out and said “Let’s catch him.” He said the man then took the pistol and got into a CAB and drove off! Scoggins was a CAB DRIVER! But, Scoggins claimed they gave the pistol to a man he thought was a police officer, but wasn’t.
Mr. BELIN. At about what time, do you know offhand?
Mr. SCOGGINS. About 1:30, I guess, approximately 1:30; between 1:30 and 1:35, I would say. We cruised around several blocks looking for him, and we--one of these police cars came by and this fellow who was with me stopped it, and we got back in the car and went back up to the scene, and he give them the pistol, and that time is when I found out he wasn't an officer.
IF he wasn’t an officer, then who in the heck was he? Why did the WC just ignore this comment? To add more confusion to the situation we have another version from witness Ted Callaway. He said this before the WC.
Mr. BALL. When you got there what did you see?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I saw a squad car, and by that time there was four or five people that had gathered, a couple of cars had stopped…The officer was laying on his left side, his pistol was underneath him. I kind of rolled him over and took his gun out from under him. The people wonder whether he ever got his pistol out of his holster. He did.
Mr. BALL. The pistol was out of the holster?
Mr. CALLAWAY. Yes, sir; out of the holster, and it was unsnapped. It was on his right side. He was laying with the gun under him.
This is the third witness that said the pistol was out of the holster, but we have been told JDT DID NOT DRAW his pistol, so who UNSNAPPED THE HOLSTER?
Mr. BALL. What did you do?
Mr. CALLAWAY. I picked the gun up and laid it on the hood of the squad car, and then someone put it in the front seat of the squad car… I got the gun out of the car and told this cabdriver, I said, "You saw the guy didn't you?" He said, yes. I said, "If he is going up Jefferson, he can't be very far. Let's see if we can find him." So I went with Scoggins in the taxicab, went up to 10th, Crawford, from Crawford up to Jefferson, and down Jefferson to Beckley.
Here we see it stated that it was Callaway that took the gun out of the squad car and left with Scoggins to chase the shooter, but Scoggins did NOT mention Callaway once in his testimony! Nor did he mention getting into his cab to chase the shooter. What is going on here? How did JDT’s holster get UNSNAPPED when he never drew the weapon himself? How did they drive off with it when Scoggins said he gave it to a man he thought was a police officer? What happened to this pistol?
Can any WC defender answer these questions? Again, we see the WC ignoring evidence that contradicted their conclusion. Sadly for them, they included a ton of evidence that did NOT support their conclusion and showed us a conspiracy took place.
Once again, they are sunk by their own evidence and by their omission of so much information and evidence. Remember, Ford said they reached the conclusion of a single shooter based on what they SAW alone, and when one sees how carefully they made sure they ONLY saw what they wanted to see (i.e. things that fit their preconceived outcome) no wonder they kidded themselves into reaching their conclusion of a single shooter.