Post by Rob Caprio on Jan 10, 2022 21:39:06 GMT -5
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During the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison looked into a man who was in Dealey Plaza (DP) during the assassination. Some conspiracy researchers have claimed that he was coordinating the shooting via a radio walkie-talkie. This man's name is Jim Hicks and he was called before the New Orleans Grand Jury on January 11, 1968, to be asked about this.
He would tell Garrison and the grand jury that he arrived in DP before the motorcade arrived and he found a place to stand on Main Street to view the procession. He said that he noticed a car with two men in the parking lot next to the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), and he said one of the men was kneeling with something in his hands like a broom handle or pipe but not a weapon. (Jim Hicks New Orleans Grand Jury Testimony, pp. 1, 2, & 4)
He said that during the shooting sequence a shot came over his head and hit a caution sign or he believed that a shot hit the sign. He further said that a Dallas Police Department (DPD) car arrived and the officer and two other men removed the sign within 30 minutes of the shooting. (Ibid. pp. 2 & 4)
The man kneeling was inside the trunk of the car that Hicks had seen earlier when trying to find a place to stand. Once he found the place he turned to face the street to see the motorcade and that is when a shot came over his head. His back was to the Grassy Knoll (GK) area. (Ibid. p. 5) He then confirms where most of the people were going after the shots had been fired.
Q. Where were most of the people running after the shots were fired, up the grassy knoll?
A. Yes.
Q. Were the police running up there too?
A. Yes. (Ibid., p. 5)
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This is confirmed by photographs and films taken in DP after the shooting. The majority of people, including the police, were running up the GK towards the picket fence area. Why would they do this IF all the shots only came from the TSBD as claimed by the Warren Commission (WC)? Hicks confirmed that he stopped to tell a Dallas policeman about the sign and that he was never questioned by the Federal Government about this. (Ibid., p.6) He then describes the car the men were in and near in the TSBD parking lot.
Q. You say one man was kneeling in the trunk of a car?
A. Yes.
Q. Where was the other man?
A. The other man was standing beside the car.
Q. You remember anything about the description of the car?
A. I told Mr. Garrison at the time, last July, that it was a '56 model Pontiac.
Q. And the color of it?
A. If I remember right, a brown, sort of beige, off-color white.
Juror -- Q. Was it backed up to the fence?
A. It was back in here.
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Q. It was backed up to the fence, is there a fence behind the knoll?
A. Yes, there was.
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Q. Did you look in the direction of the car after the shots?
A. Yes, the car was gone.
Q. Did you look during the shooting?
A. No.
Q. Any particular reason why?
A. Well, at the time of the shots going off I don't exactly know what I was doing, I think I was trying to hide and everything else. There were a lot of shots...
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Q. How many different areas did you hear shots coming from?
A. At least two.
Q. At least two you mean besides the direction of the Depository?
A. Like I say, I don't know about this up here, I didn't hear any shots come from up there (TSBD), the ones I heard came from hear and hear (GK). (Ibid., pp. 6-8)
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He saw the car with the two men before the motorcade arrived. One was kneeling in the trunk of the 1956 Pontiac and one was standing beside it. The car was backed up to the picket fence which meant the man would be facing Elm Street. If he was not shooting at JFK, what was he doing kneeling in the trunk of a car parked behind a fence for then? Remember too, that this was a private parking lot so why was this car and those men there?
More incriminating evidence against them is the fact that they were gone as soon as the shots stopped. If they were regular ordinary people wouldn't they want to see what had happened? I would think so, but they bolted instead. The type of car does not match the three that witness Lee Bowers saw in the same parking lot (a 1959 Oldsmobile - blue and white; a 1957 black Ford and a 1961 or 1962 Chevrolet. four-door white Impala).
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Hicks dismissed shots from the TSBD and said that he heard shots coming from the GK in two locations. For years researchers have said that there were two teams on the GK and this would seem to confirm that. Hicks is then asked about JFK and what he observed during the shooting.
Q. You saw the President when he fell?
A. Yes.
Q. You were that close? How far?
A. ...I would say about 50 feet at the most.
Q. He went frontward, sideward?
A. Well, when he was hit he sort went backward to one side. There was one thing that when I read about it I wondered how he could go back this way when he was shot from the other way (TSBD). It doesn't make sense, does it?
Q. In other words, if the bullet came from the Book Depository he would have fallen forwards rather than back to the left? (Ibid., p. 8)
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Hicks stated the $1,000,000.00 dollar question here. How could JFK fall backwards and to the left IF he was shot from the TSBD as the WC claimed? It's impossible of course and this one point proves that there was at least one shot from the front of the presidential limousine and that means a second shooter at the very least. This equals a conspiracy. No wonder he was ignored by the WC as he said he tried to give a statement to the police but they made no report and never contacted him. (Ibid., p. 10)
He then makes another great point about JFK's head wound.
Q. You say you saw the President's head explode. In relation to the shot, you say it came over your head or from those directions, did it appear to you that the shot that exploded the head came from those directions?
A. Yes, very definitely. For one reason I think this way is because when his head exploded his blood and everything else [went] in a backward way...
Q. Hit the motorcycle policeman to the rear on the left?
A. Yes, the motorcycle policeman -- I did notice that the blood and all that going to the back.
Q. Brain matter. (Ibid., p. 11)
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Clearly, based on his observations, the shot that killed JFK had to come from the front area of the limousine and NOT the TSBD as the WC would claim. He was asked if he talked with others there and he said "most of the people felt that the shots came from the mound" [GK]. He also said that everyone was running to that area and he did too. (Ibid.) No wonder the authorities ignored him, huh? No wonder the WC only asked 123 people where they thought the shot originated from (and nearly two-thirds of them said the GK), huh?
He was then asked again about the two men. He said that the one kneeling appeared to be "Spanish" and the one standing was not colored, but darker than the one kneeling. (Ibid., pp. 12-13) He would not say the man kneeling had a rifle because to him it did not look like one as it appeared to be bigger like a pipe. Obviously there are all kinds of weapons so it had to be a type of rifle in all likelihood. What else could it be? (Ibid., p.13)
He would be asked about the sequence of the shots and he said they all came together in a bang, bang, and bang format. (Ibid., p.15)
He told Garrison that he could not believe that they would have arrested Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) for the shooting because he was in the TSBD and he knew that the shots had not come from there. (Ibid., p.16) Many witnesses were told by FBI and other law enforcement that they heard echoes when they mentioned more than three shots, but Hicks said he heard NO echoes and he was a surveyor which meant he was familiar with sounds in places like DP. (Ibid.)
What gives credence to Hicks' story is that he was pushed out of his hotel room window the night before he was to testify at this grand jury. He was pushed through the window by one of the men. Why would they do this if he had nothing pertinent to tell? What else is fishy is the doors to the hotel automatically locked so how did these men get into his room? He described the men as being colored and thought maybe it was a robbery attempt. (Ibid., pp.17-19)
He also recounted some of the threatening telephone calls he received about his family prior to testifying before the Grand Jury. His hometown newspaper even ran a headline claiming that Hicks was charged with involvement in the conspiracy that killed JFK. (Ibid., p.19) This is probably where people have gotten the idea that he was involved in some way. Garrison investigated him and had no plans to charge him with complicity.
What do you think of Hicks' testimony? I think it is very strong and supports the notion of conspiracy in many ways. We can see why the authorities and the WC had no interest in him or what he had to say.
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During the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK), New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison looked into a man who was in Dealey Plaza (DP) during the assassination. Some conspiracy researchers have claimed that he was coordinating the shooting via a radio walkie-talkie. This man's name is Jim Hicks and he was called before the New Orleans Grand Jury on January 11, 1968, to be asked about this.
He would tell Garrison and the grand jury that he arrived in DP before the motorcade arrived and he found a place to stand on Main Street to view the procession. He said that he noticed a car with two men in the parking lot next to the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), and he said one of the men was kneeling with something in his hands like a broom handle or pipe but not a weapon. (Jim Hicks New Orleans Grand Jury Testimony, pp. 1, 2, & 4)
He said that during the shooting sequence a shot came over his head and hit a caution sign or he believed that a shot hit the sign. He further said that a Dallas Police Department (DPD) car arrived and the officer and two other men removed the sign within 30 minutes of the shooting. (Ibid. pp. 2 & 4)
The man kneeling was inside the trunk of the car that Hicks had seen earlier when trying to find a place to stand. Once he found the place he turned to face the street to see the motorcade and that is when a shot came over his head. His back was to the Grassy Knoll (GK) area. (Ibid. p. 5) He then confirms where most of the people were going after the shots had been fired.
Q. Where were most of the people running after the shots were fired, up the grassy knoll?
A. Yes.
Q. Were the police running up there too?
A. Yes. (Ibid., p. 5)
maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1187#relPageId=7
This is confirmed by photographs and films taken in DP after the shooting. The majority of people, including the police, were running up the GK towards the picket fence area. Why would they do this IF all the shots only came from the TSBD as claimed by the Warren Commission (WC)? Hicks confirmed that he stopped to tell a Dallas policeman about the sign and that he was never questioned by the Federal Government about this. (Ibid., p.6) He then describes the car the men were in and near in the TSBD parking lot.
Q. You say one man was kneeling in the trunk of a car?
A. Yes.
Q. Where was the other man?
A. The other man was standing beside the car.
Q. You remember anything about the description of the car?
A. I told Mr. Garrison at the time, last July, that it was a '56 model Pontiac.
Q. And the color of it?
A. If I remember right, a brown, sort of beige, off-color white.
Juror -- Q. Was it backed up to the fence?
A. It was back in here.
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Q. It was backed up to the fence, is there a fence behind the knoll?
A. Yes, there was.
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Q. Did you look in the direction of the car after the shots?
A. Yes, the car was gone.
Q. Did you look during the shooting?
A. No.
Q. Any particular reason why?
A. Well, at the time of the shots going off I don't exactly know what I was doing, I think I was trying to hide and everything else. There were a lot of shots...
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Q. How many different areas did you hear shots coming from?
A. At least two.
Q. At least two you mean besides the direction of the Depository?
A. Like I say, I don't know about this up here, I didn't hear any shots come from up there (TSBD), the ones I heard came from hear and hear (GK). (Ibid., pp. 6-8)
maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1187#relPageId=8
He saw the car with the two men before the motorcade arrived. One was kneeling in the trunk of the 1956 Pontiac and one was standing beside it. The car was backed up to the picket fence which meant the man would be facing Elm Street. If he was not shooting at JFK, what was he doing kneeling in the trunk of a car parked behind a fence for then? Remember too, that this was a private parking lot so why was this car and those men there?
More incriminating evidence against them is the fact that they were gone as soon as the shots stopped. If they were regular ordinary people wouldn't they want to see what had happened? I would think so, but they bolted instead. The type of car does not match the three that witness Lee Bowers saw in the same parking lot (a 1959 Oldsmobile - blue and white; a 1957 black Ford and a 1961 or 1962 Chevrolet. four-door white Impala).
www.jfk-assassination.net/images/Bowers_affidavit.gif
Hicks dismissed shots from the TSBD and said that he heard shots coming from the GK in two locations. For years researchers have said that there were two teams on the GK and this would seem to confirm that. Hicks is then asked about JFK and what he observed during the shooting.
Q. You saw the President when he fell?
A. Yes.
Q. You were that close? How far?
A. ...I would say about 50 feet at the most.
Q. He went frontward, sideward?
A. Well, when he was hit he sort went backward to one side. There was one thing that when I read about it I wondered how he could go back this way when he was shot from the other way (TSBD). It doesn't make sense, does it?
Q. In other words, if the bullet came from the Book Depository he would have fallen forwards rather than back to the left? (Ibid., p. 8)
maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1187#relPageId=10
Hicks stated the $1,000,000.00 dollar question here. How could JFK fall backwards and to the left IF he was shot from the TSBD as the WC claimed? It's impossible of course and this one point proves that there was at least one shot from the front of the presidential limousine and that means a second shooter at the very least. This equals a conspiracy. No wonder he was ignored by the WC as he said he tried to give a statement to the police but they made no report and never contacted him. (Ibid., p. 10)
He then makes another great point about JFK's head wound.
Q. You say you saw the President's head explode. In relation to the shot, you say it came over your head or from those directions, did it appear to you that the shot that exploded the head came from those directions?
A. Yes, very definitely. For one reason I think this way is because when his head exploded his blood and everything else [went] in a backward way...
Q. Hit the motorcycle policeman to the rear on the left?
A. Yes, the motorcycle policeman -- I did notice that the blood and all that going to the back.
Q. Brain matter. (Ibid., p. 11)
maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1187#relPageId=13
Clearly, based on his observations, the shot that killed JFK had to come from the front area of the limousine and NOT the TSBD as the WC would claim. He was asked if he talked with others there and he said "most of the people felt that the shots came from the mound" [GK]. He also said that everyone was running to that area and he did too. (Ibid.) No wonder the authorities ignored him, huh? No wonder the WC only asked 123 people where they thought the shot originated from (and nearly two-thirds of them said the GK), huh?
He was then asked again about the two men. He said that the one kneeling appeared to be "Spanish" and the one standing was not colored, but darker than the one kneeling. (Ibid., pp. 12-13) He would not say the man kneeling had a rifle because to him it did not look like one as it appeared to be bigger like a pipe. Obviously there are all kinds of weapons so it had to be a type of rifle in all likelihood. What else could it be? (Ibid., p.13)
He would be asked about the sequence of the shots and he said they all came together in a bang, bang, and bang format. (Ibid., p.15)
He told Garrison that he could not believe that they would have arrested Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) for the shooting because he was in the TSBD and he knew that the shots had not come from there. (Ibid., p.16) Many witnesses were told by FBI and other law enforcement that they heard echoes when they mentioned more than three shots, but Hicks said he heard NO echoes and he was a surveyor which meant he was familiar with sounds in places like DP. (Ibid.)
What gives credence to Hicks' story is that he was pushed out of his hotel room window the night before he was to testify at this grand jury. He was pushed through the window by one of the men. Why would they do this if he had nothing pertinent to tell? What else is fishy is the doors to the hotel automatically locked so how did these men get into his room? He described the men as being colored and thought maybe it was a robbery attempt. (Ibid., pp.17-19)
He also recounted some of the threatening telephone calls he received about his family prior to testifying before the Grand Jury. His hometown newspaper even ran a headline claiming that Hicks was charged with involvement in the conspiracy that killed JFK. (Ibid., p.19) This is probably where people have gotten the idea that he was involved in some way. Garrison investigated him and had no plans to charge him with complicity.
What do you think of Hicks' testimony? I think it is very strong and supports the notion of conspiracy in many ways. We can see why the authorities and the WC had no interest in him or what he had to say.