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Raymond Gallagher
1/2012
In Case Closed, Gerald Posner, the author, describes the scene, on the street in Oak Cliff, where Patrolman J.D. Tippit decided to stop Lee Oswald as a suspect in the killing of President Kennedy.
"He pulled his patrol car to the curb behind Oswald and called him over. Oswald turned around and walked back to the car. He leaned close toward the passenger side, exchanging some words through the open vent window. Whatever he said did not satisfy Tippit, who then got out of his car and started to walk around the front toward Oswald. Tippit did not first call on his radio that he had stopped someone, nor did he draw his gun upon exiting the car. According to Dallas police procedure, this indicated that he was merely suspicious, but not positive he had found a suspect." p274.
Posner is wrong: Tippit did draw his gun.
From the Warren Report:
"An automobile repairman, Domingo Benavides heard the shots and stopped his pickup truck on the opposite side of the street about 25 feet in front of the Tippit car. Benavides rushed to Tippit's side. The patrolman, apparently dead, was lying on his revolver, which was out of his holster." WR
From Benivides testimony:
MR. BELIN: Did you notice where the gun of the policeman was?
MR. BENIVIDES: The gun was in his hand and he was partially lying on his gun in the right hand. He was partially lying on his gun and his hand, too." Vol.6, p.449.
Another Witness, Ted Callaway, manager of a used car lot on the corner of Patton Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard, heard the shots and found Tippit lying on the street beside his car. Callaway picked up Tippit's gun and he and Wm. Scoggins, a cab driver, attempted to chase the gunman in Scoggin's taxi cab.
From Callaway's testimony:
MR.CALLAWAY:... The officer was lying on his left side, his pistol was underneath him. I kind of rolled him over and took the 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 holster?
MR.Callaway: Yes, sir: out of his holster, and it was unsnapped. It was on his right side. He was lying with his gun under him. Vol. 3,p. 354
Some of the criticism of Posner's work may appear petty, such as whether or not Tippit had un holstered his weapon, but Posner makes the issue important when he says that Tippit did not draw his gun which indicated that he was only suspicious. Since he obviously did draw his gun, does it indicate that the officer was more than suspicious? Some people believe that Tippit was part of the plot whose purpose was to kill Oswald. Is Posner worried that the drawn weapon aids their cause?
“We like to be deceived.”
---- Blaise Pascal
Peter Dale Scott's review of Posner's research.
SCOTT: " Case Closed may seem to the uninformed readers to be the most persuasive of a succession of books that have urged readers to accept the lone-assassin finding of the Warren Report. But to those who know the case it is also evidence of on-going cover-up. For Posner often transmits without evaluation official statements that are now known to be false or chooses discredited but complaint witnesses who have already disowned earlier stories that have been disproven. He even revives a wild allegation which the Warren Commision rejected and reverses testimony to suggest its opposite."
What is more interesting to me is:
Officer W.E. Barnes dusted the right door ledge of Tippit's car because he'd been told that the killer had leaned on the door ("smear prints" were found, but "none of value.")
Barnes is interviewed by David Belin regarding a particular photograph, Barnes Deposition Exhibit A:
Q: ... Now I notice on the right-front door window it appears that the vent window was open and that the main window is closed. Is that the way that you found the car when you got there?
A: That is true.
Q: Inside the window there appears to be some kind of paper or document. Do you remember what that is at all, or not?
A: That is a board, a clipboard that is installed on the dash of all squad cars for the officers to take notes on and to keep their wanted persons.
Q: Were there any notes on there that you saw that had been made on this clipboard?
A: Yes; we never read his clipboard.
Q: That is the way you saw the clipboard there?
A: That is the way it was.
Q: It appears to be there is a picture of some man on the clipboard. Did you notice whether or not there was any handwriting or any memorandum paper on the board?
A: I couldn't tell you what was on the clipboard.
Q: Anything else about this particular picture, Barnes Deposition Exhibit A?
A: What?
Q: Anything that you can tell us about it that you think might be relevant?
A: Not that I know. (7H273-74)
Who took possession of the materials in the car, and who examined them ? What became of them?
Read; The Rosetta Stone of the JFK Assassination. Published in Flagpole Magazine, p. 8 (November 20, 2002).
Author: Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law.
www.law.uga.edu/dwilkes_more/jfk_19rosetta.html
The evidence that Oswald murdered Tippit is unconvincing. Thirty-nine-year-old Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit was shot to death near the intersection of Tenth and Patton Streets in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas shortly before 1:16 p.m. on November 22, 1963. Tippit's death occurred about 45 minutes after JFK was shot in Dealey Plaza, approximately four miles away in downtown Dallas. While cruising east in his marked police car on Patton, the uniformed Tippit came across a pedestrian walking in the same direction on the sidewalk. Bringing his car to a stop, Tippit called the pedestrian to the car, whereupon the pedestrian approached and apparently spoke to Tippit through the (open right front vent window.) After a brief conversation, Tippit exited his car and started to walk to the front of his car. As he reached the left front wheel, the pedestrian pulled out a pistol and began shooting Tippit across the car hood. Tippit, who by now had drawn his service revolver, fell into the street, and shortly thereafter the killer fled the scene. Half an hour later Oswald, while in possession of a .38 caliber pistol, was arrested at a movie theater approximately eight blocks away.
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I had a car like that and it also had a vent window. I never talked to anyone through that vent that I can remember. ----- Raymond
More?
Oswald-Tippit Connections The Warren Report asserted there was “no evidence” that Oswald and Tippit “had ever seen each other before.” Actually, there was. A waitress at a Dobbs House restaurant in Dallas told FBI investigators working for the Warren Commission that two days before the JFK assassination Oswald, a customer in the restaurant, was “nasty and used curse words” in connection with his food order, that Tippit was also in the restaurant “as was his habit at about that time each morning,” and that Tippit “shot a glance at Oswald.” Another Dobbs House waitress also told the FBI of the incident when Oswald was rude (although she thought it occurred one day before the assassination); she further recalled that Oswald came into the restaurant “numerous times.” The Dobbs House manager told the FBI that Tippit was a regular “coffee customer.” (Interestingly, the restaurant was outside Tippit’s patrol district.) Despite this evidence that Oswald and Tippit frequented the same restaurant, that on at least one occasion--only a day or two before the Kennedy assassination--they were both present there at the same time, and that on that occasion Tippit glanced toward Oswald, neither the FBI nor the Warren Commission further investigated the matter.
The Mysterious Police Car The housekeeper at the rooming house (about a mile from the Tippit murder site) where Oswald was living told the Warren Commission that around 1 p.m. on November 22, while Oswald was alone in his room, a marked police car stopped in front of the premises, sounded its horn twice, and then slowly drove away. Although it treated her as a credible and responsible witness in every other respect, the Warren Commission curiously rejected this part of the housekeeper's testimony. In his book Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald (1967), Robert Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother, cogently asks: “How could the Commission decide that [the housekeeper] was right when she supplied [other] information, but wrong when she made her firm statement about the police car stopping and honking?”
That housekeeper, Mrs. Earlene Roberts, thought that there were two police officers in the mysterious police car; and, interestingly, photographs of Tippit’s patrol car taken only a few minutes later, shortly after Tippit’s death, show a police uniform is visible hanging inside one of the backseat windows of his car. Furthermore, as Sylvia Meagher notes, Roberts “was confused about the number on the vehicle and gave several different versions. In some of the three-digit combinations, she suggested, the first two figures were a 1 and a 0; Tippit’s car was ‘No. 10.’”
Tippit’s Activities Shortly Before His Death Officer Tippit’s actions in the minutes preceding his murder are shrouded in mystery. At 1:03 p.m. the police radio dispatcher signaled Tippit seeking his location, but inexplicably received no response. Several seemingly reliable witnesses saw him parked in his patrol car in a gas station in Oak Cliff shortly before 1:00 p.m.; after several minutes, he was seen to drive away at high speed. A few minutes later two witnesses who knew Tippit well saw him enter the record shop in Oak Cliff where they worked and where Tippit frequently used the telephone. Tippit dialed a number but got no answer, hung up, and then rushed out. Around 1:08 p.m. Tippit twice radioed the police dispatcher but inexplicably got no reply. At the time of his death Tippit, one of the few officers not sent to Dealey Plaza, was outside his regular patrol district; Dallas police explanations of why Tippit happened to be where he was in Oak Cliff are not credible. Nor has there ever been a sufficient explanation of why Tippit stopped the pedestrian. It is unlikely that he stopped the pedestrian thinking the pedestrian might be a presidential assassin. If Tippit did think the pedestrian was possibly an assassin, it is odd that he never radioed for help and that he left the safety of his car.
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I have always wondered why Tippit had a second jacket hanging in the rear of his police car. Was Harry Olsen in that car with JD and were they the policemen that stopped at the N. Beckley address to pick up the running rabbit? Harry was not on duty that day due to an injury of his leg in a car accident and was in a cast. He was allegedly on a private job watching an estate. He was substituting for another officer who was needed for the downtown JFK motorcade protection.
Harry was also dating Kathy Kay Coleman who was a stripper at Ruby's Carousel Club.
Mr. Specter. And where was Mrs. Kay Olsen, who was then not your wife, living at that time?
Mr. Olsen. On Ewing.
Mr. Specter. What was her specific address, if you recall?
Mr. Olsen. 325 North Ewing, I believe.
Mr. Specter. What was your relationship with Kay in the fall of 1963?
Mr. Olsen. We were going together.
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If you go to the corner of 8th and Patton, where J.D. Tippit was executed, you can throw a stone at the rear door of Kay's apartment, 325 North Ewing.
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Mr. Specter. How far was Mr. Ruby's residence from your residence?
Mr. Olsen. Oh, boy. Oh, it was, I would guess, 2 or 3 miles.
Mr. Specter. Did you ever live only 1 block away from Mr. Ruby's residence?
Mr. Olsen. No, sir.
Mr. Specter. Did Jack Ruby ever visit you at your apartment?
Mr. Olsen. No, sir.
Mr. Specter. Did Jack Ruby ever visit Kay at her apartment?
Mr. Olsen. Yes, sir.
Mr. Specter. How many times did he visit Kay at her apartment?
Mr. Olsen. I don't know.
Mr. Specter. Did you know Officer J. D. Tippit?
Mr. Olsen. Yes, sir.
Mr. Specter. Did you know him very well?
Mr. Olsen. No, sir.
Mr. Specter. Do you know whether or not Jack Ruby knew Officer J. D. Tippit?
Mr. Olsen. I heard that he did.
Mr. Specter. Tell me, as specifically as you can recollect, exactly what your activities were on that day.
Mr. Olsen. I was employed by the Dallas Police Department and I was working at an extra job guarding an estate.
Mr. Specter. Whose estate was that?
Mr. Olsen. I don't remember the name.
Mr. Specter. How did you happen to get that extra job?
Mr. Olsen. A motorcycle officer was related to this elderly woman, and he was doing work, but he was in the motor----
Mr. Specter. Cade?
Mr. Olsen. Motorcade of the President, and I was off that day and able to work it.
Mr, SPECTER. Do you recall the name of the motorcycle officer?
Mr. Olsen. No.
Mr. Specter. Where was that estate located?
Mr. Olsen. *** On 8th Street in Dallas.
Mr. Specter. Do you recall the specific address or the cross street on which it was located?
Mr. Olsen. It's in the Oak Cliff area, it's approximately two blocks off of Stemmons.
Mr. Specter. How did it happen that you were not on duty with the police department on the day President Kennedy was in town?
Mr. Olsen. I had my leg in a cast and I was doing light duty, which was working in the office, patrol office, and I had asked them if they needed me to work that day and they said no.
Mr. Specter. What sort of an accident did you have to injure your leg?
Mr. Olsen. I fell and broke my kneecap.
Yes, sir; it's on Gaston.
Mr. Specter. What time did you start to guard the estate on that particular Friday?
Mr. Olsen. About 7 a.m.
Mr. Specter. And how long did that guard duty last?
Mr. Olsen. Until about 8.
Mr. Specter. Eight p.m.?
Mr. Olsen. P.m., yes, sir.
Mr. Specter. Did you have any visitors while you were guarding the estate on that day?
Mr. Olsen. Yes, sir.
Mr. Specter. And who was the visitor or visitors?
Mr. Olsen. Kay.
Mr. Specter. What time did she visit you?
Mr. Olsen. Right after the President was shot.
Mr. Specter. How did you learn of the assassination of the President?
Mr. Olsen. A woman called me on the phone who was a friend of the person who had lived there.
Mr. Specter. Do you know who that woman was?
Mr. Olsen. No, sir.- And she wanted to know if I had heard the news, and I said no and she said, "The President has been shot."
Mr. Specter. What time did that telephone call occur?
Mr. Olsen. Right after he was shot. I don't know exactly what time it was.
Mr. Specter. Did you talk to anybody else on the telephone or in person between the telephone call and the time that Kay visited you?
Mr. Olsen. Passers-by. I went outside.
Mr. Specter. Whom did you see outside?
Mr. Olsen. No one who I knew by name They just said, "Have you heard the news?" And I said, "Yes, I had."
Mr. Specter. Did you have any other telephone calls while you were guarding that house?
Mr. Olsen. I called the police department and asked them if they needed me to work.
Mr. Specter. To whom did you talk at the police department?
Mr. Olsen. I don't recall.
Mr. Specter. What response did you get?
Mr. Olsen. They said no.
Mr. Specter. What time did Kay visit you on that Friday?
Mr. Olsen. In the afternoon sometime.
Mr. Specter. How long did she stay?
Mr. Olsen. Oh, I would say an hour or two.
Mr. Specter. Where did you have lunch on that Friday?
Mr. Olsen. There at the place that I was watching.
Mr. Specter. Where did you have supper that day?
Mr. Olsen. At her house.
Mr. Specter. What time did you go to her house? And by "her" I take it you mean Kay's house?
Mr. Olsen. Yes.
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Raymond Gallagher
1/2012
In Case Closed, Gerald Posner, the author, describes the scene, on the street in Oak Cliff, where Patrolman J.D. Tippit decided to stop Lee Oswald as a suspect in the killing of President Kennedy.
"He pulled his patrol car to the curb behind Oswald and called him over. Oswald turned around and walked back to the car. He leaned close toward the passenger side, exchanging some words through the open vent window. Whatever he said did not satisfy Tippit, who then got out of his car and started to walk around the front toward Oswald. Tippit did not first call on his radio that he had stopped someone, nor did he draw his gun upon exiting the car. According to Dallas police procedure, this indicated that he was merely suspicious, but not positive he had found a suspect." p274.
Posner is wrong: Tippit did draw his gun.
From the Warren Report:
"An automobile repairman, Domingo Benavides heard the shots and stopped his pickup truck on the opposite side of the street about 25 feet in front of the Tippit car. Benavides rushed to Tippit's side. The patrolman, apparently dead, was lying on his revolver, which was out of his holster." WR
From Benivides testimony:
MR. BELIN: Did you notice where the gun of the policeman was?
MR. BENIVIDES: The gun was in his hand and he was partially lying on his gun in the right hand. He was partially lying on his gun and his hand, too." Vol.6, p.449.
Another Witness, Ted Callaway, manager of a used car lot on the corner of Patton Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard, heard the shots and found Tippit lying on the street beside his car. Callaway picked up Tippit's gun and he and Wm. Scoggins, a cab driver, attempted to chase the gunman in Scoggin's taxi cab.
From Callaway's testimony:
MR.CALLAWAY:... The officer was lying on his left side, his pistol was underneath him. I kind of rolled him over and took the 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 holster?
MR.Callaway: Yes, sir: out of his holster, and it was unsnapped. It was on his right side. He was lying with his gun under him. Vol. 3,p. 354
Some of the criticism of Posner's work may appear petty, such as whether or not Tippit had un holstered his weapon, but Posner makes the issue important when he says that Tippit did not draw his gun which indicated that he was only suspicious. Since he obviously did draw his gun, does it indicate that the officer was more than suspicious? Some people believe that Tippit was part of the plot whose purpose was to kill Oswald. Is Posner worried that the drawn weapon aids their cause?
“We like to be deceived.”
---- Blaise Pascal
Peter Dale Scott's review of Posner's research.
SCOTT: " Case Closed may seem to the uninformed readers to be the most persuasive of a succession of books that have urged readers to accept the lone-assassin finding of the Warren Report. But to those who know the case it is also evidence of on-going cover-up. For Posner often transmits without evaluation official statements that are now known to be false or chooses discredited but complaint witnesses who have already disowned earlier stories that have been disproven. He even revives a wild allegation which the Warren Commision rejected and reverses testimony to suggest its opposite."
What is more interesting to me is:
Officer W.E. Barnes dusted the right door ledge of Tippit's car because he'd been told that the killer had leaned on the door ("smear prints" were found, but "none of value.")
Barnes is interviewed by David Belin regarding a particular photograph, Barnes Deposition Exhibit A:
Q: ... Now I notice on the right-front door window it appears that the vent window was open and that the main window is closed. Is that the way that you found the car when you got there?
A: That is true.
Q: Inside the window there appears to be some kind of paper or document. Do you remember what that is at all, or not?
A: That is a board, a clipboard that is installed on the dash of all squad cars for the officers to take notes on and to keep their wanted persons.
Q: Were there any notes on there that you saw that had been made on this clipboard?
A: Yes; we never read his clipboard.
Q: That is the way you saw the clipboard there?
A: That is the way it was.
Q: It appears to be there is a picture of some man on the clipboard. Did you notice whether or not there was any handwriting or any memorandum paper on the board?
A: I couldn't tell you what was on the clipboard.
Q: Anything else about this particular picture, Barnes Deposition Exhibit A?
A: What?
Q: Anything that you can tell us about it that you think might be relevant?
A: Not that I know. (7H273-74)
Who took possession of the materials in the car, and who examined them ? What became of them?
Read; The Rosetta Stone of the JFK Assassination. Published in Flagpole Magazine, p. 8 (November 20, 2002).
Author: Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law.
www.law.uga.edu/dwilkes_more/jfk_19rosetta.html
The evidence that Oswald murdered Tippit is unconvincing. Thirty-nine-year-old Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit was shot to death near the intersection of Tenth and Patton Streets in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas shortly before 1:16 p.m. on November 22, 1963. Tippit's death occurred about 45 minutes after JFK was shot in Dealey Plaza, approximately four miles away in downtown Dallas. While cruising east in his marked police car on Patton, the uniformed Tippit came across a pedestrian walking in the same direction on the sidewalk. Bringing his car to a stop, Tippit called the pedestrian to the car, whereupon the pedestrian approached and apparently spoke to Tippit through the (open right front vent window.) After a brief conversation, Tippit exited his car and started to walk to the front of his car. As he reached the left front wheel, the pedestrian pulled out a pistol and began shooting Tippit across the car hood. Tippit, who by now had drawn his service revolver, fell into the street, and shortly thereafter the killer fled the scene. Half an hour later Oswald, while in possession of a .38 caliber pistol, was arrested at a movie theater approximately eight blocks away.
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I had a car like that and it also had a vent window. I never talked to anyone through that vent that I can remember. ----- Raymond
More?
Oswald-Tippit Connections The Warren Report asserted there was “no evidence” that Oswald and Tippit “had ever seen each other before.” Actually, there was. A waitress at a Dobbs House restaurant in Dallas told FBI investigators working for the Warren Commission that two days before the JFK assassination Oswald, a customer in the restaurant, was “nasty and used curse words” in connection with his food order, that Tippit was also in the restaurant “as was his habit at about that time each morning,” and that Tippit “shot a glance at Oswald.” Another Dobbs House waitress also told the FBI of the incident when Oswald was rude (although she thought it occurred one day before the assassination); she further recalled that Oswald came into the restaurant “numerous times.” The Dobbs House manager told the FBI that Tippit was a regular “coffee customer.” (Interestingly, the restaurant was outside Tippit’s patrol district.) Despite this evidence that Oswald and Tippit frequented the same restaurant, that on at least one occasion--only a day or two before the Kennedy assassination--they were both present there at the same time, and that on that occasion Tippit glanced toward Oswald, neither the FBI nor the Warren Commission further investigated the matter.
The Mysterious Police Car The housekeeper at the rooming house (about a mile from the Tippit murder site) where Oswald was living told the Warren Commission that around 1 p.m. on November 22, while Oswald was alone in his room, a marked police car stopped in front of the premises, sounded its horn twice, and then slowly drove away. Although it treated her as a credible and responsible witness in every other respect, the Warren Commission curiously rejected this part of the housekeeper's testimony. In his book Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald (1967), Robert Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother, cogently asks: “How could the Commission decide that [the housekeeper] was right when she supplied [other] information, but wrong when she made her firm statement about the police car stopping and honking?”
That housekeeper, Mrs. Earlene Roberts, thought that there were two police officers in the mysterious police car; and, interestingly, photographs of Tippit’s patrol car taken only a few minutes later, shortly after Tippit’s death, show a police uniform is visible hanging inside one of the backseat windows of his car. Furthermore, as Sylvia Meagher notes, Roberts “was confused about the number on the vehicle and gave several different versions. In some of the three-digit combinations, she suggested, the first two figures were a 1 and a 0; Tippit’s car was ‘No. 10.’”
Tippit’s Activities Shortly Before His Death Officer Tippit’s actions in the minutes preceding his murder are shrouded in mystery. At 1:03 p.m. the police radio dispatcher signaled Tippit seeking his location, but inexplicably received no response. Several seemingly reliable witnesses saw him parked in his patrol car in a gas station in Oak Cliff shortly before 1:00 p.m.; after several minutes, he was seen to drive away at high speed. A few minutes later two witnesses who knew Tippit well saw him enter the record shop in Oak Cliff where they worked and where Tippit frequently used the telephone. Tippit dialed a number but got no answer, hung up, and then rushed out. Around 1:08 p.m. Tippit twice radioed the police dispatcher but inexplicably got no reply. At the time of his death Tippit, one of the few officers not sent to Dealey Plaza, was outside his regular patrol district; Dallas police explanations of why Tippit happened to be where he was in Oak Cliff are not credible. Nor has there ever been a sufficient explanation of why Tippit stopped the pedestrian. It is unlikely that he stopped the pedestrian thinking the pedestrian might be a presidential assassin. If Tippit did think the pedestrian was possibly an assassin, it is odd that he never radioed for help and that he left the safety of his car.
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I have always wondered why Tippit had a second jacket hanging in the rear of his police car. Was Harry Olsen in that car with JD and were they the policemen that stopped at the N. Beckley address to pick up the running rabbit? Harry was not on duty that day due to an injury of his leg in a car accident and was in a cast. He was allegedly on a private job watching an estate. He was substituting for another officer who was needed for the downtown JFK motorcade protection.
Harry was also dating Kathy Kay Coleman who was a stripper at Ruby's Carousel Club.
Mr. Specter. And where was Mrs. Kay Olsen, who was then not your wife, living at that time?
Mr. Olsen. On Ewing.
Mr. Specter. What was her specific address, if you recall?
Mr. Olsen. 325 North Ewing, I believe.
Mr. Specter. What was your relationship with Kay in the fall of 1963?
Mr. Olsen. We were going together.
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If you go to the corner of 8th and Patton, where J.D. Tippit was executed, you can throw a stone at the rear door of Kay's apartment, 325 North Ewing.
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Mr. Specter. How far was Mr. Ruby's residence from your residence?
Mr. Olsen. Oh, boy. Oh, it was, I would guess, 2 or 3 miles.
Mr. Specter. Did you ever live only 1 block away from Mr. Ruby's residence?
Mr. Olsen. No, sir.
Mr. Specter. Did Jack Ruby ever visit you at your apartment?
Mr. Olsen. No, sir.
Mr. Specter. Did Jack Ruby ever visit Kay at her apartment?
Mr. Olsen. Yes, sir.
Mr. Specter. How many times did he visit Kay at her apartment?
Mr. Olsen. I don't know.
Mr. Specter. Did you know Officer J. D. Tippit?
Mr. Olsen. Yes, sir.
Mr. Specter. Did you know him very well?
Mr. Olsen. No, sir.
Mr. Specter. Do you know whether or not Jack Ruby knew Officer J. D. Tippit?
Mr. Olsen. I heard that he did.
Mr. Specter. Tell me, as specifically as you can recollect, exactly what your activities were on that day.
Mr. Olsen. I was employed by the Dallas Police Department and I was working at an extra job guarding an estate.
Mr. Specter. Whose estate was that?
Mr. Olsen. I don't remember the name.
Mr. Specter. How did you happen to get that extra job?
Mr. Olsen. A motorcycle officer was related to this elderly woman, and he was doing work, but he was in the motor----
Mr. Specter. Cade?
Mr. Olsen. Motorcade of the President, and I was off that day and able to work it.
Mr, SPECTER. Do you recall the name of the motorcycle officer?
Mr. Olsen. No.
Mr. Specter. Where was that estate located?
Mr. Olsen. *** On 8th Street in Dallas.
Mr. Specter. Do you recall the specific address or the cross street on which it was located?
Mr. Olsen. It's in the Oak Cliff area, it's approximately two blocks off of Stemmons.
Mr. Specter. How did it happen that you were not on duty with the police department on the day President Kennedy was in town?
Mr. Olsen. I had my leg in a cast and I was doing light duty, which was working in the office, patrol office, and I had asked them if they needed me to work that day and they said no.
Mr. Specter. What sort of an accident did you have to injure your leg?
Mr. Olsen. I fell and broke my kneecap.
Yes, sir; it's on Gaston.
Mr. Specter. What time did you start to guard the estate on that particular Friday?
Mr. Olsen. About 7 a.m.
Mr. Specter. And how long did that guard duty last?
Mr. Olsen. Until about 8.
Mr. Specter. Eight p.m.?
Mr. Olsen. P.m., yes, sir.
Mr. Specter. Did you have any visitors while you were guarding the estate on that day?
Mr. Olsen. Yes, sir.
Mr. Specter. And who was the visitor or visitors?
Mr. Olsen. Kay.
Mr. Specter. What time did she visit you?
Mr. Olsen. Right after the President was shot.
Mr. Specter. How did you learn of the assassination of the President?
Mr. Olsen. A woman called me on the phone who was a friend of the person who had lived there.
Mr. Specter. Do you know who that woman was?
Mr. Olsen. No, sir.- And she wanted to know if I had heard the news, and I said no and she said, "The President has been shot."
Mr. Specter. What time did that telephone call occur?
Mr. Olsen. Right after he was shot. I don't know exactly what time it was.
Mr. Specter. Did you talk to anybody else on the telephone or in person between the telephone call and the time that Kay visited you?
Mr. Olsen. Passers-by. I went outside.
Mr. Specter. Whom did you see outside?
Mr. Olsen. No one who I knew by name They just said, "Have you heard the news?" And I said, "Yes, I had."
Mr. Specter. Did you have any other telephone calls while you were guarding that house?
Mr. Olsen. I called the police department and asked them if they needed me to work.
Mr. Specter. To whom did you talk at the police department?
Mr. Olsen. I don't recall.
Mr. Specter. What response did you get?
Mr. Olsen. They said no.
Mr. Specter. What time did Kay visit you on that Friday?
Mr. Olsen. In the afternoon sometime.
Mr. Specter. How long did she stay?
Mr. Olsen. Oh, I would say an hour or two.
Mr. Specter. Where did you have lunch on that Friday?
Mr. Olsen. There at the place that I was watching.
Mr. Specter. Where did you have supper that day?
Mr. Olsen. At her house.
Mr. Specter. What time did you go to her house? And by "her" I take it you mean Kay's house?
Mr. Olsen. Yes.