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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK); wounded Governor John B. Connally (JBC); killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit (JDT) and took a shot at retired General Edwin A. Walker (EAW). Needless to say, they failed to support any of these claims.
This post is going to look at the EAW area as he never believed that LHO fired the shot that nearly hit him. In fact, he did his own investigation, and he named the man he was told could be the culprit, but the WC never did anything with this information.
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The man who was mentioned in EAW's investigation was William McEwan Duff and he told the WC this about him during his testimony before them.
Mr. LIEBELER. In connection with that investigation, two detectives from General Watts' office, one, Kester, and one, Roberts, came down to Dallas and engaged in an investigation, did they not?
General WALKER. They did.
Mr. LIEBELER. Will you tell us about that, please?
General WALKER. They were in and out, as I remember, in the investigation, and in contact with my house from time to time during it, and even drove Duff around in a car, finally, and he explained how he would have shot at me if he had intended to, or if he had any such intentions.
EAW made it clear that he was not buying that Duff was involved as he thought he was telling his "usual lies." For him to make this type of comment would suggest that EAW was familiar with Duff.
Mr. LIEBELER. Let me ask: Were you, General Walker, generally familiar with the events at the time, and reports were made to you about the progress?
General WALKER. I was familiar with the progress of the investigation and got a final copy of it. I thought it solved nothing, but Duff was telling his usual lies.
Mr. LIEBELER. General Watts' description of these events is accurate, to the best of your knowledge; is that correct?
General WALKER. That is correct, except that I do not agree with General Watts' statement that Duff had implicated himself in the attack on me by statements to the daughter of this woman who called Mrs. Kenecht. My information is only to the effect that the girl's mother was upset about her daughter's friendship with Duff. As far as I know, she never said that Duff admitted being involved in the attack on me that occurred on April 10, 1963.
Mr. LIEBELER. In fact, the inference to be drawn is that Duff is an extremely unreliable individual, so far as telling the truth?
General WALKER. I wouldn't believe anything the boy would say unless it was verified.
The irony of course was he was testifying to a commission that couldn't be trusted unless it was VERIFIED. It seems that Duff had been in the U.S. Army and had been stationed in the Oklahoma City area. His serial number had been RA 18 678 666. A very ominous number.
If you have read my series over the years, you should know that there is always a tie-in between people in this case and this small area is no exception. Mr. Joe Loria, a restaurant operator in Dallas, Texas, would tell the FBI that he thought he had seen LHO and Duff together in April or May of 1963. Here are the brief details.
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...Mr. Loria advised that some 7 or 8 months previously (the information was given on December 10, 1963, but the report date is June 26, 1964) he had seen an individual known to him only as "Scottie" -- subsequently identified as Duff -- with an individual believed to have been Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Loria, who had based his identification on photographs of Oswald which had appeared in the Dallas newspapers, advised he could only recall one time that he thought he had seen Oswald and "Scottie" together. (Commission Exhibit (CE) 2389, p. 363; p. 1 in original)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0197a.htm
For a real clear copy, see this:
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=96507#relPageId=5
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This is a very important piece of information and as usual it was buried by the FBI and the WC because it showed something that they did NOT want to deal with. Loria was interviewed on December 10, 1963, and this information was NOT included in a report until the Oklahoma City FBI Office did this one on June 26, 1964. Why? Because Loria saw LHO with a man who most likely had some interesting connections, and this was not allowed as the WC had LHO being a "loner."
This seems to be all we get in terms of this sighting, but the FBI left no stone unturned in investigating it to try and show it never occurred. After some digging, I found some references to this event in various FBI reports. Here is the first one that is basically the same as above with this last sentence added.
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...Loria recognized the fact he serves many customers daily but said he would "bet money" it was OSWALD who was with SCOTTIE. (Commission Document (CD) 205, p. 302; p. 1 in original)
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This sounds like Loria was pretty sure that it was Oswald who was with Duff, but the question remains, was it LHO or another "Oswald?" If it was May, it could NOT have been LHO as he had gone to New Orleans by then. As usual, the FBI spent a lot of time interviewing people who would all claim that they had never seen Duff with anyone who looked LHO. That doesn't change Loria's statement at all. They could have simply never seen them together and that doesn't mean Loria never saw them together.
Five FBI reports would look into this issue, but NOT in the way you would expect. Instead of seeing if LHO could have known Duff in any way, they spent all their time interviewing people who claimed that they never saw the two of them together! This was typical of the work that the FBI did in this case. Who cares IF any of those interviewed saw LHO and Duff together when you already had a witness saying they saw them together? Furthermore, the witnesses were generally in Oklahoma City when Loria sighted them together in Dallas. Did the FBI interview a bunch of people to confirm claims by Howard Brennan? Helen Markham? William Whaley? Mary Bledsoe? That is highly doubtful because they said things that agreed with the WC's theory.
Here are all the places that they mentioned the witnesses interviewed saying that they did not see Duff and LHO together if you are interested.
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=145526#relPageId=308
Another interesting thing in relation to Duff was his claim that Jack Ruby went to EAW's house many times between December 1962 and March 1963. Could this be why EAW wanted to think Duff was a liar?
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On May 26, 1964, James R. Cantrell, Special Agent, Secret Service, U.S. Treasury Department, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, advised that in an interview of William McEwan Duff on May 26, 1964, had claimed evidence of an association between Jack Ruby and General Edwin A. Walker, Dallas, Texas; that during the period December, 1962, through March, 1963, while Duff was employed by General Walker and resided in his home, Ruby visited on the basis of about once a month, each time in the company of two unidentified white males, arriving in a Ford car, not further described.
Duff claimed identification of Ruby through photographs, having him heard addressed only as Jack. (CE 2389, p. 363; p. 2 in original)
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This gives us more information about Duff as we now see that he resided in EAW's home at one point. This would obviously give him access to the visits to the home. IF Jack Ruby visited with two men then the question becomes, why? What business would Ruby have with EAW? That is why Duff had to be painted as an unreliable witness by both EAW and the WC.
Mr. LIEBELER. In fact, the inference to be drawn is that Duff is an extremely unreliable individual, so far as telling the truth
General WALKER. I wouldn't believe anything the boy would say unless it was verified.
This is rich coming from the WC as they used nothing but "extremely unreliable individuals" to pitch their ridiculous summation of what happened. I am not saying Duff was telling the truth, but what evidence was presented to show that he was lying beyond EAW's claim? None of course. Both the WC and EAW had a vested interest in showing that Duff was unreliable so we cannot just take their word for it.
Once more the FBI wanted to know if others in EAW's home had seen these visits. Duff stated that no one would say that they had out of loyalty to EAW and this makes sense. He even alluded to EAW syphoning funds from the John Birch Society to his own personal fund. If this was true it would again give EAW reason to make Duff look like the bad guy to hide his own indiscretions. One would be tempted to even claim that Duff could trick trained investigators.
Mr. LIEBELER. General Walker, were you satisfied, or did you reach a conclusion as a result of these investigations or any other way, as to Duff's involvement in the attack made on you on April 10. Do you think he knows anything about it that he hasn't told us, or do you think he was involved in it in any way? Do you have any evidence to indicate that he was?
General WALKER. I also know that I wouldn't believe 90 percent of what Duff said about anything. I have come to no conclusion even after the investigation that he was even involved. Knowing Duff; I felt that if the investigators were a little bit naive, they got tricked more than Duff got tricked.
Was this the truth or did it suit EAW's need to point away from his own guilt and blame Duff? Why would Duff want to claim he was involved in a crime IF he wasn't? The WC never asked him this basic question.
This one small slice of the JFK case points to two things that could show a conspiracy in action -- LHO (or a double) seen with Duff and Ruby visiting EAW's home with two men for three months. Neither the FBI or the WC ever investigated these sightings in a real way outside of trying to disprove them.
There was another strange sighting just three days before the shooting as well. It was covered in a Secret Service (SS) report.
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...Mrs. [Edith] Neal also stated that approximately 3 days before the attempted assassination of General Edwin A. Walker, she had observed a man on the corner of Turtle Creek and Wycliff Streets, which is near the home of General Walker. She stated that the man was in a car that was parked in the wrong lane on Wycliff Street; that as she watched the car, the man jumped out of the car in bathing trunks and ran to the side of a corner house and disappeared in the bushes. (This is not General Walker's house.) She stated that the man had the appearance of a Negro or a Mexican. (CD 1498, p. 2 in original)
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Who was this man? Why wasn't Edith Neal located when the event first occurred by the Dallas Police Department (DPD)? She was a waitress who said that she had waited on Jack Ruby a month before the assassination at the Zuider Zee Restaurant in Dallas and this too is interesting. (See page 1 of the report.) This man could have been a Cuban as some can appear like a Negro and a Hispanic (see David Morales). What was he doing there in bathing trunks? Why did he go into the bushes? We will never know because the DPD did a horrible job "investigating" the EAW shooting as well as the other crimes in this saga.
Once more we see evidence that was not treated in a proper fashion and was instead buried by using statements of others in an attempt to show that it was not accurate. This is not how you conduct an honest investigation.
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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK); wounded Governor John B. Connally (JBC); killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit (JDT) and took a shot at retired General Edwin A. Walker (EAW). Needless to say, they failed to support any of these claims.
This post is going to look at the EAW area as he never believed that LHO fired the shot that nearly hit him. In fact, he did his own investigation, and he named the man he was told could be the culprit, but the WC never did anything with this information.
********************************************
The man who was mentioned in EAW's investigation was William McEwan Duff and he told the WC this about him during his testimony before them.
Mr. LIEBELER. In connection with that investigation, two detectives from General Watts' office, one, Kester, and one, Roberts, came down to Dallas and engaged in an investigation, did they not?
General WALKER. They did.
Mr. LIEBELER. Will you tell us about that, please?
General WALKER. They were in and out, as I remember, in the investigation, and in contact with my house from time to time during it, and even drove Duff around in a car, finally, and he explained how he would have shot at me if he had intended to, or if he had any such intentions.
EAW made it clear that he was not buying that Duff was involved as he thought he was telling his "usual lies." For him to make this type of comment would suggest that EAW was familiar with Duff.
Mr. LIEBELER. Let me ask: Were you, General Walker, generally familiar with the events at the time, and reports were made to you about the progress?
General WALKER. I was familiar with the progress of the investigation and got a final copy of it. I thought it solved nothing, but Duff was telling his usual lies.
Mr. LIEBELER. General Watts' description of these events is accurate, to the best of your knowledge; is that correct?
General WALKER. That is correct, except that I do not agree with General Watts' statement that Duff had implicated himself in the attack on me by statements to the daughter of this woman who called Mrs. Kenecht. My information is only to the effect that the girl's mother was upset about her daughter's friendship with Duff. As far as I know, she never said that Duff admitted being involved in the attack on me that occurred on April 10, 1963.
Mr. LIEBELER. In fact, the inference to be drawn is that Duff is an extremely unreliable individual, so far as telling the truth?
General WALKER. I wouldn't believe anything the boy would say unless it was verified.
The irony of course was he was testifying to a commission that couldn't be trusted unless it was VERIFIED. It seems that Duff had been in the U.S. Army and had been stationed in the Oklahoma City area. His serial number had been RA 18 678 666. A very ominous number.
If you have read my series over the years, you should know that there is always a tie-in between people in this case and this small area is no exception. Mr. Joe Loria, a restaurant operator in Dallas, Texas, would tell the FBI that he thought he had seen LHO and Duff together in April or May of 1963. Here are the brief details.
Quote on
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/pages/WC_Vol25_0197a.jpg
...Mr. Loria advised that some 7 or 8 months previously (the information was given on December 10, 1963, but the report date is June 26, 1964) he had seen an individual known to him only as "Scottie" -- subsequently identified as Duff -- with an individual believed to have been Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Loria, who had based his identification on photographs of Oswald which had appeared in the Dallas newspapers, advised he could only recall one time that he thought he had seen Oswald and "Scottie" together. (Commission Exhibit (CE) 2389, p. 363; p. 1 in original)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0197a.htm
For a real clear copy, see this:
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=96507#relPageId=5
Quote off
This is a very important piece of information and as usual it was buried by the FBI and the WC because it showed something that they did NOT want to deal with. Loria was interviewed on December 10, 1963, and this information was NOT included in a report until the Oklahoma City FBI Office did this one on June 26, 1964. Why? Because Loria saw LHO with a man who most likely had some interesting connections, and this was not allowed as the WC had LHO being a "loner."
This seems to be all we get in terms of this sighting, but the FBI left no stone unturned in investigating it to try and show it never occurred. After some digging, I found some references to this event in various FBI reports. Here is the first one that is basically the same as above with this last sentence added.
Quote on
...Loria recognized the fact he serves many customers daily but said he would "bet money" it was OSWALD who was with SCOTTIE. (Commission Document (CD) 205, p. 302; p. 1 in original)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10672#relPageId=302
Quote off
This sounds like Loria was pretty sure that it was Oswald who was with Duff, but the question remains, was it LHO or another "Oswald?" If it was May, it could NOT have been LHO as he had gone to New Orleans by then. As usual, the FBI spent a lot of time interviewing people who would all claim that they had never seen Duff with anyone who looked LHO. That doesn't change Loria's statement at all. They could have simply never seen them together and that doesn't mean Loria never saw them together.
Five FBI reports would look into this issue, but NOT in the way you would expect. Instead of seeing if LHO could have known Duff in any way, they spent all their time interviewing people who claimed that they never saw the two of them together! This was typical of the work that the FBI did in this case. Who cares IF any of those interviewed saw LHO and Duff together when you already had a witness saying they saw them together? Furthermore, the witnesses were generally in Oklahoma City when Loria sighted them together in Dallas. Did the FBI interview a bunch of people to confirm claims by Howard Brennan? Helen Markham? William Whaley? Mary Bledsoe? That is highly doubtful because they said things that agreed with the WC's theory.
Here are all the places that they mentioned the witnesses interviewed saying that they did not see Duff and LHO together if you are interested.
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=145526#relPageId=308
Another interesting thing in relation to Duff was his claim that Jack Ruby went to EAW's house many times between December 1962 and March 1963. Could this be why EAW wanted to think Duff was a liar?
Quote on
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/pages/WC_Vol25_0197a.jpg
On May 26, 1964, James R. Cantrell, Special Agent, Secret Service, U.S. Treasury Department, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, advised that in an interview of William McEwan Duff on May 26, 1964, had claimed evidence of an association between Jack Ruby and General Edwin A. Walker, Dallas, Texas; that during the period December, 1962, through March, 1963, while Duff was employed by General Walker and resided in his home, Ruby visited on the basis of about once a month, each time in the company of two unidentified white males, arriving in a Ford car, not further described.
Duff claimed identification of Ruby through photographs, having him heard addressed only as Jack. (CE 2389, p. 363; p. 2 in original)
historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0197a.htm
Quote off
This gives us more information about Duff as we now see that he resided in EAW's home at one point. This would obviously give him access to the visits to the home. IF Jack Ruby visited with two men then the question becomes, why? What business would Ruby have with EAW? That is why Duff had to be painted as an unreliable witness by both EAW and the WC.
Mr. LIEBELER. In fact, the inference to be drawn is that Duff is an extremely unreliable individual, so far as telling the truth
General WALKER. I wouldn't believe anything the boy would say unless it was verified.
This is rich coming from the WC as they used nothing but "extremely unreliable individuals" to pitch their ridiculous summation of what happened. I am not saying Duff was telling the truth, but what evidence was presented to show that he was lying beyond EAW's claim? None of course. Both the WC and EAW had a vested interest in showing that Duff was unreliable so we cannot just take their word for it.
Once more the FBI wanted to know if others in EAW's home had seen these visits. Duff stated that no one would say that they had out of loyalty to EAW and this makes sense. He even alluded to EAW syphoning funds from the John Birch Society to his own personal fund. If this was true it would again give EAW reason to make Duff look like the bad guy to hide his own indiscretions. One would be tempted to even claim that Duff could trick trained investigators.
Mr. LIEBELER. General Walker, were you satisfied, or did you reach a conclusion as a result of these investigations or any other way, as to Duff's involvement in the attack made on you on April 10. Do you think he knows anything about it that he hasn't told us, or do you think he was involved in it in any way? Do you have any evidence to indicate that he was?
General WALKER. I also know that I wouldn't believe 90 percent of what Duff said about anything. I have come to no conclusion even after the investigation that he was even involved. Knowing Duff; I felt that if the investigators were a little bit naive, they got tricked more than Duff got tricked.
Was this the truth or did it suit EAW's need to point away from his own guilt and blame Duff? Why would Duff want to claim he was involved in a crime IF he wasn't? The WC never asked him this basic question.
This one small slice of the JFK case points to two things that could show a conspiracy in action -- LHO (or a double) seen with Duff and Ruby visiting EAW's home with two men for three months. Neither the FBI or the WC ever investigated these sightings in a real way outside of trying to disprove them.
There was another strange sighting just three days before the shooting as well. It was covered in a Secret Service (SS) report.
Quote on
...Mrs. [Edith] Neal also stated that approximately 3 days before the attempted assassination of General Edwin A. Walker, she had observed a man on the corner of Turtle Creek and Wycliff Streets, which is near the home of General Walker. She stated that the man was in a car that was parked in the wrong lane on Wycliff Street; that as she watched the car, the man jumped out of the car in bathing trunks and ran to the side of a corner house and disappeared in the bushes. (This is not General Walker's house.) She stated that the man had the appearance of a Negro or a Mexican. (CD 1498, p. 2 in original)
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11893#relPageId=4
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Who was this man? Why wasn't Edith Neal located when the event first occurred by the Dallas Police Department (DPD)? She was a waitress who said that she had waited on Jack Ruby a month before the assassination at the Zuider Zee Restaurant in Dallas and this too is interesting. (See page 1 of the report.) This man could have been a Cuban as some can appear like a Negro and a Hispanic (see David Morales). What was he doing there in bathing trunks? Why did he go into the bushes? We will never know because the DPD did a horrible job "investigating" the EAW shooting as well as the other crimes in this saga.
Once more we see evidence that was not treated in a proper fashion and was instead buried by using statements of others in an attempt to show that it was not accurate. This is not how you conduct an honest investigation.