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The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) fired the only shots that were fired at President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on November 22, 1963. To reach this conclusion they had to ignore a lot evidence and leads, much of which was in their own twenty-six volumes.
One such lead will be covered in this installment of the series.
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Who was the woman that Roger Craig detained behind the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll (GK) shortly after the shots had been fired?
Roger Craig discussed this in his unpublished manuscript called When They Kill A President. WC defenders call him a liar in regards to the things he saw on November 22, 1963, as they did NOT fit the story the WC gave us. This is a man who received FOUR promotions while he was a Deputy Sheriff and he was named the Dallas Sheriff’s Department “Officer of the Year” in 1960 by the Dallas Traffic Commission. Why would a man with this background lie about things he saw that ran counter to what he authorities were saying? IF he was going to lie about anything, wouldn’t it make more sense to lie about things in a way to agree with his boss (Sheriff Bill Decker), the Dallas Police Department (DPD), the FBI and the WC? Of course it would as this might lead to job advancement and good things, whereas, his sticking to what he said he really saw only lead to his downfall and early death. This shows the claims of the WC defenders are nothing but baseless lies meant to character assassinate a good officer.
Roger Craig said the parking lot behind the picket fence was restricted parking as it was rented to deputies who worked at the court house. This claim has been disputed for years by WC defenders, but to date they have not shown it was false. Here is what Roger Craig wrote about this in his manuscript.
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Let us examine this parking lot. It was leased by Deputy Sheriff B. D. Gossett. He in turn rented parking space by the month to the deputies who worked in the court house, except for official vehicles. I rented one of these spaces from Gossett when I was a dispatcher working days or evenings. I paid Gossett $3.00 per month and was given a key to the lot. An interesting point is that the lot had an iron bar across the only entrance and exit (which were the same). The bar had a chain and lock on it. The only people having access to it were deputies with keys. Point: how did the woman gain access and, what is more important, who was she and why did she have to leave? (Roger Craig, When They Kill A President, Unpublished.)
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WTKaP.html
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As I said before, this point has been disputed by the WC defenders for years, but again, what would be the purpose for Craig to lie about something this basic? Why would he say the lot was rented and restricted IF it was not? Why would he go even further and say you were issued a key and needed it to open the lock on the iron bar? To me there is no reason to invent this so it has to be the truth unless someone can show once and for all it is not.
Craig thought this woman was so suspicious that he actually placed her under arrest. He would say she was trying to drive off of the parking lot behind the GK fence and he had wondered what she was doing there (since he said the lot was restricted) and why she was in a hurry to leave. Here is what Craig wrote in this manuscript.
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I saw a Dallas Police Officer run up the grassy knoll and go behind the picket fence near the railroad yards. I followed and behind the fence was complete confusion and hysteria.
I began to question people when I noticed a woman in her early thirties attempting to drive out of the parking lot. She was in a brown 1962 or 1963 Chevrolet. I stopped her, identified myself and placed her under arrest. She told me that she had to leave and I said, “Lady, you‘re not going anywhere.” I turned her over to Deputy Sheriff C. I. (Lummy) Lewis and told him the circumstances of the arrest. Officer Lewis told me that he would take her to Sheriff Decker and take care of her car. (Ibid.)
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Who was this lady? Why did she have to leave then? Craig would continue in his manuscript with this information.
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This was to be the beginning of the never-ending cover up. Had I known then what I know now, I would have personally questioned the woman and impounded and searched her car. I had no way of knowing that an officer, with whom I had worked for four years, was capable of losing a thirty year old woman and a three thousand pound automobile. To this day Officer Lewis does not know who she was, where she came from or what happened to her. Strange! (Ibid.)
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How did Deputy Sheriff “Lemmy” Lewis lose a person under arrest and an automobile? Craig would discuss this in his WC testimony as well.
Mr. BELIN - Before you talked to this couple, did you do anything else or talk with anyone before you got back with them?
Mr. CRAIG - Well, I looked around, you know, for just--after I turned this girl over to Mr. Lewis--I began looking around and talking to people to see if they'd seen anything. And that's when I ran onto this man and his wife.
Mr. BELIN - Would this be Deputy Sheriff Lemmy Lewis--(spelling) L-e-m-m-y L-e-w-i-s?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes.
He would also tell the same information when he testified at the Clay Shaw trial.
Q: What did you do after you were running in the direction across here?
A: After I went through this opening onto the grass, there were several people right in this area here and I checked with them to see if anybody was injured and they were not. At this time I saw a Dallas police officer running towards the picket fence and I followed him and went behind the fence and at this time there was a brown Chevrolet pulling out of the parking lot and I stopped it and took a woman from the car and turned her over to Detective Lumney Lewis who still works for the Sheriff's Department.
Q: Approximately where were you located at the time you turned this person over to the Deputy?
A: At that time I was behind the picket fence.
Why did Lewis not remember this woman? If we go to Lewis’ report to Sheriff Decker we will see a list of names regarding people that were talked to and those there were taken to the Sheriff’s Office for questioning.
C. L. “Lemmie” Lewis report: www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pages/WH_Vol19_0272b.gif
Ibid, p. 2: www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pages/WH_Vol19_0273a.gif
The names that jump out at me are:
1) Shearion Simmons, w/f/31, 3168 O'Bannion St., FR 1 7267, and;
2) Jessie Williams w/f/40 1108, Allen St., Apt 114, Irving. Traveling Salesman, home: 1211 Columbia Dr, Longview, Tex. PL 3 7086
He says Ms. Simmons worked at the TSBD, but I have to admit I have never heard that name before associated with the JFK assassination. Have you? Her age would fit with the age Craig said too. The other person is listed as a woman who was 40 years old, but the name is similar to the one we saw in an earlier post in this series (The Guns of Dallas). That Jesse Williams was a man and he had run in with a man shortly before the assassination that pulled a rifle on him. Unfortunately his statement does not list his occupation so we can’t say it was him instead of the “f[emale]” Lewis listed in his report. Lewis said this was a woman and that she was a “traveling salesman.” What would a traveling salesman be doing in a parking lot near the TSBD? This parking lot was supposed to be restricted too.
There is no statement from her or Ms. Simmons in Decker Exhibit 5323 either. Roger Craig would grant an interview with the Los Angeles Free Press and this would appear in print on March 1, 1968. Here is the portion of the interview that deals with this issue.
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RC: …After establishing (that) nobody else was hit, I went across to the railroad yard parking lot behind the grassy knoll. There was woman driving off in a car, and I stopped her.
F[ree]P[ress]: What kind of car? What kind of woman?
RC: As I remember, she was---oh, probably in her early 30’s, brunette, attractive woman; the car, I believe was a brown Chevrolet. It’s as close as I can remember. I made her park and turned her over to Officer Lewis, who turned her over to another officer to take to the sheriff’s office to get a statement if she had seen or heard anything. I never heard anything else about her.
…one of them was Lummy Lewis, because he was close by , I turned the woman over to him.
FP: You’re talking about the area behind the picket fence?
RC: Yes, the parking lot that is leased by Deputy Sheriff Gossett, and rented to deputy sheriffs by the month as parking space.
FP: You mean that spot behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll is a private lot, used by deputy sheriffs?
RC: That’s right.
FP: Would there be any reason for anyone else to be in there?
RC: They can’t get in there. There’s a gate, and it’s locked.
FP: How did that woman get in there?
RC: I don’t know.
FP: You mean there’s a locked gate?
RC: There’s an iron bar across, with a chain lock on it.
FP: The people that use that lot would have a key to that gate?
RC: That’s right, I used to have a key when I had a space there.
FP: Do you know whether that gate was closed that day?
RC: It had to be open. She was starting to drive out. It’s the only way she could have gotten out.
FP: You think it was standing open that day?
RC: It would have had to of been. I didn’t look at it, but she was driving away---so apparently she was going through the gate.
FP: What were her manner when you stopped her?
RC: Well, she was very excited, but she didn’t have anything to say, and I told her that we would have to detain her and take a statement off her anyway. She said that she didn't know anything—she Just heard the shots. And I said, well, we'll have to detain you anyway.
FP: She volunteered that she didn't know anything?
RC: Yes, when I told her that we'd have to detain her. (Interview with Roger Craig, Los Angeles Free Press, March 1, 1968)
jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/Craig%20Roger/Item%2013.pdf
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This interview gives a good overview of the whole affair. She was a brunette, attractive, early 30’s, she claimed not to know anything, and she had access to a private lot that seemed to have been open for her. Again, what reason would Craig have for making this up? Also, what reason would she have for being there?
In this interview we see that Lewis passed her off to “another officer”, but who was this officer? This detail had not been mentioned before. Could she have been smuggling a shooter out of the area? Why do we have NO information on this woman when she was supposedly detained by the Sheriff’s Office and questioned?
Can any WC defender tell me who she was? What she could have been doing in that area at the time of the assassination? Why is there no information or affidavit on her? Why did the WC show NO interest in this issue?
Once again we see evidence in this post that shows the WC ignored things that did NOT point to LHO or could show LHO was NOT guilty of what they were accusing him of. Thus, their conclusion CANNOT be correct, and therefore, it and they are sunk.
Craig’s report mentioning a SS agent:
www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pages/WH_Vol19_0271b.gif
www.kennedysandking.com/images/ctka/public/2016/bleau-historians/Craig.jpg
The Warren Commission (WC) claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) fired the only shots that were fired at President John F. Kennedy (JFK) on November 22, 1963. To reach this conclusion they had to ignore a lot evidence and leads, much of which was in their own twenty-six volumes.
One such lead will be covered in this installment of the series.
*****************************************
Who was the woman that Roger Craig detained behind the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll (GK) shortly after the shots had been fired?
Roger Craig discussed this in his unpublished manuscript called When They Kill A President. WC defenders call him a liar in regards to the things he saw on November 22, 1963, as they did NOT fit the story the WC gave us. This is a man who received FOUR promotions while he was a Deputy Sheriff and he was named the Dallas Sheriff’s Department “Officer of the Year” in 1960 by the Dallas Traffic Commission. Why would a man with this background lie about things he saw that ran counter to what he authorities were saying? IF he was going to lie about anything, wouldn’t it make more sense to lie about things in a way to agree with his boss (Sheriff Bill Decker), the Dallas Police Department (DPD), the FBI and the WC? Of course it would as this might lead to job advancement and good things, whereas, his sticking to what he said he really saw only lead to his downfall and early death. This shows the claims of the WC defenders are nothing but baseless lies meant to character assassinate a good officer.
Roger Craig said the parking lot behind the picket fence was restricted parking as it was rented to deputies who worked at the court house. This claim has been disputed for years by WC defenders, but to date they have not shown it was false. Here is what Roger Craig wrote about this in his manuscript.
Quote on
Let us examine this parking lot. It was leased by Deputy Sheriff B. D. Gossett. He in turn rented parking space by the month to the deputies who worked in the court house, except for official vehicles. I rented one of these spaces from Gossett when I was a dispatcher working days or evenings. I paid Gossett $3.00 per month and was given a key to the lot. An interesting point is that the lot had an iron bar across the only entrance and exit (which were the same). The bar had a chain and lock on it. The only people having access to it were deputies with keys. Point: how did the woman gain access and, what is more important, who was she and why did she have to leave? (Roger Craig, When They Kill A President, Unpublished.)
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WTKaP.html
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As I said before, this point has been disputed by the WC defenders for years, but again, what would be the purpose for Craig to lie about something this basic? Why would he say the lot was rented and restricted IF it was not? Why would he go even further and say you were issued a key and needed it to open the lock on the iron bar? To me there is no reason to invent this so it has to be the truth unless someone can show once and for all it is not.
Craig thought this woman was so suspicious that he actually placed her under arrest. He would say she was trying to drive off of the parking lot behind the GK fence and he had wondered what she was doing there (since he said the lot was restricted) and why she was in a hurry to leave. Here is what Craig wrote in this manuscript.
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I saw a Dallas Police Officer run up the grassy knoll and go behind the picket fence near the railroad yards. I followed and behind the fence was complete confusion and hysteria.
I began to question people when I noticed a woman in her early thirties attempting to drive out of the parking lot. She was in a brown 1962 or 1963 Chevrolet. I stopped her, identified myself and placed her under arrest. She told me that she had to leave and I said, “Lady, you‘re not going anywhere.” I turned her over to Deputy Sheriff C. I. (Lummy) Lewis and told him the circumstances of the arrest. Officer Lewis told me that he would take her to Sheriff Decker and take care of her car. (Ibid.)
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Who was this lady? Why did she have to leave then? Craig would continue in his manuscript with this information.
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This was to be the beginning of the never-ending cover up. Had I known then what I know now, I would have personally questioned the woman and impounded and searched her car. I had no way of knowing that an officer, with whom I had worked for four years, was capable of losing a thirty year old woman and a three thousand pound automobile. To this day Officer Lewis does not know who she was, where she came from or what happened to her. Strange! (Ibid.)
Quote off
How did Deputy Sheriff “Lemmy” Lewis lose a person under arrest and an automobile? Craig would discuss this in his WC testimony as well.
Mr. BELIN - Before you talked to this couple, did you do anything else or talk with anyone before you got back with them?
Mr. CRAIG - Well, I looked around, you know, for just--after I turned this girl over to Mr. Lewis--I began looking around and talking to people to see if they'd seen anything. And that's when I ran onto this man and his wife.
Mr. BELIN - Would this be Deputy Sheriff Lemmy Lewis--(spelling) L-e-m-m-y L-e-w-i-s?
Mr. CRAIG - Yes.
He would also tell the same information when he testified at the Clay Shaw trial.
Q: What did you do after you were running in the direction across here?
A: After I went through this opening onto the grass, there were several people right in this area here and I checked with them to see if anybody was injured and they were not. At this time I saw a Dallas police officer running towards the picket fence and I followed him and went behind the fence and at this time there was a brown Chevrolet pulling out of the parking lot and I stopped it and took a woman from the car and turned her over to Detective Lumney Lewis who still works for the Sheriff's Department.
Q: Approximately where were you located at the time you turned this person over to the Deputy?
A: At that time I was behind the picket fence.
Why did Lewis not remember this woman? If we go to Lewis’ report to Sheriff Decker we will see a list of names regarding people that were talked to and those there were taken to the Sheriff’s Office for questioning.
C. L. “Lemmie” Lewis report: www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pages/WH_Vol19_0272b.gif
Ibid, p. 2: www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pages/WH_Vol19_0273a.gif
The names that jump out at me are:
1) Shearion Simmons, w/f/31, 3168 O'Bannion St., FR 1 7267, and;
2) Jessie Williams w/f/40 1108, Allen St., Apt 114, Irving. Traveling Salesman, home: 1211 Columbia Dr, Longview, Tex. PL 3 7086
He says Ms. Simmons worked at the TSBD, but I have to admit I have never heard that name before associated with the JFK assassination. Have you? Her age would fit with the age Craig said too. The other person is listed as a woman who was 40 years old, but the name is similar to the one we saw in an earlier post in this series (The Guns of Dallas). That Jesse Williams was a man and he had run in with a man shortly before the assassination that pulled a rifle on him. Unfortunately his statement does not list his occupation so we can’t say it was him instead of the “f[emale]” Lewis listed in his report. Lewis said this was a woman and that she was a “traveling salesman.” What would a traveling salesman be doing in a parking lot near the TSBD? This parking lot was supposed to be restricted too.
There is no statement from her or Ms. Simmons in Decker Exhibit 5323 either. Roger Craig would grant an interview with the Los Angeles Free Press and this would appear in print on March 1, 1968. Here is the portion of the interview that deals with this issue.
Quote on
RC: …After establishing (that) nobody else was hit, I went across to the railroad yard parking lot behind the grassy knoll. There was woman driving off in a car, and I stopped her.
F[ree]P[ress]: What kind of car? What kind of woman?
RC: As I remember, she was---oh, probably in her early 30’s, brunette, attractive woman; the car, I believe was a brown Chevrolet. It’s as close as I can remember. I made her park and turned her over to Officer Lewis, who turned her over to another officer to take to the sheriff’s office to get a statement if she had seen or heard anything. I never heard anything else about her.
…one of them was Lummy Lewis, because he was close by , I turned the woman over to him.
FP: You’re talking about the area behind the picket fence?
RC: Yes, the parking lot that is leased by Deputy Sheriff Gossett, and rented to deputy sheriffs by the month as parking space.
FP: You mean that spot behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll is a private lot, used by deputy sheriffs?
RC: That’s right.
FP: Would there be any reason for anyone else to be in there?
RC: They can’t get in there. There’s a gate, and it’s locked.
FP: How did that woman get in there?
RC: I don’t know.
FP: You mean there’s a locked gate?
RC: There’s an iron bar across, with a chain lock on it.
FP: The people that use that lot would have a key to that gate?
RC: That’s right, I used to have a key when I had a space there.
FP: Do you know whether that gate was closed that day?
RC: It had to be open. She was starting to drive out. It’s the only way she could have gotten out.
FP: You think it was standing open that day?
RC: It would have had to of been. I didn’t look at it, but she was driving away---so apparently she was going through the gate.
FP: What were her manner when you stopped her?
RC: Well, she was very excited, but she didn’t have anything to say, and I told her that we would have to detain her and take a statement off her anyway. She said that she didn't know anything—she Just heard the shots. And I said, well, we'll have to detain you anyway.
FP: She volunteered that she didn't know anything?
RC: Yes, when I told her that we'd have to detain her. (Interview with Roger Craig, Los Angeles Free Press, March 1, 1968)
jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/C%20Disk/Craig%20Roger/Item%2013.pdf
Quote off
This interview gives a good overview of the whole affair. She was a brunette, attractive, early 30’s, she claimed not to know anything, and she had access to a private lot that seemed to have been open for her. Again, what reason would Craig have for making this up? Also, what reason would she have for being there?
In this interview we see that Lewis passed her off to “another officer”, but who was this officer? This detail had not been mentioned before. Could she have been smuggling a shooter out of the area? Why do we have NO information on this woman when she was supposedly detained by the Sheriff’s Office and questioned?
Can any WC defender tell me who she was? What she could have been doing in that area at the time of the assassination? Why is there no information or affidavit on her? Why did the WC show NO interest in this issue?
Once again we see evidence in this post that shows the WC ignored things that did NOT point to LHO or could show LHO was NOT guilty of what they were accusing him of. Thus, their conclusion CANNOT be correct, and therefore, it and they are sunk.
Craig’s report mentioning a SS agent:
www.historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh19/pages/WH_Vol19_0271b.gif