In the above GIF, vehicle #10 is the press camera car with photographers Underwood, Powell, Dillard and Jackson … along side them are motorcycle patrolmen Baker and McLain ... the latter was the officer who had his microphone open during the shooting.
Also worth mentioning is how the protective flanking of the motorcycle patrolmen alongside the Presidential limo (vehicle #2) seems to fall back towards the Secret Service car (vehicle #3) just after the first shot is fired around frame count 190, and how they retake their positions right behind the limo just before the fatal headshot at frame count 313.
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The ‘spotting of the rifle barrel’:
Robert “Bob” Jackson was riding in the press camera car with Tom Dillard, James Underwood, and James Powell.
Bob Jackson deliberately provided false statements. He was, most likely, trying to sound like a really important witness.
He said he saw the rifle fired from the 'sniper’s nest', but later admitted only seeing the rifle pulled back after the last shot.
He said he only saw “half a weapon”, which is pretty fantastic if you don’t know what kind of weapon you’re looking at.
You can never determine ‘half’ if you don’t know for sure how long the object is.
He heard other people remark about what must have been gun shots, looked up and saw two Negro men looking up.
He followed their line of sight to see what they were looking at, determining that the shots must have come from up there.
This pretty much matches Howard Brennan’s story. Since neither Underwood, Dillard, nor Powell made any such remarks while still in the car, and Brennan was heard shouting “Look! A gun!”, and Jackson never got out of the press car, we could assume that Jackson heard Brennan from the car as the press car made the turn from Houston onto Elm. This by itself is impossible too when we look at the above animation, which shows the press car was never close to where Brennan was at the time of any of the shots.
Howard Brennan was standing pretty much next to Amos Euins, at the very tip of the pool on the corner of Houston & Elm
Then Tom Dillard somehow copied Brennan’s statements also, but although Dillard’s photos are very clear, none show a rifle barrel or the shooter. Just something that looks like a figure behind a dirty window. The gunman was described to be wearing khaki trousers, the window sill was only a foot off the ground, so nearly the whole shooter would have been visible in that picture. Including the khaki pants.
Dark colored pants might not have shown up behind that dirty window.
Jackson had all sorts of excuses for not being able to take a picture or any film. If he felt so strongly about what he saw, why not get out of the press car with the other men, and stay at the TSBD for the follow up story? Certainly a scuffle or an arrest might be imminent?
At least Dillard, Powell, and Underwood had the good journalistic sense to get out of the car to take pictures and film.
Amos Euins told a motorcycle officer that he had seen a black man and a gun. This might have been misunderstood after seeing Junior Jarman, Harold Norman, and Bonnie Ray Williams in the 5th floor window and, what supposedly was, a rifle barrel right above them.
It could be chalked up to anxiety or fear. Later that day he gave an official statement to the DPD in which he said he saw a little bit of the barrel and the trigger housing, and that she shooter was a white man without a hat. He fired so fast he thought it was an assault rifle.
However he tells the Warren Commission something very different. In that testimony he recalls seeing a 14-15” barrel, and that he couldn’t tell if the shooter was white or black. Only that he had a bald spot!
James Robert Underwood, riding in the press car with Dillard, Powell, and Jackson, said the first shot sounded like an explosion.
It didn’t sound like a rifle at all. Then moments later there were two more shots, which he found easier to identify as rifle shots.
He realized the shots must have come from overhead, which was the TSBD from his position. The first explosion sounded nothing like the last two, which in my opinion is evidence of two different sources (different locations, different weapons, different calibers).
Howard Brennan’s statements changed so often he couldn’t ever really be taken as a credible witness. Yet he was!
According to him the shooter was leaning out of the window while sitting on the window sill, before the Kennedy limo even reached Houston Street. After the shots were fired, he saw the shooter draw back and hold the rifle at his side! ( Warren Report vol. III, p. 144 )
Finally he admitted to never seeing the rifle fired (no flash or recoil). He never saw or heard the second shot.
He only heard the 1st and 3rd shots.
None of the witnesses ever saw a scope on that rifle.
James Crawford, a deputy district clerk for Dallas County, heard a loud report that sounded like a backfire coming from the Triple Underpass. Then he heard the 2nd and 3rd shots. After the 3rd shot he looked up and saw a “movement” in the far east corner of the 6th floor of the TSBD. Crawford, and his co-worker Mary-Ann Mitchell, were standing on the south-east corner of Elm & Houston streets (which would be on the Dal-Tex / Records Building side of that corner - which is the top right corner of the above animation).
The above people are the the Warren Commission’s best witnesses to support the shots coming from the Texas School Book Depository.
Robert Hughes filmed from a position at Main and Houston and filmed the limo as it rode down Houston onto Elm.
His film shows the TSBD too, but no shooter can be seen up there, and nothing protrudes. There is only some movement.
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The original Robert Hughes film A documentary analysis of the Robert Hughes film
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In CE-900 we see the white car behind LBJ’s car. The left rear door of that white car is opening in reaction to the shot that struck JFK in the throat. This white car contained the secret service detail assigned to Vice-President Lydon Baines Johnson.
Their quick response to the shooting lead some conspiracy theorists to conclude that the LBJ security detail knew of the JFK assassination beforehand and were out to protect Johnson just in case he became a target too.
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Earleane Roberts
According to her WC testimony, Earleane Roberts wasn’t watching As The World Turns at all. The tv wasn’t even on.
She turned it on when a friend called her on the phone and told her the President had been shot.
Roberts also told Assistant Counsel Joseph Ball that she told the Dallas Police (“Will Fritz’s men … plain clothesmen”) that Oswald had registered under the name O.H. Lee.
He hardly ever spoke to her unless he was going to pay his rent.
Whenever she spoke to him he would look at her with a dirty look.
This really doesn’t sound like Oswald at all, but he could have been in a bad mood if he had been in an argument with Marina or someone else. When one studies Oswald’s general demeanour, his habits, and read about or listens to the people who worked with him every day, or knew him best, one learns that Oswald wasn’t very outspoken.
He was a quiet man, but if he was in a good mood he would be talkative about his family and be generally pleasant and well-behaved.
Even curtious.
Remember, even on the day of the assassination, before he got into a cab to go home, he gallantly gave up his taxi to an older woman.
So perhaps Lee just didn’t think much of Mrs. Roberts.
Maybe this had something to do with the fact that she couldn’t get his name right and why he settled on O.H. Lee. To humour her.
Mr. BALL – “As he came in, did you say anything else except, "You are in a hurry"?”
Mrs. ROBERTS - “No.”
Mr. BALL – “Did you say anything about the President being shot?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “No.”
Mr. BALL – “You were working with the television?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “I was trying to clear it up to see what was happening and try to find out about President Kennedy.”
Mr. BALL – “Why did you say to this man as he came in, "You are in a hurry,"why did you say that?”
Mrs. ROBERTS - “Well, he just never has come in and he was walking unusually fast and he just hadn't been that way and I just looked up and I said, "Oh, you are in a hurry."”
Mr. BALL – “You mean he was walking faster than he usually was?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Yes.”
Mr. BALL – “When he came in the door, what did he do?”
Mrs. ROBERTS –“He just walked in---he didn't look around at me---he didn't say nothing and went on to his room.”
Mr. BALL – “Did he run?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “He wasn't running, but he was walking pretty fast---he was all but running.”
Mr. BALL – “Then, what happened after that?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “He went to his room and he was in his shirt sleeves but I couldn't tell you whether it was a long-sleeved shirt or what color it was or nothing, and he got a jacket and put it on---it was kind of a zipper jacket.”
Mr. BALL – “Had you ever seen him wear that jacket before?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “I can't say I did---if I did, I don't remember it.”
Mr. BALL – “When he came in he was in a shirt?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “He was in his shirt sleeves.”
Mr. BALL – “What color was his shirt? Do you know?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “I don't remember. I didn't pay that much attention for I was interested in the television trying to get it fixed.”
Mr. BALL – “Had you ever seen that shirt before or seen him wear it---the shirt, or do you know?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “I don't remember---I don't know.”
Mr. BALL – “You say he put on a separate jacket?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “A jacket.”
Mr. BALL – “I'll show you this jacket which is Commission Exhibit 162---have you ever seen this jacket before?”
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Mrs. ROBERTS – “Well, maybe I have, but I don't remember it. It seems like the one he put on was darker than that. Now, I won't be sure, because I really don't know, but is that a zipper jacket?”
Mr. BALL – “Yes---it has a zipper down the front.”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Well, maybe it was.”
Mr. BALL – “It was a zippered jacket, was it?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Yes; it was a zipper jacket. How come me to remember it, he was zipping it up as he went out the door.”
Mr. BALL – “He was zipping it up as he went out the door?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Yes.”
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Mr. BALL – “Now, I show you Commission Exhibit No. 150--it is a shirt-have you seen that before?”
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Mrs. ROBERTS – “Well, maybe I have. Now, that looks kind of like the dark shirt that he had on.”
Mr. BALL – “Now, when Oswald came in, he was in a shirt--does this shirt look anything like the shirt he had on?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “It was a dark shirt he had on-I think it was a dark one, but whether it was long sleeve or short sleeve or what--I don't know.”
[ she didn’t pay attention to the pants he was wearing, so she had no idea if the pants he wore out were the same ones he was wearing when he came in ]
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Mr. BALL – “After he left the house and at sometime later in the afternoon, these police officers came out, did they?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Well, yes.”
Mr. BALL – “And they asked you if there was a man named Lee Oswald there?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Yes.”
Mr. BALL – “And you told them "No"?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Yes.”
Mr. BALL – “Then what happened after that?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Well, he was trying to make us understand that-I had two new men and they told me--Mrs. Johnson told me, "Go get your keys and let them see in" I had gone to the back and they still had the TV on, and they was broadcasting about Kennedy. Just as I unlocked the doors Fritz' men, two of them had walked in and she come running in and said, "Oh, Roberts, come here quick. This is this fellow Lee in this little room next to yours," and they flashed him on television, is how come us to know.”
Mr. BALL – “Then you knew it was the man?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Yes; and I come in there and she said, "Wait," and then again they flashed him back on and I said, "Yes, that's him-that's O. H. Lee right here in this room." And it was just a little wall there between him and I.”
Mr. BALL – “That was the first you knew who it was?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Yes, because he was registered as O. H. Lee.”
[ they showed Oswald’s picture on tv just a few hours after the assassination? ]
Every network went live after the first stories of the shooting in Dealey Plaza were spread, and luckily thanks to YouTube we can watch all those live coverages by WFAA-TV, NBC and CBS. It was the latter who first showed a glimpse of Oswald around 3:30 pm, and at that time (as so told by CBS) he was still just one of “the suspects rounded up”. At this time there was no mention that he was the primary suspect.
From what I’ve read, the general public wasn’t told Oswald was the main suspect until around 7:30 EST.
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Mrs. ROBERTS – “No; there was one weekend that he didn't go out.”
Mr. BALL – “Which one was that?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Now, as far as: you know what?”
Mr. BALL – “Was that the weekend?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “I think---now, if I had the books, I could tell you.”
Mr. BALL – “Which books?”
Mrs. ROBERTS - “The books that are over there on North Beckley. I believe it was on the weekend before---when was President Kennedy shot?”
Mr. BALL – “On the 22d of November.”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “What day was that---that was on Friday, wasn't it?”
Mr. BALL – “That was on a Friday.”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Well, it was on the weekend before that.”
Mr. BALL – “What happened---what was that?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “He didn't go nowhere.”
Mr. BALL – “He stayed in all weekend, is that right?”
Mrs. ROBERTS – “Yes, sir.”
[ that proved easy enough to check out – if only to see if her memory was good or if she was dealing with a look-alike]
( Warren Report vol. I, p.54 )
Mr. RANKIN – “Now, if it was the weekend of November 16th and 17th that he remained in Dallas, would that help you as to the time of the birthday?”
Mrs. OSWALD – “Yes, sir. This was the weekend before the 21st, and he had not come home that weekend.”
[ so that helps confirm what Earlene Roberts said ]
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E v i d e n c e & s t a t e m e n t s
p a r t 5
Domingo Benevides
Just as the first shot was fired at Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit on the corner of 10th & Patton, Domingo Benevides pulled up to the corner of 10th & Denver in his pickup truck. He immediately turned his truck against the curb, hit the brakes and dove under the dashboard.
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Mr. BENAVIDES – “Then I heard the other two shots and I looked up and the Policeman was in, he seemed like he kind of stumbled and fell.”
Mr. BELIN – “Did you see the Policeman as he fell?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “Yes, sir.”
Mr. BELIN – “What else did you see?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “Then I seen the man turn and walk back to the sidewalk and go on the sidewalk and he walked maybe 5 foot and then kind of stalled. He didn't exactly stop. And he threw one shell and must have took five or six more steps and threw the other shell up, and then he kind of stepped up to a pretty good trot going around the corner.”
Mr. BELIN – “You saw the man going around the corner headed in what direction on what street?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “On Patton Street. He was going south.”
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Mr. BELIN – “Do you remember if he was trying to put anything in the gun also?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “Yes. As he turned the corner he was putting another shell in his gun.”
Mr. BELIN – “You saw him?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “I mean, he was acting like. I didn't see him actually put a shell in his gun, but he acted like he was trying to reload it. Maybe he was trying to take out another shell, but he could have been reloading it or something.”
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Mr. BELIN – “Did you later go back in that area and try and find the shells?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “Yes. Well, right after that I went back and I knew exactly where they was at, and I went over and picked up one in my hand, not thinking and I dropped it, that maybe they want fingerprints off it, so I took out an empty pack of cigarettes I had and picked them up with a little stick and put them in this cigarette package; a chrome looking shell.”
Mr. BELIN – “A chrome looking shell?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “Yes, sir.”
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Mr. BENAVIDES – “I would say he was about your size, and he had a light-beige jacket, and was lightweight.”
Mr. BELIN – “Did it have buttons or a zipper, or do you remember?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “It seemed like it was a zipper-type jacket.”
Mr. BELIN – “What color was the trousers?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “They were dark.”
Mr. BELIN – “Do you remember what kind of shirt he had on?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “It was dark in color, but I don't remember exactly what color.”
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Mr. BELIN – “You say he is my size, my weight, and my color hair?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “He kind of looks like---well, his hair was a little bit curlier.”
Mr. BELIN – “Anything else about him that looked like me.”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “No. that is all.”
Mr. BELIN – “What about his skin? Was he fair complexioned or dark complexioned?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “He wasn't dark.”
Mr. BELIN – “Average complexion?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “No; a little bit darker than average.”
Mr. BELIN – “My complexion?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “I wouldn't say that any more. I would say he is about your complexion, sir. Of course he looked, his skin looked a little bit ruddier than mine.”
Mr. BELIN – “His skin looked ruddier than mine? I might say for the record, that I was not in Dallas on November 22, 1963.”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “No, just your size.”
Mr. BELIN – “Did he look like me?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “No; your face, not your face, but just your size.”
Mr. BELIN – “Okay, well, I thank you. I was flying from St. Louis to Des Moines, Iowa. at about this time. Is there anything else?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “I remember the back of his head seemed like his hairline was sort of--looked like his hairline sort of went square instead of tapered off. and he looked like he needed a haircut for about 2 weeks, but his hair didn't taper off, it kind of went down and squared off and made his head look fiat in back.”
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Mr. BELIN – “You used the name Oswald. How did you know this man was Oswald?”
Mr. BENAVIDES – “From the pictures I had seen. It looked like a guy, resembled the guy. That was the reason I figured it was Oswald.”
[ resembled the guy – but with a ruddier face, slightly darker than average complexion and curlier hair ]
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