When the car carrying Kennedy passed by and turned onto Elm Street, Dallas Sheriff W.W. Mabra and Police Officer Orville Smith were standing on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse on Houston Street. Approximately one minute after the car had turned right onto Houston Street, the officers heard three shots fired, whereupon Smith turned to Mabra and exclaimed, “That sounded like a deer rifle!”
Five days later, Sheriff Mabra wrote the following in his police report:
“… I went to the railroad yard and parking area west of the Book Depository and helped search the area. I spoke with a city policeman who said he was stationed at the railroad yard and had the area under observation and that no one came that way.”1
There is only one problem with this story:
According to the police department’s own records, there was not a single police officer stationed at the grassy knoll, the railroad yard, or the surrounding area. The “policeman” Mabra spoke with at the scene was never identified and was most likely an impostor.
After the assassination, it was also reported that several individuals claiming to be Secret Service agents had been present at Dealey Plaza when Kennedy was shot, but were later never identified.
Approximately half an hour before Kennedy’s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza, Dallas police officer Joe Marshall Smith and two fellow officers were stationed at the intersection awaiting the incoming motorcade when a report came in that a man had suffered an epileptic seizure on Houston Street.
Smith temporarily left his post to assist a colleague who was helping the man. Smith then called for an ambulance, and the man was transported to Parkland Hospital.
When the ambulance arrived at the hospital, however, the man refused treatment and disappeared from the scene.
The individual has never been identified, and some assassination researchers have argued that he merely served as a distraction intended to divert the attention of the police present and cause them to lose focus on what was happening around the Plaza.
When Smith walked back toward Elm Street, nearly half an hour had passed and he could see the motorcade approaching. Shortly thereafter, he suddenly heard shots being fired, whereupon he turned westward and looked in the direction of the Texas School Book Depository.
A woman then came running toward him from the opposite direction, screaming that “they’re shooting from the bushes,”2 whereupon Smith and his colleague Seymour Weitzman began running toward the area above the grassy knoll and searching along the bushes.
At the parking lot behind the fence, they spotted a man in civilian clothes. Smith drew his pistol, whereupon the man identified himself with a Secret Service credential3 and explained that everything was under control. Smith holstered his weapon and continued searching the parking area, checking vehicles.
The only problem is that the Secret Service did not have any agents stationed there.
Some have attempted to dismiss Smith’s account by pointing out that he said nothing about the encounter with the agent in his initial report, but that is not particularly surprising since Smith at the time assumed the man was a genuine agent.
However, when Smith later testified before the Warren Commission, he described the encounter and also stated that he believed the shots had come from the grassy knoll.4
Furthermore, Weitzman also reported the incident in a written statement.
It was only later that Smith learned that the Secret Service had not stationed any agents around Dealey Plaza.
Years afterward, Smith recalled that he had found it somewhat strange that the “agent” was dressed in a sports shirt and sports trousers and that his hands were dirty. (According to Smith, he actually looked more like a mechanic.)
Smith also later stated that he was familiar with what Secret Service credentials looked like.
Another argument against the claim that there were fake agents in the area is that one of them allegedly assisted the police in searching vehicles. However, that is not evidence that he was a genuine agent; rather, it would seem logical to behave in that manner in order to avoid attracting suspicion.
Police Sergeant D. V. Harkness, who arrived at the rear of the Texas School Book Depository some time after the shooting, also stated that he encountered several armed men in suits there who identified themselves as Secret Service agents.
However, Winston Lawson, one of the two Secret Service agents with overall responsibility for the Dallas trip, testified before the Warren Commission that there were no Secret Service agents stationed around Dealey Plaza.
Secret Service chief James Rowley also testified that all agents were with the motorcade. No agent was stationed either by the railroad tracks or at the parking lot behind the grassy knoll. Despite this, we have testimony from at least three police officers describing encounters with individuals who identified themselves as Secret Service agents.
The most logical conclusion must therefore be that fake Secret Service agents were present at Dealey Plaza. It was hardly a coincidence that several of them were located in the area behind the grassy knoll or near the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald worked.
Weitzman, Smith, and Harkness were not the only people who encountered suspicious individuals after the assassination. Malcolm Summers was a former soldier who operated a mailing business in Dallas in 1963 and had gone to Dealey Plaza to watch the motorcade.
When the shots were fired, Summers was standing on the south side of Elm Street near Kennedy’s car. When he saw several people running up toward the grassy knoll, he followed them.
Summers was then stopped by a man in a suit carrying an overcoat over his arm, beneath which Summers could see a weapon. The man brusquely told Summers and other curious onlookers to leave the area because they could be shot or killed.
The individual never identified himself, but Summers assumed he was a detective or an FBI agent. It was only much later that he learned that the FBI, like the Secret Service, had no agents in the area.
The man was later seen near the fence behind the grassy knoll together with police officers J. W. Foster and E. R. Walther, who had observed footprints and cigarette butts on the ground there.
When Foster and Walther briefly turned around and looked toward the Texas School Book Depository, the man bent down, picked up a spent cartridge case from the ground, put it in his pocket, and walked away.
Neither the man nor the cartridge case has been seen since.
When Malcolm Summers was shown a photograph of Bernard Barker, one of the Watergate burglars, in the late 1990s, he identified him as the “agent” he had seen at the grassy knoll after the assassination.
This means that there are at least two people who claimed to have seen Bernard Barker at the grassy knoll after the assassination.
Barker himself maintained that he was at home watching television at the time of the assassination, but he was unable to produce any independent witness to confirm this.
When Barker was asked what program he had been watching, he replied that it was a television broadcast of Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas.
The problem is that the motorcade was not being broadcast live.
Let us now return to Lee Harvey Oswald.
On October 27, 1957, Oswald somehow accidentally shot himself in the left arm while stationed in Japan. He was first taken to a sick bay for treatment and then to the Navy hospital in Yokosuka. A surgeon there stitched the wound closed and left the bullet, which was lodged just beneath the surface on the back of Oswald’s upper left arm, in place.
A week later, on November 4, another physician, Dr. Greenlees, made an incision in the back of Oswald’s arm and removed the bullet. Dr. Greenlees then stitched the wound closed, and the stitches were removed ten days later.
As a result, Oswald was left with two scars on the upper part of his left arm.
When Oswald was arrested on November 22, he informed the Dallas police of his weight, height, and that he had no tattoos or permanent scars.
After Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, an autopsy was performed by Dr. Earl Rose in Dallas. Nowhere in Rose’s lengthy autopsy report is there any mention of scars on Oswald’s left arm. Photographs were also taken of his arms, but these likewise show no scars from a gunshot wound.
After the autopsy, Oswald’s body was taken to a funeral home where it was embalmed and prepared for burial by Paul Groody.
When the Secret Service later interviewed Groody and asked whether there were any scars on Oswald’s arms, Groody replied that there were no scars on Oswald’s upper left arm.
When Oswald was six years old, he underwent a mastectomy-type operation to remove a cyst behind his left ear. When Oswald was seventeen in 1956, his Marine Corps medical examination report noted a three-inch scar behind his left ear, but no such scar was recorded in Dr. Rose’s autopsy report.5
Nor did Groody find any such scar.
The question then becomes: if the same Oswald who underwent surgery as a child and later accidentally shot himself as a teenager was the man who was subsequently killed by Ruby, where had the scars from the operation and the gunshot wound gone?
According to Armstrong, the explanation is that it was Lee who underwent the operation at age six and accidentally shot himself while serving in the Marines, whereas the man killed by Ruby was Harvey Oswald, an entirely different person.
In a filmed press interview some time after the assassination, Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby, made a statement suggesting that there was more behind the events than merely an impulsive act by a deranged individual:
“The world will never know the true facts of what happened and my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and such ulterior motives, for putting me in the position I am in, will never let the true facts come out to the world.”6
The reporter asked whether “those people” occupied very high positions, to which Ruby gave a distinct “Yes!”
On his way back to jail, he made another statement:
“It is a complete conspiracy, and if you knew the real facts, you would be astonished.”7
The Sunday Times of London reported that Ruby had revealed to psychiatrist Werner Teuter that Kennedy’s assassination was “an act to overthrow the government” and that he knew “who killed Kennedy.”
Ruby had also said that he was doomed:
“I don’t want to die, but I’m not insane,” Ruby explained. “I was put in position to kill Oswald….”8
Eugene B. Dinkin was a cryptographic code operator in the U.S. Army and held the military’s highest level of security clearance, a so-called crypto clearance.
In 1963, Dinkin was stationed in Metz, France, and one day he intercepted a memorandum that caught his attention. It came from high-ranking military commanders in the United States and had been sent to French officers. It concerned the need for an “assassination team” for a job in Texas later that November.
An FBI report dated April 9, 1964, showed that Dinkin had predicted Kennedy’s assassination several weeks before it occurred because he had written that “a conspiracy was developing within the military in the United States, perhaps combined with an economic group from the extreme right…”9
Dinkin became concerned by rumors that he would be declared psychotic and institutionalized. He therefore left Metz and traveled to Switzerland by train on November 4.
There, he told his story to the editor of the newspaper Geneva Diplomat and at a press conference at United Nations headquarters two days later.
Dinkin stated that “they are conspiring against Kennedy” and that “something would happen in Dallas soon.”10
When Dinkin eventually returned to his military post, he was arrested and placed in a psychiatric hospital.11
He was then threatened with electroshock treatment and told that if he wanted to “get well” again, he would have to admit that he had merely been seeking attention.12
Two weeks later, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
Information provided by Dinkin had already reached the White House by November 29, 1963, and the Warren Commission received information about Dinkin through a letter from the CIA in May 1964.
None of the contents of that letter were mentioned in the Commission’s report or in any of its other 26 volumes.
Michael Delavante, The Assassination of President Kennedy – Part 8
Also read part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and part 7
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8. Jason Perdue, People in High Places Paperback Edition 2, 2017, Lulu (page 211)
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Stunning Evidence in the Assassination of the President, Trafford Publishing, 2004, (page 187)
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