Justification For Killing (65 page)

Six minutes until the
assassination Beverly Maxwell, whom earlier thought she saw Oswald
in the lunchroom, saw him standing by the front door of the
TSBD.

Five minutes to go. One of
the Dallas Police policemen in the follow-up vehicle at the back of
motorcade reports to Police Dispatch, “All is okay”.

The Presidential
motorcade, traveling west, made a right turn from Main Street
heading north on Houston Street. The seven storied, red brick,
Texas School Book Depository is in an unobstructed, clear view to
the motorcade’s immediate left front. If an assassin wanted a
perfect shot from the School Book building now would be the time –
a head-on shot, to a sniper, would appear as if the President
limousine had stopped.

Two minutes until the
first shot was fired. One of the police radios relayed the
information back to Headquarters, “Large crowd.”

One minute before the
black limousine reached the kill zone, all Dallas police radios go
dead for four minutes. Later research will theorize someone had a
microphone stuck open, which caused the blackout; however, the
guilty ‘policeman’ was never identified. Recent analyses indicate
the cause of the trouble possibly came from the Trade Mart area. On
the day of the event, channel one was used for normal Dallas Police
communication, channel two was reserved for communication with the
Presidential motorcade. It was channel two that was affected. Was
that a stuck switch on a police radio or did some unknown person or
persons intentionally block the police radio band frequency, or
jam, as the black ops people like to call it.

Vice President Lyndon
Johnson languished in the Cadillac convertible two cars behind
President Kennedy, along with his wife Lady Bird Johnson and
Senator Ralph Yarborough. Johnson paid little attention to the
screaming, jubilant crowd along the parade route. He acted as
though his thoughts were elsewhere. Little did he realize in less
than sixty seconds he would become the 36th President of the United
States? Or was he actually envisioning the certainty of the moment,
and the thought of how his life was to about to change weighed
heavily on his mind?

All electrical power and
telephone service to the Texas School Book Depository suddenly went
dead. The Dallas Police, the FBI, the Secret Service nor later the
Warren Commission would question this outage. Roy Trudy, the
building manager was never asked the reason for this interruption
of services. Mysteriously, the power and phone service was restored
a few minutes after the assassination.

Nellie Connally, Gov.
Connally’s wife turning to the President states, “Mr. President,
you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you.” Little did she conceive she
would be the last person ever to speak to John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
the 35th President of the United States?

Thirty seconds to go - the
motorcade turned left from Houston Street onto Elm. Immediate to
the right of the President’s limousine, on the corner of Houston
and Elm, was the Texas School Book Depository. Bud stood on the
steps of the School Book building and glanced at his watch to
verify the exact time: 12:29 p.m.

Abraham Zapruder and his
secretary Marilyn Sitzman, climb up on the concrete abutment on the
western end of the pagoda, and began to film the motorcade with his
Bell & Howell camera. He was filming the President as the
limousine moved along Elm Street headed toward the triple overpass.
His vantage point was almost in front of the grassy knoll and
slightly to the left. Miss Sitzman stood behind Mr. Zapruder
watched the Presidential motorcade proceed along Elm Street, and at
the same time maintained a firm hold on Mr. Zapruder’s coat to keep
him from losing his balance as he filmed his soon-to-be famous 484
frames of history.

The motorcade’s lead car
was almost beneath the overpass, Dallas Police Chief Curry, driving
the unmarked, white, 1962, Ford lead car, radioed he had just
reached the Stemmons freeway overpass, “Five more minutes and we’ll
have him there.” One of the deputies called on the two-way to the
Trade Mart, issuing the five-minute warning for the arrival of the
President.

A few seconds later, the
Dallas police dispatcher announced the time: “12:30
p.m.”

A man standing to the left
of the Stemmons Freeway exit sign, which is positioned on the north
side of Elm Street, opened a black umbrella, held it above his
head, and opened and shut it as the limousine passed his location.
He was wearing a tan overcoat with dark sunglasses covering his
massive black almond shaped eyes. Around his neck was a brilliant
silver medallion. Was it possible the distraction of the umbrella
caught the eye of the President and he turned his head toward the
man?

The time was 12:30:18,
November 22, 1963.

12:30:20 P.M. - THE
EVENT!!

JFK brought his hands up
and clutched his neck. This was at approximately frame 200 on the
Zapruder film.

James Teague was standing
near the triple overpass in Dealey Plaza, on the west side of
Commerce. He was approximately 430 feet from the TSBD or 260 feet
from President Kennedy. Researchers since have drawn diagrams,
which plotted the impact of a bullet striking the curb, on a
straight line back through President Kennedy to a window on the
fifth floor on the western end of the TSBD building. If a straight
line were drawn from the eastern end sixth floor of the TSBD to
Kennedy’s limo, it would miss the spot where the bullet struck the
curb by almost twenty feet!

Motorcycle policeman
Marlon Baker glanced up, saw pigeons fluttering from the TSBD roof.
His thoughts are the shots have come from either the TSBD or the
Dal-Tex building across the street on Houston. He jumped from his
black and white Harley; gun in hand, madly rushing towards the TSBD
building.

Will Lowry, stood on the
entrance steps to the TSBD, thinking the gunshots have come from
“over there on the other side of that concrete little deal on that
grassy knoll.” He will later talk to the FBI and say he did not
“ever believe the shots had come from the direction of the Texas
School Book Depository.”

Margaret Brown was
standing to the left front of the knoll toward the Texas School
Book Depository. Her statement to the FBI indicated she did not
think the shots came from the Book Depository, but she said she
thought the sound of the rifle shot came from behind and to her
right. That would be the area of the grassy knoll.

John Robert Warren, Jr.
believed he saw about twelve inches of a rifle sticking out from a
Book Depository window, and is adamant he heard a total of four
shots fired.

Alice Landry was standing
to the left front of the Grassy Knoll and next to Margaret Brown.
Ms. Landry agreed with Ms. Brown and thought the shots came from
behind and to her right.

Billy Newsome and his wife
Nancy found a spot to see the President that put them between the
President and the Grassy Knoll. Both say they heard shots being
fired from behind them on the Grassy Knoll.

Mr. and Mrs. Courtney
McCay and their four-year-old son Bobby were standing in front of
the Grassy Knoll near the Stemmons Freeway sign. Mr. McCay and his
wife turn around. They wanted to see where the shots were coming
from, believing the sound of the shots came from somewhere on the
grassy knoll.

In her open convertible,
three vehicles behind the President, Mrs. Earle Cabell detected a
slight hint of the unmistakable odor of gunpowder in the air.
Congressmen Ray Roberts, in the same convertible as Mrs. Cabell
later stated he smelled gunpowder also. Senator Ralph Yarborough,
riding in the Vice President’s limo, two cars behind the President,
also smelled gunpowder. He will later say, “I have used firearms
for fifty years and am very familiar with guns while our vehicle
was sitting still in the street I smelled gunpowder. I have always
thought it was strange to smell gunpowder at street level from a
rifle fired from the 6th floor of a building.”

FBI Special Agent William
A. McKinley later states to the Warren Commission, “The
Presidential vehicle was on Elm Street almost to the overpass when
the first shot was fired, followed in quick succession by two
additional shots. I would estimate the three shots were all fired
within four to six seconds. I heard the second shot, and
immediately looked toward the President’s car. I saw him the
instant his head exploded when it was struck by the third
shot.”

Secret Service Agent Clint
Hill was riding in the follow-up car directly behind the
President’s limousine said, “I heard a noise from my right rear, I
jumped from the follow-up car and ran toward the Presidential
automobile. I jumped onto the Presidential automobile.” Questioned
by the Warren Commission: “Where you wounded or hit by a bullet at
this time.” Answer: “No, I was not wounded or hit by
anything.”

In the next few moments,
with everyone scampering to and fro, many even lying down on the
grass, the man now identified as the “Umbrella Man” unconcerned
walked over and sat down on the park bench next to an older man.
The silver medallion hanging around his neck was quite obvious. As
the “Umbrella Man” sat down a young man with a Bell & Howell
movie camera moves from the concrete pedestal and rejoins the group
on the bench. A young woman also clutching a Bell & Howell
movie camera was already sitting with an older man on the concrete
bench. All four were sitting in front of the memorial pagoda next
to Elm Street. Margaret Brown and Alice Landry stood just a few
steps to their front and a bit to their right.

The older gentleman wore
an old, brown, sweat stained, tattered cowboy hat. Several
photographs taken at the time show the man with the cowboy hat
talking into a two-way radio. Jim Towler snapped a photograph
showing the man on the park bench with a portable radio - or
something that looked like a small radio device. It could be seen
while his hands hold the object close to his face. A few moments
later, all four persons got up, and casually walked away - the man
with the cowboy hat, along with his two companions, headed back
toward the Texas School Book Depository, the “Umbrella Man”, with
his beautiful silver medallion, was not seen again, he disappeared
into the crowd and was not captured on any film afterwards. The FBI
never interviewed him, nor did he ever come forward to offer his
testimony on the events of the day. To this day he has not been
identified in any of the official reports.

The three people sitting
on the bench were, of course, Captain Scarburg, Forrest and Olive
Marie. The ‘Umbrella Man’ was none other than Anhur. The Captain
calls LJ telling him the President has not been wounded! He said to
Lonnie Joe: “LJ I was not more than fifteen feet from the
President’s car. The entire side and rear of the president’s head
just exploded, I actually saw brain matter protruding from the
wound!! LJ, there is no way for the President to survive this. I
thought in this Parallel Universe the president was going to
survive, but some other event must have put Earth on this course;
it certainly was not the shooting of the president!! You all have
to watch Oswald and see what he does. In this 1963 Universe, we are
currently in, events might, and probably has, occurred differently
from the events we know to be true in our history back in 2012...
be careful, be real careful, something is wrong! When I came the
first time President Kennedy survived his assassination attempt and
my job was to insure he did not survive – this time he is being
killed!”

James W. Altgens, a
photographer taking pictures, across the street from the ‘Umbrella
Man’, on the south side of Elm will later recall, “I could see
pieces of his head fly off and land right at my feet. The sound was
like an explosion when the bullet hit his head. His skull just
exploded with bone and flesh flying everywhere...”

Another witness Alan
Smith, “I would say the President’s limousine was ten to fifteen
feet from me when a bullet hit the President. I would say in the
forehead, the car went another five feet and stopped dead
still.”

James Brown was also
standing on the south side of Elm Street and behind and to the left
of the limousine during the fatal headshot. Brown witnessed a piece
of JFK’s skull flying backward and to the left of the car. In an
interview with some newsmen later that day he said, “The shots seem
to come from in front or beside the President.”

LEE HARVEY OSWALD AFTER
SHOOTING

Dashing into the School
Book Depository Building, within ninety seconds of the last shot,
Officer Marlon Baker and building manager Roy Trudy began a sweep
of the building. Mr. Trudy identified Oswald as an employee of the
TSBD. He is on the second floor at the lunchroom. Oswald leaves the
lunchroom walks to the second floor stairway and goes down to the
first floor of the building. He was getting ready to leave the TSBD
through the main entrance, all before the police have time to seal
off the building.

Officer Baker and Mr.
Trudy go from the second floor lunchroom to the fifth floor. The
electricity and telephone service had been restored. The elevator
comes down from the fifth floor to the first. Officer Baker took a
staircase up to the roof from the seventh floor. He checked the
roof including the Hertz advertising sign. He found no one on the
roof. Close to the west wall he picked up a spent 30-06 shell
casing. He noticed after examining the shell that it had been
recently fired.