Readers should try to imagine the mindset imposed on a host of black witnesses to events around the assassination. The statements and testimony of the three black employees on the fifth floor of the Book Depository - James "Junior" Jarman, Harold Norman and Bonnie Ray Williams - can all be seen in a different light (Landis said at one point he didn't even see anyone in the windows of the TSBD as the motorcade went by). Were these three coerced in some way? The Warren Commission liked to begin questioning black witnesses by asking them whether they'd ever been in trouble with the law. I've heard that Amos Euins, who described a gunman in a window of the TSBD, is still alive but refuses to talk to anyone.
This phenomenon even extends to law enforcement. Napoleon Daniels, the black Dallas police officer who said he saw Jack Ruby coming down the ramp into the basement of the DPD described Ruby as having a "bald patch." Ruby was wearing a hat the whole time. He could have just had a confused memory, or he could have been threatened with loss of job or worse, as happened to Abraham Bolden.
To know how racism affects the JFKA one needs only this video.
While still on the White House detail Boldin faced abject racial hatred nothing less than appalling and shocking (and the passages in Boldin’s book even more so).
I very much agree with the observations of ‘John loftus’ below — once you recognize the racial hostility of law enforcement officers of the day (Dallas Police, Secret Service, FBI) it’s easy to see how any number of them would have been willing nay eager to participate in the assassination of a president like JFK. I believe it was Roger Craig in his manuscript who estimated half of Dallas Police officers belonged to the KKK.
Our unwillingness to confront this sad truth about ourselves contributes mightily to our collective inability to arrive at final justice in the case.
For decades, Fort Worth and Dallas were Klan towns, and by that I mean that the most prominent people in government were in the Klan: the mayor, the city council, judges, the police, school board, etc. as well as members of the most prominent law firms and businesses. They may not have paraded around in their sheets by the '60s, but the mentality was definitely still there.
The building that served as the Klan's meeting hall in FW is still standing. It's huge. It was used as a warehouse after the Klan gave it up.
Boldin's story would make an Oscar winning movie. Who could dream up a story like that? We don't like to face our wrongdoing. That's why we persecute Julian Assange. He showed the video of American soldiers killing innocent people.
I do not see it as difficult to embrace the idea race was involved in this story, I see it as business as usual in Texas especially.
This day in history reality reveals that racists still refuse to admit they are racists, although the actions and statements of these people still betray them as being racists. They are in denial and there is plenty of that to go around.
If I had been one of the blacks involved at the time I would not have missed the fact white folks connected to the event were dropping like dead flies. Two being killed within minutes and hours of the JFK murder. #1 JFK, #2 Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit and #3 LHO.
Thank you Jefferson Morley for writing an article that points out the racism “factor” in the JFK Assassination.
I wrote a post years ago on Facebook’s JFK Assassination pointing out the prejudices present in the Dallas Police Force and the Secret Service by mentioning Abraham Bolden’s abject mistreatment by the Justice Department and the Secret Service.
The few responses posted all claimed Bolden was a convicted felon and a liar.
That’s the system in action.
JFK was a marked man for many reasons,
Promoting peace
Going around the Federal Reserve
Enforcing integration of schools
Wanting to disband the CIA
Wanting peaceful international cooperation in space
Wanting to eliminate the oil depletion allowance
But in the South, the real South,
killing a N......Lover politician is all in a day’s work, especially if you can kill a Commie Sympathizer and N........Lover Oswald as well.
With Trump, one never knows what to believe. If he really knew something, wouldn't he blurt it out like he has done about so many things?
If he truly does know something, perhaps he is hoping to extort favors from the national security state (like a get-out-of-jail free card) by threatening to disclose what he knows.
I am no fan of Trump. If he can personally gain from legislation, he’s all over it. His Presidency was a disaster for democracy despite his rants. I bring his name up because he knows about issues the average American won’t try to comprehend. Trump knows about the UFO file and antigravity aircraft that the US possesses. His uncle, John Trump, was Vannever Bush’s protege and Uncle John reviewed Tesla’s papers for the FBI. Trump and Nixon were fast friends in the late 70’s and trump certainly knew Roy Cohn who was the original swamp creature. Cohn knows about the uFO files from the McCarthy hearings. Nixon was the one who privatized space exploration.
The advanced tech and the uFO knowledge has been the Nation’s biggest secret for decades, far more important than the nuclear stuff. I think as others do that JFK was eliminated because he wanted to share some of this knowledge with the Soviets in order to prevent WW3. UFO’s have historically been found around missile silos throughout the world, jamming signals and putting the electronic controls out of service. JFK wanted to minimize the threat that our enemies would interpret this interference as coming from us. Private aerospace money was threatened as well as
the Nasa Nazis were when the Cia was to be reorganized.
(I believe James Forrestal was murdered as well, the nations first Sec Def.)
Trump knows this stuff as well as RFK Jr.
Biden who voted for the JFK act in the 1990’s has all but tried to bury this legislation by accepting the cIA’s transparency plan.
This schizoid state the Nation is in is directly related to the UFO file. This drama is played out in real time and most people are ignorant of the scale of deception happening.
Cohn was Trump's lawyer for years IIRC. That's where Trump learned he could wear people down with lawsuits, frivolous or not. One of Trump's business practices was to stiff his construction subcontractors on their last invoices after construction was completed. The subs couldn't afford to fight Cohn's lawsuits to get their money and just walked away. I remember one cabinet maker said he couldn't afford to work for Trump because he needed to be paid for his last invoice.
The UFO stuff may be real, but to most people just bringing up the topic in connection with the JFKA makes us look nutty in their eyes. It's ammunition for the lone nutters, so I avoid it.
Jesse Marcel's story about what he saw on a ranch near Roswell is quite compelling, and he always seemed very credible to me.
Do I think the government is hiding evidence about UFOs? Oh hell yes.
That oil depletion allowance is one of the most important, and yet still widely unknown, policies that governs our life. It is long overdue for some sunshine and scrutiny.
At the time, it allowed oil producers to take 27.5% of their oil revenue income tax-free for the life of the well. Imagine having millions of dollars of annual oil revenue and getting 27.5% of it tax-free. Who would want to give that up? That's worth killing over. Percentage depletion has since been cut back to 15% and restricted to small producers.
A worthwhile video by Yacucci... although most of the proof he cites are 50 years old... In the interim the conclusions of the Warren Commission have been disproven (without exaggeration) many thousands of times... without moving the needle of public opinion... another 2,000 or 3,000 proofs will accomplish nothing.
Exhibit A: The Mauser leaving the Book Depository — if anyone is interested...
How many rifles were allegedly found in the TSBD? Four? A Mauser, a .303 Enfield, and two versions of the Carcano distinguished by different sling mounts? Nothing suspicious about that.
IIRC, it was reported that a .303 Enfield was found on the roof of the TSBD and then nothing--no follow-up. The topic was dropped. Poof. Disappeared.
Again, IIRC, it may have been an attempt to frame, or threaten to frame, poor Buell Wesley Frazier who allegedly owned such a rifle.
Come to think of it, the issue of two Carcanos came about because of the discrepancy in the sling mounts shown on the Carcano in the back yard photos and the photos of the Carcano retrieved from the TSBD (one side mounted, the other bottom mounted).
I read the “Too Many Rifles” analysis…. he seems to conclude the Carcano is the only rifle whose existence is supported by evidence.
How then can he explain the texashistory photo of a non-Carcano rifle exiting the TSBD with Wil Fritz and Elmer Boyd? The only imaginable explanation is it’s the Mauser.
Conversely I believe insufficient attention is paid to the possibility of contingent patsies — ie. If the Oswald narrative stalled they were prepared to blame someone else.
For instance any one of the Black men, Charles Givens chief among them.
But I could see where Frazier might have been on the third tier.
Frazier said the cop who interrogated him was going to try to beat a confession out of him (standard police practice in 1963). Frazier told him that if he hit him, Frazier was going to get some shots in before other cops could rush in. The cop decided not to hit him.
Frazier gave a good presentation at the City of Allen Public LIbrary, a video of which is on their website.
... (quite obviously referenced by Yacucci) that seems to show TWO RIFLES in the TSBD (31:38 — 32:41) in the film shot by Tom Alyea — where Alyea himself has claimed that Fritz and Day went to some lengths to conceal from Alyea the truth (whatever that may have been) of the rifle(s).
The book Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio does a good job of describing the social and political situation prior to the assassination and worth a read for those interested in that part of the story.
Want to know what the racial atmosphere was like in Dallas and Fort Worth in 1963?
Remember The Cellar, where JFK's Secret Service detail spent all night drinking the night before the assassination? At the entrance (which was actually at the top of a long flight of stairs), there was a Confederate flag and a sign that said the cover charge was $1000. Only black people were asked for the cover charge. Whites were allowed to walk right in.
The vibe there was a cross between beatnik, biker bar, and KKK (overall scummy), yet it also drew some of the city's elite because it offered liquor to the well-connected when liquor by the drink was illegal. Occasionally, a waitress would take her clothes off and dance on the stage, also illegal in Fort Worth at the time. The cops were no-doubt paid off. It eventually became an embarrassment to the city and was closed in the seventies.
Well done, Mr. Morley! You have showcased another Loan Nut Buff’s avoidance of reality. It is still shocking to know that Abe Bolden was the only guy fired after an absolute failure, across-the-board to protect the President’s motorcade in Dallas. If DVP has amassed such a collection of news coverage video of the JFK assassination, he must be aware of the fact that the Secret Service and/or other government entities confiscated a bunch of news real footage following the events. If you think about it there just had to have been way more footage or the scene immediately afterwards and at Parkland. Imagine newsreel footage of the Secret Service bowling people over to get the President’s body to AF One. Obviously, if any of it showed the actual suspects or conspirators or evidence contrary to the lone gunman it would’ve never seen the light of day.
One more thought - Abe Bolden was recently pardoned. Odd how the official pardon released said nothing about him being railroaded to prison. I don’t even know if railroaded is the right term. That was down right Evil what happened to him.
as far as witnesses' close to the gunfire there are those three or four white men on the steps by the grassy knoll in the film shot from the other side of Elm . they seem to be descending the steps but as the gunfire rings out , one seems to duck and head back up the stairs. the others just watch intently as the limo passes. I wonder if they ever told their story,
I saw a picture in Groden's book that showed maybe a black man standing on a piece of the pergola behind where Zapruder was, leaning on the rail and looking to the railroad yard and maybe seeing the fleeing gunman. perhaps he returned to the bench and he and his lady friend just got out of there
Is there any analysis of witnesses who provided statements, by race? Any witness who didn’t say what police, fbi, and secret service wanted to hear got pushback. I expect it was far worse for African Americans. I wonder how many actually did come forward voluntarily.
Acquilla Clemons was told by an agent or a cop that she might "get hurt" if she told anyone what she saw at the Tippit murder scene. She had the courage to tell her story to Mark Lane in spite of the threat. The Warren Commission of course didn't call her to testify.
This “couple” that is being referenced by Sitzman; what does it mean they ran out the “back”? Were they running towards the grassy knoll fence that some believe the “other” assassins were? Were they running towards the overpass from the grassy knoll? Or were they running towards the TSBD?
I think they were doing the duck & scramble the hell outta there. It may be another indication the shots came from behind them which would’ve been the picket fence because of the way they scrambled
I like the southern liberal tradition, open minded and friendly, generous, not biased a la John Grisham and Jimmy Carter. Blacks and other minorities feel powerless and at high risk of trouble if they call out bad things. I see that these days with Haitians and Jamaican immigrants, they are always averse to reporting crimes or going over the head of others who are mistreating them due to a long history of abuse, think of the Tuskegee experiments.
The Dallas police and FBI were infested with racism. They should be characterized as racist organizations. Racism corrupted their abilities. It also intensified the unspoken tenacity necessary to maintain the collective lies, and enabled that good investigative work done by only a few paid individual officers to be railroaded.
Also very importantly, Ralph Yarborough was an anti-racist. The Texas Democratic Party politics was the main reason for the Dallas trip. The same racist politics of the FBI and Dallas police were active in the Texas Democratic Party, while not necessarily as dominant. It is ironic that history treats LBJ as the champion of the Civil RIghts Act when it was the work of the Kennedys in response to popular protest. Nevertheless, the Democrats' racism aligned with JFK's assassins to help isolate and ostracize Yarborough from gaining popular traction with his disbelief of the "lone nut" fabrication.
A wonderful piece.
Readers should try to imagine the mindset imposed on a host of black witnesses to events around the assassination. The statements and testimony of the three black employees on the fifth floor of the Book Depository - James "Junior" Jarman, Harold Norman and Bonnie Ray Williams - can all be seen in a different light (Landis said at one point he didn't even see anyone in the windows of the TSBD as the motorcade went by). Were these three coerced in some way? The Warren Commission liked to begin questioning black witnesses by asking them whether they'd ever been in trouble with the law. I've heard that Amos Euins, who described a gunman in a window of the TSBD, is still alive but refuses to talk to anyone.
This phenomenon even extends to law enforcement. Napoleon Daniels, the black Dallas police officer who said he saw Jack Ruby coming down the ramp into the basement of the DPD described Ruby as having a "bald patch." Ruby was wearing a hat the whole time. He could have just had a confused memory, or he could have been threatened with loss of job or worse, as happened to Abraham Bolden.
I defy anyone to read Abraham Bolden's book and then still claim there was no racism surrounding the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TbVpuNEu0s&t=103s
Great man
Great story
Excellent video
Very much worthy of the full Hollywood treatment.
To know how racism affects the JFKA one needs only this video.
While still on the White House detail Boldin faced abject racial hatred nothing less than appalling and shocking (and the passages in Boldin’s book even more so).
I very much agree with the observations of ‘John loftus’ below — once you recognize the racial hostility of law enforcement officers of the day (Dallas Police, Secret Service, FBI) it’s easy to see how any number of them would have been willing nay eager to participate in the assassination of a president like JFK. I believe it was Roger Craig in his manuscript who estimated half of Dallas Police officers belonged to the KKK.
Our unwillingness to confront this sad truth about ourselves contributes mightily to our collective inability to arrive at final justice in the case.
Well said.
For decades, Fort Worth and Dallas were Klan towns, and by that I mean that the most prominent people in government were in the Klan: the mayor, the city council, judges, the police, school board, etc. as well as members of the most prominent law firms and businesses. They may not have paraded around in their sheets by the '60s, but the mentality was definitely still there.
The building that served as the Klan's meeting hall in FW is still standing. It's huge. It was used as a warehouse after the Klan gave it up.
Boldin's story would make an Oscar winning movie. Who could dream up a story like that? We don't like to face our wrongdoing. That's why we persecute Julian Assange. He showed the video of American soldiers killing innocent people.
Abraham Bolden tells his story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TbVpuNEu0s&t=103s
I do not see it as difficult to embrace the idea race was involved in this story, I see it as business as usual in Texas especially.
This day in history reality reveals that racists still refuse to admit they are racists, although the actions and statements of these people still betray them as being racists. They are in denial and there is plenty of that to go around.
If I had been one of the blacks involved at the time I would not have missed the fact white folks connected to the event were dropping like dead flies. Two being killed within minutes and hours of the JFK murder. #1 JFK, #2 Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit and #3 LHO.
Thank you Jefferson Morley for writing an article that points out the racism “factor” in the JFK Assassination.
I wrote a post years ago on Facebook’s JFK Assassination pointing out the prejudices present in the Dallas Police Force and the Secret Service by mentioning Abraham Bolden’s abject mistreatment by the Justice Department and the Secret Service.
The few responses posted all claimed Bolden was a convicted felon and a liar.
That’s the system in action.
JFK was a marked man for many reasons,
Promoting peace
Going around the Federal Reserve
Enforcing integration of schools
Wanting to disband the CIA
Wanting peaceful international cooperation in space
Wanting to eliminate the oil depletion allowance
But in the South, the real South,
killing a N......Lover politician is all in a day’s work, especially if you can kill a Commie Sympathizer and N........Lover Oswald as well.
No wonder Trump told Judge Neapolito
“I can’t release the JFK records, you
Wouldn’t believe how bad it is”
With Trump, one never knows what to believe. If he really knew something, wouldn't he blurt it out like he has done about so many things?
If he truly does know something, perhaps he is hoping to extort favors from the national security state (like a get-out-of-jail free card) by threatening to disclose what he knows.
I am no fan of Trump. If he can personally gain from legislation, he’s all over it. His Presidency was a disaster for democracy despite his rants. I bring his name up because he knows about issues the average American won’t try to comprehend. Trump knows about the UFO file and antigravity aircraft that the US possesses. His uncle, John Trump, was Vannever Bush’s protege and Uncle John reviewed Tesla’s papers for the FBI. Trump and Nixon were fast friends in the late 70’s and trump certainly knew Roy Cohn who was the original swamp creature. Cohn knows about the uFO files from the McCarthy hearings. Nixon was the one who privatized space exploration.
The advanced tech and the uFO knowledge has been the Nation’s biggest secret for decades, far more important than the nuclear stuff. I think as others do that JFK was eliminated because he wanted to share some of this knowledge with the Soviets in order to prevent WW3. UFO’s have historically been found around missile silos throughout the world, jamming signals and putting the electronic controls out of service. JFK wanted to minimize the threat that our enemies would interpret this interference as coming from us. Private aerospace money was threatened as well as
the Nasa Nazis were when the Cia was to be reorganized.
(I believe James Forrestal was murdered as well, the nations first Sec Def.)
Trump knows this stuff as well as RFK Jr.
Biden who voted for the JFK act in the 1990’s has all but tried to bury this legislation by accepting the cIA’s transparency plan.
This schizoid state the Nation is in is directly related to the UFO file. This drama is played out in real time and most people are ignorant of the scale of deception happening.
Peace
Cohn was Trump's lawyer for years IIRC. That's where Trump learned he could wear people down with lawsuits, frivolous or not. One of Trump's business practices was to stiff his construction subcontractors on their last invoices after construction was completed. The subs couldn't afford to fight Cohn's lawsuits to get their money and just walked away. I remember one cabinet maker said he couldn't afford to work for Trump because he needed to be paid for his last invoice.
The UFO stuff may be real, but to most people just bringing up the topic in connection with the JFKA makes us look nutty in their eyes. It's ammunition for the lone nutters, so I avoid it.
Jesse Marcel's story about what he saw on a ranch near Roswell is quite compelling, and he always seemed very credible to me.
Do I think the government is hiding evidence about UFOs? Oh hell yes.
That oil depletion allowance is one of the most important, and yet still widely unknown, policies that governs our life. It is long overdue for some sunshine and scrutiny.
At the time, it allowed oil producers to take 27.5% of their oil revenue income tax-free for the life of the well. Imagine having millions of dollars of annual oil revenue and getting 27.5% of it tax-free. Who would want to give that up? That's worth killing over. Percentage depletion has since been cut back to 15% and restricted to small producers.
Ted Yacucci's latest video, "Trust Your Eyes--Proof of Conspiracy in the JFKA is easy to see":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrfJXFhphgQ
The black witnesses are discussed.
Of special note:
1) that Capt Wm Westbrook was a CIA operative is a HUGE allegation,
2) that the plot involved two “spotters” is OBVIOUS by any measure of empirical observation and basic logic.
Someone needs to do a deep dive on Westbrook, including interviewing his survivors.
A worthwhile video by Yacucci... although most of the proof he cites are 50 years old... In the interim the conclusions of the Warren Commission have been disproven (without exaggeration) many thousands of times... without moving the needle of public opinion... another 2,000 or 3,000 proofs will accomplish nothing.
Exhibit A: The Mauser leaving the Book Depository — if anyone is interested...
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184787/
Spoiler alert: no one is.
How many rifles were allegedly found in the TSBD? Four? A Mauser, a .303 Enfield, and two versions of the Carcano distinguished by different sling mounts? Nothing suspicious about that.
I thought the answer was “one rifle (Carcano) or two (Carcano + Mauser)”.
If there were possibly more I’m unaware of that fact.
IIRC, it was reported that a .303 Enfield was found on the roof of the TSBD and then nothing--no follow-up. The topic was dropped. Poof. Disappeared.
Again, IIRC, it may have been an attempt to frame, or threaten to frame, poor Buell Wesley Frazier who allegedly owned such a rifle.
Come to think of it, the issue of two Carcanos came about because of the discrepancy in the sling mounts shown on the Carcano in the back yard photos and the photos of the Carcano retrieved from the TSBD (one side mounted, the other bottom mounted).
Found this:
https://www.tpaak.com/tpaak-blog/2014/10/20/a-tale-of-too-many-rifles
I read the “Too Many Rifles” analysis…. he seems to conclude the Carcano is the only rifle whose existence is supported by evidence.
How then can he explain the texashistory photo of a non-Carcano rifle exiting the TSBD with Wil Fritz and Elmer Boyd? The only imaginable explanation is it’s the Mauser.
Yes I can understand the sling mount issue.
Conversely I believe insufficient attention is paid to the possibility of contingent patsies — ie. If the Oswald narrative stalled they were prepared to blame someone else.
For instance any one of the Black men, Charles Givens chief among them.
But I could see where Frazier might have been on the third tier.
Frazier said the cop who interrogated him was going to try to beat a confession out of him (standard police practice in 1963). Frazier told him that if he hit him, Frazier was going to get some shots in before other cops could rush in. The cop decided not to hit him.
Frazier gave a good presentation at the City of Allen Public LIbrary, a video of which is on their website.
By the same token there’s this very good video (series):
https://archive.org/details/Evidence_of_Revision_1
... (quite obviously referenced by Yacucci) that seems to show TWO RIFLES in the TSBD (31:38 — 32:41) in the film shot by Tom Alyea — where Alyea himself has claimed that Fritz and Day went to some lengths to conceal from Alyea the truth (whatever that may have been) of the rifle(s).
The book Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio does a good job of describing the social and political situation prior to the assassination and worth a read for those interested in that part of the story.
Want to know what the racial atmosphere was like in Dallas and Fort Worth in 1963?
Remember The Cellar, where JFK's Secret Service detail spent all night drinking the night before the assassination? At the entrance (which was actually at the top of a long flight of stairs), there was a Confederate flag and a sign that said the cover charge was $1000. Only black people were asked for the cover charge. Whites were allowed to walk right in.
The vibe there was a cross between beatnik, biker bar, and KKK (overall scummy), yet it also drew some of the city's elite because it offered liquor to the well-connected when liquor by the drink was illegal. Occasionally, a waitress would take her clothes off and dance on the stage, also illegal in Fort Worth at the time. The cops were no-doubt paid off. It eventually became an embarrassment to the city and was closed in the seventies.
Well done, Mr. Morley! You have showcased another Loan Nut Buff’s avoidance of reality. It is still shocking to know that Abe Bolden was the only guy fired after an absolute failure, across-the-board to protect the President’s motorcade in Dallas. If DVP has amassed such a collection of news coverage video of the JFK assassination, he must be aware of the fact that the Secret Service and/or other government entities confiscated a bunch of news real footage following the events. If you think about it there just had to have been way more footage or the scene immediately afterwards and at Parkland. Imagine newsreel footage of the Secret Service bowling people over to get the President’s body to AF One. Obviously, if any of it showed the actual suspects or conspirators or evidence contrary to the lone gunman it would’ve never seen the light of day.
One more thought - Abe Bolden was recently pardoned. Odd how the official pardon released said nothing about him being railroaded to prison. I don’t even know if railroaded is the right term. That was down right Evil what happened to him.
Railroaded is a good description. Persecuted is another. It's a shame Biden wouldn't admit to the government's wrongdoing.
as far as witnesses' close to the gunfire there are those three or four white men on the steps by the grassy knoll in the film shot from the other side of Elm . they seem to be descending the steps but as the gunfire rings out , one seems to duck and head back up the stairs. the others just watch intently as the limo passes. I wonder if they ever told their story,
I saw a picture in Groden's book that showed maybe a black man standing on a piece of the pergola behind where Zapruder was, leaning on the rail and looking to the railroad yard and maybe seeing the fleeing gunman. perhaps he returned to the bench and he and his lady friend just got out of there
i meant retaining wall that would have been a
great spot to see the railroad yard behind the picket fence
That would go a lot to explain their silence over the years.
Is there any analysis of witnesses who provided statements, by race? Any witness who didn’t say what police, fbi, and secret service wanted to hear got pushback. I expect it was far worse for African Americans. I wonder how many actually did come forward voluntarily.
Acquilla Clemons was told by an agent or a cop that she might "get hurt" if she told anyone what she saw at the Tippit murder scene. She had the courage to tell her story to Mark Lane in spite of the threat. The Warren Commission of course didn't call her to testify.
Clemons is another American hero in the story (of many).
This “couple” that is being referenced by Sitzman; what does it mean they ran out the “back”? Were they running towards the grassy knoll fence that some believe the “other” assassins were? Were they running towards the overpass from the grassy knoll? Or were they running towards the TSBD?
I think they were doing the duck & scramble the hell outta there. It may be another indication the shots came from behind them which would’ve been the picket fence because of the way they scrambled
If you want to know what Dallas was like on 11/22/63, consider what JFK said in his Fort Worth hotel the night before his assassination:
"Tomorrow we are going to nut country."
Slight correction:
JFK said to Jackie at the Fort Worth hotel on the morning of the murder,
"Today we are heading into nut country."
I like the southern liberal tradition, open minded and friendly, generous, not biased a la John Grisham and Jimmy Carter. Blacks and other minorities feel powerless and at high risk of trouble if they call out bad things. I see that these days with Haitians and Jamaican immigrants, they are always averse to reporting crimes or going over the head of others who are mistreating them due to a long history of abuse, think of the Tuskegee experiments.
The Dallas police and FBI were infested with racism. They should be characterized as racist organizations. Racism corrupted their abilities. It also intensified the unspoken tenacity necessary to maintain the collective lies, and enabled that good investigative work done by only a few paid individual officers to be railroaded.
Also very importantly, Ralph Yarborough was an anti-racist. The Texas Democratic Party politics was the main reason for the Dallas trip. The same racist politics of the FBI and Dallas police were active in the Texas Democratic Party, while not necessarily as dominant. It is ironic that history treats LBJ as the champion of the Civil RIghts Act when it was the work of the Kennedys in response to popular protest. Nevertheless, the Democrats' racism aligned with JFK's assassins to help isolate and ostracize Yarborough from gaining popular traction with his disbelief of the "lone nut" fabrication.