This Day in Goodlove History, November 22, 2014
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Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove
The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany, Russia, Czech etc.), and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), Jefferson, LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), Washington, Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with George Rogers Clark, and including ancestors William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison “The Signer”, Benjamin Harrison, Jimmy Carter, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, William Taft, John Tyler (10th President), James Polk (11th President)Zachary Taylor, and Abraham Lincoln.
The Goodlove Family History Website:
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The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
• New Address! https://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/
• • Books written about our unique DNA include:
• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.
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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004
Relatives with Birthdays on November 22…
Mary of Guise
George H. Kirby
Pamela A. Martens (---)
Michael K. Perius
Abigail Smith Adams
Henry N. Soupene
Hilda M.C. Westphal Schrigley
Miliscent Winch
November 22: 176-180 A.D.
Saint Cecilia
Saint Cecilia of Rome
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Saint Cecilia by Guido Reni, 1606[1]
Virgin and Martyr
Born
2nd century A.D.
Rome
Died
Sicily
Major shrine
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Feast
November 22
Patron saint of musicians and church music
Attributes
flute, organ, roses, violin, harp, harpsichord, singing
Patronage
Church music, great musicians, poets; Albi, France;Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska; Mar del Plata, Argentina
Saint Cecilia (Latin: Sancta Caecilia) is the patroness of musicians[2] and Church music because, as she was dying, she sang to God. It is also written that as the musicians played at her wedding she "sang in her heart to the Lord".[2] St. Cecilia was an only child. Her feast day is celebrated in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches on November 22. She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. It was long supposed that she was a noble lady of Rome who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and a Roman soldier Maximus, suffered martyrdom in about 230, under the Emperor Alexander Severus.[3]
The research of Giovanni Battista de Rossi,[4] however, appears to confirm the statement of Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers (d. 600), that she perished in Sicily under Emperor Marcus Aurelius between 176 and 180. A church in her honor exists in Rome from about the 5th century, was rebuilt with much splendor by Pope Paschal I around the year 820, and again by Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati in 1599. It is situated in Trastevere, near the Ripa Grande quay, where in earlier days the ghetto was located, and is the titulus of a Cardinal Priest, currently Carlo Maria Martini.
The martyrdom of Cecilia is said to have followed that of her husband and his brother by the prefect Turcius Almachius.[5] The officers of the prefect then sought to have Cecilia killed as well. She arranged to have her home preserved as a church before she was arrested. At that time, the officials attempted to kill her by smothering her by steam. However, the attempt failed, and she was to have her head chopped off. But they were unsuccessful three times, and she would not die until she received the sacrament of Holy Communion.
Cecilia survived another three days before succumbing. In the last three days of her life, she opened her eyes, gazed at her family and friends who crowded around her cell, closed them, and never opened them again. The people by her cell knew immediately that she was to become a saint in heaven.[2] When her incorruptible body was found long after her death, it was found that on one hand she had two fingers outstretched and on the other hand just one finger, denoting her belief in the trinity.
The Sisters of Saint Cecilia are a group of women consecrated religious sisters. They are the ones who shear the lambs' wool used to make the palliums of new metropolitan archbishops. The lambs are raised by the Cistercian Trappist Fathers of the Tre Fontane (Three Fountains) Abbey in Rome. The lambs are blessed by the Pope every January 21, the Feast of the martyr Saint Agnes. The pallia are given by the Pope to the new metropolitan archbishops on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, June 29.
Patroness of musicians
Cecilia's musical fame rests on a passing notice in her legend that she was beheaded and at the same time praised God, singing to Him, as she lay dying a martyr's death. She is frequently depicted playing an organ or other musical instrument. Musical societies and conservatories frequently have been named for St. Cecilia. Her feast day became an occasion for musical concerts and festivals that occasioned well-known poems by John Dryden and Alexander Pope,[7] and music by Henry Purcell (Ode to St. Cecilia), George Frideric Handel (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, Alexander's Feast) and Benjamin Britten, who was born on her feast day, (Hymn to St. Cecilia), as well as Herbert Howells with text from a poem by W. H. Auden. Gerald Finzi's "For Saint Cecilia", Op. 30, was set to verses written by Edmund Blunden.[2]
November 22, 950: Lothair's brief "reign" came to an end with his death on November 22, 950, presumably poisoned by Berengar II, leaving Adelaide widowed before her twentieth birthday. Berengar II crowned himself king with his son Adalbert of Italy as his co-ruler and heir apparent. Failing to receive widespread support for his right to the crown, Berengar II attempted to legitimize his reign and tried to force Adelaide, the respective daughter, daughter-in-law and widow of the last three Italian kings, into marriage with Adalbert. Adelaide fiercely refused and was imprisoned by Berengar II at Garda Lake. With the help of Count Adalbert Atto of Canossa, she managed to escape from imprisonment. Besieged by Berengar II in Canossa, Adelaide sent an emissary across the Alps seeking Otto’s protection and marriage. Otto, widowed since 946, knew a marriage to Adelaide would allow him to fulfill his ambition of ruling Italy and, ultimately, claiming the imperial crown as Charlemagne’s true heir. Knowing of Adelaide’s great beauty and immense wealth, the thirty-eight-year-old Otto accepted nineteen-year-old queen's marriage proposal and prepared for an expedition into Italy. [3]
November 22, 1515: Mary of Guise
Mary of Guise, c. 1537, by Corneille de Lyon.
Queen consort of Scotland
Tenure
May 18, 1538 – December 14, 1542
Coronation
February 22, 1540
Spouse
Louis II, Duke of Longueville
m. 1534; wid. 1537
James V of Scotland
m.1538; wid. 1542
Issue
Francis III, Duke of Longueville
Louis of Longueville
James, Duke of Rothesay
Robert Stewart
Mary, Queen of Scots
House
House of Guise
Father
Claude, Duke of Guise
Mother
Antoinette de Bourbon
Born
(1515-11-22)November 22, 1515
Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine, France
Died
June 11, 1560(1560-06-11) (aged 44) (dropsy)
Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
Burial
Saint Pierre de Reims, France
Mary of Guise (French: Marie; November 22, 1515 – June 11, 1560) was queen of Scotland as the second spouse of King James V. She was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and served as regent of Scotland in her daughter's name from 1554 to 1560. A native of Lorraine, she was a member of the powerful House of Guise, which played a prominent role in 16th-century French politics. [4]
November 22, 1571: To Monsieur de La Mothe Fenelon. [5]
From Sheffield, the 22nd November, 1571.
Monsieur de La Mothe Fenelon, — The note herein inclosed, t[6] was still in my hands when a Latin book, J[7] newly published against me, arrived, of which I make no doubt you have some knowledge. It does not say where it is printed, or by whom ; but it was brought hither by Mr. Bateman, a
person so wary that I am sure he would not have it in his possession, unless it were permitted to every one in this kingdom ; and, moreover, that he would not have dared or allowed it to be shewn to me, if he had not had express orders to do so. This is the cause why I have written to you the present, begging you, in my name, most humbly to beseech the king, my good brother, to whom I have not the means of writing,to resent it as an outrage perpetrated against me, and to demand that this queen shall exercise the same severity against the authors, printers, and publishers, of such books, as the said king, my good brother, has heretofore done in his kingdom, at her bare request, when some of my subjects, on the birth of my son, had made some verses where her honour was in nowise concerned. And if, perchance, she does not in this
at least make reciprocal amends, I require the said king, my good brother, to permit that in his kingdom (where I have friends and relations desirous to know all that concerns me) may be published, without blame, books written in my just defence, already printed, and to be printed. Wherein the truth will be opposed to calumny and falsehood, with so many manifest and indubitable proofs that there will be no want of persons of honour and repute to avow and put their names to them, now that the wicked disposition cannot be disguised in those who till this hour have hunted me with so many troubles and afflictions, and that at last they become of themselves instruments of this shame and confusion. I have demanded a priest to administer to me the holy sacrament, and, in my present condition, to clear myself of
all that can annoy my conscience ; and the said Bateman,who was the bearer of my letter, has, instead of consolation, place, year, or author, under the following title : " De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque ejus contra Regem conjuratione, fœdo cum Bothvelio adulterio, nefaria in maritum crudelitate et rabie, horrendo super et deterrimo ejusdem parricidio : plena, et tragica plane historia." Small 8vo.
brought me a defamatory book by Buchanan, an atheist, of whose impiety being aware, I last year besought you to exert your influence with this queen, that he should not be pernaitted to approach my son, to whom I understood that he liad been assigned as preceptor. If they strive to injure me in what constitutes my kingdom, my person, and my honour,
I am no longer surprised, since, in his wickedness, he declares the soul to be nothing but matter. Thus, Monsieur de La Mothe, I pray God to give you what most you desire.
From Sheffield Castle, this 22nd of November, 1571. Your much obliged and good friend,
Marie, R.
Addressed, — To Monsieur de La Mothe Fénélon, knight
of the order of the King of France, my good brother, and his
ambassador in Eno-land. [8]
1572: In 1572, the last independent Native American ruler, Tupac Amaru, was beheaded in Cuzco. Spain remained the only power on the continent.[9]
1572: Martin Luther’s followers continued to agitate against the Jews in Germany, they sacked the Berlin synagogue in 1572.[10]
November 22, 1572: Andrew2 Harrison died in the fall of the year 1752. At Orange County Court, November 22, 1753, on motion of William Johnson, certificate was granted him for obtaining letters of administration on the estate of Andrew2 Harrison, deceased, Elizabeth, widow of the said Andrew2 Harrison, and Battaile3 Harrison, the heir-at-law, having refused. William Johnson's bond was placed at two hundred pounds currency. [11]
November 22, 1575: By the exertions of Catherine of Medicis, a truce of six months is arranged between the two parties in France. [12]
November 22, 1602:
Elisabeth, Queen of Spain
November 22, 1602
October 6,1644
Married Philip IV, King of Spain, in 1615.
[13]
November 22, 1660: The French court officially asked for Henrietta's hand on November 22 and her dowry was arranged. Charles II agreed to give his sister a dowry of 840,000 livres[16] and a further 20,000 towards other expenses. She was also given, as a personal gift, 40,000 livres annually and the Château de Montargis as a private residence.[17]
Henrietta's return to France was delayed by the death from smallpox of the Princess of Orange. [14]
November 22, 1681:
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse
June 6, 1678
December 1, 1737 (aged 59)
Legitimised on November 22, 1681. Held numerous offices, of which: Admiral of France, Governor of Guyenne, Governor of Brittany, and Grand-Veneur de France. Was also duc de Damville, de Rambouillet et de Penthièvre. Had issue.[15]
finished by late 1752
The November 22, 1752 Ohio Company records indicate that some form and portion of the Ohio
Company road was finished by then. The record states:
The Companys Store house at Rock creek where they may land and have their Goods
secured is sixty miles from Conococheege a fine road from whence they may go by Water
in the Companys Boat to their Store house at Wills Creek about forty miles and from
thence the Company have cleared a Waggon Road about sixty miles to one of the head
branches of the Ohio navigable by large flat bottom boats where they proposed to build
Storehouse and begin to lay off their Lands.
While some early mileage estimates are surprisingly accurate, the estimate in the above quote
may not be especially accurate. A later company record, quoted below, reveals that they had not
yet measured the length of that new road. The desire to measure it may suggest that the initial
60-mile estimate was doubted.[16]
A variety of literature reports, without supporting documentary evidence, that Nemacolin and Thomas Cresap blazed and cleared the Ohio Company road in 1749. Such statements are probably the conflation of two facts: (1)According to the Ohio Company‘s ―second petition, their land charter was dated March 18, 1749, and (2) According to the biographer of Thomas‘s son Michael Cresap, the Ohio Company employed Nemacolin to mark and lay out the road. The earliest actual evidence of a completed road that we have seen was written on November 22, 1752.[17]
November 22, 1753: Andrew2 Harrison died in the fall of the year 1752. At Orange County Court, November 22, 1753, on motion of William Johnson, certificate was granted him for obtaining letters of administration on the estate of Andrew2 Harrison, deceased, Elizabeth, widow of the said Andrew2 Harrison, and Battaile3 Harrison, the heir-at-law, having refused. William Johnson's bond was placed at two hundred pounds currency.[18]
November 22, 1753
At Orange County Court, November 22, 1753, on motion of William Johnson, €certificate was granted him for obtaining letters of administration on the estate of Andrew Harrison, deceased, Elizabeth, widow of the said Andrew Harrison, and Battaile.. Harrison, the heir-at-law, having refused. William Johnson’s bond was placed at two hundred pounds currency.”
“Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of Andrew Harrison, deceased, made November 30, 1753. Returned & Recorded, March 1, 1754.” [19]
Nov 22, 1753
On November 22, 1753, William Johnson was granted letters of administration in the estate of Andrew2 Harrison, deceased. At that time, Andrew2 Harrison's plantation amounted to 1,300 acres. His personal estate was appraised at 27 pounds 15 shillings. His inventory included household goods and furnishings, cattle[20] and farming implements, but it listed neither weapons nor slaves. [21]
George Washington‘s November 22, 1753 diary entry indicates that he had just examined …the
place where the Company intended to erect a fort‖, and also indicates why a fort at the Forks of the Ohio would be better. One factor was that ―…a fort at the Fork would be equally well situated on the Ohio, and have the entire command of the Monongahela, which runs up our settlement…‖[22]
November 22, 1761: Dorothea Bland1
F, #105074, b. November 22, 1761, d. July 5, 1816
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Mrs. Jordan in the Character of Hypolita2
http://www.thepeerage.com/picicon.gif Dorothea Bland was born on November 22, 1761.4 She was the daughter of Francis Bland and Grace Phillips.1,5[23]
November 22, 1770: (GW) Invited the Officers of the Fort and other Gentlemen to dine with me at Samples.
November 22d, 1770 (GW)—Stayed at Pittsburg all day. Invited the officers and some other gentlemen to dinner with me at Semple’s, among whom was one Dr. Connelly, nephew to Col. Croghan, a very sensible and intelligent man, who had travelled over a good deal of this western Country both by land and water, and who confirms Nicholson’s account of the Shawnee river, up which he had been near four hundred miles. ‘This country, I mean on the Shawnee river, according to Dr. Connehly’s description, must be exceedingly desirable on many accounts. ‘The climate is fine, the soil remarkably good ; the lands well watered with good streams. and level enough for any kind of cultivation. Besides these advantages from nature, it has others not less important to a new settlement, particularly game, which is so plentiful as to render the transportation of provisions thither, bread[24] only excepted, altogether unnecessary. Dr. Connelly is so much delighted with the lands and climate on that river, that he wishes for nothing more, than to induce one hundred families to go there and live, that he might be among them. A new and most desirable government might be established there, to be bounded, according to his account, by the Ohio northward and westward, by the ridge that devides the waters of the Tennessee or Cherokee river southward and westward, and by a line to run from the Falls of the Ohio, or above, so as to cross the Shawnee river above the fork of it. Dr. Connehly gives much the same account of the land between Fort Chartres, in the Illinois country, and Post St. Vincent, that Nicholson does, except in the article of water, which the Doctor says is bad, and in the summer scarce, there being little else than stagnant water to be met with.
November 22, 1776: Under the terms of the treaty, the Mi'kmaq and St. John's Tribes (Maliseet and Passamaquoddy) committed to "supply and furnish 600 strong men...or as many as may be" for service in the Continental Army. Three of the six Mi'kmaq delegates who signed the treaty "manfully and generously" volunteered to enlist immediately. The treaty also notes that their pay would commence upon their arrival at Washington's camp in New York. Tribal forces formed an "American Battalion" in the Battle of Fort Cumberland (November 22-December 28, 1776). They also protected the Maine border and launched other attacks against British installations.[2] Since 1995, the town of Watertown, Massachusetts has held an annual Treaty Day celebration.
Mi'kmaw historian Daniel Paul notes many individual Mi'kmaq did indeed volunteer and serve with the Continental army as per the terms of the Treaty. However the Signators who signed on were representing their Districts only; its part of Mi'kmaq Treaty protocol that each District was Sovereign and could sign Nation to Nation agreements; then they would return home to present the agreements to the Mi'kmaq Grand Council, the Council of Women and finally to all citizens, which if consensus occurred, the newly signed Treaty would be ratified District by District. The Watertown Treaty was never fully ratified by all Mi'kmaq First Nation Districts until modern times. What circumvented this process of coming to consensus and ratifying the Watertown Treaty as a whole in 1776 is unknown. [25]
THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS TO GEORGE WASHINGTON.[26]
YORK TOWN November 22, 1777.
Sir— The last I had the honour of writing to you was dated the 19th.[27] Your
Excellency’s Letter of the 17th. instant was [sic] inclosed Copy of a Paper from Mr. Zantzinger[28] and a Return of deficiences in Clothing for the Army came since to hand and have been presented to Congress—and by their order Committed to the Boards of War and Treasury from whom no Reports have yet come up, I am thereby left without Instruction for making the necessary reply.[29]
My present business is to forward to Your Excellency under this cover an Act of Congress of the 20th Inst. for appointing Commissioners for Indian affairs in the Western Frontier and for divers other matters the Last of which is a request that Your Excellency will send Colo William Crawford[30] to Pittsburgh to receive Orders from General Hand.[31]
I have the honor to be with every respectful sentiment Sir
Your Excellency’s Most Obedient Servant
HENRY LAURENS
President Congs.
His Excellency
General Washington.[32]
Late 1777
Late in 1777, Crawford returned to his home, having been sent to the West by Washington to take a command under Brigadier General Edward Hand. [33]
November 22, 1797:
Jackson took Senate seat (in Philadelphia) [34]
*John Adams First State of the Union Address (November 22, 1797)
Gerol “Gary” Goodlove at the gravesite of Thomas L. Moore.
I believe T. Moore mentioned in the Lewis and Clark journal is Thomas L. Moore who was paid seventy dollars to conduct Lewis to the Falls of the Ohio.
September 1, 1803: (Lewis) The Pilott (T. Moore) informed me that we were not far from a ripple which was much worse than any we had yet passed, and as there was so thick a fogg on the face of the water that no object was visible 40 paces he advised remaining untill the sun should acquire a greater altitude when the fogg would asscend and disappear; I conscented; we remained untill eight Oclock this morning when we again set out— these Foggs are very common on the Ohio at this season of the year as also in the spring but do not think them as freequent or thick in the spring. perhaps this may in some measure assist us to account for the heavy dues which are mor remarkable for their freequency and quantity than in any country I was ever in— they are so heavy the drops falling from the trees from about midknight untill sunrise gives you the eydea of a constant gentle rain, this continues untill the sun has acquired sufficient altitude to dessipate the fogg by it's influence, and it then ceases. the dues are likewise more heavy during summer than elsewhere but not so much so as at this season.— the Fog appears to owe it's orrigin to the difference of temperature between the air and water the latter at this seson being much warmer than the former; the water being heated by the summer's sun dose not undergo so rapid a change from the absence of the sun as the air dose consiquently when the air becomes most cool which is about sunrise the fogg is thickest and appears to rise from the face of the water like the steem from boiling water— [1] we passed the little horsetale ripple or riffle with much deficulty, all hands laboured in the water about two hours before we effected a passage; the next obstruction we met was the big-horse tale riffle, [2] here we wer obliged to unload all our goods and lift the emty Boat over, about 5 OCock we reach the riffle called Woollery's trap, [3] here after unloading again and exerting all our force we found it impracticable to get over, I therefore employed a man with a team of oxen with the assistance of which we at length got off we put in and remained all night having made only ten miles this day.— [4]
It is impossible to be certain who was with Lewis at this time. Of those who made the entire journey to the Pacific, George Shannon and John Colter may already have joined. The soldiers were probably detached by Lieutenant William A. Murray. The pilot was T. Moore, who was paid seventy dollars to conduct Lewis to the Falls of the Ohio. For expedition members, see Appendix A. Ibid., 107 n. 1, 125–126 n. 1; Cutright (HLCJ), 8 n. 11. (Return to text.)
Buried in the Lindsey-Moore Cemetery are the Revolutionary War officer, Captain Thomas Moore (1745—1823), and his wife, Mary (Harrison) Moore (1761—1836), their eldest son, William Moore, his wife, Eleanor (Dawson), and other descendants. The cemetery was included in a tract of land originally owned by David Lindsey, but sold to Thomas Moore after 1800.
Thomas was born at “Arcadia” plantation, St. Paul’s Parish, Kent County, Maryland, on March 7, 1745, the youngest son of William Moore and his wife, Rachel (Medford).1 He migrated to Tyrone Township~ Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in i76~~ where he married Mary Harrison born 1761 in Orange County, Virginia, youngest child of Lawrence Harrison and his wife Catherine (not proved is the name Marmaduke).3 Mary Harrison was a sister of Colonel Benjamin Harrison , for whom Harrison County was named, first sheriff of Bourbon County, and, as senator from Bourbon, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Danville in l792. Thomas Moore was commissioned lieutenant in the 13th Virginia Regiment commanded(led by Colonel Benjamin Harrison, and captain in the Ninth Virginia Regiment.4 Following the Revolutionary War; he served with George Rogers Clark in Illinois under the command of ‘Colonel Uriah Springer, who had married Sarah (Crawford), widow of Major William Harrison, another brother of Mary (Harrison) Major William Harrison had been massacred at the Battle of Sandusky. In 1802 Thomas Moore was retired from the Kentucky Militia with the’ rank of major. According to William Perrin’s History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison, Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Thomas Moore and his wife had been among the second party of settlers in Harrison County. He received a patent for 2,000 acres of land.
In 1803 or 1804 Congress passed a law donating 3 percent of all money received from sale of lands for use on roads. This donation was called per cent fund. One Capt. Moore, and his brother Thomas, in 1805 took a contract to open a road from Franklinton to Springfield. When they got within a few miles of Springfield with the road, they made a frolic of the job, and invited all the people around to come and help them, so they might go into Springfield in one day. The people turned out and put the road through in one day and that night they had a big supper and ball at Foos’, which was a grand affair. There was great rejoicing that the road was done.
Thomas Moore Drove the first hogs East from this region. He bought his drove from the people on credit. He bought some from one lady named Nancy Reed, promising to bring her a silk dress pattern from Baltimore as payment for her hogs. He drove his hogs to Baltimore, but as his expenses on the trip were more than the original cost of the hogs, he lost money, and could not pay in full for the hogs when he got home. But he brought Nancy her silk dress, and she had the honor of wearing the first silk in this part of the country, and athe same time, the satisfaction of getting payment in full for hogs, a thing which nobody else could say. But Moore paid all a proportional part, and promised the remainder as soon as he could get it. It was several years before he made payment of these debts, but he did it after he got back from serving with Hull in his campaigns. He had saved enough out of his wages to cancel his hog debts. Moore lived and died on the farm where he first settled.
1798
William Henry Harrison’s son John Cleves Symmes Harrison is born. [35]
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George Washington (1732-1799) Gilbert Stuart c. 1798. Stuart was considered the finest portrait painter in his day for his skill in showing a sitter’s personality. Stuart recalled that the President had “a tremendous temper,” held under wonderful control.[36]
*John Adams Fourth State of the Union Address, (November 22, 1800)[37]
November 22, 1822: Gravestone Inscriptions as copied in old Crawford Cemetery by H, Margorie Crawford, September 4, 1949:
1. All on one big stone which has fallen over:
Jno. Crawford, died September 22, 1816. Aged 66 1/3 years.
Effy Crawford, died November 22, 1822
Hannah P. Crawford, died July 16, 1826
Moses Crawford, died 1808
Sarah Rowland, late Sarah Crawford, died----
Thomas, son of Sarah Rowland, died---[38]
1822 November 22, 1822: Richard Crawford, son of Lt. John dies in Lewis Co., KY. November 22, Effy Crawford, wife of Lt. John dies in Adams Co., OH.[39]
November 22, 1914: Clark Rodgers Harrison, Born on November 20, 1891 in Range Township, Madison County, Ohio. Clark Rodgers died in Columbus, Ohio on October 27, 1957; he was 65.
On November 22, 1914 when Clark Rodgers was 23, he married Lulu Belle HARDIN, in McKenzie, Carroll County, Tennessee. Born on September 9, 1894 in Liberty Township, Highland County, Ohio. Lulu Belle died in Columbus, Ohio on March 8, 1952; she was 57.
November 22, 1926: John Stephen DUNCAN. Born on September 17, 1848 in Clay County, Missouri. John Stephen died in Tuskahoma, Pushmataha, Oklahoma on November 22, 1926; he was 78.
On September 28, 1871 when John Stephen was 23, he married Clara Ann FUSON, in DeKalb County, Missouri.[40]
November 20, 1891: Clark Rodgers Harrison b: November 20, 1891 in Range Township, near Mt. Sterling, Ohio
src: Copy of Birth Certificate; Family Bible of Cuie Harrison
d: October 27, 1957 in Columbus, Ohio
src: Copy of Death Certificate
+Lulu Belle Hardin b: October 09, 1894 in Liberty Township, Highland County, Ohio
src: Copy of Birth Certificate; Family Bible of Cuie Harrison
d: March 08, 1952 in Columbis, Ohio
src: Copy of Death Certificate
m: November 22, 1914 in Her parents in McKenzie, Tennessee, Carroll County
src: Copy of Marriage License; Family Bible of Cuie Harrison[41]
November 22, 1941: Magic intercepts a notice from Tokyo to Nomura, that he has until November 29 to reach an understanding with the United States. After that, the notice continues, "things are automatically going to happen." [42]
November 22, 1943:
TBF Avenger aircraft flew above Enterprise during Gilbert Islands campaign, 22 Nov 1943
TBF Avenger aircraft flew above Enterprise during Gilbert Islands campaign, November 22, 1943
November 22, 1944: Her passengers by 15:00, all were safely ashore. On the afternoon of November 22, Nautilus provided fire support to bring the tiny (25-man) enemy garrison out of their bunkers. This proved accurate, killing 14; the remainder committed suicide.[43] (Uncle Norman Snell was on board the Nautilus.)
November 22, 1955, the Soviet Union detonated its first hydrogen bomb on the same principle of radiation implosion. Both superpowers were now in possession of the "hell bomb," as it was known by many Americans, and the world lived under the threat of thermonuclear war for the first time in history.[44]
1956. The February 23 issue of the Christian Science Monitor had a long, favorable article about the Craft.
Also in 1956…
Northeast Conference on Masonic Education formed.
The High Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church petitioned the Ministry of the Interior to withdraw government recognition of the Craft.
The Church of the Nazarene stated it was opposed to the Craft.
Freemasonry and the American Indian, by William r. Denslow, was published.[45]
November 22, 1962 LHO and Marina spend Thanksgiving Day in Fort Worth with
brothers John Pic and Robert. Marguerite Oswald is not invited to this family gathering. Later
this same day LHO and Marina buy a recording of the theme music from Exodus and have
snapshots made. O&CIA[46]
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November 22, 1963:
Three Dallas businessmen paid for this full-page and published the morning
Nov. 22, 1963, in The Dallas Morning News.
WELCOME MR. KENNEDY TO
DALLAS. . .
. . .A CITY so disgraced by a recent Liberal smear attempt that its citizens have just elected two more Conservative Americans to public office.
. . .A CITY that is an economic "boom town," not because of Federal handouts, but through conservative economic and business practices.
. . .A CITY that will continue to grow and prosper despite efforts by you and your administration to penalize it for its non-conformity to New Frontierism.
. . .A CITY that rejected your philosophy and policies in 1960 and will do so again in 1964--even more emphatically than before.
MR. KENNEDY, despite contentions on the part of your administration, the State Department, the Mayor of Dallas, the Dallas City Council, and members of your party, we free-thinking and America-thinking citizens of Dallas still have, through a Constitution largely ignored by you, the right to address our grievances, to question you, to disagree with you, and to criticize you.
In asserting this constitutional right, we wish to ask you publicly the following questions--indeed, questions of paramount importance and interest to all free peoples everywhere--which we trust you will answer. . .in public, without sophistry.
These questions are:
WHY is Latin America turning either anti-American or Communistic, or both, despite increased U. S. foreign aid, State Department policy, and your own Ivy-Tower pronouncements?
WHY do you say we have built a "wall of freedom" around Cuba when there is no freedom in Cuba today? Because of your policy, thousands of Cubans have been imprisoned, are starving and being persecuted--with thousands already murdered and thousands more awaiting execution and, in addition, the entire population of almost 7,000,000 Cubans are living in slavery.
WHY have you approved the sale of wheat and corn to our enemies when you know the Communist soldiers "travel on their stomachs" just as ours do? Communist soldiers are daily wounding and or killing American soldiers in South Viet Nam.
WHY did you host and entertain Tito--Moscow's Trojan Horse--just a short time after our sworn enemy, Khrushchev, embraced the Yugoslav dictator as a great hero and leader of Communism?
WHY have you urged greater aid, comfort, recognition, and understanding for Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, and other Communists countries, while turning your back on the pleas of Hungarian, East German, Cuban and other anti-Communists freedom fighters?
WHY did Cambodia kick the U.S. out of its country after we poured nearly 400 Million Dollars of aid into its ultra-leftist government?
WHY has Gus Hall, head of the U.S. Communist Party praised almost every one of your policies and announced that the party will endorse and support your re-election in 1964?
WHY have you banned the showing at U.S. military bases of the film "Operation Abolition"--the movie by the House Committee on Un-American Activities exposing Communism in America?
WHY have you ordered or permitted your brother Bobby, the Attorney General, to go soft on Communists, fellow-travelers, and ultra-leftists in America, while permitting him to persecute loyal Americans who criticize you, your administration, and your leadership?
WHY are you in favor of the U.S. continuing to give economic aid to Argentina, in spite of the fact that Argentina has just seized almost 400 Million Dollars of American private property?
WHY has the Foreign Policy of the United States degenerated to the point that the C.I.A. is arranging coups and having staunch Anti-Communists Allies of the U.S. bloodily exterminated.
WHY have you scrapped the Monroe Doctrine in favor of the "Spirit of Moscow"?
MR. KENNEDY, as citizens of the United States of America, we DEMAND answers to these questions, and we want them NOW.
THE AMERICAN FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE
"An unaffillated and non-partisan group of citizens who wish truth"
BERNARD WEISSMAN,[50]
Chairman
P.O. Box 1792 --- Dallas 21, Texas
November 22, 1963, The News greeted the first couple with a print version of “good cop, bad cop.”
The newspaper’s lead editorial expressed hope that JFK’s visit to Dallas might help “Democrats, Republicans and Independents unite today in a genuineness of welcome and cordiality.”
However, a full-page advertisement on Page 14, framed by a funereal black border, carried a sarcastic headline: “Welcome Mr. Kennedy to Dallas.”
It asked a series of 12 biting questions, each starting with “WHY” in bold capital letters.
“WHY has Gus Hall, head of the U.S. Communist Party praised almost every one of your policies and announced that the party will endorse and support your re-election?”
“WHY have you scrapped the Monroe Doctrine in favor of the ‘Spirit of Moscow?’”
And so forth.
The ad was signed by “The American Fact-Finding Committee,” which listed a “Bernard Weissman” as its chairman. But these were fronts.
Warren Commission investigators later determined that Joseph P. Grinnan, an oil broker and local leader of the John Birch Society, had paid for the ad with “around $1,500” donated by three men: H. R. “Bum” Bright, an oil man who later became owner of the Dallas Cowboys; Nelson Bunker Hunt, a son of H.L. Hunt; and Edgar Crissey, an insurance company executive.
Ted Dealey acknowledged approving the ad in advance because it lined up with the editorial opinions of The News.
Stanley Marcus, the head of Neiman Marcus and a Kennedy supporter, reflecting on those times, later said: “The News, in my opinion, was almost single-handedly responsible for the prevailing state of mind in Dallas at the time of the assassination.”[51]
November 22, 1963
· 11:10 a.m. -- After staying overnight in Fort Worth, Kennedy leaves Carswell AFB onboard Air Force One to fly to Love Field in Dallas.
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· 11:30 a.m. -- The presidential motorcade leaves Love Field. (Original Schedule).
· 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. -- The motorcade follows a route through Dallas, during which the president stops the car several times to talk to citizens who approach his limousine.[52]
•“On the day Kennedy landed at Love Field, Dallas was a hateful place” – Stephen King, 11/22/63i
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•On the day Kennedy landed at Love Field, Dallas was a hateful place. Confederate flags flew rightside up; American flags flew upside down. Some airport spectators held up signs reading HELP JFK STAMP OUT DEMOCRACY.
Not long before that day in November, both Adlai Stevenson and Lady Bird Johnson were subjected to spit-showers by Dallas voters.
Those spitting on Mrs. Johnson were middle-class housewives.
Stephen King: 11/22/63 (in the book’s afterword)[53]
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, people, including right-wing protesters carrying a Confederate flag and anti-Kennedy placards, await the arrival of President John F. Kennedy at Love Field in Dallas. The 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination throws a new spotlight on the deep hostility toward Kennedy that some Dallasites voiced before the assassination. (AP Photo/File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2013 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this November 22, 1963 file photo, people, including right-wing protesters carrying a Confederate flag and anti-Kennedy placards, await the arrival of President John F. Kennedy at Love Field in Dallas. The 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination throws a new spotlight on the deep hostility toward Kennedy that some Dallasites voiced before the assassination. (AP Photo/File)[55]
On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 11:40 am CST, Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline, and the rest of the presidential entourage arrived at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, aboard Air Force One after a very short flight from nearby Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth. The motorcade cars had been lined up in a certain order earlier that morning. The original schedule was for the president to proceed in a long motorcade from Love Field through downtown Dallas, and end at the Dallas Business and Trade Mart.
The motorcade was scheduled to enter Dealey Plaza at 12:10 pm, followed by a 12:15 pm arrival at the Dallas Business and Trade Mart so President Kennedy could deliver a speech and share in a steak luncheon with Dallas government, business, religious, and civic leaders and their spouses. Invitations that were sent out specify a noon start time to the luncheon while SS agent Lawson told Chief Curry that after arriving at Love Field and leaving at 11:30 the 38-45 minute trip would get them to the Trade Mart on time. Air Force One touched down at 11:39 am and did not leave Love Field until approximately fifteen minutes later.
Dallas' three television stations were given separate assignments. As Bob Walker of WFAA-TV 8 (ABC) was providing live coverage of the President's arrival at Love Field, KRLD-TV 4 (CBS) with Eddie Barker was set up at the Trade Mart for Kennedy's luncheon speech. WBAP-TV 5 (NBC), being a Dallas/Fort Worth network based in the latter, had done live coverage of the President's breakfast speech in Fort Worth earlier that day. On hand to report the arrival on radio was Joe Long of KLIF 1190.
Motorcade vehicles and personnel
•The lead car, an unmarked white Ford:
◦Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry (Driver)
◦Secret Service Agent Winston Lawson (right front)
◦Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker (left rear)
◦Agent Forrest Sorrels (right rear)
•Presidential limousine, a 1961 Lincoln Continental code named SS-100-X:
◦Driver Agent William Greer (Driver)
◦Advance Agent and SAIC Roy Kellerman (right front),
◦Nellie Connally (left middle)
◦Governor John Connally (right middle)
◦First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (left rear)
◦President John F. Kennedy (right rear)
•Presidential follow-up car, a convertible code named “Halfback”:[1]
◦Driver Agent Sam Kinney (driver)
◦ATSAIC Emory Roberts (right front)
◦Agent Clint Hill (left front running board)
◦Agent Bill McIntyre (left rear running board)
◦Agent Jack Ready (right front running board)
◦Agent Paul Landis (right rear running board)
◦Presidential aide Kenneth O'Donnell (left middle)
◦Presidential aide David Powers (right middle)
◦Driver Agent George Hickey (left rear)
◦Agent Glen Bennett (right rear)
•Vice Presidential limousine, a convertible:
◦Policeman Hurchel Jacks (Driver)
◦Agent Rufus Youngblood (Front Passenger)
◦Senator Ralph Yarborough (Left rear)
◦Second Lady Lady Bird Johnson (Middle Rear)
◦Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson (Right Rear)
•Vice Presidential follow-up car, a hardtop code named “Varsity":
◦A Texas state policeman (driver)
◦Vice Presidential aide Cliff Carter (front middle)
◦Agent Jerry Kivett (right front),
◦Agent Woody Taylor (left rear)
◦Agent Lem Johns (right rear)
•Press pool car, (on loan from the telephone company):[2]
◦Telephone company employee (driver)
◦Malcolm Kilduff, White House assistant press secretary (right front)
◾For this trip, Kilduff was substituting for Pierre Salinger, who was traveling to Japan with several cabinet officers, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk.[3][4][5]
◦Merriman Smith, UPI (middle front)[2]
◦Jack Bell, AP (left rear)[6]
◦Robert Baskin, The Dallas Morning News (middle rear)
◦Bob Clark, ABC (right rear)
•Press Car:
◦Bob Jackson, The Dallas Times Herald
◦Tom Dillard, The Dallas Morning News
◦Mal Couch, WFAA-TV
•Abbreviations used above include:
◦SAIC - Special Agent in Charge
◦ATSAIC - Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge (shift leader)
◦Driver Agent - Secret Service driver agents operated through their own command chain. Driver agents were typically recruited from the uniformed White House Police Force.[7]
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Later that morning there were disparaging protests by right-wingers against JFK along the route of the presidential motorcade as it traveled from the airport to downtown Dallas. As the motorcade drove through the suburbs, with President Kennedy only minutes from death, an unfriendly-looking man in a business suit stood on a sidewalk in an aggressive posture holding a protest sign which screamed: “Because of high regard for the presidency I hold you JFK and your blind socialism in complete contempt.” (A photograph of this right-wing protestor with his sign, taken by Dallas newspaper photographer Tom Dillard, is reproduced on p. 438 of Richard B. Trask’s Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy (1994).)[56]
The route scheduled to be driven was as follows: left turn from the south end of Love Field to West Mockingbird Lane, right on Lemmon Ave., right at the "Y" on Turtle Creek Blvd, straight on Cedar Springs Rd, left on North Harwood St, right on Main St, right on Houston St, sharp left on Elm St, through Triple Underpass, right turn up ramp to North Stemmons Freeway, to Dallas Trade Mart at 2100 North Stemmons (This same exact route cannot be driven today; there is a "No right turn" sign on the corner of Main and Houston as well as highway progressions in other areas)
The original route had the motorcade continue straight onto Main instead of turning onto Houston, but it was discovered that Elm Street provided the only direct link from Dealey Plaza to the Stemmons Freeway, thus the route was altered.
The presidential motorcade began its route without incident, stopping twice so President Kennedy could shake hands with some Catholic nuns, then some school children.
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The route taken by the motorcade within Dealey Plaza. North is towards the almost direct-left.[57]
12:18 PM: Howard Brennan arrives near the TSBD to watch the motorcade and shortly
after sees a man in the sixth floor window.[58]
At 12:29 pm CST, the presidential limousine entered Dealey Plaza after a 90-degree right turn from Main Street onto Houston Street. Over two dozen known and unknown amateur and professional still and motion-picture photographers captured the last living images of President Kennedy.[59]
•November 22, 1963: Other reports indicated that at the state hospital on Nov. 22, 1963, several nurses were watching television with Cheramie when she again predicted the JFK assassination. According to the hospital witnesses, “during the telecast moments before Kennedy was shot Rose Cheramie stated to them, ‘This is when it is going to happen’ and at that moment Kennedy was assassinated.”
•The nurses, in turn, told others of Cheramie’s prognostication.
•Dr. Victor Weis, a psychiatrist at the hospital, also confirmed that Cheramie told him she knew both Ruby and Oswald and had seen them sitting together on several different occasions in Ruby’s club.
•The word spread throughout the state hospital that Cheramie had predicted the JFK assassination, and, amazingly, Cheramie even predicted the involvement of her former boss, Ruby.
•Dr. Wayne Owen, who had been interning from LSU, later told the Madison Capital Times that Cheramie had warned him and other interns that the plot involved a man named Jack Rubenstein.
•Owen said he and the other interns shrugged it off at the time but were shocked when they saw Ruby kill Oswald and found out that Jack Ruby was born Jack Rubenstein.
•While there remain many unanswered questions about Rose Cheramie’s strange story, the public record fully attests to her knowledge of the JFK assassination plot in Dallas, as well as her testimony that Ruby and Oswald knew each other before the event.
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November 22, 1963
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Just before 12:30 pm CST, President Kennedy was riding on Houston Street and slowly approached the Texas School Book Depository head-on. This point in the route gives birth to one of the better conspiracy theories that there were several shooters, for if there was only a single shooter in the sixth floor in the Book Depository, the shooter would have had a much better view of the President on Houston Street, slowly coming towards the shooter, not when the President was moving away from the shooter on Elm Street. Then the limousine made the 120-degree left turn directly in front of the depository, now only 65 feet (20 meters) away.[66]
In Dealey Plaza, at the time of the actual assassination, there was at least one right-winger present publicly expressing his scorn for the president. On the sidewalk near the Stemmons Freeway traffic sign, only a few feet from the slow-moving presidential limousine during the very moments rifle bullets were slamming into JFK’s body, a mysterious man stood wearing a suit and, unlike anyone else there, holding up an open, black umbrella on this warm, sunshiny day. (The “Umbrella Man,” as this enigmatic character soon was dubbed, is visible in the Zapruder film. He also can be seen in a famous still color photograph of the assassination taken by amateur photographer Phil Willis. The Willis photo is reproduced on p. 190 of Robert J. Groden’s The Killing of a President (1993).)
The identity of the Umbrella Man remained a secret for 15 years. Then, in September 1978, a man named Louie Steven Witt appeared before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations and admitted that he was the Umbrella Man. He told the Committee that he been there in Dealey Plaza to heckle JFK, and that he displayed the umbrella because he was under the impression that brandishing an umbrella would irritate JFK. He testified: “I was going to use this umbrella to heckle the President’s motorcade. ... Being a conservative-type fellow, I sort of placed him [JFK] in the liberal camp, and I was just sort of going to kind of do a little heckling. ... I just knew it was a sore spot with the Kennedys. ... I was carrying that stupid umbrella, intent [on] heckling the President.” Witt denied that the umbrella he had in Dealey Plaza symbolized the appeasement practices of English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (who often sported a black umbrella), or that the umbrella was intended to suggest that JFK was appeasing Communism the way Chamberlain had appeased Hitler. This denial is not credible. Among right-wingers, it was an article of faith that JFK’s supposedly soft, weak-kneed policies against the threat of Communism were the equivalent of Chamberlain’s futile attempts to appease Adolf Hitler.[67]
Just moments before….
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The woman known to assassination researchers as "Rose Cheramie"
M E M O R A N D U M
May 22, 1967
TO: LOUIS IVON, CHIEF INVESTIGATOR
FROM: FRANK MELOCHE, INVESTIGATOR
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I received information from LT. FRANCES {sic] FRUGE, State Police, on May 22, 1967, that we should talk with one MARY YOUNG who is manager of the business office at Charity Hospital. MARY YOUNG was recruited by LEE HARVEY OSWALD to join some type of women's club while OSWALD was in New Orleans.
Also, there is an operator of a computer, name unknown, now employed by Charity Hospital who has been with them about a week who also was an operator of a computer at Standard Coffee Company while OSWALD was employed there.
Information was also received that several nurses employed at Jackson Mental Hospital who were watching television along with ROSE CHERAMI the day Kennedy was assassinated stated that during the telecast moments before Kennedy was shot ROSE CHERAMI stated to them, "This is when it is going to happen," and at that moment Kennedy was assassinated. Information states that these nurses had told several people of this incident.
FRUGE said that he will drive to Jackson, Louisiana, to investigate this matter further and will contact us on Tuesday, May 23, 1967.[68]
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12:30 p.m. -- President Kennedy is shot and taken to Parkland Hospital in Dallas.[74] John F. Kennedy, twenty fifth President of the United States, dies after being shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while driving in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.[75]
12:30 pm (CST): Shots are fired
According to witnesses, the shooting began shortly after the limousine made the turn from Houston onto Elm Street. Most of these witnesses recalled the first shot happened after the president had started waving with his right hand. Most of these witnesses recalled hearing three shots, with the last two bunched distinctly much closer together than the first two. As seen in the Zapruder film, when the president first emerges from being temporarily behind the Stemmons Freeway sign at Zapruder film frame 224 to 225 his mouth is widely open in a shocked expression and his hands clench into fists, then he quickly raises his arms dramatically upwards towards his throat as he turned leftwards towards his wife. Secret Service Agent Clint Hill testified that he heard one shot, then jumped off the running board of the Secret Service follow-up car directly behind Kennedy (Hill was filmed jumping off his follow-up car at the equivalent of Zapruder frame 308; about a quarter of a second before the president's head exploded at frame 313). Hill then rapidly ran towards the Presidential limo and then a shot hit Kennedy in the head, opening up the right side of his head. As the gore-splattered limousine began speeding up, Mrs. Kennedy was heard to scream[8] and she climbed out of the back seat onto the rear of the limo. At the same time, Hill managed to climb aboard and hang onto the suddenly accelerating limo, and Mrs. Kennedy returned to the back seat. Hill then shielded her and the President. Both of the Connallys stated they heard Mrs. Kennedy say, "I have his brains in my hand!" The limo driver and police motorcycles turned on their sirens and raced at full speed to Parkland Hospital, passing their intended destination of the Dallas Trade Mart along the way, and arriving at about 12:38 pm.
During the shots Governor Connally was also struck, and his wife pulled him closer to her. He suffered several severe wounds that he survived; a bullet entry wound in his upper right back located just behind his right armpit; four inches of his right, fifth chest rib was pulverised; a two-and-a-half inch sized chest exit wound; his right arm's wrist bone was fractured into seven pieces; and he had a bullet entry wound in his left inner thigh. Although there is controversy about exactly when he was wounded, analysts from both the Warren Commission (1964) and House Select Committee on Assassinations (1979) believed that his wounds had been inflicted nearly simultaneously with President Kennedy's in their theories that the two men were struck by a single bullet. The Commission theorized both men were hit nearly simultaneously between Zapruder film frames 210 to 225, while the Committee theorized it happened at frame 190.
During the shots a witness, James Tague, was also wounded when he received a minor facial wound on his right cheek. The Main Street south curb he had been standing 23.5 feet away from was struck by a bullet or bullet fragment that had no copper sheath, and the richocheting bullet fragment struck Tague. At Zapruder frame 313 Tague's head top was located 271 feet away from and 16.4 feet below President Kennedy's head top. The bullet or bullet fragment that struck the cement curb was never found.[76]
Immediate aftermath
Lee Harvey Oswald
12:31:30 PM: Lee Harvey Oswald was confronted by an armed Dallas policeman, Marion Baker, in the depository second floor lunchroom only 74 to 90 seconds (according to a Warren Commission time recreation) after the last shot.[9] Baker first testified that the first shot he remembered hearing as he approached the depository and the Dallas Textile Building had originated from the "building in front of me, or, the one to the right."
In the second floor lunch room, Oswald was identified by the superintendent of the building, Roy Truly, then released. Both Baker and Truly testified that Oswald appeared completely "calm, cool, normal, and was not out of breath in any way," and was not sweating. According to the Warren Commission, Oswald was next seen by a depository secretary as he crossed through the second floor business office carrying a soda bottle.[10]
12:33: He left the Texas School Book Depository at approximately 12:33 p.m. through its front door.[11]
The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had traveled from the sixth floor easternmost window, and hid an 8 pound, Italian-made 1938 Mannlicher-Carcano, 6.5 millimeter rifle equipped with a four-power scope along the way. The rifle was reported discovered by a Dallas police detective at 1:22 pm, having been placed between stacks of boxes. After being discovered, the rifle was photographed before being touched. [77]
12:33 P.M. : Lee Harvey Oswald left work, entered a bus, and said, "Transfer, please." [78]
Estimates of when the Depository Building was sealed off by police range from 12:33 to 12:50 p.m.[12] The Dealey Plaza immediate area streets and blocks were never sealed-off, and within only nine minutes of the assassination, photographs show that vehicles were still driving unhampered down Elm Street, through the crime scene kill zone.[79]
Breaking the news
12: 36: The first national news bulletin of the shooting came over the ABC Radio Network at 12:36 pm CST/1:36 pm EST.[36] At the time, Doris Day's recording of "Hooray for Hollywood" was playing over the airwaves when newscaster Don Gardiner broke in with this:
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We interrupt this program to bring you a special bulletin from ABC Radio. Here is a special bulletin from Dallas, Texas. (Reading UPI bulletin) 'THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S MOTORCADE TODAY IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS, TEXAS.'[37] This is ABC Radio. To repeat: In Dallas Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade today, the president now making a two-day speaking tour of Texas. We're going to stand by for more details on the incident in Dallas, stay tuned to your ABC station for further details. Now we return you to your regular program.[36][80]
”
Locally in Dallas
12:39 pm: From Dallas, local listeners of KLIF Radio were listening to The Rex Jones Show when they received the first bulletin at approximately 12:39 pm CST. A "bulletin alert" sounder faded in during the song "I Have A Boyfriend" by The Chiffons. The song was stopped and newscaster Gary Delaune made the first announcement over the bulletin signal:
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This KLIF Bulletin from Dallas: Three shots reportedly were fired at the motorcade of President Kennedy today near the downtown section. KLIF News is checking out the report, we will have further reports, stay tuned.[81]
12:40 pm: Four minutes following ABC's radio bulletin, CBS was the first to break the news over television at 12:40 pm CST/1:40 pm EST. The network interrupted its live broadcast of As the World Turns with a "CBS News Bulletin" bumper slide and Walter Cronkite filed an audio-only report over it as no camera was available at the time:
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Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting. More details just arrived. These details about the same as previously: President Kennedy shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas. Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy, she called 'Oh, no!' The motorcade sped on. United Press says that the wounds for President Kennedy perhaps could be fatal. Repeating, a bulletin from CBS News, President Kennedy has been shot by a would-be assassin in Dallas, Texas. Stay tuned to CBS News for further details.
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Cronkite remained at the CBS anchor desk the entire time and later filed two additional audio-only bulletins to interrupt programming, the last of which pre-empted the remaining running time of As The World Turns.[82]
12:40 PM: LHO boards a bus to make his escape.[83]
12:42 CST: At that time, the ABC and NBC networks weren't on the air. Various programs were being broadcast through their affiliate stations.[38] From their main headquarters in New York, WABC-TV's first bulletin came from Ed Silverman at 1:42 pm EST, interrupting Father Knows Best. Three minutes later, Don Pardo broke into WNBC-TV's Bachelor Father with the news, saying (reading AP bulletin) 'PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS SHOT TODAY JUST AS HIS MOTORCADE LEFT DOWNTOWN DALLAS. MRS. KENNEDY JUMPED UP AND GRABBED MR. KENNEDY. SHE CRIED 'OH NO!' THE MOTORCADE SPED ON.'[22] (Videotape of the NBC bulletins have been assumed "lost" as they did not start recording coverage until minutes later. However, audio engineer Phil Gries rolled tape on a set of audio recordings on a 1/4" reel to reel audiotape recorder. These have been donated to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.[39] However, NBC, in its book on the coverage of the assassination, mentioned the bulletins.)[40][84]
12:44 PM: LHO leaves the bus when it becomes bogged down in traffic. [85]
12:40 - 12:45 P.M. Oswald got off the bus, entered a cab, and said, "May I have this cab?" A woman approached, wanting a cab, and Oswald said, "I will let you have this one. . . . 500 North Beckley Street [instructions to William Whaley, driver of another cab]. . . . This will be fine." Oswald departed cab and walked a few blocks. [86]
12:45 pm: Dallas' ABC television affiliate WFAA was airing a local lifestyle program, The Julie Benell Show, at the time. At 12:45 pm CST, the station abruptly cut from the prerecorded program to news director Jay Watson in the studio, who had been at Dealey Plaza and ran back to the station following the incident:
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. You'll excuse the fact that I am out of breath, but about 10 or 15 minutes ago a tragic thing from all indications at this point has happened in the city of Dallas. Let me quote to you this [briefly looks at the bulletin sheet in his left hand], and I'll... you'll excuse me if I am out of breath. A bulletin, this is from the United Press from Dallas: (Reading UPI bulletin) 'President Kennedy and Governor John Connally [in his agitated state, he mispronounced Connally's name as "Colony"] have been cut down by assassins' bullets in downtown Dallas.'[35][87]
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12:48 PM: LHO hails a cab and asks to be taken to 500 North Beckley. [88]
12:54 PM: LHO exits the cab in the 700 block of Beckley.[89]
12:57 CST: : At 1:57 pm EST, while Ryan was speaking, NBC began broadcasting the report as their camera was ready and working.[39] Three minutes later, at 2:00 EST, CBS' camera was finally ready and Cronkite appeared on the air after a brief station break, with ABC beginning its coverage at the same time. Radio coverage was reported by Don Gardiner (ABC), Alan Jackson (CBS), and Edwin Newman (NBC).[90]
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1:00 p.m. -- President Kennedy is pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital. [91] Meanwhile, the situation at Parkland Hospital had deteriorated. Even as the press contingent grew, a Roman Catholic priest had been summoned to perform the last rites for President Kennedy.[21] Dr. Malcolm Perry, assistant professor of surgery at UT Southwestern and a vascular surgeon on the Parkland staff was the first to treat Kennedy and he performed a tracheotomy, followed by a cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed with another surgeon.[22][23] Other doctors and surgeons who gathered worked frantically to save the president's life, but his wounds were too great.[24]
At 1:00 pm CST, after all the activity had ceased, and after the priest administered the last rites, President Kennedy was pronounced dead. Personnel at Parkland Hospital Trauma Room #1, who treated the President, observed that the president's condition was "moribund",[25] meaning he had no chance of survival upon arrival at the hospital. "We never had any hope of saving his life," Dr. Perry said.[20][26] "I am absolutely sure he never knew what hit him," said Dr. Tom Shires, Parkland's chief of surgery.[27] The Very Reverend Oscar L. Huber, the priest who administered the last rites to the president, told The New York Times that the president was already dead upon the priest's arrival at the hospital and had to draw back a sheet covering the President's face so that the last rites could be given.[28][29] Governor Connally, meanwhile, was soon taken to emergency surgery where he underwent two operations that day.
Although President Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm CST, the official announcement would not come for another half-hour. Immediately after receiving word of the president's death, acting White House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff entered the room where Vice President Johnson, who was constitutionally now the President, and his wife were sitting.[6][30] Kilduff approached them and said to Johnson, "Mr. President, I have to announce the death of President Kennedy. Is it OK with you that the announcement be made now?"[30] The new president ordered that the announcement be made only after he left the hospital.[31] When asking that the announcement be delayed, Johnson told Kilduff: "I think I had better get out of here.. .before you announce it. We don't know whether this is a worldwide conspiracy, whether they are after me as well as well as they were after President Kennedy, or whether they are after Speaker (John W.) McCormack, or Senator (Carl) Hayden. We just don't know."[6][92]
1:00 P.M. About 1:00 pm, after a bus and taxi ride, Oswald arrived back at his boarding room (1026 North Beckley Ave.), and according to his housekeeper Earlene Roberts, left three or four minutes later. She last saw him standing and waiting at a bus stop.[13][93]
1:03 PM: LHO leaves the rooming house. [94]
1:08 p.m. -- Officer J.D. Tippit calls in to the police dispatch. By 1:16 p.m., he is dead. [95]
1:11 CST: From the time the CBS affiliates joined Walter Cronkite in the news room at around 2:00 EST to approximately 2:38 EST, the coverage alternated from the CBS Newsroom to KRLD-TV's Eddie Barker at the Dallas Trade Mart where President Kennedy was to give his luncheon address. In the 15 to 20 minutes before Kilduff's official announcement, rumors of the President's death were broadcast on radio and TV. At approximately 2:11 EST, CBS News correspondent Dan Rather telephoned one of the two priests who performed last rites on Kennedy to confirm that he had indeed been shot. "Yes, he's been shot and he is dead," the priest told Rather. Almost simultaneously at the Trade Mart, a doctor went up to Barker and whispered, "Eddie, he is dead... I called the emergency room and he is DOA." Moments later, as the news cameras panned throughout the Trade Mart crowds, Barker gave this report:
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As you can imagine, there are many stories that are coming in now as to the actual condition of the President. One is that he is dead; this cannot be confirmed. Another is that Governor Connally is in the operating room; this we have not confirmed.
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Several minutes later, when CBS switched back to KRLD and the Trade Mart for another report, Barker repeated the claim of the President's death, adding "the source would normally be a good one." During this report, as Barker was speaking of security precautions for the President's visit, a Trade Mart employee was shown removing the Presidential seal from the podium where President Kennedy was to speak.[96]
At 1:15 p.m, Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit was shot dead near the intersection of 10th St. and Patton Ave.[14][15][16] This was 0.86 mile from Oswald's rooming house. Thirteen people witnessed the man shooting Tippit or fleeing the immediate scene.[17][18] By that evening, five of the witnesses had identified Oswald in police lineups, and a sixth identified him the following day. Four others subsequently identified Oswald from a photograph.[17][18] [97]
1:16 PM: LHO shoots Officer J.D. Tippit and continues fleeing.[98]
1:22 PM: Police broadcast a description of the suspect in the Tippit murder.[99]
1:22 p.m. -- A rifle is found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building. [100]
1:22 CST: Meanwhile, Rather proceeded to telephone CBS News officials in New York, telling executive Mort Dank, "I think he's dead." Despite the unofficial nature of Rather’s report, CBS Radio newsroom supervisor Robert Skedgell wrote "JFK DEAD" on a slip of paper and handed it to CBS Radio news anchor Alan Jackson. At 2:22 EST, eleven minutes before Kilduff's official announcement, Jackson made the following announcement:
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Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States is dead. John F. Kennedy has died of the wounds he received in an assassination in Dallas less than an hour ago. We repeat, it has just been announced (sic) that President Kennedy is dead.
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After the announcement, CBS Radio, apparently trying to play The Star Spangled Banner, inadvertently aired a brief excerpt of an LP Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings played at 78 rpm (at the wrong speed). After a few seconds of silence, Jackson repeated the news:
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President Of The United States, is dead at the age of 46. Shot by an assassin as he drove through the streets of Dallas, Texas less than an hour ago. Repeating this, the President is dead, killed in Dallas, Texas by a gunshot wound.
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This was followed by an excerpt from the first movement to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. After the music Jackson again repeated the news, followed by "The Star Spangled Banner".[101]
1:27 CST: While CBS Radio had taken this to be confirmation of the president's death, there was a debate going on between CBS television network officials as to whether or not to report this development, as Rather's report was not a truly official confirmation. At 2:27 pm, they decided to give Rather's report to Cronkite, who relayed this to the nation:
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We just have a report from our correspondent Dan Rather in Dallas that he has confirmed that President Kennedy is dead. There is still no official confirmation of this. However, it's a report from our correspondent, Dan Rather, in Dallas, Texas.[102]
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1:30 pm: In addition to the local Dallas radio and television coverage, recordings exist of coverage by various other radio stations nationwide. One of those records exists from Cincinnati's WLW, which at the time was affiliated with NBC's radio news division and aired the five-minute national newscasts the station provided every half hour. The 1:30 EST newscast was anchored by Martin Agronsky; as Kennedy was to have been delivering his speech at the Trade Mart at precisely that time, Agronsky described the speech in the past tense, as if it had already been delivered. Following the update, WLW began a regular program of playing Broadway musical tunes.
1:32 CST: Then, at approximately 2:32 EST, one of the newsroom staff members rushed to Cronkite's desk with another bulletin. As Cronkite read the bulletin, he had to re-read it as he stumbled over his words.
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The priest... who were with Kennedy... the two priests who were with Kennedy say that he is dead of his bullet wounds. That seems to be about as close to official as we can get at this time.
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Although Cronkite continued to stress that there was no official confirmation, the tone of Cronkite's words seemed to indicate that it would only be a matter of time before the official word came. Three minutes later, he received this report.
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And now, from Washington, government sources say that President Kennedy is dead. Those are government sources, still not an official announcement.
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Cronkite continued as before while still awaiting word of the official confirmation of the President's death, which at this time had been relayed by Kilduff at the hospital two minutes prior but had not made the press wires yet. After speaking about what Kennedy had done earlier that day in Fort Worth, Cronkite noted that the plane from Fort Worth flew the President to his "rendezvous with death, apparently, in Dallas", although the official bulletin still had not arrived yet.[103]
1:33: At 1:33 pm CST, Kilduff entered a nurses' classroom at the hospital filled with press reporters and made the official announcement:[32][24]
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President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president."[30][104]
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1:33 CST: Providing the reports for ABC were Don Goddard, Ron Cochran and Ed Silverman in New York, Edward P. Morgan in Washington, Bob Clark (who as noted above had been riding in the motorcade when Kennedy was shot) from Parkland Hospital, and Bill Lord from the Dallas County sheriff's office. As with the other networks, ABC interspersed with their Dallas affiliate WFAA-TV 8 for up-to-date information. Reporting from WFAA were Bob Walker (who had been at Love Field for live coverage of the President's arrival) and Jay Watson (who had remained on the air locally from the time he broke in to local programming upon his return from Dealey Plaza). They were later joined by Bob Clark upon his arrival from the hospital.
ABC's initial coverage of the incident was very disorganized. Cochran, ABC's primary news anchor, was called back to the studio while out having lunch and had to hurry back to begin his reporting. Silverman was the voice accompanying ABC's first bulletin, broadcast during a rerun episode of Father Knows Best that was airing on a majority of the network's affiliates at the time. The first televised report was given by Goddard in the network's news studio, which was too far away from the teletype machines. Goddard then moved to the newsroom and was joined by the returning Cochran, and the technical crew began constructing an impromptu news set around them (ABC did not have studio space ready for such an occasion; NBC had a flash studio in its newsroom and CBS' reports came directly from their own newsroom as they had since they launched an evening newscast earlier in 1963). Cochran and Goddard were forced to stand and awkwardly hold microphones and headsets so they could report the information.
In addition to the disorganization in New York, ABC was not able to switch to Dallas to speak to its correspondents. Only one feed was available to them at first, which came from the Dallas Trade Mart and CBS affiliate KRLD reporter Eddie Barker. CBS had earlier aired snippets of Barker's report, but had cut it off to return to its own reporting of the incident before Barker finished; ABC aired the remainder of the report until the end. The reason that ABC was able to air the CBS affiliate's coverage was due to a pool arrangement the three major Dallas stations agreed to for the President's visit. WBAP was responsible for covering the President's visit to Fort Worth and his departure and landing at Love Field, WFAA was assigned to cover the parade through downtown Dallas, and KRLD was set up at the Dallas Trade Mart for the address the President was to give.
1:33 CST: At 2:33 pm, Cochran reported that the two priests who were called into the hospital to administer the last rites to the President said that he had died from his wounds. Although this was an unconfirmed report, ABC prematurely placed a photo of the President with the words "JOHN F. KENNEDY -- 1917-1963" on the screen.[105]
1:35 CST: NBC
At NBC-TV, Chet Huntley, Bill Ryan and Frank McGee anchored from the network's emergency "flash" studio (code name 5HN) in New York, with reports from David Brinkley in Washington, Charles Murphy and Tom Whelan from NBC affiliate WBAP-TV (now KXAS-TV) in Fort Worth, Texas, and Robert MacNeil, who had been in the motorcade, at Parkland Hospital.[41] Edwin Newman reported from NBC Radio with periodic simulcast with NBC-TV.
Throughout the first 35 minutes, there were technical difficulties with the Fort Worth TV relay as well as with the phone link MacNeil was using to report from the hospital.[38] When the coverage began, McGee was waiting for MacNeil to call in with information. While Ryan and Huntley were recounting the information, McGee got MacNeil on the line and told him to recount chronologically what happened.[21] However, NBC was using a studio that wasn't equipped to patch calls through to the air and MacNeil wasn't able to be heard in the studio. McGee then decided to have MacNeil speak slowly and relay what he said in fragments.[38] While McGee and MacNeil were talking Huntley was handed a speaker and attached it to the phone's receiver, enabling MacNeil to be heard. However, just as the speaker was attached MacNeil decided to leave to gather more information and got a medical student to hold the line for him.[21]
At approximately 2:35 pm, Huntley alluded to the last time a president had died in office:
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In just this momentary lull, I would assume that the memory of every person listening at this moment has flashed back to that day in April 1945 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
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Ryan then broke in with the first unofficial report of the president's death:[42]
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Excuse me, Chet. Here is a flash from the Associated Press, dateline Dallas: 'Two priests who were with President Kennedy say he is dead of bullet wounds.' There is no further confirmation, but this is what we have on a flash basis from the Associated Press: 'Two priests in Dallas who were with President Kennedy say he is dead of bullet wounds.' There is no further confirmation. This is the only word we have indicating that the president may, in fact, have lost his life. It has just moved on the Associated Press wires from Dallas. The two priests were called to the hospital to administer the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. And it is from them, we get the word, that the president has died, that the bullet wounds inflicted on him as he rode in a motorcade through downtown Dallas have been fatal. We will remind you that there is no official confirmation of this from any source as yet.
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McGee was then informed that Vice President Lyndon Johnson left the hospital in a motorcade and relayed that information to the public. which Ryan said might well be confirmation of the AP flash. At that point, NBC Radio (in which Newman had just reported the same flash) relayed into simulcast with NBC-TV. NBC then switched to Charles Murphy of WBAP-TV in Fort Worth, who substantiated the report by adding that the Dallas police department had, only several minutes earlier, notified its officers that Kennedy was dead.[42]
After coverage returned to the NBC flash studio, McGee informed Huntley and Ryan that MacNeil was on the line with a report. As before, the report was relayed in fragments by McGee:[42]
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White House (Acting) Press Secretary... Malcolm Kilduff... has just announced that President Kennedy... died at approximately 1:00 Central Standard Time, which is about 35 minutes ago...
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At that point the crew finished working on the audio link, allowing MacNeil to be heard in the studio. McGee continued to relay the information, unaware of this:
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...after being shot at (after being shot)... by an unknown assailant (by an unknown assailant) ...during a motorcade drive through downtown Dallas (during a motorcade drive through downtown Dallas).
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MacNeil continued to give McGee information for four minutes, which McGee relayed as he had before. After MacNeil relayed all the relevant information he had he left to get further news, and McGee was seen wiping a tear from his eye.[106]
1:35-1:40 P.M. After the Tippit murder, Oswald was witnessed traveling on foot toward the Texas Theatre on West Jefferson Blvd.[19] About 1:35 p.m. Johnny Calvin Brewer, who worked as a manager at Hardy's Shoe Store in the same block as the Texas Theatre on Jefferson Blvd. saw Oswald turning his face away from the street and duck into the entranceway of the shoe store as Dallas squad cars drove up the street with sirens on. When Oswald left the store, Brewer followed Oswald and watched him go into the Texas Theater movie house without paying while ticket attendant Julie Postal was distracted. Brewer notified Postal, who in turn informed the Dallas Police at 1:40 p.m. [107]
1:37: At approximately 1:37 pm, the planned playing of the original cast album to the 1956 musical Li'l Abner was interrupted by the host:
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We'll have to stand by here just a moment, there may be something... happening. Yes, there is. There's a bulletin just handed me from Dallas, Texas... an unknown sniper fired three shots at President Kennedy- this is, uh, in connection with President Kennedy, who is now touring Texas as you know- uh... I'll tell you exactly how this reads. "Dallas- an unknown sniper fired three shots at...", and then there's five letters: PMOUX, then a flash, Kennedy's name is misspelled, flash again, and at the bottom of this headline it says "Kennedy seriously wounded".
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After the flash was read and recapped, the station tried to return to the music. However, the overture to Li'l Abner was interrupted several times. After the first time, two staff members at the station were overheard conversing. "He's been shot," said one. "Who?" asked the other. "Kennedy," replied the first. "The President?" asked the second. "Yeah," the first confirmed. This was immediately followed by a bulletin from the WLW newsroom, which was their first official bulletin and was read as follows:
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Here is a bulletin from the WLW Comex Newsroom: a late bulletin from Dallas where three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade today in downtown Dallas, no casualties reported at first however the latest flash indicates President Kennedy was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally, by an assassin's bullet. That's all the information we have; a bulletin, a sniper apparently seriously wounded President Kennedy in downtown Dallas today, perhaps fatally. We'll keep you posted as the news comes in to the WLW newsroom.
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WLW then played instrumental music by Percy Faith for some time afterward before switching to NBC's nationwide radio coverage of the incident anchored by Edwin Newman, adding relevant information where necessary. [108]\
1:38 CST: Five minutes later, this photo was again prematurely placed when Cochran received an erroneous report that the President had died at 1:35 pm Central time when, in fact, he had died at 1:00. A few minutes following that, Cochran received the same report concerning government sources announcing Kennedy's death that Walter Cronkite had reported as unofficial on CBS. However, Cochran relayed this as if it was the official confirmation of what had happened:
Government sources now confirm...we have this from Washington. Government sources now confirm that President Kennedy is dead. So that, apparently, is the final word and an incredible event that I am sure no one except the assassin himself could have possibly imagined would occur on this day.[109]
1:38 CST: Immediately after that, at 2:38 EST, Cronkite remarked on fearful concerns of demonstrations in Dallas similar to the attack of U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson in Dallas the previous month. At that moment, a CBS News employee seen in the background pulled off a sheet from the AP News ticker. He quickly relayed it (off-camera) to Cronkite, who put on his glasses, took a few seconds to read the sheet, and made the announcement:
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From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official: [reading AP flash] 'PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED AT 1 P.M. (CST),'[32] 2:00 Eastern Standard Time, some thirty-eight minutes ago.
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After reading the flash, Cronkite took off his glasses so he could consult the studio clock, which established the lapse in time since Kennedy had died. He paused briefly and replaced his eyeglasses, visibly moved for a moment. Cronkite continued:
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Vice President Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to where he has proceeded. Presumably, he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the thirty-sixth president of the United States.[110]
1:38 CST:KLIF Radio, Dallas
From local radio station KLIF, Gary Delaune, Joe Long (who had reported the President's arrival at Love Field earlier from KLIF News Mobile Unit #4) and Gordon McLendon (having returned to the radio station from the Trade Mart) relayed the bulletins as received. They continuously stressed, as a strict radio station rule of McLendon's, whether the information received is from official or unofficial sources, especially concerning reports of the President's death. At approximately 2:38 pm, KLIF's Teletype sounds ten bells (indicating an incoming bulletin of utmost importance) and Long is given the official flash:
Gordon McLendon: "The President is clearly, gravely, critically, and perhaps fatally wounded. There are strong indications that he may already have expired, although that is not official, we repeat, not official. But, the extent of the injuries to Governor Connally is, uh, a closely shrouded secret at the moment..."
Joe Long: "President Kennedy is dead, Gordon. This is official word."
Gordon McLendon: "Ladies and gentlemen, the President is dead. The President, ladies and gentlemen, is dead at Parkland Hospital in Dallas."
Following the official announcement of President Kennedy's death, all three networks cancelled their regular programming and commercials for the first time in the short history of television and ran coverage on a non-stop basis for four days. The assassination of President Kennedy was the longest uninterrupted news event in the history of American television until just before 9:00 am ET, September 14, 2001, when the networks were on the air for 72 hours straight covering the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[43][111]
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1:40 PM: LHO enters the Texas Theater.[112]
1:45 P.M. Arrest at the Texas Theater
"This is it" or "Well, it's all over now." Oswald arrested. (Patrolman M. N. McDonald heard these remarks. Other officers who were at the scene did not hear them.) "I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie. . . . I don't see why you handcuffed me. . . . Why should I hide my face? I haven't done anything to be ashamed of. . . . I want a lawyer. . . . I am not resisting arrest. . . . I didn't kill anybody. . . . I haven't shot anybody. . . . I protest this police brutality. . . . I fought back there, but I know I wasn't supposed to be carrying a gun. . . . What is this all about?" [113]
1:50: Almost two dozen policemen, sheriffs, and detectives in several patrol cars arrived at Texas Theatre because they believed Tippit's killer was inside. When an arrest attempt was made at 1:50 pm inside the theater, Oswald resisted arrest and, according to the police, attempted to shoot a patrolman after yelling once, "Well, it's all over now!" then punching a patrolman.[20] [114]
1:55 p.m. -- Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested at the Texas Theater in Oak Cliff for the murder of Officer Tippit.[115]
2:00 PM: LHO arrives at Dallas Police headquarters.[116]
2:00 - 2:15 P.M. Drive to Police Dept.
"What is this all about? . . . I know my rights. . . . A police officer has been killed? . . . I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die. . . . All I did was carry a gun. . . . No, Hidell is not my real name. . . . I have been in the Marine Corps, have a dishonorable discharge, and went to Russia. . . . I had some trouble with police in New Orleans for passing out pro-Castro literature. . . . Why are you treating me this way? . . . I am not being handled right. . . . I demand my rights." [117]
2:04 p.m. -- John F. Kennedy's body leaves Parkland Hospital and is taken to Love Field to be carried to Washington, D.C. on board Air Force One.[118] A few minutes after 2:00 pm CST, and after a ten to fifteen minute confrontation between cursing and weapons-brandishing Secret Service agents and doctors, President Kennedy's body was removed from Parkland Hospital and driven to Air Force One.[33] According to some Assassination researchers, this removal may have been illegal, as the body was removed before undergoing a forensic examination by the Dallas coroner, and against Texas state laws.[34] The murder of the president was, at that time, listed on the books as a state-level crime and not a federal one, and as such legally occurred under Texas jurisdiction. To this date, however, no official legal body has ruled on this matter, quite possibly as the point is now somewhat disregarded.[citation needed][119]
2:15 P.M.: Taken into Police Dept. [120]
2:15 - 2:20 P.M. : "Talked to" by officers Guy F. Rose and Richard S. Stovall. No notes. [121]
2:25 p.m. -- Lee Harvey Oswald is interrogated for more than an hour and a half, taken to a lineup, interrogated for another hour and forty-five minutes, taken to another lineup, then a third lineup, then interrogated again. At 11:00 p.m., there is a fourth interrogation by an FBI agent.[122]
2:25 - 4:04 P.M. Interrogation of Oswald, Office of Capt Will Fritz
"My name is Lee Harvey Oswald. . . . I work at the Texas School Book Depository Building. . . . I lived in Minsk and in Moscow. . . . I worked in a factory. . . . I liked everything over there except the weather. . . . I have a wife and some children. . . . My residence is 1026 North Beckley, Dallas, Tex." Oswald recognized FBI agent James Hosty and said, "You have been at my home two or three times talking to my wife. I don't appreciate your coming out there when I was not there. . . . I was never in Mexico City. I have been in Tijuana. . . . Please take the handcuffs from behind me, behind my back. . . . I observed a rifle in the Texas School Book Depository where I work, on Nov. 20, 1963. . . . Mr. Roy Truly, the supervisor, displayed the rifle to individuals in his office on the first floor. . . . I never owned a rifle myself. . . . I resided in the Soviet Union for three years, where I have many friends and relatives of my wife. . . . I was secretary of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans a few months ago. . . . While in the Marines, I received an award for marksmanship as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. . . . While living on Beckley Street, I used the name 0. H. Lee. . . . I was present in the Texas School Book Depository Building, I have been employed there since Oct. 15, 1963. . . . As a laborer, I have access to the entire building. . . . My usual place of work is on the first floor. However, I frequently use the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh floors to get books. I was on all floors this morning. . . . Because of all the confusion, I figured there would be no work performed that afternoon so I decided to go home. . . . I changed my clothing and went to a movie. . . . I carried a pistol with me to the movie because I felt like it, for no other reason. . . . I fought the Dallas Police who arrested me in the movie theater where I received a cut and a bump. . . . I didn't shoot Pres. John F. Kennedy or Officer J. D. Tippit. . . . An officer struck me, causing the marks on my left eye, after I had struck him. . . . I just had them in there," when asked why he had bullets in his pocket. [123]
2:30 PM: LHO is first questioned by Dallas police.[124]
2:38 CST: Return to Washington
Once back at Air Force One, and only after Mrs. Kennedy and President Kennedy’s body had also returned to the plane, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in by Sarah T. Hughes as the thirty-sixth President of the United States of America at 2:38 pm CST.[44][125]
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3:01 PM: At 3:01 p.m. Dallas time, only an hour after Oswald was taken into the Dallas jail, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote a memo to his assistant directors in which he stated, "I called the attorney general at his home and told him I thought we had the man who killed the President down in Dallas, at the present time."[128]
3:05 PM: Not even Kennedy’s death at 1 p.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas stopped right-wingers from publicly displaying their loathing of JFK. As William Manchester notes in his classic The Death of a President (1967): “At 3:05 p.m., when 80 percent of the American People were in deep grief, an NBC camera panned toward a group of spectators outside Parkland’s emergency entrance and picked up a young man with a placard that read, ‘Yankee, Go Home.’” (In a wealthy Dallas suburb, Manchester reminds us, “pupils of a fourth-grade class, told that the President of the United States had been murdered in their city, burst into spontaneous applause.”)
The right-wingers who angrily and contemptuously protested JFK’s visit, and the many other right-wingers who shared their views, could only have been jubilant when they heard of the assassination. How could persons with their mentality not be pleased with the violent death of a man they believed to be a fiendish traitor? It is an historical truth that right-wingers all over America received the news of the assassination with celebration. There is plenty of evidence that numerous right-wingers, especially the radical ones, heartily huzzaed the JFK slaying, although they soon decided to conceal their exuberance and later denied having cheered. William Manchester’s book, for example, discusses the “initial glee” with which right-wingers greeted news of the assassination. “An Oklahoma City physician beamed at a grief-stricken visitor and said, ‘Good. I hope they got Jackie.’” In Amarillo, Texas, a woman reacted by saying: “Hey, great, JFK’s croaked!” Men whooped and threw their hats in the air. Others smiled broadly. Soon, however, the right-wingers realized that their public gloating was a ghastly mistake, whereupon they began concealing their happiness. “[T]hey were anxious to avoid the undertow of public opinion,” Manchester says.[129]
3:54 P.M. : NBC newsman Bill Ryan announced on national television that "Lee Oswald seems to be the prime suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy." [130]
4:05 PM: LHO is taken to the basement for the first lineup. [131]
4:20 PM: LHO is returned upstairs for further questioning in Captain Fritz' office. [132]
November 22, 1963: On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Banister and one of his investigators, Jack Martin, were drinking together at the Katzenjammer Bar, located next door to 544 Camp Street, New Orleans. On their return to Banister's office, the two men got into a dispute. Banister believed that Martin had stolen some files and drew his .357 magnum revolver, striking Martin with it several times. During the altercation Martin yelled: "What are you going to do — kill me like you all did Kennedy?" Martin was badly injured and treated at Charity Hospital.[19]
Over the next few days, Martin told authorities and reporters that anti-Castro activist David Ferrie had been involved in the assassination. He claimed that Ferrie knew Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, and that Ferrie might have taught Oswald how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight.[20] Martin also claimed that Ferrie drove to Texas on the day of Kennedy's assassination, to serve as a getaway pilot for the assassins.[21]
Witnesses interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations "... indicate Banister was aware of Oswald and his Fair Play for Cuba Committee before the assassination."[22] Banister's secretary, Delphine Roberts, told author Anthony Summers that Oswald "...seemed to be on familiar terms with Banister and with [Banister's] office." Roberts said, "As I understood it, he had the use of an office on the second floor, above the main office where we worked.... Then, several times, Mr. Banister brought me upstairs, and in the office above I saw various writings stuck up on the wall pertaining to Cuba. There were various leaflets up there pertaining to Fair Play for Cuba.'"[23] The House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated Roberts' claims and said that "...the reliability of her statements could not be determined."[24]
The alleged activities of Banister, Ferrie and Oswald reached New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison who, by late 1966, had become very interested in the New Orleans aspects of the assassination. In December 1966, Garrison interviewed Martin about these activities. Martin claimed that Banister, Ferrie and a group of anti-Castro Cuban exiles were involved in operations against Castro's Cuba that included gun running and burglarized armories.[25]
As Garrison continued his investigation, he became convinced that a group of right-wing activists, including Banister, Ferrie and Clay Shaw, were involved in a conspiracy with elements of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to kill Kennedy. Garrison would later claim that the motive for the assassination was anger over Kennedy's attempts to obtain a peace settlement in both Cuba and Vietnam.[26][27] Garrison also believed that Banister, Shaw, and Ferrie had conspired to set up Oswald as a patsy in the JFK assassination.[28][133]
Post JFK[edit]
Banister's publication, the Louisiana Intelligence Digest, maintained that the civil rights movement was part of an international communist conspiracy and was treasonous. A black reporter, Louis E. Lomax, investigating the possible connection of Banister to the assassinations of Kennedy, and Malcolm X, died in a car accident shortly after signing a contract to help with a movie about the assassination of Malcolm X.[29][30][134]
4:45 P.M. At a Lineup for Helen Markham, Witness to Tippit Murder
"It isn't right to put me in line with these teenagers. . . . You know what you are doing, and you are trying to railroad me. . . . I want my lawyer. . . . You are doing me an injustice by putting me out there dressed different than these other men. . . . I am out there, the only one with a bruise on his head. . . . I don t believe the lineup is fair, and I desire to put on a jacket similar to those worn by some of the other individuals in the lineup. . . . All of you have a shirt on, and I have a T-shirt on. I want a shirt or something. . . . This T-shirt is unfair." [135]
4:45 - 6:30 P.M. Second Interrogation of Oswald, Captain Fritz's Office
"When I left the Texas School Book Depository, I went to my room, where I changed my trousers, got a pistol, and went to a picture show. . . . You know how boys do when they have a gun, they carry it. . . . Yes, I had written the Russian Embassy. (On November 9, 1963, Oswald had written to the Russian Embassy that FBI agent James Hosty was making some kind of deals with Marina, and he didn't trust "the notorious FBI.") . . . Mr. Hosty, you have been accosting my wife. You mistreated her on two different occasions when you talked with her. . . . I know you. Well, he threatened her. He practically told her she would have to go back to Russia. You know, I can't use a phone. . . . I want that attorney in New York, Mr. Abt. I don't know him personally but I know about a case that he handled some years ago, where he represented the people who had violated the Smith Act, [which made it illegal to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government] . . . I don't know him personally, but that is the attorney I want. . . . If I can't get him, then I may get the American Civil Liberties Union to send me an attorney."
"I went to school in New York and in Fort Worth, Tex. . . . After getting into the Marines, I finished my high school education. . . . I support the Castro revolution. . . . My landlady didn't understand my name correctly, so it was her idea to call me 0. H. Lee. . . . I want to talk with Mr. Abt, a New York attorney. . . . The only package I brought to work was my lunch. . . . I never had a card to the Communist party. . . . I am a Marxist, but not a Leninist-Marxist. . . . I bought a pistol in Fort Worth several months ago. . . . I refuse to tell you where the pistol was purchased. . . . I never ordered any guns. . . . I am not malcontent. Nothing irritated me about the President." When Capt. Will Fritz asked Oswald, "Do you believe in a deity?" Oswald replied, "I don't care to discuss that." "How can I afford a rifle on the Book Depository salary of $1.25 an hour? . . . John Kennedy had a nice family. . . ." (Sheriff Roger Craig saw Oswald enter a white station wagon 15 minutes after the assassination. Oswald confirmed this in Captain Fritz's office. A man impersonating Oswald in Dallas just prior to the assassination could have been on the bus and in the taxicab.) "That station wagon belongs to Mrs. Ruth Paine. Don't try to tie her into this. She had nothing to do with it. I told you people I did. . . . Everybody will know who I am now."
"Can I get an attorney?. . . I have not been given the opportunity to have counsel. . . . As I said, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee has definitely been investigated, that is very true. . . . The results of that investigation were zero. The Fair Play for Cuba Committee is not now on the attorney general's subversive list." [136]
5:00 pm:
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5:00 CST: At about 6:00 pm EST, Air Force One arrived at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington D.C.[45][46] The television networks made the switch to the AFB just as the plane touched down. Reporting the arrival for the TV networks were Richard Bate (ABC),[47] Charles Von Fremd (CBS),[48] and Bob Abernethy & Nancy Dickerson (NBC).[49]
After President Kennedy's brother, Robert Kennedy, boarded the plane,[50][51] Kennedy's casket was removed from the rear entrance and loaded into a light gray US Navy ambulance for its transport to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for an autopsy and mortician's preparations.[52] When Jackie Kennedy stepped off the plane with her brother-in-law, her pink suit and legs were still stained with her husband's blood.[53] All that long afternoon and into the early morning hours of the next day, the widow objected to leaving her husband's body, except for the swearing in of Johnson.[54] She also refused to change out of her blood-stained suit; Lady Bird Johnson, in her audio diary, quoted Mrs. Kennedy as saying "I want them to see what they have done to Jack."[55][56][57]
Shortly after the ambulance with the casket and Mrs. Kennedy departed, President Johnson and the First Lady exited Air Force One.[45] They were led to a podium clustered with microphones where Lyndon Johnson made his first official statement as president of the United States:
“
This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep, personal tragedy. I know the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best; that is all I can do. I ask for your help and God's.[58]
”
President Johnson himself ordered the arrival to be televised live.[59] While en route to Washington from Dallas, he and Kilduff told the other assistant press secretary, Andrew Hatcher, that he was going to make his statement and that he wanted the arrival to be televised live.[59] As the new president boarded his helicopter, he said that Mrs. Kennedy was in his heart and remarked about the presidency, and recounted, "Then the door of the helicopter slammed shut behind me and thus ended a tragic chapter in American history."[58][141]
6:20 PM: LHO is taken for the second lineup. [142]
6:30 P.M. Lineup for Witnesses Cecil J. McWatters, Sam Guinyard, and Ted Callaway : "I didn't shoot anyone," Oswald yelled in the halls to reporters. . . . "I want to get in touch with a lawyer, Mr. Abt, in New York City. . . . I never killed anybody." [143]
6:35 PM: LHO is returned upstairs for questioning. [144]
7:05 CST: Charges laid on Oswald
At 7:05 pm CST Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with "murder with malice" in the killing of police officer J.D. Tippit.[60][145]
7:10 PM: LHO is formally arraigned for the murder of Tippit. [146] Arraignment: State of Texas v. Lee Harvey Oswald for Murder with Malice of Officer J. D. Tippit of the Dallas Police Dept.
"I insist upon my constitutional rights. . . . The way you are treating me, I might as well be in Russia. . . . I was not granted my request to put on a jacket similar to those worn by other individuals in some previous lineups." [147]
7:40 PM: LHO is taken for the third lineup.[148]
7:50 P.M. Lineup for Witness J. D. Davis "I have been dressed differently than the other three. . . . Don't you know the difference? I still have on the same clothes I was arrested in. The other two were prisoners, already in jail." Seth Kantor, reporter, heard Oswald yell, "I am only a patsy." [149]
7:55 P.M. Third Interrogation, Captain Fritz's Office
"I think I have talked long enough. I don't have anything else to say. . . . What started out to be a short interrogation turned out to be rather lengthy. . . . I don't care to talk anymore. . . . I am waiting for someone to come forward to give me legal assistance. . . . It wasn't actually true as to how I got home. I took a bus, but due to a traffic jam, I left the bus and got a taxicab, by which means I actually arrived at my residence." [150]
8:55 P.M. Fingerprints, Identification Paraffin Tests—All in Fritz's Office
"I will not sign the fingerprint card until I talk to my attorney. [Oswald's name is on the card anyway.] . . . What are you trying to prove with this paraffin test, that I fired a gun? . . . You are wasting your time. I don't know anything about what you are accusing me." [151]
11:00 - 11:20 P.M. "Talked To" by Police Officer John Adamcik and FBI Agent M. Clements
"I was in Russia two years and liked it in Russia. . . . I am 5 ft. 9 in., weigh 140 lb., have brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and have no tattoos or permanent scars."
(Oswald had mastoidectomy scars and left upper-arm scars, both noted in Marine records. “Warren Report,” pp. 614-618, lists information from Oswald obtained during this interview about members of his family, past employment, past residences.) [152]
11:20 - 11:25 P.M. Lineup for Press Conference; Jack Ruby Present
When newsmen asked Oswald about his black eye, he answered, "A cop hit me." When asked about the earlier arraignment, Oswald said "Well, I was questioned by Judge Johnston. However, I protested at that time that I was not allowed legal representation during that very short and sweet hearing. I really don't know what the situation is about. Nobody has told me anything except that I am accused of murdering a policeman. I know nothing more than that, and I do request someone to come forward to give me legal assistance." When asked, "Did you kill the President?" Oswald replied, "No. I have not been charged with that. In fact, nobody has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question. . . . I did not do it. I did not do it. . . . I did not shoot anyone." [153]
11:26 pm. -- Oswald is charged with the murder of President Kennedy.[154]
November 22, 1978: In Iran the government of General Azhari was given a vote of confidence.[155]
FOR PUBLICATION DURING November 3- November 22
Contact: Dan D'Andrea, Music Director 630-322-9187
SINFONIETTA BEL CANTO presents Opera with 3 performances: Nov15, 16 & 22 & a NEW added location.
The Sinfonietta Bel Canto presents its “Rossini Robbery” opera concert on 3 days: Saturday, November 15, 8:00 pm, Sunday, November 16, 3:00 pm, and Saturday, November 22, 8:00 pm. November 15 and 16 performances at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 5211 Carpenter St., Downers Grove IL (1 blk W of Main St near downtown Downers Grove, corner of Grove & Carpenter); NEW added location--November 22 at Salem United Methodist Church , 115 W. Lincoln Ave, Barringon IL . Ticket $ listed below. Non-reserved seating; handicapped accessible. Featured artist(s): see below. Works by Rossini & others (see below). For more information: www.SinfoniettaBelCanto.org or please call 630-384-5007.
Conducted by Dan Pasquale D’Andrea of Downers Grove, the Sinfonietta Bel Canto’s (SBC’s) “Rossini Robbery” concert features Gioachino Rossini’s 1 act comic opera L’occasione fa il ladro (1812). With typical Rossini humor, a baggage mixup results in an attempt to steal another’s fiancée. The opera will be sung in Italian--with English sur-titles--and semi-staged with orchestra accompaniment. The opera performance will feature local singers, including (alphabetically; PR pics also available):
Roxann Ferguson, Chicago
Jeffery Lee Goodlove, tenor, Elgin
David Hartley, bass-baritone, Lake in the Hills (Nov 15/22)
Sarah Heitman, mezzo-soprano, Barrington
Mark Miner, tenor, Hinsdale
Randolph Montijo, bass-baritone, Des Plaines (Nov 16 only)
Henry Michael Odum, bass-baritone, Berwyn
Nov 15/16 performances include Sinfonia di Caccia in D major, A20/1:18 (18th c.) by Antonio Rosetti (175-1791) a rarely performed gem that displays the classical era charm of Mozart. The Nov 22 concert replaces Rosetti with Mendelssohn’s Wer nur den Gott cantata featuring the Salem United Methodist Church Choir.
Below is information on the SBC’s 2014-15 concert series. More information can also be found at the SBC website: www.sinfoniettabelcanto.org or call 630-384-5007; the SBC is also on Facebook. For Tickets: by SBC www via PayPal, or by mail via Sinfonietta Bel Canto, P.O. Box 272, Downers Grove IL 60515.
Sinfonietta Bel Canto’s 2014-15 “A 5th Season”
--Unless listed otherwise, concerts are at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 5211 Carpenter St, Downers Grove, IL
--tickets at the door: $20 adult; $17 senior (60+); $7 student (21/under); Free--children under 7 (with parent)
--advance individual tickets get a $2 discount: order via SBC www or P.O.Box 272, Downers Grove, IL 60515
--flex season pass (4 flex tickets, for any of the SBC 4 “regular” concerts): $55 adult; $44 senior; $15 student (offered thru Nov 16)
--For more info on tickets, dates, locations, and repertoire: www.sinfoniettabelcanto.org or 630-384-5007
1. “Fall Concerto Special” *Two Performances with a NEW added location*
September 27, Saturday 8 pm at NEW added location: Christ Lutheran Church, Rt 83 & 55th St, Clarendon Hills IL 60514
September 28, Sunday 3 pm at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 5211 Carpenter St, Downers Grove, IL
Concertos by Handel with organist Elizabeth Waldon & Vivaldi with string soloists, and Klughardt Symphony #3
2. OPERA: “Rossini Robbery” *Two Performances * [See also below “Special/Holiday Events” for NEW location]
Two Performances: November 15, 2014 Saturday 8 pm & November 16 Sunday 3 pm (at Immanuel)
Rossini--L’occasione fa il ladro (1 act comic opera; 1812) & Rosetti--Sinfonia di Caccia in D major (18th c.)
3. OPERA: "Strudel & Torte" *Two Performances*
Two Performances: March 21, 2015 Saturday 8 pm & March 22, Sunday 3 pm
Mendelssohn--Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde, (1 act comic opera, 1829) & Faure--Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, op. 80 (1898)
4. April 26, 2015 Sunday 3 pm "The ‘SBC Voice’ Competition Finalists”
Schubert--Symphony #8, B minor, “Unfinished”, D.759 (1822)
“SBC Voice” finalists: up to 8 singers will perform for $ awards, with audience voting for “Audience Favorite!
Special/Holiday Events (Separate ticket $ for these events; SBC season/individual tickets are NOT applicable):
A. OPERA: “Rossini Robbery”, Sat, Nov 22, 8 pm, Salem United Methodist Ch, Barringon IL $20/17/7
B. “Family Christmas Concert” Sat, Dec 6, 2014 7:30 pm, St. Peter’s Cath. Church, Itasca $10 adults, $5 students
C. “New Year’s Benefit" Th, 3 pm, Jan 1, 2015, includes conc w/ballroom dancers, singers, & catered dinner: $40/$35
D: St. Odilo Concert: Sun, Jan 25, 3 pm: Choir & Orchestra; St. Odilo Cath. Church, 2244 East, Berwyn IL
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[19] Orange County Records, Order Book, 1747-54. p. 509.t Orange County Records, Will Book !, p. 191.
Torrence and Allied Families, Robert M. Torrence pg 317-320
[20] Cattle. No domestic cattle were found in the Western Hemisphere until the arrival of Europeans. The closest thing to a cow in North America was the buffalo—which had never been domesticated. The colonists brought cattle from Europe. The British brought Jerseys, Guernseys, Ayrshires, Herefords and others. The Dutch and Germans brought Holsteins and some others. The Herefords were beef cattle; the others were milch cows. The milking of cows was considered “woman’s work.” The absence of abundant feed grasses, particularly in the late fall and early spring in North America, found many farmers with starved cattle. The planting of feed grasses and the storage of hay and silage became a common practice as it is today. Where possible farmers ran cattle on wheat fields planted in the fall (winter wheat) during the early growing season in the spring. Moderate grazing was found to have a negligible effect on the wheat output. The subsistence-level farmers in the backwoods allowed their beef cattle to graze in the woods and herded them in only when taking them to market. The black and white Holstein has remained a dominant milch cow to this date. A disadvantage of raising cattle is that they require acres of land per cow when considering land for grazing and land for winter silage and other feeding. Settlers who wanted to raise cattle were forced to cut down a lot of trees and clear great amounts of land.
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[21] [James Edward Harrison, A comment of the family of ANDREW HARRISON who died in ESSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA in 1718 (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: privately printed, no date), 52-53.] .] Chronological Listing of Events In the Lives of Andrew Harrison, Sr. of Essex County, Virginia, Andrew Harrison, Jr. of Essex and Orange Counties, Virginia, Lawrence Harrison, Sr. of Virginia and Pennsylvania Compiled from Secondary Sources Covering the time period of 1640 through 1772 by Daniel Robert Harrison, Milford, Ohio, November, 1998.
[22]In Search of Turkey Foot Road, page 89.
[23] http://www.thepeerage.com/p10508.htm#i105072
[24] Bread. To make good bread one must be “Up in the morning, just at the peep of day.” “Bread is the staff of life.” “A day without bread is a day without sunshine.” The making of bread was nearly the signature of each cook on the frontier. Some kept yeast in a stone jar with a tight lid in a cool place all year around—at the spring house would be good, or in a cellar. Additional yeast would be grown with the help of a few stalks of hops, a few potatoes, and some starter yeast. Grinding wheat into flour more than a few weeks ahead of time might expose it to large or small pests. Make certain the flour is well sifted. You may use milk in place of water, but if you use milk make sure to scald it first, and then let it cool off to body temperature. You might add some strained mashed potatoes. Use about one cup of yeast to make three or four loaves.
The recipes and procedures for kneading and baking are as numerous as the mixing of the base ingredients. Bread can be varied with corn, rye, buckwheat, buttermilk, graham meal, and whatever else strikes the baker. A voyager may choose an inn for a meal based on its “bread.”
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[25] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Watertown
[26] [751]1 S. C. Hist. Soc., Laurens Letters, 1776-1779, no. 20.
[27] 2 No. 744, ante.
[28] 3 See the Journals, Nov. 21, Dec. 1, 10.
[29] The action taken by Congress, Nov. 25, upon a report of the board of ‘war, was probably in consequence of Washington’s letter of Nov. 17.
[30] 5 See the Journals, Nov. 20. Some account of Col. William Crawford (of
Virginia) is in Appleton, Cyclo. Am. Biog. See also the Journals, 1776, 1777, 1778 (index). In 1782 he conducted an expedition against the Wyandot and Delaware Indians, was captured by them, and burned at the stake. See Pa. Arch., first ser., IX. 557, 576. An account of the expedition, by N. N. Hill, jr., is found in Mag. of Western list., May, 1885. See also no. 746, ante, no. 766, post.
[31] See the Journals, Nov. 20. Some account of Col. William Crawford (of
Virginia) is in Appleton, Cyclo. Am. Biog. See also the Journals, 1776, 1777, 1778 (index). In 1782 he conducted an expedition against the Wyandot and Delaware Indians, was captured by them, and burned at the stake. See Pa. Arch., first ser., IX. 557, 576. An account of the expedition, by N. N. Hill, jr., is found in Mag. of Western list., May, 1885. See also no. 746, ante, no. 766, post.
[32] Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Edited by Edmund C. Burnett VOL II pg 567
[33] The Washington-Crawford Letters, by C. W. Butterfield
[34] http://www.wnpt.org/productions/rachel/timeline/1791_1811.html
[35] http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/presidents-day/william-harrison/timeline.html
[36] Yorktown Victory Center, Photo by Jeff Goodlove, 2008
[37] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams
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[38] (Ancestors of Forrest Roger Garnett pge. 454.21)
[39] The Brothers Crawford, Allen W. Scholl, 1995
[40] Harrisonj
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[50]
Bernard Weissman
Bernard Weissman was born on 1st November, 1937. After graduating from Edison Technical High School in Mount Vernon in June, 1956, he went to work for the Nuclear Development Corporation as an experimental machinist. He the moved to New Jersey where he was employed as a sales manager.
In August, 1961, Weissman joined the U.S. Army and served in Germany where he met Larrie Schmidt. The two men shared an interest in right-wing politics and were both supporters of the John Birch Society. While in Germany the two men discussed the possibility of establishing a right-wing political group when they returned to the United States.
Weissman was discharged in August 1963 but was unable to find work. Short of money, Weissman contacted Larrie Schmidt who at that time was living in Dallas. Schmidt told Weissman about his involvement in the attack on the liberal politician, Adlai Stevenson. According to Schmidt, this had been organized by General Edwin Walker. Schmidt added that his brother was working as General Walker's chauffeur and general aide.
Schmidt invited Weissman to Dallas. Weissman later told the Warren Commission that Schmidt argued: "If we are going to take advantage of the situation, or if you are," meaning me, "you better hurry down here and take advantage of the publicity, and at least become known among these various right-wingers, because this is the chance we have been looking for to infiltrate some of these organizations and become known," in other words, go along with the philosophy we had developed in Munich."
Weissman arrived in Dallas on November 4, 1963. Soon afterwards Weissman joined an organization called the Young Americans for Freedom. Schmidt also invited Weissman to join the John Birch Society but according to his testimony before the Warren Commission he changed his mind when he discovered too many of them were anti-Semitic (Weissman was Jewish). While in Dallas he found work as a carpet salesman.
Larrie Schmidt introduced Weissman to Joseph P. Grinnan of the John Birch Society. Grinnan was involved in organizing protests against the visit of John F. Kennedy. Grinnan seemed to know about the visit before it was officially announced to the public. Grinnan suggested that they should place a black-bordered advert in the Dallas Morning News on November 22, 1963. The advert cost $1,465. Grinnan supplied the money. He claimed that some of this came from Harvey Bright, Edgar R. Crissey and Nelson Bunker Hunt, the son of Haroldson L. Hunt. Weissman was given the task of signing the advert and taking it to the newspaper office.
The advert attacked Kennedy's foreign policy as being anti-American and communistic. This included the claim that Gus Hall, "head of the U.S. Communist Party praised almost every one of your policies and announced that the party will endorse and support your re-election in 1964". It also attacked Kennedy's domestic policies. Another passage asked why Robert Kennedy had been allowed "to go soft on Communists, fellow-travelers, and ultra-leftists in America."
Weissman was shocked by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and told Larrie Schmidt he feared he would be accused of being involved in the killing. Weissman suspected that Kennedy had been killed by supporters of General Edwin Walker and that as a result he would be implicated in the plot. However, he told the Warren Commission he felt relieved when he discovered that Lee Harvey Oswald had been arrested for the murder. The Warren Commission did not ask how he knew that Oswald was not a right-winger. Despite this news, Weissman and Schmidt decided to leave Dallas
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[133] David Ferrie
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David Ferrie
David W. Ferrie in the early 1950s
Born
David William Ferrie
March 28, 1918
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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February 22, 1967(1967-02-22) (aged 48)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Official cause of death was intracranial berry aneurysm
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David William Ferrie (March 28, 1918 – February 22, 1967) was an American pilot who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.[1] Garrison also alleged that Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Ferrie denied any involvement in a conspiracy and claimed never to have met Oswald.[2] Decades later, photos emerged establishing that Ferrie had been in the same Civil Air Patrol unit as Oswald in the 1950s, but critics have argued this does not prove that either Ferrie or Oswald was involved in an assassination plot.[3]
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•1 Early life
•2 Allegations of involvement in the Kennedy assassination
•3 Death and aftermath
•4 Portrayals
•5 References
•6 External links
Early life[edit]
Ferrie was born in Cleveland, Ohio. A Roman Catholic, Ferrie attended St. Ignatius High School, John Carroll University, St. Mary's Seminary, where he studied for the priesthood, and Baldwin-Wallace College. He next spent three years at the St. Charles' Seminary in Carthagena, Ohio. He suffered from alopecia areata, a rare skin condition, which results in the loss of body hair and whose severity increases with age. Later in life, to compensate for his hair loss, Ferrie wore a reddish homemade wig and fake eyebrows.[4]
In 1944 Ferrie left St. Charles because of "emotional instability."[4] He obtained a pilot's license and began teaching aeronautics at Cleveland's Benedictine High School. He was fired from the school for several infractions, including taking boys to a house of prostitution.[5] He then became an insurance inspector and, in 1951, moved to New Orleans where he worked as a pilot for Eastern Air Lines, until losing his job in August 1961, after being arrested twice on morals charges.[6]
Ferrie was involved with the Civil Air Patrol in several ways: He started as a Senior Member (an adult member) with the Fifth Cleveland Squadron at Hopkins Airport in 1947.[7] When he moved to New Orleans, he transferred to the New Orleans Cadet Squadron at Lakefront Airport. There he served as an instructor, and later as the Commander.[7] After a Ferrie-trained cadet pilot perished in a December 1954 crash, Ferrie's annual re-appointment was declined. He was asked to be a guest aerospace education instructor at a smaller squadron at Moisant Airport, and lectured there from June to September 1955. On July 27, 1955, 15-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald joined this squadron.[8]
In March 1958, a former cadet-turned-commander invited Ferrie back to the New Orleans Cadet Squadron. Ferrie served unofficially for a time and was reinstated as Executive Officer in September 1959. Ferrie quit the squadron in June 1960 after a disagreement during a bivouac. In September 1960, he started his own unofficial squadron, called the Metairie Falcon Cadet Squadron.[9] An offshoot of this group was the Internal Mobile Security Unit, a group formed for the fight against Fidel Castro's Cuba.[10] Over the years, he used both his official and unofficial squadrons to develop improper relations with boys ranging in age from 14 to 18, and his August 1961 arrests caused the Falcons to fold.[10]
Ferrie described himself as a liberal on civil rights issues, but he was "rabidly anti-Communist", often accusing previous U.S. Presidential administrations of "sell-outs" to communism.[5] Ferrie initially supported Fidel Castro's campaign against Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, but by mid-1959 became convinced that Castro was a communist. According to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, Ferrie "...found an outlet for his political fanaticism in the anti-Castro movement." By early 1961, Ferrie was working with right-wing Cuban exile Sergio Arcacha Smith, head of the Central Intelligence Agency-backed Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front in New Orleans. Ferrie soon became Arcacha Smith's "eager partner in counterrevolutionary activities." Both were involved in a raid in late 1961 on a munitions depot in Houma, Louisiana, "...in which various weapons, grenades and ammunition were stolen."[11][12]
Ferrie often spoke to business and civic groups on political issues. In July 1961, Ferrie gave an anti-Kennedy speech before the New Orleans chapter of the Military Order of World Wars, in which "his topic was the Presidential administration and the Bay of Pigs Invasion fiasco."[5] In his speech, Ferrie attacked President Kennedy for refusing to provide air support to the Bay of Pigs invasion force of Cuban exiles.[13] Ferrie's tirade against Kennedy was so offensive that he was asked to leave the podium.[5] Ferrie admitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after the assassination, that when speaking about Kennedy, he might have used the expression: "He ought to be shot." Ferrie insisted, however, that these words were just "an off-hand or colloquial expression."[13]
In the early 1960s, Ferrie became involved with Guy Banister, former Special Agent In Charge (SAC) of the Chicago office of the FBI, right-wing political activist, segregationist, and private investigator. Banister also worked with Ferrie's associate, Sergio Arcacha Smith. In early 1962, both Banister and Arcacha Smith maintained offices in the Newman Building at the corner address of 544 Camp Street / 531 Lafayette Street, New Orleans.[14]
In February 1962, Banister assisted Ferrie in his dispute with Eastern Airlines regarding "...charges brought [against Ferrie] by the airline and local New Orleans police of crimes against nature and extortion."[12] During this period, Ferrie was often seen at Banister's office.[15] Banister testified to Ferrie's "good character" at an airline pilot's grievance board hearing in the summer of 1963.[12][15]
According to several witnesses, Ferrie and Banister also worked together in the fall of 1963 for lawyer G. Wray Gill, on behalf of Gill's client, New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello, in an attempt to block Marcello's deportation to Guatemala.[12] On a related matter, the House Select Committee on Assassinations stated that "An unconfirmed Border Patrol report of February 1962 alleges that Ferrie was the pilot who flew Carlos Marcello back into the United States from Guatemala after he had been deported in April 1961 as part of the U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime."[16] Another report, this one by the FBI, "...indicated Marcello offered [Ferrie associate Sergio] Arcacha Smith a deal whereby Marcello would make a substantial donation to the [anti-Castro] movement in return for concessions in Cuba after Castro's overthrow."[16]
Allegations of involvement in the Kennedy assassination[edit]
On the afternoon of November 22, 1963 – the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated and the day Marcello was acquitted in his deportation case – New Orleans private investigator Guy Banister and one of his employees, Jack Martin, were drinking together at a local bar. On their return to Banister's office, the two men got into a heated argument. According to Martin, Banister said something to which Martin replied, "What are you going to do – kill me like you all did Kennedy?" Banister drew his .357 magnum revolver and pistol-whipped Martin several times. Martin, badly injured, went by ambulance to Charity Hospital.[17]
In the ensuing days, Jack Martin told reporters and authorities that David Ferrie might have been involved in the assassination. Martin told the New Orleans police that Ferrie "...was supposed to have been the getaway pilot in the assassination."[1] He said that Ferrie had threatened Kennedy's life, even outlining plans to kill him, and that Ferrie might have taught Oswald how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight. Martin also claimed that Ferrie had known Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol, and that he had seen a photograph, at Ferrie's home, of Oswald in a Civil Air Patrol group.[18]
Martin's accusations soon got back to Ferrie, who contacted several of his former Civil Air Patrol associates. Former cadet Roy McCoy told the FBI that "...Ferrie had come by looking for photographs of the cadets to see if Oswald was pictured in any photos of Ferrie's squadron."[19]
Jack Martin also told bail bondsman Hardy Davis that he had heard on television that Ferrie's New Orleans library card had been found in Oswald's possession when he was arrested in Dallas. Davis reported this to Ferrie's employer, the lawyer G. Wray Gill.[20] (In fact, no such library card was found among Oswald's possessions.)[21] Ferrie subsequently visited both Oswald’s former New Orleans landlady and a former neighbor about this report.[22] Ferrie was able to produce his library card for FBI agents who interviewed him on November 27, 1963.[23]
Martin also claimed that Ferrie had driven from New Orleans to Texas on the night of the assassination. (Ferrie claims he and two friends drove 350 miles (560 km) to the Winterland Skating Rink in Houston, about 240 miles (390 km) from Dallas, that evening.) Ferrie said that "...he had been considering for some time the feasibility and possibility of opening an ice skating rink in New Orleans" and wanted to gather information on the ice rink business. "He stated that he introduced himself to [rink manager] Chuck Rolland and spoke with him at length concerning the cost of installation and operation of the rink."[24] However, Rolland said that he never spoke to Ferrie about running an ice rink. Rolland said that Ferrie had spent his time at the rink's pay phone, making and receiving calls.[25][26]
On November 25, Martin was contacted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Martin told the FBI that Ferrie might have hypnotized Oswald into assassinating Kennedy. The FBI considered Martin's evidence unreliable. Nevertheless, FBI agents interviewed Ferrie twice about Martin's allegations.[27] Ferrie claimed that in June 1963, he had been involved in an altercation with Martin, in which he had thrown Martin out of the office of lawyer G. Wray Gill.[28] The FBI also interviewed about twenty other people in connection with Martin's allegations. The FBI said that it was unable to develop a substantial case against Ferrie. (An inquiry by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, conducted a decade and a half later, concluded that the FBI's "...overall investigation of the 544 Camp Street issue at the time of the assassination was not thorough.")[29]
David Ferrie (second from left) and a teenaged Lee Harvey Oswald (far right) in a group photo of the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol in 1955 (click to enlarge)
Some of this information reached Jim Garrison, the district attorney of New Orleans, who had become increasingly interested in the assassination after a chance meeting with Louisiana Senator Russell Long in late 1966. Garrison said that Long told him: "Those fellows on the Warren Commission were dead wrong. There's no way in the world that one man could have shot up Jack Kennedy that way."[30][31]
In December 1966, Garrison interviewed Jack Martin. Martin claimed that during the summer of 1963, David Ferrie, Guy Banister, Lee Harvey Oswald, and a group of anti-Castro Cuban exiles were involved in operations against Castro's Cuba that included gun running activities and burglarizing armories.[32] Garrison would later write: "The Banister apparatus ... was part of a supply line that ran along the Dallas–New Orleans–Miami corridor. These supplies consisted of arms and explosives for use against Castro's Cuba."[32]
According to testimony by Banister's personal secretary, Delphine Roberts, Ferrie and Oswald were frequent visitors to Banister's office in 1963. She remembered Ferrie as "one of the agents." "Many times when he came into the office he used the private office behind Banister's, and I was told he was doing private work. I believed his work was somehow connected with the CIA rather than the FBI..."[33] The House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated Roberts' claims and said that "because of contradictions in Roberts' statements to the committee and lack of independent corroboration of many of her statements, the reliability of her statements could not be determined."[34]
As Garrison continued his investigation, he became convinced that a group of right-wing extremists, including Ferrie, Banister, and Clay Shaw, were involved in a conspiracy with elements of the CIA to kill John F. Kennedy. Garrison would later claim that the motive for the assassination was anger over Kennedy's attempts to obtain a peace settlement in both Cuba and Vietnam.[35][36] Garrison also believed that Shaw, Banister, and Ferrie had conspired to set up Oswald as a patsy in the JFK assassination.[37]
Ferrie lived in the upstairs of this two story house in the Broadmoor section of New Orleans.
Death and aftermath[edit]
On February 22, 1967, less than a week after the New Orleans States-Item broke the story of Garrison's investigation, Ferrie was found dead in his apartment. The New Orleans coroner officially reported that the cause of death was an intracranial berry aneurysm.[citation needed]
Two unsigned typed letters were found: The first, found in a pile of papers, was a screed about the justice system, beginning with "To leave this life is, for me, a sweet prospect."[citation needed] The second note was written to Al Beauboeuf, Ferrie's friend.[citation needed] (The coroner's "natural causes" explanation for Ferrie's death contradicts the suicide explanation. Regarding this Garrison said, "I suppose it could just be a weird coincidence that the night Ferrie penned two suicide notes, he died of natural causes."[35] Both notes were undated.) Garrison suspected that Ferrie had been murdered despite Ferrie's notes and the coroner's report to the contrary. The day the newspaper story first ran, Garrison aide Lou Ivon stated that Ferrie telephoned him to say: "You know what this news story does to me, don't you. I'm a dead man. From here on, believe me, I'm a dead man...."[38] On March 1, 1967, Garrison arrested and charged Clay Shaw with conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy.
In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations stated in its Final Report that Oswald – who had been living in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 – had established contact with anti-Castro Cubans[39] and "apparently" with American anti-Castro activist, David Ferrie.[40] The Committee also found "credible and significant" the testimony of six witnesses who placed Oswald and Ferrie in Clinton, Louisiana, in September 1963.[41] One of the witnesses was Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) chairman Corrie Collins. Collins identified a photograph of David Ferrie at the trial of Clay Shaw, saying, "...but the most outstanding thing about him [Ferrie] was his eyebrows and his hair. They didn't seem real, in other words, they were unnatural, didn't seem as if they were real hair."[42] A later release of witness statements taken by Garrison's investigators in 1967, unavailable to the HSCA, showed contradictions in the witnesses' testimony given in 1969 and 1978.[43] Collins, for example, when shown a photo of David Ferrie by Garrison investigator Andrew Sciambra in January 1968 and (in Sciambra's words) "said that he remembers seeing this man around Clinton somewhere but can't be sure where or when."[44] Yet later at the Shaw trial he placed Ferrie in the company of Shaw and Oswald.
In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations stated that available records "...lent substantial credence to the possibility that Oswald and [David] Ferrie had been involved in the same [Civil Air Patrol] C.A.P. unit during the same period of time."[8] Committee investigators found six witnesses who said that Oswald had been present at Civil Air Patrol meetings headed by David Ferrie.[45][46]
In 1993, the PBS television program Frontline obtained a group photograph, taken eight years before the assassination, that showed Oswald and Ferrie at a cookout with other Civil Air Patrol cadets.[3] However, as Frontline executive producer Michael Sullivan said, "one should be cautious in ascribing its meaning. The photograph does give much support to the eyewitnesses who say they saw Ferrie and Oswald together in the C.A.P., and it makes Ferrie's denials that he ever knew Oswald less credible. But it does not prove that the two men were with each other in 1963, nor that they were involved in a conspiracy to kill the president."[3]
In 1978, William Gaudet, a 20-year CIA informant who had worked out of an office at the International Trade Mart in New Orleans, told investigator Anthony Summers that Ferrie "was with Oswald," although Gaudet did not state where or when, or whether he knew this directly or by hearsay. Gaudet also said, "Another vital person is Sergio Arcacha Smith. I know he knew Oswald and knows more about the Kennedy affair than he ever admitted."[47]
The former Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA, Victor Marchetti, has claimed that David Ferrie was connected to the CIA. Marchetti told author Anthony Summers that "...he observed consternation on the part of then CIA Director Richard Helms and other senior officials when Ferrie's name was first publicly linked with the assassination in 1967." Marchetti said that he asked a CIA colleague about this who told him that "Ferrie had been a contract agent to the Agency in the early sixties and had been involved in some of the Cuban activities."[26][33]
Marchetti's claim, however, is contradicted by internal CIA documents that state that the Agency never contacted Ferrie at any time,[48][non-primary source needed] and that there had been no documented Agency utilization of Ferrie.[49][non-primary source needed]
Portrayals[edit]
Ferrie was portrayed by actor Joe Pesci in the Oliver Stone film JFK (1991), and by Tobin Bell in the film Ruby (1992).
References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to: a b David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, pp. 112–113.
2. Jump up ^ FBI Interview of David Ferrie, November 25, 1963, Warren Commission Document 75, p. 286.
3. ^ Jump up to: a b c PBS Frontline "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald", broadcast on PBS stations, November 1993 (various dates).
4. ^ Jump up to: a b David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 106.
5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 107.
6. Jump up ^ David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, pp. 107–108, 108–110.
7. ^ Jump up to: a b David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 108.
8. ^ Jump up to: a b Oswald, David Ferrie and the Civil Air Patrol, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Volume 9, 4, p. 110.
9. Jump up ^ David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, pp. 108–109.
10. ^ Jump up to: a b "'David Blackburst Archive: David Ferrie: Civil Air Patrol File'".
11. Jump up ^ David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 109.
12. ^ Jump up to: a b c d 544 Camp Street and Related Events, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 13, p. 127.
13. ^ Jump up to: a b FBI interview of David Ferrie, November 27, 1963, Warren Commission Document 75, p. 199.
14. Jump up ^ David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 110.
15. ^ Jump up to: a b David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 111.
16. ^ Jump up to: a b David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 112.
17. Jump up ^ 544 Camp Street and Related Events, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 13, p. 130.
18. Jump up ^ FBI Interview of Jack S. Martin, 25 November 1963 & 27 November 1963, Warren Commission Document 75, pp. 217–218, 309–311.
19. Jump up ^ David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, p. 114.
20. Jump up ^ FBI interview of W. Hardy Davis, November 27, 1963, Warren Commission Document 75, p. 216.
21. Jump up ^ Warren Report, Appendix 11: Reports Relating to the Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Department, Reports of Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 24, p. 17, CE 1986, FBI report dated November 25, 1963, concerning items in possession of Lee Harvey Oswald when apprehended. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 26, p. 587, CE 3042, FBI report of laboratory examination of items possessed by Lee Harvey Oswald for possible espionage significance. Oswald had his own New Orleans library card, and used it to check out thirty-four books between May and September 1963, when he moved back to Dallas. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 25, p. 928, CE 2650, Secret Service report dated December 10, 1963, and FBI report dated February 25, 1964, of checks of public libraries in New Orleans, La., and Dallas, Tex., and a list of books knowns to have been checked out by Lee Harvey Oswald.
22. Jump up ^ David Ferrie, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 12, pp. 113–114.
23. Jump up ^ FBI interview of David Ferrie, November 27, 1963, Warren Commission Document 75, pp. 199–200, 294.
24. Jump up ^ FBI Interview of David Ferrie, November 25, 1963, Warren Commission Document 75, pp. 288–289.
25. Jump up ^ Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 351. ISBN 1-56924-739-0
26. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Mystery of David Ferrie". Acorn.net. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
27. Jump up ^ FBI Interview of David Ferrie, 25 November 1963 & 27 November 1963, Warren Commission Document 75, pp. 285–297, 199–200.
28. Jump up ^ FBI DeBrueys Report of 02 Dec 1963 re: Oswald/Russia, November 25, 1963, Warren Commission Document 75, p. 293.
29. Jump up ^ 544 Camp Street and Related Events, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 13, p. 126.
30. Jump up ^ Talbot, David. Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, (London: Simon & Schuster, 2007), p. 319. ISBN 978-0-7432-6918-6
31. Jump up ^ Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), p. 13. ISBN 0-941781-02-X
32. ^ Jump up to: a b Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), p. 40. ISBN 0-941781-02-X
33. ^ Jump up to: a b Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 233. ISBN 1-56924-739-0
34. Jump up ^ 544 Camp Street and Related Events, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 8, p. 129.
35. ^ Jump up to: a b Jim Garrison Interview, Playboy magazine, Eric Norden, October 1967.
36. Jump up ^ Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), pp. 12–13, 43, 176–178, 277, 293. ISBN 0-941781-02-X
37. Jump up ^ Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), pp. 26–27, 62, 70, 106–110, 250, 278, 289. ISBN 0-941781-02-X
38. Jump up ^ Garrison, Jim. On The Trail of the Assassins, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1988), p. 138. ISBN 0-941781-02-X
39. Jump up ^ HSCA Final Assassinations Report, House Select Committee on Assassinations, pp. 134–147.
40. Jump up ^ HSCA Final Assassinations Report, House Select Committee on Assassinations, p. 147.
41. Jump up ^ HSCA Final Assassinations Report, House Select Committee on Assassinations, p. 142.
42. Jump up ^ "John F. Kennedy assassination: Clay Shaw trial testimony of Corrie Collins, eyewitness to alleged conspiracy in assassination of JFK". Jfk-online.com. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
43. Jump up ^ David Reitzes, "Impeaching Clinton".
44. Jump up ^ Andrew Sciambra, "Memorandum to Jim Garrison".
45. Jump up ^ Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 234. ISBN 1-56924-739-0
46. Jump up ^ Oswald, David Ferrie and the Civil Air Patrol, House Select Committee on Assassinations, Volume 9, 4, pp. 110–115.
47. Jump up ^ Summers, Anthony. Not in Your Lifetime, (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 255. ISBN 1-56924-739-0
48. Jump up ^ E.H. Knoche Memorandum to Robert B. Olson, http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=9532&relPageId=8
49. Jump up ^ Howard Osborn Memorandum for Deputy Direct of Support, http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=41374&relPageId=4
External links[edit]
•Photo gallery of David Ferrie
•The Mystery of David Ferrie
•David Ferrie at the Internet Movie Database
•"David Ferrie". Find a Grave. Retrieved June 11, 2013.
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Name
Ferrie, David
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Date of birth
March 28, 1918
Place of birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Date of death
February 22, 1967
Place of death
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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