In October , the Texas Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the grounds of improper admission of testimony and the fact that Ruby could not have received a fair trial in Dallas at the time. In January , while awaiting a new trial to be held in Wichita Falls, Ruby died of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital.
The official Warren Commission report of concluded that neither Oswald nor Ruby were part of a larger conspiracy, either domestic or international, to assassinate President Kennedy. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! On November 21, , two Irish After the Mack brothers sold their company to investors in , it On March 14, the body of President John F.
It was sent to a post-office box maintained by Oswald in his own name and also A. Clearly no serious effort to escape detection as the purchaser of the rifle was made by Oswald, if he did purchase it. Armed with the knowledge that Oswald could be connected with an Italian carbine it then not being known that the Italian rifle in question might not be able to fire three times in five seconds , Wade made a new announcement.
The murder weapon was not a German Mauser, it was an Italian carbine Wade said, "On his Oswald's person was a pocketbook. In his pocketbook was an identification card with the same name Hidell as the post-office box on it. The following day, after the FBI had revealed that Oswald had purchased a rifle under the assumed name Hidell, the Dallas DA announced for the first time that Oswald had carried an identification card under the assumed name Hidell on his person when he was arrested the previous day.
Oswald was seen in the building by a police officer Just after the President had been shot. Wade said, "A police officer, immediately after the assassination, ran into the building and saw this man in a corner and tried to arrest him; but the manager of the building said he was an employe and it was all right.
Every other employe was located but this defendant of the company. A description and name of him went out to police to look for him. Unexplained by Wade is why the officer was going to arrest Oswald, who was sipping a soft drink in the lunchroom along with others.
If the officer had reason to single out Oswald for arrest for the assassination at that time, it seems unlikely that the mere statement that Oswald was an employe might result in immunity from arrest Wade said, "The wife had said he had the gun the night before, and it was missing that morning after he left.
Oswald had never been quoted as saying anything remotely similar to Wade's assertion. Oswald was alleged to have said, at the very most, that she saw something in a blanket that could have been a rifle. However, it soon became plain that the Secret Service "leak" was itself absolutely inaccurate. Oswald, while taking a bus from the scene, laughed loudly as he told a woman passenger that the President had been shot. Wade said, "The next we hear of him is on a bus where he got on at Lamar Street, told the bus driver the President had been shot, the President.
Walker and, still chewing his cigar, Detective Paul Bentley, on Nov. On the right right is Sgt. Gerald Hill. Jim MacCammon, courtesy Howard Upchurch. Previous Next. By Gary Mack. Updated 7 p. Flights began departing again at around p. This is just too blatant and obvious. There are bright newsmen working on this thing. The same day, Life came out with some frames of the Zapruder film, and from those it was quite obvious that at the time of the shooting the President was facing away from the Book Depository building.
So, with some trepidation, with Life in one hot little hand and the New York Times in the other hot little hand, I traipsed over to the F. Thompson—figuring he had done what he could, however embarrassing it had been—turned his attention back to his dissertation and his teaching. He even pursued the investigation himself for a while, doing research in the Yale Library after the Commission had released the twenty-six volumes of testimony and exhibits upon which it had based its conclusions.
But in time he found that he was more interested in opposing the war in Vietnam than in opposing the Warren Report. Then, last spring, Thompson and some other Haverford faculty members were arrested during a demonstration against the war, and the lawyer asked by the American Civil Liberties Union to arrange their release was Vincent Salandria.
Encouraged by his meeting with Salandria, Thompson decided he might have time during the summer to go to the National Archives for a more systematic investigation. That investigation led to a manuscript that will eventually be published as a book, and the book contract led to an arrangement to be a consultant to Life magazine in its assassination research. The buffs were never alone in their doubts. A Gallup Poll taken the week of the assassination indicated that only twenty-nine per cent of the American people believed that the President was killed by Oswald acting alone; even in the days just after the Warren Report was published, a Harris Survey showed that thirty-one per cent believed that Oswald had acted with accomplices.
But of the millions of Americans who doubted the official version, only about a dozen felt strongly enough to try to prove that it was incorrect.
Most people were willing to go along with the Warren Report, which, after all, had been produced by a distinguished commission with all of the resources of the government at its disposal. Even before the Report was published, an aura of unanimous acceptance had grown up around the official version of what had happened in Dallas, and most Americans did not even want to listen to any theories that contradicted it.
Most of the assassination buffs, even those with a large circle of friends, suffered for at least a while from the special kind of loneliness that comes from being obsessed by something that nobody else seems to care about.
Castellano recalled recently. Then, gradually, the buffs began to discover each other. Field found out about Mrs. Meagher through writing the instructor of a course on the Warren Report that Mrs. Castellano through an appearance by Lane in Los Angeles. Salandria came to light through the piece in Liberation. At one point, when Mrs.
Field stopped off in New York on the way to Europe, Mrs. Meagher was able to gather together half a dozen critics to meet her. In the days before what Mrs. They finally had somebody to talk to. The buffs soon established an informal but busy network for pooling information, decrying the indifference of the public, and cheering each other up.
Their discussions are often rather technical. David Lifton—an energetic young man who studied engineering physics at Cornell and has been in and out of the U. Marcus has written a seventy-seven-page monograph on the subject. Although some of the buffs travelled to Dallas—and some, sooner or later, to Washington to examine the exhibits and documents turned over to the National Archives—most of them have found enough to do in their own homes.
They can study many of the documents at the National Archives by sending for copies, and they can always use the phone to interview witnesses and each other.
They have built their own research libraries, mostly out of newspaper clippings. Castellano managed to buy from the surveyor who prepared it for the Commission.
Lifton had a friend write a disingenuous letter about the transposition to J. Edgar Hoover, who acknowledged the error. Shadow measuring is not uncommon among the critics. They pass around huge blurred closeups and peer at them for hours trying to ascertain whether a mark on a curb is a stain or a chip, or whether a shape among the trees is a shadow or a gunman.
The Twenty-six Volumes contain eighteen thousand pages—the largest body of source material any armchair student of a crime has ever had. Most of the buffs sent for a set immediately, at seventy-six dollars a set. Field, whose home in Beverly Hills is rather spacious, has saved some steps by buying an upstairs set and a downstairs set.
With the Twenty-six Volumes on hand, Mrs.
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