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Is this a lefthanded assassin in the 3rd floor Dalt-Tex window? - Albert Doyle - 06-01-2016
Drew Phipps Wrote:I would classify that portion of the image not as a gun but as a portion of a cross-support for the horizontal landing of the fire-escape.
I'm seeing the same thing. The cross bracing members with the lower left one being called the rifle.
Is this a lefthanded assassin in the 3rd floor Dalt-Tex window? - Alan Ford - 06-01-2016
Dallas private citizen Phil Willis was standing at the corner of Elm & Houston with his family, taking snapshots of the parade procession that afternoon. Much has been written of Mr. Willis' photos that day, and also his & his wife's strong conviction about where they thought at least the fatal gunshot originated, quote, "There's no doubt in our mind the final shot that blew his head off did not come from the depository. His head blew up like a halo. The brains and matter went to the left and the rear", but little has been written (well, little did I know until most recently) about how Mr. Willis and his family actually witnessed the arrest of a young man wearing a black leather coat and black gloves, being escorted out of the Dal-Tex Building by two uniformed police officers.
Whether he was up to no good or not has never been established, because akin to the suspicious woman trying to make a hasty getaway in her car in the rear parking lot of the TSBD, who managed to slip past the officer charged with holding her there for follow up questioning, this individual, quote, "had been up in the building across the street from the Book Depository without a good excuse'', also managed to slink away from the authorities before any recording of his name or an interrogation could take place. His vanishing act came soon after people watching his arrest openly cursed and jeered him.
*Source: Matthew Smith, JFK: The Second Plot (1992) via a Spartacus article...
No police department in the world is as inept as more than a few instances suggesting otherwise plagued the Dallas Police Department/Sheriff's Office that afternoon. What competent law-enforcement agency allows a figure dressed in a black leather coat and wearing black gloves inside of a building simply disappear off the face of the earth before it can be determined that he wasn't the responsible party to what just happened a few minutes ago?
In review:
Here's a suspicious figure, without a valid reason to be in the Dal-Tex building
He's wearing gloves inside the building upon being apprehended and escorted out
Shots were just fired
Even dumb criminals know to keep gloves handy
but, somehow, all of this equates into, Nothing to see here folks, he doesn't warrant being a Person of Interest, last we knew he asked to go to the "bathroom"...oh, well, shrug, at least he didn't wiss his pants or soil one of our department chairs...
Are you smucking serious?! This cannot be indicative of what law-enforcement was in Texas circa 1963. Please say it ain't so. Was this arrestee a possible shooter? Was he charged by his co-coup d'état attack-force to hit the target in the rear/back to establish the myth about all of the shots coming from the rear? That shot was key to establishing their pre-designated decoy position across the street.
Is this a lefthanded assassin in the 3rd floor Dalt-Tex window? - Tracy Riddle - 06-01-2016
Drew Phipps Wrote:I would classify that portion of the image not as a gun but as a portion of a cross-support for the horizontal landing of the fire-escape. This bit goes "from 8:00 to 2:00" (on a clock face). The corresponding "11:00 to 4:00" is also visible just above. The two cross supports form an X, although much of the "X' is in shadow. This is a common way to brace steel.
That's what it looks like to me too - cross-bracing.
Is this a lefthanded assassin in the 3rd floor Dalt-Tex window? - Drew Phipps - 06-01-2016
Alan Ford Wrote:Whether he was up to no good or not has never been established, because akin to the suspicious woman trying to make a hasty getaway in her car in the rear parking lot of the TSBD, who managed to slip past the officer charged with holding her there for follow up questioning, this individual, ... also managed to slink away from the authorities before any recording of his name or an interrogation could take place.
*Source: Matthew Smith, JFK: The Second Plot (1992) via a Spartacus article...
There you go: "Prayer Woman." Taa Daa!
Seriously, though, what is there to distinguish this mysterious gloved guy from Eugene (Jim) Brading? He too was "arrested" near the DalTex entrance, and subsequently released, but DPD did get his name...
Is this a lefthanded assassin in the 3rd floor Dalt-Tex window? - Alan Ford - 06-01-2016
Drew Phipps Wrote:Alan Ford Wrote:Whether he was up to no good or not has never been established, because akin to the suspicious woman trying to make a hasty getaway in her car in the rear parking lot of the TSBD, who managed to slip past the officer charged with holding her there for follow up questioning, this individual, ... also managed to slink away from the authorities before any recording of his name or an interrogation could take place.
*Source: Matthew Smith, JFK: The Second Plot (1992) via a Spartacus article...
There you go: "Prayer Woman." Taa Daa!
Seriously, though, what is there to distinguish this mysterious gloved guy from Eugene (Jim) Brading? He too was "arrested" near the DalTex entrance, and subsequently released, but DPD did get his name...
Yes, you are right, Mr. Phipps, they both were arrested; however, according to the Willis Family there was about two decades, add a few years in age between them. Note they saw a "young" man...
Also, it's reasonable to believe that if the Willis Family remembers seeing the much younger man's black leather coat, and black gloves, they would have also seen a hat colour if he was actually wearing one like the much older Brading.
Is this a lefthanded assassin in the 3rd floor Dalt-Tex window? - Drew Phipps - 06-01-2016
I believe there may be other period photos of the DalTex that might resolve this question. Eugene (Jim) Brading's testimony to the HSCA is available on Mary Ferrel; however, I cannot find the photos (Brading Exhibits 1-8) that the HSCA introduced during Brading's testimony, and these photos allegedly include views of the Dal-Tex.
If anyone else can locate these exhibits we might be able to see if the third floor landing is cross-braced.
Is this a lefthanded assassin in the 3rd floor Dalt-Tex window? - Alan Ford - 07-01-2016
Some further reading about the Dal-Tex Building helped pinpoint what specific business entity lay directly inside of the "gentleman" on the fire escape...here, courtesy of researcher Martin Shackelford, are some excerpts from author Bob Goodman's book, "Triangle of Fire" ---->
http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/03/MS/2data.html (page 216)
Is it a coincidence that this particular business establishment just so happened to be just off the fire escape, where the imposing figure sits?; and, IF the records were still available and attainable today, would the Texas Secretary of State office handling corporation records bear out this dummy-corp was newly formed (say around the same time it's next door neighbor, TSBD, moved into its new digs during the Summer of 1963)?
Now, getting back to a possible shooter(s) from within the Dal-Tex Building, it's not frivolous to wonder if the shot(s) came from a higher floor, especially the errant miss that ricochets off a curb way down near the triple underpass, injuring Mr. James Tague (RIP) in the process. Anything less than the 3rd floor IMHO would have to contend with hitting SS Agents riding in the follow up car. Of course, don't put it past the sinister cowards laying in ambush of an unarmed elected representative of the people to position a decoy position on a lower level in the same building to avoid detection of a rooftop-shooter.
Moving along, towards the end of Inspector Sawyer's WC testimony he makes mention of a woman approaching him about a male figure on a higher floor in the Dal-Tex Building taking pictures. In response, the inspector sent a couple of his uniformed men over across the street to check out the situation to bring the man down to him. The man curiously rebuffs Sawyer's men. Upon hearing that the man refused to comply with his orders, the now adamant inspector intimates he would have gone over there to confront the person himself, opening a can of whoop-butt along the way, but upon hearing that SS Agent Forest Sorrels was now in that vicinity assumed he had the situation under control.
To anyone's knowledge, Has this individual ever been identified? Has any of the pictures he took ever seen the light of day? Or, true to Mr. Goodman's book bove, "Triangle of Fire", anything about the Dal-Tex Building was then/and still now off limits?
There's more to the Dal-Tex Building than history dares to record.
Decoy (TSBD) & Deception (Dal -Tex)