24-10-2012, 10:40 AM
Jim Marrs, Crossfire, Aftermath: Convenient Deaths, page 555 is a source of information.
Craig Roberts and John Armstrong, JFK: The Dead Witnesses is a study.
One person who was not on the list of dead witnesses was Antonio Veciana.
According to Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, Aftermath page 499 Sr. Veciana was the target of four shots resulting in a head wound in 1979.
This is the period of the HSCA work of Gaeton Fonzi who reported in The Last Investigation that Veciana met with David Atlee Phillips in Dallas in the summer of 1963, and saw "Maurice Bishop" meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald.
James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Chapter 6: Washington and Dallas, pages 244-248 reports Louisiana State Police lieutenant Francis Fruge's account that Rose Cheramie told him Wednesday November 20, 1963 two men driving her from Miami to Dallas were "going to kill President Kennedy when he comes to Dallas in a few days."
Douglass notes, "In any case, key details in Cheramie's story had been confirmed by the police and customs authorities."
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On September 4, 1965, Rose Cheramie's body was found at 3:00 A.M. on Highway 55, 1.7 miles east of Big Sandy, Texas. Cheramie had reportedly been run over by a car. Jerry Don Moore, the driver of the car in question, said he'd been driving from Big Sandy to his home in Tyler. He suddenly saw three or four suitcases lined up in the center of the road. As researcher James DiEugenio summarized Moore's story, "He swerved to his right to avoid hitting [the suitcases]. In front of him was the prone body of a woman lying at a 90-degree angle to the highway with her head toward the road. Moore applied the brakes as hard as he could."
The investigating officer , J.A. Andrews, stated that Moore said, "although he had attempted to avoid running over her, he ran over the top part of her skull, causing fatal injuries." Moore, on the contrary, swore he never hit Cheramie. He came close to her, stopped, then drove her to the nearest doctor in Big Sandy. An ambulance took her from the doctor's to Gladewater Hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival. Although Officer Andrews expressed uncertainty as to what happened to Cheramie, "due to the fact that the relatives of the victim did not pursue the investigation, he closed it as accidental death."
Yet how did Rose Cheramie happen to be lying at a 90-degree angle across Highway 155 at three in the morning, near suitcases that seemed to be positioned to direct an oncoming car over her body?
Cheramie may in fact have been shot in the head before Jerry Don Moore found her on the highway. Records at Gladewater Hospital describe a "deep punctuate stellate" (starlike) wound to her right forehead. Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw commented in his book, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence: "The wound to Cheramie's forehead as described, according to medical textbooks, occurs in contact gunshot woundsthat is, when a gun barrel is placed against a victim's body and discharged. It is especially applicable to a gunshot wound of the skull. . ."
Douglass reports the autopsy records could not be found and Garrison's request for exhumation was denied.
Two men identified as having accompanied Rose Cheramie to the Silver Slipper were Sergio Arcacha Smith and Emilio Santana, the latter admitting to Garrison investigators CIA had hired him in 1962.
Fruge told HSCA counsel Burras Dallas sewer maps were found in Arcacha Smith's apartment.
Craig Roberts and John Armstrong, JFK: The Dead Witnesses is a study.
One person who was not on the list of dead witnesses was Antonio Veciana.
According to Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, Aftermath page 499 Sr. Veciana was the target of four shots resulting in a head wound in 1979.
This is the period of the HSCA work of Gaeton Fonzi who reported in The Last Investigation that Veciana met with David Atlee Phillips in Dallas in the summer of 1963, and saw "Maurice Bishop" meeting with Lee Harvey Oswald.
James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, Chapter 6: Washington and Dallas, pages 244-248 reports Louisiana State Police lieutenant Francis Fruge's account that Rose Cheramie told him Wednesday November 20, 1963 two men driving her from Miami to Dallas were "going to kill President Kennedy when he comes to Dallas in a few days."
Douglass notes, "In any case, key details in Cheramie's story had been confirmed by the police and customs authorities."
Page 245:
On September 4, 1965, Rose Cheramie's body was found at 3:00 A.M. on Highway 55, 1.7 miles east of Big Sandy, Texas. Cheramie had reportedly been run over by a car. Jerry Don Moore, the driver of the car in question, said he'd been driving from Big Sandy to his home in Tyler. He suddenly saw three or four suitcases lined up in the center of the road. As researcher James DiEugenio summarized Moore's story, "He swerved to his right to avoid hitting [the suitcases]. In front of him was the prone body of a woman lying at a 90-degree angle to the highway with her head toward the road. Moore applied the brakes as hard as he could."
The investigating officer , J.A. Andrews, stated that Moore said, "although he had attempted to avoid running over her, he ran over the top part of her skull, causing fatal injuries." Moore, on the contrary, swore he never hit Cheramie. He came close to her, stopped, then drove her to the nearest doctor in Big Sandy. An ambulance took her from the doctor's to Gladewater Hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival. Although Officer Andrews expressed uncertainty as to what happened to Cheramie, "due to the fact that the relatives of the victim did not pursue the investigation, he closed it as accidental death."
Yet how did Rose Cheramie happen to be lying at a 90-degree angle across Highway 155 at three in the morning, near suitcases that seemed to be positioned to direct an oncoming car over her body?
Cheramie may in fact have been shot in the head before Jerry Don Moore found her on the highway. Records at Gladewater Hospital describe a "deep punctuate stellate" (starlike) wound to her right forehead. Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw commented in his book, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence: "The wound to Cheramie's forehead as described, according to medical textbooks, occurs in contact gunshot woundsthat is, when a gun barrel is placed against a victim's body and discharged. It is especially applicable to a gunshot wound of the skull. . ."
Douglass reports the autopsy records could not be found and Garrison's request for exhumation was denied.
Two men identified as having accompanied Rose Cheramie to the Silver Slipper were Sergio Arcacha Smith and Emilio Santana, the latter admitting to Garrison investigators CIA had hired him in 1962.
Fruge told HSCA counsel Burras Dallas sewer maps were found in Arcacha Smith's apartment.