04-05-2013, 04:29 PM
At 9:00 (CST) senior officers of the Dallas Police Dept. begin issuing detailed orders for LHO's transfer.
While the 10:00 transfer is now off, it is obvious to all that LHO will be transferred within hours.
Policemen supposedly clear the Dallas Police headquarters basement of all but police personnel. Guards
are stationed at the top of the Main and Commerce Streets auto ramps leading down into the basement, at each of
the five doorways into the garage, and at the double doors leading to the public hallway adjacent to the jail office.
Then, Sgt. Patrick T. Dean, acting under instructions from Talbert, directs 14 men in a search of the garage. Maintenance
workers are directed to leave the area. The searchers examine the rafters, tops of air conditioning ducts,
and every closet and room opening off the garage. They search the interior and trunk compartment of automobiles
parked in the garage. The two passenger elevators in the central part of the garage are not in service and the doors
are shut and locked; the service elevator is moved to the first floor, and the operator is instructed not to return it to
the basement. WC
William Lord, ABC news correspondent, tells the FBI that he enters the police basement at this time by
public elevator from the third floor and that no one asks him to identify himself; he does not observe that anyone
is responsible for identifying those who enter the basement. AATF
The Warren Commission estimates that 40 to 50 newsmen are present in the police basement when LHO is shot. Twenty-seven press
representatives are listed as present in the police report on the so-called abortive transfer; the FBI interviews at least another 17 reporters,
which brings the number to 44. The Commission states that "Many newsmen reported that they were checked on more than one occasion
while they waited in the basement. A small number did not recall that their credentials were ever checked." According to Sylvia
Meagher, 14 newsmen report that their credentials have not been checked, or not checked on some occasions. Fourteen is almost onethird
of the total 44 newsmen - something over 31 per cent. Meagher suggests that 14 is not a "small number" but a large proportion,
and that the Warren Report minimizes what is clearly inexcusable recklessness and irresponsibility on the part of the Dallas police in
protecting a prisoner whose life has been threatened by unknown men. AATF
While the 10:00 transfer is now off, it is obvious to all that LHO will be transferred within hours.
Policemen supposedly clear the Dallas Police headquarters basement of all but police personnel. Guards
are stationed at the top of the Main and Commerce Streets auto ramps leading down into the basement, at each of
the five doorways into the garage, and at the double doors leading to the public hallway adjacent to the jail office.
Then, Sgt. Patrick T. Dean, acting under instructions from Talbert, directs 14 men in a search of the garage. Maintenance
workers are directed to leave the area. The searchers examine the rafters, tops of air conditioning ducts,
and every closet and room opening off the garage. They search the interior and trunk compartment of automobiles
parked in the garage. The two passenger elevators in the central part of the garage are not in service and the doors
are shut and locked; the service elevator is moved to the first floor, and the operator is instructed not to return it to
the basement. WC
William Lord, ABC news correspondent, tells the FBI that he enters the police basement at this time by
public elevator from the third floor and that no one asks him to identify himself; he does not observe that anyone
is responsible for identifying those who enter the basement. AATF
The Warren Commission estimates that 40 to 50 newsmen are present in the police basement when LHO is shot. Twenty-seven press
representatives are listed as present in the police report on the so-called abortive transfer; the FBI interviews at least another 17 reporters,
which brings the number to 44. The Commission states that "Many newsmen reported that they were checked on more than one occasion
while they waited in the basement. A small number did not recall that their credentials were ever checked." According to Sylvia
Meagher, 14 newsmen report that their credentials have not been checked, or not checked on some occasions. Fourteen is almost onethird
of the total 44 newsmen - something over 31 per cent. Meagher suggests that 14 is not a "small number" but a large proportion,
and that the Warren Report minimizes what is clearly inexcusable recklessness and irresponsibility on the part of the Dallas police in
protecting a prisoner whose life has been threatened by unknown men. AATF
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass