Dawn Meredith's 2013 COPA Address

[Jim Hargrove]

From Harvey and Lee, p. 847:

While Oswald was in his room a DPD patrol car drove in front of 1026 N.
Beckley. Mrs. Roberts saw the car and told the Commission, "Right direct in front of
that door-there was a police car stopped and honked .... .I just glanced out and saw the
number .... .I think it was-106, it seems to me like it was 106 (Mrs. Roberts later corrected
herself and said the police car was number 107) ..... " She said there were two uniformed
policemen in a black car (not an accident squad car) and the driver honked the horn
twice. She then watched the patrol car and told the Commission, "They just eased on*
the way it is-it was the third house off of Zangs and they just went on around the cor*
ner that way."185

NOTES: J.D. Tippit's patrol car was number "10. "He was alone the entire day and

at 1:03 pm was making a phone call at the Top Ten Record Store, while Oswald was

changing clothes in his room.

After Earlene Roberts testified the FBI tried to determine the location of all DPD pa*

trol cars at 1:00 pm on November 22. Curiously, car number 107 was not mentioned

in the FBI report, probably because it was no longer in service. 186 The Dallas Police sold

car 107 to Elvis Blount, of Sulphur Springs, Texas on April17, 1963.187

Curiously, on April1 0, 1963, Jack Ruby placed a long distance telephone call to auto*

mobile transporter Clarence Rector, who also lived in Sulphur Springs, Texas. 188 Nov 22-

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The author believes the two uniformed police officers in car 107 may have been the same

two uniformed officers who boarded Cecil McWatters bus on Elm Street looking for

Oswald.189