Deep Politics Timeline

[Tracy Riddle]

Nov 22 (Friday) Times are Central Standard Time unless indicated

6pm

6:00 PM A paraffin test is done on Oswald.

6:00 PM Zapruder & Schwartz drive to Jamieson to get three copies of film made Wrone, 24; Trask, 112; Schwartz interview

6:00 PM In Howard Brennan's testimony, he said that he was picked up by Secret Service Agent Patterson "at 6 o'clock, at my home, and taken to the Dallas Police Station" Somewhat confusingly, he went on to say that there were "a possibility seven more or less one" in the lineup. Since the lineup positions were permanently numbered from 1 to 6, it was not possible for there to be more than six people on the same lineup. When asked by Mr Belin: "Were they all white, or were there some Negroes in there?" Brennan produced the incredible reply: "I do not remember". He was never asked and did not volunteer the time of the lineup. In his book, Brennan quoted a different time for his journey to City Hall and described how he received a telephone call at home "about 7:15pm." He said that he was asked by FBI Agent Robert C. Lish to "come down to make an identification." He was then driven to City Hall by "one of the FBI (sic) agents who had been watching the house." This man has been identified as Dallas-based Secret Service Agent William H. Patterson. It is unfortunate that there is no further explanation of this odd occurrence and why the Secret Service had apparently mounted a surveillance operation on Brennan's home. In both his book and in his testimony, Brennan described his experience at the lineup. He said that he had entered the room and immediately recognised Oswald as the number two man in "perhaps as many as seven". However, he steadfastly refused to identify him. He explained that he felt personally threatened by the whole situation and as it was obvious that the police had got their man, his identification of Oswald would not make any difference. According to the account in his book, he was driven back to his home, arriving at "about 9:00 in the evening". Brennan lived at 6814 Woodard Street, Urbandale, a section of East Dallas, about six miles by road from City Hall. Forrest Verne Sorrels' Warren Commission testimony describes that it was his idea to get Brennan to a lineup that evening and he had arranged for SA Patterson to bring Brennan to City Hall. He said that Brennan was reluctant to identify Oswald and had said: "I am sorry, but I can't do it ... I just can't be positive. I'm sorry." Like Brennan, Sorrels seemed uncertain of the number of men on the lineup, eventually settling for five, together with Oswald.

Harold Weisberg: "It is true that Brennan "viewed" the lineup, although he appears to be the one person of whose presence the police have no written record." But he did not identify Oswald. Two pages later the Report, in its own way, acknowledges this by admitting "he declined to make a positive identification of Oswald when he first saw him in the police lineup." The fact is that Brennan at no time at the lineup made any identification (3H147-8). (Whitewash)

In Washington, LBJ has his first appointment as president with CIA director John McCone. What they discuss remains unknown. Captain Taswell Shepard, in charge of the briefcase known as the "nuclear football," remembers that the atmosphere in the White House on the evening of the assassination was not one of crisis as LBJ will later assert in order, for instance, to pressure Earl Warren to chair the commission investigating JFK's murder. BT

7:00 PM CST 8:00 PM (EST) Secret Service Report: SS-100-X and SS-679-X arrived at Andrews Air Force Base on Air Force Cargo Plane No. 612373 (C-130-E), which plane was assigned to the 78th Air Transport Squadron from Charleston Air Force Base and piloted by Captain Thomason. The plane was taxied to a point just off of Runway 1028, approximately 100 yards from the Control Tower at Andrews AFB, and a security cordon was placed around the aircraft while these vehicles were being unloaded. On the plane accompanying these vehicles were Special Agents Kinney and Hickey. It was taken to the White House garage and guarded by agents. Special Agent Samuel Kinney, accompanied by Agent Charles Taylor, Jr., drives the vehicle under police escort to the White House Garage. Taylor then specifically writes: "of particular note was the small hole just left of center [of the windshield] from which what appeared to be bullet fragments were removed." This is completely opposite of what will be reported by FBI agents who also inspect the vehicle. A week from now, it will be reported that a windshield is removed from the vehicle and stored in the garage. In March of 64, at the request of the Warren Commission, the Secret Service will send a windshield to the FBI laboratory, which will determine that it contains NO hole but only damage to the outside surface. (The chronology of exactly what happened to the limousine will eventually prove very disturbing to the HSCA. There have been rumors for many years that the Secret Service order up to twenty-one windshields for the limousine soon after the assassination. Dr. Robert B Livingstone, for instance, learns that the Secret Service obtains a dozen windshields from the Ford Motor Company, allegedly for "target practice.") MIDP According to Jim Bishop in The Day Kennedy Was Shot, the limo is inspected by Deputy Chief Paul Paterni of the Secret Service and Floyd Boring, assistant agent-in-charge of the White House detail. With them are Chief Petty Officers William Martinell and Thomas Mills of the White House medical staff. Paterni spots a dull gleam of metal, and calls attention to it. It is in the seat that was occupied earlier in the day by Roy Kellerman. He reaches down and picks up half of a bullet. It is intact, and the lead core is exposed. Moments later, another piece is discovered on the driver's side. When Paterni holds the two parts together, it is obvious that they constitute one bullet. On the rug in the car, they also pick up a three-inch piece of skull and hair.

JD Tippit's widow, Marie, remembers: " The doctor came over and gave me a shot, but I never went to sleep," she says. "The days and weeks and months that followed were just terrible. You keep on going because you have to. You say your prayers and you feed your children and you read your Bible and you live one day at a time, so it gets to the point where you can live a single day without crying. ... I don't see anything wrong with people crying." Mrs. Tippit recalls that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, calls her and all but apologized for the trip to Texas. She says he tells her that if his brother had not come to Dallas, Officer Tippit would still be alive. "I said, But, you know, they were both doing their jobs. They got killed doing their jobs.' He was being the president, and J.D. was being the policeman he was supposed to be."

5-7pm somewhere in this time period WFAA reporter Victor Robinson saw Ruby try to enter the Robbery & Homicide Bureau on the third floor. Two police officers are guarding the door. Robertson sees Jack Ruby approach and attempt to enter the office. He is prevented from doing so by one of the officers who says: "You can't go in there Jack." Ruby makes a joking remark and heads back down the hall toward the elevator. Posner admits that "at least five witnesses, police and reporters who knew him, reported seeing Ruby on the third floor of the [police] headquarters sometime between 6:00 and 9:00pm." (Case Closed 377) But the WC believed Ruby when he said he wasn't there before 11:15pm.

6:05 PM CST 7:05 PM (EST) LBJ called Harry Truman.

6:07 PM CST 7:07 PM (EST) Ambulance drives away from the front of Bethesda. (Washington Star 11/23/63)

6:07 PM CST 7:07-7:18pm (EST) O'Neill, Kellerman, Sibert and Greer took the casket out of the ambulance. They were met by an Honor Guard, which was flown in by helicopter. (Francis X. O'Neill in 1992 Team Video; Death of a President) James Metzler held open the door as they took it inside. (Livingstone interview) At 7:14pm Gen. Wehle arrived with his aide. (Report concerning events of 11/22 by Escort Officer to the Commanding General)

6:10 PM CST 7:10 PM (EST) LBJ called Eisenhower. Johnson made it clear he would be needing Ike's advice.

6:10 PM The Marsalis City bus driven by Cecil McWatters comes to the bus stop at Dallas police headquarters. Two men get on board and identify themselves as police detectives. They ask McWatters to come inside for questioning. They take him in through the main entrance and up to the third floor. When shown bus transfer No. 4459 McWatters says "yes, that is the transfer I issued because it had my punch mark on it ... I only gave two transfers going through town on that trip (from North Dallas south to Oak Cliff) and that was at the one stop of where I gave the lady and the gentlemen that got off the bus, I issued two transfers. But that was the only two transfers were issued."

6:16 PM (approx) Lt. Day shows the press the Carcano rifle, describing it as "6.5, apparently made in Italy, 1940s." A clock on the wall confirms the time. This is apparently the first time the press is told the rifle is Italian.

6:17 CST 7:17 PM (EST) "Preparation for the autopsy" (Sibert & O'Neill interview with Specter 3/64)

6:20 CST 7:20 PM (EST) LBJ dictated two letters to Kennedy's children in the Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.

6:20 PM Oswald's second interrogation begins. Sometime after 6 PM a paraffin test is made on LHO's hand. LHO says: "What are you trying to do, prove that I fired a gun?" W.E. Barnes conducts the test in Capt. Fritz's office.

6:26 CST 7:26 PM (EST) LBJ calls J Edgar Hoover; Hoover told him the FBI had entered the case even though it didn't have the legal authority to do so. LBJ requested the FBI to make a full investigation and report to him. Up until this moment, the FBI has been controlling the case without legal jurisdiction.

6:30 CST 7:30 PM EST McNamara is at Bethesda. (Manchester)

6:30PM CST 7:30 PM (EST) SS Agent Richard Johnsen of the White House Detail gives bullet CE 399 to SS Chief James Rowley at the Executive Office building in Washington. The bullet has reportedly traveled, in Johnsen's coat pocket, to Washington from Dallas. SS agent Richard Johnsen writes a memo about "the attached expended bullet" found on a stretcher at Parkland 5 minutes before Mrs. Kennedy left the hospital. It was handed to him by O.P. Wright.

Mike Robinson, a fourteen-year-old boy, has watched the motorcade earlier today with another friend whose father works on the Dallas Police force. For most of the afternoon, Mike and his friend have been hanging around the police station ... and have even seen Lee Harvey Oswald being led down a hallway. Mike and his friend then continue to observe the goings-on in the Police station for the rest of the afternoon. They see Bobby Hargis, the motorcycle officer splattered by particulate matter from the president, return to headquarters with blood and brain matter on him and his helmet, and when the realization of events hit Hargis, he violently slams the helmet into a wall and literally goes beserk, requiring a number of other officers to restrain him. Toward evening, Mike tells his friend's father that he needs to use the bathroom. Since the restrooms on the third floor of the police station are now filled by newsmen and other visitors, Mike is taken by his friend's father to a restroom in the lower level of the building where the officers have their locker room. Mike is told that the restroom is just beyond the locker room and his friend's father then leaves him alone. While using the toilet in one of the stalls, Mike says that he hears three men enter the restroom. They are obviously police or police related individuals. Embarrassed, Mike pulls his feet up and out of view so that his stall appears to be empty. He then says he hears the three men whispering angrily to each other. As Mike Robinson reconstructs the statements, their order is "You knew you were supposed to kill Lee," followed by icy silence, then the same voice in the same nasty tone, "then you stupid son of a bitch, you go kill a cop..." At this point another individual enters the room, and the first three fall silent. The newcomer, whom Mike can not identify is wearing blue, "did his business, flushed the urinal, and left." The original three men then conclude, "Lee will have to be killed before they take him to Washington." Mike remains in his stall for a decent span of time after the three men leave the room, the Mike leaves as well. As he passes through the police locker room, one officer, in the process of changing his clothes, stares at Mike, as if to say, "Were you in there when we were?" Having been shown every available photo of officers on the Dallas police force at this time, Mike Robinson believes that the man who stared at him in a menacing way is Roscoe White. Mike finally comes forward with this information in November 1993.

At some point during this early evening, CIA agent Gary Underhill drives out of Washington, DC and heads for New York -- and the home of Robert Fitzsimmons on Long Island. (Fitzsimmons and his wife Charlene, are longtime friends whom Underhill feels he can trust. ) Bob is sleeping; Charlene is awake. Underhill tells Charlene that he fears for his life and plans on leaving the country. "I've got to get out of the country ... This country is too dangerous for me now. I've got to get on a boat ... I'm really afraid for my life." Upon questing by Charlene, Underhill goes on to explain that he has information about the Kennedy assassination and that "Oswald is a patsy. They set him up. It's too much. The bastards have done something outrageous. They've killed the President! I've been listening and hearing things. I couldn't believe they'd get away with it, but they did!" Underhill, emotionally distraught, continues to explain "They've gone mad! They're a bunch of drug runners and gun runners -- a real violence group. God, the CIA is under enough pressure already without that bunch in Southeast Asia ... . I know who they are. That's the problem. They know I know. That's why I'm here." Underhill begs Charlene to help hide him, and she consents to let him stay a few hours until Bob awakens -- then possibly Bob will leave Gary a key while the couple vacations in Spain, a trip they have previously planned on taking with departure, ironically, taking place this very day. "No, that's all right," says Underhill. "Maybe I shouldn't leave the country." Underhill turns toward the door. "I'll be back in a couple of hours." He never does. Underhill returns quietly to Washington and begins investigating JFK's assassination on his own. He mentions his efforts to another friend, Asher Brynes, of The New Republic, but probably no one else. (In six months, Underhill will be dead -- "suicide." He will be shot behind his left ear. Yet, Underhill is right-handed.)

6:30 PM Oswald at lineup for Cecil McWatters, Sam Guinyard, Ted Callaway
Oswald attended a second lineup at 6.30 that same evening. It was held in the same showup room and featured exactly the same four people as for Mrs Markham. They took up the same positions, with Oswald again choosing to stand between Perry and Clark in the number 2 position.
"I didn't shoot anyone" Oswald yelled to reporters in the halls, "I never killed anybody."

6:30 PM Dave Ferrie "said he left his home at 3330 Louisiana Avenue Parkway, New Orleans, on November 22,
1963, roughly at 6:30 PM in his light blue Comet four-door station wagon which he purchased from the Delta Mercury Company in New Orleans within the past month. He stated that CHARLES GRAHAM a saleman at Delta Mercury Company sold the Comet station wagon to him.
FERRIE related that on leaving his home he drove to the homes of ALVIN BEAUBOUEF and MELVIN COFFEY and picked them up in order that they might accompany him on the trip. He stated that at the time he left his home his did not know where he was going. He said the purpose of the trip was to merely relax and at that time he did not know whether he was going "hunting, drinking or driving." FERRIE stated he did not take any firearms with him when he left his home because he thought he might go out of the state of Louisiana and he did not know what the hunting seasons were in other states and he was also concerned about transporting firearms across the state line.
FERRIE said he had been considering for some time the feasabilty and possibility of opening an ice skating rink in New Orleans. He claimed he made a telephone call, possibly from MELVIN COFFEY's home to CHUCK ROLLAND at the Winterland Skating Rink in Houston, Texas. He advised that this call to ROLLAND was charged to either telephone number [...] or [...]. Ferrie claimed he had no prior acquaitance with ROLLAND but had knowledge of the fact that the Winterland Skating Rink was located in Houston."
FERRIE related that he left MELVIN COFFEY's home between 6:30 and 7:00 PM accompanied by BEAUBOUEF and COFFEY and drove to John Paul's Restaurant, Kenner, Louisiana, where they stopped to eat. (FBI interview 11/25/1963)

6:35 PM CST 7:35 PM (EST) Wehle left Bethesda and returned to headquarters of DMW. (Daily Staff Journal/Duty Officer's Log, Military District of Washington (MDW) HQ, 11/22/1963) Humes told the WC and HSCA that the president's body arrived at this time. (HSCA 7 324; H 2 349)

6:37 PM LHO's second lineup is over and he is escorted back to Captain Fritz's office.

6:30-7:45 PM Three copies of Zapruder film produced Wrone, 25; Trask, 114-5; Zavada Study 1

6:40 PM CST 7:40 PM (EST) LBJ meets with Congressional leadership. (Manchester)

6:48 PM AP report: Dallas - Dr. Robert R. Shaw, Connally's attending physician, said the Governor "seems to have been struck by just one bullet, which entered the back of his chest and moved outward, taking out and fragmenting a portion of a rib. "The bullet emerged from his chest and struck his wrist and thigh. …"We know the wound of entrance was along the right shoulder. He was shot from above. …" AP, Raymond Holbrook, 6:48 p.m. CST Shaw had given a press conference at Parkland, describing Connally's condition in carefully chosen words: one bullet went through his chest, fragmenting the 5[SUP]th[/SUP] rib on the right, fractured his wrist, and was spent in his thigh. "The bullet is in the leg, it hasn't been removed. This is a very insignificant factor. It will be removed."

6:48 PM Dallas - The fatal shot came from the second floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository Building, at a 45-degree angle, 100 yards away. Police know this. They found the rifle, partly hidden behind some books. It was a bolt action model, believed to be of Japanese make, with telescopic sights. AP, Raymond Holbrook, 6:48 p.m. CST Correction: "… an old .30 caliber rifle with telescopic sights, etc." [deleting Enfield] AP, 6:49 p.m. CST

6:50 PM CST, 7:50PM EST Hubert Humphrey tells LBJ he will serve in any job. (Manchester)

Just before 7 p.m., Captain Will Fritz said Oswald had been identified from a police lineup as the man who shot patrolman J. D. Tippit. He said an eyewitness made the identification.

7pm

7:00 PM Marina and Mrs. Paine are brought to police headquarters; shown the alleged assassination rifle, Marina said it was "like" her husband's but she was "not sure." Detectives Senkel and Adamcik take affidavit from Marina Oswald, assisted by Ruth Paine and Mr. J.A. Brourantus. (H 1 164-65; H 4 211; H 24 219).

Raymond Marcus, first generation Warren Commission critic: "By the evening of November 22, 1963, I found myself being drawn into the case. The government was saying there was only one assassin; that there was no conspiracy. It was obvious that even if this subsequently turned out to be true, it could not have been known to be true at that time." (Kelin, Praise from a Future Generation)

7:00 PM "Shortly after 7pm" Fritz signed a complaint against Oswald charging him with Tippit's death.

7:00 PM CST 8:00 PM (EST) Paul O'Connor told Lifton and the HSCA that the body came in at this time, and that he entered the information in the autopsy log. (HSCA 7 15) Dr. John Ebersole also said the body arrived at this time. (Philadelphia Inquirer 3/10/1978) O'Connor would later admit he could be wrong about the time. (Livingstone interview)

7:00 PM CST 8:00 PM (EST) Ceremonial casket team carries JFK's casket into the morgue, according to their report.

7:00 PM CST 8:00 PM (EST) after x-rays and photos were taken, the autopsy began on Kennedy. (WC; Manchester) The authorization for the autopsy, signed by RFK, included a space for any limitations to be made on the scope of the examination; none were listed by the Kennedys. (Post-Mortem) After examination and photos, Humes stated that the first incision was made at about 8 or 8:15pm (HSCA 7 11; H 2 349). The Sibert-O'Neill report said the same thing.
In Washington, Dr. James J. Humes arrives at the morgue in Bethesda hospital to conduct an autopsy on the body of JFK. " I was summoned from my home late in afternoon of that day by the Surgeon General of the Navy and the Commanding officer of the Naval Medical Center, and the Commanding Officer of the the Naval Medical School, and much to my surprise, was told that the body of the late President was being brought to our laboratories and that I was to examine the President and ascertain the cause of death ... I was in the morgue from 7:30 in the evening until 5:30 in the morning. I never left the room."

Dr. Humes is in his scrubs in the hospital's new morgue, built only four months earlier. He has selected Dr. Boswell as his assistant. Dr. Humes notices an unknown man carrying a large, old-fashioned "Speed graphic" camera. The pathologist tells the unknown cameraman, "Get out!" Then Humes asks, "Who is in charge here?" A man in full military dress answers, "I am. Who wants to know?" Humes says that the man was "some general representing the military section of the District of Columbia. I told him what my assignment was and asked him about the chap with the camera. Well, seconds later, this chap with the camera was sent away." Dr. Finck, an Army doctor and the only forensic pathologist involved with the autopsy, will testify that they are "told not to" trace the path of the bullet through JFK's body, and therefore did not.
"They had heard reports of Mac Perry's medical briefing for the press, and to their dismay they had discovered that all evidence of what was being called an entrance wound in the throat had been removed by Perry's tracheotomy. Unlike the physicians at Parkland, they had turned the President over and seen the smaller hole in the back of his neck. They were positive that Perry had seen an exit wound. The deleterious effects of confusion were already evident. Commander James J. Humes, Bethesda's chief of pathology, telephoned Perry in Dallas shortly after midnight, and clinical photographs were taken to satisfy all the Texas doctors who had been in Trauma Room No. 1." (William Manchester, Death of a President)

Autopsy on J. D. Tippit is completed.

This evening, Santos Trafficante meets Frank Ragano and his nineteen-year-old fiancee, Nancy, at Tampa, Florida's International Inn. He has invited them to supper and meets them in a jubilant mood. He embraces both of them warmly. "Our problems are over," he tells Ragano. "I hope Jimmy [Hoffa] is happy now. We will build hotels again. We'll get back into Cuba now." Once at the table, Trafficante launches into a tirade against the slain president, then proposes a toast. Turning to Ragano and his future bride, he raises a glass and says: "To your health and John Kennedy's death." Nancy, a college student, is horrified at what Trafficante has just said. She has only just come from her campus where the students are still crying over what has happened in Dallas. Unable to take it, she runs out of the restaurant, leaving Frank and Santos alone.

Also by this evening, Guy Banister and his investigator Jack Martin have spent hours drinking in New Orleans. Banister accuses Martin of going through his confidential files, then beats him over the head with a .357 Magnum revolver. The fracas starts, according to Martin, when he asks Banister: "What're you going to do, kill me like you all did Kennedy?"

7:10 PM The New Orleans FBI Bureau chief, Harry Maynor, contacts SAC Shanklin in Dallas "to determine if he could supply information that might make it unnecessary to determine the whereabouts of all Klan members, etc. and to determine if sufficient information was then available to definitely tie Oswald into the assassination of the President." Shanklin replies that "Oswald was probably a good suspect but they have been unable to develop information connecting the rifle with Oswald." The Fourth Decade/May 1996

LBJ - Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, 7:10 PM phone call

7:10 PM Oswald is arraigned and charged with Tippit's murder. (WC) Record of Oswald's arraignment by Judge David Johnston for the murder of Tippit read, "Lee Harvey Oswald...in the County of Dallas and State of Texas, did then and there unlawfully, voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill J.D. Tippit by shooting him with a gun." It was signed by Capt Fritz and Bill Alexander. (Johnston Exhibit 3, H 20 319) Oswald complained, "I insist upon my constitutional rights...The way you are treating me, I might as well be in Russia...I was not granted my request to put on a jacket similar to those worn by other individuals in some previous lineups."
Mr. BALL. Did Oswald make any reply to Judge Johnston?
Mr. FRITZ. He said a lot of sarcastic things to him.
Mr. BALL. What did he say?
Mr. FRITZ. Irritable, I can't remember all the things that he said. He was that way at each arraignment. He said little sarcastic things, some of the things were a little impudent things.

7:15 PM CST 8:15 PM (EST) Humes made the Y-incision in Kennedy's body. (Sibert & O'Neill report)
FBI agents James W. Sibert and Francis X. O'Neill note that the first incision is made on the body of JFK, thus officially beginning the Bethesda autopsy. (This time notation is seriously questioned by some researchers.) Sibert and O'Neill also indicate in their report that some type of surgery has already been performed on JFK's head area. No surgery on his head has been performed at Parkland Hospital.

Two medical technicians present during the autopsy state that a bullet rolls out from the area of the President's back when the body is removed from the casket prior to the autopsy. One of the med-techs says the bullet rolls out from the back, while the other says it rolls out from the sheets. A third med-tech from the autopsy says he remembers personnel at the autopsy talking that night about a bullet that has fallen from the sheets. Admiral David P. Osborne, who is in attendance at the autopsy, reports that a bullet rolls out from the "clothing" that is wrapped around the President's body, and that he actually handles the missile. The HSCA will assert that Osborne "thought" he saw a bullet roll out, but that he later will say he wasn't sure when told no one else at the autopsy recalls such an event. Admiral Osborne will tell researcher and author David Lifton that he and the HSCA disagree over the matter. Says Osborne, "... I told them [HSCA investigators] that this was the way I remembered it, and they said: Well, it must be wrong, because the Secret Service testified that the bullet was found in the hospital in Parkland, and brought back to Washington.' And so I said: Well, if that's true, then they brought it back to the morgue, because I had that bullet in my hand, and looked at it.'" According to the official record of the chain of possession of the bullet that was found at Parkland Hospital, that missile is never taken to Bethesda Hospital.

Dr. John Walsh, Jackie Kennedy's obstetrician, arrives at Bethesda and quickly notices the unmistakable signs of nervous exhaustion in the widow. Jackie says "Maybe you could give me something so I could have a little nap." Walsh proceeds to inject her with 100 milligrams of Visatril. The dose has no effect. Walsh thinks "I might just as well have given her a shot of Coca-Cola."

Of the wounds observed on JFK's body, the following people report seeing an entry wound in the LEFT TEMPLE: Physicians McClelland, Jenkins, Giesecke, the priest Oscar Huber, photographers Altgens and Similas, and Hugh Huggins (aka Hugh Howell) - RFK's emissary to the autopsy. One more additional witness is Lito Porto, a neurosurgery resident under Kemp Clark.

7:15 PM The DPD had the Irving police arrest Wesley Frazier and take him into custody. Frazier was then picked up by the DPD at around 7:15 PM.

7:15 PM AP report: Dallas - Mrs. John Connally ... told the story of what happened through an aide, Julian Reid. Mrs. Connally ... said the President ... and Mrs. Kennedy … were chatting animatedly about the tremendous reception that the chief executive had received in downtown Dallas. Suddenly, she said, there was a shot ... and the President crumpled back in his seat. AP, 7:15 p.m. CST

7:16 PM FBI memo states that "Clark Anderson has called from Mexico City and advised that the U.S. Ambassador feels there is probably more to this matter than a "lone nut" shooting the President and orders the CIA to make available the photos believed to be taken at Mexico City of Oswald to the FBI at Dallas. Anderson advised SA Eldon Rudd is proceeding to Dallas in the Naval Attache Plane, C- 47. It is due to arrive Love Field at approximately 2 AM, 11/23/63. Anderson stated that the photos are deep snow stuff' and requested that they not be made available outside the FBI."

7:24 PM AP corrected report: " ... from the fifth floor of the six-story Texas etc." [correcting floor] AP 7:24 p.m. CST

7:30 PM Detective Roy Standifer, an acquaintance of Jack Ruby will later testify that they exchange greetings in the third floor hallway of the Dallas police building during this time period.

7:30PM CST 8:30 PM EST From Dr Pierre Finck's 2/1/1965 letter:
Commander Humes, MC, USN, Director of Laboratories, Naval Medical School,
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, called me at home by
telephone on 22 Nov 1963, 2000 hours. He told me to go immediately to the Naval
Hospital. Brigadier General Blumberg, MC, USA, Director of the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C., had given my name.
I arrived at the Naval Hospital at 2030 hours. I saw a helicopter on the ground.
A seaman escorted me to the autopsy room, guarded outside by military personnel
and inside by Agents of the U. S. Secret Service. Rear Admiral Galloway,
Commanding the Naval Center, Cdr Humes and Cdr Boswell, MC; USN, Chief of
Pathology, showed me the wounds in the President's head. The brain, the heart
and the lungs had been removed before my arrival. X ray films of the head and
chest had been taken.
Also present in the autopsy room were : Rear Admiral Kenney, Surgeon General of
the Navy; Rear Admiral Burkley, White House Physician; one Army Major General; a
Brigadier General, Air Force Aid to the President; Capt Stover, MC, USN,
Commanding the Naval Medical School; Capt Osborne, MC, USN, Chief of Surgery;
Cdr Ebersole, MC, USN, a radiologist; a Navy photographer, Navy officers and
enlisted men; Agents of the U. S. Secret Service and Federal Bureau of
Investigation ( FBI ).

7:30 PM AP report - Dallas - Captain Will Fritz of the Dallas police homicide department said it had been established the man [Oswald] had been in the building from which the shots that felled the President came -- at the time they were fired. AP, 7:30 p.m. CST

7:32 PM AP correction: "officers ... described it as a bolt-action, 6.5 mm weapon, apparently of Italian make, with a telescopic sight." AP 7:32 p.m. CST

At some point this evening Oswald was videotaped by reporters as he was brought down a hallway to a room for more questioning: "These people have given me a hearing without legal representation or anything." When asked again if he shot the President, he answered, "I didn't shoot anybody, no sir."

During another trip down the hallway, Oswald is asked, "Did you fire that rifle?" He replies, "I don't know what dispatches you people have been given, but I emphatically deny these charges," and is then quickly hustled through a doorway. He can then dimly be heard saying, "I have nothing against anybody, I have not committed any acts of violence."

At some point this evening, Jim Murray takes a photo of Oswald from the top of a cabinet.

7:37 PM AP report: Washington - President Kennedy apparently underwent a small surgical slit in his neck in the futile attempt to save his life. A medical report from Dallas said a "tracheotomy" was performed on the President - while he still was in moribund condition but still alive - in order to assist his breathing. A tracheotomy involves making a two-inch vertical cut through the neck tissue to lay open the trachea, or windpipe, in the event that air passage is wholly or partially blocked due to some obstruction in the larynx immediately above it. A wound of the larynx or nearby neck structures could cause such an obstruction. The open slit, into which a small tube is inserted allows air to reach the lungs from outside. The emergency measure, is-designed to prevent asphyxiation, or at least to help breathing if the trachea is only partly blocked. As a life-saving measure, such an operation can be performed without anesthesia. A report from Dallas said the President was given an anesthetic. AP, 7:37 p.m. EST

7:40 PM Oswald's third interrogation session begins. No notes or recordings are made. Oswald is still not represented by council. Six Secret Service agents and four FBI agents who are present at the interrogations of Oswald will never be questioned by the Warren Commission. Jesse Curry will later testify before the WC: "It seems to me we were violating every principle of interrogation, the method by which we had to interrogate."
Mr. RANKIN - Will you explain to the Commission what you mean by that?
Mr. CURRY - Ordinarily an interrogator in interrogating a suspect will have him in a quiet room alone or perhaps with one person there.
Mr. RANKIN - Is that your regular practice?
Mr. CURRY - That is the regular practice.
Mr. RANKIN - Tell us how this was done?
Mr. CURRY - This we had representatives from the Secret Service, we had representatives from the FBI, we had representatives from the Ranger Force, and they were--and then one or two detectives from the homicide bureau. This was, well, it was just against all principles of good interrogation practice.
Mr. RANKIN - By representatives can you tell us how many were from each of these agencies that you describe?
Mr. CURRY - I can't be sure. I recall I believe two from the FBI, one or two, Inspector Kelley was there from Secret Service, and I believe another one of his men was there. There was one, I recall seeing one man from the Rangers. I don't recall who he was. I just remember now that there was one. Captain Fritz, and one or two of his detectives--this was in a small office.
Mr. RANKIN - Did you do anything about this when you found out there were so many, did you give any instructions about it?
Mr. CURRY - No; I didn't. This was an unusual case. In fact, I had received a call from the FBI requesting that they have a representative from there in the hearing room. And we were trying to cooperate with all agencies concerned in this, and I called Captain Fritz and asked him to permit a representative of the FBI to come in.

Tonight, RFK phones Julius Draznin in Chicago, an expert on union corruption for the National Labor Relations Board, and asks him to look into whether there was any Mafia involvement in the killing of JFK. (Brothers)

7:45 PM Shanklin finds out about the note from Oswald and confronts Hosty with it. Shanklin and Howe worried how Hoover would react. (Assignment Oswald 29)

7:50 PM Oswald lineup for Jeannette and Virginia Davis:
Barbara Jeanette Davis and her 16-year old sister-in-law, Virginia Ruth Davis, lived in separate apartments at 400 East 10th Street, the house right on the corner of 10th and Patton. Neither of them claimed to have seen the actual shooting of Tippit. They did, however, see a man running from the approximate area of the crime and they later retrieved spent cartridge cases which he had emptied from a revolver. Together, they attended an identity lineup at City Hall at 7.55pm on the 22nd. The lineup again had Oswald in the no. 2 position but this time his companions were two of the remand prisoners, Richard Borchgardt and Ellis Brazel (at positions 1 and 3 respectively), with Jail Clerk Don Ables again at no. 4. The procedure was identical to the two previous lineups. The Warren Report deals with the result of this lineup in a very cold and matter-of-fact way. It states that the ladies "viewed a group of four men in a lineup and each one picked Oswald as the man who crossed their lawn while emptying his pistol.". A few lines later, we read that the two women "were sitting alongside one another when they made their positive identification of Oswald. Each woman whispered Oswald's number to the detective. Each testified that she was the first to make the identification." I find it difficult to imagine two witnesses sitting next to one another at an identity parade and casually indicating their opinions by whispering to a detective. To me that almost defies belief.
Oswald: "I have been dressed differently than the other three...Don't you know the difference? I still have on the same clothes I was arrested in. The other two were prisoners, already in jail."

Seth Kantor heard him yell "I am only a patsy" as he was taken through the hall. (Kantor Exhibit 3 366; this was also recorded by a television camera)

7:50 PM CST, 8:50 PM (EST) At the White House, SS chief Rowley turns a bullet over to FBI agent Elmer Todd. They sign a receipt. The time of the transfer is 8:50 PM on the 22nd. (Hunt, "The Mystery of the 7:30 Bullet") Yet as John Hunt shows, agent Robert Frazier at the FBI lab enters the stretcher bullet's arrival into his notes at 7:30! (ibid) As Hunt notes, if Frazier and Todd can both tell time, something is really wrong here. Frazier has received a bullet that Todd has not given him yet. But it's even worse. For in an FBI document it says that Todd's initials are on the bullet. (CE 2011, at WC Vol. 24, p. 412) Yet as Hunt has amply demonstrated, they are not there. (Hunt, "Phantom Identification of the Magic Bullet") In other words, no one who carried this bullet in transit for law enforcement purposes--Johnsen, Rowley, Todd--put their initials on it. When that is what they are trained to do.
Later on, J. Edgar Hoover realizes he has a problem. So he writes up a document saying that agent Bardwell Odum visited Parkland, and Wright and Tomlinson did identify the bullet in June of 1964. (Aguilar, p. 282)
But later, when visited by Gary Aguilar and Josiah Thompson, this is exposed as another in the long line of Hoover generated lies in this case. For Odum did no such thing, and he says he would have recalled doing so since he and Wright were friends. (ibid, p. 284)
When Wright composes his affidavit for the WC, incredibly, he leaves out his co-discovery of the bullet and his giving it to the Secret Service. (Lifton, ibid) Even though Johnsen recorded this and its in the volumes. (Thompson, p. 155) Since he was a former law enforcement officer, to leave something like that out, he was probably directed to. When it comes time to write the Warren Report, Wright's name is not in it. And there is no evidence Arlen Specter interviewed him. In late 1966, we find out why Specter avoided him. Thompson interviews him and he rejects CE 399 as the bullet he gave Johnsen. Twice. (Thompson, p.175) Interestingly, in Reclaiming History, Vincent Bugliosi leaves this powerful incident out of his discussion of the issue. (Bugliosi, End Notes, pgs. 426-27, 544-45)
John Hunt: Among other artifacts I examined that day was the original envelope in which the CE-399 "Magic Bullet" [AKA FBI Q1] had been conveyed from the White House to the FBI Laboratory. In doing so, I discovered that the FBI agent who took possession of the bullet at the White House, Special Agent (SA) Elmer Lee Todd preserved the chain of custody by noting the time and circumstances under which he took possession of the bullet. Todd noted that he had:
Received from Chief Rowley, USSS, 8:50 PM.11-22-63.
E. L. Todd.
Figure 1. The envelope in which FBI SA E. L. Todd delivered a bullet to the FBI Lab on 11/22/63. [Author's computer scan.]
On the day JFK died, Todd took possession of a bullet at the White House and brought it to the FBI Laboratory. There, he turned the bullet over to the man who had been appointed Lead FBI Examiner in the JFK assassination investigation, SA Robert A. Frazier of the Firearms and Toolmarks Division. Frazier later identified CE-399 as the same bullet Todd handed to him on November 22, 1963 during his Warren Commission testimony. The historic CE-399 bullet introduced into evidence before the Warren Commission is not the same bullet SA Todd handled on the day of the assassination. Unfortunately, whatever bullet Todd actually handled that day has apparently been lost to history.

7:55 PM Oswald interrogation by Fritz. "I think I have talked long enough...I am waiting for someone to come forward and give me legal assistance...It wasn't actually true as to how I got home. I took a bus, but due to a traffic jam, I left the bus and got a taxicab, by which means I actually arrive at my residence."

8pm

Sometime this evening, Curry is interviewed on camera in the hallway of the police department. He thinks they have the right man, and there are no other suspects.

8:00 PM EST LBJ phone call to Allen Hoover (Herbert Hoover's son). The former President could not hear well enough to talk on the phone. LBJ: "I just wanted to talk to him and to tell him what a terrible day this has been. He has been my counsel many years."

8:00 PM Lt. Day begins checking the rifle for prints.
Dallas Police Lieutenant J. C. Day testifies that, by this time, he has completed taking photographs of the partial prints on the exterior of the rifle found in the TSBD. Day has reportedly lifted a palm print from the underside of the gun barrel before surrendering the rifle to the FBI in about four hours from now. This "lifted" print will not be released to the FBI until Nov. 29th - seven days from now - and will be identified as that of Lee Harvey Oswald's right palm. When he releases the gun to the FBI tonight, Day will testify that "the print on the gun ... still remained on there ... There were traces of ridges still on the gun barrel." In fact, when the rifle arrives at the FBI Laboratory, there is no trace whatever of a print or of the lifting of the print. Sylvia Meagher points out that "it is almost impossible to understand how the same fingerprint powder and the dried ridges could have disappeared from the gun barrel under the stock, which provided secure protection against any disturbance."
Lt. Day said he didn't take any photographs of the palm print because just as he was about to do so he received a call from Chief Curry's office telling him to stop all work on the rifle so that FBI could finish what he had started. In his WC testimony, Day said this call came at around 8:00 or 8:30 P.M. However, Lt. Day, by his own admission, took another photograph of the rifle half an hour to an hour later, at 9:00 or 9:30 (4 H 273). Why, then, didn't he take a picture of the print on the barrel?
Why didn't Lt. Day forward the lift along with the rifle? When asked about this by the FBI, Day, incredibly, said he didn't forward the lift because he wanted to analyze it further to compare it to Oswald's palm print. This seems to contradict Day's WC statement that he didn't photograph the print on the barrel because he was allegedly told to stop all work on the rifle at 8:00 or 8:30. How was the FBI supposed to finish what Day had started without the lift itself? If Lt. Day didn't photograph the print on the barrel because he felt he had to strictly comply with the alleged order from the chief's office, why would he have presumed to withhold the lift from the FBI so he could analyze it further?

8:00 PM CST 9:00 PM (EST) LBJ called Arthur Goldberg:
LBJ: I want you to be thinking about what I ought to do to try to bring all these elements together and unite the country to maintain and preserve our system in the world, because if it starts falling to pieces - and some of the extremists are going to be proceeding on the wrong assumption - why, we could deteriorate pretty quick.
Goldberg: It won't. I have no doubt about that.

Mr. Dulles. The only question I have in mind is as to what took place as far as Mr. Paine is concerned on the night of the assassination. Were you in the police station?
Mr. Paine. We went down to the police and stayed there until about 8 or 9 o'clock. Then Marguerite came home with us and spent the night.
Mr. Dulles. You didn't see Lee Harvey at that time, did you?
Mr. Paine. They asked me and I declined to see him at that time. I changed my mind. When they immediately asked me, I declined. I did not know what he would ask me, so I did not see him.
Mr. Dulles. You did not see him?
Mr. Paine. No.
In 1993, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the JFK assassination, Michael Paine told CBS that he had seen Oswald that night:
"At the police station when I saw him later on that night, he was proud of what he'd done. He felt that he'd be recognized now as somebody who did something."
The chance for Mr. Paine to tell the Commission he had seen a "proud" Oswald came up several times. There is this exchange with Wesley Liebeler:
Mr. Liebeler. Can you recall any conversations that you had with Oswald that you think would be helpful for us to know other than the ones you have already mentioned?
Mr. Paine. I don't recall one now.

An excerpt from the manuscript of a book George de Mohrenschildt was writing at the time of his death in March 1977: "Alston Boyd and I drove to my house overlooking Port-au-Prince in the area called Tonton Lyle [Haiti] and a block away from the presidential retreat, then we ate and took a siesta, like any self-respecting Haitian. Then later the afternoon we dressed and went to the reception at the Lebanese Embassy. The usually animated streets of the capital seemed deserted. "I feel trouble in the air," said my wife Jeann. The air was balmy, the soldiers and the tontons macoutes were absent and we could not hear any shots. We greeted the Lebanese Ambassador and joined the crowd. George Morel, head of the Pan-American Airways in Haiti came up to us immediately. "Didn't you know your president was killed?" He asked in a strained voice. At first we thought he was talking about the President of Haiti, Docteur Francois Duvalier who was my nominal boss in Haiti. Seeing our blank expression, Morel explained. "President Kennedy was assassinated today. I hoped that it wouldn't happen in Texas and especially in Dallas. But Morel summarily explained the situation-and it was in Dallas. Gloomily we filed out of the Lebanese Embassy, where people did not seem to be too badly concerned about President Kennedy's death, got in the car and drove away."

RFK, among his many telephone calls from the seventeenth floor suite at Bethesda, will call the White House ordering that JFK's personal belongings be removed from his White House bedroom in order to spare Jackie's feelings when she returns there. Dr. George Burkley is banished from the morgue shortly after JFK's autopsy begins, so he joins the Kennedy group in the suite. In 1982, Burkley will tell researcher Henry Hurt that JFK was the target of a conspiracy. He will refuse to elaborate. (Brothers)

Between 8 and 9 o'clock tonight in Texas, Waggoner Carr (Attorney General of the State of Texas) will recall: "I received a long-distance telephone call from Washington from someone in the White House. I can't for the life of me remember who it was. A rumor had been heard here that there was going to be an allegation in the indictment against Oswald connecting the assassination with an international conspiracy, and the inquiry was made whether I had any knowledge of it, and I told him I had no knowledge of it. As a matter of fact, I hadn't been in Dallas since the assassination and was not there at the time of the assassination. So the request was made of me to contact Mr. [Henry] Wade to find out if that allegation was in the indictment. I received the definite impression that the concern of the caller was that because of the emotion or the high tension that existed at that time that someone might thoughtlessly place in the indictment such an allegation without having the proof of such a conspiracy. So I did call Mr. Wade from my home, when I received the call, and he told me ... that he had no knowledge of anyone desiring to have that or planning to have that in the indictment; that it would be surplusage, it was not necessary to allege it, and that it would not be in there, but that he would doublecheck it to be sure. And then I called back, and--as I recall I did--and informed the White House participant in the conversation of what Mr. Wade had said, and that was all of it."

Manchester described the scene at the Bethesda Naval Hospital where Mrs. Kennedy was waiting: "Beckoning Jackie aside, Robert Kennedy told her, They think they've found the man who did it. He says he's a Communist."
"She stared. Oh my God, she thought, but that's absurd. Later, she would think about hatred and the highly-charged atmosphere of Dallas, but at the moment she just felt sickened. It was like existentialism, entirely purposeless, and, she thought, it even robs his death of any meaning. "She returned to her mother. He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights,' she said. 'It's -- it had to be some silly little Communist.'"

8-9:00 PM Zapruder & Schwartz return to Kodak with original and three copies. Copies developed and perforated with nos. 0185, 0186 and 0187 Trask, 115-6; Wrone, 26; Zavada Study 1

8:10 PM CST 9:10 PM (EST) LBJ calls Democratic party treasurer Richard Maguire.

8:30 PM Posner believes that Ruby left the police station at about this time, and made several calls (to Ralph Paul, Hyman Ruby, and two sisters, Marion and Ann) from his apartment around 9:00pm. (FBI report, CD 1193)

8:40 PM The FBI distributed the following teletype to all its field offices: "All offices immediately contact all informants, security, racial and criminal, as well as other sources, for information bearing on assassination of President Kennedy. All offices immediately establish whereabouts of bombing suspects, all known Klan and hate group members, known racial extremists, and any other individuals who on the basis of information available in your files may possibly have been involved."

8:55 PM Oswald is given fingerprint, ID and paraffin tests in Fritz's office. (H 4 218) "I will not sign the fingerprint card until I talk to my attorney. [His name is on the card anyway.]...What are you trying to prove with this paraffin test, that I fired a gun?...You are wasting your time. I don't know anything about what you are accusing me."
Detectives J. B. Hicks and Robert Studebaker take Lee Harvey Oswald to the Homicide and Robbery Office for fingerprinting. A few minutes later, Detective Pete Barnes comes in and the three crime lab men make paraffin casts of Oswald's hands and right cheek. The tests come back positive for his hands and negative for his right cheek, indicating that Lee Harvey Oswald may have fired a pistol but not a rifle.

This evening, a man identifying himself as Jim Rizzuto calls a New York City radio station to report that LHO has been seen in Greenwich village in 1962 in the company of Steve L'Eandes, a Nazi sympathizer and right-wing agitator from Wiggins, Mississippi. The FBI will ultimately determine that Rizzuto's story is a hoax and that Rizzuto's real name is Stephen Harris Landesberg. "Rizzuto" claims that he served in the Marine Corps with both Lee Oswald and L'Eandes. "Rizzuto" goes on to claim that he served in the Marine Corps with both LHO and L'Eandes in the Marine Corps at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, during the summer of 1956. (Landesberg is eventually charged with providing false information to the FBI and is committed by Federal Judge John Cannella to 10 days of psychiatric observation at Bellevue Hospital.)

8:47 PM CST 9:47 PM (EST) LBJ arrives at The Elms and Lady Bird meets him at the front door. In the terrace room, LBJ lifts a glass of orange soda to a photograph of Sam Rayburn and says: "Mr. Speaker, I wish you were here tonight." (LB)

9pm

9:00 PM Buell Wesley Frazier and Minnie Randle are brought to police headquarters to give affidavits.

9:00 PM EST LBJ phone call - Justice Arthur Goldberg. He asks for Goldberg's help in holding the country together from the "extremes" that might start working to pull the system apart.

9:00 PM New Orleans: Dave Ferrie "said that at approximately 9:00 PM or shortly after 9:00 PM, November 22, 1963, he, BEAUBOUEF and COFFEY left John Paul's Restaurant to go to Houston, Texas. He informed that the route traveled was through Baton Rouge to Lafayette, Louisiana and through Lake Charles, Louisiana to Houston, Texas." (FBI interview 11/25/1963) From New Orleans, David Ferrie and two young male friends, set off by car on a seven-hour drive through a storm to Houston, Texas -- a distance of 364 miles. The purpose of the trip, as Ferrie will later explain, is to look over an ice skating rink and to do some skating. Ferrie describes the trip as a "whim." While at the rink, Ferrie never puts on a pair of skates. He stays instead beside a public telephone for two hours, until he receives a call.

9:00 PM According to the account in his book, Howard Brennan was driven back to his home, arriving at "about 9:00 in the evening" 47. Brennan lived at 6814 Woodard Street, Urbandale, a section of East Dallas, about six miles by road from City Hall.

9:00 PM Zapruder & Schwartz leave Kodak, and drive to DPD HQ in search of Sorrels. Sorrels asks them to take 2 copies to agent Max Phillips at Secret Service office on Ervay Street Horne, 1199; Trask, 119-120; Wrone, 26-7; Schwartz/SFM interview

9:00-9:30 PM Lt. Day took a photo of the rifle.

9:10 PM LHO is formally advised that he has been charged with the murder of Patrolman J. D. Tippit.

9:10 PM EST LBJ phone call - Richard Maguire, 9:10 PM transcript

9:10 PM CST 10:10 PM EST Secret Service Report: At 10:10 P.M., Deputy Chief Paterni, ASAIC Boring, and representatives from Dr. Burkley's office at the White House, William Martinell and Thomas Mills, inspected SS-100-X.

9:30 PM New Orleans FBI chief, Harry Maynor, contacts Alan Belmont at FBI headquarters about how much he should continue to persist in efforts to locate Klan members who might possibly have been involved with the assassination. Belmont gives a somewhat ambivalent answer, being "somewhat reluctant" to authorize direct interviews with such suspects, unless their "whereabouts" can not be determined by other means, and unless such interviews can be done without "any repercussions from such contact." It is perhaps worthy to note that J. Edgar Hoover has already identified LHO as being the sole assassination suspect [lone nut]. There is great reluctance on the part of agents to go against Hoover's assumption. Any leads or revelations to the contrary can now only embarrass the FBI Director.

9:30 PM JFK's personal files and cases had been sealed by this time and were moved the next day to the Executive Office Building. By Saturday afternoon, nearly all of JFK's Oval Office belongings and furnishings had been removed. (The Making of the President 1964 p15)

Jack Ruby has the Nichols parking garage attendant sign a receipt that Karen Carlin was given $5 at 9:30 PM.

9:30PM CST 10:30 PM (EST) Maj. O'Malley called Maj. Pearson and reported that they would be leaving Bethesda at approximately 01:00 hours for the White House. (Daily Staff Journal/Duty Officer's Log, Military District of Washington (MDW) HQ, 11/22/1963)

9:55 PM SS Agent Max D. Phillips wrote a memo to James Rowley in Washington, enclosing one of the copies of the Zapruder film; he wrote, "According to Mr. Zapruder, the position of the assassin was behind Mr. Zapruder."
Phillips sends one copy to Secret Service Chief Rowley in Washington, and retains other copy (0186) for Sorrels CD87, 66; Wrone, 28, 279-280; Thompson "Six Seconds…", 311-2

9:57 PM AP report: Dallas - The shots that killed the President and wounded Texas' Gov. John Connally came from a pre-selected spot, a 5th floor window looking downward some 100 yards from a spot the President's car would pass. AP, 9:57 p.m. CST

10pm

10:00 PM The FBI has by this time traced the Carcano rifle to a Chicago mail-order house. (WC) They located the firm's executives, and ordered them to open the offices and allow the FBI to go through the company's files. They did not leave until 5am the next morning. "During the evening of November 22, 1963, a review of the records of Crescent Firearms revealed that the firm had shipped an Italian carbine, serial number C2766, to Klein's Sporting Goods Co., of Chicago, Ill. After searching their records from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. the officers of Klein's discovered that a rifle bearing serial number C2766 had been shipped to one A. Hidell, Post Office Box 2915, Dallas, Tex., on March 20, 1963. (See Waldman Exhibit No. 7, p. 120.) According to its microfilm records, Klein's received an order for a rifle on March 13, 1963, on a coupon clipped from the February 1963 issue of the American Rifleman magazine. The order coupon was signed, in hand printing, "A. Hidell, P.O. Box 2915, Dallas, Texas." (See Commission Exhibit No. 773, p. 120.)

Around 10:00 PM CST, the FBI sent another teletype to its field offices, this one even more instructive: "The Bureau is conducting an investigation to determine who is responsible for the assassination. You are therefore instructed to follow and resolve all allegations pertaining to the assassination. This matter is of utmost urgency and should be handled accordingly keeping the Bureau and Dallas, the office of origin, apprised fully of all developments."

10:00-11:00 PM CST (11pm-Midnight (EST)): the President's autopsy ended. (Francis X. O'Neill in 1992 Team Video, H 2 374)

After 10pm Ruby called the police and asked Richard Sims if they wanted any sandwiches brought over.

10:00 PM Jack Ruby visits a Dallas synagogue for religious services.

Around this time, Abraham Zapruder and Erwin Swartz deliver one copy of the film to the Secret Service office in Dallas with the understanding that it is to be sent immediately to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., by courier jet plane. Erwin Swartz says that he personally delivers the original film to Stolley at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas on either November 26 or 27.

10:30 PM Ruby leaves his synagogue, where he had wept openly. (Wills and Demaris, Esquire) He then went to Phil's Delicatessen, near his Vegas Club. He bought sandwiches and sodas. (H 5 187-8) At the deli, he talked to a group of students about the tragedy of the assassination (Marguerite Vea Riegler, CD 4; Rita Leslie Siberman, CD 856; Robert Louis Sindelar, CD 856; Dennis Patrick Martin, CD 856).

10:30 PM A Cubana Airlines flight from Mexico City to Cuba has been delayed for four hours and ten minutes, awaiting a passenger. The airfield at Mexico City has been particularly clogged with Cuban diplomatic personnel. The passenger arrives and boards the private twin-engine plane. He gets onto the flight directly without having to go through customs. Once aboard, he enters the cockpit of the aircraft and remains there during the entire flight to Havana. No other passengers see him well enough to be able later to identify him. He is believed to be one Miguel Casas Saez. According to the CIA, Casas was born in Cuba, is either twenty-one or twenty-seven, 5'5" in height, weighs 155 lbs. , speaks the Russian language and is an ardent admirer of Raul Castro, the brother of the Cuban premier. He is also believed to be part of the Cuban intelligence service. Using the name of Angel Dominiguez Martinez, Casas is believed to have entered the USA in early November in Miami. (One source in a CIA document reports that Casas was on "a sabotage and espionage mission" in the United States. Further CIA sources in Cuba report that Casas was in Dallas, Texas on the day of the assassination.) The HSCA will later conclude the following: It had been alleged that the flight was delayed 5 hours, awaiting the arrival at 9:30 p.m. of a private twin-engined aircraft. The aircraft was supposed to have deposited an unidentified passenger who boarded the Cubans flight without clearing customs and traveled to Havana in the pilot's cabin. The Senate committee reported that the Cubana flight departed at 10 p.m. This committee checked the times of key events that night by reviewing extensive investigative agency documents. It found the following facts: The Cubana flight was on the ground in Mexico City for a total of only about 4 hours and 10 minutes and thus could not have been delayed five hours. The Cubana flight had departed for Havana at 8:30 p.m., about an hour before the arrival of the private aircraft reportedly carrying a mysterious passenger, so he could not have taken the flight. The committee found that extensive records of flight arrivals and departures at the Mexico City airport were available and deemed it doubtful that the alleged transfer of a passenger from a private aircraft to the Cubana flight could have gone unnoticed, had it occurred. The committee concluded, therefore, that the transfer did not occur.

10:30 PM Zapruder and Schwartz both reach their homes Wrone, 31; Trask, 126-7; Schwartz & Reis SFM interviews

10:45 CST 11:45 PM (EST) Maj. O'Malley called and said that they would be leaving Bethesda at approx. 03:00 hours. (Daily Staff Journal/Duty Officer's Log, Military District of Washington (MDW) HQ, 11/22/1963)

10:45 PM (some sources say 11/23): Oswald, who has been placed in a cell on the fifth floor of the Dallas City Hall, places a long distance call to Raleigh, North Carolina.
One of the two John Hurts served in U.S. Military Intelligence during World War II. Professor Blakey, Chief Counsel of Congress' Assassinations Committee, will eventually conclude: "It was an outgoing call, and therefore I consider it very troublesome material. The direction in which it went was deeply disturbing."
Victor Marchetti, author of THE CIA AND THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE, alleges that Oswald's attempted call to Raleigh is an effort to contact a "fake cutout." He explains that all intelligence agents work through "cutouts", middlemen who are called if an agent is in a scrape. Therefore, according to Marchetti, O