Police Magic at North Beckley

[Jim Hargrove]

Well, I wouldn't assume that Johnson and Roberts were 100% accurate about time, but if they remember the co-incidence of the police arriving and the pictures being shown on TV, that is certainly worth looking into. What does the dispatch log say about someone being sent to Beckley? (If there isn't a radio dispatch, you'd have to believe that someone at Headquarters personally told the plainclothes guys to go there, so factor in a trip time....)

Of course we also know about the multiple wallets, there's (staged?) footage of DPD examining a wallet at the Tippet scene (presumably prior to the arrest), and then the wallet recovered from LHO. I wonder if the Tippet wallet contained a Beckley Street address?

What the DPD radio log says or doesn't say about North Beckley should be easy enough to uncover, but I'm having difficulty finding much online from the official transcripts that extends beyond Oswald's arrest. Scans from later in the day don't seem to exist at texashistory.unt.edu, and the various transcripts of the transcripts that I've seen online all seem incomplete.

There are a few mentions of Beckley before 2:30, but they don't seem relevant and none mention the rooming house at 1026 N. Beckley. For example:



There are, of course, a million references to the suspect in a white jacket and white shirt, and none to a suspect in a brown shirt, but that, I suppose is another story. And I just can't resist posting this one, about the suspect hiding in the balcony on the Texas Theater.



Geez... a suspect in a white shirt in the balcony apparently led out the back door of the theater and seen by a handful of witnesses.... and a suspect on the ground floor in a brown shirt and arrested for millions to see... sure seems like there were TWO SUSPECTS in that theater. Funny how only one was given any attention at all. Ah well, sorry for the digression.

Anyway, the radio transcript at texashistory.unt.edu seems to end right here:



If anyone can point me to official DPD radio transcripts after the one above, I'd be grateful indeed.