23-06-2019, 10:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 15-08-2020, 12:32 AM by Milo Reech.)
Filmed by WFAA's Ron Reiland about 1:30PM on 11/22/63 who reported, "An eyewitness here said he had seen the man run into the building," followed by nearly two months of official oblivion, ending on 1/21/64 with an FBI interview. The report altered the observed flight path from an old house to the Roger Ballew Texaco Service Station two buildings away, implying that Reynolds had forgotten what Reiland had filmed at the time of the event.
Same day (1/21/64) the same FBI SAs interviewed the Brocks at the Texaco station, producing reports that substantiated the altered flight path, but they made two mistakes by: 1) insisting the fugitive preceded Reynolds by five minutes; and 2) claiming Reynolds informed the Brocks that a police officer had been killed nearby. For one thing, Reynolds kept close to the fugitive. For another, according to Reynolds' FBI statement he did not learn a police officer had been shot until five or ten minutes after talking to the Brocks. This is consistent with his 7/22/64 WC testimony: "So when they left, well, I did too, and I didn't know this man had shot a policeman" (XI p.436).
Two days later (1/23/64) Reynolds was shot in the head and left for dead in the basement of Reynolds Motor Co. where he worked. The big question is why? It is tempting to attribute it to his failure two days previously "to definitely identify OSWALD as the individual" he had followed, but this is hard to credit. Armstrong proposes a more compelling reason for the attempted rubout at harveyandlee.net, postulating a meeting between the fugitive & Westbrook in the parking lot behind the Texaco station:
The problem here, admittedly, is that proof is lacking. There is also the implication that the man Reynolds followed on Jefferson Blvd was the same man observed by Burt (from Patton Ave) at the Crawford St end of the alley, but the timing does not work. The route via Jefferson Blvd took too long to complete.
They were not the same individual. Many witnesses described the alley flight path, leading to the obvious conclusion that there were two fugitives.
Overlooked was the observation of an LHO look-alike by ambulance assistant Eddie Kinsey:
This fugitive ran in the direction of the library to which almost the entire DPD search force subsequently redeployed, where they were preceded by a contingent of constables & deputies. The forces combined to rout an old lady from the basement and make a page sweat. Potential tragedy was headed off by the intervention of two controls, posing as Secret Service agents, described in Marvin Buhk's DPD report. There were no known SS agents in the area.
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/u?/po-arm,10282
See the section, "It's another Battle of the Little Big Horn," in William Weston's Missing Radio Transmissions article for an entertaining account of what happened at the library. This gathering of forces was observed by LHO's erstwhile bus driver, Cecil McWatters, whose bus was stopped at Marsalis & Jefferson where he witnessed the operation in a surprising convergence of thematic material.
Fourth Decade volume 7 number 4 p.12
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html...0&tab=page
The library runner was the same as the Jefferson Blvd runner, who eluded his pursuers and doubled back after crossing the street in front of the ambulance.
A better answer to the question asked above is that Reynolds saw both fugitives simultaneously. This marked him for death.
Same day (1/21/64) the same FBI SAs interviewed the Brocks at the Texaco station, producing reports that substantiated the altered flight path, but they made two mistakes by: 1) insisting the fugitive preceded Reynolds by five minutes; and 2) claiming Reynolds informed the Brocks that a police officer had been killed nearby. For one thing, Reynolds kept close to the fugitive. For another, according to Reynolds' FBI statement he did not learn a police officer had been shot until five or ten minutes after talking to the Brocks. This is consistent with his 7/22/64 WC testimony: "So when they left, well, I did too, and I didn't know this man had shot a policeman" (XI p.436).
Two days later (1/23/64) Reynolds was shot in the head and left for dead in the basement of Reynolds Motor Co. where he worked. The big question is why? It is tempting to attribute it to his failure two days previously "to definitely identify OSWALD as the individual" he had followed, but this is hard to credit. Armstrong proposes a more compelling reason for the attempted rubout at harveyandlee.net, postulating a meeting between the fugitive & Westbrook in the parking lot behind the Texaco station:
When LEE Oswald met up with Capt. Westbrook he may have told Westbrook that someone was following him. To Westbrook this individual posed a very serious threat. It didn't matter whether Reynolds actually saw the shooter (LEE Oswald) make contact with a police car. It only matters if Capt Westbrook or LEE Oswald thought he did, because Reynolds could then connect the man who shot Tippit with the Dallas Police. For Capt. Westbrook this presented no problem, because Westbrook could easily learn the identity of this unknown man by reading police reports of interviews with witnesses. Once Westbrook had identified a troublesome witness, he could fix the problem. Could this be the reason Warren Reynolds was shot in the head two months later?
The problem here, admittedly, is that proof is lacking. There is also the implication that the man Reynolds followed on Jefferson Blvd was the same man observed by Burt (from Patton Ave) at the Crawford St end of the alley, but the timing does not work. The route via Jefferson Blvd took too long to complete.
They were not the same individual. Many witnesses described the alley flight path, leading to the obvious conclusion that there were two fugitives.
Overlooked was the observation of an LHO look-alike by ambulance assistant Eddie Kinsey:
He came out from behind that Texaco station... and he was on the median and he run across in front of us... we were downgrading him for running across in front of us. You know how stupid anyone seeing red lights and siren on the ambulance and still run out in front of you.
Tippit After the Murder by Bill Drenas
[Tippit 1.pdf p.54]
This fugitive ran in the direction of the library to which almost the entire DPD search force subsequently redeployed, where they were preceded by a contingent of constables & deputies. The forces combined to rout an old lady from the basement and make a page sweat. Potential tragedy was headed off by the intervention of two controls, posing as Secret Service agents, described in Marvin Buhk's DPD report. There were no known SS agents in the area.
http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/u?/po-arm,10282
See the section, "It's another Battle of the Little Big Horn," in William Weston's Missing Radio Transmissions article for an entertaining account of what happened at the library. This gathering of forces was observed by LHO's erstwhile bus driver, Cecil McWatters, whose bus was stopped at Marsalis & Jefferson where he witnessed the operation in a surprising convergence of thematic material.
Fourth Decade volume 7 number 4 p.12
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html...0&tab=page
The library runner was the same as the Jefferson Blvd runner, who eluded his pursuers and doubled back after crossing the street in front of the ambulance.
A better answer to the question asked above is that Reynolds saw both fugitives simultaneously. This marked him for death.