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Going through my files on the Tippit murder, I came across this info about officer R.C. Nelson. He told Henry Hurt in 1984 he was never questioned by the WC or HSCA, even though he had also been stationed at a police basement door when Ruby shot Oswald. Nelson indicated he wanted to write a book and make some money from his story. When asked whether he had been dispatched to Oak Cliff, he seemed puzzled by the question, then indicated he didn't want to talk about it. (Reasonable Doubt)
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Phil Dragoo Wrote:http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archiv...eId=520841
Dallas Mosaic: The Cops, The Cubans, and the Company, by Philip H. Melanson
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The Third Decade, Volume 1, Issue 3[/URL]
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Thanks, Phil. Another one for the list which constantly grows faster than I can keep up with it.
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Phil, thanks so much for this. I had not read it in years.
God I miss Melanson.
The guy did such interesting work.
I will never forget the first time I read Spy Saga. I discovered it in some obscure library in Riverside. I had never heard of the book before or seen it.
I took it home and read it all the way through. I remember thinking, "Eureka! We now know Oswald for what he really is and was."
The only time I ever felt like that reading something on this case, was when I first read Garrison's Playboy interview, many years after the fact: "Eureka, we now have an idea of how the plot actually worked!"
The thing is Phil did good work on the RFK and MLK cases also. On top of it all, he was a really good guy.
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Tracy Riddle Wrote:Regarding the section on Miranda, here's what William Alexander told Posner. I don't know if it's true or not:
"In Texas, an oral statement under duress was no good. We had Miranda before the Supreme Court handed it down for the rest of the country. We had to inform that he did not have to make any statement, and that any he did make had to be voluntary, witnessed, reduced to writing, and could be used against him. So our questions for him were strictly to get information, but there was no way they could be used in court....Even if we gave him the proper warning, and then reduced his statement to writing, if he then refused to sign it in the presence of a witness, it was useless. That's how strict the Texas law was...That's why it was not important to record or transcribe the discussions."
I think I found a smoking gun. Its from Greg Parker's wonderful site. This is a quote from Percy Foreman on November 24th in the St. Louis Post Dispatch:
Authorities are running a serious risk of jeopardizing their case against Oswald by failing to observe his constitutional rights...officials may already have committed reversible error in the case by permitting the accused to undergo more than 24 hours of detention without benefit of legal counsel. As grounds for reversal, Foreman stated: Under recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court, federal procedural guarantees must be observed even in state prosecutions. Their abridgement, he said, can be grounds for reversal of even a conviction. This is a new law.They could get a conviction in Texas and get it thrown out on appeal, but it takes a long time for these dim-witted law enforcement officers to realize it.
Now, what I think Foreman is referring to is the Gideon case, which I think was decided in August of 1963. Before Miranda and Escobedo.
Foreman operated out of Houston, Texas. If, as Alexander said, Texas law had Miranda before Miranda, why is he reciting a violation of federal law on the 24th and not Texas law?
You are going to tell me that one of the most famous defense lawyers in the country was not aware of the Texas version of Miranda?
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If the great enlightened liberal state of Texas had a Miranda law in 1963, it would be very easy to confirm, and I would have read about it elsewhere by now. Posner just swallowed Alexander's lies, like the story of the reporter who put the tape recorder on the monument in Dealey Plaza, and it recorded only three shots, but darn! the tape was accidentally erased.
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LOL
I forgot that one.
How convenient.
BTW, how much of Harper Lee's money do you think the Pos got?
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Jim DiEugenio Wrote:LOL
I forgot that one.
How convenient.
BTW, how much of Harper Lee's money do you think the Pos got?
The author of To Kill a Mockingbird? Or do you mean Travis Linn?
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"To Kill A Mockingbird"
Ironic considering "POS" (lol) is a mockingbird...
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Albert Doyle Wrote:"To Kill A Mockingbird"
Ironic considering "POS" (lol) is a mockingbird...
Birds of a feather ...
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Tracy Riddle Wrote:Jim DiEugenio Wrote:LOL
I forgot that one.
How convenient.
BTW, how much of Harper Lee's money do you think the Pos got?
The author of To Kill a Mockingbird? Or do you mean Travis Linn?
You didn't hear about this?
Lee's former agent scammed her. The woman was about 90 years old in a wheelchair. He got here to sign over her royalty rights to him.
Posner then set up a shell company to funnel the money through.
God, first a serial plagiarist, then this. Bob Loomis, you sure can pick them.
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