Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (122 page)

304 NSAM .55 and 57: L. Fletcher Prouty, The Secret Team: The CIA and Its
Allies in Control of the United States and the World, pp. 114-116 and
116-119.

306 Hilsman: Michael Maclear, The Ten Thousand Day War-Vietnam:
1945-1975, p. 60.

308 Military withdrawal: National Security Action Memorandum No. 263
(Copy available at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston) states:
"At a meeting on October 5, 1963, the President considered the recommendations contained in the report of Secretary McNamara and General
Taylor on their mission to South Vietnam. The President approved the
military recommendations . . . but directed that no formal announcement be made of the implementation of plans to withdraw 1,000 military
personnel by the end of 1963. "

NSAM 273: Peter Dale Scott, Paul L. Hoch, and Russell Stetler, "The
Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond," pp. 406-442.

JFK's order rescinded: Kenneth P. O'Donnell, David Powers, and Joe
McCarthy, Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, New York, Pocket Books, 1973, p. 18.

(309) Nagell: William Turner, "The Garrison Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy," Ramparts, January, 1968, pp. 56-58;
Richard Russell with Dave Navard, "The Man Who Had A Contract to
Kill Lee Harvey Oswald Before the Assassination of President John F.
Kennedy," Gallery, March, 1981, pp. 37-38, 88-95; Garrison, On the
Trail of the Assassins, pp. 182-186.

309 Hosty and agent: IV. 461.

Powell: Warren Commission Document 354; Shaw with Harris, p. 194.

Revill: Ibid., p. 194; V.57.

310 Jones: HSCA Report, pp. 221-222.

311 Oswald and military intelligence: HSCA Report, p. 224.

314 Fritz: IV.205.

Biffle: "Reporter Recalls the Day Camelot Died in Dallas," The Dallas
Morning News, April 5, 1981.

315 Cabluck: author's interview, 1976 and 1986.

316 Hartman: author's interview, summer, 1986.

317 Lester: Associated Press, Jan. 5, 1978; Yet another bullet-this one a
whole .45-caliber-was discovered in May, 1976, by Hal Luster buried
in dirt by the four-foot-high cement retaining wall near the place where
Abraham Zapruder stood filming ("Man Claims He Found Live Bullet
Buried Under Top of Grassy Knoll," Dallas Morning News, Dec. 23,
1978).

Morgan: author's interview, spring, 1989.

318 Can: Shaw with Harris, p. 13.

319 Speaker: author's interviews, July, 1987.

320 Smith: Summers, p. 81.

Summers: Jack Anderson TV Documentary, Who Murdered JFK?, aired
Nov. 2, 1988.

321 Weitzman: VII.107.

Harkness: VI.312.

Sorrels: "SS `Imposters' Spotted by JFK Witnesses," Dallas Morning
News, August 27, 1978.

322 Oswald and agent: WC Report, p. 629.

323 Hill: author's interviews, 1986 and 1989.

326 Tilson: "Ex-Officer Suspects He Chased `2nd Gun' ," Dallas Morning
News, August 20, 1978.

329 Craig: Roger Craig, When They Kill a President (unpublished manuscript, 1971), p. 7; XIX.524.

332 Biffle: "Reporter Recalls the Day Camelot Died in Dallas," Dallas
Morning News, April 5, 1981.

333 Harrelson's confession: "Events Turn Sour ...," Dallas Morning News,
March 20, 1981; "Is Kennedy's Assassin Sitting in Texas Jail?," The
News Tribune, Fort Worth, Texas, June 11, 1982.

334 Cook: author's telephone interview, spring, 1982.

Matthews: KDFW-TV (Channel 4, Dallas) interview with Harrelson,
aired Feb. 14, 1982.

335 "The Company": "Story of Spies, Stolen Arms and Drugs," San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 1982.

336 Trial testimony: "Chagra Says Harrelson Told Him He Also Killed
JFK," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Nov. 2, 1982.

337 Braden: Summers, pp. 476-477; Hurt, pp. 123-124; Fensterwald, pp.
287-289.

340 Tippit "unknown": Meagher, p. 253.

341 Markham: 111.311.

Whaley: 11. 26 1.

Scoggins: 111.335.

342 Clemons: Lane, Rush To Judgement, New York, Dell Publishing Co.,
1975, p. 194.

Wright: George and Patricia Nash, "New Leader," Oct. 12, 1964.
343 Poe: XXIV.415.

344 Kinsley: Notes of interview by Dallas Morning News reporter Earl Golz,
spring, 1979.

345 Howard: author's interview, 1987.

Oswald's jacket: WC Report, p. 164.

346 Benavides: VI.453.

Roberts: VI.439.

Davis: 111.347.

Scoggins: 111.328.

Westbrook: WC Report, p. 175.

347 Roberts: VI.443-444.

349 Bowles: Interview with Gary Mack, winter, 1981; Gary Mack, "NAS
Panel Stuck On Channel 1, Report Delayed," The Continuing Inquiry,
March 22, 1982, p. 5; Gary Mack, "J.D. Tippit: The `Missing'
Broadcasts," Coverups, September, 1984, p. 2.

"coup de grace": HSCA Report, p. 59-60.

351 McDonald: "Officer Recalls Oswald Capture," Dallas Morning News,
Nov. 24, 1963.

Brewer: VII.6.

352 Applin: VII.91; "Man Believes He Saw Ruby At Scene of Oswald's
Arrest," Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1979.

353 Burroughs: author's interview, summer, 1987.
Davis: author's interview, fall, 1988.

354 Haire: author's interview, summer, 1987.

355 Rose: VII.228; Nigel Turner documentary.

January: Shaw with Harris, p. 111.

Hoover: "Hoover Called Oswald `A Nut' FBI Files Show," Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, Dec. 7, 1977.

356 Preliminary reports of conspiracy: "Wade Calls Killing A `Dastardly
Act,' " Dallas Morning News, Nov. 23, 1963.

Wade to say no conspiracy: Edward Oxford, "Destiny in Dallas," American History Illustrated, November, 1988, p. 24.

357 Curry: IV.195.

363 Fuller: "7 Shared Emergency Room With JFK," Dallas Morning News,
Nov. 22, 1973.

364 Tomlinson: VI.133-134.

366 Tice: XV.389; Seth Kantor, Who Was Jack Ruby?, p. 192-194.

368 Burkley: XXII.96.

Finck: Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, pp. 246-249.

370 Sibert-O'Neill Report: Edward Jay Epstein, "Inquest," pp. 166-170.
373 O'Connor: David Lifton, Best Evidence, p. 598-599.

Custer: Ibid., p. 620.

375 Bone fragment: Josiah Thompson, Six Seconds in Dallas (Berkley Edition), p. 65.

Burkley on conspiracy: Hurt, p. 49.

379 Help-em: Thompson, p. 254.

Wecht: HSCA 1.358.

380 ". . . a terrible conspiracy": Taped interview with Bob Huffaker of
KRLD News, Dallas, following hearing for a new trial, Sept. 9, 1965.

381 "... the true facts of what occurred,": Turner documentary.

Young Ruby: WC Report, pp. 779-786.

384 Ruby and union: V.200; Kantor, pp. 99-100.

385 Guthrie: Kantor, pp. 105-106.

386 Brown: author's interviews, 1988 and 1989.

387 Ruby's associates are discussed in the HSCA Report and volumes; Kantor;
Fensterwald; Blakey with Billings; Summers; Scheim, op. cit.

390 Abadie: CE 1750 and 1753; Scheim, p. 105.

Hardee: Ibid., p. 105.

Hall: Ibid., pp. 81 and 105; Kantor, p. 111.

Mash: author's interview, spring, 1988.

391 Breen-Curry: Scheim, p. 82.

392 Thompson: Ibid., p. 201.

Browder: William Scott Malone, "The Secret Life of Jack Ruby," New
Times, January 23, 1978, pp. 47-48.

Ruby letter: Penn Jones, Jr., The Continuing Inquiry, December 22,
1978, pp. 4-5.

393 Weston: "Ruby-Oswald Link Cited By Witness," Fort Worth StarTelegram, July. 18, 1976.

Mynier: CD 84, p.-215.

WC on McWillie: WC Report, p. 370.

394 Ruby lied repeatedly: Blakey and Billings, pp. 293-294.

McWillie: Malone, pp. 50-51; Fensterwald, pp. 285-286; Kantor, pp.
131-132; Blakey and Billings, p. 293.

395 McKeown: Kantor, p. 137; Scheim, pp. 202-203; Fensterwald, pp. 364-366.

396 Beaird: "Jack Ruby's Gunrunning To Castro Claimed," Dallas Morning
News, August 18, 1978.

397 Perrin: Scheim, p. 206.

398 Wilson: Kantor, p. 132.

399 Flynn: Ibid., p. 128; Malone, p. 49; Fensterwald, p. 260; Blakey and
Billings, pp. 295-296.

.-no-ulterior motive": Ibid, p. 296.

400 Ruby buys "bugging" devices: Malone, p. 49.

Willens: Kantor, p. 127.

401 Ruby and Roselli: Malone, p. 51.

402 Cheramie: HSCA X. 199-205.

403 "no evidence": WC Report, p. 650.

Griffin-Hubert: Blakey and Billings, p. 82.

Ruby-Oswald connections: HSCA Report, p. 148.

Oswald-Ruby not "loners": Ibid., p. 180.

Walker: author's interview, fall, 1964.

404 Alexander: "Any Oswald-Rubenstein Tie In Dallas Sought by Police,"
Dallas Morning News, November 26, 1963.

Brown: author's interviews, spring and fall, 1988.

Cummings: "Oswald-Ferrie Link Made by Ex-Cabbie," Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, March 10, 1967.

Crowe: "Magician Says Oswald Was Patron in Ruby Night Club,"
Dallas Morning News, November 25, 1963.

405 Oliver: Turner television documentary.

406 Carlin: XV.620.

Kay: "FBI Eyes On Ruby Strippers in JFK Case," Dallas Times Herald,
May 22, 1975.

Meserole: author's interviews, spring and summer, 1988.

Weston: "Ruby-Oswald Link Cited by Witness" (Copyright 1976, New York
News), Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 18, 1976; "JFK Murder Hatched
in Ruby's Club-Oswald Was There," Midnight, November 15, 1976.

408 Billet: Ibid.

Mash: author's interviews, summer and fall, 1988.

409 Jarnagin: author's interview, summer, 1988; XXVI. 254-257.

411 Box of documents: "Papers Link Ruby, Oswald," Dallas Morning News,
March 28, 1976.

412 "Gleam of recognition": Curry, p. 133.

Ruby's phone contacts: Blakey and Billings, pp. 302-305.

413 Tax liens: WC Report, p. 705.

414 Tax "connection": Blakey and Billings, p. 308.

Ruby's business: Ibid., p. 309.

Ruby's note to Tonahill: Ibid., p. 333.

"this silly story": Melvin Belli, Dallas Justice, p. 39.

416 Ruby: V.191.

417 "sightings": HSCA Report, p. 158.

Authorities warned: WC Report, p. 209.

Grammer: Turner documentary.

418 Richey-Smith-Walker: WC Report, pp. 352-353.

Rushing: XII.75-79; Shaw with Harris, p. 21.

Pitts: WC Report, p. 353; Kantor, pp. 59-60.

419 Carlin: XIX.306.

Senator's call: Kantor, p. 217.

420 Howard: CE 2002, p. 73.

Leavelle: author's interview, fall, 1988.

Alleyway: HSCA Report, p. 157.

"some premeditation": Ibid., 157.

Ruby: V.206.

421 Roselli: Malone, p. 51.

422 Graves: Edward Oxford, "Destiny in Dallas," American History Illustrated,
November, 1988, p. 47.

423 "I stayed in my office": Curry, p. 127.

Curry: Ibid., p. 130.

Archer: Turner documentary.

424 Alexander: Kantor, p. 114.

425 Kilgallen "possibility": Lee Israel, Kilgallen, New York, Dell Publishing Co., 1979, p. 358.

Crawford: Ibid., p. 361.

Lane: Ibid., p. 378.

"Story isn't going to die": Ibid., p. 388.

426 "Dorothy's death": Ibid., p. 395.

427 Tonahill: Kantor, p. 4.

Ruby: V.203-213.

428: Hoover: WC Report, p. 815.

429 Stevenson: Kantor, p. 167.

430 Ruby letter: Penn Jones, The Continuing Inquiry, November 22, 1978
and December 22, 1978.

431 Second letter: Copy in files of researcher J. Gary Shaw.

432 Maddox: Unpublished interview with Dallas Morning News reporter Earl
Golz, winter, 1982.

433 Tilson: Unpublished interview with reporter Earl Golz, summer, 1978.

McCarty: author's interview, spring, 1988.

435 Witnesses: Shaw with Harris, pp. 8-9.

436 O'Donnell and Powers: Their changed testimony is confirmed by former
House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill in his book, Man of the House
New York, Random House, 1987, p. 178: "I was never one of those
people who had doubts or suspicions about the Warren Commission's
report on the president's death. But five years after Jack died, I was
having dinner with (former JFK aide) Kenny O'Donnell . . . I was
surprised to hear O'Donnell say that he was sure he had heard two shots
from behind the fence. `That's not what you told the Warren Commission,' I said. `You're right,' he replied. `I told the FBI what I had
heard, but they said it couldn't have happened that way and that I must
have been imagining things. So I testified the way they wanted me to. I
just didn't want to stir up any more pain and trouble for the family.' Dave
Powers was with us at dinner that night, and his recollection of the shots
was the same as O'Donnell's. Kenny O'Donnell is no longer alive, but
during the writing of this book I checked with Dave Powers. As they say
in the news business, he stands by his story."

437 Day: IV.265.

438 Craig: Roger Craig, When They Kill a President (Unpublished manuscript: 1971), p. 18. NOTE: Craig wrote: "We (Mooney and Craig)
immediately found three rifle cartridges laying in such a way that they
looked as though they had been carefully and deliberately placed there-in
plain sight on the floor to the right of the southeast corner window....
The three of them were no more than one inch apart and all were facing
in the same direction, a feat very difficult to achieve with a bolt action
rifle-or any rifle for that matter."

439 Weitzman: XXIV.228.

Wade: XXIV.831.

Boone: 111. 294.

440 "substitution of rifles": Meagher, p. 100.

441 Pistol bought in Fort Worth: WC Report, p. 606.

Simmons: 111.443.

Warren Commission on serial number: WC Report, p. 81.

442 Serial number: XXV.808.

443 Latona: IV.24.

444 "FBI team": "Body of JFK Assassin Is Under Guard in FW," The Fort
Worth Press, Nov. 25, 1963.

Groody: author's interviews, 1979 and 1988.

Harrison: Telephone interview with researcher Gary Mack, 1978.