Please inform us of the arrival of our Soviet entrance visa’s as soon as they come.
Also, this is to inform you of the birth, on October 20, 1963 of a DAUGHTER, AUDREY MARINA OSWALD in DALLAS, TEXAS, to my wife.
Respectfully,
(XVI:33)
Appendix VIII
The FBI report on Miss Dowling of Dobbs House.
On December 6, 1963, Mary Adda Dowling, 617 West 10th, then employed by Skillern’s Drug Store No. 41, Preston Road and Forest Lane, stated she was formerly employed by Dobbs House, 1221 North Beckley, during daytime hours. She professed to recognize pictures of Oswald as a person who had eaten breakfast at the restaurant usually between 7:00 and 7:30 AM. She related she recalled the person now recognized as Oswald was last seen by her in the restaurant at about 10:00 AM, Wednesday, November 20, 1963, at which time he was “nasty” and used curse words in connection with his order.
She went on to relate Officer J. D. Tippit was in the restaurant as was his habit at about that time each morning and “shot a glance at Oswald.” She said there was no indication, however, they knew each other. Miss Dowling professed not to have known Jack Ruby as a customer, but said she had heard from another employee he was a night customer.
With reference to the allegation of Miss Dowling that Oswald was in the restaurant at about 10:00 AM, November 20, 1963, it is noted Roy S. Truly, Warehouse Manager, Texas School Book Depository, advised Special Agent Nat A. Pinkston on November 29, 1963, that Oswald’s working hours were from 8:00 AM to 4:45 PM, with a lunch period from 12:00 noon to 12:45 PM. He said, however, there was no punch time clock.
On November 25, 1963, A. S. Aiken, Bookkeeper, Texas School Book Depository, made available copies of payroll records which reflected Oswald worked an eight-hour day on November 20, 1963.
(XXVI:516)
Appendix IX
Deputy Sheriff Craig’s report on a second Oswald fleeing from the assassination.
FORM 114 SUP. INV.
COUNTY OF DALLAS
SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
SUPPLEMENTARY INVESTIGATION REPORT
Name of Complainant Serial No.
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Offense
Officer Roger Craig,
Dallas County Deputy Sheriff.
____________________________________________________________
DETAILS OF OFFENSE, PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATION, ETC.:
(Investigation Officer must sign)
Date Nov 23, 1963 19_____
I was standing in front of the Sheriff’s Office at 505 Main Street, Dallas, Texas, watching President Kennedy pass in the motorcade. I was watching the rest of the motorcade a few seconds after President Kennedy passed where I was standing when I heard a rifle shot and a few seconds later a second and then a third shot. At the retort of the first shot, I started running around the corner and Officer Buddy Walthers and I ran across Houston Street and ran up the terrace on Elm Street and into the railroad yards. We made a round through the railroad yards and I returned to Elm Street by the Turnpike sign at which time Officer Walthers told me that a bullet had struck the curb on the south side of Elm Street. I crossed to Elm with Deputy C. L. Lummie Lewis to search for a spot where a shell might have hit. About this time I heard a shrill whistle and I turned around and saw a white male running down the hill from the direction of the Texas School Book Depository Building and I saw what I think was a light colored Rambler Station wagon with luggage rack on top pull over to the curb and this subject who had come running down the hill get into this car. The man driving this station wagon was a dark complected white male. I tried to get across Elm Street to stop the car and talk with subjects, but the traffic was so heavy I could not make it. I reported this incident at once to a secret service officer whose name I do not know, then I left this area and went at once to the building and assisted in the search of the building. Later that afternoon, I heard that the City had a suspect in custody and I called and reported the information about the suspect running down the hill and getting into a car to Captain Fritz and was requested to come at once to City Hall. I went to the City Hall and identified the subject they had in custody as being the same person I saw running down this hill and get into the station wagon and leave the scene.
(XIX:524)
Footnotes
1. An independent prepared Index by Sylvia Meagher has been published by Scarecrow Press, 275 Park Avenue South, New York. This Index is extremely useful. It consists of a subject index, a name index, and a breakdown of the names by descriptive categories as to how these persons are connected with the case. This index should do much to advance research into the subject.
2. For example, an independent researcher, Mr. Jones Harris, has given me the following report:
“In March 1966, I interviewed in Dallas a Mr. January who had been manager of Red Bird Air Field at the time of the assassination. Mr. January told me that on Wednesday, November 20, 1963, three people turned up at the airport. Two of them, a heavy-set young man and a girl, got out of their car and spoke to him, leaving a young man sitting in the front of the car. The couple inquired as to the possibility of hiring a Cessna 310 on Friday the 22nd to take them to the Yucatan peninsula. They asked how far the Cessna could travel without refueling. How fast did the plane travel? Would they have to stop in Mexico City? January replied that it would be necessary and this seemed to suit their plans.
“They told January that they wanted to be back at Red Bird Field on Sunday. January did not believe that they could afford the flight. Privately, he suspected that they might want to hijack his plane and go on to Cuba. He decided not to rent them the plane even if they turned up with the money before the flight.
“He never saw the three people again. But on Friday when he saw Oswald on TV he was certain he had seen him before. Then he remembered the young man sitting in the front seat of the car and was convinced that it had been Oswald.”
Illustrations
Photograph taken by witness Howard Brennan, showing positions of spectators at the Depository during assassination
View of the back of President Kennedy’s shirt with close-up of
bullet entrance hole. Lower two photographs show projectile exit
hole in collar and nick in the right side of tie
The tower used to simulate Oswald’s alleged “sniper’s nest” in the
Depository
Billy Lovelady
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