DALLAS POLICE TRANSCRIPTS
by John Armstrong
The day after HARVEY Oswald was arrested FBI Associate Director
Clyde Tolson sent a memo to FBI official Alan Belmont. Tolson wrote,
"results of the investigation have been reduced to written form. We can
prepare a memorandum to the Attorney General to set out the evidence
showing that Oswald is responsible for the shooting that killed the
President. We will show that Oswald was an avowed Marxist, a former
defector to the Soviet Union and an active member of the FPCC, which
has been financed by Castro. We will set forth the items of evidence
which make it clear that Oswald is the man who killed the President."
Only one day after President Kennedy was assassinated the assistant
Director of the FBI had already decided that Oswald was guilty. It then
became the FBI’s quest to find, collect, and when necessary fabricate
evidence to show the public that Oswald was responsible for murdering
both President Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit. Following are a few
examples of the FBI's direct involvement in fabricating evidence as to
HARVEY Oswald's background, his employment, and his alleged involvement
in the murders of President Kennedy and Police Officer J. D. Tippit.
In August, 1963, only three months before the assassination, the FBI
took 35 mm photographs of HARVEY Oswald as he passed out FPCC
literature in New Orleans. Charles Hall Steele, an active FBI
informant, was helping Oswald pass out leaflets. Orvie Aucoin, the TV
cameraman who filmed the event, was an active FBI informant. Thanks to
the FBI the American public was able to watch Oswald on television
within days of the assassination. Millions of people quickly formed an
opinion of Oswald as they watched this former defector to the Soviet
Union, with a Russian wife and child, an admitted Marxist, as he passed
out communist literature on the streets of New Orleans.
In the summer of 1963 Oswald had the use of Guy Banister's office for
his FPCC activities. But the FBI never told the Warren Commission that
Guy Bannister was the former head of the FBI's office in Chicago, and a
close friend of FBI Director Hoover.
Within hours of the assassination the Dallas Police confiscated 225
items that belonged to HARVEY Oswald from Ruth Paine’s garage and from
Oswald’s rooming house. The original 225 items were collected, dated,
and initialed by the Dallas Police. A handwritten list of these items,
and a typewritten list of these 225 items, were prepared by the Dallas
Police. Later that evening the Dallas Police transferred those 225
items of evidence to FBI headquarters in Washington DC.
During the next three days the FBI examined the 225 items of evidence
that belonged to HARVEY Oswald. However, on November 26, the FBI
returned a total of 455 items to the Dallas Police. The FBI had added
an additional 230 items to the original 255 items of evidence collected
by the Dallas Police. Identifying the additional 230 items of so-called
evidence that were added by the FBI is simple. None of these 230 items
added by the FBI, now in the National Archives, were dated nor
initialed by the Dallas Police. Some of these 230 items belonged to LEE
Oswald, some of these items were fabricated, and some of these items
were used to link HARVEY Oswald to Castro and Cuba. Among the 230 items
added by the FBI were fabricated W-2 forms, created for the purpose of
fabricating the dates of Oswald's employment in 1955 and 1956. The
typewritten text on each of these W-2 forms is identical, which means
they were fabricated using the same typewriter. A list of these 455
items was published by the Warren Commission and identified as
Commission Exhibit 2003.
One of the items found by police was a Minox spy camera, yet the FBI
tried to identify the Minox spy camera as a light meter.
The appearance of a 2nd wallet at 10th & Patton, with Oswald’s
identification, was witnessed by FBI Agent James Hosty but never
mentioned by the FBI. A fabricated identification card from that
wallet, with the name Alek James Hidell, was instrumental in connecting
Oswald with the Mannlicher-Carcado rifle found on the 6th floor of the
book depository.
In the early morning hours of November 23 FBI agents arrived at Klein’s
Sporting Goods in Chicago to review company records on microfilm. From
those microfilm records documents were fabricated to make it appear as
though Oswald purchased a rifle from Kleins. In the National Archives I
asked to see the original roll of Klein’s microfilm. I wanted look for
alterations and/or splicing of the microfilm. I was given a photograph
of a small yellow cardboard Kodak box which supposedly held the
microfilm. The microfilm had disappeared.
The day after the assassination FBI agents went to Stripling Junior
High school in Ft. Worth. Assistant Principal Frank Kudlaty gave the
agents HARVEY Oswald’s 9th grade school records in 1954, which soon
disappeared. These school records had to disappear, because in 1954 LEE
Oswald was attending Beauregard Junior High in New Oswald, with a near
perfect attendance record. My interview with Mr. Kudlaty is available
on U-Tube.
Oswald’s original school records—elementary, junior high, high school
were all confiscated by FBI agents, and disappeared. All that remains
of Oswald’s school records at the National Archives are black and white
photographs.
The week following the assassination a federal agency picked up LEE
Oswald’s driver’s license file from the Dept of Public Safety in
Austin, and the file disappeared. HARVEY Oswald never had a drivers
license.
Early on Monday morning, the day after Oswald died, FBI agents arrived
at Dolly Shoe in New Orleans and confiscated all original employment
records for HARVEY Oswald from January through April, 1955. Those
original records disappeared.
LEE Oswald’s time cards from his employment at the Gerard Tujague
company from June, 1955 thru September, 1956 were confiscated by the
FBI. Most of those records disappeared because they conflicted with
HARVEY Oswald attending Warren Easton High School at the same time, in
the fall of 1955.
The Warren Report told us that Oswald worked at the Pfisterer Dental
Lab in New Orleans “for several months” in the spring of 1956, but
without a thread of evidence. In reality HARVEY Oswald worked at the
Pfisterer Dental Lab from October, 1957 thru May, 1958, while at the
same time LEE Oswald was in the Marines in Japan. On Monday following
the assassination the FBI visited the Pfisterer Dental Labs and
confiscated all employment records related to HARVEY Oswald. Those
records disappeared, while the FBI fabricated 1956 W-2 forms in an
attempt to show that Oswald worked at the dental lab in 1956 instead of
1957 and 1958 as reported by Palmer McBride and fellow employees at the
dental lab.
WC attorney John Hart Ely was assigned to gather information related to
Oswald’s family and background. Staff attorney Albert Jenner wrote to
Warren Commission General Counsel J. Lee Rankin and said, "there are
details in Mr. Ely's memoranda which will require MATERIAL ALTERATION
and, in some instances, OMISSION." The FBI and a few select members of
the Warren Commission understood that many things about Oswald’s
background had to be hidden from the public. This is why Oswald’s
original school records and teenage employment records disappeared. LEE
Oswald’s drivers license file disappeared. The second wallet, found at
the Tippit murder scene with ID cards for Alex James Hidell, also
disappeared. Documents related to HARVEY Oswald’s living in Stanley,
North Dakota in the summer of 1953 disappeared, while at the same time
LEE Oswald was living in New York city. Items such as the dark blue
jacket Oswald wore to the book depository was switched with the light
colored jacket found in the Texaco parking lot. The result of this
manipulation and alteration of evidence was misunderstood and often
confusing, but allowed the FBI to feed the public a false narrative for
Lee Harvey Oswald.
William Sullivan, the #3 man in the FBI, understood the manipulation of
evidence. Sullivan said, "When an enormous organization like the FBI
with tremendous power still can sit back and shuffle the deck of cards
and pick up the card they want to show you it may be you're not going
to get the entire picture as fully as you would otherwise.... If there
were documents that possibly he (Hoover) didn't want to come to the
light of the public, then those documents no longer exist, and the
truth will never be known." The FBI decided what evidence would survive
and how that evidence was interpreted. Their job was to convince the
public that Oswald was guilty, no matter the expense, no matter the
effort, just convict Oswald. In the Tippit murder, a major effort was
expended by the FBI to achieve a very minor change in the exact time
Tippit was shot. The result was a Soviet-Russian style investigation
into the murder of John F. Kennedy, thanks to the FBI.
Since 1964 researchers have continually argued as to whether or not the
man arrested by Dallas Police had enough time to walk from his rooming
house at 1:00-1:03 PM to 10th & Patton by 1:16 PM. Most researchers
were relying on 1:16 PM as the correct time of Tippits’s murder, noted
on the FBI's 109 page transcript that was given to the Warren
Commission on August 25, 1964. Known to researchers as CE 1974 this
document placed the time of Tippit's murder at 1:15-1:16 PM. Since 1963
researchers have argued and debated as to whether or not there was
enough time for Oswald to have walked from his rooming house at
1:01-1:03 PM to 10th & Patton at 1:15 PM. The following
presentation is focused on the time frame of 1:00 PM to 1:19 PM on
November 22, 1963 as it relates to the murder of Officer J. D. Tippit.
Dallas Police Radio Channels
In 1963 there were two radio channels used by the Dallas Police
dispatcher to communicate with police motorcycles and patrol cars. The
call sign for the Dallas police radio was KKB364. Both Channel 1 and
Channel 2 were connected to recording devices. Channel 1 was connected
to a Dictabelt Recorder that used vinyl belts for recording. Each belt
recorded 15 minutes of conversation. Channel 2 was connected to an
Autograph Disk recorder that used round vinyl disks for recording.
These vinyl disks could record conversations for either 9 minutes or 13
minutes, and looked similar to a small phonograph record.
Officer Tippit was shot at 1:06 PM
Now, as we begin to review the evidence, it is very important for us to
remember the time as reported by several witnesses was 1:06 PM and
recorded by the police at 1:08 PM, yet the FBI said the shooting of
Officer Tippit occurred at 1:16 PM.
At 1:00 PM on the afternoon of November 22, 1963 a Dallas Police
dispatcher placed a radio call to Officer J. D. Tippit using channel 1.
On CE 705, page 15, the police dispatcher said, "78 location," but
Officer Tippit did not answer. At 1:00 PM Officer Tippit was likely in
the Top 10 record store on Jefferson Blvd. using the telephone. Tippit
left the record store and six minutes later parked his patrol car
directly in front of a driveway near 10th & Patton.
About 1:05 pm Helen Markham was walking south on Patton St. to catch a
city bus at 1:15 PM. She was standing on the northwest corner of 10th
& Patton when a police car drove slowly past in front of her.
Barbara Davis and her sister Virginia were in the living room of their
house, on the southeast corner of 10th & Patton. Mr. & Mrs.
Frank Wright were in their home at 501 E. 10th St, and taxi driver
William Scoggins was sitting in his taxi cab on the southeast corner of
10th & Patton. Barbara Davis heard gunshots and ran to the
telephone to call the police. Mrs. Frank Wright was listening to the
radio when the radio announcer said the time was 1:06 PM. She heard gun
shots and called the police. Taxi driver William Scoggins was sitting
in his taxi as the police car drove past in front of him. Scoggins
watched as the police car drove slowly to the curb while at the same
time a young man walked over to the police car. Moments later Scoggins
saw the young man shoot the police officer. Scoggins notified his
dispatcher, who notified the police of a shooting. Barbara Davis, Mrs.
Wright and the taxi dispatcher were the first people to call the police
at 1:07 to 1:08 PM. The police quickly dispatched three ambulances to
the murder scene--ambulance #602 from Dudley Hughes, #603 from Baylor,
and ambulance #605 from the Veterans Administration (VA).
Seconds before the shooting, Domingo Benavides and Jack Tatum were
driving west on 10th St. in separate vehicles. When Benavides saw a man
fire gunshots at a police officer he drove his Chevrolet pickup to the
curb and stopped, about 15 feet from Tippit's patrol car. Benavides
ducked down onto the seat of his truck as the gunshots were fired. When
Jack Tatum heard gunshots he was 5 or 6 car lengths ahead of Tippit and
stopped his red Ford Fairlane near the corner of 10th & Patton.
When the shooting ended Benavides watched as (LEE) Oswald turned around
and began unloading his gun. Benavides said that he got a good look at
(LEE) Oswald from the front, and when (LEE) Oswald began to walk away
Benavides noticed that his hairline was "squared off" above his collar.
Benavides, who worked part time as a barber, said that (LEE) Oswald
needed a haircut. Benavides watched as (LEE) Oswald began walking west
on the sidewalk while unloading the empty shells from his gun.
After (LEE) Oswald hurried around the house on the corner, and then
across Patton St., Benavides got out of his truck and walked 15 feet to
the front of Tippit's patrol car. He grabbed the microphone in Tippit’s
patrol car and, at 1:08 PM, tried to contact the police dispatcher.
Benavides tried to talk with the police dispatcher but he didn’t know
how to operate the radio in Tippit’s patrol car. However, the vinyl
dictabelt recorded two contacts by unit 78 with the dispatcher on
channel 1, but without conversation because Benavides did not know how
to use the police radio.
Two minutes later, at 1:10 PM, Mr. Temple Bowley arrived on site and
grabbed the microphone from Benavides. Bowley was able to report the
shooting of a police officer to the police dispatcher, which was
recorded on the vinyl dictabelts from channel 1.
Later that afternoon Bowley gave a statement to the Dallas Police and
said that when he arrived at the scene he, "looked at my watch and it
said 1:10 PM." Bowley's watch and the time recorded by the police
Dictabelt of Bowley's contact with the police dispatcher was 1:10 PM.
At 1:10 PM the police dispatcher received a message, “602 code 5.” 602
was the number assigned by the Dallas police to the Dudley Hughes
ambulance, and "code 5" meant the ambulance was en route to 10th &
Patton. Seconds later, at 1:10 PM, the dispatcher received the message,
"603-code 5." 603 was the number assigned to ambulances from Baylor and
"code 5" meant the ambulance was en route to 10th & Patton. At 1:10
PM the dispatcher received the message, "605-code 5," the number
assigned to ambulances from the Veteran’s Administration (VA), and code
5 meant the ambulance was en route to 10th & Patton. All contact
between the dispatchers and the ambulances were recorded at 1:10
PM by the Dictaphone machine on channel 1. Therefore, the shooting of
Officer Tippit had to have occurred several minutes before 1:10 PM.
After Bowley's brief contact with the police dispatcher at 1:10 PM the
Dudley Hughes ambulance arrived. Driver Jason Butler removed a dark
blue jacket from Tippit's body, and together with Bowley loaded
Tippit's body into the ambulance.
The ambulance, which Jasper Butler
said was on site for only one minute, then hurried to the Methodist
Hospital where Tippit was taken to the emergency room for examination.
Tippit was pronounced dead by Dr. Liquori at 1:15 PM. We now understand
the importance and significance of 1:08 PM and 1:10 PM, as
recorded by the Dallas Police disks and transcripts on channel 1, as
they relate to the time of the Tippit murder. Tippit was shot and
killed a couple of minutes before Benavides got out of his pickup,
walked to Tippit’s patrol car, and tried to contact the police
dispatcher at 1:08 PM.
Police dispatcher Murray Jackson, who worked 20 years at the Dallas
Police department, told the HSCA that after his shift ended on November
22, 1963 Chief Lumpkin had the dictabelts from channel 1 and the discs
from channel 2 placed in sealed envelopes and taken to his office.
On November 29 the vinyl belts from Channel 1 and vinyl disks from
Channel 2 were given by Lumpkin to the Secret Service for transcribing.
The Secret Service copied the belts and disks with a tape recorder and
then gave the original belts and disks to the FBI. Dallas Police
Communications
director James Bowles also made tape recorded copies of the belts and
disks, but said the FBI did not return the belts and disks to the
Dallas Police until March, 1964.
In early December the Secret Service, Dallas Police and FBI agents
began listening to the original vinyl dictabelt and vinyl disc
recordings, but their attention was focused events and situations
related to the assassination of President Kennedy, and was not focused
on the murder of Officer Tippit.
On December 3, 1963 a brief 10 page transcript was prepared and given
to Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry. Transcribed from channel 2 this
transcript included information about the President's arrival, the
motorcade, the shooting, the escort to Parkland Hospital, and the
Tippit shooting. This document was published in the Warren Volumes as
Sawyer A.
Two days later, On December 5, 1963, a very brief 2 page transcript was
prepared by Sgt. Henslee from channel 2 "pertaining to the incident,"
and very briefly described a portion of the Tippit shooting. This
document was published in the Warren Volumes as Sawyer B.
In early 1964 James Bowles made a tape recorded copiy of channel 1 and
channel 2. Bowles kept one copy for himself and gave one copy to the
FBI. FBI personnel listened to the DPD recordings and likely made
transcripts of conversations from both channel 1 and channel 2. It
seems that little attention, if any, was given to the Tippit murder.
Earlene Roberts, the housekeeper at HARVEY Oswald’s rooming house, told
the FBI that Oswald left the house a minute or two after 1:00 PM,
wearing a dark colored zip up jacket. A dark colored zip up jacket.
The distance from the rooming house to the Tippit murder scene was .9
mile. The FBI knew it was not possible for Oswald to have left the
rooming house at 1:01-1:02 and walked .9 mile to the murder site in 4-5
minutes, which created a big problem.
Changing the time of the shooting
I believe the original Dallas Police dictabelts and
disks given to the Secret Service on November 29, 1963 were authentic.
After the Secret Service gave the vinyl dictabelts and vinyl disks to
the FBI we know they were copied onto a tape recorder. A tape recording
could be played over and over without degradation, whereas the vinyl
dictabelts and vinyl disks were degraded when played over and over.
Changes cannot be made to the original vinyl dictabelts or disks.
However, changes can be made. If conversations from the vinyl belts and
vinyl disks are recorded onto a tape recorder, changes to the new tape
can be easily deleted and added. The new tape, with alterations, can
the be played back onto new vinyl belts and new vinyl disks.
Changing the times on paper transcripts would be much easier. Simply
take a small portion of the transcript from channel 1, where one police
dispatcher is discussing the Tippit murder, and insert that portion
into transcript wherein the second police dispatchers is discussing the
assassination of President Kennedy.
A third way to change the times on a typewritten transcript would be to
simply prepare
a new transcript and make sure all of the time entries were sequential.
When reading a revised transcript the reader would assume the
transcript is a continuous thread of discussion between a police
dispatcher and patrol units. If the reader happened to notice that one
or two pages out of 100 pages showed an incorrect time, the reader
would probably assume this was a mistake or perhaps a typographical
error.
J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel for the Warren Commission, read the 2
page transcript of channel 1 given to Chief Curry that was prepared by
Sgt. Henslee on December 3, 1963. It would appear that when Rankin read
this 2 page transcript (Sawyer B), he realized that he had never been
given a complete transcript of Dallas police channel 1 & police
channel 2. In early January, 1964 James Bowles gave the FBI tape
recordings of Dallas police channels 1 and 2, but the FBI never gave
those to the Warren Commission.
On March 3, 1964 Rankin wrote to FBI Director Hoover requesting the
Bureau obtain transcripts of all radio transmissions from channel 1 and
channel 2 from Dallas Police radio station KKB364 covering the period
12:20 PM to 6:00 PM on November 22, 1963.
On March 6, 1964, in response to Rankin’s letter of March 3, Hoover
wrote a letter to the Dallas Police requesting transcripts. On March
20, 1964 the Dallas Police furnished a transcript of channel 1 and
channel 2 to the FBI.
Two weeks later, on April 7 the FBI gave a 96 page document to the
Warren Commission
consisting of typewritten transcripts from channel 1 and channel 2.
Channel 1 consists of pages 1 thru 66. Channel 2 consists of pages 67
thru 96. The first page of the FBI transcript reads “Dallas police
department made available the following transcripts of all radio
transmissions from channel 1 and 2 of Dallas Police Radio Station KKB
364 covering the period 12:20 PM, November 22, 1963, to 6:00 PM,
November 22.” The FBI gave Mr. Rankin two transcripts of each
channel.
Apparently the FBI was unaware their transcript contained timing
entries that conflicted with the time of 1:16 PM that they had
established as the time Tippit was shot.
Rankin knew the FBI had interviewed several people who witnessed the
Tippit shooting. Agents filed dozens of reports, examined Tippit's
medical records and his time of death. Rankin knew the FBI reported
1:16 PM as the time of the Tippit shooting to the Warren Commission.
But in the 96 page transcript Rankin found numerous unexplained timing
errors.
On page 19 of the channel 1 transcript the police dispatcher had
contact with the 3 ambulances dispatched by the Dallas Police to the
site of the Tippit shooting. All of these contacts were recorded at
1:10 PM. Domingo Benavides made contact with the dispatcher at 1:08 PM,
followed by Mr. Bowley's contact with the dispatcher at 1:10 PM when he
said, “it’s a police officer. Somebody shot him.” These entries were on
the original Dallas Police dictabelt from channel 1, as transcribed by
James Bowles, which means that Tippit was shot a couple of minutes
before Benavides made contact with the police dispatcher at 1:08 PM.
Rankin did not understand how the FBI could fix the time of the Tippit
shooting at 1:16 PM, when the Dallas police recordings indicated that
Tippit was shot sometime before 1:10 PM. Rankin was not happy and
perhaps beginning to mistrust the FBI.
In an attempt to circumvent the FBI, and get original transcripts from
the Dallas Police, Rankin drafted a letter on May 28 to Forrest
Sorrels, the Special Agent In Charge of the Secret Service in Dallas.
Rankin asked Sorrels if he would “please arrange to record the Dallas
Police Department tapes of radio broadcasts over police channels 1 and
2 on November 22, 1963, between the hours of 12:30 and 2:00 pm.”
Sorrels likely notified Hoover of Mr. Rankin’s request, because Sorrels
never responded to Rankin's letter.
A month and a half later, without hearing from Mr. Sorrels, Rankin had
no choice but to ask the FBI to to obtain the radio broadcasts from the
Dallas Police. On July 16, 1964 Rankin wrote to Hoover and said, "We
call your attention to the fact that in the channel one transcript
there appears to be an error on page 19 immediately following the words
"what's that address on Jefferson." There appears to be a time entry of
1:10 PM. This would be inconsistent with the known time of the Tippit
shooting and judging from the time entries on the preceding page this
would appear to be a typographical error." Rankin then requested that
Hoover “Obtain the original tapes of the radio broadcasts and prepare a
new transcript from these tapes….During the course of preparation of a
new transcript we ask that you attempt to clarify this apparent
discrepancy.”
In 1964 Mr. Rankin was questioning the time of 1:10 PM on the police
transcripts just as we are questioning the time of 1:10 PM in 2024.
CE 1974--the FBI creates a revised timeline
On July 21, 1964 Dallas Police Chief Curry made a series of sixteen
channel 1 dictabelts and five channel 2 disks available to an
unidentified FBI agent. This unidentified agent then reviewed and
transcribed the dictabelts from channel 1 and transcribed the disks
from channel 2 at Dallas police headquarters. The FBI agent finished
this work on July 24. The FBI now had two tape recorded copies of
police channels 1 & 2 and typewritten paper transcripts from
channel 1 and channel 2.
Protecting the FBI’s image
After reading Mr. Rankin’s letter, FBI officials realized there was a
timing problem. Earlene Roberts told the FBI that Oswald left the
rooming house at 1:00 to 1:03 PM. Dallas police tapes recorded
Benavides and Bowley contacting the police at 1:08 and 1:10 PM to
report that a policeman had been shot. Three ambulances were dispatched
by the police to 10th & Patton and were en route to the murder site
when they had contact with the police dispatcher at 1:10 PM.
The FBI knew the distance between the rooming house and 10th &
Patton was .9 of a mile. They also knew that Oswald could not have
walked .9
of a mile in 5 or 6 minutes and shot Tippit at 1:06 PM as reported by
several witnesses. At this point senior FBI officials realized the man
arrested by the Dallas Police did not shoot Officer Tippit. However,
Oswald was dead and he was their only suspect. In order to protect the
FBI's image, and prove to the public that Oswald killed Tippit, senior
FBI officials made the decision to fabricate the time that Tippit was
murdered. The FBI's conscious decision to fabricate evidence and blame
HARVEY Oswald for the Tippit murder is only one part of their
complicity in helping to cover up the true facts of the assassination
of President Kennedy.
Rankin requested Dallas police transcripts from the FBI on July 24,
1964. Nearly a month later, on August 20, the FBI had still not given
the transcripts to the Warren Commission. We have to wonder if FBI
officials intentionally withheld their revised transcript, with
numerous changes in time, knowing that the government printing office
would soon begin printing the Warren Report. By waiting as long as
possible before giving their revised transcript to the Warren
Commission, FBI officials knew the Commission would have little or no
time to question the accuracy of their revised transcript.
On August 20, Hoover wrote to Rankin and advised that a new transcript
had been made. Hoover also told Rankin, "However, due to the badly worn
condition of the original tapes, certain portions are being checked for
accuracy. The transcription will be furnished to you in the immediate
future.”
On August 25, 1964 the FBI’s revised transcripts were given to the
Warren Commission. Following are pages from the FBI’s revised
transcript. It is worth noting that police dispatchers for channels 1
and 2 are now identified by name.
The original Dallas police transcript (CE 705) shows that at 1:08 PM a
citizen (Domingo Benavides) used Tippit's police radio, call unit #78,
to contact the police dispatcher. On page 48 of the revised FBI report,
the number 78 has been changed to the number 50, which is the Dallas
police code for an unknown automobile unit. A second number 78 was
changed to number 488, a number assigned by the Dallas police to
supervisors and detectives of the Special Service Bureau. The change
from number 78 to number 50 and the change from number 78 to number 488
was an attempt by the FBI to hide contact between the police dispatcher
and someone using the radio in Tippit's patrol car at 1:08 PM. The FBI
reported the conversation between number 50 and number 488 with the
dispatcher as “garbled.”
The original Dallas police transcript shows the police dispatcher’s
contact with Mr. Bowley at 1:10 PM. The newly revised FBI transcript
changed the time Mr. Bowley contacted the police dispatcher from 1:10
PM to 1:16 PM.
1) The original Dallas police transcript (CE 705) shows the
dispatcher's contact with Dudley Hughes ambulance 602-code 5 at 1:10
PM. The revised FBI report (CE 1974) changed the dispatcher's
contact with Dudley Hughes at 1:18 P.M.
2) The original Dallas police transcript (CE 705) shows the
dispatcher's contact with Baylor ambulance, 603-code 5, at 1:10 PM. The
revised FBI report (CE 1974) changed the dispatcher’s contact
with Baylor to 1:18 PM.
3) The original Dallas police transcript (CE 705) shows the
dispatcher's contact with Dudley Hughes' ambulance code 602-code 6
arrival time at 10th & Patton at 1:10 PM. The revised FBI report
(CE 1974) changed the dispatchers contact with Dudley Hughes to
1:18 PM.
4) The original Dallas police transcript (CE 705) shows the
dispatcher's contact with the Dudley Hughes and with the Baylor
ambulance at 1:10 PM. The revised FBI transcript report (CE 1974)
changed the dispatchers contact to 1:18 PM.
5) The original Dallas police transcript shows the dispatcher's contact
with the Dudley Hughes ambulance 602-code 6 (out at destination) at
1:10 P.M. The revised FBI transcript report changed the dispatchers
contact with Dudley Hughes to 1:18 PM.
6) The original Dallas police transcript shows the dispatcher's contact
with the Veterans Administration (V.A.) ambulance 605-code 5 (en route)
at 1:10 PM. The revised FBI transcript report changed the dispatcher's
contact with the V.A. ambulance 605 from 1:10 PM to 1:18 PM.
7) The original Dallas police transcript (CE 705) shows the
dispatcher's contact with the V.A. ambulance 605-code 5 (en route) at
1:10 PM. The revised FBI transcript report (CE 1974) changed the
dispatcher’s contact with the V.A. ambulance 605-code 5 from 1:10 PM to
1:19 PM.
8) The original Dallas police transcript (CE 705) shows the
dispatcher's contact with Dudley Hughes ambulance 602 at 1:10 PM.
Ambulance driver Jason Butler tells the dispatcher, “from out here on
10th St., 500 block. This police officer’s just shot. I think he’s
dead.” The revised FBI transcript report (CE1974) changed the
dispatcher's contact with Dudley Hughes from 1:10 PM to 1:19 P M.
The FBI’s revised transcript, which later became CE 1974, was given to
the Commission on August 25, only one month before the Warren Report
was released. No more letters from Mr. Rankin. The Warren Commission
based the time of the Tippit shooting on the FBI's revised transcript
(CE 1974).
The timing entries that appeared on the FBI's revised transcript,
CE1974, were changed from the original times recorded on the Dallas
Police transcript--CE705. These changes in time were of little
consequence and barely noticeable in this 106 page document. But they
were very significant. Changing the time of the shooting from
1:08--1:10 PM to 1:16 PM gave Oswald just enough time to walk from his
rooming house at 1:01 PM to 10th & Patton at 1:16 PM and shoot
Tippit.
In complete accordance with the above anaylsis,
the following two documents show that Tippit was declared dead at
Method Hospital by Dr. Richard Liguori at 1:15 pm.
How was Tippit declared dead at the same time,
or at most one minute after, he was shot?
Note that R A Davenport reported, “In route met the ambulance carrying
the wounded officer to Methodist Hospital. We assisted in getting
the officer to the Emergency Room.” And observed the doctors and nurses
trying to bring the Officer back to life. At 1:15 pm Dr. Richard
Liquori pronounced him dead.”
All this happened at the same time Tippit was shot?
What makes MUCH more sense is the 1:10 pm time frame noted on those
original DPD transcripts (CE 705) and confirmed by T.F. Bowley,
who said he looked at his watch, which read 1:10 pm.
These documents simply
offer more evidence that
the time stamps on the Dallas Police dispatcher transcripts (CE1974)
were altered by the FBI. With the FBI’s amended
transcript and
the FBI reports of carefully
selected witnesses, the Warren Commission concluded, “the shooting of
Tippit has been established at approximately 1:15 or 1:16 p.m.” A
seemingly small adjustment in the time of the Tippit shooting was all
the FBI needed to establish the guilt of an innocent man. Since 1964
researchers have mistakenly relied upon the FBI's revised transcript,
CE 1974, as to the time of the Tippit murder.