| DATE | TIME
| EVENT
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| 20 May 1961 | | “Bay of Pigs” Invasion
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| May 1963 | | Oswald moves to New Orleans, and finds employment at the William B. Riley Coffee Company.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 320
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| 10 May 1963 | | General Walker shot at in his home.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 319
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| 5 June 1963 | | Decision for Texas trip made at meeting with Kennedy, Johnson, and Connally at the Cortez hotel in El Paso Texas.
ref. W.C.
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| 25 Sept. 1963 | | Antonio Veciana travels to Dallas for a meeting with Maurice Bishop (A.K.A.David Atlee Philips). In the lobby of the Southland building, Veciana sees Bishop speaking to a man Veciana later identifies as Lee Harvey Oswald
ref. Last Investigation, p 141.
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| 1 Oct. 1963 | | Reporter Arther Krock, citing a dispatch from Vietnam reporter Richard Starnes writes, "The CIA's growth was likened to a malignancy which the very high official was not sure even the White House could control any longer. If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon. The agency represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone".
ref. Last Investigation, p 422
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| 11 Oct. 1963 | | Kennedy signs National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) #263 signalling his intention to withdraw troops from Vietnam.
ref. JFK, CIA, Vietnam by Prouty, p xxiii.
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| 16 Oct. 1963 | | Oswald begins job at Texas School Book Depository. He reportedly obtained it through a contact of Ruth Paine.
ref. Last Investigation, p 422.
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| 23 Oct. 1963 | | Ruth Paine makes notation on her calender - ‘LHO purchase of rifle.’
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 293
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| 8 Nov. 1963 | | SS Agent Winston Lawson is briefed and receives a tentative schedule of Texas trip from SS Agent Roy H Kellerman who was the agent in charge of arranging the timetable for trip and responsible for motorcade route.
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| 8 Nov. 1963 | | Governor Connelly confirms trip to Dallas on November 21--22/63.
ref. W.C
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| 8 Nov. 1963 | | Oswald writes to, "Dear Mr. Hunt, (Most likely Howard E. Hunt.) I would like more information concerning my position. I am asking only for information. I suggaestin that we discuss the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else. Thank you, Lee Harvey Oswald. "
ref. Last Investigation, p 423; ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 324; ref. Crossfire (Letter shown in full)
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| 8 Nov. 1963 | | Oswald delivers a note to Dallas FBI HQ where Agent James Hosty is told to destroy it by Special Agent in Charge, Gordin Shanklin.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 261
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| 14 Nov. 1963 | | SS Agents Lawson and Sorrels drive route from Lovefield to Trademart which went down Main street to Stemmons freeway
ref. W.C.
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| 15 Nov. 1963 | | Motorcade route reviewed but was unchanged.
ref. W.C.
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| 16 Nov. 1963 | | Dallas Times Herald reported that the Presidential motorcade "apparently will loop through downtown area, probably on Main street on its way to Trade Mart".
ref. W.C.
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| 17 Nov. 1963 | | An FBI Teletype is recieved, directed to all field offices to contact CIs (confidential informants) to determine whether a revolutionary group was a potential threat to the president during his Dallas trip November 22 - 23.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 77
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| 18 Nov. 1963 | | SS Agents Lawson and Sorrels with Dallas police assistant Chief Charles Batchelor drive motorcade route verifying that it could be driven in 45 minutes and was unchanged.
ref. W.C.
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| 19 Nov. 1963 | | Newspaper published precise route mentioning the turn into Elm into Houston then onto the freeway.
ref. W.C.
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| 20 Nov. 1963 | | Two Dallas Police Officers witness a “mock target practice” going on at the picket fence atop the knoll. They arrived in time to see the partipants depart in haste, and only write a report of the incedent subsequent to November 22.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 132
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| 20 Nov. 1963 | | Newspaper reports motorcade route on front page.
ref. W.C.
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| 20 Nov. 1963 | | Rose Cheramie is thrown from a car, taken to hospital, and while there tells doctors that JFK is going to be killed in Dallas.
ref. Crossfire, p 401.
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| 21 Nov. 1963 | | McGeorge Bundy, then assistant to President Kennedy, signs the key first draft of NSAM 273, in contradiction to all previous Kennedy policy.
ref. JFK, CIA Vietnam by Prouty, p xii.
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| FRIDAY 22 Nov. 1963 | 11:00 am | Julia Ann Mercer, drives down Elm street, her way is blocked by a green Ford pickup truck. A young man removes a long paper bag, she can see the outlines of a rifle in the bag, and he walks with it to the top of the grassy knoll. She also sees the driver of the truck, whom she later identifies as Jack Ruby, (before he shot Oswald).
ref. Crossfire, p 18.
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| | 11:10am | Air Force One leaves Carswell AFB Fort Worth for 13 min flight to Lovefield Airport.
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| | 11:30 am | Presidential Motorcade leaves Lovefield Airport.
Ref. W.C.
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| | 11:45 am | Oswald is left on sixth floor of the TSBD as fellow workmates leave to go to Lunch break. He yells, “Guys, How about an elevator?” And then adding “Send one of the elevators back up”.
ref. Conspiracy - Who Killed Kennedy?, p106
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| | 11:50 am approx | TSBD foreman Bill Shelley said he saw Oswald near the telephone on the first floor.
Conspiracy - Who Killed Kennedy?, p 107
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| | 12:00 pm approx. | Jack Ruby is seen sitting in an office at the Dallas Morning News by newspaper employee Wanda Walker.
ref. Crossfire, p 327.
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| | 12:00 pm approx. | TSBD employee Eddie Piper said he actually spoke to Oswald, “Just at twelve o’clock, down on the first floor”.
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| | 12:10 pm approx. | Lee Bowers, a railway supervisor located in a tower behind the knoll fence, sees a 1959 Oldsmobile cruise the area. And at 12:20pm, a Black 1957 Ford also did the same and left. Then a third car, a 61 or 62 Chevrolet Impala entered the area, parked out of his sight near the decorative masonry wall, then reappeared immediately after the last shot.
ref. Crossfire, p 75-76.
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| | 12:15 pm | Carolyn Arnold sees Oswald eating lunch on the second floor lunchroom. ”Oswald was sitting in one of the booth seats on the right hand side of the room as you go in. He was alone as usual and appeared to be having lunch. I did not speak to him but I recognized him clearly.”
ref. Crossfire, p 49; Conspiracy - Who Killed Kennedy?, p 108
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| | 12:15 - 12:20 pm | TSBD employee Bonnie Ray Williams leaves the sixth floor after eating his lunch, he saw nobody
ref. Crossfire, p 49; Conspiracy - Who Killed Kennedy?, p 106
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| | 12:15 pm | Witness Arnold Rowland observes man with rifle at the Westeren end of TSBD.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 300
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| | 12:18 pm approx. | A young man suffers some sort of seizure in front of the book depository.
ref. Crossfire, p 42
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| | 12:19 pm | Police Radio “code 3” (haste), for ambulance for Dealey Plaza. The ambulance arrived and picked up a suspected epilectic, departing at 12:25 pm, and was taken to Parkland Hospital where his admittance was never recorded.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 137
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| | 12:20 pm | Bonnie Ray Williams, left the 6th floor after finishing his lunch and using the elevator joined co workers on the 5th floor to watch the motorcade.
ref. Crossfire, p 47.
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| | 12:30 p.m. | PRESIDENT KENNEDY SHOT IN DALLAS.
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| | ? pm | David Ferrie takes a mysterious 364 mile drive in the afternoon.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 131
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| | 12:30:40 sec p.m. | Police Radio. Bill Decker orders officers to the “Railroad track area just North of Elm.”
ref, Treachery in Dallas, p 136
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| | 12:32 p.m. | Breakdown of Washington D.C.'s telephone system for almost 1 hour. (Though Hoover's line remains fuctional?)
ref. Conspiracy of Silence, p 71.
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| | 12:33 p.m. | Lee Harvey Oswald leaves Depository and boards bus
ref. W.C
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| | 12:37 p.m. | Sergent Harkness reports he has a witness who had pinpointed the window. (Howard Brennan)
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| | 12:38 p.m. | JFK arrives at Parkland Hospital.
ref. Best Evidence, p 710.
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| | 12:40 p.m. approx. | Police officer Roger Craig sees a white male running down the hill from the direction of the book depository and climbs into a waiting Rambler station wagon and drives off.
ref. Crossfire, p. 329
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| | 12:40-45 p.m | Oswald gets off bus and boards second taxi after allowing a woman to take first taxi, talls driver William Whaley, “500 North Beckley Street”
ref. WC
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| | 12:45 p.m. | Description put out about suspect on Dallas police radio. "The wanted person in this is a slender white male about thirty, five feet ten, one sixty five, carrying what looked to be a 30.30 or some type of Winchester".
Officer Tippit told by H/Q dispatcher to “go to central Oakcliff area”.
ref. Rush to Judgement, p 194.
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| | 12:48 p.m. | Police Radio in refrence to the location of the assassin. “He is thought to be in the Texas School Book Depository here on the North West corner of Elm and Houston.”
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 35
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| | 12:49 p.m. | Capt Talbert giving orders on Police radio. “Have that cut off on the back side will you? Make sure nobody leaves there”. (Refering to the Depository).
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 143
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| | 12:51 p.m. | Homicide Cheif William Fritz calls in to the dispatchers office from his post at the Trade Mart to ask if JFK will still be going to the site. He is told, “It’s very doubtful.” DOH!
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 150
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| | 12:54 p.m. | Officer Tippit calls into H/Q, and is asked if he is in Oakcliff area. He replies, "Yes".
ref. Rush to Judgement, p.194.
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| | 1:00 pm | JFK PRONOUNCED DEAD
ref. Best Evidence, p 710.
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| | 1:00 pm approx. | Police search the bus that Oswald had boarded and recently left.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 150
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| | 1:00 pm approx. | Police car no 207 stops outside Oswalds rooming house, and sounds horn twice.
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| | 1:00 pm approx. | Parkland hospital. Darrell Tomlinson discovers the stretcher bullet 399 which rolls out from under a mat when stretcher bumps the wall.
ref. Best Evidence, p 90.
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| | 1:00 pm approx. | Oswald enters the Texas Theater according to theater assistant manager shortly after 1:00 pm.
ref. Crossfire, p 353.
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| | 1:04 pm | Oswald seen standing at bus stop outside his rooming house by his landlady.
ref. Rush to Judgement, p 159.
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| | 1:05 pm | South of Dallas three men pulled over, one identifies himself as a Secret Service agent and states "We are in a hurry to get to New Orleans to investigate part of the shooting." However there is no record of Secret Service being dispatched to New Orleans on the day of the assassination.
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| | 1:08 pm | Officer Tippitt makes two attempts to call H/Q, but dispatcher does not reply.
ref. Rush to Judgement, p 195.
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| | 1:10 pm | T.F..Bewley comes upon J.D Tippit’s body in the street. As he gets out to help he looks at his watch, which reads 1:10pm
ref. Conspiracy - Who Killed Kennedy?, p 122
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| | 1:12 pm | Policeman Luke Mooney finds hulls on sixth floor of Depository.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 143
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| | 1:15 pm | Oswald buys popcorn at concession stand inside Texas theatre, according to concession stand operator Boroughs
ref. Crossfire, p 353.
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| | 1:16 pm | Police told “Officer Tippit has been shot.” by civilian Domingo Benavides using Tippit’s police car radio.
ref. Crossfire, p 348.
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| | 1:20 pm | Jean Hill in live television report states she heard shots from the Knoll.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 153
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| | 1:22 pm | Rifle found on sixth floor of Book Depository, first identified as 7.5 German Mauser.
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| | 1:22 pm | Police radio call goes out describing Tippit's killer as about 30, 5ft 8in black hair and slender.
ref. Unanswered Questions, p 105.
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| | 1.25 pm approx | Capt Fritz is given Oswalds name and adress and description by Roy Truly, then later returns to police HQ without ever issuing an all-points bulletin for Oswald. When he arrives Oswald is already there.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 153
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| | 1.25 pm | Police radio reports finding of a white jacket in parking lot.
ref. Rush to Judgement, p 191.
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| | 1:30 pm | Seth Kantor encounters Jack Ruby at Parkland hospital and has brief conversation with him.
ref. Crossfire, p. 366.
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| | 1:35 pm | Police Radio. The TSBD is mentioned, “It’s secure now.”
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 143
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| | 1:36 pm | Police Radio from scene of Tippit’s murder, “I got an eyeball witness to the getaway man - that suspect in this shooting. He is a white male ... apparently armed with a .32, dark finish automatic pistol...”
ref. Conspiracy - Who Killed Kennedy?, p 119
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| | 1:45 pm | Police Radio "Have information, a suspect just went into Texas theatre on West Jefferson".
ref. Unanswered Questions, p 112.
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| | 1:55 pm | Police arrest Oswald at Texas theater as suspect in shooting Tippit.
ref. Best Evidence, p.710.
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| | 2:00 pm | Bullet 399 handed to SS Agent Richard Johnson at Parkland Hospital by Chief of Parkland Hospital security O.P.Wright.
ref. Best Evidence, p. 591 & 652.
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| | 2:04 pm | Kennedy’s body leaves Parkland Hospital.
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| | 2:14 pm | Kennedy's body arrives at Lovefield Airport
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| | 2:15 pm | Oswald taken into Dallas Police Dept
ref. W C
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| | 2:18 pm | Casket placed aboard Airforce One
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| | 2:30 pm approx | J. Edgar Hoover calls Robert Kennedy to inform him that the killer was an ex-marine who defected to the Soviet Union and was also known to be a procommunist nut.
ref. Treachery in Dallas. p 259
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| | 2:38 pm | LBJ sworn in aboard Airforce One, then orders take off.
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| | 2:25-4:04 pm | Oswald interrogation in Office of Captian Will Fritz.
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| | 2:47 pm | Air Force One airborne.
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| | 3:30 pm | Police officers arrive at the residence of Michael and Ruth Paine, Ruth indicates that she has been expecting them.
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| | 3:54 pm | NBC Newsman Bill Ryan announces on national television that “Lee Oswald seeems to be prime suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.”
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| | 4:00 pm | Situation room of the White House communications center informs Lyndon Johnson that the assassination is the act of one lone individual and that no conspiracy exists.
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| | 4:04 pm | First interrogation of Oswald ends.
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| | 4:05 pm | Oswald taken to first Lineup for Helen Markham, witness to Tippit murder. (While waiting outside the lineup room, Oswald is searched, and five bullet cartridges are found in his pockets.)
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| | 4:45-6:30 p.m. | Second interrogation of Oswald in Captain Fritz’s Office.
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| | | AS THERE IS ONE HOURS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DALLAS TEXAS AND WASHINGTON D.C. (DALLAS ONE HOUR BEHIND) ALL EVENTS IN WASHINGTON D.C. HEREAFTER ARE IN CST (DALLAS TIME) TO AID COORDINATION.
ref. Best Evidence, p 672.
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| | | Footnote: Before Air Force One landed in Washington, Hoover made it known that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assissin and there was no conspiracy.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 79
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| | 5:00 pm | Air Force 1 arrives Andrews Air Force base Washington D.C., total flight time 2hrs 15min.
ref. Best Evidence, p 680.
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| | 5:30 pm approx. | Deputy sheriff Roger Craig identifies Oswald as the man he saw running toward the Rambler station wagon. When asked about the station wagon Oswald replies, "That station wagon belongs to Mrs Pain, don’t try to tie her into this. She had nothing to do with it."
ref. Rush to Judgement, p 159.
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| | 5:30-6:30 pm | SS Agent Richard Johnson hands bullet 399 to SS Chief Rowley at Executive building in Washington D.C.
ref. Best Evidence, p 646.
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| | 6:20 pm | Oswald taken to second lineup, and yells to reporter’s in hallway, “I didn't shoot anyone.”
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| | 6:30 p.m. | Lineup for Witnesses Cecil J. McWatters, Sam Guinyard, and Ted Callaway.
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| | 7:05 pm | Oswald charged with Tippit's murder.
ref Trechery in Dallas, p 5
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| | 7:15 pm | First incision at Kennedy autopsy.
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| | 7:50 pm | SS Chief Rowley sends bullet 399 to FBI laboratory.
ref. Best Evidence, p 646.
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| | 7:50 pm | Oswald taken to third lineup for Witness J.D. Davies.
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| | 7:55 pm | Oswald yells at reporters in hallway “I’m just a patsy”.
ref, ( Entry in Seth Kantor’s notebook ) Trechery in Dallas, p 293
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| | 7:56 pm | Third interrogation of Oswald in Captain Fritz’s Office.
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| | 8:55 pm | Oswald’s Fingerprints, Identification, Paraffin tests - All in Fritz’s Office.
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| | 11:00 - 11:20 pm | Oswald “Talked to” by FBI Agent M. Clements and Police Officer John Adamcik.
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| | 11:20 - 11:25.pm | Oswald is taken to press conference. Oswald is asked if he is a member of The Free Cuba Committee, but before he answers, Jack Ruby standing up the back, corrects the reporter and says, "That’s The Fair Play For Cuba Committee". Oswald is asked by a reporter “Did you kill President Kennedy?” Oswald replies, “No I have not been charged with that. In fact nobody has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard about that is when the newspaper reporters asked me that question.” Oswald is told by a reporter, "That you have been charged" (with the murder of Kennedy.) Oswald looks baffled as he is lead away.
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| | 11:26 pm | Oswald charged with President Kennedy’s murder.
(Oswald is not told of this charge).
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| SATURDAY 23 Nov. 1963 | | Copy of Oswalds passport file is accidently destroyed while it was being Thermofaxed.
ref Trechery in Dallas, p 303
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| | 12:30 - 1:00 am | Darrell Thomlinson is awakened by a phone call from the FBI, and is told to keep his mouth shut about the bullet he found on the stretcher at Parkland Hospital
ref. Best Evidence, p 591.
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| | 12:35 am | Oswald complains, “That this is the third set of fingerprints, photographs being taken.”
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 49
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| | 1:35 am | Oswald officialy told that he has been charged with J.F.K.’s murder.
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p49
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| | 2:15 am | Sheriff's officer Perry McCoy receives a phone call from a "white male" who says that Oswald is going to be killed during his transfer.
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| | 2:20 am | Police lieutenant Billy Grammer also receives a phone call. The caller asks specifically to speak to Grammer, and says, "You know me". Describes in detail the plans to move Oswald and tells him that other arrangements should be made or, "We are going to kill Oswald right there in the basement".
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| | 3:00 am | FBI Special Agent Vince Drain transports the gun and all other evidence to Washington D.C.
ref Treachery in Dallas p 28
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| | 10:30 am - 1:10 pm | Interrogation of Oswald, Capt Fritz’s office.
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 49
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| | 1:10 - 1:30 pm | Oswald visited by Mother, Margurite, and Wife Marina
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 50
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| | 2:15 pm | Lineup for Witness William Scoggins and William Whaley
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 50
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| | 3:30 - 3:40 pm | Robert Oswald visits Lee for 10 Minutes. Lee tells Robert, “Don't belive all the so called evidence.”
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| | 3:40 pm | Lee Oswald calls Ruth Paine and asks her. “Would you please call John Abt (Lawyer) in New York for me after 6:00 pm.”
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 50
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| | 4:21 pm | Kenedys body returns to the White House.
ref. Treachery in Dallas p 5
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| | 5:30 - 5:35 pm | Oswald has visit with H. Louis Nichols, President of the Dallas Bar Association.
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| | 6:00 - 6:30 pm | Interrigation in Capt Fritz’s Office, Oswald is shown the backyard photo of him with gun. “That picture is not my mine. The picture has been made by superimposing my face. The other part of the picture is not me at all, I have never seen this picture before. I understand photography real well, and that in time, I will be able to show you that this is not my picture and that it was made by someone else.”
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 50 - 51
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| SUNDAY 24 Nov. 1963 | 9:30 am | Interrogation in Capt Fritz’s Office
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 51
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| | 11:00 am | Regeistered Nurse Bertha Lozana recalls “At 11:00 a.m. I was informed by Jill Pomeroy, the ward clerk, that we might prepare for an emergency because there was a large crowd at city hall”.
ref. Treachery in Dallas p 169
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| | 11:10 am | Preparation for Oswald’s transfer to County Jail
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 52
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| | 11:15 am | Inspector Thomas J. Kelly Secret Service, has final conversation with Oswald
ref. The Peoples Almanac, p 52
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| | 11:17 am | Jack Ruby wires money order at Western Union Office (some 350 feet from Dallas police dept, Main St. ramp.)
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 328
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| | 11:21am | Jack Ruby shoots Oswald in basement carpark of Dallas police dept.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 203
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| | 1:00 pm approx. | On being told that Oswald is dead, Jack Ruby calms down in his cell at Dallas Police Station
ref. Framed, p 41
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| | | President Johnson signs NSAM 273, signalling a reversal to JFK's policy of withdrawing troops from Vietnam.
ref. JFK, CIA and Vietnam by Prouty, p 422.
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| 25 Nov. 1963 | | FBI Agent Richard Harrison arrives at Miller’s Funeral Home with Rifle (type uknown) and finger print ink. Funeral Director would tell reaserchers that he could not understand the event and that he had a very difficult time getting the black ink off Oswald’s corpse.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 332
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| 29 Nov. 1963 | | Warren Commission established
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| 3 Feb. 1964 | | Warren Commission hears first witness
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| 8 May 1964 | | J. Edgar Hover is appointed as FBI Director for life by Lyndon Johnson
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| 14 May 1964 | | J. Edgar Hover appears before the Warren Commission and commits at least three acts of perjury.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 80
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| 1 Mar. 1967 | | Jack Ruby dies in prison.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 330
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| Dec. 1976 | | Jack Ruby diagnosed with Cancer.
ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 330
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| 1978 | | David Atlee Phillips confiding in a House Select Committee staffer Kevin Walgh shortly before his death. “My private opinion is that JFK was done in by a conspiracy, likely including rouge American Intelligence people”
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