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<xml><p> THE COWTOWN CONNECTION
by
M. Duke Lane
(CIS ID: 760042356)</p>

<p><ent type='PERSON'>Harold Weisberg</ent> once said about his <ent type='PERSON'>Whitewash</ent> works that "there are no
theories in my books... they're factual."[1] The sentiment about factuality
has been echoed by many respectable researchers, who insist that "the <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent>
case ought to be treated as a homicide, which is what it is." <ent type='ORG'>Aren</ent>'t we
pressing for a final, legal investigation of the <ent type='PERSON'>JFK</ent> murder to view all of
the evidence, new and old, holding it to the constraints of our legal system?
A common refrain, after all, is that the <ent type='ORG'>Warren Commission</ent>'s investigation
and "conviction" of <ent type='PERSON'>Lee Oswald</ent> would never have held up in a true adversarial
judicial proceeding.</p>

<p>Interestingly, we don't seem to hold ourselves to the same constraints. If
one researcher discovers something, even in error, we are apparently
permitted to cite that person's work, without certification, as established
fact. Many people complain when their own theories are held up to the same
critical light as we hold the official investigations, as if we aren't
beholden to the same burden of proof we assign them.</p>

<p>There has even been recent argument on both sides of this issue regarding
whether researchers' conclusions ought to be held up to critical peer review
or whether we should be allowed to follow our intuition and reach reasonable
conclusions... which can't be anything more than speculation, by
definition.[2] That we accept such speculation and/or incomplete
investigation as "fact" is exemplified by <ent type='PERSON'>Robert Morrow</ent>'s recently published
<ent type='ORG'>First Hand Knowledge</ent> (<ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent>),[3] in which he suggests that an apparent <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>
operative was detained in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> only a couple of hours after <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent>'s
assassination.</p>

<p><ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> is, by most people's estimation, a reprint of <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>'s earlier <ent type='ORG'>Betrayal</ent>,
this time, however, naming names and adding new information. One piece of
this "new information" is that an "unidentified suspect" taken into custody
in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>, 30 miles west of <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent>, was, in fact, <ent type='PERSON'>David Atlee Phillips</ent>, a
former <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> operative who was based in <ent type='GPE'>Mexico City</ent> while <ent type='PERSON'>Lee Harvey Oswald</ent> was
purportedly visiting <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Cuban</ent> embassies in that city, and/or the
"<ent type='PERSON'>Maurice Bishop</ent>" character said to be <ent type='NORP'>Cuban</ent>s refugees' <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> contact for the
<ent type='LOC'>Bay of Pigs</ent> operation. What, the reader must wonder, was this man--of all
people--doing in that place at that time? This is information with curious
implications indeed!</p>

<p>As evidence of <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent>' apparent complicity in the murder, <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> includes a
photo of <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent> beside <ent type='ORG'>the House Assassinations Committee</ent>'s sketch of
"<ent type='ORG'>Bishop</ent>," which many researchers agree look strikingly similar. The photo is
included with the <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent> and "<ent type='ORG'>Bishop</ent>" pictures. The man, <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> asserts,
bears an "uncanny resemblance" to <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent>/<ent type='ORG'>Bishop</ent>. Even while the angles of
the men's faces are different, making a direct comparison difficult if not
impossible, there does indeed appear to be a resemblance between them.</p>

<p>What was <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent>/<ent type='ORG'>Bishop</ent> doing in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>? The reader is left to wonder,
for <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> cites <ent type='PERSON'>Gary Shaw</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Larry Ray Harris</ent>' Cover-Up[4] to state that no
record of this man's arrest exists and, in fact, the negatives of the
pictures taken of the arrest have disappeared from the files of The Fort
Worth Star-Telegram. Who but the government could manage such an obvious
cover-up, one must wonder. Who indeed?</p>

<p>Since I live near <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>, I decided to look into this. This article will
take the reader roughly through the steps of my investigation into this
question. In the end, we will find that not only was <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> "reaching," but
also that previous information was incomplete at best. While I cannot
possibly clear <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent> from any sort of involvement in the <ent type='LOC'>Bay of Pigs</ent>
episode or the <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent> hit, it is quite clear that he was NOT the man in the
photo <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> uses to implicate him. This is perhaps an abject lesson for the
reader not to take everything he reads at face value, no matter what the
credentials of an author may seem to be....</p>

<p>Let us pause for a moment to consider <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>'s works. <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>, as we know,
claims to be a former <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> contract agent who supposedly delivered four
Mannlicher-Carcano 7.65mm rifles to <ent type='PERSON'>David Ferrie</ent> for what he later
determined to be the <ent type='PERSON'>JFK</ent> assassination, one of which he says he kept. In both
<ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Betrayal</ent>, he discusses the purchase and delivery of these rifles to
<ent type='PERSON'>Ferrie</ent>, who of course, cannot confirm or deny <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>'s allegation since he is
dead. Nor can <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>'s <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> connection be affirmed or refuted; we have no
choice but to either take the man at his word or not, since it is impossible
to prove one way or the other. That is simply the nature of the beast.</p>

<p>Likewise, we can either believe or disbelieve his accounts of the various
newly-named people's involvement in the planning, execution and/or cover-up
of the assassination. Certainly, the dust jacket overview and the author's
own preface to his new book paint a reasonably credible picture of the man
who claims to have "first hand knowledge" of the assassination. Knowing,
however, that there is no statute of limitations against prosecution in a
murder, how is it that <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> can publicly come forward with an admission of
having participated in the most notorious murder of our time? Even aside from
prosecution, surely one must wonder at what repercussions he might suffer at
the hands of those whom he names as his accomplices, including the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>.</p>

<p>These questions are handled adroitly enough even before the reader reaches
the book's introduction. "Mr <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>," the dust jacket states, "has now come
forward with the truth because he believes the danger to his family is
reduced due to the impending release of the <ent type='ORG'>Congressional</ent> files on the
assassination," thereby assuring us that <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> doesn't expect to become
another "mysterious death."</p>

<p>But what of the others he names? His own preface makes this clear: "More than
half the characters about to come to life on these pages have already been
put to death, tortured, exiled or silenced in strange and horrible ways."
They are either dead or otherwise will not rise to their own defense against
<ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>'s accusations. It is worthwhile to note that <ent type='PERSON'>David Atlee Phillips</ent> is
among the former, having died of cancer at his <ent type='GPE'>Arlington</ent>, VA, home on July 7,
1988.[5] He will not be stepping forward to clear his name, nor will Tracy
Barnes, another of the people <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> names in <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> and who is also dead. The
rest of the "more than half" of <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>'s characters will likewise not be
coming forward to correct the record and provide true facts since they've
either been "put to death, tortured, exiled or silenced in strange and
horrible ways." The other half, we may reasonably conclude, have but bit
parts in <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>'s narrative, and aren't connected with the assassination, and
so have nothing to "fear."</p>

<p>Returning to the question of <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent> (or <ent type='ORG'>Bishop</ent>) having been arrested in
<ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>, we must bear these factors in mind. <ent type='PERSON'>Gary Shaw</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Larry Harris</ent>
have already told us that no record of the arrest exists and that negatives
of the photographs taken of this man have "disappeared" from the
Star-Telegram's files. <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent> has only added to the mystery by connecting the
<ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> to this man, a factor which can apparently not be proven nor disproven.
Or can it?</p>

<p><ent type='PERSON'>Tom Tilson</ent> Tells Tall Tales
===========================</p>

<p>One of the first things I was curious about was whether this arrest had any
connection to the black sedan chase so often related to the events in Dealey
Plaza. This connection was bolstered by an article which appeared the day
after the assassination in The <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> Morning News which told of a man having
been arrested in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> because he was said to be driving a car "linked
to the slayer."[6] <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> was the apparent destination of the driver of
the black sedan headed westbound on the DFW Turnpike and chased by an
off-duty <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> policeman.</p>

<p>This incident was first reported by <ent type='PERSON'>Earl Golz</ent> in The <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> Morning News[7]
nearly twenty years after the fact, and repeated by <ent type='PERSON'>Jim Marrs</ent> in
Crossfire,[8] to which the reader is referred for additional information. In
addition, rumblings of a car having been found abandoned in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> later
in the day_naturally tied to the "black car chase"_raised even more
interesting possibilities. Was the man in the <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> photo the same one who
off-duty officer <ent type='PERSON'>Tom Tilson</ent> chased from <ent type='LOC'>Dealey Plaza</ent>, and who may
subsequently have abandoned the car before having been arrested?</p>

<p>Unequivocally not. To begin with, it is apparent that there never was a car,
black or otherwise, where <ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent> claimed he initially saw it. His interview
with <ent type='PERSON'>Golz</ent> clearly states that he was driving along Commerce Street just
beyond the <ent type='PERSON'>Stemmons</ent> Freeway bridge but not yet as far as the Triple <ent type='ORG'>Underpass</ent>
(the railroad bridge) when he saw a man run down the bridge abutment, toss a
long object (a rifle?) into the back seat, run around to jump into the
driver's seat and take off.</p>

<p>According to his daughter who was riding with him, "seconds before she saw
the fleeing man, the presidential limousine had just sped past his parked car
on the grass... and the limousine was turning onto <ent type='PERSON'>Stemmons</ent> Freeway."[9] This
time roughly corresponds to the time that Mel McIntire took two photographs
of the limo emerging from under the railroad bridge and, shortly thereafter,
<ent type='ORG'>the Secret Service</ent> follow-up car turning onto <ent type='PERSON'>Stemmons</ent>.[10] In neither photo
is there a "parked car on the grass." With the rest of the motorcade still in
<ent type='LOC'>Dealey Plaza</ent>, it is impossible that a car could have gotten to that spot in
time for <ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent> to have seen it before passing under the Triple <ent type='ORG'>Underpass</ent>. It
simply wasn't there.</p>

<p>Moreover, photographic evidence belies <ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent>'s claim that "everyone was
jumping out of their cars pulling up on the median strip" in the plaza as he
saw the man running down the abutment and jumping into his car.[11] Of the
many photographs taken in DP, none show "everyone... jumping out of their
cars [and] pulling up on the median strip," and none show cars parked on the
median even long after the motorcade had left the plaza, much less when
<ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent> claims they were (before the press bus had even reached the
<ent type='ORG'>Underpass</ent>). Obviously, <ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent> has never looked at any pictures of the
assassination and aftermath before.</p>

<p>If that doesn't prove the lie, then consider that the <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> Police
Department (<ent type='ORG'>DPD</ent>) recorded and investigated, however cursorily, quite a number
of reports about suspicious cars in the <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> area that afternoon.[12] Yet,
according to <ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent>, his own compatriots decided to ignore his report because
"if you didn't have a big white hat on, they didn't even want you in the
office."[13] Does it make sense that detectives will credit and investigate
reports from ordinary citizens, yet ignore one from "one of their own?"</p>

<p>Also, is it credible that a fleeing assassin would drive a dozen or so blocks
through city streets to get on a highway when there was and is an entrance
ramp onto the same highway, going in the same direction, within 100 yards of
where his car was supposedly parked and immediately to the left of the
<ent type='PERSON'>Stemmons</ent> Freeway entrance taken by the motorcade? I think not.</p>

<p>If <ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent>'s story is a fabrication, however, that doesn't preclude that a car
was found abandoned in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>, and in fact, one was. Almost by accident,
I met a retired <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> police officer, WD <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent>, who had called in a
report of an abandoned and presumably stolen car only a few minutes after the
time that <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent> was being shot thirty miles away.[14]</p>

<p>Officer <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent>, who is now retired from the force, was on patrol in the
Riverside section of east <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> and had come across the vehicle. He
called it in to the dispatcher at about 12:45 to 1:00. (It was later
determined to have been stolen in <ent type='GPE'>Houston</ent> the previous week.) <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> is
certain that the car was not black (ergo not related to <ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent>'s "black
sedan"), but only recalls it as being "a light color, perhaps even
two-toned." Since it had been parked there for a number of days, we can
reasonably conclude that it was not related to the <ent type='PERSON'>JFK</ent> murder, thereby
removing it from consideration in relation to the arrest in question.</p>

<p>If At First You <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>'t Succeed...
================================</p>

<p>Between the apparent fact that <ent type='PERSON'>Tom Tilson</ent>'s black sedan never existed and
that the car found abandoned in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> wasn't connected to this
pseudo-event, it was quite certain that this avenue of inquiry would not lead
to a conclusion about the photo in <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent>. Who, then, was the man in the photo,
and what could be learned about him? After all, he could be just about
anyone: how can an unidentified man be found thirty years later from his
image that is bound to have changed in the interim? There are more than two
million people in the <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent>-<ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> metroplex; where and how do you begin?</p>

<p>As anyone can see, there are in fact two men in the photograph: the
"unidentified suspect" and a police officer. Since nobody'd had any luck
finding out about the arrest from official files, I reasoned, the next-best
way would seem to be to find out what the arresting officer could remember.
And if you're trying to find out who a cop is, who're the best people to ask?
Naturally, other cops who may have worked with him. I decided to check with
<ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> police.</p>

<p>Identifying the officer in the photo proved not as easy as I'd thought, since
in the course of less than two hours, I'd gotten no less than four "positive
identifications" of the man from nearly a dozen of his fellow officers,
including the Assistant Chief of Police. Only one of them, as it turned out,
was correct. This should be instructive to anyone who attempts to identify a
person based upon the recollection of only one or two of his
contemporaries... even if they're trained observers, as police are frequently
termed.</p>

<p>The officer who found the abandoned car mentioned earlier, WD <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent>, also
turned out to be the arresting officer in the case of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>ald Wayne <ent type='ORG'>House</ent></ent>,
which many readers are familiar with. For the sake of those who aren't and
for putting <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent>' observations and impressions on the record (since
nobody's ever asked him about this before), we'll once again depart our main
focus on the <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> photo to recap the story of this arrest; interestingly, it
will lead us directly back to the photo.</p>

<p>In addition to the brief mention of the "2-city manhunt" in The <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent>
Morning News on the morning after the assassination, there was one (and only
one) other account of someone being arrested in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>. It appeared in
The <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> Star-Telegram the day after the assassination, and related
that a 22-year-old man had been picked up as a possible suspect in the
assassination of President <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent>.[15] While it didn't identify the man by
name, it did indicate that he was from Ranger, a small town southwest of Fort
Worth. It also identified the arresting officers (WD <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> and BG <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent>)
and noted that the man had been arrested in the 3400 block of <ent type='GPE'>East Belknap</ent>
Street in the city.</p>

<p>Reconstructing this arrest from a variety of sources, it happened something
like this:</p>

<p>On the morning of November 22, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>ald Wayne <ent type='ORG'>House</ent></ent> left his home in Ranger, TX
bound for <ent type='ORG'>Mesquite</ent> (a <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> suburb) to visit an old <ent type='ORG'>Army</ent> buddy, Randall
<ent type='PERSON'>Hunsaker</ent>.[16] He had parked his car in a lot on Commerce Street at about
10:30[17] and called <ent type='PERSON'>Hunsaker</ent>, who was apparently not home. Hearing that <ent type='PERSON'>JFK</ent>
was due to ride through downtown, he decided to get a glimpse of <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent>,
whom he says he had long admired.[18] After the motorcade had passed, he
headed toward <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> on the DFW Turnpike to visit a cousin.[19]</p>

<p>Along the way, <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> says he stopped for gas at a station in <ent type='LOC'>Grand Prairie</ent>,
where two women who had heard about the assassination asked him if he knew
anything more about it. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> told them that he'd heard the alleged
assassin's description, which he then related to the women. The description
he gave them of <ent type='PERSON'>Oswald</ent> describes <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> as well, a resemblance that can be
clearly seen in photos taken of him that day except that <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> is much
shorter than <ent type='PERSON'>Oswald</ent>.[20] It is also possible that the women had heard the
description themselves and felt that <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> matched it closely enough to
arouse their suspicions.</p>

<p>One of the two women he spoke with was apparently the "Mrs <ent type='PERSON'>Cunningham</ent>"
identified in <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> County Deputy Sheriff JC Watson's report who called the
<ent type='LOC'>Grand Prairie</ent> PD after <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had left the filling station. The <ent type='LOC'>Grand Prairie</ent>
PD then notified the <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> County sheriffs, who in turn made a general
broadcast including his description and that of his car and its license plate
number at 1:35 pm. A "short while" later <ent type='GPE'>Tarrant County</ent> officials notified
sheriffs that the car and driver had been taken into custody.[21]</p>

<p>The green and white <ent type='ORG'>Ford</ent> was heading westbound on the DFW Turnpike toward
<ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>.[22] At about the same time or just shortly after the Sheriff's
broadcast had gone out, <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent> officer WD <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> had pulled into the Shady
Oaks Drive-in on Riverside Drive just after having called in his report of
the abandoned car. While waiting for a cup of coffee, he happened to glance
in his mirror and noticed the car going by. He took off after it, leaving the
carhop standing there with his order in hand.[23]</p>

<p><ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> called into <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent> dispatch to verify <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>'s license plate number, and
because he was driving an underpowered cruiser, he also requested assistance
in case the driver attempted to evade him.[24] Officer BG <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent>, who was
patrolling an adjoining sector, sped to his assistance and met up with him a
short distance away at the "Five Points" intersection of <ent type='GPE'>East Belknap</ent> and
<ent type='PERSON'>Bonnie Brae</ent>;[25] officer BL Harbour also fell in behind <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent>.[26] Upon
seeing he had assistance, <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> notified dispatch that he was going to
"curb" the car.[27]</p>

<p><ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> pulled around <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> and forced him to pull over in the 3400 block of
<ent type='GPE'>East Belknap</ent> Street near Sylvania Park; <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent> came up behind <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, got
out of his squad car, and trained his shotgun on <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, telling him to get
out of the car and keep his hands where they could be seen. <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> frisked
him and put him in handcuffs before putting him in the back of <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent>'s
car. By this time (shortly before 1:57 pm CST, the time on <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>'s arrest
report[28]), a number of other officers had also arrived, including Lt
<ent type='PERSON'>Lawrence Wood</ent> who immediately took charge as the ranking officer. Harbour
joined <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent> in the latter's car and the two transported the prisoner to
city hall where they were photographed by newsmen.[29] <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> accompanied these
officers to city hall on his motorcycle[30] while <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> remained behind to
secure the scene and inventory the vehicle.[31]</p>

<p>All of the officers involved described the arrest as "odd" because, during
all of this time, <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> never said a word. <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> in particular thought so,
and "couldn't imagine how you could pull a man out of his car, frisk him,
handcuff him and put him in the back of a patrol car in a matter of just
seconds, all the time with a shotgun aimed at him and he never even asked why
he was being arrested!"[32]</p>

<p><ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent>' account was confirmed by <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent>, who added that Lt <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> had
instructed them not to ask <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> any questions or make any statements to him,
but to "leave that to the <ent type='NORP'>Feds</ent>," who had apparently been notified to meet the
officers at city hall.[33] <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>'s arrest report also indicated that "the
subject never once appeared nervous and in fact he was unusually calm," and
that he had never asked the officers why he was being arrested or taken into
jail.</p>

<p>Among the police, only <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent>'s account differed. He told a reporter that <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>
was "hysterical" and that "the guy stuttered, he was so scared he couldn't
get a single word out, no matter how long he tried,"[34] descriptions the
arresting officers adamantly denied. In <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent>'s defense, however, that
recollection was nearly twenty years old by the time it was made.</p>

<p>(<ent type='ORG'>House</ent>'s own account of it, published ten months after his arrest, says that
he'd asked why he was being arrested and was told by officers "You're being
arrested for the assassination of President <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent>,"[35] which also
contradicts the officers' statements. I consider this to be a relatively
minor point since <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was "in the spotlight" during the interview and may
have tended to meld details. He was undoubtedly told at some time why he'd
been brought in; whether it was before or after he arrived at city hall seems
more a matter of how he told the story than how it actually happened.)</p>

<p>Another oddity, <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> recalled, was that <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>'s car was "absolutely
spotless, there wasn't even a slip of paper in the glove box," although he
found an empty dynamite box in the trunk, which <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> claimed to have been
using as a tool chest[36] (<ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent>, in his account, said that "we found several
boxes of dynamite in the back seat,"[37] which the arresting officers also
disputed). <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> was surprised to learn that <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> supposedly junked the
car a short while later[38], saying that he couldn't imagine why he did since
the car was "immaculate."</p>

<p><ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was transported to city hall (which also housed police headquarters at
the time) by Officers <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent> and Harbour, and photographs[39] show the two
taking him inside. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was then put in the "shakedown" room and searched,
where the only belongings that were recorded having been taken from him was a
wallet containing $23 in cash and a knife.[40] According to <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, he was
interrogated by federal officers for three hours and remained alone in his
cell for another hour before being cleared and released,[41] although the jail
report indicates the time was slightly shorter.[42]</p>

<p>Another apparent "oddity" came up when <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> also recalled that, when he
arrived at city hall later in the day, he had gone to the chief's secretary
to dictate his report. About midway into his report, he says, the chief came
in and told him "not to bother" completing his report, that the man had
already been cleared by the <ent type='NORP'>Feds</ent>.[43] <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent> also did not recall writing a
report, corroborating <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent>' memory.</p>

<p>Again, there is nothing "sinister" about this. The official record of federal
agents interviewing him exists, and was published by the Warren
Commission.[44] I was also able to find an arrest report for <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> on file
that was compiled from "information from" the two arresting officers and BL
Harbour (who is now deceased). It was typed by a clerk and filed; it was not,
however, signed by the officers which is why I believe they don't remember
having filed it since, in reality, it was typed and filed after they'd
recounted the details of the arrest to the clerk. Considering the commotion
of the afternoon, it is hardly surprising that this occurred.</p>

<p>A Second Arrest in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>
=============================</p>

<p>While there is a relative wealth of information about <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>ald Wayne <ent type='ORG'>House</ent></ent>
available, as we've already learned, nothing was known about the second man
who is pictured in <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent>. As I've already noted, in Cover-Up, <ent type='ORG'>Shaw and Harris</ent>
relate that "a second <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> arrest was made at the same time <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was
taken into custody, but other than photographs from The <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>
Star-Telegram, there is no record of the arrest." They continue that
"negatives of these photos [which include the one that appears in <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> and
also in Cover-Up] are now missing from the newspaper's files."[45] <ent type='PERSON'>Morrow</ent>
added his opinion that the man looked like someone associated with the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>
and/or the <ent type='LOC'>Bay of Pigs</ent> operation. It all sounds very mysterious, almost
sinister.</p>

<p>None of the newspaper articles around that period provide any indication of
who this man was, and no account of this second arrest appeared in any of the
local papers. None of the photos were published by local newspapers, although
there were at least four other photos taken of him in addition to the one in
<ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent>. A second picture, which appears in Cover-Up,[46] shows the man being
taken from the <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent> patrol car by Lt <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent>, and a third on file at the
Star-Telegram offices depicts him being led by <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> and another officer (the
same one in the <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> photo) into city hall; two others show the back of the
man and the arresting officers as they entered the building.</p>

<p>Neither of the two photos in Cover-Up (one of which is the one in <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent>) were
taken by Star-Telegram photographers, which explains why the negatives are
not on file there. Most likely, they were taken by its rival newspaper, The
<ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>, which ceased printing in May 1976 (although a new weekly
paper has been recently started under the same banner). The Star-Telegram, as
<ent type='PERSON'>Shaw</ent> noted, no longer has all of the negatives of the photos they had taken,
but I was able to find photos on contact sheets (positives made directly from
the film strips) there, and most did indeed have negatives available. The
photo archives of the <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent> are said to be in private hands, so I have as yet
been unable to view whatever remains of them.</p>

<p>Some people have suggested that the Star-Telegram's negatives may have been
removed by the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> as part of its official investigation, but there is no
evidence that this is the case. Some Star-Telegram staffers thought this
might be so, but the director of the photo archives told me that it is much
more likely that the photographers did not turn them all in, or removed them
after realizing that they may have some historical value. "We don't polygraph
them to make sure they do," he said. In any case, they were not removed by
any official body as part of either an investigation or a cover-up, nor most
certainly, to protect David <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent>.</p>

<p>While negatives are not available for a number of photos, there is nothing
particularly noteworthy about the ones that are missing versus those that are
not. In my estimation, it doesn't appear there is any cause to claim a
cleanup of "incriminating" photos, and certainly not with regard to this
particular arrest, since, as we shall soon see, the man had nothing to do
with either the assassination or the government. The photos on the contact
sheets can generally be viewed by the public on request, although it isn't
always easy to get copies of them.</p>

<p>The contact sheets turned out to be the solution to the question of who the
officer in the <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> photo actually was since, in one of the photos, I was able
to read the name plate on one of the men in one of the contact sheet photos:
it read "HW <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>," one of the four officers named by his associates.
After making a number of phone calls, I was able to locate <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>, and
phoned him an arranged to visit with him at his home in rural <ent type='GPE'>East Texas</ent>. Now
retired and raising cattle, he doesn't seem to have aged much in the past 29
years and looks very much the same as he did the day the photo was taken.
Both he and his wife positively identified him in the <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> photo, and also
identified Lt <ent type='PERSON'>Lawrence Wood</ent> as the man with him in a photocopy I'd been able
to make of a Star-Telegram photo showing both officers.</p>

<p>(Two of the other officers who had been identified later called me and
identified <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> as well. It is also worth noting that, in head-on photos
of the man in custody, the similarity between him and "<ent type='PERSON'>Maurice Bishop</ent>" and/or
<ent type='PERSON'>David Atlee Phillips</ent> is no longer evident. One such photo can be seen in <ent type='PERSON'>Shaw</ent>
and Harris' Cover-Up,[47] and another is on file at The <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>
Star-Telegram.)</p>

<p><ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> is a private man and wouldn't allow our interview to be taped. He
was, however, very forthcoming in his recollections of that period. In
addition to arresting the man in the picture, <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> had also performed
security at <ent type='ORG'>Miller</ent>'s Funeral Home while <ent type='PERSON'>Lee Oswald</ent> was being prepared for
burial, and also at Rose Hill Cemetery when <ent type='PERSON'>Oswald</ent> was buried. He also
pointed out that <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent> kept a guard at the gravesite for many months following
<ent type='PERSON'>Oswald</ent>'s burial, citing various threats of people digging up the body and
dragging it through the streets of the city.</p>

<p>It was a quirk of fate that got <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> involved in these events. Since he
had joined the force in 1956, he had been assigned as a patrolman in the
detective division, investigating fraud in plain clothes. Sometime in
mid-1963, however, someone decided that all patrolmen were to be assigned to
the <ent type='ORG'>Patrol Division</ent>, so <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> donned his uniform and patrolled the
streets. In January 1964, <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> was named the <ent type='ORG'>Patrol Division</ent> Officer of
the Year for 1963, and promoted to detective. He returned to plain clothes
and was assigned to <ent type='ORG'>the Homicide Division</ent> for the remainder of his years with
<ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent>.</p>

<p><ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> remembered the arrest having taken place in the Riverside area on
the east side of <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>, although he couldn't recall the exact location.
He had assisted two officers who he thought were on motorcycles to transport
the prisoner to city hall. "There were a lot of cops there," he said, adding
that he had arrived after the other officers. Lt <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent>, whom <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>
diplomatically said was "not shy of the media," appeared "out of nowhere"
when he arrived at city hall with the prisoner. (In fact, <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> was already at
city hall, having escorted officers <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent> and Harbour with <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>ald <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>
from the arrest scene. In the <ent type='ORG'>NBC</ent> film footage, <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> can be seen alighting
from his motorcycle in front of the police cruiser) <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> then helped <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>
take the man out of the patrol car and escorted him into city hall. <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> is
also pictured taking the man out of the cruiser's front seat in one of the
photos in Cover-Up,[48] and it is his fingers that can be seen at the
prisoner's right elbow in the <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> photo.</p>

<p>Because he had merely assisted in the arrest, <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> did not believe that
he had filed an arrest report, that duty falling to the actual arresting
officers, whom <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> recalled having stayed behind to secure the arrest
scene and inventory the vehicle the man had apparently been stopped in. He
says he may have filled in a "call sheet," but later investigation found that
these are only kept for six months before being destroyed, so if he had, it
is no longer available. Beyond these facts and his recollection that it was
the only time in his career that he had loosed the shotgun officers carried
in their cruisers, he couldn't remember anything particularly striking about
the arrest and he was unable to remember what the man's name might have been.
He noted that <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> is now deceased, and that he didn't know who the arresting
officers might have been.[49]</p>

<p>The Unidentified Man</p>

<p>While I had successfully identified the officer in the picture, I was still
no closer to learning who the man in custody was or why he been detained.
During my many meetings with current and retired <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent> officers, however, I
had been referred to a number of others who may have had some information
regarding the case. One of these men was assigned as an officer to the
Identification Division in 1963, where he continues to work today as a
civilian employee (his associates consider him to be "the best fingerprint
guy you can find anywhere"). <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> thought that this individual may have
been working the afternoon of the arrests, and could provide some useful
information.</p>

<p>As it turned out, he had worked the evening shift on November 22, and thus
had no details of the arrest. However, he thought there might still be a
record of it on file, but shortly found that the department's worksheets of
that period were no longer on file. He felt that I wouldn't be able to find
any information without knowing the man's name, but nevertheless transferred
me to the supervisor of <ent type='ORG'>the Records Division</ent>. The supervisor suggested that I
come into the police station and look through some of their old microfilm
records. I went to <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> later the same afternoon.</p>

<p>I didn't really know what I was looking for, whether it would be a jail
roster or what, but I thought I might have been able to find a name that was
out of place or couldn't be verified against other records. I was given two
rolls of microfilm covering the period, one of arrest records, and another of
the Disposition Report and Property Records of prisoners. Since I had already
read elsewhere and been told by the officers that no arrest record was made,
I didn't know how much luck I'd have, but I figured it was worth a try.</p>

<p>I began reading the arrest reports. It appeared that November 22, 1963
started out like any other day for <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent> (aside from the President's visit
that morning). Of the thirty or so arrests officers made that day, many were
listed as "juvenile fugitives," and a roughly equal number were for
"investigation of theft under $50 (shoplifting)." There was also a report of
a man who'd been taken into custody because the police had learned he had VD,
and one of a man who had been arrested in the men's room of the local bus
station while injecting nitroglycerine into his arm. Maybe the day wasn't so
"typical" after all....</p>

<p><ent type='GPE'>Midway</ent> through the day's reports was the arrest report for <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>ald Wayne
<ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, which I decided to make a copy of since, after all, I'd been told it
hadn't been filed. The very next arrest report was for another man named
<ent type='PERSON'>Kenneth Glenn Wilson</ent>, then of 6121 Broadway in <ent type='GPE'>Haltom City</ent> to the east of
<ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>. Interestingly, he had also been arrested at the 3400 block of
<ent type='GPE'>East Belknap</ent> Street, 23 minutes after <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had been. The arresting officers
were listed as Lt LE <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> and HW <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>.[50]</p>

<p>This was an odd coincidence: nobody had mentioned two men having been
arrested in that place at that time. Who was this man, and what had he been
arrested for? That the arresting officers were the same two men who had been
photographed bringing the "unidentified suspect" into city hall made this
record all the more intriguing. (It is worth noting that <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> couldn't have
actually been an arresting officer since he'd already left the scene before
the man was taken into custody. He was, however, one of the two officers who
escorted him into city hall and booked him, and so was included in the
report.)</p>

<p><ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>, an auto parts salesman, was charged as an "investigation witness." If
he was the same man in the photos, this helped to explain why he is shown
unmanacled in the photos taken at city hall: the man wasn't a suspect, but a
witness! A witness of what? The details of the arrest provided that
information:</p>

<p>"The above subject was arrested and charged as above [Inv. Witness] after he
came to the scene of where <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was arrested. When he arrived at the scene,
he stated that he recognized the car which <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was driving and stated that
he thought that it belonged to his wife's cousin. On the way to the [city]
hall, the subject stated that <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was recently been discharged from the
service. He stated that he had not seen <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> lately and that his home is in
Ranger, <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>" [emphasis added].[51]</p>

<p>As noted earlier, the interview <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had with the <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent> said that
he was traveling to <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> to visit his cousin, in addition to mentioning
his intent to visit his <ent type='ORG'>Army</ent> buddy in <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent>.[52] This man <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>--or rather,
his wife--must be who <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was going to see.</p>

<p>When I was talking with WD <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> earlier, neither of us could figure out
why he had gotten off of the highway and driven up Riverside Drive since his
home was a number of miles farther out the same road. I drove to 6121
Broadway, the address given on <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>'s arrest record. While the house no
longer exists, the route that <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> took would have led him to his cousin's
house about a mile from where he was arrested. This particular segment of the
story no longer held any mystery. The question that nagged at me, though, was
how <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> knew <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had been arrested in the first place, an answer I knew
only <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> could provide.</p>

<p>I was finally able to locate and contact <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> (he no longer lives in Fort
Worth), who verified that he was the same <ent type='PERSON'>Kenneth Glenn Wilson</ent> who had lived
at the 6121 Broadway address nearly 30 years ago. I explained the reason I
was calling, to identify a man in a photo which I believed to be him, and
wondered if he would be willing to help me. We discussed the circumstances
which led up to the photo being taken, and as he provided me with various
details without prompting_<ent type='ORG'>House</ent>'s name, the make and color of car he was
driving, that he was from Ranger and that <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was, in fact, his wife's
cousin_it quickly became apparent that I had found the man whose arrest
report I held, but was he the same man in the photo?</p>

<p>In the course of our conversation, he mentioned that he had a book about the
assassination with his picture in it; did I perhaps have the same one? It
turned out to be Cover-Up, which of course, I had. I asked him to turn to
page 89 where the photos of <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> and the "unidentified suspect" were, and
asked him if he recognized any of them. "Sure," he said. "The three across
the top are <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>, and the two below that are of me."[53] One of these two
photos is the same as that which appears in <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent>, as we've already discussed.</p>

<p>Satisfied that <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> and the "unidentified suspect" were one and the same, I
arranged to meet with him the following weekend when I could make the time to
travel to where he now lives. We met one Saturday afternoon at a roadside
restaurant near the interstate; he was accompanied by his wife and young
grandson, who was visiting for the weekend. We talked for nearly three hours.</p>

<p><ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> now wears glasses and is, in his words, "a little fatter and deeper in
debt," but the similarity with the man in the <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> photo was unmistakable. He
parts his hair differently, but facial characteristics like the nose, chin
and forehead don't change, and_despite his denial_he still has the same slim
build he had back then. When he later posed in the same semi-profile as in
the picture, there was no doubt I was looking at the same man. Furthermore,
both he and Mrs <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> recognized the pencil he'd always hung over his ear,
and the pocket protector he wore in those days.</p>

<p>How did <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> come to be at that place and time where his cousin-in-law had
been arrested only moments before? Mrs <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> provided most of the
details:[54]</p>

<p>At some point after the shooting, while <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had been enroute to <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>,
<ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> police had contacted his mother_with whom he was living at the time_to
determine his whereabouts. After two or three such calls, Mrs <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> became
concerned, and called her niece, Mrs <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>. (Mrs <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> is now deceased, so I
was unable to determine what <ent type='ORG'>DPD</ent> had talked with her about during those
calls.) Mrs <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> called the <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>s' because, whenever <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent> came to Fort
Worth, he would spend the night with the <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>s and she expected he would do
so this night too. After the calls from <ent type='ORG'>DPD</ent>, she became worried.</p>

<p>Shortly after the call from her aunt, Mrs <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> heard a radio broadcast of a
suspect, identified as "22-year-old <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>ald <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> of Ranger, <ent type='GPE'>Texas</ent>" having
been arrested at 3408 <ent type='GPE'>East Belknap</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>.[55] At first, she said, she
didn't recognize the name since "nobody called him <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>ald," but realized
after a moment that it had been her cousin who'd been taken into custody in
connection with the slaying.</p>

<p>She noted that the address was only a couple of blocks from where her husband
worked selling auto parts, and called to ask him to check on <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent> since it
appeared he was in some sort of trouble. He excused himself from work and
walked the short distance to where <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had been arrested. There, he told
officers that he thought the car belonged to his wife's cousin, and was taken
into custody at 2:20 pm.[56] "I was looking out for <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>," Ken <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> told me,
"and they ended up taking me to jail!"</p>

<p>He was not charged with a crime, and as the record of his arrest shows, he
was brought in solely as a witness. He was questioned about his relationship
with <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent> <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> and released 90 minutes later, at 3:50.[57] He returned home
with his wife, where <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> joined them a couple of hours later (<ent type='ORG'>House</ent> wasn't
released until 5:15[58]).</p>

<p>(Mrs <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> recalled an amusing anecdote from that day: when <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent> had finally
come to their house, everyone wanted to know if he'd been nervous. "Nervous?
Of course not, I didn't do anything," he said, sitting down... missing the
chair completely and sprawling on the floor. Nervous? Who me? I guess not.)</p>

<p><ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>'s account also clears up questions about HW <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>'s recollection of
the event and in reconstructing the "arrest:" <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had been curbed by
<ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> and hurried into <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent>'s cruiser with Harbour in the back with
<ent type='ORG'>House</ent>. They in turn sped off to city hall with their prisoner with Lt <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> in
the lead, who may well have given orders to secure the scene before
departing. Other officers began arriving during and after this period, one of
whom was <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>. Whether he arrived before or after <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> is difficult to
determine and not really important. He was nevertheless selected to transport
<ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> to headquarters, which he did. Obviously, <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent> did not feel
threatened by the mild-mannered <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>, who rode beside him unmanacled and
volunteering information about his wife's cousin, <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent> <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, during the five or ten-minute ride downtown. From all accounts, it was a relatively pleasant
trip, if being under arrest or dealing with suspected Presidential assassins
can ever be called "pleasant!"</p>

<p>On arriving at city hall, the two men were met by Lt <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent>, who had escorted
<ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> to city hall less than a half-hour before.
Undoubtedly, <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> felt a need for additional police presence ushering <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>
into city hall because a crowd of people had gathered,[59] and under the
circumstances, it wouldn't have been unreasonable to suspect they might have
become unruly at the sight of a "suspect" in the assassination being led
before them. In fact, Ken <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> recalled the scene as "a little frightening
with all those people standing around yelling."[60]</p>

<p>Photos of both <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> were taken by photographers from both the
Star-Telegram and the <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>, although neither paper ever published them. TV
camera crews also captured footage of <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> being led into city hall and
through the corridors of the police department, but if similar footage of
<ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> exists, I haven't seen it.</p>

<p>Conclusion
==========</p>

<p>Beginning with a photograph of an "unidentified man" said to have been
arrested in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> and connected with both the <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent> murder and the
<ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>, along with a vague rumor or two of how the "black sedan" described by
<ent type='PERSON'>Tom Tilson</ent> may have been found in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>, we've come to find that not
only is there no evidence to support such a connection, but also that it is
quite apparent that the black sedan never actually existed and is either a
figment of <ent type='ORG'>Tilson</ent>'s imagination, a mis-recollection, or an attempt to portray
himself as having a role in the events of November 22, 1963_however
peripheral_which he in fact did not have.</p>

<p>While it is a fact that two men were taken into custody in <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> "in
connection with the shooting," there is nothing other than speculation that
can link either of them with the murder. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had been to <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> to visit a
friend who wasn't home when he got there. Unable to leave town because of the
heavy traffic due to the parade, he waited for the motorcade to pass before
he was able to leave to visit his cousin. A couple of women at a gas station
thought he matched the broadcast description of a suspect, and he was taken
into custody, cleared and released.</p>

<p>The second man, Ken <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>, was only trying to help <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, his wife's cousin.
He was taken into city hall as a witness, and not as a suspect. He wasn't
charged with any crime, and wasn't even handcuffed as he rode to city hall in
the front seat with HW <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>. He was questioned about his relationship to
<ent type='ORG'>House</ent>, released and went home. He's hardly given a second thought to these
events afterward until I spoke with him about them.</p>

<p>That Ken <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> remained "unidentified" for nearly 30 years is surprising
when you consider that I was able to locate and identify him within two weeks
of the time his photo in <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> was brought to my attention, using records which
"don't exist" long after others had apparently attempted the same. None of
the police officers involved in these arrests_save <ent type='PERSON'>Lawrence Wood</ent>, who was
interviewed by The <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> Star-Telegram 20 years later_had ever been
contacted by anyone, and it's apparent that the search for the men's arrest
records was neither thorough nor tenacious since they were, in fact, quite
readily available.</p>

<p>I must admit I had been somewhat surprised that Ken <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> had never
attempted to identify himself, especially having seen his photo in Cover-Up
along with what could be considered "mysterious" if not "sinister"
insinuations made about his being taken into custody. Then again, maybe I
shouldn't have been so surprised, since there are many people who are
apprehensive or skeptical, even cautious and suspicious of anything to do
with the <ent type='PERSON'>JFK</ent> murder, and don't want their names associated with it.</p>

<p>On the other hand, we've also got to ask ourselves who would <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> have gone
to even had he wished to identify himself? It's not an easy task to reach an
author through his publisher after all, and even so, once a book is published
and widely circulated, it is not an easy matter to change bits of material,
especially when it doesn't add to the story. It is unlikely that Cover-Up
will be amended, but will <ent type='ORG'>First Hand Knowledge</ent> be corrected because we now
know for certain that the "unidentified suspect" is no longer unidentified,
was never in fact a suspect, and was absolutely not either David <ent type='ORG'>Phillips</ent> or
"<ent type='PERSON'>Maurice Bishop</ent>?" We'll have to wait for the second printing to find out.</p>

<p>While the underlying concern of whether it is "better" from a publishing
standpoint to maintain the intrigue and aura of mystery, or to ascertain that
mundane <ent type='PERSON'>details_as</ent> this has turned out to be_are accurately portrayed remains
an important one, it is in truth of little consequence whether <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>'s
"story" is corrected since, to all those thousands of people who've bought
Cover-Up and <ent type='PERSON'>FHK</ent> and not read this article, Ken <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> will always be a
"mysterious <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> agent" involved in the assassination whose "arrest" was
"covered up" by sinister forces. Certainly, I'd like to see the record
amended, but I don't expect it will be. I just hope the same mistake won't be
made by future authors.</p>

<p>It is perhaps unfortunate in some respects that I have brought these men and
women to the fore, even despite the fact that it has "cleared" an innocent
man from any involvement with the crime, and set the record straight about
his detention. <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent>, for example, told me how his wife's cousin, <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent> <ent type='ORG'>House</ent>,
had been "harassed" over the peripheral role he had played in the events of
November 22, 1963, and no longer wishes to talk to anyone about it; indeed,
Cover-Up states that when the authors attempted to interview <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> during the
course of their research, they met with "extreme hostility." Others declined
to have their recollections recorded, voicing similar concerns.</p>

<p>For these reasons, I have refrained from noting too many personal details to
preserve their privacy and hopefully to prevent them from becoming part of
"the continuing inquiry," ruing the day they first heard my name: their roles
are long since finished. I enjoyed meeting each of them, and appreciate the
time they took to speak with me, the hospitality they showed me, and the
assistance they provided to close this chapter of history quickly. I hope
they never have cause to regret it.</p>

<p>I hope too that this experience can temper the enthusiasm, even zeal, of many
researchers who feel that the "truth" can be found by citing every lead and
"reasonable conclusion" as absolute fact. If we are ever to be successful in
our efforts to re-open an official investigation of some sort, we must come
armed with evidence, not mere theories and speculations. After all, we're
supposed to be investigating a murder, not writing novels or creating myths,
aren't we?</p>

<p>Copyright c 1993, M. Duke Lane</p>

<p>The author gratefully acknowledges the advice, assistance and encouragement
of <ent type='PERSON'>Gary Mack</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Mary Ferrell</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Dave Perry</ent>, and other <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> area researchers in
this investigation.</p>

<p>NOTES
-----</p>

<p>1. Interview with <ent type='PERSON'>Gary Null</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>WBAI</ent>-FM <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, 99.5 FM, October 1992</p>

<p>2. See Letters to the Editor of The Third Decade, Volume 9, Number 1,
November 1992, pp 36-40; Number 2, January 1993, pp 9-11; and Number 3, March
1993, pp 27-28 (all related).</p>

<p>3. <ent type='PERSON'>Robert Morrow</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>First Hand Knowledge</ent>, 1992, S.P.I Books/Shapolsky
Publishers, Inc, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent></p>

<p>4. <ent type='PERSON'>Gary Shaw</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Larry Ray Harris</ent>, Cover-Up, self-published, <ent type='PERSON'>Cleburne</ent> TX,
1976, page 89</p>

<p>5. Obituary, <ent type='ORG'>The Washington Post</ent>, July 9, 1988, pG5</p>

<p>6. "Police Launch 2-city <ent type='ORG'>Manhunt</ent>," The <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> Morning News, November 23, 1963,
page 2. The full account reads: "During the frantic period at the hospital,
police, <ent type='ORG'>Secret Service</ent> men and <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> agents had started a 2-city manhunt. They
arrested several persons, among them a <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> man who was said to be
driving a car linked to the slayer." There was no additional coverage of this
event in the paper.</p>

<p>7. <ent type='PERSON'>Earl Golz</ent>, "Ex-officer suspect he chased '2nd gun'," The <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> Morning
News, August 20, 1978, p 42A.</p>

<p>8. <ent type='PERSON'>Jim Marrs</ent>, Crossfire: The Plot that Killed <ent type='PERSON'>Kennedy</ent>, 1989, Carroll &amp; Graf
Publishers, <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>, pp 325-327. This is a nearly verbatim recounting of the
aforementioned <ent type='PERSON'>Golz</ent> article.</p>

<p>9. <ent type='PERSON'>Golz</ent>, "'2nd gun'"</p>

<p>10. "Scenes From an Assassination" (photographic essay), The <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent>
Times-Herald, November 20, 1983</p>

<p>11. <ent type='PERSON'>Golz</ent>, "'2nd gun'"</p>

<p>12. <ent type='ORG'>See Decker Exhibit</ent> 5323 (affidavits to <ent type='GPE'>Dallas</ent> County Sheriffs): 19H500,
<ent type='PERSON'>Malcolm Summers</ent>, November 23, 1963; 19H497-98, Jesse <ent type='PERSON'>James Williams</ent>, November
22, 1963; 19H501, <ent type='PERSON'>William Clifford Anderson</ent>, November 25, 1963; 19H522-23,
November 22, 1963; and Cover-Up, p 88 (reference to <ent type='ORG'>DPD</ent> radio logs for
11/22/63, time not indicated)</p>

<p>13. <ent type='PERSON'>Golz</ent>, "'2nd gun'"</p>

<p>14. Interview with WD <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> by author, December 22, 1992</p>

<p>15. "Man Arrested Here Released," The <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> Star-Telegram, November 23,
1963, p9</p>

<p>16. <ent type='ORG'>Warren Commission</ent> Document #301 (CD 301), pp 111-112. See also John
Moulder, "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History," The <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Press</ent>,
September 28, 1964, page 1 and Cover-Up, p 88.</p>

<p>17. <ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent> CD 301, and CD 897, p 331</p>

<p>18. "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History"</p>

<p>19. <ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent></p>

<p>20. Cover-Up, p 89</p>

<p>21. 19H522-23, November 22, 1963.</p>

<p>22. <ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent>, and arrest report #19560, <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>ald Wayne <ent type='ORG'>House</ent></ent>. November 22, 1963</p>

<p>23. <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> interview</p>

<p>24. A six cylinder <ent type='GPE'>Plymouth</ent>: <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> interview and <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> arrest report</p>

<p>25. Interview with BG <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent>, January 5, 1993</p>

<p>26. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> arrest report</p>

<p>27. <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> interview; <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent> interview</p>

<p>28. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> arrest report. Note that this may be "official" as opposed to
actual time since an <ent type='ORG'>NBC</ent> newscast transcript notes the first broadcast that
"a car has been stopped at <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> that may have some connection with the
shooting" at 1:49 pm CST, eight minutes earlier. WBAP radio had also
broadcast a similar statement three minutes earlier at 1:46, indicating that
<ent type='ORG'>House</ent> had already been pulled over and perhaps already taken to city hall.</p>

<p>29. Cover-up, p 89, upper row of photos</p>

<p>30. <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> is now deceased and surviving officers do not recall who the
motorcycle officers were, but news footage taken by <ent type='ORG'>KXAS</ent>-TV (then WBAP-TV)
made available to me by <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent> researcher <ent type='PERSON'>Gary Mack</ent> shows <ent type='PERSON'>Wood</ent> getting
off of his motorcycle as <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> is being driven up in the squad car</p>

<p>31. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> arrest report; <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent> interviews</p>

<p>32. <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> interview</p>

<p>33. <ent type='PERSON'>Whistler</ent> interview</p>

<p>34. <ent type='PERSON'>Elston Brooks</ent>, "An Arrest He'll Never Forget," The <ent type='GPE'>Fort Worth</ent>
Star-Telegram, November 20, 1983, p 20F (Sunday special section: "Turning
Point: The Assassination of <ent type='PERSON'>JFK</ent>")</p>

<p>35. "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History"</p>

<p>36. <ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent></p>

<p>37. "An Arrest He'll Never Forget"</p>

<p>38. Cover-Up, p 88</p>

<p>39. Photos can be seen in Cover-Up, top of p 89</p>

<p>40. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> Property Record #19560, <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent></p>

<p>41. "'Suspect' Seized Here Made History"</p>

<p>42. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> disposition report #19560, <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent>. The report indicates that charges
were dropped after <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was questioned, and he was released at 5:15 pm, 3
hours and 18 minutes after he'd been arrested</p>

<p>43. <ent type='PERSON'>Roberts</ent> interview</p>

<p>44. CD 301</p>

<p>45. Cover-Up, page 89</p>

<p>46. <ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent></p>

<p>47. <ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent></p>

<p>48. <ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent></p>

<p>49. Interview with Mr and Mrs HW <ent type='ORG'>Sinclair</ent>, December 20, 1992</p>

<p>50. <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> arrest record #19561, <ent type='ORG'>FWPD</ent> (shown on back cover), and accompanying
disposition report and property record #19561</p>

<p>51. <ent type='PERSON'>Ibid</ent></p>

<p>52. "'Suspect' Arrested Here Makes History."</p>

<p>53. Telephone interview with <ent type='PERSON'>Kenneth Glenn Wilson</ent>, January 9, 1993</p>

<p>54. Interview with Mr and Mrs <ent type='PERSON'>Kenneth Glenn Wilson</ent>, January 23, 1993</p>

<p>55. Live WBAP radio broadcast, November 22, 1963 at the time <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> was
brought into the jail. In addition to the newspaper reporters and
photographers who were at city hall, there were a number of television and
radio personnel. Footage from <ent type='ORG'>KXAS</ent>-TV and <ent type='ORG'>KTVT</ent>-TV (op cit) of <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> being
brought into police headquarters and being marched through the hallways and
offices clearly indicates that coverage of the arrest was immediate.</p>

<p>56. <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> arrest records. Again, this is an official rather than
actual time.</p>

<p>57. At 3:50 pm; <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> disposition report #19561</p>

<p>58. <ent type='ORG'>House</ent> disposition report #19560</p>

<p>59. WBAP-TV (<ent type='ORG'>NBC</ent>) news footage</p>

<p>60. <ent type='ORG'>Wilson</ent> interview</p>

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