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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1964
Page
5
The text outlines the Kennedy assassination on November 22 1963 and the Warren Commission’s aim to present an objective, thorough account. It describes the Texas trip, motorcade route, the Texas School Book Depository, and initial witness observations including a shooter on the sixth floor.
A line of eight Secret Service agents traveled in the followup car behind the presidential limousine with two in front two in back and two on each running board scanning crowds roofs and buildings. The Vice Presidential car followed carrying the Vice President Mrs Johnson and Senator Yarborough. The convoy included followup cars and buses for more dignitaries and press as it departed Love Field after 11 50 a.m.
The report details the Kennedy assassination sequence with multiple gunshots and the wound to the President and Governor Connally. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in aboard the presidential plane at Love Field, en route to Washington, as security agents protect the new leader.
The report details the Dallas murder scene after the Kennedy assassination, the discovery of the rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, and the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald. It covers Oswalds early life in New Orleans Fort Worth and New York, including schooling troubles and psychiatric evaluation.
Autopsy notes describe two exit wounds enlarged by Parkland doctors during a tracheotomy. They report a small entry wound at the rear of the skull and another near the base of the neck. Cause of death listed as gunshot wound to the head. Bullets fired from behind and above the deceased.
Witness accounts varied at first about where the shots came from before focus settled on the Texas School Book Depository Building. The building housed a private corporation distributing school textbooks and leasing space to publishers, with most workers employed by those publishers.
Dallas Patrolman Marrion L. Baker raced to the Texas School Book Depository after a shot rang out near the presidential motorcade. He found Roy Truly and they entered the building, climbing stairs to the lunchroom where they encountered a lone employee later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald who had started work on October 16, 1963.
About a minute after his encounter with Baker and Truly, Oswald was observed passing through the second floor offices carrying a full Coke bottle bought from the lunchroom vending machine. He walked toward the building front where the elevator and stairs led to the main entrance.
About 14 minutes after the assassination in Dallas, Patrolman J. D. Tippit was shot and killed near East 10th Street and Patton Avenue while pursuing a man matching the suspect’s description. Domingo Benavides, who heard the shots, saw the gunman retrieve empty shells and rush toward Patton Avenue.
Witnesses across Oak Cliff spotted the gunman near Patton Avenue and 10th Street as he fled south toward Jefferson Boulevard. Helen Markham and Barbara Davis saw the shots and saw the man with a pistol while Scoggins, Callaway, and Brewer provided corroborating observations before the gunman entered the Texas Theatre about 1 40 p.m.
Police radio records show officers noting similar suspect descriptions at 1 29 p m and 1 45 p m as Mrs Postal reports a suspect entering the Texas Theater on West Jefferson. The theater is surrounded and lights raised as Officer N McDonald and other patrolmen close in.
After leaving school, Lee held various jobs in New Orleans for ten months including an office messenger. During this time he began reading communist literature and, in conversations with colleagues, showed interest in communism and discussed it with a fellow employer.
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