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The Intimidation of Dealey Plaza Witnesses
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." --Voltaire, French philosopher and writer (1694 - 1778) The following text is
excerpted from the book, Crossfire by Jim Marrs: Richard Carr, a
steelworker who saw a heavyset man on the sixth-floor of the [Texas
School Book] Depository minutes before the shooting [of President
Kennedy], saw two men run from either inside or from behind the Texas
School Book Depository minutes after the assassination. He claimed the men got
into a Nash Rambler station wagon facing north on the west side of
Houston Street by the east side of the Depository. He said the
wagon left in such a hurry one of its doors was still open. He
last saw the station wagon speeding north on Houston. After reaching ground
level from the seventh-story vantage point on the courthouse under
construction, Carr said he saw the same man he had seen earlier in the
Depository window. Carr said the man was "in an extreme hurry
and kept looking over his shoulder" as he walked hurriedly eastward on
Commerce Street. Carr's story was
corroborated by that of James R. Worrell, Jr., who told the Warren
Commission that seconds after the shooting, he saw a man wearing a
sportcoat come out of the rear of the Depository and walk briskly south
on Houston (the direction of Carr's location). Worrell can't be
questioned further about what he saw, as he was killed in a motorcycle
accident on November 9, 1966 at age twenty-three. Carr, however, told
researchers about his treatment at the hands of the authorities.
In a taped interview, Carr said: Not long after this
encounter with the FBI, Carr's home was raided by more than a dozen
Dallas policemen and detectives armed with a search warrant.
Claiming they were looking for "stolen articles," they
ransacked Carr's home while holding him and his wife a gunpoint.
Carr and his wife were taken to jail but later released. The day
after the police raid, Carr received an anonymous phone call advising
him to "get out of Texas." Carr finally moved to
Montana to avoid harassment, but there he found dynamite in his car on
one occasion and was shot at on another. After testifying in the
New Orleans Clay Shaw trial, Carr was attacked by two men in
Atlanta. Although stabbed in the back and left arm, Carr managed
to fatally shoot one of his assailants. After turning himself in,
Carr was not indicted by an Atlanta grand jury. Other witnesses also were
later intimidated. Acquilla Clemmons, who saw two men at the scene
of the Tippit slaying, said a man with a gun came to her home and told
her to keep quiet. Ed Hoffman, who saw two men with a rifle behind
the picket fence on the Grassy Knoll at the time of the assassination,
was warned by an FBI agent not to tell what he saw "or you might
get killed." A relative of Depository
superintendent Roy Truly recently told researchers that due to
intimidation by federal authorities, Truly was fearful until his
death. Truly's wife, Mildred, still refuses to discuss the
assassination--even with family members. Sandy Speaker, the
supervisor of Warren Commission star witness Howard Brennan, would not
discuss the assassination until recently, after getting a phone call
from his friend and co-worker A. J. Millican. Speaker said he got
a call from Millican early in 1964. Millican was almost in tears
and told him never to talk about the assassination. Millican said he
had just received an anonymous call threatening not only his life, but
the lives of his wife and her sister. He said the caller told him
to warn Speaker to keep his mouth shut. Recently Speaker told this
author: Whispered rumors, anonymous
phone calls, and freakish "accidents" combined to create a
tangible aura of fear in Dallas in the weeks following the
assassination. Some of that fear still lingers there. Links:
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