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VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 AUGUST 22, 1977
THE DALLAS POLICE RADIO: ASSASSINATION ON TAPE! by Gary Mack
Gary Mack is Program Director of television station KFJZ-FM
in Fort Worth. He has been v/orking on this project for
many months. He has listened to the police tape more than a
hundred times over the past several months. His letter concludes:
"As new technology becomes available I'll continue
my study of the police tapes for any further information they
may contain."
We are happy to have his article.
Penn Jones
There's little question Abe Zapruder's 8mm color film of the JFK murder is
the best T^iece of hard evidence still publicly available. Its suppression should
have S e / a crime and we are all indebted to Robert Groden and ABC Television for
its nationwide broadcast just two years ago. How close we came to not having that
filml
Zapruder bought the camera only a few days before and because November 22nd
be^an dark and overcast, he left it at home thinking picture-taking on a cloudy
day Sould be a waste of'film. Wnen the sun appeared, his secretary urged him to
rttu?n home, get the camera and film the Kennedy motorcade. There were only a
?ew SnStes'to spare when he arrived in Dealey Plaza and began looking for a good
vantage point. The choice was a marble abutment at the west end of the pergola
I S c S g the kAoll area between the Texas School Book Depository and the railroad
overpass.
d filming the lead
them. Seeing Ken-until
the presi-orner
from Houston
one frame of the
those first frames
reet, and as two of
traight ahead! He
in front of the
en H. D. Freeman,
d, positioned in
Not knowing the lineup of the motorcade, Zapruder starte
motorcycles and Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry's car behind
nedy's car was still several seconds away, he stopped filming
dential limousine appeared on Elm Street after rounding the c
Few people have seen this early segment of the film and only
sequence has been published. A most unusual event occurs in
Three motorcyle policemen are traveling abreast up Houston bt
them turn left onto Elm, the man on the far right continues s
left the motorcade for an unknown reason, probably pulling up
TSBD on the Elm Street Extension. This policeman may have be
who testified before the Warren Commission that he was, mdee
front of the TSBD immediately after the shots were fired.
Close inspection of the Zapruder film reveals a radio antenna on this motor-cvcle
and although most of the three-wheelers had radios, we know from testimony
?hat all we?e in working order. The significance of the event cannot be under-ot^
tpripcause of its possible involvement with interference on one of the two
illlls PoSce radio channels. Just about 30 seconds before the shots were fired,
a iotorc?cie policeman opened his microphone on Channel 1. For an as yet unex-a
motorcycxe puixu ^ ^ stayed open for nearly 8 straight minutes, effec-
?ivSv blocking a S ponce coSSuSicitions on that channel. Meanwhile, the dis-
JatcSr is heard on Channel 2 telling of a motorcycle officer on Stemmons Freeway
Object Description
| Title | The Dallas Police Radio: Assassination On Tape! By Gary Mack |
| Volume No. | 2 |
| Issue No. | 1 |
| Date | 1977-08-22 |
| Series | V. Personal – E. Publications – 1. The Continuing Inquiry |
| Uniform Title | The Continuing Inquiry |
| Collection Title | Poage Library - JFK - Penn Jones Collection |
| Custodian | Poage Legislative Library |
| ID | 15p-jfkjones-ci-v2_1977-08-22 |
| Resource Type | Newsletter |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Series | V. Personal – E. Publications – 1. The Continuing Inquiry |
| Uniform Title | The Continuing Inquiry |
| Collection Title | Poage Library - JFK - Penn Jones Collection |
| Custodian | Poage Legislative Library |
| Resource Type | Newsletter |
| Format | Text |
| Full Text | ei VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 AUGUST 22, 1977 THE DALLAS POLICE RADIO: ASSASSINATION ON TAPE! by Gary Mack Gary Mack is Program Director of television station KFJZ-FM in Fort Worth. He has been v/orking on this project for many months. He has listened to the police tape more than a hundred times over the past several months. His letter concludes: "As new technology becomes available I'll continue my study of the police tapes for any further information they may contain." We are happy to have his article. Penn Jones There's little question Abe Zapruder's 8mm color film of the JFK murder is the best T^iece of hard evidence still publicly available. Its suppression should have S e / a crime and we are all indebted to Robert Groden and ABC Television for its nationwide broadcast just two years ago. How close we came to not having that filml Zapruder bought the camera only a few days before and because November 22nd be^an dark and overcast, he left it at home thinking picture-taking on a cloudy day Sould be a waste of'film. Wnen the sun appeared, his secretary urged him to rttu?n home, get the camera and film the Kennedy motorcade. There were only a ?ew SnStes'to spare when he arrived in Dealey Plaza and began looking for a good vantage point. The choice was a marble abutment at the west end of the pergola I S c S g the kAoll area between the Texas School Book Depository and the railroad overpass. d filming the lead them. Seeing Ken-until the presi-orner from Houston one frame of the those first frames reet, and as two of traight ahead! He in front of the en H. D. Freeman, d, positioned in Not knowing the lineup of the motorcade, Zapruder starte motorcycles and Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry's car behind nedy's car was still several seconds away, he stopped filming dential limousine appeared on Elm Street after rounding the c Few people have seen this early segment of the film and only sequence has been published. A most unusual event occurs in Three motorcyle policemen are traveling abreast up Houston bt them turn left onto Elm, the man on the far right continues s left the motorcade for an unknown reason, probably pulling up TSBD on the Elm Street Extension. This policeman may have be who testified before the Warren Commission that he was, mdee front of the TSBD immediately after the shots were fired. Close inspection of the Zapruder film reveals a radio antenna on this motor-cvcle and although most of the three-wheelers had radios, we know from testimony ?hat all we?e in working order. The significance of the event cannot be under-ot^ tpripcause of its possible involvement with interference on one of the two illlls PoSce radio channels. Just about 30 seconds before the shots were fired, a iotorc?cie policeman opened his microphone on Channel 1. For an as yet unex-a motorcycxe puixu ^ ^ stayed open for nearly 8 straight minutes, effec- ?ivSv blocking a S ponce coSSuSicitions on that channel. Meanwhile, the dis- JatcSr is heard on Channel 2 telling of a motorcycle officer on Stemmons Freeway |
| Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |