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Murphy Martin Commentary
November 23, 2006
"Voices from History"
A new addition was
opened this week at the Sixth Floor Museum in downtown Dallas.
Entitled Voices from History: Dallas Law Enforcement, it
offers a rare look at the Kennedy Assassination through the eyes of
Police and Sheriff's Deputies who added their thoughts to the
growing Oral History being put together by Steve Fegin which already
numbers in the thousands of hours. A number of the better known
names from the local level were on hand for the Monday night
kickoff.
The seventh floor
displays featured many seldom if ever seen pictures including a 3-D
effect with Bob Jackson's award winning photo of Jack Ruby killing
Oswald. Jackson was also present, returning to Dallas from Colorado
which he now calls home.
Pierce Allman, former WFAA Radio program director moderated a panel
including two Deputies, Luke Mooney and Gene Boone. These three were
among the first in the School Book Depository following the killing
of President Kennedy. Mooney and Boone helped locate the rifle
Oswald used.
Another well-known name, Jim Leavelle, was there too and he
straightened out fuzzy information relayed by Boone about how Oswald
got from the School Book Depository to Oak Cliff where he killed
officer J.D. Tippitt. Leavelle traced every step Oswald made with
more than adequate good information from bus drivers to cab drivers
to stamped transfers and all information that put the assassin
talking with Tippit and then pulling the revolver from beneath his
shirt to add his second murder victim to his toll for that day of
infamy in Dallas.
It is a well produced addition to the Sixth Floor Museum. But it
does leave one scratching their head how the only major newspaper in
Dallas can choose to feature a story on the sale of worthless
theories about the assassination on this the 43rd anniversary, while
it has such a wealth of material in the Museum or in it's own
archives.
Every year about this
time news people still come to Dallas looking for something new to
report. Still hoping I guess that they just might be the one that
gets a sliver of information that will put a new different ending to
the story. A few weeks ago, Russian Television was in town filming a
documentary regarding Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina Oswald. Their
time in Russia and their time in America. I have no idea how many
people they spoke with but I do know Hugh Aynesworth, Jim Leavelle
and I spent a couple of days with them as they asked their questions
through an interpreter and then had to wait for the interpreter to
translate our answers back to them!
We look forward to their finished product in late December. Now THAT
could be different!! We will see how the translation goes. It will
at least be a better story than the Dallas Morning News front page
today spotlighting the hacks that sell unproven info about the
assassination from the sidewalks of Dealey Plaza, named for the
founder of the Morning News. The Morning News front page continues
to change, doesn't it?
Murphy Martin
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