Excerpt Three From My Latest Book, "JFK and the End of America"

From chapter 5:

We can surmise, then, that the men on the sixth floor, including the Second Oswald, lingered for a few minutes to plant the weapon and cartridges and make a sniper’s nest after the assassination. They were seen by several witnesses including Lillian Mooneyham. In an FBI report dated 1/10/1964, Mooneyham, a court clerk who watched the motorcade and its aftermath from a judge’s courtroom in an adjacent building, stated that she saw a man standing in the sixth floor window about five minutes after the shooting.171 Several other witnesses reported seeing two men on the sixth floor. Arnold Rowland reported two men pacing back and forth about ten minutes after the assassination.172 L. R. Terry, standing across the street from the TSBD, also saw two men in the southeast window.173 A Dallas County jail inmate named John Powell, in his cell across the street from the TSBD, watched two men with guns on the sixth floor; one of them, probably Wallace, had dark skin.174 Ruby Henderson, at street-level, noticed the same two men; one had a darker complexion than the other.175 Neither of the men seen in the window could have been the First Oswald because he was in the second floor lunchroom at the time.

At about 12:40 p.m. the Second Oswald made his move. As stated previously, Roger Craig, a Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputy, saw a man closely resembling Oswald fleeing the TSBD by hurrying down Elm Street and jumping into a waiting light-colored Nash Rambler driven by a man who resembled CIA asset David Morales.176 Craig was not alone; several other witnesses—including Helen Forrest, James Pennington, Marvin C. Robinson and Roy Cooper—saw the same thing.

Craig’s keen observation tells us that at about the same time that the First Oswald was on the Marsalis bus stuck in downtown traffic, the Second Oswald was fleeing Dealey Plaza in a car driven by a getaway man. This uncomfortable fact caused great concern for the Warren Commission and the Dallas police, and it eventually ruined Craig’s career. An honest and decorated cop, he stuck to his story until the day he died.

Craig also saw some suspicious goings-on before he saw the Second Oswald. He was on duty near Dealey Plaza when the shooting occurred. Upon hearing the shots, he ran towards the picket fence atop the grassy knoll and saw a woman trying to drive out of the parking lot behind the fence. He stopped the car, arrested the woman, and turned her over to another Dallas cop for questioning. Soon after, the woman vanished without a trace. The other cop offered no explanation for her disappearance, and there is no record of her arrest; Craig also noticed what appeared to be a sidewalk nick caused by a fresh-bullet strike on Elm Street—another indication that many more than three bullets were fired that day.177

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