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#1263 – John Washburn / Ray McGuinnis

• Larry Crafard – The Leads the Warren Commission Lost Part 1 & 2 at Kennedys & King
• Larry sparked John’s interest as it seems he was sort of pushed out of the Warren Commission.
• Crafard testified before the Warren Commission over the course of three days. Leads were not followed up on.
• People feel Crafard has some similarities with Oswald. Was he an Oswald imposter?
• Crafard was tracked down to his sister’s in Michigan after JFK and Lee were murdered.
• Robert Kermit Patterson went to Naval Intelligence in Dallas
• He reported that he’d seen Oswald in his club but it was Crafard.
• Waitress Mary Lawrence said she saw Ruby and Crafard together at the B&B Cafe the morning of the assassination.
• Gloria Fillman confirmed that she went to the B&B Restaurant with Crafard and Ruby.
• Washburn sat down and plotted out Crafard’s timeline after Crafard left Dallas.
• Earl Ruby described getting a telephone call telling him that Oswald had been shot.
• When the FBI visited the Carousel Club, Andy Armstrong supplied the FBI with Crafard’s mail and notebook.
• John felt that the FBI was very efficient in trying to find information on Crafard. They did not want to probe Ruby.
• The American public had to be convinced that the government, police and Warren Commission had things under control.
• The aim of the Warren Commission was to determine that Oswald was the lone shooter.
• Crafard’s FBI testimony on Thanksgiving Day to the FBI was pretty thorough. Crafard’s alibi for 11/22/63 is questionable.
• Crafard stated in 1st interview that Armstrong had woken him up at the Carousel Club.
• Incredibly, Crafard undermines his testimony from 1st statement, changed times he had interacted with Armstrong.
• Armstrong didn’t give Crafard an alibi until January of 1964.
• This alibi didn’t match Crafard’s testimony.
• Was Crafard on a bus, headed out of Dealey Plaza, in order to confuse people?
• Ruby was at the Dallas Morning News at the time of JFK’s assassination.
• Ruby could see Dealey Plaza from the office window.
• Detective Jim Leavelle arrived at the Tippit murder scene approximately about 1:30 PM.
• Did Leavelle deal with the 2nd wallet?
• After Dan Rather saw the Zapruder film, he tried to mislead the public, lying and stating Jack’s head shot forward.
• Was Mary Bledsoe on the bus with Oswald?
• Did Oswald and a blonde woman get off Mary’s bus? Did police board the bus?
• Was Crafard taken off Mary Beldsoe’s bus to help take care of Office Tippit? Was he at the scene when Tippit was shot?
• Warren Commission’s Leon Hubert and Burt Griffin did not feel that Crafard was a shooter.
• Officer Kenneth Croy arrived on the Tippit scene at the same time as Officer Hill.
• Bill DeMar testified that he felt he saw Lee Harvey Oswald in the Carousel Club.
• Could it have been Larry Crafard that he saw?
• Dan Rather’s testimony actually destroys the “Magic Bullet Theory”.
• Did Ruby think there was a plot to murder John Connelly?
• Was he surprised when he found out JFK had been murdered instead?
• The Warren Commission requested a search on Crafard’s social security number to see where he had been employed.
• A Carousel Club stripper said that Crafard had a police badge and was impersonating being a police officer.
• What was hanging up in Tippit’s car? Was it a shirt? Was it a jacket?
• Leavelle stated he didn’t realize there was a connection between JFK’s murder and Tippit’s murder.
• Len and John discuss Crafard’s timeline into Michigan. Who would he need to see in Chicago?Ray McGinnis @ 1:04:39
• April 3, 2025 ver

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