John’s website: www.harveyandlee.netArticle: Westbrook and Croy by John ArmstrongThis new article focusses for the most part on Westbrook and CroyArticle: The Murder of J.D. Tippit by John ArmstrongNearly everything that HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald did on 11/22/63 was pre-plannedBill Shelley was Oswald’s supervisor at the Book DepositoryIn 1963 Capt. Westbrook was in charge of the Personnel Dept. for the Dallas policeWestbrook had nothing to do with Capt. Will Fritz’s homicide and robbery divisionYet following the shooting of President Kennedy Westbrook was everywhereHe was the first police officer to arrive at the Texas TheaterHARVEY Oswald rode to the Book Depository with Wesley FrazierFrazier’s sister, Linnie Mae Randle, told the WC that Oswald was wearing a grey jacket with big sleevesCE 163 (the jacket)Westbrook’s whereabouts from the time he was last seen at the police station (circa 12:35 pm)
to his arrival at the book depository are unknown
Westbrook told the WC that he walked one mile to the Texas Book Depository Building–a 22 minute walkReserve officer Sgt. Croy told the WC that when President Kennedy was shot, at 12:30 PM,
he was “sitting in his car at the city hallâ€â€”police headquarters
According to Croy, he and his estranged wife had gone to lunch together at Austin’s BarbecueJohn Armstrong believes that Croy met with Capt. Westbrook and rode in Westbrook’s dark blue,
unmarked police car, driving to the Book Depository
HARVEY Oswald boarded the Marsalis bus and then decided to get off the bus (around 12:44 PM)Two police officers boarded the bus and searched passengers for weapons, around 12:47 to 12:50 PMWhy would police board a bus on Elm St. that was headed toward the Book Depository?This was not discussed nor investigated by the Warren Commission nor by the FBI nor the Dallas PolicePolice car 207Police officer at the Tippit scene before the ambulance arrivedThe “discovery” of Oswald’s jacketWestbrook was the in charge of personnel dept.Yet he did not remember the name of a single police officer with whom he came in contact that afternoonThe second wallet found at the Tippit sceneThe second wallet was not entered into evidenceThe only items from this wallet that survived were the two identification cards with the name “Hidellâ€Two identification cards obtained from the second wallet showed Oswald and Hidell were the same personFBI agent James Hosty published his book Assignment Oswald in March 1996For the first time, JFK researchers learnt about the second wallet which Hosty described in his bookResearchers were desperate to interview Westbrook after learning about the second walletBut Westbrook died of cancer only a few weeks before the book was released !!!Following the shooting of HARVEY Oswald by Jack Ruby, Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry
assembled a special squad of detectives to investigate the murder of Oswald
The senior police officer in charge of this “special squad” was none other than Capt. WestbrookWestbrook went on to work with the CIAWestbrook relocated to South Vietnam where he was a CIA-sponsored advisor to the Saigon Police Dept
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