(2) Curtis E. Le May,
Scroll of Appreciation, presented to David Harold Byrd (24th May, 1963)
For
rendering meritorious service to the United States Air Force from Dec. 1941 to
April, 1960. Motivated by a strong sense of patriotism, Mr. Byrd played a major
part in the successful operation of the Texas Wing, Civil Air Patrol,
throughout World War II. After the war he assisted in the incorporation of the
Civil Air Patrol and its designation as an Auxiliary of the Air Force. Mr. Byrd
helped initiate the International Air Cadet Exchange and worked closely with
the Air Cadet League of Canada. The many scholarships established or supported
by Mr. Byrd have aided countless cadets in the attainment of additional
training and higher education. His contributions of material and personal aircraft
to the use of Civil Air Patrol materially aided in the performance of its
mission.. The distinctive accomplishments of Mr. Byrd have earned for him the
sincere gratitude of the United States Air Force.
Heavy
insider buying in LTV stock by LBJ insiders DH Byrd and James Ling in Nov. 1963
in the weeks before the JFK assassination. Major defense contract awarded to
LTV in January, 1964, paid for out of the nonexisting 1965 budget
Go to
footnote #49
49. In
early November 1963, Byrd and his investment partner, James Ling, made a
significant insider purchase of stock in their defense industry investment,
LTV. Although required by SEC rules to report this insider purchase, they
delayed doing so until well after Kennedy’s assassination. Then in January LTV
received the first major LBJ defense contract from the Pentagon – for a fighter
plane designed for Vietnam. Cf. Joan Mellen, “The Kennedy Assassination
and the Current Political Moment,” Part II,http://www.joanmellen.net/truth-2.html.
D.H.
Byrd was so close to LBJ they might as well have been Siamese twins. And he is
Col. D.H. Byrd Air Force, friends with Gen Curtis Lemay who called the
Kennedys' "cockroaches" in his LBJ oral history. Air Force Gen.
Edward Lansdale running the show at Dealey Plaza - joint CIA/military
intelligence operation.
The
heavy insider buying was based on DEAD KENNEDY coming up soon, with LBJ INSIDE
WHITE HOUSE.
And who
did LBJ tell Madeleine [Brown] who did it? The fat cats in Dallas and renegade
intelligence bastards.
Anyone
who tells you the JFK assassination is not solved, stick this in their face.
LBJ-DALLAS
OIL/MILITARY CONTRACTORS/CIA/MILITARY INTELLIGENCE murdered JFK.
I should
note that D.H. Byrd 1) employed LBJ's personal hit man Malcolm Wallace 2) owned
the Texas School Book Depository and 3) could land his plane on LBJ's ranch
anytime he wanted to even when LBJ was president.
Byrds, Planes, and an Automobile by Richard Batholomew
It is
probable that Byrd knew David Ferrie and he definitely knew the very top Air
Force brass through Civil Air Patrol (CAP). CAP Captain David Ferrie was CAP
cadet Lee Harvey Oswald's trainer.316
Byrd was
a co-founder of Civil Air Patrol. Displayed in his office, at 1110 Tower
Petroleum Building in Dallas, were many pictures of himself in uniform with
aviation dignitaries and Air Force Generals.317 He was an aviation buff but could not become a
fighter pilot because his eyesight was bad.318 He co-founded CAP six days before Pearl Harbor.319 After World War II he spearheaded the
establishment of the Cadet Program in CAP and contributed many scholarships to
its cadets.320 In Dallas on May 24, 1963, the U.S. Air Force
presented to Byrd its Scroll of Appreciation, which reads:
For
rendering meritorious service to the United States Air Force from Dec. 1941 to
April, 1960. Motivated by a strong sense of patriotism, Mr. Byrd played a major
part in the successful operation of the Texas Wing, Civil Air Patrol,
throughout World War II. After the war he assisted in the incorporation of the
Civil Air Patrol and its designation as an Auxiliary of the Air Force. Mr. Byrd
helped initiate the International Air Cadet Exchange and worked closely with
the Air Cadet League of Canada. The many scholarships established or supported
by Mr. Byrd have aided countless cadets in the attainment of additional
training and higher education. His contributions of material and personal
aircraft to the use of Civil Air Patrol materially aided in the performance of
its mission.. The distinctive accomplishments of Mr. Byrd have earned for him
the sincere gratitude of the United States Air Force.
(Signed)
- Curtis E. Le May
Chief of Staff
(Signed) - Eugene M. Zuckert
Secretary of the Air Force321
Chief of Staff
(Signed) - Eugene M. Zuckert
Secretary of the Air Force321
D.H.
Byrd counted among his close friends one of the most famous aviators, General
Jimmy Doolittle.322 Byrd and Doolittle were hunting buddies. Of
Doolittle he wrote, "Having a fondness for being Number One in all my
undertakings, it doesn't come naturally for me to confess that Doolittle is the
one man whom I would gladly serve in any venture as Number Two."323 On one intriguing trip without Doolittle, Byrd
went hunting in central Africa in November and December 1963. It was his first
such trip of five during his lifetime outside of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.324
Byrd
prepared well for the trip: Temco, Inc. was an aircraft company founded by D.H.
Byrd and which later merged with his friend James Ling's electronics company
(1960), and aircraft manufacturer Chance Vought Corporation (1961) to form
Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV). Byrd became a director325 of LTV and bought, along with Ling, 132,000 shares
of LTV in November 1963.326 Byrd then left the country to go on his two-month
safari in central Africa. He returned in January to find his good friend Lyndon
Johnson president of the United States, his building famous, and a large
defense contract awarded to LTV to build fighter planes -- to be paid for out
of the 1965 budget which had not yet been approved by Congress.327
Mac
Wallace, who received a five-year suspended sentence in the shooting death of
John Douglas Kinser in Austin on October 22, 1951, went to work for Temco, Inc.
of Garland, Texas five months after his trial. He remained in that position
until February 1961, four months before Henry Marshall's mysterious death on
June 3, 1961, when he transferred to the Anaheim, California offices of LTV.328
The transfer
required a background check by the Navy. "The most intriguing part of the
Wallace case was how a convicted murderer was able to get a job with defense
contractors. Better yet, how was he able to get a security clearance? Clinton
Peoples [the Texas Ranger Captain who investigated the Marshall and Kinser
murders]329 reported that when the original security clearance
was granted, he asked the Naval intelligence officer handling the case how such
a person could get the clearance. `Politics,' the man replied. When Peoples
asked who would have that much power, the simple answer was, `the vice
president,' who at the time was Lyndon Johnson. Years later, after the story
broke [of Billie Sol Estes' March 20, 1984 testimony that implicated Lyndon
Johnson, Malcom Wallace, and Clifton Carter in the death of Henry Marshall],
that investigator could not recall the conversation with Peoples but he did say
no one forced him to write a favorable report. He also added that he wasn't the
one that made the decision to grant the clearance. The whole matter might have
been solved with a peek at that original report but unfortunately, when the
files were checked, that particular report was suspiciously missing. It has
never been seen since."330
Wallace
was transferred and given clearance in February 1961. "In January 1961,
the very month Johnson was sworn in as vice president, and the month Henry
Marshall was in Dallas discussing how to combat Estes-like scams, Billie Sol
Estes learned through his contacts that the USDA was investigating the allotment
scheme and that Henry Marshall might end up testifying. The situation was
supposedly discussed by Estes, Johnson, and Carter in the backyard of LBJ's
Washington home. Johnson was, according to Estes, alarmed that if Marshall
started talking it might result in an investigation that would implicate the
vice president. At first it was decided to have Marshall transferred to
Washington, but when told Marshall had already refused such a relocation, LBJ,
according to Estes, said simply, `Then we'll have to get rid of him.'"331
According
to Craig Zirbel, author of The Texas Connection, in May 1962,
"...Johnson flew to Dallas aboard a military jet to privately meet with
Estes and his lawyers on a plane parked away from the terminal....This incident
would probably have remained secret except that LBJ's plane suffered a mishap
in landing at Dallas. When investigative reporters attempted to obtain the
tower records for the flight mishap the records were "sealed by government
order."332
Still
more LTV intrigues were revealed by Peter Dale Scott: "A fellow-director
of [Jack Alston]
Crichton's333 firm of Dorchester Gas Producing was D.H. Byrd, an
oil associate of Sid Richardson and Clint Murchison, and the LTV director who
teamed up with James Ling to buy 132,000 shares of LTV in November 1963. While
waiting to be sworn in as President in Dallas on November 22, Johnson
spoke by telephone with J.W. Bullion, a member of the Dallas law firm
(Thompson, Wright, Knight, and Simmons) which had the legal account for
Dorchester Gas Producing and was represented on its board. The senior partner
of the law firm, Dwight L. Simmons, had until 1960 sat on the board of Chance
Vought Aircraft, a predecessor of Ling-Temco-Vought. One week after the
assassination, Johnson named Bullion, who has been described as his `business
friend and lawyer,' to be one of the two trustees handling the affairs of the
former LBJ Co. while its owner was President."334
Another
appreciative friend of Byrd's was Arthur Andrew Collins, the founder of the
Collins Radio Company. Byrd, along with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was a
financier of his cousin Admiral Richard E. Byrd's polar expeditions by air. A
mountain range at the South Pole is named the Harold Byrd Mountains in his honor.335 Some of that money went for the purchase of radio
equipment and technical support from Arthur Collins. The 1933 expedition was
the first big break for the young Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids Iowa.336
In May
1951 Collins began an expansion program to build a one-million dollar plant
near the Dallas suburb of Richardson. A hanger was leased at nearby Red Bird
Airport to install and repair airborne equipment. The move was due to a
decentralization plan urged by the Defense Department for security reasons.
BK
NOTES: I can confirm that the Defense Department had a decentralization plan
for security reasons, as Arthur Young, the inventor of the Bell Helicopter told
me was the reason why the Bell Helicopter plant was built in Texas instead of
upstate New York where the main HQ of Bell Aircraft was located. As Young
explained it to me, the idea was that if one spy infiltrated one plant, they
couldn’t steal all the secrets if the manufacturing plants were spread out –
and the Dallas – Fort Worth area was selected. That’s why you have so many
major defense contractors in one small area of North Texas – Bell Helicopter,
Collins Radio, General Dynamics, LTV, Haliburton, et al.
And it
was Arthur Young who arranged for his son-in-law Michael Paine to work as a helicopter
“designer” at Bell Helicopter in Texas, and why Michael and Ruth Paine moved
there from suburban Philadelphia – the Quaker City – as Ruth Paine would know
it.
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