Tuesday, May 8, 2012

AF1 Radio Transmission Transcript - Clifton Tape


Air Force One Radio Transmission Transcript – Clifton Version

[Transcribed by William Kelly Any corrections, questions or comments bkjfk3@yahoo.com]  Updated March 25, 2012]

 TRANSCRIPT - AIR FORCE ONE RADIO TRANSMISSIONS
 – November 22, 1963.

Listen to the Clifton/Raab audio version from NARA
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-NARA-JFK-ASSASSINATION-AUDIO/content-detail.html

The Clifton Tape picks up about 35 seconds into LBJ Library tape and they often overlap, but both contain unique content, so while the Clifton/NARA version is 40 minutes longer, the LBJ Library tape contains content not on the longer tape. So there is unique content on each version.

AIR FORCE ONE RADIO TRANSMISSIONS – November 22, 1963. 

CLIFTON/RAAB/NARA TAPE II – T2

Clifton Tape – Begins – [00:00]

T 2 – Patch 1
T2-1

- Andrews Two Six Thousand  (26000) Delta
- 26000 Andrews Loud and clear.
- Roger, you are loud and clear, I will be monitoring this frequency.
- 26000 Andrews loud and clear. How do you read me now Larry?
- Roger. You are still loud and clear.
- Okay Standing by.
[0035]

T 2 – Patch 2
T2-2

- White House Situation Room put in a priority one patch for me?
- Stand by sir.
- Yes.
- I have Liberty on the line for a priority one patch.
- Roger
 - Stand by I’ll give you a call. Okay sir?
- I don’t know – [background conversation]
- Stand by One.
- Liberty, give him a call.
- Situation Room?
 [0149]

T 1/2 (3) Joint – Patch 1
T3 – 1

Tape 2 Merges with Tape 1 at this Point:

LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One
[0209]

(Unintelligeable)...static.
- Air Force One?
- Liberty! Liberty? 
- Roger, I have White House Situation Room, SAM 86972,...Over.
- (Static) ... signal...unintelligable…..
- Eight Six Nine Seven Two 86972 do you read me? Over.
- White House?
- White House on.
- Standby. 
- White House, this is SAM 86972. How do you read? Over.
- 86972, I read you loud and clear, loud and clear.
- Roger, standby One, please, we have another phone patch going on with Sing Sing, but we do have traffic for you, so hold on for one moment please.
- Roger, Roger 86972. 
[0320]

Pick Up - Clifton Tape -

T3 – Patch 2
T3 – 2

[0357]
- White House, White House, this is Wayside, do you read me?
- This is White House. I read you loud and clear Wayside. Over.
- Can you give me the latest situation on President? Over.
- You want Situation Room? Is that a Roger?
- Repeat that transmission please?
- This is Crown, This is Crown. Do you want Situation Room? 
- I want the Situation Room That’s affirmative.
-  Roger, Roger getting them now.
- Stand by Please.
- Wayside, Wayside, this is Crown. Situation Room is on. Go ahead.
- Situation Room. This is Wayside, do you read me? Over.
- This is the Situation Room. I read you. Go ahead.
- Give me all available information on President Over. 
- All available information on President follows. Ah,…Connally…He and Governor Connally of Texas have been hit in the car in which they were riding. We do not know how serious the situation is, we have no information. Mister Bromley Smith is back here in the Situation Room now. We are getting our information over the tickers. Over.  
- That is affirmative, affirmative. Please be advised that this is the plane on which the cabinet is on the way to Japan. Those heading to Honolulu are turning around and returning to Honolulu and will be there in about two hours. Over
- I understand. Those heading to Japan are turning around and heading to Honolulu and will be back there in two hours. Is that correct? Over. 
- That’s Affirmative. Affirmative. Will need all information to decide whether some of this party should go directly to Dallas. Over.
-  This is Situation Room. Say again your last please?
- Will need to be advised to determine whether some members of this party should go directly to Dallas? Over.
- Roger, you wish information as to whether some members of that party should go to Dallas.
- Affirmative. Affirmative.
- Do you have anything else, Wayside?
- Any information you can give me as quickly as possible.
- The Associated Press is coming out now with a bulletin that the President was hit in the head. That just came in. Over. 
- Roger. Will get any new information to you. 
- Where are you Wayside?
 - Wayside is off the line. This is the radio operator. We are returning to Honolulu and should be back in Honolulu in about two hours. Will be in the air for about two hours and in to Honolulu and you can contact us on the ground there later.   
- I understand. This is…..Hold, hold on the line there Wayside, we have some more information coming up. 
-….right back.
[0640]

T3 – Patch 3
T3 – 3 

[0652]
- Ah, Wayside, Wayside, this is Situation Room. I read from the AP bulletin. Kennedy apparently shot in head, he fell face down on the backseat of his car. Blood was on his head. Mrs. Kennedy cried “Oh no,” and tried to hold up his head. Connally remained half seated slumped to the left. There was blood on his face and forehead. The President and Governor were rushed to Parkland Hospital near the Dallas Trade Mart where Kennedy was to have made a speech. Over 
- I read that, over.
- This is Situation Room. I have nothing further for you now. I will contact you if we get more. 
- Wayside, Roger and out
- Situation Room out.
[0733] (0738)

T3 – Patch 4
T3-4

[0740-1030]   
- Loud and clear.
- One thirty five…..Secretary of State….
- Roger, ….this…put them on this frequency…..stand by one, Andrews on two. 
- Give them a call Andrews
- Affirmative Andrews.
- Roger we have the aircraft and passengers ….
- Eight Six Nine Seven Two, we do not know the frequency…..
- Two Six Thousand.
- Will you have….give me a call please?
- Stand by one sir.
[09:00]
- Hello?
- …..please?
- This is Secretary Rusk.
- Give me Eight Six Nine Seven Two.
- I’ll have….give you a call when he’s done.
- Hold the line.
- Yes?
- Copy Mr. Rusk….State Department is talking to…..
- Mr. Ball back there.
- State Dept. is not….
- Well look…I want to talk to Ball.
- Okay…Number one is trying….
- I’ll wait
- Thank you
- Okay, thank you.
- I want a frequency open….
- Please give…. a call please. ….


LBJ Tape Side One  

T 3 – Patch 5
T3-5

[1030]
- 26000, Andrews, I have the White House.
- Okay, thank you.
- And I want to keep this frequency open. 
- The frequency has been taken …
- …give ….a copy
- Roger.
- 86972 is good and readable. I have a party on that wants to talk to you. Stand by. 
- Standing by.
- Hello? What is your name again?
- Jackson.
- Mister Jackson?
- Yes. 
- Okay. Hold on line one.
- 86972, 86972 I have a Mister Jackson, a Mister Jackson on. Will you give him a call, please? 
- Mister Jackson, this is SAM 86972. How do you read me?
- I read you very well 72. I would like to talk to Colonel Toomey or Colonel Holland please. Over.
- Okay. Colonel Toomey is coming on right now, Stand by One please.
 - Okay.
[1130]
- Roger. This is Colonel Toomey. Go ahead.
- Colonel Toomey, this is Murray Jackson. The President of the United States has been shot and seriously wounded in Dallas, Texas. The President of the United States, John F. Kennedy has been shot and seriously wounded in Dallas, Texas. Governor Connally was also shot at the same time. Would you please get the message to Secretary of State Rusk, and I will stand by. Over. 
- Roger, Murray. We have already received the news. We have the UPI on. We have turned around. We are returning to Hawaii. We are estimating Hawaii in one hour and twenty minutes. We will be on the ground in Hawaii in one hour and twenty minutes and will be returning to Washington or Dallas. We have another aircraft alerted to take part of the party to Dallas, and we are returning to Washington. Over. [1220]
- Thank you very much Colonel Toomey. I will relay that information to Mr. Ball right away. Over and out. 
- Okay, the secretary has talked with his office in Washington, I believe and also Pierre Salinger has been in contact with the White House from the aircraft. Over.
-Okay thank you very much. Over and out
[1248]

T-3 – Patch 6
T3-6

LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One

[1250]
- 26000, Andrews. Go ahead sir. 
- Loud and clear. A signal check please.  26000, I read you loud and clear, here also, sir. Stand by on this frequency.
- Right. Thank you. 

T 3 – Patch 7
T3 – 7

[1300]
Reel 1 Side One

- Andrews sideband. Airman Gilmore.
- Roger. Are you in contact with the party coming back from Tokyo? Go ahead.
- Yes sir. We’re going through Liberty airwaves for that aircraft.
- Roger, can you connect me with Wayside?   
- Standby One Six.
- Sir?
- Yes Sir? 
- There’s Mister Jackson running a patch to that aircraft at this time, would you like to listen in or would you like me to break the patch sir? 
- Ah, could I wait please?
- Yes, you can standby. You’re number two.
[1333]

T 3 – Patch 8
T3- 8

[1330]
- 86972, Andrews. 
- 86972.
- Roger, standby. I have another one.
- Who is this sir?
- This is the White House.
- Okay, standby please.
- 86972, 86972, Andrews, I have Crown on, will you give them a call sir   please? 
- This is 86972, go ahead.
- Roger, This is Crown, we wish a phone patch to Wayside. Go ahead.
- Roger, standby for Wayside. 
- Crown.
- Roger, go ahead please. 
- Crown this is Wayside. Go ahead. ‘
- Go ahead please
- Wayside? Wayside? This is Stranger. Do you read me? Over.
- This is Wayside. Go ahead.
- Kilduff has asked that all cabinet members return to Washington immediately. Over. 
- We are enroute to Honolulu, where we have ah….Washington. Over
- Roger Roger, will they notifiy us of time of arrival.
-         Situation…to depatrt….Dallas. ……Over
- Roger, Roger, we do not have any firm….as to the exact status……go…..Dallas….Wayside…..go ahead.
- ……..Wayside this is Stranger, over.
[1540]

T 3 – Patch 9
T 3 – 9

[1553]
- Wayside Standby for Situation Room. Yea.
-         Go ahead Wayside.
-         Wayside, this is Situation Room. I read you the latest bulletin. President Kennedy has been given blood transfusion today at Parkland Hospital in an effort to save his life after he and Governor John Connally of Texas were shot in an assassination attempt. Over the TV we have the information that the governor has been moved to the operating room. The president is still in the emergency room at Parkland Hospital....Do you read me so far? Over
- I read you loud and clear.
- Wayside. This is Situation Room. Are you getting the press coverage or do you want us to continue to relay it to you? Over. 
- (garbled)….keep informed. Over
[1644]

T 3 – Patch 10
T 3 – 10
[1658]

- This is Situation Room. Roger. New subject. We will have information for you on whether to proceed to Dallas by the time you land at Honolulu. Over
- Affirmative affirmative, also….Secretary of State….Dallas….Over.
- This is Situation Room. Roger. Will do. Get determination on whether Secretary of State should also go to Dallas. 
- Wayside. Out. Over.
- This is Situation Room. Out 
[1715]

T 3 – Patch 11 – “Stranger” – Harold Patterson Patch (On Clifton Tape Only)
T 3 – 11

[1722]
-         Liberty?
-         Go ahead.
-         86972 86972 Andrews.
-         86972 You are loud and clear.
-         Roger Give me the name, the real name of Stranger please….from the White House.       
-         Say again the name. What is the name sir? Stranger.
-         Stranger – S-T-R-A-N-G-E-R
-         Command Post, will you give them a call? 
-         We are returning to Hickham field….three zero Zulu….We are standing by for more information…..
-         Stand by for just a moment sir.
-         Roger, Roger Seven two, Let us know when you are leaving Hickham and what your destination is.
-         Okay we will keep you advised, have Wayside give them a call.
-         86972 – Andrews.
      - Roger. In reference to request. A Major Harold R. Patterson, Major Harold R. Paterson.
[1842]

Pick Up - LBJ Tape Reel 1 - Side One  Continues

T-3 Patch 12
T 3 -12

[1859]
- Andrews talk to Wayside. The party is on the line now
- 86972 Andrews.
- Liberty?
- 86972. 86972.
- 86972. Andrews. I have a party that would like to talk to Wayside. Will you give them a call?
- Wayside. The party is on the line now.
- 86972, I have a party that would like to talk to Wayside. 
- Wayside is coming on right now. 
- All right, fine there’s no rush. I’ll just talk to you here. This is the Situation Room. We’ll standby. We are looking for confirmation of something here.
- Wayside,…Wayside.
- Okay Wayside. Just standby for a moment please. We are getting confirmation now.
- Please stay on the line. We are getting confirmation now.
- Wayside on the line.
- Please stay on the line. This is Situation Room still on the line standing by. I read you loud and clear. Nothing further for you yet. 
- Wayside. This is Situation Room.
- We have ah conflicting reports now, so we have no confirmation. We will call you again. I have relayed your intentions and current position to the Front Office. Your office has the word. We will call you again when we get confirmation. Over. 
- Okay This is Wayside. Out. 
[2048]

T – 3 Patch 13
T 3 – 13

LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One

[2058]
- Andrews, 26000. Radio Check.
- 26000 (Two Six Thousand), Andrews, loud and clear.
- [Third voice] 26000, Liberty, loud and clear. Will you try to notify if you close down for good? Go ahead.
- Roger. Will do.
- Roger, Liberty. 
[2109]

T- 3 Patch 14
T 3 – 14

LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One

[2113]
- Andrews. Sideband. Airman Gilmore. 
- Gilmore, this is Murray Jackson at State again. Can you get me Seven Two again?
- Could you say again, sir, you are very, very week. 
- This is Murray Jackson at the State Department. 
- Yes sir?
- I talked to Seven Two a little while ago. Can you get me Seven Two on a single sideband again?
- Mister Jackson, be advised that Seven Two is in a patch with the Situation Room at the present time sir. If you wish to standby. 
- That’s all right. They’re talking to them now?
- Yes sir. They are in a patch at the present time.
- All right, very good. Can you listen in on this?
- Ah, not from this console, no sir.
- Well, what we want to tell the plane is that Under Secretary Ball requests that the Secretary and all the passengers return directly to Washington instead of going to Dallas.  - Yes sir, I believe they received that message sir.
- Very good. Thank you.
- Thank you very much sir.
- Oh, hello?
- Yes sir?
- One other thing. The Secretary is supposed to call Mrs. Ball when he gets on the ground in Honolulu.
- Okay sir, I’ll relay that as soon as possible.
- Thank you very much. 
[2210]

T – 3 Patch 15
T 3 – 15

LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One - Patch 12 
[22:16]

- Andrews sideband, Airman Gilmore.
- Airman Gilmore, this is Murray Jackson again at the State Department.
- Yes sir?
 - The message I just gave you about Mr. Ball wanting the Secretary and all of the passengers of the plane to return directly to Washington has now been reconfirmed by McGeorge Bundy who has also said that the plane and all its passengers should return immediately to Washington, rather than Dallas. 
- Standby sir.
- All right.

T 3 – Patch 16
T 3 - 16
[2307]

- 86972. 86972. Andrews. 
- Andrews. Loud and clear. Loud and clear. You have Mister Jackson on the line. Would you give him a call sir?
- Mister Jackson, 86972. Go ahead sir.
- I have a message from Undersecretary Ball and from McGeorge Bundy at the White House. They request that the Secretary of State and ALL passengers aboard the aircraft return to Washington immediately. Over. 
 - Roger. The message is from Undersecretary Ball and Mr. Bundy advised that the Secretary of State and ALL passengers return to Washington immediately. Over.
- That is correct. Over and out.
- Okay. Thank you. 
[2351]

T 3 – Patch 17
T 3 17

LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One

[2400]
- Start again please, the party is on.
- Be advised there’s another patch from Wayside. Do you with to break Command Post?
- Yea, break it.
- Yes sir.
- 86972, 86972, Andrews. 
- 972. Go ahead. 
- Roger sir, I have Crown on. Will you give him a call sir?
- Crown. Go ahead.
- This is Situation Room. Relay following to Wayside. We have report quoting Mr. Kilduff in Dallas that the President is dead. That he died about 35 minutes ago. Do you have that? Over. 
- The President is dead. Is that correct?
- That is correct. That is correct. New subject. Front Office desires plane return Washington with no stop Dallas. Over. 
- Wayside, copy. All okay. We return direct to Washington without stopping in Dallas.
- This is Situation Room, out. 
[2507]

T 3 – Patch 18
T 3 – 18

LBJ Library Reel 1 Side One

[2517]
- Andrews, give me the Situation Room please.
- 972 Andrews, standby, one sir.
- Crown on.
- Situation Room please. 
- Thank you.
- (phone ringing) Yea?
- Is this the Situation Room?
- Yes.
- This is sideman, I have 972 on sideband for another patch sir.
- 972 again.
- This is Situation Room.
- Standby sir.
- 972, I read you.
- This is Situation Room. Over. 
- Situation Room, 972. Wayside would like to know the whereabouts of the Vice President. Over.
- Yes (Background conversation) Alright…He wants to know where the Vice President is in Dallas….right….
- Ah, Wayside, from Situation Room. The Vice President is in the hospital building, Parkland Hospital, in Dallas. He is not injured. I repeat, not injured. Over.
- I copy. I will call you right back.
- Right. 
[2628]

T – 3 Patch 19
T 3 – 19

LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One  
[2638]

- Andrews, 26000. Standby to take off.
- 26000.
- Andrews, 972, Command Central….
- Roger…..Command Post.
- I have 972 for a patch. 
- All right. Go ahead.
- 86972, Andrews, Command time, go ahead sir. 
- SAM Command, 86972, and we are returning directly to Washington, as latest instructions are to return direct to Washington from Hic Cup. Hic Cup is working up a flight plan and as quick as we can get the enroute time and on the ground time, we will give you an ETA Washington. 
- Roger, Roger 72. Can you give me your present ETA for Hickham? [2734]
- In about 45 minutes was the last one that I heard. It should be about twenty-thirty Zulu... I’ll get you a more accurate one if you’ll stick around a little bit…[2750]
- Zulu over.
- Roger, Roger. As far as you know right now you’re coming directly to Washington? Is that affirmed? 
- That is correct. Over.
- Roger 72. Give us any changes that you have sir.
- Okay, will do.
- 26000. Andrews.
- Loud and clear sir.
- Roger, you are both loud and clear. 
-I hear you both loud and clear.
- 26000, do you copy my teletype?
- 26000 is…outbound.
- Okay. He’s too busy over there. 
- Right.
- You might want to check with him to make sure that he’s getting through.
- Okay, standby.
- 26000. Andrews, coming up.
- 26000, check please.
- 26000 Andrews. Loud and clear.
- 26000 Andrews. Loud and clear.
- We’ll be moving out pretty soon. 
- 86972. Right sir. Standing by. 
[2900]

T – 3 Patch 20
T 3 – 20

[2910]
- 972 Andy, go ahead sir.
- Okay, we’re coming pretty close to Honolulu landing ah. I don’t know if we’ll be able to or not but I’m going to or not but I’m going to try to keep this equipment up, ah, but I’m not certain I’ll be able to do it. Understand that thirteen is pretty good. ….Is that correct? 
- This is Andrews. That is affirmed. 26000 is now getting ready to take off. He’s on One Three. If you standby, One, I’ll confer with Liberty and see what frequencies, in case you do drop out, what frequency we’ll have standing up on waiting for your call. 
- Okay, do that. Get them all set up. I might not be able to keep it open.
- Roger. Standby One. 
- Okay, Liberty? Yea, we got One Three and One Five up right now, besides this one going through you. I don’t know if One Three is going to be all tied up or not. And ah, what frequencies do you think you can have set up in case he drops out on so  he’ll know what frequencies we’re listening on? 
- I’ll be on One Eight, One Five and One Three. And we can hold him on one eight for a while because we got Newport Jerry up there. 
- Right. Do you have another one, a little bit lower maybe?
- We’ll drop down from one eight to one five to one three.
- How about Tripple One? 
- We have that too.
- Tripple lower?
- Ah, on the sideband.
- Okay, I’ll tell him we’ll be on eighteen, thirteen, fifteen and Triple One, all uppers, right? 
- All right.
- Except this one, we’re on lower.
- Go ahead.
- Okay.
- 86972, Andrews. 
- Roger, Andrews is going to be standing by and Liberty on Triple One upper, Triple One Seven Six upper, One Five Zero One One upper, One Five Zero One One upper, One Three Two Zero Four Seven upper and this frequency One eight zero two seven, lower, sir.
- Okay, very good, I’ll keep in touch.  
- Roger 

T – 3 Patch 21
T 3 – 21

[3115]
LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One
[3121]

-86972 Go ahead.
- Air Force Command Post, this is mission 139, mission One, Three, Niner, arriving Honolulu Two Two diagonal, Two Six, Zulu, ATV, Two One One five Zulu for Andrews, over.
- 86972, Roger, Andy, copy and standing by sir.
- Okay, I’ll be on this frequency and I’ll advise you when I leave it.
- Roger sir. 

T - 3 Patch 22
T 3 – 22

[3143]
LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side One
[3147]

- Two Six Thousand. 26000
- Give me Crown please.
- Just a minute.
- Crown.
- 26000 for a patch.
- Roger.
- Crown on. Go ahead.
- Roger, Crown, 26000, will you get a patch with Jerry Behn please?
- Roger, stand by. 

T – 3 B – Patch 1
T3B – 1

- 26000. Duplex  
-Standby One.
- Hello?
- Okay.
- Jerry?
- Hello?
- Go ahead.
- We’re at the airport 26000, everybody’s aboard.

END Reel 1, Side 1
(30:55) [3251]
LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side Two
(30:57) [33:12]

- Duplex - Okay, go ahead. 
- We are waiting for the swearing in at the plane before take-off. 
- Of, the….That’s Volunteer? 
 - Roger. 
- Say again, Roy, say again. 
- We are waiting for a judge to appear for a swearing in.
- That’s for Volunteer, is that right? 
- Yes. We are having it done here before we takeoff Jerry.
- That’s an affirmative. Do you have any idea yet what Lace wants to do and what Volunteer wants to do on their arrival here?
- No. But I will call you back. (Suggest)…we have 2 hour 15 flight into Andrews. We have a full plane with at least 40.
- Okay, go ahead. 
- I’ll have to call you again as to body, however, I’m sure the Volunteer’s party will go over….(his car)....and so forth…we will….(need)….be there with several others….
- All right, let me know what Volunteer wants to do when they land. If they want to come into Crown by helicopter?
- That’s a roger, I’ll call you again.
- Okay. 
[3414]

TB 3 – Patch 2
TB 3 – 2

LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side 2 
[3420]

- 26000, Andrews
- Okay, go ahead. 
- Stand by for…
- Okay give them a call. 
- Go ahead.
- Roger.
- Air Force Command Post
- Can you read me?
- 26000 go ahead.
- Can you give me Estimated Time of Departure from Dallas? Over. 
- From Dallas? Go ahead. 
- Would you repeat your estimated time of departure from Dallas? Over
- Roger. It could be estimate in the next ten minutes. Go ahead.
- Roger. Could you give me a call when you’re airborne? And can you give me any additional information? 
- Not at this time.
- Roger. Thank you.
- Will call on takeoff. 

TB 3 – Patch 3 C
TB3 – 3 C

 [3507]
 [3512]

- Andrews, Air Force One.
- Air Force One, Andrews, go ahead sir.
- Andrews,  Andrews Air Force Base. 
- Roger, standby. 
- Air Force Command Post….
- Air Force One, standby please. 
- Air Force One, Andrews. Give them a call please.
- Command Post, Air Force One, how do you read?
- Fine, (Roger) sir. Go ahead.
- ...Dallas... (20 Two – O)… Four seven (4-7) Zulu will call in a couple of minutes for (with ah) block time for Andrews
- Do you have an approximate block time, sir? 
- Ah, Well, two plus one zero go ahead.
- Two plus one zero. And do you have any passengers on board?
- Roger. Forty plus.
- Do you have Mrs. Kennedy on board?
- Affirmative. I’ll call you back, Command Post.
- All right, sir.  - Air Force One, Andrews. I have SAM Command Post standing by sir.
- Command Post, Air Force One, go ahead.
-  Stand By One Sir.
- Give Air Force One a call please.
- Air Force One. (SAM Command Post, go ahead).
- Roger, Roger. You called me, go ahead sir.
- (Sergeant) This is Colonel Hornbuckel in Operations. We have a request from staff officer
 -  (to know if) Do you have Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kennedy’s body on board? 
- Okay, Air Force One. Affirmative on all those questions. Go ahead. 
- Roger, thank you very much. Out. 
[36:09]

TB3 – Patch 4
TB3 – 4

[3707]
LBJ Tape Reel 1 Side Two - Patch 3

- Air Force One for a radio check.
- Air Force One, Andrews, loud and clear.
- Loud and clear, Liberty.
- Roger.
- Scott, loud and clear. 
- Air Force One, I have……standing by. 
- 26000 26000 SAM Command Post.  
- Air Force One, go ahead please.
- Roger, Air Force One, are you airborne at present? Are you airborne at present?
- Affirmative. Airborne at Two Zero Four Seven, 2047. Estimated time on the block at Andrews is Two Three Zero Five – (2305 go ahead). 
- Roger, Roger, I understand, (Departed at 2047, ETA (estimated time of arrival) Andrews, 2305, is that Charlie?
- That is Charlie.
- Roger, Roger Air Force One, SAM Command Post clear. 

TB3 – Patch 5
TB3 – 5

[38:10]

- Air Force Command Post, go ahead.
- I have Air Force One standing by, stand by please.
- Air Force One, give Command Post a call please.
- Command Post, Air Force One. 
- Go ahead Air Force One, this is Command Post. 
- Okay, departure 2-0-4-7, estimated time on the block Andrews 2-3-0-5, and we are rounding off at flight altitude 2-9-0. Over.
- Roger, understand. Standby One, please. 
[3840]

TB3 – Patch 6
TB3 – 6

[3841]
- Go ahead.
- Air Force One, this is the Air Force Command Post. If possible, request the names of passengers on board please?
- We have forty plus. Go ahead.
- Forty people, is that affirmative? 
- That’s affirmative.
- Can you tell me in regards as to ah, one and two, the top people? 
- Roger. The president is on board, the body is on board, and Mrs. Kennedy is on board. 
- All right. Can you confirm once again your takeoff time and your estimated time of arrival at Andrews?
- Two Zero Four Seven (2047) take off time…Andrews, two three zero five. (2305)
- Roger, thank you. This is the Air Force Command Post out. 
[3928]

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TB3 – 7

[3943]
- Call please?
- Air Force One Air Force Command Post Over.
- Roger we are estimating…two one…one...seven
- Roger 26000 Command Post Copy
- Air Force One – 970 ….John….wants to know on the ground if you have Congressman Thomas, Thornbury and Brooks aboard? Can you check that out for us?
- Say again, say again.
- Roger……needs to know if you have Congressman Thomas, Congressman Thornbury and Congressman Brookes aboard? Will you check?
[4010]

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TB3 – 8

- Air Force One, Command Post.
- Roger.
- Roger 26000
- Air Force One, give me a shout please?
- Air Force One, standby sir.
- Crown? This is….on standby please.
- Air Force One, Andrews, give them a call please.
- Air Force One, Andrews, give them a call please.
- Air Force One, Andrews, give them a call please.
- Air Force One, Andrews, give them a call please.
- Crown, Air Force One.
- This is Crown, go ahead. 
 - We need a patch with Surgeon General of the Army Heaton. Go ahead. - Please repeat the message.
- We need a patch with General Heaton. H-E-A-T-O-N the Surgeon General. Heaton present whereabouts….
- Roger, Roger. That’s General Heaton, the Surgeon General of the Army. Over. 
- That is correct. 
- Roger, Roger, standby.
- Air Force One, Crown. Standby please. This is the general now, over.
- Command Post weather is 26000, please.
- Okay, Air Force One, standby.
- Roger.
- We’re in a patch right now….Air Force one, Air Force One, Andrews on One Five, I’ll Copy sir. 
- Yes, sir?
- You’ll have to hold on there. We’re in a long patch with the White House right now.
- Right, I’ll hold. 
 - Okay, sir.
- 26000
- One, Andrews.
- Roger sir…give them a call….
- Are we on….One…Eight….pick up on 14 meg….
- We could try…frequency do you have blocked out there ….13 -18…also….
- Roger and One, Five, Zero, One, One.
- Roger….is that correct?
- Roger, one of them is. The other is a backup and the other is gong to be busy in a couple of minutes. 
- Roger with the….
- Roger, very good.
- Roger, can you patch me with Air Force One please?
- Who is this please?
- This is Airman Stanz. 
- Standby, you are number three.
- Okay, right.  
- Will you call me back through Command Post
- Because this is taking quite a while and there’s no sense you holding onto the line….We’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
- This is in regards to the Forecast….go ahead.
- Okay, right sir.
- Forecast….
- Say again.
[4250] –

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Reel 1 Side 2

[4302]
- Air Force One, Crown. Hello? 
- Give Crown a call please.
- Air Force One, this is Crown, do you read me? Over.
- Roger, Roger, Crown. Air Force One. 
(9:45) [4315]
- Hello?
- Air Force One, this is Crown. You were cut out. General Heaton is at Walter Reed Hospital. You will have to stand by just a moment or else let me call you back when I get him on the line. It will take about a minute to reach him. 
- Air Force One, Crown, do you Roger?
- Crown, Roger. Try and get General Heaton, and in the meantime, try to get the Deputy Surgeon General. We will talk to either one. Go ahead.
- This is Crown. Roger. Will you standby, and let me call you back? Over.
- This is very important.
- Roger. I’ll put an emergency on it and we will get him as soon as possible.
- Roger, Roger. 
- We are standing by.
- Roger.
- I’ll give you call in just a while. 
- Air Force One Roger.
- Air Force One, go ahead. 
- Air Force One, Crown. 
- Standby for a message. 
- This is Dr. Burkley
- (Did you hear?)
- Dr. Burkley, Dr. Burkley, this is Crown. You’re cutting out, you’re cutting out.
- You’ll have to repeat, over.
- This is Dr. Burkley.…I want to get in touch with General Heaton or General Heaton’s deputy. 
- Dr. Burkley, this is Crown. We are working as fast as possible trying to get the call through for you. He’s at Walter Reed. We are unable to locate. Still searching. Over.
- The Deputy must be in the General’s office over at the main Navy building.
- Roger, Roger. If you’ll standby, we’ll try to reach him.
- Market….This is Crown. You Roger? We’re trying to reach one of them. If you’ll standby, please. 
- All right. Roger. 
- Air Force One, on fifteen.
- Air Force One, loud and clear.
- Okay, do you have another line in to Crown?
- This is Andrews. Roger.
- Okay, go ahead. 
- Roger Stand by One.

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[4542]
- (female switchboard operator). 
- Can you give me White House switchboard, please?
- Thank you. 
- Signal.
- Right….ah……
- Crown, are you still on?  I have Air Force One for a patch.
- Roger, Roger…Air Force One, Andrews, Crown is on, go ahead sir. 
- Air Force One Crown come in? 
- Air Force One, Crown is on go ahead sir.
- Call into Duplex please
- Roger, Roger, Locating
 - Air Force One Andrews Copy Andrews Sir 
- (Dots and dashes in background)
- Air Force One Andrews you are transmitting one three Sir
- Roger, Roger, how about the patch into Crown?
- Crown is on.
- Will you get a hold of Duplex for us please?
- Roger, Roger. Duplex is on the line, go ahead. 
- Digest
- Jerry? (Static) …Jerry we are arriving Andrews…eight oh five…rather….
- Can receive, go ahead.
- Helicopter….Johnson party…south lawn.
- Say again, say again.
- Air Force one is patch line is not as good
- You are very week on one five. Can you take me one five lower?
- One five lower?
- This frequency is lower sideband. Lower sideband.
- Can you take me down frequencies?
- This is Duplex, this is Duplex.
- Arrival Andrews, Six-Zero-Five, standby. 
- Ambulance to take Body to Walter Reed.
- Repeat please, Repeat please.
- Ambulance to transport body to Walter Reed. Over.
- Say again.
- Ambulance to Walter Reed, to transport body.
- Arrangements have been made for a helicopter for the Bethesda Naval Medical Center.
- Stand by Jerry we’ll have to get Berkley again.
- Say again, I cannot read, I cannot read.
- Stand By
- He’s on Lower
- Can you read me at all.
[5000]
- That’s good.
- Air Force one – Andrews, one five lower
- One five lower, do you read sir?
- We have them at one thee and one five, go ahead.
- We’re trying to run two patches at the same time.
- Okay we’ll try to get them back on one five
- Air Force One Andrews. We have your party on but having trouble reaching them on this frequency. Do you read me sir?
- We read you but your party on patch is way down.
[5100]

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[5142]
- Arriving Andrews, Fifteen, Zero, Five, rather…
- Have received. 
       - Air Force One.
- Duplex is on
-  Duplex is on. This is Dr. Burkley. What arrangements have been made with regard to the reception of the President? 
- Everybody aboard Air Force One, everyone aboard Air Force One, with the exception of the body, will be choppered into the South Ground. The body will be choppered to the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda. Over. 
- The body will be choppered or will go by ambulance to the Navy Medical Center? 
- Will be choppered, will be choppered. 
[5215]
- [I’ll call General Heaton and ask him to….Washington in regards to this. Would you call him and cancel the….have him go to Walter Reed….I didn’t know the arrangements were already made.
-  Say again, say again Doctor. 
- The body is in a casket you know, and it will have to be taken by ambulance and not by chopper.
- Alright. I’ll tell Captain Shepard that.
- Be sure to contact…..General Heaton.
[5300]
- Say again doctor say again.
-         Hello?
-         Hello. Say again please?
-         Ambulance.
-         Say again doctor.
[5320]

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TB3 – 12

[5340]
- Hello sir
- Put Mr. Behn on again.
- He is standing by. We are having trouble reading you.
- Can you check me through Liberty on nine zero?
- Stand by for a call from Andrews, stand by for a call from Andrews on nine zero.
- Stand by Crown, Come in.
- Air Force One, this is Crown Come in.
- Air Force One, this is Crown come in,
- Air Force One,
- Roger Crown.
- I have Gen. Heaton standing by.
- Crown, I am putting Gen. Heaton on the line. Over
- General Heaton?
- Air Force One Crown, go ahead. General Heaton on the line. Go ahead.
- Hello, General Heaton?
- Yes, General Heaton
- General Heaton, this is Admiral Burkley.
- Yes, Burkley?
- On Air Force One.
- Yes.
- Air Force One Andrews give General Heaton a call. Go ahead.
- General Heaton this is Admiral Burkley, do you read? Go ahead.
- Hello?
- General Heaton this is Dr. Burkley.
- Yes Burkley?
- ….(use the ) …Military District of Washington in regards to the taking care of the remains of President Kennedy and we are planning on having the president taken directly to Walter Reed. Ah Probably Mrs. Kennedy will probably also be going out there. But we will clarify that later.
[5545]
- Oh, all right.
 
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TB3 – 13

[5555]
- Hello?
- Can you hold for just a minute please?
- Sure
- Gen. Heaton, this is the operator at Andrews, when you are on the radio talking back, only one party can talk at a time. When Admiral Burkley is talking to you, you cannot. You have to wait for him to reply.
- Okay, Thank you.
- Hello?
- Air Force One Give General Heaton a call please.
- General Heaton is on, this is Admiral Burkley.
- Yes, Burkley?
- Air Force One.
- Yes? 
- Can you read me?
- I read you Admiral Burkley. 
- Hold for a minute, please. General Clifton here…
[5700]
- Ah….this is General Clifton.
- Yes General Clifton?
- We do not want a helicopter for Bethesda Medical Center. We do want an ambulance and a ground return from Andrews to Walter Reed. And we want the regular post mortem that has to be done by law, under guard, performed at Walter Reed. Is that clear? Over. 
- That is clear General Clifton. You want an ambulance and a ah….another limousine at Andrews and you want the regular post mortem by law done at Walter Reed. 
 - That is correct. Hold on for a minute. Buy…
- I’ll hold on. 
- What did he say?
- Air Force One standby.
- Roger.
- Air Force One. Will you repeat your last transmission you faded out sir
- Okay Stand by One.
-  General Heaton? This Clifton over.
-         Yes General Clifton.
-         Hold on for a minute, over.
-         I’ll hold on. 
- Air Force One?
- Air Force One, Andrews. Go ahead sir. 
- Okay, I think our patch was cut there on 13. 
- Air Force One, its still in progress, will you give the ground party a call sir.
- How do you read Andrews?
[5908]

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TB3 – 14

[5919]
- One Liberty, Copy Andrews?
- Arrangements have been made…..
- Air Force One. Liberty.
- General Heaton.
- Stand by General. They are getting someone on the aircraft.
- Liberty, nine seventy, give me a call fifteen.
- Dr. Burkley?
- Nine seventy?
[01:00:00]
- Hello? Jerry?
- Go ahead Heaton.
- Jerry, what arrangements have you made?  
- We have made no arrangements, but will follow through on what you just told me. An ambulance and a limousine at Andrews and in regards to the post mortem studies.
- General Heaton, will you kindly hold, we have arrangements already made. We will have to clear that before we make any further. 
- A limousine and ambulance at Andrews (background conversation).
- Air Force One, repeat your last transmission….
- Hello Andrews? This is Crown.
 [01:01:15]
- Crown, go ahead. 
- Ah, we have Captain Shepard…here who also has evidently made some arrangements on the funeral and so forth here in Washington, and bringing the body back and so forth. He would like to get on and talk with Air Force One when General Heaton is finished. It might be possible to put him up on a conference so they can all make the arrangements together. I understand that Captain Shepard the Naval aide has made some arrangements also. So you might explain that to Air Force One and we can try to put them on a conference, if they like.
- Andrews, okay standby, we’ll advise Doctor Burkley. 
[01:01:48]

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[01:02:12]
- Air Force One, Andrews. 
- Air Force One, Andrews.
-  Air Force One, Andrews.
[1:02:20]
- Crown?

 [1:03:13]

- Air Force One, Liberty
[01:02:59]
- Andrews to Liberty, stand by One please.
- Liberty
[01:0319]

- Liberty to Andrews, go ahead. 
- Did you copy the full 9-7-2 off of Hickman? 2-1-1-1 Zulu, estimated Andrews Zero Five Three Zero Zulu, ultimate…
- Liberty, Andrews, Roger.
- Forward that to Air Force One.
- Liberty, Andrews, Roger. 

[01:03:50]
Dead Air

TB 3 – Patch 16
TB3 – 16

[01:04:17]
- Let’s run a patch to Jerry Behan on this frequency.
- I have General Heaton
- Will you take Gen Heaton off for a moment.
- You want me to hold on?
- Please hold the line.
- Please notify Air Force one Capt. Shepard for a phone patch, which ever they want to put through first. 
[01:05:05]
- Please call on this frequency, go ahead sir.
- Air Force One, give Duplex a call please.
- Duplex, Duplex?
- This is Crown, Duplex dropped off.
- This is Watchman…..
- Roger
[01:05:50]

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[01:05:56]
-  Go ahead, Duplex is on one, sir.
- Air Force One, Andrews. Give your party a call.
- Okay, Duplex, Duplex, this is Watchman.
- ….Over.
- Go ahead Watchman. Over.
- Duplex, this is Watchman.
- I understand that ambulance to take Mrs. Kennedy to Bethesda is this correct? Over.
- Watchman. It has been arranged to helicopter, helicopter the body to Bethesda Over
[01:06:18]
- This is Watchman. Okay if it isn’t dark. What about the First Lady? Over.
- Everybody else aboard, everybody else aboard, it has been arranged to helicopter into the South Grounds.
- Watchman….helicopter operation will work because we have a very heavy casket. Over.
[01:06:47]
- Ah, according to Witness,
-….. yes.
- This is Watchman. …. don’t take a chance on that. Also have a mortuary type ambulance stand by in case the helicopter doesn’t work.
[01:07:12]
- That’s affirmative. Over.
- That’s affirmative. I receive.
- Now some other instructions. Listen carefully. We need a ramp, a normal ramp at the front of the aircraft, on the right hand side, just behind the pilot’s cabin in the galley. We are going to take the First Lady off by that route. Over do you understand?
- I receive. Affirmative. 
- Also, by the right rear, on no, the left rear, the left rear of the aircraft, where we usually dismount, de-bark, we will need a fork lift rather than a ramp because it will be too awkward. We will need a platform to walk out on, and a fork lift to put it on. Is that possible? Over.
[01:08:00]
- Say again, say again Watchman.
- I say again. The casket is in the rear compartment, and we suggest, because it is so heavy, that we have a fork lift, a fork lift there to remove the casket. But if this is too awkward, we can go along with a normal ramp and several men. Over.
- Affirmative. We will try for the fork lift.
-  All right. Next item. Duplex, Duplex. Ah ….The press, according to Mr. Johnson, the press is to have a normal…at Andrews field, and he is going from there by helicopter to the White House. Over.
[01:08:55]
- Say again, Watchman, say again please.
- Watchman, this is Duplex, say again.
- The press, the normal corral, it will have to be in front of the aircraft, because that is where President Johnson will come off. Okay?
- Watchman this is Duplex. Will you say that all over again please?
- Duplex this is Watchman. I say again. On the right front, a ramp for Mrs. Kennedy, on the left rear, if possible, a fork lift for the casket, and in the right front, near the pilot, a normal ramp…..Over.
- Say again, Watchman, you’re breaking.
- (non-broadcast communications – someone else behind radio operator) I got that, on the left front, I got that, normal ramp for President Johnson…on the left front…press arrangements…all right.
- Did everybody get that clear? Over.
- That is affirmative. [01:10:10]
- Hold One, …Tillerman would like to talk to you.
- Watchman, Watchman, Standby One. Are you there?
- Watchman, Watchman, this is Duplex.
- Duplex, this is Watchman, Over. Go ahead.
- Watchman, should the Secretary of Defense and others be at Andrews on your arrival?
- No, I am about, no negative….Have them call the White House. President Johnson wants to meet with the White House staff….the leadership of Congress, and as many of the Cabinet members as possible at the White House as soon as we get there, approximately eighteen thirty - one, eight, three, zero. Over.
- Will you say again please…
- I got it.
[01:11:01]
- you got it?
- (unbroadcast communications) President Johnson is supposed to meet as many of the cabinet members at the White House at 1830.
- This is Watchman. Did you get it all? Members of the White House staff. Also the leadership of Congress. Also as many Cabinet members as available at the White House at 1830. Over.
- That is affirmative Watchman. That is affirmative.
[01:11:40]
- Repeat that to me. 
- All the leaders of Congress, as many Cabinet members as possible at the White House at 1830
- The key members of the White House staff. That is Bundy, Sorrensen, ettcetera.
- That is correct.
- Okay. 
- Hold on for Kellerman.
- Roger
- Go ahead.
- Go ahead Roy, this is Duplex.
[01:12:23]
- Up there.
- Air Force One say again please.
- ….helicopter…
- Did you get that?….
- Negative…..

[01:12:58]
(Fade out – Clifton Tape ends – Audo 1).

BEGIN GPO-NARA-JFK-ASSASSINATION AUDIO-2 (1)
[00:00]

TB 4 – Patch 1
TB4 – 1

LBJ Library Tape : Reel 1 Side 2 - Patch 8
[01:03]

- Digest to Duplex, come in.
- Go ahead Digest, this is Duplex.
- ...sir.
- ...helicopter transportation for President Johnson.
- Air Force One, Andrews.
- Air Force One, this is Andrews. Can you change position, you have a bad microphone.
- Okay, how’s this?
- Air Force One, Roger. Go ahead with your traffic now sir.
[02:01]
- Go ahead, Digest, this is Duplex.
- Again, I repeat, three helicopters to transport people to the White House lawn. Okay?
- That is affirmative. 
- Digest Digest, this is Duplex, say again.
- Did you read that?
- Digest, Digest, this is Crown. Repeat.
- I understand you are ordering two cars. Is that right?
-Request you change position. You are coming in completely busted.
- How’s This.
- Roger, okay. White House 102 and 405x, for transportation to Navy hospital, okay? 
- That is affirmative.
- That’s a Roger. I am keeping ah….will join Hill and his party at the Navy Hospital. Okay?
-That is affirmative.
[04:26]
- Digest, this is Duplex. You accompany the body aboard the helicopter?
- Roger, request, I was unable to get a hold of…….and Bob Burke…. (break in tape – midsentence)
- Go ahead, I receive.
- Air Force One Go Ahead Sir.

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Reel 2, Side 1

- Andrews. Duplex.
- Go ahead Digest, this is Duplex.
- Static…… (unintelligible) …. okay?
- Say again Digest.
- …..static……were not notified……(unintelligible)
- Okay.
- ...unintelligible)...
- Say Again, Sir. (third voice – radio operator).
[05:22]
- That is affirmative Digest. 
- Okay, Gerry. One more… Standby.
- Okay one more. ....is on six, nine, seven oh.
- Right....
- Go ahead Digest.
- Say again sir. (radio operator)
- Go ahead Digest 
- Repeat. Number….Six nine seven oh (6-9-7-0). Okay?
- That’s affirmative. I receive.
- Ah, do you have any questions? Is that enough?
- Not at the moment. But if we do we’ll call back.
- That’s a Roger, but hold on.
- I got…. (muffled background conversation)...the aircraft...good.
- Digest for Duplex. Go ahead. 
- Go ahead Digest, this is Duplex. 
- Could you call Dr. John Walsh in Washington and advise him of our arrival?
- That is affirmative.
- Okay.
- Where does Lace want Dr. Walsh to meet her? Where?
- Say again sir.
- Digest, this is Duplex. Where does Lace want Doctor Walsh to meet her? 
- Ah,…at the White House when we get there with her.
- At the White House…..That’s affirmative.
- Standby. I don’t have anything but I think they want the line open here.
- This is Crown. I have Witness standing by.
- Get up, hang up, ah. There’s another call here.
- Digest? Digest, Digest, this is Crown, come in? 
- Digest, Digest, this is Crown, come in?
- Stand by Crown. (radio operator)
- Air Force, Air Force One, Andrews. (radio operator)
- Negative Crown, negative Crown.
[08:00]
- Air Force One, Andrews, say again sir.
- Air Force One, Air Force One, this is Crown, come in.
- This is Dagger - …. Crown...I have traffic for Behn.
- Air Force One, Air Force One, repeat.
 [Break in tape]

TB 4 Patch 3
TB4 - 3

Reel 2, Side One - Patch 2

[0839]
- Andrews Sideband, radio.
- Command Post Weather. We’re still waiting to bring up Air Force One. We’ve been waiting now for fifteen minutes, what’s up?
- Yes sir. We are running two patches at once into the White House and they are real busy. We can’t get through to them. They’re making arrangements to take the body off and everything else. 
- Let me patch in for Air Force Weather so they know.
- I already told them that earlier.
- Go ahead sir. 
[0900]
- Go ahead sir.
- Weather’s on.
- Hello sir?
- We’re running two patches at one time to Air Force One from the White House, and they are making arrangements to take the casket and stuff off and we can’t get through to you, and as soon as we can we’ll give you a call.
[0924]
- Okay, he needs that temperature before he gets there.
- Right sir. They should be done soon. They’ve been on it for quite a while now.
- Air Force One. Loud and clear. Okay
- ……Standby and we’ll have General Heaton come on this other line.
- Sir, Command Post weather has been trying to get a patch. Can we run it at this time, sir?
- Command Post? I have weather.
- Weather’s on. Go ahead.
- Weather on Air Force One, give them a call please?
[10:00]
- Weather, Air Force One, go ahead.
- This is Command Post Weather, be advised of a severe weather area from forty miles west of Fleetwood, Mississippi, to twenty miles west of Glanville, Arkansas extending one twenty miles, one hundred miles to the east for tornadoes, tops five zero thousand, fifty thousand. I want you to be advised of that. I have a revised landing forecast for Andrews. If you are ready to copy, over. 
[10:36]
- I will have to call you back on it.
- Roger.
- Okay I’ll call you right back on it.
- Okay.
- Whose this?
- Hello?
- Hello?
- Hello Crown?
- Hello Crown?
[10:56]

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[11:00]
- Andrews Sideband.Sir?
- This is Dorman, General LeMay’s aide. General LeMay is in a C-140; last three numbers are “497.” SAM C-140.
- “487” – last three numbers.
- Right. He is in bound. His code name is Grandson, and I want to talk to him.
- Grandson. Okay sir, we’ll see what we can do. We’re really busy with Air Force One right now.
- (Okay). You don’t have the (c)apiblity to work more than one, huh?
- Well, we’re running Air Force One on two different frequencies, we’re giving them two different patches at one time right now, and that’s all we can do.
- I see. And what is your drop, sir? Are you off [a] drop off the Washington switch?
- Well, I am, yes --- either drop 303 or 79225.
- 79225
- Either
- But if you can’t work him now it will be too late because he will be on the ground in a half hour.
- Okay, and what is your name again sir?
- Colonel Dorman. D-O-R-M-A-N
- (D-O-R-M-A-N. OK, I’ll try to get back to you if we can get him right away, sir.
- Thank you.
- (Right.)
[1204]

 [12:30]

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TB4 - 5

[12:35]

- Go ahead…Go ahead Liberty.
- (You want 18 upper [sideband], I have “970” on 90?)
- (You have “970” on 90.)
- (He’s “off” at 2115, copy that, he’s “off” at 2115, estimating 2330, relay to Alpha Juliet Two).
- For Andrews. (He was “off” ah, OK, he was “off” at 2115, estimating Andrews 2330, Alpha Juliet Two)
- That’s an affirmative (and we’re going to copy his, ah, ah, passenger list on teletype [?and/] send it to you.
- What does he want on eighteen.
- But I can’t right now I’m too busy.
- Okay.
[13:36]

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[14:12]
- Give us a call when you get through.
- Also have Liberty come up on five.
- Nab – N-A-B-
- Okay sir.
- Air Force One. Copy sir…
- Liberty.
- Roger Liberty. Loud and clear.
- (Static)
- Roger, Roger, okay, Take …. Correction. Take this and relay it for me and then I want to patch it.
[1553]
- Liberty. Air Force One?
- Air Force One. This is Andrews.
- Air Force One, Andrews, go ahead sir.
- Okay, you can set up Command Post? Bring up to two, three zero, zero zulo.
- This is Andrews. Roger copy. We’ll rely that.
- Okay and pick up the weather warning from the Air Force Command Post and see if there’s anything to it please, we’ve got…..unless it’s important.
- Roger. Stand by One.
- …..bring up to nine zero….
- Air Force Command Post. Major Benson.
- Right. Can I have weather please? 
- Just a minute.
- Weather on.
- Right Sir, I have Air Force One. He’s real busy and he wants to know how severe this weather warning is, if it was severe?
- It’s for tornadoes. That’s pretty severe.
- Okay. Hold on.
- Right.
[17:00]
- Air Force One. Air Force One. Andrews. 
- Air Force One, Air Force One, Andrews. Do you copy sir?
- Do you read six, seven. Six, seven?
- Read…Loud and clear.
- Air Force One. Andrews. Loud and clear.
- I have the weather on and weather is pretty important sir. Will you give them a call sir?
- Air Force One, go ahead now please.
- All right. Break in weather. 
- Be advised. Be advised that the severe weather area is for tornadoes, tornadoes is the severity. Radar reports tops in the area at the present time from forty seven to Fifty one thousand. Over. 
[1800]
- Roger, What area was that? I didn’t get it before.
- This is for an area forty miles west of Greenwood, Mississippi to twenty miles west of Glanville, Arkansas, and one hundred twenty miles east of both of these locations. It is on your flight path. Over.
- That is twenty miles east of both of those locations, is that correct?
- Right. If you draw a line from Greenwood to Glanville, and a hundred twenty miles east of that line.
- Okay.
- Your temperature at landing at Andrews six two, sixty two degrees.
- Roger that. Thank you. Over.
[1844]

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[1915]
- Stand by One.
- Air Force Once, this is Crown, come in.
- This is Dagger on Air Force One, to Crown.
-  Roger, Roger. I have Freedom pardon…I have Witness standing by for a patch.
- We’ll have Witness in one minute. Could we go ahead with traffic for Behn now.
- Roger. You have someone calling Behn. Is that a Roger?
[2000]
- This is Dagger calling Behn. 
- Stand by.
- Dagger.
- Duplex is on, go ahead.
- Dagger to Duplex
- This is from Volunteer and Victoria relative to activities tonight. 
- Go ahead Dagger, this is Duplex. You are aware that we will go to Crown for meeting?
- That is affirmative.
- Go ahead
- Crown, Crown.
- Air Force One go ahead sir.
- Volunteer will reside at Valley for an indefinite time. I repeat Volunteer will reside at Valley for an indefinite time. Victoria requests that Venus go to Valley with agents.
- Will you say again? Will you say again? Venus will go to Valley with agents?
- That is a Roger. Venus will go to Valley with agents.
- Victoria will go to Valley after first going to Crown. Over.
- Victoria will go to Valley after first going to Crown. Okay. 
- That’s affirmative.
- Do you also understand that for residential purposes Volunteer will reside at Valley?
- That is affirmative. That is affirmative.
- Alright. That is all the traffic I have. ….you will get.
[2208]
- Okay, okay.
- Do you have anything more for us now?
- That’s a negative.
- Okay.

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[2305]
- Andrews to Crown.
- Will you give me a patch into Crown please?
- Roger, Standby One.
- White House.
- Roger. Standby for Air Force One.
- Roger.
[23:35]
- Air Force One. Andrews. Crown.
- Crown, Air Force One. This is a message from Wing to Slugger. Slugger is to meet aircraft as soon as possible. If he cannot do this, he is to see Wing as soon as possible, as soon as possible. Go ahead.
- Roger. Roger. Wing to Slugger. Meet aircraft as soon as possible, if this is impossible, see Wing as soon as possible, go ahead.
- That is correct. Or contact him anyway feasible.
[24:08]
- Roger. Roger, Crown understands. Anything further? Go ahead.
- This weather is…
- Roger. Roger. 

 [24:30]
- Liberty, no one is on….go ahead
- Forcast for Andrews ground temperature.
- Roger, We’ll get it as soon as possible here.
- Okay.
- I have traffic for Crown.
[2510]

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- …..land.
- Air Force One. Air Force One, this is Crown, come in.
- Request Victoria … repeat … cance l … for commercial telephones. That is Volunteer and Victoria’s commercial telephones at Valley should be temporarily discontinued and security lines should be put in ,… get ……land…. personnel on that…..do you understand? Over. 
[2535]
- That’s a Roger Roger, cancel commercial lines at Valley, at Valley, and install blocker circuits, blocker circuits. Is that a Roger?
- That’s a Roger.
- Roger. Will Do.

[2548]
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[2600]

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- Air Force?
- Air Force One. Andrews, go ahead.
- Give me Crown please?
- Roger eight one…go ahead.
- Winger?
- Stand by for Air Force One….Roger, Crown.
- Air Force One, Andrews, give Crown a call.
- Roger, Air Force One. We would like a patch with Winner, and ah, the patch is coming from Warrior. Go ahead. 
[2625]
- Roger, Roger, standby.
- Crown, Crown, this is Warrior, how do you read me? Over. 
- Warrior from Crown, you are loud and clear. I am putting Winner on now to you. Roger.
-Crown?
- Hold on please.
- Air Force One stand by please.
- AF One from Crown, I now have…
- Crown. This is Warrior, I want Winner, I want Winner, over.
- Warrior, Warrior, from Crown, go ahead. Winner, Winner is on the line.
- Winner, Winner. This is Warrior. Do you read me, over?
[2845]
- I hear you. Over. 
- Winner, Winner, this is Warrior. Will you please advise press that normal press coverage including live TV will be allowed at the base. Volunteer, repeat, Volunteer will make statement on arrival, will make statement on arrival.
- Did you read that? Over. 
 - I read you clearly.
- Will you listen to my question? Is Mrs. Kennedy aboard Air Force One?
- Warrior. That is a Roger. That is a Roger. Over.
- Alright, the other thing is I am setting up a press section on the south lawn about 50 yards from the position of Helicopter Number One. Would that meet Mrs. Kennedy’s and the President’s approval?
- Winner, they are not returning to the house, they are not returning to the house, for your own information. They are going someplace else. I don’t want to go in on the radio on this one. So there will be an arrival there, but it will be Volunteer. It will be Volunteer. Over.
- Thank you. I will hold that information. And we can say something after you arrive. Hold it just a second. Let me look through my list of questions. Is it true that the body of President Kennedy will go to Bethesda Naval Hospital?
- That is a Roger, that is a Roger, but we are not saying that yet. Over.
- Well we’ve already said it. I should have checked it with you before doing it. But I don’t think it makes much difference. It takes a lot…It takes a lot off of us by doing it. I was in error. Over. 
- So far as the there is no objection on the south lawn.
- Should it be live?
- There is no objection to that.
- (Unintelligible) lies, lies…Okay. Is there anything else?
- Will you repeat that?
- Is there anything else that I should know?
- Wait a minute. You are breaking. But let me think about this just a second will you?
- Yes, the power on this aircraft………We lost ….bell…..somewhere along the line, we don’t have AP aboard. But I have given them the statement Volunteer that he will make at the airport. Over. 
- I understand you. Okay, over and out.
- Don’t go out on me yet. Are you still there Winner?
- Yes I am here.
- I think we are going to tell the press that on arrival, hold on just a minute, wait a minute, I have Clifton here, he is trying to give me something, hold it, over……
 (background conversation, muffled). 
- (muffled conversation).
- Winner, Winner, this is Warrior, the…..you can announce that on arrival, on arrival, he will meet with….at the White House……
(static – ten seconds)
-……later he will meet with the leadership, with the leadership. Did you read that? Over.
- Yes I did read that. 
[3300]
- Wait a minute. You are breaking badly. I cannot read. …
- Yes, yes. I understand, I will announce.
- Very good Winner. Now wait a minute, there is something else I am getting from Clifton I want to relay to you. Hold on.
- I can’t hear you at all.
- I can’t hear you at all Mac. Repeat.
- Repeat complete statement.
- I cannot read you. Will you repeat? Will you repeat your complete statement, your entire statement? 
- My entire statement I will repeat. They said that on arrival at the house, the president will meet with McNamara and Bundy. And also if Rusk is in town he will meet with Rusk but I think he is in the Far East so it will probably be Ball. And after, a half hour after that meeting is over, we will meet with Congressional leadership at at,… now wait a minute, I’m getting a time on that, that’s eight o’clock, he will meet with leadership…. at eight o’clock, at eight o’clock. Did you read that? Over.
- I read it. Now is that bipartisan leadership or Democratic leadership?
- That is wholly bipartisan, wholly bipartisan.
- I understand you.
- Hold on for some other information. Do you mind holding Andy? 
- No go right ahead.
- I have no more at this time. I hope you will be available so I can reach you if I get more information as it, as it develops? Over.
- Yes, over and out.
[3530]

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[3540]
- Air Force.
- Air Force One. This is Crown.
- This is Warrior to Crown, Crown, are you reading. Over.
- This is Crown, loud and clear.
- Hold on for transmission from Witness. From Witness. 
- Roger, Roger, would also like to confirm at this time, would also like to confirm at this time, the request from AF One…
- This is Watchman. Over.
- This is Crown. Go ahead …
- Can you put Mister Bundy on?
- You were broken. You were broken, say again. 
- Crown, this is Watchman. Please put Mister Bundy on the line. Over.
- Roger, Roger, standby.
- You’re party on this end is on. Go ahead and transmit to him.
- This is Watchman….
- ……Mac…..second and secretary MacNamare at six thirty at the White House. If Mr. Rusk is in town…..Mr. Rusk…..we do not, we do not, negative, we do not want the acting secretary. Over.
- Correct. Will you tell him that the acting cabinet will be at the airport to greet him. He can bring MacNamara and me in his chopper to the White House. Over.
- That is correct. That is all right. We can do that. Take another message. Over.
- Yea.
- Secondly. I talked to Jerry Behn about a White House staff meeting. There will be No, negative, no White House staff meeting tonight, that will be tomorrow. 
- Correct. I have it. Let me repeat your message. Over.
- Okay.
- First that the President would like to meet with the Secretary and me at the White House on return from Andrews. Second that there will be no other meeting this evening. There will be a White Staff meeting tomorrow. Is that correct? Over.
- No that is not correct. He wants to meet with the leadership about seven-thirty, the leadership at seven-thirty. Over.
- Does he wish us to arrange that?
- He wants you to arrange that. Two meetings tonight. MacNamarea and Bundy, and the leadership.
- Does he mean only the Democratic leadership only? Over.
- Bipartisan leadership; and I’ll give you some names. Over. 
- Right Over.
- Speaker of the House. [John McCormak]
- Yea.
- Carl Albert.
- Carl Albert.
- Hal Boggs.
- Yea.
- Charles Halleck
- Wait a moment. Say that one again.
- Leslie Arends
- Arends. Yea.
- (From) the Senate. Are you listening? Over. 
- I have…Will you take from me what I have? Then we can go on.
- I’ll listen to you. Over.
- I have Speaker Carl Albert, Hale Boggs, and Leslie Arends. Over.
- This is Watchman. That is correct, and I will now continue with the Senate. Over.
- Mansfield.
- Right.
- Humphrey
- Yea.
- And Dirksen
- Hang on, hold it. Wait a moment. I have the first three, over. 
- Repeat over.
- This is Watchman. Out.
- Hello, sir? Standby please. (radio operator)
- Yea.
- Watchman, Andrews. We’re still standing by for orders to carry out, sir.
- Crown, this is Angel. Crown, this is Angel. Out.
- Crown, Angel?
- This is Angel.
- Crown, Angel. 
- Listen Angel, Would you? I broke down with Mister Bundy. Would you check his Senate list for me? Over
- I have Mansfield, Humphrey, Smathers. Over.
- This is Watchman. In addition to Mansfield, Humphrey, Smatters, we want Dirksen.
[4000]
- Yea
- Kuchel and [Bourke] Hickenlooper [R. Iowa]. Over.
- Dirksen, Kuchel, Hickenlooper. Over.
- That is correct. For about seven thirty. Over.
- Seven thirty at the White House? Over.
- Seven thirty in the Cabinet Room. Over.
- Tell the Vice President the Cabinet Room is under rearrangement, but the Oval Room will be ready. Over. 
 - The Oval Room it will be, you mean the Fish Room?
- I mean, both the Fish Room, and the President’s Study and we will try to have the Cabinet Room. But that’s a detail, we can work that out. Over. 
- This is Watchman. [Gen. Clifton (emphasizing)] HE DOES NOT WANT TO GO IN THE MANSION OR IN THE OVAL ROOM OR THE PRESIDENT’S STUDY OR THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE. (Loud and with emphasis)
- Correct. [Bundy].
- IF THE CABINET ROOM ISN’T READY PUT IT IN THE FISH ROOM. OVER.
- I have you. I understand. Always in the West Wing. Over.
- I have nothing further. Over.
- This is Watchman, now please brief Duplex about the changes, so we don’t confuse it. Duplex is Jerry Behn. Over.
- Alright I will.
- See you in a little while. Over.
- Okay. 
[4109]

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[4118]
- Air Force One
- This is Warrior to Crown, Crown
- Are you reading? Over.
- Warrior, Warrior. This is Crown. Loud and clear. 
- Hold for Witness. This is Watchman. Over.
- Standby One I have another patch.
- I have Air Force One Andrews, please.
- Air Force One. Come in on another line down please.
- Andrews. Andrews sideband, will you give me Crown please?
[4200]
- Give you who sir? 
- Andrews?
- Who did you want to give a call?
- Crown. White House. 
- White House. (Male voice)
- Roger. Stand by for Air Force One.
- Roger.
- Air Force One White House on.
- How do you read? Over.
- Air Force One this is Crown, you are loud and clear, go ahead
- White House, White House, will you give me another patch to Winner, Another patch to Winner.
- Roger, Standby.
- We are still standing by for Crown. 
- Andrews, Andrews, this is Air Force One. Do I have that patch with Crown. Over.
- Andrews, Air Force One. We are still standing by for Winner through Crown.
- Will you repeat?
- We are still standing by for Winner. We are still standing by for Winner.
[4300]
- That’s a Roger.
- Air Force One, Andrews.
- Crown, Crown. This is Warrior. Over.
- Warrior, Stand by. Winner is still in another patch, Winner is still in another patch.
- Crown.
- Will you repeat?
- Roger. We are still standing by for Winner. We are still standing by for Winner.
- That’s a Roger.
- One Andrews.
- Crown, Crown, this is Warrior. Over.
- Warrior, Andrews. Winner is still in another patch. Winner is still in another patch. I have another message for radio operator on Air Force One.
- Crown, Crown. Who is Winner on a patch with? Over.
- Standby One.
- Hello Andrews?
- Yea?
- Will you break in for me?
- Yes.
- Warrior? Crown.
- Crown, give him another call? 
- Warrior, Warrior, this is Crown.
- Go ahead Crown.
- Warrior, this is Crown. We are having some difficulty in locating ah, Winner. Would you stand by please?
- That’s a Roger Crown, this is Warrior.
- Air Force One? Andrews? Hello?
- Is this Air Force One?
- Can you give me a quick check on that?
- I was just up there….
- How about bringing that thirteen through Liberty on the nose, and come back with it?
- Roger Stand by. 

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[4433]
- Volunteer wants a patch to Mrs. Rose Kennedy as soon as possible.
- While I am working on that will you get Confirmation
- While you are checking on that I will work on Mrs. Kennedy for Volunteer.
- That is affirmative, confirmation on your request.
- That is affirmative.
- That is correct.
- Stand by for your party.
- Advise you to stand by for your party.
- I have a patch to Crown and I don’t want it broken.
- You are standing by.
[4700]
- Now….
- Roger, Roger.
- Hello? (Women’s voice)
- Just a moment, Mrs. Kennedy.
- Just one moment now please.
- ….are you up?
- Hello? (Mrs Kennedy)

[48:00]
- Just one moment now please.
- Standby One now please. 
- One, Air Force One, Air Force One, from Crown, come in.
- Crown, this is Air Force One, do you read us? Over.
- I’m reading you loud and clear.
-  Are you ready for Volunteer? Go ahead. 
- Yes, we are ready, can you put her on and I’ll turn you over to him, over.
- Roger, Roger, she is coming now.
- Air Force One from Crown. Mrs. Kennedy on, go ahead please.
- Hello, Mrs. Kennedy? Hello Mrs. Kennedy, we are talking from the airplane, can you hear me all right? Over.
- Hello?
- Yes, Mrs. Kennedy, I have….could hear you.
- Mrs. Kennedy?
- Yes, Yes Mr. President, Yes?
- I wish to God there was something I could do. And I want to tell you that we are grieving with you.
[4900]
- Yes, well thank you very much. Thank you very much. I know, I know that you loved Jack and that he loved you.
- (Lady Bird) Mrs. Kennedy….we…..together….We……son…..
- Thank you Lady Bird, thank you very much. Goodbye.
- …. In our prayers ….all of you.
- All right. Thank you very much. Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye. (Phone hangs up).
- Crown, Crown, this is Warrior. I think that’s it.
- It’s over. Is that a Roger? Over.
- That’s a Roger, Warrior. Mrs. Kennedy has hung up. Go ahead.
- Now can you give me that patch to Walter Jenkins.
- Stand by One.

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- Crown, now will you get me that patch to Walter Jenkins in President Johnson’s office? Over.
- Roger, Standby One.
- And Crown, get somebody to come up on the Charlie set please?
- Liberty to Air Force One, are you on Nine?
[5000]
- Roger, I still have…standing by for Warrior. 
- Okay, bring him up on Nine, please. Crown, give Air Force One a call now.
- Air Force One, Air Force One, this is Crown, come in.
- Air Force One, Andrews, Crown is on, go ahead.
- Air Force One, Andrews, Crown is on, give them a call please.
[5100]
- Crown, this is Warrior, do you read me? Over.
- Roger Warrior, this is Crown, standby for Winner. Go ahead. 
 - That’s a Roger, you are loud and clear.
- Warrior, Warrior, Winner is on, go ahead. 
- Winner, this is Warrior, do you read me? Over.
- I read you.
- Winner, that first meeting will be Bundy and McNamara only. The President will meet with Rusk, U.S. Senators….probably going to be a different, be a different ah event….ah.
- I read you.
- Did you read that Winner?
- Yes, Yes.
- Crown, Crown, this is Warrior, do you read me? Over.
- Yes I do Warrior, I read you.
- ….aboard….I need Crown back again. I need Crown back again. Over.
- Yes, over and out. And I’ll….
- Crown
- Liberty?
- Crown?
- Yes?
- Roger, give Air Force One a call please. 
- Roger. Air Force One, Air Force One, this is Crown, come in. Air Force One, this is crown, come in. 
[5300]
- Air Force One do you read me, come in?
- Crown, Crown, this is Warrior, do you read me? Over.
- Warrior, this is Crown, ah Roger, you are at Five Five, go ahead.
- Will you get me a patch with Mister Walter Jenkins….ah,…at President Johnson’s office. Over.
- Roger, Warrior, standby. 
[5330]
- Kill this call! Kill this call! I think we are overlapping on another call. Over.
- Roger. 

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- This is Warrior. I mean Crown. This is Warrior on Air Force One. Go ahead.
- Roger, Roger. On your request for Jenkins, he is on route to Andrews, on route to your destination. Go ahead.
- That’s a Roger Crown. I will pass that word on.
[5355]

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[54:04]
- Air Force One, Volunteer would like a patch to the Governor Connally…that’s Governor Connally of Texas. Mrs. Connally, the Governor’s wife. Go ahead.
 - Volunteer would like a patch with Mrs. Connally, Governor Conally’s wife. Is that a Roger? 
- That is a Roger.
- Roger, Roger, standby one.
- Roger, we have Dallas on the line and are trying to contact her now. Standby please.
- Standing by.
- Crown, come in.
-  ….so far….
-  Roger, Roger that’s right, Standby One.
-  Crown to Air Force One
[54:48]
- Air Force One from Crown. The Connally residence in Dallas is on the line, on the line, and Mrs. Connally is available to speak with Mister Johnson if he can get to the phone patch. Go ahead.
- Roger, he wants specifically to speak with her. Go ahead. 
[55:55]
- Roger, standby just a moment. AF One, AF One from Crown, will you put Volunteer on please? Mrs. Connally is on the line, standing by for his call.
- Standby One.
- Can you hear me?
- …..reasuring….the surgeon….speaking about John….is so reassuring…how about it…..(static)
- I can’t hear you too well.
-…Can you hear me? (Volunteer/LBJ)
- Yes.
- (LBJ) I know that everything is going to be all right, isn’t it?
- (Nellie Connally) Yes, it’s going to be all right.
- God bless you darlin’.
- The same to you.
- …for me….
- Good luck.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- Air Force One, Andrews, Go ahead. Crown
- Roger, we have an echo. Is that you or down the line?
- I believe it is down the line, sir. Call….
- Air Force One.
- Air Force One. Crown. Go ahead.
- Roger. That about completes it for now.
- If you could standby Air Force One, we have a couple of people down the line who would like to talk to you, if you could standby.
[56:54]

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- Roger, go ahead.
- Command Post.
- Air Force One, go ahead Command Post.
- Air Force Command Post.
- Go ahead Command Post, Air Force One.
- 3-7-3 (departing at) … 2-1-4-1 Zulu.
- Roger, do you copy?
- ….this information passed to…
- ….(Ah, roger, and ah,) who does this information go to? Go ahead.
(10:14) [57:40]
- Say again?
- (Roger)…Who is this information passed to, go ahead?
[57:50]
- Air Force One, Air Force One. [This is] (Air Force Command Post over.)
- (Command Post, Air Force One) I read you loud and clear. I understand Three, Three (“373”) departed at Two One Four One (2141). Who do you wish to notify about this? Go ahead.
- Ah, it is very clear sir that the time of departure is… (the one) …. with the president cars on board. 
- Roger, will pass that …know where that goes now.
- Thank you.
- Okay, will you call Command Post and request two, scratch that, four air police meet the airplane? We want two in the front of the airplane and two in the rear. Go ahead.
- Air Force One. You are requesting four staff cars, two staff cars with air police, two in front and two in the rear. Is that correct?
- We don’t want cars, we want air police. We want security people, we want four of them. Two at each door of the airplane. Go ahead.
- Air Force One, Andrews. Roger. Will abide. SAM.
- Roger, thank you.

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[59:00]

- A F One, A F One from Crown, come in. 
- Crown, Air Force one, go ahead.
- Roger, Roger, stand by for a patch from Tanker, Tanker
- Roger.
- A F One, A F One, Tanker on the line. Go ahead Tanker.
- Hello Andrews, hello Andrews, may I speak with Watchman or Tiger, Watchman or Tiger? Over.
- Watchman on another line. Stand by for Tanker.
- Standing by for Tiger.
- Tiger, how do you read?
- Five by Five, Tiger, Five by Five. I have been informed from Dallas that it was desired that the aircraft be parked at an isolated spot when you arrive here. However, Watchman had a long discussion with ah, Behn, and nothing about that was mentioned. And the present plan on the ground here is to spot you at the regular place, unless Watchman says now that this is not desired. Over.
- I believe that we would park at the regular place, Tiger. Where did you get that information down at Dallas? Over.
[01:00:30]
- It was from the U.S. A F Command Post agent there. And I understand from him that you had told him to do this. Over.
- We told him to look into that. We were going to discuss it in flight. Go ahead with the regular plan and park in the regular place. Ask…..to get in touch with you and pass on instructions to him. We need steps to the right front of the aircraft. The press box will be on the left front of the aircraft, and President Johnson will deplane at the front of the aircraft. And we need a fork lift at the rear of the aircraft….will deplane on the right side. Over.
- Understand. Tiger. Understand those instructions, and they have all been carried out. We will continue with the plan to spot you in the regular place. There will be a ramp left front, a ramp right front, a fork lift left rear, press area left front. Over.
- Keep in touch. Roger and out.
[01:01:30]

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[01:01:30]

- Crown, patch …call anybody you want.
- Roger.
- A F One, A F One, from Crown.
- Crown, A F One. Go ahead.
- Roger, Roger. Could you pass this to Wing. Pass this to Wing, that on his message to Slugger, Slugger was still in Dallas, still in Dallas, and has been advised to contact Wing as soon as he possibly can.
- Roger, Air Force One, copy. Will pass.
- Roger, Roger. Crown out for now. Do you have anything further A F One?
- Roger, Standby One, we have another patch for Warrior.
[01:02:25]

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- Crown? Give Air Force One a call.
- Air Force One, Crown, go ahead.
- Okay, I need Capitol Four, Three, Two, Nine, One, extension Four, Nine Three.
- Four, Three, Two, Nine, One, extension Four, Nine Three.
- Roger, Roger. Understand. Anyone particular there?
- Roger, anyone at that number.
- Roger, Roger, standby.
- A. F. One, A. F.
-……..from Crown, was that extension Four, Nine Three?
- That is affirmative. Congressman Thomas’ office.
- Say again the Congressman’s name, as they say they have no such extension.
- Congressman Thomas. Hotel, Oscar, Biker, Alpha, Sierra.
- Roger, Roger, standby, Congressman Thomas’ office on the line.
- Roger, this is the airplane. The congressman is requesting that you place his door key under, ah….the doormat of his ah… residence. Go ahead.
[01:03:35]
- (Women’s voice) Okay. Hello?
- Hello? Did you hear me? Are you there?
- There will be someone at the residence.
- I understand the house will be open and there will be someone at the residence. Is that correct?
- Hello. This is Crown. I understand that the residence will be occupied and there will be someone at the residence.
- Okay, fine Crown. Thank you very much.
- Roger, Crown out.

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- Andrews, will you check on the ground temperatures when you get a moment?
- Roger.
- The last …was if Volunteer was aboard? Go ahead.
- Just a moment.
- Andrews, the temperature, the present temperature is 64 degrees.
- Okay.
- Crown. What will the temperature be at Zulu time.
- Zulu?
- Make it 62.
- 63?
- 62.
- 62. Got it.

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[01:04:50]
- Will have to rescind …...
- ...Yes, yes, we’re not going to be able to rescind…we only get them on one circuit now.
- Oh, I see. We’ll just notify the people.
- All right, thank you very much….
- This is Liberty. Roger.
- Air Force One, Andrews.
- Air Force One. Go ahead.
- Roger, Present temperature is 64 degrees. 2300 forecast, Six two degrees.
- Roger. Thank you.

TB 4 – Patch 23
TB4 – 23

- Air Force one. Will you give me the Command Post please?
- Roger, sir.
- Air Force Command Post…
- Sideband…Air Force One for a patch.
- Roger, Stand by for Air Force One.
- Air Force One, Command Post. Go ahead….
- Roger Command Post, Air Force One, we checked Crown Royal at 2242, and are descending…remains 2305, go ahead.
- Roger. Air Force One. Command Post…
- (women’s voice) … (unintelligible)
- Standby…ah, he’s on the television set right now.
- (women’s voice) It’s very important.
- Who’s calling please?
- …. in Dallas.
- Can you standby? Over.
- This is Air Force One. Warrior is unable to speak with you at the present time, and asks you if you will please call the White House in about 30 minutes.
- Roger. Out.
- Roger. 
[01:06:58]

TB 4 – Patch 24
TB4 -24

Reel 2, Side 2
[01:07:10]

- Andrews, this is Air Force One.
- Air Force One. Go ahead.
- Can you give me Air Force Command Post please?
- SAM Command Post. Captain Benson.
- Roger, sideband on Air Force Once for a patch.
- Okay, go ahead.
- Roger, Air Force One, Andrews, SAM Command Post on, go ahead.
- Roger. Do you have an ET on the C130 with the vehicles?
- Negative, sir. Haven’t heard a thing.
- Ah, okay, right, thank you.
- We will check it out.

TB 4 – Patch 25
TB4 – 25

- Air Force Command Post…sir.
- Sideband from Air Force One coming in.
- White House (operator)
- Standby for Air Force One.
- Roger.
- Go ahead Andrews.
- Command Post, Air Force One landed Andrews at Two Three Zero Zero.
- Roger…2300
- Loud and clear.
- Andrews, make it ah….Zero Four please.
- Air Force One, Andrews, arrived on the block at Zero Four.
- Good day sir.
- Thank you. 

[01:08:30]
END OF TAPE

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Monday, April 30, 2012

007, LHO & JFK




007, LHO and JFK - By Wm Kelly 

In early 1954 Ian Fleming sat down at his typewriter in his Jamaican beach house and began “Casino Royale,” a paperback spy thriller novel.

The former assistant to the chief of British Naval Intelligence, dubbed his secret agent 007 - James Bond, who was licensed to kill on behalf of her majesty’s secret service while having the cover job of an import-export agent for Universal Export. 

Writing a book a year, by 1957 he had a few novels under his belt when he wrote what some considered his finest, “From Russia With Love,” about the theft of a Soviet cipher and the defection of a young and beautiful Russian embassy clerk.

A few years later, Lee Harvey Oswald, just out of the US Marine Corps, boarded a tramp steamer in New Orleans and sailed for Europe on the first leg of a journey that would take him behind the Iron Curtain as a “defector” to the Soviet Union. The passport that Oswald turned over to the US Embassy in Moscow when he announced his defection indicated that his profession was “Import-Export” agent. In fact, Oswald did, before enlisting in the US Marines, work at an import and export agency in New Orleans.

As expressed by his brother Robert (Lee – A Portrait of Lee, Coward-McCann, 1967, p. 74), “In November (1955) he (Lee) went to work as a messenger and office boy for a shipping company, Gerald F. Tujague, Inc. He made only $130 a month, but it must have seemed like a lot of money to him, since it was his first full-time job. Mother said he was generous with his money…Feeling prosperous, now that he had a regular income, Lee bought other things, too. Mother said he paid $35 for a coat for her, bought a bow and arrow set – and guy…I remember that gun…Lee really seemed to enjoy his work at Tujague’s for a while. He felt more independent than ever before, and he liked the idea of working for a shipping company. When he first told me about it, he was eager, animated and genuinely enthusiastic. ‘We’re sending an order to Portugal this week,’ he’d tell me. Or, ‘I received a shipment from Hong Kong, just this morning.’ It was a big adventure to him – as if all the company’s ships were his and he could go to any of the places named on the order blanks he carried from one desk to another. It made him feel important, just to be on the fringes of something as exciting as foreign trade.” 

Tujague later came back on the record as a leading member of one of the Free Cuba Committees, and was reportedly on the board of directors of a New Orleans bank that also included John Mecom, who employed George DeMohrenschildt and sent him to Europe, which led to him being debriefed by the CIA. So both Oswald and DeMohrenschildt, although their lives wouldn’t entwine until years later, were both employed by directors of the same bank, an indication they were both working for the same economic interests years earlier.

Was there a reason for Oswald to list his occupation as “import-export agent” on the passport he used to defect to Russia, and was it in any way associated with import-export agency he worked for in New Orleans shortly before enlisting in the Marines?

Or was it some kind of inside joke, tongue in cheek reference to James Bond’s occupation as an import-export agent for Universal Export?

When Oswald was living in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, he took a number of books out of the local New Orleans library.

A Warren Commission memorandum dated June 17, 1964, between commission counselors Wesley J. Liebeler and Richard M. Mosk, included the list of the books that Oswald checked out of the New Orleans Library. First on the list is “Goldfinger,’ and it officialy notes that the author is IAN FLEMING, the book was checked out – 9/19/63 (Sept. 19) and the return date is indicated as 10/3/63 (October 3).

“Goldfinger” wasn’t the first 007 novel that Oswald checked out, as the records show that he had previously taken out “Thunderball” on June 24 and “From Russia With Love” on August 22. Another 007 book “Moonraker” was also checked out on the same September 19th date as “Goldfinger,” both of which had the return date of 10/3/63 (Oct. 10).

For assassination investigators the problem with Oswald’s “Goldfinger” is that, according to the records of the New Orleans Library, the book was returned on 10/3/63 – October 3, 1963, a full week after Oswald, the friendless loner had left New Orleans.

Oswald left New Orleans on September 24, went to Mexico, and was back in Dallas, Texas on October 3rd, at least he was according to the official story, which has yet to explain who returned Oswald’s “Goldfinger” to the library for him.

Besides the Fleming novels, the other books on Oswald’s list – two dozen in all, are mainly non-fiction history, science fiction and biography, and deserve closer attention.

Of course if Lee Harvey Oswald was the real assassin of the President of the United States, these books would have been given a through going over and psychoanalysts would have given their interpretation of the assassin’s state of mind at the time, but since Oswald was a patsy, and framed for the crimes, just as he claimed, there has been no real attempt to even try to understand the psychological makeup of the patsy. If he had been the actual triggerman and assassin, then it would be a different story.

In any case, Oswald is one of the most thoroughly analyzed patsies in history, so we know a lot about him, much more than we know about the actual assassins. One of the things we know is that he read a lot, and we know what he read from the library records.

Oswald would probably be amused if he knew that Ian Fleming, the author of the 007 novels, was the European editor of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), who reported on his defection to the Soviet Untion.

A correspondent for NANA, Priscialla Johnson, was one of the first reporters to interview Oswald and write a newspaper article about him and his defection, and thus Fleming was her ultimate editor. Oswald mentions this news article and the others like it in a letter he wrote to then Secretary of the Navy John Connally, a man he is later accused of shooting.

Of course Oswald should not have known that Fleming, the author of the 007 novels he was reading, was the editor of one of the newspaper articles he complained about as misrepresenting his true position and situation. Nonetheless, the accused assassin obviously took an interest in and read the fictional accounts of secret agent double-oh-seven, a genre of books that were also on the reading list attributed to President Kennedy. 

In fact, it has been popularly alleged that both President Kennedy and Oswald, his alleged assassin, both read 007 novels on the night before Kennedy was assassinated, although I find this hard to substantiate. 

Kennedy is certainly credited with helping to popularize Fleming’s books and the 007 myth.

Kennedy had been familiar with James Bond and Ian Fleming since he had asked his friend and neighbor Oatsie Leiter to recommend some books to read while he was laid up in bed ill over some malady or other. Oatsie suggested he read a light-hearted 007 spy thriller written by her friend Ian Fleming.

Kennedy immediately caught the “inside joke” of 007’s CIA sidekick being named Felix Leiter, obviously a not-so hidden reference to their mutual friend Oatsie Leiter, the grand daughter of a civil war general and governor of Alabama. She had served in the OSS during the war and married Chicago millionaire John Leiter, whose family owned the land where they built the CIA headquarters. As mutual neighbors in both Newport and Georgetown, the Kennedys and Leiters were old blue blood money that mirrored Fleming’s and is reflected in the power circles that 007 infested.

The President’s wife, as well-read as her husband, and later a book editor and publisher, also took notice of Ian Fleming’s novels. Thought she may not have gotten the joke, she recommended Fleming’s books to CIA director Alan Dulles. Dulles also enjoyed Fleming’s stories and tried to cultivate a similar genre of CIA themed literature that would do for the agency what Fleming’s books did for the British spy agencies. Both E. Howard Hunt and David Attle Phillips wrote a number of fictional pulp paperback novels that were similar to Fleming’s 007 stories in style and content.

It was Ian Fleming however, who created Secret Agent James Bond – 007 – who would become the world’s most famous spy after the books were converted to film.

But before Kennedy endorsed the books and the before the films came along, Fleming’s novels were something of a literary oddity. When the head of British MI5 visited Washington and was escorted about town by Dick Helms of the CIA, Helms asked him about this British writer Ian Fleming. The MI5 director said he didn’t know, but the very next day the newspapers revealed that British Prime Minister Anthony Eden had spent a week at Fleming’s Jamaican home “Goldeneye,” which led Helms to conclude that he had been lied to since the head of British counter-intelligence had to know where the Prime Minster was living.

Fleming’s book got an unexpected plug when one of them was included among the books the President was reading.

Hugh Sidey, in Life Magazine (March 17, 1961) wrote an article titled The President’s Voracious Reading Habits which listed From Russia With Love as one of his 10 favorite books. A list of the President’s favorite books was also sent out to various libraries during National Library Week.

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Miscellaneous-Information/Favorite-Books.aspx



Among the particular favorites of President Kennedy was Fleming’s “From Russia with Love”:

Lord Melbourne by David Cecil
Montrose by John Buchan
Marlborough by Sir Winston Churchill
John Quincy Adams by Samuel Flagg Bemis
The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins
The Price of Union by Herbert Agar
John C. Calhoun by Margaret L. Coit
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell
The Red and the Black by M. de Stendhal
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
Pilgrim's Way by John Buchan
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Writing and Speeches of Daniel Webster
Andre Malraux
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
Henry Clay by Carl Schurz 

While Dave Powers added a few titles to the list, Kennedy’s secretary Mrs. Lincoln later acknowledged she added “From Russia With Love” to the list of otherwise dull and academic books to give it a human touch with a book she knew Kennedy had read that ordinary people could identify with.

While “Casino Royale” was the first 007 novel, the story had been adapted to an American television show, so the first 007 major motion picture was “Dr. No,” which Oswald could have seen and probably did. Kennedy also requested a private screening of the James Bond movie at the White House.

Whether he saw the first film or not, we do know he read the books, including “Goldfinger,” which was checked out on September 19, 1963, a few days before he was to suddenly leave New Orleans, travel to Mexico City to visit the Cuban and Soviet embassies, and then relocate to Dallas, where he was to work in a position that would allow him to assassinate the President of the United States, or so they would have us believe.

If Oswald was the assassin of the President, despite the fact that no motive can be or has been attributed to him, then an assessment of his reading habits would be in order since they would naturally help indicate what he was thinking and what motivated him. 

And so Lee Harvey Oswald read through “Goldfinger,” probably very quickly as he was a voracious reader and Ian Fleming’s novels would be very light reading compared to the more heavy science fiction, biographies and world affairs that he was also reading at the time.

Any cursory review of the books Oswald read should begin with “Goldfinger,” which opens with a quote above the table of contents that reads: “Goldfinger said, ‘Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.’” 

The other books on the list – two dozen in all, are mostly non-fiction history, science fiction and biography. 

The Warren Commission memo with the list of Oswald’s library books also reported: “Marina Oswald in discussing Oswald’s reading habits, said that he read generally histories or biographies and she recalled specifically that he read biographies of Hitler, Kennedy and Khrushchev. She is not clear, however, whether he read those books in New Orleans or Dallas. She did recall that he read a book by Eric Maria Remarque, ‘Time to Live and Time to Die,’ and that he read a book about Powers, the U-2 Pilot. Other than that, she cannot specifically recall what books he checked out of the Dallas library. Marina in her testimony has mentioned that Oswald read books of the ‘Historical Nature,’ and that he read books by Marx and a two-volume history of the United States. Some of Oswald’s associates in Texas mentioned that he read books by Marx and Lenin, etc. Katherine Ford also mentioned that Oswald read some books about how to be a spy.”

Oswald did take an literary interest in the subject of espionage, as another book he checked out was, “Five Spy Novels.” 

US Army Reserve Col. Jose Rivera, who was affiliated with a top secret MK/ULTRA program at Fort Detrich, had foreknowledge of the assassination, the death of JFK’s son Patrick that summer, and knew Oswald’s New Orleans phone number before Oswald himself knew where he was going to live. Rivera was quoted as saying, “We will have him read about the assasssins of history, and indeed, Oswald did read, Hermann B. Deutsch’s “The Huey Long Murder Case.”

Oswald also read “Portrait of a President,” about the man he is accused of killing, as well as Kennedy’s own “Profiles in Courage,” which earned the Pulitzer Prize.

Although “From Russia with Love” is the only book that is cross referenced among the books ready by both Kennedy and Oswald, their interests are very similar, primarily history and biography, while Kennedy leaned more towards the classics and Oswald drifted into Science Fiction.

The books on Oswald’s list include:

The Berlin Wall
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Soviet Potentials
What We Must Know About Communism
Russia Under Khrushchev
Portrait of A Revolutionary: Mae Tse-Tung
This is My Philosophy
Conflict
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Hornblower and The Hotspur
The Hittites
The Blue Nile
 Ben-Hur

I am not the only one to notice the similarities and literary coincidences as one internet essay notes:

            “ Meanwhile, the James Bond novels were having a huge impact on another young man, Lee Harvey Oswald. He too was a fan of the novel From Russia With Love, a story of political defection that oddly mirrors Oswald’s own defection to the Soviet Union. In the story, James Bond wisps the young Russian Tatiana Romonvav across the iron curtain with promises of decadent western luxuries.While in Russia, Lee Oswald similarly swept young Marina Prusakova off of her feet and brought her to America [also board a train] with promises of a better life. But when things started going badly, Tatiana and Marina realized that perhaps they were in for more than they had bargained for. If JFK represents all the most charming aspects of James Bond, then perhaps Lee Oswald is a reflection of his dark side.”

According to Robert A. Caplen in “Shaken& Stirred - The Feminism of James Bond” (Xlibris 2010) “Kennedy was reportedly reading a Bond novel the night before he was assassinated. In fact, reports surfaced that Lee Harvey Oswald was also reading a Fleming novel the night before Kennedy’s assassination.”

In addition to “From Russia with Love” being on their reading lists, and both reported to have read Fleming novels on their last Thursday night on earth, Fidel Castro was another mutual obsession with both Kennedy and Oswald. 

In this more detailed internet analysis of Oswald and Fleming’s novels it is noted:

 “And yet, the tragic assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on in Dallas Texas on November 22nd 1963, is oddly paralleled in the life and times of James Bond 007. In the novel and film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, James Bond’s marriage to Contessa Teresa Vicenzo ended in the same way as Jacqueline Kennedy’s marriage to Jack. Just as Jack Kennedy was gunned down by a hail of assassins bullets in his car, so too was Teresa Bond. Just as Jack Kennedy’s lifeless body fell into Jackie’s lap, so too did Teresa. They say that once the Presidential limousine reached the hospital, Jackie Kennedy refused to let go of her husband’s body, even as other’s entreated her to do so. And when all hope was lost for Contessa Teresa Bond, James Bond too refused to let go. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was published in April of 1963, mere months before the assassination.”

“In life, JFK was as physical manifestation of the James Bond lifestyle. The luxury, the charm, the wit, as well as the arrogance and bravado. In death, John Kennedy transcended his status as a historical figure and became a timeless cultural icon of the 1960s, rivaled in prominence by perhaps only James Bond himself. In the turbulent political atmosphere of the 1960s, people turned to the gleeful escapism of James Bond to pull them through the harsh realities of an increasingly complex world. Jack Kennedy did. And now the world needs James Bond again. His enemies are invigorated and reborn. But so too, are his allies. Through tragedy, James Bond lost his naiveté. But so too has the nation, and indeed the world. A world that needs heroes like James Bond now more than ever. But 007 is up to the challenge, for he is a man who lives by the credo: “Ask not, what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

“His rages, his wrath. The irony inherent in any substantive comparison of JFK and 007 is inescapable. For while James Bond is a timeless figure, JFK was a figure taken before his time. And while James Bond is unkillable, the same cannot be said of Jack Kennedy.”

Just like 007, there was always someone trying to take out JFK. His most dangerous enemy might have been Russian Premiere Nikita Kruschev, but his closest foe, and most personal nemesis was communist supervillian Fidel Castro, AKA “The Beard”. The plan was to whack the Beard before he could get to Kennedy. When asked what kind of man should spearhead the operation to whack Castro, JFK said ‘We need James Bond.’”

“The man selected to wack the beard was William Harvey….(America’s James Bond)”

Indeed, in a more mainstream publication Vincent Canby made a similar observation when he wrote: “Whether accurately or not, the first films made from the Bond novels came to characterize a number of aspects of the Kennedy Administration with its reputation for glamour, wit and sophistication, and its real-life dram and melodrama. Indeed, the President himself could be seen as a kind of Bond figure, and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as a real-life Bond situation.”

Most significant is the time when Kennedy met Fleming and invited him to dinner, about which there has been many misrepresentations, as that recounted here:

“The summer before his election, Jack Kennedy invited Ian Fleming over to his estate and asked the novelist how M and 007 would take out Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro. Fleming suggested three plans. When JFK became president, the CIA acted on all three of these proposals. So the leader of the free world and the head of its largest intelligence agency were conducting foreign policy based on James Bond novels. Ian Fleming was not only writing the greatest literary character in history. He was literally writing history.”

In an interview with his friend William Polmer Ian Fleming recounted:

“Well, it was rather interesting. About a year before Mr. Kennedy became President, I was staying in Washington with a friend of mine and she was driving me through, it was a Sunday morning, and she was driving me through Washington down to Georgetown and there were two people walking along the street and she said, ‘Oh, there are my friends Jack and Jackie,’ and they were indeed very close friends of hers, and she stopped and they talked. And she said, ‘Do you know Ian Fleming?’ And Jack Kennedy said, ‘Not the Ian Fleming?’ Of course that was a very exciting thing for him to say and it turned out that they were both great fans of my books, as indeed is Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, and they invited me to dinner that night with my friend, and we had great fun discussing the books and from then on I’ve always sent copies of them direct and personally to him before they’re published over here.”

“I think that was an historic encounter,” Plomer noted.

Although Fleming discretely avoided her name, the mutual friend was Marion ‘Oatsie’ Leiter Charles who lived at Dougal House, 3259 R Street NW, Georgetown, not far from Kennedy’s home.

Apparently Mrs. Leiter had been invited to the Kennedy home for dinner that night, and they drove over to Kennedy’s Georgetown home to inquire whether Fleming could accompany her to dinner, but Kennedy and his wife had stepped out for a stroll. So when they came upon the couple walking down the street they stopped and Mrs. Leiter introduced Fleming, who Kennedy recognized by saying, “James Bond?”

As for joining them for dinner, “By all means,” Kennedy said. 

Just as Fleming had taken the name James Bond from the American ornithologist and author of the book Birds of the West Indies, he had also appropriated the surname for 007’s CIA sidekick Felix Leiter from John Leiter, Kennedy and Fleming’s mutual friend and Kennedy’s Georgetown neighbor, and James Bond would be a popular subject at the dinner table that night.

Other guests reported to be there include painter and longtime Kennedy friend William Walton, as well as journalist and CIA asset Joseph Alsop. The CIA itself was represented by John Bross, who had served with distinction in Cold War Germany.

In recounting the dinner that night Fleming’s official biographer John Pearson wrote:

“During the dinner the talk largely concerned itself with the more arcane aspects of American politics and Fleming was attentive but subdued. But with coffee and the entrance of Castro into the conversation he intervened in his most engaging style. Cuba was already high on the headache list of Washington politicians, and another of those what’s to-be-done conversations got underway. Fleming laughed ironically and began to develop the theme that the United States was making altogether too much fuss about Castro – they were building him into a world figure, inflating him instead of deflating him. It would be perfectly simple to apply one or two ideas which would take all the steam out of the Cuban.”

“Kennedy studied the handsome Englishman, rather as puzzled admirals used to study him in the days of Room 39. Was he an oddball or something more? What ideas had mister Fleming in mind?”

What would James Bond do about Castro? Fleming sarcastically replied, “Ridicule, chiefly,” and as Pearson related, “…with immense seriousness and confidence he developed a spoof proposal for giving Castro the James Bond treatment…” 

According to another account, “Fleming … in their conversation,….told Kennedy that he had a way to get rid of Fidel Castro, the Communist leader of Cuba. This piqued Kennedy's interest, since Castro had been a thorn in the side of Kennedy. Fleming said that Castro's beard was the key. Without the beard, Castro would look like anyone else. It was his trademark. So, Fleming said that the U.S. should announce that they found that beards attract radioactivity. Any person wearing a beard could become radioactive himself as well as sterile! Castro would immediately shave off his beard and would soon fall from power, when the people saw him as an ordinary person. Kennedy had a good laugh about this bizarre suggestion.”

The next morning, CIA director Allen Dulles received a full briefing of the previous night's dinner conversation, ostensibly from Bross, the CIA man. 

Bill Koenig visited the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where the Fleming papers are kept. He reported: “The Fleming-related material is hardly the oldest or rarest of what's here. But for a fan of 007, it is a treasure trove. Not only are most of Fleming's original Bond manuscripts here but a huge collection of people writing to Fleming and receiving correspondence from him. The letters are, indeed, of a different time, when people took the time to type out a letter and drop it in the mail, not just bang out a few lines of e-mail and forget it. The library has two collections of note. The first is comprised of fifteen Fleming manuscripts, purchased from Fleming's widow in 1970. (The library also acquired rare books collected by Fleming in his lifetime.) The other is a collection of letters gathered by Leonard Russell, the late literary editor of The Sunday Times of London and by John Pearson, Fleming's biographer. Other letters show Fleming's relationship with more casual acquaintances - except his casual friendships were with CIA directors or U.S. attorneys general.”

In a 1962 letter to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Fleming wrote that “I am delighted to take this opportunity to thank Kennedys everywhere for the electric effect their commendation has had on my sales in America.”

Allen Dulles, the former CIA chief wrote to Fleming on April 24, 1963, saying,  "I have received and finished reading your latest ‘On Her Majesty's Secret Service.’ I hope you have not really destroyed my old friend and colleague James Bond, but I fear his bride has gone." More than a year later, in June 1964, Dulles wrote again. "I see that ‘From Russia With Love’ is now a movie and although I rarely see them I plan to take this one in."

In “Goldfinger,” Fleming wrote:

1. HAPPENSTANCE

Chapter One

REFLECTIONS IN A DOUBLE BOURBON 

JAMES BOND, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.

It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix – the license to kill in the Secret Service – it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was unprofessional – worse, it was death-watch beetle in the soul.

And yet there had been something curiously impressive about the death of the Mexicn. It wasn’t that he hadn’t deserved to die. He was an evil man, a man they call in Mexico a capungo. A capungo is a bandit who will kill for as little as forty pesos…What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no more…

….The operator’s voice came softly to him, ‘Ocean Station Charlie. This is Speedbird 510. G-ALGY calling C for Charlie, G-ALAGY calling Charlie. G_ALGY….’

A sharp voice broke in. An ‘G-ALAGY give your position. G=ALGY give your positon. This is Grander Control. Emergency. G-ALGY….’

London came over faintly. An excited voice began chattering. Now voices were coming at them from all directions. Bond could imagine the fix being quickly coordinated at all flying control stations, the busy men under the arcs working on the big plot, telephones being lifted, urgent voices talking to each other across the world. The strong signal of Gander Control smothered all other transmission. ‘We’ve located G-ALGY. We’ve got them at about 50 N by 70 E. All stations stop transmitting. Priority. I repeat, we have a fix on G-ALGY.’

Suddenly the quite voice of C for Charlie came in. ‘This is Ocean Station Charlie calling Speedbird 510. Charlie calling G-ALGY. Can you hear me? Come in Speedbird 510.’

Bond slipped the small gun into his pocket and took the offered microphone. He pressed the transmitter switch and talked quietly into it, watching the crew over the oblong of plastic.

‘C for Charlie this is G-ALGY Spedbird hi-jacked last evening at Idlewild. I have killed the man responsible and partly disabled the plane by depressurizing the cabin. I have the crew at gunpoint. Not enough fuel to make Goose so propose to ditch as close to you as possible. Please put out line of flares.’

A new voice, a voice of authority, perhaps the captain’s, came over the aid. ‘Speedbird this is C for Charlie. Your message heard and understood. Identify the speaker. I repeat identify the speaker over.’

Bond said and smiled at the sensation his words would cause, ‘Speedbird to C for Charlie. This is British Secret Service agent Number 007, I repeat Number 007. Whitehall Radio will confim. I repeat check with Whitehall Radio, over.’

There was a stunned pause. Voices from round the world tried to break in. Some control, presumably Gander, cleared them off the air. C for Charlie came back, ‘Speedbird this is C for Charlie alias Angel Gabriel speaking okay I’ll check with Whitehall and Wilco the flares but London and Gander want more details.’”

The internet analysis of James Bond and President Kennedy concludes:

“These days, everyone in America knows who James Bond is. The character and his franchise are pervasive and vastly influential in all spheres of popular culture, from movies, to video games, comics, novels, toys, and TV. At first, James Bond wasn’t particularly popular in the United States. That was until President Kennedy listed From Russia with Love as one of his favorite books. After that ringing endorsement, Ian Fleming’s James Bond books started flying off of the shelves. Though JFK and 007 shared a similar style, wit, charm, and taste for the good life, the connection between the two icons goes far deeper than cosmetic comparisons. We often think of James Bond stories as being influenced by world events, but what is startling to realize is that in many ways, the opposite is true, and that the James Bond novels changed the course of history. After finishing the novel From Russian with Love, JFK passed it on to Allen Dulles, head of the Central Intelligence Agency, America’s M.”

“The early 1960s. The pinnacle of male style, when men treated each activity, accouterment and debutant with sophistication and taste. But the two ambassadors of swinging sixties charm were also two of the Cold War’s coldest warriors. Both were boarding school boys turned navy officers, men who rose in rank to the heights of government service. They were the sort of men all others envied, and all women pined for. They were men of legendary libidos, womanizers worthy of even Don Juan’s envy. Both travelled the world, wooing and winning the world’s most gorgeous women in the lap of luxury, while also facing down some of the most nefarious villains of our times.”

“Their way with women was matched only by their way with words, wit, and whimsy. With a wink and smile these two men pulled the world from the brink of Nuclear Annihilation time and time again. These two men, are of course Secret Agent James Bond, and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Two men who need only be known by three characters, JFK & 007.”
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Joseph Campisi OSS


This is not the Joe Campisi who owned the Egyptian Lounge in Dallas, but it might be a relative, which should be confirmed by research. - BK 

10-4H (HSCA)
SECRET
CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
RELEASED AS SANITIZED 1996
23 FEB 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR: DDO/ISS/IP/EIS
FROM:  Plans and Review Group Central Cover Staff
SUBJECT: House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) Request
REFERENCES: A. Memo for SA/DO/O fr  OLC (OLC 78-0588/1);
                          Dtd `6 Feb 78. Same Subject
                            B. Letter for OLC fr Chief Counsel/Director of HSCA. Dtd 14 Feb 78 –

1. In response to Item 5) of Reference B request, CCS files contain nine documents concerning one Joseph F. Campisi, born 13 April 1911 in Brooklyn, New York. From 1941-46, Subject was employed by the FBI. From 1944-46, he was on military leave from the FBI, serving with OSS in the United Kingdom. From 1946 until at least 1963, Subject was Director of Export Sales for the Bulova Watch Company, New York. In 1959, his residence was listed as 10 The Pines, Roslyn Estates, Long Island, New York. [ REDACTED   - ]  It is not possible to determine from the information at hand whether Subject is identical with the subject of Item 5) of Reference B request.

  1. CCS files contain no information on the other items listed in Reference B.

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Joseph Campisi – OSS

CAMPISI - Joe, of Old Brookville, NY deceased on November 1, 2009 at age 93. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School in 1939, he practiced law before joining the FBI in 1941. His assignments with the FBI included overt and covert work with its Special Intelligence Service in Central and South America. It was during this period that he served as security advisor to President Enrique Penaranda of Boliva. He took a leave of absence from the FBI in 1944 and joined the US Marine Corps. After basic training, he was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. His assignments with the OSS took him to England and France. At the end of World War II, Joe was discharged from the Marine Corps, resigned from the FBI, and began working for the Bulova Watch Company. During his 36 years with Bulova, he was crucial to establishing Bulova's international business, eventually becoming Executive Vice President of its international operations. When his alma mater Brooklyn Law School graduated its class in 2003, Joe was given the honor of presenting the school's diploma to his grandson Bryan Bughman who was graduating Cum Laude. Joe is survived by his wife, Zosh, having been married for 64 years. He is also survived by one sister, Sue Zoeller (Don), and four children: Carol Monaghan (Tom), Donna Barrell (Bob), Linda Bughman (Ed), and Joe (Joanne). His seven grandchildren include: Amy Monaghan (Johnathan Field), Tom Monaghan (Danielle Bailey), Michael Monaghan, Kristy Fredericks (Kirk), Casey Barrell, Grant Bughman (Jessica), and Bryan Bughman (Skye Phillips). His three great-grandchildren include: Molly Fredericks, Reese Fredericks, and Tom Monaghan. Joe was an active and long-standing member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. He and his wife Zosh, also a former FBI employee, attended 52 consecutive national conventions of the Society. Joe was a member of the Glnwood Landing American Legion, having served as Vice Commander. He also was a volunteer for twenty-one years at the Glen Cove Hospital. An attorney licensed to practice in New York State, Joe was also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. He loved to travel, garden and play golf, tennis and squash. Reaching age 90 he realized he couldn't continue playing all three sports and decided to give up squash in the hope it would improve his golf and tennis games. In lieu of flowers, it is suggested a donation be made in his name to: The Former Agents of the FBI Foundation, the American Legion, or The North Shore-LIJ Health System Foundation. Viewing will be at Whitting Funeral Home, Glen Head, NY 516-671-0807 on Wednesday November 4, 4:00pm-8:00pm. A Funeral Mass will be held at St. Paul's R.C. Church, Brookville, NY on Thursday November 5 at 10:00am. 
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Lee Harvey Oswald & 007






LHO & 007

The passport that Lee Harvey Oswald turned over to the US Embassy in Moscow when he announced his intention to defect indicated that his profession was that of an “Import-Export” agent, and in fact, he did, before he enlisted in the US Marines, work at an import and export agency in New Orleans, from where he began the first leg of his defection.

At the time of Oswald’s defection, British writer Ian Fleming had a series of popular espionage adventure paperback novels about secret agent double-oh seven – James Bond, whose cover job was an import-export agent for Universal Export.

Years later, while Oswald was living in New Orleans in the summer of 1965, he took a number of books out of the local New Orleans library.

A Warren Commission memorandum dated June 17, 1964, between commission counselors Wesley J. Liebeler and Richard M. Mosk, included the list of the books that Oswald checked out of the New Orleans Library.

First on the list is “Goldfinger,’ and it officialy notes that the author is IAN FLEMING, the book was checked out – 9/19/63 (Sept. 19) and the return date is indicated as 10/3/63 (October 3).

“Goldfinger” wasn’t the first 007 novel that Oswald checked out, as the records show that he had previously taken out “Thunderball” on June 24 and “From Russia With Love” on August 22. Another 007 book “Moonraker” was also checked out on the same September 19th date as “Goldfinger,” both of which had the return date of 10/3/63 (Oct. 10).

The other books on the list – two dozen in all, are mostly non-fiction history, science fiction and biography.

Of course if Lee Harvey Oswald was the real assassin of the President of the United States, these books would have been given a through going over and psychoanalysts would have given their interpretation of the assassin’s state of mind at the time, but since Oswald was a patsy, and framed for the crimes, just as he claimed, there has been no real attempt to even try to understand the psychological makeup of the patsy. If he had been the actual triggerman and assassin, then it would be a different story.

In any case, Oswald is one of the most thoroughly analyzed patsies in history, so we know a lot about him, much more than we know about the actual assassins. One of the things we know is that he read a lot, and we know what he read from the library records.

Among the books that Oswald read in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 was a series of four books by Ian Fleming, the British author and British Naval Intelligence officer who was the European editor of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) when Oswald defected. Priscilla Johnson, a correspondent for NANA, was one of the first reporters to interview Oswald and write a newspaper article about him and his defection, and thus Fleming was her boss when she wrote the news article about Oswald. Oswald mentions this news article and others like it in a letter he wrote to then Secretary of the Navy John Connally, a man he is later accused of shooting.

Of course Oswald should not have known that Fleming, the author of the 007 novels he was reading, was the editor of the newspaper articles he had complained about as misrepresenting his true position and situation. Nonetheless, the accused assassin obviously took an interest in and read the fictional accounts of secret agent double-oh-seven, a genre of books that were also on the reading list attributed to President Kennedy.

Although Flemng’s book got an unexpected plug when one of them was included among the books the President was reading, JFK’s secretary, Mrs. Lincoln, said she added the 007 novel to the list because it seemed so dull and academic.

Actually it was the President’s wife who first caught notice of Ian Fleming’s books and recommended them to CIA director Alan Dulles. Dulles of course, was quite familiar with Fleming’s books and tried to cultivate a similar genre of CIA themed literature that would do for the agency what Fleming’s books did for the British spy agencies. Both E. Howard Hunt and David Attle Phillips wrote a number of fictional pulp paperback novels that were similar to Fleming’s 007 stories in style and content.

It was Ian Fleming however, who would create Secret Agent James Bond – 007 – who would become the world’s most famous spy after the books were converted to film. This occurred just as Oswald was reading them, beginning with the first 007 movie “Dr. No,” which Oswald could have seen and probably did.

Whether he saw the first film or not, we do know he read the books, including “Goldfinger,” which was checked out on September 19, 1963, a few days before he was to suddenly leave New Orleans, travel to Mexico City to visit the Cuban and Soviet embassies, and then relocate to Dallas, where he was to work in a position that would allow him to assassinate the President of the United States, or so they would have us believe.

If Oswald was the assassin of the President, despite the fact that no motive can be or has been attributed to him, then an assessment of his reading habits would be in order since they would naturally help indicate what he was thinking and what motivated him.

Any cursory review of the books Oswald read should begin with the list they provide, and starting with Goldfinger, which begins with a quote above the table of contents that reads:

“Goldfinger said, ‘Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.’”

1. HAPPENSTANCE

Chapter One

REFLECTIONS IN A DOUBLE BOURBON

JAMES BOND, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.

It was part of his profession to kill people. He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it. As a secret agent who held the rare double-O prefix – the license to kill in the Secret Service – it was his duty to be as cool about death as a surgeon. If it happened, it happened. Regret was unprofessional – worse, it was death-watch beetle in the soul.

And yet there had been something curiously impressive about the death of the Mexicn. It wasn’t that he hadn’t deserved to die. He was an evil man, a man they call in Mexico a capungo. A capungo is a bandit who will kill for as little as forty pesos…What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no more…

….The operator’s voice came softly to him, ‘Ocean Station Charlie. This is Speedbird 510. G-ALGY calling C for Charlie, G-ALAGY calling Charlie. G_ALGY….’

A sharp voice broke in. An ‘G-ALAGY give your position. G=ALGY give your positon. This is Grander Control. Emergency. G-ALGY….’

London came over faintly. An excited voice began chattering. Now voices were coming at them from all directions. Bond could imagine the fix being quickly coordinated at all flying control stations, the busy men under the arcs working on the big plot, telephones being lifted, urgent voices talking to each other across the world. The strong signal of Gander Control smothered all other transmission. ‘We’ve located G-ALGY. We’ve got them at about 50 N by 70 E. All stations stop transmitting. Priority. I repeat, we have a fix on G-ALGY.’

Suddenly the quite voice of C for Charlie came in. ‘This is Ocean Station Charlie calling Speedbird 510. Charlie calling G-ALGY. Can you hear me? Come in Speedbird 510.’

Bond slipped the small gun into his pocket and took the offered microphone. He pressed the transmitter switch and talked quietly into it, watching the crew over the oblong of plastic.

‘C for Charlie this is G-ALGY Spedbird hi-jacked last evening at Idlewild. I have killed the man responsible and partly disabled the plane by depressurizing the cabin. I have the crew at gunpoint. Not enough fuel to make Goose so propose to ditch as close to you as possible. Please put out line of flares.’

A new voice, a voice of authority, perhaps the captain’s, came over the aid. ‘Speedbird this is C for Charlie. Your message heard and understood. Identify the speaker. I repeat identify the speaker over.’

Bond said and smiled at the sensation his words would cause, ‘Speedbird to C for Charlie. This is British Secret Service agent Number 007, I repeat Number 007. Whitehall Radio will confim. I repeat check with Whitehall Radio, over.’

There was a stunned pause. Voices from round the world tried to break in. Some control, presumably Gander, cleared them off the air. C for Charlie came back, ‘Speedbird this is C for Charlie alias Angel Gabriel speaking okay I’ll check with Whitehall and Wilco the flares but London and Gander want more details.’

And so Lee Harvey Oswald read through “Goldfinger,” probably very quickly as he was a voracious reader and Ian Fleming’s novels would be very light reading compared to the more heavy science fiction, biographies and world affairs that he was also reading at the time.

The problem with Oswald’s “Goldfinger” is that, according to the records of the New Orleans Library, the book was returned on 10/3/63 – October 3, 1963, when Oswald had left New Orleans on September 24, went to Mexico, and was back in Dallas, Texas on October 3rd, at least he was according to the official story.

So someone in New Orleans must have returned the book(s) for him, and who might that someone be?
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Dallas Address and Phone Numbers

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MKULTRA DOCS



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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Was Joseph Stalin Assassinated?


Born Svetlana Stalina, Stalin's daughter changed her name twice and lived in several countries after her famous defection.

Was Stalin Assassinated?

Was Joseph Stalin the victim of a political assassination plot hatched by the KGB and CIA?

In a TV documentary biography of Stalin, narrated by Mike Wallace, Stalin is shown addressing an assembly to whom he announced that he had uncovered a plot against him. Arrests were made and another purge had begun.

Shortly thereafter, on March 2, 1953, Stalin had died of “cerebral annumerism” – high blood pressure and a rupture of blood clots in the back of the head – a stroke.

Fifteen years later, an American intelligence operative – David Ferrie, died of the same cause, after writing two suicide notes, and Taylor Branch and George Crile, in an article in Esquire magazine, reported that there were rumors among the anti-Castro Cuban exiles that the CIA had a pill that when ingested, would kill the person with a cerebral annumerism that would appear to be a natural death.

Stalin’s daughter Svtlana Alliluyeva (Stalin) later defected to the United States where she stayed at the home of Priscilla Johnson, who translated her book “Letters to a Friend,” in which she recalled the day of her father’s death.

She remembered being taken out of school and sent to her father’s side as doctors were apparently trying to save his life. But she did not recognize any of the doctors attending her father, specifically mentioning his personal physician Vladimir Nikitch Vinogradov was not present and suspiciously absent. An asterick refered the reader to a note in the back of the book (p. 238), ostensibly not written by the author but added for historical interest. The footnote claimed that this doctor was one of nine physicians arrested in November 1952 for conspiring with British and American intelligence to murder Soviet leaders, citing one victim, Andre Zhdanov, who died in 1948.

Shortly after Stalin’s death, the doctors in custody were released.

Was Stalin another victim of the doctor’s conspiracy?

In December 1977, Pavel Litvinov gave a talk at Stockton College in New Jersey. As a Russian dissident living in the United States, and grandson of Stalin’s secretary of foreign affairs who negotiated the United States recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933, Litvinov gave a lecture on suppression under Stalin. I asked him if it was generally recognized in the Soviet Union that Stalin was probably murdered – assassinated by his doctors in league with the KGB or the CIA and British intelligence, as Stalin himself alleged were plotting against him?


“Yes,” he replied, “but the KGB? Who cares who did it as long as he is gone.”

“Let the judging be done by those who come later, by men and women who didn’t know the times and the people we know...They will have their say and what they say will be something new and cogent. Instead of idle whining, they will read through this page in their country’s history with a feeling of pain, contrition and bewilderment, and they will be led by this feeling to live their lives differently.” - Alliluyev Stalin
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