From: bhart@cyberramp.net (Michael Parks)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: First Reports, DMN, 2-6-77
Date: 7 Jul 1997 07:58:51 GMT

First Reports, The Dallas Morning News, 2-6-77

All emphasis is my own.................Michael Parks

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QUESTION ABOUT JFK TAPE ARISES:
'WHO WAS THE MOTORCYCLE OFFICER?'
By Earl Golz

   Six minutes of the file tape recording of a Dallas police motorcycle radio, marred by 
electronic interference but transmitting when the shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy, 
apparently hold the key to a new challenge of Warren Commission findings, sources said Thursday.
   The tape, which never was tested acoustically by the Warren Commission, reportedly indicates 
in recent tests that four shots - not three - were fired at Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963.
   FOUR SHOTS WOULD MEAN ACCUSED ASSASSIN LEE HARVEY OSWALD, IF HE DID ANY OF THE SHOOTING, 
WASN'T THE ONLY PERSON PULLING A TRIGGER NOV. 22, 1963.
   Among the many questions stemming from the tape and its most recent analysis is the identity 
of the motorcycle policeman WHO APPARENTLY HELD OPEN HIS RADIO MICROPHONE from 12:28 to 12:34 p. 
m. on Nov. 22, 1963.  It was during those six minutes that the six seconds of shooting occurred.
   The Warren Commission never sought the policeman's identity.
   And, on Thursday, The News learned a House Assassinations Committee investigator made an 
appointment in Dallas to obtain a fourth and even more complete transcript from private citizens 
who have made a study of the assassination.
   Their version, painstakingly written word for word, states that at 12:34 p. m., as the 
electronic interference is about to end, a dispatcher' voice is heard to say, "There is a 
motorcycle officer up on Stemmons with his mike stuck open on Channel 1.  Could you send someone 
up there and tell him to shut it off?"
   Just prior to this request on Channel 2, the then-police chief, Jesse Curry, is quoted as 
shouting instructions on the same channel.
   The interference on Channel 1 stopped almost immediately, according to those who have studied 
the tape recordings, but the identity of the motorcycle officer was never learned.  Also, the 
citizens with the most complete version of the tapes claim they can hear "electronic beeps" 
during the six minutes, which they say sound like the Morse code signal for "victory."
   To the ear, the six minutes on the police radio tape sound like a constant electronic roar.  
The sound of shots are not discernible.
   A Cambridge, Mass., firm recently analyzed the six minutes using techniques not available in 
1963.  And, two weeks ago, the acoustics specialists concluded four shot were fired.
   In connection with the House Assassinations Committee investigation, Dallas Police Chief 
Donald Byrd has agreed to seal off Dealey Plaza for three hours beginning at 5:30 a. m. Aug. 20 
- not Aug. 22 as incorrectly reported Thursday - so representatives of the committee can fire 
weapons to simulate the possible velocity and vibrations of shots as determined by the Cambridge 
firm.
   "We are not aware of what they (committee representatives) are going to do that morning," 
said a spokesman for the Dallas Police Department.  "Chief Byrd said that we are fully 
cooperating if they need anything."

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