D. H. Byrd, General Doolittle and a dead cat
No its not a law firm. Anyone who has studied the Dealey Plaza incident should be familiar with the names.
At the time of the assassination, Texas oil man David Howard “Dry Hole” Byrd was the owner of the Texas School Book Depository building at the time of the assassination, from where a sniper allegedly took shots at the president.
On November 22, 1963 Byrd was on a big game hunting safari in Africa with a German, Werner von Alvenenslaben, who ran the safari camp.
They used an Italian Manlicher rifle, a better model than the Carcano found on the sixth floor.
According to an OSS report, Alvenenslaben's father was an assassination expert, and Alvenenslaben wrote an article in support of the July 20,1944 German military assassination and coup attempt against Hitler.
After the assassination Byrd invited Alvenenslaben to Dallas where Byrd took a window from the sixth floor of the TSBD and put it in his trophy room along with the heads of the big game animals he killed in Africa.
Another friend and big game African hunting partner of Byrd was Air Force General James Doolittle.
While he is most famous for his daring bomber raid over Tokyo, more significantly he was appointed by President Eisenhower in 1954 to lead the Doolittle Commission to study CIA operations.
William Pawley, also served on the four member Doolittle Commission, that recommended to Eisenhower that CIA covert operations be increased to counter the Soviet and Communist threat.
This conclusion went against the basic tenant that President Truman says was the reason he established the CIA – to collect intelligence information and make recommendations to the President, not running covert operations.
Truman must have recognized the assassination of President Kennedy as a covert operation when he wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times a month later that clearly expressed his feelings.
William Pawley, a former ambassador, industralist and owner of the Havana bus system, supported one of three JMWAVE boat teams that ran commando raids to Cuba.
The other teams were supported by Clare Booth Luce and Johnny Rosselli.
Pawley used his own yacht to run Operation Tilt, aka the Bayo-Pawley mission, that had the full support of the CIA's JMWAVE boss Ted Shackley.
It included a number of significant players in the JFK assassination affair, including John Martino, a Rosselli pal who expressed foreknowledge of the assassination and the late Richard Billings, Life Magazine editor who before he died, told a BBC reporter that he believed CIA JMWAVE cowboy Rip Robertson can be seen as a spectator in photos of the crowd at Dealey Plaza.
Now there is an active court case brought on by the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC), its director Jim Lesar and lead attorney Dan Alcorn, Esq.
They had earlier filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the CIA for their records on Byrd, Alvenenslaben and Doolittle, but didn't receive a response, so now they have a court case.
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