Did Roger Craig see Gilberto Policarpo Lopez get into a Rambler Station Wagon?

[Tom Graves]

Gilberto Policarpo Lopez's estranged daughter communicated with me via this forum and by personal e-mail in 2018. She said her father was a violent man and that he was very pro-Castro. I asked her if he could whistle loudly, and she said yes, that he did it all the time when she was young.

It's known that he was hanging out, "waiting for an important phone call," at a Fair Play for Cuba meeting place in Tampa a few days before the assassination, that he got his Mexican Tourist Card in Tampa on 11/20/63, and that he crossed into Mexico at Nuevo Laredo on 11/23/63 and registered at the Roosevelt Hotel in Mexico City at 4 PM on 11/25/63.

According to CIA reports, he was the only passenger on a Cubana Airlines plane flying to Havana from Mexico City on 11/27/63.

She sent me two photos of him by e-mail. I posted one of them on the Internet.



IIRC, she said he sometimes bragged about the large "cargo" plane and the fact that he was its only passenger.

Was Policarpo Lopez the "Oswald" that Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig claimed to hear whistle loudly and watch run down the slope to Elm Street and hop into a Rambler station wagon driven by a dark-complected man about ten minutes after the assassination?

[Michael T. Griffith]

Gilberto Policarpo Lopez's estranged daughter communicated with me via this forum and by personal e-mail in 2018. She said her father was a violent man and that he was very pro-Castro. I asked her if he could whistle loudly, and she said yes, that he did it all the time when she was young.

It's known that he was hanging out, "waiting for an important phone call," at a Fair Play for Cuba meeting place in Tampa a few days before the assassination, that he got his Mexican Tourist Card in Tampa on 11/20/63, and that he crossed into Mexico at Nuevo Laredo on 11/23/63 and registered at the Roosevelt Hotel in Mexico City at 4 PM on 11/25/63.

According to CIA reports, he was the only passenger on a Cubana Airlines plane flying to Havana from Mexico City on 11/27/63. She sent me two photos of him by e-mail. I posted one of them on the Internet. IIRC, she said he sometimes bragged about the large "cargo" plane and the fact that he was its only passenger.

Was Policarpo Lopez the "Oswald" that Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig claimed to hear whistle loudly and watch run down the slope to Elm Street and hop into a Rambler station wagon driven by a dark-complected man about ten minutes after the assassination?

One, apparently you are unaware that in November 1963 Castro and JFK, through intermediaries, were discussing normalizing relations between the U.S. and Cuba, which was something that Castro strongly desired, so Castro certainly would not have ordered a hit on JFK.

Two, Roger Craig was not the only witness who saw a man/men hurriedly get into a Rambler station wagon right after the shooting.

The HSCA staff report on Dealey Plaza conspiracy witnesses notes that a witness named Richard Randolph Carr saw three men coming from the back of the TSBD and then entering a Rambler station wagon that was parked on the wrong side of the street.

Mrs. James Forrest was standing among some people who had gathered near the grassy knoll after the shooting. She saw a man run from the rear of the TSBD and then enter a Rambler station wagon on Elm Street.

A fourth person, Marvin Robinson, also reported that a man who came from the direction of the TSBD got into a Rambler station wagon.

Another witness, James Worrell, saw a man hurriedly leaving the rear of the Book Depository and running in the opposite direction from Worrell. Worrell said the man was wearing a dark jacket and light pants.

Craig's account of the Rambler station wagon is supported by photographic evidence. One photo shows Craig heading toward the grassy knoll.  Another photo shows him standing near the knoll.  And another photo shows him standing on the south side of Elm Street looking toward the Book Depository. In the third photo, a light-colored Rambler station wagon can be seen traveling west on Elm Street. In another photograph, Craig can be seen looking toward Elm Street in the general direction of the station wagon.

[Tom Graves]

Apparently you are unaware that in November 1963 Castro and JFK, through intermediaries, were discussing normalizing relations between the U.S. and Cuba, which was something that Castro strongly desired, so Castro certainly would not have ordered a hit on JFK.

Should Castro and his triple agent, Rolando Cubela, have realized that Desmond FitzGerald wasn't acting with the blessing of JFK or RFK (or was he?) when he gave Cubela the poison pen in Paris?