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JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion & Debate => JFK Assassination Plus General Discussion And Debate => Topic started by: Paul J Cummings on May 21, 2022, 02:02:55 AM
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I'm new to this board but not the JFK Assassination and have spent over 40 years looking over different aspects of the case. There's one thing that has annoyed, bugged and looks out of place and it's that van photographed on the corner of Elm and Houston. Two months ago I decided to investigate the Clean Towel and Linen Service Company. This lead was generated by Gary Mack who responded to a poster over at the JFK Assassination debate and identified the company. I believe the person who owned this company was WJ Newell. I've gone through the Tarrant County (Fort Worth Texas) deeds and titles and his name appears as President of the company. I have these documents but don't know how to insert them in this thread. Newell did several industrial developments in Fort Worth Texas.
It appears back in June/July of 1958 Newell bought lots 1-3 in Block 15 of what's called the "Weisenberger Addition" in the City of Fort Worth for a total of $35,000 (U.S.) from a Clarence Whiteside. Trying to find out more information about him has been challenging but did find a few items. WJ Newell's brother in-law was none other than Byron Nelson. Yes the famous golfer Byron Nelson. I did locate where he was buried (findagrave.com) but his grave doesn't appear to show any military service. I also found him in the 1940 U.S. Census but having a hell'va time locating him for 1950 U.S. Census. I've tried his name incorporating his first and last name even family members but cannot find him in the latter census. He did have a son David Robert Newell who passed away in 2013. Part of David's obit read "from 1959-1963 he proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy and as part of his tour, he was on a guided missile frigate at the Bay of Pigs."
Last night while searching National Archives under Presidential Libraries I typed up his name and came up with this doozy of a document. https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKCAMP1960/1020/JFKCAMP1960-1020-006. I'm hoping to do more in this area but that van at the corner of Elm and Houston has never looked like it belongs there.
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I'm new to this board but not the JFK Assassination and have spent over 40 years looking over different aspects of the case. There's one thing that has annoyed, bugged and looks out of place and it's that van photographed on the corner of Elm and Houston. Two months ago I decided to investigate the Clean Towel and Linen Service Company. This lead was generated by Gary Mack who responded to a poster over at the JFK Assassination debate and identified the company. I believe the person who owned this company was WJ Newell. I've gone through the Tarrant County (Fort Worth Texas) deeds and titles and his name appears as President of the company. I have these documents but don't know how to insert them in this thread. Newell did several industrial developments in Fort Worth Texas.
It appears back in June/July of 1958 Newell bought lots 1-3 in Block 15 of what's called the "Weisenberger Addition" in the City of Fort Worth for a total of $35,000 (U.S.) from a Clarence Whiteside. Trying to find out more information about him has been challenging but did find a few items. WJ Newell's brother in-law was none other than Byron Nelson. Yes the famous golfer Byron Nelson. I did locate where he was buried (findagrave.com) but his grave doesn't appear to show any military service. I also found him in the 1940 U.S. Census but having a hell'va time locating him for 1950 U.S. Census. I've tried his name incorporating his first and last name even family members but cannot find him in the latter census. He did have a son David Robert Newell who passed away in 2013. Part of David's obit read "from 1959-1963 he proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy and as part of his tour, he was on a guided missile frigate at the Bay of Pigs."
Last night while searching National Archives under Presidential Libraries I typed up his name and came up with this doozy of a document. https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKCAMP1960/1020/JFKCAMP1960-1020-006. I'm hoping to do more in this area but that van at the corner of Elm and Houston has never looked like it belongs there.
Hello Paul, I'm thrilled that you've taken interest in the laundry truck..... It's common knowledge that the big city gangsters commonly used laundry trucks to transport illegal booze during prohibition. The mobsters learned that laundry trucks were excellent transport vehicles for many other illegal activities. Mr Jack Ruby was well versed in the use of laundry trucks ( The Carousel Club was next door to a laundry....of convenient for a gun and weapons smuggler ) There are reports that Ruby provided the laundry truck ( he drove it ) that was used as the transport vehicle for the stolen arms and munitions when the munitions were removed from a bunker on a US.Navy base at Houma La. There's a long story about WHO owned the munitions.
I've long believed that the laundry truck that was parked in the traffic lane on Elm street at Houston, during the coup d'etat was actually the hiding place for one of the assassins who was using a silencer equipped gun.
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Yes but I'm going to let the facts and evidence lead the direction. There's some other documents I've uncovered in the titles and deeds which shows WJ Newell being in partnerships with others in his industrial development. Byron Nelson (his brother in-law) had business dealings with Newell. His wife and Nelson's spouse were sisters. From what I can gather Nelson and Newell appear to be very religious which the link demonstrates. That being said the one thing about the JFK Assassination is the consistency of duplicity of people and events. One of the documents I found dates back to June of 1949 in Tarrant County, Texas. Newell was involved with Mark A. Sutphen (later listed as registered agent in the 1958 transaction in buying Clean Towel) along with Buford Z. Walling. I believe it was Walling, who If I remember correctly, listed his occupation in the 1950 U.S. Census as a "Projectionist." Don't believe I will find out to which theater he was at.
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Hello Paul, I'm thrilled that you've taken interest in the laundry truck..... It's common knowledge that the big city gangsters commonly used laundry trucks to transport illegal booze during prohibition. The mobsters learned that laundry trucks were excellent transport vehicles for many other illegal activities. Mr Jack Ruby was well versed in the use of laundry trucks ( The Carousel Club was next door to a laundry....of convenient for a gun and weapons smuggler ) There are reports that Ruby provided the laundry truck ( he drove it ) that was used as the transport vehicle for the stolen arms and munitions when the munitions were removed from a bunker on a US.Navy base at Houma La. There's a long story about WHO owned the munitions.
I've long believed that the laundry truck that was parked in the traffic lane on Elm street at Houston, during the coup d'etat was actually the hiding place for one of the assassins who was using a silencer equipped gun.
I’ve always thought the laundry truck was part of the assassination because of various images in photos...
Below is one of my favorite... found in Zapruder... This is from the HSCA copy...
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(https://i.ibb.co/q5HLw9j/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-7-46-29-PM.png) (https://ibb.co/SrkDp0y)
(https://i.ibb.co/ZcybnFK/Screen-Shot-2022-05-29-at-8-06-42-PM.png) (https://ibb.co/MPqJYtp)
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Not sure if I'm following you. What are these photos other than a blur of a subject?
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Not sure if I'm following you. What are these photos other than a blur of a subject?
This should help you see what I think I’m seeing...
(https://i.ibb.co/qF1TVBF/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-11-26-03-AM.png) (https://ibb.co/prXY52r)
(https://i.ibb.co/z5tr5pj/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-11-23-44-AM.png) (https://ibb.co/fST2SfB)
(https://i.ibb.co/ZWNJ135/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-11-37-57-AM.png) (https://ibb.co/HnX2p06)
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Don't see what you think you see nor I don't think that's the photo of the Clean Towel vehicle.
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Don't see what you think you see nor I don't think that's the photo of the Clean Towel vehicle.
Not sure... that might not be the laundry truck at that corner...
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Not sure... that might not be the laundry truck at that corner...
I agree, Jake.... I can see the words "PURSE Co " on the building in the background so the location for the truck is approximately correct, but the Laundry truck had bundles of laundry on top of it and I don't see any bundles of laundry on the truck in the photo.
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I agree, Jake.... I can see the words "PURSE Co " on the building in the background so the location for the truck is approximately correct, but the Laundry truck had bundles of laundry on top of it and I don't see any bundles of laundry on the truck in the photo.
That puzzles me also... no laundry on top...
So what is this in Zapruder...? A laundry truck that has been altered... or...?
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That puzzles me also... no laundry on top...
So what is this in Zapruder...? A laundry truck that has been altered... or...?
On page 14 of TKOAP there is a good picture of the laundry truck parked at the NE corner of the intersection of Houston & Elm, as JFK's Lincoln approaches the intersection. The laundry truck had a rack on the roof and bundles of laundry in that rack.
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https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/43379/- (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/43379/-)
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https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/43379/- (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/43379/-)
So, if I’m oreinted correctly, the Zapruder image would be on top of this truck...?
(https://i.ibb.co/0XyKXqj/Screen-Shot-2022-05-30-at-3-15-08-PM.png) (https://ibb.co/MhkfhnD)
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Come on, people, we need to discuss this! The OP, Paul Cummings, fizzled out here in 2022, but he is back and going full blast at the Ed Forum - where, alas, the interest in the mysterious Clean Towel and Linen Service Company likewise appears to be minimal. Mr. Cummings and his co-author, James Day, are now up to the first five of six intensive and rather impressively researched articles on the mysterious linen company. It all sounds to me like "seven degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon" and to have no connection to the JFKA, but it is an absolutely wonderful example of the Conspiratorial Mind at work. The linen company truck was indeed sitting at the corner of Elm & Houston, as you can see in the image below, so it certainly could have contained a sniper with a high-powered rifle, a spotter with a walkie-talkie, Carlos Marcello, a getaway driver for bank robbers or even a couple of guys delivering clean towels and linen. Pretty suspicious, no? Suffice it to say, Cummings and Day manage to get a lot of conspiratorial mileage out of a laundry truck.
James Day, of whom I'd never heard, appears to be Exhibit A for the Conspiratorial Mind. He has a BA in Latin (what?) and has spent more than 30 years reading Roman literature and history in Latin (what? - this guy needs to meet Greg Doudna). He is the author of Mad Bishops, about "a peddler of phony degrees who claimed to be a world famous bishop [and built] a network of contacts that led to the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK." It is published by TrineDay (say no more, wink wink, nudge nudge). You can find it here, and I might because I'm pretty bored these days: https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Bishops-Anglin-Assassin-Brethren/dp/1634244486. He has also written The Fraud of Turin, exposing the Holy Shroud as a fake - the Amazon blurb for it describes him as a "Catholic author," which the blurb for the other book omits.
Two items leaped out at me in my study of this issue:
1. Mr. Day favorably reviews a film of which I had not heard: JFK X: SOLVING THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY, https://www.amazon.com/JFK-X-Solving-Crime-Century/dp/B0B8TD8WVT. The premise is that the entire JFKA was fake from top of bottom. Jackie was the squib, whatever that means. JFK lived out his days, or is perhaps still alive, on Aristotle Onassis's island of Skorpios. What is interesting, or maybe not, is that I FIRST HEARD THIS THEORY IN 1971. I was a student member of Campus Crusade for Christ. The biblical Book of Revelation, as you surely know, says in verse 13:3 that The Beast will receive a head wound that appears to be fatal but is miraculously healed (a rumor that was actually circulating about Emperor Nero). We were assured by one whacked-out CC staff member that JFK had in fact survived and was being kept alive at a state-of-the-art medical facility aboard Ari's yacht. That's why Jackie pretended to marry Ari - get it? JFK would heal up and eventually return as The Beast. (Since Hal Lindsey had assured us The Late Great Planet Earth was going poof in roughly three weeks, it all sounded more plausible in 1971 than it does today since JFK would now be 108 and kind of a doddering Beast.)
2. Mr. Day notes that Leon Brachman, an affluent Fort Worth shoe merchant, philanthropist and ardent Zionist, employed Marguerite Oswald as a nurse in his home and that Marguerite "believed Jack Ruby was among the 250 males in attendance at a circumcision party for the Brachman grandson in August 1963." A CIRCUMCISION PARTY (what is that anyway?) WITH 250 MALE GUESTS? That is one honking big circumcision party, no? Pretty suspicious, it seems to me. (Wacky Marguerite actually did tell the FBI this in 1965 in furtherance of her theory that "the Jewish people [now THAT's a big conspiracy!] hired Jack Ruby to kill President Kennedy" and "the Jewish people are now going to free Jack Ruby, their executioner." https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=97097#relPageId=4.)
Anyway, the five articles on the linen truck are well-written and pretty interesting, albeit perhaps not for the reasons the authors think.
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