Earlene has a problem with Police car numbers. Or does she?
Raymond
Mr. Ball.
Did a police car pass the house there and honked?
Mrs. Roberts.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
When was that?
Mrs. Roberts.
He came in the house.
Mr. Ball.
When he came in the house ?
Mrs. Roberts.
When he came in the house and went to his room, you know how the
sidewalk runs?
Mr. Ball.
Yes.
Mrs. ROBERTS. Right direct in front of that door-there was a police
car stopped and honked. I had worked for some policemen and sometimes
they come by and tell me something that maybe their wives would want
me to know, and I thought it was them, and I just glanced out and saw
the number, and I said, "Oh, that's not their car," for I knew their
car.
Mr. Ball.
You mean, it was not the car of the policemen you knew?
Mrs. ROBERTS. It wasn't the police car I knew, because their number
was 170 and it wasn't 170 and I ignored it.
Mr. Ball.
And who was in the car?
Mrs. ROBERTS. I don't know--I didn't pay any attention to it after I
noticed it wasn't them-I didn't.
Mr. Ball.
Where was it parked ?
Mrs. Roberts.
It was parked in front of the house.
Mr. Ball.
At 1026 North Beckley?
Mrs. Roberts.
And then they just eased on--the way it is-it was the third house off
of Zangs and they just went on around the corner that way.
Mr. Ball.
Went around what corner?
Mrs. Roberts.
Went around the corner off of Beckley on Zangs.
Mr. Ball.
Going which way--toward town or away from town?
Mrs. Roberts.
Toward town.
Dr. GOLDBERG. Which way was the car facing?
Mrs. Roberts.
It was facing north.
Dr. GOLDBERG. Towards Zangs?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Towards Zangs--for I was the third house right off of
Zangs on Beckley.
Mr. Ball.
Did this police car stop directly in front of your house?
Mrs. ROBERTS. Yes--it stopped directly in front of my house and it
just "tip-tip" and that's the way Officer Alexander and Charles
Burnely would do when they stopped, and I went to the door and looked
and saw it wasn't their number.
Mr. Ball.
Where was Oswald when this happened?
Mrs. Roberts.
In his room.
Mr. Ball.
It was after he had come in his room?
Mrs. Roberts.
Yes.
Mr. Ball.
Had that police car ever stopped there before ?
Mrs. Roberts.
I don't know--I don't remember ever seeing it.
Mr. Ball.
Have you ever seen it since?
Mrs. Roberts.
No--I didn't pay that much attention--I just saw it wasn't the police
car that I knew and had worked for so, I forgot about it. I seen it at
the time, but I don't remember now what it was.
Mr. Ball.
Did you report the number of the car to anyone?
Mrs. ROBERTS. I think I did---I'm not sure, because I--at that
particular time I remembered it.
Mr. Ball.
You remembered the number of the car ?
Mrs. ROBERTS. I think it was--106, it seems to me like it was 106, but
I do know what theirs was--it was 170 and it wasn't their car.
http://www.jfk-assassination.de/warren/wch/vol6/page443.php
Squad cars 170 and 107 were sold in April 1963
Warren Report, Chapter VI, page 253.
[QUOTE]The possibility that accomplices aided Oswald in connection
with his escape was suggested by the testimony of Earlene Roberts.,
the housekeeper at the 1026 North Beckley roominghouse.88 She
testified that at about 1 p.m. on November 22, after Oswald had
returned to the roominghouse, a Dallas police car drove slowly by the
front. of the 1026 North Beckley premises and stopped momentarily; she
said she heard its horn several times. 89 Mrs. Roberts stated that the
occupants of the car were not known to her even though she had worked
for some policemen who would occasionally come by.90 She said the
policeman she knew drove car No. 170 and that this was not the number
on the police car that honked on November 22. She testified that she
first thought the car she saw was No. 106 and then said that it was
No. 107.91 In an FBI interview she had stated that she looked out the
front window and saw police car No. 207. 92 Investigation has not
produced any evidence that there was a police vehicle in the area of
1026 North Beckley at about 1 p.m. on November 22.93 Squad car 207 was
at the Texas School Book Depository Building, as was car 106. Squad
cars 170 and 107 were sold in April 1963 and their numbers were not
reassigned until February 1964.94
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=3482
Question. Who bought these police cars. Were the police radios removed
when the cars were sold?
The open-microphone portion of a police radio recording in Dealy Plaza
lasts 5.5 minutes, and begins about 12:29 p.m. local time, about a
minute before the assassination at 12:30 p.m
A Convenient Happening ?
The HSCA, using an amateur film shot of the motorcade,[9] concluded
that the recording originated from the motorcycle of police officer H.
B. McLain, who later testified before the committee that his
microphone was often stuck in the open position. However.......
The Dictabelt evidence relating to the assassination of John F.
Kennedy comes from a Dictabelt recording from a microphone stuck in
the open position on a motorcycle police officer's radio when John F.
Kennedy, 35th President of the United States was assassinated in
Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Many aspects of his assassination
have been investigated, and the less well-known recording, made by a
then-common Dictaphone dictation machine that recorded sounds in
grooves pressed into a thin celluloid belt, gained prominence among
Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists starting in 1978.
The recording was made from Dallas police radio channel 1, which
carried routine police radio traffic (channel 2 was reserved for
special events, such as the presidential motorcade). The open-
microphone portion of the recording lasts 5.5 minutes, and begins
about 12:29 p.m. local time, about a minute before the assassination
at 12:30 p.m.[1][2][3][4][5] Verbal time stamps were made periodically
by the police radio dispatcher and can be heard on the recording.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictabelt_evidence_relating_to_the_assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
Officer McLain did not hear the actual recording until after his
testimony, and upon hearing it he adamantly denied that the recording
originated from his motorcycle. He said that the other sounds on the
tape did not match his movements. Sirens are not heard on the tape
until more than two minutes after what is supposed to be the sound of
the shooting; however, McLain accompanied the motorcade to Parkland
Hospital immediately after the shooting, with sirens blaring the
entire time. When the sirens are heard on the Dictabelt recording,
they rise and recede in pitch (the Doppler effect) and volume, as if
passing by. McLain also said that the engine sound was clearly from a
three-wheeled motorcycle, not the two-wheeler that he drove: "There's
no comparison to the two sounds."[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictabelt_evidence_relating_to_the_assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
Other audio discrepancies also exist. Crowd noise is not heard on the
Dictabelt recording, despite the sounds generated from the many
onlookers along Dallas's Main Street and in Dealey Plaza (crowd noises
can be heard on at least ten channel-2 transmissions from the
motorcade). Someone is heard whistling a tune about a minute after the
assassination.[11]
Four of the twelve HSCA members dissented to the HSCA's conclusion of
conspiracy based on the acoustic findings, and a fifth thought a
further study of the acoustic evidence was "necessary".[12]
And why not? Orders to authorities were disrupted at a crucial time in
the coup d'etat