> >A call was made to Parkland inquiring about Oswald.  Crenshaw's book
> says he
> >answered the phone and that the caller was LBJ.  My research showed
> the caller
> >could not have been the new president.

> >No one to my knowledge has come forward to say he made the call,
> whether on
> >LBJ's behalf or someone else's, or produced a document suggesting such
> an
> >event.

> >Neither Crenshaw's report of his activities that day,
> Where are Crenshaw's contemporaneous accounts of the day Oswald was
> treated. Are there such things?

>  or Bartlett's report,

> Bartlett wrote the Dallas Morning News herself. What? Was she
> conspiring to tell a lie? Make a fool of herself?

> >nor the reports of others at the switchboard that day, mention a call
> from
> >LBJ or the White House.  The reports are in our Parkland Hospital
> collection,
> >copies of which were recently furnished to the ARRB and the National
> >Archives.

> How would the absence of such a report prove no call came in?

> >Did someone call on LBJ's behalf?  Possibly.  Did he identify himself
> as LBJ?
> >Possibly.  Was it LBJ? Nope, at least not according to available
> >documentation and the lack of any contemporaneous confirmation.

> >If someone has new information about these questions I would very much
> like to
> >see it.

> Well, here it is, again: neurosurgeon Philip Williams, MD. Have you
> called him to see whether the NY Times misquoted him?

> >> On 5/26/92, the New York Times reported: "In the (JAMA) interviews,
> Dr.
> >> Charles Baxter, the emergency room chief, denied that such a call
> was
> >> received by any doctor. But the denial came from a surgeon who could
> >> not have known about the call because he was not present during
> >> Oswald's surgery, Dr. Crenshaw said.

> >> "Indeed, another doctor has confirmed such a call, although the
> details
> >> and who made it are not clear.

> >> "The doctor, Phillip E. Williams, now a brain  surgeon in Dallas,
> was
> >> an intern pumping blood into Oswald's right let. In an interview,
> Dr.
> >> Williams said he had long remembered reports of two White House
> >> telephone calls to the operating room.

> >> "I vividly remember someone said, and I can't say who it was, the
> White
> >> House is calling and President Johnson wants to know what the status
> of
> >> Oswald is, Dr. Williams said, adding, "I heard the statement in the
> >> oparating room, and it was not Dr. Crenshaw's book or anyone else
> who
> >> revived my thoughts about this because I have said this for years."

> >> Williams admitted he did not know for certain it was Johnson, or
> that
> >> Johnson wanted Oswald's confession. But it is clear that the "White
> >> House" called, he was pumping blood into Oswald, and there is no one
> >> else who has come forward to claim to have taken that call. If not
> >> Crenshaw, who took that call Dr. Williams remembered?

> >> Crenshaw, who JAMA falsely belittled for claiming LBJ called
> personally
> >> for him, said no such thing, of course. Rather, he said that he
> >> happened to be the one to pick up a ringing phone when a man who
> >> identified himself as LBJ, and who sounded like LBJ, called.

> >> Then there is the letter of Phyllis Bartlett, the "chief telephone
> >> operator" at Parkland. When news of amazing tale broke, and the
> Dallas
> >> Morning News' Lawrence Sutherland sneered at Crenshaw's LBJ claim,
> >> Bartlett wrote the DMN to chip in her memory of an amazingly similar
> >> event.

> >> She wrote: " ... There are still people who have not come forward
> yet,
> >> that could have helped Mr. Sutherland get his facts strait had he
> >> bothered to check.

> >> "There very definitely was a phone call from a man with a loud voice
> >> who identified himself as Lyndon Johnson, an he was connected to the
> >> operating room phone during Oswald's surgery."

> >> I've not seen the Gary Mack evidence McA points to, and I'd
> appreciate
> >> anyone's emailing it to me, but it is clear that these are two
> >> percipient witnesses. Bartlett's recollection jibes perfectly with
> >> another, very credible witness, Dr. Williams. These mutually
> >> corroborating stories hard to explain if not true.

> >> But if not Crenshaw, who *did* pick up the White House call both
> >> Bartlett and Williams recalled?

> >> Just a question: Does McA normally agree with Gary Mack's views of
> the
> >> evidence? I can honestly say I don't know.

> >> Gary