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the full John peel lee harvey oswald story (in his own words...)
Yes, that's right. This was not the day Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby; it was a few days before. Lee Harvey Oswald was presented to the press. He'd been arrested and charged. Earlier on when the assassination first happened, I was working for an insurance company on Central Expressway, so I was able to get into town pretty quickly. I was an office boy and could come-and-go as I pleased, so when the assassination was announced on the P.A. at the office, I just drove into town. I went to the police cordon and told the policeman, "I'm from The Liverpool Echo" and instead of telling me to piss-off, he let me through. It's one of those things that sounds so bizarre. I walked down, I didn't go to the grassy knoll, I just stood on the other side of the road and kind or watched what was going on until frankly it became boring. That's hard to imagine, but it did. After about 40 minutes watching people scurrying about, I then went and made what I'd said retrospectively true and phoned The Liverpool Echo to give them the story, but they weren't terribly interested. I thought, Christ, I've always wanted to get into journalism and here's my chance, I could be The Liverpool Echo's "Man in Dallas," but they didn't care. I was a bit wounded by that, but then that night a mate and I were driving around and there was nothing to do, so I figured we'd go down to police headquarters and see what's going on. We went down there and I asked the police officer what's happening. He said, "there's a press conference in a few minutes," pointing to a flight of steps at the edge of the building. So I said, "Actually, I'm from The Liverpool Echo and this is my photographer," and he let us in, we went down there. I mean, we didn't have a pen or paper or camera between us, but we went in there. It seems so unlikely. We were all standing in this room and they had the identification parade in the basement of this building and they said -- Henry Wade said -- that this is the man that's been charged in the assassination of President Kennedy, and they brought in Lee Harvey Oswald. He stood there looking kind of puzzled and alarmed for a while, and was taken away again. In one of the bits of film of that press conference they show Jack Ruby was in the room -- I had no idea about him at this time -- but in a documentary they showed on British television the camera pans across the room to show him, and in the last few frames me and my friend Bob are standing there looking like tourists.
its very weird but the anecdotal way its told could only be Peely
for the full article & another interview go here |
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