- Replay of BOR 297 (Season 7; 2006)
- Coley recounts in detail his experiences in the Dealey Plaza area on the morning of November 22, 1963
- Jack Ruby would join Jerry Coley and his colleague Don Campbell for coffee on Fridays
- Coley met Ruby on the morning of Nov 22 around 8am
- He then left for work and returned around 11am
- He saw that Ruby was still there at Noonan’s desk
- Coley and his friend Charlie Mulkey stepped out to see the Presidential motorcade
- Around 12.15-12.20, a man had an epileptic fit
- Within a few minutes, the motorcade arrived
- After the gunshots were fired, Coley and Mulkey started down the esplanade
- A policeman with a shotgun stopped the both of them and asked them to get the hell out of there
- He discovered a pool of blood on the steps near the picket fence
- After the shots, all people headed towards the grassy knoll area
- No one was going towards the Book Depository at that time
- Around quarter to one, Coley saw that Ruby was still at Noonan’s desk
- Don Roberdeau’s map showing location of blood (see “liquid red pool”), View Map Here
- Jim Hood, ad department photographer, and Coley then went back to the site of the pool of blood
- By Monday morning, no blood stain could be found
- Coley’s wife receives threatening calls
- Two men who identify themselves as FBI agents visit Coley
- And take away the negatives and the positives of the blood stain photo
- This pool of blood would reveal a second shot that missed the limousine completely
- The injury to James Tague being the first
- Jim Hood dies in a mysterious air crash several years later
- “I understand a London insurance firm has prepared an actuarial chart on the likelihood of 20 of the people involved
in this case dying within three years of the assassination — and found the odds 30 trillion to one. But I’m sure
NBC will shortly discover that one of my investigators bribed the computer.” – Jim Garrison, Playboy interview - Jim Garrison Playboy interview: Part 1, Part 2; Download PDF
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