otis williams

Thanks Greg.

Vinny wrote:Thanks Greg.

I did the easy part, Vinny. I just put it up.

John is a very careful and thorough researcher. He shed new light on the background to the Texas Theatre and Julia Postal and has now done the same with Otis Williams. 

Highly recommended reading. His brother was mobbed up. Really mobbed up.

Ahhh more reading, love it and thanks Greg, and John.

I'd like to read this but the essay is inaccessible.

barto wrote:I'd like to read this but the essay is inaccessible.

Weird. They were all working yesterday. But it doesn't matter. Like the hobo I have always been, I can't sit still in one home for too long. Have been reposting everything at the new site.  Wix was okay while I had little idea about building sites cos it's made for dummies. But I finally taught myself how to use wordpress. Infinitely better and really not as hard I thought it'd be.
gregrparker.com

Haven't got the Otis Williams one up there yet, but you can read John's latest on how Lee really got his job. The rest will be up soon.

The link to the essay for anyne yet to read it..  https://gregrparker.com/otis-williams/

John has recently been in touch with a relative of Otis and was given access to two videos made in the early 90s. These videos seem to have been made strictly for family history purposes when Otis himself was turning 93. I was given permission to also view these two videos but no permission (yet) to make them publicly available.

The first video gives his own background and touches briefly on the assassination. Says nothing of note really but does confirm that the busy period was during the dall - September through December. In fact, he says that was why he got his start at the TSBD. He had, fresh out of Business College,  worked for Southern Publishing and in the early 50s, after a string of other jobs, he was contacted by the TSBD and asked to come and help sort out a distribution problem during the busy period. He did the same the following year and ended up staying on a permanent basis. 

The only other thing of interest the first video is that he actually talks about a drug store near the post office

In the so-called Walker Letter, we find "This is the key to the mailbox which is located in the main post office in the city on Ervay Street. This is the same street in which the drugstore where you always waited, is located. You will find the mail box in the post office which is located four blocks from the drugstore on that street. "

Toward the end of the first video, Otis is asked about how he met his wife. He had met her at Business College, but did not start dating her until later and then starts into the following..."At that time everybody walked up and down where the post office was which was downtown on Ervay, Commerce and Main, and there was a drugstore on the corner and everybody walked by that drugstore all the time..."

The other video gives background on his father's saw mill business and on his two younger brothers - one of whom had close ties to the mafia. He also talks again about the assassination, and explains his belief that Oswald did it with Ruby's help and on the behalf of Castro. After he was taken alive, Ruby killled him before Oswald could implicate him. Utter rubbish of course, but it either speaks to him worldview and mindset, or he was still pushing what the original plan had been  - a plan that he was involved with. 

I hasten to add, I am not at all certain I belief that last claim, but it is a possiblity given his brothers associations and the discrepancies in his statements at the time - let alone the latter discrepancies. eg Ochus Campbell described him in 1964 as the Bookkeeping Dept Manager and Molina as Credit Manager. In the book,No More Silence, Williams said he was Credit Manager. 

In 1964, Williams denied knowing anything about Oswald. In the second interview, he says Truly spoke to him about Oswald on Oswald's first day and stated )he) Oswald was well educated and would work out well. He goes on to say they usually got men from the Texas Employment Commission, but they were usually unreliable. 

He also claims that the Secret Service scooped something up off the street with a shovel and took it into the "foreman's office" He was later told it was a piece of bone.

This could not have been the Harper Fragment or the Triangular fragment as there is no indication they were taken inside the building.

Quite interesting, Greg. Hope they will allow the videos to be shared in the future.