Dal Tex

From the Harry Livingstone archive. Just uploaded.
33 pages with notes, correspondence and directories on DalTEx
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11L4jaVbP-q_XXk2kg5pYVlLXzj2o7spq/view?usp=sharing

Thanks Barto, Jaffe seems an interesting fella

One of the things I feel is relevant is that the TSBD was in the Dal-Tex until some unspecified time in 1963.  In one interview, Truly indicated they had only been at 411 for only a few months. I think a fair part of the earlier part of 1963 was taken up with renovating the building, getting it ready for the TSBD to move in.  This information should have been part of the official record, but it is not easy to find at all.

Some like to call the assassination, the work of magicians - even Dylan alludes to this in his song. This inevitably leads to jumping straight to the CIA.

But that jump is hardly necessary when you realize that 411 Elm was owned by a Master Magician, Harold Byrd.

Two unmarked and similar buildings opposite each other with the TSBD moving from one to the other earlier in the year, did cause some confusion. For example some cops called 411 by the name of the previous tenant and at least one official document stated someone was arrested on the third floor of "the Texas school book depository" building (perhaps a reference to Florer or Braden in the Dal-Tex even tho both were allegedly arrested on the street?) Maybe Baker's run with a building manager into a building he believed was the TSBD building and stopping someone on the 3rd or 4th floor was also a result of the confusion.

But that jump is hardly necessary when you realize that 411 Elm was owned by a Master Magician, Harold Byrd.


This has not received the attention it deserves in my view. Misdirection is a key factor employed in the art of any magic illusion. The TSBD and the ensuing aftermath of the assassination relating to what went on inside that building on the Friday is in my opinion just that - a magician's illusion. 




Misdirection - 
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1.the action or process of directing someone to the wrong place or in the wrong direction.
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Posted by me in the Education Forum 1/20/19:
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25464-now-it-can-be-told-dag-hammarskjold/?page=2


Everett DeGolyer
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“He lived to be honored by the highest elective offices and to be awarded the highest decorations of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. He was a lecturer much sought after, filled distinguished positions at three universities, and was awarded honorary degrees by six. Nine or more United States Government agencies, commissions, advisory boards, and committees called on him for service which he generously contributed. This combination logically made his advice much sought after in business, and he was for many years the world's leading oil consultant. The opinion of his firm, DeGolyer and MacNaughton, on an appraisal of the worth of a property or a company was accepted as final in financial and government circles the world around. This firm was at one time or another consultant to ten or more foreign governments on subjects ranging from organizing exploration programs to the proper price for oil F.O.B. tankers in the Persian Gulf.”


“As would be expected of a man of such outstanding reputation, his services were called for by the Federal Government. Starting in 1918 with a special report for the United States Treasury, he became in 1941 Director of Conservation in the Office of the Coordinator for National Defense and Assistant Deputy Coordinator in 1942. The following year he was first made Assistant Deputy Administrator for War, and then head of the Petroleum Reserves Corporation mission to the Middle East. He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Raw Materials for the Atomic Energy Commission, and filled many other important positions. He served on the National Petroleum Council from its beginning.”


Lately, I've become interested in the role that uranium mining might play in the JFK story. I'm not a geologist, but uranium deposits seem to be found near oil fields. I lived in the Rangely, CO. area for a while, so I had a personal interest in DeMohrenschildt's comings and goings there. When I read that D.H. Byrd sold his interests in Byrd Oil and used the money to found Byrd Uranium, my ears perked up. Whey would a person give up the lucrative money of big oil to invest in uranium? You have to figure that in the later 50's and early 60's, uranium would have to be a pretty hot commodity. It struck me a while back that a lot of the key figures in the White Russian Community in the Dallas/Fort Worth area were not just "oil men", but were engineers in the petroleum field, and specialized in the exploration of oil deposits around the world. (Think Jack Crichton and George Bouhe among others.
They also seemed to have ties to military intelligence.
"Mr. BOUHE - For 9 1/2 years I was employed as a personal accountant of a very prominent Dallas geologist, and probably capitalist if you want to say it, Lewis W, MacNaughton, senior chairman of the board of the well-known geological and engineering firm of DeGolyer & MacNaughton, but I was MacNaughton's personal employee."
WC testimony of George Bouhe http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/bouhe.htm)



There's a woman named Linda Minor, who writes a blog called, Quixotic Joust. She explored the topic of uranium exploration among rich Dallasites here:
She talks about the shadowy Dallas Uranium and Oil Company in the Dal-Tex building, and more.



Posted by me in the Education Forum 1/22/19 in a response to James DiEugenio:
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/17/the-mysterious-death-of-a-un-hero-2/

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25464-now-it-can-be-told-dag-hammarskjold/?page=3

Jim,
In the comments section of the article by Lisa Pease, a person named, "Abe" quoted a passage from the Wilson Center:
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/dag-hammarskjold-his-critics-and-the-united-nations-1956
" Dag Hammarskjold was more controversial as UN Secretary-General in his own time than the afterglow of later decades might suggest. At the time of the Suez crisis in 1956, his critics denounced him as pro-Egyptian while David Ben-Gurion of Israel proclaimed that he was “our number one enemy after Russia.” Hammarskjold not only helped to resolve the Suez crisis but also set in place the UN Emergency Force, which became the conceptual centerpiece for all future UN peacekeeping operations."
I looked at the Suez Crisis a little from the French point of view as a lead-up to the Algerian Crisis of 1958-1960. As I understand it, the French had a sort of chip on their shoulder following their humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. They felt they had a lot to prove.
And....
As Lisa pointed out in her Consortium News article, " As the Commission’s report noted, “Katanga contained the majority of the Congo’s known mineral resources. These included the world’s richest uranium and four fifths of the West’s cobalt supply."
The French exploded their first atomic bomb in the Algerian desert in 1960.
More and more I am starting to look at the need for uranium as a driving force behind a lot of the political events of the 1960's.

Uranium Mining. by D. Hoye Eargle and Diana J. Kleiner
Texas State Historical Association
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dku01


“In the fall of 1954 G. H. Strodtman, a pilot for Jaffe-Martin and Associates, oil operators of San Antonio, discovered high radioactivity near old Deweesville in western Karnes County while making airborne radiometric surveys in exploring for oil. Some leases in the radioactive areas were acquired by the operators. About the same time or shortly thereafter, Clarence Ewers, while searching for opaliaed wood and testing for radioactivity with a hand counter near Tordilla Hill-a prominent cuesta in the western tip of Karnes County-discovered high radioactivity at the northern foot of the hill and found yellow uranium minerals both in sandstone rock exposures and in the soil in shallow pits that he dug nearby. "Sulfur," probably a misidentification of yellow uranium minerals, had been reported in the 1920s as occurring in this area.”



Steve Thomas