suspect arrested on the 3rd floor

Sean,

Want to read something interesting?

On June 15, 1978, William Ira Trantham from the Dallas County Sheriff's Office was interviewed by Jack Moriarty of the HSCA. The interview as follows:

Name: Ira Trantham
Date: 6/15/78
Time: 1400
Address: 10119 Newcomb Street, Dallas, Texas

INTERVIEW: Watched the motorcade pass Main and Harwood from the press room of Dallas Police Department Headquarters. Then checked out a cruiser and headed in the opposite direction not having an assignment germane to the Presidential visit.

Had not driven more than a few blocks when the police department radio blared the shooting report at Dealey Plaza. Reversing his direction he responded to that area parking in the freight yard near the rear of the TSBD. Observing uniformed men in the rear with shotguns, then seeing Inspector Sawyer at the front door, he reported for instructions. Sawyer advised they were still not certain where the gunfire came from, but the best guess at that time was the TSBD.

By this time they were joined by Jerry Hill and he and Hill went inside. Hill continued upstairs and an officer W. H. Desham (#7140 DPD) approached him with a prisoner. Advised this subject had been observed "acting suspiciously" on the third floor without a reasonable explanation for being there.

N.B. The name Desham above should read Denham.

beowulf wrote:I was skimming through Dallas PD JFK files (Box 5)  and noticed something curious-- weren't these guys supposed to have been stopped in Daltex Building?
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Voluntary Statement, by Jim Braden. Statement regarding use of a telephone inside the Texas School Book Depository after the assassination, (Photocopy), 11/22/63. 00001272 1 page 05 02 011 1272-001.gif 1271-002.gif
23. Voluntary Statement, by Larry Florer. Statement regarding use of a telephone inside the Texas School Book Depository, (Photocopy), 11/22/63. 00001286 1 page 05 02 023 1286-001.gif
(emphasis added)

By this time they were joined by Jerry Hill and he and Hill went inside. Hill continued upstairs and an officer W. H. Desham (#7140 DPD) approached him with a prisoner. Advised this subject had been observed "acting suspiciously" on the third floor without a reasonable explanation for being there.


N.B. The name Desham above should read Denham.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=146425&relPageId=42
Paul K. Wilkins: DPD #1469

....SIx flights of stairs later the sixth floor resembled a maze. There were stacks of books in all kinds of configurations. Some of the piles had five or six cartons and others had more. There were a number of officers from different agencies already present. I found out later there were even a couple of officers from the Federal Game Management Agency. There were Sheriffs Deputies and both uniformed and plainclothes Dallas Police Officers. ...

Guest wrote:I still think it a possiblility that the "arrests" we are told were made in other buildings were actually made in the TSBD and later moved.  We cannot ignore that Baker's first day affidavit stated 3rd or 4th floor.

Anything that has got Gerry Hill's name attached to it is suspect IMO and he did not go anywhere near the Dal-Tex building after the shooting.

Let's not forget Fritz's little detour for his chat with Bill Decker immediately after his short stint in the TSBD rather than going out to Irving like he said he was going to.

barto wrote:Thx Greg
I knew I had posted it but a search did not find anything hence me posting again