http://timeline.demesnes.net Event Tracking Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:17:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en E. Howard Hunt, a cold warrior for the Central Intelligence Agency who left the spy service in disillusion, joined the Nixon White House as a secret agent and bungled the break-in at the Watergate that brought the president down in disgrace, died today in Miami. He was 88. http://timeline.demesnes.net/2007/01/23/e-howard-hunt-died/ Once back at Air Force One, and only after Mrs. Kennedy and President Kennedy’s body had also returned to the plane, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in by Sarah T. Hughes as the thirty-sixth President of the United States of America at 2:38 p.m. CST. At about 6:00 p.m. EST Air Force ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/11/22/return-to-washington-dc/ The presidential motorcade began its route without incident, stopping twice so President Kennedy could shake hands with some Catholic nuns, then some school children. Shortly before the limousine turned onto Main Street a male ran towards the limousine, but was thrust to the ground by a Secret Service agent and ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/11/22/november-22-jfk-assassination/ On Friday, November 22, 1963, at 11:40 a.m. CST, Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline, and the rest of the presidential entourage arrived at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, aboard Air Force One after a very short flight from nearby Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth. The motorcade cars had been ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/11/22/president-kennedys-arrival-in-dallas-tx/ Fort Worth : Chamber Of Commerce breakfast speech at Texas Hotel. Dallas : Luncheon speech attended by Dallas Citizens Council and Dallas Assembly at Trade Mart. Austin : Fundraising dinner speech at Municipal Auditorium. Johnson City : Weekend of relaxation at LBJ Ranch. http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/11/22/president-kennedy%e2%80%99s-texas-trip-schedule/ San Antonio : Dedication speech for U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base. Houston : Testimonial dinner at Rice University Stadium, honoring Congressman Albert Thomas. Fort Worth : Arrival at Texas Hotel. http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/11/21/president-kennedys-texas-trip-schedule/ Fri Nov 08 1963 Oswald writes : "Dear Mr. Hunt, (most likely E. Howard Hunt) I would like more information concerning my position. I am asking only for information. I am suggesting that we discuss the matter fully before any steps are taken by me or anyone else. Thank you, Lee ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/11/08/oswald-writes-to-e-howard-hunt/ Ruth Paine makes a notation on her calender - 23 October LHO purchase of rifle. [ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 293.] In March 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, alias "A. Hidell" ["Alex J. Hidell", an alias invented by Oswald], purchased a 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle (also improperly called Mannlicher-Carcano) by mail ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/10/23/oswald-purchases-rifle/ Lee Harvey Oswald begins job at Texas School Book Depository. He reportedly obtained it through a contact of Ruth Paine. [ref. Last Investigation, p 422] http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/10/16/oswald-begins-job-at-tsbd/ John F. Kennedy signs National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) #263, signalling his intention to withdraw troops from Vietnam. [ref. JFK, CIA, Vietnam by Prouty, p xxiii] http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/10/11/kennedy-signs-nsam-263/ Reporter Arther Krock, citing a dispatch from Vietnam reporter Richard Starnes, writes, "The CIA's growth was likened to a malignancy which the very high official was not sure even the White House could control any longer. If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/10/01/cias-growth-a-malignancy/ Antonio Veciana travels to Dallas for a meeting with Maurice Bishop (aka David Atlee Philips). In the lobby of the Southland Building, Veciana sees Bishop speaking to a man Veciana later identifies as Lee Harvey Oswald. [ref. Last Investigation, p 141] http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/09/25/maurice-bishop-seen-speaking-to-oswald/ A presidential visit to the state of Texas was first agreed upon by John F. Kennedy, by his vice president Lyndon Baines Johnson, and by Texas Governor John Connally while all three men were together in a meeting at the Cortez Hotel in El Paso, Texas, on June 6, 1963. http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/06/06/kennedy-johnson-connally-met/ Oswald moves to New Orleans, and finds employment at the William B. Riley Coffee Company. [ref. Treachery in Dallas, p 320] http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/05/20/oswald-moves-to-new-orleans/ General Walker shot at in his home. Walker was sitting at a desk in his dining room (working on his federal income tax returns) when Lee Harvey Oswald fired at him from less than one hundred feet (30 m) away. Walker survived only because the bullet struck the wooden frame ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1963/05/10/maj-gen-edwin-a-walker-shot/ Oswald rented post office box number 2915 in Dallas, Texas. The three names authorized to receive mail at the PO box were Oswald, his wife Marina, and "Alex J. Hidell", an alias invented by Oswald, which he would later use for his one-man branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1962/10/09/oswald-rents-po-box-in-dallas/ As soon as Oswald returned to the United States he recommenced his efforts to have his dishonorable discharge changed back to an honorable one. On June 19, 1962, Oswald contacted the Navy Discharge Review Board in Washington, D.C. "In this case there is no question as to service, which, as ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1962/06/19/oswald-disputes-navy-dishonorable-discharge/ Pauline Virginia Bates stated that Oswald told her that a Dallas engineer named Peter Gregory was interested in publishing his manuscript. On June 19, 1962, Oswald called Peter Paul Gregory, a petroleum engineer born January 25, 1929, in Siberia, who taught Russian at the Fort Worth public library. Peter Paul ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1962/06/19/oswald-called-peter-paul-gregory/ On June 18, 1962, Oswald visited the office of Pauline Virginia Bates. Pauline Virginia Bates (born January 11, 1922; died October 7, 1978) was a public legal stenographer, from Forest Grove, Oregon. In an interview with Caroline Hamilton of The Fort Worth Press, Pauline Virginia Bates recalled her encounters with ... http://timeline.demesnes.net/1962/06/18/oswald-hires-stenographer-bates/ Lee Harvey Oswald meets Russian exile George Sergius De Mohrenschildt (formerly Von Mohrenschildt) and his wife. [Exact date not yet established.] http://timeline.demesnes.net/1962/01/09/oswald-meets-demohrenschildt/