Possible identities of the 2 pergola gunmen... Edwin A. Collins & Tom Howard
I picked Tom Howard from a photo before I knew anything about him, based solely on the fact that he looked to have the same hairline and facial features as the gunman peeking from the side. I had no idea he was Jack Ruby's lawyer. Then I came upon this unusual story.
Excerpt: "Shortly after dark on Sunday night, November 24, 1963, after Ruby had killed Lee Harvey Oswald, a meeting took place in Jack Ruby's apartment in Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Five persons were present. George Senator and Attorney Tom Howard were present and having a drink in the apartment when two newsmen arrived. The newsmen were Bill Hunter of the Long Beach California Press Telegram and Jim Koethe of the Dallas Times Herald. Attorney C.A. Droby of Dallas arranged the meeting for the two newsmen, Jim Martin, a close friend of George Senator's, was also present at the apartment meeting... Bill Hunter, who was a newsman present at the meeting, was shot to death that very night."
Hunter, who covered the assassination for his paper, the Long Beach Press Telegram had written:
"Within minutes of Ruby's execution of Oswald, before the eyes of millions watching television, at least two Dallas attorneys appeared to talk with him."
Obviously one of those lawyers was Tom Howard, who died of a heart attack in Dallas a few months after Hunter's death. "Lawyer Tom Howard was observed acting strangely to his friends two days before his death. Howard was taken to the hospital by a "friend" according to the newspapers. No autopsy was performed."
The only other person I could find with similar features & hairline of that gunman was an FBI agent named James Bookhout.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/no2wN6hpAUwTgpE36It wasn't until later that I found out there are people who believe Bookhout was one of the assassins.
Then I found Edwin Collins was also believed to be one of the assassins. He too had an interesting history
https://photos.app.goo.gl/FeYpxLsm77TYjaBm6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ps2eDCf4vgdg3Gvq7 Excerpt: "Collins was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He joined the United States Marines and was a member of the Underwater Demolitions Team (UDT).
Collins held extreme right wing political views and attempted to persuade the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society to work together against the administration of John Kennedy.
Collins was a member of Interpen (Intercontinental Penetration Force) that was established in 1961 by Gerry P. Hemming. Other members included Loran Hall, Roy Hargraves, William Seymour,
Lawrence Howard, Steve Wilson, Howard K. Davis, James Arthur Lewis, Dennis Harber, Dick Whatley, Bill Dempsey, Ramigo Arce, Ronald Augustinovich, Joe Garman, Edmund Kolby, Ralph Schlafter, Manuel Aguilar and Oscar Del Pinto.
This group of experienced soldiers were involved in training members of the anti-Castro groups funded by the Central Intelligence Agency in Florida in the early 1960s. When the government began to crack down on raids from Florida in 1962, Interpen set up a new training camp in New Orleans. The group carried out a series of raids on Cuba in an attempt to undermine the government of Fidel Castro. This involved a plan to create a war by simulating an attack on Guantanamo Naval Base."
Kinda odd for me to find all these things out later since I picked them based on their looks alone from photos I found on a site about all the witnesses/involved killed in connection.
