Earl Cabell was born in
Dallas County on 27th October, 1906. After graduating from Southern
Methodist University Cabell worked as a salesman. In 1932 he joined
with his two brothers to establish Cabell’s, Incorporated (dairies
and convenience stores) and became president and chairman of the board.
A member of the Democratic
Party, Cabell was elected mayor of Dallas in May 1961. He therefore
was involved in planning the trip John
F. Kennedy made
to Dallas on 22nd November, 1963. James
H. Fetzer believes
that Cabell took part with his brother Charles
Cabell,
in the plot to kill Kennedy: "The two combined motive, means,
and opportunity."
He was reelected two years
later but resigned on 3rd February, 1964, to become a candidate for
Congress. He was elected to the Eighty-ninth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1973).
After failing to be become
candidate for reelection in 1972 he retired and returned to Dallas
where he died on 24th September, 1975.
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
(1)
Leon D. Hubert cross-examined Earle Cabell on behalf of the Warren
Commission on 13th
July, 1964.
Leon D. Hubert:
When did you observe anything at all relative to the shooting of the
President?
Earle Cabell: Well, we
were just rounding the corner of Market and Elm, making the left turn,
when the first shot rang out.
Leon D. Hubert: Would you
describe what you saw or heard, please, sir?
Earle Cabell: I heard the
shot. Mrs. Cabell said, "Oh a gun" or "a shot",
and I was about to deny and say "Oh it must have been a firecracker"
when the second and the third shots rang out. There was a longer pause
between the first and second shots than there was between the second
and third shots. They were in rather rapid succession. There was no
mistaking in my mind after that, that they were shots from a high-powered
rifle.
Leon D. Hubert: Are you
familiar with rifles so that your statement that it was your opinion
it came from a high-powered rifle was that of a person who knows something
about it?
Earle Cabell: I have done
a great deal of hunting and also used military shoulder guns, as well
as hunting rifles.
Leon D. Hubert: Were you
in the armed services during the war?
Earle Cabell: No; I was
not, but there was no question in my mind as to their being from a
high-powered rifle and coming from the direction of the building known
as the School Book Depository.
Leon D. Hubert: That you
judged, I suppose, by the direction from which you thought the sound
came?
Earle Cabell: Right.
Leon D. Hubert: Could you
estimate the number of seconds, say, between the first and second
shots, as related to the number of seconds between the second and
third shots? Perhaps doing it on the basis of a ratio?
Earle Cabell: Well, I would
put it this way. That approximately 10 seconds elapsed between the
first and second shots, with not more than 5 seconds having elapsed
until the third one.
(2)
Leon D. Hubert cross-examined Earle Cabell on behalf of the Warren
Commission on 13th
July, 1964.
Leon D. Hubert:
Did you know prior to the shooting of Oswald, or have you learned
since whether there was any awareness in the police department of
possible danger to Oswald?
Earle Cabell: No, no. After
it had all occurred, then I recall having been told by someone that
there had been an attempt, or that an attempt would be made, but that
is not clear, and purely a matter of hearsay.
Leon D. Hubert: I believe
in your conversation with Chief Curry on Sunday, you discussed a threat
that had been made to you, or indirectly?
Earle Cabell: He called
me that this call had come through the switchboard of the city hall,
and it was his understanding that it was long distance, but he did
not know the source, and since it was a direct dial and they could
not trace it, there was not enough time, wherein the caller said that
an attempt would be made on my life.
Leon D. Hubert: He told
you that was a long-distance call?
Earle Cabell: It was his
impression, the switchboard operator's impression that it was some
long distance.
(3)
James
H. Fetzer, Assassination
Science and the Language of Proof, included in Assassination
Science (1998)
The Deputy Director
for Operations at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion was an Air
Force Lt. General by the name
of Charles Cabell. Cabell had overseen attempts by the CIA in collusion
with the Mob - which wanted to regain its casinos and resorts in Havana,
where it was running the largest money-laundering operation in the
Western hemisphere - to take out Castro. It was Cabell who, in the
presence of Dean Rusk, called JFK to plead with him for the close
air support he believed the President had promised, but which JFK
refused to provide. He would later return to the Pentagon, after being
relieved of his position at the CIA by JFK, where he would describe
the President as a "traitor".
Charles Cabell was born
in Dallas in 1903. His brother Earle was born near Dallas in 1906.
In 1961, Earle Cabell became Mayor of the City of Dallas. In his capacity
as Mayor, he not only supervised the police department but oversaw
ceremonial activities, including parade routes and motorcades. There
is no way that the Presidential motorcade could have taken the peculiar
and improper route it took through Dealey Plaza - which even contradicted
the route published in the morning paper - without the approval of
the Mayor. The two combined motive, means, and opportunity. The psychodynamics
of the assassination, as I reconstruct the crime, thus appear to have
pitted two rich and powerful right-wing brothers against two rich
and powerful left-wing brothers.
| If
you have ever been tempted to believe that President Kennedy was
killed by a lone, demented gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald, then
Assassination Science is the one book which will convince you,
beyond any reasonable doubt, that there was indeed a conspiracy
and a cover-up. Completely lacking the wild speculations that
have marred some books on the shooting of Kennedy, Assassination
Science sticks to the hard facts, interpreted by medical and scientific
expertise. (James
H. Fetzer, Catfeet, ISBN 0 8126 9366 3, £9.00) |
James
H. Fetzer, Assassination Science, Catfeet (1998)
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