Roscoe
White joined the United States Marines
and left for Japan in August, 1957. He was
stationed at Atsugi and worked on the U-2 project.
White
joined
the Dallas Police Force in September, 1963. Soon afterwards, his wife
Geneva White, claimed
that she overheard her husband and Jack
Ruby plotting the assassination
of John
F. Kennedy.
White left the police force
and was employed by a company called M & M Equipment. On
23rd September, 1971, White and a fellow worker, Richard Adair were
both badly burnt in an industrial fire. Adair recovered but White
died the following day.
On
4h September, 1990, Roscoe's son, Ricky White, revealed to a meeting
at the University of Texas that his father had been involved in killing
the president: "The
diary said after my father shot the President he handed his 7.65 Mauser
to the man standing beside him, hurled over the fence, took the film
from the military man, whirled around the fence and went through the
parking lot."
White
added that Lee
Harvey Oswald
had also
taken part but had not fired any of the shots. White then went on
to kill J.
D. Tippit.
Ricky
White claimed he had got this information from his father's diary.
This apparently had been taken away by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
(1)
Ray and Mary LaFontaine, Oswald Talked - The New Evidence
in the JFK Assassination? (1996)
In
August-September 1957 Roscoe, also a Marine, took the same boat
to Japan as Lee Harvey Oswald. Contrary to the claims of amateur
sleuths Gary Mack and David Perry of Dallas, the connections
between the two did not end there. In November of the same year,
both White and Oswald ended up in Subic Bay, the Philippines,
and, later, off the coast of Indonesia as part of a secret CIA
invasion force planned for that island nation. Roscoe White
wrote of the matter to his wife Geneva, in letters that survive,
complete with their naval-vessel postmarks. Oswald talked with
Priscilla McMillan about the incident, as she testified to Warren
investigators. The "maneuvers" were protracted; the
Marines did not return to their original assignments for several
months. Did White, Oswald, both, or neither become trained intelligence
assets during this clandestine action?"
(2)
Geneva White, the
wife of Roscoe White, was
interviewed by Harrison Edward Livingstone for the book, High
Treason (1990)
White asked
Tippit to drive Oswald to Redbird Airport.. .Tippit balked, suspecting
they were involved in the assassination he had just heard about, and
White had to shoot him right then. Oswald ran away. There is a report
that an extra police shirt was found in the backseat of Tippit's car,
and we surmise that this belonged to Roscoe, who changed his clothes
there. It is also thought that Tippit's car was the one that stopped
at Oswald's house and beeped, and then picked him up down the street.
(3)
Woody Woodland interviewed Ricky White, the son of Roscoe White,
for the Manchester Magazine (September, 1990)
That (fatal
shot) was fired by the man behind the stockade fence... Then it (the
diary) states that he hands the rifle to a man to the right of him.
And he has to hurl over the fence. He hurled over it, so therefore
he jumped over the fence. There was a man that was evidently standing
just right in front of him that was filming the motorcade because
he talks about a military man that he had to hurl over the fence and
obtain his film.
In 1976,
when the Senate Intelligence Committee was probing the role of the
intelligence agencies in investigating the assassination, it found
another pose in the same series of pictures. This was in the possession
of a Dallas policeman's widow, the former Mrs. Roscoe White. She said
her husband had told her it would be very valuable one day. As the
polite prose of the congressional Assassinations Committee was to
put it later. Policeman White had "acquired" the picture
in the course of his duties after the assassination. A fellow officer
has mentioned making "numerous" copies of the Oswald pictures
for his colleagues. However, even if this particular print was intended
merely as a keepsake, why was there no copy of it in the evidence
assembled for the official inquiry? It reflects, at best, astonishingly
sloppy handling of evidence. Several officers must have known about
this version of the photograph in 1963, for it shows Oswald in a stance
with the rifle which was copied in police reenactment experiments.
Perhaps, indeed, they once knew of more copies. The last act of this
comedy of police work does nothing to still the suspicions of those
who suspect hanky-panky with the rifle poses.
(5)
Matthew
Smith, JFK: The Second Plot
(1992)
Geneva White, wife
of Roscoe White, a police officer appointed to the Dallas force just
weeks before the assassination, claimed her now-deceased husband left
a diary in which he reveals he was one of the marksmen who shot the
President, and that he also killed Officer Tippit. Roscoe White's
story is that he had been a 'contract man' for the CIA, having killed
ten times for them, his 'hits' including 'targets' in Japan and the
Philippines. The diary, said to have been stolen by the FBI, is claimed
to contain details of the assassination, which was carried out on
the instructions of the CIA. They said Kennedy was a 'national security
risk'. Roscoe White was killed in an industrial accident in 1971 and
Geneva is quoted as saying, 'When Rock lay dying he made a confession
to our minister, the Reverend Jack Shaw. He named all the people he
knew who were involved.' However, this author spoke to the Reverend
Jack Shaw who denies Roscoe mentioned killing the President or Tippit.
'He did confess to taking life in the US and on foreign soil,' he
said, 'but not that of the President or the police officer.' The Minister
went on to say that Roscoe suspected his accident, at a garage at
which he worked after he resigned from the police, had been arranged
by the CIA - 'I saw a man with a brief case....' and Ricky White,
Roscoe's son, is convinced his father had wanted to be finished with
the CIA and they killed him for it. Insurance investigator David Perry
found no evidence of foul play. The accident was apparently caused
by Roscoe taking a welding torch too close to an inflammable liquid.
(6)
Tosh
Plumlee, interviewed
on 6th April, 1992.
Q: Tosh, did you
know Lee Harvey Oswald?
A: Yes, I knew Lee Harvey
Oswald.
Q: Where did you first
meet him?
A: I first meet Lee Harvey
Oswald at a secret base called Illusionary Warfare Training at Nagshead,
North Carolina in 1959 prior to him going to language school and going
to Russia.
Q; Did you just meet him
or did you get to know him?
A: I got to... well, I
just met him and remembered him.... At the time that I met him in
'59 he was a Marine, we were all in Illusionary Warfare Training,
or something... propaganda stuff, and he was there and he was doing
language study at that particular point. I didn't recognize him as
anybody them other than just another black operative.
Q: Did you ever see him
after that?
A: Yes, one time in Honolulu
with another guy at a radar installation and that was about... .oh
I guess shortly after that... shortly after Nagshead... my dates may
be wrong. It could have been '58 or '59 right around that area.
Q: Were there other occasions
when you saw him?
A: Well, the one at the
radar complex there on either Ohau or... I can't remember exactly
where it was. But he was there at that time and I saw him briefly
at Wheeler Air Force Base there at there at Oahu outside Honolulu
and he was getting ready to leave an go to Dallas... the whole group
was getting ready to leave and we had been just completing jungle
warfare training.
Q: Did you ever see him
again after that?
A: Yes, in '62 when I came
back into Dallas area, that, through the Dallas Cubans over on, not
Harlendale Street, but there was a "safe" house here in
Dallas, Oak Cliff, two of them. There was a small two bedroom frame
type house that was located in Oak Cliff not far from the zoo where
the old inner urban track used to go through, I mean there's a highline
down through there now, at that place and then I think it was Zang's
Blvd. there used to be "safe" house there that was run by
Hernandez out of Miami that had connections with Alpha 66 at one point
that se up a "safe" house for Dallas Cubans that were filtrating
out of the Miami area. Oswald, from those two "safe" houses,
I went to another "safe" house and that "safe"
house was directly behind where Oswald had rented a room, in the alley,
and I carved my initials on the draining board up there at that time
and that was a gun running operation and Oswald was renting the front
house. I saw him there briefly but did not talk to him.
Q: Is that the house he
lived in when the assassination occurred?
A: I'm not sure of the
dates. Researchers would have to get the dates but this was just prior..
I had just came in from flying Roselli and John Martino from Houston
to Galvezton and my next trip was from Houston back to Dallas so that
would have been around June of '63, or no... before June... it would
have been around April or May of '63.
Q: Did you know Roscoe
White?
A: Roscoe White was at
the radar complex and jungle warfare training in Honolulu and that's
where I first met him. When I say met him... I would have never, never
have picked Roscoe White and my feelings, it's a tragedy of what happened
to Roscoe White's life. He was an operative. He was military intelligence.
Basically, I think he was a good man. This other investigation a few
years ago that came out... that however that went... the sensationalism
of that was done very poorly because what it has done nowadays has
totally discredited Roscoe White as being a military operative. The
fact that Oswald and Roscoe White, the radar complex, and jungle warfare
training, and Nagshead, North Carolina and all these things...
Q: When was the last time
you saw Roscoe White?
A: The last time I saw
Roscoe White was over in Honolulu and that was about '59. I had no
liaison with White, you know, after that. I wasn't even aware that
he was possibly in the Plaza until some researchers indicated that
to me by pictures and I identified him as working at the radar complex
from pictures that researchers had shown me stating he was in Dallas.
Q: Are you saying that
you saw Roscoe White and Lee Harvey Oswald together?
A: Not together, at the
same place and the same time. There was a ship that went over with
White and a bunch of Marines and I can't remember the name of that
particular ship, and I think that Oswald was on board that ship.
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