JFK: Dallas Deputy Sheriff
Roger Craig speaks
I didn’t know this doc from 1976 was on the web.Â
It features a lengthy interview with hero Roger Craig, a Deputy Sheriff in Dallas who, among other things:
– was on the trail of a Grassy Knoll assassin within moments of the murder, and
– was present when the rifle of the Book Depository was discovered and found to be a sharpshooter’s Mauser (not the old Italian soldier’s rifle that the Warren Commission reported and attributed to Lee Oswald).
Pressing these differences across the years seems to have cost Mr Craig his life. From the excellent Spartacus vault run by John Simkin in England:
In 1973 a car forced Craig’s car off a mountain road. He was badly injured but he survived the accident.
In 1974 he surviving another shooting in Waxahachie, Texas.
The following year he was seriously wounded when his car engine exploded. Craig told friends that the Mafia had decided to kill him.
Roger Craig was found dead on 15th May, 1975. It was later decided he had died as a result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
Craig’s suiciding prompted another hero, the attorney Mark Lane, author of two of the most important books on the subject, to put together this documentary, based on a filmed interview conducted with Craig in 1974.
Very much worth watching. Five parts, all there on YouTube.
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It’s hard to always look away …
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ed says:
Here is an unpublished article that Craig wrote about the murder and his life thereafter.
(The preface is by somebody else. Wade thru it.)
February 9th, 2009 at 8:19 pm