From: willisdonald824@gmail.com   
      
   Alan Ford, "Re Paul Landis"  edforum 12/6/23:   
      
   Ira Trantham, DPD;  interview, HSCA 6/15/78:   
   "Seeing Inspector Sawyer at the front door [of the TSBD] he reported for   
   instructions.  Sawyer advised they still were not certain where the gunfire   
   came from, but the best guess at that time was the TSBD.   
   By this time they were joined by Jerry Hill and he and Hill went inside.  Hill   
   continued upstairs and an officer W.H. Desham (#7140 DPD) approached him with   
   a prisoner.  Advised this subject had been observed 'acting suspiciously' on   
   the third floor    
   without a reasonable explanation for being up there."   
      
   Very tantalizing.  Especially as Sawyer about 20 minutes later said on the DPD   
   radio that they had found shells on the "3rd floor".     
      
   Also note that Hill bumped into Sawyer at the front of the building.  In his   
   testimony, he says that he went inside with him.  Trantham was with Sawyer,   
   and Patrolman Valentine was with Hill, so it seems that all four went in at   
   the same time.  (   
   Valentine later reported that he was "assigned to the fifth floor", so we know   
   that he went in & up.)  This grand entrance would have been about 12:50 or so,   
   since Hill & Valentine radioed at 12:48 that they were on their way to "Elm &   
   Houston".  And    
   this pretty much proves that Sawyer--despite testifying that he went in   
   earlier, about 12:34, actually went into the building about 12:50. And thus   
   may have actually been there at the discovery of the shells... on the "3rd   
   floor".  /???   
      
   Note:  He said "3rd floor" on the police radio, but, for reporters, he said   
   "5th floor".  Did he mix up events on the two floors?  Either one would have   
   been bad news for the official 6th-floor version.     
      
   dcw   
      
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