From: 19efppp@mail.com   
      
   On Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 9:44:14 PM UTC-5, Donald Willis wrote:   
   > 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   
   But, according to the rest of the Trantham interview, that was Larry Florer,   
   whom we are told was arrested in another building.   
      
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