#1263 – John Washburn / Ray McGuinnis
- Author
- Len Osanic
- Published
- Thu 07 Aug 2025
- Episode Link
- https://podcast.blackopradio.com/1263-john-washburn-ray-mcguinnis/
- Larry Crafard – The Leads the Warren Commission Lost Part 1 & 2 at Kennedys & King
- Larry sparked John’s interest as it seems he was sort of pushed out of the Warren Commission.
- Crafard testified before the Warren Commission over the course of three days. Leads were not followed up on.
- People feel Crafard has some similarities with Oswald. Was he an Oswald imposter?
- Crafard was tracked down to his sister’s in Michigan after JFK and Lee were murdered.
- Robert Kermit Patterson went to Naval Intelligence in Dallas
- He reported that he’d seen Oswald in his club but it was Crafard.
- Waitress Mary Lawrence said she saw Ruby and Crafard together at the B&B Cafe the morning of the assassination.
- Gloria Fillman confirmed that she went to the B&B Restaurant with Crafard and Ruby.
- Washburn sat down and plotted out Crafard’s timeline after Crafard left Dallas.
- Earl Ruby described getting a telephone call telling him that Oswald had been shot.
- When the FBI visited the Carousel Club, Andy Armstrong supplied the FBI with Crafard’s mail and notebook.
- John felt that the FBI was very efficient in trying to find information on Crafard. They did not want to probe Ruby.
- The American public had to be convinced that the government, police and Warren Commission had things under control.
- The aim of the Warren Commission was to determine that Oswald was the lone shooter.
- Crafard’s FBI testimony on Thanksgiving Day to the FBI was pretty thorough. Crafard’s alibi for 11/22/63 is questionable.
- Crafard stated in 1st interview that Armstrong had woken him up at the Carousel Club.
- Incredibly, Crafard undermines his testimony from 1st statement, changed times he had interacted with Armstrong.
- Armstrong didn’t give Crafard an alibi until January of 1964.
- This alibi didn’t match Crafard’s testimony.
- Was Crafard on a bus, headed out of Dealey Plaza, in order to confuse people?
- Ruby was at the Dallas Morning News at the time of JFK’s assassination.
- Ruby could see Dealey Plaza from the office window.
- Detective Jim Leavelle arrived at the Tippit murder scene approximately about 1:30 PM.
- Did Leavelle deal with the 2nd wallet?
- After Dan Rather saw the Zapruder film, he tried to mislead the public, lying and stating Jack’s head shot forward.
- Was Mary Bledsoe on the bus with Oswald?
- Did Oswald and a blonde woman get off Mary’s bus? Did police board the bus?
- Was Crafard taken off Mary Beldsoe’s bus to help take care of Office Tippit? Was he at the scene when Tippit was shot?
- Warren Commission’s Leon Hubert and Burt Griffin did not feel that Crafard was a shooter.
- Officer Kenneth Croy arrived on the Tippit scene at the same time as Officer Hill.
- Bill DeMar testified that he felt he saw Lee Harvey Oswald in the Carousel Club.
- Could it have been Larry Crafard that he saw?
- Dan Rather’s testimony actually destroys the “Magic Bullet Theory”.
- Did Ruby think there was a plot to murder John Connelly?
- Was he surprised when he found out JFK had been murdered instead?
- The Warren Commission requested a search on Crafard’s social security number to see where he had been employed.
- A Carousel Club stripper said that Crafard had a police badge and was impersonating being a police officer.
- What was hanging up in Tippit’s car? Was it a shirt? Was it a jacket?
- Leavelle stated he didn’t realize there was a connection between JFK’s murder and Tippit’s murder.
- Len and John discuss Crafard’s timeline into Michigan. Who would he need to see in Chicago?Ray McGinnis @ 1:04:39
- April 3, 2025 verdict in Trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber: View Here
- Ray’s analysis of the April 3rd verdict: View Here
- Anna Farrow’s August 3rd article in The Rewrite: View Here
- Editorial Board, “The Crown versus The Truckers,” Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2025: View Here
- Tristin Hopper, “From killings to rape, the heinous crimes that could get you less jail time than a Freedom Convoy organizer,”
- National Post, July 28, 2025: View Here
- Freedom Convoy protesters face ludicrous prison sentences for mere “mischief” – NY Times Article
