Subject: Files Confession Part 4 (I think, losing count)
Date: 3 Dec 1998 04:30:39 GMT
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APPENDIX A
On January 30, 1995, I interviewed James E. Files in person at Joliet,
Illinois
- for the fifth time in two years.
In an effort to take Mr. Files to a higher level of investigation in our
quest
for the truth regarding his knowledge and participation in the assassination
of
John F. Kennedy, I prepared 17 questions for Mr. Files.
My questions were based on points that remained unanswered by Mr. Files
after
our extensive research into letters, interviews, phone logs, and phone
conversations with Files conducted by the late Joe West, Barry Adelman of
dick
clark productions, and me since August 17, 1992 and the discovery of Mr.
Files
by the late Joe West. I also received input on the preparation of these
questions from John R. Stockwell, J. Gary Shaw, Frank Weimann, Gary Patrick
Hemming, Tosh Plumlee, Peter Dale Scott, Fletcher Prouty and Josiah
Thompson.
The questions (in regular type) and Mr. Files' answers and comments (in
italics
and quotation marks) appear below, verbatim, and are transcribed from my
handwritten notes taken during the interview.

1- Jimmy, let me ask you about the "special rounds" that you used in Dallas
on
November 22, 1963. Did you start with hollow points or were they drilled
from a
solid bullet? Please describe the method used.

"Wolfman made the rounds. He is dead now. He died after Joe West asked me to
bring forth a witness to corroborate my story. He drilled the rounds out of
solid bullets. The top was then sealed with wax. I was not present when he
made
the rounds but I know they were filled with mercury.."

Do you know how Wolfman died, his cause of death?

"No. He died less than a week after I told him I was talking with Joe. I
asked
him to talk with Joe."

2- You said earlier that "it looked like old home week" in Dallas on
November
22, 1963. Were any of the following people there?

Homer Eschiverra, I don't know if that name is spelled right or pronounced
correctly...

"No."

Aldo Vera Seraphine, also known as Aldo Vera?

"That is a Cuban name....it's difficult for me to talk about people that
were
there that are still alive..."

Jimmy, these questions are important for our final research while I'm
preparing
the final script for the TV program, please tell me the truth, I've shot
straight with you, you've shot straight with me, I have to know the answers
to
these questions....Aldo Vera Seraphine...Did you see him there that day in
the
Plaza?

"Yes, I think he was there."

Lenny Patrick?

"No."

Richard Cain?

"Yes."

Milwaukee Phil Alderisio?

"Some of these people are still alive....yes, he was there."

Antonio Veciana?

"Yes, he was there but he had nothing to do with the assassination of John
F.
Kennedy. A lot of people were aware he was going to be hit...a lot of people
knew..."

Edward Lansdale...of the CIA...?

"No, I didn't see him there."

Charles Harrelson?

"No."

Chauncey Holt?

"Who?"

Chauncey Holt. He says he drove Charles Nicoletti into Dallas during the
early
morning of 11/22/63. He also says he was one of the infamous "3 tramps."

"No, I don't know him."

Thomas Eli Davis?

"No."

Orlando Bosch?

"He is still alive, I can't talk about anyone who is still alive..."

"Jimmy, I must have these questions answered for my personal research.
Please
tell me the truth. It is very important. Was Orlando Bosch there?

"Yes."

Herminio Diaz?

"What was the first name?"

Herminio....

"There was a Diaz there. Could his first name have been Tony?"

I don't know. All I have is Herminio.

"Yes, there was a Diaz there."

"Bob, I told you earlier about seeing Eugene Brading there..."

Yes...

"Did I tell you what his purpose for being there was...?"

No.

"Brading had the contact that got Nicoletti and Rosselli into the Dal-Tex
building..."

Do you know the name of that contact?

"No."

"Bob, did I ever tell you why Chuckie put me behind the fence at the last
moment..?"

No, why?

"Johnny Rosselli was scared to be a shooter....he was to be a shooter...he
was
scared...he stayed on the second floor of the Dal-Tex...behind
Nicoletti....he
didn't shoot....the CIA had called the hit stopped.....Nicoletti said
'Fuck'em..we go'...I hardly ever heard Mr. Nicoletti cuss but he said
'Fuck'em'
that day..."

Jimmy, that may explain why the CIA pilot, Tosh Plumlee. told me he was
under
the impression that their reason for flying in was to abort the hit on the
president...and Rosselli flew in on that CIA supported plane...

"He (Rosselli) got there right on time, too."

Yeah.

"Did the CIA pilot ever admit that his name was Pearson?"

Yes, Jimmy. I knew that his name was Pearson when you identified him. He had
already told me that his name was Pearson. That's when I first knew you were
telling us the truth about picking up Rosselli.

3- Did Nicoletti ever mention anything to you about the Grace Ranch in
Arizona?
Do you know about the Grace Ranch? Have you ever been there?

"Yes, I knew about the Grace Ranch but I never went there...wasn't that
owned
by James Licavoli's brother, Peter, the mob guy from Cleveland?"

Yes.

4- Did you ever meet J.D.Tippit, the Dallas police officer?

"No."

Did you know he (Tippit) first tried to join the 82nd Airborne but he was
transferred to the 17th Division?

"No."

5- (I placed the picture of Jimmy at age 21 with a man in sunglasses on the
table face up) Jimmy, you told me that this man with you was the man that
killed J.D. Tippit. What is his name?

"I can't tell you that. You know that. You've asked me that before..."

He's still alive?

"Yes, he's still alive as of three or four years ago..."

6- The "solo" picture of you - at 21 - without your shirt on - where and
when
was that taken?

"It was taken by Lee Harvey Oswald at the hotel room in Mesquite in 1963."

How did you get the negative?

"I took the whole roll of film."

7- Who sent Oswald to meet you at the motel room in Dallas?

"David Atlee Phillips."