CASE NOT CLOSED - THE UMBRELLA MAN

A short piece I made in response to Errol Morris' piece about the same subject for the New York Times. The mysterious Umbrella Man raised his umbrella as JFK's limousine approached, and lowered it as the President, riddled with bullets, passed. His apparent partner, a man in a blue jacket, raised his fist and lowered it in unison with the umbrella. Both men then sat calmly on the curb and watched as people panicked and ran towards the grassy knoll, behind them.

Who were they? Colonel Robert E. Jones, chief of operations for the 112th Military Intelligence group at Fort Sam Houston, told the HSCA that he had between 8 and 12 plain-clothes personnel stationed in Dealey Plaza that day. One of them was briefly detained in the School Book Depository after the murder. Col. Jones described his agents thus: "They were dressed to blend in with the man in the street... Some of them may have had on a sport coat wihout a tie, with an open collar..."