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Midland man says father
was part of CIA hit squad
By Scott Baradeli
OF THE TIMES HERALD STAFF
It began in Midland, when the handy-
man was painting an oilman's house.
The handyman, Ricky Don White, men-
tioned that his father was the one who
killed John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov.
22, 1963. And sud-
denly the chase was
on. The intrigued oil-
man, John Houghton,
formed a corporation
to finance White's
search for proof —
and in return reap 25
percent of the profits
from hoped-for book
and movie deals.
After 18 months of
research at a cost of
$100,000 supplied by
the Matsu Corp. of seven Midland oilmen,
White still has no book contract — or
proof that his father, former Dallas police
officer Roscoe "Rock" White, killed JFK.
But at a Monday news conference at the
West End Marketplace, he presented an
ingenious conspiracy theory with enough
enigmatic evidence to stir worldwide in-
terest.
His theory: that Roscoe White, part of a
three-man CIA hit squad, fired two bullets
into the president from the grassy knoll;
that he was using Lee Harvey Oswald and
aw
Roscoe White
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Mark Williams/Dallas Times Herald
Ricky White said Monday the diary that proves his father shot President John F. Kennedy was stolen.
Experts: Latest JFK claim 'fairy tale'
By Mark Potok
OF THE TIMES HERALD STAFF
Please see ASSASSIN, A-6
It's a tale of CIA assassins, mys-
terious fires, overheard conversa-
tions and the worst of crimes —
the assassination of John F. Ken-
nedy. The story unveiled by Ricky
Don White on Monday caught the
attention of a conspiracy-minded
world, but proving it won't be
easy.
The diary that told all has dis-
appeared. White says the FBI stole
it.
The rookie policeman that sup-
posedly did the assassinating —
White's father, Roscoe — died in
what his son described as a suspi-
cious fire and explosion in 1971.
And the officer's wife is too sick
to be interviewed.
"It's a fairy tale," said David Be-
lin, counsel to the Warren Com-
mission, which concluded in 1964
that Lee Harvey Oswald acted
alone, shooting the president from
the old Texas School Book Depos-
itory. "And it's a fairy tale that's
an outgrowth of hallucinatory
drugs."
G. Robert Blakey, chief counsel
to the House Select Committee on
Assassinations of the late 1970s
and an early partisan of conspira-
cy theories, was equally unenthu-
siastic.
"This sort of thing occurs about
every two or three months and
has done so for about 20 years.
Even if this is the truth, I proba-
bly won't believe it because at this
stage of the history of the assassi-
nation virtually anyone can fabri-
cate a story by going to the [his-
torical] record. In a sense, it's too
late to confess and be believable."
Especially, said author Jim
Moore, when so many details are
Please see TALE, A-6
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Dallas (Tex.). Police Department. [Newspaper Clipping: "Another Kennedy Assassin?"], clipping, August 7, 1990; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338186/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.