[Letter from Johnnie Mae Hackworthe to Captain Will Fritz, November 22, 1966] Page: 3 of 104
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2 - Dallas Police Chief November 22, 1966 Rev. Johnnie Mae Hackworthe
I ask you to retRsen the Anderson murder case, and I state that in so doing,you will locate a
modern-blue bearrd in Dallas, and this will lead you step by step up to the Kennedy assassina-
tion, even to why Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Would it not be well for the Dallas Police Department
to have credit for the solving of murders committed in Dallas, beginning in 1925, and would this
not b^good for Dallas? The Police Department of the City of Dallas is responsible for the mur-
der!" and their solutions which occur within the city, are you not?
Referring again to Carl C. Booth, I have heard him say in the past that he was related to the
John Wflides Booth who shot Lincoln...that he was proud of it... that that Booth was not killed
as was supposed, but came to Texas.. .that his own father, John Booth of Chappell Hill, Texas
(born there, lived there, until he moved to Dallas, and was killed in Dallas) was related to
that Booth..,that he, Carl C. Booth, wished he had had an opportunity to have killed Lincoln...
and this is a type of clue that can be traced through in the plot to assassinate Kennedy!
Also, you recall mysterious explosions which occurred in E&llas, especially West and South
Dallas. Booth claimed to have invented an explosive which he offered to the USA and was turned
down; then he offered it to Germany and Russia, I believe in some manner he was connected
with those explosions heard in Dallas.
Booth had a deep interest in criminals, and was utterly fascinated by the Clyde Barrow-Bonnie
Parker case; he had a church built in West Dallas where the two were brought up.. .and he kept
life-size images of these in his garage. Also he belonged to a group interested in releasing
criminals; and he and X tangled over the case of William H. Langhorne, Jr. of Chappel Hill.
He had forced Langhorne, Jr. to sign a will deeding him one-half of his 2200 acres of land in
Washington and Fort Bend counties, on the promise to get him released. This is the case that
former Governor Ferguson had changed from hanging to life imprisonment, and he was charged
with stealing Langhorne's land, which he did not. Booth's case went to the Texas Supreme
Court, and he lost; I was credited with obtaining Langhorne's release, Booth hated me for this,
and thereafter sought my life via having somone, or ones, shoot at me, using a foreign-made
long distance rifle, and X ws shot at at least three times, even four: one bullet was recovered,
and it was reported to have been shot from just such a rifle. There still remains in my home
a transom window over a door through which a bullet was shot, barely missing me; and that
bullet has not been recovered as yet.
In working to solve my mother's murder, I learned about April 30, 1957, from an official of
the Morman church organization, a man who said he had been sent to investigate Booth and the
report of his criminal record, that in the beginning of the Mormons a pamphlet had been printed
wherein It was claimed all who did not accept the Mormon religion were dogs, and as dogs were
to be killed; that by the shedding of blood a man washed himself clean of his own sins.. .and the
more blood shed the more one purified himself... .thfit this became a belief and a practise
among certain Mormons, and instead of the blood of Jesus Christ cleansing.. .then it was the
killing of dogs that cleansed, etc. I told my story, and he told me of other cases in which
Booth was believed to have been involved.. .that he would report same as I told him about my
mother and Mr. Anderson. Then I heard that Batth was no longer a Mormon, but had become
a Baptist.. .and it may be he is still conducting church services at the church he had built with
money inherited from one of Booth's wives, named Eva I believe.. .she was wealthy, fell down
stairs in her home, claiming she had tripped over something at the top of the stairs.. .and she
finally died of the injury.. .and before she died Carl C. Booth persuaded her to will money to
build the church in her memory, etc. And who caused her to trip? Or what caused her to trip?
Do you recall the Ed Cobb case in Dallas.. .when he died of a heart attack he was County Clerk,
and money was found in his account, or was placed in his account after death.. .money that was
taken from his office, being county funds.. .and he had been playing the horses, etc. Booth
was the one man close to Ed Cobb: Ed Cobb had worked as a clerk in the County Clerk's dfffice
where my mother was employed; and she claimed someone had a key to her office, entered at
night and changed land records for which she was responsible.. .she believed Booth was involved,
as well as the elevator operator, who then was the man, Bill Decker, now Sheriff of Dallas
County, and Ed Cobb. Booth was threatening mother, as my sisters can prove; and mother be-
lieved he had a key t<feher office and was involved in the changes she claimed were being made.
And Booth was ordering her to keep her mouth shut, or harm would come to one of her daughters.
For this and other reasons, my younger sister, Editha, had been sent to my home the week
before my mother was murdered.. .only on Dallas Police reocrds the claim is made that she
killed Mr. Anderson and then herself, making her a murderess and a suicide! And this is what
I want changed; and this is in your power legally to see to it that the change is made; at least,
the case reopned and it stated there is sufficient cause to believe it was a double murder instead
of a murder and suicide.
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Hackworthe, Johnnie Mae. [Letter from Johnnie Mae Hackworthe to Captain Will Fritz, November 22, 1966], legal document, November 22, 1966; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339977/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.