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Resemblance to man in photo with Specter

 

 

 

Resemblance to man in photo with Specter

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif I took an interest in the JFK assassination after reading Harrison E. Livingstone's book "High Treason: The Assassination of JFK & the Case for Conspiracy" in 1990 or '91. dot_clear.gif In August, 1992, when I received my copy of "U.S. News and World Report" magazine, I was immediately interested in the cover story "JFK: The Untold Story of the Warren Commission." 


dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif I flipped through the article and when I came to pages 38 and 39 I was in for quite a shock. dot_clear.gif One of the men in the "single bullet theory" photo with Arlen Specter looked just like my father, Harry E. Landsberg, Jr. 


dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Click on the link below and scroll down to the second photo. dot_clear.gif The image on the right is from pages 38-39 of that U.S. News and World Report issue. dot_clear.gif The man who resembles my father is wearing a straw hat. 


http://www.geocities.com/justicewell/specter.htm

 

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Full text of ‘US News’ article can be found at archive.org under:

 

http://www.usao.edu/~fachuguenins/warrencomm2.html

 

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif I had realized by that time in my life that there were many things I didn't actually know about my family, but I'd never suspected my father might have played a role in the JFK assassination investigation.

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Here is an enlarged image of the man in the magazine photo: 


https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/per68/dad_usnsolo.jpg

 

dad_usnsolo.jpg

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Here is a collage of photos of my dad at various ages, with a photo of the man in the magazine in the mix: 


https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/per68/collage_mag.jpg

 

collage_mag.jpg

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Originals from the collage:

 

Top left

Top center

Top right

Center left

Bottom

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif It may be relevant that the man in the straw hat is dressed differently than the other men in the photo. dot_clear.gif Harry was rather notorious for his loud clothing, though I don't recall that he wore loud print shirts as much as pink, purple and polka-dotted outfits.

 

https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/per68/dad_polka3.jpg

 

dad_polka3.jpg

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Earlier this year, as I was reading the book "Assassination Science", I found another photo of the man in the straw hat. dot_clear.gif (Edited by James H. Fetzer, Ph.D., Catfeet Press, Chicago, 1998, page 36). 


dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif It's the second of two photos in Warren Commission Exhibit 900 (CE 900). dot_clear.gif I was able to find this photo on-line in the "History Matters Warren Commission Archive." dot_clear.gif The exhibit is in "Warren Commission: Hearings and Exhibits" Volume XVIII.

 

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/contents.htm

 

https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/per68/dad_wcsbt2_vol18.jpg

 

dad_wcsbt2_vol18.jpg

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif The photo reveals the right profile of this man. dot_clear.gif I was able to find a photo of my father in a similar pose. dot_clear.gif My photo is hand-dated October 1962, so it would have been taken two years before the Warren Commission photo. dot_clear.gif The enlargement of CE 900 is very unclear, but the man appears quite cleary to have white hair, as did Harry, and the sizes of the noses seem reasonably similar. dot_clear.gif I can only conclude that Harry cannot yet be ruled out. 


dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Comparison: 


https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/per68/dad_wc.jpg

 

dad_wc.jpg

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Original (front & back)

https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/per68/dad_golf_orig.jpg

 

dad_golf_orig.jpg

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif I put some of this information up on a web page, drawing from posts I'd made to the Yahoo CIA-drugs_Darkside group. dot_clear.gif The day after I'd found the above photo in "Assassination Science" and had read about Leon Jaworski and his connection to the alleged CIA front "MD Anderson Foundation," I tracked a hit from someone at the MD Anderson Cancer Center on my very low-traffic website. dot_clear.gif I saved this "extreme tracking" info on my hard-drive and on data CD's but the files are corrupt.

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gifAssassination Science, page 4:

...The Commission relied on Leon Jaworski, who would become prominent during the Watergate affair, to explore this issue, but his ties to the CIA as a trustee of the M.D. Anderson Foundation have cast doubt upon the diligence of his investigation, which yielded the finding that these were no more than "false rumors."

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif Update 6/24/04: dot_clear.gif I found the eXtreme tracking info last night on a CD I had forgotten about.

 

 

See entry, "16 Apr, Tue, 16:51:38."

 

https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/per68/md_anderson_screen_capture.jpg

 

md_anderson_screen_capture.jpg

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif See, for example:

 

http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/

(The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Biomathematics)

 

 

http://utmdacc.mda.uth.tmc.edu/

 

(The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center)

 

screen capture:

 

https://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/per68/md_anderson_screen1.jpg

 

md_anderson_screen1.jpg

 

eXtreme tracking referral source

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dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif The name Harry Earl Landsberg, Jr. does not appear in the Warren Commission index, nor have I been able to find this name associated with any aspect of the assassination. dot_clear.gif The only possible connection seems to be the resemblance between my father and this man. 


dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif There are other oddities, though. dot_clear.gif I knew my father as a traveling salesman and then later as an apartment manager but it is possible that he may have been an engineer and kept this hidden. dot_clear.gif There are a few things which would seem to contradict that conclusion, however.


dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif According to records obtained from John Marshall High School in Lakewood, OH, my father graduated 55th in a class of 58 students. dot_clear.gif This would seem to contradict an admission to a Polytechnic Institute. dot_clear.gif In addition, when he was 21 years old, his Social Security application listed his employer as a Cleveland grocer, which is consistent with photo "Top Right" above.

 

Social Security application

 

dot_clear.gifdot_clear.gif But when I was in high school and college I helped my parents in their Nob Hill Apartment management offices on Sundays. html/> 


One Sunday, in dad's office, I noticed his resume in an in-box. d%3Cot_clear.gif I looked it over and saw that he had gone to a Polytechnic Institute. d%3Cot_clear.gif He told me he'd never gone to college, but that he had studied art after high school. d%3Cot_clear.gif I assumed then that a Polytechnic Institute was some kind of an art school. d%3Cot_clear.gif Years later my husband corrected me. d%3Cot_clear.gif He told me that M.I.T., for example, was a Polytechnic Institute. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif In the late 1960's, when we lived in Ohio before moving to Miami, Florida, my father was a "sales engineer" for a large corporation. d%3Cot_clear.gif (See link to "TV Guide (lower left)". d%3Cot_clear.gifHis occupation is listed as "sales engineer.") d%3Cot_clear.gif Last year I emailed this firm to ask if their sales engineers are indeed engineers. d%3Cot_clear.gif I was told that many, but not all, of their sales engineers are engineers. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif During the years I worked in their offices I noticed that dad frequently received mail addressed as “Harry E. Landsberg, Jr. OR The Engineering Research Institute of Florida”. d%3Cot_clear.gif I asked him about this once and he was hesitant to explain. d%3Cot_clear.gif When I persisted he said he'd created a corporation having to do with pre-fab houses he was building in Homestead, Florida. d%3Cot_clear.gif I do not know if he actually did build homes, but he and mother are on record as having bought and sold various homes in Dade County, Florida.

d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif In my senior year of college I became motivated to do whatever I could to learn more about my family. d%3Cot_clear.gif Among other things, I called the Secretary of State's Office in Florida to ask about this corporation. d%3Cot_clear.gif I was told there was nothing listed under that name. d%3Cot_clear.gif To date I have found nothing in the archives at the Secretary of State's Office with a similar name. d%3Cot_clear.gif It is possible that this "Institute" was registered in another state. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Part of my snooping at that time revealed that my parents paid a regular monthly payment to something with "Virginia" in the pay-to. d%3Cot_clear.gif The amount was over $700 per month, but I cannot recall if it was $750 or $780. I did not know what this could be. d%3Cot_clear.gif It might have been a mortgage payment. There was another regular monthly payment of $400 -- one I did understand. d%3Cot_clear.gif These and other considerable expenses were somehow supported on a modest apartment manager's salary. d%3Cot_clear.gif As explained below, there might have been military disability pay, and, in the late 70's, there were Social Security payments to supplement this income. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif In 1970 we sold our roomy suburban home and most of our possessions and moved to Miami Beach, FL, where my parents became an apartment management team for a small complex. d%3Cot_clear.gif We had apparently fallen on hard times. d%3Cot_clear.gif My father painted hallways and made repairs for tenants for six months and then we moved to Greater Miami to a larger apartment complex. d%3Cot_clear.gif From that time on, until 1981 when I moved out, I observed that my father was rarely on the premises in his role as apartment manager. d%3Cot_clear.gif He would usually say that he'd been out golfing. d%3Cot_clear.gif He was, in fact, an avid golfer. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif My parents said they moved to Washington D.C. shortly after they were married. d%3Cot_clear.gif They were married in '41 or '42 and, as the story goes, mom was the secretary to the Undersecretary of the Navy -- to the 2nd in command, was my understanding -- and dad was a salesman for a film/theater company based out of Fostoria, Ohio (John B. Rodgers & Co -- also spelled Rogers -- Fostoria is mom's home town). d%3Cot_clear.gif Later, they said, they moved to Hamburg, NY, and then back to Ohio where they settled in the Cleveland area until moving to Miami. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif (According to one of her obituary notices in June of 2002, Mom's sister, Margaret E. Engler, joined the American Red Cross during World War II, and traveled to Europe as a "staff assistant." d%3Cot_clear.gif According to another obit, she married my Uncle Howie (Army Major Howard A. Engler) in Munich, Germany in 1945.) 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Obituary 1: 


http://www.thecourier.com/issues/2002/Jun/obits062402.htm#story4 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Obituary 2, from archive.org 


http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/Text/Obit062402.html 


Screen captures:


Margaret E. Engler - The Advertiser Tribune 


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d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Dad had various sales jobs in the years between 1950 - 1970, according to information obtained from various siblings' birth certificates, and according to my own memory. d%3Cot_clear.gif On my birth certificate (February 1959) he was listed as self-employed under the name of a company he is on record for having registered about six weeks later, in April. d%3Cot_clear.gif That company was dissolved in December 1961. 


Laura - birth certificate

February 24, 1959. d%3Cot_clear.gif Father: d%3Cot_clear.gif Self-Employed D.B.A., Cle-Land Partition

Anne - birth certificate

May 30, 1957. d%3Cot_clear.gif Father: d%3Cot_clear.gif Salesman, Marquard Sash & Door.

Mark - birth certificate*

September 24, 1952. d%3Cot_clear.gif Father: d%3Cot_clear.gif Salesman, Nairn Congoleum Co.

Mary - birth certificate

December 29, 1950. d%3Cot_clear.gif Father: d%3Cot_clear.gif Salesman, Dumar, Incorp.


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif * Our parents’ credibility suffers in the matter of Mark’s death. d%3Cot_clear.gif For more information, please read: d%3Cot_clear.gifMark's death


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d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif I asked my father once if he'd ever been in the Army. d%3Cot_clear.gif He told me that he'd wanted to join but they wouldn't accept him because of circulation problems in his legs. d%3Cot_clear.gif He added that they offered to do experimental surgery on him to help correct this problem. d%3Cot_clear.gif He accepted the offer, he said, but the surgery was not a success. d%3Cot_clear.gif I accepted his explanation, and he did have circulation problems.

d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif The day he died I accompanied mother to the funeral home and sat with her while the financial arrangements were made. d%3Cot_clear.gif When she was asked if my father qualified for VA burial benefits, she said yes. d%3Cot_clear.gif My husband recalls me coming home that night and expressing confusion about that. d%3Cot_clear.gif We thought my father had never served in the military. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Last year I looked up what it takes to qualify for VA burial benefits. d%3Cot_clear.gif My father would have had to complete substantial military service to qualify for VA burial benefits, unless a single failed experimental surgery would have sufficed to qualify him. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif I am estranged from my family and cannot inquire about this, though there is no reason to think I would be told the truth. d%3Cot_clear.gif I do not know which branch of the military he might have served in.

 

d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Update November 14, 2002: In the spring of this year I sent in a request for my father's military records. d%3Cot_clear.gif I decided to try Army first, and if that didn't produce results, I would try the others. d%3Cot_clear.gif On October 28, 2002, I received a Certification of Military Service from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO. d%3Cot_clear.gif Harry served in the Army for a brief period in 1943 (45 days). 


Certification of Military Service

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d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif My husband suggests that the Army would probably not do experimental surgery on a civilian -- that they would have inducted him first. d%3Cot_clear.gif It is possible that he would have qualified for a percentage of disability for the rest of his life if the surgery failed, as he said, and thus qualified for VA burial benefits.

d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Dad was 28 years old in 1943, and joined the Army three days before his first or second wedding anniversary.d%3Cot_clear.gif He would have been a salesman in D.C. at that time, according to family lore.

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d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Update May 12, 2003: On April 24, 2003, I wrote a letter to Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt, to whom the US News & World Report photo was attributed. d%3Cot_clear.gif I enclosed a copy of that picture and a copy of CE 900, with the man in question circled, asking if he could help me identify him. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif He responded that he does not know the individual in the photocopies I sent, but suggested that he may be "the chief surveyor who with his crew determined the distances and angles from the president to the various poimts [sic] such as the triple overpass, the window of the Book Depository, and other locations of interest." 


Shaneyfelt response


Please also see "Lyndal Shaneyfelt answered my letter" originally posted to the JFKResearch Forum:

http://home.earthlink.net/~sammark4/id158.html


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif It had been suggested to me by more than one researcher that the man in question might be Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt himself. d%3Cot_clear.gif (Tom Purvis at Lancer stated it as a fact that the man was Shaneyfelt. d%3Cot_clear.gif Allan Eagelsham assumed it was Shaneyfelt because a "sniper's nest photo" shirt he wore was similar to the shirt worn by the man who resembles my father. d%3Cot_clear.gif But I found another man in the Specter photo that looked just like Shaneyfelt -- wearing a white shirt.)

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More photographs of Harry

Harry's wallet contents - partial

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d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif When I was a senior in college at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, my parents and others began the process of having me discredited as mentally ill. d%3Cot_clear.gif Because of this, since 1981, I have been motivated to research family matters.

University of Miami transcripts

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d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gifUpdate 5 27 04:d%3Cot_clear.gif I broke a ten year silence and contacted two family members for more information on my parents.

 

d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif A maternal uncle, Charles Volkmer, said he didn't know who my mother, Donna Landsberg (Donna Jean [Volkmer]Landsberg), did secretarial work for in the Navy in DC in the 1940's. d%3Cot_clear.gif He claimed not to recall where Donna and Harry were married or even if he and his wife Ruth had attended the wedding. d%3Cot_clear.gif He seemed unsurprised by my phone call, and asked me to provide proof that my father was a deep cover spook. 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif I contacted my brother, Harry III (Herky), and asked him about various things having to do with our mom and dad. d%3Cot_clear.gif I learned that we have different versions of family lore in a few significant areas.

d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif Herky said when the parents were in DC in the early-mid 1940's, he understood that our dad was an ironworker ("built multi-story buildings… [unintelligible] out on the iron") and that dad had worked in Sandusky, OH, "at Plumbrook which was a big military thing that they were building, and then I think they went to Washington DC and he still did that." 


d%3Cot_clear.gifd%3Cot_clear.gif I was told dad worked for a film/theater company (John B. Rodgers & Co) when he and mom lived in DC. d%3Cot_clear.gif In fact, some of my parents' friends created a scrapbook (in the mid-1970's) of our parents' significant moments together and they included a reference to dad's work with John B. Rodgers & Co. 


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