Living History with Paul Bentley

[@hulaguitar]

Excellent historical presentation. RIP Mr. Bentley.

[@TheHarryshelton]

Bentley stated he went upstairs to the balcony on a tip from theater manager-- location of the Oswald double. Missing is his explanation of why he did not question upstairs patrons!

[@swannoir]

Wonderful that you got this interview. I don't know if he's still around but it occurred to me that an interesting interview might be the projectionist in the theatre. Maybe you have it.

[@keithashley6298]

May Mr Bentley Rest In Peace.

[@cassioqueiros2264]

Great interview indeed. Thank you so much.

[@davidrice3337]

Mr Bentley seems like a very nice man - his mind is better than mine

[@ernestkovach3305]

Very in depth presentation by a witness /officer re: the arrest of LHO!

[@MTGrad1]

Great interview from a sweet man! May he rest in peace.

[@rawbacon]

I like the handcuff and smile story.

[@TheCream14]

Nice man. I heard one reporter from Dallas say back then, "the Dallas police force went from heroes (in catching Oswald so quickly) to coming across as the Keystone Cops". He's right!!! Oswald acted alone!

[@conrad4667]

Was there anyone else in the theater who fit Oswald’s description?

[@jude999]

Amazing the coordination amongst the public and the police to track Oswald down.

[@corniss]

So interesting. Thank you for these.

[@Troeltsch7873]

From this report on it you would think that Oswald would have had to have left his calling card on top of Officer Tippit before a Captain should have been talking about him at the Tippit scene [8:21-26].

[@TheHeavensFellen]

he did, he left his wallet!! And then they got his wallet at the theater lol It was a PLANT for sure. lol THEY FOUND 2 WALLETS

[@TheHeavensFellen]

Catch the part where the Secret Service was at Tippit scene HUH???

[@realnews2474]

What about the other cop car that Oswalds landlady said pulled up honked while Oswald was in his room putting on the jacket and left before Oswald? Read the files and Warren Report. Most of the "witnesses" could NOT positively identify Oswald in their initial statements.

[@jb-vb8un]

try episode 27, IT NEVER HAPPENED show

[@andrews527]

Notice in the photo where Bentley helps escort Oswald to the patrol car, he presses his head right against Oswald's once he sees the photographers, thinking he'll be on the front page. Also, Bentley is repeating second-hand misinformation when he says that the sun came out at Love Field and JFK ordered the bubble top removed from the limo. There is no photographic evidence for this last minute change; the convertible was prepped and waiting, and if the top had been on it wouldn't have been delayed for any alterations.

[@randyharris3175]

You're wrong there was a order to remove the bubble top

[@TheHeavensFellen]

No rain, no Top, so it was off at Love Field like you said.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

@@randyharris3175 Yeah, but from the Secret Service.

[@winnieblews]

8:25. Funny how he says that they said we've looked everywhere for Oswald. Before they even knew who Oswald was and that he was the suspect.

[@charlemaeger787]

Wish Mr. Bentley had been asked what he thought about the Zapruder film.

[@RobertMOdell]

For anyone with half a brain, please notice that this man is not recalling anything that he saw himself concerning Tippit. Rather, he is following the story line of a criminal captain named Westbrook. Every single witness who saw the killing of Tippit said he had pulled up and was WAITING at the driveway.

[@bonsaiblack4949]

Really? I thought Tippit driving east and Oswald walking east pull up and over to the curb. Are you saying Tippit passed, pulled over and then Oswald caught up and approached the car?

[@TheListOf]

@@bonsaiblack4949 It wasn't Oswald at all.

[@randyharris3175]

That's absolute nonsense Markham said Tippett followed Oswald for a while before calling him over to his car.

[@randyharris3175]

That's a bald face lie show me one witness who said that.

[@myyootube2]

I've heard multiple sources report that Oswald leaned on the passenger side window "seal" of Tippits patrol car and here Mr. Bentley describes his friend Pete Barnes printing the car and specifically the window seal but I haven't found any info on whether confirmed Oswald prints were actually found or allegedly found on Tippits patrol car?

[@TheHeavensFellen]

Nope. None found. Yet the shooter was kind enough to drop incriminating shell casings, from a revolver.

[@Troeltsch7873]

It was someone who went by the name of Willie Barnes who told the Warren Commission that he had printed Tippit's car notwithstanding that a Pete or Peter Barnes has also been heard of in the WC testimony. That one was heard of from some Charles Dhority and all of these Warren Commission talkers are indexed at the mcadams website. All that they said over there is right there for the asking.

[@jasminespencer3992]

He just said they not had no idea Oswald was connected to the Kennedy shooting, then why were FBI and Secret Service there on the scene of the shooting of a police officer?

[@jasminespencer3992]

@@wallacebell4311 That’s what I thought but didn’t he say something different?

[@ernestkovach3305]

When did he pass away & how old was Detective Bentley AT HIS PASSING.

[@aaronpaterson1615]

Hope they mention Det. Paul Bentley report about the officers in the balcony, in particular his mention of patrolman Bentley being involved as well, wasnthat his relative?

[@Troeltsch7873]

If there was more than one Officer Bentley in the theatre then this is the first I heard of it.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

Bentley was i n fact the Bro In Law to the second officer cuffed to LHO as he was shot, not Leavelle in white suit but other man. Nick McDonald who arrested LHO as well, he lived just down the same street from officer Tippit!! One Small cabal

[@aaronpaterson1615]

@@TheHeavensFellen thanks, thats really interesting, can i get the reference for the relationships you mentioned, Det. Bentley's own statement names the other Bentley in the texas theater balcony. cheers, Aaron in Queensland (Sunshine State) Australia.

[@aaronpaterson1615]

@@Troeltsch7873 Hi and thanks for your comment, Det Paul Bentley named the other Dallas patrolman named Bentley in his Statement. cheers, and sorry for the delay in responding, i forgot where I put my facemask and had to quarantine my fading memory lol.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

@@aaronpaterson1615 He was saying it was himself who went into the balcony, it is all BS, no one would enter a theater and go up stairs if a suspect had a shotgun. I don't think there were two Bentley;s that day there. The info on how Paul Bentley and the man later handcuffed to Oswald, LT.. L. C. Graves was his Bro in law is in Bentley's NYT obituary. I have it saved, yet don;t have the link, should be up, archived by NYT from like 2008 when he died. And a vid here on YT with officer M Nick Mcdonald is where he personally relates how Tippit lived just a few houses down from him in Oak Hill, adjacent to Oak Cliff. And then how did Bentley enter balcony and then immediately see those 6 or 7 were not the suspect?? Becuz they knew who their patsy already was

[@TheHeavensFellen]

Error: @9:00 a man did not go into the shoe store, but it was the alcove between sidewalk and the glass door.

[@WDRowlett]

All the Dallas cops involved in the JFK & Tippit murders were 1st class guys. Also, they were products of the WW2 generation. But I must admit the cigar in Bentley's mouth made him look like more like a Las Vegas guy working for Frank Sinatra than a Dallas PD.

[@ryanwilliams6206]

All crooked as hell. That I can tell you

[@TheListOf]

@@ryanwilliams6206 Fully agree. Now, files released in 2017 prove Earle Cabell was CIA as well as the Dallas mayor in November, 1963.

[@jb-vb8un]

@TheCyst - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@456zounds]

BALONEY!!!

[@randyharris3175]

Nobody asked him about the wallet found at tenth and Patton .

[@Joepacalypse1107]

All the evidence needed to convict Oswald? Is there more evidence that we do not know about?

[@jrnumex9286]

some things are after the fact conjecture. "tippet was not satified with oswalds answers as he leaned on the car. then he asked him to move to the front of car" was the radio keyed to dispatch to hear this or what? "jess curry or police cheif a extremely good officer" was he the goofball who ok'd oswalds circus transfer to the city jail?

[@tomsheets6399]

While I appreciate this gentleman, much of what he is stating is not firsthand knowledge. He states many events as he believes happened, but they were not witnessed by him. Hopefully when people watch or listen to this in the years to come, they will understand this fact.

[@randyharris3175]

Musicman811 no more true words has ever been said I agree with your comments 1000 percent

[@ericbaker9688]

One thing about these old timers is when they tell their stories don't expect all of it to be truthful. If you've ever been clocked in the eye you will know it puffs up. It's called an "impact" hit. I doubt very seriously that diving by someone scraping them would cause that. But of course DPD wouldn't admit to giving anyone a shiner. Especially in that era! But throughout these oral history videos they all stick together with the same objective. Oswald, Oswald, Oswald. Everything else doesn't matter and bologna..So right from the beginning of most of these you can tell what the answer will be when Stephan gives the final question. Oswald, Oswald, Oswald. Period!

[@tfcrew8511]

12:25 Police ask a suspected cop killer to please stand up.

[@Troeltsch7873]

I didn't hear the please part of it. 12:25? And it goes up to 13:11? Asked him to stand up, right?

[@donbartels153]

I bet I've seen that photo of LHO being escorted out of the Texas Theatre well over 100 times. To actually see and hear that gentleman, with the cigar in the mouth, escorting LHO out of that theatre. Is absolutely amazing! However, with that being said. It astonishes me how these witnesses can not come to grips with the truth. There is overwhelming evidence, that has come out in the past 10-15 years, which proves there was at least one more shooter. He just can't swallow his pride and admit he was wrong.

[@Troeltsch7873]

If maybe he is proud of the Warren Commission then at least he didn't vote in it.

[@aaronpaterson1615]

I'd like to ask Detective Paul Bentley what was Captain Westbrook doing comandeering sqad cars to get from the TSBD to Oakcliff and went somewjere with FBI agent Bob Barrett, sgt Stringer before turning up at Tippit's murder scene and then hastily twking iff to the Texas Theater when Captain Bentley's duties were as a police personnel complaints officer? seems strange that when Bentley took Oswald out the front Captain Westbrook exited from the back of the theater?

[@donbartels153]

He also did not mention the fact that an Oswald look alike was up in the balcony.

[@randyharris3175]

@@donbartels153 Bullshit no he wasnt.

[@randyharris3175]

Seems like you've been reading fiction.

[@randyharris3175]

It amazes me how the conspiracy buffs can make a conspiracy out of Oswald killing tippit open and shut case

[@ryanwilliams6206]

Wrong

[@randyharris3175]

@@ryanwilliams6206 that's easy to say but being stupid always is.

[@TheListOf]

@@randyharris3175 You should know. You have to live with yourself everyday.

[@randyharris3175]

@@TheListOf You're an idiot no doubt you cant debate me on this.

[@randyharris3175]

Everybody and their mommy seen Oswald escaping yet somehow he didnt do it Come on how do conspiracy kooks argue the veracity of this.

[@licozythree]

Absolute garbage which the 6th Floor Museum should be ashamed to have produced. 1. Bentley claimed at the time that HE jammed the gun to stop it firing. McDonald claimed it was himself who did that. Which tells you how much trouble they had getting their stories straight. For anyone who has ever jammed a digit, it is not something you forget OR imagine. 2. His claim that Oswald had multiple aliases in his wallet in the squad car is not confirmed by a single first day report by ANY of the arresting officers - including Bentley. 3. His claim that the police did not know this was the same suspect (patsy) as in the JFK assassination is also palpably false. Unfortunately for the police, they had let it slip to reporter Vic Robertson - which Robertson testified was the very reason he high-tailed it to the theater. Mr. GRIFFIN. At the time you opened up the curtains and looked out, did you have any idea that this might be the man who would be accused of shooting the President? Mr. ROBERTSON. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have been there. 4. His claim that while taking Oswald in, they received a call asking who the suspect was, and that upon learning that it was Oswald, they were told try bring him straight to Fritz as we was the suspect on Kennedy is also palpably false. Fritz himself testified that he did not know it was the same person until AFTER Oswald was brought in. He himself was not there at that time, arriving soon after. If this is for the sake of historians in 100 years time, God help us all. You, Mr. Fagin have the power to get this right. Instead you opt to continue the cover-up. First question I would have put to Bentley -- how many innocent people were sent to prison during the reigns of Fritz, Decker and Wade? Hint: some stats (incomplete) are available through the Innocence Project. The numbers are not pretty. In fact, they are worse for Dallas County than for some entire states. I cannot find the words to explain the depth of my disgust at the pretense and falsity involved in these interviews.

[@robertpage2341]

Much of the Sixth Floor presentations seem like total "bullgravy",,,! The more lies we (the curious public) hear, the faster we investigators (amateur or professional), can crystalize and "smoke out" the hidden truth..!! Lies handled/analyzed by REAL experienced pros and hotshot gumshoes can skillfully sift through the "doggy doo" and find the "maggots" who are the REAL murderers !!! So let them lie !!

[@TheHeavensFellen]

# 4 is a new twist on an older Bentley tale that instead the radio told them the assassin suspect was LHO, now he switched it, just like his and McDonalds shifting thumb- finger or hand story. Mack cleared it all up for us in a HC show, he said McDonald held the revolver, thus preventing it from spinning. and firing. But in a WFAA TV interview the next day after, McDonald said it misfired. l,ol. Do not you just love theater?? As for #2 Bentley said he had ID for LHO and Credit cards but no Hidell mentioned, then comes later on the mail order and ID in that name, which Jim DiEugenio believes were faked, sure looks like the first reports corroborate the ID was added later on. Was it real and found at the Paines house, who knows, a commenter on another clip said he had one and that he could see things wrong with the Hidell card. Give em hell, fittingly the museums # ends in 666

[@ryanwilliams6206]

Crooked as a 3 dollar bill

[@randyharris3175]

Wrong he said one of us jammed the gun.He also said he did not know Oswald was the person connected to Kennedy killing he didnt say other people didnt have that opinion ,you like twist twist things around dont you.

[@randyharris3175]

Wrong he did have multiple I'd in his pocket Hidell and Oswald.

[@redawson001]

That's not how the neighbors said it went down

[@aaronpaterson1615]

Chief Jesse Curry's secretary was Eunice Sorrells who may have been related to FBI agent Forrest Sorrells.

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Wait just a darn minute. I saw an interview the day after where one of the arresting officers said he hit Oswald back after he hit MacDonald in the face (cops don't take very kindly to a brother officer being struck). Also tightening the handcuffs after a suspect said they were too tight is the kind of behavior that gave the Dallas PD a bad reputation. Most people have been led to believe they still act this way and I'm sure there are many that do, but still....people get bad reps for a reason. Years ago I knew someone who was belligerent and combative with the cops (DUI) and that person was black and blue all over the day after, but they admitted to me that they deserved it.

[@wolverine67044]

Just because he said he deserved doesn't make it right or true. My parents beat me a lot growing up. At the time one of the ways i tried to cope to the beatings was telling myself i deserved them. That was b.s. looking back there was no way I deserved getting punched in the face & whipped with a belt buckle. Most of the time they had no reason to punish me at all. In 1963 dallas pd was the most corrupt agency in the country. They had fix it teams that planted evidence during investigations. The DA had almost all of his felony convictions reversed because he was dirty as well. Even the 6th floor museum is nothing more than an extension of the wc

[@jude999]

In my view, he got off way too light after he tried to shoot a cop.

[@elchoya8432]

the sixth floor museum should be torn down,just a museum for dallass to say how innocent they are in the murder of kennedy.the city of dallass hated kennedy,they gave him no protection at all..should have never got off that plane.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

The ticket taker did not see a man go in without paying, it was the shoe store manager, Brewer. Yet she calls instead saying it happened.That's hearsay.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

@10:35 ERROR, did she see a gun? Of course not, Julia Postal, the ticket taker, never seven SAW Oswald!

[@TheHeavensFellen]

She knew he was in Balcony but saw no gun, so WHO saw the shotgun the balcony perp was said to have had?? lol What a load of baloney. Brought to us by the 666th floor museum.

[@456zounds]

This is an embarrassing piece of film footage...and ONLY represents the OFFICIAL NARRATIVE. And I was appalled at the guest's denial of police abuse of Oswald, and the chuckle at the mention of his having scraped LHO's head.

[@tfcrew8511]

Oswald was clobbered above the right eye with the butt of a shotgun. The cop who did it bragged about it a few years later.

[@randyharris3175]

No police brutality when he was there except the tightening of the Cuffs lol Of somebody pulled a gun on somebody they deserve to get hit up side of the head.

[@randyharris3175]

@@tfcrew8511 Maybe so but he.certsinly deserved it dont you think?

[@datikit01]

In his initial statement to the television camera's, reporters ask Oswald how he received the cut on his face? His reply; "A police officer hit me".

[@TheHeavensFellen]

EXACTLY, in the WC book they admit he was hit hard, yet this liar still sticking to his story. one witness saw LHO get hit with shotgun butt end.

[@gazzokoumi5097]

absolutely false

[@randyharris3175]

Gazzo how in the hell can this be garbage the man was there when it went down

[@ryanwilliams6206]

It's funny how you back bentley because he was there but you don't back up the witnesses of the jfk assassination. People that saw puffs of smoke at the grassy knoll. Heard shots from the grassy knoll. Vast majority of witnesses said the 2nd and 3rd shots were right on top of each other. That means a conspiracy. How come you don't back up them witnesses that were at the scene?

[@randyharris3175]

@@ryanwilliams6206 That's easy to answer because many more much credible witnesses disagreed with your Witnesses Like Vargas who said the shot did not come from the knoll he would have seen something keep in mind he only heard 2 shots.But by far the best witnesses closest to the car said 3shots and to the rear.Both Connallys Will Greer Roy Kellerman Buell wesley Frazier.Mary Morman.ands lots of others And the vast majority did not say the shots were on top of each other.And do I have to remind you 3 Carthage cases found on the 6th floor.

[@TheListOf]

@@randyharris3175 Which means absolutely NOTHING. YOU'RE A PAID DISINFO TROLL WHO LIES FOR A LIVING. NO ONE BELIEVES A WORD OUT OF YOUR MOUTH.

[@easyabc1404]

The old PIG is saying again : We had a call because a man entered a theater without paying (his 25-50 cents) and we ran down to that theater! Yeah it was a VERY important call that day to catch a man not paying his 25-50 cents!!! The call was not about that but about a man afraid of the police cars ducking into the theater. Ok. If Oswald left the Book Building in that Nash Rambler, he had a lift so he was never on foot to kill Tippit and arrived at the theater around 1:07 and paid his ticket! For those who believe that Roger Graig story, the other pig who said he saw Oswald hopping in a Station Wagon... Only for those who believe Roger Graig story...