I just came across some very interesting information about the Dal-Tex building. I have known for a long time that the TSBD occupied the first floor of it until the summer of 1963, when they moved into the 411 Elm, which is the building we know as the TSBD. What I just learned is that the first floor of theo Dal-Tex was unoccupied in November 1963 , and so was the second floor.
The third floor had garment manufacturers. The 4th and 5th floor had Abraham Zapruder's company Jennifer Junior. The 6th floor had Dallas Uranium and Oil, an attorney, and a belt manufacturer. And the 7th floor had various miscellaneous professional offices.
But, the point is that if the 1st and 2nd floors were unoccupied, it means that placing a shooter at a 2nd floor window should not have been a problem.
Still, somebody had to own the building. I found out that the Dal-Tex building got sold on November 1, 1963. The person who bought it was a woman. Her name was Sylvia Golden Russ. Actually, she already owned half of it. She was the widow of Morris Russ, who had died at the young age of 56 in 1955. The cause of his death is unknown. He had owned it with a business partner whose name was David Weisblat.
So, in late October, Russ's widow Sylvia bought out Weisblat's half of the Dal-Tex building, and on November 1, 1963, she became the sole owner of it. We're talking about a 7 story professoinal office bulding in downtown Dallas owned by one person.
The most important thing to me is that the 1st and 2nd floors were unoccupied, which made a 2nd floor window available and accessible to a shooter. And it supports my theory that the CIA "heart attack" gun was the gun used because it was very quiet. Look at this testimony from the Church Committee:
Sen. Frank Church: "So that when it fires, it fires silently?"
William Colby: "Almost silently; yes."
That's what you want in a situation like that, so that you could fire it on the 2nd floor and not disturb or alert anyone on the 3rd floor or higher.









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