Assassination of JFK and Robert Kennedy

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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a distraught Dallas nightclub owner.

Eugene Hale Brading
aka Jim Braden, James Lee
Brading was born in 1915 into a poor, working class family in Kansas and first imprisoned for burglary by the age of 19. After being paroled in 1938 he moved to Florida where he was involved in various scams and criminal activities resulting in several arrests. In 1948 he surfaced in New Jersey, with at least one arrest.

If he did not meet them personally, he would have come to the attention of Sam Giancana in Chicago and Santo Trafficante in Florida.

His movements after checking-in at the Cabana Motor Hotel have fueled never-ending questions and speculation.

On November 21, 1963, along with his business colleague, Morgan H Brown ( a convicted con-man), he visited the office of Hunt Oil, possibly to see Nelson Bunker Hunt, son of H L Hunt. Coincidentally, Jack Ruby also visited that very office on the same day.

That evening Braden and Brown went drinking in the Bon Vivant Bar. Jack Ruby just happened to be there that same night.
Also in the bar that night were Lawrence Meyers and Jean Aase (aka Jean West), Meyers, being a friend of Jack Ruby and Jean Aase his 'companion'.

His arrest in the Dal Tex building shortly after the assassination is on public record. He was apprehended for acting suspicious without authorized access to the building and on being questioned, gave his new name of Jim Braden, therefore avoiding his police file being inspected and was released without charge.

From Dallas, Brading returned to his office in New Orleans. This happened to be in the Pere Marquete building, just a few doors away from the office of W Wray Gill (Carlos Marcello's lawyer) where David Ferrie worked, along with Guy Bannister.

In 1964, Brading became a charter member in the La Costa Country Club, near San Diego, California. This club was owned by the mob, purchased mainly by the Teamster's pension fund, siphoned off by Jimmy Hoffa. It was frequented by Santo Trafficante, Carlos Marcello, Meyer Lansky, Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana, John Connally, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Edgar J Hoover with his partner and FBI colleague, Clyde Tolson.

Brading has also been linked to conspiracy theories regarding the murder of Robert F Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, shortly after he gave a victory speech to around 1,800 supporters on winning the Democratic Primary in California.

Brading married, on at least three occasions, to wealthy women and always maintained his innocence regarding the Kennedy assassinations.

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Eugene Hale Brading (Jim Braden)
Eugene Hale Brading (Jim Braden)
Eugene Hale Brading (also known as James Lee and Jim Braden) developed a long criminal record while living in California. Arrested 35 times he had convictions for burglary, illegal bookmaking and embezzlement.

On 21st November, 1963, Brading arrived in Dallas with a man named Morgan Brown. They stayed in Suite 301 of the Cabana Motel. Later that day Brading visited the offices of Texas oil billionaire Haroldson L. Hunt. It is believed that Jack Ruby was in the offices at the same time as Brading.

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Brading was arrested and taken in for interrogation because he had been "acting suspiciously" in the Dal-Tex Building, overlooking Dealey Plaza. Brading told the police he was in Dallas on oil business and had gone into the building to make a phone call. Brading was released without charge.

Brading returned to his room at the Cabana Motel. It was later established that Jack Ruby visited the motel around midnight.



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In his book, The Kennedy Conspiracy, Anthony Summers shows that Brading had links with Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante and David Ferrie.

In 1968 Brading was interviewed by the Los Angeles Police Department because of his presence in Los Angeles on the night that Robert Kennedy was murdered.

By John Simkin (john@spartacus-educational.com) © September 1997 (updated January 2020).
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Primary and Secondary Sources
(1) Matthew Smith, JFK: The Second Plot (1992)
Interestingly, there were several arrests made in the Dal Tex building. A young man wearing a black leather jacket and black gloves was taken to the Sheriff's Office who, according to the police, '. . . had been up in the building across the street from the Book Depository without a good excuse'. No record appears to exist of the man or of any interrogation, however, and he seems to have somehow slipped away from the Sheriff's Office and disappeared, without even anything to indicate he was thereafter sought. Larry Florer was also arrested and detained for some hours. He said he had asked where he could find a telephone and had been directed to the Dal Tex building. All lines being busy, Florer said he could not make his call and he was arrested as he left the building. A third man arrested there was extremely interesting. He was Jim Braden, also known as Eugene Hale Brading, a known Mafia courier. He said he had had an appointment to meet Lamar Hunt, son of H.L. Hunt, the oil millionaire, on oil business. Braden was with a friend, Morgan H. Brown, who bolted when he heard he had been taken in for questioning. A man with 30 arrests to his record, Braden had been staying at the Kabanya Motor Hotel, where Jack Ruby - who was to kill Lee Harvey Oswald in the Police Headquarters basement two days after the assassination - had met some of his Chicago friends the night before the President was killed. Braden was not detained. Five years later, however, Braden was to turn up in Los Angeles when Senator Robert Kennedy was murdered.