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At 94, former Miami Beach mayor and still active Miami-Dade Senior Judge Seymour Gelber is among the few who remember Miami police informant No. 88, Willie Augustus Somersett.

“Willie was just a garrulous guy,” said Gelber, who worked with Somersett while serving as a top assistant to Dade State Attorney Richard Gerstein in the 1960s. “He’d come in and joke.”

Somersett has been dead 43 years. But in the half-century of assassination lore that’s grown up around the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Somersett has attained a kind of immortality as the man who heard about it first.

Thirteen days before that dark day in Dallas, Somersett elicited a chilling, police tape-recorded threat from a right-wing racist who talked of how the president would soon be shot “from an office building with a high-powered rifle” and how “they’ll pick up somebody within hours after… just to throw the public off.”

Extremist Joseph A. Milteer, of Quitman, Ga., made the threat in the kitchen of Somersett’s small apartment in downtown Miami.

In the late 1970s, the House Assassinations Committee had experts analyze a photograph taken in Dealey Plaza moments before the first shot of an unidentified motorcade spectator “who bears a strong resemblance” to Milteer. The experts, however, concluded the man was not Milteer, who died in 1974.

But now, a retired FBI agent who says that within hours of the assassination he was assigned to locate Milteer has told BrowardBulldog.org that the man in the photograph is indeed Milteer.

“There is no question in my mind,” said Don Adams, who spent 20 years with the FBI before working as a police chief in Ohio and has written a book, From an Office with a High-Powered Rifle.

Congressional investigators never contacted Adams, even though he was identified in several FBI reports as having interviewed Milteer.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/15/3756229/a-miami-police-informant-a-prophetic.html#storylink=cpy

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1. No, it wasn't Milteer.

Not unless he grew six inches and went bald suddenly.

Milteer resembles the Kennedy motorcade spectator in age and general facial configuration. The spectator appears to have worn eyeglasses similar in general style to those favored by Milteer. The spectator, however, does not resemble Milteer in upper lip thickness; he is also partially bald, whereas Milteer apparently had a full head of hair in the photograph that was taken several years after the assassination. (See fig. IV-44). Most significantly, Milteer's reported stature of inches places him about 6 inches under the spectator's estimated stature.* * computer enhancement of the spectator as seen in the Bell film did not produce usable results.

In the absence of evidence that (1) Milteer had become extensively bald by 1963 or was wearing a hairpiece in the postassassination photograph, or that (2) Milteer's statural estimate of 64 inches is incorrect, the motorcade spectator could not have been Joseph Milteer.

First. Metric analyisis

Although several enlargements and an enhanced photograph of the spectator have been furnished for examination, they are not sufficiently sharp to permit any meaningful comparison based on facial measurements and indices. (See Fig. IV-46).

Second. Age

The age of the motorcade spectator is estimated at 60 plus or minus 10 years. Milteer was approximately 61 years old in 1963.(211)

Third. Eyeglasses

In all three photographs of Milteer taken during his later years he is wearing eyeglasses with composite frames (plastic upper rims, wire lower) and a broad metal nosepiece. (See figs. IV-42 and IV-44). The spectator is also wearing spectacles which appear to be of the same general style favored by Milteer. (See fig. IV-46.)

Fourth. Lip Thickness

All of the available Milteer photographs show that the membranous position of Milteer's upper lip was very thin. The enhanced photographs of the spectator suggest a rather full and thick upper lip. (See fig. IV-46). This is not a trait apt to be influenced by normal variation in facial expression.

Fifth. Hair

In the earliest photographs Milteer has a full, regular hairline with no central or lateral retreat suggestive of incipient baldness. (See figure IV-41). In the photograph that was apparently taken when Milteer was shout 55 years old, his hairline is virtually identical to that of the earlier photographs. (See figure IV-42). The latest photograph, taken about 5 decade after the assassination, shows Milteer with a full head of hair. (See figure IV-44). The spectator, however, appears to have little, if any, hair. The extent of his balding, though, could not be ascertained; no hairline is visible, and in fact, the entire frontal crown of his head appears bare. (See figure IV-16).

Stature

The only available height record on Milteer gives his stature of 64 inches. (21.2) This corresponds to about the seventh statural percentile of American males. That is, about 93 out of 100 adult American men would be taller than Milteer. Also, about 35 percent of adult American females would exceed Milteer's reported height.(213) In contrast, the spectator alleged to be Milteer is taller than 4 of the 7 other males and all of the 16 females in the line of spectators shown in the motorcade photograph. Based upon Milteer's reported height, the probability of randomly selecting a group of Americans where so many are shorter than Milteer's reported height is .0000007. Moreover, an analysis based upon actual measurements of certain physical features shown in the photograph yields a height estimate for the spectator of about 70 inches--6 inches taller than Milteer's reported stature.*

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2. and others

http://spot.acorn.net/JFKplace/00/judge-sues.cia

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=4472