i, a wealthy French underlord, confirmed David’s statements, and described the shooting points from which the assassins where stationed. Lucien Sarti was stationed on the grassy knoll and the other two stations were The School Book Depository and the Dal-Tex building (8). After the assassination, the assassins resided in a safe house for ten days and were flown, privately, to Montreal, Canada, and paid, not with cash money, but heroin (8). Nikoli said that he had converted the heroin into cash once the assassins had reached France (8). They were paid in heroin because it could not be counterfeited and it was untraceable. An eyewitness, standing only ten feet from the shooter on the grassy knoll, said that the bullet fired from the gassy knoll buzzed by his ear nearly rupturing his eardrum. He said that he had been filming the motorcade when he heard the shot, dove to the ground, and soon after, was kicked many times by a hysterical man who stole his film. The next day the man was relocated by the military to a base in Alaska (8). There is a photograph, taken a fraction of a second after the fatal shot was fired, showing gun smoke on the grassy knoll. It also vaguely shows a man, who is believed to be holding a camera, standing in front of the smoke (8). A lady eyewitness by the name of Jean Hill also says that she heard shots from the grassy knoll (4).With three highly coordinated assassins, accepting a job of that magnitude could only mean one thing: Mafia. Could the Mafia have been so cautious as to station men to audit the job of each assassin? Directly following the assassination three “tramps” were arrested, who were found hiding in a box car with a clear view of the picket fence overlooking the grassy knoll (2, 208). No records remain of their arrest, but press photos of the “tramps” were found and professionally analyzed. The conclusion of the analysis was that the men were only dressed as tramps, bu...
