Author: Carter L. McLellan – Date: December 21, 2024

Contents

1. The story of Roger Craig
2. Notes

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The story of Roger Craig

Roger Dean Craig, Sr., was born in 1934, in Wisconsin. In 1946, around the age of 12, Craig ran away from home, around the time his family moved to Minnesota. He became a farm laborer, working in South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. He eventually married and settled in Dallas.

In 1951, he joined the US Army and server in Japan. According to his daughter, Deanna Rae Craig: he “was released from duty because he kept injuring himself.” In 1955, he moved to Texas, where he worked for the Pyrex Corporation.

In 1959, Craig joined the Dallas Police Department (or Sheriff’s Department?). He was about 25 years old at the time. In 1960, Roger Craig was awarded the Dallas Sheriff’s Deputy of the year, because of his work and aid in helping to capture an international jewel thief. He had a successful career in the Sheriff’s department and was promoted four times. He looked up to Sheriff Bill Decker.

The JFK assassination

At 12:30pm, November 22, 1963, Craig was on duty at the Sheriff department in Dealey Plaza, when he heard the shots. According to him, he ran to the Grassy Knoll to interview witnesses, but after 15 minutes he went to the TSBD. Says he saw a man exit the back up the TSBD, run down the grassy knoll and enter a Nash station wagon. He also maintained that they found a 7.65 Mauser on the sixth floor of the TSBD. He later claims to have saw Oswald at Will Fritz’s office, where when asked about the Rambler Craig allegedly saw, responded that the car probably belonged to Ruth Paine and not to drag her into the matter. Craig gave testimony to the Warren Commission in 1964.

Strange events

Less than four years after the assassination, on July 4, 1967, Craig was fired from Dallas Sheriff’s department after he was found to have discussed his evidence with a journalist. That same year, Craig later testified during the Clay Shaw trial of Jim Garrison in New Orleans.

It was after this point that Craig allegedly started to go through some unusual events. Possibly also in 1967, Craig was allegedly set up by a friend and almost shot at a coffee shop on Columbia and Carrol Avenue, Dallas. A bullet had missed him by inches, grazing his head. Shot while walking to a car park. In March 1968, a friend of Craig’s Hiram Ingram died after falling in his home and breaking a hip, then having cancer. 

In January 1969, Sheriff Buddy Walthers, who had been involved with the JFK case, was killed in a shooting while attempting to apprehend a convict in Dallas. Walthers volunteered to tag along with Sheriff Alvin Maddox to apprehend an escaped convict. He turned out to be much bigger than expected and just shot himself up with a drug. Officers told him to get dressed, but he had a gun with which he threatened the deputies. They tried to wrestle the gun from him, when shots were fired, killing Walthers and injuring two others. Whatever the case, Craig would later suggest foul play in the matter.

In 1971, Craig wrote a personal unpublished autobiography , ‘When They Kill a President’. A couple years later, in 1973, a car allegedly forced Craig’s car off a mountain road at Davis Mountain in far west Texas. He was badly injured but survived. He was paralyzed and needs permanent pain medication. In 1974, Craig was shot in the shoulder in Waxahachie, Texas, and lives. He now needs even more pain medication. In 1975, Craig was seriously wounded when his car engine exploded. He was doing research for disinformation artist Jim Garrison and/or questionable Penn Jones, Jr. at the time. He told friends the mafia was out to get him.

On May 15, 1975, Roger Craig committed suicide at 10524 Luna Road, Dallas, TX, while his father was driving a lawnmower in the backyard. A problem arose because Craig reportedly only owned two pistols, while he had been shot through the heart with a shotgun.

Since his death, he has been the subject of numerous books and films. His son Roger Dean Craig, Jr., has come out believing that his father’s death seemed strange.

Notes