One year later he shot JFK

the drunk from the Chicago bus station a year earlier. Bill told his family: “I thought, ‘That’s the dirty dog I arrested down at the bus depot that time on the Greyhound bus’.

“I’d recognise him anywhere. I could have told the captain about the arrest but I didn’t. I just kept it to myself but I never forgot it.” The cop was born in Killasser, near Swinford in 1908, and was modest about his role as an officer.

Bill’s brother Patrick, who was also a member of Chicago police department, was once involved in an operation to arrest Al Capone.

Bill passed away on July 6, 2001, at the age of 93, in Phoenix, Arizona where he lived, following the death of his wife Catherine some years earlier.

Once he had slept it off he let him out, gave him his gun back and off he went ENDA MULLEN ON BILL’S RECOLLECTION OF OSWALD’S ARREST

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