Loy Factor was a Chickasaw Indian who served 44 years for murder. When he was freed he talked with one of his initial cellmates who remembered a conversation they had when they were both incarcerated.

Factor told the story of meeting Mac Wallace in 1962. During the conversation he told Wallace that he was pretty good with a rifle. This piqued Wallace's interest and he asked for a demonstration. After the demonstration, Wallace said that he could have a job for him that would pay $10,000. He gave him $2000 and said he would get the rest upon completion. For a poor Indian, living on a reservation, that was a lot of money. The fact that he probably would have to shoot someone did not seem to bother him at the time.

When the time came Wallace sent for Factor and he was taken to a small house in Dallas where he met Jack Ruby, a Latino woman and a man identified as Oswald. It is open to discussion if this was the real Lee Oswald or one of the impostors who had been seen around the city.

On November 22, they took their positions on the sixth floor with Factor at one window and the man identified as Oswald at another with Wallace coordinating the operation. Factor says he lined up targets in his scope but never pulled the trigger.  Richard Carr, a worker at a construction site diagonally across the intersection witnessed a man who matched Mac Wallace description on the sixth floor – but the FBI showed no interest in his testimony.

BOOK: The Men on the Sixth Floor / Sample & Collom

The Men on the Sixth Floor
by Glen Sample, Mark Collom

The book that charted a new course in the research of the JFK assassination. Containing fascinating, never before seen documents, the book was a major focus of Nigel Turner's History Channel Documentary - "The Men Who Killed Kennedy/The Guilty Men" in 2003. But legal action was threatened by LBJ associates, leading to the banning of further sales or broadcasting of the program. "The Men on the Sixth Floor" was the first book to introduce Malcolm Wallace to the assassination community. It was the first book to tie Wallace to the owner of the Texas School Book Depository - D. H. Byrd, and it was the first book to release the never before seen "Estes documents" to public scrutiny. That is why this book is considered 'required reading' by serious JFK researchers around the world.