THE COLLINS RADIO CONNECTIONS to the Assassination of President Kennedy
Raymond
THE COLLINS RADIO CONNECTIONS to the Assassination of President
Kennedy
By William E. Kelly – Revised from report originally published in
Backchannels magazine and presented at the national conference of the
Coalition On Political Assassination (COPA), October 10, 1994.
If the assassination of President Kennedy was the result of not only a
conspiracy, but a covert action and coup d’etat, as many people
believe, there should be evidence of this from both the scene of the
crime(s) as well as from the highest echelons of power among those who
took over the government. This would be especially so if the
assassination was not the actions of a lone-nut or a foreign attack by
Cuban or Soviet intelligence service sponsors, but an internal
manipulation of policy and control, an inside job.
As Edward Luttwack describes in his "How-To" book Coup d’etat – A
Practical Handbook (Alfred A. Knopf, 1968, p. 117), "Control over the
flow of information emanating from the political center will be our
most important weapon in establishing… authority after the coup. The
seizure of the main means of mass communication will thus be a task of
crucial importance."
At the scene(s) of the crime, eyewitness testimony is always suspect.
Homicide detectives prefer more solid leads that provide documented
evidence that can be introduced in court, such as fingerprints,
telephone and automobile license records.
There are a number of automobile license records of significance in
regards to the assassination of President Kennedy, including the
tampered photo among the possessions of Lee Harvey Oswald of the
license on 1957 Chevy in General Walker’s driveway, plus the license
numbers of cars seen in Dealey Plaza photos immediately before and
after the assassination.
Most significant however, is the Texas plate PP4537. This number was
jotted down on a piece of paper by an elderly Oak Cliff mechanic T. F.
White, who noticed a man acting suspiciously behind the wheel of a
1958 two tone Plymouth sedan shortly after the murder of Dallas
Policeman J.D. Tippitt in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. The
car was parked behind a billboard in the parking lot of a Mexican
restaurant, with the driver, like White, watching the flurry of Dallas
police cars racing down the street with sirens blaring, called to the
nearby scene of the shooting of Tippit.
White walked across the street to get closer and exchanged glances
with the man, who quickly drove away. White wrote down the license tag
PP4537 on a piece of paper and forgot about it until later that day
when he saw Lee Harvey Oswald on television and recognized him as the
man he saw acting suspiciously in the Plymouth earlier that
afternoon.
A few weeks later, when Dallas radio reporter and later mayor of
Dallas Wes Wise gave a talk at the Oak Cliff restaurant, the owner of
the garage where Mr. White worked mentioned the suspicious Plymouth to
Wise, who then met White. White reluctantly told his story, but was
reluctant to get involved, and Wise had to use all his powers of
persuasion to convince White to share the information with him. Wise
promised White he would not be brought into the investigation, but tat
he, Wise, would handle it. "Do you have the piece of paper with the
license number on it?" Wise asked, and sure enough, White had it right
there in his pocket and gave it to Wise. It read: PP4537.
White told Wise that nobody knew who or what was really behind the
assassination of President Kennedy and he really didn’t want to get
involved, but he handed over the paper to Wise, who passed it on to
the police and FBI.
A quick check of the Texas plate #PP4537 indicated that it was
assigned to Carl Mather, of Garland, Texas. When the FBI went out to
the listed Garland address they found the two tone 1958 Plymouth right
there in the driveway and knocked on the door. Mrs. Mather answered,
acknowledged the car belonged to her husband, who was then away at
work at Collins Radio, in nearby Richardson, Texas. When asked where
her husband and the car was on Friday, November 22, 1963, she said
that the car was in the parking lot at Collins Radio until sometime in
the afternoon when her husband returned home and picked up the family
to go to the Tippit residence to pay their respects to the widow and
family of their good friend, who was murdered that day.
Instead of going out to Collins Radio to interview Mather however, the
FBI went first to Mr. White, who Wes Wise had promised wouldn’t be
involved, and took additional statements from him, changing his story
for the official reports and exchanging the two tone Plymouth to a red
Ford Falcon. CBS News made a polite inquiry years later, leaving Carl
Mather out of the documentary program they aired but listed Mrs.
Mather in the programs credits. The House Select Committee on
Assassinations (HSCA) briefly looked into the affair, granted Mather
immunity from prosecution to testify and then failed to question him
under oath. The HSCA published a short report they titled "The Wise
Allegation," when in fact Wes Wise made no allegations, and merely
followed up on his reporter’s instincts. He came up with an automobile
license plate number that was scene near the murder of a Dallas
policeman that was traced to one of the victim’s best friends, Carl
Mather, whose alibi is that he was at work at the time, at Collins
Radio.
Documents later released under the JFK Act indicate that Mather was
questioned by HSCA investigators and claimed that he worked on
electronics at Collins, his specific job being the installation of the
radio equipment aboard Air Force Two – the Vice President’s plane.
That this lead was not properly investigated, and remains
uninvestigated today, is because such an inquiry actually does lead to
the heart of the plot to murder not only Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit,
but as many believe, is tied directly to the assassination of
President Kennedy. If the Tippit murder is connected to the
assassination of the President, as the official stories alleges, then
the Tippit murder may be the "Rosetta Stone" that could explain the
mysteries of both murders.
The significance of the Collins Radio connections becomes apparent
with a quick review of the published record, and that:
1. On November 1, 1963 the New York Times published a photograph of
the ship the Rex, which Fidel Castro identified as the boat that
dropped off a team of assassins in Cuba a few nights previous. The Rex
was docked at Palm Beach, Florida, near the JFK family compound, and
the Rex’s Halloween eve mission was in clear violation of President
Kennedy’s March 1963 edict that no para-military raids against Cuba
were to originate from U.S. shores. According to the article in the
NYTs, the Rex had been sold by the Somoza regime in Nicaragua to the
Belcher Oil Company, its dock fees paid by the CIA front company Sea
Ship Inc., with the Rex then being leased to the Collins Radio Company
of Richardson, Texas, "for scientific research."
2. Founded by Arthur Collins, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Collins Radio
first made news headlines when young Collins was an amateur radio buff
with the only (home made) radio receiver who could pick up the radio
transmissions of Navy Commander Richard E. Byrd from his polar
exploration expedition. [Richard Byrd is the cousin of the founder of
the Civil Air Patrol and owner of the Texas School Book Depository
building].
3. Collins Radio became a major defense contractor during World War
II, and following the war, participated in Operation Paperclip, hiring
Dr. Alex Lipisch, the former Nazi scientist who developed the Delta I
glider and ME 163 Komet jet fighter. For Collins, Lipisch was assigned
to the boat development program that worked with General Dynamics in
attempting to build and refine a sleek, swift speedboat – the V20 -
that could be used for Cuban infiltration missions like the Rex
mission. It was later used in Vietnam.
4. David Ferrie’s telephone records reflect that in the weeks before
the assassination he made frequent calls from the New Orleans law
office of G. Ray Gill to the Belcher Oil Company of Dallas, Texas, the
company that was the listed owner of the Rex.
5. In the week before the assassination, a reservation was made at
Jack Ruby’s Carousel Club for a large party of Collins Radio
employees.
6. The Dallas P.D. Intelligence Division maintained a paid informant
who worked at Collins Radio and reported on fellow employees who
appeared suspicious or subversive, including one who was reported to
subscribe to the leftist I.F. Stone Weekly.
7. When Lee Harvey Oswald returned to Texas from Soviet Russia, George
DeMohrenschildt introduced him to retired Navy Admiral Chester Bruton,
an executive at Collins Radio, with the idea of Oswald getting a job
there, as he had worked in a radio factory in Minsk, USSR. Oswald and
Marina visited Bruton with DeMohrenschilt.
8. At the time of the assassination Adml. Bruton was working on a top-
secret nuclear submarine communications project for Collins, with the
Navy’s nuclear sub radar and communications HQ being based at Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, close neighbors of Michael Paine’s family
island.
9. In 1963 Collins Radio began receiving large military contracts
including one for the construction of a microwave communications
network in Southeast Asia, specifically Vietnam.
10. After Oswald was murdered while in Dallas police custody by Jack
Ruby, his widow Marina P. Oswald married former Collins Radio employee
Kenneth Porter.
11. In Miami, Florida, a Cuban exile, and former executive of Collins
Radio, was murdered, assassinated in a still unsolved homicide.
12. Collins Radio supplied and maintained the equipment used by the
Voice of America, all manned NASA space flights, the Strategic Air
Command (SAC), as well as all equipment used for the CIA’s Guatemalan
and Cuban operations. Most significantly, Collins Radio was
responsible for installing and maintaining all radio equipment aboard
Air Force One, Air Force Two and the Cabinet’s plane.
13. According to the Collins Radio Annual Report to stockholders for
1963-64, Collins Radio not only installed and maintained the radios
aboard most military and executive branch planes, they also operated
the station known as "Liberty" at their Cedar Rapids, Iowa
headquarters, which served as a relay station for all radio
communications between the White House, the Pentagon, Air Force One,
Air Force Two, the Cabinet plane and Andrews AFB in Washington.
[This "Liberty" station is misidentified on most transcripts of the
edited version of the radio transmissions from Air Force One on
11/22/63. "Air Force One, the Presidential airplane, was placed in
service in 1962 using communications equipment developed and
manufactured by Collins. The aircraft…was modified to meet special
requirements…In 1962, the station many remember as "Liberty" was
opened and operated from the new communications building….(in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa)…Collins had a contract with the Air Force to serve as
either the primary communications station or as a backup whenever Air
Force One, the presidential aircraft, and other aircraft in the VIP
fleet carried cabinet members or high ranking military officers. Over
the airwaves the station’s call word was ‘Liberty.’" – From Collins
Radio – the First 50 Years.]
In his book The Making of a President – 1964, Theodore H. White wrote:
"There is a tape recording in the archives o the government which best
recaptures the sound of the hours as it waited for leadership. It is a
recording of all the conversations in the air, monitored by the Signal
Corps Midwestern center ‘Liberty,’ between Air Force One in Dallas,
the Cabinet plane over the Pacific, and the Joint Chiefs’
Communications Center in Washington….On the flight the party learned
that there was no conspiracy, learned the identity of Oswald and his
arrest; and the President’s mind turned to the duties of consoling the
stricken and guiding the quick."
According to the analysis of E. Martin Schotz and Vincent Salandria
(in History Will Not Absolve Us, 1996), "And yet the White House had
informed President Johnson and the other occupants of Air Force One,
all of them witnesses to the hail of bullets which had poured down on
Dealey Plaza, that as of the afternoon of the assassination there was
to be no conspiracy and that Oswald was to be the lone assassin. If
White’s report were correct this would mean that federal officials in
Washington were marrying the government to the cover-up of Oswald as
the lone assassin virtually instantaneously. This could have occurred
only if those federal authorities had had foreknowledge that the
evidence would implicate Oswald and that he would have ‘no
confederates.’ An innocent government could not have reacted in such a
fashion internally."
Unfortunately, there is no longer "a tape recording in the archives of
the government," as the original, unedited, multiple tape recordings
of the AF1 radio transmissions cannot be located despite an Act of
Congress, the request of the Assassinations Records Review Board
(ARRB) and numerous Freedom of Information Act requests. Our
government seems to have simply lost the recordings, with no records
being kept of their whereabouts or destruction, if in fact they were
destroyed.
The Final Report of the ARRB (p. 116) notes:
"6. White House Communications Agency. "WHCA was, and is, responsible
for maintaining both secure (encrypted) and unsecured (open)
telephone, radio and telex communications between the President and
the government of the United States. Most of the personnel that
constitute this elite agency are U.S. military communications
specialists; many, in 1963, were from the Army Signal Corps. On
November 22, 1963, WHCA was responsible for communications between and
among Air Force One and Two, the White House Situation Room, the
mobile White House, and with the Secret Service in the motorcade."
"The Review Board sought to locate any audio recordings of voice
communications to or from Air Force One on the day of the
assassination, including communications between Air Force one and
Andrews Air Force Base during the return flight from Dallas to
Washington D.C. As many people are now aware of, in the 1970s, the LBJ
Presidential Library released edited audio cassettes of the unsecured,
or open voice conversations with Air Force One, Andrews AFB, the White
House Situation Room, and the Cabinet Aircraft carrying the Secretary
of State and other officials on November 22, 1`963. The LBJ Library
version of these tapes consists of about 110 minutes of voice
transmissions, but the tapes are edited and condensed, so the Review
Board staff sought access to unedited, uncondensed versions. Since the
edited versions of the tapes contain considerable talk about both the
forthcoming autopsy on the President, as well as the reaction of a
government in crisis, the tapes are of considerable interest to
assassination researchers and historians."
"Given that the LBJ Library released the tapes in the 1970s, the paper
trail is now sketch and quite cold. The LBJ Library staff is fairly
confident that the tapes originated with the White House
Communications Agency (WHCA). The LBJ Library staff told the Review
Board staff that it received the tapes from the White House as part of
the original shipment of President Johnson’s papers in 1968 or 1969.
According to the LBJ Library’s documentation, the accession card
reads: "WHCA?" and is dated 1975. The Review Board staff could not
locate any records indicating who performed the editing, or when, or
where."
"The Review Board’s repeated written and oral inquiries of the White
House Communications Agency did not bear fruit. The WHCA could not
produce any records that illuminated the provenance of the edited
tapes."
At the time I delivered my report on "The Collins Radio Connections"
to the National COPA Conference in Washington in October, 1994, the
Washington Post had just then exposed the true occupant of a new,
mammoth, suburban Virginia building. It was not the headquarters for
Collins Radio/Rockwell International as had been previously reported,
but they had just been the cooperating cover company for the super
secret National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), just as Collins Radio had
served as a cover for the CIA in the operation of the Rex in Cuba
in1963.
Also, in the October, 1998 issue of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s George
Magazine, - David Wise reported on how the NRO had "lost" $6 billion
in U.S. taxpayer’s money, and specifically mentioned the fiasco
surrounding the construction of the HQ building, or which Collins/
Rockwell served as a cover company.
[William E. Kelly is a freelance journalist whose research into the
assassination of President Kennedy is partially sponsored by the Fund
For Constitutional Government Investigative Journalism Project. He can
be reached at: bkj...@yahoo.com]
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J. Armstrong's 1998 Slide Show
JOHN ARMSTRONG'S NID98 SPEECH
[TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: As he did during the previous year's "Harvey
and Lee" presentation, Mr. Armstrong projected images of many of
the documents he used researching his speech. Although it is
impossible to include them in this transcription, I have left in
his visual cues "(SLIDE #)" and "(RIGHT #)" to give the reader an
impression of the amount of documentary support he provided.--jh]
Mr. Armstrong:
In 1996, one of the FBI's top scientists, Frederick Whitehurst, disclosed
that the FBI crime lab had fabricated evidence in the World Trade Center
and Oklahoma City bombings. Is anyone surprised? They were fabricating
evidence in the Kennedy assassination 35 years ago and tonight I'll show
you a few examples how this was done.
On the evening of the assassination FBI director Hoover told Lyndon
Johnson "we have up here the tape recording and the photograph of the man
who was at the Soviet embassy using Oswald's name. That picture and tape
recording do not correspond to this man's voice, nor to his appearance. In
other words, it appears that there is a second person who was at the
Soviet embassy down there."
A second person? Lyndon Johnson understood. Johnson's aide Cliff Carter
ordered Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade "not to allege a conspiracy"
and then ordered Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry to turn over all evidence
to the FBI. (SLIDE 1) Curry told the Warren Commission "about midnight
Friday night--November 22--we agreed to let the FBI have all the evidence
and they said they would have an agent stand by and when they were
finished with it, return it to us". The evidence consisted of Oswald's
possessions taken by Dallas Police from the Paine house and 1026 N.
Beckley.
James Cadigan, an FBI document specialist, received Oswald's possessions
in Washington. Cadigan said (SLIDE 2) "Initially the first big batch of
evidence was brought in on November 23 and consisted of many, many items.
When Cadigan was asked if he recalled one of the items he said "when the
vast bulk of this material came in it was photographed. But to remember
one item out of four or five hundred, I cannot say I definitely recall
seeing this". Cadigan's testimony was revealing. The FBI had secretly
obtained "four or five hundred items" of Oswald's possessions on November
23rd--three days before they took over the case. Cadigan's testimony
regarding Oswald's possessions in Washington on November 23rd is preserved
in his original deposition. (SLIDE 3) But when reprinted in the Warren
Volumes, references to November 23rd were deleted. When Jesse Curry began
to explain how the FBI took Oswald's possessions to Washington on November
23rd, Allen Dulles adjourned the meeting.
Cadigan and Curry's testimony was suppressed for good reason: the public
and news media were told the FBI took over the case and obtained Oswald's
possessions on November 26th. They were not told the FBI had secretly
taken Oswald's possessions to Washington, kept them for three days, and
then returned them. There was no paperwork, no photographs, and no way of
knowing if the items taken to Washington were the same items returned to
Dallas three days later.
When returned to the Dallas Police Oswald's possessions were photographed
with a desk mounted Recordak camera which took precise, crystal clear
photographs. (SLIDE 4) The Dallas Police used 5 rolls of film to
photograph 455 items of evidence. Each of the 455 items were numbered,
photographed, and inventoried. When the FBI took over the investigation on
November 26th, the Dallas Police turned over their evidence and
undeveloped film. (SLIDE 5) They requested the FBI process and return 3
prints of each item. (SLIDE 6)
But the FBI did not return any photographs to the Dallas Police, nor did
they return any of the original 5 rolls of film. What they did was alter
the Dallas Police film. (SLIDE 7) The 1st roll contained negatives #1
through #163. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th rolls of film disappeared entirely.
The 5th roll contained negatives #361 to #451. The FBI altered negatives
on roll #1 and roll #5. They then copied roll #1 and roll #5 and returned
the copies to the Dallas Police on December 1st. (show rolls of DPD film)
(SLIDE 8) Chief Curry noticed the missing negatives and notified the FBI
on December 2nd. The missing negatives were blamed on the Dallas Police
photographer. They said he used (SLIDE 9) "faulty technique" when
photographing Oswald's possessions. If there was any "faulty technique" it
could be seen, frame by frame, on the original film; but all 5 original
rolls disappeared while in FBI custody.
All that remains are the two copied rolls, available from the Dallas
Archives. These rolls show us which frames the FBI removed and which
frames they altered. The first roll of film stops at negative 163 (SLIDE
10). Negatives 168, 169 and 175 are Oswald's W-2 tax forms, which are
listed on this FBI inventory form (RIGHT 2) are supposed to follow the
negatives shown on this film. As you can clearly see, the original Dallas
Police film, which allegedly contained negatives of the W-2 forms, has
been cut and a blank strip of film spliced in. Officers Rose, Stowell and
Adamcik followed police procedure by (SLIDE 11) initialing each item to
establish a chain of evidence. Each item was then listed on their
handwritten inventory. But there are no Dallas Police initials on the W-2
forms found in the National Archives. None were listed on the handwritten
(SLIDE 12) or typed (RIGHT 3) Dallas Police inventories. None are among
the items photographed on the floor of the Dallas Police station. These
W-2 forms, which appear to have been typed with the same typewriter, are
listed on the FBI/Dallas Police inventory only after Oswald's possessions
were returned from Washington. Each W-2 form has the initials of FBI
laboratory technician Robert Frazier (SLIDE 13). The fact is that there is
no evidence that any of these w-2 forms were found at Ruth Paine's house.
* * *
A small German camera was found and initialed by Gus Rose. It was listed
on the handwritten inventory (SLIDE 14), the typed inventory and the
Dallas Police/FBI inventory. The chain of custody for the Minox camera
from the Paine's garage to the FBI is complete. The camera and 8 other
items were photographed by the Dallas Police and the undeveloped film
given to the FBI. But by the time copies of the film were returned to the
Dallas Police, the negative (SLIDE 15) had been altered. This alteration
caused the Minox camera to disappear from the photograph (RIGHT 4). The
Minox camera disappeared for a good reason. It would difficult to explain
why a common laborer possessed an expensive Minox spy camera and there
were rumors that Oswald was an FBI informant. Anything that hinted of a
connection between Oswald and the intelligence community was suppressed.
FBI agents were dispatched to Police headquarters. They asked Gus Rose to
change the property invoice from a "minox camera" to a "minox light meter"
(SLIDE 16). When he refused FBI agents went to Officer Hill and asked him
to change the property inventory form. Hill complied and wrote "the FBI
had requested I change the property forms from a minox camera to a minox
light meter" (RIGHT 5). After the Minox disappeared from the photo, and
was changed on the Dallas Property clerk's invoice, the FBI changed their
inventory list (SLIDE 17) to read "minox light meter". They photographed a
light meter (RIGHT 6) and returned the photograph to the Dallas Police.
They never did explain the numerous rolls of Minox film listed on their
inventory.
Two months later the FBI allegedly picked up a Minox camera from Michael
Paine described as rusty and inoperable. They then told the public that
the Minox camera belonged to Michael Paine. Michael Paine said in a
television interview that the camera had been returned to him by the FBI
in the summer of 1964. He then said that his apartment was burglarized and
all of his camera equipment, including his Minox camera, was lost. But in
the National Archives there is a Minox camera in mint condition--the one
found by Gus Rose in the Paine garage.
The last example of evidence alteration I will discuss is the most
difficult to follow. It involves the two Oswald wallets found in Oak Cliff
and is detailed in Dale Myers' new book _With Malice_. A wallet was found
at the scene of the Tippit murder by Dallas Police which contained
identification for Lee Harvey Oswald and Alik Hidell (SLIDE 18). Twenty
minutes later a different wallet was taken from Oswald's left rear pocket
by Detective Paul Bentley (RIGHT 7). This wallet, the "arrest wallet" also
contained identification for Lee Harvey Oswald and Alik Hidell. Both
wallets remained in custody of the Dallas Police from November 22nd until
November 26th. Bentley turned over Oswald's "arrest wallet" to Lt. Baker.
The wallet and contents were kept in this well worn envelope (SLIDE 19) in
the property room until turned over to the FBI. Photographs of the "arrest
wallet" and contents were taken by the Dallas Police on November 23rd and
given to the FBI and Secret Service (SLIDE 20). The wallet found at the
Tippit murder scene turned up in Captain Fritz's desk drawer where it
remained until November 27th.
On November 25th, Oswald's possessions were returned from Washington to be
inventoried and photographed. Here we begin to see how the FBI tampered
with the wallets. The FBI inventory listed two wallets-- items #114 and
#382 (SLIDE 21)--yet neither was "Oswald's arrest wallet" or the "wallet
from Tippit murder scene". These inventory sheets showed the wallets
coming from the Ruth Paine's house. But neither wallet was initialed by
Dallas Police. Neither wallet was listed on the Dallas Police handwritten
inventory (SLIDE 22) completed at Ruth Paine's house. Neither wallet was
listed on the Dallas Police typed inventory-which became Warren Commission
exhibits (RIGHT 8). Neither wallet was photographed among Oswald's
possessions on the floor of the Dallas Police station. Yet two wallets
were listed on the FBI inventory-- where did they come from? Were they on
the Dallas Police evidence film?
To answer that question, I looked at the two rolls of film returned to the
Dallas Police by the FBI. (Hold up Dallas Police film) Item #114 was
listed (SLIDE 23) as "brown billfold with Marine group photograph." But
negative #114 (RIGHT 9) showed only the Marine group photo. When a
photograph is made from this negative, the "brown billfold"-- allegedly
from Ruth Paine's house--disappeared (SLIDE 24).
Item #382 (SLIDE 25) was listed on the FBI inventory as "red billfold and
one scrap of white paper with Russian script". But negative #382 (RIGHT
10) showed only the paper with the Russian script. When a photograph is
made from this negative the "red billfold"--allegedly from Ruth Paine's
house--disappeared (SLIDE 26).
Both negatives were altered between the time the Dallas police turned over
their original undeveloped film to the FBI and the FBI returned copies of
that film to the police. Why cause the wallets in the original film to
disappear? Because the original photos taken by the Dallas Police were
probably photographs of the "arrest wallet" and the "Tippit murder scene
wallet"--two wallets which contained identification for Oswald and Hidell
which would have been unexplainable.
To find out what happened to "Oswald's arrest wallet" and the "Tippit
murder scene wallet" we must again look at the Dallas Police film. The 2nd
roll of film begins in the middle of negative #361 (SLIDE 27) and ends in
the middle of negative #451 (RIGHT 11). All of the negative images after
#451, with one exception, were ruined. The one exception is the negative
image of a wallet (SLIDE 28). When the negative image is developed into a
photograph, you can see that it is "Oswald's arrest wallet" (RIGHT 12).
This wallet, along with all other items in this film, were sent to
Washington on November 26th.... Remember when I told you the Dallas
Police were blamed for the 255 missing negatives because of "faulty
technique"? Does this look like faulty technique? Or does this look like
another example of the FBI splicing together and tampering with the
original Dallas Police film?
With the "Oswald arrest wallet" in Washington, the "Tippit murder scene
wallet" remained in Captain Fritz's desk drawer. On November 27th, James
Hosty picked up the "Tippit murder scene wallet" from Fritz and gave Fritz
a signed receipt (SLIDE 29). Hosty then took that wallet and other items
obtained from Fritz to the Dallas FBI office. According to Hosty, these
items were neither photographed nor inventoried. They were placed in a
box and flown to Washington by Warren DeBreuys. Two days later the Dallas
Police notified the FBI they had failed to photograph the wallet and
contents and wanted photos (RIGHT 13). The FBI ignored this request and
never photographed the "Tippit murder scene wallet". The only known photos
of this wallet are from WFAA newsreel film.
When the FBI finished altering Oswald's possessions, Hoover sent this
March 1964 memo (SLIDE 30): "the Bureau has re-photographed all of the
material in possession of the Bureau and will send a complete set of these
photographs to you by separate mail". Included among the hundreds of new
FBI photographs were items #114 (SLIDE 31) and #382 (RIGHT 14). These two
wallets were substituted for "Oswalds arrest wallet" and the "Tippit
murder scene wallet"....
There were also newly created FBI photographs of W-2 forms, each initialed
by FBI lab technician Robert Frazier as well as the newly created
photograph of the Minox light meter. These FBI photographs were received
by the Dallas Police in March, 1964. To complete the charade Hoover sent a
new inventory list. Hoover explained (SLIDE 32) "The inventory list
submitted by your office November 26, has been superseded by the list
furnished to your office by the FBI Laboratory dated February 1, 1964. The
list submitted by your office is incomplete and is not completely
accurate". Hoover attempted to blame the Dallas Police and his own Dallas
field office for producing an "incomplete and inaccurate" inventory. The
list Hoover called incomplete and inaccurate is Warren Commission exhibit
#2003 (RIGHT 15).
One final thought on the physical evidence. The W-2 forms, the Minox
camera, and the wallets are a few examples of evidence alteration by the
FBI. These items were allegedly found at Ruth Paine's. Nearly all of the
questionable items of evidence including the backyard photos, the Mexico
City bus ticket, the Imperial Reflex camera, the two Klein Sporting Goods
coupons, the Minox camera and other questionable "items of evidence" came
from the Paines. If we had known in 1964 that over half of the original
Dallas Police film disappeared while at FBI headquarters, and that Dallas
Police film had been altered while in possession of the FBI, and that
original items of evidence were altered, then we would have demanded to
know why the FBI was tampering with evidence. If we had known Oswald owned
a Minox spy camera, and if we had known the police found two wallets in
Oak Cliff with Oswald and Hidell identification, then we would have asked
a lot more questions about the identity of Oswald.
Next, I would like to discuss witness testimony. The FBI's first priority
was (SLIDE 33) "to set out the evidence showing that Oswald is responsible
for the shooting that killed the President". On Dec. 3rd, a UPI release
stated "an exhaustive FBI report now nearly ready for the White House will
indicate that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone and unaided assassin of
President Kennedy". Hoover had leaked this information to United Press
hoping "to blunt the drive for an independent investigation of the
assassination." His efforts failed and the Warren Commission was created.
As Warren Commission members were assembled, the FBI's number three
official, William Sullivan, said (SLIDE 34) "Hoover did not like to see
the Warren Commission come into existence. He showed marked interest in
limiting the scope of it or circumventing the scope of it and taking any
action that might result in neutralizing it". Hoover was concerned the
Warren Commission would take testimony from witnesses that conflicted with
the FBI's already completed report naming Oswald as the lone assassin.
Sullivan said (SLIDE 35) "if there were documents that possibly Hoover
didn't want to come to the light of the public, then those documents no
longer exist, and the truth will never be known". In that one sentence,
Sullivan told us how the FBI handled the investigation: if they didn't
want documents to come to the light of the public, then those documents
would disappear. There are some 5.5 million pages of documents in the JFK
collection at the National Archives. Less than 18000 pages are in the
Warren Volumes. Serious researchers, such as my friend Malcolm Blunt, have
focused on those 5,482,000 pages in the National Archives--the documents
few people have seen. Malcolm spent 6 months last year at the Archives and
located thousands of important documents and photographs, many of which he
provided to me. These records allow us to see what the government was
hiding. Piecing together these documents allows us to help correct the
historical record.
Tonight, I will discuss some of the FBI documents that were not available
to the public in 1964. There are far too many documents to display on the
screen and discuss in detail, so I have briefly summarized their content
and listed them. Copies of the original documents will be available from
JFK Lancer.
(SLIDE 36) The FBI told us Jack Ruby was a night club owner, had some
organized crime connections, and shot Oswald out of sympathy for Mrs.
Kennedy. (RIGHT 16) They did not tell us that Ruby ran guns to Cuba, knew
and associated with the former President of Cuba, CIA connected
gunrunners, Lee Oswald, and was an FBI contact.
In 1957, Ruby co-owned a Havana gaming house with former Cuban President
Carlos Prio and was smuggling arms to Castro. Flights were arranged by
Ruby and piloted by Mack Blaney Johnson.
Ruby accumulated guns and ammunition and stored them in a two-story house
in Kemah, Texas. The arms were loaded onto government surplus-type
landing craft destined for Cuba.
Robert McKeown and Carlos Prio gathered supplies for Castro. Arms were
supplied by the CIA and shipped to Houston by commercial truck lines. In
February 1958, McKeown was caught with over two million dollars worth of
arms, was given a 60-day jail sentence, and placed on five years'
probation.
Donald Browder purchased arms from a CIA proprietor, Interarmco, and then
smuggled the arms to Cuba. Most of the arms destined for Cuba were
supplied by the CIA.
In 1958 Jack Rubenstein wrote to the State Department Office of Munitions
Control requesting permission to negotiate the purchase of firearms and
ammunition from an Italian firm. The Oklahoma State Crime Commission
linked Jack Rubenstein to a carload of guns and ammunition destined for
Cuba.
In 1959, after Castro took over, Santos Trafficante and Jake Lansky were
arrested and jailed. Within a few days, Ruby contacted Robert McKeown, a
personal friend of Fidel Castro, and requested his help in securing their
release. Ruby returned to Cuba on several occasions in 1959, but the
political situation had changed. Former Castro supporters were leaving
Cuba by the boatload and found their way to Miami and New Orleans where
they formed anti-Castro groups.
In March 1959 Ruby became an FBI contact through Agent Charles Flynn.
Hoover later denied both Oswald and Ruby were ever FBI informants.
Ruby met in Beaumont and later in Dallas with Thomas Eli Davis, a well
known gunrunner with strong CIA ties. Warren Commission attorneys Leon
Hubert and Burt Griffin had substantial evidence that Ruby had maintained
unexplained Cuban connections. When they tried to convince Warren
Commission members that further investigation was needed, their efforts
were blocked by the CIA.
The FBI told us Guy Bannister ran a small private detective agency in New
Orleans They didn't tell us that after the Cuban revolution many Cuban
refugees, intelligence operatives and soldier of fortune types knew and
were closely associated with Guy Bannister.
Bannister employee Al Campbell said that Bannister worked closely with Ray
Huff and the CIA and had a lot to do with the overthrow of President
Arbenz of Guatemala. The Schlumberger Well Services company often served
as an arms depot for the CIA. In 1959 Bannister associates Dave Ferrie,
Gordon Novel and others removed arms and munitions from the Schlumberger
Depot in Houma, Louisiana. Their efforts and the CIA's complicity was
disguised when Schlumberger claimed their facility had been burglarized.
(SLIDE 37) The FBI told us that Oswald defected to Russia in 1959, married
a Russian girl, and returned to the US in June 1962. They withheld all
FBI interviews with people who had contact with Lee Oswald in the United
States during the same time.
Captain Valentine Ashworth roomed with Oswald in New Orleans in 1959. He
and Oswald were trying to infiltrate Cuban exile groups. Oswald's friend,
Barbara Reid, kept a page from the guest register book of the McBeth
Rooming house for June, 1959 which showed Lee Oswald registered in room D.
Gladys Davis told the FBI that her husband and a Cuban known to her as
"Mexicano", introduced Oswald to her in July or August, 1959, at her home
in Miami.
Marita Lorenz told the FBI she met Lee Oswald at a safehouse in Miami in
1960. She met Oswald the following year at a training camp in the
Everglades where Alex Rorke took photographs of Lee Oswald and the
training camps.
In June, 1960, J. Edgar Hoover wrote "there is a possibility that someone
is using Oswald's birth certificate". This memo was unknown to the Warren
Commission and the public for over 20 years.
(SLIDE 38) There is no reference in the Warren Report to the Friends of
Democratic Cuba. (RIGHT 18) The FBI certainly knew who they were. . . .
Several FBI and CIA agents were members.
In January, 1961 the Friends for Democratic Cuba was founded by ex- FBI
agent Guy Bannister and former Oswald employer Gerard Tujague. Members
included FBI Agents Lansing Logan and Regis Kennedy, CIA Agents William
Dalzell and Joseph Newbrough, anti-Castro Cubans Sergio Arcacha Smith and
Carlos Quiroga, soldier of fortune types like ex-marine Joseph Moore and
Jim Ivey and local businessmen like Gerard Tujague and Grady Durham. Regis
Kennedy and Joe Newbrough spent a lot of time at Bannister's office and
made frequent trips to the Cuban training camps north of Lake
Pontchartrain where Dave Ferrie was involved in the training of troops.
CIA Agent William Dalzell said Bannister's group was involved in
undercover operations with the CIA and FBI which involved the
transportation of individuals and supplies in and out of Cuba. The
supplies came from the CIA funded Mardi Gras Corporation.
(SLIDE 39) The FBI told us that in 1961 Oswald had married a Russian girl
and was making plans to return to the US. (RIGHT 19) In 1964 these FBI
reports were not available to the public.
Lee Oswald and Friends of Democratic Cuba member Joseph Moore visited the
Bolton Ford Dealership in New Orleans in January, 1961, and wanted to
purchase trucks to be sent to Cuba.
Lee Oswald visited the Dumas and Milnes auto dealership in New Orleans in
the Spring of 1961 and discussed the purchase of a 1958 Chevrolet with
salesman James Spencer.
An army intelligence report placed Oswald in Havana, Cuba with Enrique
Luaces in April, 1961, discussing the sale of M-1 rifles.
Lee Oswald visited Ray Carney several times at the Dallas/Garland airport
in July, 1961. Oswald tried to get Carney to turn over his list of pilots
who volunteered to fly over Cuba.
In August, 1961, Robert and Nancy Perrin, a former employee of Ruby's,
claimed they attended three meetings at an apartment in Dallas for the
purpose of arranging to run guns to Cuba. Perrin said Jack Ruby was at two
of the meetings.
Steve Landesberg told the FBI he and Oswald created demonstrations in New
York City in late 1961 and early 1962.
In early 1962, Michael Hadley, an employee of the Court of Two Sisters
Restaurant in New Orleans, said Lee Oswald resided in a small apartment
above the restaurant. Hadley overheard Oswald talk with the night manager,
Gene Davis, about Clem Bertrand. The FBI did not interview employees of
the restaurant who could have identified Oswald. They didn't need to. Gene
Davis, the night manager who spoke with Oswald, was an active FBI
informant.
CIA Agent Donald Norton claimed to have given Harvey Lee $50,000 in
Monteray, Mexico. Norton said Harvey Lee was identical to Oswald except
that his hair was thicker.
(SLIDE 40) The FBI and the Warren Commission concluded Ruby and Oswald did
not know each other. (RIGHT 20) Yet here is a list of people who
disagree--most of them were interviewed by the FBI.
Memphis Attorney Daniel Thomas McGown found a letter addressed to Jake
Rubenstein outside the Carousel Club. The return address was "Lee Oswald,
1106 Diceman Avenue, Dallas, Texas".
Robert Price, Dolores Price and a former Ruby employee saw Ruby and Oswald
together at the Escapades Lounge in Houston on April 11, 1963. They stayed
4 hours and said they were scheduled to leave from Alvin, Texas at 6:30 pm
by plane for Cuba.
George Faraldo, airport manager at Key West, Florida took both movie film
and still photos of a group of people, including Ruby and Oswald, boarding
a plane for Cuba.
Vern Davis, who had known Ruby for 10 years, saw and spoke with Ruby and
Lee Harvey Oswald at Jack's bar on Exposition Street in Dallas.
In the summer of 1963 Dorothy Marcum dated Ruby and her aunt worked for
Ruby. She said not only did Oswald and Ruby know each other, but Ruby had
employed Oswald during June and July.
Francis Hise was being interviewed by Ruby for a waitress job, when a
young man came into the Carousel Club. Ruby called him "Ozzie", told him
to go back into the room, and soon joined him. On another occasion, the
same man came into the bar and asked if he could buy Miss Hise a drink.
When Ruby came in they both left together. Miss Hise later recognized the
man as Lee Harvey Oswald.
Clyde Limbough was another employee who had worked for Jack Ruby for three
years. He recalled seeing Oswald in Ruby's office on three separate
occasions.
Robert Roy, Ruby's auto mechanic, said that when Oswald would drop off
Ruby's car for repairs, he would take Oswald back to Ruby's burlesque
house in Dallas. When asked how many times he had driven Oswald, Roy said
"several times."
Ruby used to park his car at Gibbs Auto Service on Field Street. Leon
Woods, the manager, kept a record of who borrowed Jack Ruby's car from the
garage after receiving permission from Ruby. The FBI took the "checkout
and checkin book" that reflected the use of Ruby's car and never returned
it. When Dallas reporter Earl Golz asked the FBI about Gibbs Auto Service
and the checkin/checkout book, they said they knew nothing about it.
Long distance operator Marion Hayes handled telephone calls from a man in
Chamblee, Georgia who tried to phone Oswald in New Orleans without
success. She then completed a call to Oswald in Dallas, and later
completed a call to Jack Ruby in Dallas.
A Dallas telephone company operator in the Whitehall exchange recorded
frequent calls between Ruby and Oswald. A record was kept because
whenever the pay phone in Oswald's rooming house was busy, Ruby would tell
the operator he had an emergency call to make and she would ask whoever
was on the line to get off. In such cases the operator must make out a
slip recording the call. Ruby used this device frequently enough so the
operator remembered the calls.
These "emergency call records" may have been among phone company records
given to the Dallas Police by Raymond Acker. Acker, a Southwestern Bell
employee, provided Dallas Police with phone company records of calls
between Oswald and Ruby.
In the days leading up to the assassination Ruby's handyman, Larry
Craford, received many telephone calls from an unknown male who would
never leave a message when Ruby was out. When Craford asked Ruby about
these strange calls, Ruby told him to mind his own business.
These Ruby/Oswald sightings are significant. But the real significance of
these sightings is that they occurred in the spring and summer of
1963--while Harvey and Marina were in New Orleans. Ruby's use of the
nickname "Ozzie" was the same nickname used by Marines for Oswald in
Japan. Ruby gave us a clue to his knowledge of Oswald when he spoke out
and corrected Henry Wade in the Dallas Police Station. Wade said Oswald
belonged to the Free Cuba Committee and Ruby corrected him by saying
"That's Fair Play for Cuba Committee". After Ruby shot Oswald. Ruby told
his psychiatrist he had been involved in a conspiracy to murder the
President.
(SLIDE 41) The FBI told us Oswald, in the summer of 1963, worked at Reilly
Coffee, was fired, and handed out Fair Play for Cuba literature in support
of Castro. (RIGHT 21) But the FBI didn't tell us that nearly everyone with
whom Oswald came in contact in 1963 in New Orleans was connected with US
intelligence.
Reilly Coffee employee William Monahan, an ex-FBI Agent, reported Oswald's
employment to the FBI. FBI Agent Milton Kaack interviewed Oswald's
landlord, Jesse Garner, a few weeks after Oswald arrived. Adrian Alba
owned the Crescent City Garage where the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA
parked their cars. Alba witnessed an unknown FBI agent, using a government
car from his garage, hand packages to Oswald on two separate occasions.
Oswald was seen in Guy Bannister's office on several occasions by
Bannister's secretary and girlfriend, Delphine Roberts, as well as several
Bannister employees. Former CIA Agent William Gaudet saw Oswald engaged
in "deep conversation with Bannister". Gaudet's identity was hidden by the
FBI for years--perhaps because he and Oswald obtained visas to Mexico on
the same day.
Oswald was friendly with Dave Smith, a US Customs agent, who was
transferred to Uraguay after the assassination. Oswald was friendly with
Mr. Rouge, of the Immigration and Naturalization service, who was
transferred to Puerto Rico after the assassination.
(SLIDE 42) In August, 1963, Oswald handing out Fair Play for Cuba
literature. Warren Commission Attorney Jenner asked Oswald's brother, John
Pic, "Do you recognize the young man handing out the leaflets?" Pic
replied "No, sir, I would be unable to recognize him". Jenner replied "As
to whether he was your brother". Pic replied "That is correct". Look at
the people involved with the Fair Play for Cuba leafletting incident:
(RIGHT 22)
** CIA agent William Gaudet watched Oswald through his office in the
International Trade Mart
** The FBI photographed Oswald
** WDSU-TV filmed Oswald--cameraman Orvie Aucoin was an FBI informant
** Charles Hall Steel helped Oswald pass out leaflets--he was an FBI
informant
** Oswald was arrested with three Cubans
** Miguel Cruz-FBI informant T-2
** Carlos Bringuier-FBI informant for Warren DeBreuys
** Celso Hernandes who was arrested with Lee Oswald on
Breakwater
Street in New Orleans by Officer Charles Noto in 1961
** When Oswald was taken to jail he requested to speak with an FBI
agent. The agent was John Quigley who interviewed Oswald for 2
hours.
Oswald was interviewed a short time later on WDSU radio. The moderator was
Bill Stuckey, an FBI informant. Carlos Bringuier, another FBI informant,
was a guest. Edward Scannel Butler was the other guest. Butler was a close
friend of Guy Bannister and head of the Information Counsel of the
Americas--affiliated with and funded by the CIA. CIA Agent William Gaudet
said it was Butler who organized the radio debate. Everyone associated
with the Fair Play for Cuba leaflet episode and Oswald's radio interview
was connected to intelligence agencies--everyone including Oswald. Had we
known this in 1963 we would have realized this was a staged event. The FBI
knew but told no one. This staged event would be shown on national
television within hours of Oswald's arrest. Tt created the impression
that Oswald was communist, linked to Cuba. and provided the motive for
assassinating the President--and the FBI knew better.
(SLIDE 43) Evidence suggests that the people who planned the assassination
wanted to link Oswald with Cuba in order to justify an invasion of Cuba.
But the day after the assassination President Johnson's aide, Cliff
Carter, called Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade and order him not to
allege a conspiracy. (RIGHT 23) The FBI then suppressed most allegations
linking Oswald to Cuba.
Mrs. Lou Hayes, a close personal friend of Warren Commission member Hale
Boggs, told the FBI about meeting Oswald in August, 1963. Oswald talked
about his "recent trip to Cuba ..... he saw Castro".
Lee Oswald's attempted purchase of rifles from Castro gun runner Robert
McKeown (SLIDE 44) in Houston in September 1963 was by far the most
significant attempt to link Oswald to Cuba. Had Lee Oswald succeeded in
purchasing rifles from Castro's friend and gun runner, the link between
Oswald, Castro and Cuba may have been strong enough for the public to
demand an invasion of Cuba.
David Atlee Phillips, head of Cuban Propaganda for the CIA, was seen by
Antonio Veciana talking to Lee Oswald at the Southland Building in Dallas
in September--while Harvey was in New Orleans. It is not unreasonable to
speculate that David Phillips masterminded a plan whereby Lee Oswald was
used to impersonate and set up "Harvey" as the assassin.
Antonio Veciana's cousin worked at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. David
Atlee Phillips asked Veciana to offer his cousin a large sum of money to
say he and his wife met Oswald in Mexico City. If the CIA could not
establish Oswald's presence in Mexico City, perhaps money could.
Former Army Intelligence Officer Richard Case Nagel knew of an impending
assassination attempt on President Kennedy. To avoid being accused of any
possible involvement in the conspiracy Nagel walked into a Bank in El
Paso, Texas on September 20. He fired shots into the ceiling and waited
for the police to arrest him. When arrested and searched, the police found
a photocopy of an ID card belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald (SLIDE 45). What
was Nagel doing with a copy of Oswald's ID card two months before the
assassination? Oswald's ID card was taken from him when arrested. It is
nearly identical to the card taken from Nagel (RIGHT 24). Nagel told the
FBI about a pending assassination attempt. The FBI did nothing and
suppressed their knowledge of Nagel and the Oswald-ID card he possessed.
(SLIDE 46) The FBI determined Oswald was in New Orleans until Sept 25, and
in Mexico City until October 3. (RIGHT 25) But neither the FBI nor the
Warren Commission could explain the testimony of the following witnesses
who placed Oswald in Dallas in Irving when Oswald was supposed to be in
New Orleans:
Cliff Shasteen, a barber and Irving City Counsel member, said he cut
Oswald's hair every other week beginning in late summer. Oswald drove Ruth
Paine's car to his barber shop. He saw Oswald at Williamsburg's Drug
Store, Hutchison's Grocery and other Irving locations. On one occasion
Oswald drove a 1958 Ford. Shasteen said Oswald had "nearly black hair",
not medium brown hair as shown in Oswald's arrest photos, but "nearly
black hair". Shasteen said Oswald always wore coveralls that buttoned up
the front, and yellow shoes which Oswald said he purchased on one of his
many trips to Mexico. But neither coveralls nor yellow shoes were found
among Oswald's possessions. When FBI Agent Bardwell Odom told Shasteen
that his testimony contradicted other Warren Commission testimony Shasteen
replied "I can't help what it contradicts, that's just the fact and that's
it".
Store owner Leonard Hutchinson said Oswald visited his market during
August and September, 1963. He said Oswald came to his store during the
weekdays, arriving around 7:15 am.
On September 23rd, "Lee Oswald" applied for a job, through the Texas
Employment Commission, at the Semter Drug Depot in Dallas.
Texas On September 27th, a "Leon Oswald" was in Dallas visiting Sylvia
Odio and her sister Annie.
On September 28th, an "Oswald" arrived at the Sports Drome Rifle Range
driving a 1940 Model Ford and had Mr. Price sight in his rifle.
Without explaining the testimony of Sylvia Odio, Annie Odio, or the owners
of the Sport Drome Rifle Range, the Warren Commission told us Oswald was
in Mexico City from Sept 26th through October 3rd. They had little
choice. Remember--Hoover told Lyndon Johnson on the evening of the
assassination "we have up here the tape recording and the photograph of
the man who was at the Soviet embassy using Oswald's name. That picture
and tape recording do not correspond to this man's voice, nor to his
appearance. In other words, it appears that there is a second person who
was at the Soviet embassy down there." If a second person was at the Cuban
and Russian Embassies trying to obtain visas, then someone was trying to
link Oswald to Cuba and the FBI knew it.
Hoover had the photograph taken by the CIA (SLIDE 47) and knew it was not
Oswald. FBI agents listened to a tape recording of a person speaking
Russian to Russian embassy employees and knew that person was not Oswald.
Cuban consul Eusebio Azcue and Sylvia Duran remembered Oswald as having
blond hair and about 63" tall. (RIGHT 26) Azcue saw "Oswald" on television
after the assassination and said he did not even resemble the man who
visited his consulate. The man who visited the Cuban Embassy wore a "light
blue prince of Whales suit".
The FBI suppressed all evidence and hid their knowledge of a 2nd Oswald
while they tried to gather evidence to show Oswald was in Mexico City:
They obtained photographs of the Hotel Comercio guest register (SLIDE 48).
It appears all entries were all written by the same person--look at the
handwriting. Only the entry for Oswald is different and three of these are
printed--not written in longhand. The FBI claimed these entries matched
Oswald's handwritten signature.
The FBI obtained statements from two Australian girls who spoke with
Oswald on the bus to Mexico City. It seemed, though, that this person had
previously been in Mexico, while Harvey Oswald had not.
The FBI had almost no evidence that placed Oswald in Mexico City until
nine months after the assassination. (RIGHT 27) On August 27, 1964, Marina
conveniently provided the FBI with items they needed to place Oswald in
Mexico City.
(SLIDE 49) After Harvey returned to Dallas on October 3rd, his alleged
support of Castro and his interest in Cuba disappeared. The FBI and Warren
Commission told us Oswald lived in Oak Cliff and spent the weekends with
Marina at the Paine house in Irving. But the FBI had other reports (RIGHT
28):
On October 4th the FBI had a report of Oswald spending the night in Alice,
Texas, with his wife and child.
On October 4th the FBI had a report of Oswald involved in a lengthy
conversation with Jack Ruby at the Carousel Club; overheard by Dallas
Attorney Carroll Jarnagin. (WC #2821)
On October 4th Marina and Ruth Paine said Oswald spent the evening and
night at the Paine house in Irving, Texas.
On October 5th Oswald visited radio station KOPY in Alice, Texas, filled
out an employment application and spoke with Laymon Stewart and Robert
Janca.
Oswald applied for a job at the Continental Oil Company in Houston with a
Mrs. Sheppard a few days later.
Oswald attempted to cash a $65 check at George Ryan's store in Houston on
three occasions.
Ruby employees William Crowe, Wally Weston, Dixie Lynn and Kathy Kay claim
to have seen Oswald in Ruby's Carousel Club.
A few days before Oswald began working at the Book Depository he was
interviewed by Laurel Kitrell of the Texas Employment Commission. Oswald
told her he had lived in Russia and was accompanied by his very pregnant
Russian wife.
On October 17th, Lee Oswald was again target practicing at the Sports
Drome Rifle Range. He arrived with another man in a car and wound up
shooting at Mr. Slack's target.
On October 22nd Oswald attended a party at the home of Harold Zotch in
Grand Prairie, Texas, the same city in which Michael Paine was living at
that time. Oswald spoke with Mrs. James Walker for nearly two hours and
discussed his job at the "book store" and his wife who lived in Irving.
Mrs. Walker noticed a tatoo on Oswald's left arm. The Oswald shot by Jack
Ruby had no tatoos.
Laurel Kitrell interviewed Oswald for a second time in late October. But
this was not the same person she had interviewed before. She remembered
they were very, very similar in appearance-- but were different people.
She had no way of knowing that the Oswald she interviewed two weeks
earlier was already employed at the Texas School Book Depository. Mrs.
Kitrell was interviewed by the U.S. Attorney's Office and her interview
was hand-delivered to the Warren Commission. But her interview was
suppressed. Neither the Warren Commission nor the FBI wanted to hear
about two Oswalds from Laurel Kitrell.
On October 21st, FBI Agent Milton Kaack reviewed Oswald's birth records at
the Department of Vital Statistics in New Orleans--one month before the
assassination. Why?
On October 25, Lee Oswald inquired about renting an apartment from Alvene
Magee in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, telling her and others he had a gun
collection.
FBI Agent James Hosty told fellow FBI Agent Gayton Carver that Oswald was
a paid FBI informant and that he contacted Oswald by placing notes under
Oswald's apartment door. Carver said "you mean the Paine's house?"
Hosty responded "No, Oswald's apartment." What apartment, where?
In late October in Irving, Texas, Harry Spencer interviewed Lee Oswald for
a job at his Heating and Air Conditioning company in the middle of the
afternoon.
Mrs. Ambrose Martinez, Intake Secretary of the Salvation Army in Dallas
told the FBI that Lee and Marina Oswald, accompanied by two children, came
to her office seeking aid. They gave Mrs. Ruth Paine as a reference.
In early November, Oswald, accompanied by two women matching the
description of Marguerite and Marina, attempted to cash a check in the
amount of $189 made payable to Harvey Oswald at Hutchinsons Grocery in
Irving. Marina denied this happened and Marguerite said she had not seen
her son in over a year.
On Wednesday, November 6, Oswald, wife and child arrived at the Furniture
Mart in Irving around 2:00 p.m. in a 1958 blue Ford. This may have been
the same 1958 Ford which Oswald drove to Shasteen's barber shop. Marina
was recognized by Gertrude Hunter and store owner Edith Whitworth. They
had seen and spoken to Marina at Minyards Grocery, the Shell service
station, and other Irving locations. They had no doubt that Marina and
Oswald were there.
Deputy Constables Billy Preston and Ben Cash reported they had seen a
receipt from a motel near New Orleans with Ruby and the Oswalds name on it
a few weeks before the assassination.
On November 14, Ruby and Oswald visited the New Port Motel in Morgan City,
Louisiana. Corrine Villard, who had known Ruby since 1947, spoke with him
for a half an hour.
Jack Ruby and a man identified as Oswald visited the Contract Electronics
store in Dallas at 3 pm for approximately one hour and spoke with Kermit
Patterson, Donald Stuart and Charles Arndt. Oswald was identified from a
New Orleans Police photographs. The employees said Oswald had a tatoo on
his left forearm.
These witnesses reported their contacts with Oswald to the FBI. Most
interviews were suppressed because they conflicted with Oswald working at
the Book Depository or--living in Oak Cliff.
(SLIDE 50) While Oswald worked at the Book Depository from October 15
through November 22nd, without missing a day of work, someone was setting
him up. (RIGHT 29)
Three weeks before the assassination, Oswald was with David Ferrie, Gene
Davis, and three unidentified men in an apartment above the Court of Two
Sisters restaurant in New Orleans. Gene Davis knew Oswald and was an FBI
informant.
On October 31 an Oswald target practiced at the Sports Drome Rifle Range
On October 31, an Oswald applied for a job at the high rise Statler Hilton
Hotel in downtown Dallas.
On November 1, an Oswald purchased ammunition at Morgan's Gun Shop.
On November 4th, an Oswald visited Dial Ryders gun shop to have a scope
mounted on his rifle.
On November 9, an Oswald visited the Downtown Lincoln Mercury dealership
where he gave his name to the salesman, test drove a new car at excessive
speeds and said he would soon have enough cash to buy a new car.
A week before the assassination an Oswald applied for a job at the
Allright Parking garage, asked how high the Southland Building was, and if
it had a good view of downtown Dallas.
On November 14, Jack Ruby and Lee Oswald were at the New Port Motel in
Morgan City, Louisiana. Corrine Villard, who had known Ruby since 1947
spoke with them for a half an hour.
A rifle with a scope, ammunition, target practice, a tall building from
which to shoot the President, and soon enough cash to buy a new car.
Someone was setting up Oswald.
The FBI and Warren Commission told us that Oswald continued to work at the
Book Depository in the days preceding the assassination. But they didn't
explain:
(RIGHT 30) Lee Oswald, seen by 5 employees at the Dobbs House Restaurant
at 10:00 am on Wednesday, November 20th. A half an hour later Ralph Yates
picked up a hitchhiker on Beckley Street and drove him to the Book
Depository (RIGHT 31). The man introduced himself to Mr. Yates as "Lee
Harvey Oswald". Oswald was carrying a 4 foot long package wrapped in brown
paper which he said contained curtain rods. The FBI suppressed their
interview and polygraph of Ralph Yates. They told us the package used to
carry the rifle, allegedly containing curtain rods, was brought to the
Book Depository by Oswald two days later in Wesley Frazier's car.
The FBI said Oswald spent Thursday evening at the Paine's house in Irving.
In 1963 we didn't know of Helen McIntosh. On Thursday evening she was
visiting her friend when someone knocked on the door. When she opened the
door a young man asked for Jack Ruby. Helen told him that Ruby lived next
door and the man left. The man was later identified by Helen and her
friend as Lee Harvey Oswald. (SLIDE 51)
The FBI said Oswald rode from Irving to Dallas with Wesley Frazier at 7:30
am on Friday morning, Oswald was seen by fellow employees in the building
continuously until 12:15 p.m.
(RIGHT 32) In 1964 we didn't know that Lee Oswald was at the Top 10 Record
Store in Oak Cliff at 7:30 am. News reporter Earl Golz confirmed this
story in his interview with store owner Dub Stark. This story was further
confirmed by Top 10 Record store employee Louis Cortinas. This is
virtually the same time that Harvey Oswald was walking to Wesley Frazier's
house in Irving,13 miles away.
(RIGHT 33) The FBI interviewed Fred Moore who said Lee Oswald entered the
Jiffy store on Industrial Blvd at 8:30 a.m. and bought two beers-while
Harvey Oswald was working at the Book Depository. Oswald produced a Texas
drivers license with the name of Lee Oswald for identification to store
clerk Fred Moore. Oswald returned a half an hour later and bought another
beer and two pieces of Peco Brittle.
The Warren Commission told us that Howard Brennan saw Oswald shoot the
President from the Book Depository. But they never explained the two men
on the 6th floor as described by Arnold Rowland, Carolyn Walther and Ruby
Henderson--one wearing a white or light colored shirt holding a rifle, and
the other wearing a dark shirt or jacket.
(SLIDE 52) The Warren Commission told us that after the assassination
Oswald walked out the front door of the TSBD, boarded a bus and later a
cab for Oak Cliff. He was wearing a brown shirt. But they never
explained the man seen by Richard Randolph Carr on the 6th floor, who
walked toward Carr on Houston, got into a 1961 or 1962 light colored Nash
Rambler station wagon driven by a young Negro man and heading in the
direction of the TSBD. They chose not to believe Deputy Sheriff Roger
Craig who saw the Rambler station wagon stop in front of the Book
Depository and a man, who he later identified as Oswald, get into the car
and leave in the direction of Oak Cliff. The statements of Marvin
Robinson and Roy Cooper who also saw the young man get into the station
wagon were suppressed.
(SLIDE 53) The Warren Commission said Oswald left his rooming house
wearing a light colored jacket and brown shirt at 1:04 p.m., walked east
past 10th and Patton, shot Officer Tippit at 1:15 p.m. and ran to the
Texas Theater.
But several witnesses placed Oswald, wearing a brown shirt, in the Texas
Theater at 1:15, not at 10th and Patton. Theater concession operator
Butch Burroughs sold Oswald popcorn at 1:15. Dallas Evangelist Jack Davis
said Oswald was sitting next to him while the opening credits to the movie
were running--at 1:20 p.m. Perhaps some of the twenty four theater
patrons would have remembered Oswald, but a list of their names and
addresses, taken by Dallas Police, disappeared.
The Warren Commission had one witness who said Oswald was walking east on
Patton, but five witnesses saw Oswald walking WEST on Patton.
The Warren Commission said the passenger side window on Tippit's car was
rolled up. But Jimmy Bart, Helen Markham and Jack Tatum saw Oswald
talking to Tippit through the "rolled down" window described by Detective
Paul Bentley when he arrived on the scene. A rolled down window would
allow Oswald to "reach in an hand something to Tippit," as described by
FBI Agent Bob Barrett. That something was probably Lee Oswald's wallet,
photographed by Ron Reiland of WFAA-TV as it was held by Sgt. Bud Owens
and inspected by Officer Doughty. FBI Agent Bob Barrett spoke to Dallas
Police Captain Westbrook about the wallet and the Oswald/Hidell
identifications.
The Warren Commission said Oswald shot Tippit and ran towards. Jefferson
Blvd.
Jack Tatum saw Oswald shoot Tippit several times, but then, instead of
running off, Oswald walked to the front of the car and carefully,
deliberately, shot Tippit in the head.
Consider this: At 1:15 p.m. the Dallas Police did not yet have a suspect
in the President's murder and had no idea where to find him. Leaving a
wallet, with Oswald and Hidell identification at the scene of the Tippit
murder, guaranteed the police would search for Lee Harvey Oswald. If they
had not found Oswald at the Texas Theater, the police would have soon
learned that Oswald had left the Book Depository. Book Depository records
showed Oswald's address as 2515 W. 5th in Irving. A search of that
address, Ruth Paine's house, would produce order blanks from Kleins
Sporting Goods. Kleins records would show a rifle ordered by Alik Hidell
of Dallas. Hidell was the second set of identification found in the wallet
at the Tippit murder scene.
(SLIDE 54) The Warren Commisrion said Oswald, wearing a dark shirt and
light colored jacket left the Tippit murder scene.
(RIGHT 34) But FBI reports of Smith, Tatum, Scoggins, Callaway and Brock
said Oswald was wearing a light colored shirt. Police dispatches at 1:22
p.m. and 1:33 p.m. said the suspect was wearing a white shirt, not a dark
shirt. Domingo Benavides, who saw Tippit's killer as he was leaving,
remembered "his hairline kind of went down and square off instead of
tapering off" above the collar line. Oswald's hair was not squared off.
It tapered down well below his collar line.
The Warren Commission said Oswald discarded his jacket at the Texaco
station and ran to the Texas Theater.
But was it his jacket? All of Oswald's clothing was size small. This
jacket was size medium. This jacket had two laundry tags, yet the FBI
could not match either tag to any of several hundred commercial laundries
which they checked in the Dallas area.
The FBI and Warren Commission told us Oswald snuck into the Texas Theater
and took a seat on the lower level.
But when Texas Theater employee Julia Postal called the police she
reported Oswald was in the balcony. Dallas Police officers entered the
theater, ran to the balcony, and were questioning theater patrons as more
police entered the rear of the theater on the lower level. Captain
Westbrook and FBI Agent Bob Barrett, who had just arrived from the Tippit
murder scene, were among these officers. They knew the identity of their
suspect from identification found in the wallet left at the Tippit murder
scene. After a scuffle police arrested the man wearing the brown shirt.
(SLIDE 55) The Warren Commission told us Oswald was take-n out the front
of the Theater, placed into a squad car, and driven to police
headquarters.
No one told the public about Bernard Haire, who owned Bernies Hobbie Shop
close to the Theater. He saw the Dallas Police take a white male,
approximately 25 years of age, dark hair, wearing a pull over shirt and
dark pants, out the rear of the theater, place him in a police car and
drive off.
The Warren Commission told us the police learned Oswald's identity while
en route to the police station after his arrest. Detective Paul Bentley
removed Oswald's wallet from his left rear pocket and found identification
for Lee Oswald and Alik Hidell.
(RIGHT 35) But they did not tell us that a DPD officer identified Oswald,
by name, to Julia Postal as they took Oswald out the front of the theater.
This was before Oswald was placed in the police car and before Officer
Bentley removed Oswald's wallet from his left rear pocket. They knew
Oswald's name before they even entered the theater, from identification
found in the wallet left at the Tippit murder scene.
(SLIDE 56) The FBI and Warren Commission told us Oswald was at police
headquarters by 2:00 p.m.
But the FBI didn't tell us that shortly after 2:00 p.m. Mr. T.F. White saw
a man he later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald sitting in a car, with the
engine running, behind a large billboard sign in the El Chico parking lot.
This was six blocks from the Texas Theater. As White approached the car,
the man sped off throwing gravel with his rear tires. The license plates,
whose number White wrote down, belonged a vehicle owned by Collins Radio
employee Carl Mather. Mather was the best friend of Dallas Police Officer
J.D. Tippit. Mather, unknown to the Warren Commission, was granted
immunity and interviewed by the HSCA. His interview remains classified.
(SLIDE 57) The Warren Commission told us that Oswald was arraigned for
murder at 1 a.m. on November 23.
But the FBI did not tell us about Mary Lawrence, head waitress of the
Lucas B&B Restaurant, who had known Jack Ruby for eight years. (RIGHT 36)
She told the FBI she saw Oswald and Ruby together in the restaurant
shortly after 1:00 a.m., while Oswald was sitting in the Dallas jail.
***********
The FBI interviewed many people who placed Oswald in different places at
the same time. Nearly all of these interviews were suppressed. Dallas
Police Lt. Jack Revill told fellow officers that the FBI was suppressing a
lot of evidence. FBI officials commented on how unusual the investigation
was because no agent was allowed to pursue any kind of a lead to its
logical conclusion. But when Ruby shot Oswald, it became easier to
convince the public that Oswald was the lone assassin. Their efforts,
however, were not without problems.
Problems developed when reports of Oswald's driving surfaced in the media.
Many people knew Oswald could drive. (SLIDE 58), but if Oswald's driving
was confirmed questions would be raised: did he drive to Mexico, did he
drive in south Texas, did he drive to Robert McKeown's near Houston, did
he and Marina drive to the Furniture Mart, did he drive Ruth Paine's car
to Shasteen's Barber Shop and Hutchinson's grocery, did he drive the Comet
at the Lincoln Mercury dealership? If Oswald drove to all these places,
then he must have had a driver's license.
Did Oswald drive Jack Ruby's car? Perhaps Oswald and Ruby did know each
other. But how could Oswald and Ruby have been together in the summer of
1963, when Oswald was in New Orleans? If Oswald had a Texas driver's
license, what information could be found in his file in Austin?
All of these questions could be avoided if the public could be convinced
Oswald did not drive. The convincing testimony came from Robert Oswald,
Ruth and Michael Paine, and, most notably, Marina. Not only did Marina
insist that Oswald could drive, she denied every situation that involved
Oswald driving a car in Irving when he was supposed to have been working
at the Book Depository.
Marina had no choice... she could either deny Oswald drove and drove Ruth
Paine's car or she could explain whose car she was riding in and who was
driving her around Irving while Harvey Oswald was working at the Book
Depository. (SLIDE 59) When Department of Public Safety employees tell you
they saw and handled Oswald's driver's license, its hard to argue with
them. Its hard to argue with their supervisor (RIGHT 37) who said she knew
from direct personal experience that Oswald had a driver's license and
that his license and file were pulled at the request of a government
agency the week following the assassination again. For those of you
interested in learning whether or not Marina was with Lee Oswald whan he
was driving, I urge you to read the Warren Commission testimonies of Cliff
Shasteen, Edith Whitworth, Gurtrude Hunter, and other people I have
mentioned who were in Irving in 1963 and saw Oswald drive. Decide for
yourself whether to believe employees and supervisors of the Texas
Department of Public Safety and a couple dozen witnesses... or Marina.
Most researchers have heard of Marina's questionable testimony, but few
bother to check details or understand the extent of her contradictions.
Warren Commission attorneys recognized the problem and studied her
testimony (SLIDE 60). A little known report stated (RIGHT 38) "Marinas
testimony is so full of confusion and contradiction that without
cross-examination it reads like a nightmare". Warren Commission Attorney
Bert Griffin called her a liar. The HSCA (SLIDE 61) compared her Warren
Commission, FBI and HSCA testimony. Their 29 page report listed dozens of
unexplained contradictions. They questioned where and when Marina learned
to speak English. She spoke English with US defector Robert Webster in
Leningrad, shortly before she moved to Minsk and met Oswald, another US
defector. Her English handwriting, written on the back of these
photographs prior to November, 1963, is very good (RIGHT 39). Marina's
cooperation with the government and her ability to supply evidence at the
most opportune times has been noticeable and quite obvious. Questions
among CIA analysts prompted a series of investigations into her background
(SLIDE 62). 1 urge you to read them (RIGHT 40) and their conclusions.
An example of Marina's questionable integrity and unexplained intentions
surfaced recently. Jeremy Gunn, of the Records Review Board, called Marina
and requested the release of Oswald' tax returns. Marina replied (SLIDE
63) "1 have no problem releasing tax records and I will agree to have them
released to journalists who will publish them". Journalists, is she
kidding? How can we possibly determine the legitimacy of records of
questionable origin casually submitted to journalists? Records Review
Board Chairman John Tunheim and Marina were together on the Oprah Winfrey
show. When asked Judge Tunheim asked Marina to release Oswald's tax
returns, Marina said they were not important and changed the subject.
What Tunheim andmost researchers did not know was that Marina had already
released the returns 20 years ago to the HSCA. (RIGHT 41) But she didn't
tell anyone, including Tunheim. Why? What was she hiding? Was she afraid
the Review Board would get verifiable tax returns from the HSCA files?
In 1964 Marina applied for Social Security benefits. The Social Security
Administration listed Oswald's lifetime earnings as $3306.85. (SLIDE 64)
This amount, to the penny, are Oswald's 1962 and 1963 earnings (RIGHT 42).
Carol Hewitt, an attorney specializing in Social Security claims, advised
that Social Security death benefits are based upon lifetime earnings.
Oswald's 1955-1959 wages, excluding military pay, represent 33 percent of
his reported lifetime earnings. These earnings were not included in
calculating his benefits. Why?
Researchers have tried, without success, to obtain Oswald's Social
Security records. His 1962 and 1963 records are available, but nothing
from the 1950s. When Robert Blakey of the HSCA tried to get Oswald's
Social Security records, the Social Security Administration sent him this
letter (SLIDE 65). They again provided Oswald's 1962-1963 earnings but
failed to provide the earnings from the 1950s. Why? In place of Oswald's
1955-1958 earnings records, the Social Security Administration sent the
HSCA THREE PAGES FROM THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT! The Social Security
Administration denied even the HSCA access to Oswald's 1950s employment
records.
On December 16, 1963, FBI Agent Louis Kelley listed Oswald's income (RIGHT
43). But Kelley had neither these W-2 forms (SLIDE 66) nor payroll
records from which to reconstruct Oswald's income. Notice on his report
that Oswald's income for Pfisterer's, JR Michails and Tujqgue's is
unknown. Why would Oswald's income be unknown when the FBI supposedly had
these W-2 forms in its posession--the ones that allegedly came from Ruth
Paine's garage? The ones that didn't have the initials of Dallas Police
Officers, were not listed in any Dallas Police inventory (RIGHT 44) and
were cut out of the original five rolls of Dallas Police film. The reason
Agent Kelley was not able to list Oswald's income from these companies was
because these forms were not yet available to him.
These 1955 and 1956 W-2 forms have IRS Federal Tax ID numbers that were
not issued until January, 1964 (RIGHT 45). These fake forms were created a
month after they were allegedly found at the Paine garage. They bear only
the initials of FBI lab technician Robert Frazier and were photographed by
the FBI in February, 1964. When made available, the FBI was then able to
fabricate Oswald's income and the years of his employment during the
1950s. The purpose of altering these w-2 forms and suppressing the 1950s
Social Security records is simple. Palmer McBride, his co-workers and
company owners said Oswald worked at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New,
Orleans in 1958. The Warren Commission said Oswald was in Japan at this
time in the Marines. To avoid explaining how Oswald could be in two places
at once, his Social Security records were suppressed, and 1956 W-2 forms
were created to give the appearance Oswald worked at Pfisterers before he
entered the Marines. If you want to know where one of the Oswalds was in
1958 ask the man who was with him every day for 9 months--Palmer McBride,
his friend William Wullf or current Pfisterer President Linda Faircloth.
I have shown you how the FBI manipulated evidence, suppressed and changed
witness testimony, and how Marina's chameleon like testimony is, in the
words of the Warren Commission "so full of confusion and contradiction it
reads like a nightmare." But how many of you realize that nothing that I
have shown you tonight has anything to do with the murder of President
Kennedy? The Minox camera, w2 forms, wallets, drivers license, tax
returns, Stripling Junior High records, these have nothing to do with the
murder of the President... but they have everything to do with the
identity of Oswald, because if Oswald's dual identity was discovered, it
would link the ingelligence agencies-- those who create dual
identities--directly with the assassination.
In 1961 the CIA obtained photos of Oswald, the defector, in Minsk from
tourists. But was he a defector? (SLIDE 67) CIA employee Donald Deneslya
read reports of a CIA agent who had worked at a radio factory in Minsk and
returned to the US with a Russian wife and child.
Dallas Police Captain Fritz said "you didn't have to sit there very long
and listen to them talk to Oswald to realize that his guy had been trained
in interrogation. By that I mean resisting interrogation."
The afternoon of the assassination a Miami based reporter provided Dallas
Seth Kantor with detailed biographical information on Oswald, before
Oswald's name was broadcast on radio or TV. Harold Hendrix, who supplied
this information, was a CIA "media friend" who acted as a conduit for CIA
leaks at the time of the Kennedy assassination.
CIA Agent Frank Sturgis supplied information to the press again and again
trying to tie Oswald to Cuba.
CIA officer David Phillips provided the Warren Commission with information
that Oswald was at the Russian and Cuban embassies in Mexico City, then
later admitted that the information he had provided was false.
Former CIA agent Joseph Newbrough said he "believed Oswald was an agent
for the CIA and acting under orders."
(RIGHT 46) CIA paymaster James Wilcott said he had furnished money for the
Oswald project, code named RX ZIM. He said it was common knowledge among
his group that Oswald was an agent of the CIA.
CIA Agent Donald Norton said "Oswald was with the CIA, and if he did it
then you better believe the whole CIA was involved."
(SLIDE 68) CIA Agent William Gaudet said "the man who probably knows as
much as anybody alive on all of this... is... I still think is Howard
Hunt," CIA Agent and Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt.
As researchers began to uncover indications of CIA involvement in the
assassination, the CIA sent out this memo (RIGHT 47). They offered
suggestions to media assets on how to block and impede investigation of
the Kennedy assassination by researchers.
Despite media assaults on critics, and die hard Warren Commission
supporters, we continue to gather information in bits and pieces. We
piece together documents like we would piece together a broken vase. One
piece of a broken vase does not make a vase. Neither does a second or
third piece. But at some point, when enough pieces are put together, you
recognize the assembled pieces as a "vase". As more and more pieces of
the Kennedy assassination are pieced together were are able to recognize
the undeniable involvement of our intelligence agencies while the well
worn picture of Oswald "the lone assassin" fades.
Supporters of the Warren Commission cast their vote in 1964. As more and
more information becomes available, the Warren Report is being exposed as
the fraud that it is. For those people who cannot or do not want to
accept that the Warren Commissions version of "Lee Harvey Oswald" was in
realty two different people, I would like you to consider this: Proving
the existence of two Oswalds is not subject to the rules of criminal
procedure whereby all 12 jurors must agree. Proving the existence of two
Oswalds is not subject to the rules of civil procedure whereby only the
majority of jurors must agree. In reality, proving the existence of two
Oswalds requires only one instance of Oswald being in two places at the
same time--only one. If a single witness such as Mr. Kudlaty, Palmer
McBride, Dr. Kurian, or any the dozens of witnesses I have discussed
tonight is correct, then the existence of two Oswalds--Harvey and Lee--is
undeniable. We must then look to the agency who created them for the
answers to President Kennedy's murder.
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Transcribed by:
--Jim Hagrove
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Ace Kefford
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Is it possible for someone to summarize in a few sentences what this
is attempting to say and prove?
Ace
curtjester1
There's a whole lot of connections, people, groups. and company-wise
to the assassination, to make some strong opinions on who might have
been involved in the assassination of JFK besides the lone-gunman-LHO-
offical story fiasco.
CJ