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Professor James Norwood on Oswald's accent

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Ralph Cinque

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Aug 30, 2014, 12:39:13 AM8/30/14
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This just in from Professor James Norwood. You've got to read this. This
is what you call smart, observant thinking:

Lee Harvey Oswald should have spoken the English language with a
distinctive Southern accent. His brother Robert Oswald, who grew up in
the same Texas and Louisiana locations as his younger brother, speaks with
a pronounced Southern accent. Born in the Soviet Union yet raised in
Texas, Oswald's oldest daughter, June Oswald, speaks with a Southern
Accent. Native Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson never lost his Southern
accent. Distinguished naval officer, engineer, and former American
president Jimmy Carter never lost his rural Georgia accent. And Rhodes
scholar and two-term American president Bill Clinton never lost his native
Arkansas twang. But there is no voice recording of Oswald that suggests
he ever spoke with a Southern accent. The question is: Why?

If Oswald had a Southern accent, he had lost every trace of it by the time
he was arrested in the Texas Theater in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and
even much earlier, if we trace the evidence of his voice on recordings.
In the New Orleans media tapes of Oswald talking about his Fair Play for
Cuba Committee (FPCC) activities in August, 1963, he twice mentioned the
city of New Orleans, but he pronounced the city's name as "new or-LEENZ."
Born in New Orleans, raised in cities throughout the Deep South, and
having attended school in New Orleans, Oswald should have pronounced the
name, "new OR-luns." In the tape recordings of Ernst Titovets, we hear
Oswald's voice in Minsk, as he crisply speaks lines of Shakespearean verse
from Othello with no Southern accent.

In my research of Lee Harvey Oswald, I came across only one writer who
ever suggested that Oswald had a Southern accent. That writer was
Priscilla Johnson McMillan, one of the most unreliable journalists in the
saga of JFK assassination studies. McMillan's book Marina and Lee is
almost certainly a product of Operation Mockingbird, which was covered in
a superb historical overview on your blog recently. It is difficult to
imagine anyone this side of Gerald Posner who has done so much to
undermine the character of Lee Harvey Oswald as McMillan. It is important
to observe that she felt compelled to mention that she heard him speak in
a Southern accent during an interview. Oswald SHOULD have spoken with a
Southern accent. A complete understanding of WHY did not may be achieved
through a careful reading of John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee.

A study of the voice of Oswald is part of the process of peeling away the
layers of lies that reveals new truths about the identity of Lee Harvey
Oswald. The story of the assassination of President Kennedy is therefore
also the story of how an innocent man was framed for the crime of the
century.

Mark OBLAZNEY

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Aug 30, 2014, 11:48:46 AM8/30/14
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Apparently, Ralph has banned me from reading his words of wisdom on his
Facecrook page(s), which is why I thought he was banned It doesn't matter,
though..... he posts everything here, too.

Oh, I had the sleep of kings last night, thinking he was gone. Carry on
and remain calm.

deke

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Aug 30, 2014, 6:48:14 PM8/30/14
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I think you're right on the mark with the accent. I've spent time in both
New Orleans and Texas and I never heard a native of either place sound
anything like Oswald. Here's an interesting excerpt from Jim Marrs' book
"Crossfire" p.522 (updated 2013 version):

"Gary Mack has reported that three language experts at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas studied tape recordings made of Oswald. They were not
told the identity of the man whose voice they heard. All agreed that the
English words spoken seemed acquired later in life - that English was not
the native tongue of the man on the tape."

I grew up with family members and neighbours who spoke with Eastern
European accents. When listening to recordings of Oswald's speech, I can
hear subtle but consistent traces of this type of accent.

Anthony Marsh

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Aug 30, 2014, 6:50:25 PM8/30/14
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Wrong. If he is arguing that Oswald was actually a Soviet agent, Soviet
sleepers are taught the accents of their target cities in Ameritowns.

Ralph Cinque

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Aug 30, 2014, 9:06:27 PM8/30/14
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Marsh, how do you manage to screw up everything? It's like you are living
in another world. No, Oswald wasn't a Soviet agent. He was a US agent
planted in the Soviet Union. He was a native Russian speaker who was
recruited precisely because he could speak Russian. And they found a close
physical match to him in Lee Harvey Oswald to give him an American
identity. Read Harvey and Lee by John Armstrong. And come down out of that
God-forsaken treehouse you've been living in.

tims...@gmail.com

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Aug 30, 2014, 9:09:36 PM8/30/14
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Lord help us! Cinque is trying to pass off some *two Oswalds* guy as
somebody we should be listening to!

This bloke might call himself a professor, Cinque, but I for one WON'T be
listening to him. He's got KOOK written all over him with his drivel about
McMillan's book.

Informative Regards,

Tim Brennan
Sydney, Australia
*Newsgroup(s) Commentator*

*...NOT ONE of the three experts was able to strike the head or the
neck of the target EVEN ONCE.* (Emphasis added).
Mark Lane, Rush to Judgment, page 129, footnoted as: XVII 261-262.

And yet here IS WC XVII 261-262, showing hits to the head...
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/html/WH_Vol17_0144a.htm

X marks the spot where Mark Lane lied!

Anthony Marsh

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Aug 31, 2014, 7:48:46 PM8/31/14
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On 8/30/2014 9:06 PM, Ralph Cinque wrote:
> Marsh, how do you manage to screw up everything? It's like you are living
> in another world. No, Oswald wasn't a Soviet agent. He was a US agent
> planted in the Soviet Union. He was a native Russian speaker who was

Tell me more about your theory. So, Lee Harvey Oswald was already a NATIVE
Russian speaker as a little boy, along with his brothers and mother?

> recruited precisely because he could speak Russian. And they found a close
> physical match to him in Lee Harvey Oswald to give him an American
> identity. Read Harvey and Lee by John Armstrong. And come down out of that
> God-forsaken treehouse you've been living in.
>


Garbage.


tims...@gmail.com

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Sep 1, 2014, 12:22:19 PM9/1/14
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Looks like you've been TOLD, Cinque.

Stop the LIES! Oswald INSIDE!! Disband the OIC!!!

Ralph Cinque

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Sep 1, 2014, 8:48:02 PM9/1/14
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Mark Florio

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Sep 1, 2014, 10:14:55 PM9/1/14
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On Monday, September 1, 2014 7:48:02 PM UTC-5, Ralph Cinque wrote:
> Here's your answer, Marsh.
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> http://oswaldinthedoorway.blogspot.com/2014/08/until-i-heard-of-john-armstrong-i-just.html

That's not an answer Ralph. Mark Florio.

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