Constructing the Assassin, Part 2 Continuing my adaptation of "Harvey and
Lee" by John Armstrong


The Missing Years

"While Harvey Oswald was at El Toro, Lee Oswald was in New Orleans and
Florida in the summer and fall of 1959. Captain Valentine Ashworth, who
met Oswald in New Orleans, said, '[B]efore he went to Russia, Oswald and
myself were both trying to join the Cuban exiles. We went from New
Orleans to Columbus, Ohio together to join the Cuban exile army. I can
show you the bar where I first met Oswald and where we roomed at for a
while in New Orleans. I can show you the motel where we stayed.' Ashworth
may have been referring to the McBeth Rooming House at 2429 Napoleon
Avenue in New Orleans, where page 26 of the rooming house's guest book
showed 'Lee Harvey Oswald' registered on June 28, 1959, in room 'D' (1).

"A month later, Mrs. Gladys Davis was introduced to 'Oswald' at her home
in Coral Gables, Florida. In September, 1959, she was living with
Martinez Malo, who had numerous Cuban associates who came to their
residence. A Cuban exile named Francisco Rodriguez Tamayo, aka
'Mexicano,' had introduced Oswald to her (2).

"William Huffman told the FBI he saw Oswald 'sometime after Castro came
to power' (January 1959). Oswald and four or five Cubans fueled a 43-foot
Chris Craft diesel boat at his dock. Oswald telephoned a 'Ruben' in Key
West, who came to the dock and paid for the fuel" (3).

There was a known gunrunner who in Florida at this time who used the
alias "Ruben." He was born Jacob Rubenstein and is better known by the
name Jack Ruby. For more on possible connections between Lee Harvey
Oswald and Jack Ruby, please click here. 
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From 1959 through early 1961, however, Lee Oswald -- the southern-born
REAL Oswald -- would very nearly disappear from the map. Alleged CIA
operative and former Castro mistress Marita Lorenz reports seeing Oswald
at CIA training camps in the Florida Everglades during 1960 and 1961.
Former Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce reported another Oswald sighting in
the US around this time. Luce (and her husband, Time magazine founder
Henry Luce) were quietly providing funds for a number of the CIA's
paramilitary operations against Cuba. Following the assassination of JFK,
the captain of one of the Cuban exile groups told her that "Oswald and
others were involved in infiltration of communist groups in that area"
(4).

January 20, 1961, was the date "Lee Oswald" appeared at the Bolton Ford
Dealership in New Orleans to purchase ten trucks for Cuba on behalf of
Guy Banister and Gerald Tujague's Friends of Democratic Cuba (5).

"In the spring of 1961, Lee Oswald visited the Dumas and Milnes Chevrolet
Dealership in New Orleans. He and salesman James Spencer had coffee at
Walgreens and discussed the sale of a 1958 Chevrolet to Oswald. This
Oswald -- Lee Oswald -- could drive, and had a valid Texas driver's
license" (6) as we will see.

At the end of January 1961, Marguerite Oswald turned up at the State
Department in Washington. An FBI report states that "Mrs. Oswald said she
had come to Washington to see what further could be done to help her son,
indicating that she did not feel that the Department had done as much as
it should in his case. She also said she thought there was some
possibility that her son had in fact gone to the Soviet Union as a United
States secret agent, and if this were true she wished the appropriate
authorities to know that she was destitute and should receive some
compensation. Mrs. Oswald was assured that there was no evidence to
suggest that her son had gone to the Soviet Union as an agent, and that
she should dismiss any such idea" (7).

"In May of 1961, CBS journalist Robert Taber -- a founding member of the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee -- and a 'Lieutenant Oswald' met with Dr.
Enrique Luaces in Havana, Cuba. Oswald introduced as an arms expert. Dr.
Luaces later had no doubt that the Oswald he met in 1961 and the Lee
Harvey Oswald whose picture appeared on television after the
assassination were one and the same. After the assassination, the US Army
forwarded a file captioned "Harvey Oswald" to the FBI that contained an
Army Intelligence report about Oswald and Robert Taber in Cuba" (8). This
is almost certainly Lee, not our "Harvey" who was in Russia all through
June 1962.

In May of 1961 Raymond B. Carnay, a broadcast newsman at Dallas' KBOX and
an FBI informant on both pro-Castro and anti-Castro activities in Dallas
-- and who had once been jailed in Castro's Cuba -- was contacted by Lee
Oswald following a KBOX broadcast concerning anti-Castro paramilitary
activities. Oswald identified himself as a member of the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee, and attempted to obtain the names of a number of Carnay's
contacts about whom Carnay had provided information to the FBI. Oswald
also informed Carnay of his own pro-Castro beliefs, and attempted to
persuade Carnay that "Castro was right," as an FBI report of December 6,
1963, put it. Carnay refused to provide the information, and referred
Oswald to the FBI. Oswald insisted on meeting with Carnay twice more over
the next seven to nine days, and made several follow-up phone calls as
well over the following several months (9).

When interviewed by the FBI following the assassination, Carnay was
adamant that Kennedy's accused assassin was the man he'd met in May 1961.
He told agents Maurice Daniels and George Arnett that Richard Tullis,
Jr., of Dallas, who had previously furnished information to the FBI on
Cuban matters, could corroborate Carnay's story. He said Tullis "was well
acquainted with both pro- and anti-Castro Cubans and would be in a
position to furnish additional information regarding Oswald" (10).

When the agents questioned Tullis on December 5, 1963, Tullis told them
he had been born in Fort Worth, Texas, and had lived there for a number
of years. He denied knowing Lee Harvey Oswald, and added that "to the
best of his knowledge, there is no Cuban activity, pro- or anti-Castro,
in the Dallas or Fort Worth area" (11).

When informed during a subsequent interview with the FBI that Oswald had
been in Russia during May of 1961, Carnay admitted that it was unlikely
that Oswald could have met with him at that time, but reaffirmed that the
Castro sympathizer he met had used the name Lee Oswald or something
"similar to it," and apologetically explained that he'd been positive the
man was Oswald. He offered the agents the names of four friends he
believed could verify his meeting with Oswald, but the agents decided it
would be a waste of time. The FBI reports of their interviews with Carnay
remained classified until the mid 1990s (12).

"In the fall of 1961, Police Officer Charles Noto arrested Lee Oswald and
Celso Hernandez on Breakwater Road on the Lakefront in New Orleans. They
were brought to Levee Board Police Headquarters where, after a
closed-door session with Marcel Champon, the officer in charge, the two
were released (13). "Two years later, in August, 1963, Celso Hernandez
would again be arrested, this time with Harvey Oswald, who had created a
disturbance handing out Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature in New
Orleans" (14). Shortly after Labor Day, 1963, Robert McKeown, a personal
friend of Fidel Castro living in St. Leon, Texas, would be approached at
his home by a two men, a "Lee Oswald," and a "Mr. Hernandez." McKeown's
friend Sam Neal was present as Oswald requested assistance obtaining
weapons for a coup in El Salvador. McKeown had only a month before
concluded a five-year probationary period for an arms-related offense,
and anxiously informed Oswald and Hernandez he wouldn't be able to help
them (15).

"During late 1961 and early 1962, Stephen Harris Landesberg, Earl Perry,
and Lee Oswald were involved with staging demonstrations in New York
City. Landesberg and Perry would create the demonstrations while Oswald
took photographs. Within hours of Oswald's arrest in Dallas, Landesberg
contacted the FBI with this information. The FBI informed Landesberg that
Oswald had been in Russia at the time, and charged Landesberg with
providing false information to the government, and summarily had him
committed to the Bellevue Psychiatric Center in New York" (16).

When John Armstrong tried to obtain a copy of the records for the court
case US v. Landesberg, he was told by New York court archivist Rosemary
Fugnetti that the all of the files seemed to have disappeared from the
court records, including two back-up microfilm copies. When the FBI tried
to obtained the Marine records of Landesberg's' fellow demonstrator Earl
Perry, they were told they would first have to get clearance from the
Pentagon (17).

"John Nebel, a well-known radio talk show host in New York City, was
contacted in the spring of 1962 by a person who identified himself as Lee
Oswald. Oswald offered to travel to New York at his own expense to
discuss his views on the Cuban situation on Nebel's radio program. When
Nebel turned him down, Oswald became abusive and hung up" (18).


Return from Russia

"Before departing Russia, Oswald wrote and requested photographs of
Robert and Marguerite Oswald. Did he not remember what his own mother and
brother looked like?" (19)

The CIA denied vigorously to the Warren Commission that it ever had any
interest in or contact with Lee Harvey Oswald, either before or after his
trip to Russia. A perfectly reasonable question would have been, Why not?
When a Marine with a security clearance and inside knowledge of a
top-secret CIA spy plane defects to Russia promising to reveal all he
knows, then later returns to the US, it's the CIA's job to find out what
he's up to, and along with the FBI and the USMC, to determine whether he
should be prosecuted.

Whatever the Agency's story, we now know, thanks to recently declassified
records, that the Chief of the CIA's Soviet Realities Branch had every
intention of interviewing Oswald upon his return from the Soviet Union
(20); we don't have anything to show whether he did or not. This was the
branch that trained spies to operate undercover in foreign countries.

We do know now that Oswald was debriefed in Holland, on his way back to
the US, by a CIA agent named Andy Anderson, and a report found its way
into the files of James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's infamous chief of
CI/SIG (Counterintelligence Special Investigations Group) (21). This
confirms the recollections of several Clandestine Services workers who
knew of Anderson's debrief; agent Donald Deneselya had said some time ago
that he remembered reading Anderson's report in 1962. The report itself
seems to have gone missing (22).

The documents referred to above had once been a part of Oswald's CIA
file, and were among a number (no one knows how many) that had been
removed and destroyed following the assassination. The copies recovered
were from "soft files," unofficial duplicates retained discreetly by CIA
employees. Former Army Intelligence agent turned JFK researcher John
Newman explains that it's an unwritten rule that when someone hands you a
file with instructions to see that no copies are made, you immediately
make copies for yourself and hide them somewhere. This is a soft file.
(This is why Newman is hopeful of someday retrieving at least some of the
documents believed destroyed.) (23)

Former CIA employee James B. Wilcott testified under oath to an Executive
(private) Session of the House Select Committee on Assassinations on
March 22, 1978. Wilcott worked as an accountant for the CIA's financial
department from May 1957 to April 1966. Wilcott testified, "it was my
understanding that Lee Harvey Oswald was an employee of the agency, and
was an agent of the agency. . . . He was a regular employee, receiving a
full-time salary for agent work, for doing CIA operational work." Aside
from rumors Wilcott had heard from a number of agents, he reported that
"an agent, a Case Officer -- I am sure it was a Case Officer -- came up
to my window to draw money, and he specifically said . . . 'Well, Jim,
the money that I drew the last couple of weeks ago or so was money'
either for the Oswald project or for Oswald" (24)


Mr. GOLDSMITH. Did this Case Officer tell you what Oswald's cryptonym
was?

Mr. WILCOTT. Yes, he mentioned the cryptonym specifically under which the
money was drawn.

Mr. GOLDSMITH. And what did he tell you the cryptonym was?

Mr. WILCOTT. I cannot remember.

Mr. GOLDSMITH. What was your response to this revelation as to what
Oswald's cryptonym was? Did you write it down or do anything?

Mr. WILCOTT. . . .  I had a book where the advances on projects were run,
and I leafed through them . . . to see if what he said was true (25).


At this point Goldsmith changed the subject to a general discussion of
Wilcott's advance books, which lasted several minutes. Later he returned
to the subject of Lee Harvey Oswald (26).


Mr. GOLDSMITH. . . . as a matter of routine, would the CIA cash
disbursement files refer to the cryptonym of either the person or the
project that is receiving funds?

Mr. WILCOTT. Yes, I am sure somewhere.

Mr. GOLDSMITH. . . . Do you believe there was such a reference to Oswald?

Mr. WILCOTT. Yes, I do, and I believe there was such a reference (27).


Wilcott's wife Elsie, also a former Agency employee, said that "right
after the President was killed, people in the Tokyo Station were talking
openly about Oswald having gone to Russia for the CIA. Everyone was
wondering how the Agency was going to be able to keep the lid on Oswald.
But I guess they did" (28). Elsie Wilcott was not called by the HSCA to
testify.

Former CIA agent Philip Agee also testified to the HSCA. Agee had grown
disenchanted with the Agency a number of years before, and quit to write
a book about his experiences. He told the HSCA that he had heard rumors
to the effect that Lee Harvey Oswald had been employed by the CIA, but
said that it would have been under a cryptonym that would be difficult to
trace. He also said that if Oswald had been an agent, he would expect
that all records of it would have been destroyed immediately after the
assassination (29).

Meanwhile, Harvey Oswald left Russia and moved to Fort Worth. He
impressed the White Russian community in Dallas and Fort Worth with his
command of the Russian language. Peter Gregory asked Oswald if he was
Polish because of his accent. George De Mohrenschildt, who first met
Oswald in 1962, also noticed his Polish accent. De Mohrenschildt found
Harvey interesting, and wrote a 200-page manuscript about him (30). He
said Harvey preferred speaking Russian to English. He was amazed that
Oswald read difficult Russians literature. He remembered discussing
classical Russian literature with Harvey -- in the Russian language.
Speaking elementary Russian is one thing; speaking and reading Russian
well enough to discuss "classical Russian literature" with a
well-educated native-speaking Russian is another. The Warren Commission
wants us to believe that a high-school dropout taught himself Russian at
the age of nineteen. It seems more likely that Harvey Oswald had been
speaking Russian for a long time -- perhaps all his life (31).


In 1962, Los Angeles resident Richard Monroe Margeson met a Mexican named
Lawrence Howard, who was engaged in collecting funds to support
anti-Castro forces in Florida. Howard spent six months in Florida, then
returned with a Mexican named Rudy Hernandez and a white male called only
"Slim." Through these individuals Richard Margeson was introduced to a
man called "Tex," who was reportedly a hit man. "Tex" was a white male,
late 20s, slender build, 5'6" to 5'9", with former military service and
"a rotten disposition." "Tex" later visited Margeson at his home and
furnished his name as "Harvey Lee." "Tex"/"Harvey" remained in Los
Angeles about two more weeks. After the assassination, Margeson saw
Oswald on television and realized he was identical to "Tex"/"Harvey Lee,"
but was not certain if it was the same man. As Margeson was under the
impression that Lee Harvey Oswald was in Russia at the time of his
meeting with "Tex"/"Harvey," he did not initially come forward with the
information (32).

In September 1962, while Harvey Oswald was working at Leslie Welding Co.
in Fort Worth, CIA agent Donald Norton was sent from Atlanta to Mexico
with $50,000 in cash earmarked for an anti-Castro organization. He
registered in the Yamajel Hotel in Monterrey, Mexico, as instructed,
where he was contacted by a "Harvey Lee." After the assassination Norton
would recall that "Harvey Lee" was a dead ringer for Lee Harvey Oswald
except that his hair was thicker. Norton gave "Lee" the $50,000 in cash
in exchange for a briefcase containing documents in manila envelopes. As
per his instructions, Norton delivered the briefcase and its contents to
an employee of an American oil firm in Calgary, Alberta (33).


In his unpublished manuscript, Oswald's friend George De Mohrenschildt
writes of Harvey, "Incidentally, I never saw him interested in anything
else except Russian books and magazines. He said he didn't want to forget
the language -- but it amazed me that he read such difficult writers like
Gorky, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy and Turgenov -- in Russian (34). As
everyone knows, Russian is a complex language, and he was supposed to
have stayed in the Soviet Union only a little over two years. He must
have had some previous training, and that point had never been brought up
by the Warren Committee [sic] -- and it is still puzzling to me. In my
opinion Lee was a very bright person but not a genius. He never mastered
the English language, yet he learned such as difficult language! I taught
Russian at all levels in a large university and I never saw such a
proficiency in the best senior students, who constantly listened to
Russian taped and spoke to Russian friends. As a matter of fact,
American-born instructors never mastered Russian spoken language as well
as Lee did" (35).

Earlier in the text he had written, "It never occurred to me [while I
knew him] that he might be an agent of any country, including [the]
United States -- although he might have been trained in Russian for some
ulterior motive -- Lee was too outspoken, naively so." With a perfectly
straight face the Baron adds, "In this way I was similar to him" (36).

For a brief overview of George De Mohrenschildt and his relationship with
Lee Harvey Oswald, please click here.

"Oswald's Russian-speaking ability allowed him to observe and report on
conditions in the Soviet Union. His 50-page manuscript (37) is replete
with minute detail, facts, and data -- not the type of information
typically recorded by a tourist or temporary resident of Russia. Garrison
staff investigator and ex-CIA employee Bill Wood, aka Bill Boxley,
described Oswald's manuscript to Garrison as follows: 'If you read the
notes that Oswald is supposed to have brought out of Russia and from
which he was going to write a book, you will find a beautiful example of
an intelligence agent's casing report on the electronic[s] factory in
Minsk . . . Now the report would have many uses to intelligence,
primarily being able to infiltrate another agent into that plant, he'd be
familiar with it.' Boxley went on to voice the opinion that the report
was so well written, so free from Oswald's normally ubiquitous spelling
errors, that he didn't believe Oswald actually wrote it. That still begs
the question of how an intelligence officer's casing report ended up in
Oswald's possession (38).

When Oswald's older half-brother John Pic testified before the Warren
Commission, attorney Albert Jenner seemed somewhat anxious to determine
Pic's impression of any changes that might have occurred with Oswald
between the time he'd left the US and returned from Russia (39):

Mr. JENNER. How did he look to you physically as compared with when you
had seen him last?

Mr. PIC. I would never have recognized him, sir.

Mr. JENNER. All right. Your brother Robert said something along those
lines (40).


For one thing, Pic had noticed that Oswald's hair had not only thinned
considerably, but that its texture had changed from naturally curly to
rather kinky in texture. How did this strike the older man? Jenner
inquired. "It struck me quite profusely," Pic replied, adding, "His face
features were somewhat different, being his eyes were set back maybe, you
know like in these Army pictures, they looked different than I remembered
him. His face was rounder . . ."

"His eyes seemed a little sunken?" Jenner asked.

"Yes, sir" (41).

Pic, having known Lee as a brother for some years naturally noticed two
things that it's taken strangers years of study to realize, that when
strange variances arise between photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald, the two
most readily discernible differences are in the eyes and the shape of the
face. Southern-born "Lee Oswald" had strikingly attractive, narrow eyes
and an oval face with smooth features; "Harvey Oswald" had a rounder,
chubbier face, with plainer eyes and a protruding nose (42).

When questioned further, Pic stated flatly, "The Lee Harvey Oswald I met
in November 1962 was not the same Lee Oswald I had known ten years
previous" (43).

Jenner was well aware of the difference in appearance between the Oswald
who grew up in Texas and the Oswald that returned from the Soviet Union.
Months before Pic appeared before the Commission, Jenner had a lengthy
exchange with Robert Oswald concerning the matter. Jenner started with
the most unusual question, "I would like to return, Mr. Oswald, to the
time that your brother Lee was discharged from military service and spent
approximately 3 days at home . . . would you please describe his physical
appearance?" Robert described his brother "at that time" as being 5'9
1/2", 140 lbs., with brown, curly hair, and being in generally good
physical shape (44). Then concerning Oswald's return, when he and Robert
were reunited on November 14, 1962:


Mr. JENNER. . . . [W]hat did you observe . . . by way of contrast, in his
physical appearance and demeanor as against the last time you had seen
him in 1959? . . .

Mr. OSWALD. His appearance had changed to the extent that he had lost a
considerable amount of hair; his hair had become very kinky in comparison
with his naturally curly hair prior to his departure to Russia.

Mr. JENNER. Had he hair been in any respect kinky . . . prior to his
departure for Russia?

Mr. OSWALD. . . . No sir; it was not. It was curly.

Mr. JENNER. Did that arrest your attention, the difference in the texture
of his head of hair?

Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir; it certainly did.

Mr. JENNER. . . . do you recall [your father's] physical appearance
insofar as his head of hair?

Mr. OSWALD. . . . He had a full set of hair.

Mr. JENNER. Do you have any baldness of [sic] tendency towards baldness
in your family?

Mr. OSWALD. None that I am aware of.

Mr. JENNER. Now, I include both your mother and father and relatives on
either side . . .

Mr. OSWALD. No, sir; no one that I recall that I met . . . had any
tendency towards baldness.

Mr. JENNER. And you have none?

Mr. OSWALD. No, sir.

Mr. JENNER. And your brother John?

Mr. OSWALD. No, sir.

Mr. JENNER. He still has his full head of hair?

Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir.

Mr. JENNER. Even now?

Mr. OSWALD. Yes, sir (45).


Robert Oswald also volunteered that Lee "appeared to have picked up
something of an accent" during his sojourn (46).

John Pic had one particular grievance gnawing at him from the last time
he saw his youngest brother, November 22, 1962:


Mr. PIC. He referred to me as his half brother when he introduced me [to
his friend, Paul Gregory] . . . It was very pronounced. He wanted to let
the man know I was only his half brother. And this kind of peeved me a
little bit. Because we never mentioned the fact that we were
half-brothers.

Mr. JENNER. You never had that feeling?

Mr. PIC. No, sir.

Mr. JENNER. Was this the first time he had ever introduced you to anyone
as his half brother? . .

Mr. PIC. I think possibly, sir, this is the first time he ever introduced
me to anyone.

Mr. JENNER. Was this the first time he had ever referred to you as your
[sic] half brother?

Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.

Mr. JENNER. His half brother?

Mr. PIC. Yes, sir.

Mr. JENNER. Is that so?

Mr. PIC. . . . Yes, sir (47).


The last time they'd been together that Thanksgiving of 1962, Pic had
handed Oswald a memo book he carried with him for Oswald to enter his new
address. Copies of numerous pages of this memo book were entered into
evidence and reproduced as John Pic Exhibit No. 60 in the Warren
Commission Hearings volumes. We can see where at the top of one page is
written Oswald's new post office box, Box 2915, in Dallas. At the top of
the facing page, which is otherwise blank, is one word with which Oswald
signed his name: "Harvey."


In the summer of 1962, Gerry Patrick Hemming ran into Oswald in a hangar
at the N. A. S. in New Orleans near Lake Pontchartrain, then a military
airfield. "The little hairs on the back of my neck stood up," Hemming
told a panel of researchers in November 1996. He was extremely suspicious
that Oswald was tailing him, and very nearly reacted violently. "One
encounter is impolite; two is rude; three encounters gets your ass blown
away," he says (48).

Hemming encountered Oswald briefly one last time in a Miami hotel on
December 6, 1962 (49). He thus far refuses to describe the event in any
detail.

There are several reports of Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans in 1962,
although he is not supposed to have moved to New Orleans until the late
spring of 1963. These reports can be extraordinarily confusing, and it is
not at certain which of them are true and which, if any, concern John
Armstrong's theory of two Oswalds.

For information on a mysterious alleged acquaintance of Oswald's named
"Clay Bertrand," please click here to see the first two parts of my
four-part article, "Who Speaks for Clay Shaw?", available on-line at:
LINK 2


In a telephone interview of March 27, 1978, Los Angeles Times
photographer Boris Yaro told former CIA agent Robert Morrow this story:


In Monterey Park [California], either the early part of 1963 or the
latter part of 1962, there was a big knock-down drag-out brawl in a
house, where shots were fired. There were a lot of pictures made of the
holes in the wall and the furniture, and of everybody that was arrested.
They were lined up, because nobody would point fingers at one another.
Ostensibly, aside from a bunch of Cubans that were in this group, there
was one gentleman by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald. I went back there in
1967 and tried to find the negatives. The Monterey Park Police Department
was nice as could be and confirmed the incident, the date, everything.
But when they went for the negatives they were gone, with no sign-out
form (50).


In March 1963, when Harvey and Marina were living on Neely Street in
Dallas, as a prominent Memphis attorney named Daniel Thomas McGown
reported to the FBI, a letter arrived at the Carousel Club addressed to
Jake Rubenstein, bearing the return address of "Lee Oswald, 1106 Diceman
Avenue, Dallas, Texas" (51). Harvey Oswald is not known to have ever
resided at such an address.

In 1975, a Senate subcommittee studying possible US intelligence
connections to the JFK assassination heard testimony from a former New
Orleans immigration inspector. The inspector, whose identity was not
revealed, "testified before the Committee that he is absolutely certain
that he interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald in a New Orleans jail cell sometime
shortly before April 1, 1963. Although the inspector is not now certain
whether Oswald was using that particular name at that time, he is certain
that Oswald was claiming to be a Cuban alien. He quickly ascertained that
Oswald was not a Cuban alien, at which point he would have left Oswald in
his jail cell" (52).

In March or April 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald sold a Model 1903 .30-06
Springfield Bolt Action rifle, serial number 66091, to Robert Adrian
Taylor, an Irving mechanic, in lieu of payment for repairs on a car in
which Oswald was a passenger. Taylor saw Oswald on television after the
assassination and immediately recognized him. When interviewed by the
FBI, Taylor identified a photograph of Oswald as the man who sold him the
rifle (53).


In April 1963, someone -- later alleged to be Lee Harvey Oswald -- fired
a shot into the home of Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker. Please click here for
an analysis of this incident. LINK 3
                             
Following this incident Oswald and Marina moved to New Orleans. For
information on Oswald's puzzling activities of the summer of 1963, please
click here for my two-part article, "Oswald in New Orleans."
Link 4
In June 1963, Oswald applied for his second passport. He listed his
mother's year of birth as 1907 (correct) and his father's as 1895
(actually 1896). He gave his mother's maiden name as Clavier (her maiden
name was Claverie). The photograph provided matches Harvey Oswald (54).

Four years earlier in September 1959, Lee Oswald had applied for his
first passport. He'd listed his mother's birth date as July 3, 1909 (off
by two years) and his father's as December 8, 1908 (off by eleven years).
The photographs on the two passports do not look like the same person.
The photograph in the 1959 passport matches Lee Oswald. The photograph in
the 1963 passport appears to be of Harvey Oswald -- the man killed in
Dallas by Jack Ruby. It seems likely that the 1959 passport application
was filled out by Lee, and that the 1963 passport application was filled
out by Harvey. The discrepancies in his parents' birth dates on the two
passport applications are unexplainable (55).

In July, while Harvey was working at the Reily Coffee Company in New
Orleans, Marshall Hicks, an employee of Western Union, delivered several
telegrams to an "Oswald" at 1501 West 7th Street in Fort Worth (56).

On July 26, 1963, with Harvey in New Orleans, someone visited the Atomic
Energy Museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and signed the guest register,
"Lee H. Oswald, USSR, Dallas Road, Dallas, Texas" (57).

On an undetermined date in early to mid August 1963, around 2:30 or 3:00
in the morning, Oswald -- probably Lee -- made himself conspicuous, not
necessarily on purpose, in the Habana Bar located at 117 Decatur Street
in New Orleans. Bartender Evaristo Rodriguez recalled:


Mr. RODRIGUEZ. These men came into the bar, two men came into the bar,
one of them which I learned later through TV and pictures and newspapers
was Oswald. These men came into the bar. One of them spoke Spanish, and
the one who spoke Spanish ordered a tequila, so I told him the price of
the tequila was 50 cents. . . . The man protested at the price, thought
it was too high, and he made some statement to the effect that he was a
Cuban, but an American citizen and that surely -- words to the effect
that surely the owner of this bar must be a capitalist . . . Then the man
who I later learned was Oswald ordered a lemonade. Now, I didn't know
what to give him because we don't have lemonades. So I asked [bar owner]
Orest Pena how I should fix a lemonade. Orest told me to take a little of
this lemon flavoring, squirt in some water, and charge him 25 cents for
the lemonade . . . (58)


Orest Pena recalled the incident:


Mr. PENA. [The FBI] asked me if I saw Oswald; so I said I saw him once.
He went to my place of business with one or two friends. I don't know
exactly. My bar is a very long bar, so [from where I was standing] to me
it looked like he was with two friends. My bartender, Evaristo Rodriguez,
said he was with only one man, so I don't know exactly. It was something
that happened in my place of business; a customer asking for a lemonade .
. . That was the first time in 7 years I have been in business that a
customer asked for a lemonade. . . . They got mad about the 25 cents for
the lemonade and the 50 cents for the tequila, so they asked my
bartender, Evaristo, why I charge so much for the drinks, and I was a
capitalist charging too much . . . Then I don't know whether he left or
something, but he vomited after that; Oswald did (59).


Mr. RODRIGUEZ. The man I later learned to be Oswald had his arm around
the Latin-appearing man, and Oswald appeared to be somewhat drunk. . . .
He became sick on the table and on the floor. . . . The Latin-appearing
man helped him to the street where he continued to be sick (60).


Rodriguez wasn't certain of the nationality of the man with Oswald; he
called him a "Latin," and guessed he might have been Mexican. Orest Pena
was more certain. He told the Warren Commission's Wesley Liebeler: "The
man that was with him looked Spanish; more Cuban than anything else. You
are American. You might know your people. I am Cuban. I can sight them. I
don't think I am being mistaken about him, about Cuban people. I can spot
them when I see them . . . "(61)

Neither Pena nor Rodriguez could pinpoint the date (62). They both
remembered it was close in time to the August 9, when Carlos Bringuier
was arrested for disrupting an FPCC demonstration: Pena was the person
who bailed Bringuier out (63). (He did not see Oswald at that time.) They
also recalled it was around the time that Pena went on vacation, roughly
the second and third weeks of August. Neither one could remember if the
Oswald incident occurred before, between, or after the two events (64).
Rodriguez described Oswald's Spanish-speaking companion as about 28 years
old, about 5'8" and stocky with broad shoulders, possibly 155 pounds,
with very hairy arms and a receding hairline (65).

After the assassination there were several reports of Oswald sightings in
the Northeast during August 1963 that have never been confirmed. One
report had Oswald attending a "ban the bomb" rally in Montreal, Canada.
Another placed him at a Quaker-sponsored "ban the bomb" rally in
Philadelphia on August 15. Researcher Steve Jones points out that this
sighting happened to occur while Marina Oswald's Quaker friend Ruth Paine
was visiting her family in Paoli, Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia area.
Ruth was in the middle of a month-long car trip around the country; her
next stop was her brother's home in Yellow Springs, Ohio (66).

At about this time, Oswald was seen at a Fair Play for Cuba Committee
meeting at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. This is the same
college that Oswald had attended for a short time in 1957 according to a
report by Sgt. Donald Swartz of the Columbus, Ohio Police Department
Intelligence Division (67). This was also the college that Ruth Paine
attended from October 1949 until June 1955.

The Oswald sighting farthest afield occurred in Montreal, Canada. On
November 29, 1963, Aurelian Chase, the US Treasury's Senior Customs
Representative in Montreal reported to the FBI, "Several persons have
contacted this office recently and advised that Lee Oswald . . . was seen
distributing pamphlets entitled "Fair Play for Cuba," on St. Jacques and
McGill Streets, Montreal, during [the] summer of 1963. Mr. Jean-Paul
Tremblay, Investigator, Customs and Excise, Montreal stated on November
27, 1963, that he received one of the above-mentioned pamphlets from a
man on St. Jacques Street, Montreal, believed to be in August 1963, and
he is positive that this person was Oswald" (68).


A photograph of Oswald handing out FPCC literature in front of the
International Trade Mart on Canal Street was shown to Oswald's
half-brother, John Pic. Attorney Albert Jenner asked, "Do you recognize
the young man handing out the leaflets?" Pic replied, "No, sir, I would
be unable to recognize him." Jenner urged him, "As to whether he was your
brother." Pic replied, "That is correct" (69). Once again, John Pic
refused to identify Harvey Oswald as his brother. Again and again Pic
told the Warren Commission the photos published in the February 21, 1964,
issue of Life magazine were not of his brother, but nobody listened. How
many times does John Pic have to tell us these photos are not of his
brother before we finally believe him? (70)


Altered States

On an unknown date in the summer of 1963, Oswald appeared in the office
of Edward Gillin, the Assistant DA, Juvenile Division, of New Orleans
Parish. Gillin asked him to sit down, but he remained standing. Gillin
"said the visitor advised he was reading a book . . . and continued that
according to the author of the book in question, one reading the book
should take a certain type of drug to fully appreciate the comments and
data in the book. The person visiting [Gillin's] office desired to know
if the drug in question was legal. Gillin stated the visitor did not have
the book in question with him, but he does recall that this individual
had some kind of a paperback book which Gillin describes as about the
size of a 'Laurel Review' publication. Gillin recalls the individual
indicated the book he had with him had to do with socio-economic matters,
and at some point during the conversation. the visitor finally sat down.
Gillin believes, but he cannot be certain, that the book referring to a
drug was possibly written by an individual named Huckley [sic]. Gillin
also believed he saw an item in the New Orleans Sunday paper on page one
indicating that some author by the name of Huckley [sic] had died
recently in Los Angeles, and that this article indicated Huckley [sic]
had written a book about the effective use of drugs. Gillin states he
told his visitor that he could not be certain but could only assume that
the drug would . . . be some kind of narcotic, and referred the visitor
to the office of the City Chemist. Gillin said the visitor took down the
name, address, and room number of the City Chemist, but Gillin did not
know if this party actually called at the office of the City Chemist
(71).

"Gillin states he believes his visitor was Lee Harvey Oswald, but he
cannot identify newspaper photographs of Oswald as the person mentioned
above. Gillin explained that his eyesight is not good even though he
wears glasses, but he claims that his voice reception is above average,
and he feels sure that the voice of the above visitor is the voice of Lee
Harvey Oswald, basing his statement on the sound of Oswald's voice, which
Gillin heard on a radio and television program in which Oswald was
interviewed by Bill Stuckey. Gillin stated he believed Edward S. Butler
was also on this program. Gillin stated that in view of what happened in
Dallas . . . he feels it is possible that Oswald may have been taking
some kind of drugs" (73).

Gillin told A. J. Weberman, "My eyesight is pretty poor. I'm legally
blind. So I could never say I could identify him from the picture on
television but I have a keen remembrance of voices. It hit me pretty
solid . . . He did not say LSD. I would have remembered that" (74).

Gillin gave a more detailed account of the event to Jim Garrison's office
a few years later. (In Gillin's FBI statement he said he believed Oswald
visited him in June or July; in his statement to Garrison's office he
said July or August.) Gillin, hopefully speaking with accuracy and not
hindsight, described Oswald's demeanor as giving "every indication of
emotional disturbance and lack of personal conviction or a sense of
security (75).

". . . Oswald said he was reading a book, and in this book the author
stated that, if the reader could procure and use this particular drug,
the reader would be able to see into the future as he, the author, had
seen and envisioned it; and then, and only then, would the reader see
that the views and conclusions of the author were correct . . . the
subject matter had to do with the socio-economic picture of the world 500
years in the future. . . . At this point he spoke so rapidly that I did
not see any great content in what he was saying and I became
disinterested . . . however, what struck me the most, when he was
"chattering" or "speeling" [sic] was that he was apparently emotionally
detached from the subject matter itself . . . he was demonstrating a
superimposed indoctrination in which he had no great self-identification.
He was spouting words, phrases, and cliches without true comprehension,
and without personal persuasiveness, as you might expect of someone who
was a dedicated advocate of a cause. . . . (76)

"I sought again to determine his identity and asked him, 'What did you
say your name was again?' I cannot recall what he stated his full name
was, but I can clearly recall that 'Oswald' was a part of it, because at
the time I related the name 'Oswald' in my mind to that of a comedian or
character many years ago on the Milton Berle radio show. I sought again
to determine the book he was reading and he said it was [Aldous] Huxley's
Brave New World. I told him that if a drug could produce [those] kind of
effects . . . I thought it would definitely be a strong narcotic, or a
narcotic derivative, however, since I was not an expert on this subject .
. . since the City Hall was next door, I suggested that he go consult the
City Chemist (77).

"On the night of President Kennedy's assassination . . . while my back
was turned to the TV, I was listening to the voice of Lee Harvey Oswald
from this tape. I did not particularly concern myself with the voice
until I heard the same speel [sic] and chatter-type expressions which I
had heard in my office several months before. . . . I became convinced of
this BEFORE [emphasis added] turning around and viewing the TV screen . .
. his facial features were the same as the man I interviewed . . . As a
passing comment, I observed in the press the following morning, November
23, 1963, that Huxley had died in California of mouth cancer" (78).

The FBI interviewed Enno A. Schoenhardt, the City Chemist at New Orleans
City Hall. He "advised that he recalled vaguely that a young man had
called at his office sometime during the summer of 1963 requesting
information concerning a particular plant which produced an alkaloid. The
person calling [in person] said that he was making a study that he
believed would be of importance psychologically. Enno A. Schoenhardt
examined a photograph of Oswald and could not identify it as being of the
person who had called at his office" (79).

"Beverly P. Pancamo, Laboratory Technician, City Chemist, New Orleans
City Hall, advised that she was present when the person mentioned by Mr.
Schoenhardt called [in person] to inquire about a plant which produced
the alkaloid. She stated that this could not have been between June 10,
1963, and July 5, 1963, as she was on leave during that period. Mrs.
Pancamo said that she recalled this person as well; in stature, he
resembled her husband. She described the caller as a white male, age
about 24, who weighed 135 pounds and had a receding hairline. Mrs.
Pancamo could not identify a photograph of Oswald as being a photograph
of the person who had called at the office of the City Chemist. She
stated the caller had been referred to the Coroner's Laboratory" (80).

Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, died on the afternoon of
November 22, 1963. On September 19, 1963, Oswald borrowed Brave New World
and Ape and Essence, both by Aldous Huxley, from the New Orleans Public
Library (81). They were returned on October 3, 1963, a day when the
Warren Report says Oswald was not anywhere near New Orleans, but on his
way back from Mexico to Dallas, where he would register at the YMCA the
night of October 3rd (82). Another Oswald would be in southern Texas at
that exact same time, looking for work with a foreign wife and child, and
mentioning a recent trip to Mexico (83).

In September 1963, while Harvey was in New Orleans, "Lee Oswald" and a
"Mr. Hernandez" approached former gunrunner Robert McKeown at his home in
Texas (84). Hernandez, a Latino in his forties, may have been Celso
Hernandez, arrested with Lee Oswald in 1961, and arrested with Harvey
Oswald in August 1963. Hernandez was 47 in 1963.

Lee Oswald and "Mr. Hernandez" approached Robert McKeown with some
unusual offers; Oswald did all the talking. First Oswald asked McKeown if
he could provide guns for a coup in El Salvador. McKeown had just a month
before finished serving a five-year probation sentence for arms-related
charges, and wasn't looking for any trouble; he turned Oswald down. Then
Oswald offered to purchase four Savage .300 caliber automatic rifles from
McKeown for $1000 each. McKeown was well aware that such rifles could be
purchased for $300 apiece at any Sears & Roebuck. McKeown's friend Sam
Neal was at McKeown's house at that time, and witnessed most of the
conversation (85).

McKeown was a personal friend of Fidel Castro and had provided guns for
his revolution in Cuba; a photograph of the two men together had appeared
in the *Houston Chronicle* (86) on April 29, 1959. Grateful for McKeown's
help, Castro offered him concessions or a high position in the Cuban
government during his visited to Houston. If anyone had wanted to place
the blame for Kennedy's assassination on the Cuban government, what
better way than to have Castro's close friend and gun supplier, Robert
McKeown, provide Oswald with the rifles used to assassinate Kennedy (87).


One of the more heatedly debated Oswald sightings may have occurred in
the late summer or early autumn of 1963. At the trial of Clay Shaw in
1969, a number of witnesses testified that they had seen Oswald in
Jackson and Clinton, Louisiana, two adjacent towns about ninety miles
from New Orleans. Several of the witnesses linked Oswald to David Ferrie
and New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw, though few today credit the Shaw
identification. For an analysis of the Jackson and Clinton sightings,
please click here for the second part of my two-part article, "Oswald in
New Orleans." Click here for the second part of my two-part article, 
"Oswald in New Orleans Link 5


Pointing the Finger at Castro

In September 1963, Mrs. Wylie Hayes, a former employee of the New Orleans
Times-Picayune newspaper, noticed a young man sitting close to her on a
bus. They began conversing, and he talked about his "recent trip to
Cuba." He said, "I flew there. I saw Castro." He also mentioned that the
State Department was using him, and that he had returned on an Army
plane. Mrs. Hayes happened to be a personal friend of future Warren
Commission member Hale Boggs. Two months later, when Mrs. Hayes saw
Oswald's photograph on TV, she recognized him as the young man she had
seen on the bus, and she wrote a letter detailing the incident to
Commissioner Boggs, who forwarded it to Commission General Counsel J. Lee
Rankin. He wrote, "Mrs. Hayes is a thoroughly responsible person and
information contained in her letter of December 11, 1963, should be
checked out thoroughly by the Commission." Had Oswald actually been to
Cuba? Or was this incident staged to draw yet another link between Oswald
and Cuba prior to the assassination? (88)

On September 9, Harvey borrowed three books from the New Orleans public
library (89).

On September 16, 1963, a man who signed his name "Lee Oswald, Dallas,"
registered at a nightclub about 30 miles from Milwaukee (90).

On September 17, Oswald obtained a tourist card to Mexico. The next
person to receive a tourist card to Mexico was former CIA agent William
George Gaudet, who would later claim on numerous occasions, including an
interview with Dick Russell, he had not seen Lee Harvey Oswald that day.
Later, when Gaudet was dead, Russell would wish he had asked Gaudet if he
had been with someone who looked like Oswald or was using his name.
Gaudet had seen Oswald involved in several "long and intense
conversations" with Guy Banister under circumstances which Gaudet refused
to discuss. Banister was the ex-FBI, reportedly CIA-connected anti-Castro
crusader who is believed to have played a role in Oswald's activities of
summer 1963 (91).

Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City in the summer of 1963 remains one of
the most controversial aspects of the entire debate over the John F.
Kennedy assassination. For my analysis please click here. 
Link 6

On September 20, 1963, Richard Case Nagell discharged two shots into the
ceiling of the State National Bank in El Paso, Texas. When arrested and
searched, the police found, in addition to his own identification, a
photocopy of a Uniformed Services ID card belonging to one Lee Harvey
Oswald. The card is very similar to the military ID taken from Oswald in
Dallas, but there are several differences. The postmarks on Oswald's card
do not appear on Nagell's copy; the signatures do not match; and the
photograph of Oswald, though not clear, was taken on a different occasion
than the one on Oswald's card: the facial features and hairline are
slightly different, and the Oswald in Nagell's photograph is wearing
different clothing, including a tie (92).

Nagell has displayed this photocopy to several assassination researchers
over the years, but has never offered the slightest explanation for it.
Nagell would spend the next five years in various prisons and mental
hospitals, often in solitary confinement. He offered to testify before
the Warren Commission and the HSCA; both refused to call him (93). He
died in 1995.

For more information on Richard Case Nagell and his possible relationship
to Lee Harvey Oswald, please click here. Link 7

Setting Up the Patsy

On September 16, 1963, while Harvey Oswald was in New Orleans with
Marina, June, and Ruth Paine, someone signed the name "Lee Harvey Oswald"
to a restaurant registry on Hubertus, Wisconsin. Kennedy was due in
nearby Ashland, Wisconsin on September 24th, for a stop on a nationwide
tour concerning the subject of conservation (94).

On September 19, Harvey borrowed four books from the New Orleans Public
Library, including Brave New World and Ape and Essence, both by Aldous
Huxley (95).

On September 23, a "Lee Oswald" applied for a job, through the Texas
Employment Commission, at the Semter Drug Store in Dallas, Texas (96).

On September 23, Harvey returned to the New Orleans Public Library the
books he'd borrowed on September 9th (97).

On September 25, when Lee Oswald cashed an unemployment check at the
Winn-Dixie Store in New Orleans, Mrs. Lee Dannelly of the Selective
Service Commission in Austin, Texas, interviewed Harvey Oswald. He was
attempting to straighten out his discharge from the Marines, which had
been changed from "honorable" to "undesirable" when Oswald turned up in
Russia. Harvey said he had entered the Marines in Florida and resided in
Fort Worth. Oswald was seen later that day in an Austin cafe (98).

Oswald remained in New Orleans until Tuesday, September 24, 1963. Ruth
Paine was in New Orleans to pick up Marina and June and drive them to
Irving, Texas. Ruth Paine told the Warren Commission that Oswald told her
he was going to Philadelphia to look for work or to Houston, Texas, to
look for work and see a friend (99).

The Warren Commission: "A neighbor told the FBI that he saw Oswald leave
Magazine Street on Tuesday evening [September 24, 1963] carrying two
pieces of luggage, and board a bus. Though uncertain as to date, a bus
driver told the FBI that at the same time of day and location, a man
carrying two suitcases of different sizes boarded and asked where he
should get off for the Greyhound Bus station. Oswald's precise
whereabouts on the night of Tuesday, September 24, 1963, are uncertain. .
. ." When Oswald was seen in Mexico City he only had a single suitcase, a
small blue zipper bag (100)

The Warren Report tells us, "Some time after 5:00 am on Wednesday,
September 25, 1963, he collected a Texas unemployment compensation check
for $33 at his New Orleans post office box. He cashed the check between
8:00 am and 12:00 pm at a Winn-Dixie Supermarket about six blocks from
his Magazine Street apartment" (101).

Desmond FitzGerald, Chief of the CIA's Special Affairs Staff, noted that
the FBI had informed the Director of the CIA that it had checked all the
airlines in New Orleans and Oswald did not leave on any of them (102).

According to the Warren Commission, Oswald went back to the Greyhound
station and left for Houston, Texas, at 12:20 pm on Wednesday, September
25, 1963. However, no one in the baggage department or ticket department
at the New Orleans Greyhound station remembered seeing Oswald that night
or the next day. The ticket clerk at the New Orleans bus station thought
he sold Oswald his ticket on Thursday, September 26, 1963, the same day
Oswald arrived in Laredo, Texas (103). There were no witnesses on the
12:20 bus who remembered seeing Oswald (104).

J. Lee Rankin was skeptical: "We are also concerned about the possibility
that Oswald may have left New Orleans on Tuesday September 24, 1963,
instead of Wednesday, September 25, 1963, as has been previously thought.
. . . Marina indicated that he told her an unemployment check would be
forwarded to Ruth Paine's address in Irving from his post office box in
New Orleans. . . . It also seems improbable to us that Oswald would have
gone all the way back to the Winn-Dixie store at 4303 Magazine Street to
cash the unemployment check, which he supposedly picked up at the
Lafayette branch of the post office, when he could have previously cashed
it at Martin's Restaurant" (105).

"There was no firm evidence of the means by which Oswald traveled from
New Orleans to Houston. . . . he left New Orleans, probably on
Continental Trailways Bus No. 5121, departing New Orleans at 12:20 p.m.,
on Wednesday, September 25, 1963, and scheduled to arrive in Houston at
10:50 p.m. That bus is the only one on which Oswald could have left New
Orleans after noon on Wednesday, September 25, 1963, and arrived in
Houston before midnight" (106).

On Wednesday, September 25, 1963, when the Warren Commission placed him
en route to Houston, Texas, Oswald appeared in Austin, Texas, some 520
miles away. The Warren Report: "A employee of the United States Selective
Service System stated that an individual calling himself Lee Harvey
Oswald appeared at her Austin, Texas, office immediately after lunch on
Wednesday, September 25, 1963, and discussed the possibility of
rectifying his undesirable Marine Corps discharge (107)."
 
An FBI report states, "Mrs. Lee Dannelly, Assistant Chief of the
Administrative Division, State Selective Service Headquarters, Austin,
Texas, maintains a three inch by five inch locator card on all
registrants with all boards located throughout the State of Texas and
that these locator cards reveal that one Lee Harvey Oswald, born October
18, 1939, Selective Service Number 41-112-39-532, is a registrant with
Local Board Number 14 which is located at Fort Worth, Texas. The card
contains no other information whatsoever concerning Lee Harvey Oswald and
any information concerning him in the possession of the Selective Service
System would be located in the files of Local Board Number 114, Fort
Worth, Texas (108).
 
"Mrs. Dannelly further pointed out that the locator cards in the State
Selective Service Headquarters indicates that there are 15 individuals
with the last name Oswald in the locator files and that she recalls
having searched for a name Harvey Oswald in these files when the
individual known to her as Harvey Oswald contacted her on or about
September 25, 1963, and finding no name listed therein for Harvey Oswald,
she did not search for a Lee Harvey Oswald (109).

"Mrs. Dannelly further pointed out that she recalls that another employee
of the State Selective Service Headquarters, namely Mr. Jesse Skrivanek,
had brought Harvey Oswald back to her desk on the day in question which
she thought to be September 25, 1963. She advised that she had checked
and rechecked with Jesse Skrivanek who was on Christmas leave as of
December 26, 1963, but that Jesse Skrivanek could not recall Oswald by
name and had made no notation concerning him at the time he came to State
Selective Service Headquarters. She advised that as far as she knows
Colonel Sinclair never at any time observed the individual using the name
Harvey Oswald and that Jesse Skrivanek is the only other employee that
she can recall personally at this time who may have observed Oswald"
(110).

After the assassination, Lee Dannelly gave the FBI this statement:

"On November 24, 1963 . . . I was at home . . . and I called Colonel
Sinclair and advised him I was positive this man had been to our office
approximately six or eight weeks prior to that date. I could not recall
any information that would make me positive about a specific date but
that I was positive that it had been on a Wednesday. I have been having
quite a bit of trouble with my back and legs for quite sometime, and the
only time I have gone to town during my lunch hour was on our pay days to
cash a check -- we are paid on alternate Wednesdays. I was a few minutes
late in getting back to the office that day and Mr. Oswald was waiting to
see me when I got back. Mr. Oswald stated that he had just come from the
Governor's office to try to straighten out his discharge from the Marine
Corps, which had been under 'other than honorable conditions.' The
Governor's office told him they did not have anything to do with such
things but that maybe this office would be able to assist him. Mr. Oswald
stated that at the time he was given the discharge under 'other than
honorable conditions' he was told that if he lived an upright life for
the next two years, he could then make application to have the type of
discharge changed to 'Honorable.' He told me that he was having
difficulty in obtaining a job, and holding a job, with that type of
discharge. Also, he said it was embarrassing to his family. I asked him
where he was registered, and he said he was registered in Florida but he
was living in Fort Worth at the present time. I checked our locator file
for HARVEY OSWALD (the name he gave me) [emphasis added] but did not
check any of the other Oswald cards for possible identification, since I
presumed he was correct and was registered in Florida. I did not find a
card for Harvey Oswald. We do have a card for Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr.
Oswald did not remember whether he had given his address in Fort Worth
(at time of separation from the Marine Corps) as place of entry into
services or not. I advised him to check with our local boards in Fort
Worth when he got back and maybe they would have a copy of his Report of
Separation (DD Form 214) (111).
 
"This headquarters maintains sets of military regulations from the
various armed forces which jointly concern the Selective Service System.
I checked these regulations in an attempt to learn the exact procedure
Mr. Oswald should follow in making application for a change in 'type'
discharge. I did not find the regulation covering this subject. I then
gave Mr. Oswald a copy of an information sheet (R6-1229) which lists the
location of various types of military records, so that he could write
direct and request the procedure for making the application for change in
'type' of discharge. During this entire interview, which last for about
30 minutes, Mr. Oswald was very courteous. Mr. Dugger [Ronnie Dugger of
the Texas Observer] advised me to inform the FBI of my knowledge of this
case (112).

"Mr. Dugger called me on the telephone sometime during the morning of
December 8, 1963, and asked if Mr. Oswald at any time mentioned to me
that he had lived in Russia. I told him no. Mr. Dugger asked me if I saw
Mr. Oswald at the time he was supposedly at the Trek Cafe, 3100 South
Congress. I told him no. Mr. Dugger also asked if Mr. Oswald had at any
time during the interview mentioned anything as to his mode of
transportation. I told him no. (Signed) Mrs. Lee Dannelly, Assistant
Chief, Administrative Division" (113).

An FBI report reads, "Mrs. Lee Dannelly, Assistant Chief of the
Administrative Division, State Selective Service Headquarters, Austin,
Texas, advised as best she can recall the person who contacted her giving
his name as Harvey Oswald on or about September 25, 1963, was wearing
grey trousers and a light colored shirt, not white, but possibly a faded
blue. His clothes were wrinkled, but clean, and otherwise neat but worn
looking. She could not recall the type of shoes he wore, and pointed out
that his clothes that his shoes would not have been visible to her during
her interview with him, although she could have observed his shoes when
he walked up to her desk and as he left. She cannot recall his having a
hat, although he may have left one in the waiting room when he came in"
(114).

There is no evidence Oswald visited Governor John Connally's office in
Austin. On July 25, 1963, Oswald wrote John Connally, who had been
Secretary of the Navy in 1962, requesting that his undesirable discharge
be reviewed. His request was turned down by Connally's successor in that
position (115).

Florence Estella Norman was waiting tables at the Trek Cafe in September
1963. "The Sunday after the assassination of President Kennedy while at
the Trek Cafe she saw a picture of Oswald in the Austin paper and
recognized him as a customer she had served at the Trek Cafe. . . . She
recalled the following concerning this incident: She was alone in the
restaurant, neither other employee nor customer being present. . . . This
individual came into the restaurant and ordered coffee. He appeared very
nervous. He kept fooling with the paper napkins and appeared to be
writing or doodling on these napkins. He used three or four napkins and
must have put these in his pocket before leaving as the napkins were not
left on the table, ashtray or floor. The customer remained 30 or 45
minutes and had either three or four cups of coffee. He paid 10 for each
coffee as the Trek does not give refills on coffee. This customer was
alone at all times. She did not notice his mode of transportation on
leaving and neither did she notice the direction in which he left. Seeing
he was nervous she tried to start a conversation with him, but he did not
respond. On seeing the photograph of the accused assassin that Sunday she
exclaimed out loud, My God, I know him. A Mr. Day who was employed at a
local newspaper was in the cafe as a customer. Mr. Day asked her how she
knew the accused assassin and she told him 'As a customer.' Mr. Day then
said he thought he too had seen this individual in the Trek Cafe. She
could not recall Mr. Day being in the cafe when this customer whom she
believed to identical with the accused assassin of President Kennedy was
there, but Mr. Day could have been present. Norman advised she could not
recall having discussed this matter with anyone other than Mr. Day and
the newspaper reporter who had contacted her about two weeks prior to
this interview at her then place of employment, Bill's Grill. As a matter
of fact she had not even discussed this with her parents. In conclusion
she did not know who had directed the newspaper reporter to her" (116).
L. B. Day was interviewed by the FBI and told a similar story, except he
said that he recognized Oswald first and had to remind Ms. Norman who he
was (117).

The Warren Commission relied upon reports from other Trek Cafe employees
and an acquaintance of Days' for concluding that the witnesses were
unreliable, and therefore there was no evidence to support Mrs.
Dannelly's statement that Oswald was in Austin that day. None of these
witnesses were called by the Warren Commission, and none were even asked
to sign a sworn affidavit.

Back in November 1962, Oswald had written to the Socialist Labor Party in
New York requesting literature. The SLP's Texas National
Committeeman-at-large Horace Twiford was apprised of Oswald's request in
July 1963. On September 11, 1963, Horace Twiford mailed a copy of the
SLP's publication, the *Weekly People,* to Oswald, with his own return
address in Houston. The publication was forwarded to Oswald's street
address in New Orleans in time for him to receive it just before he left
for Mexico City (118).

On a date the Warren Commission assumed to be September 25, 1963, Lee
Harvey Oswald phoned Mrs. Estelle Twiford sometime in the evening between
about 7:00 and 9:00 and asked for her husband, Horace. He said he had
received a copy of the *Weekly People* and wanted to know how her husband
had obtained his name. He identified himself as a member of the Fair Play
for Cuba Committee, said he was flying to Mexico soon but had a few hours
in Houston, and wanted to talk with Mr. Twiford (119).

The Warren Commission determined that Oswald's bus arrived in Houston on
Wednesday, September 25, 1963, at 10:50 pm. The Warren Commission points
out, "[The call to Mrs. Twiford] may have been made from Beaumont or some
other stop on the route; however, in view of the bus schedule, it
probably was made in Houston later than Estelle Twiford remembered"
(120). But did Oswald really expect to meet with Horace Twiford for the
first time between 11:00 pm and 1:00 am? (121)

"It is noted previous investigation has established that Oswald cashed a
check at New Orleans, Louisiana, after 8:00 a.m. on September 25, 1963.
He was reported to have telephoned Mrs. Horace Twiford at Houston on the
evening of September 25, 1963, at a time she believes was between 7:00
pm. and 9:00 pm. In the interim, an employee at Selective Service
Headquarters, Austin, Texas, reported she believed she was contacted by
Oswald at Austin on September 25, 1963, at approximately 1:00 pm. When
Oswald talked to Mrs. Twiford at Houston, he indicated he was considering
flying to Mexico. Other witnesses have reported Oswald boarded a
Continental Trailways bus at Houston, Texas, on September 26, 1963, at
2:35 am, on which he traveled to Laredo, Texas, en route to Mexico City
(122).

The *Warren Report* concludes, "It seems apparent that if Oswald actually
visited Austin, Texas, as suggested, in view of the distances involved,
he would necessarily have to travel from New Orleans to Austin by air. If
he made his decision to proceed to Austin after arriving at Houston,
Texas, he would, of course, have had to fly from New Orleans to Houston
and thence to Austin. After arriving in Austin, Oswald could have left
Austin on the afternoon of September 25, 1963, by the Kerrville Bus
Company line and have arrived at Houston prior to 9:00 pm, inasmuch as
the Austin to Houston bus schedules require only about four hours travel
time" (123).

The FBI checked with Continental Airlines in Houston and discovered it
took less than one hour to fly from Austin to Houston. E. P. Hammett, a
ticket clerk with the Trailways bus company, remembered having sold a
ticket to someone who fit Oswald's description in late September 1963
around midnight. The FBI: "For the information of the Bureau, on January
17, 1964, the Dallas Office succeeded in locating the auditor's stub for
Continental Trailways bus ticket number 112230, which was previously
identified as the only Continental Trailways bus ticket sold at Houston
between September 24, 1963, and September 26, 1963, for travel between
Houston and Laredo, Texas. This ticket stub carried a rubber stamp
indicating it was sold on September 25, 1963, by ticket agent identified
as number 12 (124).

"On January 21, 1964, E. P. Hammett, 8603 Detroit Street, Houston, Texas,
employed as a ticket agent by Continental Trailways Bus Company, observed
his copy of the above ticket stub and identified this as a ticket which
he had sold on September 25, 1963. Photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald and
of a small zipper bag used by Oswald were exhibited to Hammett. Hammett
furnished the following information (125):

"There are very few tickets sold for travel between Houston and Laredo,
Texas, and Hammett will sometimes not sell more than one in a week. He
stated that for this reason any sales or inquiries about tickets to
Laredo and or Mexico are unusual and he usually remembers them. On
September 25, 1963, Hammett went on duty at 10:30 pm, and was the only
ticket agent on duty from 10:30 pm until 6:30 am on September 26, 1963
(126).

"Hammett stated he could recall a man strongly resembling the photograph
of Oswald coming to his counter at some time which would have been
approximately in late September 1963, and making inquiry concerning
travel to Laredo and Mexico City. Hammett believed this man came to his
counter at approximately midnight. The man Hammett recalls was wearing a
pull-over sweater which he believes was brown and white, white dungarees,
and dirty white canvas shoes. This man inquired as a to prices of tickets
directly to Mexico City and also to Laredo. Hammett stated this man
seemed to be very undecided, and could not make up his mind and after
considerable discussion he left the counter and was not observed for a
short period. There was no discussion of visas or Mexican Tourist Cards,
these matter normally being handled when passengers arrive at Laredo,
Texas. This man did not give Hammett his name, and normally there is no
occasion for ticket agents to learn passenger's names (127).

"Hammett stated after leaving his counter for some time, the above man
finally returned and stated he decided to buy a ticket to Laredo, Texas,
which Hammett sold him. This man was alone at the time and Hammett did
not observe how he arrived at the bus terminal. Hammett noted that he
believes it was about 1:30 am or possibly 2:00 am before the man finally
purchased a ticket for use on Continental Trailways bus which left
Houston at 2:35 am on September 26, 1963 for Laredo" (128).

Oswald boarded a Trailways bus in Houston that would take him to Laredo,
Texas. The bus left Houston at 2:35 am. The first sighting of Oswald on
the bus was at about 6:15 am on Friday, September 26, 1963, when Oswald
was seen by the McFarlands, two British holiday makers who had just
awakened. Oswald told them he was going to Mexico to circumvent the
travel ban to Cuba, that he was head of the New Orleans Chapter of the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee and that he hoped to meet Castro when he
arrived in Cuba (129).

Wesley Liebeler wrote: "We have no direct evidence that Oswald boarded
bus 5133 in Houston. . . . the McFarlands affidavit is very weak . . . .
the Mexican immigration records do not show the time of day he crossed
the border. David Slawson told me he got the time of the crossing from
the scheduled arrival of the bus. Now we are using it to show that since
he crossed at that time, he had to be on the bus" (130).

Oswald left Nuevo Laredo on Thursday, September 26, 1963, at 2:15 pm, and
arrived in Mexico City on Friday, September 27, 1963, at 10:00 am. There
were several witnesses who saw Oswald on the Flecha Roja bus from Nuevo
Laredo to Mexico City. During the 20-hour bus trip, he initiated two
separate conversations with two Australian tourists. He recommended the
Hotel Cuba in Mexico City as a clean and cheap hotel, and said he had
lodged there on several occasions. Oswald' map of Mexico City contained a
marking at the location of the Flecha Roja bus terminal in Mexico City.
Oswald's map of Mexico City contained a marking at the location of the
Hotel Cuba. According to the entry stamp on Oswald's Tourist Card, he
arrived in old Laredo on Thursday, September 26, 1963, but the hour of
entry, means of transportation and nationality were omitted. All that
could be established was that Oswald entered Mexico between 6:00 am and
2:00 pm (131).

On the evening of September 27, in Dallas, when Oswald was allegedly on
his way to Mexico by bus, an anti-Castro activist named Sylvia Odio was
paid a visit by three men she didn't know. Two were Cubans who introduced
themselves by their "war names" of "Angelo" and "Leopoldo." The third
man, an American, was introduced to her as "Leon Oswald" (132).

The men told her they had come from New Orleans, and were about to leave
on a trip somewhere. The Cubans claimed to know Sylvia's uncle, an
anti-Castro activist imprisoned at that time in Cuba; they asked for her
help in drafting a fund-raising letter for the anti-Castro Junta
Revolucionario (JURE) to which her uncle belonged. She didn't trust them,
and turned them away. Her sister Annie had answered the door and spoken
briefly with the men. Both Sylvia and Annie Odio saw Oswald on television
following the assassination and had no doubt that it was the "Leon
Oswald" that had been at their door (133).

The Warren Report tells us that the day following the trio's visit to
Odio's apartment, the Cuban called "Leopoldo" phoned Sylvia Odio to ask
her assistance again. He mentioned to her that it was his idea to
introduce the American, "Leon Oswald," into the anti-Castro underground,
"because he is great, he is kind of nuts." He told her that Oswald had
been in the Marine Corps., was an excellent shot, and had told "Angelo"
and "Leopoldo" that the Cubans "don't have any guts" because President
Kennedy should have been assassinated for not supporting the Cubans at
the Bay of Pigs -- that the Cubans should kill him, because he was the
one obstructing freedom for Cuba (134).

Sylvia Odio caused the Warren Commission a great deal of discomfort; of
the many dozens of people who approached the FBI following the
assassination with tales about Oswald that hinted at conspiracy, only
Odio did the Commission find too credible to dismiss. The Commission
could also not prove where Oswald was on the night in question; they only
believed him to be en route from New Orleans to Texas. Moreover, her
sister Annie fully supported her story; and Odio's psychiatrist, a Dr.
Einspruch at the Southwestern Medical School told the FBI that Odio was
perfectly reliable, and that she had actually mentioned the September 27
visit to him before the assassination (135).

Warren Commission counsel Wesley J. Liebeler was the one who'd taken
Odio's deposition, and he felt very strongly that she was telling the
truth. When an early draft of the Warren Report dismissed her story too
easily, Liebeler argued successfully that some of the language be
changed. He objected to the Report's original statement that she "came
forward" with her story. Liebeler wrote the Commission that "she did not
come forward at all and was quite reluctant to get involved at all. Her
story came to the attention through a third person" (136)

When the Report originally charged that Odio wasn't trustworthy based on
statements made by two disgruntled ex-friends, Liebeler insisted that the
charges be excised. He pointed out, "Since we have never taken testimony
from Odio's other two friends on which people could base judgment as to
their veracity, we should not rely too heavily on their statements, about
which they have never been cross-examined." He added, "The hearsay
statements of 'friends,' concerning their personal opinion of a witness
are thin stuff indeed. The whole paragraph is poor and should come out."
Where the original draft of the Report claimed that there had been
inconsistencies in Odio's story over time, Liebeler responded, "The
'inconsistencies', if any, are minor. Furthermore, Sylvia's testimony is
actually misrepresented when it is stated that she and her sister felt
Oswald 'looked familiar' when they saw his picture after the
assassination. Sylvia testified that she was sure it was Oswald" (137).

Liebeler repeatedly asked the Commission to investigate the incident
further, but the Report was already several months behind schedule.
Liebeler was reprimanded by General Counsel J. Lee Rankin, who brusquely
told him, "We are supposed to be closing doors, not opening them."
Liebeler wrote the Commission, "The Odio analyses should be based
primarily on the apparent likelihood that LHO [Lee Harvey Oswald] was
elsewhere [at the time he is alleged to have met with Odio]. These are
problems. Odio may well be right. The Commission will look bad if it
turns out that she is." (138)

The Commission's problem was solved by the FBI, which stated that an
anti-Castro Cuban named Loran Hall had stated that he was at Sylvia
Odio's apartment on an evening in late September, accompanied by another
Cuban named Lawrence Howard and a thin, dark-haired American named
William Seymour who vaguely resembled Oswald. The Commission breathed a
sign of relief and sent the finished Report off to press. Within weeks
the FBI admitted that Lawrence Howard and William Seymour had both denied
meeting Odio, and Loran Hall retracted the story he had so helpfully
provided (139).

In September 1975, Schweiker-Hart Committee Investigator (and HSCA
investigator-to-be) Gaeton Fonzi interviewed the reclusive Odio, and
showed her photos of Loran Hall, William Seymour, and Lawrence Howard,
none of whom she recognized. She reaffirmed her belief that the American
had been Lee Harvey Oswald. In a follow-up interview of January 16, 1976,
Fonzi asked her if the man could have been someone who looked identical
to Oswald, and she said, "When you see someone as close as I'm seeing you
now, even closer because we were standing by my door for about 15 minutes
and the light was just coming down upon their faces, when I saw him on
television I recognized him immediately. And this guy had a special grin,
a kind of funny smile."

The following afternoon, Saturday, September 28, Mrs. Lorena Brayshaw and
her daughter Carol happened to meet Lee Harvey Oswald in the French
Quarter of New Orleans, and spent some time with him (140). That same
day, September 28, with a short, blonde man identifying himself as "Lee
Harvey Oswald" in Mexico City, and Harvey Oswald in New Orleans with the
Brayshaws, a third Oswald, possibly "Lee Oswald," arrived after dark at
the Sports Drome Rifle Range in Dallas, Texas, for the first of numerous
sightings that would be reported of Oswald at the rifle range. On this
occasion Oswald was driving a 1940 or 1941 Model Ford. He asked Malcolm
H. Price, Jr., a friend of the owner of the facility, to help him sight
in his rifle (141).


Mr. PRICE. . . . he set up the target himself and I drove my car and
turned my headlights on the target as I proceeded to set the rifle. I
fired the rifle approximately 12 to 18 times, I would say, and I zeroed
in on it a hundred yards . . .

Mr. LIEBELER. Now, did this man fire the rifle himself?

Mr. PRICE. . . . He fired three shots and scored bull's eyes with all
three -- a very tight pattern. He said, "Well, I am completely
satisfied."

Mr. LIEBELER. . . . Did you have any other conversation with this fellow
at that time?

Mr. PRICE. No, that was all. It was rather abrupt. He didn't talk too
much, and I was kind of surprised that he didn't fire the rifle more. He
just fired three shots and he said, "Well, that's good enough," and he
got up and left.

Mr. LIEBELER. Did he leave the shell casings lying there at the range or
did he take them with him?

Mr. PRICE. No, he took them with him -- he picked them all up after the
rifle was fired and took the shell casings along with him.

Mr. LIEBELER. . . . Was it light, up at the rifle range, from where you
fired?

Mr. PRICE. Oh, yes, we have neon lights there.

Mr. LIEBELER. So you didn't have any difficulty in seeing this fellow?

Mr. PRICE. No -- no difficulty at all (142).


The Warren Commission tells us that on Monday, September 30, "H. O. Lee"
spent $20.30 on bus tickets; spent the nights of September 30 and October
1 at his hotel; then departed Mexico City at 8:30 am in seat 12 on
Transportes del Nortes bus 332 from Mexico City to Monterrey. Oswald
transferred to relief bus No. 373, which brought him to Nuevo Laredo.
"The manifest for Transportes Frontera bus No. 340, leaving Mexico City
for Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo at 1 pm on Wednesday, October 2, 1963,
contains the name "Oswld" [sic], which apparently was added to the
manifest after the trip; in any event, Oswald did not take bus 340"
(143).

From Nuevo Laredo, Oswald took a 10 pm Greyhound bus to Dallas. "Fellow
passengers recall that Oswald was pulled off the bus by Mexican officials
at the border, because of some alleged irregularity with in his Mexican
tourist papers; one passenger overheard him mumbling complaints about the
Mexican immigration officials when he returned to the bus. They remember
also that Oswald was hurriedly 'gulping' down a banana after the bus
reached customs, perhaps because he believed that he could not take fruit
into the United States. (Marina has testified that her husband liked
bananas and frequently ate them)" (144). And people say the Warren
investigation wasn't thorough.

On October 3rd at 1:35 am, Oswald officially left Mexico at Nuevo Laredo.
The Warren Commission says he left Mexico by bus and arrived in San
Antonio, Texas, at 6:30 am (145). Mexican border records show Oswald
headed not towards Texas by bus, but towards New Orleans by automobile.
During the next few days, Oswald sightings would dramatically multiply
(146).



NOTES:

Unless otherwise indicated, John Armstrong's source is the microfilm
record of FBI assassination-related documents released in 1978.

1. JA 2, 20-1. 
2. JA 2, 21. 
3. JA 2, 21. 
4. John Armstrong, "Harvey and Lee: The Case for Two Oswalds, Part 2," 
   *PROBE,* Vol. 5, No. 1, November-December 1997 (hereafter JA 2), 21.

In June 1960, Marguerite Oswald informed the FBI that her son's actions
were so uncharacteristic that she believed he may have been kidnapped on
his way to the Albert Schweitzer University in Switzerland, and that an
impostor could be using his identification in Russia. On June 3, 1960, J.
Edgar Hoover sent a memo to his field offices: "There is a possibility
that an impostor is using Oswald's birth certificate." Upon his return to
the US, Oswald would state that he never took his birth certificate with
him in the first place. As late as November 1960, the FBI was still
making inquiries about Oswald or an Oswald impostor at Albert Schweitzer
University (NARA #124-10010-10011; JA 2, 21).

This author does not believe there is anything sinister in this. The
documents, declassified in 1996, seem to indicate that it was MARGUERITE
OSWALD who raised the idea of someone impersonating her son -- not in
reference to the men we know as Lee and Harvey, but in reference to
someone she believed may have kidnapped Harvey in Europe and used his
identification when he "defected."

On June 3, 1960, J. Edgar Hoover wrote the Office of Security, referring
to the fact that Marguerite Oswald was complaining of difficulty in
reaching or transmitting funds to Oswald. Hoover cites Marguerite's claim
that Oswald had taken his birth certificate with him when he left home.
This is the document that reads, "Since there is a possibility that an
impostor is using Oswald's birth certificate any current information the
Department of State may have concerning subject would be appreciated" (CD
834.9; Weberman Web site).

A. J. Weberman writes, "J. Edgar Hoover cabled the Paris Legal Attach and
ordered him to investigate the possibility that Oswald had been
kidnapped. On July 27, 1960, September 27, 1960, October 12, 1960, and
November 30, 1960, the FBI received information on Oswald. . . . Other
cables stated, 'Oswald was not in attendance at Albert Schweitzer College
. . .' and that there was no information on an Oswald impostor" (Ibid.).

Weberman continues, "Marguerite Oswald's speculations stemmed from the
fact that she knew her son Lee better than anyone else in the world. She
had lived with him for 16 years on a day-to-day basis; she knew he was
not a Communist. She knew that something was happening but she wasn't
sure what it was. Hoover could not understand how someone who was
supposed to go to Albert Schweitzer College ended up defecting in Moscow
and took the Oswald impostor theory seriously" (Ibid.)

While this author has not been successful in tracking down all of
Weberman's source documents, some of which --several State Department
cables that John Armstrong has not seen and is skeptical about (John
Armstrong's letter to author, September 1998) -- it is Weberman's
interpretation of Hoover's infamous "impostor" remarks that seems most
credible.

5. JA 2, 21. For a good analysis of this event, see Steve N. Bochan, "The
   Bolton Ford Dealership Story," Kennedy Assassination Chronicles, Vol., 1,
   No. 4, available on-line at: http://www.jfklancer.com/BFord.html 
   Link 8

6. JA 2, 21. 
7. 125. Weberman Web site (www.weberman.com). [LINK 9] 
8. JA 2, 21. 
9. JA 2, 21; Chris Courtwright, "The Strange Allegations of Ray 
   Carnay," *Fair Play* #18, Here
10. Ibid. 
11. Ibid. 
12. Ibid. 
13. Garrison files; JA 2, 21. 
14. JA 2, 21.
15. HSCA testimony of Robert McKeown. 
16. ARRB Docs. 124-10058-10262,124-10164-10225-, 180-10015-10389; JA 2, 21. 
17. Ibid. 
18. JA 2, 21. 
19. JA 2, 21. 
20. John Newman, "In the Files," *The Assassination Web,*
    available HER: Link 11 
21. Ibid. 
22. Ibid. 
23. Joseph Backes, "ARRB Releases CIA Records," *Fair Play* #9, available 
    on-line here:
24. HSCA testimony of James B. Wilcott; Weberman Web site. 
25. Ibid. 
26. Ibid. 
27. Ibid. 
28. Ibid. 
29. HSCA testimony of Philip Agee. 
30. *I Am a Patsy! I Am a Patsy!* (unpublished manuscript); HSCA Vol. XII. 
    See: Link 13
    A version of this manuscript has been copyedited by this author. It is
    available on-line at:Link 14
31. JA 2, 22. 
32. FBI report of April 18, 1975; Noel Twyman, *BloodyTreason,* 692-3. 
33. Garrison files; JA 2, 22. 
34. See citation #30. 
35. See citation #30; cited in JA 2, 21-2. 
36. See citation #30. 
37. 16 H 287-336; JA 2, 22. 
38. JA 2, 22. 
39. 11 H 55; JA 2, 22. 
40. 11 H 55. 
41. 11 H 56. 
42. See Jack White, "The Evolution of Lee Harvey Oswald." 
43. 11H 56; JA 2, 22. 
44. 1 H 329. 
45. 1 H 330. 
46. 1 H 331. 
47. 11 H 59. 
48. *Fair Play* #14, available on-line at:Link 16
64. 11 H 358; 11 H 342. 
65. 11 H 341. 
66. JA 3.
67. JA 3. 
68. CD 729. 
69. 11 H 65; JA 2, 23. 
70. Ibid. 
71. 10 H 54. 
72. FBI Report of November 24, 1963; NARA FBI #124-10248-10140; cited in
    Weberman Web site. 
73. Ibid. 
74. Weberman Web site. 
75. Garrison files; confirmed by Dick Russell in 1992 phone interview, Russell, 
    *The Man Who Knew Too Much,* 385-6. 
76. Ibid. 
77. Ibid. 
78. Ibid. 
79. FBI Report of January 10, 1964, SA Van Eps; FBI New Orleans 100-16601; 
    cited in Weberman web site. 
80. Ibid. 
81. Weberman Web site. 
82. WR 736. 
83. See Reitzes,"Constructing the Assassin,Part 3."Link 17 
84. JA 2, 23. 
85. See Reitzes,"Oswald in New Orleans, Part 2." Link 18 
86. *Houston Chronicle,* April 29, 1959 
87. HSCA Hearings, April 12, 1978. 
88. JA 2, 23. 
89. Weberman Web site. 
90. *Milwaukee Sentinel,* November 30, 1963; CIA Report of December 6, 
    1963, Doc.#104-10017-10037. 
91. See Reitzes, Oswald in New Orleans, Part 2. Link 19
92. Russell, *The Man Who Knew Too Much*; JA 2, 23; see Reitzes, "Harvey 
    and Lee vs. Richard Case Nagell." Link 20
93. Ibid. 
94. Marrs, *Crossfire,* 411. 
95. Weberman Website. 
96. JA 2, 23. 
97. Weberman Web site. 
98. JA 2, 23. 
99. 3 H 10. 
100. David Slawson, Mexico City Memo, 54. 
101. WR 731. 
102. Memorandum for the Record, Desmond FitzGerald, Chief, Special Affairs 
     Staff, CIA. 
103. WR 323; David Slawson, handwritten notes #640. 
104. WR 323. 
105. WR 323.
106. WR 323. 
107. WR 323. 
108. FBI Report of December 26, 1963, SA H. T. Burke; cited in Weberman 
     Web site. 
109. Ibid. 
110. Ibid. 
111. FBI Report of January 31, 1964, SA H. T. Burke; cited in Weberman 
     Web site. 
112. Ibid. 
113. Ibid. 
114. Ibid. 
115. WR 710. 
*
117. FBI Report of March 6,1964; Weberman Web site. 
118. Ibid. 
119. Ibid. 
120. Ibid. 
121. Weberman Web site. 
122. Ibid.; WR 731. 
123. Affidavit of July 2, 1964; Weberman Web site. 
124. Ibid. 
125. Ibid. 
126. Ibid. 
127. Ibid. 
128. Ibid. 
129. Ibid. 
130. 11 HSCA 236. 
131. CD 78.4; WR 323; Outgoing DOS telex 08345, May 15, 1964, from Dean 
     Rusk, cited in Weberman Web site. 
132. WR 322; JA 2, 24. 
133. WR 322. 
134. WR 322. 
135. Wesley Liebeler, Memorandum of September 14, 1964. 
136. Ibid. 
137. Ibid. 
138. Ibid. 
139. HSCA report on the Odio incident. 
140. JA 2, 24. 
141. JA 2, 24. 
142. 10 H 370.
142-b. On Sighting in a Rifle Here
143. WR 736. 
144. WR 736. 
145. WR 736. 
146. JA 2, 24.