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