Lee Harvey Oswald

Oswald's Innocence

The official story tells us that, despite numerous other bullets being found and only two shell casings in the snipers nest, Oswald fired three shots in 5.6 to 6.0 seconds, after which he allegedly zipped down five flights of stairs in 90 seconds to be witnessed getting a Coke.

Next, Oswald was dropped off by a taxi at his house at 1:00 PM, then allegedly walked to 10th and Patton to shoot Officer J.D. Tippit at 1:16 PM; for this to have been possible, Oswald must have walked 8 miles in 16 minutes.

Supposedly after killing Tippit, Oswald made his way to the Texas Theater to watch a movie. Theater manager Butch Burroughs stated that Oswald entered around 1:00 and 1:17 PM, although Tippit was shot at 1:16; plus Tippit's body arrived at the hospital at 1:15 PM.

Motorist Domingo Benavides witnessed Tippit's killing, but refused to identify Oswald in a line up. In 1965, his brother Edward who resembled Domingo, was shot in the back of the head in a club in Dallas.

Helen Markham described Tippit's killer as being short and somewhat on the heavy side, with slightly bushy hair. Later Markham identified Lee Harvey Oswald in a police line up. Although considered a star witness, her testimony was full of mistakes. She said he was alive when the ambulance arrived, but the other witnesses said he died immediately. She also falsely claimed that for the first 20 minutes she was the only person to attend the body.

Aquilla Clemons described Tippit's assailant as chunky but short, and that he waved his hand at a skinny man in a white shirt and khakis, signaling him to go. She also said that a man came to her two days after the assassination, telling her it would be best if she didn't say anything because she might get hurt.

These men were also seen by George and Patricia Nash, who described them speeding off in a grey Plymouth. A grey Plymouth was reportedly driven by the shooter behind the picket fence described by Velma, driven by a man in a black hat. Ed Hoffman also reported a man in a black hat and a blue coat from the grassy knoll.

Like Aquilla Clemons, Doris Holan recalled Tippet's assailant as a heavy man who waved his hand to signal a second shooter, and like Hoffman, she recalled him wearing a blue coat. She also said: "if it wasn't him, it was his brother" in relation to the man she saw shot by Jack Ruby on TV.

As for the bullets found at the scene, three of their impressions had a notch at the side, indicative of a semi automatic, while only one was completely round, suggesting it was fired from a revolver.

Paraffin Test - Oswald passed a paraffin test, determining he had no gunpowder residue on his hands.

Jacket - Buell Frazier, who drove Oswald into Dealey Plaza, testified that Oswald wore a grey, wool flannel jacket the morning of the assassination, however officer Marion Baker stopped Oswald supposedly only 90 seconds after the shooting in the second floor lunchroom, describing him wearing a brown jacket. This brown Jacket was not owned by Oswald, as concluded by: his wife, Marina's testimony; eye witness testimony; and an additional jacket found by officers at a parking lot after the Tippet shooting.

Oswald allegedly took a cab to his house to get his jacket, but William Whaley, the driver stated that Oswald already had one on, that it was brown and that unlike the jacket in evidence, had a silver stripe. An alleged blue jacket was found in the “domino” room of the depository late in November, which isn't possible unless there was a double who screwed up setting up Oswald.

False Defection Program

The official story is that Oswald was a communist who defected to the Soviet Union, however it's more likely that he was part of a false defection program to get a spy into the USSR, which may have something to do with the consistent evidence that Oswald was in fact two different people. [That's a story for another time]

His defection in 1959 aligns with the activation of AEBALCONY, which was a CIA project to send Baltic Language speaking US spies to Soviet controlled countries under the guise of commercial travel.

Oswald had left the marines on what is called a dependency discharge, meaning he was allowed to exit his military service in order to care for his injured mother, although there is no evidence that Marguerite Oswald was ever in need of care, as Oswald spent a mere three days with her before ditching for Europe. Oswald allegedly left to attend the Albert Schweitzer college in Switzerland, instead heading to Finland to obtain a Soviet visa. Despite not having much of a school record, Oswald had been accepted at Albert Schweitzer, which gave credibility to his story.

The college president of the school was Percival Brundage, who was also Eisenhauer's budget director, and an advocate of black budget financing for intelligence operations.

He was also an operator of Southern Air Transport, which was the CIA's airline for moving cocaine in the Caribbean during the 60s.

Oswald put on his application for the Leslie welding company that he had worked for the State Department in Moscow.

For some reason, the Office of Naval Intelligence pulled Oswald's security file 8 days before the assassination.

Beforehand, CIA spy, (((Reuben Efron))) had been routinely checking his mail under the direction of CIA Head of Counter Intelligence, James Angleton.

Oswald as CIA agent - In 1979, CIA accountant, James Wilcott claimed that while stationed in Tokyo, he had heard from at least seven people that Lee Harvey Oswald was a regular employee with a salary for the CIA. What gives credit to Wilcott's story is the fact that he also recalled the name of Robert Shashima, a double agent for Japan and the US, who's existence was only disclosed in the 90s.

Willcott claims that a case officer came up to his window, telling him in the ensuing conversation that the money withdrawn was for the ''Oswald Project'' or just for ''Oswald''. HSCA staff notes suggest that Wilcott knew more than what he was allowed to say in executive session; and that he believed there was a reference to Oswald or the Oswald Project in CIA financial records.

Oswald as FBI informant - Similarly, Dallas Policeman, Roger Craig claimed that before leaving the Sheriff's office, someone told him that Oswald was an informant for the FBI, paid $200 a month, and that his code was S172. Craig talked about this in a documentary; later he would be threatened, survive a car bombing, a car crash, and get shot in the shoulder—then a month later, he allegedly committed suicide by a 0.22 Caliber bullet to the chest.

Senior CIA counter intelligence officer, Tennent H. Bagley concluded that Oswald was a false defector. His analysis was based on documents shown to him by British researcher Malcolm J.J. Blunt, which indicated that the incoming non-CIA cables about Oswald's defection were routed not to the typical Soviet Russia division, but instead to Bruce Solie’s mole-hunting office in the Office of Security.

William Kent was Chief of Psychological Warfare at the CIA’s JMWAVE station in Miami. Kent was familiar with the activities of anti-Castro groups like the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil, which had contact with Oswald in New Orleans.

According to interviews with Kent’s daughter, when asked about Oswald, Kent described him as a “useful idiot.” When further pressed about who killed JFK, Kent reportedly replied: “It’s better you don’t know.”

The Army is known to have destroyed an intelligence dossier maintained on Oswald.

Declassified records and CIA historians indicate that “GPFLOOR” was the cryptonym used for Oswald in post-assassination investigations, serving as a "slug" for Oswald-related files.

Oswald's arrest - When Oswald entered the Texas Theater, despite there being plenty of vacant seats, he reportedly sat right next to someone, before getting up to sit right next to someone else, repeatedly doing this until sitting next to a pregnant woman who spoke with him. When arrested he had two half dollars in his pocket. This is a known spy technique whereby a contact is identified in having the other half of the Bill.

Above is a record from another case of the exact method being used.

Theater manager Butch Burroughs told Jim Douglas that on the day of the assassination, he saw not one but two Oswalds being arrested, one being dragged out the front of the theater, and one about four minutes later being led out the back. Oswald was arrested on the lower floor of the theater, however the police report of L.D. Stringfellow details Oswald's arrest from the balcony. Bernard Haire owned Bernie's Hobby House, doors down from the theater; he recalled an Oswald wearing dark slacks being escorted without cuffs through the Alleyway behind his shop and the theater.

Oswald as ONI operative - While in custody, Oswald asked to make a phone call to a John Hurt in North Carolina, which was written down by a secretary. When Oswald got on the phone, the secret Service Intervened, and the excuse was made that they couldn't get through. Another secretary picked up the note from the trash, turning over to the police several years later, discovering that John Hurt was a former military intelligence officer who lived about 150 miles away from the Nags Head base on the outer banks in north Carolina; Nags Head was the base from which the ONI launched its false defector program into the Soviet Union.

Spooks in Oswald's family

Marilyn Murret - Oswald's cousin, Marilyn Murret was outed to reporter, Paul Scott, who wrote an article in which he named her in a long list of people alleged to be Soviet spies. The FBI pulled Marilyn's passport, finding that she made many unusual trips around the world, first claiming to be a reservation agent for a travel company, later claiming to be a teacher. Marilyn traveled to places including England, France, Germany, Holland, China and various Eastern block countries.

The year book information on Marilyn Murret depicts this woman, but the picture of her at Louisiana state university looks more like Ruth Payne, Oswald's neighbor.

Lilian Murret - Oswald's aunt, Lilian Murret flew to an air force base in Bermuda in 1954, which is sandwiched between the issuance of Marilyn's passport and the travels that the FBI was following her on.

Floy Oswald - Oswald had a first cousin named Floy Oswald, who J. Edgar Hoover had a personal file on for some reason. Floy Oswald was murdered in her house by a caretaker and two friends who attempted to make her sign over property rights.

Marguerite Oswald - Most notably, there is evidence that, like Oswald, his mother Marguerite, was part of Naval Intelligence. Marguerite stated to the WC that she was a phone operator in for the Navy in 1942, probably for the WAVES Program during WWII.

The training program for WAVES was in the Bronx, which makes sense, because Robert Oswald Sr.'s ex wife, Hazel, told the FBI that after Robert died in 1939, the family moved to New York. In 1953 the House on Un-American Activities in New York had a 960 page file concerning Marguerite Oswald, ''Nazis'' and ''New Jersey''; the Assassination Records Review Board were denied access to this document.

Despite supposedly being broke, Marguerite was the land-lord of three different houses, and would be linked to the ownership of numerous properties across the country, however there are no records of her tenants, or anyone who remembers her from some of the areas she supposedly lived at. As far back as 1938, Marguerite was the landlord of three different houses, however there are no records of any tenants to these houses except for a Dr. Mancuzo, who rented 2109 Alvar in New Orleans from her. This may be evidence of a network of safe houses owned by intelligence put under the name Marguerite Oswald. Records show that Marguerite moved into 2109 Alvars St. in New Orleans in 1938, Moving out in 1940, although the house wasn't sold until 1945. Marguerite also lived at 220 Thomas place in Fort Worth Texas, three different times over a 10 year period with two different landlords. Marguerite lived at 1222 Congress St. in New Orleans from 1940 to 1941, then moving to 1010 Bartholomew, St. in New Orleans. Marguerite and Lee Allegedly moved into 831 Pauline Street in 1942, although an older couple, the Roaches, are alleged to have lived there, with some saying that Marguerite was allowed to move in by the Roaches and others saying she left and then they moved in.

Either way, in January of 1942, Marguerite would leave Lee with her sister, Lilian, who gave him up to an orphanage. After this, the FBI would try to verify her residential and work history from 42 and 44 without success, as many of the records had been destroyed. Marguerite claimed to the WC that during this time, she was working as a phone operator for the Pittsburg Glass Company. The timing of when Marguerite Oswald left Lee with Lillian coincides with the time she met and married Edwin Ekdahl.

Edwin Ekhdal was in New York City at the time, working for Ebasco. One of Ebasco's projects was the design of a large electrical generation station in the Soviet Union. When Ebasco was questioned to provide information about Edwin, they told the FBI that they were unable to do so; this should demonstrate how high up in intelligence they were.

Although she claimed to have been working in Louisiana, the addresses linked to Marguerite at this time are also addresses in New York: 227 Atlantic av is in Staten Island; before that she was at 2136 Broadway, which is the location of the Beacon Hotel, 20 minutes away from where Edwin Ekhdal lived at the time.

When Oswald was arrested for truancy, Marguerite Oswald gave false information to probation Officer, John Carro and the School Board, stating that her husband was "Robert Lee Harvey," that they were married on July 19, 1929 and that they had three children together 

Marguerite Oswald used a Collingwood address on a change of address form for Lee Oswald in 1945, even though there are also records that she didn't live at that address until 1955.

Paul August "Polo" Voitier Jr. - Marguerite Oswald's uncle was Paul August Voitier Jr., who was a body guard for Louisiana Senator, Huey long, who was assassinated by his own bodyguards.

Fred Korth - Fred Korth was Secretary of the Navy and an Assistant Secretary to the Army. He was also Edwin Ekdahl's lawyer. According to a memo, Marguerite Oswald revealed that Lee's discharge from the marines was handled by Fred Korth, and that the house which Marguerite had been living at during the assassination, 222 Thomas place, belonged to Mary McArthee, a close friend of Fred Korth. She also noted that Fred Korth played a part in Lee's life, but didn't explain any further.

 

Fred Korth's cousin was married to Roy Truly, who was the boss of the Texas School Book Depository. Oswald allegedly didn’t know anybody at the Book Depository, and Pierce Allen stated that he didn't see or had even heard of a man named Lee Harvey Oswald who worked at the depository at that time; nor could the man he was with, Terrence Ford.

Margaret Keating - There are records of a Margret Keating, who married Robert Oswald, and was step mother to Lee Harvey Oswald. Despite having divorced Robert Oswald in 1933, Margaret Keating appears in a 1955-56 phone-book as Margaret Oswald. According to Margaret Keating's registration forms, over a period of about 20 years, she repeatedly changed her birthday to make herself 18 years younger.

Mafia in Oswald's family

Oswald had an uncle called Charles “Dutz” Murret, who was a book-keeper for Carlos Marcello.

Dutz took the role of raising Oswald as a father figure, since Oswald’s father had died before he was born. He was also an associate of Sam Saia, an organized crime leader in New Orleans.

Another of Murret’s associates, Nofio Pecora, was linked to Jack Ruby.

An FBI informant named Joseph Hauser got Marcello to admit to having known both Murret and Oswald. There are also some FBI reports on Eugene Sumner, who saw Oswald at a Marcello under-boss's restaurant, collecting money.

Oswald framed as a Communist

Oswald's trip to Mexico - Before defecting, Oswald allegedly traveled to Mexico to pick up a Soviet Visa. The bus which took Oswald to Mexico City left from New Orleans on September the 35th at 1:45. His Visa is stamped entering the country on September 26th, however, according to an FBI informant at the postal service, on September 26th, Oswald was in New Orleans, submitting a change of address form and an application for a new P.O. box. This document was never mentioned in the Warren Commission. (WC)

Oswald's arrival in Mexico City is backed up by his registry at the Hotel del Comercio, dated on the 27th. The same day Oswald is meant to have applied for his travel visa to Mexico City, September 17, two other individuals had also applied for travel to Mexico out of the same New Orleans office, David Pearce Magyar, an associate of David Ferrie, and William Gaudet, who worked for the International Trade Mart, run by Clay Shaw; Gaudet admitted to investigators to being a contract agent for the CIA in Latin America.

Gaudet worked for Nelson Rockefeller while he was Head of the Office of Latin American Affairs; his Magazine, Latin American Report, had published articles favorable to United Fruit and their activities in South America. Gaudet is also the man responsible for Oswald's TV interview.

Having seen him handing out pro-Cuba leaflets, he phoned an associate, Jesse Core, who was head of PR at the International Trade Mart. Core phoned another associate, John Corporon, the news director at WDSU-TV, who sent a news crew to Oswald's location in front of the Trade Mart. It is during this interview that Oswald proclaimed himself to be a Marxist-Leninist. According to the WC, Oswald applied for a six month Mexican visa, but received a 15 day visa, which requires a completely different application. The visa itself, presented by the Warren Commission, can't be authentic, as revealed by the clerk at the Mexican consulate who was interviewed by one of Garrison's investigators. She was certain that the FBI never collected it as evidence, as it had been lost in a fire in 1965.

Oswald's conversation with the Soviet Embassy was recorded on October 1st. According to the transcript, Oswald can be observed to speak in broken Russian, which is inconsistent with what we know of Oswald as a fluent Russian speaker. There was significant controversy over the existence and handling of audio tapes that purportedly captured “Oswald” making phone calls to the Soviet embassy. FBI agents who listened to these tapes after the assassination concluded that the voice was not his.

These are the alleged photos taken by the FBI of Oswald at the Mexican and Cuban Embassies.

FPCC - Other than his defection to the Soviet Union, allegations that he was a Communist relied mainly on his affiliation with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, (FPCC) which he was filmed handing out leaflets for in New Orleans.

On the leaflets which Oswald had been handing out was the address 544 Camp Street, New Orleans.

This was also the office of Carlos Bringuier, who Oswald supposedly got into a fight with, then debated on the WDSU. Around the corner from 544 Camp Street, located in the same building, was 531 Lafayette Street, which housed the detective agency run by Guy Banister.

Guy Banister - Guy Banister was an ex FBI agent, who ran a private detective agency in New Orleans. In 1963, Banister and David Ferrie began working for Lawyer, G. Wray Gill and his client, New Orleans mob boss, Carlos Marcello. This involved attempts to block Marcello's deportation to Guatemala by RFK.

In 1963, Banister and Jack Martin went drinking together. On their return to Banister's office the two men got into an argument over a missing file, leading to Banister pistol whipping Martin with a magnum revolver, sending him to the hospital. Over the next few days, Martin told friends that Banister and David Ferrie had been involved in the assassination of Kennedy. According to Martin, Ferrie was the getaway man whose job it was to fly the assassin out of Texas. He also claimed that Ferrie knew Lee Harvey Oswald from their days in the New Orleans Civil Air Patrol and had given him lessons on how to use a rifle with a telescopic sight. This information eventually reached Jim Garrison, who interviewed Martin about these accusations. Martin claimed that during the summer of 1963 Banister and David Ferrie were involved in something very sinister with a group of Cuban exiles. Delphine Roberts, who later became Banister's mistress told Anthony Summers that during the summer of 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald worked for Banister. She said that she was in the office when Banister suggested Oswald establish a local FPCC. This story was supported by her daughter who had met Oswald during this period. After Banister's death of coronary thrombosis in 1964, FPCC leaflets were found in his office.

The FPCC itself was formed in 1960, before Castro had embraced communism. The Wikipedia page for the FPCC omits this, and any mention of a founder, however putting the link in the Wayback Machine reveals that at a time, it had credited Vincent T. Lee as having formed the group; this however is also false.

The group was really founded by Robert Taber and Richard Gibson, two CBS journalists. Aside from CBS being a known creature of the CIA, Richard Gibson was revealed in a record dump to have worked for the CIA, with a salary of 900 per month. When Castro went red in 1961, it was then when Tabor and Gibson handed the FPCC off to Vincent T. Lee. Shortly after, the two were interviewed by the CIA and FBI.

In 1976, an article was published claiming that Oswald was in correspondence with Vincent Lee, who allegedly gave him an FPCC membership card. It also claimed that Vincent and Oswald had met in Tampa to plan his trip to Mexico to acquire a Cuban and Soviet Visa, even though this meeting took place long after Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico. Oswald allegedly wrote a latter to Vincent, dated August 1st, talking about how some exiled Cubans attacked one of his demonstrations; this incident didn't take place till august ninth. Vincent Lee himself denied to the WC that he had known Oswald, or that he had made him chapter of a New Orleans branch of the FPCC, however did recall receiving the letters to his own confusion.

In June of 1961, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover approved: “establishing counterintelligence programs in Cuban field in an attempt to disillusion current members of such pro-Castro groups as July 26 Movement and Fair Play for Cuba Committee”. Among these suggestions was a plot to get leaders arrested by luring them with prostitutes.

CIA interest in the FPCC was also documented by the Church Committee in 1975, which uncovered a memo dated September 16, 1963 which stated that the CIA is: “giving some thought to planting deceptive information, which might embarrass the Committee in areas where it does have some support”.

Impersonations

Jones Printing - Garrison investigator, Harold Weisberg visited Jones Printing, from where the FPCC leaflets had originated. The name on the order for the leaflets was Leon Osborne. After showing the owner, Douglas Jones, hundreds of photographs, Jones rejected a picture of Oswald, instead identifying four of a man with a full beard. This was Kerry Thornley, a marine who had served briefly with Oswald in Atsugi.

Jim Garrison knew about Thornley, placing him on the front page of his file, although this didn't make it into the movie. Garrison's Thornley file contains a small note which says: "Officer J.D. Tippit," suggesting he may have been the shooter imitating Oswald at 10th and Patton.

In 1959, Thornley had served for a short time in the same radar operator unit as Oswald at El Toro, where the two would discuss politics. He was in the classes in the weeks behind Oswald, which went through the exact same schedule. Fellow Marine, Ronald Schwinghammer, observed someone named Rick Thornley, claiming to be a professional writer, inquiring about Oswald's unit and interviewing him for a book he was writing called The Idle Warriors, the only book about Oswald, written before the assassination.

Schwinghammer puts in Atsugi in 1960, however according to Thornley, he didn't hear about Oswald's defection until he was on his way home from Atsugi in October of that year. In his affidavit to Jim Garrison, Thornley writes: "As Oswald had been, I became an outspoken critic of US foreign policy and of the Marine Corps in particular. As Oswald had done, I began to disobey orders and ridicule my military superiors. And as had Oswald, I began espousing Marxist doctrines." If all of this sounds weird, it's because Thornley would go on to become a leading figure in the Discordian movement, under the alias Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. The point of Discordianism is to instigate chaos, regardless of any consistent value.

Thornley also went by: Grand Ballyhoo; Sinister Minister; ''JFK Assassin''; Ho Chi Zen; Purple Sage Pope; and Leon Osbourne/Oswald.

Kerry Thornley was sent back to the states from Atsugi, allegedly because he won an instructor technique course competition, (Why this was reported in the paper as if he was a known celebrity, nobody knows) moving to New Orleans in February of 1961, which coincides with the start of a long series of Oswald impersonations, many of which occurred while Oswald was provably in the Soviet Union. This starts with the incident at Bolton Ford, with a husky Latin. Thornley mentioned a man named Leopoldo in his letter to Jim Garrison. Leopoldo was also the name used by Interpen member, Lawrence Howard while visiting Silvia Odio.

Thornley in fact Knew Oswald in Texas, after his time in the marines. Barbera Glancy Reid encountered Thornley and Oswald together, remarking to Jim Garrison that after Thornley's trip to Mexico City, he had cut his hair short, causing the two to look like twins. Oswald's neighbors responded positively to pictures of Thornley, some stating that they had seen him going to the grocery store with Marina so often that they thought he was her husband, and were confused by Oswald's picture in the papers. According to Gus Beeler, assistant manager of the Bourbon House, frequented by Kerry Thornley, after Thornley had split up with his girlfriend, Jeane Hack, she would go around telling anyone who would listen that he was friends with Lee Harvey Oswald.

In his affidavit to Garrison, Thornley admitted to having traveled to Mexico City in September of 1963, the same time Oswald was meant to be in Mexico.

Thornley implied to Garrison, that it seemed odd to him that the ONI could find no references to either himself or Oswald in its files, and that in his opinion they must have been either stolen, displaced or destroyed. Thornley also implied that "if" naval intelligence were keeping an eye on him, and "if" they had assigned him a "babysitter," then that man must have been "Bud Simcoe". There are multiple Bud Simcoes locatable on google, all of which have military backgrounds, but none of which who match the timeline at hand. Thornley also identified a John Valentine as a potential handler, most likely the handler of bud Simcoe.

Thornley claimed in his affidavit to having befriended a man named Rodrick R. Brooks, aka ''Slim''. Slim, in turn, introduced Thornley to someone called Gary Kirstein. Thornley would later state his belief that these two men were in fact, Jerry Milton Brooks and CIA agent, E. Howard Hunt.

Thornley hired a young lady named Joyce Talley to type up his book. She allegedly liked it so much that she introduced him to her college professor, Martin McAuliffe. McAuliffe had been the PR manager for Sergio Arcacha-Smith when he worked for FDC. Thornley states that, having gotten to know him, McAuliffe introduced him to Guy Banister to talk about his book, at which point, Garrison writes in the column of the affidavit: "TOO MUCH!!" and: "(After Banister's death FPCC leaflets found in his office. Oswald (Ferrie) are seen in vicinity of Banister's office by more than one witness.)" He also states that on a day shortly after Christmas, Slim Brooks took him for a ride around town in what was alleged to have been Carlos Marcello's car, implying that he knew the Marcello's, and that Gary Kirstein had been cultivating the friendship. According to Thornley, the two would repeatedly engage him in hypotheticals about assassinating the president, and how he would go about planning it. In one conversation, the issue arose of who to blame it on. Thornley suggested framing a communist, to which Gary (Hunt) smiled.

Silvia Odio - Silvio Odio was the daughter of two prominent anti Castro activists who had been jailed in Cuba in 1963. Odio claimed that she had met Oswald and two Cubans who had showed up at her home to try and get her to write letters to solicit funds for anti Castro revolutionaries. She recalled that one of the Cubans went by "Leopoldo," (Lawrence Howard) and Oswald went by his pseudonym, "Leon". Leon was the same name used by Kerry Thornley to print the FPCC leaflets. Funnily enough, Perry Russo recalled David Ferrie having a room mate called Leon, who was described as a beatnik with a bushy beard and hair which was all messed up. 

In his affidavit, Thornley mentions struggling to find a job, on account of his full beard.

A day after their visit, Leopoldo called her, asking what she thought of Leon Oswald, who she unsuprisingly didn't have much of an opinion on. At the time of these events in September, Oswald is meant to be in New Orleans. Lawrence Howard admitted to Jim Garrison to travelling to Dallas with fellow Interpen member, Loran Hall, arriving on September 20th. What's more is that Loran Hall confirmed to the FBI that he, Howard and Seymour had visited Odio's apartment. Hall would later try desperately to recant this statement.

Bolton Ford incident - On January 20, 1961, a time when Oswald is known to have been in the Soviet Union, Oscar Deslatte, a sales manager at Bolton Ford in New Orleans was approached by two men who were interested in purchasing several vehicles on behalf of FDC. One was described as a heavy set pock-marked Latin (Lawrence Howard) with a scar over his left eye. When shown a picture of Oswald, Deslatte did not identify him as the man he had encountered. When Daslatte was subpoenaed to speak before the grand jury against Clay Shaw, his lawyer of choice was Marcello lawyer, G. Wray Gill, who Ferrie and Bannister had worked for.

Carousel Club - Harvey Wade was a businessman who visited the Carousel club. There, he observed who he believed to be Oswald in the company of two other men, one was a dark complected man, about 200 pounds with bumps on his face, and a scar on his left eyebrow.

Larry Craford - After his return from Mexico, Oswald visited an employment center in Dallas, where he meets with a woman called Laura Kittrell. Kittrell describes Oswald as a biker type with violent tendencies, who at one point slammed his fist on the desk so hard it caused a vase to tip over, before storming out yelling obscenities. Kittrell would later go on to identify this man to Jim Garrison as Larry Crafard, a drifter who worked for Jack Ruby at the Carousel Club.

Bill Boxley, one of Garrison's investigators, described Crafard's testimony as: "textbook quality for any intelligence service's course in resistance to interrogation."

Havana Bar sighting - Oswald was seen in September of 63 at the Havana bar in New Orleans with a stocky Latin man (Lawrence Howard) who ordered tequila, while Oswald ordered a lemonade. The timing of this event coincides with the travels of Howard and Seymour between Dallas, LA, New Orleans and Miami.

Sports Drome - On September 28, Oswald was allegedly at the sports drome firing range, while the official story places him in Mexico city. The gun used by Oswald at the range was described to be an Argentine Mauser, model 1891. Garland Slack had observed Oswald at the range on the 10th, the same day he was seen at the Carousel Club. Oswald was observed being passed three rifles through the fence of the firing range, as apposed to the entrance, by a large man with a beard. (possibly Loran Hall)

Waddell Robertson - Waddell Robertson lived near Oswald's home in Ft. Worth Texas. He told the FBI, that in December of 63 he witnessed who he believed to have been Oswald firing at targets from his backyard, however, at the time of this account, Oswald would have been in New Orleans, moving back to Texas on October 3rd.

Job interview - Oswald reportedly arrived at a job interview at the KOPY Radio Station, in a grey, beat up 1952-3 model car, although there is no evidence that Oswald had ever owned or driven a car. Witnesses to this meeting would describe Oswald as having several days of un-shaved stubble. According to Perry Russo, the man he had known as Leon had shaved his beard some time in September, leaving only stubble.

Clinton Voter Registration - Oswald also tried getting a job at the Louisiana State Hospital, the same hospital which Jack Martin had been admitted to for extreme exposure to LSD; the same hospital which Rose Cheramie would be admitted to, and the same hospital where Oswald's mad aunt, Pearl Claverie, had been sent. Oswald talked to Reeves Morgan, the state representative from East Feliciana Parish, who told him he would only be obliged to recommend him if he registered in his parish and was on the voting rolls. It was for this reason that Oswald was spotted at the Clinton Voter Registration in a grey Plymouth with David Ferrie and Clay Shaw.

Anne Hundley Dischler was an investigator who briefly worked on Jim Garrison's probe. She partnered with Lt. Francis Fruge and conducted fieldwork in Clinton, Louisiana, where they interviewed witnesses and gathered evidence. Dischler and Fruge discovered that Oswald’s name had been erased from a voter registration book, but the letters were still faintly visible; when they returned to obtain a copy, the page was missing.

Landlord - Alvene Magee was a landlord who met with with Oswald about renting a room. She recalled Oswald arriving in a light colored station wagon. When he got out of the car, he proceeded to tell her his life story, how he spent three years in Russia, how he was a Marxist before explaining to her what a Marxist is. He also asked if she had good locks on the apartment to house his collection of guns, even mentioning that one had a telescopic sight. As Oswald left, he made a passing comment: "I hear Kennedy's going to make a tour down the Southern states."

Other means of his set up

Oswald's Rifle - Oswald allegedly used a 6.5 Carcano, which was linked to him per a money order and a photograph of him holding it with communist propaganda in the other hand.

This photograph has been scrutinized for irregularities from Oswald's unnatural posture to the shading on his face.

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Stephen Jaffe, a photographic analyst for Jim Garrison, believed that a single shot of Oswald's head had been superimposed onto the incriminating picture in question, which can be gleaned from overlapping the two. The photograph itself was taken by Marina Oswald, and posted by Kerry Thornley. Marina was threatened by FBI and their interpreter, Leon Gopadze, with deportation back to Russia if she didn't “comply”.

Jack Crichton, a Dallas oil man and former Army Intelligence officer, played a role in handling Marina, arranging for Ilya Mamantov, a Russian-speaking anti-Communist activist, to serve as an interpreter during her initial questioning by Dallas authorities.

As for the money order, Oswald's was printed on paper, as the ink had bled through to the other side, whereas in 1963, all US postal money orders were printed on hard card stock. The edges are frayed when they should rigid, and it lacks the proper banking stamps on the side. What's more, the money order was purchased on March 12, 1963, but according to the WC, it was deposited into Klein's bank account February 15, a month before the money order was purchased.

This discredits both CIA associate, George de Mohrenschildt and Oswald's neighbors, the Paine's as witnesses, who claimed to have seen Oswald with the rifle. De Mohrenschildt was Oswald's only friend in Dallas. He would later confess in a Newsweek article that Oswald was introduced to him at the instigation of a CIA agent.

Shortly after giving this interview, he was found dead from a gun shot to the head. Although ruled a suicide, the Sheriff's report mentions that in his last month he had expressed feelings of persecution from ''unspecified Jewish elements''.

Former police sniper, Brian Edwards pointed out that the Carcano that Oswald had allegedly ordered was not the same version allegedly in his possession. Also, he could have ordered more ammo and a 6 shot magazine, yet he did not, which doesn't explain where he got the rest of the ammunition from. Without that magazine, he would have had to have loaded the bullets manually. We know he had a clip because it can be seen in a picture with Lt. Day.

If Oswald fired 3 shots, but 4 bullets were found, where is the rest of the 46 bullets that were sold together? In the investigation, the FBI stated that it was unable to determine where or when Oswald got the ammunition. Postal Inspector, Harry Holmes, could not find any postal employee who remembered giving such a package to Oswald. In addition to this, Oswald ordered the rifle under the debunked alias of “Alek Hidell” and had it shipped to his Dallas post office box. However, his application for the box did not list “Alek Hidell” as an authorized recipient.

Oswald's Revolver - Oswald allegedly used a revolver to kill Officer J.D. Tippit during his escape from Dealy Plaza. Oswald's revolver was allegedly picked up on March 20th, however the receipt for the pick up was signed by someone called "Paxton." The only thing linking the gun to Oswald is the notice for in-person pickup said to have been delivered to Oswald's mailbox in Dallas, yet there is no evidence of this notice's existence, as no one has been able to produce a copy of it.

Oswald is said to have rented a room at 621 N. Marsalis in Dallas from a woman named Mary Bledsoe. Coincidentally, Bledsoe is also one of the two witnesses who attempted to place Oswald on the Dallas Transit Company bus. Bledsoe's testimony includes lines like: ''I’m not suppose to know about things; ''the only time I was not watching him''; ''I read about his pregnant wife in the papers''; and ''I forget what I have to say''. Her best fuck up was mentioning a hole in Oswald's sleeve, and that all his buttons were torn off, resulting from his scuffle with the police in the theater—but, this event took place after the bus incident.

Apparently, Mary Bledsoe had notes in her testimony, which she said she needed because she forgot what she was meant to say.

Bledsoe had a cousin called Jewell Germany Jr., who was an air force officer. Germany had a cousin called R.D. Mathews, who was a known associate of Jack Ruby. In October of 1963, Ruby placed a call to Mathews home. What's also suspicious is that Mary's son, Porter was in the civil air patrol, and trained by David Ferrie.

After spending a week at 621 N. Marsalis, Oswald allegedly rented a room from Gladys Johnson at 1026 N. Beckley in Oak Cliff. House keeper, Erlene Roberts put Oswald at Beckley from October 14 through to November 22, however Ruth Paine Puts Oswald at her residence in Irving, Texas throughout that time.

Erlene Roberts had a sister called Bertha Cheek, a businesswoman involved mainly in housing and real-estate, who had previously been involved in the nightclub business. During this time, she had become a friend and associate of Jack Ruby, and had even spent several hours with him at the Carousel Club.

Oswald's ID - The DoD id found on Oswald during his arrest is a fake. Its expiration date is a day off from the expiration date of the one issued to him when he left the Marines. The photo on it was taken in Minsk, even though the ID was issued to him in September of 1959, before he went to Minsk. The signature doesn't match his own. The number: 4271617 is the actual number of Oswald's legitimate card, so whoever faked it must have known the real one.

Evidence Tampering - The Dallas police collected around 230 pieces of evidence from Oswald's place. On November 23, the FBI came and confiscated all of it, returning them to the Dallas police with an additional 220 items, including manufactured, 10 year old tax documents and employment cards. Researcher, John Armstrong found that these tax documents had all had been typed on the same typewriter.

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By: Cory Hughes...

Raped by: Otto Heckel