Oswald co-worker no longer silent about JFK assassination role (Buell Frazier)

The Dallas Morning News ^ | November 16, 2008 | By HUGH AYNESWORTH / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

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Oswald co-worker no longer silent about JFK assassination role

01:56 AM CST on Sunday, November 16, 2008

By HUGH AYNESWORTH / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

LEWISVILLE – Buell Frazier wants to tell it like it is – or was – on a very important day in U.S. history 45 years ago in Dallas.

The quiet, thoughtful man of 64 is not as well-known as some of the others who skyrocketed to fame or infamy in November 1963. But Mr. Frazier played a defining, if unintentional, role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

He drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work that fateful Nov. 22.

And the Warren Commission, the investigative committee appointed to explain all aspects of Mr. Kennedy's death, claimed that Oswald carried his cheap mail-order rifle to work with him in Mr. Frazier's car.

That put Mr. Frazier in the spotlight immediately after Oswald was captured – and long afterward as a mourning nation sought to find an explanation to the tragedy.

With but a few exceptions, he has kept almost 4 ½ decades of angst, frustration, fear and occasionally even fury bottled up.

All Mr. Frazier did was offer a friendly gesture to a man he hardly knew.

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In mid-September 1963, Mr. Frazier, 19, moved to Irving to live with his sister, Linnie Mae Randle, her husband and three children.

He slept on his sister's couch, drove a clunker Chevy and was pleased to be earning $1.25 an hour, then the minimum wage, at the Texas School Book Depository.

As a teenager in Huntsville, Mr. Frazier had deftly ...

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Ayers dedicated Weather Underground manifesto book to Robert Kennedy assassin, Sirhan Sirhan...

From Fox News, October 30, 2008:

This is a rush transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," October 30, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: And there is another breaking development tonight concerning the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. Now "Hannity & Colmes" has, in fact, obtained a copy of this book. It is written by Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn in 1974. It's called: "Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism."

Now this book proved very difficult to obtain. Even in the New York City Public Library, one of the largest libraries in the world could not provide us with a copy of this book.

Now the book reads like a manifesto of the Weather Underground but the most shocking thing is on the dedication page. Mr. Ayers and his band of terrorists devote the book to, quote, "all political prisoners in the U.S.," and the book then lists about 100 or so names.

Among the names they list a U.S. political prisoner, Sirhan Sirhan. That's right. This college professor, who is just a guy from the neighborhood who never meant to hurt anybody, who bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, New York City police headquarters, dedicated his book to the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445556,00.html
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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410

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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

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[sportutegrl]

This should give the conspiracy theorists something new to chew on.

[JimSEA]

Back then, it was reported in the major newspapers, magazines and on the daily news.

Absolutely true!! A great deal was made out of Oswald's communist sympathy and ties. Any attempt to diminish his politics has come at least several years after the assassination.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Nobody will ever put all of the conspiracy theories to rest.
Even if the official version from the “Warren Report” is the truth, there was so much evidence that was lost, destroyed, or ignored to ever know the truth.

[MeekOneGOP]

That was GREAT that ABC finally got Ayers on their
Good Morning America show this week, huh?

ONLY TEN DAYS AFTER the election!

Way to go, Liberal Biased Media jerks !!

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Anyone who seriously believes the average American citizen knows this about Oswald is an idiot. You think the young people of today are aware of it? Not a chance. And even if they’ve heard ‘something’ of it, their left-wing teacher no doubt would have ‘informed’ them that it is just another wacky conspiracy theory of the lunatic right. They do this sort of thing with everything involving the communist movement.

[NTHockey]

>>In October 1959, Oswald immigrated to the Soviet Union. He was nineteen, and the trip was planned well in advance. Along with having taught himself rudimentary Russian, he had saved $1,500 of his Marine Corps salary<<

The pay rate in 1959 for Marine Private was $76 a month - meaning that Oswald would have had to save ~ 25 months after-tax pay. Even if was an E-3, pay rate was $108/month.

That’s what they were paying me at the time.

[MeekOneGOP]

Anywhoo ...

gotta head out for the day now.

Have a great Sunday!!

[freekitty]

I believe Kennedy’s own government did him in. The CIA. If you really think about it; who is really big enough to carry something like this out and get away with it. Kennedy had his problems with the CIA. Of course, there was the Bay of Pigs.

[RGPII]

There are interesting aspects to the assassination but this story isn’t that exciting... but as someone mentioned, perhaps that paper bag is still around.

[basil]

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[Cedric]

It all fits.

Except for one thing.

Conspiracies of that magnitude ALWAYS have tattlers.

[don-o]

OK. Just glad Jim doesn’t ban idiots.

Attack dogs, ontoh, usually have a short stay. Good luck.

[wideminded]

In his testimony before the Warren Commission, Mr. Frazier said the brown paper package Oswald carried that morning was too short to contain a rifle.

Frazier has always said that Oswald claimed that the package contained curtain rods. How many curtain rods are shorter than a (possibly disassembled) rifle?

[RGPII]

There seems to be an interesting book out there I’d say on the basis of articles I have read called something like “Someone would have spoken” which deals exactly with that.

There was also Bugliosi’s recent book for the lone assassin theory, “Case Closed” I believe is the name of the book.

A lot of reading all around.

A good reference for those interested in the assassination is the JFK Lancer site. I don’t think it is political it just discusses theories. However, I’m dissapointed that it does seem they’ve added on some one with the oddball theories to their lineup or at least advertisers.

[freekitty]

You are right and there were tattlers.