Add the LHO file to the other real KGB files I would love to see: Bill Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, Strobe Talbot, Al Gore Sr. and Jr. and a couple of hundred others!
Try again, Stratfor.
THIS is in direct contradiction as the interview with a KGB head recalled on the Frontline program ...
OSWALD was identified as being of little use, and if INDEED there to 'spy' "this would have been a poor reflection CIA and FBI" ...
Marina Oswald Porter's 04/96 Letter to the ARRB Assassination Records Review Board Hearing in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA - September 17, 1996 --- The Assassination Records Review Board was given 17 boxes of never-before-seen documents belonging to the late J. Lee Rankin, General Counsel for the Warren Commission, by his son this week. Testifying before the ARRB in a Public Hearing in Los Angeles, James Rankin, the son of J. Lee Rankin, said his family found the boxes about six months ago. These documents and other materials were offered to the ARRB, a federal commission established to collect documents on the JFK assassination. The ARRB also made public a request from Marina Oswald Porter, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, asking the board to investigate his involvement with the FBI. (Reprinted below.) "I definitely think that Lee Oswald did not kill President Kennedy," she wrote. "I think he was given up to pacify people as a patsy...I believe that the documents I have requested will be eye-openers." Also testifying this week were: - David Belin, former Assistant Counsel to the Warren Commission; - James DiEugenio, author of DESTINY BETRAYED: JFK, CUBA AND THE GARRISON CASE; - Eric Hamburg, co-Producer of the Oliver Stone film, NIXON, and a Congressional staff assistant involved in the passage of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992; - Wesley Liebeler, former Assistant Counsel to the Warren Commission; - David Lifton, author of BEST EVIDENCE: DISGUISE AND DECEPTION IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY; - Robert Tanenbaum, former Deputy Counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations and author of CORRUPTION OF BLOOD; and - Steven Tilley, who oversees the JFK Collection at the National Archives. ARRB Board Chair John Tunheim and Board Members William L. Joyce, Dr. Anna K. Nelson, and Kermit L. Hall were present (Board Member Henry Graff was unable to attend), as were ARRB Executive Director David G. Marwell, Press & Public Affairs Officer Tom Samoluk, Press & Public Affairs Assistant Eileen Sullivan, and Administration Officer Tracy Shycoff. - Clint Bradford =============================================== Marina Oswald Porter's 04/96 Letter to the ARRB =============================================== April 19, 1996 Mr. John Tunheim, Chairman JFK Assassination Records Review Board 600 E Street N.W., Second Floor Washington, D.C. 20530 (Certified Mail No. P 271 942 632) Dear Mr. Tunheim: I am writing to you regarding the release of still classified documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy and to my former husband, Lee Harvey Oswald. Specifically, I am writing to ask about documents I have learned of from a recent book and from a story in the Washington Post by the authors of the same book (as well as other documents they have described to me). The book reviews Dallas police, FBI, and CIA files released since 1992, and places them in the context of previously known information. I would like to know what the Review Board is doing to obtain the following: 1. The Dallas field office and headquarters FBI reports on the arrests of Donnell D. Whitter and Lawrence R. Miller in Dallas on November 18, 1963 with a carload of stolen U.S. army weapons. I believe that Lee Oswald was the FBI informant who made these arrests possible. I would also like to know what your board has done to obtain the reports of the U.S. Marshal and the U.S. Army on the same arrests, and the burglary these men were suspected of. 2. The records of the FBI interrogations of John Franklin Elrod, John Forrester Gedney and Harold Doyle (the latter men were previously known as two of the "three tramps") in the Dallas jail November 22-24, 1963. All of these men have stated that they were interrogated during that time by the FBI. 3. The official explanation of why the arrest records for Mr. Elrod, Mr. Gedney and Mr. Doyle, as well as for Daniel Wayne Douglas and Gus Abrams were placed "under federal seal" in the Dallas Police Records Division for 26 years as described by Dallas City Archives supervisor Laura McGhee to the FBI in 1992. 4. The FULL records of the interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald, including his interrogation in the presence of John Franklin Elrod as described by Elrod in an FBI report dated August 11, 1964. 5. The reports of army intelligence agent Ed J. Coyle on his investigation of Captain George Nonte, John Thomas Masen, Donnell D. Whitter, Lawrence R. Miller, and/or Jack Ruby. I am also requesting that you obtain agent Coyle's reports as army liason for presidential protection on November 22, 1963 (as described by Coyle's commanding officer Col. Robert Jones in sworn testimony to the House Select Committee on Assassinations). If the army does not immediately produce these documents, they should be required to produce agent Coyle to explain what happened to his reports. 6. Secret Service reports and tapes of that agency's investigation of Father Walter Machann and Silvia Odio in 1963-64. 7. Reports of the FBI investigation of Cuban exiles in Dallas, to include known but still classified documents on Fermin de Goicochea Sanchez, Father Walter Machann and the Dallas Diocese Catholic Cuban Relocation Committee. These would include informant files for Father Machann and/or reports of interviews of Father Machann by Dallas FBI agent W. Heitman. 8. The full particulars and original of the teletype received by Mr. William Walter in the New Orleans FBI office on the morning of November 17, 1963, warning of a possible assassination attempt on President Kennedy in Dallas. I now believe that my former husband met with the Dallas FBI on November 16, 1963, and provided informant information on which this teletype was based. 9. A full report of Lee Harvey Oswald's visit to the Dallas FBI office on November 16, 1963. 10. A full account of FBI agent James P. Hosty's claim (in his recent book, ASSIGNMENT: OSWALD) that Lee Harvey Oswald knew of a planned "paramilitary invasion of Cuba" by "a group of right wing Cuban exiles in outlying areas of New Orleans." We now know that such an invasion was indeed planned by a Cuban group operating on CIA payroll in Miami, New Orleans, and Dallas-- the same group infiltrated by Lee Oswald. We know this information ONLY from documents released since 1992, as described in the book I have mentioned. On what basis did agent Hosty believe Lee "had learned" of these plans, unless Lee himself told him this? I am therefore specifically requesting the release of the informant report that Lee Oswald provided to agent Hosty and/or other FBI personnel on this intelligence information. The time for the Review Board to obtain and release the most important documents related to the assassination of President Kennedy is running out. At the time of the assassination of this great president whom I loved, I was misled by the "evidence" presented to me by government authorities and I assisted in the conviction of Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin. From the new information now available, I am now convinced that he was an FBI informant and believe that he did not kill President Kennedy. It is time for Americans to know their full history. On this day when I and all Americans are grieving for the victims of Oklahoma City, I am also thinking of my children and grandchildren, and of all American children, when I insist that your board give the highest priority to the release of the documents I have listed. This is the duty you were charged with by law. Anything else is unacceptable -- not just to me, but to all patriotic Americans. Please be advised that this is an open letter, and I intend to make it available to anyone who wishes to see it. The time for secrecy in government is over. I ask that you respond to me in writing within two weeks, and will take no further action until then. Thank you for your attention to my requests. Sincerely, Marina Porter (signed) cc: Rep. John Conyers Jr. Rep. Newt Gingrich Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez Rep. Lee H. Hamilton Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy Sen. William S. Cohen Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Sen. Bob Kerrey Sen. John Kerry Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Sen. Arlen Specter --end--
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"Better to struggle in convulsions,/To be in delirium at death's door at night,/Than to take yesterday's murderer/As a family doctor."
"Sometimes he hears about his father,/That he was kind, brave, and stubborn,/But he does not write his father's surname"
"When times come to strike the enemy,/Fight them off from all frontiers,/Left side, right side, look sharp!"
"Schicklgruber, Adolf (H.)"
(translated excerpts from the poetry notebook of Marina Oswald)
Warren Commission exhibits 106 and 107
"He passed on a perfect shot, choosing instead to allow the motorcade to turn left and proceed below his window, and then took a much more difficult shot with his view partially obscured by a tree."
Maybe he had the shot lined up but hesitated at seeing JFKs face. It was to his advantage that the shots were taken from behind, as all attention / momentum would be rolling away from the scene. With the sun coming in the window it would also be an advantage to hide in the shadows with an eye toward the other sixth floor windows. A straight shot at the motorcade head on would have made for greater exposure; possibly the need to stick the barrel out the window.
You know, I've been an asassination buff since the book "Six Seconds in Dallas" came out but I've never thought of what the above points out.
I found an aerial shot of the area and sure enough, Oswald (or whoever) DOES have a better angle after the motorcade turns off of Main onto Houston.
The motorcade would remain slow because of the next turn onto Elm which is a 90+ degree angle.
Interesting. I wonder why he waited.
Here's the photo:
Kennedy Assassination Home Page
Lee Harvey Oswald's Paper Bag
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Warren Report: Table of Contents
One Hundred Errors of Fact and Judgment in Oliver Stone's JFK
The Academic JFK Assassination Web Site
HSCA (House Select Committee on Assassinations) Final Assassinations Report
A Critique of The Warren Report
Attempted assassination of General Walker
Oswald interviews, Acoustic studies and other information relating to the assassination of JFK
Queen of Diamonds
Zapruder 313
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Photos and Illustrations of the JFK Assassination
Zapruder Head Shot
A Conspiracy Too Big? Intellectual Dishonesty in the JFK Assassination
The Single Bullet Strikes John Connally
Changed Motorcade Route in Dallas?
Two shots in 8 seconds is "outside their box of credibility"?
I think this article is outside my box of credibility.
“...went to the Dallas police station on an impulse and was so overwhelmed by uncontrollable rage at the death...” Ruby informed his friends in the Dallas Police Department after his arrest that he decided not to shoot Oswald Friday night, 11/22/1963, at his “press conference” for fear he might injure one of them in the process. By definition he was guilty of premeditated murder.