[MeekOneGOP]

Interesting article here.

In all the years since JFK was assassinated, I don't recall this character Buell Frazier at all.

In the video here, he states that he was arrested and interrogated by the FBI. And that they tried to get him to sign a confession that he helped in the assassination. He refused, saying that all he had done was offer Oswald a ride to work that morning, as he had done on occasion prior to the day Kennedy was assassinated.

Interesting video of Buell Frazier at the source link ...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/111608dnentfrazierjfk.3d76e89.html

[MeekOneGOP]

Interesting article here, fyi.

Pingin’ a few folks here!

[MeekOneGOP]

Interesting article here.

Pingin’ a few Texans!

[ETL]

Figures. Not a word I could find mentioning Oswald's strong communist leanings.

Lee Harvey Oswald
From wikipedia (with references at site) :

Around the age of fifteen, he became an ardent Marxist solely from his private reading on the topic. He wrote in his diary, "I was looking for a key to my environment, and then I discovered socialist literature. I had to dig for my books in the back dusty shelves of libraries."[13] At 16 he wrote to the Socialist Party of America, stating that he was a Marxist who had been studying socialist principles for "well over fifteen months," and asked for information about their youth league.[14]

While in the Marines, Oswald was trained in the use of the M1 Garand rifle. Following that training, he was tested in December of 1956, and obtained a score of 212, which was 2 points above the minimum for qualifications as a sharpshooter. In May 1959, on another range, Oswald scored 191, which was 1 point over the minimum for ranking as a marksman.[17]

Small and frail compared to the other Marines, he was nicknamed Ozzie Rabbit after the cartoon character. His shyness and Soviet sympathies alienated him from his fellow Marines. Ostracism only seemed to provoke him into being a stauncher, more outspoken communist. For his steadfast beliefs, his nickname ultimately became Oswaldskovich.

Life in the Soviet Union

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,[19] got an early "hardship" discharge by (falsely) claiming he needed to care for his injured mother,[20] got a passport, and submitted several fictional applications to foreign universities in order to obtain a student visa (and possibly help avoid Marine Corps reserve duty).

After spending only three days with his mother in Fort Worth, he departed by ship from New Orleans on September 20, 1959, for the Soviet Union, first arriving in Le Havre in France, then to London,England and eventually Oswald to a Finnair flight to Helsinki, Finland as part of a package tour. Oswald landed to Helsinki airport in October 10 at 23.30 a.m. he registered at the Hotel Torni but two days later , he moved to the Kurki Hotel.Oswald applied for a visa at the embassy on October 12, his first business day in Helsinki. Oswalds visa was issued on October 14. It was valid until October 20 and permitted him to take one trip of not more than 6 days to the Soviet Union. He left from Helsinki Central Railway Station by train next day on October 15 to Moscow and when he crossed the Finnish-Russian border at Vainikkala, he arrived to Moscow on October 16." [21] When he arrived in the Soviet Union and showed up unexpectedly at the Embassy in Moscow, he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship.[22][23] When the Navy Department learned of this, it changed Oswald's Marine Corps discharge from "hardship/honorable" to "undesirable."[24]

Oswald told a reporter in Moscow, "For two years I've had it in my mind, don't form any attachments, because I knew I was going away. I was planning to divest myself of everything to do with the United States."[25] To another reporter he said, "I would not consider returning to the United States," and referred to the Soviet government as "my government."[26] His wish to remain in the Soviet Union was initially applauded by the Soviets, but although he had some technical knowledge acquired in the Marines they soon discovered he had little of real value to offer the Soviet Union and his application for Soviet residency was rejected.[27] In response, Oswald made a bloody but minor cut to his left wrist in his hotel room bathtub. After bandaging his superficial injury, the cautious Soviets kept him under psychiatric observation at the Botkin Hospital.[28][29] Although this attempt may have been no more than an attention-getting ruse, the Soviet government feared an international incident if he were to attempt something similar again.

New Orleans

Oswald returned to New Orleans, arriving on the morning of April 25, 1963 looking for work. After Oswald got a job as a machinery greaser with the Reily Coffee Company in May, Marina was driven there by family friend Ruth Paine. Oswald was fired for inefficiency and dereliction of duty on July 19.

During this period, Oswald began to consider returning to the Soviet Union or going to Cuba.[57] He had Marina write to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. about the possibility of their returning to the Soviet Union.[58] His Marxist ideals became focused on Fidel Castro and Cuba and he soon became a vocal pro-Castro advocate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald

[Joiseydude]

Discovery Channel has a special on tonight at 9PM Eastern time called, “JFK: Inside the Target Car”

[BGHater]

Kinda related, in the News of late.

Tech Puts JFK Conspiracy Theories to Rest[Discovery Channel]

[nufsed]

Oswald’s Ghost tomorrow night on American Experience PBS.

[Rennes Templar]

“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. Oswald cupped the package in his hand, he said, and it fit under his armpit.

In Washington, Mr. Frazier said, he was “pressured” to change his recollection. In the days afterward, he was badgered by the media, harassed by people who didn’t understand his relationship to Oswald and even became fearful for his life.

His testimony was important because investigators had proved that Oswald bought the rifle used in the JFK slaying and had found a matching palm print on the stock, but they had no proof that he had it with him that day.

Ms. Randle, who was also a leading witness, said recently that when she and Mr. Frazier testified before the Warren Commission, “they tried to get us to say that package was much longer than we recalled, but that wasn’t true.”

[ml/nj]

Ms. Randle, who was also a leading witness, said recently that when she and Mr. Frazier testified before the Warren Commission, "they tried to get us to say that package was much longer than we recalled, but that wasn't true."

The commission kept pushing, Mr. Frazier said. Could it be that he was traumatized by the horror of what happened or embarrassed that he hadn't been more observant?

"I know what I saw," he said, "and I've never changed one bit."

Gives you a real warm feeling about the quality of the "investigation." (And I'm one of those folks who thinks that maybe Oswald did it.)

ML/NJ

[expatpat]

I don’t know that carbine, but wasn’t it possible for Oswald to have disassembled the stock from the barrel?

[RetiredArmy]

After Kennedy was murdered, they came out with a memorial type book about the assassination. It was called Four Days. My mom bought it. I still have it. I also still have the two local newspapers with the headlines about Kennedy being assassinated. My local rag and the old Birmingham Post Herald. Both are very yellow now days, but I have them in a large envelope in my wife's cedar chest.

[Monsieur Poirot]

for later

[ETL]

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

________________________________________________________

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

[Cacique]

Bump

[mass55th]

There’s a new program on the Discovery Channel tonight at 9 p.m. eastern time. It’s called JFK: Inside the Target Car. According to the description, forensic experts uncover new evidence surrounding the assassination.

[A CA Guy]

DU said George Bush and Republicans did it.

[wardaddy]

there is much collateral stuff around the Kennedy assasination tht will always raise eyebrows....it’s amazing really

but it is plausible that uberkook Oswald did simply take his Carcano 6.5 bolt action rifle and make the three shots, two of which hit and killed the president and wounded Big John and scraped a bystander down the road.

it’s very plausible, I’m pretty sure I could make those shots....certain of it when I was younger and quicker and steadier

the intrigue is amongst the unusual circles Oswald ran in

[McGruff]

Mr. Ford told a Dallas Morning News reporter that day: "I have never believed Mr. Frazier was involved in anything more than being a good neighbor, a good friend. I don't think he even knew Oswald very well."

I see nothing more than that here. I see more conspiracy in Obama's birth certificate than this.

[joesbucks]

Interesting read. Thanks for the article link.

[topher]

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[USAF70]

I was 13 years old when Kennedy was killed but I remember him speaking these words and they have stuck with me all these years:

“The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the Americans freedom and before I leave office I must inform the Citizen of his plight.”

10 days later Kennedy was murdered in Dallas.

Had I not heard these words I may have believed The ‘Oswald’ theory. To me at least there was a whole lot more going on than the ‘Lone Gunman’ scenario.