He wrote and signed a letter to the newspaper with the other 6 Cuban students. The letter protested USA policy towards Cuban refugees. He didn’t want the USA to accept any Cuban pro-Baptista refugees. He wanted their blood. He wanted Castro to try them like “common criminals”. There’s no doubt that is Rafael Cruz.
I agree the Oswald one is not as clear cut, but it was four years later and there really weren’t that many pro-Castro Cubans in the States at the time. Both had lived in New Orleans in the 60’s. When he was at the University of Texas, there were only 15 Cubans altogether. 6 participated in the rally, including Cruz.
We don’t have a good timeline for Cruz like everything else about the man. I’m sure the FBI does though, since he was a foreign student participating in anti-American rallies.
I am sure the CIA must have a file on Rafael Cruz, or whomever he was at the time. His pro-Castro sentiments explain why he was not resettled in the Cuban communities; Rafael =Shark food. So they settled the communist pro-Castro men in Texas or New Orleans.
Rafael’s entire timeline is suspect. It’s amazing he began college studies without understanding English and graduated in four years.
I found something today that I need to post on this thread. There was a post online “refuting” the photo of the guy with Oswald, saying that the FBI knows who the guy is, Charles Hall Steele, and his named statement is at the link. But if you read the whole statement, the guy who wrote the statement is not the guy people think might be Rafael Cruz. At the end, the paid white guy Charles mentions the darker guy and guesses he was also hired for a couple bucks to pass out leaflets. But the entire thing is NOT a refutation of the guy being the elder Cruz.
https://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/310366001/Charles-Hall-Steele-Hired-to-Distribute-Leaflets