"...In testifying to the Warren Commission a capella, that is, without notes, [DPD CAPT Will] Fritz gave a distorted version of Oswald’s alibi, claiming that Oswald had said that he had eaten lunch
with two of the black employees, “Junior” and a “short fellow” (4WH213, 224). Fritz’ brief handwritten notes, donated to the National Archives thirty years after the fact, do not reflect that version, noting only, "two negr. came in, one Jr.- + short negro-." (Fritz Notes, p. 1)
The Warren Commission and Bugliosi cite the two employees, Junior Jarman and Harold Norman, as denying that they ate lunch with Oswald, and therefore that Oswald’s alibi was a lie (WR180, 195). In doing so they ignored the account of the two FBI agents who were present during the interrogation and who, unlike Fritz, had filed a written report on Oswald’s statements. According to the FBI report, Oswald had actually said that he had eaten lunch alone.
"On November 22, 1963, he had eaten lunch in the lunch room alone, but recalled possibly two Negro employees walking through the room during this period. He stated possibly one of these employees was called "Junior" and the other was a short individual whose name he could not recall but whom he would be able to recognize." (WR622)
In fact, during their Warren Commission testimony, Junior Jarman and Harold Normanseparately confirmed that they had "walked through" the first floor lounge, known as the domino room, to retrieve their sandwiches, thus independently corroborating Oswald's account...When asked if anyone else was in the domino room, Norman, who did eat his sandwich in the lounge before joining his friends to watch the motorcade, responded that in fact somebody else was present, but he could not remember who it was (3WH189).
Hence Oswald had somehow correctly guessed not only the people who had been in the lunchroom that day, but their actions, even though they were different from the usual...the statements by the black employees which actually corroborated Oswald’s alibi, is twisted by Bugliosi to make it appear that Oswald had lied.
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occurring
in Dallas some seven months prior to the Kennedy
assassination
on April 10, 1963.
Lee H. Oswald was never considered a suspect until after his
widow, Marina, was questioned, under suspicious circumstances and without any
outside protection from threats, including deportation threats, which we now
know influenced her testimony significantly. Even though the Warren Commission assured her she would not be deported, previous to that, Marina had been threatened, during interrogations by the FBI, with deportation if she did not cooperate (viz: Vol. I, p 79, Vol. I, p. 410). With Oswald dead, Marina faced possible arrest and execution had she
been deported back to the USSR, with her American-born infant left behind, to
say nothing of what might have happened to her Soviet-born toddler.
DECEPTION IN THE CASE ABOUNDS
The
“Magic Bullet” --found on an unrelated stretcher not belonging to Governor Connally or to
Kennedy in Parkland Hospital --is identified, nevertheless, by the Warren Commission as the bullet
fired by Lee Oswald from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book
Depository Building.
(Note that Wikipedia --influenced by planted disinformaton specialists --tells us:
"...The bullet .....was recovered from Governor Connally'sstretcherlater at Parkland Hospital." )
Here is the truth: Parkland Hospital employee Darrell Tomlinson found the bullet, which had no blood or tissue on it, today believed to have been a stretcher belonging to a boy, Ronnie Fuller. The stretcher was near Connally's. Tomlinson's statements can be viewed here:
IN THIS VIDEO, TOMLINSON IS GIVEN FULL OPPORTUNITY TO SAY IT WASN'T CONNALLY'S STRETCHER
However, another video is available calculated to show something entirely different--someone interviews Tomlinson again, and makes it seem that Tomlinson found the bullet on Connally's stretcher: be VERY alert, because Tomlinson only said he didn't know who was on the stretcher. The interviewer then asks if Connally's stretcher came down on that elevator, and after Tomlinson agrees, the interview is soon cut off. However, from the first video, we know Tomlinson was talking about the stretcher that was NOT Connally's.
IN THIS VIDEO, TOMLINSON IS CUT OFF BEFORE HE CAN SAY IT WASN'T CONNALLY'S STRETCHER...
This kind of deception permeates YouTube, Warren Commission apologist arguments, and almost all of the sites that first pop up on the Internet about the Kennedy assassination.
Now that you're alert to how cleverly evidence and witnesses can be manipulated, let's move on to look at more evidence in the Walker shooting case, showing how Lee Oswald very likely had nothing to do with the incident at all. It's a long journey, but at its end, you'll see a dozen more examples of an almost fiendish will to convict Lee Oswald using every possible kind of deception, and you will be an expert at how these deceptions were used to frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
Let's start with a blatant lie created by the Warren Commission:
DID OSWALD FIRE A COPPER-CLAD BULLET AT GENERAL WALKER?
The Magic bullet was supposed to be responsible for creating seven distinct sites of damage to muscles, rib
bones and wrist bones, before somehow exiting Connally’s body in the operating
room to land onto somebody else’s stretcher out in the hallway. the bullet was copper-jacketed:
The “Magic Bullet” CE399 (above and right, below) is compared to "The Walker Bullet" --as so labeled by The Warren Commission. But there are huge problems with this bullet.
ORIGINALLY, THE COMPOSITION OF THE BULLETS' JACKETS DIDN'T MATCH --BUT YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT FROM THIS PHOTO!
Despite the photo above, the bullet recovered in the Walker incident by the Dallas police was described as not as copper-jacketed, but as steel-jacketed. HERE IS THE POLICE REPORT:
THE BULLETS' COMPOSITIONS DIDN'T MATCH
Furthermore, the composition of the "Walker bullet" as reported as analyzed by 3/27/64 did not match the composition of a bullet fragment found in the Kennedy limo attributable to a bullet fragment supposedly only able to have come from Oswald's rifle.
This
April 10, 1963 report is in the Warren Commission exhibits, stating that the
bullet was of ‘unknown caliber” and “steel jacket.”
The Commission stated that CE573 --The copper jacketed bullet shown above with CE399 (The "Magic Bullet") was "the
Walker bullet" -- even though Walker himself – an eyewitness when the bullet was
recovered in his own house--disagreed vehemently. You can read his letter here:
Walker to FBI: "The
bullet before your select committee called the Walker bullet is not the Walker
bullet. It is not the bullet that was fired at me and taken out of my house by
the Dallas City Police on April 10, 1963. The bullet you have was not gotten
from me or taken out of my house by anyone at anytime."
Walker
then sends a mailogram to Blakey that
the bullet recovered was nothing more than a hunk of lead that didn't even
resemble a bullet:
"The
bullet used and pictured on the TV by US Senate G.Robert Blakey Committee on
Assassinations is a ridiculous substitute fora bullet completely mutilated by such obstruction,
b[e]aring no resemblance to any unfired bullet in shape or form.
I saw thehunk of lead, picked up by a policeman in my house, and I took it from him and I
inspected it carefully. There is no mistake.There has been a substitutionfor the bullet fired by Oswald and taken out of
my house."
WALKER COMPLAINS THAT THE BULLET ON DISPLAY IS "A RIDICULOUS SUBSTITUTE"
The Warren Commission told Walker he was wrong, and then told the American people that the bullet known as CE573 was the one that Oswald shot at Walker.
What did Walker have to say about this? First, Walker believed that Robert Kennedy used Lee Oswald and a second person to shoot him -- two men were seen by a witness Walker trusted as leaving the scene that night in a car, at high speed. Researcher Gil Jesus has compiled the written objections concerning CE573 that Walker made. They are stunning:
Gil Jesus
continues:
In a June,1979 letter to a deputy AG, Walker's attorney noted his
client's experience with weapons and ammunition:
"It
is more probable than not that a person of this experience would know and
recognize the bullet that was fired at him when he and the Dallas police
retrieved and examined the spent bullet at the time of the attempted
assassination on him.
For these reasons I feel
that it is of some weight that the Select Committee and the Department of
Justice consider his opinions with respect to the possibility of substituted
evidence in the House Committee investigation."
The
Jan. 12, 20o12 discussion on Education Forum added this important bit of
information by researcher Martin Hay:
Walker's belief is, of course, supported by the Dallas Police report
which describes the actual bullet as "steel jacket". (24H39)
What is just as interesting, and less well
known, is that the Walker bullet was actually metallurgically distinct from the
JFK assassination bullets. The assassination bullets had a lead core in which
antimony was the major impurity. CE 573 on the other hand had a lead core with
tin as the major impurity. The reason for this is that the lead core of bullets
is usually made from scrap lead because it's the cheapest lead available. This
lead is often hardened by alloying it with antimony. However, during World war
II, there was a shortage of antimony and tin was used instead.
So CE 573 and the assassination bullets were
from different batches made at completely different times - the former during
WWII and the latter during the post-war period.
Gil Jesus responded lengthily about a troubling batch of
problems about how this bullet actually came into the hands of the Dallas
Police:
And there are problems with the chain of
custody. Commission Exhibit 1953 is the FBI report on the Walker shooting.http://history-matte...H23_CE_1953.pdf
In that report, TWO DIFFERENT DETECTIVES CLAIMED
TO HAVE FOUND THE BULLET !!!! ( McElroy and Norvell ) It also claims that Lt.
Day received the bullet from Det. B.G. Brown and took it to the Dallas Police
Crime Lab at Parkland Hospital for an identification. The bullet remained there
from April 25th to December 2, 1963 at which time it as released back to Lt.
Day. The FBI got the bullet on December 4th, but didn't turn it over to the
Commission until March 21, 1964.
The interesting thing in this document is the
reference to the discrepancies in the police reports on page 18.
B . G .
NORVELL States, 'Officer B . G . NORVELL found the bullet. . . " and it
was given to Det. B.G. BROWN, Crime Laboratory Division .
Over a year later, on May 28, 1964, Detective DON MCELROY advised he
found the bullet and turned it over to Officer BROWN .
On the
same date, Officer BROWN stated he obtained the bullet from officer NORVELL.
Officer TUCKER, on June 2, 1964, and formar Officer NORVELL, on June 3, 1964,
both stated NORVELL found the bullet and he, in turn, gave it to McELROY, who
said he would take it or give it to the Dallas Police Department Crime
Laboratory.
So Norvell
says he found the bullet and gave it to Brown. McElroy
says he found the bullet and gave it to Brown. Then, a
few days later, Norvell changes his mind and says that although he found the
bullet, he gave it to McElroy. This version is backed by his partner, Tucker. But Brown
is already on record as saying he received the bullet from Norvell.
There's major problems with this chain of
custody not to mention the fact that none
of these officers were called to testify regarding the identification of CE 573
as the bullet they recovered.
Edited by Gil Jesus, 11 January 2012 - 03:58
AM.
The
icing on this particular hunk of fake cake is this comment by researcher Hay:
“I was always intrigued by this exchange from Robert Frazier's
WC testimony:
Mr.
Eisenberg.Mr.
Frazier, I now hand you a bullet in a pill box which is marked Q-188. I ask you
whether you are familiar with this bullet. I would like to state for the record that this
bullet was found in the Walker residence after the attempted assassination of
General Walker. Mr.
McCloy.As
far as you know,we have no proof of that yet? Mr.
Eisenberg.That
is right (3H438)
From what you've posted, it doesn't appear they
ever did find that proof. “
More than one person was seen by a young witness at the time
of the shooting, leaving the Mormon church parking lot immediately after a shot
rang out. Here is what researcher Gil Jesus has to tell us about that witness:
The Witness
Mr. JENNER. Who is Mr. Coleman? Do you know a man by that
name?
Mr. SURREY. Not personally.
Mr. JENNER. Walker Kirk Coleman.
Mr. SURREY. As I just read on the back of your exhibit, he is the boy that
reported seeing several automobiles at the time of the assassination.
Mr. JENNER. That is immaterial to this issue.( 5 H 448 )
Walter Kirk Coleman
was the 14-year old neighbor of General Walker. On the evening of April 10,
1963, he was working with his godfather building shelves in his room, when he
heard a shot sometime between 9 and 10 pm. He immediately ran from his first
floor bedroom and looked over a stockade fence into the Mormon church parking
lot that adjoined General Walker's property. He saw two men getting into two cars
and leaving the parking lot. On June 3, 1964, FBI agents Robert Barrett and
Ivan Lee interviewed young Coleman, he was able to describe the men he saw and
the cars.
[Note by JVB: the
Warren Commission ignored the fact that this young witness described two men
who in NO WAY resembled Lee Oswald. I will show a section of the last page of
the 3-page FBI interview first, just below:]
Which brings us back to the final
piece of evidence that is supposed to seal Oswald’s being the man who shot at
General Edwin Walker: a note,
written in Russian, where Oswald tells Marina what to do in case he is killed
or arrested. The note is described as written for her guidance just before
Oswald shot Walker, in case Oswald would be arrested or killed. For nearly
fifty years, the American people have been told again and again that Oswald’s
note proves he shot at Walker. It does no such thing. And I can tell you why.
The so-called “Walker note” has two pages, but only one has
usually been shown in articles. Above, both pages are shown, with the
translation provided by The Warren Commission.
The handwriting seems to be Oswald’s and was identified as such. There are eleven items that Lee Oswald wrote
to his wife. They are translated as follows.
1. This is the key to the mailbox which is located in the main
post office in the city on Ervay Street. This is the same street
where the drugstore, in which you always waited is located. You
will find the mailbox in the post office which is located 4
blocks from the drugstore on that street. I paid for the box
last month so don't worry about it.
2. Send the information as to what has happened to me to the
Embassy and include newspaper clippings (should there be anything
about me in the newspapers). I believe that the Embassy will
come quickly to your assistance on learning everything.
3. I paid the house rent on the 2d so don't worry about it.
4. Recently I also paid for water and gas.
5. The money from work will possibly be coming. The money will
be sent to our post office box. Go to the bank and cash the
check.
6. You can either throw out or give my clothing, etc. away. Do
not keep these. However, I prefer that you hold on to my
personal papers (military, civil, etc.).
7. Certain of my documents are in the small blue valise.
8. The address book can be found on my table in the study should
need same.
9. We have friends here. The Red Cross also will help you [Red
Cross in English].
10. I left you as much money as I could, $60 on the second of
the month. You and the baby [apparently] can live for another 2
months using $10 per week.
11. If I am alive and taken prisoner, the city jail is located
at the end of the bridge through which we always passed on going
to the city (right in the beginning of the city after crossing
the bridge).
Marina testified that she originally found this
note in her husband’s “private room” which was the size of a large closet. She
had been told not to enter the room. However, it was Ruth Paine who ‘found’ the
note for the Warren Commission, tucked away, she said, in a book the police
somehow had managed not to confiscate. Researcher
Gil Jesus has worked hard to understand just what “the Walker Note” really
meant. His research on the subject is important:
“The
Commission concluded that Oswald attempted to kill General Walker on April 10,
1963. It was important for the Commission to show that Oswald was the shooter
in order to prove that Oswald had a propensity for violence. In its
report the Commission stated:
"....on
April 10, he attempted to kill Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker (Resigned, U.S. Army),
using a rifle which he had ordered by mail 1 month previously under an assumed
name. Marina Oswald learned of her husband's act when she confronted him with a
note which he had left, giving her instructions in the event he did not return.
." ( Report, pg. 14 )
The Commission
based its conclusion on 4 "facts", the first of which was the note.
"Based on
(1) the contents of the note which Oswald left for his wife on April 10, 1963,
(2) the photographs found among Oswald's possessions, (3) the testimony of
firearms identification experts, and (4) the testimony of Marina Oswald, the
Commission has concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to take the life of
Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker (Resigned, U.S. Army) on April 10, 1963. The finding
that Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to murder a public figure in April 1963 was
considered of probative value in this investigation, although the Commission's
conclusion concerning the identity of the assassin was based on evidence
independent of the finding that Oswald attempted to kill General Walker."
( ibid. pg. 187 )
Commission
Exhibit 1 is the note Oswald allegedly left for his wife. It was written in
Russian. ..
The Discovery of the note
On November 30,
1963, Ruth Paine discovered two Russian language books, one of which was a
housekeeping book whose title translated as "the Book of Helpful
Instructions".
There are several problems with this piece of evidence,
not the least of which is the fact thatit
makes no reference to the attempted killing of General Walker. The
second problem is that the note is
undated.
Problem # 3: The contents of the note
Several different items referred to in the translation
which make no sense to me.
Item # 2 says,
"Send the information as to what has happened to me to the Embassy and
include newspaper clippings ( should there be anything about me in the
newspapers ). " But Marina Oswald
could not read English-language newspapers ( 2 H 489 ) and would not have known which clippings to
send. Why would the Soviet Embassy in Washington care
about an American citizen being arrested for killing another American citizen
? It wouldn't. So it makes no
sense.
[NOTE BY JVB: But
Gil Jesus does not know about what else might have caused Lee Oswald to worry
about being arrested. I have my own
explanation as to why this note was written, which can account for this
statement. It is found after the remainder of Gil Jesus’ article, below.]
In Item # 5 says that
Oswald's paycheck would be sent to their post office box. He instructs her to
go to the bank and cash it. ButOswald's
checks from Jaggars-Childs-Stovall were not mailed. In fact,
the checks were issued on Wednesdays and found their way back to the bank on
Fridays. Commission Exhibit 1174 is a copy of 26 of Oswald's paychecks
from Jaggars-Childs-Stovall. It is found in Volume 22 of the hearings. On page
286 are the last 3 of Oswald's Jaggars checks. Note that the top one was cashed
at the Mart Liquor Store on Ervay St. ( yellow box on right )
You'll notice also
all of those checks also took only two days to make it back to the bank,
regardless of where they were cashed. This means that Oswald's checks were not mailed. Since
Oswald had been terminated at the time this note was allegedly written could he
have been referring to his last paycheck only ?
I don't believe so because it too required only two days to clear the
bank ( red squares ) and for this LAST
check to have been mailed, the dates on the bank stamp would have reflected the
additional time required to cash the check. Speaking of
stamps, if you look at the stamp on the
left side of the last check, issued on April 10th, the month is marked as MAR.
Besides, how was Marina Oswald going to cash a check made out to her husband ?
Another item in the translation I have a problem with isItem # 9,where Oswald says that the Red Cross
will help you…..[NOTE BY JVB: “Red Cross” might refer to the way Lee was helped
with a loan to return to the US and/or may be a code to remind Marina to
contact the same officials who made the transit to the US from the USSR
financially possible. Gil Jesus considers only the US Red Cross organization,
which is probably not what Lee meant, if Lee indeed wrote this note.]
A
third item in the translation that makes no sense isItem # 10,
Oswald's notifying Marina that "I left you as much money as I could, $60
on the second of the month". If you look at Oswald's next-to-last
paycheck,it wasn't issued until April 3rd and wasn't cashed
until April 5th.And
if he left the $60 from the March 27th check of $ 74.38,how
did he pay the rent, the gas and the water ( which he said he paid in the note
) with only $ 14.38 ?
Problem # 4: Marina's contradictory statements about the note
Marina Oswald told
several conflicting and contradictory stories to the Warren Commission
concerning the Walker incident. One example of those contradictory stories
concerned the note. Commission Exhibit 1785 is the report of interviews by the
Secret Service with Marina Oswald regarding the note:
On December 2, 1963, Marina Oswald was interviewed by Secret
Service Agent Leon Gopadze by telephone at which time she "disclaimed any knowledge of such note" (
underlined in red, above ). The
following day, however, Marina Oswald was interviewed in person by
Gopadze and Unum Brady in person and shown the note. At that time, she changed her story from the previous day and said
that the note was written by Oswald prior to his shooting at General Walker. (
underlined in blue ) This report also states that Marina said that the note was
left on top of a dresser in their bedroom ( green underline ). But in
1964, Marina told the Warren Commission that the note was located in Oswald's
"private room". ( Report, pg. 187 ) In 1978, Marina was completely
uncooperative with the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which
questioned her on details of the note:
[Note by JVB: in her testimony, Marina now backs
away from knowledge of the note and the Walker shooting to which it had been
linked. Gil Jesus goes on:]
“Marina's
answers to the questions posed to her by the HSCA were vague and evasive. She
had made contradictory statements to authorities about WHERE she had found the
note and what she had done with it after she found it. By the time she appeared
before the HSCA, her memory of the details of the note was all but gone.
Problem # 5 : The Location of the Note
Oswald had a private room in their Neely St. apartment
where he conducted his "fantasy" business. Marina described it in
testimony:
"... Lee had a small room where he spent a great deal
of time, where he read---where he kept his things..." ( 1 H 13 )
"....he told me not to enter his room. I didn't know about these photographs, but when I
came into the room once in general he tried to make it so that I would spend
less time in that room. I noticed that quite accidentally one time when I was
cleaning the room he tried to take care of it himself." ( 1 H 14 )
"Sometimes he would lock himself in his room and
write in the book." ( 1 H 17 )
"My husband had a small room where he kept all that
sort of thing. It is a little larger than a closet." ( 5 H 390 )
That Oswald
had NOT left the note FOR MARINA becomes
apparent when one reads her testimony, in which she admits that she went into
his "private room" and discovered the note.
Mr. RANKIN. How did you first learn that your husband had
shot at General Walker?
Mrs. OSWALD. That evening he went out, I thought that he
had gone to his classes or perhaps that he just walked out or went out on his
own business. It got to be about 10 or 10:30, he wasn't home yet, and I began
to be worried. Perhaps even later. Then I went into his room. Somehow, I was drawn into it--you know--I was pacing around. Then I saw a note there. ( 1 H 16 )
[Note by JVB: It is my theory (explained in detail later) that Lee wrote the note in case he would be arrested and killed, but, not expecting such an outcome as probable, kept the note where she would not find it unless such an emergency actually developed. That emergency would have been precipitated by something else Lee had to do, at a time close to the date of the Walker incident, as will be explained later.]
Returning to Gil Jesus' fine essay:
The Commission, in its report, admitted that Marina found the note in Oswald's private room, which
she was told to stay out of :"...she had found the note in Oswald's room, where she had
gone, contrary to his instructions, after she became, worried about his absence."( Report, pg. 405 ) If the note was meant for her eyes,
why would he leave it in a room he told her to stay out of ?
Problem # 6: The lack of fingerprints [Note by JVB: would they be too old to
find?}
One would think
that had the note been handled by both Oswald and Marina, the note should have
contained the fingerprints of at least one, if not both of them. But that's not
the case. On December 3, the note was sent to FBI Headquarters, where it was examined
by the FBI's fingerprint expert, Sebastian Latona. Latona reported to his
superiors that although he found SEVEN latent fingerprints on the note, they
were "not identical with fingerprints
of Lee Harvey Oswald or Marina Nikolaevna Oswald".
One might ask how
the Warren Commission handled this evidence -- it suppressed it. When Latona
testified before the Commission,he was never
asked about the fingerprints on the note. He was never asked if the FBI had
tried to identify the fingerprints found and was never asked to give a
perfectly good reason why neither Oswald's nor his wife's prints were on it.
In addition, this report was never included in the Commission's 26
volumes of evidence and testimony.
The lack of
Marina's fingerprints is on the note is significant, because without them there
is no evidence that Marina's version of how she discovered it, her confronting
Oswald with it and what she did with it afterwards is in question. All of these
things required her handling the note, of which, sans the fingerprints, there
is no evidence.
I'm not saying she
didn't handle the note. I'm saying that there is no physical evidence that she
did.
[Note by JVB: But I contend that the note was
written after the Walker incident, after Lee had paid the bills and just before
his final check came in the mail, to which, I believe, he is referring. If this
note was written AFTER the Walker incident, we can then account for a number of
things that Gil Jesus would not have considered.]
We have seen Gil Jesus’
concern about the last check. It is mis-stamped with March and issued April 10th.
The signature on the back of the check is not quite right, either, for some of
us who notice such details. Some have declared that this check was created to
take the place of the original check, which might indeed have been mailed, but
which then would place THE WALKER NOTE at a possibly LATER DATE. And we
couldn’t have anyone suspecting that the note was written for some other
purpose, could we? Perhaps it was.
In my book, Me & Lee (see my website where you can order it HERE)I explain what Lee told me about an assignment he was given shortly after Walker was attacked by a shooter. You can find supporting evidence for what I wrote here:
A NEW INTERPRETATION
OF WHY OSWALD WROTE THE NOTE
[THE WARREN COMMISSION STORY]
You'd be surprised how much detail on Lee's life is available. For
example, Mary Ferrell's chronology chronicles a great deal of Lee’s life. Ferrell’s chronology assumes, however that
Lee shot at General Walker. Ferrell writes:
April 7, 1963 (Sunday) - Oswald goes
to the vicinity of General Walker's home with his rifle. He buries the
rifle in a field nearby. (WC Vol 23, p. 402)
The problem
with this, of course, is that burying the rifle is a highly unusual way to hide
a rifle. Why didn’t Oswald simply bring it home again, wrapped in the raincoat
in which he was supposed to have brought it, to begin with, to the Walker
residence area by bus? Asked about when
Oswald did target practice, she naively answered that he shot at leaves in the
park (against the law and again, highly unlikely). Three days later, Oswald
supposedly removed the rifle from its buried location, cleaned off the
raincoat-- and then took a shot at walker --all this without anyone seeing him--even
the 14-year-old eyewitness who saw two men, neither resembling Lee Oswald, departing
quickly in two separate cars right after the shot was fired.
Even Ferrell
suspects that Ruth Paine might have supplied this piece of evidence on cue when
she writes:
“As
this note is very damning to Oswald, why did he not get it back to destroy it as
he did his notebook [this is what Marina
told investigators—that Oswald had a notebook, as well, that he destroyed—JVB]
with the plans of the Walker attack?
(WC Vol 23, p. 391) Marina hides the note in a cookbook. (WC Vol 23,
p. 827) "Book of Helpful Instructions." (WC Vol 22, p.
766; WC Vol 23, p. 392)
It
was found (?) by Mrs. Michael Paine on 11/30/63 in one of two books which she was
returning to Marina through the Arlington police on 12/2/63. (WC Vol 22,
p. 779; WC Vol 24, p. 47; WC Vol 25, p. 723).
Ruth Paine has
an interesting connection to the termination of Lee’s employment at
Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall, sometimes used as a benchmark to prove that Lee Oswald
was becoming unstable, having lost his job or terminating it himself (reports
vary, but termination is the usual story).
Ferrell
writes:
April
2, 1963 (Tuesday) - Michael Paine goes to 214 W. Neely to meet the Oswalds for
the first time and to take them to Mrs. Paine's Irving home for
dinner. He and Oswald discuss General Walker, among other topics while
waiting for Marina and the baby to get ready. At Mrs. Paine's request,
Oswald writes down the address and telephone number of
Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall. (WC Vol 26, p. 543)
One might ask
why Ruth Paine would request this information. The next thing we know, Lee,
known to have enjoyed his job and to have worked overtimes on Saturdays, which
belies later reports that his work was no good, will either lose his job there
or will resign. By Monday, April 8, Lee
applied for another job at the Texas Employment Commission, two days after Ruth
Paine invited Marina to live with her “rather than return to Russia.”
Ferrell shows Oswald
paid the water and gas bill with a deposit made April 8. When Oswald, in the note he wrote (apparently)
to Marina, said he paid the gas and water bills “recently” it means, therefore,
that the note was written not only after April 8, but also that at least a
couple of days had passed. The word assumes
a passage of time beyond just one day past the day of the payment. This brings
the date of the note up to at least April 10. The Walker attack occurred on
April 10. But wait—there’s more. The note said:
Ferrell’s item 11: "If I am alive and taken prisoner, the city jail is located
at the end of the bridge through which we have always passed on going to
the city (right in the beginning of the city after crossing the
bridge)." (WC Vol 16, p. 2)
So Lee expected to be arrested or
even killed. But was the note written because he was going to shoot Walker? Let
us review what Mary Ferrell writes next (ignoring her belief that Oswald shot
at Walker):
April 10, 1963 (Wednesday, around 9:00
p.m.) - Oswald shoots at General Edwin Walker from a distance of 35 to 40 yards
and misses. (WC Vol 24, p. 40)
The police were called at 9:10
p.m. (WC Vol 26, p. 753)
Walter Kirk Coleman, (erroneously called Newman) 14, 4338 Newton, sees two cars
leave from the alley behind General Walker's house. (WC Vol 1, p.
36; WC Vol 22, pp. 756, 762, 888; WC Vol 23, p. 772; Dallas
Morning News, 4/11/63, p. I-1; Dallas Morning News, 4/12/63, p. I-5;
Dallas Times Herald, 4/11/63, p. A-1; Dallas Times Herald,
12/6/63, p. A-1; Dallas Morning News, 12/7/63, p. A-1; Dallas Morning
News, 12/19/63, p. A-7; Dallas Morning News, 1/1/64; Life,
2/21/64, p. 75)
Witness Walter Kirk Coleman, 15, 4338 Newton, sees white male, 19 to 20, 5'
10", 130#, dark bushy hair, thin-faced with a large nose, real skinny, get
into a white or beige 1950 Ford after the shooting on the Morman (sic) Church parking lot.
Witness Coleman also sees a white male, 6' 1", about 200#, wearing a dark,
long- sleeved shirt and dark trousers, get into a 1958
black-over-white, two-door Chevrolet, and both the Ford and Chevrolet leave the
parking lot. (WC Vol 23, p. 761)Witness Coleman notices a Renault, or
some foreign-made car, parked next to the Chevrolet. Coleman believes it
belongs to the Church caretaker.
There is a meeting at the Mormon Church on this evening. (WC Vol 23, pp.
763- 764; WC Vol 26, p. 753), 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.Scott Hansen,
the son of the Mormon bishop, recalls a black-over-white 1958 Chevrolet and
remembers seeing it on a previous Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Marian Ross Bouve, who is General Walker's neighbor on the other side from
the Church, has a watchdog that is sick for two days. She believes
it was drugged or poisoned. (WC Vol 23, p. 767; WC Vol 24, p. 41;
WC Vol 26, pp. 437, 439)
A witness describes tow men, neither resembling
Lee Oswald, as associated with the shooting. This reminds us how witnesses at
the Tippit shooting described two men who did not resemble Oswald. In both cases, such witnesses were ignored b
y the Warren Commission. Again and
again, we hear the verdict “the witness must have been mistaken” in this case.
Next, we learn information that is not mentioned by those who say Oswald shot
at General Walker:
April 11, 1963 (Thursday) - Mrs.
Michael Paine visits Marina and takes Marina to her Irving home. (WC Vol
2, pp. 393, 453; WC Vol 9, p. 359; WC Vol 24, p. 693)
Ferrell
speculates that Marina had tried to commit suicide, after which the record
shows a fight occurred, with Oswald striking his wife and neighbors
complaining. At about the same time, a
recently divorced man – Gary Taylor --visited Marina, which could have caused
Oswald’s fury to ignite.
That Sunday, April
14, George and Jeanne deMohrenschildt came to visit for the last time before
leaving for a trip east, and then on to Haiti.
Later, they will tell the Warren Commission they saw a rifle in a closet
at the Oswalds. By now, Marina says that
the rifle, which she says Oswald once again had buried OR hidden in bushes, after
shooting at Walker, is now back in the apartment. Note: the
only people ever to have asserted that they ever, at any time, saw a rifle in
Lee Oswald’s possession were these three persons. Not even Ruth Paine had
ever seen it.
WHAT WAS THE REAL REASON FOR THE WALKER NOTE?
Lee told me he
put in a request to transfer --possibly on that same day --to New Orleans after
being ordered (by deMohrenschildt?) to put a sign around his neck and hand out
pamphlets and flyers in a pro-Castro demonstration on a Dallas highway. Lee told me he feared for his life through
such an assignment, because Walker had recently been shot at. However, he realized that if he turned down
the assignment, he could be under suspicion as a turncoat spy. Reluctantly, he
agreed to accept the assignment.
However, Lee
still feared he could be shot at by police as he stood there, due to their
hyper-sensitivity after the Walker incident. Or, barring that, he knew he could
be arrested and that the Dallas police, if they learned that he had lived in
the USSR and had been a ‘defector’ were so radical that they might well beat
him to death or shoot him.
Lee told me he
told his handler(s) that he could more good in establishing himself as
pro-Castro –his original long-term assignment-- in his native city, New
Orleans, where active anti-Castroites would take notice. At the same time,
Marina would have Oswald’s family members nearby to help protect her. Question: Did Lee make this request through George
deMonhrenschildt?
Such a fear could have prompted Lee to
write the UNDATED note. It would also explain why Lee did not think the note
was worth destroying, since he did return safely from his pro-Castro
demonstration.
Ferrell
reports on Lee’s pro-Castro demonstration thus:
April 16, 1963 (Tuesday) - Oswald
writes to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee New York office. He says that he passed out their literature
on the street the day before and requests that they send him some more.
By giving his Dallas address, does Oswald indicate that he had no plan to move
from Dallas, which he does on April 24? (WC Vol 10, p. 87;
@C Vol 20, p. 511; New York Times, 12/9/63, p. C-38; Life,
2/21/64, p. 76)
Note that April
15 (the day before) neatly fits the “recently’ we saw in the note regarding
when he paid the gas and water bill. Also,
though Lee had requested to be transferred to New Orleans, he had not yet
received approval for the transfer. Lee would
avoid exposing the fact that he had first been ordered to make a pro-Castro
demonstration in Dallas well before his activities in New Orleans. Lee hid the Dallas demonstration from the Dallas
police, only mentioning his New Orleans activities. Writes Ferrell:
On 11/24/63, Oswald says that he first
became interested in the FPCC in New Orleans. (WC Vol 24, p.
479)
We have
additional evidence that Lee did go through with the Dallas pro-Castro assignment,
impractical and dangerous as it was, but it is buried in the Ferrell
chronology. Only because I was particularly concerned about the reason for the
note was I able to realize the importance of this almost buried evidence that Lee
made a pro-Castro demonstration, incurring danger to himself, only five days
after Walker was shot at, giving us a possible date for the note of April 14 or
15. This correlates with the following information offered by Ferrell, who also
estimates that the incident occurred on the 15th:
April 15, 1963 (Monday) - Oswald
passes out Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature on Main Street in
Dallas. Oswald had a 'Viva Castro' sign around his neck. The police
eport (5/15/64) says this happened in late spring or early summer
at Main and Ervay in front of H. L. Green store entrance.
(WC Vol 22, p. 796; WC 23, p. 477; WC Vol 25, p. 681; Dallas
Times Herald, 12/9/63; Life, 2/21/64, p. 76)
In the face of
the Warren Commission, the FBI, the CIA and interrogations in another language,
Marina ‘s responses suggest she may never have regarded the note as important. Confronted
with it by interrogators after it was “found” by Ruth Paine. Marina conceded
that the note had to do with the Walker shooting , even though it was undated
and the dangerous Viva castro demonstration on Main Street had been conducted
shortly after.
Marina told
several versions of her story about the Walker incident, beginning with telling
investigators she thought Lee went to a typing class the same night – April 10—that
Lee supposedly shot at Walker. Marina said she found the note late that night,
at about 11 PM. First, she said, she
found it on a dresser in the bedroom; later, she said she found it in Lee’s ‘closet
room.’ She said Lee arrived home about an hour later – too late, we believe, to
have used a bus as claimed ---we can find no records of bus services between Dallas
and Oak Cliff area that late at night.
Mary Ferrell
writes:
Marina
says that Oswald took different buses to and from General Walker's house.
(WC Vol 23, p. 402; WC Vol 24, p. 48; WC Vol 25, p. 730). Marina
says that Oswald claimed he walked to General Walker's and came home on the
bus. (WC Vol 22, p. 756; WC Vol 23, p. 391).
Why Oswald would walk that distance, when
bus services were available, then ride a bus back, seems illogical. He had the funds for a bus ride. Marina’s
story demonstrates how little we can trust her report until we have better
information about such matters as bus services that night.
Even Ferrell noticed the “typing class”
excuse was a poor one, since the class did not meet on Wednesday and Lee left
too late to be going to the typing class. She writes:
Marina
says:1. Oswald
returns to their apartment for supper and leaves between 7:00 p.m. and 7:30
p.m. (WC Vol 1, pp. 35, 37)2. She thinks that Oswald has gone to his typing class.
(WC Vol 23, p. 391) (Oswald attended this class on Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday, not Wednesday. And, he had not attended since
3/28/63. The class met between
6:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.
Fortunately, we can again extract the date of
April 15—the day after the deMohrenschildt visit – as the day Lee carried out
the Viva Castro! assignment he told
me about:
April 21, 1963 (Sunday) - The FBI gets
a report in June that Oswald passed out FPCC
literature in Dallas, but it probably only happened on Monday, April 15.
The FBI is told of the contact by Oswald of the
FPCC New York office. (WC Vol 4, p. 446; WC Vol 5, p. 9; WC Vol 17, p.
773; WC Vol 26, p. 94)
Interestingly, this report was given to the
FBI the day after the Oswalds entertained Ruth Paine at a picnic. It seems Paine
keeps getting connected to the “evidence chain”:
April 20, 1963 (Saturday) - The
Oswalds take Mrs. Michael Paine to Lake Cliff Park for a
picnic. (WC
Vol 2, p. 456; WC Vol 9, p. 350; WC Vol 24, p. 692).
Lee's dangerous
assignment only a few days after the Walker shooting could have provided the
real basis for the undated note Marina said was connected to the Walker shooting.
Considering the pressure Marina was under, we can forgive her saying whatever
might have been expected of her, but it is startling that neither Ferrell nor
anyone else ever noticed, across the span of five decades, that the act of
carrying out a pro-Castro demonstration so soon after the Walker incident might
have worried Oswald as to its consequences ---enough to have impelled him to
write such a note-- yet, after the assignment was completed, the note was not
important enough to seek out and destroy.
The point is
important: Lee Oswald did not think the
note was important enough to destroy.
Surely he would have destroyed such a note if it had been truly linked
to the Walker incident. Marina says he
destroyed notebooks related to the Walker incident. Ferrell never made the
connection, and the Warren Commission conveniently forgot to notice. THEY EVEN LEAVE
IT OUT OF LEE'S CHRONOLOGY. Why are we
not surprised?
This excellent essay lays out the cold facts:
"...In testifying to the Warren Commission a capella, that is, without notes, [DPD CAPT Will] Fritz gave a distorted version of Oswald’s alibi, claiming that Oswald had said that he had eaten lunch
