INTRODUCTION
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy has fascinated readers
from, as they say, Day One. In the reporting of the assassination and
surrounding issues, initially, the traditional news sources reported what they
had come into their hands. At a very early stage, there were anomalies. One
such anomaly came from Christchurch, New Zeeland. Within an hour of the taking
of Oswald to the police station, the Christchurch Star published an article
about Oswald’s background, including his having lived in the Soviet Union
(Russia). This story was out in a regular edition about four hours after Oswald
was arrested. (Christchurch Star, November 23, 1963)
Sometimes ordinary citizens found themselves in circumstances that
belied the official stories that came out of Dallas. One of these involved
Junior Moore in Mobile Alabama on November 21, 1963. Junior was told to come
down to FBI office four blocks away. There, he was asked whether he knew
anything about Lee Harvey Oswald. Perhaps the question came either because Oswald
had given a lecture on Russia at Spring Hill College in Mobile the previous
Summer, or the interest could have been spurred on by the telegram received at
the New Orleans FBI on the previous Sunday about a possible assassination
attempt in Dallas, November 21-22. [1] Were the FBI to have acknowledged that
they had in fact interviewed someone regarding Lee Harvey Oswald just before
the assassination, the FBI trying to maintain that they had little or no
information on Oswald just before the assassination would be seen to be
a lie.
A second anomaly relates to a neurophysiologist, Adele Edisen. She was
reentering the workforce and had obtained post-doctoral fellowship at Tulane
University. An administrator at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases
and Blindness (NINDB) Dr. Jose Riviera, had conversed with Edelson at a
National gathering. A number of quirky incidents occurred in their
conversations. Riviera asked Edelson if she knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Riviera
indicated that Oswald would be moving to New Orleans soon, and Edisen should
meet Oswald and his Russian wife. He gave Edisen Oswald’s telephone number when
he got to New Orleans. And told Edisen to tell Oswald to shoot the chief. The
information that Riviera gave Edisen seemed bewildering and nonsensical—until
November 22, 1963. [2]
A third anomaly was that of Rose Cherami (nee Melba Christine Marcades),
who, was with two unknown men on the early morning of November 20, 1963,
driving down the highway near Eunice, Louisiana. One of the men threw Rose out
of the car as they were driving down the highway. Rose was picked up and taken
to a hospital, and then to a police station. Rose was said to have told those
who would listen that President Kennedy would be killed in Dallas, two days
later. No one seriously took what she said as being of any value. [3]
The Rose Cherami story is the only story of these three that surfaced
any time near the assassination. It would be the 1990’s before the first two
stories would see the light of day.
One anomaly that did become a controversial issue is that of the “magic
bullet”. Initially, the Warren Commission had hypothesized three bullets, two
hitting President Kennedy, and one hitting Governor Connally. Since one bullet
missed the Presidential limousine entirely and hit a section of curbing that
broke loose and hit Donald Teague as he was watching the motorcade, it became
necessary to revise the scenario if the number of shots were to be limited to
three. [4] It came to Arlen Specter, a lawyer serving on the investigative team
to come up with the magic bullet theory, wherein a bullet fired from the sixth
floor of the Texas School Book Depository that struck President Kennedy in the
back of the head, exit his throat, make a 90 degree turn to the right and then
entered Governor Connally, leaving several serious wounds and the bullet
somehow end up in a stretcher in the hospital, still in pristine condition. One
more bit of magic was that the wound in President Kennedy’s front neck gave the
appearance of an entrance wound and the wound in the back of his head gave the
appearance of an exit wound! [5]
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald has been characterized, first by the Warren Commission
as a loner, a traitor, and a person who was unable to have sufficient income to
support his family. Further he did not have any knowledge of Jack Ruby or David
Ferrie. This is the “legend” that the CIA wanted to construct regarding Oswald.
None of it was true.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s life is a major part of the present writing. What is
different here is that the entirety of his life is addressed. Two big chunks of
his life that are omitted from most presentations are Oswald’s time in the
Soviet Union (Russia) and his time in New Orleans in 1963. Oswald’s time in
Russia was written about by his best friend there, Ernst Titovets. [6] At the
time of Oswald’s being in Russia, Titovets was a medical student. Titovets
received his medical degree and subsequently two scientific doctorates; his
career was as a medical researcher. Titovets was unaware of the
characterizations of Oswald’s life in Russia by American authors. For example,
John Armstrong made the statement that Oswald never spoke Russian in Russia,
except possibly with Marina. [7] When I contacted Titovets about this, he said
that, once Oswald learned to speak Russian (in Russia), whenever Oswald and
Titovets were with friends, they spoke Russian all the time. [8]
A second area that is most important is Oswald’s time in New Orleans
from April to September 1963,’. In April, 1963, Oswald met Judyth Vary (who
shortly became Judyth Vary Baker upon her marriage to a fellow University of
Florida student Robert Baker). It is Judyth Baker’s story that fills this gap
in Oswald’s life. [9] Not only is Oswald not a loner; two of his good friends
were David Ferrie and Jack Ruby. Oswald met Ferrie, when Oswald was a cadet in
the Civil Air Patrol, where Oswald was taught to be a pilot by Ferrie. In the
Summer of 1963, Oswald was a currier for a secret medical research project in
New Orleans funded by the CIA, under the direction of Anton Ochsner, M.D. [10]
Oswald, Judyth Baker, and David Ferrie all worked closely with Mary Sherman,
M.D. During the late Spring and early Summer, Jack Ruby came to New Orleans and
met with Oswald and Judyth Baker. It was during this time, that, as a patron to
the research project that Ruby found out about the development of fast acting
cancers, intended for use on Fidel Castro. This also gave Ruby the heads up,
after his murder conviction was overturned, that he was injected by a physician
with likely cancer cells, that he also was being murdered. [11]
There is the issue of Oswald’s financial circumstances. Oswald was
directed by the CIA to give the appearance of being poor. While as a son of a
widow in his early life, there was little unique about Oswald. It was the
depression at that time, and many were in frugal circumstances. Once he entered
the military at age 17, though his take home was not high, he seemed to have
more resources in Japan In Japan, Oswald was recruited to be a false defector.
In that capacity, his needs were likely met. He seemed to be getting money from
the CIA, and the FBI on his return to the United States. His good friend George
deMohrenschildt was given several thousand dollars to save for Oswald until
some later point in time. He had also given Mrs. Paine money to buy a car for
Marina. Oswald gave Judyth Baker $400 to help when they were able to reunite in
Mexico. During his last two months in life, Oswald received $3665.89. according
to a report by Richard Mosk, a staff lawyer for the Warren Commission, and Phillip
Barson, an IRS Supervisor, which was turned over to the Warren Commission. This
is not the financial information one would expect in 1963 for a poor man. [12]
It is a goal of this presentation to show that Oswald was not only a
patsy for the persons planning the assassination of President Kennedy, Oswald
was in fact trying to intercede to avoid the assassination of President
Kennedy.
One other difference with other books about the assassination is the
inclusion of the presidential terms of Lyndon Johnson. At a minimum, Johnson
knew about the plan to assassinate President Kennedy, though he may not have
known long about that plan before he went to the Murchison’s home and went into
a meeting taking place there. Most likely he made statements there about the
assassination scheduled for the next day. He revealed as much to his longtime
mistress. Madeleine Brown, directly after leaving the meeting. [13]
The reason to address Johnson’s time in office is to compare it to what
could be expected from a continued Kennedy presidency. In one sense, Johnson
was very successful in getting Kennedy’s initiatives passed much more quickly
than President Kennedy might have. Ironically, Johnson had cautioned President
Kennedy to proceed slowly on civil rights and other Kennedy social programs.
Invoking Kennedy’s name, Johnson used all the hand shaking and arm twisting to
get the programs through. However, one could interpret Johnson’s behavior as a
prelude to getting his “Great Society” programs passed through congress. Put
another way, President Kennedy’s programs dovetailed perfectly with Johnson’s
Great Society. There were two differences. Johnson was perfectly willing to
help the military with their agenda in Vietnam. The Vietnam agenda was the
undoing of the Johnson presidency. Additionally, there was the deliberate loss
of the USS Liberty during the Six Day War in 1967, as a pretense to enter the
war on Israel’s side. The treatment of the survivors of the USS Liberty was
inhumane. The deliberate attack on the USS Liberty was treasonous. [14]
An important issue to address is the legacy of President Kennedy, and
what was lost forever with his assassination. One of the most important parts
of his legacy was not known during his lifetime (and as of this writing, still
not widely known) was that at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, between
95-100 of the 172 Soviet missiles were operational. The Joint Chiefs had every
intention of bombing the missile sites; only the steadfastness of President
Kennedy kept them from their goal. [15] Among the losses occurring by the
assassination of President Kennedy, beyond the dynamic young president, without
doubt the most glib of presidents to that point, was the carnage in Vietnam. It
was President Kennedy’s goal to remove all military, except for advisors, from
Vietnam by the end of 1965. Instead by the end of 1965, Vietnam had become a
bloodbath. As President Kennedy foresaw, we did have men on the moon before the
end of the decade
Notes:
1. Williams, J.D. (2004). Was the FBI Searching for Oswald the Day
Before the Assassination? The Dealey Plaza Echo, 8, 2, 46-52.
2. Edisen’s story was first published in the Third Decade, a JFK Assassination research journal, under the pseudonym
K.S. Turner; Albarelli, H.P. (2013). A Secret Order: Investigating the High Strangeness
and Synchronicity of the JFK Assassination. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, pp.
127-162.
3. Elliott, T.C. (2013). A Rose by Many Other Names: Rose Cherami
& the FK Assassination. Walterville, OR: Trine Day.
4. Tague, J.T. (2003). Truth Withheld: A Survivor’s Story.
Dallas: Excell Digital Press.
5. Groden, R.J. & Livingstone, H.E. (1989). High Treason: The Assassination
of President John F. Kennedy What Really Happened. New York: The
Conservatory Press, pp. 54-61.
6. Titovets, E. (2010). Oswald’s Russian Episode. Minsk Belerus:
MonLitera Publishing House.
7. Armstrong, J. (2003). Harvey & Lee: How the CIA Framed Oswald.
Arlington TX: Quasar, pp. 339-340.
8. Williams, J.D. & Titovets, E. (November, 2013). Did Oswald
Speak Russian in Russia? 50th Anniversary Conference, Arlington,
TX. Also published in JFK-E/Deep Politics Quarterly, (2014). 1,
3, 21-34.
9. Baker, J.V. (2010). Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and
Lose Lee Harvey Oswald. Walterville OR: Trine Day.
10.Wilds, J. & Harkey, I. (1990). Alton Ochsner: Surgeon of the
South. Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University Press.
11. Haslam, E. (2007). Dr. Mary’s Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of
a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses
are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global
Epidemics. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, p. 337. See also, Haslam, E.T.
(1997). Mary, Ferrie & the Monkey Virus: The Story of an Underground
Medical Laboratory. Albuquerque NM: Wordsworth Communications,
12. Shenon, P. (2013). A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History
of the Kennedy Assassination. New York: Henry Holt & Co., p.452.
13. Brown, M.D. (1997). Texas in the Morning: The Love Story of
Madeleine Brown and President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Baltimore:
Conservatory Press,
14. Allen, R.J. (2012). Beyond Treason. Create Space. (Available
Through Amazon.com).
15. Norris, R.S. & Kristensen, H.M. (2012). The Cuban Missile
Crisis: A Nuclear Order of Battle, October and November, 1962. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 68, 6.
In Williams, J.D. (2019). Lee Harvey Oswald, Lyndon Johnson & the
JFK Assassination. Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 1-5.
