Tag: LEE HARVEY OSWALD

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Mystery Man with Oct 4 1964 notation – see p5

INTRO

In virtually every research piece related to Mexico City from Sept 25 – Oct 4, 1963 there exists an acceptance that the Oswald killed by Jack Ruby actually took the trip, while the calls from the Cuban Embassy themselves, especially Saturday the 28th’s activity, are understood as neither Oswald or Silvia Duran.

One must accept that the famous and published “Mystery Man” photo in question was taken on October 4th. The FBI claims the reason for its existence was related to Ruby, and proving Marguerite Oswald was not shown a photo of Ruby in Mexico. If Oswald’s movements were actually closely watched as Win Scott claims; no one in their right mind associates our Oswald with the man in the photo. This only comes from the self-incriminating “This is LEE OSWALD” phone statement and the translator’s claim the voices are the same as the “others” from previous calls, on which the caller did not state his name.

If the desire of a PLAN was to leave evidence of this trip to implicate Oswald at some later date, the job was poorly done; as there does not appear to be any significant evidence to corroborate the stamped dates on the famous tourist visa; the FM-8, with any travel evidence along the way. In fact, the evidence, as I will show, makes it appear that either a tourist visa was created after the fact, or the means of travel had nothing to do with buses. If an Oswald crossed into and out of Mexico on the dates reflected on that stamped visa, it was not a result of the bus trips offered, or the witnesses who place him on these buses. In fact, the original information on these dates of travel come from a completely different source.

If Lee or some other impersonator was to establish that Oswald traveled from New Orleans to Mexico City, a 4-part bus ticket for the full round trip would fit the bill. What we find instead are elements of the CIA, FBI and DFS working together to piece together the elements of the trip based on the TIMINGS of the transportation and the events attributed to this Oswald rather than the physical evidence.

The concerns over this Mexico Trip immortalized in the October CIA cables were front and center in the minds of many on the evening of Nov 22. That the name “OSWALD” was transcribed in a CIA/DFS operation of extreme sensitivity, and connected with information on one Lee HENRY Oswald by CIA HQ , one who had little if anything to do with the photos which would ultimately be associated with the name. Some claim this was part of a mole hunt on the part of the CI-SIG section of Angleton’s CIA.

What is ultimately the purpose of the calls and the evidence related to them may never been known.

One certainty remains though; Ms. Sylvia ODIO and her sister were truthful about our Oswald at their home on Sept 27th when the EVIDENCE tries to suggest he is in transit to Mexico in the days immediately after Ruth Paine takes his family away. In this truth we find once again that the FBI is more than willing to create evidence of their own as well as believe the evidence the CIA created to fit the desired conclusion. Surely a CI/SIG mole hunt at the Mexican CIA station would have little if anything to do with the lack of evidence related to the trip itself. With relative ease the authorities found the records of anyone and everyone who may have traveled WITH this Oswald; just not the evidence for his travel.

If an innocent loner was traveling to Mexico innocuously to get he and his wife back to the USSR, to Odessa for the birth of their 2nd child in mid-Oct; there would be little if anything to hide in the way of travel arrangements. The record shows the numerous attempts Marina and Harvey took to secure a Russian visa thru normal channels. Instead we find that CIA assets inside and outside the Mexican government conspired to create a story of travel which fits the need yet could not overcome the lack of its reality.

In our final article we will show who these assets are, what they were doing in these early hours and days after 11/22 and how the most contradictory of evidence can be accepted without a question in the face of what our non-Oswald entity is doing in Mexico City.

CE3097: Vaccination card supposedly found at Beckley

Oswald’s stamp kit practice pad shows the signs of what would appear on the FPCC handbills and the date June 8, 1963 which I could never understand until the Mexico connection to the requirement that those returning to the US must either get vaccinated or show a valid certificate of vaccination was found. It is quite obvious that the stamped letters on these forms match the stamp kit. Problem being this kit was never found or listed on the DPD inventories prior to Nov 26th nor do we see the DPD initials on either side of this card which ALL items sent to DC had; not all of them had these initials when the evidence was returned. This kit only comes into existence when all the items are returned to Dallas by the FBI on Nov 26th; in other words, it was never found in Oswald’s possessions, it was added to his inventory after the fact.

To Recap Part 2b:

OPENING EYES: THE EVIDENCE IS THE CONSPIRACY

In virtually the same manner as the “Oswald at the window with a rifle” evidence was created and submitted as evidence circumstantially incriminating Oswald, the evidence for this trip to and from Mexico follows the same M.O. We can definitely understand the need not to tip the Cubans or Russians regarding one of the, if not THE world’s largest communication interception operation by either publishing the Mystery Man’s photo or by publishing anything in the report which would divulge sources and means. This carefulness cannot be said for the travel portion of this trip, the location of his stay or in the activities he would have engaged while there. These details of the Mexico story take a backseat to the serious events related to his supposed time there and the events recorded which would incriminate our man Oswald. Their relative unimportance in the scheme of things makes them that much more easy to hide them in plain sight within the evidence.

While speculation is grand, there remains not a stitch of corroborated evidence that our, or any Oswald, existed outside of the hotel or the Cuban/Russia embassy/consulate. There is also no corroborated evidence it was actually Oswald at the hotel or government buildings at all.

The orchestrated removal of Richard Sprague from leading the House Select Committee’s investigation into the assassination of JFK had more to do with the CIA’s evidence from Mexico than anything else. From Gaeton Fonzi’s, The Last Investigation, we learn from Sprague that the CIA’s Secrecy Agreement was born out of Sprague’s desire to see ALL the Mexico City evidence; the “In Mexico” incriminating evidence of which we come to find there are thousands upon thousands of pages all with the same conclusion: we really don’t have the evidence to corroborate that any one person took any part of this trip, so they created some.

Before we proceed, let’s take a moment and take a mindset break. In 1963 the average citizen did not exhibit the same levels of paranoia towards their government as we see today. And for good reason, “Conspiracies” were something the Commies ran when trying to steal our secrets and upset our way of life. Who believes anything we’re told anymore? Today we KNOW conspiracies are part of how government is, was and always will be run. In 1963, the US government was still the good guys to the everyday person. The WCR and a handful of wolves within the democracy would change all that forever.

The stay in Mexico itself is defined by CIA/DFS documentation and FBI reports. In the Mary Ferrell Warren Commission Documents (CIA/FBI/SS/State) database alone there are over 1200 references to “MEXICO,” with thousands of other references in a variety of other locations related to the CIA’s Mexico records. What we have not finally concluded is whether a real person actually traveled in and out of Mexico at the start and end of these activities; whether there is a direct connection between the man claimed to be traveling to and from Mexico and the activities at the Cuban and Russian consulates/embassies; or whether select parts or the entirety of the Mexico visit evidence was created in reports and provided in testimony to tell a story.

To begin, we will look at how the evidence of the trip ended with Oswald in Dallas. Then we can address a call on the morning of Nov 23rd which must convey the start and end dates of this trip as well as which border crossing was used when, according to records reviewed to date, there was no communication between the CIA and anyone else related to this trip from Oct 24th thru Nov 22nd; especially nothing having to do with the travel aspect such as mode of transport, location of border crossing, hotel, etc…

Treasury’s INS officers in Laredo (or Washington DC for that matter) were made aware of these dates and that specific border crossing (especially given that the photos are from Oct 4th yet the info offered pointed to his leaving on the 2nd) from an “unnamed governmental agency.” We will attempt to prove that the limited knowledge of those following the request of this “unnamed governmental agency,” who asked Lester Johnson of the INS to call Mr. PUGH, Mr. KLINE and Mr. MAY in Laredo, had to have come to them from a very small circle of possibilities.

Keep in the back of your mind the real possibility that the CIA and FBI knew our Oswald was in Dallas, as most of the affiliated Cubans were connected to the CIA, and more specifically David Phillips. They may have even sent him there as part of his infiltration into Communist organizations in order to keep him out of the way.

Yet, on the return, before our man Oswald reaches Laredo, Texas, he must first travel from Mexico City thru Monterrey and arrive in Nuevo Laredo, across the border, exchange his Del Norte ticket #13688, and proceed on.

Strangely, the evidence first received from confidential Mexican sources describes an entirely different trip than what was finally settled upon by the WCR and FBI.

LEAVING MEXICO

Before we actually get into the buses and other travel evidence, we should address the evidence regarding the date of the Mystery Man photo published in the WCR, since one has such a huge bearing on the other. In this Russ Holmes exhibit we see the Same Mystery Man photo yet now with the date October 1 on the back instead of October 2. So far this is the only document I have found which connects these photos with a date other than October 2nd, 4th or 15th.

This CIA chronology of photos is taken from Russ Holmes’ work files shows that no photos were taken on October 1, 1963; that instead they were taken on the 2nd, 4th and 15th of October by LIMITED, LILYRIC and LIONION…

Every single image we are shown of the mystery man was taken after the travel plans attributed to him take him from Mexico City. There are numerous photos of the WHITE SHIRTED mystery man at the above referenced and offered link; all dated October 2 at 12:22pm. One can understand now how a bus had to be found which left AFTER these photos were taken; the FRONTERA manifest was changed to reflect just such a departure time: 2pm Oct 2nd. Later in this paper we will learn why the FRONTERA bus was used at first.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. For now we’ll stay with the Official Oct 2nd 8:30am Del Norte departure which makes the Mystery Man timings all the more confusing and complex. Bill Simpich’s State Secret, and many other articles, delve deeply into the potential reasons for the Mystery Man interest and what might have been going on at the Mexico Station. For this series though we will stay with the evidence that tries to corroborate Oswald’s trip out of Mexico City NOT by auto, but by Del Norte to Greyhound buses.

MEXICO CITY TO LAREDO OCT 1, 2 OR 3- DEL NORTE

While we can talk about our traveling Oswald asking PEDRO RODRIGUEZ LEDESMA to call for a taxi between 6:30 and 7am for his leaving early in the morning of the 2nd (while evidence suggests he left the 1st and did not stay at the hotel that night), the taxi evidence winds up recapped in FBI reports which only have the most dubious of corroboration. This man signaled with his hands and said “taxi” which PEDRO interpreted as his not being able to speak Spanish. We are to believe that Pedro does not know the name of the taxi driver nor his passenger’s destination and simply left this gringo in a cab without any word of help. We are to remember from his arrival that the bus terminals are within a short walk of the hotel and that no one sees this man with more than a small brown zippered bag. The report of this activity is contained within CE2121 p56 and CE2532 p13-14:

We will learn a bit later that the Hotel Registry was also taken “soon after the assassination” by the same person… But I get ahead of myself. The FBI said they had to search through 1600 hotels to find where he stayed while a main Mexican contact provides the hotel registry “soon after the assassination.”

The evidence offered begins with this Sept 30th receipt #14618 for Mr. H O LEE to travel on the Del Norte line from Mexico City on October 2nd leaving at 8:30am. CE 2530:

(Note: As we know, our Oswald was pretty good at causing disturbances both real and contrived. If the CIA needed a memory to stand out in witnesses’ minds (think Azcue and the argument) Oswald was their man yet these impressions where not left with anyone with whom he came in contact as they could have been.)

From the ARRB’s release “Trip to Mexico” p4:

What I find strange about this “receipt” is that the logo at the top covers the name of the business and does not look like part of the original. Also, the normal two-hole punch in these exhibits seems to only have one hole punched with the other covered by this black area. Finally, the translation says the name of the travel agent was “Agencia de Viajes Transportes Chihuahuenses”

But that is not what it says:

The result of this purchase is shown in CE 2536 which in turn becomes the basis for the Greyhound exchange transaction which occurs in Laredo, TX. Once again we will find discrepancies between the dates of the purchase, the dates of travel, and the date of the exchange. What I will proceed to show now is that ticket #13688 was never issued or used, yet represents the only argument against the FM-11 stating Oswald left Mexico in an auto. CE 2123 p674 is the WCR copy of the FM-11 page in question. Please notice that Mr. LEE is alphabetized as Mr. Oswald even though all of the travel plans for the exit from Mexico are made out to H.O. LEE.

When the ticket stub for the Mexico City to Laredo portion of the trip, FBI D-237, is found in a suitcase in the possession of Marina Oswald (which had been at the Paines at the time of the assassination) the creation of this travel evidence comes full circle and is laid once again at the feet of Marina and Ruth.

WCD1518 p33 (below) is an FBI report which states that Marina informed Wesley Liebeler that she had found a bus ticket stub for the Mexico City to Laredo portion of the trip only 9 months after the fact.

Also found in this one suitcase:

The image below these descriptions is a composite of FBI D-202, the 2 stubs provided by the Mexican Authorities:

And D-237:

These, the envelope they came in, the seat #12 Chihuahuenses ticket #13688 passenger manifest with an “X” thru it and the receipt for their purchase are the sum total of the evidence which gets our Oswald from Mexico City to Laredo Texas aboard Del Norte bus #332 leaving at 8:30am, getting to Monterrey at 9:30pm and arriving at Laredo around 2am. This timing will come into play later when Mr. Voorhees, a passenger supposedly on this bus, makes his statement about when he arrives in and leaves Monterrey.

It was determined that D-202 was attached to D-237 at some point using the magic FBI evidence confirmation pixie dust. (Or the fact that they themselves separated them?)

So, Okay. There IS a bus that is scheduled to leave and arrive when it needs to if ANY of this evidence is authentic. But we did not start with Del Norte.

FRONTERA FIRST; THEN NOT SO MUCH

We are to remember that the evidence which FIRST was associated with this trip from Mexico City to Laredo comes from the Arturo Bosch altered FRONTERA passenger manifest. Eventually, when it was decided that our man Oswald was NOT on the FRONTERA 340 bus at 2pm, it was dropped like a hot potato.

Yet thru March/April 1964 it was believed that this evidence was accurate. WCD 684 p2-CE2122 even though the rest of CE2122 is dedicated to explaining away the conflicting evidence for what is seen on this manifest. There is no mention of ARTURO BOSCH or his handiwork in this Exhibit. CE2122 p5:

CE 2470 (below) lets us know that ALVARADO was interviewed extensively on Dec 7th; again no mention of BOSCH in this report (which appear to be confined to info from WCD 1084). In this earlier Feb 15th report we are informed that officials simply could not find a ticket to cover Oswald’s travel on FRONTERA bus #340 leaving Mexico at 2pm.

CE2471 dated February 20, 1964 reinforces that FRANCIS ALVARADO from the Transportes FRONTERA terminal in Mexico City was interviewed and had no explanation for “OSWLD” or the other changes to the FRONTERA manifest. It also confirms that this information was received between Dec 7 and Dec 17, 1963.

CE2471 p1:

As we continue thru this mountain of back-peddling muck we need to remember that the evidence says that our Oswald was at Odio’s on Sept 27th and in Dallas from the 27th of Sept “possibly” thru Oct 4th when he finally calls Marina.

(NOTE: FBI 124-10230-10450 dated Nov 27th is a memo from J.B. Garcia to Legat which tells us that he spoke with SA CHAPMAN in Laredo and “no pertinent info had yet been developed re: exact time or specific mode of travel of subject” [Oswald]. Now while that is no great revelation considering what we know at this point yet the more interesting thing to me is the last sentence of the memo where CHAPMAN advises that “Dallas had info subject was in Dallas [Oct 4 notation] and made LD call to another city in Texas (Irvin or Irvine).” Marina did get a call from Harvey on the 4th asking her to ask Ruth to come get him as he’s been in Dallas QUOTE a few days UNQUOTE. Marina supposedly was so mad about his not contacting her sooner she said no and Oswald hitchhiked to Irving)

How is it possible that Dallas is aware of a call from a payphone to Marina on the 4th of October; which did actually happen; yet cannot pull it together enough to find authentic evidence of this massive bus trip.

Our Oswald did not make this trip in the manner suggested nor is there any authenticated evidence which links our Oswald to being in Mexico. With this understanding we may better see the iterations the FBI went thru to find the means of travel to and from Mexico City while we operate under the conclusion that IF an imposter (or even our Harvey) went on this trip they would have left a wake of easily found evidence taking him from New Orleans to Mexico and onto Dallas.

What could have caused the FBI to cling so tightly to FRONTERA as the means of transportation given what they learned from ALVARADO and LOPEZ in early December? Well, a few pages after CE2122’s “BACKGROUND OF INQUIRY” lets us know that the “OSWLD” on the FRONTERA manifest is “clear evidence” that Oswald took that bus leaving at 1pm (sic), CE2122 tells us that the check with Transportes Del NORTE turned up “completely negative results” for any record of LEE, HARVEY or OSWALD on the only two buses Del Norte offers to Laredo.

With only Flecha Rojas and FRONTERA left as bus related options for Oswald to not leave Mexico in an AUTO, the FBI was running out of options. We must remember that we are offered EVIDENCE that Oswald was on both these buses without regard for why either or both of this fraudulent evidence even exists. Furthermore, once FRONTERA id dropped, “WHY” this evidence was created by Mexican Authorities is never explored.

So here we are in mid-March, Del Norte investigations have resulted in no information to show H.O. LEE or Lee H. Oswald purchased or traveled on a Del Norte bus. ALL other investigations into travel produced negative results related to Oswald. By default, the FBI stays with the FRONTERA bus leaving Mexico at 2pm (not 1pm as stated above) and arriving in Laredo at 7am, Oct 3rd.

– that is until it was realized that leaving Mexico City at 2pm on the 2nd of October (which describes the created FRONTERA manifest departure time) would not get Oswald to Dallas in time for his Texas Employment Commission meeting in the afternoon of the Oct 3rd . The following is yet another mid-March FBI report dealing with the conflicts brought about by retrofitting Oswald onto buses which do not fit with the timing; the same thing occurred for the 4:40pm to 12:20pm bus out of New Orleans to Houston. Since the 12:20 was the only bus that arrives close to the right time, Oswald must have been on it. It’s not that there is no evidence for these trips, just that the evidence was created, altered or never offered, or in fact contradicts the reality of this travel.

Like finding out about Tague and changing 3 shots to 2 shots, discovering the conflicts of working Oswald piece-meal thru this trip caused the same changes and impossible explanations.

Well prior to these March revelations is a report from Dec 3, 1963. The driver of FRONTERA BUS #340 leaving at 2pm on Oct 2 FRANCISCO SAUCEDA VELEZ tells us his bus does not arrive until 6:45am in Laredo and that his relief driver was old and tired so he drove all the way thru to Laredo. Eugenio GARCIA tells us that the stubs of all tickets sold in Mexico City make their way back to Monterrey in 2-3 months yet the ticket sold to OSWALD was never received. Mr. GARCIA also mentions that “agents of the Presidencia had picked up all information re OSWALD’s trip… Including the “talonario” (block of ticket stubs)

It is not until Mid-March again that the FBI figures out FRONTERA cannot possibly be the bus he left Mexico City riding. Furthermore, it is Del Norte that has the relationship with Greyhound.

The problem being that this FBI report (at Armstrong’s Baylor collection p 2 below) states the conflict and somehow mixes up the 2pm FRONTERA departure time and the Del NORTE 8:30-9am departure (if they got the information from the above report they may have missed it was a FRONTERA report and not Del Norte). The FRONTERA trip was not expected to arrive in Laredo until the morning (6:45am) of October 3rd which in turn would be too late an arrival for Oswald to travel the remaining 10-12 hours from Laredo thru San Antonio to Dallas to arrive by the time he is seen at the TEC and then check into the YMCA by 4:30pm.

For the FBI’s story to continue to work, Oswald MUST arrive in Laredo, process his exchange ticket and get on a bus leaving before 3am; and even that is cutting it close to try and have Oswald at the Dallas TEC before 4:30 and check into the YMCA between 4:30 and 5:00.

The following offers the evidence which put Oswald in Dallas in the afternoon of Oct 3rd:

Baylor Armstrong collection TEC folder p40-43:

Only one Greyhound bus leaves Laredo TX and arrives in Dallas with enough time; bus #1265 leaving Laredo at 3am. We will of course examine the evidence which places Oswald on this bus shortly.

Yet, the evidence offered states Oswald left by “AUTO”. This is an image of the photostat of a TYPED COPY of the original FM-11 information given to US Customs official CASH on Nov 23rd. The FM-11 as mentioned and partially shown above is the Mexican Immigration alphabetized by day master list created from the cancelled FM-8 tourist visas and will be discussed at length later in this article. (Typed FM-11 info – Hood collection)

And here is the line from the FM-11 CE2123 p676 from which the Oct 3rd information was supposedly taken:

This information in turn MUST come from the FM-8; the Mexican tourist visa. Now, I have to stop here for a second since I recently had an “Aha” moment related to this visa. The application for this visa from Sept 17th and addressed in part 1 of this series was always shown one way, with the CE# sticker at the bottom and the signature cut off… CE2481 p677. The next page though is SAME EXHIBIT yet adjusted to show the entire bottom of the exhibit while losing the header, Application # and the serie (sic) number 24085 seen on the visa. CE2481 p678. The following is a composite of the two copies of the application which to me appears to suggest that an FM-5 was applied for with a different number and Oswald’s signature while 24085, without his signature could have been created after the fact. These are COPIES of COPIES of COPIES which make alteration virtually impossible to detect.

An FM-8 is good for 15 days after entering Mexico. An FM-5 is good for 6 months after entry. The Oswald FM-8’s have typed on them “VALIDA POR 15 DIAZ” yet the bottom of this “other” copy of the application states that this tourist card would be good for a “six month stay.”

Fast forward a few more days and we have a report over Hoover’s name which squarely puts Oswald on the Del Norte bus at 9am Oct 2nd. On April 7th two ticket stubs for seat #12 on the Del Norte bus at 9am are acknowledged. These tickets (as shown above) bear the number 13688 and are related to this early morning departure of Del Norte bus 332. (Even though the search from Del Norte produced no results)

Can THIS finally be the evidence which corroborates the FM-11 info about “Viaja en Auto” being a typographical error based on a mistake by a clerk?

THE SHIFT TO DEL NORTE, TICKET #13688 & THE GREYHOUND EXCHANGE

WCD 828 p1 (below) offers the evidence that on April 7th D-202, the #13688 ticket stubs and envelope prove that Oswald was on bus #332 and #373.

Can these ticket stubs with seat #12 (or is it seat #2 with a “1” added later?) be connected to Oswald?

As mentioned above, in late August 1964 Marina finds the corroborating evidence for Del Norte bus ticket #13688. WCD 1518 p34 (below) discusses the details of what would ultimately become FBI D-237.

In an undiscovered, small brown suitcase which was in Ruth’s garage on 11/22 yet was neither opened or inventoried by the DPD, Dallas Sheriffs or FBI during the previous 9 months, we find pamphlets specific to that one week along with other Mexico related travel documents that were again, not found until August 1964. No matter for these could at least get Oswald to Laredo which in turn allows us to connect this arrival via Del Norte to the Greyhound Exchange order CE2537. CE 2537 p761:

The only major discrepancy found here is the DATE OF SALE and stamp of October 1, 1963, when according to the evidence offered, this passenger actually purchased this exchange order from the travel agency mentioned at the bottom of this order on September 30th as shown above in CE 2530. It was also during this transaction that Del Norte ticket #13688 was supposedly purchased.

WCD 785 p15 (below) is a recap of ticket #13688 which jumps to the conclusion that the Greyhound bus exchange order is what connects seat #12 to H.O. LEE.

CE 2531 (below) shows the recording of this sale and transfer from the Del Norte bus where he supposedly used ticket #13688 from Mexico City to Laredo, to a Greyhound bus from Laredo to Dallas for one “Mr. H. O. Lee.” So far so good, right? The FBI may have finally gotten one right! Yet we both know that wasn’t going to happen here. Let’s find out why.

For all this evidence to be authentic and to represent something that actually happened, our traveler had to have been on the Del Norte 8:30am bus using #13688 in the first place. Once again we come to find that while the TIMING WORKS, there is no corroboration that an Oswald was on these buses.

The next part of this final article will look at the evidence which attempts to corroborate that Oswald was on these buses.

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The Evidence IS the Conspiracy, Table of Contents

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At this point we’ve shown:

In this part we will continue to examine evidence related to the bus travel to and from Mexico, testing the theory that this evidence does not corroborate the Commission’s conclusion, and even suggests that the entire body of evidence getting Oswald in and out of Mexico was created just for that purpose.

The “Lopez Report,” an excellent reexamination of the WCR’s Mexico trip focusing on the Embassy/Consulate visits and transcripts but offers the following and little else related to evidence of Oswald’s travels into and out of Mexico. This is from page 3 of the introduction.

Asking whether Oswald was proficient with a rifle evades the evidence that he was not at the window and the rifle was never in his possession. Discussing whether an OSWALD may be our Oswald performing this or that act in Mexico while the evidence does not support his having traveled by the means the FBI evidence suggests seems to me two sides of the same conspiracy. Since the FBI/CIA presents evidence of an Oswald in Mexico, he must have traveled to Mexico and NOT been at Odio’s.

We will present FBI/CIA evidence this same Oswald calls the Soviet Military Attache again at 3:39pm on October 3rd when our Oswald is at the Texas Employment Commission in Dallas. According to the evidence, the very first call on Sept 27 at 10:33am was also to the Soviet Military Attache and NOT the Embassy or Consulate. This call dealt specifically with what Win Scott tells us about Oswald; he was attempting to get visas to Odessa (how Oswald has the number to the Soviet Military Attache in Mexico City remains a mystery). This call on the 3rd confirms we are dealing with an imposter and the fact these mystery man photos are taken on Oct 2nd, 4th and beyond, and not on the 27th, 28th or the 1st strikes me as yet another very strange inclusion to the evidence for no “apparent” reason.

We will be concluding this series in the next and final article with a look at this “In Mexico” evidence to determine whether this evidence corroborates my developing theory that whoever was in Mexico playing Oswald had nothing whatsoever to do with the person claimed to be on these bus(es)s or in that hotel. Another thread running through this whodunit involves the inner workings of a plot not entirely related yet conveniently available for CYA within the assassination investigation.

Thanks to Russ Holmes’ collection at Mary Farrell’s site we have info about Mexico akin to the autopsy’s Sibert/O’Neill report with truths seen thru the eyes of evidence rather than the filter of deception. The following image from Oct 4 becomes Odum Exhibit #1 – Vol 20; with a touch of widening it appears; and the CIA has the chutzpah to claim this is Lee HENRY Oswald without mentioning this is 2 days after he supposedly left. One has to wonder about the purpose of this photo at all other than as a breadcrumb in a trail.

The FBI could not admit Oswald had entered Mexico under unknown circumstances as this would trigger thoughts of a conspiracy. On Sept 26th an innocent man was supposedly traveling to Mexico. It is concluded he takes a bus from his home and has no visible means to secure or drive an automobile. In fact, Lee Harvey Oswald needs to take a series of buses from New Orleans to Mexico City as he is both alone and does not drive. A journey of biblical proportion way back in the day… just extremely long bus rides for our purposes.

NUEVO LAREDO TO MONTERREY TO MEXICO CITY

There is no record in Evidence which shows that H.O. LEE (his Mexican travelling aka) bought a bus ticket on Flecha Rojas bus #516 leaving Nuevo Laredo at 2pm Sept 26th arriving in Mexico City 10am Sept 27th after stopping in Monterrey.

The Evidence will show that the Australian women who speak with Lee Oswald could not have been on the same bus which left Monterrey at 3:30pm and arrives in Mexico City at 10am. We will attempt to show it is highly likely her and other first-hand witness testimony about these bus rides and the stay in Mexico is fabricated like pieces of a jigsaw to form a picture in the minds of those observing. A loosely bound together series of lies which becomes a story potentially needed in a few weeks to silence remorseful or inquisitive thoughts.

The baggage manifest for the Flecha Rojas bus trip from Nuevo Laredo thru Monterrey to Mexico City and the entrance stamp on his tourist visa (FM-8) is the physical evidence offered by the WCR to place Oswald on this bus or, in fact, anywhere else on Sept 26th/27th.

CE2482 – Flecha Rojas baggage manifest:

WCD 306 p.4 suggests that the man claiming to be Oswald had to have shown these girls the passport taken to Russia in 1959 since Oswald’s June 1963 passport would not have these Russian stamps. The one with the 1959 photo of LEE Oswald does not match the man’s photo from only one week later and as I will show, does not match the arrested image of Oswald. (Under the premise the story was provided to aid with the self-incrimination of Oswald; none of this actually happened. What the props were in this fictitious account is of no consequence)

WCD 306 p.5 offers the FBI’s version of how Mumford and Winston realized that the Oswald in Dallas on Nov 22 was the Oswald they remembered from the trip to Mexico City. Interesting how this man from New Orleans tells them:

The man Ruby killed arrived in NJ from Russia on June 13, 1962. He went to 7313 Davenport in Ft. Worth to stay with his brother ROBERT. His “mother” quits a job and moves to Ft. Worth to be near her “son.” Oswald leaves Ft. Worth about 4 months later for Dallas (604 Elsbeth) where he lives until May 1963 when he moves to NOLA (4907 Magazine).

Robert Oswald lived in and around Fort Worth most of his civilian life up to the Mexico Trip. We will be offering a tidbit of evidence in the final article via US INS thru Mexican INS at Miguel Aleman that Oswald’s brother entered Mexico at Miguel Aleman the same day Lee enters at Nuevo Laredo.

The Oswald Ruby killed could generously be called tight-lipped, loner, unto oneself and detached when in non-intelligence related activities like cover-work and home life. Yet for this scenario we are fully expected to believe he is a self-incriminating chatter-box with suggestions of communist leanings as if something important hinged upon the performance… or it was one really good story provided witnesses and without corroboration.

The Evidence IS the Conspiracy. Why was this Dallas/NOLA boy talking about his home in Fort Worth…?

The only constant related to Ft. Worth TX is 2220 Thomas across the street from STRIPLING JR HIGH where Marguerite lived in 1947 and was living on Nov 22, 1963; and where Robert Oswald lived in and around during the months/years prior to the Mexico Trip. Harvey Oswald was living at 4963 Collinwood in Ft. Worth with his “mom” when he joined the Marines; depending on which records you believe.

For some reason, the Oswald referred to by Ms. Mumford has his voided 1959 passport rather than (or in addition to) the reissued new one from June 1963. The photo from the June 1963 passport: CE1969

The following is a simple 4 step transition of a photo of the arrested Oswald and the image attached to Oswald’s 1959 passport. I’ve sized and lined up the left eyebrow on both men to be identical. The obviously have similarities yet there remains an incredible amount about those images that do not match at all including the size of the head, the location/slope of the shoulders, the location of the mouth and nose related to the eyes, and the position of the ears.

(Disclaimer: Images used are from the offered and available evidence from the JFK assassination. Nothing was done to change aspect ratio and everything was done to be as exact as possible)

When Mumford (and Winston) ID Oswald via that FBI report as “Texas” they were referring to images of Oswald after the assassination. Images of the man Ruby kills. I have to ask a rhetorical here; If you were shown the 4th image at the far right above and then saw Oswald’s image on TV and newspapers would you make the same connection and say they were the same man; or just the same name was used?

How comfortable would you be with this identification when the investigative body writes their report without ever showing the witness a photo of the accused to confirm his identity? In my mind this helps build our case that this testimony of the self-incriminating Oswald is a puzzle piece and not the true account of what occurred.

Evidence now follows which shows that Mumford at the very least, and possibly the McFarlands as well, were provided with their recollection of Oswald on that bus to support the FBI’s story. Only Mumford testified, while the McFarlands only offer a 1 page affidavit. We do not have any direct testimony from Ms. Winston; only the recap by our old friends the FBI. Bringing this full circle, the man the WCR claims sat next to Oswald, Mr. Osborne, claims it was NOT OSWALD who sat next to him on the trip into Mexico. The WCR chose not to believe him.

NOLA to HOUSTON before HOUSTON to LAREDO – A Simple Sleight of Hand

I need to correct something from part 2a. I mistakenly dated the first identification of buses from New Orleans to Mexico as Dec 16th from WCD 183 p22 when in reality it was from Dec 10th. What this means is the FBI asked Mr. Green of Continental which buses went from NOLA thru Houston to Mexico on the 10th and the reply was the 4:40pm and 8:15pm buses.

The WCR source-less criteria for our Oswald taking this bus is that it is the only one leaving after 8am on the 25th and arriving in Houston before midnight.

WCD 231 p12, embedded in the following image which I used in part 2a and dated Dec 16th, is from a Dec 24th report and advises that there is a bus from NOLA to Houston at 12:20pm that arrives at 10:50pm on the 25th.

As luck would have it, by catching this error I stumbled upon an amazing example of how the Evidence IS the Conspiracy. The following is CE2533 taken from WCD 231 p12 which stands alone. I used it above to show that according to the FBI’s evidence Mr. Green tells us of a 12:20pm bus to Houston on the 16th of Dec only 6 days after telling us how the 4:40 and 8:15pm buses are the only buses to Houston which then go on to Mexico via Laredo and Monterrey. One could assume from this information that GREEN remembered something about the 12:20 bus that only goes to Houston and is not part of a complete trip to Mexico or Laredo yet could serve the purpose of getting Oswald to Houston at the right time.

CE2534 which follows CE2533 is the Secret Service report on travel from DALLAS to Houston and then how the bus gets from Houston to Laredo by 1:30pm on the 26th and will be used near the conclusion of this article to corroborate how the FBI pulled off some of its Mexico Evidence charade.

Next is CE 2464 – again stand-alone – referred to as “FBI report of investigation conducted on December 16, 1963, of schedule of Continental Trailways buses from New…” [Orleans to Houston TX]. The way CE2463 ends with a paragraph beginning with “On December 9, 1963…” CE2463 final page – Dec 9th one is given the impression CE2464 follows naturally both from the investigation and the dates.

So here we are. Two identical stand-alone WCE’s showing the same exact thing; that there were two more buses leaving NOLA on the 25th of Sept headed to Houston yet not part of a complete purchasable trip to Mexico City or Laredo. Both show what looks to be the body of an FBI report without the reports details at the bottom: “On, of, File #, by and Date Dictated“

Those two WCR Exhibits above are copies of a re-typed version of the information from a DATED and correctly copied source FBI report from the Warren Commission’s 1555 “Documents.” A great many of the WC Exhibits originate with info from these “working papers” of the FBI’s investigation. MFF WCD listing.

To establish that the FBI and WC knew from the Dec 24th report that Oswald would be put on the 12:20pm bus from New Orleans to Houston which would serve the purpose of Oswald’s fictitious trip, it APPEARS they used the following report from SEPTEMBER 21, 1964 and simply added a more appropriate date for their needs.

This is the SA Callender report of Sept 1964 we find in Warren Commission Document #1553 (of 1555) which appears to be the source report for the discovery of the 12:20 bus. WCD 1553 p6:

Let’s take this in. On Dec 10th Major GREEN, terminal manager for Continental bus lines tells us of the only two buses from New Orleans through Houston to Mexico leaving when it needs to in order to complete the timeline. The 4:40pm bus investigation determined that Oswald was not on that bus while the WCR as shown above, says he “probably” took the 12:20pm. Ten months later; which puts into question how much of this Dec 16th report (or any other report) was compiled prior to its date; Major GREEN includes 2 new buses. The report was already written. “Probably the 12:20pm to Houston” almost works with the Twiford story and gets our Oswald character to Houston and Laredo “correctly” so that HAS TO BE the bus he took.

What would be the purpose of re-interviewing GREEN in September 1964 if the information about the buses was already in FBI hands on December 16th? There is no contact report for GREEN on the 16th, only the copy of WCD 1553 p.6.

I believe this clearly proves that the FBI backdated this report, while at some point a predetermined conclusion regarding Oswald’s travel was made (provided) and dumped into the festering vat of all the other lies from which the official explanation scoops. The absurdity that we are expected to believe Oswald piecemealed his way to Mexico City by specifically NOT purchasing the full round trip ticket in New Orleans but first the trip to Houston (for which no evidence is offered), then to Laredo (for which no direct evidence is offered), Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey and Mexico City (for which false evidence was created), Mexico City back thru Monterrey to Laredo (offered thru Mexican authorities and Marina Oswald), and finally Laredo to Dallas thru San Antonio is par for our expectations course. We are at the very simplest expected to believe that any normal processes of business or procedure, physics or reality were suspended for Mr. Oswald.

In each one of these WC Documents related to his travel to and from Mexico one would think the summary would start out something like, “Oswald purchased a X-part bus ticket #XXX in New Orleans on the XYZ bus line leaving at such a time and arriving when it did”. For it seems that there are no problems knowing for certain the names of witnesses who say they were NOT on the buses with him. Passenger after passenger is identified and questioned and this lone bright white man just traveling to Mexico is not only elusive but travels like a ghost. What we find as we do in every area of the case is that the FBI must offer pounds of paper to NOT SAY upon what they base their pre-determined conclusions.

With the FBI inserting the line, “On December 16, 1963…” to information from 10 months later to support a conclusion not referenced or footnoted to anything in the WCR, I believe we can proceed safe in the knowledge that this Evidence IS the Conspiracy. It would take a project in itself to cross check Commission Exhibits with their source Warren Commission documents to see how many such deliberately fraudulent acts were committed. What we do see easily are the differences between complete FBI report records with authorship, dates and signatures and Commission Exhibits that only show the photo-copied body of the report.

It is this author’s view that the PHYSICAL evidence cannot get Oswald from New Orleans to Mexico City on Sept 27, 1963 because he was visiting Sylvia Odio in Dallas during this time period. There is very little to offer for not believing the testimony of Sylvia and her sister Annie in their identification of Harvey Oswald as the “Leon Oswald” who visited her apartment. Even if wrong, the implication that this was yet another imposter is no less comforting.

This re-typing of an earlier date on a subsequent report is indicative of the Conspiracy in that it establishes either:

Whether an Oswald was on any bus between New Orleans and Mexico City is a matter of faith in the FBI’s evidence from the Mexican authorities with the CIA’s oversight. If this evidence is as trustworthy as the CIA’s regarding our Oswald calling the Russian and Cuban Consulates/Embassies and what we read in the WCR; the entirety of OSWALD in MEXICO may very well have been a hoax.

According to our witnesses, an “Oswald” possibly bought a ticket to Laredo in Houston and boarded bus #5133 in Houston leaving at 2:30am and was noticed around 6am as they approached Laredo.

The following affidavit was executed By John Bryan McFarland and Meryl McFarland on May 28, 1964.

The WC chose only to offer a short affidavit from the McFarlands as corroborative evidence for Oswald being on the bus, through Laredo to Nuevo Laredo and onto Monterrey since the testimony of Albert Osborne (BOWEN; which will be discussed below) contradicts this evidence by claiming the man next to him was NOT OSWALD.

No matter how many different ways the FBI tried, there was simply no (real or imagined) evidence available which gets Oswald from New Orleans to Houston in order to buy the Houston to Laredo ticket on Continental Trailways, and no evidence of a ticket for the Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City portion of the trip. So instead of stating the obvious, that Oswald did not make this trip in this manner, the FBI is desperate to find evidence to connect New Orleans to this Houston departure. The 12:20pm special fit the bill while, as I believe we’ve proven, creating more breadcrumbs from which to follow the conspiracy trail.

Is it realistic to assume that the September 24, 1964 WCR’s written conclusion on page 731 about the 12:20 bus from NOLA would not be discovered until September 21, 1964? WCR p731:

CROSSING INTO MEXICO

With our grain of sand irritating the evidence in such a way as to make ALL of the reporting suspect, we continue to explore how the Evidence IS the Conspiracy.

The WCR/FBI/STATE DEPT. information about Oswald’s crossing into Mexico from the US comes exclusively from the same Mexican (Intelligence) authorities who worked side-by-side, first with the FBI’s Special Investigation Service* and later with the CIA. There exists no US record of Oswald’s crossing or returning. Eugene Pugh, as reported by the Herald Tribune 11/26/63, was the man in charge of the US Customs Office in Laredo at the time and claims to have said this regarding the checking of Oswald thru INS while entering AND EXITING Mexico, “This was not the usual procedure, but US Immigration (INS) had a folder on Oswald’s trip.” (We will return to Mr. Pugh and chain of command later)

*This seems an especially appropriate moment to review the Bureau’s role in the earliest development of US intelligence capabilities. One of the most interesting, but least documented, chapters in the history of the FBI is the experience of its Special Intelligence Service (SIS) during World War II. Established in 1940, the FBI’s SIS was the first foreign-intelligence bureaucracy in US history, created years before the Central Intelligence Agency and even before the Agency’s forerunner, William “Wild Bill” Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Excerpt from “New Insights into J. Edgar Hoover’s Role – The FBI and Foreign Intelligence” by G. Gregg Webb (Map is from the FBI’s SIS History Vol 1 showing a presence in both Monterrey and Mexico City prior to the creation of the CIA and even OSS)

(Continental Bus terminal – The US/Mexico border at Laredo/Nuevo Laredo)

Our familiar FM-8, the tourist visa, with the dated entrance stamp from Sept 26th and reference to Helio Tuexi Maydon who worked from 6am-2pm on the 26th remains the ONLY physical detail in the evidence that Oswald entered Mexico at this time. WCD 598 2nd p2:

WCD 1063 p15 identifies the two Mexican INS workers between 6am and 2pm who would process visitors to Mexico as MAYDON and RAMOS.

They were working when the bus carrying Oswald, M/M McFarland and John Bowen aka Albert Osborne dropped them off in Laredo, TX before these passengers cross into Mexico and secured Nuevo Laredo transportation. Maydon and Ramos should be the only two Mexican Immigration inspector’s names seen stamped on FM-5/8’s for all persons entering Mexico at Nuevo Laredo at that time. We find once again that this is simply not true. Yet before continuing to that, we have the expected excuses for why standard procedure, which could help identify Mr. Oswald as the passenger, was not performed (as opposed to Mr. LEE).

CE 2193 – March 16, 1964:

Those who were going on to points in Mexico made their way across the border and would presumably be processed in Mexico by one or the other of these men, RAMOS or MAYDON. At least according to SA Chapman’s report.

Also dated March 16th is WCD 676. WCD 676 – Bowen is a breakdown of the FM-5 and FM-8 tourist visas which were stamped on Sept 26th and become the FM-11 master sheet. One can reasonably expect to see SOME of the names of the passengers on the baggage manifest for Flecha Rojas bus #516 to Monterrey/Mexico City. Bowen and the McFarland’s are shown to have been processed yet additional Mexican Immigration Inspectors are listed. The McFarland’s inspector is not mentioned as being on duty with Maydon and Ramos while Bowen was supposedly processed by Maydon.

(ELEVEN additional Inspector names not mentioned as working these same hours yet named as having processed tourists on the FM-11: Antonio Ramon Guajardo, Manuel Buentello Ortegon, Zeferino Frumencio Gonzalez Perez, Alberto Arzamendi Chapa, Pedro Castro Romero, Hector Raga Lopez, Felipe Gonzalez Echazarreta, Jesus Govea Herrera, Jorge Luis Solalinde L., Eduardo De Leon Siller & Raul Luevana Trujillo).

One has to wonder why all these other Inspectors were left off by SA Chapman when, if you go thru WCD 676 you will see these other men processed FM-5’s and FM-8’s on the 26th of Sept. The cooperation of one or two to support a story is obviously much easier than a dozen.

Looking thru the rest of WCD 676’s listings we come to find that not a single name other than BOWEN, McFARLAND and OSWALD are both on the FM-11 and the Flecha Rojas baggage manifest. CE2463 is the re-typed Flecha Rojas manifest which states that 18 passengers boarded bus #516 in Nuevo Laredo. We must then assume from this information that the other 14 passengers did not come thru Mexican Immigration that morning or did not travel with a bag to check. That all 14 of these passengers were already on the Mexican side and boarded bus #516 going thru Monterrey to Mexico City while traveling with only a carry-on.

The above report explaining MAYDON’s failure to record info – CE 2193 – March 16, 1964 – created on Nov 30, 1963 is dated March 9, 1964 and basically tells us that the Form Mexican Immigration FM-11, created from Oswald’s FM-8 tourist visa acquired Sept 17th in New Orleans which should have had these three vital pieces of information but did not, could not have had that information. The FM-11 is created from the original and duplicate of the FM-8 and FM-5 tourist visas. Like so many other pieces of evidence, the WC does not offer any comparison images of FM-8’s (15-day tourist visas) to see what standard practice looks like. The FM-8 should have the time of entry, mode of transportation, nationality, and the corresponding number for the FM-11 based on that day’s alphabetical listing of entries. Oswald would have been #45 based on them placing him under “O” for Oswald even though all the documents related to this trip state his name as Mr. LEE, H.O. LEE or LEE, Harvey Oswald.

From all the Mexican Evidence offered we must accept that according to THEIR RECORDS the man’s name was H.O. LEE as it is listed below. It appears that only after 11/22 does Mr. LEE get treated as if his name was Mr. OSWALD all along and what should be standard operating procedure does not occur in his case. CE2469 goes on to show that one “PAULA RUSIONI” while listed on the del Norte manifest does not appear on any other documentation and could simply not be located. Both the following Exhibits, CE2470 & CE2471 attempt to explain more about the created “Frontera bus line” evidence by regurgitating other reports.

Never explained is the switch from Mr. LEE to “OSWLD” on each and every created piece of evidence… somebody forgot to follow the script.

806-Moore, 807-LEE, 808-Ouellet.

Why would Mr. LEE be filed between MO and OU?

WCD 676 p20 – HARVEY OSWALD LEE #807:

Figuring out that Mr. LEE, placed in the “O” spot, should have had the number 45 on his tourist visa was simple matter of finding the starting number for FM-8’s and counting. 807 minus 762 equals 45.

WCD 676 p11:

The number 45 should be written on the face of this original FM-8 when it was organized for the chronological and alphabetical FM-11 when in fact we should see the number 38 if Mr. LEE was filed correctly as #800, just before Mr. Mason. WCD 676 #799-#800:

The speed with which these records were found and removed (on the 23rd; Trust me, we’ll get there) and the fact we learn that his travel was recorded in Mexican documents as H.O. LEE and not OSWALD is very difficult to reconcile. More amazing is the lack of a “mode of transportation” for Bowen/Osborne. He was claimed to be on the same bus sitting next to Oswald with the McFarlands also on the bus. They entered Mexico at the same time and have the same destination as Oswald and the McFarlands. Unless of course the theory is correct and these actions never took place.

The question that keeps coming to my mind is whether the evidence of Oswald being on this bus as told by the witnesses is a complete fabrication to corroborate fraudulent physical evidence (Flecha Rojas baggage list CE2482) or the truthful telling of information they actually experienced. Since there is little if any evidence for Oswald having been anywhere in Mexico other than what was offered by the Mexican government and CIA/FBI documents; the concept that Mumford and the McFarlands were provided with a plausible story of their encounter with Oswald is not far-fetched. And it appears that Albert Osborne, the man the WCR states sat next to Oswald on the trip from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City, did not make that statement at all. Bowen claims there are no other English speaking people on the bus. We find that while the evidence names BOWEN, the WCR only names Osborne while not once mentioning Bowen. WCR p733:

CE2195 – Bowen, who happens to be on the same bus to Mexico City as Osborne (hmm) claims that even after seeing a photo of OSWALD, he does not ID him as the man next to him and proceeds to provide a detailed description of said man in direct contradiction to the aforementioned witnesses.

On the Nuevo Laredo through Monterrey to Mexico City leg of the trip we get yet more confirmation that this is the same man all along, as Bowen also claims this person traveled with only a small brown zippered bag which was parroted by hotel staff as well as Ms. Mumford and Winston. Yet Bowen/Osborne had told us that is was NOT OSWALD carrying this bag and making this trip. How can they both be correct and why would Bowen/Osborne do that if he was “helping?”

Well my friends, we have seen time and time again where witness statements supporting the “official story” and what actually occurred rarely matched. At this point we can be reliably sure that incriminating evidence (self-incriminating especially) against Oswald brings with it asterisks, footnotes, side-stepping and confusion. In our situation where the Evidence IS the Conspiracy, nothing can be accepted at face value.

We repeatedly bring up the single piece of luggage since Oswald is known to have left New Orleans with 2 suitcases while not a single witness; no matter how hard the FBI tried; connects our Mexico Oswald with more than this single zippered bag. It is not stated he did NOT have an additional bag, there is only the late arrival of the suitcase from the Paine garage as evidence and the intimations of these few key witnesses. Even the library books returned on October 3rd in New Orleans add to the mystery, since on October 3rd it is claimed that Oswald was in a Dallas YMCA after traveling the many, many hours it takes from Mexico City.

BOWEN/OSBORNE AND THE PASSENGER ID PROBLEM

McFarland interview:

(As we will show later in this article; McFarland’s statement about “the evening” corroborates Mumford’s 7:30 del Norte departure time from her testimony and conflicts with the departure time for the Flecha Rojas bus from Monterrey)

Yet, while it was obvious that these descriptions referred to the same man, the WCR attempts to separate Bowen from Osborne so as to claim that is was BOWEN and not Osborne on the bus. What we find in fact is the WCR claiming it was OSBORNE and not BOWEN on the bus to Mexico City with Oswald even though there is no record in evidence which refers to BOWEN as Mr. OSBORNE and as the man on that bus.

(A thorough look at Bowen/Osborne can be found here: http://hobrad.angelfire.com/osborne.html. “From Grimsby with Love The Travels of ‘the Reverend’ Albert Alexander Osborne” by Ronald L. Ecker June, 2005.) The photo on the left was his 1963 passport photo. On the right is from an unknown date.

So what are we to make of this conflicting evidence? CE2195 devotes over 85 pages to the investigation of Bowen/Osborne the man identified by the WCR as the one sitting next to Oswald on his trip to from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City. Yet we come to learn that the name BOWEN does not appear in the WC report and the evidence that places Osborne on the bus is the Flecha Rojas baggage manifest listing BOWEN with no reference to Osborne. It would appear yet again the FBI is trying to give the impression of two different people when there was only one, or at least make the distinction confusing without the rest of the investigation’s documents.

It would seem that by default the WC report and evidence equates Bowen to Osborne as the same person even though they attempt to make it seem they are two different people for the McFarlands to identify. This same person seems to be identified by Mumford and the McFarlands as being on the same bus with them.

SIDE TRIP…

One of the strange “coincidences” related to Osborne is the name on the receipt for 1000 FPCC flyers from June 4, 1963 CE1410 – Osborne FPCC. Oswald had just started working at Reily Coffee across the street in early May. The printing on the rough draft appears like printing we’ve seen associated with Oswald yet it was not Oswald who dropped off the order, paid, or picked it up. The crossing back and forth between block and script writing will have to be saved for another Evidence Is the Conspiracy article.

If this is the same Osborne, it may explain why BOWEN/OSBORNE tries to distance himself from OSWALD. One would think though, that if Osborne is in the know regarding FPCC in New Orleans, he would corroborate the McFarland’s and Mumford, not contradict them.

WHAT THEY KNEW & WHEN

WCD 78 p1 tells us that by Nov 23th the FBI had information that the Mexican Officials were able to find and relay information from the “official records” of the Mexican government which they had been alerted to no later than the early morning of Nov 23rd. A few pages later the FBI tells us that according to their Mexican confidential sources, Oswald was on the Transportes Frontera bus #340 leaving Mexico City at 1pm Oct 2nd. This information not only turns out to be wrong but specifically created by a Mexican Presidential Staff Official Arturo Bosch in front of the bus line personnel. (Part 3 will delve deeper into the evidence related to Mr. Bosch)

While we may compliment the FBI for not immediately claiming on Dec 5th the information in the following report was accurate, we are still left wondering at whose request the evidence collected was changed to reflect that Oswald was definitely on the Frontera bus based on “confidential Mexican sources.”

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How about a simple passenger list or record of ticket purchases which would include all passengers regardless of baggage? Well my friends, we will begin to see a pattern emerging related to all the Mexican sourced evidence. Not only were originals taken but so were the file duplicates at the home office. The FBI likes to use the term “borrowed.” We will also see how these early erroneous reports of Oswald associated with the Frontera bus line were in fact created for that purpose after Mexican officials are somehow able to locate all these MASTER records within a day of the assassination.

On March 19th and 24th we learn that the original and duplicate copy of the Sept 26-27th PASSENGER MANIFEST/LIST (not the baggage list) had been borrowed by Mexican Investigators and not returned.

WCD 1084 p106:

Again in April we learn that yet another confidential source tries to get these passenger lists FROM THE MONTERREY Flecha Rojas terminal only to be informed they too were “picked up” “shortly after the assassination.”

WCD979 p2:

As reports relating to Mexico poured into FBI HQ during March and April 1964 it appears as if any and all evidence related to this trip and these specific buses are taken from their original source locations within hours or “shortly after the assassination.” One has to wonder how the Mexican authorities knew so quickly where to look, and which documents needed “review and analysis.”

In the next part of this series we will show that, other than the October cables from Mexico City, which do not mention any form of transportation or dates of travel, there is no communication in evidence which relates these days of travel or any attempt to ascertain how & when this travel occurred. That is until the morning of Nov 23rd.

The “results of investigation” mentioned in Kemmy’s report which they refer to below is that they are NEGATIVE concerning any corroboration for Oswald entering or leaving Mexico which is recapped in the summary of WCD 188 on page 1.

Pages 10-12 of FBI Agent Kemmy’s report (WCD 188 p10) is the typed version of CE2482 – the Flecha Rojas BAGGAGE list with Bowen, OSWALT, and McFarland.

This is the synopsis from page 1 of WCD-188 (WCD 188 Summary) which, like all the Mexican documents states the result of investigation to corroborate Oswald on ANY mode of transportation into and out of Mexico as NEGATIVE.

In both CE2532 and CE2121 p32 (the NY Times account of the trip) we find the FBI concluding that this Oswald traveling as H.O. LEE, took a 2:30pm 9/26 Flecha Rojas bus from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City.

The 2 to 2:30 departure time for this Flecha Rojas bus from Nuevo Laredo conflicts with the next bus’ departure time from Monterrey as we will show shortly.

One also has to wonder about the reference in WCD 762’s title page (WCD 762 p2) which claims that the BAGGAGE list is now the PASSENGER MANIFEST CE2482 – Flecha Rojas Baggage List given that we learn that this PASSENGER list was never found along with the reasons why.

WCD 1084, from June 10, 1964, is a 200 page report that reinforces among many things that these records were not available, nor were the duplicates at HQ. WCD 1084 continues with ALEJANDRO SAUCEDO describing what he experienced not long after the assassination when these unknown authorities take their desired records.

WCD 1084 p106-108 In Summary:

WCD 1084 p106, 107 and 108:

Please note that “shortly after the assassination” as mentioned in most of the statements related to these travel documents, the “Policia Federal Judicial” appear at the Flecha Rojas terminal specifically looking for bus 516 of Sept 26th. How again would they have known?

In addition, p.108 states that on April 9, 1964 these passenger lists were made available on instructions from SAUCEDO. In the next sentence we are told that the passenger list for bus 516 on Sept 26 was NOT located when it was later looked for in its appropriate location. We wonder how it was so easy to find all these other bus passengers to ask questions about Oswald yet impossible to find Oswald’s records.

Also in the next chapter, we will be looking into the actual ticket stubs offered as evidence for Oswald’s Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo portion of the trip. Stubs found by Marina in a batch of personal belongings which were at the Paine’s on Nov 22nd. These were found in August, 1964. Evidence will be presented to show that these items are complete forgeries and created solely to incriminate Marina’s dead husband.

US EVIDENCE OF US TRAVEL

So what US records would there have been to show Lee Harvey/Henry Oswald left the US via the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo bridge shown on page 1 of this paper? What physical evidence can be offered from strictly US sources to confirm Oswald traveled from Houston to Laredo, crossed the bridge leaving the US and had or purchased a ticket for the Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City portion of the trip?

As we recall from part 2a a Mr. Hammett from Continental Trailways claims to recall someone looking like Oswald coming to his counter around midnight asking about the Houston-Laredo trip. He returns at about 1:30am to complete purchase of this ticket even though he could purchase a ticket to take him all the way to Mexico City. (when Mr. Green first offers bus schedules out of NOLA he mentions the only two buses which originate in NOLA and go all the way thru to Laredo…)

It was reported in Agent Dalrymple’s report of Feb 20, 1964 that a bus ticket from Houston to Laredo was purchased between Sept 24 and Sept 26 as a result of an interview with Mr. Hammett showing him the auditor’s stub for ticket #112230 and photos of OSWALD and of a small zippered bag; there was no mention of another suitcase. (WCD640 p5):

The information regarding ticket # 112230 is discovered on January 9, 1964 and is referred to in WCD640 as “Previous investigation at the Continental Bus Terminal in Houston” (same link as above).

WCD332 p4:

We also come to learn that like the New Orleans purchase, the Houston purchase could have been for the entire trip if desired, not just for a small portion of the trip. This evidence suggests that our Oswald had to purchase yet another ticket in Nuevo Laredo for the Flecha Rojas or Transporte del Norte bus to Mexico City thru Monterrey. The WCR as quoted above states that Oswald was on the Flecha Rojas bus at 2:30pm from Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey then on to Mexico City based solely on the baggage manifest and the statements of Ms. Mumford and the McFarlands. The WCR also states he crossed into Mexico between 1:30 and 2pm. Below is a current “travel agency” in Mexico where anyone crossing the bridge can purchase a bus ticket to destinations in Mexico; you can even see it says “DEL NORTE” under the window.

In essence, the way the WCR tells the story of the trip, Oswald, instead of purchasing a 3 or 4-part ticket from New Orleans to Mexico City, supposedly buys a NOLA to Houston ticket on bus #5121 leaving at 12:20pm because it is the only bus which arrives in Houston with enough time for the second. In Houston he supposedly buys a ticket to Laredo, again when he could have bought a ticket for the entire trip to Mexico City, yet based on the testimony of the Twifords he would have arrived in Houston well after Mrs. Twiford says he called. The evidence for the Houston to Laredo trip consists of the ticket stub from the only Houston to Laredo ticket purchased between Sept 24 and Sept 26, and the word of the McFarlands. McFarland affidavit:

Something a bit strange about the affidavit is in response to the 2 questions about checking his luggage; they are identical. (One of the distinct possibilities is that this Oswald was not on the bus to Mexico City and that the information provided by Mumford and the McFarlands; which contradicts Bowen/Osborne as to whether Oswald was even on that bus; was provided to them or written for them in advance, so it could add to Oswald’s pile of conveniently incriminating evidence). Can we consider this a typo when H.O. LEE’s “luggage” was such a problem for the FBI?

Obviously.

This statement rings about as true as Michael Paine’s declaration about the rifle being in his garage. It HAD to be there since it was so obvious. What is visually obvious and what is reality does not often mesh especially when incriminating evidence is needed.

Finally, in Nuevo Laredo, he MUST buy a ticket on the Flecha Rojas bus to Mexico City; unless he had purchased one in Laredo for which, of course, there is no evidence. (Flecha Rojas is the sister company to Continental in Mexico while del Norte and Greyhound share the same type of relationship) Once again witnesses MUST be wrong about what they remember. Bowen/Osborne states that Oswald was NOT the person sitting next to him and Ms. Mumford tells us that she and Ms. Winston took the Transporte del NORTE bus to Monterrey and then Mexico City. Mumford Testimony:

WCD1245 p274 is the beginning of the typed version passenger list #11889 for Flecha Rojas bus #516 for passengers who ONLY got on in Monterrey (i.e. Mumford and Winston). Their names, as expected, do not appear on this list.

Except as we just read, Mumford claims it was a del Norte bus leaving Monterrey at 7:30pm on which they met “Texas” aka Lee Oswald. If bus #516 leaves Nuevo Laredo at 2pm and it is 135 miles to Monterrey on a bus that travels no more than 40-50 mph it appears impossible for bus #516 to arrive in Monterrey, load and unload passengers, and leave by 3:30pm only 1.5 hours later.

The evidence shows that 1) Mumford claims she was on a 7:30pm del Norte bus out of Monterrey, that 2) the 516 Flecha Rojas bus thru Monterrey leaves at 3:30pm AND 3) the originals and duplicates of these manifests were taken “shortly after the assassination.” This adds further corroboration that the person claiming to be OSWALD was also not on the Flecha Rojas bus leaving Nuevo Laredo at 2-2:30pm or the Flecha Rojas bus leaving Monterrey at 3:30 on September 26th. The FBI once again has no physical evidence of how this Oswald gets from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City and the physical evidence they do offer IS the conspiracy.

CE 2534-p731 XXV was an attempt by the Secret Service (Inspector Kelley asking SAIC Sorrels on AUGUST 27, 1964) to see what the schedules of Continental buses from DALLAS to Laredo and for HOUSTON to Laredo.

Note: AUGUST 1964?? We saw above how the FBI dated a Sept 1964 report to Dec 16, 1963. With as much evidence as I’ve posted that is dated between Nov 22nd and April 30th which spells out which buses, when and where; I find it disconcerting to see this ongoing “Oswald’s travel to and from Mexico” investigation still producing evidence as the Report is being printed. The trouble, and what the FBI and WCR compilers banked upon, is that the only way to become aware of this conflicting evidence is to have it all spread out before you. By spreading the evidence across thousands of documents, most of which was never included in the report of the Hearings/Exhibits section published later, it would take years and years before these conflicts could be presented easily as in a paper like this.

Oswald’s name was witnessed being added to the Flecha Rojas baggage manifest after the fact and that Oswald may or may not have even been in Mexico at all is a realistic possibility. The other realistic possibility is that as records showed, this person entered and left Mexico in an “auto.” Since Oswald was known not to drive or have a license, and that the trip to Mexico had the very specific result of implicating (or trying to implicate ala Alvarado and to some extent the hijacked testimony of Pedro Gutierrez Valencia) Oswald in the assassination, he was either helped into and out of Mexico suggesting a conspiracy; he drove himself and therefore the FBI knew very little about this man, he traveled in and out of Mexico by some other manner which left no trace OR the evidence was created by instruction to certain criteria, certain dates, certain activities.

As we’ve shown, the original and duplicate of the Flecha Rojas passenger list for bus 516 from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City were taken from both the Mexico City and Nuevo Laredo Flecha Rojas records “shortly after the assassination” by Mexican Authorities. Again I must ask myself, “David, if the information related to these BUS trips was not known by the FBI until Dec 6th at the very earliest, (a Dec 5, 1963 teletype from San Antonio to Hoover stated that, “Investigation to date has failed to establish subject returned to US on October 3 last or entered Mexico on September 26 last”), how did these Mexican Authorities know to “borrow” the Flecha Rojas baggage manifest for bus #516 leaving Nuevo Laredo at 2pm on the 26th as early as the morning of November 23rd?

Well, the truth of the matter is found in WCD 462 p3-4 dated January 29, 1964. Mr. Kline, Assistant Agent in Charge US Customs, Laredo TX receives a call from LESTER JOHNSON, Assistant Commissioner of Customs in Washington DC on the morning of November 23rd and is directed to inquire about the alleged trip by OSWALD on Sept 26th and his return on October 3rd.

We will investigate the activities and evidence related to the directions given the US INS in Laredo, TX from November 22-23 along with a more detailed analysis of the conflicting evidence regarding Oswald’s leaving Mexico and arriving in Dallas. We will show that the ticket in evidence from Mexico City to Laredo, for which there is exchange evidence onto a Greyhound bus thru San Antonio to Dallas, is a forgery and no such ticket was ever used or issued by Oswald or anyone else.

Since so much has been written about the transcripts and lack of Oswald photos from Sept 27th thru the 1st of Oct, I will not be going into the subject in deep detail. I will instead attempt to show that this travel evidence is all a fabrication like the phone calls of Saturday the 28th, that there was no Oswald on these buses at all but someone unrelated given credit for being him, and this traveling ghost was not the same person who the evidence says called and visited embassies during those 3 days.

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The Evidence IS the Conspiracy, Table of Contents

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Lee Harvey (or Henry ala CI/SIG) Oswald; whose plans about the assassination the WCR says was not related to this trip–decided to go to Mexico City in order to secure passage thru Cuba to Russia. For months his wife was writing the Russian Embassy, including a questionaire, pleading to get back to Russia; with or without her husband (CE 6-2/17; CE 9-3/17; CE 12-undated questionaire & CE 14-7/8. Even her husband joined in the effort: CE 13 7/1/63:

and again in CE 15 on 11/9/63 (although this typed letter may be a creation of Ruth Paine’s: typed letter from Irving.) In response to Marina’s Feb 7 letter, the Russian Embassy replied CE-8 with specific instructions on how to accomplish the process and that once a completed application and questionaire was received it would take 5-6 months.

His June 1963 passport application was approved and his passport issued. On this June 1963 application Oswald stated he would be leaving between Oct & Dec 1963 from NOLA on a ship (he took the SS Marion Lykes of the Lykes Brothers Steamship line from NOLA to Europe on his “trip” to the USSR in 1959) and he’d be gone 3 months to a year. Lykes Questionaire CE1948. The Lykes Brothers line is the same one taken by George DeMorenschildt on his trip back from Haiti thru NOLA to Dallas. (WC testimony of Mr. DeM GDeM testimony).

If the USSR was his (and Marina’s) desired destination (and the reason for his calls/action in Mexico), going through Cuba was unnecessary. Further it would specifically incriminate him 7 weeks later, as well as be difficult and time consuming, unless he had the help of the US Communist Party… or help from the people fighting them. Like so many activities attributed to the pre-determined guilty Oswald, there is little rhyme or reason for the activities reported during this trip, other than self-incrminiation.

On Nov 22, in fact not even very late that evening, wheels were spinning as to how to deal with what people knew about Oswald’s trip from New Orleans to Mexico and then to Dallas. While oh so conveniently Ruth Paine was accommodateing and spiriting away his pregnant wife and child. There is also the question as to what the FBI would find out when they started digging and asking questions. The morning of Nov 23rd:

Sure enough, in the face of the absurdity of the WHY behind this trip, the Commission concludes he made it and the voice; in the face of contradictory evidence; is connected to our Lee Harvey Oswald. Sure enough, evidence will be produced which tells THAT story. For how hard can it be to find the paper trail of a person leaving the US by bus with tickets and manifests, hotels and sightseeing, and then returning the same way. Especially a man the FBI and CIA had kept pretty close tabs on through that Summer of ’63.

All the FBI had to do was trace Oswald from New Orleans the morning of Sept 25th thru Houston to Laredo and across the border to Nuevo Laredo Mexico, thru Monterrey and then to Mexico City. A few days in Mexico; Friday to Wednesday; to get done on that weekend what is hard enough during regular working hours with appointments.

The Mystery of the Luggage

The FBI and CIA will admit that the Cuban and Russian buildings in Mexico were some of the most watched; spied upon; places on the planet at that time, with no less than 30 listening devices, at least 2 inside assets and numerous automatic and fully-manned photographic stations making sure to intercept and identify EVERYONE, especially non-Mexicans, entering, speaking and/or leaving these compounds. Surely the comings and goings of at least 5 separate arrivals and departures would be recorded by the numerous devices trained on these locations.

Yet, the WCR offers the only pieces of physical evidence they can; a record of a checked medium-sized bag listed on a baggage claim master sheet to corroborate Oswald went from Neuvo Laredo to Mexico City, along with a small handful of witnesses who supposedly remembered seeing him and even spoke to him. The second bag, which the FBI repeatedly finds difficult to keep in Oswald’s possession, and which magically appears and disappears in both reality and in the evidence.

The FBI could not discover where Oswald spent the evening of September 24th after Eric Rogers sees him getting on a bus towards downtown at around 7pm. Mr. Rogers says he was carrying 2 zippered bags, green in color… So our FBI shows him photos, black & white photos, of a variety of bags:

Why all the interest in ROGERS Exhibit #1? It turns out that a number of weeks after the 22nd Ruth Paine finds these two pieces of luggage in her garage; the very magical Paine garage which grows rifles, luggage, and all sorts of other necessary evidence. Even more peculiar are the markings on one of the sides of this luggage: “9/26;” the date Oswald was supposed to have entered Mexico. It is also claimed that a Continental Trailways sticker was affixed to the side.

Yet we must remember that this bag was NOT identified among the ones Oswald had when he left 4905 Magazine. The WCR states on page 731 that Oswald took BOTH CE126, a small, blue zippered bag (the one Rogers identified he was carrying in both hands) and a “large, olive-colored bag” footnote #1121 which is, of course, Rogers Exhibit #1, the bag provided by Ruth and DENIED by everyone asked as a bag Oswald took to Mexico.

The Warren Commission Report proceeds on the assumption of Oswald’s guilt; yet we find the Evidence IS the Conspiracy. All we need do is look. Consider the following from the WR about Oswald in New Orleans and Mexico City:

A side note: The FBI teletype from SAC, New Orleans to FBI Director, 12/11/63 mentions the bags as black bags, not green, rectangular and about 18″ across. If the rifle was NOT packed into the station wagon and NOT taken with Oswald, was that rifle, or those suitcases, ever put in the Paine’s garage by an Oswald? From Part I we mentioned that there was no proof that a rifle was transported from New Orleans to Irving with Marina and Ruth, specifically to the garage wrapped in a blanket. A rifle was not taken with Oswald to Mexico or from his apartment. This adds additional corroboration to the notion that the evidence related to the “murder weapon” was also created to support the conspiracy.

In Mexico, the FBI asked Hotel personnel what they remembered about the young American visiting them; the only American staying at that hotel we may add – CE2540 contains some of these interviews. Both the Front desk clerk and the maid handling Oswald’s room state he only had one, small brown bag and not the two bags, one blue and one green that Mr. Rogers sees Harvey leave with and board a downtown bus:

The Two Girls: Mumford and Winston

There is no record of his travel from New Orleans to Houston. No record of a ticket from any mode of transportation; the FBI checked. There is a record of a bus ticket being purchased in Houston by 2am which should have covered Oswald’s travel from there to Mexico City (FBI report of SA Edwin Dalrymple, 2/20/64). There are the affidavits of Mr. & Mrs. McFarland (McFarland) and the testimony of one of two Australian women; Pamela Mumford (Mumford); who, with Patricia Winston, spoke with the man who called himself Lee Oswald after the women boarded in Monterrey and continued on to Mexico City. And finally, as the only physical proof of the trip itself, the Flecha Rojas (Red Line) baggage manifest:

The normally tight-lipped Oswald is free with “incriminating info” and shows off a passport with Russian stamps. Yet, and this is a key point, that would mean it was Oswald’s old passport, which had been replaced by a clean one he applied for in June. This one does not have a stamp on it. (See CD 1969) Patricia Mumford has some problems as a witness.

We come to learn the man traveling as Oswald was reported to have entered and exited via a personal automobile and not on any of these buses. Does this mean that the person on the bus with Oswald’s Passport used on his trip to and from Russia was yet another person representing himself as Lee Harvey Oswald?

Lee Henry Oswald?

“At 2:05 pm, 11/27/63, while talking to Inspector Don Moore of Division 5 … I read to him an article from The Houston Press, dated 11/27/63, which was telephonically furnished to this office … in which article stated Oswald left the US by private car, ownership unknown, and returned on 10/3/63, through Laredo, Texas. He advised that Oswald did travel by car and did return to the US through Laredo, Texas on 10/3 /63.” (FBI memorandum from ASAS J.T. Sylvester, Jr., to SAC New Orleans, 11/27/63.)

In Warren Commission Document 442 we find a telegram from Mexico City to Sec of State Rusk stating the records show on October 3, 1963 a Lee HENRY Oswald left Mexico by Automobile. WCD 442 p.9

This is not the first time Lee “HENRY” Oswald is referred to related to Mexico City. The saga of Lee Henry begins with Ann EGERTER of Angleton’s CI/SIG unit who, on Dec 9, 1960 submitted a 201 file request (for people the CIA takes an active interest in as either being a threat or asset) which offers no other name aliases for Lee Henry Owsald. Given that we, the Navy, the CIA, State and FBI have seen his military records, “Henry” was no simple mistake or oversight… it appears purposeful and resurfaces in connection with correspondance to and from Mexico’s station chief Win Scott. We will be discussing the evidence which was generated after the visit in the final part of the this series.

Excerpt from Inside the Company, by P. Agee:

“Files are maintained on all agents and they always begin with the number 201 — followed by a number of five to eight digits. The 201 file contains all the documents that pertain to a given agent and usually start with the PRQ and the request for POA. But the 201 file is divided into two parts which are stored separately for maximum security. One part contains true name documents while the other part contains cryptonym documents and operational information. Compromise of one part will not reveal both the true name and the operational use of the agent.“)

If LEE, or the Oswald impersonator did return by private auto, the reasons for the sightings in south Texas (Alice, Pleasanton, Freer, Corpus Christi, San Antonio & Leming) of a man with a foreign wife (not pregnant) and small children becomes a bit more clear. If this information is correct it strongly indicates ALL the evidence related to the bus trips is either completely fraudulent or describes a person specifically impersonating Oswald for specific reasons; only weeks in advance of the president’s trip to the South and what winds up being 7 weeks prior to Dallas.

During the summer of 1963 when Harvey and family are in New Orleans, we come across a great deal of evidence that someone repeatedly referred to as “Lee Oswald” was in Dallas with Ruby.

Robert Roy, Ruby’s mechanic told the FBI he had repaired Ruby’s car numerous times which had been dropped off by the man he knew as Lee Oswald after which he would drive Oswald to Rubyís club and drop him off. A number of people claim to have seen Oswald at Ruby’s Carousel Room in June/July 1963 including: William Crowe, Wally Weston, Dixie Lynn and Kathy Kay (p555, H&L). The supression of information related to Ruby and Lee Oswald not only knowing each other but being very close is formidable.

(NOTE: Whether this is LEE Harvey Oswald, born in New Orleans on Oct 18, 1939 or an imposter remains the subject of a couple of books and numerous researchers’ speculation. We know for a fact that HARVEY and family are in New Orleans during this time period. We also know that virtually everything related to Lee Oswald in Dallas in the summer of 1963 has been suppressed and/or surrounded in mystery and fear.)

CE2814 contains much of the FBI’s investigation and their reports on those who placed Ruby and Oswald together. A bit more revealing though are the reports of H.M. Hart, Detective in Dallas’ Criminal Intelligence Section (we should remember that the CIA/FBI took especially close care to remain connected with the intelligence divisions of the major cities’ police departments).

Detective Hart, through Reville to Gannaway writes that, via a previously trusted informant, Ruby, as well as the man known in Dallas that summer as Lee Oswald, were homosexual and ran in those circles at least in Dallas. Of course, the homosexual aspect of the case also surfaces in New Orleans with Shaw and Ferrie and yet again in Irving when Oswald is repeatedly seen in the company of a young boy in the weeks leading up to Nov 22nd.

Where was Oswald?

I bring this up only to suggest that a Lee Oswald was known in Dallas and known to be in the company of Jack Ruby, all the while another Oswald was living in New Orleans. Years later Dan Campbell of Baton Rouge LA connected Ferrie and Oswald, explained how he saw Shaw daily with a group of homosexual men, and had worked for Bannister.

For our purposes, the fact that Ruby’s Lee goes to see an old associate of Ruby’s, Robert McKeown the gunrunner, to establish Oswald’s desire to purchase scoped rifles at incredible prices over Labor day 1963 helps reinforce the premise that Ruby and Oswald were together in Dallas in the summer of 1963.

Further supporting evidence was receivied again through Dallas T-1, http://jfk.ci.dallas.tx.us/37/3793-001.gif Box 18 folder 6 doc #8:

One final mention of LEE in Dallas (for our purposes) comes on the heels of a confirmation by Antonio Veciana that he met with Maurice Bishop aka David Atlee Phillips at the Southland Building in Dallas in late August or early September. (Is it possible that Bishop either leads Oswald to McKeown or is debriefed after Lee’s visit to McKeown’s house over the first weekend, Labor Day weekend in Sept.)

Ruby’s Notepad with Bishop
(Ruby’s notebook with BISHOP RI8-7991. A “Bishop” was not found to be either a first or last name among those who Ruby knew)

Lee Oswald, or someone doing a very good impersonation of him was in Dallas and seen with Jack Ruby at the same time Harvey was working with Guy Bannister, Gaudet, Ferrie and others both FOR and AGAINST the Fair Play for Cuba Committee organization and members.

Back in New Orleans on the morning of September 25th, we have evidence that “an” Oswald cashed an Unemployment check at Winn-Dixie at 4303 Magazine, less than 2/10th of a mile from what was his Magazine Street apartment. Although his whereabouts on the night of the 24th is a mystery (the WCR assumes he dropped his bags as the bus terminal and found a rooming house or “inexpensive hotel” even though the FBI offers no evidence of his staying at any of the over 40 places they checked), yet after 6am on the 25th someone retrieves an Unemployment Check from his PO Box, returns to a spot not far from his apartment and cashes his $33 check. (FBI D-51 is an exhibit referred to by a number of authors yet I have not been able to find. It is claimed to show that Oswald did NOT sign this last $33 check, even though the Winn-Dixie store does show it deposited on Sept 26th)

What I found somewhat interesting about his unemployment claims was the timing, August 3, 1963. Which was six days before he was arrested outside of Shaw’s ITM for handing out Fair Play for Cuba Committee flyers. On that application, Oswald lists the UNITED FRUIT COMPANY as one of the businesses where he applied for work (Burcham Ex#1 p.240). The vast majority of his job hunting, to that point, had been related to photographic or darkroom work. There was indeed a United Fruit southern headquarters set up in New Orleans, so it could be a coincidence. Still, that is a company with plentiful CIA and intelligence ties.

Getting Oswald out of New Orleans

Returning to September 25th, there is no mention of the transportation needed to get Oswald from the downtown bus station area back to his PO Box or to the Winn Dixie and then back again to leave on the 12:20pm bus to Houston; the ONLY bus that fits the WCR description of his travel. The problem the WCR could not overcome yet chose to add in their narrative on p.731 posted above is Oswald’s evening call to the Twiford’s in Houston and the affidavit of Mrs. Twiford.

As we read on page 731 of the WCR above, according to Marina, he left New Orleans by bus; the fact that Marina had already left the city the day before should give you some clue as to the depths of investigation performed to determine this “fact”. With Mexico City his final destination, Oswald could have (and should have) purchased the three part ticket to take him from New Orleans to Houston, Houston to Laredo and from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City. Yet for ANYONE to reach Houston in time to catch the 2:35am Houston to Laredo CONTINENTAL bus; which is the first place there is ANY evidence that “an” Oswald purchased a ticket for transportation to Mexico; they had to leave New Orleans on the Sept 25th CONTINENTAL 12:20pm bus. There are NO OTHER CHOICES. This conclusion was arrived at by process of elimination as there remains no evidence to support Oswald, or anyone claiming to be Oswald, boarding and traveling on that bus. In fact, even the 12:20 pm bus was not originally discussed as an option.

Oswald had to be on the September 25th 12:20pm Continental Trailways bus from New Orleans to Houston regardless of the fact that there is:

Hang on a second now… a 12:20pm bus to Houston huh… On Dec 16, 1963 Mr. Major Green of the CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS bus line stated that there were two (2) buses that traveled from New Orleans to Laredo. (One might assume that if Oswald was going all the way to Mexico he would buy a bus ticket for the entire trip as opposed to simply traveling to Houston and buying yet another ticket there for the rest of the trip.) These buses were the 4:40pm and 8:15pm Sept 25th buses arriving in Houston the next day, the 26th, at 2:15am and 7:00am, respectively. (WCD183) The 2:15am arrival would have been just in time for the 2:35am from Houston to Laredo… The FBI looked into the 4:40pm bus, its driver and passengers with no indication that Oswald was aboard.

This arrival time also contradicts the information related to the Twifords of Houston.

On p.731 of the WCR (WCR page image above) we learn that in Houston Oswald contacted the home of Horace E. Twiford, a Socialist Party member who receives names and addresses from the Party so he can send them the official publication, “Weekly People.” Oswald identified himself to Mrs. Twiford over the phone and since there was no operator involved, Mrs. Twiford felt it could have been a local call. Since the WC believed Mrs. Twiford’s affidavit, (Twiford Affidavit), the fact that she did not mention a specific date for this call and only placed the timing of the call between 7pm and 10pm, the WC had to conclude that Oswald arrived in Houston prior to 10pm. Neither of the two Continental buses Mr. Green identified in Dec 1963 arrives prior to 10pm on September 25th.

AFFIDAVIT (only relevant portions)

2. …He also said that he had hoped to discuss ideas with my husband for a few hours before he flew down to Mexico. He said he only had a few hours. I assume he was calling from the Houston area since he did not, to my knowledge, place a long distance call. However, he did not specifically say that he was in Houston. I have no information concerning his whereabouts when this call was placed. I told him if he desired to correspond with my husband, he could direct a letter to 7018 Schley Street, Houston, Texas, and I would see that my husband received it.

3. I cannot recall the date of the call, but I think it occurred during the week prior to the weekend my husband flew home to visit me from New Orleans where his ship was docked. I recall, my husband had shipped out the weekend prior to the call.

4. I cannot recall the exact time he called, but I think that it was in the evening, sometime between 7:00 and 10:00 o’clock. I was not working during this period.

Signed this 2d day of July 1964.
(S) Mrs. Estelle Twiford,
Mrs. ESTELLE TWIFORD

This bit of evidence seems to stand contrary to FBI investigatory practices. If a call was placed, a record is surely available from the phone company. If this was a long distance call, even more phone records would be created. Given the witness cannot recall the time or date of the call; the WC could have concluded it was not the 25th at all, yet then the call would have come from Mexico; also easily traced; yet does not fit in the story or timeline. The Twifords were never called to testify. We all know how much evidence and/or testimony was overlooked in the name of Oswald’s guilt. Why even mention this call, opening the door to taking an affidavit, and in turn the realization that what Twiford says Oswald told her conflicts with much of the Mexico evidence.

According to the evidence the Warren Report another bus HAD to be found. His apartment on Magazine was vacant; his wife, Ruth Paine and all the kids left on the 23rd. Oswald was seen carrying suitcases and went out of the way to retrieve and cash his $33 unemployment check. Even though he stated he had $300 for his trip and was already downtown where the buses would be leaving, he supposedly returned to his PO Box, and to within a couple blocks of his recent home, to cash said check and the evidence quoted states that there was no signed endorsement on this check.

On September 21, 1964, almost 10 months later and only a few days before the presentation of the WCR, an FBI report which becomes WCD 1553 (and accompanies a letter from Hoover dated Nov 9, 1964; after the WCR is delivered) was written up. This is from a September 9, 1964 re-interview of Mr. Major Green by FBI agent Callender in New Orleans. In THIS report, Mr. Green adds two more buses which travel from NOLA to Houston at 6:00am and 12:20pm arriving in Houston at 4:30 pm and 10:50 pm, respectively. The WCR places Oswald on the 12:20pm bus #5121 which arrives in Houston at 10:50 pm since it is known that Oswald retrieved and cashed his $33 unemployment check down the street from his apartment at 4905 Magazine after the 6am bus had already left New Orleans (even though this check was unsigned).

The Odio Incident

It is in this WCD that the FBI tries and fails to make its case against Hall, Howard and Seymour. WCD 1553 p.39.

The bus Oswald is supposedly on arrives well after 10pm in Houston. How then does Oswald call the Twifords from Houston between 7-10pm, if he is not yet in Houston? If the call was placed from outside of Houston; there might have been a record. Yet Oswald states that he has a few hours before his plane leaves to come by and speak to Mr. Twiford. Of course this does not prove he was in Houston at the time of the call, yet the evidence indicates he presented himself and was perceived as if he was. The man leaving Houston at 2:35 am on Continental #5133 (ticket # 112230 purchased at 1:30am) Hammett in Houston who spoke with the McFarland’s and was vocal about his FPCC connections is just as likely the person who called the Twifords from Houston earlier that evening who had “a few hours before he left for Mexico.”

From all the evidence the FBI offered, there is simply nothing to support Oswald leaving New Orleans on a bus headed to Houston. But there is reliable and corroborated evidence that another Oswald was in Austin, TX early in the afternoon on Sept 25th. And he arrived on the following evening on the 26th in Dallas, at Sylvia Odio’s with Leopoldo and Angelo. Coupled with the total lack of evidence regarding a bus trip out of New Orleans, it all suggests this Second Oswald, and his two Cuban riding companions, either left New Orleans together, or the Cubans met up with Harvey Oswald at some other location and traveled to Dallas between the 25th and 26th of September, stopping in Austin. The WC and FBI also did all they could to suggest that three other men (Loran Hall, Lawrence Howard and William Seymour) were the three visiting Ms. Odio; yet those efforts proved fruitless; but not in time to change the WCR conclusions.

On October 1, 1964 Sylvia was shown the photos of these three men and stated that “none of these individuals were identical with the three persons… who had come to her apartment in Dallas in the last week of September, 1963.” Her sister, Annie Odio, who was also in the apartment at the time, also stated that “none of the photographs appeared similar to the three individuals in her recollection.”

On 16th September, 1964, FBI agent Leon Brown interviewed Loran Hall on behalf of the Warren Commission. Brown claims that Hall admitted that he, Lawrence Howard and William Seymour made a visit to a woman who could have been Silvia Odio. However, when Hall was re-interviewed on 20th September and was shown a photograph of Odio, he claimed she was not the woman he met in New Orleans.

Lee Dannelly, Ronnie Dugger and Oswald

There is evidence available which places an Oswald at the Selective Service System Office in Austin, TX just after lunch on September 25th at about the same time he’d be leaving NOLA on the only bus the FBI could conclude he used, bus 5121 leaving at 12:20pm. The WCR, on the following page 732, explains that since there is no corroboration for Mrs. Dannelly’s story (which is eerily the same as our conclusion regarding his trip from NOLA to Houston) she must have heard the news and “all of the information she furnished (snip) could have been derived from news media.”

Austin Texas is 80 miles to the north west of the trip from Houston to Laredo, which in itself is about 325 miles and a 10 hour trip to the south. What will become clear is that an Oswald traveled from NOLA thru Austin on his way to Dallas and Sylvia Odio while another Oswald traveled AWAY from Dallas to Houston and caught the 2:35am bus early in the morning of Sept 26th .

To avoid corroborating her story we find the FBI once again trying to discredit witnesses. While they all give Mrs. Dannelly (and Jesse Skrivanek) the benefit of the doubt, they determine that two more people could not be right. One of these witnesses, a waitiress who claims to have served Oswald stated she had Wednesdays off. Sept 25th was a Wednesday and it was the day Mrs. Dannelly saw Oswald, so by process of elimination Mrs. Norman could not have seen Oswald. When shown a photo of Oswald, both Ronnie Dugger and Mrs. Stella Norman claim the person they met was “identical with Oswald.”

The Texas Employment Commission building is but 4-5 miles from the cafe where Mrs. Norman worked, L.B. Day confirms her story while Leon Oswald is not at Sylvia Odio’s in Dallas until the early evening of the 26th. Sylvia’s testimony suggests that the 26th or 27th was possible and that she had been to work that day (although she finally does settle on the evening of the 26th as the time and date). Oswald being seen in Austin while another Oswald impersonator makes his way to Houston for a trip to Mexico begins to take shape.

There is nothing offered to deny the possibility of Oswald staying in Austin until the following day, when on the morning of Thursday the 26th Mrs. Norman could be serving Oswald coffee, alone. Given Harvey’s cheap ways, milking a $.10 cup-a-joe while waiting for his comrades to get ready to leave for Dallas can explain the sighting and trip to Austin just as easily as the FBI dismissing it on such weak grounds.

This is a good place to note here the title of this series. The story of Oswald’s guilt is craftily told by prosecuting attorneys; the explanation of why this telling of the tale is so skewed is no better told in a lawyerly, assumptive fashion. Guilt requires proof… Innocence is one of the rare human qualities which civilized society purposefully “assumes” within its basic rule of law. One is presumed innocent until proven guilty. If the guilt can be shown to have come from inauthentic evidence, the presumption must remain. Oswald was presumed guilty with evidence supporting that conclusion brought front and center while all other evidence is buried, altered, destroyed or simply ignored. When this selective evidence is shown to be inauthentic in the years after his murder, the presumption of innocence MUST be a foregone conclusion.

As Mr. Redlich put it to Mr. Rankin on April 27, 1964 at the beginning of evidence evaluation and the taking of statements (there is no record of this memo being discussed at any Executive sessions):

The powers that were/are in charge of the evidence made sure that Ms. Odio’s story was not heard in a timely manner. Her WC interview was in mid July 1964 while the FBI reports, CE3147 & 3148 are dated September 1964. The report itself was finished and delivered on September 24, 1964. Ms. Odio’s story is summarized on pgs. 321-322, followed by the declaration that since OSWALD was traveling on a bus to Mexico at the time he could NOT have been at Odio’s home in Dallas at the same time and it has been developed “that he was not in Dallas any time between the beginning of September and October 3, 1963.” Until the Hearings and Exhibits were published, this was the only mention of Sylvia Odio, 2 Cubans and Leon Oswald.

In essence; because he couldn’t have met Odio since he was on a bus to Mexico, he didn’t. The Evidence IS and will always remain, the Conspiracy.

Hamilton interviews Oswald but not same man

Mr. Olin Hamilton of the AL SEMTNER Drug Dept in Dallas was reported by the FBI to have interviewed LEE OSWALD just after Sept 23, 1963; when the WCR tells us he was not in Dallas during that time. Much like the WCR’s statement that no one saw Oswald between 11:50 and 12:30 on 11/22, the above declaration that Oswald was not in Dallas at all in the month of September is easily disproved. Oswald was in New Orleans all summer, so one wonders how the Texas Employment Commission has recent Dallas information on this man, and is able to send him on this interview.

Mrs Martinez Salvation Army

Mrs. Ambrose Martinez told the FBI that prior to the assassination in Aug/Sept Lee and Marina and 2 children visited her Salvation Army welfare office in Dallas. (at 500 N Ervay not far from the FBI offices in Dallas at the time) She gave the FBI details related to their references to Mrs. Paine and Marina only speaking Russian. Lee told her they were living in Irving with Mrs. Paine and that he had met her in New Orleans. Ruth, on the following page mentions that Marina never went to downtown Dallas after Oswald joined them on October 3rd. Furthermore, Oswald’s 2nd child was not born until mid-October.

As we can see, there is quite a bit going on with conflicting evidence just for Sept 23rd thru the 26th… and we haven’t even gotten to Laredo yet.

Hammett – Oswald from Houston to Laredo

Mr. E.P. HAMMETT, the ticket agent at the Continental Trailways counter in Houston on the night of Sept 25th remembers distinctly selling a single ticket for travel from Houston to Mexico City; a rare event as that trip’s tickets are not sold but more than 1 or so a week, according to Mr. Hammett. In this report the FBI shows Mr. Hammett a photo of Oswald and a small Zipper bag (but not the larger olive-colored canvas bag which is ultimately recorded on the Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey, Flecha Roja busline portion of the trip.

The description of the man’s clothes offered by Mr. Hammett; a brown and white pullover sweater, white dungarees and white canvas shoes; and the lack of these items being found in any of Harvey’s possessions, suggest that like the light colored medium sized jacket found “on the escape route from Tippit”, these clothes were never Harvey’s.

From all appearances, the man claiming to be Lee was in Houston getting on a bus at 2:35am now the 26th, while Harvey was still in Austin on his way to Dallas; most probably with the two Cubans Odio sees on the evening of the 26th.

Surely there are records kept as tourists leave the USA and enter a different country. The stamping of passports is something we can usually count upon yet in 1963 traveling to Mexico or Canada did not always result in these stamps. So what else can we find which would show that Oswald, with no known nefarious thoughts at this point, left the US for Mexico. Surely he was not actively trying to hide this travel; given the discussions Marina claims they had about the trip, the lack of any motive and the ease with which he befriends others on the way.

CE2121 p14-15 & 23; From Mexican Immigration forms FM-5 and FM-8 (this FM-8 appears imprinted at the top of the tourist visa card #24085 made out to Harvey Oswald Lee) the FM-11 form is created which is an alphabetical listing of those entering Mexico prepared every 2 weeks. For those people entering the 1st of the 15-day cycle, the person with the first alphabetical listing would have the #1 written on their visa and they’d be recorded on line #1 in the FM-11.

Info for the FM-11 is taken from the ORIGINAL tourist card and then, “a number is placed on the tourist card” which are used to make entries by day, in alphabetical order until the end of the 15 day period. Oswald was given # 807 on the FM-11 which started at #762 for FM-8 passengers on Sept 26th. The number we should see on the original visa would be 807 minus 762 or 45. It does not appear there is any number written on the “original” visa in evidence that corresponds to this process.

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/html/WC_Vol25_0352b.htm

For CE2121, FM-5 and FM-8 entries are separated. For the period starting Sept 16 we are shown that entrance #368, Margarita Alanis, was recorded as the first person entering Nuevo Laredo on Sept 26th. On page 18 the FM-5 numbers end with #399; Tobias Zarember and start again with the FM-8 entry: Felix Alonzo. The number for the alphabetized FM-8 form entries begins with 762.

On page 23 of CE2121, after the name Buell Moore and before Maurice Ouellet we have “HARVEY OSWALD LEE, FM-8 #24085.” Except according to the Mexican officials, they believed the passenger’s name from the visa was Lee, Harvey Oswald which becomes “H.O. Lee” on his departing documents. LEE comes well before MOORE. In fact, Mr. LEE should have been #800 before Mr. Mason. One has to wonder who in Mexico would have known this passenger to be Mr. OSWALD when preparing this list as opposed to Mr. LEE as stated by his travel documents.

CE 2121 p.23

The exhibit goes on to mention that even though baggage may be listed; this does not insure that the person actually traveled on the bus.

Below is a piece of CE2469 which establishes H.O. LEE as the name the Mexican authorities related to the person traveling out of Mexico and back to the US. We will return to this important Exhibit as it fits into the controversy surrounding which bus line the FBI and the WCR finally decides Oswald was on: Transportes del Norte or Transportes Frontera and why, if he was actually on one or the other, there appears to be evidence which supports either scenario. What the Frontera evidence reveals is the speed and efficiency with which Mexican intelligence was willing to create documents which supported the story of his travel. In subsequent parts we will examine this trip in detail starting with the arrival in Mexico, the evidence of his activities in Mexico and the return trip to Dallas.

There were three bus lines which service Mexico City: Transporte del Norte, Transporte Frontera and Flecha Rojas. The evidence for Oswald’s return trip will pit evidence created by Arturo Bosch against the assumptions and evidence regarding the del Norte line and the simple statement of Hoover that Oswald did NOT take bus #340 at 2pm; and that the evidence which suggests this was created after the fact.

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Mention “Mexico City” to a JFK Conspiracy Realist and you can expect to get any of a variety of reactions, from the opinion that Mexico City is the “Rosetta Stone” of the conspiracy to pure agnosticism. At the core of the Mexico City charade is the same question that haunts most of the Warren Commission Report (WCR) conclusions and evidence; why? Why would Lone Nut Lee Harvey Oswald be going to Mexico City, to both Cuban & Russian embassies, with what appears in the evidence to be the desire to secure passage through Cuba to Russia?

How can we establish a relationship between Oswald’s decision to go to Mexico and the way in which it was reported within the government, and Oswald’s guilt for the JFK assassination? The WCR claims there was no connection whatsoever between the events to and from Mexico (as well as the time in Mexico) to Oswald’s plan to kill JFK. The Warren Commission Report’s conclusion reflects that the Commission determined that there was little if any advanced planning of the assassination. At least on Oswald’s part.

See here.

The evidentiary purpose of the trip was to secure an in-transit visa for passage thru Cuba to Russia for himself and his family. The WCR stated Oswald’s purpose was to go thru Mexico to Cuba in lieu of hijacking a plane and flying directly to Cuba (per Marina). In other words, he simply wanted to get to Russia through Cuba.

On the other hand…

Can the events surrounding this trip be connected to a plan to create a viable patsy in the killing of JFK? We must remember that Dallas was by no means the first assassination attempt in November 1963 involving scoped rifles, slow vehicle turns and teams of men. Would we be seeing Arthur Thomas Vallee’s name on the Mexico City evidence if the Chicago plot* had succeeded?
(*Edwin Black; The Chicago Plot, Nov 1975 Chicago Independent)

The evidence tries to establish that Oswald was focused on getting to Cuba en route to Russia and that he had met with a man supposedly KGB assassination related, although Win Scott claims Oswald was trying to get to Odessa with his family and little else. Win also states to his knowledge, as he was not in Mexico at the time, that Oswald was under complete and thorough surveillance the entire time he was in Mexico. He could only get this information from one of the two people overseeing the Mexico station in his absence: Anne Goodpasture, his chief assistant and/or David Atlee Philips; Head of the Cuban desk at the Mexico station.

Oswald already had the appropriate passport documentation, approved VERY quickly, to get back to Russia without having to go through Cuba (which in itself is amazing given his “status”). House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) published Oswald’s June 1963 Passport application, which was approved for travel including to Russia. In essence, there would be no need for Oswald, who had to have had some reason for going to Mexico City’s Cuban and Russian Consulate, to even attempt to travel through Cuba.

See here.

The story of Mexico City has 3 distinct parts: The summer of ’63, the trip itself, and the CIA’s activity after Oct 3rd. How “The Evidence IS the Conspiracy” correlates to each of these parts will be presented here one part at a time.

What we find amazing is the number of reports on the Mexico trip which are repeated and scattered about the WCR and WC Documents, as if this information was intentionally made especially difficult to correlate and cross-check. The evidence related to this part of the conspiracy is not only contradictory, but WCR-incriminating.

The impetus for this has been touched upon in a number of books and articles over the years: the name on the tourist Visa purchased on Sept 17th and the hotel registry in Mexico City both include the identical mistake; a comma after LEE, followed by HARVEY OSWALD. Is there any evidence offered to explain how Lee Harvey Oswald becomes Harvey Oswald Lee or H.O. Lee?

The following is A COPY of the Mexican Hotel’s guest register with a blow-up of the signature compared to the signature on the visa. (ALL docs are copies as the FBI took possession of and kept all originals. As time passed and originals were requested, we find that most originals were either destroyed, or claimed to be lost. Whether the CIA/DFS turned over all the docs is yet another difficult to resolve mystery).

All in good time. Let us start at the beginning:

PART I. The Summer (officially ended September 23rd 1963).

From the time Oswald left Reilly Coffee in late July, his activities in New Orleans, LA (NOLA) and up to his Sept 27th Dallas meeting with Sylvia Odio, all connect him with PRO-CASTRO forces, overseen by anti-Castro intelligence operatives within our government. Virtually no one that summer is NOT associated with intelligence, foreign or domestic, in and out of 544 Camp, the International Trade Mart and Jim Garrison’s backyard.

Over the Labor Day weekend while Oswald and family are in New Orleans with the Murrets (Lee’s mother’s sister and husband), two men arrived at the door of one Robert McKeown, a self confessed arms dealer who worked in similar circles as Jack Ruby, had supplied arms for Castro’s cause and was a close friend of Castro himself. McKeown was on probation at the time. Lee Oswald announced to McKeown that he has finally found him and would like to buy 4 rifles for $10,000. Lee Oswald was traveling with a man named Hernandez.

McKeown had connections with Ex-Cuban President Carlos Prio, the new leader of Cuba Fidel Castro, as well as having been contacted by Jack Ruby. McKeown ran CIA-sourced munitions to both sides of the conflict.

This appears as an attempt to once again connect OSWALD with CUBA and CASTRO almost 3 months ahead of time. Would we assume this is assassination related?

Ruby also knew McKeown from his gun-running activities and offered him $25,000 in 1963 for an introduction to Castro in order to secure the sale of jeeps. McKeown asked for $5,000 up front which Ruby did not have at the time. No further contact was reported.

Looking at a list of WCR/FBI Exhibit numbers we spotted FBI D-050, a guest registry for the Fox and Hound in Milwaukee, WI with the name LEE OSWALD; DALLAS, TEXAS signed on the registry page for Sept 14, 1963. The article states the date was Sept 16, even though the actual page does not appear to have a date at all. A report of a “Lee Harvey Oswald” also written in a restaurant registry in Hubertus, WI coincides with a statement from the article by Mrs. Patricia Stanley, manager of the Fox and Hound, “…declined to comment on how the FBI learned that the registry contained the name of ‘Lee Oswald’” …” I am not at liberty to say anything.” Asked whether the FBI had instructed her not to comment Mrs. Stanley replied, “There were others, too, but I just can’t say.”

While the article repeatedly claims that there is no indication that Oswald was in Wisconsin, it never even hints at why or who would be putting that name with DALLAS in mid September when Oswald was in New Orleans with Marina (who was 8 months pregnant) and his first child June. Oswald and Marina arrived in New Orleans on April 24, 1963. On their reutrn to Texas in September, Marina moved in with Ruth, while Oswald did not return to Texas until October, after the Mexico trip. Ruth drove Marina and June to Irving the morning of Sept 23.

The Paines and the Oswalds

Ruth Paine left Irving on July 27, 1963 with her children for a driving trip to see relatives, friends and Friends (Quaker organization relations). In mid-September she was in Richmond, Indiana before heading south to New Orleans. Marina and Ruth had been in contact with each other initially discussing the end of September, after Ruth’s trip, as the approximate day for pick-up. Between Sept 20 and Sept 23 Oswald was with his wife, Ruth and all the kids at 4905 Magazine in New Orleans until they left. Oswald definitely did not travel with Ruth. When recapping that weekend Ruth uses the name “HARVEY” alone, something not seen or done in most testimony offered about Oswald.

Why the repeated use of all three of his names as opposed to simply Lee, or Oswald by the government lawyers? Was it to assist with the cover up when the different people in his history refer to him as Lee OR Harvey? I wonder how many times a single name was actually used, only to be transcribed into Lee Harvey Oswald. Looking through Ruth’s testimony, for example, “Lee Harvey Oswald” is said 85 times by Jenner and Dulles and not used once by Ruth.

In the spirit of context and timing we know that Michael Paine had moved into his own apartment in September 1962. Michael picked up Oswald and Marina in Dallas in early April, 1963 for a visit to their Irving house after having met them at a party during the holiday season 1962. The party, at Mrs. Declan Ford’s house was where Mr. & Mrs. DeMohrenschildt bring Mr and Mrs Oswald at Mrs. DeMohrenschildt’s request. In one form or another, a close watch was being held on Mr. and Mrs. Oswald.

On September 17th; based on the date printed on CE 2478, the tourist visa; a man recorded as “LEE, HARVEY OSWALD” yet signing his name “Lee H Oswald” purchased a 15 day tourist visa for Mexico which allowed the holder to remain in Mexico for up to five days prior to the expiration date of the visa; October 2, 1963.

The Alvarado Story

September 18th was the original date Nicaruaguan Intelligence officer Alvarado claims he saw Oswald in Mexico City, overheard a conversation related to an assassination and saw Oswald accepting money. Alvarado went to the American Embassy in Mexico City on November 25 to report what he saw. When the FBI/CIA realized that Sept 18 was not possible because Oswald was still in New Orleans, Alvarado changed his story as needed and ultimately recanted the entire thing under protest. The interesting thing about Alvarado is the CIA’s follow-up cable on Dec 7 which completely lets Alvarado off the hook for having fabricated the story and even suggests there is a direct connection between what Alvarado does and who instructs him to do it. Central American countries’ Intelligence servies and the CIA became VERY close over the years since 1947. If the encounter never happened; and there is no evidence that it did other than Alvarado’s word; how would Alvarado have known what types of things to say in order to incriminate Oswald all on his own?

CE 3152 is a memo from HELMS to RANKIN about the Alvarado incident: how hard it was to shake Alvarado off his story, how he maintained it was Oswald even after he failed the polygraph, and that he had been at the Cuban Consulate on Sept 18th. (The Consulates are not the same as the Embassies. A close examination of the evidence shows that when asked to go to one, the man playing Oswald would go to the other without success).

CE 3152 continues by establishing that Alvarado was informant T-32, that he was 60% sure it was Oswald and that it occurred on the 18th of September. In conjunction with this is a follow-up memo (possibly from David Phillips) which discusses “resolution” of the Alvarado issue yet gives the distinct impression that Alvarado, his employer and the CIA are very much intertwined. We’ll delve more deeply into the Alvarado incident in part two. Note: “IF ERTHYROIDS CAN GIVE HIM SOMETHING USEFUL AND NON-SENSITIVE TO DO FOR A FEW MONTHS IT WILL HELP.” His job in Mexico was most assuredly “sensitive.”

Peter Dale Scott uses the initial story and recant as examples of what he calls the Phase 1 and Phase 2 stories of Oswald. Phase 1 being the connection to communists, Cuba and Russia in order to “release the dogs of war” which when thwarted by Johnson and Hoover becomes Phase 2: Oswald the Lone Nut Communist with no ties to anyone and his NOT being the man in Mexico… Hoover seems to be the only one who appears concerned with the identity of the Oswald impersonator (the CIA certainly doesn’t care as they created the charade) and states on 11-23-63 to LBJ:

“…I think we have a very, very close plan. Now if we can identify this man who is at the Mexican Embassy at; the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, the Embassy in Mexico City — this man Oswald has still denied everything.” Hoover would feel and mention the sting of the CIA and Oswald in Mexico for many years to come. He would also make clear to his staff that he felt the FBI report mistakenly came to a conclusion. The Commissioners themselves were very surprised at this since Hoover was given to saying the FBI determined the facts and did not present conclusions, even if ironclad.

(enhanced by DJ)

FBI vs. CIA

One should note that prior to the 1947 creation of the CIA, the FBI’s Special Intelligence Service (SIS) was specifically responsible for Intelligence gathering in the Western Hemisphere, from 1941 through 1946 along with existing Military Intelligence entities with acronyms, like MID (Military Intelligence Division) & ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence). The SIS story begins on 26 June 1939, with Roosevelt signed a Presidential Directive stating:

It is my desire that the investigation of all espionage, counter-espionage, and sabotage matters be controlled and handled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, the Military Intelligence Division [MID] of the War Department, and the Office of Naval Intelligence [ONI] of the Navy Department. The Directors of these three agencies are to function as a committee to coordinate their activities. (Presidential Directive of 26 June 1939; Section 2; File 64-4104; Administrative Records of the SIS; RG 65; NACP.)

FDR clarified his position on June 24, 1940:

He ordered that “The FBI should be responsible for foreign-intelligence work in the Western Hemisphere, on the request of the State Department,” while “The existing Military Intelligence and Naval Intelligence branches should cover the rest of the world, as and when necessity arises.” President Roosevelt concluded his directive by observing how “It was understood that the proposed additional intelligence work should not supersede any existing work now being done…” (New Insights into Hoover and the SIS, G. Gregg Webb; see here).

(Memorandum of President Roosevelt’s telephone directive prepared by Berle and approved by the President, 24 June 1940; Section 2; File 64-4104; Administrative Records of the SIS; RG 65; NACP).

Understanding the long history of US Military involvement in Central and South America would require a book in its own right, yet we ought to be aware that the growth and control of sovereign nations and their intelligence, security and military establishments in this area goes hand in hand with the US military’s work to protect US business interests in these countries. Between the Armed Forces’ Intelligence, the State Department’s attache corp and the FBI’s SIS, Central and South America, especially Mexico and Brazil, were hand-in-hand partners with the USA in numerous illegal activities from assassination to the drug trade. Many researchers have discovered this conection resulting in the multitude of “off the books” programs financed by illegal funds.

Marina’s Stories

As we’ve learned, so much of what Marina Oswald tells us is shrouded in conflict. Yet as times and testimony change we can always count on her supporting the desired facts, even if she sounds terribly foolish doing so.

Prior to Ruth arriving, from early September though the 23rd, Marina’s “husband” is not working yet also not home every day reading as Marina claims. Between the Unemployment Office, the library and Ryder’s Coffee shop, he was busy. We finally learn about Oswald’s plans for Mexico from Marina in her testimony:

WCR testimony:

The purpose of the visit as recorded and expressed by Chief of Mexico Station Win Scott was to get himself and his family to Odessa. Cuba originally did not have anything to do with the evidence of the man calling himself Oswald.

And as usual, the FIRST STORY offered, which usually conflicted with the desired story, had to be changed or be supported by some rational explanation for the change:

Marina describing her husband going to Mexico is fraught with problems and contradictions. So much so that a reading of each subsequent questioning on the subject appears as if she is reading from a prepared script regardless of the question. It was CUBA-CUBA-CUBA all the time, when actually there is little if any evidence anywhere else in this case to support Oswald’s desire to be in Cuba. (Incidentally, it was not the FBI she talked to about Mexico at first. It was the Secret Service).

(This bit of testimony is the reference used by the Warren Commission to determine Oswald had taken a bus from New Orleans).

One has to wonder what occurred to change Marina’s account of Mexico between November 28 & 29, 1963 and Feb 3, 1964 when she began giving the “adjusted” account of her knowledge about her husband’s Mexico Trip…

CE1781:

And the SS interview Nov 29th:

“She was asked whether she had any knowledge of Lee’s trips to Mexico or Washington, D.C. She replied in the negative. She was asked whether she or Lee had any cameras and she replied that Lee bought one camera in Russia and a second one in the United States. She said one was a small camera and the other was a box camera. She added that sho was not proficient with operating any Cameras and she never had an opportunity to do so.” See here (“never had an opportunity to work the camera” requires yet another back-peddling recant when the infamous Backyard photos come up)

When did Oswald leave New Orleans?

In the time period when Oswald actually stopped working at Reily Coffee on July 22, 1963 (a company employing Oswald with its own set of CIA, FBI and NASA coincidences and peculiarities) and Sept 23, 1963 Oswald did not work, officially; his only job while in New Orleans since April was at Reily. In yet another of a long line of imposter coincidences, on July 26, 1963 at the American Museum of Atomic Energy in Tennessee we find someone has signed Oswald’s name and associated him with the USSR and Dallas. (H&L p.551 – FBI D-154)

Oswald collected $33/week in unemployment beginning Aug 17 and had barely made $500 while at Reily. On August 9th he was involved in what we now know was a charade, and was arrested while handing out pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba (FPCC) literature at the New Orleans LA International Trade Mart. Some of the literature in Oswald’s possession literally had his name and “544 Camp” stamped on it. This connects to Bannister and by association to a man named William Gaudet who we come to learn acquired the Mexican tourist visa sequentially numbered just ahead of the one given to Oswald: No. 24084, on Sept 17th.

On Sept 17, 1963 SOMEONE appears at the New Orleans Mexican consulate and purchases the visa made out to “LEE, HARVEY OSWALD,” which to most means the person’s name was Harvey Oswald Lee, or H.O. Lee. The FBI explains:

CE 1143 is an: Excerpt from FBI report dated May 18, 1964, re Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico and excerpt from Secret Service report dated August 28, 1964, of schedule of buses traveling from Dallas and Houston to Laredo, Tex. (CD 1084(e), pp. 2, 99-101; CD 1450, p. 1).

The above excerpt starts with acknowledging that the 15 day visa was made out to “LEE, HARVEY OSWALD” comma and all, yet they write: “It would appear that the comma was placed on the card in error inasmuch as the signature appearing on the original and duplicate portions of the FM-8 is LEE H. OSWALD.” As we can see, #24085 appears as described (this is a reversed image) as do the signatures…

Yet, when we look at the hotel registry where Lee would have once again signed his name as it appears on the signature line of these forms, without a comma, we find something quite interesting: We are expected to believe that Oswald, who supposedly signed his name on the visa, did so in exactly the same manner as is TYPED on the 15 day visa, not as the visa was signed… maybe part of his master “advanced” plan? (Note: as we remember from the first The Evidence IS the Conspiracy article, he waited until Thursday afternoon the 21st to ask Wesley Frazier for a ride back to Irving to fetch his rifle, even though he had been working in Dallas at the TSBD since mid-October. The WCR concluded that this trip and the JFK assassination had no connection for Oswald and that there was in fact little if any advanced planning).

When we add to this all the evidence, or non-evidence of Oswald himself ever being in Mexico we are literally forced to re-examine in detail the events ascribed to him and whether or not this remains a simple oversight, or the inadvertent copying of information to keep falsified information consistent.

We learn that #24084, the visa issued just before Oswald’s was bought by a man the WCR, FBI and CIA sought to keep buried, William George Gaudet. And they succeeded. It was not until 12 years later during the HSCA that we hear from Gaudet and learn that the list of names of those who purchased visas on Sept 17 that the FBI provided the WC deleted the name Gaudet claiming, “No record of FM-8 No 24084 located.”

This link is Warren Commission Document 75 page 577 from Warren DeBrueys’ 12/2/63 report showing the FBI knew about this man within 2 weeks after the assassination. Gaudet’s stated purpose for the trip? “Travel to Mexico 1 day as tourist.” It is unknown whether he ever made that trip. Yet one Albert Osborne did. We will return to Mr. Osborne and some of the strange circumstances revolving around yet another piece of the Mexico Trip and the printing of FPCC flyers.

More importantly for this discussion, when he was finally questioned by the HSCA, Gaudet established direct connections between Guy Banister of 544 Camp Street and Lee Harvey Oswald during the summer of 1963 in New Orleans:

National Archives, HSCA 180-10070-10274, Numbered Files 004826; HSCA interview of William Gaudet

Gaudet goes on to mention the names David Ferrie, Sergio Smith, Howard Hunt, Bernard Baker and Frank Sturgis among his CIA exploits:

Gaudet acknowledged he knew Oswald (and Bannister) from his activity in New Orleans related to FPCC; the same FPCC which the Secret Service states has no connection to 544 Camp. Mr. Gaudet would have us believe that his acquiring the previous visa on the same day was pure coincidence.

CE3120 shows copy of Corliss Lamont’s pamphlet with the final page bearing a FPCC, 544 Camp Street, New Orleans stamp. WCD1495 is a SS report dated Sept 11, 1964 which connects this pamphlet to literature found in Oswald’s possession.

CE1414 is an SS report from Dec 1963 which concludes that there was no connection between FPCC and 544 Camp, and that it was “impossible” to find anyone who recalls ever seeing Oswald at that address. But boy oh boy did we try hard.

Since William Gaudet helps to show that conclusion for what it truly was, we can understand why the FBI, CIA and WCR went out of their way to remove him from the picture. Could Gaudet have been the reason and/or transportation for Lee to have gone and gotten a 15 day visa which would expire exactly on October 2, 1963? Witnesses to this purchase stated that Oswald was alone at the time and that the following visas are purchased just before closing at 1:30pm.

Of note is that the visa states the stay in Mexico cannot exceed 5 days while the visa itself is good for 15 days. The dates work perfectly; Ruth arrives just in time to remove Marina and June from Oswald’s care and sight. Virtually every single statement incriminating Oswald for having been to Mexico and to the Soviet and Cuban Embassies and/or Consulates is derived from CIA/DFS (Mexican Intelligence) related transcripts and records. The FBI, which also had their own relationships with the Mexican DFS obviously also did not have a shred of proof that Oswald, the man Ruby killed, had been to Mexico. It relied exclusively on CIA information.

Along the same lines as taking CIA documentation for what it is, former CIA officer Phillip Agee tells us that CIA 201 files are divided into a CLEAN “operational” part for public consumption and a SECRET “true name documents” part. The following is an excerpt from Inside the Company, by P. Agee:

“Files are maintained on all agents and they always begin with the number 201 — followed by a number of five to eight digits. The 201 file contains all the documents that pertain to a given agent and usually start with the PRQ and the request for POA. But the 201 file is divided into two parts which are stored separately for maximum security. One part contains true name documents while the other part contains cryptonym documents and operational information. Compromise of one part will not reveal both the true name and the operational use of the agent.”

We ought to take a moment to create a little “mind-set” context. In 1963 the backstory always supported the documents. The documents were the evidence. There was not Internet cross-checking or even putting most of the evidence side-by-side. They were accepted until authenticated while usually authenticated by the same CIA people who created them or those under their control. When the CIA or FBI or ONI, INS, MID handed you a file or leaked a story, there was no questioning where the rest of it was, where the “good stuff” or the “secret” stuff was. Today, we are given the impression that NOTHING IS SECRET while everything, in reality, is. In 1963 and for many years after, the truth was simply hidden or destroyed. Today it is covered with mountains of data and hiding in plain sight.

The result is the same question: “What is the truth?”

The answer remains the same: “What we tell you it is.”

Who returned the books?

On September 19th, two days later, Oswald is at one of the New Orleans public libraries and checks out four books. This in itself is not surprising as most said he was an avid reader (not bad for a 10th grade dropout: teaches himself Russian, speaks eloquently on Marxism, his own philosophies, his travels and his photographic abilities. School records reflect a 102 to 118 IQ.) What surprises is the fact these books are returned in New Orleans on the day Oswald is supposed to have arrived in Dallas; October 3, 1963. (We will return to Oct 2 and beyond in Part 3). One has to wonder who this Lone Nut Oswald was so close to that they would return four library books. Where were these books? If he traveled with the books he’d need to stop in New Orleans first, which was something Marina was asked about, but then he could never have been in Dallas at the time he was. Mrs. Jesse Garner, the apartment manager found a completely empty 4905 Magazine on the 25th when she came to collect some rent that was due. Oswald had taken all his possessions with him, yet these library books were returned in New Orleans on the 3rd of October.

The Signatures Don’t Match

September 20th is also a most interesting day: (From Harvey and Lee, p.598)

On September 20 Nagell sent a registered letter from El Paso, Texas to J. Edgar Hoover at FBI Headquarters and informed him that President Kennedy would be assassinated during the last week of September in a conspiracy that involved Lee Harvey Oswald. After mailing the letter, which included Oswald’s description, aliases, and current address, Nagell walked into the State National Bank and fired two shots into the ceiling. He then walked outside and waited for the police to arrive. When the police arrived and arrested Nagell his only statement was, “I would rather be arrested than commit murder and treason.” When Nagell was searched the police found a photocopy of a military ID card issued to Lee Harvey Oswald. The ID card was probably given to Nagell by the people who assigned him to infiltrate the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald and Franz Waehauf at the Hotel Luma in Mexico City. Otherwise, how and why would Nagell have a copy of Oswald’s military ID card with a different signature?

(When Richard Case Nagell was arrested in El Paso Texas, the police found a military ID card issued to Oswald in his belongings. That card was identical to one found on Oswald in Dallas on November 22, 1963. With two exceptions: the photo and signature were different).

Ruth Paine and Marina

Friday, September 20, 1963 was also the day that Ruth Paine arrived at 4905 (or 4907) Magazine after corresponding with Marina about having her come live with Ruth and children until and through the birth of their next child in mid-October. Ruth and children arrive in a 2-tone BLUE station wagon which appears not to be the same vehicle in which Ruth brought them to New Orleans.

CE3119 page 10 reports that Lillian Murret, Oswald’s aunt, said that the “unknown woman from Texas in the BROWN station wagon had called for him…”

In April 1963 the Oswalds arrive at the Murretts’ in New Orleans in a BROWN station wagon driven by Ruth Paine. In September 1963 the same woman picks them up in a BLUE station wagon.

During her questioning about February 22, 1963; the gathering when the DeMohrenschildt’s brought Marina and Harvey; she was asked how she got there, answering that she drove:

Mr. Clifton Shasteen was a barber in Irving who remembers Oswald well:

With Oswald on a few of these trips was a boy described as 14 years old and unknown to Clifton who as a barber had a good memory for faces, not names.

(Note: A BROWN station wagon of similar make, model and year was seen at 4905 Magazine around the time of Oswald’s FPCC arrest on Aug 9th at the International Trade Mart).

Ruth and children stay the weekend and corroborate the fact that Marina’s “husband” was there all weekend. Finally, on Sept 22, Oswald helps load Ruth’s car and on the morning of Sept 23 says goodbye to Marina and June. Of special note were questions asked by the WC about anything that might have resembled a rifle either in the materials packed with Marina or in Oswald’s possession when he leaves on the 24th. The answer in each case was that nothing resembling a rifle was seen either during the packing, unloading and storage of their belongings, ever.

On September 24 (Tuesday) Oswald visited claims interviewer Fredrick L. Christen (“T-3”) at the unemployment office in New Orleans for the last time. Once again Christen reported Oswald’s visit to the FBI and advised that he signed a continued interstate claim (Form IB -2) in his presence. (p. 603 H&L)

How did Oswald get to Laredo?

Witness Eric Roberts, who lived near Oswald on Magazine stated that Oswald left his apartment around 7pm, Sept 24, carrying 2 SMALL SUITCASES approximately 18 inches across and caught a bus at the nearest stop at Magazine and Upperline. The FBI conducted a fairly thorough search of the surrounding hotels; 43 to be exact; and was unable to locate where HARVEY Oswald stayed that night (see here).

We are aware that Oswald was still in New Orleans the morning of the 25th of September as he cashed his Sept 17th Unemployment Insurance Claim check which was mailed from Austin on Sept 23rd. While two days from mailing to cashing does seem a bit quick, most every event in the falsified timeline gives Oswald JUST ENOUGH TIME to potentially complete the event, yet they still stretch the bounds of credibility.

Speaking of the bounds of credibility stretched, the WCR states, on page 731, that Oswald had $200 for the trip to Mexico, footnote #1124 refers to CE2481, Oswald’s tourist visa application in which he actually states he has $300. As discussed earlier, Oswald’s last day of work was July 22, and the first $33 UE check was on Aug 17. Of course, there were living expenses from Aug 17 thru Sept 23 for himself, Marina and June and “no money to Marina” when she left with Ruth.

It is unclear whether Marina was given any money while her husband was separated from her. It is also unclear how Oswald saved two let alone three hundred dollars when he only received $33/wk. for about 6 weeks.

Oswald left New Orleans by bus. Or so says the WCR with reference to Marina Oswald’s testimony. Actually, she left two days before her husband left. Oswald probably left, the WCR concluded, by way of Continental Trailways Bus No. 5121. Probably. In Warren Report-speak this means there is no proof whatsoever that Oswald took or was aboard that bus or the evidence would have been offered, fabricated or not.

The FBI was simply unable to determine how Oswald left with his two suitcases after he left the local bus. According to the driver of the bus who helped Oswald load his two suitcases, he asked for directions to the Greyhound bus station. The Greyhound station and the Continental Station are not the same nor do the Greyhound buses travel to or from the Continental Station and vice versa. It is very likely, based on the testimony of Sylvia Odio and her sisters, that Oswald was on his way to Dallas, in a car driven by two Cuban men.

The men were two anti-Castro Cubans who, as a threesome, make it difficult to believe that the man leaving the impression he was Lee Harvey Oswald on a bus leaving Laredo, was actually Marina Oswald’s husband.

This takes us through 12:20pm September 25th when a bus leaving New Orleans for Houston becomes the agreed upon mode of transportation for Oswald’s trip to Mexico.

In part II we will examine the evidence related to September 25th; the simultaneous trip to Dallas and Mexico; through October 3rd when Oswald was in Dallas while someone was returning his library books in New Orleans and making another call in his name to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City.

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