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*as of ‘19 OCTOBER 2023’*
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*22 NOVEMBER 1963*
(DALLAS / TEXAS)
(12:30PM central standard time)
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(‘lee harvey oswald’ killed ‘john fitzgerald kennedy’)
*lee harvey oswald*
(the first (and ONLY) time he’s ver tried ‘smiling’…)
(and you can see why he never tried again….)
(even if his gun had ammunition…)
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‘oswald’s wife’ –>
(imagine a demonic commie doppelganger ‘jackie o’)
(‘seeing how the other half lives…’)
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(like all ‘marines’, ‘oswald’ was ‘trained’ + ‘tested’ in ‘shooting’, scoring ‘212’ in ‘december 1956’)
(slightly above the ‘minimum qualification’ as a sharpshooter)
(but in ‘may 1959’ he scored only ‘191’)
((barely earning the lower designation of marksman)
(‘oswald’ was ‘court-martialed’ after accidentally shooting himself in the ‘elbow’ with an ‘unauthorized handgun’)
ha! what a fucking DOPE!
(’til a smiling oswald creeps up from behind…)
“says who”?
(before proceeding to blw out our ‘brains’…)
(he was ‘court-martialed’ again for fighting with a ‘sergeant’ he thought responsible for his ‘punishment in the ‘shooting matter’)
“what a guy!”
“sounds like someone i wouldn’t mind meeting…”
(he was ‘demoted’ from ‘private first class’ to ‘private’)
(and ‘briefly imprisoned)
“how briefly?”
(as ‘eisenhower’ gives ominous ‘farewell address about the threat posed by the rise of the ever-expanding ‘miitary–industrial complex’)
(‘american fascism’)
(‘demagogues’)
(was kennedy an ‘enemy’ or ‘ally’?)
(or ‘lesser of 2 evils’)
(how would ‘nixon’ have fared if he had won the ‘election”?)
(‘democrat by default’)
(he was later punished for a 3rd incident: while on ‘nighttime sentry duty’ in ‘the philippines’, he inexplicably fired his rifle into the jungle)
ha!
again, what a guy!
(said a drunk bob dylan in 1663)
(the art of ‘hype’)
(more on that later…)
(to you, owen benjamin…)
(‘flow’ – artistic commitment)
(‘buzz’ – ‘cries for artistic attention’)
‘george de mohrenschildt’
(’17 april 1911′ – ’29 march 1977′)
(‘petroleum geologist’ + ‘professor’ who befriended ‘lee harvey oswald’ in ‘summer 1962’ and maintained that friendship until oswald’s death 2 days after the assassination of ‘US president john f kennedy’)
(he had ‘personal acquaintance’ with the ‘bush family’, including ‘george h w bush’, whose ‘nephew’ he had been roommates with at ‘phillips academy’ at ‘andover’, and the ‘bouvier family’ (including ‘jacqueline bouvier kennedy’, the ‘president’s wife’, when she was still a ‘child’)
(his testimony before the ‘warren commission’ investigating the ‘assassination’ was one of the longest of any witness)
(what other ‘witnesses’ tesified befomre the ‘commission’?)
(wha witnesses DID NOT testify?)
(the ‘warren commission’ concluded that on ’10 april 1963′, ‘oswald’ attempted to kill retired american major-general ‘edwin walker’)
(an outspoken ‘anti-communist’, ‘segregationist’, and member of the ‘john birch society’ who had been relieved of his command in ‘1962’ for distributing ‘right-wing literature’ to ‘subordinates’)
(his actions in opposition to ‘racial integration’ at the ‘university of mississippi’ led to his arrest on ‘insurrection’, ‘seditious conspiracy’, and other ‘charges’, but a ‘grand jury’ refused to indict him)
(probably just another ‘good ole boy’ jury)
(whose collective cruelty towards blacks was almost unbelievable + certainly all-consuming)
(‘oswald’ considered ‘walker’ the leader of a “fascist organization”)
(and he was probably right!)
(in ‘march 1963”, ‘oswald’ purchased a ‘6.5 mm caliber carcano rifle’ (commonly but improperly called ‘mannlicher-carcano’) by ‘mail’, using the alias a. hidell. as well as a ‘.38 smith & wesson model 10 revolver’ by the same method)
(the ‘warren commission’ concluded that ‘oswald’ fired at ‘walker’ through a window, from less than ‘100 feet’ (or ’30 m’) away, as ‘walker’ sat at a desk in his home)
(the bullet struck the ‘window frame’ and walker’s only injury was ‘bullet fragments’ to the ‘forearm’)
(why couldn’t it be HIM who died instead of the (great) ‘kennedy’?)
(as christgau”s wife once explained)
(“why ‘kennedy’ and not ‘nixon’?)
(“why ‘lennon’ and not ‘mccartney’?)
(1980)
(implying that they at the very least wouldn’t ‘mind’ if nixon or mccartney passed away)
(‘oswald’ returned home and told ‘marina’ what he had done)
(the “‘united states house select committee on ‘assassinations'” stated that the “evidence strongly suggested” that ‘oswald’ carried out the ‘shooting’)
(at the time, ‘dallas police’ had no suspects in the shooting, but oswald’s involvement was suspected within hours of his arrest following the ‘kennedy assassination’)
(a note ‘oswald’ left for ‘marina’ on the night of the attempt’, telling her what to do if he did not return, was not found until early ‘december 1963’)
(the ‘walker bullet’ was too ‘damaged’ to run ‘conclusive ballistics studies’ on it, but ‘neutron activation analysis’ later showed that it was “extremely likely” that it was made by the same ‘manufacturer’ and for the same ‘rifle make’ as the 2 bullets which later struck ‘kennedy’)
(on ‘october 3rd’, ‘oswald’ left by bus for ‘dallas’)
(according to the ‘warren commission’, on ‘october 14’, a neighbor told ‘ruth paine’ that there was a ‘job opening’ at the ‘texas school book depository’)
(‘paine’ informed ‘oswald’ who was interviewed at the ‘depository’ and was hired there on ‘october 16’)
(oswald’s supervisor (‘roy truly’) said that ‘oswald “did a good day’s work” and was an ‘above average employee’)
(during the week, ‘oswald’ stayed in a ‘dallas rooming house’ (under the name O.H. Lee), but he spent his weekends with ‘marina’ at the ‘paine home’ in ‘irving’)
(‘oswald’ did not drive, but commuted to and from ‘dallas’ on ‘mondays’ and ‘fridays’ with a ‘neighbor’ (‘wesley buell frazier’) who worked at the ‘book depository’)
(on ‘october 20th’, the oswalds’ 2nd daughter was born)
(‘FBI agents’ twice visited the ‘paine home’ in ‘early november’, when ‘oswald’ was not present, looking for information on ‘marina’, whom they suspected of being a ‘soviet agent’)
(‘oswald’ visited the ‘dallas FBI office’ about 7 – 10 days before the assassination, asking to see ‘special agent james hosty’)
(he was told ‘hosty’ was unavailable)
(‘oswald’ left a note that, according to the receptionist, read:…)
“let this be a ‘warning’…i will blow up the ‘FBI’ and the ‘dallas Police Department if you don’t stop bothering my ‘wife’
signed – ‘kee harvey oswald”
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hmmm….
getting away with making ‘terroristic threats’ to ‘law enforcement???)
(‘sounds about right…’)
(sense the sarcasm?)
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(the note contained some sort of ‘threat’, but accounts varied widely as to whether ‘oswald’ threatened to “blow up the FBI” or merely “report this to higher authorities”)
(‘hosty’ reported to the ‘warren commision’ under testimony, the note said…)
“if you have anything you want to learn about me, come talk to me directly….f you don’t cease bothering my wife, i will take the ‘appropriate action’ and report this to the ‘proper authorities…'”
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(according to ‘hosty’ (2 days after the ‘assassination’), ‘dallas FBI special agent-in-charge J gordon shanklin ordered ‘hosty’ to destroy the note)
hmmmm…..
(‘conspiracy theorists’ oculd intellectualy feast on this tidbit for years to come!)
“more ‘food for thought’…”
‘conspiracy theory’
(as our next ‘academic discipline’)
(because formulating ‘credible’ conspiracy theories is a great ‘educational exercise’)
(in the days before kennedy’s arrival, several newspapers described the route of the ‘presidential motorcade’ as passing the ‘book depository’)
(on ‘november 21rd’ (a ‘thursday’), ‘oswald’ asked his co-worker ‘frazier’ for an unusual ‘mid-week lift’ back to ‘irving’, saying he had to ‘pick up some ‘curtain rods”)
(the next morning (‘friday’), he returned to ‘dallas’ with ‘frazier’, he left behind $170 and his ‘wedding ring’, but took with him a ‘long paper bag’)
(he was seen by a ‘co-worker’ on the ‘6th floor’ of the ‘depository’ about ’30 minutes’ before the ‘assassination’)
(according to ‘government investigations’ (including that of the ‘warren commission’) as kennedy’s motorcade passed through dallas’s ‘dealey plaza’ about 12:30PM on ‘november 22’, ‘oswald’ fired from a window on the ‘6th floor’ of the ‘book depository’, killing the ‘president’ and seriously wounding texas governor ‘john connally’)
(bystander ‘james tague’ received a ‘minor facial injury’)
(according to the ‘warren commission, immediately after firing ‘oswald’ hid the rifle behind some ‘boxes’ and descended the ‘rear stairwell’)
(about 90 seconds after the shooting (in the ‘2nd floor lunchroom’), he encountered a ‘police officer’ accompanied by oswald’s supervisor; the officer let ‘oswald’ pass after the ‘supervisor’ identified him as an ’employee’)
‘d’oh!’
“that cop’ll surely go down as bona-fide bonehead’ of 1963!”
(according to the officer, ‘oswald’ was drinking a soda and did not appear to be ‘nervous’ or ‘out of breath’)
“because he was a schizo sociopath!”
(not ‘wired the way we ‘normal people’ are)
(‘oswald’ crossed to the ‘front staircase’, and left the building just before police sealed it off)
(the supervisor later pointed out to officers that ‘oswald’ was the only employee to absent himself after the ‘assassination’)
(at about 12:40PM, ‘oswald’ boarded a ‘city bus’ but (probably due to ‘heavy traffic’), he requested a transfer from the driver and got off 2 blocks later)
(he took a ‘taxicab’ to his ‘rooming house’ at ‘1026 north beckley, which he entered about ‘1:00PM’., “walking pretty fast” according to his ‘housekeeper’)
“he had a ‘housekeeper’!?!?”
“you mean to tell me…?”
(he soon left wearing a ‘jacket’, and was last seen by the ‘housekeeper’ by the stop for a ‘bus route’ heading back to ‘downtown dallas’)
(about 4/5 of a mile (or ‘1.3 kilometers) away, patrolman ‘JD tippit’ pulled alongside ‘oswald’ on a ‘residential street’ and spoke to him through a window)
(at approximately 1:11PM – 1:14PM, ‘tippit’ exited his car and was immediately ‘struck’ + ‘killed’ by ‘4 shots’)
“you go girl!”
(numerous witnesses heard the shots and saw a man flee the scene holding a ‘revolver’)
(‘4 cartridge cases’ found at the scene were identified by ‘expert witnesses’ before the ‘warren commission’ and the ‘house select committee’ as having been fired from the ‘revolver’ later found in oswald’s possession, to the exclusion of all other ‘weapons’)
(minutes later, ‘oswald’ was seen “ducking into” the ‘entrance alcove’ of a ‘shoe store’, apparently avoiding passing ‘police cars’)
(soon after, the store’s manager saw ‘oswald’ slip into the nearby ‘texas theater’ without paying)
(he alerted the theater’s ‘ticket clerk’, who telephoned police)
(as police arrived, the ‘house lights’ were brought up as the ‘store manager’ pointed out ‘oswald’ sitting near the rear)
(‘oswald’ appeared to surrender (saying, “well, it is all over now”) but then struck an ‘officer’)
(he was ‘disarmed’ after a ‘struggle’)
(as he was led from the ‘theater’, ‘oswald’ shouted he was a ‘victim’ of ‘police brutality’)
(at about 2PM, ‘oswald’ arrived at the ‘police department building’, where he was questioned by ‘detective jim leavelle’ about the shooting of ‘officer tippit’)
(when ‘captain JW fritz’ heard oswald’s name, he recognized it as that of the ‘book depository employee’ who was ‘reported missing’ and was already a ‘suspect’ in the ‘assassination’)
“well DUH!”
(‘oswald’ was booked for both ‘murders’, and by the end of the night he had been ‘arraigned’ as well)
(when was he ‘booked’?)
(soon after his capture, ‘oswald’ encountered reporters in a hallway, declaring “i didn’t shoot anyone” and “they’re taking me in because of the fact i lived in the ‘soviet union’…i’m just a patsy!”)
(later, at an ‘arranged press meeting’, a reporter asked, “did you kill the president?” and ‘oswald’, who by that time had been advised of the charge of murdering ‘tippit’, but not yet arraigned in kennedy’s death, answered “no, i have not been charged with that”)
“in fact, nobody has said that to me yet…”
“the first thing i heard about it was when the ‘newspaper reporters’ in the hall asked me that question…”
(as he was led from the room, “what did you do in the USSR?” was called out, and “how did you hurt your eye?”)
(oswald answered, “a policeman hit me’)
(‘a. hidell‘ (‘alek james hidell’) was the name used on both ‘envelope’ and ‘order slip’ to buy the murder weapon (see CE 773), and a. j. hidell was the alternate name on the ‘new orleans post office box’ rented ’11 june 1963, by ‘oswald’)
(both the ‘murder weapon’ and the ‘pistol’ in oswald’s possession at arrest had earlier been shipped (at separate times) to oswald’s dallas P.O. Box 2915, as ordered by “A. J. Hidell”)
(‘oswald’ was interrogated several times during his 2 days at ‘dallas police headquarters’)
(he denied killing ‘kennedy’ and ‘tippit’, denied owning a rifle, said 2 photographs of him holding a ‘rifle’ and a ‘pistol’ were ‘fakes’, denied telling his co-worker he wanted a ride to ‘irving’ to get ‘curtain rods’ for his apartment, and denied carrying a ‘long heavy package’ to work the morning of the ‘assassination’)
(the ‘warren commission’ also noted that ‘oswald’ denied knowing an A. J. Hidell, and when shown a forged ‘selective service card’ bearing that name in his possession when arrested, refused to answer any questions concerning it, saying “…you have the card yourself and you know as much about it as i do”)
(the ‘warren commission’ noted that this “spurious” card bore the name of alek james hidell)
(during his first interrogation on ‘november 22’ (a ‘friday’), ‘oswald’ was asked to account for himself at the time the ‘president’ was shot)
(‘oswald’ said he ate lunch in the depository’s 1st-floor lunchroom, then went to the 2nd floor for a ‘coca-cola’, where he encountered the ‘policeman’)
(during his last interrogation on ‘november 24’, ‘oswald’ was asked again where he was at the time of the shooting)
(he said he was working on an ‘upper floor’ when it occurred, then went downstairs where he encountered the ‘officer’)
(‘oswald’ asked for ‘legal representation’ several times while being ‘interrogated’, as well as in encounters with reporters)
(but when representatives of the ‘dallas bar association’ met with him in his cell on ‘saturday’, he declined their services, saying he wanted to be represented by ‘john abt’ (‘chief counsel’ to the ‘communist party USA’), or by lawyers associated with the ‘american civil liberties union’)
(both ‘oswald’ and ‘ruth paine’ tried to reach ‘abt’ by telephone several times ‘saturday’ and ‘sunday’, but ‘abt’ was away for the weekend)
(‘oswald’ also declined his brother robert’s offer on ‘saturday’ to obtain a ‘local attorney’)
(on ‘november 24’ (a ‘sunday’), ‘oswald’ was being led through the basement of ‘dallas police headquarters’ preparatory to his transfer to the ‘county jail’ when, at 11:21 AM, dallas nightclub operator ‘jack ruby’ stepped from the crowd and shot ‘oswald’ in the ‘abdomen’)
(‘oswald’ died at 1:07 PM at ‘parkland memorial hospital’ (the same hospital where ‘kennedy’ had died 2 days earlier)
(a ‘network television camera’, there to cover the transfer, was broadcasting live at the time, and millions thereby witnessed the shooting as it happened)
(the event was also captured in a well-known photograph)
(‘ruby’ later said he had been distraught over kennedy’s death, though some have hypothesized it was part of a ‘conspiracy’)
(after autopsy, ‘oswald’ was buried in fort worth’s ‘rose hill memorial burial park’)
(a marker inscribed simply oswald replaces the ‘stolen original tombstone’, which gave oswald’s ‘full name’ + ‘birth / death dates’)
JONATHAN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
(1917 – 1963)
served as navy boat captain in WWII
(he injured his back in the war)
married jacqueline lee bouvier in 1953
(he was 36 / she was 24)
he was a serial philanderer
massachusetts senator from 1953 – 1960
he was murdered in 1963 by “sharpshooter” lee harvey oswald in dallas TX
(oswald was arrested that day after slipping into the texas theatre without paying)
(lee harvey oswald was murdered 2 days later by ‘jack ruby’)
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(this development lent credence to ‘conspiracy theorists’ who suspected that lee harvey oswald’s testimony could have unearthed a more involved plot to murder the ‘president’)
(’22 NOVEMBER 1963′)
(‘friday’)
(‘dallas’ / ‘texas’)
(‘presidential motorcade’ riding through ‘dealey plaza’)
“mister president…you can’t say ‘dallas’ doesn’t love you…”
‘jack kennedy’ (as played by ‘fred malchow’) –>
“you certainly can’t!”
(‘lee harvey oswald’ perched with rifle @ ‘texas school book depository’)
(3 shots fired as kennedy’s car traveled down ‘elm street’)
(kennedy killed instantly by second shot to the head)
(‘age 46’)
(‘lee harvey oswald’ worked @ ‘texas school book depository’ as minimum-wage ‘order filler’)
(he was actually let go by cops after oswald was identified as an ’employee’)
(oswald boarded a city bus)
(then transferred to another bus)
(then hailed a taxi to his ‘boarding house’)
(dallas patrolman ‘JD tippit’ pulled up alongside him after oswald started wlking from his room down the street)
(presumably because oswald matched the description of the assailant)
(as soon as tippit exited his vehicle, oswald fired 4 shots at him and killed him)
(a store owner spoote oswald ducking into the entrance alcove of his ‘shoe store’)
(then he spotted oswald sneaking into a movie theater without paying and so he called police @ 1:40pm)
(police arrived…the house lights were turned on…the store owner identified oswald…and oswald surrendered to law enforcement ‘without incident’)
(although he DID attempt to pull a pistol on the cops but it didn’t go off?)
(and then he started complaining about ‘police brutality’)
(he was arraigned for the murder of ‘tippit’ @ 7:30pm and subsequently arraigned for the kennedy murder @ 1:30am the next day)
(as he was arrested, he shouted to reporters that he was a ‘patsy’ and they were trying to pin the murder on his because he had lived in the ‘soviet union’)
(he deneid murdering kennedy)
(on ’24 november’ (sunday), oswald was being escorted through the basement of ‘dallas police station’ to be placed in an armored car and transported to the nearby ‘county jail’)
(at 11:21am, dallas nightclub owner ‘jack ruby’ approached ‘oswald’ from the side of the ‘crowd’ (??? in the basement?) and shot him once in the abdomen at ‘close range’)
(a cop recognized ‘ruby’ and shouted “jack! you son of a bitch!”)
(he was pronounced dead from a ‘hemorrhage’ (aka ‘blood loss’) 2 days later)
(‘age 24’)
(’22 years younger’ than JFK)
(this was all captured on video cameras)
(‘jack ruby’ claimed that he killed oswald to ‘spare missus kennedy the anguish of a ‘criminal trial’)
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(‘jack ruby’ died of ‘lung cancer’ while incarcerated ~ 4 years later)
(‘3 january 1967’)
(‘age 55’)
(’22 NOVEMBER 1963′)
(‘friday’)
(‘dallas’ / ‘texas’)
(‘presidential motorcade’ riding through ‘dealey plaza’)
“mister president…you can’t say ‘dallas’ doesn’t love you…”
‘jack kennedy’ (as played by ‘fred malchow’) –>
“you certainly can’t!”
(‘lee harvey oswald’ perched with rifle @ ‘texas school book depository’)
(3 shots fired as kennedy’s car traveled down ‘elm street’)
(kennedy killed instantly by second shot to the head)
(‘age 46’)
(‘lee harvey oswald’ worked @ ‘texas school book depository’ as minimum-wage ‘order filler’)
(he was actually let go by cops after oswald was identified as an ’employee’)
(oswald boarded a city bus)
(then transferred to another bus)
(then hailed a taxi to his ‘boarding house’)
(dallas patrolman ‘JD tippit’ pulled up alongside him after oswald started wlking from his room down the street)
(presumably because oswald matched the description of the assailant)
(as soon as tippit exited his vehicle, oswald fired 4 shots at him and killed him)
(a store owner spoote oswald ducking into the entrance alcove of his ‘shoe store’)
(then he spotted oswald sneaking into a movie theater without paying and so he called police @ 1:40pm)
(police arrived…the house lights were turned on…the store owner identified oswald…and oswald surrendered to law enforcement ‘without incident’)
(although he DID attempt to pull a pistol on the cops but it didn’t go off?)
(and then he started complaining about ‘police brutality’)
(he was arraigned for the murder of ‘tippit’ @ 7:30pm and subsequently arraigned for the kennedy murder @ 1:30am the next day)
(as he was arrested, he shouted to reporters that he was a ‘patsy’ and they were trying to pin the murder on his because he had lived in the ‘soviet union’)
(he deneid murdering kennedy)
(on ’24 november’ (sunday), oswald was being escorted through the basement of ‘dallas police station’ to be placed in an armored car and transported to the nearby ‘county jail’)
(at 11:21am, dallas nightclub owner ‘jack ruby’ approached ‘oswald’ from the side of the ‘crowd’ (??? in the basement?) and shot him once in the abdomen at ‘close range’)
(a cop recognized ‘ruby’ and shouted “jack! you son of a bitch!”)
(he was pronounced dead from a ‘hemorrhage’ (aka ‘blood loss’) 2 days later)
(‘age 24’)
(’22 years younger’ than JFK)
(this was all captured on video cameras)
(‘jack ruby’ claimed that he killed oswald to ‘spare missus kennedy the anguish of a ‘criminal trial’)
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(‘jack ruby’ died of ‘lung cancer’ while incarcerated ~ 4 years later)
(‘3 january 1967’)
(‘age 55’)
like all marines, oswald was trained and tested in shooting, scoring 212 in december 1956 (slightly above the minimum for qualification as a sharpshooter) but in May 1959 scoring only 191[11] (barely earning the lower designation of marksman)
Oswald was court-martialed after accidentally shooting himself in the elbow with an unauthorized handgun, then court-martialed again for fighting with a sergeant he thought responsible for his punishment in the shooting matter. He was demoted from private first class to private and briefly imprisoned. He was later punished for a third incident: while on nighttime sentry duty in the Philippines, he inexplicably fired his rifle into the jungle
George de Mohrenschildt (April 17, 1911 – March 29, 1977) was a petroleum geologist and Professor who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1962 and maintained that friendship until Oswald’s death two days after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. He had personal acquaintance with the Bush family, including George H. W. Bush, whose nephew he had been roommates with at Phillips Academy at Andover, and the Bouvier family, including Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, the president’s wife, when she was still a child. His testimony before the Warren Commission investigating the assassination was one of the longest of any witness
The Warren Commission concluded that on April 10, 1963, Oswald attempted to kill retired U.S. Major General Edwin Walker,[55] an outspoken anti-communist, segregationist, and member of the John Birch Society who had been relieved of his command in 1962 for distributing right-wing literature to subordinates. His actions in opposition to racial integration at the University of Mississippi led to his arrest on insurrection, seditious conspiracy, and other charges, but a grand jury refused to indict him. Oswald considered Walker the leader of a “fascist organization.”[56]
In March 1963, Oswald purchased a 6.5 mm caliber Carcano rifle (commonly but improperly called Mannlicher-Carcano) by mail, using the alias A. Hidell.[57] as well as a .38 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver by the same method.[58]
The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald fired at Walker through a window, from less than 100 feet (30 m) away, as Walker sat at a desk in his home; the bullet struck the windowframe and Walker’s only injury was bullet fragments to the forearm. Oswald returned home and told Marina what he had done.[citation needed] (The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations stated that the “evidence strongly suggested” that Oswald carried out the shooting.)[59]
At the time, Dallas police had no suspects in the shooting,[60] but Oswald’s involvement was suspected within hours of his arrest following the Kennedy assassination.[61] (A note Oswald left for Marina on the night of the attempt, telling her what to do if he did not return, was not found until early December 1963.)[62][63][64] The Walker bullet was too damaged to run conclusive ballistics studies on it,[65] but neutron activation analysis later showed that it was “extremely likely” that it was made by the same manufacturer and for the same rifle make as the two bullets which later struck Kennedy
Instead, on October 3, Oswald left by bus for Dallas. According to the Warren Commission, on October 14, a neighbor told Ruth Paine that there was a job opening at the Texas School Book Depository. Mrs. Paine informed Oswald who was interviewed at the Depository and was hired there on October 16.[107] Oswald’s supervisor, Roy Truly, said that Oswald “did a good day’s work” and was an above average employee.[108] During the week, Oswald stayed in a Dallas rooming house (under the name O.H. Lee),[109] but he spent his weekends with Marina at the Paine home in Irving. Oswald did not drive, but commuted to and from Dallas on Mondays and Fridays with a neighbor, Wesley Buell Frazier, who worked at the Book Depository. On October 20, the Oswalds’ second daughter was born. FBI agents twice visited the Paine home in early November, when Oswald was not present, looking for information on Marina, whom they suspected of being a Soviet agent.[110] Oswald visited the Dallas FBI office about 7 to 10 days before the assassination, asking to see Special Agent James Hosty; told Hosty was unavailable, Oswald left a note that, according to the receptionist, read: “Let this be a warning. I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you don’t stop bothering my wife. Signed – Lee Harvey Oswald.” The note contained some sort of threat, but accounts varied widely as to whether Oswald threatened to “blow up the FBI” or merely “report this to higher authorities” [111] Hosty reported to the Warren Commision under testimony, the note said “if you have anything you want to learn about me, come talk to me directly. If you don’t cease bothering my wife, I will take the appropriate action and report this to the proper authorities.” According to Hosty, two days after the assassination, Dallas FBI Special Agent-in-Charge J. Gordon Shanklin ordered Hosty to destroy the note. [112][113]
In the days before Kennedy’s arrival, several newspapers described the route of the presidential motorcade as passing the Book Depository.[114] On November 21 (a Thursday) Oswald asked his co-worker Frazier for an unusual mid-week lift back to Irving, saying he had to pick up some curtain rods. The next morning (Friday) he returned to Dallas with Frazier; he left behind $170 and his wedding ring,[115] but took with him a long paper bag.[116] He was seen by a co-worker on the sixth floor of the Depository about 30 minutes before the assassination.
According to government investigations (including that of the Warren Commission) as Kennedy’s motorcade passed through Dallas’s Dealey Plaza about 12:30 p.m. on November 22, Oswald fired from a window on the sixth floor of the Book Depository, killing the President and seriously wounding Texas Governor John Connally. Bystander James Tague received a minor facial injury.
Dallas PD color mugshot November 23, 1963
According to the Warren Commission, immediately after firing Oswald hid the rifle behind some boxes and descended the rear stairwell. About ninety seconds after the shooting, in the second-floor lunchroom he encountered a police officer accompanied by Oswald’s supervisor; the officer let Oswald pass after the supervisor identified him as an employee. (According to the officer, Oswald was drinking a soda and did not appear to be nervous or out of breath.) Oswald crossed to the front staircase, and left the building just before police sealed it off. The supervisor later pointed out to officers that Oswald was the only employee to absent himself after the assassination.[117][118]
At about 12:40 p.m. Oswald boarded a city bus but (probably due to heavy traffic) he requested a transfer from the driver and got off two blocks later.[119] He took a taxicab to his rooming house, at 1026 North Beckley, which he entered about 1:00 p.m., “walking pretty fast” according to his housekeeper.[120] He soon left wearing a jacket, and was last seen by the housekeeper by the stop for a bus route heading back to downtown Dallas.[121]
About four-fifths of a mile (1.3 km) away, Patrolman J. D. Tippit pulled alongside Oswald on a residential street and spoke to him through a window.[122] At approximately 1:11–1:14 p.m.,[n 11] Tippit exited his car and was immediately struck and killed by four shots.[123][124] Numerous witnesses heard the shots and saw a man flee the scene holding a revolver.[125][n 12] Four cartridge cases found at the scene were identified by expert witnesses before the Warren Commission and the House Select Committee as having been fired from the revolver later found in Oswald’s possession, to the exclusion of all other weapons.[126][127]
Oswald’s seat in the Texas Theater
Oswald being led from the Texas Theater after his arrest inside
Capture
Minutes later, Oswald was seen “ducking into” the entrance alcove of a shoe store, apparently avoiding passing police cars. Soon after, the store’s manager saw Oswald slip into the nearby Texas Theater without paying.[128] He alerted the theater’s ticket clerk, who telephoned police.[129]
As police arrived, the house lights were brought up as the store manager pointed out Oswald sitting near the rear. Oswald appeared to surrender (saying, “Well, it is all over now”) but then struck an officer; he was disarmed after a struggle.[130] As he was led from the theater, Oswald shouted he was a victim of police brutality.[131]
At about 2 p.m., Oswald arrived at the Police Department building, where he was questioned by Detective Jim Leavelle about the shooting of Officer Tippit. When Captain J. W. Fritz heard Oswald’s name, he recognized it as that of the Book Depository employee who was reported missing and was already a suspect in the assassination.[132][133] Oswald was booked[when?] for both murders, and by the end of the night he had been arraigned as well.[134]
Soon after his capture Oswald encountered reporters in a hallway, declaring “I didn’t shoot anyone” and “They’re taking me in because of the fact I lived in the Soviet Union. I’m just a patsy!” Later, at an arranged press meeting, a reporter asked, “Did you kill the President?” and Oswald, who by that time had been advised of the charge of murdering Tippit, but not yet arraigned in Kennedy’s death, answered “No, I have not been charged with that. In fact, nobody has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question.” As he was led from the room, “What did you do in the USSR?” was called out, and “How did you hurt your eye?”; Oswald answered, “A policeman hit me.”[135][136][137]
Police interrogation
Fake selective service (draft) card in the name of Alek James Hidell, found on Oswald when arrested. A.Hidell was the name used on both envelope and order slip to buy the murder weapon (see CE 773),[138] and A. J. Hidell was the alternate name on the New Orleans post office box rented June 11, 1963, by Oswald.[139] Both the murder weapon and the pistol in Oswald’s possession at arrest had earlier been shipped (at separate times) to Oswald’s Dallas P.O. Box 2915, as ordered by “A. J. Hidell”.[140]
Oswald, handcuffed to Detective James Leavelle (light clothing), is shot by Jack Ruby.
The grave of Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald was interrogated several times during his two days at Dallas Police Headquarters. He denied killing Kennedy and Tippit, denied owning a rifle, said two photographs of him holding a rifle and a pistol were fakes, denied telling his co-worker he wanted a ride to Irving to get curtain rods for his apartment, and denied carrying a long heavy package to work the morning of the assassination. The Warren Commission also noted that Oswald denied knowing an A. J. Hidell, and when shown a forged Selective Service card bearing that name in his possession when arrested, refused to answer any questions concerning it, saying “…you have the card yourself and you know as much about it as I do.” [141] The Warren Commission noted that this “spurious” card bore the name of Alek James Hidell. [142]
During his first interrogation on Friday, November 22, Oswald was asked to account for himself at the time the President was shot. Oswald said he ate lunch in the Depository’s first-floor lunchroom, then went to the second floor for a Coca-Cola, where he encountered the policeman.[143] During his last interrogation on November 24, Oswald was asked again where he was at the time of the shooting; he said he was working on an upper floor when it occurred, then went downstairs where he encountered the officer.[144]
Oswald asked for legal representation several times while being interrogated, as well as in encounters with reporters. But when representatives of the Dallas Bar Association met with him in his cell on Saturday, he declined their services, saying he wanted to be represented by John Abt, chief counsel to the Communist Party USA, or by lawyers associated with the American Civil Liberties Union.[145][146] Both Oswald and Ruth Paine tried to reach Abt by telephone several times Saturday and Sunday,[147][148] but Abt was away for the weekend.[149] Oswald also declined his brother Robert’s offer on Saturday to obtain a local attorney.[150]
On Sunday, November 24 Oswald was being led through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters preparatory to his transfer to the county jail when, at 11:21 a.m., Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby stepped from the crowd and shot Oswald in the abdomen. Oswald died at 1:07 p.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital—the same hospital where Kennedy had died two days earlier.[109]
A network television camera, there to cover the transfer, was broadcasting live at the time, and millions thereby witnessed the shooting as it happened.[151] The event was also captured in a well-known photograph (see right). Ruby later said he had been distraught over Kennedy’s death, though some have hypothesized it was part of a conspiracy.[152]
After autopsy, Oswald was buried in Fort Worth’s Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park.
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