#963 – John Armstrong, Jim Hargrove

 

  • John Armstrong’s book Harvey and Lee (2003) (.pdf)
  • The English-speaking Lee Oswald and the Russian-speaking Harvey Oswald
  • New article: Lee and Harvey in Three Consecutive School Semesters
  • For the fall semester of 1953, Lee Oswald attended Public School 44 in New York City
  • At the very same time, Harvey Oswald attended Beauregard Junior High School in New Orleans
  • The following semester, spring 1954, both Lee and Harvey attended Beauregard
  • In the fall semester of 1954, Lee continued attending Beauregard in New Orleans
  • Harvey moved to Fort Worth where began attending Stripling Junior High School in the fall semester of 1954
  • How and why could the often financially destitute Marguerite Oswald afford a housekeeper in NYC?
  • Oswald’s cumulative school records at Beauregard: Read OnlineDownload PDF
  • Commission Exhibit No. 1384Read onlineDownload PDF
  • During the Spring semester of 1954, Harvey was in Myra DaRouse’s homeroom at Beauregard
  • Video: Interview of Myra DaRouse
  • Myra described young Harvey as “a little fellow, scrawny, skinny, and quiet”
  • “He came to the middle of my chest-about 4 ft 6 inches tall” – Myra DaRouse
  • “I think she’s…..a beautiful woman…..but when you saw her on television since this thing happened,
    she really looked awful; nothing at all like she used to look…..You wouldn’t have recognized her if
    they hadn’t told you who she was; she looked that different”
     – Julian Evans’ testimony to the WC
  • Julian Evans’ testimony: Read onlineDownload PDF (page 8 of the PDF, page 73 overall)
  • In the fall semester of 1954, Harvey Oswald attended Stripling Junior High School
  • He lived directly across the street from Stripling JHS at 2220 Thomas Place; see Google Maps here
  • Marguerite Oswald impostor stored clothes and furniture at 2220 Thomas Place when she lived in Benbrook, TX
  • Was 2220 Thomas Place a CIA safe house?
  • Former Stripling student Francetta Schubert was in the eight grade when Harvey was in ninth
  • Every day she watched Harvey Oswald walk across the street to 2220 Thomas Place for lunch
  • Video: Interview of Francetta Schubert
  • In 1955, Harvey Oswald returns to New Orleans and works full time at Dolly Shoe
  • Video: Interview of Louis Marzialle
  • Robert Oswald, LHO’s brother, in an interview in 1959 said that his brother attended Stripling JHS; read here
  • Robert Oswald again told a Forth Worth newspaper that his brother attended Stripling JHS: read here
  • Videos: Interview of Frank Kudlaty, Assistant Principal, Stripling JHSPart 1Part 2Part 3
  • Harvey Oswald’s junior high school records from Stripling were confiscated within 20 hours of the assassination
  • This clearly show that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover knew those Stripling records could expose the two Oswalds
  • Robert Oswald testified before the WC that his brother attended Stripling; Read onlineDownload PDF (page 299)
  • Nov 2017, Fort Worth Star-Telegram article indicated that Oswald’s
    “teachers and classmates remembered him at Stripling, though there is no official record.”
  • FREE BORROWABLE EBOOKLee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald by His Brother by Robert Oswald
  • Ed Voebel was Harvey’s best friend in Beauregard
  • Harvey’s fight with Johnny Neumeyer
  • Article: Magic Tooth, Vanishing Scars
  • Life Magazine, Feb 21, 1964 issue (classroom photo at page 70)
  • (Lee) Oswald’s classroom photograph shows that he had lost his front tooth; see photo here
  • Ed Voebel knew both Harvey and Lee Oswald
  • Apparently it wasn’t good for one’s health to know both Harvee and Lee Oswald
  • Marina Oswald dated Robert Webster
  • Oswald’s show suicide following which he was taken to the Botkinskaya Hospital
  • Oswald was questioned by the medical staff in Russian
  • One of the Soviet doctors sensed that Oswald clearly understood what was being conveyed to him in Russian
  • The doctor wrote “The patient apparently understands the questions asked in Russian.
    Sometimes he answers correctly, but immediately states that he does not understand what he was asked”
  • For more, read this article by James Norwood: Oswald’s Proficiency in the Russian Language
  • George de Mohrenschildt said that Harvey Oswald preferred speaking Russian to English
  • He also said that Oswald knew Russian well enough to discuss “classical Russian literature”
  • For more, read John Armstrong’s articles Harvey and Lee: The Case for Two Oswalds (Parts 1 and 2)
  • These articles can be found in: The Assassinations by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease: PaperbackKindle
  • Or order the entire collection of Probe magazine here for just $35
  • Palmer McBride said Oswald worked at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans in 1957-58
  • McBride wasn’t allowed to testify: not to the WC, not to the HSCA, not to the Church Committee, not to the ARRB
  • Palmer McBride’s interview by FBI: Read onlineDownload PDF
  • Article: Wes Wise by John Armstrong; listen to BOR 913a
  • John Armstrong discusses Harvey and Lee in an epic 7-hour interview. Download here for just $10
  • 29th Oct marked the first death anniversary of Christopher LaMay

 

#962 – Jim DiEugenio

 

 

#961 – Loren Singer

 

  • BOR Show #305, original airdate: January 1, 2007
  • Loren Singer (1923-2009) wrote the book The Parallax View (1970)
  • Loren worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS ) during WW II
  • He first had to pass a series of psychological tests
  • He read studies of Rorschach tests given to top Nazis at Nuremberg
  • Loren wrote for television and radio, this was his first book
  • The amount of influence totalitarian governments had on us
  • A relationship with German Intelligence officer Reinhard Gehlen
  • Loren didn’t like the film, the screenwriters couldn’t find the thread
  • The terrorism threat is sort of gauzy, Where? How?
  • Unite in order to survive, that’s what people will be told
  • Chapters start with quotes from a fictional handbook
  • The book is not a solution to the Kennedy assassinations
  • A list of JFK related deaths, originally Loren scoffed
  • The military men never became OSS assassins
  • General William Donovan, committed to the survival of Britain
  • Psychologists, psychiatrists, geographers,
    foreign language experts, engineers, weapons instructors
  • Does a government have the right and or the duty to
    eliminate numbers of it’s citizens to ensure it’s survival?
  • Skating around the edge right now with Guantanamo
  • Teams ready to do the bidding of corporate or government interests
  • The recruitment, the film’s powerful six minute segment
  • An OSS competition, three days of psychological testing
  • Nobody ever passed the final exam, never any finite answer
  • The people running Parallax were certain to have backups
  • Loren did not want to do the screenplay
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film) was much better written
  • Parallax opens with it’s own “Zapruder” film
  • Six Seconds In Dallas (Thompson 1967), sued by Time, Inc.

 

#960 – Barry Ernest

 

  • A new edition of The Girl On The Stairs, witness Victoria Adams
  • In 1967, Barry started to doubt the Warren Commission
  • Vicky was on the staircase at the same time Oswald was supposed to be there
  • Barry interviewed Vicky 35 years later, her story was dismissed by the WC
  • Altered and ignored testimony of Roger Craig, Carolyn Walther, Emmet Hudson
  • The book is the story of the journey of Barry’s investigation
  • Victoria’s testimony was very consistent, the WC was very interested in her
  • Sandra Styles, who was with Vicky, did not testify to the WC
  • Barry’s website, a friend pointed out WC inconsistencies
  • Barry investigated to disprove his friend, but he couldn’t
  • The report implied Vicki was alone, it did not mention Sandra
  • Barry viewed the Zapruder film at the archive, he understood its significance
  • The Oswald/Baker/Truly timeline, Vicky was on the stairs at the time
  • In 1999 Barry found the Martha Stroud document re: Dorothy Garner
  • Garner worked with Adams and Styles, she fully corroborated Vicki’s timeline
  • She had been questioned by someone from the WC, and told them so
  • Vicki and Sandra should have encountered Lee descending, they did not
  • Was Oswald not on the sixth floor at the time of the assassination?
  • Sylvia Meagher thought so in 1967, Barry knows something was amiss
  • Oswald might have come up using the front stairs of the TSBD
  • Vicky’s testimony says she spoke to Shelley and Lovelady, she says otherwise
  • Many events Vicky testified to have supporting evidence
  • Barry arrived at four conclusions:
  • The Warren Report is wrong, They knew it was wrong,
  • The assassination is beyond the capabilities of one man,
  • Finding out who did kill JFK is beyond the capabilities of a private citizen
  • The Warren Report is wrong about Adams, They knew it was wrong,
  • They intentionally made her appear wrong,
  • Adams’ account is a critical element to Oswald’s whereabouts
  • The Shelley/Lovelady problem meant Adams was either right or wrong
  • Barry discovered the stenographer tapes of April 7th, 1964 are missing
  • Shelley, Lovelady and Adams all testified on that day in Dallas
  • Vicky states the incident was inserted in her testimony
  • The evidence doesn’t support Oswald in the doorway of the TSBD
  • You can look for culpability anywhere and find evidence to support
  • Johnson, anti-Castro Cubans, pro-Castro Cubans, CIA, the military, FBI
  • To a citizen it’s confusing, frustrating, disturbing
  • Harold Weisberg, Vince Salandria, Gary Schoerner, David Lifton, Penn Jones

 

#959b – Dave O’Brien

 

  • Author of Through The ‘Oswald’ Window
  • Dave’s website: www.throughtheoswaldwindow.com
  • Dave’s public seminar at Streetsville (Royal Cdn) Legion, 101 Church Street, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 1M6
  • On Friday, October 18, 7:00 p.m.
  • For tickets, contact dave at dave@throughtheoswaldwindow.com
  • How Dave got interested in the case
  • Any evidence of a second gunman was ignored by the Warren Commission (WC)
  • Steven Witt, the umbrella man, was never interviewed by the WC or the Dallas PD or the FBI
  • Witt’s bizzare explanation for carrying the umbrella
  • The first shot that hit Kennedy could not have come from the Oswald window
  • Zapruder film frames 312 and 323
  • John Kennedy’s head was about three inches away from Jackie’s head
  • If the fatal headshot was from behind Kennedy, then the President’s head should have bumped into Jackie

 

#959a – Flip de Mey

 

  • Author of Cold Case Kennedy: A New Investigation Into the Assassination of JFKHardcoverKindle
  • And The Lee Harvey Oswald Files: Why the CIA killed KennedyHardcover
  • How Flip got interested in the case
  • Oswald’s two best friends described him as a kind man
  • 1960s was the hopeful decade
  • The world changed after JFK’s murder and not for the better
  • Oswald is said to have disassembled the Mannlicher Carcano rifle and carried it into the TSBD
  • No screwdriver was found in the TSBD
  • No fingerprints were found on the rifle
  • Oswald was NOT in the sniper’s nest at the moment of the shooting
  • Victoria Adams did not see Oswald go down the stairs
  • Adams is not mentioned in the WC report
  • Book: The Girl on the Stairs: The Search for a Missing Witness by Barry Ernest: HardcoverPaperbackKindle
  • Nelson Delgado, a fellow marine of Oswald
  • Delgado testified “…he (Oswald) got a lot of ‘Maggie’s drawers’ you know, a lot of misses,
    but he didn’t give a darn”.
     Oswald, he added, “wasn’t as enthusiastic as the rest of us.
    We all loved—liked, you know, going to the range”
  • See Chapter 4 of On the Trail of the Assassins
  • FREE BORROWABLE EBOOK: On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison
  • To say that only Oswald shot JFK is a theory; it can be called The Lone Nut Theory
  • The lone nut theorists have two lone nuts in their story: Oswald and Jack Ruby
  • Attempts on Kennedy’s life in Tampa and Chicago
  • FREE DOWNLOAD EBOOK: The Chicago Plot by Edwin Black
  • Oswald did not buy any bullets for the Mannlicher Carcano rifle
  • Only two stores in Dallas sold the special bullets for the Carcano
  • There were only FOUR bullets found: The three shots and the fourth in the chamber
  • No pack or box of bullets were found
  • Oswald had the opportunity but no motive to kill Kennedy
  • Book: JFK: The Book of the Film by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar: PaperbackKindle
  • If Oswald wanted to become famous by killing Kennedy, then why did he say that he was a patsy?
  • Vincent Bugliosi avoids tough questions in his book Reclaiming History

 

#958b – Jim DiEugenio

 

  • CNN retelecasts the documentary series American Dynasties: The Kennedys
  • Article: CNN Disservices History –– American Dynasties: The Kennedys by Jim DiEugenio
  • Listen to Jim’s interview with David Giglio (Our Hidden Historyhere
  • The documentary series does not mention Edmund Gullion, JFK’s Algeria Speech or NSAM 263
  • Kennedy wanted to back nationlist forces in third world countries
  • Article: The Tragic ‘Years of Lead’ by Rob Couteau
  • Book: Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy by Philip Willan: PaperbackHardcoverKindle
  • Rob Couteau interviews Philip Willan for his article
  • Philip Willan compares the JFK assassination to that of Aldo Moro
  • Thomas D. Herman’s article about his documentary Dateline Saigon
  • Herman makes journalistic heroes out of Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam
  • Herman says that Sheehan and Halberstam exposed America’s growing involvement in the Indochina conflict
  • He further adds that this upset President Kennedy
  • Book: Lessons in Disaster by Gordon Goldstein: PaperbackHardcoverKindle
  • Book: Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived by James Blight, et al: PaperbackHardcoverKindle
  • FREE BORROWABLE EBOOKAmerican Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson & Origins of the Vietnam War by David Kaiser
  • Book: JFK & Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue & Struggle for Power (2nd ed) by John Newman: PaperbackKindle
  • Book: Death of a Generation by Howard Jones: PaperbackHardcoverKindle
  • FREE BORROWABLE EBOOKJFK and the Unspeakable: Why he Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass
  • These six books prove that by 1963 Kennedy had decided that he wouldn’t escalate the Vietnam conflict
  • There were no American combat troops in Vietnam under Kennedy
  • Kennedy turned down eleven requests for inserting American combat troops in Vietnam
  • Halberstam and Sheehan agreed with the escalation
  • Halberstam and Sheehan wanted Kennedy to commit more firepower and troops
  • Halberstam and Sheehan were acolytes of Col. John Paul Vann
  • Vann understood that the ARVN could not win the war on their own
  • In the early 60s, Halberstam criticized every aspect of the Vietnam war as Kennedy did not commit more firepower
  • Halberstam recommends Col. John Paul Vann to supervise the war in Vietnam
  • “Bombers and helicopters and napalm are a help, but they are not enough”
    – David Halberstam in his book The Making of a Quagmire (1965, Random House)
  • “The lesson to be learned from Vietnam is that we must get in earlier, be shrewder,
    and force the other side to practice the self-deception”
     (ibid)
  • Book: Conversations with Americans by Mark Lane: PaperbackKindle
  • Neil Sheehan attacked Mark Lane for his book Conversations with Americans in his article (NYT, Dec 27, 1970)
  • Sheehan called the My Lai Massacre a rumor
  • Not one statement in Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest is footnoted
  • “McNamara became the principal desk officer on Vietnam in 1962 because he felt that the President needed his help”
    – David Halberstam in his book The Best and the Brightest
  • The living-room war
  • Embedded journalism
  • Edwin Lee McGehee, a town barber in Jackson, Louisiana, met Oswald at his shop
  • Jim spoke to McGehee a few days ago
  • Listener questions answered
  • No evidence of a shot fired around Zapruder film frame 160
  • Jim saw Oswald’s photograph at Russo’s place
  • The photo shows Oswald in Florida in 1960 when he was supposed to be in Russia
  • 8mm video taken in summer of 1963 shows Oswald at a training camp
  • Ex post facto laws and Tu quoque
  • Documentary on RFK Assassination: The Second Gun by Ted Charach and Gerard Alcan

 

 

#958a – John Barbour

 

 

#957b – Laurie Dusek

 

  • Laurie Dusek is Sirhan’s lawyer
  • Sirhan was stabbed on Aug 31st
  • Laurie to meet Sirhan next week to figure out what happened
  • Senator Kennedy was shot from behind
  • Sirhan was in front of Senator Kennedy
  • Kamala Harris
  • 2400 pieces of evidence were destroyed before the trial even began
  • More evidence was destroyed after the trial before an appeal could be filed
  • All legal options have been exhausted in Sirhan’s case
  • “I know you didn’t kill my father” – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
  • Criminal charges threatened against Laurie and Bill Pepper

 

#957a – Bill Pepper

 

  • Bill Pepper on the stabbing of Sirhan
  • The guy who stabbed Sirhan is serving a long sentence
  • The reason for the attack is not known
  • Sirhan did not provoke the attack
  • Jeffrey Epstein was a walking timebomb
  • More info will be available after the official report is released
  • Sirhan being treated as if he were the perpetrator