Marguerite Oswald in late 1963 was already telling the press that Lee Harvey Oswald was a "SECRET AGENT" of the U.S. Government

Marguerite Oswald in 1963 on the likelihood her son Lee Harvey Oswald was U.S. intelligence

 

          “We are a patriotic family. All my three children volunteered for service in the armed forces. Lee wanted to enlist in the Marines at sixteen years old – he was rejected as being too young. But he was a member of the Cadet Aviation Corps, and they wanted to make him a pilot – the American Air Force doesn’t normally recruit young people whose patriotism is in doubt. An officer often came by the house to talk to Lee. That’s how he came to read Das Kapital; but at the same time he learned by heart the big wordy manual, The Perfect Marine. At seventeen, he enlisted, and his letters said he was happy. He was decorated. He did not receive a medal for being a sharp-shooter; it was his battalion which received that distinction … but the police and the press lied, making the world believe that my son was a champion rifle-shot. 

          “I am sure that the Marines trained Lee to be a secret agent. True, he did not tell me so, nor does anyone say so today. But since when did secret agents tell their mothers what they were doing? Or the secret services acknowledge their members?

          “Lee was never in contact with the Communists. If he became a Marxist, it was because the Marines made a Marxist of him …

          “Lee decided all in a minute to go to Russia … as if he’d received an order. He, always so truthful with me, told me that he was going to get on a cargo-boat for Europe. How could he, in the two days he stayed with me after leaving the military base, have arranged so quickly to get a passport, a Soviet visa and a passage to Russia?

 

[Nerin Gun,  Red Roses from Texas, p. 206] 

Nerin Gun’s Red Roses from Texas was published in January 1, 1964 by publisher Frederick Muller of London. 

Ner e. Gun (1920-1987) Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerin_E._Gun

 PDF file of Red Roses from Texas by Nerin Gun http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/R%20Disk/Red%20Roses%20From%20Texas/Item%2001.pdf

 Neri E. Gun bio - http://www.reformation.org/gun.html

 

By Feb. 12, 1964 Marguerite Oswald was telling the press that her son was a CIA agent Set Up to Take the Blame for JFK assassination

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/13/archives/mrs-oswald-says-son-is-scapegoat-thinks-he-was-cia-agent-set-up-to.html

“MRS. OSWALD SAYS SON IS SCAPEGOAT; Thinks He Was C.I.A. Agent ‘Set Up to Take Blame” by NYT, Feb. 13, 1964

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—The mother of Lee H. Oswald said today that she believed her son was a United States “intelligence agent” and that he was “set up to take the blame” for the assassination of President Kennedy.

She made the statement to newsmen as she finished three days of testimony before the Presidential commission investigating the assassination. She said she had told the same thing to the commission.

Chief Justice Earl Warren, commission chairman, said the mother had presented no evidence to support her belief that Oswald was an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency.

“She offered no evidence to that effect except her story and correspondence that she presented, taken together, leads her to the speculation—I use word speculation, as she used it—that he was an agent.”

“She has not given us any facts that would change the picture as we know it up to the time she testified,” Mr. Warren said. “She did not profess to give us any facts that would prove anything in connection with the assassination.

“She did contend that the correspondence [with Oswald] that she presented and her own testimony taken together in their entirety present a much different picture than has been given to the public up to the present time. She says she believes her son is innocent, that it is possible that he committed the crime but that it also is possible that other people could have committed it.”

She Makes Statement

The plump, matronly appearing woman, when asked for a statement, moved readily to microphones set before cameras in the lobby of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Building on Capitol Hill, where the commission met.

She had declined to make a statement until today on the advice of her counsel, John F. Doyle, who was appointed by the District of Columbia Bar A ssociation at her request.

“I still believe my son, Lee Harvey Oswald, is innocent,” she began. She vowed she would “contime public appearances and an investigation” to clear her son “if it takes another year to do so.”

The assassin, she contended, “is still at large.”

I realize that as a human being he [Oswald] could be guilty,” she said, but added that she had given the commission “evidence” that her son was innocent. Some of the documents she said she gave the commission were of a nature “the commission did not know before.”

She said she and Mark Lane. the New York lawyer whom she has said she retained without fee to defend her son, had “investigators all over.” She also said that she had received 1.500 letters with information on the assassination, including some from foreigners, and that she would not pass on “any tins” to the commission.

Says Son Was Not Killer

“Lee Harvey Oswald was not the killer of President Kennedy and he was set up to take the blame,” she went on.

 In most references to her son, Mrs. Oswald used the present tense, such as “I believe Lee is an intelligence agent.”

“My son was a scrapgoat,” she said at one point. She apparently meant “scapegoat.”

“Who can prove he is not a C.I.A. agent?” she said. “He isn't going to say he's a C.I.A. agent, and the Government isn't going to say he is. Lee, being an agent, would not say so to anyone.”

Mr. Warren indicated that other witnesses would be called soon. But he said this would depend on when “certain witnesses can get here and when certain members of the commission can be here.”

Asked about a report that a janitor in the Texas Book Depository Building in Dallas would be the next witness, Mr. Warren said: “Maybe they know. I don' t know.”

Oswald is alleged to have fired the shots that killed President Kennedy from a sixth floor window of the building.

 Marguerite Oswald on Mother’s Day, May 9, 1965, on her son being an agent of the U.S. government. Marguerite Oswald was standing near her son’s grave at Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Ft. Worth, TX and talking to author Jean Stafford

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           “It turned out to be a right nice Mother’s Day after all,” she said. “But on some Mother’s Day, I think it would be wonderful for the United States to come out and say my son was an agent. It would be wonderful if they would come out in behalf of his family and his mother and say he died in the service of his country. They’re not all-powerful, and not everything they do is right. I love my United States, but I don’t think just because I was born in it, that we’re perfect. And I feel my son Lee Harvey Oswald felt the same way. If he learned those truths from me, I didn’t teach him, but if he sensed that was the way I felt, I make no apology for that either. We are not always right and I feel sure that as Americans we know this and we will admit it some day. Let’s have a little defense of Lee Harvey Oswald! On Mother’s Day, let’s come out and say that he died in the service of his country.”

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     [Jean Stafford, A Mother in History, p. 105]

Lee Harvey Oswald had a CIA 201 file! # 201-289248

 https://www.maryferrell.org/php/showlist.php?docset=1095

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 This collection is the voluminous CIA "201" file (also known as a "personality" file) on Lee Henry (sic) Oswald. The file was opened in December 1960 and contains a small set of pre-assassination records. After the assassination, this file became a repository for much of the CIA's investigative work, and grew into the massive file available here. Portions of the 201 file were obtained at different times, so documents in some volumes feature RIF header sheets, and documents in volumes obtained earlier do not.

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A Collection of Lone Nutter Essays and Interviews on the JFK Assassination

From the desk of Robert Morrow, presidential historian at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute for the Study of Presidential Crime and the World’s Foremost Authority on the JFK Assassination:

512-306-1510       Austin, TX

A Collection of Lone Nutter Essays and Interviews on the JFK Assassination

          Here at the far bottom is a collection of Lone Nutter manifestos, interviews and book reviews. A variation of “a lone nut killed JFK” is a “a lone nut killed JFK but he was told or inspired to commit that heinous crime by Cuba’s Fidel Castro or the USSR. It’s still a heinous lie to blame John Kennedy’s murder on completely innocent CIA patsy Lee Harvey Oswald or whether the charge is he did it all alone or the LBJ/CIA deflection that Fidel Castro or his operatives were involved.

There are several themes that come up often in the people who slander, defame and lie about Lee Harvey Oswald being responsible for the JFK assassination. One theme is that the Lone Nutters rejected out of hand a vast body of evidence that implicates Lyndon Johnson, elements of  U.S. military intelligence or the CIA, LBJ’s Texas Oil men and LBJ’s blood brother lawyer and Texas political boss Ed Clark in the JFK assassination.

You can get a heavy dose of LBJ’s role in the JFK assassination by reading Phil Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination.

The Lone Nutters just completely ignore that General Edward Lansdale was identified at Dealey Plaza at 2:30PM by his peers Colonel Fletcher Prouty and Gen. Victor Krulak. General Edward Lansdale had been unceremoniously fired from the Kennedy Administration on Oct. 31, 1963 and his pal Ngo Dihn Diem had been overthrown (11-1-63) and then murdered (11-2-63) in a Kennedy Administration coup that was vehemently that Lansdale opposed. Gen. Lansdale, who fancied himself the guru of Vietnam, had wanted, in his fantasies, to make the ultra corrupt Diem into a Vietnamese “George Washington.” LBJ for his part, thought of Diem as a Winston Churchill type figure. Winston Churchill is not too popular these days because he starved to death (mass murdered) 3 million Indians during WWII while shipping critical food supplies to Great Britain. I highly recommend lone nutter Max Boot’s book on Lansdale: The Road Not Taken.

The Lone Nutters actually think Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist when really he was a patriotic American working in counter-intelligence and spying on the Left in the USA. You can read Phillip Melanson’s 1990 Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and U.S. Intelligence for more on that. Lee Harvey Oswald’s goose got cooked because he was publicly LYING about what he was as he posed as a “defector” to the USSR and come home re-creating himself as a “pro-Castro Marxist.” Very likely Oswald was being handled by the CIA’s David Atlee Phillips (a native of Ft. Worth, TX) and also by hard right JFK-hater Guy Banister in New Orleans. Guy Banister was a former FBI Special Agent in Charge in Chicago and he was a favorite of communist hunter J. Edgar Hoover, the megalomaniac closeted homosexual and blackmailer extraordinaire.

The Lone Nutters never mention that hard right anti-Castro Cuban Antonio Veciana is on the record that he saw Lee Harvey Oswald with his CIA handler David Atlee Phillips a few months before the JFK assassination in Dallas, TX.       Or that Oswald stamped his New Orleans political fliers with the address 544 Camp St. which just happens to have been Guy Banister’s office and an office that had previously been occupied by hard right Anti-Castro Cubans. Or that the CIA’s David Atlee Phillips was running a subversion campaign of the pro Castro Fair Play for Cuba organization.

After the JFK assassination and after he was murdered as part of the cover up, Lee Harvey Oswald’s legacy was tarred by the forced LYING of a terrified Marina Oswald who had a toddler June and a baby Rachel and who did not speak English very well. Marina Oswald hated her White Russian (anti-communist refuge) interpreter Ilya Mamontov because Mamontov was putting words into her mouth to posthumously slander and cast shade on the her deceased husband Lee Harvey Oswald.

The ”not-very-sophisticated” Lone Nutters believe Oswald’s public lies that he was a “pro Castro Marxist” (as opposed to an ONI, CIA, FBI governmental operative, which he was). Then the Lone Nutters compound their error by believing the coerced lies of a terrified Marina Oswald 1) that Oswald may have had something to do with the April, 1963 attempted shooting of hard right activist (and also closeted homosexual and JFK-hater) Gen. Edwin Walker 2) that “crazy” Oswald wanted to hijack a plane to Cuba (never happened!!), that Oswald was about to go shoot former Vice President Richard Nixon, but Marina says she locked Oswald in the bathroom to prevent that heinous crime. That was a big fat lie because bathrooms lock from the inside and no, Marina Oswald was not strong enough to keep Oswald barricaded in the bath room.

Sidenote: I wonder if you could sell the Brooklyn Bridge to a Lone Nutter because they appear primed and ready to buy anything!

Some other big fails by the Lone Nutters are that they believe the ludicrous Magic Bullet Theory which both David Belin and Arlen Specter conjured up to pretend that JFK and John Connally were hit by the same bullet and they also believe JFK’s head kill shot came from behind at the Texas School Book Depository as opposed to front right the Grassy Knoll.

The bonkers Magic Bullet theory was conjured up because there were so many wounds on JFK (3) and John Connally (back wound) and a shot that almost hit James Tague means that it is obvious JFK was the victims of multiple shoots in a front, back and sides crossfire hail of bullets. Let’s not forget that an early shot missed and a bullet was dug out of the mid field at Dealey Plaza by an FBI Agent (that bullet disappeared). There were a MINIMUM of 7 shots taken at JFK.

Despite the obvious evidence of a “back and to the left” movement of JFK’s head, which means a kill shot from the front right area (the Grassy Knoll), the Lone Nutters are committed to their religious belief that JFK’s head kill shot came from behind.

The Lone Nutters make a hot mess of their speculations of why in the world would Lee Harvey Oswald want to murder John Kennedy. Some of them say they don’t even have the slightest idea what Oswald’s motive could have been. Some falsely claim that Oswald was a mentally unstable loser who wanted to become famous by killing JFK. Well, why did Oswald, while in police custody, say over and over again that he had shot at no one and the he was a “patsy” for the JFK assassination because he had been to Russia?

Other Lone Nutters say that Oswald killed JFK because Marina Oswald would not take him back. Oswald had just spent the night with her in bed and left a significant amount of his money on the nightstand for her like a responsible and caring spouse would. Maybe Richard Ramirez, a satanic California serial killer, the “Night Stalker,” can get a wife in prison but I don’t think it would have worked for Oswald for death row Texas in 1963. Maybe the California Menendez brothers, who murdered their rich parents in cold blood and then went on a shopping spree, can get prison wives, but, again, I don’t think this was an option for Oswald.

The other great slander that the Lone Nutters slap on Oswald was that he murdered JFK because Oswald’s mother Marguerite Oswald was a bitter pill and an unpleasant domineering mother. However eccentric and slightly off Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother may have been, combined they held one-ten-thousandth the screaming dysfunction that Lyndon Johnson carried with him. Lyndon Johnson was an alcoholic who was beaten by his also alcoholic father as a child and his father, who rode him hard, told LBJ he was a loser who would never amount to anything. LBJ’s grandmother Ruth Ament Huffman, who he had sex with as a teenager, predicted LBJ would go to jail. Lyndon Johnson was an alcoholic, the biggest pill popper his county in Texas according to the local pharmacist; he used to smoke 3 packs of cigarettes per day; LBJ’s serial adultery was so unhinged that he was often having sex with other women while Lady Bird was under the same roof. Lyndon Johnson impregnated two secretaries at the same time in 1963 and they each gave him a child in the run up to the JFK assassination: Lyndon Boozer (son of Yolanda Boozer) and Courtenay Lynda Valenti (daughter of Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti). LBJ had arranged for sycophantic aide Jack Valenti to go into a cover marriage with his #1 mistress Mary Margaret. LBJ “gave away” Mary Margaret at her wedding in June, 1962.

When LBJ was not murdering his political opponents (Sam Smithwick, 1952 and Henry Marshall, 1963), sleeping with his secretaries, chain smoking, getting drunk, watching porno on the presidential yacht Sequoia, he could often be found defecating in front of reporters and his staff while playing a degradation and domination game. LBJ over decades would intentionally defecate and then ask his aides and reporters to come closer and closer so they could smell what he was doing. Call it LBJ’s defecation degradation domination game. Treasury secretary Douglas Dillon left LBJ’s cabinet in the 1960s precisely because of this insanity. LBJ played the defecation degradation domination game with aides Jake Pickle (later a congressman), Richard Goodwin, Treasury secretary Douglas Dillion and reporters Helen Thomas, Tom Wicker and Dan Rather (and many, many other victims).

Lyndon Johnson was known to be having an enema while giving dictation to his secretary Marie Fehmer, yelling at Bill Moyers, while Lady Bird and his daughter Lynda Bird and aide Hayes Redmond were in the room. Lyndon Johnson had hired young, pretty Marie Fehmer as an aide in summer, 1962 and LBJ immediately fell in love with her. In November, 1962, told Marie that if she would agree to have his son, he would set her up with an apartment in NYC. [See Randall Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition, p. 404-406.] It was during this precise same period that LBJ was impregnating his secretary Yolanda Boozer (son Lyndon Boozer) and his former secretary Mary Margaret Wiley (daughter Courtenay Lynda Valenti). As of 2021, Courtenay Lynda Valenti was on the LBJ Foundation’s Board of Trustees along with her half sisters Luci Baines Johnson, Lynda Johnson Robb and her half-nieces Nicole Covert and Catherine Robb.

In Lone Nutterland, “Oswald” is the crazy one. It was in summer, 1962 that Lyndon Johnson was telling reporter Robert Novak (who had married Geraldine, another secretary of LBJ) that Robert Kennedy was planning to dump him from the Demo ticket in 1964 (Robert Novak, The Prince of Darkness, pp. 90-91).

The Lone Nutters like to point to Oswald’s childhood as some sort of proof that he was a mentally unstable adult and because of this killed JFK. My reply is what about Lyndon Johnson’s quite several mental instabilities? His former national security advisor McGeorge Buncy compared LBJ of 1967 to Joseph Stalin while LBJ compared himself to Adolph Hitler in reference to his rigging the campus elections at San Marcos State Teachers College. Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon both called Lyndon Johnson an “animal.”

Some Lone Nutters say completely innocent CIA patsy Lee Harvey Oswald was really shooting at Texas Governor John Connally but he accidentally shot JFK in the process. This is the theory put forward by James Reston, Jr. Supposedly Oswald was mad at former Secretary of the Navy John Connally for changing his honorable discharge to a undesirable discharge from the Marines after Oswald had defected to Russia. James Reston’s father was Scotty Reston, a CIA asset and New York Times reporter and then later an NYT editor who carried a lot of water for Lyndon Johnson and who had a very close relationship to Allen Dulles.

Yes, I can totally understand why Oswald was unhappy that Navy Secretary John Connally changed his honorable discharge to an “other than honorable discharge” after Oswald fake defected to the USSR. From Oswald’s point of view, he was working for his country in a spy capacity and then his own government gives him an “other than honorable discharge” from the military that could follow him for the rest of his life. But, my God, is he really going to take a rifle and shoot the former Secretary of the Navy for that? Doesn’t it seem more likely that a well-documented amoral psychopath Lyndon Johnson would to blow out JFK’s brains for running a “destroy LBJ” campaign in fall, 1963?    

A very good book to read is Pierre Sundborg’s Tragic Truth: Oswald Shot Kennedy by Accident. The value in the book is not that it’s top thesis is correct but that Pierre Sundborg has done a gangbusters job of collecting dozens of nice comments that Lee Harvey Oswald made about JFK and Jackie Kennedy, a family which Oswald loved, adored and admired. Oswald like JFK so much that he could have been president of a Dallas chapter of the JFK Fan Club.

Paul Gregory knew Lee Harvey Oswald personally and in 2013 he wrote that Lee and Marina kept a copy of TIME’s JFK Man of the Year cover prominently displayed on their coffee table for months. If LBJ had something like that, he probably would have used it for a dart board or perhaps target practice for his guns. Lyndon Johnson, unlike Lee Harvey Oswald, was an excellent shot and he knew how to handle a gun. Onetime RFK was at the LBJ Ranch in the fall of 1959 and LBJ intentionally handed RFK a gun with a big kick. After RFK shot it, it knocked him to the ground and as LBJ towered over a prone RFK he said something like “Son, you gotta learn how to handle a gun like a man.”

The other big fail by the Lone Nutters is thinking that Oswald tried to murder Gen. Edwin Walker in April, 1963. That is a fantasy that never happened; most Lone Nutters don’t know that Gen. Walker contacted the HSCA and told them that the bullet in evidence from his shooting is NOT the one that was pulled out of his wall. The Lone Nutters say that Marina said that Oswald tried to shoot Gen. Walker, but they conveniently leave out that Marina Oswald Porter for 30 years has said that Oswald was innocent of killing JFK and that she told Jesse Ventura on his TV show in 2010, “Would you sacrifice your children for the truth” which is Marina admitting that she was forced by circumstances and being in the grips of LBJ’s government to tell tremendous, slanderous lies about her murdered husband in the aftermath of the JFK assassination. If they could murder Oswald in police custody, couldn’t the same people just as easily murder Marina if she did not go along with the governmental/media script?

Sadly, some Lone Nutters, like Ruth Paine, will say that the Gen. Edwin Walker shooting is the “Rosetta Stone” of the JFK assassination. Still others say that the Friday, 11-22-63, 1:06 PM murder of Officer J.D. Tippit was the “Rosetta Stone” of the JFK assassination. Helen Markham, who was the closest witness to the Tippit murder was adamant that the Tippit slaying occurred at 1:06 PM as she was on the way to her 1:12 PM bus (which normally departed at 1:15 PM). There is no way Oswald was on the Tippit murder scene because at 1:02 PM he was at his boarding house and that was a full 9/10ths of a mile away. Here is Helen Markham’s Warren Commission testimony. If you go to the Sixth Floor Museum’s web site, they list the TIME of the J.D. Tippit murder at being at 1:15 PM, which is a big, fat lie. The Sixth Floor Museum timeline of the JFK assassination says that “Police officer J.D. Tippit is shot and killed at the corner of 10^th Street and Patton Avenue in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas.” In actually, Tippit was murdered several houses down from that intersection where witness Helen Markham was standing.

 

The Warren Commission, pointedly ignoring Helen Markham, simply made up the 1:15 PM time of the Tippit murder in order to make it slightly possible that Oswald had somehow speed walked or ran/jogged to the Tippit murder scene (which Oswald never did). A good book on the Tippit murder is Joseph McBride’s Into the Nightmare: My Search for the killers of John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.

Helen Markham was a waitress who worked in downtown Dallas. At the 1:06 PM time of the Tippit shooting she was standing a 2-3 minute walk from arriving at her bus stop about 6 minutes before it would depart at 1:15 PM. There is absolutely no way then that Tippit was shot at 1:15 PM as the Warren Commission fantasized in the service of their framing of Oswald.

Also, read Bill Simpich’s State Secret, Chapter 6 “The Set-Up and the Cover Up” and you will understand that Oswald was immediately being framed for the JFK assassination by Dallas police who were giving out a All Points Bulletin description of JFK’s killer as “5 foot 10, 165 pounds” a precisely inaccurate description of Lee Harvey Oswald in FBI, CIA and INS documents that were created before the JFK assassination. Oswald was 5 foot 9 inches and about 140 lbs at the time of JFK’s murder.

 The Lone Nutters fail in a lot of areas: 1) They believe Oswald’s public lies of being a pro Castro Marxist and they have not figured out that Oswald was working in counter-intelligence for ONI, CIA and FBI. 2) They believe a terrified Marina Oswald’s coerced and slanderous lies about Oswald in 1963-1964 despite the fact that Marina told Jesse Ventura in 2010 “Would you sacrifice your children for the truth?” 3) They believe the ludicrous lie that Oswald tried to murder Gen. Edwin Walker 4) They believe the frame job lie that Oswald murdered Officer J.D. Tippit. 5) They also think Oswald wanted to kill former vice president Richard Nixon 6) They mistakenly believe the ludicrous lie that Oswald wanted to hijack a plane to Cuba.

The JFK assassination proves that the nation’s largest media platforms simply cannot EVER, under any circumstances, be trusted to simply tell the truth. The reality is every media platform, large or small, must be subjected to critical thinking skills and no “assumptions” (such as a lone nut killed JFK) of any platform should be taken at face value. All assumptions must be tested. No news media platform is worthy of uncritical trust.    

The late Jerry Policoff, a friend of mine who I respected deeply, co-wrote a great article in 1992 with Robert Hennelly about the completely corrupted American media lying about the JFK assassination. Twenty years before in 1972, Jerry Policoff, wrote an early humdinger essay on the media coverup of the JFK assassination.

The JFK assassination is the greatest fantasy of the American educated elites. The American government, the country’s most prominent media platforms (TV, print, newspapers, magazines, radio, internet, major publishing houses), and scores of university and college professors have all trafficked in one of the greatest lies in world history: that a lone nut killed JFK and that Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Texas Rich around LBJ had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of JFK and the cover up of his assassination. These groups have also trafficked in the related Oswald frame-job lies: that he tried to murder Gen. Edwin Walker on April 10, 1963; that he murdered Officer J.D. Tippit at the completely fabricated time of 1:15 PM on 11-22-63; that Oswald was wanting to murder former Vice President Richard Nixon; that Oswald wanted to hijack a plane to Cuba.

The elite TV and print media of 1963 were riven with CIA media assets. The owners of the cable networks and the publishers of the major newspapers and magazines were personally friends of the man who orchestrated the JFK assassination Lyndon Johnson. They were also personal friends with people such as FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, former CIA director and JFK-hater Allen Dulles and the FBI’s public relations man Deke DeLoach and CIA Operation Mockingbird media manipulator Cord Meyer, who was quite bitter that his ex-wife Mary Meyer was having an affair with JFK. These people all hated JFK’s guts and they were personal friends with the owners of the national media and their top executives and reporters. This is why American journalism’s “first draft” of history was so wretched; it was co-opted within hours of the JFK assassination as Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover pushed hard that a lone nut killed JFK (even as LBJ told many behind the scenes that Fidel Castro had killed JFK; his favorite deflection from his own culpability).

The owners and top executives of the national media were on the phone with LBJ within days of the JFK assassination and they were telling him that they were praying for him and what a great speech he gave on TV. They sure as hell were not investigating him or the CIA or LBJ-friendly Texas oil men, such as over-the-top JFK-hater and world’s richest man H.L. Hunt in the JFK assassination. H.L. Hunt had been privately known to make comments in reference to the Kennedys such as, “How long are we going to let this go on? Are we goin’ to have to shoot those mafia bastards to get them out office?” (said in early 1960s to LBJ mistress Madeleine Brown.) [Madeleine Brown, Texas in the Morning, p. 163]

The insiders of the media in 1963 was quite aware of the rift between the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson. Many of them were participating with the Kennedy-orchestrated plan to destroy LBJ in the fall of 1963. See Phil Brennan’s column for NewsMax in 2003. Media properties such as Henry Luce’s LIFE magazine and the Washington Post’s Newsweek spiked Kennedy-fed exposes that were crafted to imminently take down Lyndon Johnson in the week following 11-22-63. Drew Pearson, the nation’s top political reporter, spiked his column that was also going to target LBJ in Sunday morning papers across the USA on November 24^th. Drew Pearson, in the aftermath of the JFK assassination, became one of Lyndon Johnson’s media tools to defend him against the corruption charges relating to him in the Bobby Baker scandal. Drew Pearson let LBJ plant negative articles on Don Reynolds, who at the very second of the JFK assassination was giving secret testimony to the Senate Rules Committee on LBJ’s epic corruption. Minority counsel for the Republicans on the Rules Committee, Burkett van Kirk, was the one who was taking down this testimony as he related to Sy Hersh who included it in his book The Dark Side of Camelot.

The most effective way the media protected Lyndon Johnson (who murdered JFK) was to slander, defame and lie about Lee Harvey Oswald every step of the way. This allowed Lyndon Johnson to follow in the steps of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin, both of whom murdered political opponents in their own party and then pretended to mourn the death of their enemies.

Stalin orchestrated the murder of fellow Bolshevik Sergei Kirov on December 1, 1934 and used that as a pretext to launch the Great Purge (of his presumed enemies).

Hitler, in the Night of the Long Knives on July 1, 1934, murdered Ernest Rohm, the head of his Storm Troopers and someone who Hitler feared as a rival.

Lyndon Johnson, using elements of U.S. military intelligence and the CIA, murdered JFK on 11-22-63. and then used the local Dallas mafia to murder completely innocent CIA patsy Lee Harvey Oswald.

Stalin, Hitler, Lyndon Johnson: they are murdered political opponents in their party and then pretended to mourn them and blame it on someone else.

The media platforms that have pushed the “lone nutter” fantasy of the JFK assassination and the slandering of Oswald is a very long list of the most prominent media platforms in the USA: CBS, NBC, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Life Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, LA Times, Chicago Times and scores of local papers.

The Dallas Morning News and the largest local TV station in Texas WFAA push the lone nutter fantasy. Both outlets slander and defame Lee Harvey Oswald as the murderer – the lone nut killer – of JFK. The Sixth Floor Museum for decades has pinned the JFK assassination on Oswald and provided a platform for slanderers of Lee Harvey Oswald for decades. Texas Monthly, a magazine that has currency with the educated elites of Texas, has had a consistent stream of editors, writers and former writers that push the big lie on the JFK assassination: Gregory Curtis, Jake Silverstein, Lawrence Wright, Ron Rosenbaum, Larry Tye, Paul Burka, Brian Sweany, R.G. Ratcliffe and practically anyone who they let write on the topic of the JFK assassination. Evan Smith, a former editor at the Texas Monthly and a founder of the Texas Tribune lets his broadly distributed online rag slander Oswald as well. The Texas Tribune’s Ross Ramsey, who supposedly knows so much about Texas politics, also incorrectly refers to Oswald as JFK’s assassin.

The wire services The Associated Press and United Press International push the lone nutter big lie. There is a female Dallas AP reporter named Jamie Stengel who slanders Oswald for the murder of Officer J.D. Tippit as well.

Political journals such as the National Review, Commentary and the left-wing Mother Jones push it as well. It is the bipartisan Establishment from left wing to right wing that pushes this fantasy. Wikipedia pushes it as do the major publishing houses. A general rule is the bigger the corporate media platform, the more devoted it is to the fantasy of the JFK assassination. Prominent historians such as Robert Dallek and Doris Kearns Goodwin push it. Robert Caro told me in a Q&A at a book signing in Austin, TX in 2012 that in all his years of research into Lyndon Johnson that he had “not even found a hint” of LBJ being involved in the JFK assassination: a comment which is ludicrous.

 Scores of professors at universities and colleges push it. A general rule is the more prestigious the university, the more likely it’s professors in history and politics push the lone nutter fantasy. Harvard historian Jill Lepore is a prime example of a highly educated professor with a large reach who pushes lone nutterism. This woman knows nothing about the JFK assassation and Wikipedias says LePore “is a history professor at Harvard University, where she holds an endowed chair and teaches American political history. She focuses on missing evidence in historical records and articles.”

When John J. McCloy was on the Warren Commission, he was the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations which for many years was the voice of the American business/political/governmental establishment. The CFR has had a long list of prominent government officials and intelligence officials as members. Former CIA director Allen Dulles used to be the president of the CFR. Dulles’ secretary was McGeorge Bundy who was later a National Security Advisor for both JFK and Lyndon Johnson. Many members of the elite media have been members of the CFR. It is a fact that over the decades, almost to a man, almost everyone who is a member of the CFR who has publicly commented on the JFK assassination has said that a Lone Nut killed JFK. There are slivers of the CFR who say “Oswald killed JFK, but Fidel Castro told him to do it.”

          There are hundreds or thousands of members of the CFR – men and women who are highly educated, often consider experts in their field, who hold jobs of importance in the public or private sectors who uniformly say that a Lone Nut Oswald killed JFK and that Vice President Lyndon Johnson and U.S. intelligence had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of JFK and that LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover and former CFR Allen Dulles were not at all covering up the murder of John Kennedy. The Council on Foreign Relations for decades has been so wedded to this belief that it is like a religious liturgy for them.

Enough of the pre-game explanation, here are some good web links with the Lone Nutters (or the Oswald Defamers) explaining why they have come to their (wildly inaccurate) conclusion regarding the JFK assassination:

LONE NUTTER ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS:

1) “The book that cured me of JFK conspiracies once and for all,” Hector Tobar, LA Times, 11-20-13.  https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-nov-20-la-et-jc-book-jfk-conspiracies-cure-20131120-story.html

2) Gerald Posner 2013, Frontline interview. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/interview-gerald-posner/

3) Gregory Curtis of Texas Monthly – Nov. 1998 https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-lone-gunman/

4) Bryan Burrough, writing in NYT (5-20-2007) https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Burrough-t.html

5) David Corn of Mother Jones – 11-22-2013 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/kennedy-assassination-conspiracy-oswald-cuba/

6) Fred Kaplan of Slate – 11-14-2013 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/11/john-f-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-debunked-why-the-magic-bullet-and-grassy-knoll-dont-make-sense.html

7) Scott Aaronson – Twenty Reasons to Believe Oswald Acted Alone https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1596

8) Michael Shermer – My Day in Dealey Plaza: Why JFK Was Killed by a Lone Assassin – Huffington Post, 12-14-2010 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/my-day-in-dealey-plaza-wh_b_796812  

9) Jake Silverstein – “The Assassination at 50,” Texas Monthly, November, 2013 https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-assassination-at-50/

10) Lawrence Wright, “Why Do They Hate Us So Much,” Texas Monthly, November, 1983. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/why-do-they-hate-us-so-much/

11) Jacob Cohen, “Yes, Oswald Alone Killed Kennedy,” Commentary, June, 1992. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/jacob-cohen/yes-oswald-alone-killed-kennedy/

12) “Why Vincent Bugliosi is So Sure Oswald Alone Killed JFK,” Robin Lindley, History News Network, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/41490

13)  Rich Lowry, “The Kennedy Conspiracy in Plain Sight,” National Review, November 22, 2013 https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/11/kennedy-conspiracy-plain-sight-rich-lowry/

14) Lisa Scottoline, Book Review: ‘End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy’ by James Swanson, Washington Post, Oct. 25, 2013.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-end-of-days-the-assassination-of-john-f-kennedy-by-james-swanson/2013/10/25/359020b4-368b-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html

15)  Mel Ayton, Review of John McAdam’s “JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think About Claims of Conspiracy,” History News Network, 11-21-11 http://hnn.us/article/143124  

16) Priscilla McMillan, “The Dreamer Who Killed A President,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 22, 1993. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-11-22-9311220016-story.html

17) Jonathan Simon, “Ghosts of the Disciplinary Machine: Lee Harvey Oswald, Life-History, and the Truth of Crime,” 1998 academic essay https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1182&context=yjlh

18) Paul Burka and Brian Sweany, “Final Thoughts on Nov. 22, 1963,” Texas Monthly, 11-22-13. https://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/final-thoughts-on-nov-22-1963/

19) David Reitzes, “JFK Conspiracy Theories at 50: How the Skeptics Got It Wrong and Why It Matters,” Skeptic, 2013. https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/jfk-conspiracy-theories-at-50-how-the-skeptics-got-it-wrong-and-why-it-matters/

20) Hugh Aynesworth, “JFK Special Report: How Hucksters and Crazies Built the Big Lie and Why We Still Believe It,” D Magazine, November, 1998. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1998/november/jfk-special-report-how-hucksters-crazies-built-the-big-lie-and-why-we-still-believe-it/

21) Kirkus review of James Swanson’s End of Days: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-l-swanson/end-of-days-assassination/

22) Randy Dotinga 11-22-2013 review of Jame Swanson’s End of Days: https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2013/1122/End-of-Days

23) Wikipedia on Lee Harvey Oswald: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald

24) Wikipedia on the JFK assassination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy

25) Encylopedia Britannica on the JFK assassination: https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-John-F-Kennedy

26) Encylopedia Britannica on the JFK assassination (2): https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-F-Kennedy/Assassination

27) Norman Mailer on Oswald, by Bill Rockwood for PBS Frontline: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/norman-mailer-on-oswald/

28) 2013 Atlantic interview with Peter Savodnik, biographer of Lee Harvey Oswald: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/11/why-lee-harvey-oswald-fled-to-the-soviet-union/281662/

29) Sonia Smith of Texas Monthly interviews biographer Peter Savodnik on Lee Harvey Oswald (10-22-2013) https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/wandering-oswald/

30) NPR Fresh Air interview transcript with Phil Shenon (Oct. 28, 2013) Interview: Philip Shenon, Author Of 'A Cruel And Shocking Act' : NPR

31) Colin Schultz, “Before JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald Tried to Kill an Army Major General, Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 4, 2013. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/before-jfk-lee-harvey-oswald-tried-to-kill-an-army-major-general-609517/

32) Alan Peppard, “Before gunning for JFK, Oswald targeted ex-General Edwin A. Walker – and missed,” Dallas Morning News, May 11, 2013. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/11/19/before-gunning-for-jfk-oswald-targeted-ex-gen-edwin-a-walker-and-missed/

33) Jefferson Morley, “April 10, 1963: Oswald tries to shoot General Walker,” JFK Facts, April 10, 2015. https://jfkfacts.org/april-10-1963-oswald-tries-to-shoot-gen-walker/

34) Fred Litwin Conspiracy Freak blog: https://conspiracyfreak.com/blog/

35) Fred Litwin Trail of Delusion blog: https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/blog

36) John McAdams web site: https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

37) Jeff Wallenfeld, writing for Britannica, blaming the murder of Officer J.D. Tippit on Oswald and coming within inches of blaming Oswald for JFK’s murder https://www.britannica.com/event/assassination-of-John-F-Kennedy

38) CBS’s Dan Rather in 2011 blaming the JFK assassination on Oswald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lmyrsBTBh4 Dan Rather reported for CBS for 44 years. “Dan Rather on Lee Harvey Oswald’s death and how it was almost televised”

39) Gerald Posner on Nov. 21, 2013, PowerPoint presentation, blaming Lee Harvey Oswald for JFK’s murder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTsPpjKhch4 “Gerald Posner, Author “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK”

40) Fred Litwin – blaming JFK assassination on Oswald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46xhAP8bvc “Debunking JFK Conspiracy Theories”

41) Philip Shenon, Oct. 28, 2013 – blaming JFK assassination on Oswald and implying someone (probably pro Castro Cubans) told Oswald to kill JFK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWpt7T8Y350 “JFK assassination preventable, author says”

42) Philip Shenon, Feb. 6, 2015, blaming JFK for Oswald’s murder at Sarah Lawrence College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEu8SVUhqaY “A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination”

43) James Swanson, lone nutter on the JFK assassination: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=james+swanson+on+jfk+assassination

44) James Swanson, National Book Festival, slandering Lee Harvey Oswald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaT5xowIo7s