Monday, November 7, 2022

2022 Podcast Interview with PAUL GREGORY who at the age of 21 in 1962 knew both Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald

 

Podcast interview (10-27-2022) with Paul Gregory (born 2/10/1941) with LBJ Foundation president Mark Updegrove (a paid PR henchman for the LBJ legacy crowd who professes that a lone nut Oswald killed JFK) and the head of the LBJ Library and University of Texas professor Mark Atwood Lawrence doing the interview.

 

Web link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ595whXpdE

 

Comment by Robert Morrow: Paul Gregory (born 2-10-1941) certainly knew Lee Harvey Oswald in 1962 and in the past Gregory has provided useful information about Oswald, but Paul Gregory knows absolutely nothing about the JFK assassination. It seems that Gregory’s limited research into the JFK assassination is reading the machine gun riddled and utterly ludicrous Warren Report and utterly ignoring the other 2,000 plus books that have been written on that topic. Lee Harvey Oswald, unlike Lyndon Johnson, was a huge fan of John Kennedy and his family, and Gregory has given us useful information about that.

 

Lee Harvey Oswald kept a copy of JFK as “Man of the Year” prominently displayed in his home from June to November, 1962. It was the Jan. 5, 1962 issue of TIME

The TIME magazine cover that Oswald displayed was this one: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19620105,00.html

Paul Gregory knew Lee and Marina Oswald from June-November, 1962

“Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend” by Paul Gregory for NYT, Nov. 7, 2013

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The next Tuesday, at around 6 p.m., Marina invited me in for my first lesson. The Oswald living room was extraordinarily bare; there was a shabby sofa and chair and a worn coffee table where a copy of Time magazine featuring John F. Kennedy as its Man of the Year was prominently displayed. (The issue, which would curiously remain in the same place during all my visits, was dated Jan. 5, five months before the Oswalds’ arrival in the U.S.) We sat there uncomfortably for some 20 to 30 minutes until Lee burst in the door, dressed in his customary simple slacks, a plaid shirt with open collar and sleeves rolled up to the elbows, carrying a stack of weighty books from the Fort Worth public library. The conversation segued to the Time cover; Marina ventured that the president appeared to be a nice man and that the first lady, at least from the pictures she had seen, appeared quite glamorous. She also said that she seemed to be a good mother. Lee, in his curt way, agreed.

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Paul Gregory:                   

https://www.hoover.org/news/lee-harvey-oswald-documents-donated-hoover-library-and-archives

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Hoover research fellow Paul Gregory has donated the pocket-sized English-Russian dictionary that Lee Harvey Oswald used in Russia to the Hoover Institution Archives. He has also donated a postcard to him dated November 8, 1962, from Lee and Marina Oswald of Elsbeth Street in Dallas. How Gregory came into possession of those two items is explained in his article “Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend,” which appeared in the New York Times Magazine on November 10, marking the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Gregory also appeared on CNN to discuss his article and his relationship with the Oswalds on November 14.

Paul Roderick Gregory – 2013 article on Lee Harvey Oswald

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2013/11/21/201-pm-november-22-1963-thats-my-friend-lee-harvey-oswald/?sh=16537839386c

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At 2:01, an excited reporter, located at Dallas Police headquarters, shouted out on camera: “They are bringing in a suspect!”  The TV showed a short man, disheveled in a white, V-neck tee shirt and dark trousers. He was surrounded by police officers. His face was bruised, and one eye was black.

I stared in utter and stunned disbelief. It was clearly Lee Harvey Oswald! I muttered mainly to myself in shock:  “I know that man.” No one around me reacted, which was no surprise: anyone who’d heard me would have thought I was befuddled by the events. My first real thought was that they probably picked Lee up because of his suspicious background, which would have been known to the Dallas authorities; but how could they have worked so fast? And why was his face bruised?

Lee spoke up in a voice familiar to me. He declared himself innocent, a patsy. He said he had no idea why he was in custody. He pleaded for a lawyer.

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Paul Roderick Gregory:

Excerpt from my memoir in progress: A Close Up Memoir: Lee and Marina Oswald.

See also my article in the New York Times Magazine  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/lee-harvey-oswald-was-my-friend.html?_r=0

I am a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford, and energy fellow and Cullen Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. I am also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin. My specialties are Russia and Comparative Economics, and I am adding China to my portfolio. I have written more than 20 books on economics, Russia and comparative economics. I blog at paulgregorysblog.blogspot.com

Paul Gregory bio - Paul R. Gregory is a Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Cullen Professor of Economics, University of Houston. He is also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. He is chair emeritus of the International Advisory Board of the Kyiv School of Economics. He serves as co-editor of the Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and Cold War. He has co-edited archival publications, such as the seven volume History of Stalin's Gulag (2004) and the three-volume Stenograms of Meetings of the Politburo (2008). Gregory is the organizer of the Hoover Sino-Soviet Archives Workshop that takes place in the summer at the Hoover Institution.
His recent publications include Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover 2004) and Terror by Quota (Yale, 2009).

Paul Roderick Gregory is a “Cullen professor” at the Univ. of Houston – Hugh Roy Cullen (1881-1957) was one of the titans of the oil industry in Texas from the 1920’s onward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Roy_Cullen

In 1954, Cullen’s fortune was estimated to be $200-300 million. $250 million in 1954 would be $2,612899,628 in 2022 dollars. Inflation calculator: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ Cullen was the 1950s equivalent of a billionaire.

Paul Gregory (born 2/10/1941) is still alive today (3-21-22, age 81) and he is also on Twitter. https://www.hoover.org/profiles/paul-r-gregory 

 

Paul Gregory Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Roderick_Gregory 

 

This is who Oswald was associating with - a future member of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation! https://victimsofcommunism.org/leader/paul-gregory-phd/ 

 

Not only that but an economics professor at Houston, the Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics - https://uh.edu/uh-energy/research/gregory-paul The Cullen Family made their money in OIL - finding a billion barrels of OIL and Hugh Cullen was worth $200 million when he died, which is like maybe $2 billion today https://www.forbes.com/profile/cullen/?sh=301abaa26dac 

 

Paul Gregory today has a blog - http://paulgregorysblog.blogspot.com/ 

 

And he is on Twitter - https://twitter.com/PaulR_Gregory 

 

Paul Gregory bio - https://victimsofcommunism.org/leader/paul-gregory-phd/

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Dr. Paul R. Gregory is a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a Research Professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, and is emeritus chair of the International Advisory Board of the Kiev School of Economics. Gregory has held visiting teaching appointments at Moscow State University, Viadrina University, and the Free University of Berlin. Having earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthor of twelve books and more than one hundred articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography. Gregory also served on the editorial board of The History of the Stalin Gulag, a seven-volume documentary series published jointly by the Hoover Institution and the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation. He also serves or has served on the editorial boards of Comparative Economic Studies, Slavic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Problems of Post-Communism, and Explorations in Economic History. Gregory is working with director Marianna Yarovskaya to produce the documentary film Women of the Gulag.

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“Lee Harvey Oswald Was My Friend” by Paul Gregory

 https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/lee-harvey-oswald-was-my-friend.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

My friend Lee Harvey Oswald by Paul Gregory - appeared in NYT

https://theweek.com/articles/455896/friend-lee-harvey-oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald at age 22 could speak Russian surprisingly well

Just read Paul Gregory's article for the NYT that was published on November 7, 2013, "Lee Harvey Oswald Was my friend." https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/magazine/lee-harvey-oswald-was-my-friend.html 

 

Paul Gregory's dad literally wrote a letter for Oswald stating that Oswald was qualified to work as a Russian translator. You can find the relevant passage buried deep in the NYT article. Just search for "My father asked Oswald to translate."

 

William Bredin on whether Oswald beat his wife; her black eye was likely due to a fall that Paul Gregory witnessed

 

J. D. Tippit: Searching For The Truth | Facebook

 

William Bredin (in 2021 or 2022 on Facebook):

 

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The source of the beating story is subject to dispute.

A witness, Paul Gregory, to the bruise in question had another story; "Oswald probably did not hit his wife. Her bruise was likely due to the fall she experienced in the latter part of August, 1962, as witnessed by a friend of the Oswald couple, Paul Gregory. Marina probably blamed her husband to get sympathy and favors from her White Russian friends."

Once again, you were not there. Your professional psychologist was not there. Lee's mother's testimony was based on Marina's story. Lee told his mother the source of Marina's black eye was none of her business.

If you truly believe marital discord provides evidence that someone murdered the President and a police officer within one hour of each other, God help innocent people getting stuck with someone like you on a jury.

 

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Priscilla McMillan: Lee Harvey Oswald liked JFK!

 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-lee-harvey-oswald/

 

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According to an account published in The New York Times by Paul Gregory, a friend of Oswald’s, Lee and Marina kept a copy of Time magazine featuring John F. Kennedy as its Man of the Year prominently displayed in their home.

“Lee liked Kennedy,” according to Priscilla McMillan, a friend of Oswald’s wife and the author of Marina & Lee. “He liked him in civil rights. He disliked him for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. … But insofar as he spoke about Kennedy, it was to praise him.”

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[“8 Things You May Not Know About Lee Harvey Oswald,” Jason Bredlow, Frontline, Nov. 19, 2013]

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