James Botelho, Lee Harvey Oswald’s 1959 Marine roommate in Santa Ana, says
that Oswald was not a communist or a Marxist
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By the 1970s, Senator
Richard Schweiker came to realize during the Church Committee deliberations
that “everywhere you look, with him [Oswald] there are the fingerprints of
intelligence.” [49] Oswald’s exceptional fluency in Russian offers clues
to understanding the purpose of his “defection” to the Soviet Union. But
long before Schweiker’s realization of the fingerprints of intelligence, Oswald’s
Marine roommate in Santa Ana, James Botelho, knew that his buddy was not a
genuine Marxist. In an interview given to Mark Lane, Botelho observed
that “Oswald was not a Communist or a Marxist. If he was I would have
taken violent action against him and so would many of the other Marines in the
unit.” [50] After Oswald’s defection was made public, Botelho told how an
investigation at the Santa Ana Marine base was conducted purely for show:
“It was the most casual of investigations. It
was a cover-investigation so that it could be said there had been an
investigation….Oswald, it was said, was the only Marine ever to defect from his
country to another country, a Communist country, during peacetime. That
was a major event. When the Marine Corps and American intelligence
decided not to probe the reasons for the ‘defection,’ I knew then what I know
now: Oswald was on an assignment in Russia for American intelligence.”
UNQUOTE
https://harveyandlee.net/Russian.html
This link has more info quoting his roommate but not the actual
quote of, 'violent action against him'.
ANDREW KREIG:
QUOTE
Recent disclosures exposing the cover-up that protected President
John F. Kennedy’s killers can help the public understand today’s oft-mysterious
terrorism-related news.
New books, declassified documents, and whistleblowers like Lee
Harvey Oswald’s former Marine Corps bunkmate Jim Botelho bolster the already solid
case that the Warren Commission deceived the public about Kennedy’s 1963
assassination and Oswald, the alleged assassin. Botelho, who became a
California judge following his Marine service, is shown last month delivering
his first
speech ever about Oswald, whom he described as “the best
roommate I ever had” and a nice guy who never could have killed the president,
as alleged.
The shocking tragedy of Kennedy’s death will remain important so
long as the false accusations against Oswald obscure the real killers and their
motives.
From study of how official circles implemented and still maintain
the Kennedy murder cover-up, we can better understand potentially similar
misreported and under-reported situations today. That understanding requires,
in turn, appreciation for how government commissions, news organizations,
museums, and academic institutions actually work when handling super-sensitive
national security matters.
As one example, the late
Time-Life Publisher Charles “CD” Jackson reigned in 1963 as the nation’s
leading expert on psychological warfare, as a new book underscores, thus was
not simply the publisher of the nation’s two most important magazines covering
the JFK murder.
After Kennedy's
assassination, Jackson, fresh from a stint as national security advisor to President
Dwight Eisenhower, used his Time-Life clout to acquire exclusive rights to the
Abraham Zapruder film of the killing and to the memoirs of Oswald’s widow,
Marina. This control allowed Jackson's Time-Life staffers and successors to
suppress publication of both the film and memoirs, except for cherry-picked
excerpts that could advance the Warren Commission’s false narrative.
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Very important blog post on James Botelho. John Armstrong has the
notes of someone who was interviewed James Botelho who said Oswald tried to recruit
him to train rebels in the hills who were fighting AGAINST Fidel Castro
http://oswaldinthedoorway.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-punk-punctifies-strange-that-in-all.html
Here is what James Botelho told that interviewer:
QUOTE
He’d wear t-shirts, but would stretch out and break the collars to
make them more comfortable. Because of this, Botelho immediately recognized Lee
in the Altgens photo.
Other marines thought he had influence, because he always got away
with these infractions, while others wouldn’t. He even saluted left-handed.
He didn’t like guns, and
refused to shoot. When he was given a top clearance clerk job LHO told Botelho
that he had access to, and invented his shooting records – HE NEVER ACTUALLY
QUALIFIED!
Oswald definitely was not “queer.”
LHO had a dry sense of humor
Liked chess
Loved symphonic music, esp. Tchaikovsky – “1812 Overture” Botelho
talks of a Sgt. From Washington who used to play “twangy, honkey tonk music.”
So Botelho and Oswald bought a hi-fit and drowned him out with symphonic music
At one point, LHO tells
Botelho that he is going to Cuba to help train rebels in the hills who are
fighting Castro (MONTEREY PARK?) He tried to get Botelho to go with him. He thought
they could earn good money training troops.
David Bucknell told Botelho that Oswald’s Atsugi pay stubs (in
Warren Commission) are important. The source of the check numbers trace back to
various agencies linked to intelligence. (Botehlo has no idea where Bucknell
is).
MISC
Nelson Delgado lied to Warren Commission. Os didn’t like him – he never
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Timeline of Fidel Castro Actions in Cuba:
On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator
Fulgencio Batista https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/batista-forced-out-by-castro-led-revolution
Dec. 2, 1961 Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leniist in a
TV address: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/castro-declares-himself-a-marxist-leninist
August, 1960 Fidel Castro nationalizes all U.S.-owned businesses -
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fidel-castro
Places where you can find James Botelho’s June 3, 1964 Warren
Commission testimony.
Of course Botelho’s testimony has been changed to slander Oswald
with the charge of wanting to train soldiers for Fidel Castro when in reality
Oswald told Botelho that he wanted to train OPPONENTS OF FIDEL CASTRO in the mountains.
This is an extremely key point.
1) https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/botelho.htm
2) http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/botelho.htm
3) https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh8/pdf/WH8_Botelho_aff.pdf
2) https://www.the-daily-record.com/news/20171208/kiel-on-kennedys-assassination-and-talking-to-eyewitnesses
- Excellent article
Lee Harvey Oswald may have been used
as a patsy, according to the testimony of Jim Botelho, a retired judge who
passed away last year and was alleged assassin Oswald’s roommate in the
Marines.? Kiel quoted Botelho as saying, contrary to the Warren Report, Oswald “wasn’t acting like a Communist
in the Marines. We would have beat him up. He was a good roommate.”
James Botelho:
belief of James Botelho, his former roommate in Santa Ana. Botelho, who
later became a California judge, stated in an interview with Mark Lane
that Oswald's Communism was a pose. Botelho said: "I'm very conservative
now [in 1978] and I was at least as conservative at that time. Oswald was
not a Communist or a Marxist. If he was I would have taken violent action
against him and so would many of the other Marines in the unit. "
(James Botelho, interview by Mark
Lane, cited by Jim Marrs, Crossfire: The
Plot That Killed Kennedy (New York: Carroll & Graff, 1 99 0 ) , p. 1 1 0 .
When I spoke with James Botelho by phone in June 2007 and read to him his
earlier statements on Oswald now cited in this text, he confirmed their
accuracy. He added,
"I still feel that way [that Oswald was on an
assignment in Russia for American intelligence) . " Botelho said he liked
Oswald: " He was the best roommate I ever had. He pretty much let me
alone. He was quiet. We both liked classical music . " So far as Oswald's
being violent, Botelho said, " He didn't like violence. The thought of it
repulsed him. He wasn't afraid of it. He just thought of it as being
primitive. He wouldn't do to others what he didn't like done to him. "
Author's interview of James Anthony Botelho, June 1 6 , 2007.)
Judge Botelho said Oswald's "
defection " was nothing but a U.S.
intelligence ploy: "I knew Oswald was not a Communist and was, in fact,
anti Soviet. Then, when no real investigation occurred at the base [after
Oswald's presence in the Soviet Union was made public] , 1 was sure that
Oswald was on an intelligence assignment in Russia . . . Two civilians
dropped in [at Santa Ana] , asked a few questions, took no written
statements, and recorded no interviews with witnesses. It was the most
casual of investigations. It was a cover-investigation so that it could be
said there had been an investigation . . . Oswald, it was said, was the
only Marine ever to defect from his country to another country, a
Communist country, during peacetime. That was a major event. When the
Marine Corps and American intelligence decided not to probe the reasons
for the 'defection,' I knew then what I know now: Oswald was on an
assignment in Russia for American intelligence."
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/botelho-jim-76215/
Jim
Botelho was a former Marine roommate of Lee Harvey Oswald and
shared a room with him for approximately two months prior to his discharge; he
later become a California judge. Botelho served in the United States Marine
Corps from January 8, 1957, to January 8, 1960, and served with Lee Harvey
Oswald from about March to September 1959, while both were attached to Marine
Air Control Squadron No. 9, Marine Corps Air Facility, Santa Ann, California.
Judge Jim Botelho – Civil
Wedding Ceremonies - https://www.merchantcircle.com/civil-wedding-ceremonies-judge-jim-botelho-madera-ca
Judge Jim Botelho was located at 3728 Via Capitola, Madera, CA. His business specialized
in wedding venues.
Judge Jim Botelho –
1990 – officiating wedding garden ceremony
Web link: http://livingsignificantly.ca/2014/05/26/james-douglass-jfk-unspeakable/
According to Judge James Botelho of California, formerly
Oswald’s Marine room mate, “Oswald’s defection was nothing but a U.S.
intelligence ploy.”
James Norwood on what James Botelho knew about Lee Harvey Oswald
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This is what is known as creating a legend. The role
that Oswald was playing was in laying a trail of evidence that would make the
"defection" seem plausible to the Soviets.
One individual who recognized the legend
immediately was Oswald's fellow Marine in Santa Ana, James Botelho, who knew
that his buddy was not a genuine Marxist. In an interview given to Mark Lane, Botelho observed that
“Oswald was not a Communist or a Marxist.
If he was I would have taken violent action against him and so would many of
the other Marines in the unit.”
After Oswald’s defection was made public,
Botelho told how an investigation at the Santa Ana Marine base was conducted
purely for show:
“It
was the most casual of investigations. It was a cover-investigation so
that it could be said there had been an investigation….Oswald, it was said, was
the only Marine ever to defect from his country to another country, a Communist
country, during peacetime. That was a major event. When the Marine
Corps and American intelligence decided not to probe the reasons for the
‘defection,’ I knew then what I know now: Oswald was on an assignment in
Russia for American intelligence.”
UNQUOTE
This may be the Russian newspaper, printed in San Francisco,
that Oswald subscribed to:
“Oswald subscribed to a
newspaper printed in Russian, which I believe he said was published in San
Francisco.”
–James Anthony Botelho,
from his Marine affidavit of June 3, 1964.
Jeremy Bojczuk (8-15-2020) on Oswald studying Russian in the Marines:
Whatever level they thought his Russian had reached, Oswald's
Marine buddies knew that he was teaching himself the language, as we can see
from a quick glance at volume 8 of the Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits (https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=36) :
James Anthony Botelho
(p.315): "It was common knowledge that Oswald had taught himself to speak
Russian." [Jim Garrison got a general to admit in the trial of Clay Shaw
that the MARINES HAD TESTED OSWALD ON HIS RUSSIAN. WHICH MEANS THE
MARINES WERE TEACHING OSWALD RUSSIAN]. Because the CIA was about to fake defect
him to Russia as a spy.
David Christie Murray (p.319): "When I knew him, he was
studying Russian."
Henry J. Roussel (pp.320-1): "I remember that Oswald could
speak a little Russian ... I knew of Oswald's study of the Russian language ...
I am under the impression that prior to studying Russian ..."
Mack Osborne (pp.321-2): "Oswald was at that time studying
Russian. He spent a great deal of his free time reading papers printed in
Russian ... with the aid of a Russian-English dictionary. ... Because of the
fact that he was studying Russian, fellow Marines sometimes jokingly accused
him of being a Russian spy."
FINAL QUESTION: CAN ANYONE FIND THE OBITUARY OR “FIND-A-GRAVE” FOR “JAMES
ANTHONY BOTELHO” WHO WAS OSWALD’S MARINE ROOMMATE IN 1959 AT SANTA ANA?
If so please email me at Morrow321@aol.com
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