Robert
Morrow (2022) deconstructs Mel Ayton’s 2004 article on “Lee Harvey Oswald’s
Motives” and tells you who really murdered JFK: Lyndon Johnson
Mel Ayton in 2004 on “Lee
Harvey Oswald’s Motives:”
Web link: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/23430
After nearly 40 years
the question remains: Why?
What kind of rage, pain or pathology could have provoked Lee Harvey Oswald to
such a dark deed?
[Here is your #1 reason for the JFK assassination: LBJ
top aide Horace Busby: Lyndon Johnson was acutely aware by Nov. 4, 1963 that the
Kennedys had sent a SWAT team of over **FORTY** national reporters to Texas to utterly
destroy him https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/lyndon-johnson-was-acutely-aware-by-nov.html]
The explanation of
Oswald's motive for killing President Kennedy was buried with him.
[JFK’s head kill shot
came from the front. Oswald was not on the Grassy Knoll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi_8rwlXrJI
]
As JFK assassination
expert Dr. Martin Kelly has stated, “Oswald’s mental state does not have crisp,
sharp-edged concepts, so it is problematic for (anyone) to write a causally
structured account easily”. But I believe the mystery about Oswald’s motives
can be partly explained by penetrating Oswald's personal life, his ideological
beliefs and his increasingly disturbed behaviour in the months leading up to
the assassination.
[ 1) Essay
on the murderous psychopathy of Lyndon Johnson http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-murderous-psychopathy-of-lyndon.html
2) The Scary Mental Instabilities of Lyndon Johnson http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-scary-mental-instabilities-of.html]
Most crime does not happen in a vacuum. They do not happen by mere
chance - something causes them.
[The Kennedys were out to utterly destroy Lyndon Johnson in the fall of
1963 and an enraged and terrified Lyndon Johnson knew it. Burkett
van Kirk (Senate Rules Committee counsel) and James Wagenvoord (Life Magazine
assistant editor) prove the Kennedys were out to destroy LBJ in November of
1963 http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/senate-counsel-burkett-van-kirk-and.html ]
Sometimes the reasons are social,
sometimes psychological, most often both. The real answer as to why President
Kennedy was killed centers around how Lee Harvey Oswald grew up as a misfit,
having no real control or moral guidance with which to exist in, and poorly
equipped to meet, the demands of society.
[Compare
the dysfunction of Lee Harvey Oswald to Lyndon Johnson who both Bill Moyers and
Richard Goodwin were convinced was mentally ill and who National Security Advisor
privately compared to McGeorge Bundy.]
Answers also lie in the way Oswald embraced a
radical ideology in order to compensate for his lack of education and to
enhance his self-image.
[
Oswald was a huge fan of FBI informer Herbert Philbrick, who busted up
communist rings and Oswald liked JFK and was a huge fan of James Bond and was
reading anti-communist material in summer 1963 in New Orleans - https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/lee-harvey-oswalds-summer-1963-reading.html
]
Oswald's State of Mind
I believe there are telling references which are relevant to an
understanding of Oswald's frame of mind in an article published in The
American Journal of Psychiatry (July 1960).
[Ever
read Power Beyond Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson by D.
Jablow Hershman (2002)? https://www.amazon.com/Power-Beyond-Reason-Collapse-Johnson/dp/1569802432/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3VEGQEPHEYLO&keywords=mental+collapse+of+lyndon+johnson&qid=1657813394&sprefix=mental+collapse+of+lyndon+johnson%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-1
]
The article was used as a reference
point by Truman Capote in his book In Cold Blood as a way of
understanding the psychological make-up of the mind of a murderer. Written by
Dr. Joseph Satten, in collaboration with three colleagues, Karl Menninger,
Irwin Rosen, and Martin Mayman, the article is chilling in it's delineation of
a criminally intentioned mind:
[Lyndon
Johnson murdered Sam Smithwick in prison in 1962; LBJ murdered Henry Marshall
in 1961, LBJ murdered JFK in 1963 and LBJ was behind the USS Liberty murders of
June 8, 1967]
The authors had examined four men
convicted of seemingly unmotivated murders. All had been found sane. The
doctors’ description of how the murderers behaved provides a template for Lee
Harvey Oswald’s personality (quotations from Satten, et al. in italics):
“The most uniform
and perhaps the most significant, historical finding was a long standing,
sometimes lifelong, history of erratic control over aggressive
impulses....during moments of actual violence, they often felt separated or
isolated from themselves, as if they were watching someone else.......”:
[“history of erratic control over aggressive impulses? LBJ once blew up a stray dog with a stick of dynamite in the public square of Johnson City when he was a teenager.
Teenager
Lyndon Johnson: blowing up a stray dog with dynamite for kicks
Later, as a young adult, Johnson committed
a series of dangerous pranks, including setting off explosives in the town
square. In a destructive spree that centered on blasting dynamite in the town square,
Johnson trapped a mongrel dog with the target, again killing a helpless animal.”
[Barr
McClellan, Blood, Money & Power: How
LBJ killed JFK, p. 345]
Barr McClellan to Robert Morrow on Feb. 24, 2020:
Emmette Redford was a longtime and dear
friend of LBJ. Redford was also good friends with Paige Keeton and Redford told
Barr McClellan many stories about LBJ. Barr thinks Redford may have been in
college with LBJ. Redford was a Professor of Government at the Univ. of Texas.
]
RUTH PAINE, FRIEND OF MARINA OSWALD: “(At the
Dallas Jail)… he seemed utterly apart from the situation he was in.” “.....In all these cases, there was evidence of
severe emotional deprivation in early life .......”
[ Ruth Paine
in Dec. 2019: said she never heard Lee Harvey Oswald say anything negative about
JFK
Internet Wayback
Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20191205094120/https://www.hsvvoice.com/news/20191204/ruth-paine-remembers-jfk-assassination
https://www.hsvvoice.com/news/20191204/ruth-paine-remembers-jfk-assassination
[“Ruth Paine Remembers
the JFK Assassination, Jeff Meek, Hot Springs Village Voice, 12-4-2019] ]
ROBERT OSWALD : “The idea even crossed (my)
mind that (my) mother might want to put (me) and John up for adoption; anything
to be rid of the burden.” “.......This
deprivation may have involved prolonged or recurrent absence of one or both
parents, a chaotic family life in which the parents were unknown, or an
outright rejection of the child by one or both parents with the child being
raised by others....”
ROBERT OSWALD: “ We learned very early that we
were a burden...she wanted to be free of responsibility.” “.....Most typically the men displayed a
tendency not to experience anger or rage in association with violent
aggressive action. None reported feelings of rage in connection with the
murders, nor did they experience anger in any strong or pronounced way,
although each of them was capable of enormous and brutal aggression .........”
LEE OSWALD FOLLOWING HIS ATTEMPTED MURDER OF GENERAL WALKER :
“Americans are so spoiled...They chased a car. And here I am sitting here.....What
fools...”
[Those words are from Marina, in the
hands of the U.S. government (meaning the LBJ Administration0 who was forced to
tell many lies about Oswald after the JFK assassination. As Marina told Jesse
Ventura in 2010, “Would you sacrifice your children for the truth?”
: http://22november1963.org.uk/did-lee-oswald-shoot-general-edwin-walker
The authorities tried to posthumously
frame Oswald for the failed shooting of Edwin Walker by planting a bullet into
evidence months later.]
DETECTIVE JAMES LEAVELLE: “He (Oswald) was a cool
character.”
[Oswald
was cool because he knew he had shot no one on 11-22-63 although he was concerned
and said “I am just a patsy!”]
ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVIST CARLOS BRINGUIER : “He
(Oswald) was really cold-blooded...he was not nervous...”
In 2002, conservative ED
BUTLER recalled his on-air debate with Oswald: “He wore a
very heavy wool suit in August, a very hot August day in New Orleans. He was
parboiling, but he didn't have a bead of sweat on him, and he was very
self-contained. I was shocked when I heard he had killed Kennedy. I would not
have been shocked if he had tried to kill me. I was concerned about the guy
from the minute I met him.” “....Their
relationships with others were of a shallow, cold nature, lending a
quality of loneliness and isolation to these men ...”
BOYHOOD FRIEND WILLIAM WULF : “We were 16...he seemed
to me a boy that was looking for something to belong to. I don't think anybody
was looking for him to belong to them.”
"....People were scarcely real to them, in the sense of being
warmly or positively...or even angrily...felt about...."
[Teenage
Oswald to William Wulff, the head of the New Orleans Astronomy Club: “I like to
infiltrate.”
http://www.joanmellen.com/oswald.html
Joan Mellen
QUOTE
Among the most telling details about
Oswald emerged in the testimony of William Wulff, who had been head of the
Astronomy Club of New Orleans. One day Oswald showed up, wanting to be a member,
although it was clear he had no interest in astronomy. Wulff asked him why he
wanted to join the Astronomy Club.
“I like to infiltrate,” Oswald the teenager said, even then a person
who preferred the company of others to being alone. At the same time, he
cultivated invisibility, as if he were transparent. Infiltrating, he could
follow the path laid out by that favorite of his fictional characters, FBI
informant Herbert Philbrick, hero of “I Led Three Lives.” A caveat: it was
Oswald’s brother Robert alone who gave out that Lee watched obsessively “I Led
Three Lives,” while, as John Armstrong points in his book, “Harvey & Lee,”
Robert is less than credible.
In his book “Lee,” Robert Oswald wrote that when he left home to join the
Marines, Lee was still watching the reruns of “I Led Three Lives.” In fact,
Robert joined the Marines on July 15, 1952, and the re-runs were not aired
until after the series ended, in mid-1956. Oswald may have watched “I Led Three
Lives,” but it wasn’t as his brother said. The program was first aired in September
1953.
UNQUOTE
Robert Morrow: I believe there was a
radio program of I Led Three Lives that ran before the TV program did.
I Led Three Lives was a
radio program before it was a TV program]
OSWALD’S FRIEND MICHAEL PAINE :
“People were like cardboard (to Lee)...” “...The
three men under sentence of death had shallow emotions regarding their own fate
and that of their victims.....”
[FUN FACT: Lee Harvey Oswald considered
JFK to be "the best president of his lifetime." Source: Michael Paine: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8118362-181/michael-paine-debated-politics-with
]
LEE OSWALD FOLLOWING THE MURDER OF OFFICER TIPPIT : “Poor
dumb cop.” “Guilt, depression,
and remorse were strikingly absent...”
[The
murder of Officer J.D. Tippit was yet another frame up job foisted on Oswald
after the JFK assassination. Oswald physically could not have been at the
Tippit scene because Tippit’s murder occurred at 1:06 to 1:07 PM and Oswald was
outside his boarding house at 1:03PM and that was nine-tenths of a mile away.
Helen Markham left the laundry room at her building
at 1:04 p.m. and the FBI determined that it would take 2-3 minutes to walk to
Tenth and Patton where she witnessed Officer J.D. Tippit being murdered
QUOTE
Markham
was consistent in the time estimates that she gave. In an interview with the
FBI on March 17, 1964 (prior to her Warren Commission testimony), Markham
stated that she left the house at 1:00 p.m. and went to the payphone of the
laundry place located in her building. She tried to call her daughter, but the
line was busy. Markham said that she left the “washateria” at 1:04 p.m., which
she noted from the clock on the wall. She then started to walk toward Jefferson
Boulevard in order to catch the 1:15 p.m. bus. The FBI walked the distance from
Markham’s apartment to the corner of Tenth and Patton Streets. They determined
it took two and a half minutes. Note in her Warren Commission testimony,
Markham stated that the time she reached Tenth and Patton was not more than
1:06 or 1:07 p.m..
UNQUOTE
[James Kelleher, He Was Expendable, pp. 98-99]
MARINA OSWALD : “Lee
had no moral sense at all...only egotism, anger at others on account of his
failures.” “...The murderous
potential can become activated, especially if some disequilibrium is
already present, when the victim-to-be is unconsciously perceived as a key
figure in some past traumatic configuration. The behaviour, or even the mere
presence of this figure adds a stress to the unstable balance of forces that
results in a sudden extreme discharge of violence...”
[Marina Oswald has said
over and over and over again both back in 1963-1964 and now that Lee Harvey
Oswald was a huge fan of John Kennedy and for decades she has said she believes
he is totally innocent of the JFK assassination.]
Lee Oswald learned of a past boyfriend
of Marina's - he bore a startling resemblance to JFK. Psychologically, Oswald
had always been a loner and an outsider. He had always been attracted to things
that would provide enhanced self-esteem, becoming a Marine, learning Russian,
defecting to Russia, inventing a fictitious chapter of a radical political
organisation.
But it was the attacks on his psyche in childhood - his father
dying, his experiencing only sporadic and detached associations with his
mother's boyfriends, his relationship with an angry, unstable and domineering
mother - that helped turn Lee's psyche in adulthood into an embittered, angry
misfit.
[Lyndon
Johnson’s father was an abusive alcoholic who used to beat LBJ and tell him
that he was a loser who was not suited for college and who would never succeed.
Read Robert Caro’s first two books on LBJ to find out how royally this screwed
up Lyndon Johnson.
Here is Robert Caro again on LBJ:
"And by 1941, also the major patterns of his entire
life are established and clear. In attaining this influence, he has displayed a
genius for discerning a path to power, an utter ruthlessness in destroying obstacles
in that path, and a seemingly bottomless capacity for deceit, deception and betrayal
in moving along it" .... [And that, my friends, is the KIND
and GENTLE side of Lyndon Johnson ... yeah LBJ murdered John Kennedy with help from
the CIA. – Robert Morrow] That Caro quote is on p. 803, Noel Twyman, Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F.
Kennedy
The Caro quote is originally from Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to
Power, p. xx. ]
Psychologists believe that a child who lives
an isolated life, as Oswald did, and who is brought up by a mother who refused
to subordinate herself to her children's welfare, often sees the world as an
adversary.
A fatherless upbringing and lack of a meaningful male role-model
had a crucial effect on the young Oswald moulding and forming a personality
which hid some of his darkest impulses. The young Oswald, whose real father
died when he was a baby, had only shallow relationships with his mother's many
boyfriends whose personalities were often weaker than the domineering and
unstable Marguerite’s. He was unable to connect with a father, to learn his
emotionality and the unique way of how to compete and to channel aggression
effectively. Oswald was denied a nurturing system which was male-driven, in
which discipline, morality teaching and emotional sustenance were provided by
males for males.
Without moral grounding and direct parental guidance the child is
unable to recognise moral prerequisites for living in an adult world.
[Lack
of moral grounding? May we talk about Lyndon Johnson for a little bit? Pathological
liar, serial murderer, constantly using the Lord’s name in vain, a man drenched
in kickbacks and stealing from the government – a man who would screw his
girlfriends under the same roof with Lady Bird Johnson – a man who would often
defecate in front of other people and use that as a domination game
Essay on the
murderous psychopathy of Lyndon Johnson http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-murderous-psychopathy-of-lyndon.html]
Without the attention only a mother
can give, the child is denied the necessary socialization. The angry and
embittered Marguerite Oswald was unable to provide that background. This was
recognised by Lee's brother Robert when he said that mother and son’s world
view were alike in many ways. They both saw themselves as victims, isolated and
surrounded by people and government agencies who failed to understand their
special place in the scheme of things. As Norman Mailer wrote, “.......it seems
certain at the least that every malformation, or just about, of Lee Harvey
Oswald's character had it's roots in her.”
Oswald's Violent Tendencies
Within the literature of the JFK assassination there are telling
pieces of evidence which point to Oswald's willingness to commit violent acts to
further his own ends.
In the mid-1950's Oswald had spoken about shooting an American
President. Palmer McBride testified to the Warren Commission that, in 1956, he
befriended Oswald and they often discussed politics. McBride said that one
central theme in their discussions was the “exploitation of the working class”
and on one occasion, after they began discussing President Eisenhower, Oswald
made a statement to the effect that he would like to kill the president because
he was exploiting the working class. McBride said that the statement was not
made in jest.
There is also clear evidence that Oswald, like O.J. Simpson, had a
history of wife battering.
[Oswald
may have rarely been domestically violent, but Lyndon Johnson was serially
murdering people who were a threat to expose his criminality – Sam Smithwick in
1952 and U.S. Agricultural official Henry Marshall who was investigating LBJ’s
ties to Billie Sol Estes. Estes later said that he had given LBJ $10 million in
cash kickbacks which is about equal to $90 million in 2022 dollars.]
Oswald's treatment of his wife is
documented in the numerous statements made by the Russian emigre community in
Dallas and by his wife Marina.
[Have
you ever read Robert Caro on the atrocious way Lyndon Johnson treated Lady Bird?
A very long and sad story. LBJ even asked Doris Kearns to marry him when she
was helping him with his autobiography.]
According to Ruth Paine, Marina was
worried about “Lee's mental state". Marina Oswald testified that her
husband was given to fits of unreasonable rage.
Domestic violence did not have the high profile in the 1960's as
it does today. In the 1995 criminal trial and the 1997 civil trial, evidence of
O.J. Simpson's wife-battering was indeed relevant in supporting the
prosecution's case for Simpson's guilt. Similarly, Oswald's treatment of his
wife is pertinent to an understanding of his propensity for violence. At one
stage Oswald tried to strangle his wife. There were incidents when Oswald hit
Marina and she ended up with bruises on her body. At one time during the final
year of their lives together some members of the emigre community rescued
Marina but she returned to her husband after a two week separation.
Mahlon Tobias recalled a time when a neighbour of the Oswalds
complained to him about the couple's violent arguments. The neighbour reported,
“I think he's really hurt her this time....I think that man over there is going
to kill that girl.” Michael Paine was shocked that Lee treated his wife like a
vassel and he believed Marina was a person who acted as though she were in
“bondage and servitude”.
These kinds of abusive behaviours are all about control of the
victim.
[Have you read any about how Lyndon Johnson liked to control
and sadistically dominate people? —“I want
someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window and say it smells like roses” is
something LBJ often said. https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2012/02/cruel-to-be-kind-lbj-behind-the-scenes/#comments
Mat
Wilson on Lyndon Johnson and his first “Hitlerite” Operation - https://web.archive.org/web/20130326115200/http:/surftofind.com/johnson
"It was my first real big dictat -Hitlerized
operation, and I broke their back good. And it stayed broke for a good long time."10 Had a tape recorder not been running to inadvertently record the
fact that San Marcos politicking was merely the first of a series of "big
dictats", one would be more inclined to underestimate the profound ruthlessness
that Johnson and his thirst to exercise power was capable of. But in the light
of his propensity to operate on the level of what he called a "big
dictat" or a "Hitlerized operation," it is simply ignorant to
dispute the horrific, unavoidable consequences of the Johnsonian method of operation.
In his own words, Johnson's first "big dictat" was a "pretty
vicious operation for a while. They lost everything I could have them lose."11
The recording obviously
reflected a rare slip of Johnson's disciplined tongue, but the message is very
loud and clear -Johnson's determination to exercise power was so absolutely
relentless that he never allowed normal democratic restraints to get in the way
of his will. Moreover, the rare, candid portrait of Lyndon Johnson cannot be dismissed
as the mere rumblings of jealous or ignorant political rivals because it is his
own words which describe his capacity to be ruthless, cruel, dictatorial and
brutal. While it is difficult to make sense out of his political career
because Johnson always imposed an obsessive degree of secrecy, the nature of
the manipulations he engaged were so glaringly bold and obvious that they establish
a definite, identifiable pattern, -Johnson always engaged schemes which satisfied
his obsessive need to dominate. ]
A variety of seemingly unconnected events are
part of that strategy to maintain that control - methods like telling her who
she can be friends with, how much she can spend, what kind of clothes she can
wear, belittling her, demeaning her. All of these things accomplish the end
objective - control. The ultimate act of control is violence - the classic
pattern which reflected Oswald’s behaviour.
Oswald's Personal Motives
Lee Harvey Oswald lived most of his adult life hiding behind a
mask of normality. His mask was convincing to many people he came in contact
with except those who knew him well. What lay beneath the surface was Oswald's
fatally crippled personality. He had a defensive and surly character that
no-one could penetrate, not even his wife Marina.
Oswald was a bitter and angry young man. As a youth his mother had
little or no control over him and, indeed, conspired with him in his rebellion.
He was determined to get what he wanted. Prison files are full of case
histories like his. He learned very early in life to hate the world, learned
early that he had to sink or swim on his own resources. He also learned that he
had to develop his life unsustained by a mother who could never give true
maternal warmth.
Lee Oswald's lifelong isolation left him without the resources for
the kind of role-modelling and parental guidance most of us take for granted.
[Oswald’s role models were his older brothers Robert and John
Pic who were in the military and most especially FBI informer Herbert Philbrick
– a man who pretended to be a communist as he broke up communist rings for Hoover’s
FBI. This was at the height of the Red Scare and this is who Oswald wanted to
be.
A
key page from Robert Oswald’s book – https://twitter.com/CONELRAD6401240/status/1259856311585583109/photo/1
QUOTE
The center of Lee’s fantasy world shifted
from radio to television when Mother bought a television set in 1948. When it was
new, all of us spent far too much time watching variety shows, dramas and old
movies. Lee, particularly, was fascinated. One of his favorite programs was I Led Three Lives,
the story of Herbert Philbrick, the FBI informant who posed as a Communist spy.
In the early 1950’s, Lee watched that show every week without fail. When I left
home to join the Marines, he was still watching the reruns.
UNQUOTE
[Robert
Oswald, Lee: Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald by His Brother, p. 47]
I Led Three
Lives starring with Richard Carlson, ran on TV from 1953 to 1956. ]
People who are close to others turn to
them in moments of stress and doubt to interpret the meaning of an event or a
social interaction. As an adult, Lee Oswald was unable to accomplish this with
the only person who was truly close to him - his wife Marina. He was too
domineering and insistent she follow his commands. He could not ask her if his
thoughts and actions were consistent with the world around him, seeking out
meaning, exchanging ideas. To Lee, Marina had to follow and admire.
To those who knew him well Oswald was secretive, aggressive and
arrogant - to a degree almost paranoid. His brother Robert said Lee liked to
create drama and mystery around himself. As a child Lee became fascinated with
television programmes about espionage and subversive activities.
[Lee
Harvey Oswald, a ardent teen fan of Herbert Philbrick, wanted to grow up to be
a man who broke up communist rings and later he became a big fan of James Bond
and read 4 of Ian Fleming’s books in summer, 1963 while in New Orleans.]
Lee Harvey Oswald believed he was an important man and his wife
often ridiculed him for this unfounded belief. To a disturbed man like Oswald,
his wife's scornful attitude likely acted as a catalyst, fueling Oswald’s anger
and resentment. The evening prior to the assassination he tried to make-up to
his wife after a series of bitter disagreements about their lives together. She
rejected his advances. It must have been a terrible blow to his ego.
Oswald not only saw himself as an unappreciated revolutionary but
a person who was superior to his contemporaries.
[ Lyndon Johnson bellowing
in Tarzan style "I am the king!" as he favorably compared himself to
other world leaders
"Four
reporters in the press pool were sharing highballs with President Johnson in
his airborne parlor on another occasion when LBJ began ruminating aloud about
all the changes that had occurred in world leadership. He was in a buoyant mood,
savoring his tremendous election victory over Goldwater in 1964.
"Looking
around the world," Johnson was saying. "Khrushchev's gone. Macmillan's
gone. Adenour's gone. Segni's gone. Nehru's gone. Who's left - de Gaulle?"
There
was a sneering tone in Johnson's voice as he uttered the French president's
name, Cormier said. Then leaning back in his massive "throne chair,"
as the crew dubbed it, LBJ thumped his chest in Tarzan fashion and bellowed,
"I am the king!"
As
reporters left the plane, Reedy took pains to remind them that they had been
the President's social guests and were not there as news gatherers. "Gentlemen,"
Reedy solemnly intoned, "you did not see the President of the United States
tonight.""
[J.F. terHorst & Col. Ralph Albertazzie, The Flying
White House: The Story of Air Force One, p. 215] ]
This is borne out by the many people
who crossed Oswald's path, especially in the years after his return from the
Soviet Union. Even as a child Oswald expressed fantasies about omnipotence and
power to a child psychologist.
[Issues
with omnipotence and power and extreme insecurities – you need to read about
Lyndon Johnson and also about his mental instabilities: Power Beyond Reason:
the Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson - https://www.amazon.com/Power-Beyond-Reason-Collapse-Johnson/dp/1569802432/ref=sr_1_1?crid=26WSCWGVI3XXN&keywords=the+mental+collapse+of+lyndon+johnson&qid=1657810532&sprefix=the+mental+collapse+of+lyndon+johnson%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1
]
Although psychologists have long believed that low self-esteem
causes aggression and other pathologies the concept of unfounded high
self-esteem has not really been considered until recent years. Narcissistic
people have an inflated view of their own importance and don’t believe they
have to play by the same rules as anyone else. It is brought about when
children get too little or too much emotional support. As Dr Martin Kelly has
pointed out, “(Oswald) was both ignored and doted on by his mother.”
Such a narcissistic person has not had enough praise to give him
self-confidence or has had too much so he thinks he is something other than
what he really is. This type of person has a narcissistic mode of functioning.
All their relationships are tied up with images – Do I live up to the image of
myself which I wish to keep up? Or do I need to cheat? Oswald’s inflated
self-esteem indicates weak normal ego
functioning, a weak state generated in due course by his psychologically
impoverished upbringing.
High self-esteem that is unjustified and unstable, as in Oswald's
case, has led in many instances to violence. Like Oswald, many narcissists are
supersensitive to criticism or slights, because deep down they suspect their
feelings of superiority are bogus. Because his grandiosity was challenged
( Marina laughed at his
notion that he would eventually become a statesmanlike leader) he
reacted violently. Oswald’s inflated self-esteem had a powerful effect on his
aggression. When the real world failed to recognise his alleged superior gifts
he exploded. “At least his imagination,” Marina said, “his fantasy, which was
quite unfounded, as to the fact that he was an outstanding man. (I) always
tried to point out to him that he was a man like any others who were around us.
But he simply could not understand that....”.
In many ways Oswald’s actions in killing Kennedy was a rebellious
act - undoubtedly the result of his feelings toward authority and a society
that had relegated him to a menial position in life.
[Why
would CIA patsy Oswald kill JFK? He was a huge fan of John Kennedy and there
are many sources on 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
QUOTE
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.
UNQUOTE
Paul Gregory:
https://www.hoover.org/news/lee-harvey-oswald-documents-donated-hoover-library-and-archives]
His need to protest festered as he
strove to gain recognition. So much of what he did was egocentric,
ego-satisfying. The political and humanitarian ideals he espoused wasn’t done
in order to help others but to draw attention to himself; to satisfy his
narcissistic tendencies. Oswald desperately wanted to become famous and
successful. His brothers and his wife have testified to the many occasions when
they sensed a bitter disappointment in Oswald when he failed to draw attention
to himself.
Oswald's Political Motives
Oswald’s upbringing bears directly on his actions as a young man.
Poor parenting from a single unstable mother and a fatherless upbringing
affected Oswald greatly, warping his sense of right and wrong and creating an
individual who was continually frustrated in his relationships with others. In
response to these frustrations Oswald transferred his emotional attachments to
his inadequate and poorly thought out political philosophy.
[Ever
read about Lyndon Johnson’s dad? An abusive alcoholic and financial failure who
occasionally beat his son and who was always very negative about his prospects.
Read Robert Caro on LBJ. And the way that Lyndon Johnson treated Lady Bird was
disgusting in the extreme.]
Oswald turned to radical politics for the purpose of ego-
building. According to Dr Martin Kelly, “The political philosophy to which he
gravitated became the ongoing material of Oswald’s ego function, serving as a
substitute for normal feelings and judgments, and maintained by persistant
fantasies.”
Marina believed that learning Russian gave Oswald a reputation for
being intelligent, making up for the fact that he had a reading disability
which gave him feelings of inadequacy. He got from his politics something he
couldn't get from individuals. It shows the poverty of Oswald's emotional
relationship with people which is a psychopathic trait.
Oswald's belief in the socialist ideal has been confirmed by
numerous sources who knew him. As an 18 year old Oswald espoused his political
principles to Palmer McBride and William Wulf Jr. McBride told the FBI, “During
the period I knew Oswald he resided with his mother in the Senator Hotel or a
rooming house next door...I went with him to his room on one occasion, and he
showed me copies of Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto. Oswald stated he
had received these books from the public library, and he seemed quite proud to
have them.”
[Oswald
was proud to have those books because he was learning about communism to copy his
hero FBI informer Herbert Philbrick whose life work was pretending to be a
communist while he broke up communist rings for Hoover’s FBI at the peak of the
Red Scare.]
Aline Mosby, a reporter, interviewed Oswald in Moscow after his
defection and this interview gives a clue to the way Oswald acted out his
political dramas. Oswald told her he became interested in communist ideology
when “an old lady handed me a pamphlet about saving the Rosenburgs...”.
[Oswald
knew all about the Rosenbergs who had given the USA’s atomic secrets to the Russians
and he was utterly appalled and wanted to stop that shit from ever happening
again.]
The pamphlet led Oswald to change the direction of his life for it
was from this period he became enamoured with left-wing politics. The memory of
the Rosenburg case, I believe, lasted until his incarceration in the Dallas
police jail. Oswald had made repeated requests the weekend of the assassination
for John Abt to defend him. Abt was a left-wing New York lawyer who had
defended communists and a newspaper story about Abt had appeared on the same
page as the President's visit to Dallas. In attempting to contact Abt Oswald
was revealing something about himself - he was already preparing for his
appearance on the political stage, emulating the Rosenburgs by becoming a cause
celebre.
Oswald had a desperate desire to act in a political way to further
the cause of his commitment to communism and to the Cuban Revolution and in so
doing elevate himself as an important revolutionary. He needed a cause to
belong to; to inflate his self-image and sustain it. Oswald said that nothing
kept him in the United States and he would lose nothing by returning to the
Soviet Union. His real destination, of course, was Cuba. Cuba was a country
which embodied the political principles to which he had been committed since he
was an adolescent.
To Oswald Cuba was the last gambit - his last chance to fulfill
his political fantasies. As Marina testified to the Warren Commission, "I
only know that his basic desire was to get to Cuba by any means and all the
rest of it was window dressing for that purpose." He hatched a plan to
hi-jack a plane to Cuba and wanted Marina to help. When she refused he
abandoned his plans.
[ Marina Oswald to Jesse Ventura in 2010:
“Would you sacrifice your children for the truth?” –
Marina Oswald to Jesse Ventura in 2010 on his TV show about conspiracy theories
(Marina had made a lot of statements incriminating her
deceased husband in 1963-64. The Warren Commission had use her as its star
witness in the posthumous frame up of patsy Oswald in 1964. Marina at the time was age 22, with
a toddler and a baby, no money, did not speak English, was surrounded by US
intelligence, had her phone illegally wiretapped in Feb. 1964, feared being deported
back to Russia or even possibly being indicted as a accomplice in the
murder of President John Kennedy.”
Marina Oswald in an April, 1996 letter to John Tunheim, Chairman of the JFK
Assassination Records Review Board
“At the time of the assassination of this great president whom
I loved, I was misled by the “evidence” presented to me by government authorities
and I assisted in the conviction of Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin. From the
new information now available, I am now convinced that he was an FBI informant and believe that he did
not kill President Kennedy.”
[Pamela Ray, To Kill a Country, p. 45] ]
Marina has testified to Oswald’s view of Castro as a hero and said
Lee had wanted to call their second child Fidel if it had been a boy. Michael
Paine told BBC Timewatch researchers that Lee, “…wanted to be an active
guerrilla in the effort to bring about the new world order.” Nelson Delgado,
Oswald’s friend in the Marine Corps said that Oswald’s hero was William Morgan,
a former sergeant in the U.S. Army who became a major in Castro’s army.
[Speaking of Nelson Delgado – he said
that Oswald was an awful shooter in the Marines. Online article by Michael
Griffith: https://michaelgriffith1.tripod.com/poor.htm
Nelson Delgado, Sherman Cooley,
and James R. Persons served with Oswald in the Marines and saw him shoot. Here
is some of what they had to say about his marksmanship ability:
* Nelson Delgado
Before the Warren Commission:
Q.
Did you fire with Oswald?
DELGADO. Right; I was in the same line.
By that I mean we were on line together, the same time, but not firing at the
same position, but at the same time, and I remember seeing his [shooting]. It
was a pretty big joke, because he got a lot of "Maggie's drawers,"
you know, a lot of misses, but he didn't give a darn.
Q. Missed the target completely?
DELGADO. He just qualified, that's it. He
wasn't as enthusiastic as the rest of us. We all loved--liked, you know going
to the range. (8 H 235)
In a filmed interview with
attorney Mark Lane:
LANE.
Sergeant, prior to your Warren Commission testimony, were you interviewed by agents
of the FBI?
DELGADO.
Yes, they came to my home in south Jersey to interview me. The first two
visits, they came just to get my story--what I knew about Oswald, how close we
were, and things like that. After that, the questions were tending [to try] to
break my story down. . . .
LANE.
When did you first meet Oswald?
DELGADO.
Just prior to the Christmas of 1958, Lee Oswald reported into our unit. Oswald
and I got along really good together. We were, like I say, working in the same job, involving aircraft and
radar. We controlled them from the ground, and ran intercepts. We were about
forty enlisted men who participated in this job.
All
of us knew Lee, and he knew all of us. We got along fine. We had discussions,
and, uh [stops].
LANE.
Was Oswald interested in guns?
DELGADO.
They [the Warren Commission] say he was a gun enthusiast, but I recall many
instances where we stood inspections, and he was constantly being gigged for having a dirty
weapon and for taking improper care of his weapon. He was always reminded when
he had to clean the weapon. He never took it upon himself to do so.
LANE.
Do you have personal knowledge of Oswald's ability with a rifle?
DELGADO.
At the range he couldn't prove by me that he was a good shot.
As
any person who has ever served in the armed forces could tell you, there's a
part in the qualification that calls for rapid firing. This is done with ten
shots, eight in the clip and two that you load by hand. They give you forty-five
seconds to fire these ten rounds. Well, when you fire these, then you stand you
stand away from your firing position, till everyone has finished firing. Then
the targets are brought down and scored. The targets are run back up, and there
are disks for the number that you have hit--fives, fours, threes, or misses.
Well, in Oswald's particular case, it
was quite funny to look at, because he would get a couple of disks. Maybe out
of a possible ten he'll get two or three Maggie's drawers. Now, these [the Maggie's
drawers] are a red flag that's on a long pole, and this is running from left to
right on the target itself. And, you don't see this on a firing line too
often--not a Marine firing line. You can't help but noticing when you're seeing
disks, round cylinder things, coming up and down, and farther on down the line
you see a flag waving [i.e., a Maggie's drawer]. Well, that was gonna catch
your eye anyway. And we thought it was funny that Oswald was getting these Maggie's
drawers so rapidly, one after the other. And this is why I can't think that he
could be a good shot, because a good shot doesn't pull this. He'll pull a three, but he won't
pull a Maggie's drawer-- that's a complete miss.
LANE.
How did the FBI react to your statement that Oswald was a poor shot?
DELGADO.
They tried to disprove it. They did not like the idea when I came up with the
statement that Oswald, as far as I knew, was a very poor shot.
LANE. Do you feel that the agents of the
FBI actually tried to get you to change your statement that Oswald was a poor
shot.
DELGADO. Yes, sir, I definitely do.
(From the 1966 documentary RUSH TO JUDGMENT, produced by Mark Lane and Emile de
Antonio)
In August 1959 Morgan received considerable
press coverage when he lured some anti-Castro rebels into a trap by pretending
to be a counter-revolutionary. This may explain Oswald’s counter-revolutionary
activities in New Orleans when he visited anti-Castroite Carlos Bringuier.
Oswald wanted to emulate Morgan.
An incident from Oswald's time in the Marine Corps testifies to
Oswald's revolutionary fanaticism. Fellow Marine, Kerry Thornley, testified to
the Warren Commission about an incident, “which grew out of a combination of
Oswald's known Marxist sympathies and George Orwell's book 1984”. After
Thornley finished reading the book they took part in a parade. As Oswald and
Thornley were waiting for the parade to begin they talked briefly about
Orwell’s book even though Oswald “seemed to be lost in his own thoughts.”
Oswald remarked on the stupidity of the parade and on how angry it made him, to
which Thornley replied, “Well, come the revolution you will change all that.”
Thornley said, “At which time he looked at me like a betrayed Caesar and
screamed, screamed definitely, 'Not you, too, Thornley.' And I remember his
voice cracked as he said this. He was definitely disturbed at what I had said
and I didn't really think I had said that much....I never said anything to him
again and he never said anything to me again.”
Oswald's political ideals remained with him up to the moment of
his death and there is convincing evidence to support this. It was inevitable
that someone as politically motivated as Oswald would eventually reveal his
political self that tragic weekend. A man like Oswald needed a stage to show
the world he was a true revolutionary. But he did not do this by confessing.
Instead he showed his commitment to his ideals by a clenched fist salute, a
symbol of left-wing radicalism, as he was paraded around the Dallas police
station. There are at least two published photos of Oswald giving this gesture.
The most famous photograph showing Oswald’s clenched-fist salute was first
identified by Jean Davison in her excellent book about Oswald’s motives,
Oswald's Game (1983). The photo was taken by an AP photographer.
[While
Oswald was showing his handcuffs to reporters he was also swearing that he did
not kill anyone and that he was “just a patsy” and that he wanted a lawyer –
which he was never given while in Dallas Police custody.]
The second photo has been overlooked by most researchers and appeared
in the UPI/American Heritage book Four Days (1964). The caption for the UPI
photo reads, “...Oswald shakes his fist at reporters inside police
headquarters...”, an unlikely description of Oswald's actions. Most JFK
conspiracy advocates have assumed that Oswald was merely showing the
photographers his manacled hands. But there is a definite clenched-fist salute
portrayed on both occasions. He repeated this gesture as he lay dying in the
ambulance. According to Dallas policeman Billy Combest, he made a “definite
clenched fist”. Some conspiracists have dismissed this vital piece of evidence
claiming that a clenched-fist salute did not come into vogue until the late
1960’s. However, communists and left-wing militant groups have used the salute
since the 1930’s - in the political elections in Germany in 1930 and in Spain
during that period.
Oswald was influenced in his beliefs and his desire to act them
out by a number of politically motivated people and political literature during
the last year of his life.
The periodicals that Oswald subscribed to may have influenced his
actions. As the Warren Report pointed out, “The October 7th., 1963, issue of
the Militant reported Castro as saying Cuba could not accept a situation where
at the same time the United States was trying to ease world tensions it also
was increasing its efforts to tighten the noose around Cuba.”
[If you think
Fidel Castro was concerned about JFK in the fall of 1963, then you ought to get
a load of Lyndon Johnson: LBJ top aide Horace Busby: Lyndon Johnson was
acutely aware by Nov. 4, 1963 that the Kennedys had sent a SWAT team of over **FORTY**
national reporters to Texas to utterly destroy him https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/lyndon-johnson-was-acutely-aware-by-nov.html
]
Castro’s opposition to President
Kennedy’s attempt to deal with Cuba was also reported in the October 1, 1963,
issue of the Worker, to which Oswald also subscribed. Oswald spoke to Michael
Paine about the left-wing paper saying, “You could tell what they wanted you to
do ..... by reading between the lines, reading the thing and doing a little
reading between the lines.”
[ Speaking of Michael Paine - FUN FACT: Lee Harvey Oswald considered JFK to be "the
best president of his lifetime." Source: Michael Paine: https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8118362-181/michael-paine-debated-politics-with
]
In the month before the assassination Oswald may have entered into
his revolutionary fantasies whilst watching television. A Secret Service
interview with Marina was first recognised by Jean Davison as a telling
indication of Oswald's state of mind. Marina told agents that on Friday, October
18th. Oswald had watched two movies on television and he had been “greatly
excited”. The first movie was Suddenly, in which Frank Sinatra played an
ex-soldier who planned to shoot an American president. Sinatra’s character was
to shoot the president with a high-powered rifle from the window of a house
overlooking a railway station. The second movie, We Were Strangers, was based
on the overthrow of Cuba’s Machado regime in 1933.John Garfield had played an
American who had gone to Cuba to help a group of rebels assassinate the Cuba
leader. Oswald’s reactions to these movies made a strong impression on his
wife, according to the Secret Service report.
[David
Lifton interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald’s childhood friend who told him the Oswald’s
favorite movie star was John Wayne and his favorite movie was the Sands of Iwo
Jima so there is no way in hell Oswald was a communist. John Wayne was hard
right wing both on and off the movie screen. Oswald was also a big fan of James
Bond:
Lyndon
Johnson, JFK and completely innocent CIA patsy Lee Harvey Oswald were all huge
fans of John Wayne! John Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were huge fans of James
Bond!
David
Lifton told me (Robert Morrow) in 2018 that he had on videotape a childhood friend of Lee Harvey Oswald
who says that Oswald’s favorite movie actor was John Wayne and his favorite movie
was the Sands of Iwo Jima.
QUOTE
John F. Kennedy: John Wayne and James Bond
JFK is famously
associated with Marilyn Monroe, but when it comes to actually watching movies, he preferred John Wayne and
Randolph Scott, among others. Some of his favorite movies were "The Longest
Day," "Roman Holiday," "Spartacus," "Bad Day at
Black Rock," and "Iwo Jima."
JFK also had a huge passion for Bond. While he was
suffering from back problems in 1955, he was given a copy of “Casino Royale,”
Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel. While in office, he had a private screening of "Dr. No" and
in a documentary called “Everything or Nothing,” JFK is quoted saying, "I
wish I had had James Bond on my staff."
Source:
JFK
Library and Museum and Yahoo
QUOTE
Lyndon B. Johnson: Himself (and "The Searchers")
LBJ wasn’t an
avid movie fan. Oddly, the only film he seemed to watch — and watch a lot — was
a 10-minute short made about him (narrated by Gregory Peck) to introduce him to
the country after JFK’s assassination.
However, Entertainment
Weekly also cites that LBJ enjoyed "The Searchers."
Source: The White House
Museum
UNQUOTE
The 1956 movie
The Searchers was a blockbuster Western movie starring John Wayne. LBJ
loved it.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers
The 1949
movie Sands of Iwo Jima was a popular John Wayne movie about the Marines
in World War II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sands_of_Iwo_Jima
John
Wayne was not exactly a fan of communism!
John
Wayne: Communist Obsession | Emanuel Levy
QUOTE
World War II created a
strange situation because the Soviet Union became, for the first time, a
political ally of the United States. As a result, many Americans supported its
policies and were openly pro-Soviet.
This relationship did not last long, however, and as soon as the War was
over, the situation changed dramatically. Wayne said he became politically
conscious at the end of WWII, when he became conscious of Communist
infiltrations into the film industry.
Motion Picture Alliance
for the Preservation of American Ideals
In 1944, Wayne joined a
group of actors, writers, and directors as a founding member of the Motion
Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA). The group was established with the explicit
goal of fighting the leftist movement in the movie colony. Among its founders
were: Jim McGuiness, MGM’s production head (the organization started at an
informal meeting in his house), Roy Brewer, the theatrical union leader,
directors Leo McCarey and Sam Wood, and actors Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Ward
Bond, and Adolphe Menjou, and screenwriters Borden Chase and Morrie Riskind.
MPA’s first president
was director Sam Wood, who was followed by Clark Gable and Robert Taylor. Wayne
became president in 1949, serving three terms, until 1952, during the heyday of
Senator Joseph McCarthy’s reign and the hearings of the House Un-American
Activities Committee (HUAAC). Some claim
that Wayne was forced to join the MPA to please his more conservative friends.
Studio executives
warned Wayne that his affiliation would ruin his career. “You’re becoming a
controversial figure,” they reportedly said, “It will kill you at the box
office. You will hit the skids.” Ironically, a year after being elected as
president of MPA, Wayne became the top box office attraction in America. Wayne
said that those who warned him, “must have meant it would ruin me with the
Moscow fan clubs,” because “when I became president of the Alliance, I was 32nd
on the box office polls, but last year I’d skidded up near the top.” Wayne
remained at the top in 1950 and 1952, and in 1953 he slipped to third place on
the popularity polls.
UNQUOTE ]
Given Oswald’s orientation to violence as evidenced by his
willingness to take right-wing activist General Walker’s life in April 1963,
his treatment of his wife and his belief in revolutionary violence, the movies
are vital to an understanding of Oswald’s frame of mind. As the movie plots
suggested, Oswald could see a way in which he could strike out against a
government he detested and support a government he admired.
[Oswald never shot at Gen. Edwin
Walker. Lyndon Johnson treated Lady Bird like mud beneath his big Texas boots.
Oswald’s hero was FBI informer Herbert Philbrick. Oswald treated children nicely
and love to play with them according to Pat Hall and Buell Wesley Frazier. Oswald
was a big of John Wayne and JFK in addition to Herbert Philbrick.
Gen. Edwin Walker contacted the HSCA and told them that the bullet
in evidence was NOT the bullet that was shot at him. A bullet had been planted
to frame Oswald
http://22november1963.org.uk/did-lee-oswald-shoot-general-edwin-walker
]
It is also feasible that Oswald may have had direct knowledge
about CIA plots to assassinate Castro.
[Lyndon
Johnson had direct knowledge about the Kennedys plans to utterly destroy him in
the fall of 1963. LBJ aides Horace Busby and George Reedy are on the record about
that:
1) George Reedy (1982): Lyndon Johnson was OBSESSED with the idea that
RFK was out to destroy him w/ Bobby Baker scandal in fall 1963 http://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-scary-mental-instabilities-of.html
2) LBJ top aide Horace Busby:
Lyndon Johnson was acutely aware by Nov. 4, 1963 that the Kennedys had sent a SWAT
team of over **FORTY** national reporters to Texas to utterly destroy him https://robertmorrowpoliticalresearchblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/lyndon-johnson-was-acutely-aware-by-nov.html
On September 9th. 1963 the New Orleans
Times Picayune published a story about Castro's warning that assassination
plots against Cuban leaders would be met with retaliation.
[You
should see what the newspapers and magazines in October, 1963 was saying about LBJ’s
right hand man Bobby Baker and what they were going to say about LBJ very soon:
LIFE Magazine, being fed damaging info by RFK, was on the verge
of running a story on 11/29/63 that would have annihilated Lyndon Johnson’s
political career once and for all
Source: James Wagenvoord who in 1963 was the 27 year old
assistant to LIFE Magazine’e managing editor; this issue would have been dated
12/6/63 and mailed out 11/29 and 11/30/63 (Friday/Saturday mailing)
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=14966&st=0
James Wagenvoord to John Simkin (in November, 2009):
“I've been reading through you web site and believe that I can
add one of the final jigsaw puzzle pieces that affect the timing of JFK's Dallas
trip and the nervousness of LBJ during the weeks preceding the killing. At the
time I was the 27 year old Editorial business manager and assistant to Life
Magazines Executive Editor. Beginning in later summer 1963 the magazine, based
upon information fed from Bobby Kennedy and the Justice Department, had been
developing a major newsbreak piece concerning Johnson and Bobby Baker. On publication
Johnson would have been finished and off the '64 ticket (reason the material was
fed to us) and would probably have been facing prison time. At the time LIFE magazine
was arguably the most important general news source in the US. The top management
of Time Inc. was closely allied with the USA's various intelligence agencies
and we were used after by the Kennedy Justice Department as a conduit to the public.
Life's coverage of the Hoffa prosecution, and involvement in paying off Justice
Department Memphis witnesses was a case in point.
The LBJ/Baker piece was in the final editing stages and was scheduled to break
in the issue of the magazine due out the week of November 24 (the magazine would
have made it to the newsstands on Nov.26th or 27th). It had been prepared in
relative secrecy by a small special editorial team. On Kennedy's death research
files and all numbered copies of the nearly print-ready draft were gathered up
by my boss (he had been the top editor on the team) and shredded. The issue
that was to expose LBJ instead featured the Zapruder film. Based upon our success
in syndicating the Zapruder film I became Chief of Time/LIFE editorial services
and remained in that job until 1968.”
Biography of James Wagenvoord: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwagenvoord.htm
LIFE Magazine was within days of breaking a major story on
Lyndon Johnson that would have been extremely politically damaging to him. By 11/22/63,
the political career of Lyndon Johnson was hanging by a thin, thin thread and Robert
Kennedy, having told the Washington press corps that it was open season on Johnson,
was about to cut it with scissors:
In 1963 Johnson got drawn into political scandals involving Fred Korth,
Billie Sol Estes
and Bobby Baker.
According to James Wagenvoord,
the editorial business manager and assistant to Life Magazines Executive Editor,
the magazine was working on an article that would have revealed Johnson's corrupt
activities. "Beginning in later summer 1963 the magazine, based upon information
fed from Bobby Kennedy and the Justice Department, had been developing a major
newsbreak piece concerning Johnson and Bobby Baker. On publication Johnson would
have been finished and off the 1964 ticket (reason the material was fed to us)
and would probably have been facing prison time. At the time LIFE magazine was
arguably the most important general news source in the US. The top management
of Time Inc. was closely allied with the USA's various intelligence agencies and
we were used after by the Kennedy Justice Department as a conduit to the public."
The fact that it was Robert Kennedy
who was giving this information to Life Magazine suggests
that John F.
Kennedy intended to drop Johnson as his vice-president. This is supported
by Evelyn Lincoln,
Kennedy's secretary. In her book, Kennedy and Johnson
(1968) she claimed that in November, 1963, Kennedy decided that because of the
emerging Bobby Baker
scandal he was going to drop Johnson as his running mate in the 1964 election.
Kennedy told Lincoln that he was going to replace Johnson with Terry Sanford.
Don B. Reynolds
appeared before a secret session of the Senate Rules Committee on 22nd
November, 1963. Reynolds told B. Everett
Jordan and his committee that Johnson had demanded that he provided
kickbacks in return for him agreeing to a life insurance policy arranged by him
in 1957. This included a $585 Magnavox stereo. Reynolds also had to pay for $1,200
worth of advertising on KTBC, Johnson's television station in Austin. Reynolds
had paperwork for this transaction including a delivery note that indicated the
stereo had been sent to the home of Johnson. Reynolds also told of seeing a suitcase
full of money which Baker described as a "$100,000 payoff to Johnson for his
role in securing the Fort Worth TFX contract".
1) Please carefully read what Harry Truman said in WashPost
12/22/63. Truman wrote and Op-Ed in the Washington Post saying "Limit CIA
role to Intelligence" just one month to the day after the JFK assassination.
I think it is clear from this column that he thinks the CIA may very well have
had something to with the JFK assassination.
2) Please note: Harry Truman's column on the CIA was REMOVED
FROM THE AFTERNOON EDITION of the Washington Post that day. Do you think it was
because Truman hit some nerves ... and told too much of the truth? I do.
- Robert Morrow 512-306-1510
QUOTE
Ben Bradlee was in the lobby of the National Press Building
when he heard the news that John F. Kennedy had been shot. He returned to his
office in Newsweek: "Colleagues were crowded around the ticker, dazed,
watching the deadly bursts of unbelievable, wrenching news, worsening every few
seconds... And then, so suddenly, he was dead. Life changed, forever, in the
middle of a nice day, at the end of a good week, in a wonderful year of what looked
like an extraordinary decade of promise. It would take months before we would begin
to understand how, but the inevitability of wrenching change was plain as tears."
Kennedy had died on a Friday. Bradlee claims that the journal's main article about the Bobby
Baker scandal and its links with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson had already been
printed: "Fridays are the beginning of the end of a week in the life of a
news magazine. The covers have long since been printed, waiting for the rest of
the book. All the features - the back of the book-have been edited and typeset.
The leads of the news sections are being written, edited, rewritten, and
rewritten again. The printed cover of the impending scandal involving Bobby Baker,
LBJ's protégé, was scrapped. The entire magazine went out the window and we
began all over again."
QUOTE
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbradleeB.htm
Burkett van Kirk confirms that Robert Kennedy was feeding damaging
information on Lyndon Johnson's corruption to the Senate Rules Committee in
fall, 1963, in attempt to destroy LBJ. The Kennedys were working with the Republicans
on the Senate Rules Committee to take down LBJ because LBJ was too close to the
Democrats.
SEYMOUR HERSH:
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In a series
of interviews for this book, Burkett Van Kirk, who was chief counsel in 1963 for
the Republican minority on the Rules Committee, told me of his personal knowledge
of Bobby Kennedy's direct intervention. "Bobby was feeding information to
'whispering Willie'" - the nickname for Senator John Williams. "They"
- the Kennedy brothers, Van Kirk said - "were dumping Johnson.." Williams,
as he did earlier with Donald Reynolds's information about Lyndon Johnson,
relayed the Kennedy materials to the senior Republican on the Rules Committe,
Carl Curtis. The attorney general thus was secretly dealing with Williams, and
Williams was dealing secretly with Curtis and Van Kirk. The scheming was necessary,
Van Kirk told me, because he and his fellow Republicans understood that a
full-fledged investigation into Bobby Baker could lead to the vice president. They
also understood, he said, that the chances of getting such an investigation
where slim at best. The Democrats had an overwhelming advantage in the Senate -
sixty-seven to thirty-three - and in every committee. The three Republicans on
the ten member Rules Committee, Van Kirk said, had little power. "We never
won one vote to even call a witness," he told me. The investigation into
Bobby Baker and Lyndon Johnson would have to be done in a traditional manner - by
newspaper leak.
Van Kirk,
who was named after his grandfather Senator E. J. Burkett of Nebraska, said that
Bobby Kennedy eventually designated a Justice Department lawyer that fall to serve
as an intermediary to the minority staff; he began supplying the Republicans
with documents about Johnson and his financial dealings. The lawyer, Van Kirk
told me, "used to come up to the Senate and hang around me like a dark
cloud. It took him about a week or ten days to, one, find out what I didn't know,
and two, give it to me." Some of the Kennedy-supplied documents were kept
in Williams's office safe, Van Kirk said, and never shown to him. There was no
doubt of Bobby Kennedy's purpose in dealing with the Republicans, Van Kirk said:
"To get rid of Johnson. To dump him. I am as sure of that the sun comes up
in the east."
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[Seymour Hersh, "The Dark Side of Camelot," pp. 406-407] ]
It is possible that Oswald’s revolutionary
heroic actions in killing Kennedy were a response to these plots against
Castro. Although the American people as a whole did not learn of CIA plots to
murder Castro until the 1970's it would have been easy for newspaper readers in
New Orleans to read between the lines because it was common knowledge that
anti-Castro exiles were engaged in efforts to topple the Castro regime.
Oswald’s first reply to a police officer when he was arrested
inside the Texas Theatre was, “I haven't anything to be ashamed of.” He did not
say, “I didn't shoot anyone”. He was likely giving himself time to think of an
answer to the inevitable questions he would be asked when interrogated. His
answer, “I haven't anything to be ashamed of ” is a natural response for a true
believer in revolutionary action. He may have committed murder – but within the
fantasies of his own mind Oswald’s crime was an act of war which put him
outside the norms of lawful behaviour and moral culpability.
In his revolutionary state of mind, Oswald needed only a catalyst
to spur him on. And it came in the form of an aristocratic member of the Dallas
emigre community, George de Mohrenschildt. DeMohrenschildt had an important
influence on Oswald in the year before the assassination. He befriended the
Oswalds and the older man became Lee's mentor. Unlike the other members of the
Russian community De Mohrenschildt had a soft spot for Oswald and sympathised
with his left-wing views. In reality, DeMohrenschildt thought Oswald was a
pathetic individual who pretentiously believed himself to be an intellectual
and a revolutionary.
[DeMohrenschildt
and his wife both thought that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent and a patsy for
the JFK assassination. DeMohrenschildt also tried to have a personal meeting
with Vice President Lyndon Johnson in April, 1963! And DeMohrenschildt approached
Oswald at the behest of Dallas CIA chief J. Walton Moore:
It is possible that De Mohrenschildt's statements had influenced
Oswald in his decision to assassinate Walker. Oswald’s mentor referred to
General Walker as the “Hitler of tomorrow” and Oswald, according to Marina,
often repeated unoriginal things which she believed may have come from
DeMohrenschildt. One of Oswald’s oft-repeated sayings was that if Hitler had
been assassinated it would have benefitted the world. It is therefore possible
that the anti-fascist DeMohrenschildt unintentionally provoked Oswald to kill
General Walker. Oswald may have wanted to impress his surrogate father.
https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-reviews/operation-dragon
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What about their other chief suspect? As DeMohrenschildt told
Edward Epstein, he did not approach Oswald and his wife Marina at the behest of
the KGB. He did so at the
request of J. Walton Moore of the Dallas CIA office. In fact, Moore had to push
George into doing this and Moore did so on three separate occasions. As
DeMohrenschildt stated to Edward Epstein, “I would never have contacted Oswald
in a million years if Moore had not sanctioned it.” (The Assassination Chronicles,
by Edward Epstein, pp. 558–59) I don’t see how one can make it more
clear than that. And since Epstein’s work is used profusely in Operation
Dragon, it’s hard to buy that Woolsey and Pacepa did not know this.
UNQUOTE
[“Operation Dragon,” Jim DiEugenio, Kennedys and King,
9-8-2021]
A dozen pages of CIA James Walton Moore’s
CIA file remained redacted in their entirety in 2021. Moore was chief of the
Dallas domestic contacts division
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article256018857.html
“CIA continues to conceal JFK assassination files. But here’s
what we do know,” Jefferson Morley, Miami Herald Op-Ed, November 22, 2021.”
According to Samuel Ballen who was De
Mohrenschildt's close friend, “(In De Mohrenschildt's conversations with Lee)
his unconventional, shocking, humourous and irreverant ideas would have been
coming out of George all the time.” Ballen stated that he thought De
Mohrenschildt could have influenced Oswald to kill General Walker.
[Sam
Ballen – JFK researcher Bruce Adamson has some information on him –
Did Sam Ballen take Oswald to CIA Office Building in Dallas for
a Job Interview?
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/sam-ballen-als-took-oswald-cia-1927042023
You are bidding on a letter from Samuel Ballen to
Bruce Adamson dated March 29, 1993 to Seller. Ballen took Lee Harvey Oswald for a job interview at
the CIA's Republic National Bank Building. Adamson interviewed Sam Ballen at the
La Fonda Hotel in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Ballen purchased Adamson a marguerita
after he had been stranded out in the desert in 15 degree weather.
You are welcome to print out the cover and news article
on your own.
Ballen was sure de Mohrenschildt had nothing to do with
Oswald, yet Ballen did not know Adamson found documents in which Ballen was
taking Oswald to a job interview at the CIA's Dallas Republic National Bank
Building. Was it to see a "Mr. Hunt," who Oswald wrote to? Adamson
believes it was Mr. Hunt the lawyer not E. Howard Hunt, nor H. L. Hunt. Mr.
Hunt the lawyer had worked for CIA also.
The contempt Lee Harvey Oswald showed for authority and to those
who disagreed with his vision of the world, the simple ideological answers he
embraced in the face of complex issues he spoke of, generally are expressions
of self-aggrandisement and a narcissistic tendency. When he began to see
himself as "the commander", the learned revolutionary who was given
only menial jobs, the gifted politician who headed an imaginary chapter of the
Fair Play For Cuba Committee, the “the hunter of the right wing fascists” - the
grandiose side was revealing itself. If Lee Oswald had not assassinated
President Kennedy he would inevitably have committed a different kind of
violent political act.
Oswald’s struggle was to get what he wanted - to be recognised as
an important political figure. He achieved a modicum of recognition when he
appeared on television and radio in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, when his
Fair Play for Cuba activities were noticed. However, his esteem was damaged
when television presenter Bill Stuckey ambushed Oswald with statements about
his defection to Russia which took away Oswald's status as an objective
spokesman for Castro's communist regime.
Oswald hated the American way of life. Years earlier he had come
to detest his beloved Russia. And now his entry to his brave new world, Cuba,
was barred. Failure seemed to follow him everywhere. He had nowhere to turn
except inwards to his embittered and disillusioned self.
Now and then, in the final year of his life, Oswald would show his
normal side, seeking work and interacting with others. But he knew he would
always return to his life of despair, psychological isolation and unfulfilled
political fantasies.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s failure as a man, a husband, a worker, a
Marine and a son, began shortly after his birth. And Oswald's embrace of
communism, his strong belief in Castro and the Cuban revolution and a desire to
be recognised as an important person provoked him to kill President Kennedy.
[Oswald was a fake pro-Castro Marxist. He loved
his wife Marina and wanted to reconcile with her. Oswald, unlike JFK, was a big
fan of John Kennedy. Yes, of course, Oswald want to be someone of importance,
but he never shot anyone in his entire life, except himself in the Marines and
that was by mistake. Lyndon Johnson, however, hated the Kennedys and knew they
were out to utterly destroy him in the fall of 1963. Lyndon Johnson was well
known to be a pathological liar, his mental instabilities, epic corruption, constant
taking of the Lord’s name in vain are well documented. LBJ as treated a
dominated Lady Bird like garbage and he even had two secretaries pregnant at
the same time in summer, 1963.]
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