Mr. PAINE. On a phone call shortly after the assassination he called and thought it was outrageous to be pinning Lee Oswald who was a scapegoat, an ideal person to hang the blame on. (2 H 392) Lee Harvey Oswald claimed that the Dallas Police would not let him have a lawyer. He repeatedly asked for "someone to come forward and
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Lee Harvey Oswald claimed that the Dallas Police would not let him have a lawyer. He repeatedly asked for "someone to come forward and give me legal assistance". Nearly every single time he appeared before reporters, he lamented about not having counsel on his behalf. At the same time, the Dallas authorities were telling different
Feb 26, 2019 · After Oswald’s first interrogation with Will Fritz, he is being questioned by Forrest Sorrels of the Secret Service. Oswald thinks he is a lawyer and once known to him that he is S.S. he wonders whether Sorrels is supposed to get him an attorney (page 69).
Nov 21, 1997 · The notes, which Capt. J. W. Fritz said he made several days after the interrogation, supported major points he made in 1964 during his testimony before the Warren Commission. Captain Fritz, who ...
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Actually, there was a good deal of conversation on that point, and he stated that he did not want any Dallas attorney representing him, and said that if he couldn't get in touch with Mr. Abt, that he would probably contact someone with the Civil Liberties Union, and have them furnish an attorney. I recall sometime during November 22 or 23, I believe it was, the head of the Dallas …
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I recall that Captain Fritz explained to him that he would allow him to place a long distance call for Abt, and he explained to Oswald how to ask the long distance operator to trace him down and locate him, even though Oswald didn't even know his address or telephone number.
Actually, there was a good deal of conversation on that point, and he stated that he did not want any Dallas attorney representing him, and said that if he couldn't get in touch with Mr. Abt, that he would probably contact someone with the Civil Liberties Union, and have them furnish an attorney.
During the interview with Captain Fritz, when I was in there, he mentioned the fact that he wanted to get a man by the name of Abt, or some similar name like that. I never had heard of him before. Apt, or some similar name. And Captain Fritz said, "Well you can use the phone and you can call him.".
Preparation begins to transfer Oswald to the county jail. Lee Harvey Oswald is fatally wounded by Jack Ruby.
Kennedy and Officer Tippit and the time of his death. Her findings were published in the People's Almanac #2 under the title, "The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald."
Oswald's comment, "This is it" or "Well, it's all over now" implies he has done something wrong. Everyone has their own personal dictionary. When people are giving a truthful statement their language will usually be consistent. If person views a firearm as being a pistol, he will always call it a pistol.
Oswald first stated that he carried a "pistol" into the movie theater. Later he said that he knew he was not supposed to be carrying a "gun.". The words pistol and gun do not mean the exact same thing. As I read his statement I do not see a justification for changing the language from pistol to gun.
The Warren Commission believed that Oswald used the bag to conceal the rifle that he brought work the day of the assassination. Oswald stated, "The only package I brought to work was my lunch.".
Oswald states, "I never owned a rifle.". He contradicts himself when he later states, "I did have a small rifle some years in the past.". His denial, "I didn't shoot John Kennedy" is a good denial. In his statement, "I didn't even know Gov. John Connally had been shot" the word even is not needed.
These records show that Oswald was in Mexico City in late September and early October of 1963.
The weapon does not coincide with the bullet, nor the bullet with the holes. The accused does not coincide with the accusation: Oswald is an exceptionally bad shot of mediocre physique, but according to the official version, his acts were those of a champion marksman and Olympic sprinter.
The accused does not coincide with the accusation: Oswald is an exceptionally bad shot of mediocre physique, but according to the official version, his acts were those of a champion marksman and Olympic sprinter.
He has fired an old rifle with impossible speed and his magic bullet, turning and twisting acrobatically to penetrate Kennedy and John Connally, the governor of Texas, remains miraculously intact. Oswald strenuously denies it. But no one knows, no one will ever know what he has to say.
Two days later he collapses before the television cameras, the whole world witness to the spectacle, his mouth shut by Jack Ruby, a two-bit gangster and minor trafficker in women and drugs.
From the time of Oswald's arrest to his own assassination at the hands of Jack Ruby, no formal transcript or record was kept of statements made by the alleged killer. It was said that no tape recordings were made of Oswald's remarks, and many notes taken of his statements were destroyed.
Determined to learn Oswald's last words, his only testimony, The People's Almanac assigned one of the leading authorities on the Kennedy assassination, Mae Brussell, to compile every known statement or remark made by Oswald between his arrest and death. The quotes, edited for space and clarity, are based on the recollections of a variety ...
Yes, I had written the Russian Embassy. (On Nov. 9, 1963, Oswald had written to the Russian Embassy that FBI agent James Hosty was making some kind of deals with Marina, and he didn't trust "the notorious FBI.") . . . Mr. Hosty, you have been accosting my wife.
But Lee Harvey Oswald certainly became the center of national and international attention for the two days he was detained in a Dallas jail before being shot to death by Jack Ruby right in front of police, reporters, and millions of stunned television viewers.
Despite his introversion, Oswald had always sought attention; either positive attention from young women in Russia or indirectly in his acting out behavior, which is an unconscious way of seeking at least negative attention — attention never received from a father or mother.
In Oswald's mind, he may have been convinced he was doing the world a favor by taking such bold and courageous action against Kennedy for the good of the country — not unlike the delusional beliefs of Anders Breivik in Norway. (See my prior post .) But in reality, these are depraved, egotistical, and cowardly crimes.
Still floundering for some direction, a rebel looking for a cause, Oswald read incessantly, seizing upon Marxism, communism, and the pro-Castro movement to provide some sense of meaning, purpose, and community to his seemingly insignificant existence.
Though he married Marina and had two children with her, Oswald was reportedly always an extremely introverted, temperamental, and troubled person, who preferred his own company to that of friends or family.
Oswald may have defected to "mother Russia" because he hated "Uncle Sam," a stand-in not only for male authority, which he lacked, and for a system in which he had not succeeded, but for his deceased father whom he had never met, and by whom he probably felt abandoned.
Like Charles Manson, Lee never really had a father or father-figure around, likely resented that fact, and felt inferior to other boys because of it. He may have experienced a powerful need to prove his manhood and masculinity, to demonstrate that he was not just his mother's son, a "momma's boy.".