Joan Mellen on her Investigation of Garrison Investigation

[Peter Lemkin]

Yet another gay man in Oswald's life? What's your take Peter, was Oswald gay? Seems half the people in this story are gay somehow, or... let's see, Jack Ruby's roommate George Senator was a fixture in the Dallas gay scene for a very long time, then there's Rose Cheramie who says Ruby and Oswald were having a gay affair, then there's the whole business with Clay Shaw, there's David Ferrie, there's those two gay guys across the street at the Adolphus doing the revue, ... whole lot of gay vibe running through this story somehow. There must be an angle in here somewhere - I remember my dad telling me (who was in the oil business in Venezuela for a while), that in certain circles it was considered respectable for gay men to have girlfriends and wives and maintain as much of a normal life as possible. He said they called those people "bisexual", and I remember asking how you could be both at once, and he said "they're not really, they're just pretending". This was early 60's, yes? A lot of "that level of understanding" was going around.

I think you took the least important aspect of the talk to even comment about. No, I don't think Oswald was 'gay'. If he was bi or was involved in bi activity as part of his intelligence activities, I'm agnostic and find of very very very low priority. Yes, Ferrie and Shaw were gay and Ruby it is unclear if he was bi...but again, I fail to see how this is relevant or important. I'll spend no more time on this re-direction of an important talk. Garrison did not spend much time on this matter and he himself was wrongfully accused of being gay [and in close with the Mafia]. All kinds of techniques are used to assassinate people and derail the important facts.