Judyth Vary Baker: Living in Exile

[James H. Fetzer]

OSWALD AND BAKER: DR. HENRY SILVAO
by Judyth Vary Baker and Lola Heavey

NOTE: This is a nice example of "primary research" where a witness corrects
the record of studies that purport to settle issues, but do so in misleading ways.
My inference would be that Silva may have remained “on the job” because there
was too much risk involved in allowing inquiries to be made without a manager.

THE LAMBERT TARGET ARTICLE

The Good Witness: Dr. Frank Silva and “Lee Harvey Oswald”
by Patricia Lambert

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/silva.htm

“…Dr. Silva [was] a prominent psychiatrist in Baton Rouge. But in 1963 he was
working at this mental hospital “in charge of training residents for Tulane.” Dr.
Silva said he was sent there by Tulane “for 45 days and I stayed four years” as
director of the program.

Dr. Silva said that he was working at the hospital all during the year 1963 but
had never seen or heard of Lee Harvey Oswald. He was originally scheduled to
be there 45 days, but remained there, conveniently, for four years.



JUDYTH AND LOLA COMMENT:: “Why did he stay for four years? Was it
because after the experiments there, he had to provide “damage control” for any
investigators, such as from the press, the FBI, Garrison, etc.?

Lambert, who is no friend of Garrison’s, nevertheless occasionally helps his case,
such as her report on Dr. Silva -- a physician working at the East Louisiana (Mental)
Hospital near Jackson. The Registrar of Voters, Henry Palmer, stated to Garrison that
Lee H. Oswald told him he was ‘living’ with Dr. Silva at the hospital. Why would Oswald
say such a thing? Speculation from Silva was that Palmer was somehow out to ‘get him’
for some reason. But Palmer simply repeated what Oswald told him. He had no vendetta
against Silva.

The truth is often elegant. Oswald, waiting with Ferrie and Shaw in the black Cadillac,
saw the voter registration drive going on and, as George DeMohrenschildt has told us,
he was concerned about civil rights. Witnesses agree the Clinton-Jackson sightings were
at the end of August or early September. The exact date was August 29, 1963, the day
after Martin Luther King’s speech of August 28. Lee Oswald is on record as having sat on
the “colored” side at the courthouse when he waited to pay his fine after his August 9th
arrest. Carlos Bringuier mentions it. The same man wanted to support the blacks who
were attempting to register to vote. He spoke to a colored girl who had been rejected,
who was very upset because she had an A.A. degree in business and they said she was
illiterate.

Lee returned briefly to the car and made a bet that he could register without showing any
documentation. For that reason, Lee named a doctor he knew was at the hospital. After all,
this trip was to join a convoy that would be delivering one or more prisoners to the hospital
for the bioweapon experiment. Lee said he was living with Dr. Silva -- that was his “proof of
residency” -- to try to win the bet. Lee told Judyth Vary Baker that he had actually succeeded
in getting registered briefly before he let the cat out of the bag by asking Palmer how he might
obtain a job out there -- when he was supposedly already living with the doctor there!