04-12-2013, 06:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-12-2013, 02:17 AM by Tracy Riddle.)
Albert Doyle Wrote:Marc Ellis Wrote:This is the first explanation of Clinton episode that has made sense to me.
I think it was in 'Destiny Betrayed' that Oswald only got on the voter registration line because his application at the asylum would have gone better if he was a registered voter in the county. So I don't think the CORE part was planned in advance. It was a lucky coincidence that the Cadillac crew pulled up in front of a crowd of witnesses.
That's Jim's theory and I disagree with it for two reasons: working at a mental hospital is not the same thing as being a patient in one. Also, the plotters were clearly trying to set up Oswald as a Castro-linked Marxist assassin, not a lone nut from a loony bin.
Like I say, it was in the news at the time, so they certainly should have known what to expect when they got there. I have an old copy of Collier's Encyclopedia Yearbook 1964 that has a photo from 1963 of blacks lined up inside the Registrar office with the caption "Future voters wait to register in Clinton, La."