12-12-2013, 05:42 AM
David:
Excellent points! We are really dealing with multiple layers of conflicting evidence about Oswald. As you suggest, it is like studying the autopsy X-rays and trying to link them to what the eyewitnesses observed at Bethesda. In attempting to understand Oswald, the work is closer to archaeology in digging through the following:
(1) the phony evidence from 1938-1959 when the identities of the two boys were merged to create a legend for the Oswald Project in the CIA's false defector program;
(2) the phony evidence from the summer of 1963 through November 22, with a string of Oswald impersonations from Mexico City to Dallas; and
(3) the period of November 22, 1963 until the publication of the Warren Report, during which the FBI and the Warren Commission shuffled the Oswald deck of evidence once again.
This is such a "cluster f____" of evidence that is small wonder that there is little agreement on the key issues even in the research community.
You're right about the significance of agents of the government visiting Assistant Principal Frank Kudlaty on November 23, 1963. The act of collecting the Stripling school records suggests that Orwell's "Big Brother" was at work to create a sanitized version of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. It came as no surprise to me that there was not a single full-scale biography of Oswald published at the time of the fiftieth anniversary.
In our discussion of Oswald in New Orleans in 1953-55, one figure who may be as important as Kudlaty is Ed Voebel. This is the only student to have known both of the Oswalds during the period of their education. And the school where Voebel knew the two boys was Beauregard Junior High.
James
Excellent points! We are really dealing with multiple layers of conflicting evidence about Oswald. As you suggest, it is like studying the autopsy X-rays and trying to link them to what the eyewitnesses observed at Bethesda. In attempting to understand Oswald, the work is closer to archaeology in digging through the following:
(1) the phony evidence from 1938-1959 when the identities of the two boys were merged to create a legend for the Oswald Project in the CIA's false defector program;
(2) the phony evidence from the summer of 1963 through November 22, with a string of Oswald impersonations from Mexico City to Dallas; and
(3) the period of November 22, 1963 until the publication of the Warren Report, during which the FBI and the Warren Commission shuffled the Oswald deck of evidence once again.
This is such a "cluster f____" of evidence that is small wonder that there is little agreement on the key issues even in the research community.
You're right about the significance of agents of the government visiting Assistant Principal Frank Kudlaty on November 23, 1963. The act of collecting the Stripling school records suggests that Orwell's "Big Brother" was at work to create a sanitized version of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. It came as no surprise to me that there was not a single full-scale biography of Oswald published at the time of the fiftieth anniversary.
In our discussion of Oswald in New Orleans in 1953-55, one figure who may be as important as Kudlaty is Ed Voebel. This is the only student to have known both of the Oswalds during the period of their education. And the school where Voebel knew the two boys was Beauregard Junior High.
James