04-01-2014, 03:04 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:But Jim, why do you think Shaw put himself out there trying to get Oswald a lawyer, rather than cutting him loose? If he had kept quiet, he might never have been put on trial.
And I think a better explanation for the Clinton incident is COINTELPRO (probably for Banister's organization). CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) was attracting national press attention at the time with voter registration of blacks in the South. Clinton, Louisiana was one of those hotspots.
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."
If Oswald was involved in agent provocateur assignments (like trying to discredit the FPCC), this may have been part of that effort. They may have wanted to link CORE with "Castro supporters" like Oswald to "prove" that the civil rights movement was communist-directed. For whatever reason, it didn't go very far before Oswald was sent back to Dallas. I don't know why Clay Shaw would be there.
If they only wanted to get him a job at the state hospital, a) I don't know how being a registered voter would help him get a job (have you ever heard of such a thing?) and b) Oswald could have registered to vote in New Orleans where he lived. Why drive to a civil rights hotspot like Clinton?
The three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964 belonged to CORE. When they disappeared, the local authorities said, "This is all a hoax. Those boys are probably hiding out in Cuba."
http://www.crmvet.org/docs/63-64_core_violence.pdf
I don't think that is the way to look at the evidence today.
For the simple reasons that, today 1.) We know Shaw was Bertrand, and 2.) We know that he called Andrews.
In my view, these are certainties today.
As per why he made the call, I have always felt that he knew he had deniability because he made it as Bertrand, and secondly because he also knew Andrews would be tractable.