Crossing the Evidence Chasm

[Jim Hargrove]

This Mexico City stuff gets messy in a hurry, but I think there is considerable evidence that the Cubans claimed to have photos of someone identifying himself as "Oswald" at the Cuban Embassy/Consulate. Following is from the Armstrong Collection at Baylor.



None too sure the descriptions match the photos we have, however, the HSCA must have taken them seriously, because they reproduced them in a 7/30/78 press release seeking help in identifying the person. John Armstrong believes Azcue gave the photos to Ed Rabel of CBS News; Bill Simpich indicates somewhere that he thinks he has identified the person depicted, but I don't recall the details. There's also this document indicating HSCA's Gary Cornwall got the photos well before the interview referenced above:



Hope above is legible; it won't seem to expand properly.

Anyway, since both Azcue and Duran remembered a short "Oswald" with blond hair inside the Cuban office who didn't look anything like the "Oswald" killed by Jack Ruby, and since Castro clearly took the "Oswald" sighting seriously, it seems hard to deny that someone--however bizarrely--was trying to sheep deep Oswald and Cuba yet again. Had none of this happened, I suspect Castro would have said so. Why wouldn't he?