Burroughs Saw Two Oswalds Arrested at Texas Theater

[Drew Phipps]

Since you invited this issue, and since I seem to be the sole voice of reason on this twin Oswalds issue, I'd merely like to point out that Burroughs apparently (since it seems many "corrections" were made to the WC transcript) described his whereabouts in a very different way to the Warren Commission. He did not testify at the HSCA. In addition, he waited until 2007 (45 years?), when Douglass interviewed him, to tell this version of events to anyone.

No doubt you regulars don't need reminding, but for the lurkers and curious among us, John Armstrong published "Harvey and Lee" in 1999. Bernard Haire went public with his recollection of a second arrest "out the back" of the theater in 1987. T.F. White (a reporter) and Roger Craig (a deputy sheriff), at least, went public with their sightings of a second Oswald within days of the event. Bill Kelley again revived the Mathers/Plymouth story in the early 1990's. So, by 2007, Burroughs had decades of opportunity to become familiar with the circulating rumors of a second Oswald. I also recall Douglass stating that Burrough's 2007 recollection of a second arrest was "surprising."

I don't know if John interviewed Burroughs for his book before 1999. I have no recollection of a Burroughs interview from "Harvey and Lee."

I expect that the classified Mathers testimony from the HSCA (concerning a car in which an Oswald look-alike was spotted after the arrest), when declassified (hopefully in 2017), will shed some light on the connection between Collins Radio (who leased a boat, allegedly used to ship guns and assassins to Cuba, which was captured by Fidel Castro) with Jack Ruby (a former gun runner to Fidel Castro), and with Oswald, who, in 1963, actually visited the home of an executive of Collins Radio (Admiral Bruton) in the company of DeMorenschildt. Perhaps this bit of information will lead us to a real person who had opportunity and motive to impersonate Oswald.