Ford finally told the Truth

[Jim Hargrove]

I just read (or maybe re-read) Ford's Portrait of the Assassin a couple of months ago, and I was surprised that it really was more interesting than a typical Lone Nutter screed today. It certainly does nothing to examine how bad much of the evidence was against Oswald, but still.... Most of us are familiar with the startling opening page.


Ford wrote that just as the WC was getting started, Rankin got a call from Waggoner Carr, the Attorney General of Texas, who said that LHO was an "undercover agent" for the FBI. On the second page, Ford wrote:


"The information was that Lee Oswald was actually hired by the FBI; that he was assigned the undercover-agent number 179; that he was on the FBI payroll at two hundred dollars a month starting in September 1962 and that he was still on their payroll the day he was apprehended at the Texas Theater...."


Very early on, Ford also explains how Marguerite, Pravda and others believed that LHO was a CIA spy.


Most of us are familiar with this beginning, but unless I dozed off later in the book somewhere, I missed the part where Ford flat-out denies the charges. Saw some innuendos for sure, but no clear, definite denial. I kept thinking it would be there somewhere, but I sure didn't find it. Can anyone point me to the page I must have missed?


Also, my copy of Ford's book contains this inscription on the first interior page.







Does that look legit?