Anyone want to discuss HARVEY & LEE?

[Jim Hargrove]

The plot to kill President Kennedy and blame it on Castro is clearly underway by Aug 9, '63, when, under the watchful eyes and recording devices of a host of government agents and informants, Russian-speaking Harvey Oswald begins his Viva Castro/Fair Play for Cuba charade in front of Clay Shaw's Trade Mart in New Orleans. As DJ points out, American-born Lee Oswald is in Dallas during this period and is probably the guy who, just a few weeks later, shows up at the Texas home of Robert McKeown, big-time gunrunner and close personal friend of Fidel Castro. Had Lee Oswald been able to purchase a gun from McKeown, does anyone doubt it would have been "found" on the Sixth Floor of the TSBD? Had that happened and become public knowledge, it probably would have been impossible for LBJ and Hoover to shut down the investigation and prevent an invasion of Cuba.

The rest of the plot comes along now in pretty quick succession. In September, former Army intel agent Richard Case Nagell knows something is up and gets himself arrested so he'll have an iron-clad alibi. The whole-Oswald-in-Mexico-City-setting-up-an-assassination-via-Castro paper file extravaganza allegedly begins at about the same time. Then there is a final bit of hocus-pocus just to make sure historians are forever confused. From Armstrong's November in Dallas 1997 speech:

From September 25 thru October 5th Oswalds can be found in New Orleans,

Mexico City, Dallas, Houston, and a number of small towns near Alice,

Texas at the same time. These multiple sightings have confused

researchers for years and continue to confuse us today. The available

evidence simply does not allow us to accurately pinpoint which Oswald was

at a particular location at a given time. What is obvious from the

multiple, concurrent, Oswald sightings is the unseen hand of a covert

intelligence operation.

With the Terrible Twosome now intractably intertwined and the public record forever confused, the final, familiar to all of us set-up occurs in Dallas, almost certainly conducted by Lee Oswald, the proud owner of a Texas driver's license. The numerous appearances at the Sports Drome Rifle Range, the Statler Hilton, Morgan's gun shop, Dial Ryder gun shop, Downtown Lincoln Mercury (despite the Big Money Lee claimed he would soon receive, do you think the dealership would let Harvey Oswald drive without seeing a license?), the Southland Hotel's Allright Parking (where Lee conspicuously asked if there was a good view of downtown from the roof), the hitch-hiking Oswald with the four-foot long package picked up by the unfortunate Mr. Yates, and on and on. If it wasn't American-born Lee Oswald who did all this, who else could it be? One person who can surely be excluded from the list is Russian-speaking Harvey Oswald, who was working at the TSBD.

When you look at it this way, it really isn't all that complicated. Had J. Edgar Hoover run an honest investigation, it would have all been sorted out in a matter of weeks.