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Lee Oswald's right-wing friends

Lee Oswald's mother believed that her son worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. At that time the CIA was going through a very violent period in its history with close connections with mobsters, and right-wing fanatics. The CIA had a bad history of conspiring in assassination plots, bribing the news media, and other lawless behavior. The Wikipedia article on the CIA details some of the history.

Lee Oswald came from a family connected with organized crime in New Orleans and was in the Civil Air Patrol until he was 17. The Civil Air Patrol is an auxiliary branch to the United States Air Force. There he met right-wing fanatic, David Ferrie, who was connected with both mobsters and the Central Intelligence Agency in New Orleans. Oswald later connected up again with Ferrie in the months leading up to the Kennedy assassination. At the time Kennedy was murdered Ferrie was working for a mob boss in New Orleans that wanted Kennedy dead.

This was explored for the first time in any detail by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Ferrie died a sudden death before he had to testify.

Another right-wing Texan by the name of George de Mohrenschildt, who had a number of ties with the CIA and had close ties with very wealthy Texas right wingers, became Oswald's best friend in the year before the assassination. George de Mohrenschildt reportedly committed suicide after being contacted by the House Select Committee on Assassinations about his ties with Oswald. The Wikipedia article on de Mohrenschildt discusses this briefly.

At 17, Oswald went into the Marines as did his older brother whom he idolized. Oswald was stationed at an air base in Japan where the CIA operated its U-2 spy plane flights over Russia. It was there in the Marines that Oswald learned to speak Russian.

Oswald then unexpectedly "defected" to the Soviet Union and then returned to the United States, and got back together with right wing fanatics.

This background of Oswald as developed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations needs to be presented in the Oswald article along with the assumptions in the article that he really was a Communist.

The oddest thing about Oswald is that if he were a Communist, he never seemed to have any Communist friends. Once we get some of this information into the article it will provide the reader other significant viewpoints of Oswald than was presented 42 years ago by the Warren Commission.

There are plenty of sources. Looking back on the "history" of this article, I’ve noticed time and again that reliable information backed up by reliable sources is deleted because some one doesn't like it. One point that is repeatedly taken out of any assassination article is information that didn’t become public until fairly recently:

• • "But when LBJ then asked "Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico in September," an event of no little interest to the inner circles of government, Hoover replied "No, that's one angle that's very confusing for this reason. We have up here the tape and the photograph of the man who was at the Soviet Embassy, using Oswald's name. The picture and the tape do not correspond to this man's voice, nor to his appearance. In other words, it appears that there is a second person who was at the Soviet Embassy down there." In other words, an imposter had implicated Oswald in a relationship with Soviet agents, less than two months before the assassination.”

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I will try again now that November 22 is coming up again and many students and others will be reading the Kennedy Assassination related articles.

RPJ 06:26, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Ferrie died almost 10 years before the HSCA convened. Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 18:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Ferrie's untimely death came just before the Garrison trial with whom Ferrie allegedly conspired.

RPJ 04:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Rebuttal to information of Oswald's right wing friends

There is NO credible evidence that Oswald connected with Ferrie again just before the assassination. The witness testimony was later admitted to be completely lied about, or else from people who did not know the men personally at the time, which kind of testimony we've since learned is worthless. All indended comments here are mine, and further margin comments are RPJ's SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ferrie died long, long before the HSCA hearings. He had a brain hemorrhage after telling the FBI he didn't even remember or know Oswald.SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

So? de Mohrenschildt was hardly Oswald's best friend by anybody's account, including de Mohrenschildt's. And what's the point of discussing him? His main place in history is as a recipient of an Oswald backyard rifle picture, signed by Oswald. So much for the fake. SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Oswald studied Russian informally from the mid 50's on. And never was very good at it. SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

de Mohrenschildt as right wing fanatic? Come, now. And there is no good evidence that Oswald had anything to do with Ferrie or Banister, despite Oliver Stone's fantasies. SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Earth to RPJ. He really was a Communist. Just not a Soviet-believer by that time. SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Communist friends are hard to find in Texas. Oswald found as many Russophiles as he could, including Ruth Paine and de Morhenschildt. As a right winger, De M would hardly have found the backyard photo funny, nor would Oswald have sent it. But he did. And he did take that shot at rapidly right wing General Walker. Does that sound like a CIA plan? SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

”Less than 24 hours after the assassination of President Kennedy, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the new President Johnson on the state of the investigation. Noting that the evidence against [Oswald] is "not very very strong", Hoover reported on the tracing of the rifle to an alias of Oswald and other details implicating him in the shooting.

That must be a dictation error. By that time, Hoover would have been saying IS very, very strong. SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Another FBI screwup, and another Hoover premature and confused summary, just to have smoke to blow. None of this made it into any final reports. SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ferrie would have sailed through the Garrison trial even better than Shaw did, having great alibies. Garrison's lucky the man stroked out. Poor Ferrie's rep is not so lucky. SBHarris 06:21, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

— Marina was a virtual single mother with two babies, with little ability to speak English. Describing Ruth Paine as Right Wing seems odd. She was a pacifist Quaker during the Cold War who wanted to learn Russian for World Peace. Something that today would pass for Progressive. I think de Mohrenshildt's friendship would be similar to Paines, sympathetic to Marina and tolerant of LHO. What did LHO have to offer Right Wing elements ? As little as Left Wing, he had no technical skills, no social skills, little prospect of being a mole somewhere useful. Yes, a bright person can fake dysfunction, but LHO's dysfunction goes back a long way into childhood. I don't see why anyone would invest their trust in him. I am not convinced his sad bio was all a trick.Hrothgar 17:16, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Was a right winger Oswald’s “best friend?”

• Besides knowing right wing fanatic David Ferrie, who worked for the CIA and the New Orleans mob boss, the House Select Committee on Assassinations pointed out that Oswald considered de Mohrenschildt his “best friend” and in return de Mohrenschildt considered Oswald a good friend. This was odd since de Mohrenschildt also had extreme right wing leanings. His Nazi leanings are discussed in the House Report in 1979. [2]

• The HSCA Report which went deeply into this strange relationship. In fact, de Mohrenschildt felt that one of the senators implied that he and Oswald had a homosexual relationship, but de Mohrenschildt claimed this was not so. He said they were just good friends he said.

• The Congressional Committee’s report noted that de Mohrenschildt died of a gunshot wound on the day the committee investigator contacted him: “Apparent suicide.”

• de Mohrenschildt said he had conferred with the CIA before befriending Oswald and was told “He is ok.” For help given to the CIA, de Mohrenschildt believed that he received some valuable business deals in Haiti. This is all in the government report. [3]

• This Report should help clarify Oswald's background and give substance to what Oswald's mother believed that he was a CIA agent recruited while in the Civil Air Patrol as a teen ager (probably by David Ferrie who was notorious pedophile). This would explain why Oswald was stationed at CIA bases when he was in the Marines. If Oswald's mother was correct, Oswald was an agent that went undercover and then used as a "patsy" by the right wing fanatics when they killed the President.RPJ 09:14, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

RPJ 07:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

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I deleted the following information because I could find no source supporting it. Please find a reliable source for it. Thanks

“ On Monday, April 1, after six months of work, Oswald's supervisor terminated Oswald's employment at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall, after seeing him reading a Russian satiric magazine (Krokodil or Crocodile, named for its political bite) in the cafeteria. ”

Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 17:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

The "Magic Bullet" : Was Oswald framed?

Now we can give the full picture on each of the alternative theories on the origin of the "Magic Bullet." Oswald claimed he was framed and didn't murder the President. Then Oswald was murdered. Now he is blamed for the President's murder by the Warren Commission whose conclusion rests on a "magic bullet." From where did the "magic bullet" come. The three theories are:

• The Magic Bullet came out of the body of Governor Connally:
  • Although [Hospital employee]Tomlinson was not certain whether the bullet came from the Connally stretcher or the adjacent one, the Commission has concluded that the bullet came from the Governor's stretcher. Warren Report

• The Magic Bullet came out of the body of JFK:
  • A week after the assassination, J. Edgar Hoover told President Johnson that the "matching" bullet came out of Kennedy--not Connally-- when Kennedy was given heart massage. FBI [4]

• The Magic Bullet was planted to frame Oswald, by Jack Ruby (who then went on to murder Oswald):

• • The bullet that is said to have inflicted seven wounds in two men, breaking a rib and shattering a wrist, was found in near-pristine condition on a stretcher in Parkland Hospital after the wounded men had been rushed there for treatment. It came complete with the rifling marks of Oswald's weapon. The Commission was so worried about the implication of a "planted" bullet that it refused to believe that Jack Ruby was at the hospital at a time when he could have placed the bullet on the stretcher, even though [Seth Kantor] a respected journalist who knew Ruby swore to the Commission that he spoke with Ruby at the hospital, a story corroborated by a second witness who saw Ruby there. Skeptics [5] RPJ 07:36, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, give it up. The idea of the bullet coming from JFK was based on the report of two FBI agents at the autopsy, and was out of date already when they wrote it, and certainly by the time Hoover used it. This is exactly the reason such stuff shouldn't go in the article. The doctors had called Dallas trying frantically to figure out the non-penetrating neck wound and were told of the intact stretcher bullet, but NOT of the throat exit hole. So they made a preliminary guess about the heart massage taking out a non-penetrating intact back-bullet. Only later, when it was found from fibers that the front throat hole not only existed but was an exit, with X-ray air connected the two holes in the neck, did the doctors learn better, and figure it out. (Also, the Warren Commission found the stretcher bullet could not have come from JFK's stretcher, whereever it came from, at least if the man who found it was to be believed). Hoover at this time was still in the dark. So sad. SBHarris 19:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, Ruby shot Oswald, after first stopping off to wire a little bit of help-money to a stripper (who cares if you're about to murder a man? You gotta do what you gotta do...). Which act would actually have made him late for the assassination, had the Oswald transfer not happened to ALSO have been late. Great plan, there, Ruby, but you lucked out. And Ruby took his dog along and left it in the car. Maybe he thought it would enjoy sitting out there after he was arrested; or maybe he thought they were going to quickly give him a medal and let him go home with it. Yeah, I see evidence of a massively powerful mind in Ruby, all right. ;) If he planted the magic bullet at Parkland, I can well imagine him getting the wrong stretcher. SBHarris 19:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

The above editor's ideas on presenting the three possible theories on the "magic" bullet are unclear. Which, if any, of the three theories does he want to keep out. Remember, 1) some believe the Magic bullet was planted by Jack Ruby or some one else before Ruby killed Oswald; 2) some, such as the FBI, think the bullet came from Kennedy's body; and 3) some believe the bullet came from Connally's body.

Consistent with web site policy, I think all three theories should be included. I provided the reliable citations.

Since, the editor above who might be oppossing the inclusion of all three, provides no citations for the information he cites, nor does he clarify what theories he wants to keep out of the article, he should try to clarify his position and provide reliable sources. RPJ 19:36, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I must've missed the reliable citations. Ten people seeing Jack Ruby at Parkland Hospital would not consitute any evidence that Ruby planted CE399. It would only constitute evidence that Ruby visited Parkland Hospital. If (however) we had anybody placing Ruby anywhere near the stretcher where the bullet was found (which was some distance from both JFK and Connally) that would be another matter, since that actually might implicate Ruby at the expense of the other hundreds of people who passed through that hospital that day (though even this would be weak). But I know of no such testimony. Ruby was known to be interested in police matters, crimes, and anything going on. Given that, he had just as much reason and to be hanging around the places where things were happening in Dallas, as any reporter, or any interested citizen.

As for any good evidence that CE399 came out of JFK, I know of none. This bullet (unless it walked by itself for 90 yards) had no way to get from JFK to the stretcher where it was found, if you believe the testimony of the man who found it. But if you don't believe him, then why don't you? (And what basis do you have in doubting the testimony of a man who has no reason to lie, and who YOU have no reason to believe is lying? If you have it, cite it). We know the THEORY that the bullet came from JFK was invented by a somewhat frustrated and tired doctor late in an autopsy, to explain apparent absence of an exit wound, and with new knowledge that an intact rifle bullet had just been found on a stretcher at Parkland (but not which stretcher). When that doctor found out next morning that there was an exit wound, and the stretcher was and never had been anywhere near JFK, he abandoned this theory, which now had no evidence to support it. It nevertheless survived in an FBI report made during the autopsy, and (then) apparently in the views of the FBI director (for a time), before finally disappearing forever, except in the hearts of certain people who do not like to change their minds when confronted by new facts. Do you suggest we give all historical theories space in Wikipedia, even those which were made in a rush, on the basis of assumptions later shown and known to be false? Why? SBHarris 01:27, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

There are a small number of people that still believe the Warren Report

Above is a person who still believes the Warren Report. That is his right. Also it is proper to put in the Oswald article the Warren Report theory of the "magic" bullet, both where the Warren Report theorized it came from and its odd ballistic qualities. I'm not sure if that person wants to exclude some or part of the three viewpoints on the "magic" bullet.

The policy of this web site is neutrality: In other words all three viewpoints should be included and allow the reader to decide.

Therefore, all three theories should go into the article.

RPJ 07:36, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm probably going to regret wasting words on you, but:

1. The idea that Ruby or anyone else planted the bullet is pure conjecture backed by nothing. It is no more a "viewpoint" than the idea that Kennedy faked his own death and now lives on the planet Tralfamadore with Elvis.

2. What makes you think that you have the right to add that phony header to SBH's response above? That's just wrong. Joegoodfriend 08:58, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

You can believe anything you want to believe.

I moved what he wrote. The editor took it upon himself to intersperse what I had written with a number of his comments. That is similar to butting in while a person is speaking. One sees this all the time on the TV talk shows where people rudely don't even let people finish what they are trying to say, but instead try to drown them out.RPJ 09:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

You may have yourself confused with Geraldo Rivera. Indeed, on a TV talk show you otherwise wouldn't be allowed to go on with point after point, for as long as you liked, with nobody interrupting you. Also, you're not an invited political speaker at a luncheon here. And I'm sorry, but this is not a wedding at which you're either preacher or bride. You rather are here as one among equals, and in an actual group of such equal people at a function, if you insisted on long speeches to everyone with no interruptions, then YOU would be viewed as the boor, and rightly so. We have Robert's Rules of Order to deal with such boors in actual social situations involving real-time debate (which this isn't). Thus, in your case, I'd leave the whole "conversation metaphor" alone, because you're on the wrong side of it.

That said, this is actually not a real-time conversation, but a point-by-point debate in print. In which it's often easier to intersperse comments to differing points, for ease of following by those reading and adding after. You might not like that style of point by point nested rebuttal, but that's too bad. It's done and accepted, and it's not going to change for you. SBHarris 19:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I moved his comments down to its own spot and gave it a header. If he didn't like the header he should have made his own. RPJ 09:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'll be glad to make offensive headers for your comments, and move them around if I don't like them. But I think it would be a violation of WP:POINT. In any case, as others have told you, quit it.SBHarris 19:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Don't stick offensive headers onto other people's comments. Consider that an official administrative warning. Restrict your comments to article content and stop giving us your opinions about other editors. We're all well aware of what you think about the rest of us. Gamaliel 07:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

To what do you refer, when you say the offensive offensive header?

And whom do you include within the definition of "the rest of us."

What opinion do you claim is incorrect?

RPJ 08:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Your approach of constantly feigning ignorance when you are called on your offensive behavior is both tiresome and unconvincing. If you really were confused about the nature you could have easily checked the edit history where you would have immediately seen the edit where I removed the header you created. You have no problem digging up quotes from other editors when it is to your advantage, so your claim of ignorance here fools no one. You have been blocked for this type of behavior many times in the past. Restrict your comments to article content and do not attack other editors. Gamaliel 18:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

The information below was deleted and no reason given

This information was deleted for no stated reason:

Back in the United States, the Oswalds settled in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Oswald had found a best friend in the well-educated and worldly petroleum geologist George de Mohrenschildt who held extreme right wing views. [6] Marina meanwhile was befriended by a married couple, Ruth Paine and her husband Michael.

• The above information was prepared and published in 1979 by a Congressional Committee called the House Select Committee on Assassinations.[ [7]]

• The citation contains a lengthy report on Lee Oswald’s very close relationship with de Morhenschild. [[8]]

• Oswald’s mother testified before the Warren Commission that she believes Oswald worked for the CIA. Facts already in other parts of the article already suggest that Oswald did work for the CIA and as he claimed was set up as a "patsy" for the murder.

• The citation to the Congressional Report on de Morhenschildt's relationship to Oswald was replaced by information supported by no source; much less a reliable source.

Conclusion:Taking out information based on a reliable citation to a congressional committee report, and replacing it with new information that has no citation to any source does not comply with the policy of the web site that information be supported by reliable sources.

RPJ 19:10, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't know who deleted it, and perhaps they have other reasons. But, once again it appears that you are doing original research. Your consclusions are not born out in the HSCA report. No where in the cite provided does it say that de Mohrenschildt had "extreme right-wing views". Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 19:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

RPJ, your edit summary said you were merely adding a citation, but instead you removed a significant amount of material while adding your own POV pushing. You can't complain about the lack of an edit summary from others if yours are inaccurate or misleading. Gamaliel 19:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

• The identity of the editor who deleted the Report by the Congressional Committee on the Oswald/de Morhrenschildt friendship is below:

• • 14:49, 6 November 2006 Gamaliel (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted edits by RPJ (talk) to last version by Blouis79)

This deleted material is very good:

• If you read the deleted congressional report you will see it is a real eye opener. [9]

• The Congressional Report discusses the very close relationship between accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and George de Mohrenschildt during the time leading up to the assassination.

• The unusual background of Oswald's best friend is discussed in the Congressional Report and will probably be of high interest to those that read the Oswald article.

• The Report discusses de Mohrenschildt's relationship to the the CIA and the periodic debriefings the agency conducted on de Morehschildt.

• de Mohrenschildt purportedly found key circumstantial evidence long after Oswald died but then died of a gunshot wound the day the Congressional investigator contacted him. It was ruled a suicide.

RPJ 23:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

See, but nowhere in your response does the HSCA say that he had right wing views. Cite to the page number where that little info is located, and I'll remove my objection. The HSCA does say that de Mohrenschildt was often accused of and confused with being a Nazi. I guess that is where you are getting your "extreme right wing" viewpoint from, but of course as you know, taken fact A to make point B is synthesis...or in other words...original research. Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 00:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Start the RfC Already

On Friday, RPJ said he was going to seek mediation on the issues of Hoover's telephone conversation. Instead he is now re-arguing those same points on this talk page. RPJ, please begin the appropriate dispute resolution procedures on this issue or desists from making edits which are against the consensus of editors on this page. Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 19:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

On which topic is there a consensus against me?

Ramsquire: Is there a consensus against me on something? Since Friday, I have been working on a "one-on-one" type of resolution at the mediation. This will provide a good faith effort to test out a fundamental position taken by myself and another.

Now, if there is a consensus on an issue against me, I will also take the time to review the matter. Please disclose to me the issue for which there is a consensus and the evidence of the consensus. RPJ 23:32, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

One, two, three, four editors on the JFK assassination page stated why the Hoover call should not go into the article. Now you are bringing up the same argument here. Four out of five editors all having the same opinion constitutes a consensus.

As for your claim about being involved in a mediation process, I have a few questions about it. Why haven't Gamaliel, SBHarris, Mytwocents or I been notified? A look through your edit contributions shows no evidence of you attempting to use Wikipedia's dispute resolution procedures. Since Friday you have only made edits to this article and the JFK assassination article and respective talk pages. Any mediation that does not involve the editors to which you have a dispute is in bad faith, and a waste of time.

Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 00:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

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I took out these two statements. It is little more than hear-say. One is Mae Brussell's recollection of Oswald's denial of shooting anyone. His denial is already covered in the article. The 'fourth backyard photo' story is little more than trivia and the page doesn't suffer without it.

According to the complete collection of Lee Harvey Oswald's last words by Mae Brussell Oswald to his death denied shooting President Kennedy and Officer Tippit.

According to Oswald's mother, Marina Oswald showed her a fourth photo which had Oswald standing in the backyard with the rifle held in the air with both hands. She said that Marina later burned this photo and that she (Oswald's mother) flushed it down the toilet.

Mytwocents 07:02, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Most of what is in any of the articles is hearsay because most of what is said is out side of court. There is no Wikipedia rule prohibiting information unless given under oath and subjected to cross examination.

Also, the fact that Oswald consistently denied guilt makes his denial more persuasive.

• I observed a rifle in the Texas School Book Depository where I work, on Nov. 20, 1963. . . . Mr. Roy Truly, the supervisor, displayed the rifle to individuals in his office on the first floor. . . . I never owned a rifle myself.
• I didn't shoot Pres. John F. Kennedy or Officer J. D. Tippit
• Nothing irritated me about the President."
• John Kennedy had a nice family
• I didn't shoot anyone,
• I never killed anybody."
• "Did you kill the President?" Oswald replied, "No. I did not do it. I did not do it. . . . I did not shoot anyone."
• I didn't shoot John Kennedy I had nothing personal against John Kennedy."
• I'm not guilty.
• Don't believe all the so-called evidence."
• There was another rifle in the building. I have seen it.
• Warren Caster had two rifles, a 30.06 Mauser and a .22 for his son. . . .
• That picture is not mine, but the face is mine.
• I did not kill President Kennedy or Officer Tippit

Finally, If Oswald denied killing the president with his dying words also adds additional persuasiveness to the statement.

The reason this kind of evidence has been admitted as put by Lord Baron Eyre is that “ they are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every [hope] of the world is gone, when every motive to falsehood is silenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful considerations to speak the truth. A situation so solemn and so awful is considered by the law as creating an obligation equal to that which is imposed by a positive oath in the court of justice."RPJ 22:07, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

And now, just exactly why would a person who'd been shot once in the belly with a pistol think themselves in that kind of a situation? Save this kind of reasoning to apply to the words of the guy on the scaffold about to be beheaded. Otherwise, don't bother us with it. SBHarris 01:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Oswald said he was a patsy too. But if you look at the evidence it proves him to be a liar. Just read the section on the J. D. Tibbit murder and his capture in the movie theater and then ask yourself if he killed Tibbit And if he killed Tibbit, it's easier to see from the evidence and testimony, that he killed Kennedy. Limiting the hearsay statements is a way to gain balance in the article. I mean it to avoid tilting the page towards a conspiracy slant, when the facts of the story don't take the page there. Mytwocents 05:24, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Of course he killed Tippit. This is a guy taken in a movie theater trying to murder a cop, as testified to by multiple witnesses. So why's he doing that? The pistol he's using to do it provably belongs to him-- he mailordered it. He didn't even deny ownship of it or carrying it. But that weapon was used to kill Tippit 45 minutes after JFK assassination, at a place on near line between where Oswald lived and where he was arrested. Three brass cases found near Tippit were fired by Oswald's pistol. Four witnesses identified Oswald as the Tippit shooter. It doesn't get much better than that. But many conspiracy theorists still will not believe even the Oswald murder of Tippit. That's how you know they are nutso. SBHarris 10:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

The three main Kennedy assassination theories

The three main Kennedy assassination theories are:

• There was a conspiracy to kill the president
• There was a conspiracy to kill the president and Oswald was not one of the shooters.
• There was a lone gunman named Oswald that killed the president.

Very few people believe the last theory that a lone gunman killed Kennedy. Instead, most polls show the public believes there was a conspiracy and some of those people believe Oswald was part of the conspiracy and some people don't believe he was part of the conspiracy.

• An ABC News poll found that 70 percent of Americans think there was some sort of plot behind the Kennedy assassination and over two-thirds of those Americans believe there was an “official cover up" to hide the truth from the public.

• Less than 1/3 of Americans accept the 1964 finding in the Warren Report that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot Kennedy on November 22 1963. [10]

The evidence supporting Oswald being a participant in the murder and the evidence that rebuts him being a participant should be placed in the article. The evidence will reveal what ever it has to reveal. It is improper to delete information out of the Oswald article because it might, in the reader's mind "tilt" the weight of the evidence against Oswald's participation.

There is no reason why Wikipedia should try, through the deletion of the "tilt" the evidence in any direction. The basic principle of Wikipedia is to remain neutral as fairly present all the viewpoints. RPJ 19:10, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

As long as the "evidence" disproving Oswald's participation is from a reliable source, and the edit is done in a neutral way. It should go into the article and stay in. As it stands now, the article is very clear that Oswald denied any involvement in shooting both Kennedy and Tippit. To list everytime he said it and to whom he said it, however, will give those statements undue weight against the physical evidence that rebuts him. Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 20:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

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“ [The WC] wasn't able to establish a convincing motive for Lee Oswald to murder the president . Prior to Oswald being murdered in police custory Oswald said that “John Kennedy had a nice family;” “ nothing irritated me about the President;" and “ I didn't shoot John Kennedy and I had nothing personal against John Kennedy.” [11] Nevertheless,the Commission ... ”

The following was reverted for the following reasons. Whether or not the WC was able to establish a "convincing" motive is something that needs to be cited to a reliable secondary source. As is, it is original research by an editor and also violates NPOV. The quotes (I personally feel they belong in Wikiquote, and not in the article) need to be cited to a reliable source. A quick review of ratical.org shows it to lack some of the listed requisites of WP:RS. One, there is no evidence of any sort of peer review to check for the accuracy of its contributions. Two, the article seems to be extreme in its views. Such extreme sources are not acceptable except as to be used as a primary source. If there is another source for the Oswald quotes, please cite it to that source, and refrain from adding analysis to your edits. Ramsquire ^{(throw me a line)} 21:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

The quotes are from a book. The People's Almanac #2

David Wallechinsky Irving Wallace Paperback. Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd) 1978-10-31. ISBN: 0553011375 / 0-553-01137-5 EAN: 9780553011371 RPJ 00:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Backyard Photographs

There are two schools of thought on the Backyard Photos. Under one view held by experts, the backyard phots are fakes. Other experts believe the photographs are not fakes. The House Select Committee on Assassinations had some experts advise it the photos were not fakes.

The reader can now decide for him or herself on this issue by showing all the backyard photos and get all the photos on before november 22 when the interest of many students and other readers will be heightened.

The public wants to know the evidence on this. Here is what one reliable source states:

• "One of the most publicized questions to emerge in relation to the Kennedy assassination involves the authenticity of photographs showing Lee Harvey Oswald standing in his backyard, with a holstered pistol strapped to his waist, holding a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle"

• "Oswald himself, when shown the pictures at Dallas Police headquarters after his arrest, insisted they were fakes. Through the years, many critics have argued the same thing. In part the controversy was stimulated by a 1964 Life magazine cover of a copy of one picture, retouched to enhance its quality."

• "If the backyard photographs are valid, they are highly incriminating of Oswald because they apparently link him with the rifle. If they are fakes, how they were produced poses far-area of conspiracy. "Faked" backyard photo[s] indicate a degree of conspiratorial sophistication that would almost necessarily raise the possibility that a highly organized group had conspired to kill the President and make Oswald a "patsy."

These observations point out the reasons for putting in the back yard photo's in detail. RPJ 02:38, 11 November 2006 (UTC)