Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico

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July 1988 - Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/gary-shaw-on-jfk-assassination.html

Cover-Up by Gary Shaw: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0918487633?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link...

The Second Oswald by Richard H. Popkin: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010ZIBOG?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link...

While Ruth Paine drove Marina back to Dallas in late September 1963, Oswald lingered in New Orleans for two more days waiting to collect a $33 unemployment check. It has never been conclusively established precisely when Oswald left New Orleans, or what mode of transportation he took. He is next known to have boarded a bus in Houston, but instead of heading north to Dallas, he took a bus southwest towards Laredo and the U.S.-Mexico border. Once in Mexico he hoped to continue to Cuba, a plan he openly shared with other passengers on the bus. Arriving in Mexico City, he completed a transit visa application at the Cuban Embassy, claiming he wanted to visit the country on his way back to the Soviet Union. The Cubans insisted the Soviet Union would have to approve his journey to the USSR before he could get a Cuban visa, but he was unable to get speedy co-operation from the Soviet embassy.

After shuttling back and forth between consulates for five days, getting into a heated argument with the Cuban consul, making impassioned pleas to KGB agents, and coming under at least some CIA interest, Oswald was told by the Cuban consul that "as far as [he] was concerned [he] would not give him a visa" and that "a person like him [Oswald] in place of aiding the Cuban Revolution, was doing it harm." However, less than three weeks later, on October 18 the Cuban embassy in Mexico City finally approved the visa, and 11 days before the assassination Oswald wrote a letter to the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C., which said, "Had I been able to reach the Soviet Embassy in Havana as planned, the embassy there would have had time to complete our business."

Oswald left Mexico City on October 3, and returned by bus to Dallas, where he looked for employment. Through Ruth Paine he found a job filling book orders at the Texas School Book Depository, where he started work on October 16. During the week, he lived in a rooming house on Beckley Street in Dallas (under the pseudonym O.H. Lee), and spent the weekends with his wife at the Paine home in Irving, Texas, about 15 miles (24 km) from central Dallas. On October 20, the Oswalds' second daughter was born. During this period, the FBI was aware of Oswald's whereabouts in Texas, and agents from the Dallas office twice visited the Paine home in early November when Oswald was not present, hoping to get more information about Marina Oswald, whom the FBI suspected of being a Soviet agent.

On November 16, a local newspaper reported that President Kennedy's motorcade would be going through central Dallas on November 22, "probably on Main Street" one block from the Texas School Book Depository, which it would have to pass to get onto the freeway to the President's luncheon site. This was confirmed by exact descriptions of the motorcade route published on November 19. On Thursday, November 21, Oswald asked Buell Wesley Frazier, a co-worker, for a ride to Irving, saying he had to pick up some curtain rods. The next morning, after leaving $170 and his wedding ring, he returned to Dallas with Frazier, carrying a long paper bag with him.

Oswald was last seen by a co-worker alone on the sixth floor of the depository about 30 minutes before the assassination.

Oswald shot John F. Kennedy and two other people at 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963, resulting in the death of Kennedy. The 1964 Warren Commission report on the John F. Kennedy assassination concluded that those bullets came from a 6.5 millimeter Italian carbine with a four-power scope that Oswald fired from a window on the sixth floor of the book depository warehouse as the President's motorcade passed through Dallas's Dealey Plaza.

Texas Governor John Connally was also seriously wounded along with assassination witness James Tague who received a minor facial injury. Shortly after midnight on November 23, in an impromptu news conference, Oswald denied shooting and killing either President Kennedy or Officer J. D. Tippit.

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  • @Pismodd you seriously need your head examined if you think that

  • The Cuban Exile mentioned at 3:06 would be Antonio Veciana, and the case officer would be David Atlee Phillips aka Maurice Bishop, Michael Choaden, Mr. White, or whatever other alias he chose to use that day. Phillips was definitely high ranking, rising to Chief of the Western Hemisphere.

  • Ive seen those pictures. Its like comparing a before and after pictorials of Carson Daily. Different body builds.

  • Great video. Oswald's employment at the TSBD - specifically how he got the job throws up some, as yet, unanswered questions. It seems, according to James Douglass' book, that there may have been more to Paine's involvement in exactly how she got the job for Oswald and that Paine was not the only person trying to find work for LHO.There were other jobs on offer to LHO from other sources which LHO mysteriously did not hear about or wasn't allowed to hear about. See J.Douglass' book.

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