Lets suppose for a moment that ruth paine wanted an excuse to refer oswald to the tsbd. Oswald applied the next day and got the job, she said. Just as he claimed, oswald was in the secondfloor lunchroom as the shots rang out. Thompsons new book, last second in dallas, comes to a startling conclusion about lee harvey oswald, who was arrested for shooting the president from the 6th floor of the texas school book. Nov 15, 2003 when did lee harvery oswald apply for job in depository, before motorcade route was set. Oswald was somehow planted in the texas school book depository building by ruth paine who asked about a job there unbeknownst to lho on october 3, 1963. The widely publicized photograph taken by associated press photographer james w. Two police officers, lieutenant joseph mooney and officer arthur mandella, and one fbi special agent, sebastian f. A young reporters chance encounter with jfks assassin cbs. But such talk is just pure nonsense of the first order. Hence, oswald was a liar and provably so when it comes to certain portions of his texas school book depository application.
Oswald was hired at the book depository that very day he filled out that application october 15, 1963. Ruth paine who made the call to the book depository on lees behalf and set. The sixth floor museum at dealey plaza is located in what was once the texas school book depository in dallas, the building from which lee harvey oswald shot president john f. Assuming oswald didnt know the motorcade route when he was hired at the book depository doesnt necessarily strengthen the assumption that no one conspiring against kennedy couldve known the details of kennedys visit weeks before 1122. I was curious, conspiracy aside, isnt it a big coincidence that someone with the skill and motivation worked in the building that the parade route was coming by. The myth of oswald at the texas school book depository. Five government investigations n 1 concluded that oswald shot and killed kennedy from the sixth floor of the texas school book depository as the president traveled by motorcade through dealey plaza in dallas. A man many people think strongly resembles lee harvey oswald is pictured standing in the front entrance of the book depository building. Altgens within a few seconds after president kennedy was first shot shows a spectator who bears a strong physical resemblance to lee harvey oswald standing at the west end of the texas school book depository entranceway. About 45 minutes after assassinating kennedy, oswald shot and killed dallas police officer j. The socalled oswald window is sealed from the public.
At a neighbors suggestion, she said, i called the texas school book depository and asked whether they were employing at this time, whether they had an opening. Professor james fetzers edited book murder in dealey plaza claims the following. Shaw trial yesterday that a chance remark led to lee harvey oswalds job on the route of president john. Almost everyone, it seems, has been heard from on the kennedy assassination and on lee harvey oswalds guilt or innocence, except one personlee harvey oswald himself. Oswald had slipped out of the book depository unchallenged after the shooting, walked several blocks, caught a city bus, and then hailed a taxi that took him to his boarding house. Oswald hired by roy truly at texas school book depository oct. Life magazine hired the director of the national rifle association to fire a similar rifle. If lee harvey oswald was part of a conspiracy, then ruth paine, a friend of his familys in dallas, had to be, too, because she alerted oswald to the open job at the texas school book depository. The citation stated that his work in reexamining the second floor encounter of oswald with texas school book depository foreman roy truly and motorcycle officer marrion baker utilized a broad array of new data, including documents and statements of the participants and a variety of. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million books we use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Oswald hired by roy truly at texas school book depository. Oswald was hired at the book depository that very day he filled out. It is difficult to understand oswalds trek if you believe this was a man with a plan. The report issued by the house select committee on assassinations states.
He alone, among all of the witnesses, is supposed to have seen oswald on the sixth floor of the book depository during the lunch hour. Nov 22, 2017 was jackie hired by the cia to kill jfk. Brief in defense of lee harvey oswald turning the tide. The building was lee harvey oswald s vantage point in his assassination of united states president john f. Oswald, an employee at the depository, shot and killed president kennedy from a sixth floor window on the buildings southeastern corner. I was curious, conspiracy aside, isnt it a big coincidence that someone with the skill and motivation worked in the building that the parade route was coming.
Nov 23, 2012 oswald was hired at the book depository that very day he filled out that application october 15, 1963. While it is true that the kennedy tour through texas including dallas had been announced initially in dallas papers in september of 1963, a. Lee harvey oswalds application to work at the texas school book. Oswald heard about the possibility that he could find a job at the texas schoolbook depository in october, and he was hired on october 15. Kennedy still has questions about what led up to the tragedy in dealey plaza. These individuals were among the book depository employees closest to lee harvey oswald. Cyclists get a handle on oswalds oak cliff route after jfk assassination by sherry jacobson, dallas morning news, feb 2, 2009 when lee harvey oswald fled the texas school book depository on that fateful day in 1963, he didnt realize that a group of local history buffs on bicycles would retrace his footsteps nearly 46 years later. Paine informed oswald, who was interviewed at the depository and was hired. The myth of oswald at the texas school book depository doorway. The next morning roy truly interviews oswald, the texas school book depository employs him, and he would not have secured his job at the texas school book depository unless randall by chance mentioned the job to ruth paine. When oswald called marina she told him about the opening. Ruth paine said that her neighbor told her, on october 14, that there was a job opening at the texas school book depository, where her neighbors brother, wesley frazier, worked.
Lee harvey oswald, a 24yearold dallas citizen, was accused of the slaying. According to scotty restons investigation, the route selected for the motorcade was not set until a week before the visit, when the location for the luncheon, the trade mart, was decided. From the time of oswalds arrest to his own assassination at the hands of jack ruby, no formal transcript or record was kept of statements made by the alleged killer. This group of workers appeared in a photograph taken by. According to the official story put out by the warren commission, the fatal shot was one of three fired by lone assassin lee harvey oswald from the sixth floor of the texas school book depository. I did carry a package to the texas school book depository. Jfk facts lee harvey oswalds application to work at the. Oswald who was the man who shot and killed president john kennedy in 1963 was somehow planted in the texas school book depository building by scheming plotters who were manipulating oswalds every move to suit their patsyserving conspiratorial needs. At the time of his hiring, while it was known that president kennedy was planning a visit to dallas, his motorcade route had not yet been determined. Essay rewriting history bugliosi parses the testimony.
Oswald traveled between dallas and irving on weekends in a car driven by a neighbor of the. The frameup also included the planting of commission exhibit 399, the magic bullet which matched oswald s rifle, and the laydown of that junky weapon and matching shells near the socalled snipers nest in the book depository. Oswald was a temporary employee of the texas book depository, hired five weeks early on october 15, 1963. When was lee harvey oswald employed at texas schoolbook. Lets take a look at one of the more popular ones, which was first sparked 50 years ago tuesday october 15, 1963 when lee harvey oswald was hired to work at the texas school book depository, which overlooks elm street, where the assassination would soon occur. How long before jfks assassination did lee harvey oswald work.
Lee harvey oswald planted in the book depository before 1122. He was being held for the assassination of president kennedy and. The presidents intention to make a political trip to dallas on november 2122 was announced in september, 1963. Lee harvey oswald october 18, 1939 november 24, 1963 was an american marxist and. Truly that a motorcade was going to take president kennedys car directly past the front door of the book. Last year at the jfk lancer conference in dallas, bart kamp was awarded the new frontier award. Inside the world of jfk conspiracy theories new york post. Apr 11, 2006 discover book depository s huge selection of oswald spengler books online. Randle had not mentioned to ruth paine that oswald might get a job there. During october and november of 1963, lee harvey oswald lived in a roominghouse in dallas while his wife and children lived in irving, at the home of ruth paine,1 approximately 15 miles from oswald s place of work at the texas school book depository. How i figured out that lee harvey oswald killed jfk. Truly that a motorcade was going to take president kennedys car directly past the front door of the book depository on november 22nd.
On anniversary of his assassination conspiracy theory suggests it was kennedys wife who shot him and claims that footage seems to show something metallic. A recurring theory has been that there were two oswalds one the birth lee harvey oswald, and another a lookalike substituted for the real lee oswald by some sinister people for some sinister reason. Oswald was down on his luck upon his return from mexico city on october 3, 1963. It is difficult to understand oswald s trek if you believe this was a man with a plan. Oswald was hired oct 16th, but the route was changed a week before the visit. President kennedys car directly past the front door of the book depository on. Oswald not the assassin based on a test i conducted inside the texas school book depository building, i was able to ascertain that oswald could not have been the assassin at the window named after him. Nov 15, 20 the 19yearold who drove lee harvey oswald to work the day he allegedly assassinated president john f. Two days later oswald was shot to death by jack ruby, a local nightclub owner with connections to the criminal underworld, in the basement of a dallas police station. The last words of lee harvey oswald, compiled by mae. In july 1962, oswald was hired by the leslie welding company in dallas. Lee harvey oswald planted in the book depository before 11. Brian was a detective for the dpd, and he did provide wc testimony but not with respect to this topic of the copy of the lho job application. Latona, concluded that a fingerprint and a palmprint found on the long bag belonged to lee harvey oswald.
At the time, he was riding in an open limousine moving away from the gunman at a horizontal velocity of 11. As the men on the 6th floor moved around, dust fell between the gaps in the floor boards and onto the heads of the 3 men on the 5th floor. Questions still haunt coworker who drove oswald to work. Who saw lee harvey oswald in the tsbd sixthfloor window. Dec 29, 20 oswald innocence committee members statement. In early october 1963, oswald obtained employment at the texas school book depository solely by chance due to a conversation that his wife had with neighbors over coffee. Cyclists get a handle on oswald s oak cliff route after jfk assassination by sherry jacobson, dallas morning news, feb 2, 2009 when lee harvey oswald fled the texas school book depository on that fateful day in 1963, he didnt realize that a group of local history buffs on bicycles would retrace his footsteps nearly 46 years later. It helps, first of all, to know about oswalds history in the preceding 12.
Oswald s connections to the murder weapon and assassination location. A number of witnesses saw oswald at the window of the sixth floor of the texas school book depository. Jfk and lee harvey oswald sites then and now dallas texas. The texas school book depository, now known as the dallas county administration building, is a sevenfloor building facing dealey plaza in dallas, texas. Discover book depository s huge selection of pete oswald books online. If it is, in fact, oswald, he could not have been on the sixth floor of the building when the shots were fired. Lee harvey oswalds tsbd application showing oswalds. We, the members of the oswald innocence campaign, maintain that at the time of president kennedys assassination, lee harvey oswald was standing in the doorway of the texas school book depository, where he was photographed by james ike altgens, which is clearly evident upon close examination of the photograph.
Dave perrys notes from unsolved historys jfk segment. Oswald was hired to work at the texas school book depository. I carried my lunch, a sandwich and fruit, which i made at paines house. Kennedy in dealey plaza the warren commission would conclude that oswald acted alone in slaying the president. Kennedys and king anatomy of the second floor lunchroom. He unknowingly set in motion a chain of events that would end with the assassination of president john f. Sixth floor museum at dealey plaza and president kennedy. And it wasnt oswald who shot from the texas school book depository building. The decision to have a motorcade through the city wasnt finalized until weeks after oswalds midoctober tsbd hiring, when such a parade through downtown dallas was approved by none. Lee harvey oswald texas school book depository employee. Lee harvey oswald last steps lee ann torrans gardening. Oswald heard about the possibility that he could find a job at the texas schoolbook depository in october, and he was hired on october 15, starting work on the 16th. In other words, assume lho is indeed hired and working at the tsbd, but the parade route. Fifty years ago, newsman pierce allman went into the book depository to look for a phone when he ran into lee harvey oswald, who had moments ago shot the president.
Apr 21, 2016 hence, oswald was a liar and provably so when it comes to certain portions of his texas school book depository application. Oswalds employment with the texas school book depository came about through a. Lee harvey oswald visited by mother, marguerite oswald, and wife, marina oswald to his mother. I looked up at the texas book depository building and noticed that the second floor from the top had two. Unite press witness tells how oswald got book depository job. Book depository is the worlds most international online bookstore offering over 20 million books with free delivery worldwide. Lners like to argue that the way oswald got a job at the tsbd is further proof of no conspiracy. The career of lee harvey oswald summary lee oswald s defection to the soviet union in 1959, his activity in new orleans in the summer of 1963, and his interest in purchasing guns, all indicate some level of involvement with us intelligence. The last words of lee harvey oswald, compiled by mae brussell.
Many believers of the truth believe that lee harvey oswald was somehow planted in the texas school book depository building by ruth paine who asked about a job there unbeknownst to lho on october 3, 1963. Aug 30, 2017 discover book depository s huge selection of peter oswald books online. Mar 01, 2020 less than an hour earlier, police had arrested lee harvey oswald, a recently hired employee at the texas school book depository. A close and detailed photo analysis deffinitively shows. Oswald wouldnt have been working there, we are supposed to believe, if mrs. Dec 15, 2006 my own very amateuristic attempt to have a look at what lee harvey oswald saw, if he sat at the snipers nest in the texas school book depository. Mishkin said he found it hard to place oswald as a member or dupe of any conspiracy, largely because of the timing of his getting the job at the texas school book depository and the announcement of the motorcade route. One of the few comments to address this point was this. Was it before the dealey plaza motorcade route was finalized. Does anyone know when lho applied for the job in the texas school book depository. On november 22nd, 1963, at the time of the presidential parade, billy lovelady, an employee of the texas school book depository, joined others on the steps outside the building to watch the president drive by. Did oswald take the job at the school book depository before or after. Apr 14, 2017 last year at the jfk lancer conference in dallas, bart kamp was awarded the new frontier award.
Nov, 2005 lners like to argue that the way oswald got a job at the tsbd is further proof of no conspiracy. On anniversary of his assassination conspiracy theory suggests it was kennedys wife who shot him and claims that footage seems to. Note more of my response to willy can be found at the link below because i was told my last comment was too long to be accepted here at jfkfacts. But the majority of americans believe in a broader. He applied, was hired on october 15, 1963, and started work on wednesday october 16th.
May 23, 2018 in early october 1963, oswald obtained employment at the texas school book depository solely by chance due to a conversation that his wife had with neighbors over coffee. How long did lee harvey oswald work at the book depository. Less than an hour earlier, police had arrested lee harvey oswald, a recently hired employee at the texas school book depository. Lee harvey oswald planted in the book depository before. While the police converged on the texas school book depository in dallas and doctors at parkland hospital began working on the mortally wounded president in emergency room no. Nov 21, 20 if lee harvey oswald was part of a conspiracy, then ruth paine, a friend of his familys in dallas, had to be, too, because she alerted oswald to the open job at the texas school book depository. How long had lee harvey oswald worked at the texas school. The 19yearold who drove lee harvey oswald to work the day he allegedly assassinated president john f.
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