BQ78 said:
Ah George DeMorenschildt, certainly one of the most colorful characters in the JFK Assassination story and probably the only person in the world that Oswald (a high school dropout) thought was his intellectual equal.
You state that he took Oswald to anti-Castro meetings like that is an established fact. Where might I read about that because this is the first I've ever heard about it? My understanding is Oswald met and associated with him through the Russian expatriate community.
I will say if I bought into a conspiracy theory it would be based on the Cuba connection. I think the Warren Commission probably did not explore that one as deeply as they should have. It is obvious Oswald played both sides of that fence, but he was definitely on the Castro side and seems to have tried to infiltrate the other side to gather intelligence for his hero Fidel.
DeMorenschildt as a "CIA asset" could be like arguing with the folks earlier in this thread about what constitutes a press conference. If being debriefed by the CIA and State Department after one of his numerous international trips and knowing people who had been in the OAS during World War II makes you a "CIA asset." Well, he was one.
As for "establishing" a chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans, it had exactly two members (well actually one) -- himself and his alias Alex Hidel (the name he used to buy the gun he killed Kennedy with). As for his use of the address at 544 Camp Street. He did not rent the office but merely phished the address for his leaflets. None of the three businesses at that location knew Oswald and the landlord said he never rented to Oswald or the Committee. You are also repeating a regular lie of the conspiracy theorists saying Guy Bannister's Office was at that address, he was in another building with its own entrance around the corner nearby at 531 Lafayette. Please tell me you don't swallow all of Jim Garrison's made-up trash.
As for the trip to Mexico City a big-time assassin and government operative wouldn't have blown his cover by taking a flight to Mexico City versus dragging across Texas and northern Mexico in a bus?
John Hurt, that is a more obscure reference for conspiracy theorists, so it shows me you have read up on the subject. But you still are mis-leading the real facts. Someone told the Dallas County switchboard operator that they were making a call from the jail on behalf of Oswald, not Oswald himself. She was asked to call two numbers in Raliegh without success. Later she thought one of the names the person mentioned was John Hurt. The WC investigated this story and determined that Oswald did not make any such call. Not knowing anything about Hurt, even if true as you related, what do you think it means?
Ok let me preface by saying I have read over 25 books about the assassination, from both sides of the aisle including Posner's Case Closed. Countless articles as well. I have always (and even said on this forum multiple times), that I believe Oswald was heavily involved in the assassination, and possibly/probably fired shots. Was he acting alone, and if he wasn't, for whom remains the ultimate question.
1.) George D. taking Oswald to anti-Cuban meetings is in both Ultimate Sacrifice by Lamar Waldron and the Spartacus Educational website about the assassination. George D. being a CIA asset comes from congressional investigator Gaeton Fonzi and is also found in Ultimate Sacrifice. (Did you know another photo of Oswald with the rifle in the backyard signed by Oswald was found in George D's possessions after his "suicide"?).
2.). 544 Camp Street and 531 LaFayette are the same place…two different doors to the same building. Bannister's office is there, and it's quite strange that Oswald would stamp that on his FPFC pamphlets when Bannister is THE most Anti-Cuban person around. Bannisters mistress Delphine Roberts and her daughter have both said (1980) that Oswald was doing jobs for Bannister that summer. Plus, 544 Camp Street was also being used by anti-Castro activist Carlos Bringuier (that's from documents in the National Archives by the way)…who was a member of DRE (anti-Castro group being funded by the CIA….fact.) Yes, that Bringuier that Oswald got into an argument with on the street that some felt was staged, and went on a local tv show with. Somehow, that all doesn't add up….and no, I'm not on the Oliver Stone JFK conspiracy group about the way over the top Garrison beliefs. But, like HSCA member Robert Blakey said, there are some New Orleans connections that cannot be denied. Oswald's uncle Dutch was a known figure of mob boss Carlos Marcello's crime family….and remember there was supposedly no connection between staunch anti-Castro David Ferrie (and a known Bannister associate) and Oswald, yet we know they knew each other well in the Civil Air Patrol, (picture proof) and it's a fact (archived) that Ferrie was a pilot for Marcello….Garrison would have done better investigating those connections….it warrants further investigation. Lots of things apparently going on on Oswald's summer in New Orleans.
3.). The HSCA never considered the Oswald Phone call a nothing burger….in fact, the investigation into it wasn't completely finalized when the HSCA came to an end. As a matter of fact, lead investigator Robert Blakey says "the call was definitely real, and it went out! The direction in which it went was deeply disturbing." I will attach a link to a well document research paper (video as well) by Dr. Grover Proctor….includes some of the info in the HSCA investigators notes that never made it into the final report.
Oswald….for a lone nut we have quite a lot of interesting connections. A marine with a security clearance in Japan denounces the US and defects to Russia and becomes a Marxist, returns to the US during the height of the Cold War where he is never debriefed by the CIA, yet given money and even gets a job at a factory in Dallas that makes lettering on maps used by the U2 Spy Plane? George D.'s friendship, followed by all the New Orleans hoopla, the shooting at Gen Walker where two cars were seen speeding away….and the phone call…that's a lot to unravel.
(And yes it's widely known that the CIA and FBI stonewalled not only the WC, but the HSCA as well…when the HSCA asked for Oswald's military intelligence records…guess what..they'd somehow been accidentally destroyed.)
Ask the question: "IF" it's just a lone nut firing from the TSBD and all the evidence points to just him, what is the purpose of sealing all the documents, some which haven't been released even today?
http://groverproctor.us/jfk/jfk80.html