3. Ibid., p. 216.
4. Ibid., p. 226.
5. McMillan, op. cit., p. 424.
6. Ibid., p. 416.
7. CE 2648, Vol. XXV, p. 919.
8. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 149.
9. CE 2648, Vol. XXV, p. 923.
10. CE 2649, Vol. XXV, pp. 923–924.
11. Ibid., pp. 927–928.
12. McMillan, op. cit., pp. 424–425.
Chapter 7: Out of Omens Come Events
1. Lee (Vincent T.) Exhibit No. 4, Vol. XX, pp. 518–521.
2. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 90.
3. Lee (Vincent T.) Exhibit No. 5, Vol. XX, pp. 524–525.
4. McMillan, op. cit., p. 430.
5. WC Testimony, Vol. X, pp. 34–36.
6. Ibid., p. 77.
7. Ibid., p. 37.
8. Ibid., p. 38.
9. Ibid., p. 45.
10. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 145.
11. WC Testimony, Vol. X, pp. 55–56.
12. Ibid., pp. 59–60.
13. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, p. 436.
14. Ibid., p. 438.
15. McMillan, op. cit., p. 433.
16. Ibid., p. 434.
17. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 39.
18. McMillan, op. cit., p. 438.
Chapter 8: Fair Play
1. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 160.
2. Ibid., p. 162.
3. Ibid.
4. Stuckey Exhibit No. 2, Vol. XXI, p. 621.
5. Ibid., pp. 622–626.
6. Ibid., pp. 628–630.
7. Ibid., p. 630.
8. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 165–166.
9. McMillan, op. cit. p. 440.
10. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 168.
11. WC Testimony, Vol. X, pp. 42–43.
12. Stuckey Exhibit No. 3, Vol. XXI, pp. 634; 637–641.
13. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 171–175.
14. Ibid., pp. 175–176.
15. McMillan, op. cit., pp. 451–452.
Chapter 9: Picking Up the Piece
1. CE 1145, Vol. XXII, p. 168.
2. Johnson (Arnold) Exhibit 4–A, Vol. XX, p. 265.
3. McMillan, op. cit., p. 443.
4. CE 1404, Vol. XXII, p. 788.
5. McMillan, op. cit., p. 444.
6. CE 93, Vol. XVI, p. 339.
7. McMillan, op. cit., p. 463.
PART V: PROTAGONISTS AND PROVOCATEURS
Chapter 1: Protagonists and Provocateurs
1. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 341–342.
2. Ibid., pp. 350–351.
3. Ibid., pp. 361–362.
4. HSCA Report, p. 193.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., pp. 193–194.
7. Wise, David, The American Police State, pp. 314; 311.
8. Ibid., p. 311.
9. CE 833, Vol. XVII, p. 794.
Chapter 2: Right-wing Adventurers
1. Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, pp. 290–291.
2. Ibid., pp. 301–302.
3. Posner, op. cit., p. 146.
4. Summers, op. cit., p. 306.
5. Posner, op. cit., pp. 144–145.
6. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, temperature records for Clinton, Louisiana, September 1963; NOAA Central Library, Silver Spring, MD.
7. HSCA Report, p. 142.
8. Posner, op. cit., p. 142.
Chapter 3: An Inexplicable Visit
1. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 370.
2. Ibid., pp. 370–374.
3. Ibid., p. 388.
4. Ibid., p. 214.
Chapter 4: A Nimble Solution
1. Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation, p. 114.
2. HSCA, Vol. X, p. 29.
3. Posner, op. cit., p. 178.
4. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 370.
5. Ibid., p. 369.
6. Posner, op. cit., p. 179.
7. Ibid., p. 177.
8. Ibid., p. 180.
9. Ibid., pp. 178–179.
10. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 380–381.
11. Fonzi, op. cit., pp. 112–113. Fonzi uses the Spanish spelling Silvia for Mrs. Odio’s name. The author has amended this to Sylvia, which was used by the Warren Commission.
12. Ibid., p. 113.
13. Posner, op. cit., p. 177.
14. Fonzi, op. cit., pp. 114–115.
15. Warren Report, p. 136.
Chapter 5: Mexico
1. Posner, op. cit., p. 181.
2. Oleg Nechiporenko, Passport to Assassination, p. 67.
3. Ibid., pp. 67–68.
4. Ibid., pp. 68–69.
5. Ibid., pp. 70–71.
6. Ibid., p. 72.
7. Ibid., p. 75.
8. Ibid., pp. 76–78.
9. Ibid., pp. 78–79.
10. Ibid., p. 80–81.
11. Posner, op. cit., pp. 185–186.
PART VI: DENOUEMENT
Chapter 1: The Road to Domesticity
1. McMillan, op. cit., p. 422.
2. WC Hearings, Vol. XIII, p. 479.
3. Gangl Exhibit No. 1, Vol. XX, p. 3.
4. McMillan, op. cit., p. 471.
5. WC Testimony, Vol. VI, pp. 403–404.
6. Ibid., p. 406.
7. Ibid., p. 437.
8. WC Testimony, Vol. II, p. 509.
9. Ibid., p. 42.
10. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 634.
11. WC Testimony, Vol. III, pp. 213–214.
12. Ibid., pp. 210; 217–218.
13. McMillan, op. cit., p. 474.
14. Ibid., p. 489.
15. Ibid., p. 477.
16. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 636.
17. McMillan, op. cit., p. 492.
18. Ibid., p. 491.
19. CE 75, Vol. XVI, pp. 237–240.
Chapter 2: The Shadow of the FBI
1. McMillan, op. cit., pp. 494–495.
2. Ibid., pp. 495–496.
3. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 100.
4. McMillan, op. cit., p. 497.
5. Ibid., pp. 504–505.
6. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 102.
7. McMillan, op. cit., pp. 498–499.
8. Ibid., p. 499.
9. CE 103, Vol. XVI, pp. 443–444.
10. McMillan, op. cit., p. 507.
11. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 14.
12. Ibid., p. 17.
13. WC Testimony, Vol. VI, p. 437.
14. McMillan, op. cit., pp. 515–516.
15. WC Testimony, Vol. II, p. 222.
16. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 65–66.
17. McMillan, op. cit., p. 522.
18. Ibid., p. 523.
19. Ibid., p. 524.
20. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 47.
21. McMillan, op. cit., p. 524.
22. Ibid., pp. 524–525.
Chapter 3: Pigeons Flew Up from the Roof
1. CE 2008, Vol. XXIV, p. 407.
2. CE 2009, Vol. XXIV, pp. 408–409.
3. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 68.
4. McMillan, op. cit., p. 537.
5. William Manchester, Death of a President, p. 121.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. McMillan, op. cit., p. 528.
9. WC Testimony, Vol. VII, p. 342.
10. CE 1381, Vol. XXII, p. 681.
11. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 175.
12. Ibid., p. 197.
13. Ibid., p. 211.
14. Ibid., p. 345.
15. WC Hearings, Vol. V, p. 565.
16. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 265.
17. Ibid., pp. 245–252.
Chapter 4: An Afternoon at the Movies
1. WC Testimony, Vol. VI, p. 409.
2. WC Testimony, Vol. II, p. 256.
3. WC Testimony, Vol. VI, p. 438.
4. CE 2003, Vol. XXIV, p. 203.
5. McMillan, op. cit., p. 535.
6. Warren Report, pp. 71–72.
7. WC Testimony, Vol. VII, p. 6.
8. McMillan, op. cit., p. 536.
Chapter 5: The Hour of Panic
1. WC Hearings, Vol. V, p. 565.
2. Ibid., p. 566.
3. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 68.
4. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 74.
5. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 639.
6. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 69.
7. Ibid., p. 79.
8. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 75.
9. Ibid., p. 74.
10. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 79.
11. Ibid., p. 81.
12. WC Hearings, Vol. V, p. 566.
Chapter 6: The Return of Marguerite Oswald
1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 141–143.
2. Unpublished interview of Marguerite Oswald by Lawrence Schiller, 1976.
3. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 141–143.
4. Unpublished interview of Marguerite Oswald by Lawrence Schiller, 1976.
5. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 143.
6. McMillan, op. cit., p. 543.
7. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 144–146.
8. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 83.
9. McMillan, op. cit., p. 544.
10. Ibid.
Chapter 7: The Octopus Outside
1. WC Testimony, Vol. XV, p. 152.
2. WC Testimony, Vol. VII, p. 359.
3. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, p. 204.
4. Ibid., p. 205.
5. Ibid., p. 220.
6. Ibid., pp. 204–206.
7. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 230.
8. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, p. 206.
9. Ibid., p. 207.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 232.
12. Ibid.
13. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 218.
14. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, p. 211.
15. Ibid., p. 214.
16. Ibid., p. 216.
17. Ibid., p. 214.
18. Ibid., p. 217.
19. Ibid., p. 226.
20. Ibid., p. 225.
21. Ibid., p. 239.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid., p. 209.
24. Ibid., p. 238.
25. Ibid., p. 210.
26. McMillan, op. cit., p. 625, note 22.
27. WC Testimony, Vol. II, pp. 260–261.
28. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, p. 212.
29. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 148.
30. WC Testimony, Vol. VII, p. 135.
31. Ibid., p. 130.
Chapter 8: A Black Pullover Sweater with Jagged Holes in It
1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 148–149.
2. Ibid., p. 78.
3. Ibid., p. 150.
4. Oswald, op. cit., p. 144.
5. Ibid., p. 145.
6. McMillan, op. cit., p. 551.
7. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 85.
8. McMillan, op. cit., p. 551.
9. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, pp. 228–229.
10. Ibid., p. 230.
11. McMillan, op. cit., p. 552.
12. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 152.
13. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, p. 226.
14. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 156.
15. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, p. 233.
16. Ibid., pp. 233–234.
17. McMillan, op. cit., p. 555.
18. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 235; 150.
Chapter 9: “He Cry; He Eye Wet”
1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 156–157.
2. Ibid., pp. 158–160.
3. Ibid., pp. 161–163.
4. Oswald, op. cit., p. 155.
5. Ibid., pp. 158–159.
6. Ibid., p. 156.
7. Ibid., pp. 160–161.
8. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 166.
9. Ibid., p. 167.
10. Ibid., p. 167.
11. Ibid., p. 169.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., pp. 169–170.
14. Oswald, op. cit., p. 162.
15. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 168.
16. Epstein, op. cit., p. 532.
17. Oswald, op. cit., pp. 162–165.
18. CE 295, Vol. XVI, pp. 815–822.
PART VII: THE AMATEUR HIT MAN
Chapter 1: The Amateur Hit Man
1. Interview of Jack Ruby by Lawrence Schiller, 1966, © Alskog, Inc.
2. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 190.
3. Ibid., p. 191.
4. Ibid., p. 194.
5. Ibid., p. 195.
6. Ibid., p. 196.
7. Ibid., p. 197.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., p. 198.
10. Ibid., pp. 198–199.
11. Ibid., pp. 208–210.
12. Ibid., p. 211.
13. Ibid., p. 212.
14. Ibid.
15. Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab, Mob Lawyer, p. 151.
16. Ibid., p. 152.
17. Posner, op. cit., p. 372, citing CE 2303, Vol. XXV, p. 27.
18. WC Testimony, Vol. XIV, p. 151.
19. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 185.
20. Posner, op. cit., p. 374.
21. WC Testimony, Vol. XIV, p. 468.
22. Posner, op. cit., pp. 375–376.
23. Ibid., p. 378, citing Affidavit of George Senator, November 24, 1963.
24. Posner, op. cit., p. 377.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., p. 378.
27. Ibid.
28. WC Testimony, Vol. XV, p. 364.
29. Harry Carlson’s name is actually Harry Olsen, but since Ruby made the error in his testimony of calling him Carlson and the Warren Commission accepted that, it would have been confusing to correct their text.
30. WC Testimony, Vol. XIV, p. 221.
31. Posner, op. cit., pp. 382–383.
32. Ibid., p. 385.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., p. 386.
35. Ibid., p. 387.
36. Ibid., p. 389, citing WC Testimony, Vol. XV, pp. 672–673.
37. WC Testimony, Vol. XVI, pp. 632–633.
38. WC Testimony, Vol. XIV, p. 236.
39. Ibid.
40. Posner, op. cit., p. 391.
41. Ibid., pp. 392–393.
42. WC Testimony, Vol. V. p. 199.
43. Posner, op. cit., p. 393.
44. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 199.
45. WC Testimony, Vol. XII, p. 399.
46. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 199.
47. Ibid.
48. WC Testimony, Vol. XII, pp. 400–401.
49. Posner, op. cit., pp. 396–397.
50. Ibid., pp. 395–396.
51. WC Testimony, Vol. XIII, p. 215.
52. Posner, op. cit., p. 392.
PART VIII: OSWALD’S GHOST
Chapter 1: The Punishment of Hosty and the Death of the Handler
1. McMillan, op. cit., p. 625, note 22.
2. HSCA Report, p. 195.
3. McMillan, op. cit., p. 626, note 22.
4. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 274.
5. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 73.
6. Ibid., pp. 214–215.
7. Ibid., p. 225.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., pp. 225–227.
10. Ibid., pp. 228–229.
11. Ibid., pp. 229–230.
12. McMillan, op. cit., pp. 569–570.
13. Posner, op. cit., p. 118.
14. McMillan, op. cit., p. 570.
15. Fonzi, op. cit., pp. 189–192.
Chapter 2: In the Rubble of the Aftermath
1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 172.
2. Ibid., pp. 173–174.
3. Ibid., p. 174.
4. Ibid., p. 175.
5. Ibid., pp. 60–61.
6. Ibid., pp. 79–80.
7. Ibid., p. 61.
8. McMillan, op. cit., p. 565.
9. Ibid., p. 563.
10. Ibid., p. 568.
Chapter 3: Evidence
1. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 308–309.
2. WC Testimony, Vol. III, p. 411.
3. Ibid., p. 412.
4. Author’s November 1993 conversation with Dr. Robert Artwohl, head of Emergency Services, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland.
5. One is, of course, assuming t
hat it was Oswald’s Mannlicher-Carcano that was used in the assassination. For, if it was not, then what did happen to his gun, and what was in the package he brought with him that morning to the Texas School Book Depository? Why indeed would he carry his gun to work if it was not going to be used? Would he take it there in order to allow others to implicate him? There are many arguments that would attempt to disprove the use of the Mannlicher-Carcano, but they all seem weak in the light of Ockham’s Razor: The simplest explanation that covers all the facts is likely to be the correct explanation.
Chapter 4: Character
1. CE 25, Vol. XVI, p. 106.
2. Hitler, op. cit., p. 29.
3. McMillan, op. cit., p. 573.
4. CE 322, Vol. XVI, p. 886.
5. McMillan, op. cit., p. 518.
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p. 253. One must apologize to Emerson, a great writer, for presuming to invert his second paragraph by placing it above the first.
7. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 49–50.
Chapter 6: The Third Widow
1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 182.
2. Ibid.
3. Unpublished interview of Marguerite Oswald by Lawrence Schiller, 1976.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTE: When more than one edition is listed, citations in the notes are from the starred edition.
GOVERNMENT REPORTS
Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and 26 accompanying volumes of Hearings and Exhibits. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. (Report, without accompanying volumes, also published by The Associated Press, 1964*; and by Doubleday, 1964.)
Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, with 12 accompanying volumes of Hearings and Appendices on the Kennedy investigation, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979. (Report, without supporting volumes, also published by Bantam, 1979.)
BOOKS
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Complete Essays and Other Writings. New York: Random House, Inc., 1940.
Epstein, Edward Jay. Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, as printed in The Assassination Chronicles. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1992*. (Originally published as Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Reader’s Digest Press/McGraw-Hill, 1978.)
Fonzi, Gaeton. The Last Investigation. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1993; first trade paperback edition, 1994*.
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf, translated by Ralph Manheim. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
McMillan, Priscilla Johnson. Marina and Lee. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
Mailer, Norman. Harlot’s Ghost. New York: Random House, 1991.
Manchester, William. The Death of a President. London: Michael Joseph, 1967.
Nechiporenko, Col. Oleg Maximovich. Passport to Assassination. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993.
Oswald, Robert L., with Myrick and Barbara Land. Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967.
Payne, Robert. Portrait of a Revolutionary: Mao Tse-tung. New York: Abelard-Shuman, 1961.
Oswald's Tale Page 92