Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery

  1. CE 2686, Vol. XXVI, p. 47.

  2. CE 823, Vol. XVII, pp. 723–724.

  3. CE 1315, Vol. XXII, p. 488.

  4. CE 196, Vol. XVI, p. 573.

  5. CE 317, Vol. XVI, pp. 877–878.

  Chapter 9: “His Impertinence Knows No Bounds”

  1. James Exhibit No. 5, Vol. XX, p. 242.

  2. CE 2688, Vol. XXVI, p. 48.

  3. James Exhibit No. 4, Vol. XX, p. 241.

  4. James Exhibit No. 6, Vol. XX, p. 243.

  5. CE 1105, Vol. XXII, p. 62.

  Chapter 11: Leave-taking

  1. CE 318, Vol. XVI, pp. 880–881.

  2. From a report by FBI agents Anatole A. Boguslav and Wallace R. Heitman. CE 1401, Vol. XXII, p. 755.

  3. CE 833, Vol. XVII, p. 790.

  PART VIII: IN THE ANTEROOM OF HISTORY

  Chapter 1: Across the Briny Deep

  1. Oswald made two mistakes on the dates in Q. 6. In the left column, he had “spring of 1961,” here corrected to “spring of 1962.” In the right column his July 1962 was, in a similar vein, corrected to July 1961.

  2. CE 100, Vol. XVI, pp. 436–439.

  3. CE 25, Vol. XVI, pp. 106–122.

  Chapter 2: Homecoming

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 318.

  2. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 616.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 313–314.

  4. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, pp. 617–618.

  5. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 330–332.

  6. Ibid., pp. 131–132.

  7. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 331–336.

  8. CE 823, Vol. XVII, pp. 728–729.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 689.

  Chapter 3: A Visit to the Organs

  1. CE 132, Vol. XVI, pp. 503–508.

  VOLUME TWO: OSWALD IN AMERICA

  PART I: EARLY YEARS, SOLDIER YEARS

  Chapter 2: Mama’s Boy

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 225.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 11–12.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 106–107.

  4. Ibid., p. 160.

  5. Ibid., p. 103.

  6. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 17.

  7. Ibid., Vol. XI, p. 27.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid., p. 28.

  10. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 112.

  11. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 29.

  12. Ibid., p. 30.

  13. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 119.

  14. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 75.

  Chapter 3: Indian Summer, New York

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 226.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 37–39.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 226–227.

  4. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 39; 41–42.

  5. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 227.

  Chapter 4: Youth House

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 205.

  2. Ibid., pp. 209–211.

  3. Siegel Exhibit No. 2, Vol. XXI, pp. 497; 501.

  4. Ibid., p. 485.

  5. Ibid., pp. 497–499.

  6. Ibid.

  7. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 43.

  8. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 228.

  9. Siegel Exhibit No. 2, Vol. XXI, pp. 503–505.

  10. Ibid., p. 505.

  11. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 207.

  12. Ibid., p. 209.

  Chapter 5: Macho Teenage Marxist

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 124.

  2. Ibid., p. 127.

  3. Ibid., p. 131.

  4. Ibid., p. 125.

  5. Ibid., p. 132.

  6. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 200.

  7. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 2–7.

  8. Ibid., pp. 7; 9–10.

  9. Ibid., p. 19.

  10. Ibid., p. 18.

  11. CE 2240, Vol. XXV, pp. 140–141.

  12. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 4.

  13. CE 1127, Vol. XXII, pp. 101–102.

  14. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 256.

  Chapter 6: The Loose End

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 319.

  2. Ibid., p. 270.

  3. Edward Jay Epstein, Legend, p. 352.

  4. Ibid., p. 355.

  5. Ibid., p. 357.

  6. Ibid., p. 620, note 1.

  7. Ibid., pp. 358–359.

  8. Ibid., p. 621, note 7.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 280.

  10. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 316.

  11. Epstein, op. cit., pp. 363–364.

  12. Ibid., p. 621, note 11.

  13. Ibid., p. 365.

  14. Ibid., p. 359.

  15. Ibid.

  16. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 275.

  17. Epstein, op. cit., p. 620, note 3.

  18. Ibid., p. 366.

  19. Folsom Exhibit No. 1, Vol. XIX, p. 683.

  20. Epstein, op. cit., p. 367.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Ibid., p. 620, note 4.

  23. Ibid., pp. 367–368.

  24. Ibid., p. 360.

  25. Ibid., p. 621, note 6.

  26. Ibid., p. 368.

  27. Ibid., p. 369.

  28. Ibid., pp. 369–370.

  29. Ibid., p. 370.

  Chapter 7: The Man Who Would Take Over the Team

  1. Epstein, op. cit., p. 373.

  2. Ibid., p. 374.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 322–323.

  4. Ibid., p. 321.

  5. Ibid., pp. 233–234.

  6. Ibid., pp. 240–241.

  7. Ibid., pp. 291–292.

  8. Ibid., p. 300.

  9. Ibid., pp. 292–293.

  10. Ibid., p. 295.

  11. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 87.

  12. Ibid., pp. 89–94.

  13. Ibid., pp. 94–95.

  14. Epstein, op. cit., p. 624, notes 8–11.

  15. Ibid., pp. 376–377.

  16. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 214.

  17. CE 200, Vol. XVI, p. 580.

  18. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 297–298.

  19. WC Hearings, Vol. VIII, p. 317.

  Chapter 8: Return to Moscow and Minsk

  1. HSCA Report, p. 371.

  Chapter 9: Maternity House

  1. CE 1127, Vol. XXII, pp. 100–101.

  2. CE 206, Vol. XVI, pp. 594–595.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 205–207.

  4. Ibid.

  PART II: CHARITY IN FORT WORTH

  Chapter 1: Honeymoon

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 136.

  2. McMillan, op. cit., p. 234.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 6; 5.

  4. Ibid., p. 136.

  5. CE 984, Vol. XVIII, p. 619.

  6. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, pp. 416–426.

  7. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 133–135.

  Chapter 2: In the China Closet

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. II, pp. 338–339.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 351–352.

  3. Ibid., pp. 363–364.

  4. Ibid., pp. 371–372.

  5. Ibid., p. 384.

  6. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 134–135.

  Chapter 3: Deep in the Heart of Texas

  1. McMillan, op. cit., p. 242.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 380.

  3. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, p. 122.

  4. WC Testimony, Vol. II, p. 305.

  5. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 72.

  6. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 436–437.

  7. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 10–11.

  8. Ibid., pp. 138–139.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 383.

  10. Ibid., p. 365.

  11. Ibid., p. 397.

  12. Ibid., p. 376.

  Chapter 4: The Well-born Friend

  1. De Mohrenschildt’s name is spelled in various places as de Mohrenschildt and De Mohrenschildt. Since the Warren Commission chose the latter form, it was decided to go along with it even if the correct spelling is likely to be in the first form.

  2. McMillan, op. cit., p. 265.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 99.

>   4. Ibid., p. 270.

  5. Ibid., p. 222.

  6. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 75.

  7. Ibid., p. 76.

  8. Ibid., p. 153.

  9. Ibid., p. 115.

  10. Ibid., pp. 182–183.

  11. Ibid., p. 97.

  12. Ibid., p. 111.

  13. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 225.

  14. Ibid., p. 228.

  15. Ibid., p. 273.

  16. Ibid., p. 282.

  17. Ibid., p. 266.

  18. Ibid., p. 241.

  19. Ibid., p. 236.

  20. Ibid., p. 237.

  21. Ibid., p. 242.

  22. Ibid., p. 243.

  Chapter 5: Not in a Million Years

  1. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 116.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 261–263.

  3. Ibid., p. 235.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid., pp. 253; 264.

  6. Norman Mailer, Harlot’s Ghost, pp. 414–417.

  7. Epstein, op. cit., pp. 558–559.

  PART III: DARK DAYS IN DALLAS

  Chapter 1: Evenings in Dallas

  1. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 89.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 96.

  3. Ibid., p. 78.

  4. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 138.

  5. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 82–83.

  6. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 166.

  7. Ibid., p. 165.

  8. By the time she testified in 1964, Alexandra had divorced Gary Taylor and remarried. The transcript identifies her as “Mrs. Gibson”; her first name has been added for clarity.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 148.

  10. Ibid., pp. 134–135.

  11. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 178.

  12. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 86.

  13. Ibid., p. 233.

  14. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 366.

  15. McMillan, op. cit., p. 254.

  Chapter 2: Oswald’s Kampf

  1. McMillan, op cit., pp. 257–258.

  2. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 25.

  3. Ibid., p. 34.

  4. Ibid., pp. 21–22.

  5. Ibid., pp. 516–517.

  6. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 467–468.

  7. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, p. 120.

  8. Hitler, op cit., p. 435.

  9. Ibid., p. 34.

  10. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 48.

  Chapter 3: “I Refused to Tell a Lie”

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 323–324.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 127–128.

  3. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, pp. 121–122.

  4. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 143.

  5. Ibid., p. 144.

  6. Ibid., p. 147.

  7. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, pp. 121–122.

  8. McMillan, op. cit., p. 260.

  9. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, p. 121.

  10. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 140–141.

  11. McMillan, op. cit., p. 262.

  12. WC Testimony, Vol. X, pp. 239; 242–243.

  13. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 386.

  14. McMillan, op. cit., p. 263.

  15. Ibid., pp. 280–281.

  16. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 238.

  17. Ibid.

  18. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 138.

  19. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 11.

  20. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 232.

  21. HSCA, Vol. XII, pp. 138–141.

  22. WC Testimony, Vol. II, pp. 302–303.

  23. McMillan, op. cit., p. 284.

  24. Ibid., p. 285.

  25. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 625.

  26. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 325.

  27. McMillan, op. cit., p. 286.

  28. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 625.

  29. Robert Oswald, with Myrick and Barbara Land, Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, pp. 130–131.

  Chapter 4: Christmas and Red Caviar

  1. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 167.

  2. Ibid., p. 275.

  3. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 128.

  4. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 624.

  5. McMillan, op. cit., p. 309.

  6. Ibid., pp. 309–310.

  7. Ibid., p. 306.

  8. Ibid.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 319.

  10. Ibid., p. 320.

  11. McMillan, op. cit., p. 305.

  12. Epstein, op. cit., pp. 481–482.

  Chapter 5: Grubs for the Organism

  1. Epstein, op. cit., p. 564.

  2. Ibid., p. 565.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 235.

  4. For these figures, the author is indebted to Mary McHughes Ferrell’s compilation of financial data from Warren Commission Testimony and Exhibits. Her individual sums, which were calculated to the penny, are here rounded off to the nearest dollar.

  5. Mailer, op. cit., pp. 418–419.

  Chapter 6: Trouble at Work

  1. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 626.

  2. Ibid.

  3. McMillan, op. cit., p. 307.

  4. Ibid., p. 308. In the course of interviewing Marina, Priscilla Johnson McMillan induced her to write the letter again from memory, perhaps a year and a half after it was first composed.

  5. Epstein, op. cit., p. 482.

  6. Weinstock Exhibit No. 1, Vol. XXI, p. 721.

  7. Dibbs Exhibit No. 12, Vol. XIX, p. 579.

  8. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 172.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 204.

  10. Ibid., p. 206.

  11. Ibid., p. 187.

  Chapter 7: In Order to Feel a Little Love

  1. Epstein, op. cit., pp. 484–485.

  2. McMillan, op. cit., p. 317.

  3. Ibid., p. 318.

  4. WC Testimony, Vol. X, pp. 167–168.

  5. CE 51, Vol. XVI, pp. 187–188.

  6. CE 986, Vol. XVIII, p. 501; translated from the Russian by the Warren Commission.

  7. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 299.

  8. McMillan, op. cit., p. 328.

  9. Ibid., p. 329.

  10. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 256.

  11. Ibid., pp. 247; 242.

  Chapter 8: Hunter of Fascists

  1. McMillan, op. cit., p. 332.

  2. Ibid., p. 333.

  3. CE 322, Vol. XVI, p. 886.

  4. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 189.

  5. Epstein, op. cit., p. 488.

  6. CE 2694, Vol. XXVI, p. 60.

  7. Mary McHughes Ferrell, chronological compilation of Warren Commission Testimony and Exhibits.

  8. CE 2694, Vol. XXVI, p. 60.

  9. McMillan, op. cit., p. 349.

  10. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 190.

  11. McMillan, op. cit., p. 351.

  12. CE 1403, Vol. XXII, p. 779.

  13. CE 1, Vol. XVI, pp. 1–2.

  Chapter 9: Stoicism, Majestic in Purpose

  1. CE 98, Vol. XVI, p. 433.

  2. CE 97, Vol. XVI, p. 424.

  3. Ibid., pp. 429–430.

  4. Ibid., pp. 425–426.

  5. Ibid., pp. 426–427.

  6. CE 98, Vol. XVI, p. 434.

  Chapter 10: Waiting for the Police

  1. CE 1401, Vol. XXII, p. 756.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 405.

  3. Ibid., p. 410.

  4. Epstein, op. cit., p. 491.

  5. CE 2521, Vol. XXV, p. 730.

  6. McMillan, op. cit., p. 359.

  7. Gerald Posner, Case Closed, p. 116.

  8. CE 2001, Vol. XXIV, p. 40.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 446.

  10. Epstein, op. cit., p. 647, note 1.

  11. Posner, op. cit., pp. 116–117.

  Chapter 11: Telescopic Sight

  1. CE 1403, Vol. XXII, p. 777.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 293.

  3. McMillan, op. cit., p. 358.

  4. Ibid., p. 357.

  5. Ibid., p. 373.

  6. Ibid., p. 374.

  7. CE 1403, Vol. XXII, p. 777.

  8. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 619.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 248–250.

  10. McMillan, op. cit., p. 349.
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  11. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 314.

  12. Ibid., p. 315.

  13. Ibid.

  14. Ibid., p. 316.

  15. Ibid., p. 317.

  16. Epstein, op. cit., p. 564.

  17. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 317–318.

  18. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, pp. 629–630.

  19. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 234.

  20. Epstein, op. cit., p. 648, note 10. In an interview with Lawrence Schiller, Marina confirmed that Lee bought the rifle with the $25 and that she did tell De Mohrenschildt about it and spoke of Lee as her “fool husband.”

  PART IV: THE BIG EASY

  Chapter 1: “A Terrifically Sad Life”

  1. Unpublished interview of Marguerite Oswald by Lawrence Schiller, conducted in 1976.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 58–59.

  3. Ibid., p. 46.

  4. Ibid., pp. 46–48.

  5. Ibid., pp. 51–52; 55.

  Chapter 2: “He Walks and Talks Like a Man”

  1. McMillan, op. cit., p. 384.

  2. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 170.

  3. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 183; 186.

  4. Ibid., pp. 135–136.

  5. Ibid., p. 151.

  6. Ibid., p. 136.

  7. McMillan, op. cit., p. 388.

  8. Posner, op. cit., p. 427.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 326–327.

  10. Ibid., pp. 337–338.

  Chapter 3: Forbidden Strings

  1. McMillan, op. cit., pp. 396–397.

  2. WC Testimony, Vol. II, p. 471.

  3. McMillan, op. cit., p. 396.

  4. WC Testimony, Vol. II, p. 470.

  5. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 460.

  6. Ibid.

  7. CE 422, Vol. XVII, pp. 140–144.

  Chapter 4: Love, Heat, and Grease

  1. McMillan, op. cit., pp. 398–399.

  2. Ibid., p. 398.

  3. Ibid., p. 415.

  4. WC Testimony, Vol. X, pp. 267–268.

  5. Ibid., pp. 214–215.

  6. Ibid., p. 227.

  7. Ibid., pp. 225–228.

  8. Ibid., p. 223.

  9. CE 408, Vol. XVII, pp. 88–91; translated by the Warren Commission.

  10. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 148–149.

  Chapter 5: Fair Play for Cuba

  1. CE 986, Vol. XVIII, p. 518.

  2. Robert Payne, Portrait of a Revolutionary, p. 5.

  3. Epstein, op. cit., p. 497.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Lee (Vincent T.) Exhibit No. 2, Vol. XX, pp. 512–513.

  6. McMillan, op. cit., p. 400.

  7. Lee (Vincent T.) Exhibit No. 3, Vol. XX, pp. 514–516.

  8. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 401.

  9. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 23.

  10. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, pp. 631–632.

  11. McMillan, op. cit., p. 411.

  12. CE 1412, Vol. XXII, p. 807.

  13. Ibid., pp. 805–806.

  14. McMillan, op. cit., p. 417.

  15. Ibid., p. 418.

  16. Ibid.

  17. CE 986, Vol. XVIII, pp. 521–522.

  18. Ibid., p. 526.

  19. Payne, op. cit., p. 40.

  Chapter 6: Atheism and Morality