John Armstrong's slide show, Dallas, November 1996
Simultaneous with the JFK Lancer Conference, but decidedly separate from it, the Coaliton on Political Assassinations (COPA) held a regional meeting billed as "The Killing of a President" in Dallas over the weekend of November 22-24, 1996.
I attended just a portion of this event, seeing the "Two Oswalds" presentation by John Armstrong on Friday night in the Dallas County Courthouse just off of Dealey Plaza (see photo, below). With all due respect to Mr. Armstrong, his presentation seemed largely unchanged from his presentation about a year earlier at the COPA conference in Washington, D.C. Surely there were some differences, but due to severe time constraints I am taking an easy approach to presenting Mr. Armstrong's principal ideas, by repeating the text of the abstract to his October, 1995 presentation. My apologies to anyone who feels I am slighting Mr. Armstrong and/or his work.
The Soviet Union planted a potential spy in the United States at age eleven. Gordon Lonsdale was sent to California to live with his aunt and after five years had learned the English language very well. He returned to the Soviet Union, was trained in espionage, and wound up in England, where he spied out British defense secrets. He was discovered, arrested, and convicted in London's Old Bailey Court. He was eventually exchanged for a British agent.
If the KGB can begin creating a spy at age eleven, complete with false identities, it is a certainty that the CIA could do the same. Considerable evidence shows there were two people using the name Lee Harvey Oswald years before the Kennedy assassination. Many people worked with, befriended, served in the Marines, orwent to school with Lee Harvey Oswald at times and places that conflict with the official Warren Commission chronology of his life.
The FBI became aware of multiple "Oswalds" in 1960. Warren Commission member Senator Richard Russell was advised by Army Intelligence Colonel Philip Corso of two Oswalds in early 1964. Senator Russell recognized the assassination as a conspiracy and stopped attended Warren Commission hearings.
Hours after the assassination, FBI agents were immediately [sic] sent out to certain schools that Oswald attended and certain businesses where he had worked to collect all records that pertained to him. The records they collected, if known to the public, could expose Lee Harvey Oswald's dual identity. Public attention would then forever be focused on the intelligence community. Collection and suppression of evidence proving Oswald's dual identity was their top priority.
Immediately after the assassination, items belonging to Lee Oswald were seized by the Dallas Police Department, inventoried, photographed, and turned over to the FBI. The FBI kept all evidence and original film. They returned to the Dallas Police photographs of less than half of the items in their possession. Chief Curry noticed the missing photographs and requested an explanation. No explanation was forthcoming. With the evidence and photographs the FBI was free to manipulate, suppress, and alter any of that evidence that was damaging to governmental agencies. By controlling the evidence, and later the investigation, the FBI helped to [keep] from the public the truth about the dual identity of Lee Harvey Oswald.
A review of FBI and Dallas Police documents clearly demonstrates the FBI's knowledge of two Oswalds and exposes their attempts to hide this fact from the public. A review of Warren Commission records demonstrates certain people within that Commission also had knowledge of Oswald's dual identity.
The implications of this scenario are far-reaching, and indict elements of the government in the Kennedy assassination and its cover-up both directly and indirectly. This could well be the reason for the past 32 years of cover-up.
Addendum
The Dallas Police Department obtained 455 items of evidence belonging to Lee Oswald from 1026 North Beckley and 2313 West 5th in Irving, Texas on November 22-23, 1963. DPD Officer Paul McCaghren photographed those items on November 24-25, 1963, using five rolls of Kodak High Contrast Copy film. Special Agent Warren deBrueys took possession of the undeveloped film as well as physical possession of the 455 items on November 26, 1963. SA Warren deBrueys took the film and the 455 items to Washington, D.C. on November 27.
The FBI copied the film given to them by the DPD. On December 2, 1963, the FBI returned not five but two rolls of copied film to the DPD. Of the 455 items photographed by the DPD, only 167 items appeared on the film that was returned to the DPD by the FBI. There were 288 items missing from the developed film. The FBI had the physical evidence and the original film. The DPD was left with copies of two rolls of film containing less than half of the items they had photographed.
On December 3, 1963, DPD Chief Curry wrote to Gordon Shanklin informing him that "items #164 thru #360 did not record."
A comparison of the 455 items in question (Warren Commission Exhibit #20003) [sic] with the two rolls of film returned to the DPD by the FBI shows the following items missing from the film returned to the DPD: items #73, #91, #118, #135, #137, #142, #143, #146, #152, #153, items #164 thru #360, all but one piece of evidence from item #375, items #376, #378, #379, and all items #383 thru #455. A total of 288 items missing.
The first roll of film returned to the DPD is 58 feet, 5 inches long. It contains 8 feet, 9 inches of blank film (dark) at the beginning of the roll, 25 feet, 2 inches of film showing items #1 thru #163, and 4 feet, 6 inches of blank film (clear) at the end of the reel. The last 4 feet, 6 inches of film, which is blank (clear) had been spliced to the original film at the end of item #163. This blank film (clear) is not the same brand of film that contains items #1 thru #163.
The second roll of film is 35 feet, 2 inches long. It contains 6 feet, 10 inches of blank film (dark) at the beginning of the roll, 16 feet, 6 inches of film showing items #360 thru #382, and 11 feet, 10 inches of blank film (10 feet, 10 inches clear; 1 foot dark) at the end of the reel. There are no apparent splices in this film.
Chief Curry requested the FBI to photograph the missing items and furnish the DPD with copies of those items. It was several months before the FBI sent the DPD photographs of the missing items. When the photographs were returned to the DPD, some of the items photographed were found to be altered and/or fabricated (items #168, 169, #173). Item #168 was the first item mentioned in Chief Curry's letter to Shanklin as missing from their film.
Item #168 is Oswald's 1956 W-2 tax statement (see CE 20003) [sic]. The tax ID number listed on this 1956 Pfisterer W-2 tax statement, currently in the DPD archives, was not created until January, 1964. This 1956 tax form is clearly a forgery---created to show Oswald working at Pfisterer's in 1956. Therefore, the authenticity of all 288 items missing from the film returned to the DPD by the FBI is questionable.
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