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Lee Oswald’s Speech in Alabama

Oswald’s Speech and the JFK Assassination

 

In July 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was living in New Orleans. His cousin, Eugene Murret, was attending the Jesuit House of Studies at Spring Hill College, a couple of hours’ drive away in Mobile, Alabama. Murret asked Oswald to visit the college and give a talk about his experiences of the Soviet system. Oswald’s notes for his speech are given below, followed by an account of the speech assembled by another student, Robert Fitzpatrick.

 

Stovall Exhibit A

(21H596)

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1138#relPageId=620&tab=page

 

The last two entries on that list are a letter from Ruth Paine to Marina. The envelope is postmarked July 22, 1963 from Fairhope, AL.

 

Does anyone know the date of Oswald's talk?

Do you know how he got there?

Did Lee and Ruth Paine meet while he was there?

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Does anyone know what that letter from Ruth to Marina said?

 

Steve Thomas

 

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http://www.mobilebaymag.com/Mobile-Bay/January-2014/Sixties-Flashback-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-Visits-Spring-Hill/

Flashback: Lee Harvey Oswald Visits Spring Hill

Originally run in Mobile Bay Monthly's September 1993 issue, this article explores Lee Harvey Oswald's speech at Spring Hill College in July 1963, just months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Lee, Marina and June were three of eight who made the trip to Mobile, piled into a station wagon driven by uncle Charles "Dutz" Murret, accompanied by Dutz's wife Lillian, their daughter Joyce and her two children, all of whom put up at the Palms Motel at Highway 90 and Azalea Road, Uncle Dutz footing the bill.

 

The court record might also help discount the coincidence that Laurel. Md., where Hawkins reportedly made his threat in earshot of a plainclothes F.B.I. agent, is about a 10 minute drive from the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Md. one of the 13 cities, along with Fairhope, that the F.B.I. report of May 8. 1963 (six weeks before Hawkins' arrest on the causeway) listed as a headquarters for Alpha-66.

 

 

https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh17/html/WH_Vol17_0073a.htm

CE416  letter from July 21...  c/o Young at her friends/relatives in Woods Hole Mass... Naushon Island.

"I am now planning to leave here on Saturday, the 27th of July"

Mr. DULLES - Could we have the date of this letter once again? 
Mrs. PAINE - The date of the letter. We have no date on the letter. It was written somewhere between July 18 and July 21, which is the date of my reply. 

Ruth wasn't in Alabama in July of 1963... she was on her trip to the northeast....... and gives Marina the address to send a reply.

Ruth is in Irving until the 27th of July....  and it's 600 miles to Mobile.

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This envelope is dated Oct 7 1963...  and I couldn't find it in the Dallas Archive or the WCRH&E...  but I'll keep an eye out...

Since she wasn't there at that time... what do you think this means Steve?

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Recollections of Robert Fitzpatrick

(25H924) CE 2549 CD 24 pp. 1-17

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1141#relPageId=954

 

Lee, Marina and daughter June came to Mobile on Saturday, July 27, 1963.

Recollections of Robert Fitzpatrick

(25H924) CE 2549 CD 24 pp. 1-17

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1141#relPageId=954

 

Lee, Marina and daughter June came to Mobile on Saturday, July 27, 1963.

Fitzgerald has conversations with Marina.

Marina tell Fitzpatrick that “she has no living relatives in Russia and that Oswald is away from home a great deal.” (25H925)

 

Mary Ferrells's Chronologies:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40391#relPageId=19&tab=page

“The Oswald go to Mobile with the Murrets about noon. Oswald's cousin, Joyce Murret O'Brien and her two children go along.

 

July 26, 1963 The visitor's register at the Atomic Energy Museum in Oak Ridge, Tenn is signed by a “Lee H. Oswald, USSR, Dallas Rd. Dallas, TX.”

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=40391#relPageId=18&tab=page

FBI determines this is not in the handwriting of Lee Harvey Oswald.

 

Steve Thomas

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2 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said:

Lee, Marina and daughter June came to Mobile on Saturday, July 27, 1963.

Fitzgerald has conversations with Marina.

Marina tell Fitzpatrick that “she has no living relatives in Russia and that Oswald is away from home a great deal.” (25H925)

Did Fitzgerald speak Russian well enough to understand...

or did our little Marina speak English oh so much better than anyone knew...

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6 hours ago, David Josephs said:

Did Fitzgerald speak Russian well enough to understand...

or did our little Marina speak English oh so much better than anyone knew...

Lee would have known.  How could the Paine's not have?  The De Mohrenschildt's and in turn G A Moore of the CIA? 

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10 hours ago, David Josephs said:

http://www.mobilebaymag.com/Mobile-Bay/January-2014/Sixties-Flashback-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-Visits-Spring-Hill/

 

Lee, Marina and June were three of eight who made the trip to Mobile, piled into a station wagon driven by uncle Charles "Dutz" Murret, accompanied by Dutz's wife Lillian, their daughter Joyce and her two children, all of whom put up at the Palms Motel at Highway 90 and Azalea Road, Uncle Dutz footing the bill.

 

The court record might also help discount the coincidence that Laurel. Md., where Hawkins reportedly made his threat in earshot of a plainclothes F.B.I. agent, is about a 10 minute drive from the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Md. one of the 13 cities, along with Fairhope, that the F.B.I. report of May 8. 1963 (six weeks before Hawkins' arrest on the causeway) listed as a headquarters for Alpha-66.

 

Ruth wasn't in Alabama in July of 1963... she was on her trip to the northeast....... and gives Marina the address to send a reply.

Ruth is in Irving until the 27th of July....  and it's 600 miles to Mobile.

 

 

 

 

David,

 

Thanks. That explains how they got there. I wondered.

 

It seems like you are saying that the last two items in Stovall's Exhibit A 

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1138#relPageId=620&tab=page

a) an envelope from Ruth to Marina dated July 22nd; and,

b ) a letter to Marina from Fairhope, AL.

are separate.  Who would be writing Marina from Fairhope, AL?  Have you ever seen this letter?

 

In his "Recollections", Fitzgerald said he was studying Russian, and that Marina only knew enough English to answer "yes" or "no" to questions. He said that Mrs. Murret could only communicate to Marina through him. He also said that it seemed to him that Marina only had enough education to put her at the high school graduate level; which to me would seem to be more at the level of a pharmacy assistant as opposed to a full fledged pharmacist.

 

The Alpha-66 angle is weird.

 

Steve Thomas

 

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7 hours ago, Steve Thomas said:

It seems like you are saying that the last two items in Stovall's Exhibit A 

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1138#relPageId=620&tab=page

a) an envelope from Ruth to Marina dated July 22nd; and,

b ) a letter to Marina from Fairhope, AL.

are separate.  Who would be writing Marina from Fairhope, AL?  Have you ever seen this letter?

They would have to be 2 items since Ruth was not in AL to send that letter on the 22nd....  nor is that envelope in evidence - that I've been able to find anyway...

Could the letter have been THRU Marina to Ozzie and related to Alpha-66 ??  Possible I guess but without knowing what the letter says...

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On 2/8/2018 at 3:24 PM, David Josephs said:

http://www.mobilebaymag.com/Mobile-Bay/January-2014/Sixties-Flashback-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-Visits-Spring-Hill/

Flashback: Lee Harvey Oswald Visits Spring Hill

The court record might also help discount the coincidence that Laurel. Md., where Hawkins reportedly made his threat in earshot of a plainclothes F.B.I. agent, is about a 10 minute drive from the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Md. one of the 13 cities, along with Fairhope, that the F.B.I. report of May 8. 1963 (six weeks before Hawkins' arrest on the causeway) listed as a headquarters for Alpha-66.

Fairhope's significance seems to revolve around the claims by a Jerry Buchanan that he was in a fight with Lee Harvey Oswald in October, 1962 in Miami and that Oswald was distributing FPCC literature in Miami in March, 1963. At the time, Buchanan was living with a Craig Sheldon, who Frank Sturgis said was the Southeastern Director of the International Anti-Communist Brigade.

(Just my own thoughts, It's possible that Oswald was trying to infiltrate this group the same way he tried in New Orleans with the DRE and Carlos Bringuer.)

 

FBI Report of SA Joseph T. Boston dated March 30, 1964

Interview of Jerry Buchanan of Fairhope, AL.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1142&relPageId=460&search=Fairhope

 

Buchanan's group, the International Anti-Communist Brigade (of Frank Sturgis fame), had a fight with members of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in the Bay Front Park section of Miami, FL. In October, 1962. Police broke up the fight. Buchanan said Oswald was there. Also recalled that Oswald was in Miami, FL in March, 1963 distributing literature. Buchanan was living with Craig Sheldon in Fairhope.

 

CD 1020

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416#relPageId=3&tab=page

 

 

See CD 1020 page 19 for info on this group's activities:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416&search=Fairhope#relPageId=21&tab=page

 

 

See FBI Report of SA Allison A. Catlin dated June 25, 1964.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=75614&search=Fairhope#relPageId=3&tab=page

 

Interview of Craig Sheldon. In December, 1962, Sheldon traveled to Puerto Rico, where he met with Bay of Pigs veterans and was raising money for Alpha 66. Sheldon says he is in “regular correspondence” with Antonio Veciana.

 

 

Copy of Fairhope Courier article January 2, 1963:

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=75614&relPageId=4&search=Fairhope

 

Steve Thomas

 

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On 2/10/2018 at 4:01 AM, Steve Thomas said:

Fairhope's significance seems to revolve around the claims by a Jerry Buchanan that he was in a fight with Lee Harvey Oswald in October, 1962 in Miami and that Oswald was distributing FPCC literature in Miami in March, 1963. At the time, Buchanan was living with a Craig Sheldon, who Frank Sturgis said was the Southeastern Director of the International Anti-Communist Brigade.

(Just my own thoughts, It's possible that Oswald was trying to infiltrate this group the same way he tried in New Orleans with the DRE and Carlos Bringuer.)

 

From Mary Ferrells's Database:

https://www.maryferrell.org/php/marysdb.php?id=1499

 

BRINGUIER, CARLOS JOSE (DR.)

 

New Orleans head of Anti-Castro Cuban Student Directorate. 201-289248. Got into a scuffle with Oswald in Aug. 1963 when Oswald was passing out FPCC literature. CIA Memo (502, P. 3) admits past contacts with Bringuier and Clay Shaw. SSCIA Dwyer & Greissing interviewed Bringuier 1/12/76 (MMF 1761-1763) (Address in 2003: 16865 J B Ln, Fairhope, AL 36532-6243 334 928-4741 Wife? Michele NO, this is his son's address and phone. Carlos, Sr., lives across street from son and his phone number is 251 990-5976.

 

Now, I'd really like to see that letter.

 

Steve Thomas

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On 2/8/2018 at 3:24 PM, David Josephs said:

http://www.mobilebaymag.com/Mobile-Bay/January-2014/Sixties-Flashback-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-Visits-Spring-Hill/

Flashback: Lee Harvey Oswald Visits Spring Hill

Originally run in Mobile Bay Monthly's September 1993 issue, this article explores Lee Harvey Oswald's speech at Spring Hill College in July 1963, just months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Lee, Marina and June were three of eight who made the trip to Mobile, piled into a station wagon driven by uncle Charles "Dutz" Murret, accompanied by Dutz's wife Lillian, their daughter Joyce and her two children, all of whom put up at the Palms Motel at Highway 90 and Azalea Road, Uncle Dutz footing the bill.

 

The court record might also help discount the coincidence that Laurel. Md., where Hawkins reportedly made his threat in earshot of a plainclothes F.B.I. agent, is about a 10 minute drive from the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Md. one of the 13 cities, along with Fairhope, that the F.B.I. report of May 8. 1963 (six weeks before Hawkins' arrest on the causeway) listed as a headquarters for Alpha-66.

 

David,

 

Was that last paragraph about Alpha 66 in your post your own words, or was that in the magazine's article? Who is Hawkins?

 

Steve Thomas

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On 2/8/2018 at 3:24 PM, David Josephs said:

 

The court record might also help discount the coincidence that Laurel. Md., where Hawkins reportedly made his threat in earshot of a plainclothes F.B.I. agent, is about a 10 minute drive from the Washington, D.C. suburb of Silver Spring, Md. one of the 13 cities, along with Fairhope, that the F.B.I. report of May 8. 1963 (six weeks before Hawkins' arrest on the causeway) listed as a headquarters for Alpha-66.

 

David,

 

Cuban Information Archives:

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html

ALPHA-66 (Alfa 66) Chronology & Background May 1962 to Nov 1964


FAIRHOPE, ALA: By Apr 63 Alpha-66 office in. [R-759-2-161] ADD: 457 OAK STREET [R-759-3-25] May 63 [R-759-3-55]

 

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1 hour ago, Steve Thomas said:

David,

 

Was that last paragraph about Alpha 66 in your post your own words, or was that in the magazine's article? Who is Hawkins?

 

Steve Thomas

Great work Steve, really well done Sherlock Holmesing

 I did not add anything... Should be from the article...

Also, Oswald... Florida... 3/63?   That would be Lee, not Marina's husband... As We all have shown... H&L is very real...

The Sturgis, Lorenz Oswald was Lee.... At least that's how I'm seeing it

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And not to put too fine a point on it... Lee I think was gay....  

You find an awful lot of men living together, in the ranks behind the evidence...  And quite a few informants were gay...

Just thinking aloud.... That and the religious angle provides interesting cover.....

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2 hours ago, David Josephs said:

Great work Steve, really well done Sherlock Holmesing

 I did not add anything... Should be from the article...

Also, Oswald... Florida... 3/63?   That would be Lee, not Marina's husband... As We all have shown... H&L is very real...

The Sturgis, Lorenz Oswald was Lee.... At least that's how I'm seeing it

David,

 

Thanks.

 

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_326-350/doc0326.html

FAIRHOPE, ALA: By Apr 63 Alpha-66 office in. [R-759-2-161] ADD: 457 OAK STREET [R-759-3-25] May 63 [R-759-3-55]

 

CD 1020 p. 14.

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416#relPageId=16&tab=page

 

"He (Jim Buchanan, brother of Jerry Buchanan) advised that Jerry Buchanan would be available for a few days following the day of interview (April 30, 1964) at 457 Oak St. Fairhope, Alabama, the residence of Craig Sheldon, whom he described as Chairman of the International Anti-Communist Brigade in Alabama."

 

CD 1020 p. 13

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=11416#relPageId=15&tab=page

 

Allegedly, Jerry Buchanan and Oswald get into a fight on a dock when Oswald insists on boarding a boat headed out on anti-Castro (bombing?) mission to Cuba.

 

Steve Thomas

 

 

 

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