Tom Hume

Hi Kathleen, You may be right about the photo being a "composit photo of Lee and Harvey", I have no idea, it's not my current area of interest. But I know you are correct about people's tendancies to see weird shapes on the ground from high altitudes. I have six-thousand hours flying time as an Air Force Navigator, much of that time spent looking for anomilious features on the ground, and it's true, sometimes ones eyes and imagination can play tricks on one. Those that are interested in closely examining the photo of Oswald, the one we are calling the Armstrong, might come to a different conclusion than Kathleen, a different conclusion about these being "imaginary artifacts". I suggest you start by examining the area on the left side of Oswalds face (our right). It's a collage of cartoon faces, and I can't help but suspect that there's a message intended by whoever made this thing. Once again, you can't see much of this by just casually looking at the photograph; you need to download it to your favorite program and use your editing controls to bring out the fine details. I'm sorry for not posting more blow-ups of examples, but they don't do justice, primarily due to my meager computer skills, but also because the artwork is more easily seen in context, I think. http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/po-arm/id/45084/rec/167 Go to page 64 to view the version I've been referring to. There is a similar photo on page 54, and the differences are interesting. For starters, the face is not split down the middle as in the page 64 version. It's a little less clear overall, but it has a completely different set of shading-artwork imbedded in it. I might add that I see none of this in the version of the photograph for which this thread was started (the "Blair photo - see post #6). Tom

Armstrong photo is on page 64: http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/po-arm/id/45084/rec/167 I finally got some photo details loaded up on Photobucket. Really, the way to examine this doctored photo is to put it on whatever you use to edit photos. I'm just using Mac iPhoto and adjusting the levels and brightness controls. Theres interesting stuff all over the Armstrong photo, but one of the busiest areas is to the left (our right) of Oswald's face. Once you've found a bunch of interesting faces, rotate the photo and there's more, then rotate it again. One problem with posting these pictures, is that I can't show everything at once, but with the controls on your computer, you can tweak back and forth a get a much bigger picture of what's going on. And keep in mind, were looking at a on-line jpeg of a photograph of a photograph, and were looking at things that are in the neighborhood of 1/8 of an inch or so square on the original photo. But see how many faces you can see in each picture. One face blends into another, and the more you look, the more you see, and most of it is not your immagination (hopefully). Old man with beard and pointed hat, and friends: (next to Oswalds left ear) http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/e79e4118-6811-4122-aa0e-ac04ad092a27_zps3659ae8f.jpg Complicated woman full of faces: (from the crown molding just above Oswalds right ear) http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Womanonthecrownmolding_zpsf80469d8.jpg Bright spot on Oswalds left cheek: (this is a very complicated area; study it for a while and if it peaks your interest, study the real thing the Armstrong photo). http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Armstrongleftface_zps92d4d8e9.jpg Ugly man in lower left corner of photo: (once again, a sea of faces). http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Armstronglowerleft_zps39ff7624.jpg And for comparison, here's one from "The Oswald Gift" (the address label on "The Undeliverable Package"): http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/JackMartinMu_zpsee31420f.jpg Tom

Adding to what David said in post #6, Gary Mack provided a link to Robert Korengold's article which discuss the origin of the photo. Gary also provided a link to a flipped version (I hope Jim doesn't beat me up). http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/oswald-revisited/ http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/U1204926/portrait-of-lee-harvey-oswald Tom Armstrong - Oswald's forehead - V.tiff Armstrong - lower left.tiff

http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/po-arm/id/45084/rec/167 Sorry, I can't seem to get the details of the photo blown up and on Photobucket. It's interesting to see Armstrong's photo on a computer's photo gear, using the controls to see detail. The dark area on Oswald's forehead appears to contain letters. Armstrong - Oswald's forehead - V.tiff There appears to be an ugly fellow down in the lower left corner. Armstrong - lower left.tiff Tom

I'm going to suggest that we jump to some conclusions and see if anything shakes out. The "Armstrong" face is an obvious blend of Oswald and perhaps someone else. It's obvious, and, jumping to a conclusion, designed to be so. I speculate that the other person is his twin, so to speak, and "he's" telling us who the other person is, or persons are, by imbedding letters in the faces we can see when we study the photo closely. Look at Oswald's left forehead, our right, and there are dark letters. I get a very strong letter "V", maybe two of them, and an "I" and maybe a "T", and for sure, an "O". The top cartoon old man above his left ear is wearing a hat, and his hat forms two letters, a "V" and an "I". Below this cartoon man are many more cartoons, mostly made out of letters. The photo I posted of the woman in the crown molding, I rotated 90 degrees. If you don't do that, if you view the crown molding collage in its proper orientation, the effect is of a tangle of "V's" and "I's". I'll post a blow-up of this just as soon as I can make one. But I won't jump to the conclusion that "he's" indicating Igor Vladmiris Vaganov (also jumping to the conclusion that Oswald made this photo-puzzle), I promise I won't do that, not yet - not 'til we study this thing. In the sea of faces, there is a sea of letters making up those faces. Lets get started and see what they are - see if "he's" telling us the name or names of his doppelgangers in this doctored photo. Study this photo from the Armstrong Collection - page 64: http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/po-arm/id/45084/rec/167 Tom

Here is a link to the Armstrong photo I posted last night its on page 64. http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/po-arm/id/45084/rec/167 I think those of you that are interested in this sort of thing will find it fascinating in a number of ways. As I said in my post, there is a sea of artwork imbedded in the Armstrong photo, mostly a collage of faces blended together. This is the best example Ive found, but theres more out there. I suppose we are looking at digitized copies of copies, and some of those faces that can be seen, cant be more than 1/32nd of an inch or something in diameter. My primary interest in this, is that I find the same artwork imbedded on The Oswald Gift label, the "Undeliverable Package label, that we find in this Oswald photo. Ian Kingsbury and I are about to post some of those on the Oswald $13 Gift thread. We know Oswald was in to photography, but I can only recall one comment about his cartooning abilities. Does anyone know anything about this? Put the third link below up on your monitor and stand across the room and look at the woman imbedded in the crown molding on the wardrobe next to Oswalds right ear. Then walk closer and observe the sea of faces of which shes constructed. Yikes! http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/box9nb5tab1p64_zpscd5e482c.jpg http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/OldmanonOswaldsear_zps7042934b.jpg http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Womanonthecrownmolding_zpsf80469d8.jpg Tom

Hi Blair, I’m don’t know what your interest is in this photo, but I’m interested because of the doctoring that’s apparently been done to it. I’d like to know if Oswald did it himself. There’s a line running down the middle of his face, and the hairline and lips don’t match up. I’ve seen several versions of this photo, and they’re all a little different. This one is from the John Armstrong Collection at Baylor, and it seems to have some oddities that the others don’t. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/box9nb5tab1p64_zpscd5e482c.jpg First let me call your attention to the area around his left ear. There appears to be a tiny old man with a full white beard, and he’s wearing a pointed hat. It’s pretty fuzzy, so stand back from your monitor to perceive this cartoon guy. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/OldmanonOswaldsear_zps7042934b.jpg If one cares to take the time to put this version of the Oswald photo on their photo program, I think one will find a collage of more faces, both animal and human - some right side up, some upside down, and some sideways. About three inches above his right ear, there is a piece of crown molding in the background, the top of a wardrobe cabinate or something. In this picture it appears to be nearly touching his head. In the other similar versions of this photo, that piece of molding is very distinct, but in this photo it’s fuzzy. Here’s what I get when I blow up that small section – stand way back from your monitor. The farther back I get, the better she looks. On closer inspection, she morphs into a pastiche of many faces. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Womanonthecrownmolding_zpsf80469d8.jpg Very curious. Tom

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Hi Daniel, So an exclamation mark (!) is a "bang". I didn't know that. Do you happen to know it that nickname goes back as far as 1963? And a firearm reference would be my first guess, but there's a lot more to dig out of this label, and he just might tell us more about how his life was about to end. I'd intended to have, what I regarded as, my final post up by now, but I got sidetracked by something interesting. Edit: I'm redoing the remainder of this post. I'll replace it when finished. Tom

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Hi Lee, Lee: “Is he [Tom] seeing things that don’t exist?” Tom: “As far as seeing that the “Oswald Gift” is an important puzzle that needs to be understood, No, I’m not seeing things that don’t exist. Have I incorrectly seen things that led to mistakes about what some of the puzzle piece are? Yes. Lots of them, and please accept my apology, but I’ll probable make some more.” Lee: “I’d be willing to wager that the parcel with the non-existent address has some important meaning that no-one has even come close to explaining properly.” Tom: “You would win the wager, and it’s true that ‘the parcel…has important meaning that no-one has even come close to explaining properly.” I hope I’ve been fairly consistent in my posts over the last many months about a number of things. First and foremost, I’ve been saying that THE LABEL IS A PUZZLE - a complex set of interrelated messages that were carefully designed to relay information about the assassination, and doing it ways that were meant to be understood. The puzzle messages are in anagram form, in puzzle-board form, in pictogram form, in binary code form, and probably forms that I haven’t noticed. I’ve said that the puzzle is a work of genius, and I said that I thought Oswald made it, that I couldn’t prove this, but I was going to write my posts “as if” it was Oswald’s creation. And as I found what I thought were pieces of the puzzle, I told you all about some of them. A few of them turned out not to fit, but my goal has not been to solve the puzzle myself. My goal was, and is, to convince enough of you that IT IS A PUZZLE, that the project of understanding, as fully as possible, what “Oswald” wanted to tell us, can be accomplished. When and if that’s done, who knows? Maybe the information will be compelling enough to be taken into consideration by researches that are trying to unravel the crime of the last century. To show you that it is a puzzle, I’ve supplied tedious and boring explanations as to how I thought particular puzzle-pieces were constructed and being presented on the coded label, and I thought that if enough people checked my work, they would hopefully confirm for themselves that “Oswald’s Gift” was something much more than a “Mystery Undeliverable Package”, and there would be a groundswell of activity to get to the bottom of this sucker. So far that hasn’t happened, and I’m sure it has much to do with my convoluted and muddled manner of expressing myself. But after thousands of hours studying the package label, I may know only a fraction of what it says, but I know 100% what it is. And you puzzle-masters out there will know what it is too if you take the time to just look at it. I don’t have a handle on all of it, not by a long shot, but I think I’ve got some of the major chunks that hopefully can be a starting point for those that are good at this stuff. I’ve got one more major post to go, and I will be following “Oswald’s” instructions, clear instructions, given so that we can accurately receive a set of messages via binary code from “Oswald’s Gift” – the package label he made for us because he though he was about to get “whacked”. Thanks for weighing in Lee. You’ve helped me a lot, and I’m a big fan of yours. Hi Ian, As I’ve said, I’ve been very hesitant to post, or even mention, the faces and drawings I’ve found on the label, because of their subjective nature, largely due to the pixel-poor label photo we currently have. Actually, I think I also wanted to preserve what little credibility I had left, but maybe that was a mistake. The faces are there, and many of them clearly put there for a reason, but some of them were probably put there for background noise - Oswald drawings and doodles that to the naked eye would give the impression of a dirty and distressed label. I’m no good with graphics, Ian, but if I sent you my pictures of the faces on the label and told you where to find more, would you be interested in tweaking them a little and posting them in a timely fashion? Tom

Hi Ian, I haven't been able to see the Joe you mentioned yet, but I've got to say that I havent been looking forward to attempting explanations about what I think I see. I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said I've spent thousands of hours looking at the label. I've also spent considerable time looking at similar photos, trying to get a good feel for what is photographic artifact, and what might actually be there. I just realized that I neglected to point out the extra letters in the For that spell out F Fiorini, and I'll do that at the bottom of this post. Although I haven't been able to find the "G", "F A Sturgis" is pretty much all spelled out in the "St" at the end of the second line. I'll give you my take on that at the bottom too. As far as faces go on this pixel-poor JPEG, it's bound to be very subjective, isn't it? Among the few people I've shown the faces I think I've found, some see them and some don't, and it might be argued that some people are good at seeing faces in clouds and some aren't. It's for this reason that I've never posted any of what I thought were faces on the label. My goal was not to prove the faces were there, necessarily, but to know where they were, because they have everything to do with navigating the puzzle board - the label. If you get to a letter that's not in the name or word anagram you're trying to confirm, you're stuck unless you can get around it in some way, and if a letter has a face in it, you can jump over it. I can't explain to you how I think I know these things, except to say that there are obviously rules, and he wants us to find a solution that's not bogus. If one knew nothing about the game of chess and had no rulebook, I'd bet that one could eventually learn how the chess pieces moved and what the rules must be by watching people play the game. Black and white darkroom photography was a hobby of mine when I was Oswalds age, and Im certainly no expert, but I think that when I was 24, I might have been able to construct something like this if given enough time. Not the puzzle itself, it's a work of genius in my opinion, but the physical characteristics of the label. Not that Oswald did it this way, but I'd start with, say, a 6 inch by 24 inch label mock-up and write in the label-letters to my puzzle. Then I'd write in my imbedded letters. Next I'd take all the cartoons and small pieces of photographs I'd been making, and carefully past them to the mock-up. Then, I'd make the whole thing look dirty and distressed, so my cartoons, pictures, in-between letters, and instruction marks, didnt appear obvious. I'd photograph the final mockup, make a negative of the proper label dimensions, and make a contact print. Then I'd carefully write over the label lettering so it would stand out, and finally I'd write over portions of my obvious lettering with special spy-craft ink, creating a whole batch of new letters that identified the bandits. With the veritable pharmacy and photo equipment Oswald had at his apartment, some of it falling down the memory hole no doubt, he probably had the equipment, ability, and inclination, to do something along the lines of what I just suggested. But the package being Oswalds creation is just an opinion of mine, and not an argument I can make, or want to make, in this thread. Let's try an experiment Ian. Im having trouble right now with Photobucket and can't seem to add new pictures, but here's an old one I made for a different purpose. Lets see if you see what I see. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/ThreeFaces_zpscf7f3bb5.jpg You might need to stand back from your screen, I usually do. Inside the "a" in the upper right hand corner, I see a man's face. He may have a white mustache, and theres something wrong with his right eye. Dead center at the top (in the right portion of the "w"), I see the face of a chimp or something with big ears and maybe wearing shades. His right eye is obscured by the center of the "w". At the top of the "N" is a mans face. His mouth is open, and there's something wrong with his right eye. His body extends down behind the "N", and his legs are dangling between the "N" and the "a". He looks like the little cartoon man that's dancing to me. Almost without exception, all the pictures of people and animals on the label have something wrong with their right eye. I have a theory about this, and it has nothing to do with James Files - him personally I mean. Here's my canditate for Clay Shaw again. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Shaw3_zpsf2423301.jpg There appears to be a large "C" over his right eye that has a horizontal handle headed off to the right. This same Crescent Wrench shape happens in other places on the label and could be a symbol for Shaw. I'm just using the iPhoto on my Mac, nothing special, but the pictures I make of label detail don't do justice. I find I need to manipulate the levels, brightness, contrast, and exposure controls, and many details don't show all at once, I need to tweak back and forth sometimes. There are two separate photo versions of the label. One is from the package itself, and one is a close-up. As far as I know, they both came from Fred Newcomb's dealings with the Archives. The two photos are quite different, apparently because of different lighting conditions, film, camera, shutter speed, etc. There is almost no detail in the Baylor package photo and I don't use it for much, except to look at Irving Texas, which doesn't show up on Murr's label photo. Baylor Package Photo go to page #4 http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/po-arm/id/25951/rec/3 Murr's label photo: http://www.jfkresearch.freehomepage.com/murr.htm "F FIORINI" in the word "For" at the front of the label. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/nassaus_zpsd4b8f0a7.jpg The "F", "o", and "r" are a given. There is a dark "F" on it's back at the bottom of the printed "F", and just above that, there is a black lower-case dotted "i" on the vertical shaft of the printed "F". Identical with that, is a dotted "i" on the "o", and a dotted "i" on the "r". Darken up the "o" a little bit, and the bottom disappears, turning it into an "n". "F Fiorini". When you darken up the "o", it also turns the printed capital "F" into a big fancy capital "I". I think theres a meaning for this, but it's pure speculation at this point. Most all of the name "F A Sturgis" can be found on the "St" at the end of the address line. The "S" has a break at the top, and we're supposed to use the bottom portion as a "U", and the upper portion as an "i" the "i" is dotted. On the right side of the "S" in "St" there appears to be a man wearing a shirt with the number "5" on it. "5" decodes to "F". There's a horizontal "A" across the vertical stem of the "t" in "St". Just to the left of the "S" in "St" is another "s", and it's tail goes up at about a 45 degree angle, and at the end of that tail, is a capital S, and a capital R. These are small, very nicely made, shaded block letters, they almost look commercial. It's worthwhile finding these little letters. If one is unconvinced this is a puzzle, one needs to explane things like this. Anyway, if I knew where the "G" was, I could in good conscience make "F A Sturgis", but I think I'm safe in assuming that that's what was intended. While were in the area, we can look something else. I mentioned the break in the "S" in "St" that allowed us the make a "U" and an "i" in Sturgis. There's another example of intentional breaks in letters, and I want you to look at the last a in "Nassaus". There's a slanted break at the bottom of the "a", almost as if it had been erased. A similar break in line occurs about a quarter of an inch to the right of the first break. This creates an intentional "u", and considering it as such for a moment, we've taken away part of the "a" which turns it into a "c". Working forward from the "cu", then, the next letters are "es", giving us "cues". The next letter "S" in "St" has a person inside of it, so the rules allow us to jump over the "S" and land on the "t" which also contains that capital "A" lying horizontally across the vertical stem. Noticing that Oswald had modified the "a" and "u" in "Nassaus", and following Oswald's rules, allowed to find and make the name, "Cuesta", and since Dallas is crossed out, the next letter we encounter is the "T" in "Texas". "T. Cuesta". Tom

http://www.jfkresearch.freehomepage.com/murr.htm Hi John, I wouldn't be surpised to learn that most everyone suspected that Im seeing coincidences and creating scenarios in my mind out of a meaningless label. And I can't tell you how many times I've considered this myself after making stupid connective assumptions. Oswald's puzzle isn't solved yet and it won't be me that solves it. It will be people that are good at this sort of thing, individually or collectively, assembling the pieces of the tale being told. What I'm mainly trying to do is to show as many connections as I can, as clearly as I can, so that those real puzzle-solvers will notice it is a puzzle and that it's one woth solving. If and when, in my amateurish way, I can present enough meaningful connections to convince those real puzzle-solvers, I'm done. I know you've spent some time trying to figure what might have been in the package itself by looking at its characteristics, but I'm taking a different approach; seeing if Oswald will tell me. BAG is "601", and it seems so far to be one of the central issues of both the puzzle and his life. It's the very first controllable expression on the label, and a BAG is supposedly what was found in the package. Why was it in there? Whats the big deal about this long paper sack? Without all of the pieces of the puzzle solved, it might not be time to start drawing conclusions, but asking what-if questions can lead to new discoveries. "F" is the very first letter on the label in the word "For", and when we look there, we find the name "F Fiorini" imbedded - it seems to be all there in Oswald style scewball letters - "F Fiorini". For those that don't want to take my word for this, and you shouldn't, you really need to to put Gary Murr's version of the label photo on your computer photo program and manipulate the controls to bring out the details. John, since you've been studying the package itself, I'm sure youve seen the big "N" just below where the FBI defiled the package with their Q265 identification mark (sorry, the photo is sideways and I can't seem to fix it right now). http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/quotZquotPackage_zps5a13ffb9.jpg "N" decodes to 13 and it's very important to this puzzle too. There are 13 Primary Letters on the label used to make informative anagrams. The "1" and the "D" (decodes to "3") are the only two primary letters that are connected, and together they make "13". Oswald in fact had thirteen dollars in his wallet, and he tells us about it both on the label and in his 13-letter anagram form. Tom

Hi John, Babble on. You and I have been talking about the package for years now, and if anything comes of this, I can honestly say that the early discoveries came from observations made by you. If nothing comes of this, I promise not to hold you responsible for wasting two years of my life (Im laughing out loud). I'm a little dense though, and I'm not sure I'm following your train of thought on the "601". I, on the other hand, tend to get way to wordy, finding it very difficult to describe the solutions to the myriad of puzzle parts on this thing. I feel the need to talk through each detail but I think I loose a lot of folks by doing this. But at the same time, I want people to, (1) follow my train of thought, (2) check my work, (3) see how elegantly the puzzle was constructed (4) see how the information provided by one method of encryption, is mirrored by a completely different method of encryption, (4) come to believe 100%, as I do, that this is a complicated but solvable puzzle with a lot of information in it that weve all been wondering about for years. The "601" was an amazing number for Oswald to have come up with: Decoded to "GAB", its an anagram for "BAG". A bag was found in the package, and a whole lot of the puzzle centers around the "BAG", "LOs TWIN BAG" and what it was for. I think the "6;01" tells us that the address label can be converted to 6-bit (6) binary code (01). As I pointed out in a previous post, "601" turned upside down is "10;9" (as in PT-109). 10 and 9 decode to "KJ", and inside the "0" is a big fat "F", making "JFK". Immediately before the "JFK" is the expression "Mu" which roughly means, does not exist, like JFK. "Mu" decodes to "12:20", the time Oswald thought JFK's non-existence would happen. "601" (GAB) is an anagram for Guy Banister's business "GBA", and the first two expressions on the address line, including imbedded letters, make the name "G W Banister". And theres more to "601", so John, carry on and tell us all what you find. Ian wrote: "This gets more compelling with every post, finding the picture must have been a shock?" Hi Ian, And it was a shock. But I've known about the Clay Shaw picture, as well as many others on the label, for a long time. But I was afraid that I was seeing faces in the clouds, so to speak, afraid that my mind was trying to make sense of photographic artifacts. It wasn't until I saw that there was a pattern to where the pictures were being placed, their usefulness to the puzzle, that I knew I wasn't just making stuff up. Put Gary Murr's version of the photo on the best photo program you have, and fool with the editing control. There's lots of stuff to look at, and then you can wonder how Oswald made it all happen. http://www.jfkresearch.freehomepage.com/murr.htm Tom

Hi Kathy, You might be on to something. I can’t think of a meaning for “H.E.”, but you got me looking for a D.H., or a H.D. (Harry D. Holmes?) (Howdy Doody?) Here’s my anagram for Alek James Hidell: Lee/HD JK/Elm Alias Hi Lee, The package has gone missing from the Archives? This is really bad news. Hi Tommy, I take your point. What did Oswald expect would happen to the package? It seems obvious that he was badly mistaken in thinking it would be recognized for what it was right off the bat. My guess is that he assumed that others thought like he thought. The guy must have been a genius in some ways, maybe and idiot savant. There are puzzles inside of puzzles on top of puzzles, but when enough pieces are solved, one can notice that they relate to and reinforce each other. And everything is about November 22, 1963 – who, what, when, where, why, and how. I’ve said in previous posts, that I’m no good at puzzles, and I don’t even like them. That’s a true statement. I lurked on this forum for years until Bernice posted a picture of the “Undeliverable Package”, and I was taken. For two and a half years I’ve not been able to let it go. The question I keep asking myself is, “Since I’m not very smart, how could it be that I recognized this thing for what it was, a puzzle, and nobody else has.” I think Will Shorts, the “Puzzle Master” on NPR could spend 45 minutes on the label, see how it was organized, and solve some major pieces. There are people that are good at these sorts of things and it’s Damn sure not me. Since I believe 100% that the “Oswald $13 Gift” is what I’m saying it is, my task is to present what I’ve learned from the puzzle well enough that others will recognize the package label for what it is and solve the various parts, so that serious investigators can take into consideration what Lee Oswald had to say – this is the only pertinent statement of Oswald’s that I know of. Peace, Tom

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/nassaus_zpsd4b8f0a7.jpg There are thirteen primary letters on the label; they are the first letter of each word, plus the three numbers, "601". Here is the list: "F L O G A B W N S D T I T". Using the simplest method for chaning letters to numbers and visa versa, the "601" became "GAB" in our list. I believe that we, the puzzle solvers, are supposed to make 13-letter anagrams using all of these letters, anagrams that are meanigful, and if these anagrams were intended by the puzzles creator, we will be able to decode our anagram using 6-bit binary code. Here are a few examples: The first three are exactly the same, but each has a different meaning. OSWALD NBT GIFT. (NBT = Nothing But the Truth). OSWALD NBT GIFT. (NBT = Nitro Blue Tetrazolium) Chemistry is over my head, but Nitro Blue Tetrazolium is a compound thats been around a long time. Its primarily used for diagnostic purposes in medicine. Under certain conditions it will turn dark blue, and under other conditions it becomes fluorescent it glows. There are articles on the Internet that talk about its use for making secret messages, but someone with a background in chemistry will have to sort this one out. It might become relevant when and if we the people get to study the OSWALD NBT GIFT in the National Archives. "OSWALD NBT GIFT" = OSWALD 13 BT GIFT. BT" is the abreviation for a binary code "Bit", and the letter "N" decodes to "13". "TWO BANDITS - GF. L" "BANDITS GOLF TW" Looking at the "W" in "Oswald, there is a "T" formed on its left wing. The "T" in this case might stand for a golf "tee", and a 13-letter puzzle that starts at that point, and ends at what appears to be a golf flag between the "N" in Nassaus", and the next letter "a". Were going to look on the label at the word West. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/nassaus_zpsd4b8f0a7.jpg Theres a large lower-case n attached to the left wing of the W, a lowercase r over the top of that, a dotted i in the middle of the W and the i is dotted with a tiny little e. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/quotequotinquotWquot_zps073c0e9f.jpg West is the direction of 270 degrees, and these numbers decode to CHA. In the word West, then, Oswald provided us with: Winerchaest. And when we anagram this, we have: A Winchester. Then when we apply the 270, we have: A .270 Winchester And all this is crammed into one word, West, on the label! There seem to be faces scattered all around this pixel-poor JPEG of a label, and they may have an important function in solving Oswalds puzzle. Check this out: http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Shaw3_zpsf2423301.jpg http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/nassaus_zpsd4b8f0a7.jpg Following some basic puzzle-type rules, the name Clay Shaw can be made from the first four letters of Oswalds name on the label (remember that theres an L and an H inside the large C shaped formation in the O). If youre wondering where the Y is, its black, and it appears to be hanging out of the mouth of this touched-up version of Clay Shaw. This photograph, or drawing, or whatever it is, is right between the a and the l in Oswald. Were looking at a JPEG of a photo of package label containing a mans picture that cant be much more than a quarter of an inch square. Tom

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/nassaus_zpsd4b8f0a7.jpg Since the label contains both letters and numbers, a method is needed to decode numbers to letters and visa versa. The simplest method known is one many of us learned as kids, and while it might not be appropriate for James Bond, if one wanted a stranger to decode your message without a key, this would be the ideal method: (A=0) (B=1) (C=2) (D=3) (E=4) (F=5) (G=6) (H=7) (I=8) (J=9) (K=10) (L=11) (M=12) (N=13) (O=14) (P=15) (Q=16) (R=17) (S=18) (T=19) (U=20) (V=21) (W=22) (X=23) (Y=24) (Z=25) This simple method works on the label and it appears we have been given instructions to use it. The first "a" on the label, the one in Oswald, has a spike sticking out of the top of it. The only "0" (zero) on the label, in "601", has an identical spike sticking out of the top of it as well; "A" being equivalent to "0" (zero), as in the above decoding formula. Therefore, "601" can decode to "GAB". "GAB" is an anagram for "BAG", and we know that a bag is what the "Oswald $13 Gift" was supposed to have contained. GAB are also the initials of George A. Bouhe, and the postage due notice found in Oswald's suitcase at the Paines house was associated in the first Dallas Police inventory with another post office form bearing the name, George A. Bouhe. GAB is also an anagram for Guy Banisters business, "GBA", Guy Banister Associates. So we can entertain the possibility that decoding the address label will involve some anagrams. OSWALD'S O: Next we'll turn our attention to the strange looking "O" in "Oswald". For me, this was the first solid clue that the label might be a coded message. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/OwithoandM_zpsad4056c1.jpg The "O" in "Oswald" was formed as he usually wrote it with a couple of exceptions: The line for the large round swoop at the top heads off horizontally to the right as usual, but the portion inside of the O is over-drawn much heavier, creating a robust "C" in the top area of the "O". Also, there is a smaller "o" shaped structure inside the "C" shaped structure. On closer examination, the small "o" structure also looks like an "L" and a "7". http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/OwithL7andi_zps35f305b4.jpg So is it an "o" or an "L7" inside the "C" inside the big "O"? It's both. And "7" decodes to an "H", so what we have inside the "C" is an all-in-one symbol created by Oswald that says "LHO". To me, it's always seemed like the big "C" and "O" structure was devouring the little "LHO" symbol; the "CO" (The Company), devouring the little "LHO" (Lee Harvey Oswald). Theres more going on here that I'll get back to later. JFKs PT-109 and Mu: Oswald's expression "6;01" on the label has many functions and some of them require noticing what appears to be a prominent semi-colon perched up high between the six and the zero. While youre looking at it, notice the next letter, the "W" in "West", which has a large lower-case "n" attached to its left wing. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/601West_zpse660375f.jpg When the "6;01" is turned upside down, the number becomes "109", as in John Kennedys destroyed WWII craft, the PT-109. http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/MU109_zps4ea3b499.jpg With the semicolon, "109" also gets divided into two numbers, "10" and "9", and "10" decodes to "K", and "9" decodes to "J", or the anagram, "JK". Also, there appears to be large nicely formed, albeit lightly shaded and pixel-poor, capital "F" inside the "O", making the full expression "JFK". http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/ThequotFquotintheZero_zpsc4f660fd.jpg Now notice that the upside-down "W" with the "n" attached becomes "Mu". http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/MU109_zps4ea3b499.jpg The Japanese, Chinese, and Korean translations for "mu" are things like, does not exist, not, not having, and gone. The implication here seems to be that like the PT-109, JFK does not, or shortly will not, be. And when that will happen, "Mu JFK", is revealed when we use the above key to decode "Mu" to numbers: "M" to "12", and "u" to "20". Mu 12:20 JFK. As it turned out, his prediction was off by a few minutes, but this time, 12:20, will take on even more meaning in a future post. TWO PERFECT ADDRESS LINE ANAGRAMS: http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/WGBanister_zps96cb77f0.jpg Like the "O" in "Oswald", there are several other letters on the label that have other letters obviously imbedded in them. One of them is the "W" in "West" which contains a large lowercase "n" on the left wing of the "W", a lower case "r" over the top of that, and a lowercase dotted "i" in the middle of the "W". The letters of the two first expressions on the address line of the label are, "G A B W e s t" and with the extra imbedded letters, we have, "G A B W e s t i n r", and this is the perfect anagram for "W G Banister". http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Assassinate_zps3174d91c.jpg The second two expressions on the address line are "Nassaus St", and as John Dolva pointed out a couple of years ago, these letters almost make the anagram for "Assassinate". A second look will reveal that the apparent spelling for "Nassaus" could just as easily be viewed as "Nassaies". The "i" is even dotted (this spelling will be confirmed in a future post). Also, there appears to be a capital "A" drawn horizontally across the "t" in "St". With these two considerations, we have "N a s s a i e s S t A", the perfect anagram for "Assassinate". Most everything in this post I've covered before. My next post will contain more new material. Tom

In previous postings on other threads, I have attempted to show the possibility that the label on the "Undeliverable Package" is a series of puzzles. Not knowing much about coded messages and puzzles, I've gone down many blind alleys and argued for things I no longer believe. But I'm still at it, and my goal remains: To show that it is a puzzle, so that real puzzle solvers will take on the task of solving it. If it turns out I'm wrong, well, I've wasted a lot of time, and I hope you'll forgive me for wasting yours. If on the other hand any of this turns out to be correct, the puzzle answers might not stand up in a court of law, but we might have learned something. http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=20276 My theory is more fully explained in the "Oswald Code" thread linked above, but the basic idea is this: Lee Oswald and Igor Vaganov followed through with a plan to prevent the assassination. The prevention plan probably originated with Richard Case Nagell and was called "N". It was directed against the assassination ground operation, "E", being planned and orchestrated by W Guy Banister and David W Ferrie. The idea of "N", was to disseminate a large number of decodable 13-letter puzzles that would tell the Oswald/Nagell/Vaganov story of "E", the planned assassination ground operation. The flagship of "N" was what has become known as the "Undeliverable Package", and copies of this were to be sent to selected individuals and organizations around the world. The numerous decodable 13-letter puzzles embedded on the label of the "Undeliverable Package" both provided assassination information, and served as a teaching guide to the decoding of other puzzles created by the "N" team. If the "N" plan succeeded, the puzzles would be meaningless; if the "N" plan failed, at least the Oswald/Nagell/Vaganov story would be discoverable or so they apparently thought. As my theory goes, in addition to the 13-letter puzzles on the label of the Undeliverable Package, there are 13-letter "verbal statement" puzzles, 13-letter "activity statement" puzzles, and 13-letter puzzles written down on paper in various places. I also believe Ive identified a few puzzles that dont fall into the 13-letter category. Decoding the puzzles requires the use of a unique (and seemingly absurd) application of 6-bit binary code. The puzzles also require the solver to make anagrams, which is a little disappointing, in that the use of anagrams seriously lowers the objectivity index. But if it turns out my theory is correct, this is what we've been given, and even though the information might not stand up in a court of law, we could possibly learn something. Since I think I now have better information about the Undeliverable Package and the myriad of puzzles contained on its label, I am transferring what I think Ive learned that has stood the test of time to a new thread, The Oswald Code, and removing more primitive and sometimes bogus beliefs from my postings on this thread. Tom

A better photo with more pixels might clear up the matter. Are we seeing buttons or buttonholes on the portion of jacket covering “Sturges’” face? Buttonholes on men’s suit jackets are on the wearer’s left, and I think I’m seeing buttonholes. Men that part their hair usually do so on the left. What are we seeing here? I don’t know if this is a sartorial custom, but all the striped ties in my closet have the stripe descending from the wearer’s right to left, just as the ties are doing on the first two men on the right. However, the last man on the left also appears to be wearing his watch on his right wrist (possibly the fist man on the left as well). Too bad no one seems to be wearing a handkerchief in his suit pocket.

Robert, Linda, Bernice, or others, I’m having trouble coming up with information on Madeleine Brown’s “paper” husband, Charles G. West (the timing and circumstances of his suicide, his function at the Dallas Gun Club, etc.). Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Tom

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Greg Parker dug this up from "The Official CIA Manual of Trickery & Deception", and Lee Farley passed along to me. Lee also provided the links at the bottom containing information about the Oswald's supply of pharmaceuticals in the first two links, and the third link is a related fascinating read - Thanks again Lee. http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=80&u=14320506 “One of TSS’s first employees was Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology made him the logical choice to head the handful of chemists in the staff. Initially the chemistry branch created and tested formulas, or “special inks,” for secret writing that enabled CIA spies to embed invisible messages in otherwise innocuous correspondence. To conceal the liquid “disappearing inks,” TSS reformulated the liquids into a solid form that looked like aspirin tablets and repackaged the tablets in pill bottles that would pass unnoticed in an agent’s medicine cabinet. When a spy had information to convey, he would dissolve the tablet in water or alcohol to reconstitute the ink for his secret message.” http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=62274&relPageId=67 (Many interesting pages here; it appears that Oswald had a small pharmacy at his apartment. A hand written inventory/opinion on Page 80 deals with “Item 373” and states, “There are 31 samples of pharmaceuticals, each sample of which, could be used to prepare and/or develop a secret ink message.” A handwritten note was added to this, stating, “Nothing unusual found concerning these items.”) Edit - links added: More from Lee Farley. Paragraph “d” is very interesting. http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=396556 Also from Lee: “This next link is from the book written by Carlos Bringuier (the Cuban who had the phoney altercation with Oswald on Canal Street in New Orleans in the Summer of '63):” http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?mode=searchResult&absPageId=377312 Food for thought. Tom

I’m editing this post again to reflect my current thinking on this matter. A big apology is in order: I no longer believe the package label was intended to be converted to eight-bit binary code and therefore does not decode to a formula for glow-in-the-dark ink. Please forgive my ignorant mistake. I made a number of mistakes, and chief among them was assuming that since I learned eight-bit binary code while in the service in the 60’s, that that’s what “Oswald” might have been intending with the expression “;01”, in “6;01”. And of course if “he” was intending anything here, it seems more likely that he intended for us to transform the address label into 6-bit binary code, by including the expression, “6;01”, on the address label. The photo of the label on the “Undeliverable Package” can be seen here: http://www.jfkresearch.freehomepage.com/murr.htm Six bit binary code can been seen here (Binary map of GBCD code): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCD_(6-bit) There are some choices to be made in converting the label to binary code, and different choices lead to different answers. I think I’ve pretty much tested all of the possibilities, and only a very few of them lead to coherent information. More about my methodology later, but here is my best guess as to what the label was intended to say when converted to 6-bit binary code: “\OZ! NS$” Seven binary characters, “Backslash, O, Z, !, N, S, and $”, from the 42 hand-written letters on the address label (“Dallas” is crossed out, and “Irving Texas” is written below the label). Here is the definition of “Backslash”, also called “hack” and “whack” from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash If this is what was indeed intended, this part of the story being told by the label might be something like, “Oz is about to get whacked, and National Security and money play a role in what’s about to happen.” Before I get to the tedious methodology, if one uses “Dallas”, which has been crossed out on the label, another possibility is, “\OZ! MVS $”. I’ve not been able to find an applicable meaning for “MVS”, however. Here is how I’m reading the label: Lee Oswald GAB West Nassaies St (Dallas is crossed out) Texas Irving texas Notice that I’ve changed the “601” to “GAB” using the simplest method for changing numbers into letters and visa versa; A=0, B=1, C=2, D=3, etc. This seems justified if you buy into my argument that “601 West” converted to “GAB West”, and including the extra imbedded letters in the “W” in “West (“i”, “n”, and “r”), make “GABWINREST”, a perfect anagram for “W.G. Banister”. Notice also that I’m spelling what most people always thought was “Nassaus”, as “Nassaies”. Neither one of them are existing street names, so take a good look at it and see if you don’t agree that it could be taken as either one. Once again, “Nassaies” is possibly justified because if you add the imbedded “A” that appears to be attached to the vertical portion of the “t” in “St”, we have “NASSAIES STA” which is a perfect anagram for the word “Assassinate”. So here is what the binary code for the above address label looks like to me: 011111 100110 111001 111111 100101 110010 101011 This, once again, decodes to: “\ OZ! NS $” For changing the letters on the label to zeros and ones, I used the odd letters of the alphabet (ACEGIKMOQSUWY) as ones, and the even letters of the alphabet (BDFHJLNPRTVXZ) as zeros. Doing it the opposite way yields: “^I60&” - I don’t find meaning in this. And we might have been instructed to do it the way I’ve done: Looking at the label, there is a spike, like a little #1, sticking out of the top of the “a” in Oswald. There’s an identical spike sticking out of the top of the “0” in “601”. This might be telling us two things; that “a” and “0” are equivalent; that is, when converting numbers to letters and visa versa, “A=0, B=1, etc.” But also, when converting to binary code, the “A” and the “0” remain equivalent, and since the “0” gets converted to an “A”, we are allowed to use the “A” as a “1” in the binary-code decoding process (odd letters are “1” and even letters are “0”). Tortured? Perhaps. But if this label was intended to carry messages, then we seem to be being spoon fed from time to time. If, by some chance, “\OZ! NS $” was the intended binary message, then some other things also seem to be true: The person or persons that concocted the package and label, also crossed out “Dallas” and wrote “Irving Texas” below the label and the package was intended to end up in Irving. Also, “Nassaies”, not “Nassaus”, was the intended spelling of the non-existent Dallas’ street. I honestly no longer have a strong opinion as to whether this label and package were created, by Oswald or whoever, as a series of puzzles designed to contain meaningful information. I’m tantalized by indications that it may glow in the dark, by suspicions that the label is filled with tiny cartoons and pieces of photographs, that there is information waiting for us to discover that is only hinted at in the clutter of this pixel-poor version of the label photograph. Several members of this forum have helped me try to find a better photo, and I’ve had some very pleasant email exchanges with the son of the deceased gentleman that had the label photographed at the National Archives years ago. But so far, Gary Murr’s copy is the best I’ve encountered, and it’s not good enough, at least for me. I’ll end my edit of this post with this: If you take all of the capital letters on the label (I’m converting the “601” to “GAB” and regarding them as capitals) (and the “t” in Irving texas is not capitalized on the package), we have, “LO GAB W N S T I”, which is an anagram for “L O’s Twin Bag”, and it was claimed that the Undeliverable Package contained a bag very much like the one supposedly found on the sixth floor of the TSBD. Once again, I appologize for all the errors I've made on this topic. Tom