Don Roberdeau Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 Good Day.... From the NYT (a.k.a. the "'Drive-by' Dying Dinosaur").... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/washingt...amp;oref=slogin <QUOTE> Letter by Oswald Is Found With Late Senator's Papers By JAMES BARRON Published: November 14, 2007 The box had sat untouched in the attic of a Washington house until recently, when the sale of the house forced some cleaning out, some poking around in long-overlooked places. Inside the box was a manila file folder headed: "Lee Harvey Oswald." Inside the folder was a handwritten letter that Oswald had sent from Russia, complaining that the Soviet Union would not grant him an exit visa to the United States. It was addressed to Senator John Tower of Texas, who had lived in the house with his second wife in the 1980s. The other items in the folder are all typewritten - letters from Mr. Tower to the State Department, letters from the American consul in Moscow to Oswald, letters from the State Department to Mr. Tower, and brief memorandums from Mr. Tower's staff after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as Mr. Tower defended himself against the impression that he had helped clear the way for Oswald's return to this country. A Texas company plans to open an online auction of the items, perhaps as early as today. The company, EasySale, maintains that the letters are originals, not copies like the ones that are among Mr. Tower's papers at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Tex. A handwriting expert hired by the company to examine the Oswald letter concluded that the tight script was Oswald's. The Oswald letter to Mr. Tower, who died in 1991, is undated but was widely quoted after the Kennedy assassination and again in the Warren Commission report in 1964. It began as an appeal from a constituent: "My name is Lee Harvey Oswald, 22, of Fort Worth up till October 1959," when, he wrote, he had gone to the Soviet Union "for a residential stay." After explaining his visa problem, Oswald wrote, "I beseech you, Senator Tower, to rise [sic] the question of holding by the Soviet Union of a citizen of the U.S., against his will and expressed desires!!" According to the Warren Commission report, a caseworker in Mr. Tower's office forwarded the letter to the State Department under a cover letter that was "machine signed by the Senator." A copy of the cover letter was in the attic folder, and made clear that Mr. Tower's office was simply passing along Oswald's plea. "I do not know Mr. Oswald or any of the facts concerning his reasons for visiting the Soviet Union; nor what action, if any, this government can or should take on his behalf," the letter said. Mr. Tower is known to have given the file to the Warren Commission for copying, but the originals were considered missing, said Kathryn Stallard, the archivist of the John Tower Library at Southwestern. "We have all been looking for this," Ms. Stallard said. EasySale's chairman and chief executive, David J. Edmondson, said that the house, in the Kalorama section of Washington, had been owned by Mr. Tower's second wife, Lilla Burt Cummings Tower, a Washington lawyer, who died in 1993. Mr. Edmondson said she and Mr. Tower lived in the house in the early years of the Reagan administration. They divorced in 1987, and two years later, when the first President George Bush nominated Mr. Tower to be secretary of defense, her statements about her former husband's excessive drinking helped cost him the job. Mr. Tower denied the accusations, but the Senate rejected the nomination. The issue of Oswald's return to the United States dogged Mr. Tower after the Warren Commission report was released. The file in the attic contained a letter that Mr. Tower wrote to Secretary of State Dean Rusk in March 1964, as well as Rusk's reply: "It is not now, and has not in the past been, the position of the State Department that Mr. Oswald was allowed to return to this country as a result of your forwarding to the Department Mr. Oswald's letter to you." Mr. Edmondson described EasySale as "an online consignment company" that picks up items worth at least $50 that people no longer want. "This is certainly unusual," he said. "This is unusual versus the average things people have laying around their house." <END QUOTE> Best Regards in Research, Don Don Roberdeau U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, "Big John," Plank Walker Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly ROSEMARY WILLIS 2nd Headsnap; Westward, Ultrafast, & Directly Towards the "Grassy Knoll" Dealey Plaza Professionally-surveyed Map Detailing Victims locations, Witnesses, Photographers, Suspected trajectories, Evidentiary artifacts, etc President KENNEDY "Men of Courage: 4 Principles" speech, and a portion of fellow researchers and my research & discoveries, 1975 to present T ogether E veryone A chieves M ore for the United States "Drehm seemed to think the shots came from in FRONT OF or BESIDE the president." (my EMPHASIS) CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack witness, quoted only minutes after the attack, and while he was still standing within Dealey Plaza (11-22-63 "Dallas Times Herald," appeared only in the fifth & final daily edition, which mis-spelled his name) "Another eyewitness, Charles Brehm, said he was 15 feet away from the President when he was shot. 'He was waving, then the FIRST shot hit him and that awful look crossed his face.' " (my EMPHASIS) CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack witness (quoted to the "Associated Press," 11-22-63) "When the President's automobile was very close to him and he could see the President's face very well, the President was seated, but was leaning forward when he stiffened perceptibly at the same instant what appeared to be a rifle shot sounded. According to BREHM, the President seemed to stiffen and come to a pause when another shot sounded and the President appeared to be badly hit in the head. Brehm said when the President was hit by the SECOND SHOT, he could notice the President's hair fly up, and then roll over to his side, as Mrs. KENNEDY was apparently pulling him in that direction. BREHM said that A THIRD SHOT FOLLOWED and that all three shots were relatively close together. BREHM stated that he was in military service and he has had experience with bolt-action rifles, and he expressed his opinion that the three shots were fired just about as quickly as an individual can maneuver a bolt-action rifle, take aim, and fire three shots. BREHM stated he definitely knew that the President had been shot and he recalled having seen blood on the President's face. He also stated that it seemed quite apparent to him that the shots came from one of two buildings back at the corner of Elm and Houston Streets." (my EMPHASIS) CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack witness, in his FBI statement, 24NOV63 "I saw a piece fly over in the area of the curb where I was standing. .... It seemed to have come LEFT and BACK. .... Sir, whatever it was that I saw did fall, both, in that direction, and, over into the curb there." (my EMPHASIS) CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack witness during his 1966 videotaped "Rush To Judgment" interview, describing an object he saw traject behind and to the left of President KENNEDY (the same back and to the left direction that KENNEDY's head and torso also quickly moved) simultaneously with the head explosion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas H. Purvis Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Good Day.... From the NYT (a.k.a. the "'Drive-by' Dying Dinosaur")....http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/washingt...amp;oref=slogin <QUOTE> Letter by Oswald Is Found With Late Senator's Papers By JAMES BARRON Published: November 14, 2007 The box had sat untouched in the attic of a Washington house until recently, when the sale of the house forced some cleaning out, some poking around in long-overlooked places. Inside the box was a manila file folder headed: "Lee Harvey Oswald." Inside the folder was a handwritten letter that Oswald had sent from Russia, complaining that the Soviet Union would not grant him an exit visa to the United States. It was addressed to Senator John Tower of Texas, who had lived in the house with his second wife in the 1980s. The other items in the folder are all typewritten - letters from Mr. Tower to the State Department, letters from the American consul in Moscow to Oswald, letters from the State Department to Mr. Tower, and brief memorandums from Mr. Tower's staff after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as Mr. Tower defended himself against the impression that he had helped clear the way for Oswald's return to this country. A Texas company plans to open an online auction of the items, perhaps as early as today. The company, EasySale, maintains that the letters are originals, not copies like the ones that are among Mr. Tower's papers at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Tex. A handwriting expert hired by the company to examine the Oswald letter concluded that the tight script was Oswald's. The Oswald letter to Mr. Tower, who died in 1991, is undated but was widely quoted after the Kennedy assassination and again in the Warren Commission report in 1964. It began as an appeal from a constituent: "My name is Lee Harvey Oswald, 22, of Fort Worth up till October 1959," when, he wrote, he had gone to the Soviet Union "for a residential stay." After explaining his visa problem, Oswald wrote, "I beseech you, Senator Tower, to rise [sic] the question of holding by the Soviet Union of a citizen of the U.S., against his will and expressed desires!!" According to the Warren Commission report, a caseworker in Mr. Tower's office forwarded the letter to the State Department under a cover letter that was "machine signed by the Senator." A copy of the cover letter was in the attic folder, and made clear that Mr. Tower's office was simply passing along Oswald's plea. "I do not know Mr. Oswald or any of the facts concerning his reasons for visiting the Soviet Union; nor what action, if any, this government can or should take on his behalf," the letter said. Mr. Tower is known to have given the file to the Warren Commission for copying, but the originals were considered missing, said Kathryn Stallard, the archivist of the John Tower Library at Southwestern. "We have all been looking for this," Ms. Stallard said. EasySale's chairman and chief executive, David J. Edmondson, said that the house, in the Kalorama section of Washington, had been owned by Mr. Tower's second wife, Lilla Burt Cummings Tower, a Washington lawyer, who died in 1993. Mr. Edmondson said she and Mr. Tower lived in the house in the early years of the Reagan administration. They divorced in 1987, and two years later, when the first President George Bush nominated Mr. Tower to be secretary of defense, her statements about her former husband's excessive drinking helped cost him the job. Mr. Tower denied the accusations, but the Senate rejected the nomination. The issue of Oswald's return to the United States dogged Mr. Tower after the Warren Commission report was released. The file in the attic contained a letter that Mr. Tower wrote to Secretary of State Dean Rusk in March 1964, as well as Rusk's reply: "It is not now, and has not in the past been, the position of the State Department that Mr. Oswald was allowed to return to this country as a result of your forwarding to the Department Mr. Oswald's letter to you." Mr. Edmondson described EasySale as "an online consignment company" that picks up items worth at least $50 that people no longer want. "This is certainly unusual," he said. "This is unusual versus the average things people have laying around their house." <END QUOTE> Best Regards in Research, Don Don Roberdeau U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, CV-67, "Big John," Plank Walker Sooner, or later, The Truth emerges Clearly ROSEMARY WILLIS 2nd Headsnap; Westward, Ultrafast, & Directly Towards the "Grassy Knoll" Dealey Plaza Professionally-surveyed Map Detailing Victims locations, Witnesses, Photographers, Suspected trajectories, Evidentiary artifacts, etc President KENNEDY "Men of Courage: 4 Principles" speech, and a portion of fellow researchers and my research & discoveries, 1975 to present T ogether E veryone A chieves M ore for the United States "Drehm seemed to think the shots came from in FRONT OF or BESIDE the president." (my EMPHASIS) CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack witness, quoted only minutes after the attack, and while he was still standing within Dealey Plaza (11-22-63 "Dallas Times Herald," appeared only in the fifth & final daily edition, which mis-spelled his name) "Another eyewitness, Charles Brehm, said he was 15 feet away from the President when he was shot. 'He was waving, then the FIRST shot hit him and that awful look crossed his face.' " (my EMPHASIS) CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack witness (quoted to the "Associated Press," 11-22-63) "When the President's automobile was very close to him and he could see the President's face very well, the President was seated, but was leaning forward when he stiffened perceptibly at the same instant what appeared to be a rifle shot sounded. According to BREHM, the President seemed to stiffen and come to a pause when another shot sounded and the President appeared to be badly hit in the head. Brehm said when the President was hit by the SECOND SHOT, he could notice the President's hair fly up, and then roll over to his side, as Mrs. KENNEDY was apparently pulling him in that direction. BREHM said that A THIRD SHOT FOLLOWED and that all three shots were relatively close together. BREHM stated that he was in military service and he has had experience with bolt-action rifles, and he expressed his opinion that the three shots were fired just about as quickly as an individual can maneuver a bolt-action rifle, take aim, and fire three shots. BREHM stated he definitely knew that the President had been shot and he recalled having seen blood on the President's face. He also stated that it seemed quite apparent to him that the shots came from one of two buildings back at the corner of Elm and Houston Streets." (my EMPHASIS) CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack witness, in his FBI statement, 24NOV63 "I saw a piece fly over in the area of the curb where I was standing. .... It seemed to have come LEFT and BACK. .... Sir, whatever it was that I saw did fall, both, in that direction, and, over into the curb there." (my EMPHASIS) CHARLES F. BREHM, a combat gunfire experienced, United States Army Ranger, World War II, D-day veteran, & very close Dealey Plaza attack witness during his 1966 videotaped "Rush To Judgment" interview, describing an object he saw traject behind and to the left of President KENNEDY (the same back and to the left direction that KENNEDY's head and torso also quickly moved) simultaneously with the head explosion http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/brehm.htm CHARLES F. BREHM, 1619 Kings Highway, was interviewed at his residence at which tme he furnished the following information: When the President's automobile was very close to him and he could see the President's face very well, the President was seated, but was leaning forward when he stiffened perceptibly at the same instant what appeared to be a rifle shot sounded. According to BREHM, the President seemed do to stiffen and come to a pause when another shot sounded and the President appeared to be badly hit in the head. BREHM said when the President was hit by the second shot, he could notice the President's hair fly up, and then roll over to his side, as Mrs. KENNEDY was apparently pulling him in that direction. BREHM said that a third shot followed and that all three shots were relatively close together. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always have had a preference for the testimonies of those who have actually been under fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen Turner Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Sen Tower died in an aircrash, in pretty suspicious cicumstances. If memory serves, John S has a thread on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Graves Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 (edited) Don, There's something in your "signature" that caught my attention from day one, where you are apparently quoting from different newspaper accounts-- "Drehm seemed to think the shots came from in FRONT OF or BESIDE the president." (Don's EMPHASIS) [...] (Brehm) "also stated that it seemed quite apparent to him that the shots came from one of two buildings back at the corner of Elm and Houston Streets." ______________________________________________ How could the shots have come "from in front of or beside the president" if they came "from one of the two buildings back at the corner of Elm and Houston streets?" Did Brehm contradict himself or was he misquoted by the newspaper(s) or is there an explanation that can logically take both of Brehm's observations/conclusions into account? --Thomas ______________________________________________ Edited November 15, 2007 by Thomas Graves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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