The "OSWALD $13 GIFT"

[Tom Hume]

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

Edited May 18, 2013 by Tom Hume

[Ian Kingsbury]

Tom

I followed on from Daniels lead and found this

http://ilovetypography.com/2008/04/25/extreme-type-terminology-part-4/.

Also I found this interesting

ASCII developed from telegraphic codes. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's (ASA) X3.2

In case of an odd or extra symbol rather than number or letter.

Ian

Edited May 17, 2013 by Ian Kingsbury

[Tom Hume]

Edit. Post removed for re-write.

Edited May 26, 2013 by Tom Hume

[Tom Hume]

The Murr package label photo:

http://www.jfkresearch.freehomepage.com/murr.htm

I'm going to take my contribution to this thread is a slightly different direction. I'd planned to show how the entire label could be translated into binary code, which would in turn yield meaningful information. As I was just getting started, I realized that I'd missed a couple of keys on the label, and that this would make my decoding efforts incomplete.

So during my reappraisal, I once again decided that my task is not to solve the puzzle, it's beyond my capabilities, my task is to show that it is a puzzle, so that people that are good at these sorts of things might get busy solving it. To that end, I'm just going to work on showing pieces of the puzzle and I'll begin by pointing out some possible things that seem to relate to Igor Vaganov.

One of major mechanisms of the puzzle is the thirteen-letter anagrams that are possible using the thirteen primary letters on the label: F L O G A B W N S D T I T (For the sake of simplicity, the "601" on the label has been converted into letters using the formula at the bottom of is post. This is the simplest conversion there is, and we can always change them back. In fact, we can freely change any letter to its assigned number, and visa versa, any time the need arises).

In reference to Igor Vaganov, this is the first anagram that got my attention: "L O TSD Twin Bag". This uses twelve of the thirteen primary letters with an F left over.

Notice this uses "TSD" instead of the usual "TSBD". However, Oswald himself entered "Texas School Depository" in his address book, and many people regard "Schoolbook" as one word.

A "Bag" is supposedly what was found inside the parcel when it was opened, and it was described as being similar in many respects to the one supposedly found at the TSBD, so this anagram makes at least a little sense.

But both Oswald and Igor Vaganov spoke fluent Russian, and Vaganov was known to sometimes use "Baganov" as an alias (among others).

Also, "B" and "V" in Russian are nearly equivalent; putting "Vaganov" in the Google Russian Translator yields a word that both starts and ends with a "B".

So it might be at least suspected that "LO TSD Twin Bag" was a double entendre for the controversial paper Bag and the controversial Igor Baginov (Vaganov).

But to be complete, we have a twelve letter anagram, and we do have a letter left over, an "F".

When you have the Murr photo set up on your favorite photography program (Im just using iPhoto on my old Mac), you can pour a little juice to the F, and the right side all but disappears, and the vertical stem of the "F" blossoms into a big beautiful capital "I".

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/FblossomedintoI_zpsb4386686.jpg

Notice that up high and next to the right side of the "I", there is a small "V". Also notice that there is a horizontal line over the top of the "I" (both of these features appear with the "I" on the Vaganov note.

Looking to the next line on the label, the first character is the "6" in "601".

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/86andvintailofD_zps0496eda3.jpg

It has a fuzzy circle at the bottom that could easily be taken for a coffee spill or something on the label. But on closer inspection, it seems to have been very carefully made put there on purpose. To me, the top portion of this circle has always looked a little like a big half-round fuzzy eyebrow.

At any rate, the circular addition on the "6" creates more than a suggestion of a number "8". And the number "8" decodes to the letter "I" (we also have the numbers "8" and "6" - "86" is of course a slang term for getting rid of something).

The first letter on the next line down is the "D" in "Dallas" and it appears to have a small "V" added to lower left portion of its formation.

The first letter on the last line is the letter "I" in the below-the-label "Irving Texas".

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/IVArt_zpscdce6eb3.jpg

So far, one could make an argument that the first characters on each of the four lines had either an "I" or a "V" associated with it.

While we're in the area of the "I" in "Irving", notice the next letter. Its supposed to be an "r", but it doesn't even resemble one. It looks like a heavily drawn "A", lying horizontally. Looking at it another way, it also looks like a "T". And that seems to be the way this puzzle works; things can be temporarily regarded as other things they resemble.

So we have the "r" in "Irving", also apparently serving as an "A", and a "T". That spells "Art", and with the "I" in Irving to its left, and the "V" in "Irving" to its right, we might put together the expression, "I. V. Art". "Igor Vaganov Art"? Just a thought - maybe he's the one that drew the little tiny cartoons all over the label.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Shaw3_zpsc2a7740b.jpg

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/5d15ad37-aefb-4278-9cd3-770f83391095_zps5f45adf5.jpg

The last letter on the first line is the "d" in "Oswald". It appears to have a number "8" written lightly after it, and "8" decodes to "I". Its very light, but its there.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/8nexttodinOswald-lite_zpsfaeef7ed.jpg

The last letter on the second line is the "t" in "St", and it has an "A" lying horizontally across it vertical portion. At least we used it as an "A", because it looked like one, to complete the anagram "Assassinate" out of the all the letters in "Nassaies St".

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/StshowingIV_zps3881f8ff.jpg

But since we can't see what should be the horizontal section of the "A", because its obscured by the vertical portion of the "t", it could just as easily be regarded as a "V", and I think we're supposed to.

Notice also while were here, that the letter "S" has a separation at the top, and looking at the two pieces with the right frame of mind turns them into a "V" and a dotted "i". More about this in a bit.

The last letter on the next line is supposed to be the "s" in "Texas", but it looks much more like a number "8", and "8" decodes to "I". (I think the "8" might be the tail end of the expression, the "D Ferrie Eyebrow 8", but that's an argument for another post ("ceja" is the Spanish word for "eyebrow")).

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/Eyebrow8_zps6dbc8cfe.jpg

The last letter on the bottom line is supposed to be the "s" in "Irving Texas", but it looks very little like one. It appears to be a "Z", but because the bottom portion is so light, it could also be regarded as a "V" (once again, I think we're supposed to).

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/ZandVintailoftexas_zps9dd584d9.jpg

So if the label is in fact a puzzle, one could make some sort of argument that the first and last letter of all four lines on the label are either an "I" or a "V".

The letters "I" and "V", also resemble the capital letter "N" and one of the most prominent anomalies, not on the label, but on the package itself, is the large "N" very near where the FBI put their number Q265.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/NONPACKAGEMADEOFISANDVS_zps13b09699.jpg

The image is kind of small, sorry - I couldnt seem to enlarge it. It looks to me like the letter "N" is constructed from a tangle of "I"s and a "V"s .

Looking back at the label again, there's a large nicely formed capital "N" beginning the word "Nassaies". When that's turned upside down, it appears to be formed exactly like the Russian letter "ee" whose transliteration is "I".

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/russian-alphabet_2_zps6a0282c5.jpg

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y520/TomHume440/VandIinupsidedownN_zps45feacee.jpg

And the upside down "N" on the label also looks just like a nicely hand written letter "V". A Russian "I" and a western style "V", all in one symbol.

More later.

Tom

(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)

Edited September 14, 2013 by Tom Hume

[Ian Kingsbury]

Tom

Have you seen this

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5761#entry50211

Ian

[Tom Hume]

Hi Ian,

No, I had not seen that before. Steve Thomas was asking if anyone had ever heard of RX-ZIM, and in my travels on the package label, I've not seen anything that comes close to that.

On the label the main code symblol for the assassination appears to be simply the the letter "E". I think that it might turn out that a second code name, "David's Sling", was used, but we'll see. The Oswald effort to thwart the assassination appears to be the letter "N", which of course decodes to the number "13".

In the link you provided for the Steve Thomas's post, Steve posts a link to some information about Oswald and Igor Vaganov - very interesting, and it's my belief that Igor was associated with the coded "Undeliverable Package".

And there's the torn in half King of Spades that was found with the Vaganov Note.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_spades#Representation

The King of Spades is considered to be King David of David and Goliath fame. With his sling and five stones, he slew the evil giant with a blow to his head. Some biblical scholars make the argument that Davids Sling propelled a rock through Goliaths eye and into his brain.

It could be that Lee Oswald and Igor Vaganov had a relationship that involved them being set up to take the fall for assassinating the President. Did they in turn dream up several complicated and bizarre ways to tell their story to either stifle the plan, or cover themselves if it succeeded? Or is this all just a red herring like so many of the strange and conflicting pieces of evidence surrounding the events of November 22nd, 1963?

Tom

Edited September 14, 2013 by Tom Hume