Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 10, 2019 3:57:53 GMT -5
6 The Oswald Letter a.k.a "The Hosty Note"
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In 1975, the allegation surfaced that the FBI had destroyed a note delivered to it by Lee Harvey Oswald, just one or two weeks prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. An internal FBI investigation failed to find any records relating to this, but interviews of Dallas Field Office personnel established that an Oswald visit and note dropoff had occurred.
(Mary Ferrell website)
FBI Special Agent James Hosty
Approximately one week or ten days prior to November 22, 1963, an individual appeared at the reception desk and asked to see SA HOSTY.
I checked to see if he was in and learned that he was not and so informed this visitor. He then left a note. On the envelope, there appeared the name "SA HOSTY".
The envelope was not sealed and the note was partially sticking out from the envelope. Accordingly, I pulled the note out and it said something along the following:
"Let this be a warning. I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you don't stop bothering my wife. . , . Signed, Lee Harvey Oswald"
From photographs which I saw in the newspaper following the assassination of President KENNEDY, I recognized the person who delivered the above note to be LEE HARVEY OSWALD.
As best I recall, I took the note in to the Assistant Special Agent in Charge KYLE CLARK. CLARK, after reading the note, stated that he was just a nut and give it to HOSTY.
Following return from CLARK's office, I showed the note to HELEN MAY and sometime shortly thereafter, when JAMES WHITE and JOE PEARCE were near my desk, HELEN MAY told me to show the note to them and I did so.
Sometime later in the day, SA HOSTY came to the office and I personally gave him the note, he read it and made some comment to the effect that OSWALD was a nut. It is my recollection that I was called to work on Sunday, which would have been November 24, 1963.
Sometime during my working on that date, ASAC KYLE CLARK said to me "Forget about the OSWALD letter."
(Sworn statement to Edwards Subcommittee of Nanny Lee Fenner, Dallas, Texas, July 15, 1975)
The Santa Fe Building, 1114 Commerce located adjacent to the Earl Cabell (!!!!, AH)
Federal Building. The 12th floor was headquarters for FBI Dallas from June 1953 to April 1964
(FBI Dallas History)
Erasing the Past...Discussions
Related:
7 The Shanklin Memorandum
86 Army intelligence records on Fort Hood arms theft
93 Identity of Fort Hood gun deal informant
In 1975, the allegation surfaced that the FBI had destroyed a note delivered to it by Lee Harvey Oswald, just one or two weeks prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. An internal FBI investigation failed to find any records relating to this, but interviews of Dallas Field Office personnel established that an Oswald visit and note dropoff had occurred.
(Mary Ferrell website)
FBI Special Agent James Hosty
Approximately one week or ten days prior to November 22, 1963, an individual appeared at the reception desk and asked to see SA HOSTY.
I checked to see if he was in and learned that he was not and so informed this visitor. He then left a note. On the envelope, there appeared the name "SA HOSTY".
The envelope was not sealed and the note was partially sticking out from the envelope. Accordingly, I pulled the note out and it said something along the following:
"Let this be a warning. I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you don't stop bothering my wife. . , . Signed, Lee Harvey Oswald"
From photographs which I saw in the newspaper following the assassination of President KENNEDY, I recognized the person who delivered the above note to be LEE HARVEY OSWALD.
As best I recall, I took the note in to the Assistant Special Agent in Charge KYLE CLARK. CLARK, after reading the note, stated that he was just a nut and give it to HOSTY.
Following return from CLARK's office, I showed the note to HELEN MAY and sometime shortly thereafter, when JAMES WHITE and JOE PEARCE were near my desk, HELEN MAY told me to show the note to them and I did so.
Sometime later in the day, SA HOSTY came to the office and I personally gave him the note, he read it and made some comment to the effect that OSWALD was a nut. It is my recollection that I was called to work on Sunday, which would have been November 24, 1963.
Sometime during my working on that date, ASAC KYLE CLARK said to me "Forget about the OSWALD letter."
(Sworn statement to Edwards Subcommittee of Nanny Lee Fenner, Dallas, Texas, July 15, 1975)
The Santa Fe Building, 1114 Commerce located adjacent to the Earl Cabell (!!!!, AH)
Federal Building. The 12th floor was headquarters for FBI Dallas from June 1953 to April 1964
(FBI Dallas History)
Erasing the Past...Discussions