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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 5, 2023 11:39:02 GMT -5
Bolton Ford PickupIn 1961, Ford Motor Co., introduced the Econoline of Trucks. It was a flat bed, or panel van, some with a small cab. It was both durable and affordable. On January 20 th, of that year, two men walked into Bolton Ford Co., on Claiborne Ave in New Orleans, and wanted to buy ten of these trucks. Oscar Deslotte, was an Asst. Manager, and met Joseph Moore then, after further discussion, the other man said, his name was, "Oswald". "...MOORE then told him that he should change the name on the bid form from MOORE to OSWALD, no first name given. The individual with MOORE then said, 'that was his name and it should go on the form as he was the man with the money and would pay for the trucks, if they were purchased'..."The purchase was being made for the "Friends of Democratic Cuba", 402 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana (Telephone Number JA 6-0763). Meanwhile, Lee Harvey Oswald, was nearly 6000 miles away, living in Russia. It is strange that name & that purpose, was being used at that time. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "Was this Oswald a relative of Lee Harvey? If this is so, with Lee Harvey then in Russia, can it be inferred that when he was in Russia", he had a relative who had connections with U.S. intelligence, the CIA? If this, in turn, is true, does this indicate anything about Lee Harvey, when he was in Russia or before? Lee Harvey was not the only one of his name in the employ of the Reilly Coffee Company, his place of work once he got settled in New Orleans and got a job. Any connection here? The Reilly Coffee Company is across the street from the then Main Post Office, which figures in this story, next door to the Capital City Garage, where the FBI and Secret Service cars were kept and where Lee Harvey hung out, and a block away from the Newman building, to which we will come in due time, where other center stage actors in intelligence operations and in the drama of Oswald in New Orleans could have been found."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 6, 2023 11:11:25 GMT -5
Called OutrightDean Andrews, the hip-cat, jive-talking, New Orleans attorney, that got the request to defend Oswald, was called to the Warren Commission on July 21,1964. "Called before the Commission", for any New Orleans witness meant, in the Old Civil Courts Building, with Attorney Stein in April, or Wesley Liebeler in July. By the time the investigation got to seven months, it was way behind schedule. They were hoping for full completion by the end of June. There was still massive amount work to be done. By the third week of July they were just calling the photographers, Zapruder, Altgens, and Willis. These men should have been called in the front, and instructed to bring their camera and film. Timing should have been the same for the New Orleans witnesses. Andrews does talk freely, although not very honestly as demonstrated in his exaggeration of, trying to catch Bertrand on the street, or Oswald with "50" homosexuals. In the Report, no mention of Clay Bertrand, Clay Shaw, or anything to do with Bertrand calling Dean and asking him to represent the accused assassin in Dallas. Not only does the name Bertrand, or Shaw appear anywhere in the first release, but the only reference to Andrews relates to Lee's intoxication and citizenship. Dean was first scheduled for April, but even then, it could not do the investigation any good. He did not believe Oswald killed the president, and said so outright. Mr. LIEBELER - Do you mean to suggest by that statement that you have considerable doubt in your mind that Oswald killed the President? Mr. ANDREWS - I know good and well he did not. With that weapon, he couldn't have been capable of making three controlled shots in that short time.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "The record shows no unwillingness on his part to testify or cooperate in any way. The problem he presented was a different one: He was anxious to testify and to place on record his belief in Oswald’s innocence and the complicity of others. In this he remained steadfast under pressure most people are inclined to yield to, declining to be persuaded or intimidated into changing any of it. To pretty it up a bit, because the government knew he could not, Andrews was commanded to bring with him: All records, papers, notes and other documents in your possession or under your control pertaining to any possible representation of Lee Harvey Oswald by you during the period April 1, 1963 through December 31, 1963; including any such writings indicating that Oswald called in your office, either alone or in the company of others, or any such writings indicating any attempt which may have been made by any person including one Clay Bertrand to retain your services on behalf of Lee Harvey Oswald in connection with his involvement with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This is what is known as a "subpoena duces tecum". If impelled by a desire to leave a record adverse to Andrews, it was, like so many other things that permeated everything the Commission did, a lemming-like compulsion to self-destruction, a record of duplicity. In naming only Oswald and Clay Bertrand in this confidential document, in not naming the man who used what the Attorney General himself, on March 02, 1967, said is the alias of Clay Bertrand, the Commission betrayed its own dishonesty and the intent of the investigation to pin a bum rap on Oswald, whom the public had already been bamboozled into thinking (or seeming to think) was alone, unassisted and alienated assassin, and to sweep everything else under the rug." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Washington Post | George Lardner March 03, 1967"The Attorney General’s remarks consequently amounted to an acceptance of Garrison’s charge that Clay Shaw and "Clay Bertrand” are one and the same. “It’s the same guy,” said one source in the Justice Department."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 7, 2023 11:43:38 GMT -5
Coming EventOn November 23,1963, Fidel Castro gave a Radio & Television speech to the Cuban people regarding the assassination of President, John F. Kennedy. " ...we should make a specially objective and calm analysis of these events and of their possible consequences."The speech was broadcast on Radio Havana. The next day, commentary was given for which the notes are provided below. Inter-American Press Association, was a press advocacy group for, North and South America, as well as, the Caribbean. Carl Bernstein called it, "...a CIA‑funded organization with heavy membership among right‑wing Latin American newspaper editors."+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Fidel Castro | Nov. 23, 1963"A series of cables began to arrive . . . New York, November 20, UPI -- The Daily News editorial stated that . . . Kennedy now refuses to allow Cuban exiles to launch attacks against Cuba from U.S. territory" the paper said “and in fact uses U.S. naval and air power to maintain Castro in power.” . . . And then, finally, there is something very interesting -- really very interesting and curious which drew my attention when I read it. That is why I remembered it and looked for the papers." It says: “The third editor to express his opinion was Sergio Carbo" . . . Carbo ... is Director of the Executive Council of the Inter-American Press Association . . . an important post in reactionary intellectual circles . . . his statement ends (and this is what drew my attention) . . . by saying: "I believe that a coming serious event will oblige Washington to change its policy of peaceful coexistence." What does this mean? What did this gentleman mean when he said, three days before the assassination . . . in a cable . . . from Associated Press, dated Nov. 19, Miami Beach . . . "I believe that a coming serious event will oblige Washington to change its policy of peaceful coexistence?" What does this mean, three days before the murder of President Kennedy? Because when I read this cable it caught my attention, It intrigued me, it seemed strange to me. Was there perhaps some sort of understanding? Was there perhaps some sort of plot? Was there perhaps in the reactionary circles where the so-called weak policy of Kennedy toward Cuba was under attack, where the policy of civil rights was under attack -- was there perhaps in certain civilian and military ultra-reactionary circles in the United States a plot against President Kennedy’s life? . . ." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Day After Commentary"An event like that of yesterday, can only benefit the ultra-right, the ultra-reactionaries among whom cannot be included, the President and some of the people who worked with him . . ." ". . . President Kennedy had spoken to them last Monday evening. The speech of the President was disappointing to the partisans against Cuba; it was disappointing to the Cuban counter-revolutionaries and it was disappointing to the ultra-right in the United States . . ." "Then, Fidel said there is a strange sentence in this report made three days before the assassination. I believe,” and noted that on November 19, AP cable says: (and quoted) “I believe that a serious event soon to take place will oblige Washington to modify its policy of peaceful co-existence."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 8, 2023 11:57:32 GMT -5
Ferrie's DeadDavid Ferrie's buildingDavid Ferrie, died on, Feb. 22, 1967, the coroner said the cause of death was natural. A massive cerebral hemorrhage at the base of the brain. He put the time of death at about 4am, and said there was, "There is no indication whatsoever of suicide or murder." The last person to see David alive was, Washington Post Reporter, George Lardner, he had been interviewing Ferrie until about 4:00 am, on the 22 nd. "Ferrie was certainly living when I said goodbye to him Wednesday shortly before 4 A.M.,”For awhile, Garrison was stopped in his tracks. Although some of the ridicule from the press ceased, what followed were reminders that the Warren Commission had done an investigation into a Ferrie-Oswald connection and found none. That was not true. It was done when the Secret Service and FBI inquired about Ferrie based on local police interest. The Commission itself, was crippled without its own private investigators. Ferrie was a weird dude. He had some kind of loss of hair disorder, and painted on his eyebrows. Often times they were oversized and not uniformed. He affixed a red wig to his head, the hair unkempt, in disarray, hardly straight. He was big man, just under 6 feet, and weighed about 200 lbs. Of the items found in his apt were, over 3,000 books including, a complete assassination library, as well as reported by the AP; "...a blue 100-pound practice aerial bomb (exactly what the FBI seized when it raided the New Orleans invasion camp on July 31,1963), a Springfield muzzle-loading rifle, a .22-caliber Remington rifle, a single-shot .22-caliber rifle with altered stock, 20-gauge shotgun shells, two Army Signal Corps field telephones, a bayonet, a flare gun, a radio transmitter-tuner unit, a radio receiver tuner unit, .32 caliber empty brass casings, .22-caliber blanks, several cameras and three rolls of undeveloped film."+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "In the bizarre and untimely ending of this life, as though willed with the timing of a master showman for maximum attention, he may do more good than ever he did in life. In this he is like that other dead bachelor of the half-world, Jack Ruby. Many people just will not believe Ruby's death was natural. In death he focused national suspicion on the unsatisfactory official "solution" to the assassination. With the stark inappropriateness of the time of Dave Ferrie’s dying, at the precise moment all attention was focused on him, as though some evil, all-controlling master plucked him offstage so he could not act out his part, he served to spotlight Jim Garrison's investigation. With his death the more blatant ridicule of the press and of the other professional sneers abruptly subsided."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 11, 2023 12:15:51 GMT -5
You Never Knowanti-Castro training filmWhen a local Florist, Edward Voebel, was called to the the Commission, he was not sure if Oswald had served under Ferrie in the Civil Air Patrol. Once the two men were dead, the record was scraped clean, thereby closing the matter regarding any connection between them. Yet, the possibility exists as seen in training films out at Lacombe, and in statements like the above, being intimidated by the press or others. It doesn't mean that David & Lee saw each other every day. Oswald was working at Reilly Coffee, and still had a wife and baby to support. And so, Commission staff members, and Lone Nut defenders, continue to say Oswald & Ferrie never knew each other. But Weisberg reminds the reader; "That is not what the press said at the time of the assassination. One story put it this way: 'A New Orleans florist, Edward Voebel, had seen Lee Harvey Oswald's picture on television and reported he and Oswald had served in a Civil Air Patrol squadron under Ferrie'." Jenner never asked the required questions to open, close, and resolve, this important issue. Once again, possibility in a cloak of ambiguity. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Barry Seal, the Dallas Get-away Plane, & the JFK Assassinationby Daniel Hopsicker"...Garrison charged that David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, and Lee Oswald were all involved in training two paramilitary groups of Cuban exiles and American “neo-Nazis” The covert group, he said, was led by David Ferrie, who drilled five-man commando teams in guerrilla warfare practice. There are eyewitness accounts of Dave Ferrie, Lee Oswald, and numerous Cubans, dressed in military fatigues and carrying automatic rifles involved in extensive military training maneuvers on the site. Several people, including a CIA asset named Colonel William Bishop, shortly before his death in 1990, who told author Dick Russell that he’d seen Oswald and Ferrie in a have seen a training film shot at the site. So too, did HSCA lawyer and later Beverly Hills Mayor, Robert Tenenbaum, who claims that after the House assassination investigation got hold of a copy of the training film shot at the Lacombe camp, it was stolen."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 12, 2023 12:19:06 GMT -5
Capt. Creepy"The coroner said Ferrie was “definitely manic . . . he had paranoid tendencies, too.” He apparently was a compulsive “saver” of papers, letters, pictures and other memorabilia. Police found several guns in his apartment, including even an ancient Springfield muzzle loader . . . Dr. Nicholas Chetta called Ferrie a psychopath . . . a dangerous individual capable of almost anything." Washington Post | George Lardner March 01, 1967David Ferrie was a pedophile that preyed on young boys wherever he went. He was a pilot, that would lure them to the plane, and a hypnotist that could break their will. He had parties dispersing drugs and alcohol to minors, then hypnotize them into sexual acts with themselves or others. There were a number of charges against him, with no prosecution, due to personal threats on the victims. The States-Item Newspaper;"On August 26, 1961, Ferrie was booked in Jefferson Parish with committing a crime against nature on a 15-year-old boy and indecent behavior with three juvenile boys. Jefferson and New Orleans authorities claim he used alcohol, hypnotism and the enticement of flying to lure the youngsters into committing indecent acts."The same day:"A search of Ferrie's home turned up numerous maps of Cuba and seven or eight World War I rifles with a quantity of ammunition. A juvenile told officers he had flown to Cuba with Ferrie on several occasions. Ferrie asked another teenager to drive a Cuban citizen to Miami, police said."
"On August 29, 1961, Orleans Parish district attorney charged Ferrie with intimidating a witness in connection with the crime against nature cases pending against him. Officers said a youth told them Ferrie threatened that 'a Cuban friend (of Ferrie's) would take care of him if he didn't sign a paper saying he would not prefer charges'." (This charge was dismissed January 7,1962.)+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "Before he lost his job as an Eastern Airlines pilot because of his homosexuality, Ferrie was welcomed as a speaker by respectable organizations. For example, according to the States-Item, he spoke before the New Orleans Junior Chamber of Commerce on December 9, 1955, that airplane instrument panels would be simplified, requiring fewer instruments, perhaps fewer than a dozen. Even after his disgrace, he addressed the Exchange Club and others. To some of them he spoke with great violence. Because military groups are not notoriously moderate, this comment by George Lardner in the Washington Post of February 26, 1967, is an indication of Ferrie’s intemperance and judgement: "In July, 1961 . . . he spoke to the New Orleans chapter of the Military Order of the World Wars on, “Cuba, -- April, 1961 Present and Future," but he was cut off by a chapter official who found his remarks offensive. Just what Ferrie said is unclear, but one man present is reported to have said Ferrie complained sharply about 'The President of the United States and the Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, apparently for the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion'."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 13, 2023 11:56:18 GMT -5
"Never Heard of this Person?"The Associated Press account appeared in the Washington Star under the headline, "FBI Probed 'Plot' Suspect, Clark Reports; Arrest Is First Made By Garrison In His Investigation." Atty. Gen. designate Ramsey Clark said today the Federal Bureau of Investigation already has investigated and cleared Clay L. Shaw, a businessman arrested in New Orleans -- of any part in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Clark made the statement to reporters moments after the Senate Judiciary Committee approved his nomination to become Attorney General.
Shaw, wealthy retired director of the International Trade Mart, at New Orleans has been booked on a charge of "conspiracy to commit murder.” In the Kennedy assassination investigation being run by New Orleans Dist. Atty Jim Garrison In a brief corridor interview Clark said the Justice Department knows what Garrison’s case involves and does not consider it valid. However, the former chief counsel to the Warren Commission, J. Lee Rankin, said earlier that as far as I know, we’ve never heard of this person (Shaw). The Warren Commission’s Report did not mention Shaw.
Clark said Shaw, “was included in an investigation in November and December of 1963." “We have the evidence and we can assume what their conclusions are,”"On the evidence that the FBI has, there was no connection found “between Shaw and the assassination of the President in Dallas on Nov 22, 1963." Clark said. “He was checked out and found clear?” Clark was asked. “That’s right," Clark replied. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "Like the name "Bertrand," "Shaw" does not appear in the Report. Nor does he appear a single time in all fifteen large volumes of testimony or the eleven of exhibits. The Commission never investigated Shaw. His name does not appear in the 300-cubic-foot bulk of its files. This was confirmed to me by the men who are its custodians, immediately and on several subsequent occasions. But if the FBI could not find "Bertrand" for the Commission and if the Attorney General implies Bertrand is Shaw, how could the FBI have investigated and "cleared" Shaw and not have been able to produce "Bertrand"? Here is the petard on which all officials are hoist. The Attorney General disclosed that the FBI had investigated and "cleared" Shaw. The chief of the Commission staff "never heard of" Shaw. So evidently the FBI never told the Commission of its "investigation" for the Commission and its "clearance" of Shaw? Why, then, should it have investigated Shaw to begin with? Only because he was Bertrand. Did they never tell the Commission that? Far from exonerating the Commission, this indicts it."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 14, 2023 12:54:42 GMT -5
Party of ForePerry Russo, was an insurance salesman, from Baton Rouge, that was a friend and ex-roommate of David Ferrie. In early 1967, after David died, he became the star witness in this case, with information regarding the JFK assassination. Russo, had attended a party sometime in Sept. '63, with Ferrie, some Cuban's and two other men. One man, tall and distinguished, was introduced as "Clem Bertrand", the other, a dirty looking, unkempt, and unshaven man, known as "Leon Oswald". "The Oswald I knew," he testified, "was like a beatnik," always with "three or four days' growth of beard."As the party dwindled, the conversation turned to Cuba, and US policy, Kennedy, and then David became more animated. By the time talk segued into assassination, Ferrie was pacing the room, talking about, "triangular crossfire", and a "scapegoat". Perry said he didn't think to much about it, even after it happened. He had to get on with school. When Ferrie died he contacted the DA. There were discrepancies in his statements to the press that were different from his testimony. On Feb. 24 th, he told WDSU-TV, he did not know Lee Harvey Oswald. He clarified that statement to Garrison's team, when a police sketch artist put 3-4 days of whiskers on a picture of Oswald, then he realized the Leon he had met, was actually the accused assassin. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "Russo's account of the party-night plotting might have been what the FBI asked Ferrie about or what he, knowing it had happened, could have volunteered when he was questioned at the time of the assassination. Either way, it is not unlike what the FBI knew about. From the files and evidence, it did not seek out Russo or any others to check Ferrie's alibi. It seemingly was satisfied that an acknowledged assertion that the President should have been shot could be explained as either a bad joke or a new kind of "colloquial expression." The unavailability of any indication that the FBI knew or cared to find out where or under what circumstances or to whom Ferrie made his "joke" makes it impossible to determine whether what Ferrie admitted is the same incident to which Russo testified. If it is the same incident, it confirms Russo. If it is not, the FBI has further discredited itself, for there then is another Ferrie threat against the President not investigated before the FBI gave him a "clean bill of health." If it is not, then there are others who can testify to Ferrie's threats and to whether they were "jokes" or "colloquial expressions." After how many repetitions was it still a "joke"?"
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 15, 2023 14:13:47 GMT -5
Fraught with HearsayIn the first week of March, '67, Garrison demanded a four day Preliminary Hearing, something normally requested by the Defense. "...to obtain a judicial determination of whether there were grounds for bringing Shaw to trial." Both side attorneys were present. The three Judges appointed to the hearing were; Criminal District Court Judge Bernard J. Bagert, Judges Malcolm V. O'Hara and Matthew S. Braniff. During the questioning of Perry Russo by Defense Attorney, F. Irvin Diamond, the Warren Commission's conclusions came up in the submission of evidence. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Oswald in New Orleans | Harold Weisberg "Under cross-examination Russo reemphasized this, saying, "I knew 'Leon' Oswald, who was whiskered and dirty and had rumpled hair." The only time he ever saw "Oswald" clean-shaven was for a few minutes "the day Oswald left New Orleans for Houston." The Commission decided that at about noon September 25, 1963, Oswald left New Orleans by bus for Mexico by way of Houston. For immediate purposes, the cross-questioning of Russo was no benefit to Shaw and less than glorious for Lawyer Dymond. In an interview before Garrison's men spoke to him, Russo had said that the last time he saw "Oswald" was in October. On that occasion, according to him, Ferrie had said of the President, "We will get him and it won't be long." It was, he said, "in the middle of October." Oswald "was leaving Dave at that time." Dymond wanted to know, "Do you still say it was in October that he said this?" "Yes, sir," Russo repeated, "I'd say October; yes, sir.” "Are you aware it is a documented fact that Oswald left New Orleans September 25 and in fact never returned?" Assistant District Attorney Charles Ward raised his voice in objection. "That has never been proven in this court," he protested. Dymond turned to an associate while quoting the conclusions of the Commission. The Commission's volumes were at hand. He picked one up. Judge Bagert asked him as though in disbelief, "You're not going to introduce the Warren Report in this court?" "I am," Dymond replied. "That's right." "You must be kidding!" the judge exclaimed. Dymond cited a state law that he claimed made this possible and added that it had been printed by "the U.S. Government Printing Office." Judge Bagert smiled as he asked the next question, "Does that give it authenticity?" Dymond said it did. "You are wrong and you are overruled," Bagert retorted. When Dymond persisted Judge Bagert held that the Report was "fraught with hearsay," "hearsay four or five times removed," and was inadmissible as evidence. The prosecution suggested Dymond note an "exception." He did. This, said Carl J. Pellack, writing in the New York Post the next day, 'marked the first time that a court in this country has held the Warren Report to be without legal foundation and unacceptable as matter of fact'."
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Post by Michael Capasse on Sept 18, 2023 12:17:45 GMT -5
"It’s the Same Guy”There is no reference to Clay Shaw anywhere in the Warren Commission Report or the 26 volumes of testimony and exhibits. The only reference to "Clay Bertrand", is in the testimony of Attorney, Dean Andrews, that said, he had gotten the call directly. It was one reason he was there. The only other topic for Andrews, was Oswald's company of Mexican homosexuals and his military status. Evidence that Garrison later gathered on the name, 'Bertrand', points to some obvious connection to Shaw. The FBI said they cleared 'both' men. Comm. Attorney, Rankin said, "we’ve never heard of this person (Shaw)". Yet, four years later the Justice Dept. verified it was the same man. Thus, in the Report, there was no call to Dean Andrews to defend the accused assassin. Much like TF Bowley, written out of the Tippit Story. Or Sandra Styles, having run down the TSBD stairs with Vickie Adams in the first seconds after the shooting. These people and their actions were suppressed from the story as inconvenient to the precluded solution of Oswald as the lone gunman. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Warren Commission Report | Page 325"The Commission has also noted the testimony of Dean Andrews, an attorney in New Orleans. Andrews stated that Oswald came to his office several times in the summer of 1963 to seek advice on a less than honorable discharge from the Armed Forces, the citizenship status of his wife and his own citizenship status. Andrews, who believed that he was contacted on November 23 to represent Oswald, testified that Oswald was always accompanied by a Mexican and was at times accompanied by apparent homosexuals.
Andrews was able to locate no records of any of Oswald’s alleged visits, and investigation has failed to locate the person who supposedly called Andrews on November 23, at a time when Andrews was under heavy sedation. While one of Andrews’ employees felt that Oswald might have been at his once, his secretary has no recollection of Oswald being there."
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