First published on October 27, 2013 / 3:27 PM. I do recall the grades were not good, he told me. On . So every time we turned around we were being shipped off we understood that. He was 83.His obituary in the Wichita Falls Times Record News made no mention of his brother's infamous place in history except to say "he spent his youth in Louisiana with his brothers Lee and John Pic before joining the Marine Corps in 1952 at age 18. Oswalt was the first of Sledge's unit to perish. may have known of his assassination plans and sent word back to Havana, as well as interviews with a key eyewitness at the Cuban consulate, where Oswald reportedly bragged openly about his plans to kill the U.S. president. This image is the third photograph on negative strip 47 in the Dallas Times Herald collection. The same document also includes an FBI memo stating that Robert Kennedy told the agency that the CIA had hired an intermediary to approach Mafia boss Sam Giancana offering to pay him to hire someone to kill Castro. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Most of these pieces of evidence, Armstrong believes, were ignored by investigators or either suppressed or withheld by the FBI. Lee was in one. Former CIA officer and author Robert Baer, who led the investigation in Historys JFK Declassified: Tracking Oswald program, believes the biggest revelation to come out of the newest file release is that the White House and intelligence agencies are continuing to conceal all that was known about Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, and how much information was withheld from the official investigation into the events of November 22, 1963. He had problems at home. But the facts point in the other direction. You gotta catch me. It was enough to let me understand why a man like Armstrong has fallen under the spell of the Two Oswalds. I said, "OK." The next thing out of his mouth was, "This is tapped," meaning the telephones were tapped. That's what he wants to do. He said that he wanted to keep the documents from falling into the hands of "ghouls," and gave a similar rationale for ordering that the sheets that covered Kennedy's head wounds in Dallas be laundered during the autopsy. Lee had none, absolutely none, unfortunately, of Dad's guidance and discipline, that John [Pic, Robert and Lee's older half-brother] and I did. Marguerite Oswald withdrew Lee from the orphans' home and took him with her to Dallas when he was a little over 4 years old.17 About 6 months later she also withdrew John Pic and Robert Oswald.18 Apparently that action was taken in anticipation of her marriage to Edwin A. Ekdahl, which took place in May of 1945.19 In the fall of that year John . We weren't wanted. FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - The ruling is in: The final resting place for Lee Harvey Oswald's casket belongs to the assassin's brother. They got the wrong guy, and they're not gonna be able to prove it." It's so coincidental that everything came together. (Credit: National Archives Handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock), 4) Someone phoned in a death threat on Oswald to the FBI the day before he was murdered. The memo stated that according to the FBIs source, Communist officials believed there was a well-organized ultraright conspiracy behind the assassination. Armstrong has even compiled a list of more than twenty people who remembered seeing Oswald driving a car, though he didnt have a drivers license. (Credit: National Archives Handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock), 7) LBJ used to go around saying JFKs murder was payback for the U.S. killing of a Vietnamese president, In an April 1975 deposition at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, Richard Helms (director of CIA under both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon) testified that Johnson claimed JFK was killed in retribution for the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, who was killed as part of a U.S.-backed coup earlier in 1963. However, the facts of the case make it clear that the Soviet government wanted . So, we talked about family matters and everything. Oswald died shortly after that conversation. Oswald bought his brother's pine casket for $300 in 1963, and fought against his exhumation in 1981. "And I'm gonna give him some attention." He was not about to indicate to me in any form not that I think he would have, I don't know. Armstrong is a relative latecomer to conspiracy research, getting into the game eight years ago after attending JFK assassination classes at the University of Texas at Arlington. It's not strong, it's not, you know, rough or anything. standards, project requests, and our services. I think that the key time to me, is 14, 15 years old, New York, New Orleans. Later, on 24 November 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was Killed by Jack Ruby on live television in the basement area of Dallas Police headquarters. [At] an orphan asylum, the Bethlehem Orphan Home, John and I seemed to get along pretty good there and stuff. Send the information as to what has happened to me to the Embassy and include newspaper clippings (should there be anything about me in the newspapers). I like to stick with the facts, what we know. Still, why would an otherwise reasonable and successful man live like this? Its one thing to believe that Oswald was involved in a plot; its another to believe that the plot began when he was thirteen. That we were, you know, a burden to her. March 1995 0. The following is an excerpt of ABCNEWS' interview with Robert Oswald, who spoke of his brother's attention-starved behavior and troubled childhood. / CBS News. Jos R. Ralat is Texas Monthlys taco editor, writing about tacos and Mexican food. I think Lee's motive was more psychological than anything else, not political. You can't take a news clip like that and say, hey, that's it. Your support aids students of all ages, rural communities, Robert Oswald paid $710 for the small graveside service, $300 of which was for the plain pine casket. He spent his youth in Louisiana with his brothers Lee and John Pic before joining the Marine Corps in 1952 at. Physically he's about 10 pounds lighter than the last time I saw him. 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I'm trying to get through to him that, you know, he's in a lot of trouble, if he didn't know that, and what could I do to help. "We're disappointed in the ruling. I said, "Now, wait a minute. Rice says "we have to do everything we can to convince" Putin that he is wrong on Ukraine, Blinken: China considering giving "lethal support" to aid Russian invasion, Transcript: Reps. Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi on "Face the Nation," Feb. 26, 2023, Transcript: Secretary of State Antony Blinken on "Face the Nation". " Marguerite and Robert Oswald, helped my mother bury Lee, but in the months following, something that I don't fully understand happened to create an estrangement between Mom, Marguerite and Robert. So we're talking on telephones, one to the other. That's where he wants to be. Robert Oswald: I think more than anything else, if I had an opportunity and the facts that said Lee was innocent, I would be out there shouting it loud and clear. ", (2015 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. Robert B. Oswalt was a marine in Eugene Sledge's unit, and a fellow new recruit along with Sledge and Bill Leyden. It has been viewed 18247 times, with 431 in the last month. He was the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald - who has long been the enigmatic figure at the center of the JFK assassination. According to him, Abreu replied Oh, he was quite good.I knew him., A handout image of a FBI report about Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City released by the National Archives as part of nearly 3,000 previously sealed or redacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Oswald: It means zero. A woman in Yuma, Arizona, filed a report with the FBI after the assassination that said her son had befriended a Marxist-quoting Oswald at age thirteen in Stanley, North Dakota, during the summer of 1953, when he was supposed to have been in New York. Under orders from his superior, Hosty destroyed the letter by ripping it into pieces, then flushing the pieces down the toilet at the Dallas FBI office, two days after the assassination when Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby. We were a burden. It would have made all the difference in the world. There's no shadowy figures out there. Physical Description 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 35 mm. He had problems on his job. Today the most trendy, cutting-edge area of research is the Two Oswalds theory, which provides certain proof that some people may have too much time on their hands. By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, Stand with us in our mission to discover and uncover the story of North Texas, Robert Oswald, brother to JFK's assassin, dies in Wichita Falls, What we know after 3 children killed, 2 wounded at Ellis County home, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones defers comment on revival of sexual harassment lawsuit. A person of that mind could teach himself Russian and pass himself as Russian? Chicago Illinois Texas. Here are the 10 most revealing highlights from the 2,800 newly declassified JFK assassination files. As children, the Oswald brothers had been placed in orphanages by their mother after their father died. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. Shenon also points to the CIA as having taken great steps to cover up their knowledge of Oswald's visit to Mexico City before the assassination. a digital repository hosted by the image file If everybody had been Marxist, he would have been an American, vice versa. He has since coauthored a book, Dead Witnesses (Consolidated Press); made numerous multimedia presentations on the Two Oswalds to groups, including the JFK Lancer and COPA (Coalition on Political Assassinations) conventions, the two conspiracy research assemblies that meet in Dallas every November; written for Probe magazine, which is published by the Citizens for Truth About the Kennedy Assassination; and devotes from twenty to forty hours a week to the subject, which has filled two studies in the home in suburban Tulsa that he shares with his family. UNT's history and scholarship, library special collections, plus a In a memo dated November 26, 1963, FBI Deputy Director James Angleton recorded that British Security Service (MI5) had reported a call made to the Cambridge News on the evening of November 22.