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So says AMC’s popular new series, RUBICON. And I’ve been hinting at that for weeks now.  Read further into COUP D’ETATThe Assassination of John F. Kennedy. This is the 10th installment entitled:

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Juat a Patsy? Lee Harvey Oswald

JUST A PATSY?   LEE HARVEY OSWALD

While in police custody, Lee Oswald was grilled repeatedly by federal and local officials, but, incredibly, no tapes or transcripts were made of his interrogation.  His questioners said that although Oswald admitted to being a Marxist, a former Soviet defector, and a supporter of Fidel Castro, he steadfastly denied shooting anyone.  There has never been any hard evidence against Oswald, who claimed he was “just a patsy”, but over the years he has emerged as a mystery man who inhabited a secret world of spies and conspirators.

Born and raised by his mother Marguerite in New Orleans, Oswald enlisted in the Marines in 1956.   Known as “Shitbird” because of his poor marksmanship.  Oswald had another Marine nickname, Oswaldkovitch, in reference to his open espousal of communism.  Yet the 17 year-old was given radar training and a security clearance and sent to Atsugi Air Base in Japan, the CIA’s main operational base in the Far East, and home to the top-secret U2 spy missions over Russia.  Oswald often visited Tokyo, where he carried on with a Japanese hostess who worked at one of the city’s most expensive night spots, the Queen Bee.  His military record, which shows that he contracted venereal disease “in the line of duty”, suggests these trysts might have been an intelligence assignment.  After his return from Japan on November 19, 1958, Oswald took a crash course in Russian at the Army’s Monterey School (now the Defense Language Institute).  On September 11, 1959, Oswald obtained an early discharge.  A month later, he defected to the Soviet Union.

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For some reason, I have become enamored with the idea that I should have some blog days that are designated to a topic.  And I am a bit hooked on Conspiracy Theory Wednesday because as I said I think it is a throwback to my Colin McEnroe radio listening days in Hartford, CT.

Since Dark Legacy stirred my deeply buried but not lost feelings about the Kennedy assassination, I came across, well actually Peter did, but this is my blog so… we have a deck of trading cards of all things, that expose and expound upon the conspiracy behind President Kennedy’s death.  I was really intrigued by the concept – can you imagine a company produced a deck of cards called Coup D’Etat?  You can’t? Believe me it exists and Conspiracy Theory Wednesday seems to be the perfect time to delve into this fascinating and complex conspiracy theory.  Think of it as jumping the gun (no pun intended) on the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination when surely there will be a new wave of books dealing with this 20th century haunting mystery.  The following is from the first card in the deck;

The Assassination

Politics brought John F. Kennedy to Texas in 1963.  The 35th president won the conservative state in the 1960 election largely for his tough stand on Cuba, his promised defense build-up, and his Texan running mate.   But Kennedy’s 1,026 days in office were characterized by increasingly liberal policies.  The failed 1961 Cuban Bay of Pigs invasion, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1963  Test Ban Treaty with the Soviets and the administration’s support of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement added to Kennedy’s growing unpopularity in right-wing circles.  In the nine months before the President’s visit to Dallas, the Secret Service had received more than 400 threats on his life.  On November 18 one of these caused the cancellation of a planned motorcade through Miami.  In Texas, a state dependent on the oil and defense industries, recent moves to repeal the sacrosanct 27.5% oil depletion allowance and plans to begin withdrawal of U.S. military “advisors” from Vietnam were viewed with particular alarm, nowhere more visibly than in Dallas, a hotbed of right wing fringe activity.  In October 1963, UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson had been shoved, spat on, and hit with a picket sign there.  When Kennedy read the Dallas morning news on Friday morning, November 22nd, he was greeted by a full page ad in bold, black type suggesting that he was a Communist and a traitor.  A few hours later, as he rode through downtown Dallas accompanied by Texas Governor, John Connally and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the motorcade route was lined with posters picturing Kennedy with the words, “Wanted for Treason”.  The stage was set for assassination.

If you’re interested (and it only gets better) check back next Wednesday for the next segment.

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