(Still-Powerful-Today) Bill Moyers, LBJ'S #1 AIDE: "Get That God-damned bubble [top] off unless it's pouring rain."

Photos #1 & #2: Look carefully, and you'll see the back window of the Presidential Limo's "bubble top" is surrounded with a vinyl cover --

making an accurate shot from the rear difficult,
if not impossible...the "bubble top" is well-covered overhead, as well....this is what Bill Moyers did NOT want!

PHOTO #2:.... Kennedy's limo had a totally 'clear' bubble top such as in this photo ...and jfk CAN BE SEEN RIDING IN THIS LIMO WITH ITS CLEAR BUBBLE TOP. However, THE 'BUBBLE TOP' WAS COVERED WITH A DARK VINYL FABRIC ON NOV. 22 --SEE PHOTO #1-- AT PARKLAND HOSPITAL, EFFECTIVELY HIDING A VIEW OF THE CAR'S INTERIOR --AND MAKING IT HARD TO SEE THE FRONT ENTRY HOLE IN THE WINDSHIELD FROM THE REAR! THAT WINDSHIELD WAS QUICKLY REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH A 'NEW' WINDSHIELD THAT HAD JUST A CRACK IN IT! SEE STORY, BELOW.

AN OUTRIGHT LIE IS STILL BEING BROADCAST BY THE MEDIA --THAT KENNEDY ORDERED THE BUBBLE-TOP -- WHICH COULD HAVE SAVED THE PRESIDENT --OFF HIS CAR ON THAT DIRE NOVEMBER MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1963, IN DALLAS.

BUT NOW THE JFK ASSASSINATION FORUM HAS POSTED SOME IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT KENNEDY'S LIMO --AND WHO REALLY ORDERED THE 'BUBBLE TOP' OFF--LBJ AID BILL MOYERS! --MOYERS IS STILL ALIVE --AND POWERFUL. HIS WAS ONE OF THE LOUD VOICES DEMANDING THAT 'THE LOVE AFFAIR,' ';'THE GUILTY MEN' AND 'THE SMOKING GUNS' HAD TO BE BANNED--OR ELSE HE'D SUE THE HISTORY CHANNEL!-- READ HERE HOW MOYERS ORDERED THE 'G-D BUBBLE TOP' TO BE REMOVED FROM KENNEDY'S LIMO!

March 21, 2011, 01:15:34 PM JFK ASSASSINATION FORUM POSTS

"The oft repeated statements that security was stripped and reduced at JFK's orders because he didn't want SS agents or motorcycles blocking the view of the crowd and that he also requested the removal of the "bubble top" for the same reasons are patently false as researcher Vince Palamara has documented. Palamara "has stated that the usual array of motorcycles was four abreast of the limousine, with one placed at each fender; on many occasions there were twelve to eighteen motorcycles near the limousine. He also maintained that Gerald Behn, the head of the White House Detail, and Floyd Boring (second in command) both assured him that JFK never vetoed or modified any Secret Service protection and that any claims to the contrary were incorrect."

"The "bubble-top" had been removed from the presidential limousine at Love Field, as requested by Bill Moyers, LBJ's long-time past and future aide." "Moyers had been on the phone to Ms. Harris, informing her that the President did not want the bubble top. He told Harris to "get that God-damned bubble off unless it's pouring rain." "Moyers was not JFK's assistant . . . he was of course, actually one of Lyndon Johnson's longtime assistants." This is all documented in Phillip F. Nelson's "LBJ - The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination". Nelson goes on to state that "such gratuitous profanity by an ordained Baptist minister (Moyers) is a little odd in the context of this situation, considering that it had been raining all morning. It begs the question of whether Moyers was the real initiator of the request, or whether he was simply passing on a demand from his boss, LBJ, known to be habitually profane and strident in practically all situations (a general exception existed whenever cameras were near, of course, in which case a broad smile replaced his scornful gaze. All things considered, it can be assumed that Moyers was merely mouthing words originally screamed by Lyndon B. Johnson, in comparable stridency."
"...The term "bubble-top" became widely used to describe the removable top apparently because it was made mostly of plastic, even though the connotation of the term was that the top resembled a bubble. In fact, the top was much more than a clear "bubble" over a big convertible; it was a very formal design with a vinyl covering, which transformed the convertible into a limousine with a very small rear window. As such, it would make it nearly impossible for a sniper to see the occupants clearly enough to aim at any of them from above."

"The first photograph, Exhibit CE 345 of the Warren Report, shows the actual top that was carried in the car's trunk; the second shows it installed shortly after it arrived at Parkland Hospital... the black vinyl covering would obviously have made it impossible for anyone to have a reasonably clear shot at JFK."

(all quotes are from Phillip F. Nelson’s “LBJ – The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination” (pub. 2010) )

"...The bubble top [had a] vinyl covering added on, which covers up all of the bubble top

(when installed) except for that narrow window at the back ... the bubble top with the

vinyl cover [was] added at Parkland Hospital... I have seen a picture of all of the parts of

the bubble top including the vinyl cover laid out on the ground to show how all of the

pieces go together."

"... In case one wonders why they would add the bubble top with vinyl

cover at Parkland, after Kennedy had already been shot and the limousine would no

longer be in use, I would conjecture that it was added to reduce the view of the interior of

the car from witnesses hanging around outside the entrance to the hospital where the

limousine was parked initially. At that point the interior of the car would still have blood

stains and the bullet hole through the front windshield (from front to back according to a

number of witnesses) as well as the indentation in the chrome that is believed to be the

result of a bullet from behind. This installation of the vinyl covered bubble top would help

to reduce the number of witnesses who could see the bullet hole in the windshield. One

of the witnessess who did manage to see the hole in the windshield was remarking upon

it when a SS agent overheard her and got in the car and immediately drove it out of sight

of those other witnesses hanging around outside the hospital."

"Several days after the car was returned to the White House garage and cleaned up [on]

orders from LBJ, (thus destroying evidence) the car was shipped off to the Ford Motor

Company's Rouge Plant in Detroit, Michigan where glass technicians removed the

windshield with the bullet hole in it and used that windshield as a template to make a new

windshield which was then installed to replace the one with the bullet hole. The

supervisor at the plant witnessed the original windshield and stated that "the windshield

had a bullet hole in it, Coming from the outside through." He further stated that "it was a

good clean bullet hole, right straight through from the front. And you can tell, when the

bullet hits the windshield, like when you hit a rock or something, what happens? The

back chips out and the front may just have a pinhole in it . . . this had a clean round hole

in the front and was fragmented in the back." When asked what happened to the original

windshield, the supervisor stated, "We scrapped it, we broke it up and scrapped it." That

supervisor's name was George Whitaker, Sr. and he passed away in 2001. He also

stated that he saw the limousine and the original windshield in the shop on Monday

morning November 25th, 1963. Other witnesses who saw the windshield at the Parkland

Hospital and describe seeing a through and through bullet hole in the windshield include

"Richard Dudman, Stavis Ellis, H. R. Freeman, and Dr. Evalea Galnges." "Secret Service

agent Charles Taylor told the truth too., in 1963 in his written report -- before the

pressure got to him and he recanted in his HSCA affidavit." Subsequently a crack was

added to the new windshield to further muddy the waters and cause confusion and

cast doubt about the statements of those who had seen an actual hole through the

original windshield." All quotes are from Douglas P. Horne's five volume work, "Inside the

Assassination Records Review Board" (pub 2010) (pgs 1439 - 1445).

How "Facts" About Lee Harvey Oswald Can Obscure the Truth

As a witness, in the beginning, I had conflicts with various researchers who had never met Lee Oswald. When I first spoke out, several researchers questioned me who believed firmly in "Harvey and Lee" as two distinct individuals who were used at the same time for years by the CIA. They told me that many facts had come out about the person I knew as "Lee" proving he was really "Harvey" --despite the fact that Lee told me he disliked his middle name and had ceased writing it out, using just the initial, unless required to do so for legal or job interview purposes.

I was given "facts" about Lee that I was told were set-in-stone concerning "Harvey" and how he was betrayed, framed and impersonated in Dallas.

I had no way to know what had happened in Dallas, except through what "experts" told me: I'd avoided reading anything about the assassination until just ready to speak out. I remember stating that "Lee may have taken the gun with him in the hope of gunning down the fake Lee Harvey Oswald" when told that "Lee" was framing him at that time. These statements, and other statements that now look to me quite silly, were in response to what i was told about this hostile fellow "Lee." My confused speculations were based on the "facts" I was given --that "two Oswalds" had existed for many years. it is obvious that Lee was impersonated in Dallas after he moved there. And Lee, himself, told me that he had been impersonated when he was in Mexico City by somebody back in Texas, to make sure he had a "cover" and could deny any activity in Mexico/Mexico City. He, himself, used fake names, as well.

I was not in Dallas, and in my naive ignorance, thought I had received correct information.

Now that I have read all the pertinent information possible, it is plain to me that those who advocate a "Harvey and Lee" scenario that includes two boys selected from late childhood by the CIA, must then reject the truth: Lee telling me that in various ways the CIA had created a plausible "past" for him that even included fake job histories, so upon his return to the US, from the USSR, he would be able to resume a normal life.

Whenever necessary, he would be able to hide his nearly three years spent in the USSR. As for the past, his own mother had created a fake birth certificate by means of a Mafia lawyer close to her and her sister Lillian. And she had done more than that.

The many faked records about Lee, compounded with the usual 'tips' that abound whenever a murder is committed (and in the case of JFK, tips REALLY abounded!) are taken at face value by some researchers as 'evidence" that two boys, "Harvey" and "Lee" existed and were raised to be able to impersonate each other.

This allows the real impersonators to be ignored. They won't be identified and their actual identities thus remain unknown. Yes, there was more than one, even though one particular person posed as Lee in the Texas theater, for example. These researchers do not seem to realize that cover stories, cover jobs, and fake records were means used by the agencies to protect their own, and that not every record could be called accurate, unbiased, or authentic.

I deeply respect the work of researchers in accumulating this information. How it is interpreted, however, sometimes leaves much to desire.

See lola4jvb4lho on YouTube for videos of interest.

Thank you for your support, your encouragement, and your courage in helping me!

J

Films of Lee Oswald--the Martin Shackelford Film List

Marina Oswald was interviewed by Jack Anderson years ago...this video reveals that Lee expressed admiration for Kennedy even in the USSR.



Witnesses have gone on film who knew Lee,as well...



Though Marina -- and I -- can be seen on film, speaking for him, Lee is dead. we only have what has been preserved --and often edited. I have noticed that still photos were often retouched, including a 'smirk' after his arrest in Dallas that I cannot find in any live films. Live films are harder to retouch, though we have evidence that this occurred in the Zapruder film.

Below is one of the films available on YouTube, plus a useful list created by researcher Martin Shackelford that can serve as a base to search on YouTube for some more. Most are still not available on YouTube. As part of Lee's biographical information, these films serve as a good base when trying to separate Lee from imposters.

While Lee told me he knew of impersonators, he welcomed them as serving to protect his true activities. But that backfired in November, 1963. Today some people believe that an individual named "Harvey" and an individual named "Lee" existed as two distinct entities. For many reasons, I believe this theory overextends the truth. Many false tips and faked records have obscured the true Lee Oswald from being understood.it is my hope that everyone reading this blog will read ME & LEE to truly understand the real Lee H. Oswald.



A Good Collection of Extant Films of Lee Harvey Oswald

The Oswald Films: An Outline
by Martin Shackelford



The Oswald Films:An Outline by Martin Shackelford (July 1993)
[updated 4-25-96]
Pre-Assassination. Speculative Films

There may exist presently unknown footage of several types which show Lee Harvey Oswald. One possible type is home movie footage, taken either by members of the
Oswald family, or by relatives, or by people who knew Lee Oswald
(schoolmates and their families, Civil Air Patrol cadets, etc.). A second possible type is home movie footage taken when Oswald was abroad, by tourists on the 2 ships, in Europe or in the Soviet Union or Mexico, or by people who knew him in the Soviet Union (there may be families in possession of such footage who have no idea Oswald is even in it; the Monica Kramer photos of Oswald in the Soviet Union turned up only after an intensive search of tourist photos taken during the relevant time period). A third possible type is footage shot covertly by or for the KGB, the CIA or other intelligence organizations.1.

1. The Home Movie (11-22-62)
In one of the many ironic twists in this case, the
first known motion picture footage of Lee Harvey Oswald was taken one year to the day before the Kennedy Assassination. It was a home movie taken by his brother Robert Oswald's wife Vada when the family gathered that year to celebrate Thanksgiving. Two color frames published in the October 17, 1967 LOOK Magazine excerpt from Robert's book show a smiling Lee Oswald seated on a couch near his half-brother John Pic and Pic's wife, with Marina standing near Lee, and Robert playing with his sons on the floor in the foreground. The two frames are also available from The Collector's Archives (Box 2, Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T6). On November 26, 1990, the film was shown on "Hard Copy," a tabloid television show featuring an interview with Robert Oswald, under the title "Oswald's Home
Movie." This may also be available on video from The Collector's
Archives.

==update: YOUTUBE: Robert Oswald's film is shown almost in is entirety here. Robert has always stated that his brother killed Kennedy. He was compromised, however, in many ways,especially how he is linked to the camera that is linked to the infamous backyard photos. My conclusion is that Robert Oswald said what he HAD to say about his brother, due to his involvement with marina and the fact that his brother's supposed deed could ruin his life. I, myself, have suffered for speaking the truth. Robert's TRUE feelings may be hinted at when he says he kissed his brother goodbye as he lay in the coffin. The look on his face displays, I believe, his heart.



THE LOVE AFFAIR AND OTHER BANNED HISTORY CHANNEL FILMS SOWING LEE:
Go to http://www.lee-harvey-oswald.com to view.


2. The New Orleans films
Oswald's activities in New Orleans attracted the attention of both tourists and a professional cameraman.

2a. The Jack Martin Film (8-9-63)
In another of those aforementioned ironic twists, a tourist named Jack Martin was in Dallas in August 1963. His film records his view from the airplane. Next, he visits General Edwin Walker, under whom he had served, allegedly target of an assassination attempt by Lee Oswald in April of that year. The film documents the scene of that attempt: the window through which the shot was fired, the bullet hole, and the wall from behind which it was most likely fired, ending with shots of Walker's flag and mailbox, and a nearby building under construction (allegedly also photographed by Oswald prior to the attempt!) . Then we see the entrance to a movie theater, cypress trees, a seal at the edge of a pool, and the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park in New Orleans.
Aroused by a commotion on Canal Street, Martin crossed to see what was happening, and began filming. We see Lee Oswald, leaflets in hand, standing on the sidewalk, being harangued by anti-Castro militants including Carlos Bringuier. Four police officers are seen arriving. The film ends with a view of the yellow leaflets scattered on the sidewalk after Bringuier knocked them out of Oswald's hands, and a brief aerial view of a subdivision. Parts of the film have only been used, to my knowledge, on the French television documentary, "Le Mystere Kennedy."

The documentary is available on video, and frames from the film as well,from The Collector's Archives. A still from this film was finally published in Robert Groden's 1995 book, The Search for Lee Harvey Oswald, an essential photo archive on Oswald.

2b. The James Doyle Film (8-9-63)
James Doyle was a 16 year old teenager, visiting
New Orleans with his family in early August 1963. His film begins in Lafayette Park, New Orleans, and includes a view of the Andrew Jackson statue. He, too, then noticed a commotion along Canal Street, crossed over to investigate, and began filming. Lee Oswald, back to the camera,is talking with Carlos Bringuier, when a police officer arrives, pushes Bringuier aside, and talks with Oswald, who gestures. Oswald is then seen through the crowd, under arrest, obscured, moving to the left, and we see him and the officer at curbside. The film ends with harbor views. To my knowledge, this film has only appeared in one television program, the British "Dispatches: The Day the Dream Died," available (as are frames)
from The Collector's Archives or from All That Video (405 Hopkins Court,North Wales PA 19434, phone (213) 361-1365.) A still from this film was also first published in the 1995 Groden book.

2c. The Johann Rush Films (8-12 & 16-63)
Johann Rush was a news cameraman for WDSU-TV in New Orleans in the August of 1963. He was on hand on August 12 when Lee Oswald appeared at the New Orleans courthouse for sentencing after his August 9 arrest. Rush filmed Oswald's approach, then Oswald posed for the camera in a courthouse corridor. The footage also includes Carlos Bringuier and the Cubans. Rush next filmed Oswald's
leafleting at the International Trade Mart on August 16. This is the
footage which shows Oswald and two colleagues (one of them Charles Steele Jr.) distributing leaflets, a figure in the background alleged to be Clay Shaw, and two foreground figures alleged to be Charles Rogers and Chauncey Holt. I won't attempt to catalog the sources in which bits of this footage appears, although the videotape "The Two Kennedys" (MPI Home Video, 1-800-323-0442, may still carry this title, or try The Collector's Archives) is a good source, and stills from the footage appear in many places.

2d. The WWL-TV Film (8-16-63)
The most famous still, however, is from a brief bit of footage also taken during the August 16 leafleting, but by a rival cameraman for WWL-TV named Mike O'Connor, and shows Oswald thrusting a leaflet toward a passerby. Captioned "Garner Deposition Exhibit 1," it appears in the Warren Report, and the footage is used in various documentaries.

2e. The Mike Lala Film (8-21-63)
The final bit of New Orleans footage was taken by cameraman Mike Lala during an interview of Oswald at WDSU-TV on August 21. It shows Oswald in left profile as he
speaks. In the semi-fictional film "Executive Action"(1973, National General Pictures, Warner Home Video),, the footage is used as a training film for an Oswald impostor. As with the other New Orleans TV footage, it is widely excerpted. The Collector's Archives offers two frames from the film.

Post-Assassination

3. The Ron Reiland Film (11-22-63)
WFAA-TV cameraman Ron Reiland was filming at the site of the Tippit
shooting when police were called to the Texas Theater, and Reiland went with them. As a result, he got the only footage of Oswald's arrest. One dimly lit scene shows Oswald being held by police inside the Texas Theater (underexposed, this appears only on "The Kennedy Tapes," which contains the complete Reiland footage, and on "Films From the Sixth Floor" videotape, which includes the films from the Dallas Book Depository exhibits). He then photographed Oswald being led out, placed into a police car, and driven away.

4. The Arrival Film (11-22-63)
An NBC cameraman filmed Oswald when he arrived at Dallas Police
headquarters, and was led into the Homicide Division offices, past
witness and co-worker Billy Lovelady.

5. The "Press Conference" Films (11-22-63)
Various footage exists from the late-night showing
of Oswald to the press, and this is some of the best-known footage of Oswald in custody. After the video ends on one film, the audio track continues with Oswald's voice for a short time longer.

6. The Hallway Films (11-22 to 24-63)
Soon, the Dallas Police Department
hallways were swarming with reporters and cameramen. There is footage of Oswald being led from room to room at Police Headquarters taken by ABC, NBC, CBS, local stations, and foreign cameramen. This includes the footage of Oswald's various denials: "I didn't shoot anybody, no sir." "I don't know what you people have been told, but I emphatically deny these charges." his statement that this was all happening "because I lived in the Soviet Union," etc. A great many of these films are included in the series "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" (Time-Life Video). There is also Hearst newsreel footage of Oswald in the hallway.

7. The Shooting Films (11-24-63)
ABC footage shows Oswald being led off the
jail elevator, and through the jail office area. Another piece of footage shows Oswald from behind as he moves out toward newsmen in the jail basement. Then a number of cameras (including the three networks and Hearst newsreel) captured him from the front as he is led out, and Jack Ruby lunges forward and shoots him. He is then out of the scene briefly. Most of this footage is also widely available.

8. The Post-Shooting Films (11-24-63)
When the ambulance arrives, Oswald is brought out on a stretcher, and loaded into it. We see Oswald inside as the ambulance
drives away. We next see footage of the ambulance arriving at Parkland Hospital with Oswald, Oswald being pulled out on the stretcher, and rushed into the hospital. This is the last known footage of Oswald alive, as well as the last publicly available. It is widely available.

9. The Exhumation Autopsy Videotape (10-4-81)
Lee Oswald's body was exhumed
on October 4, 1981 at the request of British author Michael Eddowes, with the cooperation of Marina Oswald and over the objections of Robert Oswald. A partial autopsy was performed at Baylor Pathology Laboratories, and the procedure was videotaped. Following a lengthy dispute about possession of the videotape, it is my understanding that Marina Oswald regained possession of it. There are no plans to make it available to researchers, but it may enter the record at some point in the future.

Some Commercial Video Sources of Oswald Footage

"Executive Action" (Warner)
Fictional film includes a variety of New Orleans and Dallas
Oswald footage.

"The Two Kennedys" (MPI)
Includes much of the WDSU footage taken in New Orleans,
as well as some of the Dallas footage.

"John F. Kennedy" (CBS)
This has appeared under various titles, and includes Oswald
Dallas footage.

"The Plot to Kill JFK: Rush to Judgment"(MPI)
includes some Dallas footage of Oswald.

"Four Days in November" (MGM/UA)
This 1964 Wolper documentary includes a variety of the Dallas
Oswald footage.

"The Men Who Killed Kennedy" (Time-Life)
Parts 1, 4 and 5 of this 5-volume set include much of the professional Oswald footage, except for the Johann Rush footage.
(UPDATE: vol. 7-8-9 were banned by the History Channel after objections and threats of lawsuits were made by the usual suspects--LBJ's widow,LBJ former aides Jack Valenti and Bill Moyers, Disney honcho Eisener, and two former Presidents --Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.Nigle Turner has not been heard of since.).

"Films from the Sixth Floor,"
Available from the exhibit in the Book Depository, includes
much good Oswald footage in the segment "Crisis Hours," including
the rare footage of Oswald still inside the Texas Theater.

"Man Against Humanity"(Front Row)
This low-budget video includes most of the New
Orleans WDSU footage, as well as some Dallas footage.

"Declassified: The Plot to Kill President Kennedy"
an edited version of the Anthony Summers documentary, also includes
a variety of Oswald footage from New Orleans and Dallas.

"Texas News: John F. Kennedy" (Independent Historical Films)
includes Oswald Dallas footage.

"The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes" (Vestron)
includes a variety of New Orleans and Dallas Oswald footage.

"Who Killed JFK? Facts, not Fiction"(CBS)
includes a variety of New Orleans and Dallas footage.

"Beyond "JFK": The Question of Conspiracy"(Warner)
includes much of the New Orleans footage.

"The Assassination of JFK"(MPI)
also includes much of the New Orleans, and some Dallas footage.

Since Shackelford's list, YouTube has exploded on the scene,making much footage available, and hopefully,more to come.

JVB

THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION, LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AND MY RECORD OF HIS WORDS

ME & LEE: HOW I CAME TO KNOW, LOVE AND LOSE LEE HARVEY OSWALD --AND WHY I DID NOT FORGET HIS WORDS
BY JUDYTH VARY BAKER

I am being asked how I’ve been able to remember conversations that occurred decades earlier. At one time, I was able to read a page and recite every word on the page, but since having sustained several concussions a decade ago, I’ve lost that ability. However, I still retain an excellent memory for details, as anyone knows who converses with me. Recently, however, I have been asked how I could possibly have remembered, in full detail, the conversations as presented in the book Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald. (see http://www.judythvarybaker.com for more information).
Indeed, when I first presented our conversations in book form, in late 1999, I was afraid to place them in quotes for fear I wouldn’t be believed. “How could she remember so many details?” could have seemed a quite reasonable question, unless one had met me and knew how entirely precise I could be concerning details on almost any subject. I have been blessed (or cursed) with the ability to remember almost everything I’ve ever read. My brain is actually overloaded with information.
Nevertheless, most of the conversations in the book Deadly Alliance, -- the first largely accurate book about “Me and Lee” -- written with the help of researcher Howard Platzman -- were recorded in “he said,” and ”she said” mode.
That book did not convey enough information, based as it was on emails passed back and forth, though it was a vast improvement over the ‘teaser book’ shown to publishers a year earlier, which contained very little information. The teaser book was a means to see what publishers might be interested in what I had to say without revealing key matters that I held back until I could determine which publisher(s) could be trusted.
Unfortunately, at the time I had a literary agent who tried to force the CBS news magazine Sixty Minutes to take “his” producer --- Isidore Rosmarin--- who had produced some stories for Sixty Minutes in the past --to film my story.

But Sixty Minutes wanted to use a different producer. When the agent refused to cooperate on this and other matters, I fired him.
There would be no more meetings with publishers, after that bad experience with an agent, for a decade. Even my association with the seasoned researcher, Harrison E. Livingstone, who went on to publish an unauthorized version of my book, was wholly through emails. But Livingstone wanted the book to be published quickly. Consequently, he did not allow me to check it for errors. It had far too many, and I stopped its publication.

Disappointed with Livingstone’s incomplete editing job, I returned to my original plan – not to have the information published until after my death. I would just go on with my life—if possible. But I was being harassed and threatened. And Internet newsgroups had set out to destroy my reputation. I defended myself, which simply gave them material to alter, or to shamelessly quote in bits and pieces out of context. When I corrected false statements that they attributed to me, they said I had changed my story. They even published so-called contradictions that they, themselves had created. In addition, false stories were circulated, such as that I had changed my name to “Vary” from “Avary” because I was ashamed of my family’s name – a story even mentioned by the respected researcher, Jack White, who believed it was true.

======Jack White, on Apr 11 2010, 01:25 AM, said to Dr. James Fetzer:====
"JVB has claimed that she "hated" her family name of AVARY (Judy Ann Avary), so she changed her name to Judyth A. VARY. I consider this a peculiar thing for a teen girl to do. And then go off all alone to a distant strange city. Sounds like a bad familial relationship. A runaway? Jack"=================

The truth: my maiden name was "Judyth Anne Vary." I never 'hated' my family name, and my family name was never "Avary." I used "Avary" as a FIRST name when teaching at the University of Louisiana for six years, so that the name "Judyth" would not be used -- I was afraid of being linked to 1963 too easily. Many equally silly stories have been passed around, along with unfounded accusations and speculations.
Apparently “anything goes” in newsgroups, but I mention the problem here because other "quotations" are rampant in the newsgroups that are equally absurd and unfounded.

Most newsgroups have been infiltrated by persons who deliberately create dissent, parroting old government-sponsored lies about Oswald that have long been disproven, but which the government continues to disseminate.
I call such defenders of that obsolete stance traitors to their country. They believe that for the security of the country, these intelligent and clever liars have decided that we should not know who killed Kennedy (the government, through the Mafia, supported by the far right and a military-industrial complex coalition that developed eternal warfare with our neighbors, greedily promoting the financial and moral rape of America’s middle class). I am proud of the scars I carry due to these traitors.
I had decided to go to the grave, originally, with what I knew, and to simply let my son publish the book posthumously. Then I would not have to battle the forces that could (and did) ruin my life. However, two factors came into play to change my mind about going to the grave before this vital information about Oswald was released to the public: 1) my son was unaware of the milieu in New Orleans, and in the nation, in 1963, and, worse, knew almost nothing about the lies and falsehoods circulating about Oswald. He would be unable to defend the book. 2) I realized that he would not understand the value of the materials I had saved from the past, and how they helped me achieve the feat of remembering the conversations.
A streetcar ticket dated April 28, for example, would have little meaning for my son, whereas for me, it evoked a host of sharp, strong memories, including key conversations. The streetcar ticket shown on p. 145 in the first printing, first edition of Me & Lee, represented the second time I had ridden the St. Charles streetcar in New Orleans. I had failed to save the first ticket, but I saved the second one.
Ihis streetcar ticket and the announcement of the opening of Pontchartrain Beach were saved together…just one example of how I made sure I kept a good chronology of events. Even the time of the streetcar ride is indicated on the ticket.

Each time I looked at that ticket, over the years, a surge of memories of that pivotal day broke over my thoughts in a cascading stream of events. I could remember almost every moment, the most important of which was Lee’s confession that he had beaten his wife. That confession impelled me to decide to go ahead and marry Robert A, Baker, III.
I kept hundreds of such items, and with the help of a diary ---until it was stolen and burned in my very front yard – an event for which I have witnesses --- I was able to keep my memories quite fresh.
Once a year, around Thanksgiving, I would go through several boxes of ‘old things’ – a habit that also produced stacks of Christmas ornaments and other items to begin Christmas decorating. I would dedicate a whole day to what I believed was my duty: not to forget. After my 1986 divorce, I was able to spend far more time going over the conversations and events, without fear of being discovered. My goal was to one day tell Oswald’s beloved daughters just exactly who their father was, but I was also anxious that they would understand exactly why and how their father had come to have a love affair with another woman while still married to their mother.
Their father was entirely innocent of the grave charges against him—the killing of the President, and of a Dallas police officer—and I was determined that Lee Oswald’s sacrifices for his country would not be forgotten. I realized that not only Oswald’s daughters, but also the whole world, would have no way to hear their father’s voice if I did not preserve his words in my memory.
After the assassination of President Kennedy, Lee’s wife, Marina, had been under tremendous pressures. She could have been deported, and her American-born baby left behind, for example, so of course I forgive her for her quailing in the face of threats, as I hope she will forgive me for my existence as “the other woman.” I understand her fears: I was told to keep my mouth shut if I wanted to stay alive, and I did so for decades. Marina was unable to hide. She was in the spotlight.
Life Magazine's Allan Grant photographed Marina Oswald afer the assassination, and the words used to describe that assignment ring with cruel prejudice, with Lee Oswald automatically described by the well-controlled media as Kennedy's killer --which is still the case today:
"Afer (sic) the assassination of JFK was reported, Grant was sent to Dallas, where he photographed Lee Harvey Oswald's wife, Marina (bottom). Working with Life correspondent Tommy Thompson, they tracked down the family of Lee Harvey Oswald and got the exclusive for the magazine,” writes Marden. Richard Stolley, Life’s Los Angeles bureau chief at the time, remembers the coverage. “His kindness toward that notorious family enabled him to win their confidence. After all, it wasn’t their fault that they had a presidential assassin as son and husband, and Allan instinctively understood that.”
(http://stateoftheart.popphoto.com/blog/2008/02/grant-rememberi.html)

It was no secret that Oswald’s marriage was miserable. It improved when the couple lived in New Orleans, for Lee had promised me that he would never strike his wife again, and he kept his promise, knowing that I would have nothing more to do with him if he broke it. As Lee Oswald learned to control his anger – his wife could say very cruel things, and could be very provocative – I saw him mature before my eyes into the man he yearned to be –more gentle, sensitive, and kind. Lee Oswald was always kind to animals and children, but I reminded him that Hitler had dogs he loved, and was quite kind to children. They were no threat to his manhood. It was Lee’s challenge, I insisted, to become the kind of man I knew he really could become.
Witnesses who defended Lee Harvey Oswald were ignored – and some died under suspicious circumstances, or were actually murdered. Then, for decades, the public was given a grossly distorted picture of the accused assassin, based on a mass of poorly handled and sometimes faked evidence. But it was Lee Harvey Oswald who intervened to save Kennedy’s life – at the risk of his own—in Chicago. It was Lee Harvey Oswald who joined an ’abort team’ that was organized to try to save Kennedy in Dallas.
Thus Oswald had to be eliminated, even before the eyes of millions, before he could tell reporters and others who was responsible for the President’s death.

Lee Harvey Oswald was shot to death by someone who had been a friend of his for years – the Dallas Mafia bagman and police fixer Jack Ruby, who ran a local nightclub. Ruby later told reporters that “a new kind of government” was taking over the country. The reason he had to kill Oswald would never become known, he said, because those in “high places” would make sure of that.

I had been forced into silence to save my life. But I finally realized that if I did not speak out during my lifetime, I would have no way of defending the book, Oswald’s words, or the researchers and witnesses who already given so much to get the truth to the people. By speaking out, my career – to be a respected professor of English -- was destroyed. I was also heckled, harassed, threatened, and harmed, to the extent that I had to leave the country twice, and finally, in 2007, permanently, becoming the first American non-combatant woman to seek political asylum in the EU system.
There I was sheltered for over ten and a half months –as long as the system could legally keep me (for the US is not on the list of countries from which asylum seekers could be accepted), until my family and friends found ways for me to live in safe places overseas, far from my enemies. To this day I rely on donations to pay for the medical problems I still have from the so-called “accidents” I suffered while living in Dallas, where I had moved in order to try to find more witnesses to help me defend Oswald.
I wish to make it clear that the conversations that Lee Oswald and I shared were memorized and kept fresh in my memories over time because they were not the ordinary kind of conversations that a man and a woman share, who are in love. They were conversation kept intact in my memory because they were conversations involving the planned murder of Cuba’s communist leader, Fidel Castro, the clandestine development of formidable bioweapons, and the knowledge that Lee Oswald confided to me that he had penetrated an assassination ring intent on killing Kennedy. Would YOU forget such conversations?
Lee told me, too, that he was “better off dead to both sides” –the Communists and the CIA – because neither side could trust him. This was the man accused of killing President John F. Kennedy. It was my solemn responsibility, therefore, to retain the memory of what Oswald said. I do not pretend to have recalled every word he spoke, but I can guarantee that everything written in these conversations represent the true mind of Oswald as he confided his thoughts and concerns to me. Over the years, if I recalled something that I had missed, I would enter it under the proper day, and even the hour.
Mary Ferrell, upon seeing my personal chronology, gave me a personal copy of her own. Her gift allowed me to find the information I badly needed concerning Fernando Fernandez, a pro-Castro spy about whom I could previously find nothing . Finding his name in the Ferrell chronology was a relief, for it allowed me to see that I had correctly recalled everything about him.
I was surprised, however, to find a number of errors in Ferrell’s chronology, which I have pointed out to researchers. Most of these “errors” are traceable to misinformation deliberately generated to falsely implicate Oswald. The prejudice in Ferrell’s chronology is obvious in such statements as “Oswald shot at General Walker,” and her entirely unreasonable living allowance for him and his family, which fails, for example, to take into account transportation and medical expenses. I have my own record of expenses for my life in New Orleans at that time, to the very penny, and I could not have lived on the puny allowance Ferrell applies to Oswald, his pregnant wife, and their toddler. Her point seems to be that he was able to finance everything without help from outside sources: this is not true.
When the book Me & Lee was being edited in an attempt to make the story shorter and more accessible to the general public, sometimes a few words would be changed or left out, and I would inform one of the editors involved that such-and-such words had to be retained. Presently, I see only one word in Oswald’s conversation printed in error in the first printing of Me & Lee -- on p. 457 the word “gravitating” is used, when Oswald actually said “grav-tating” --- a “typo” that was “corrected” by the editors without my noticing it.
There are a few other problems that will eventually be corrected that are now present in the 606-page book —a sentence is repeated, a photo of witness Mac McCullough is missing, and a photo of Charles Thomas, AKA Arthur Young, is mislabeled, with its hand-written message truncated. There are also a few typos in the mass of end notes, too, but all-in-all, the editors improved the book immensely. In particular, Edward T. Haslam, the author of Dr. Mary’s Monkey, made important and insightful improvements to the book. His expert knowledge of New Orleans meant that he was also able to obtain information about Mary Richardson, a then-young, socially-active wife of a well-known minister who could have been an important witness in the case. But chillingly, she died of an unexpected and suspicious heart attack only sixteen days after the assassination.
I want everyone to know that every sentence in the book coming from Oswald’s mouth is as close to what he said as memory has permitted. To anyone who wonders how I could have preserved the conversations, please remember: Lee Harvey Oswald was no ordinary man. This man was accused of killing Kennedy. These were historic conversations. If you had been in the position I was – in love with this innocent man – a man accused of killing Kennedy-- I believe that you, too, would have made an extra effort never to forget.