| | PAGE 12 20/20 (ABC), August 27, 1993 table with some of its key henchman, and discussed killing President Kennedy. They did hate him. They might have even had a conspiracy afoot. There is no tie between Lee Harvey Oswald and organized crime. There's not opportunity for him to have been their assassin. In essence, he beat the Mafia to Kennedy. SHERR: How about, as in the Oliver Stone movie, JFK, the military industrial complex? Mr. POSNER: The movie, JFK, served what I call the kitchen sink. If you can‘t just have one of them, let's have everybody in the plot, because they all have some reason to knock off Kennedy. JIM GARRISON: We have the mystery of the assassination of the President solved, and there is no question about it. . SHERR: What about the Garrison investigation? Mr. POSNER: He had great delusions on the assassination. I think it’s a disgrace. It was a travesty of justice, a miscarriage of justice. Garrison knew it. I discovered files of his investigation - documents, affidavits, memos from his investigators - which showed the extent of this scam that was pulled on the American public. Here was a man who knew better. I think his behavior actually crossed the line to being criminal. . SHERR: Is there any evidence- do you believe at all that Lee Harvey Oswald was working on behalf of the CIA to kill the President? Mr. POSNER: No. I don't believe the CIA had any connection, not only to kill the President, but they had no connection to Oswald at all. And the reason that I can say that so confidently to you is actually an unusual source. It's the KGB files. The KGB files, which had surveillance on Oswald for day in and day out for nearly two years in Russia, came to the conclusion that he was not a sleeper agent, that he had no American intelligence contact. SHERR: Cvoice-over] So if Oswald wasn't working for the CIA, how about the KGB? After all, he spoke Russian, defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, married, a Russian, and lived in Minsk for two years. Mr. POSNER: A popular early theory, popular that we now see in the documents just released this past week in Washington. The KGB was high on the CIA's possible list of targets. The KGB did not want Oswald from day one. They realized Qswald had problems, psychological problems. URI NOSENKO, Former KGB Agent: (sp?] I do not think that Oswald will be trusted by any intelligence. SHERR: Cvoice-over] Uri Nosenko is someone who might know. Before defecting to the United States. in 1963, Nasenko was Oswald's KGB handler, and had access to his file. He insists Oswald never worked for the KGB. Still concerned about his. own safety, Nosenka asked 20/20 not to show his face. Mr. NOSENKO: Lee Harvey Oswald was mentally unstable. SHERR: Cvoice-aver] But unlike Posner, Nosenko says he doesn't believe Oswald could have shot the President for a very simple reason. EXIS:NEXISS$ LEXIS*NEXISS#_LEXIS:NEXIS@2 nwices: off Mead Gataantmloinc. page
. . PAGE 13 20/20 (ABC), August 27, 1993 Mr. NOSENKO: In Minsk, he was shooting rabbits with shotgun. Would you believe it? He never shoot a single rabbit. And here we see person shooting rifle ona long distance, and shooting three, four shots in several seconds. Mr. POSNER: He didn't get a rabbit, and therefore that's used as evidence that he couldn't kill the President? But talk to those who actually knew what Oswald was like with a gun, his brother who used to go out with him. ROBERT OSWALD, Brother: We have shot cottontail rabbits with .22's on the run, okay? We've shot squirrels in the trees with .22's. SHERR: [voice-over] Robert Oswald Says his younger brather was always interested ‘in guns. He still has the pistol Lee Oswald bought when he was 16. Mr. OSWALD: My experience with him in the field with a shotgun or a .22 was he usually got his game. — SHERR: Cvoice-over] And Lee Harvey Oswald used the same rifle that killed the President only weeks earlier in a failed attempt to murder to retired Army general Edwin Walker. In other words, according to author Gerald Posner, Oswald, a loser in life, wanted to accomplish something. MAN: C€?] Lee Harvey Oswald, 0, S, W, A, L, D. REPORTER: Did you fire that rifle? LEE HARVEY OSWALD: That's the facts that you people have been getting, but I emphatically deny these charges. SHERR: Cvoice-aver] If, as you say, Lee Harvey Oswald was not working with the mob or with the CIA or with the KGB or with the military industrial complex, why did he kill the President? Hr. POSNER: [ think that Oswald killed the President, becatise this was to be almost his fulfillment, his moment in the sun. Three-days before Kennedy arrives in Dallas, he's given a gift on a silver platter. Jack Kennedy's going to pass in front of the Depository. It's not ideology, it's not because he's Communist, but it's because he has that opportunity to place himself in history. Here we are, 30 years later, talking about him. He was successful. He got his wish. WALTERS: Well, there's a lot of proof. Is the case closed? SHERR: Well, certainly, Gerald Posner believes so, but out experience is that people on the other side are so dug in, it's unlikely anything is going to change their mind. You know, even at Dealey Plaza, there are people just walking around, telling you what their theories are. And incidentally, Barbara, Dealey Plaza- WALTERS: Which is where assassination took place. SHERR: -which is where it took place- \ WALTERS: Yeah. | _EXIS: NEXIS LEXIS: NEXIS LEXIS: ‘NEXIS WVides! 6? MeaacD ata3C aMial? the. Page
~ PAbkE T4& 20/20 (ABC), August 27, 1993 _ SHERR: it's so much smaller in real life- unclassify all those documents. Otherwise- and even so, this is going to be WALTERS: Really? SHERR: -than it appears-— WALTERS: I think of it as a huge- SHERR: Right. WALTERS: -kind of highway. SHERR: It's quite small, and Posner points out that if all the eyewitnesses wha have come forward were in fact there that day, it would have been elbow ta elbow. In fact, it was not very crowded that day. WALTERS: Nine hundred thousand documents released this week- what, 10,000 more to come. Is that going to settle anything? SHERR: Unlikely. That, however, is the one area where both sides agree - ‘ argued for generations to come. WALTERS: Probably. Probably. Thank you, Lynn. Next, most people feel that breast cancer only attacks women aver the age of 50. Cyoice-over] But Dr. Tim Johnson reports that more and more young women are discovering they have a special battle to fight. What should you know? After this. , {Commercial break] It Could Happen to You BARBARA WALTERS: The American Cancer Saciety's meetings on breast cancer are taking place in Boston this week, and from that conference come reports of a disturbing new trend - younger women diagnosed with the disease at a growing. rate. Though diagnostic tests have improved over the years, breast cancer in younger women presents a special and quite serious set of problems. Cvoice-over] And as Dr. Tim Jahnsan reports, if you are under 40, much of what you previous learned about the disease may not apply to you. . TERESA ROBERSON, Breast Cancer Survivor: I had lumps before, they were all- they turned out to be cysts. But I knew this was different. GAYLE RUSSELL, Breast Cancer Survivor: I had no history of any type of cancer in my family, so [ was very surprised. KERI DEARBORN, Breast Cancer Surviver: And everyone told me I was too young to have breast cancer, and I thought they were right. ‘Dr. TIMOTHY JOHNSON, ABC News Medical Editor: Cvaice-over] A disease they thought they were too young to get, but more and more, the woman on the LEXIS"NEXIS@# LEXISNEXIS LEXIS- NEXI Services of Mead Data Central, Inc. HW 55157 DoclId: 327404522 Page 72 ® awe ™ Pf —\ pied Vee
a PAGE 1 LEVEL 1 - 15 OF 80 STORIES Copyright 1993 Chicago Tribune Company Chicago Tribune October 3, 1993 Sunday, FINAL EDITION . SECTION: TEMPO; Pq. 1; ZONE: C LENGTH: 1949 words HEADLINE: THE CASE AGAINST CONSPIRACY ; GERALD POSNER, ACTING ALONE, HAS WOUNDED THE JFK COVER-UP INDUSTRY BYLINE: By Paul Galloway, Tribune Staff Writer. BODY: The rendezvous was arranged for a weeknight last fall at a Turkish restaurant near CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. The proprietor would be expecting him. When author Gerald Posner said he was there to meet George and his wife, as he had been instructed to do, the proprietor led Posner and his wife, Trisha, to a private table in the back room. George was the code name for Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected to the U.S. in 1964 and now lives under another name in an undisclosed part of the’ country. Posner was researching a book about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and Nosenko had agreed to speak for the first time exclusively about the Saviet intelligence agency's surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald during his - stay in the Soviet Union from late 1959 until June 19462. Nosenko had suggested that he and Posner bring their wives, Posner said, because the sight of two couples dining together would serve as cover for their interview. "Yuri supervised the Oswald file in Moscow and was familiar with the KGB. files on Oswald's time in Minsk, which I had seen," Posner said. "I knew he cQuld be extremely helpful in reconstructing that period Af Oswald's life." ¥ _ A chapter in Posner's new book, "Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the AsSassination of JFK," is devoted to Nasenko and his assessments of Oswald. As the title suggests, Posner finds Oswald to be Kennedy's assassin, acting alone, just as the Warren Commission said. Further, he was not a CIA agent, not. a KGB agent, not an innocent patsy but.a sociopath and laser who had grandigse notions of making a mark in history. — Posner is as surprised at the book's conclusion as the conspiracy buffs are riled. . "I'm getting some very personal, vindictive calls from the conspiracy people. If it's any consolation, I never set out to do a book that would say here is the final answer, here is wha did it," Posner said during a visit to Chicago. ~ Pasner's intention was to write a primer of sorts about the assassination after examining the welter of conspiracy theories to see what was credible and What wasn't. EXIS:NEXIS‘@ LEXIS:NEXIS LEXIS:NEXIS' pevicesiof Mead Data Centrahdac. Page 73