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Tippit's Role

At 1:18 pm. Police Pvt. j. D.
Tippit, 80, father of three and
a former paratrooper, saw a
man walking in the 400 block
of East Tenth street, about
four miles from the warehouse
1t was Oswald, now armed with
the .38 caliber revolver police
believe was hidden in his room
Pvt. Tippit did not live to tell
it, but it is believed he recog-
nized the defiant looking o.
valid from the radio descrip-
ton. He pulled over to the curb
and called Oswald over to the
car as three witnesses looked
on.
After an exchange of words,
Pvt. Tippit got out of his car
and started to walk around to
the curb. The witnesses said
Oswald pulled out a pistol and
shot the policeman to death in
the head, the chest and the
stomach.
Oswald disappeared around a
corner and one of the witnesses
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That Doesn't Matter

Mrs Roberts said she knew
him only as Lee" and could
never get him to give her the
name or address Of relative.
She said he told her, that
doesn't matter any more" His
fellow roomers thought him
peculiar and standoffish, q
man they could not get TO
know.
Bobby Palmer. a construc-
ton worker, said once IN q
while Lee" would watch tele-
vision with the others after
corning home at $50 or 6, but
he didn't do it often. Mrs
Roberts said he usually closed
his door and made a meal OF
some milk and cold cuts ne
kept in the rooming house
refrigerator. She described him
as fidgety, but quiet and neat
It was Lees habit to use the
rooming house telephone in the
hall and to speak on it in q
foreign tongue, according TO
Mr.. johnson, a carpenter. I'm
pretty sure it was Russian" ne
added.
Mrs. Paine said Marina knew
her husbands telephone num-
Der but not where he lived In
Dallas, and this precipitated a
family argument last week.
1T happened on Monday
November 10" said Mrs. Paine
Lee used to come here to
Irving on Friday nights and
spend the week end. Then he'd
ride to Dallas Monday morn
inps with Frazier.
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Joined Marines

He became a youth who de-
voured books but, like many
who do so without guidance
was given to malapropisms. His
vocabulary sounded impressive
to those who were weaker in
philology than he.
In the 10th grade at Fort
Worth's Arlington Heights
High School, Oswald was close
to failing because of his borec
and restless classroom de-
meanor. At this stage of his life,
his mother recalls that he was
a good boy" who brought hel
the money he made on ode
Jobs.
Here his contact with formal
education ended. One day In
1856. at the age of II, he quit
school and enlisted in the Ma
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Catches Bus

There he tapped on the door
of a bus driven by c. j. De-
Waters, As. The driver esti-
mates it was 1910 pm.
When the bus got to the
intersection of Poydras and
Elm streets and was blocked
by the massive traffic jam that
followed the Presidents assas-
sination, Oswald left the bus.
He hurried to the Greyhound
Bus terminal at the corner of
Lamar and Commerce, only two
blocks from the scene of the
crime, and hailed the cab of
William Wayne Whaley, So,
who won the Navy Cross at
Two Jima.
Mr.. Whaley said he no
ticed nothing unusual in his
passenger and took him, as his
trip journal shows, to the 500
block of North Beckley street
Mr.. Whaley said Oswald ig-
nored his efforts to open a
conversation with him. Later
FBI men learned the destina.
ton Oswald gave the cabbie
took him five blocks past his
rooming house. The fare was
95 cents, Whaley said. Oswald
tipped him a nickel.
At the rooming house. Mrs
johnson also had been watch.
ing the frantic efforts of tele-
vision to keep up with the as
sassination and recalls that Os-
valid rushed into the house be-
tween 1880 and l pm.
II said. my, you sure are in ,
hurry" Mrs. johnson recalled
but he didn't say q word t,
me. That wasn't unusual
though. He put on a gray zippe
jacket and went outside. Tn
last time I saw him he wa
Outside waiting for bus"
When he left his room 70
the last time November % be
tween 1880 and pm, Oswal,
left an opened can Of apricot
and there was a banana and {
grape stem in the waste basket
There also was a map of Dial
las marked with several x
and with a line drawn from
the school book warehouse t,
the Kennedy parade rout,
below.
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ma had her baby on October 20,
apparently not knowing that
her husband had gone to Mexi-
Co on September 26.
It was on this same day that
the news was released for gen.
eral publication that President
Kennedy was scheduled to visit
Dallas.
Whether this fact was what
sent Oswald off to Mexico and
then to Dallas to get 9 job is q
secret that died with him. The
FBI said he could not have
known the Presidents precise
route through Dallas would
pass the Texas School Book
Depository because the Secret
Service has said the motor
cade's path was changed four
days before the assassination.
When Oswald returned to
the United States on October
3. he headed straight for Dallas
and checked in at the YMCA
where, strangely enough, Jack
Ruby often worked out in the
gym on the weights and the
punching bag.
He called Marina and Mrs.
Paine on October 4 to an
nounce his return and began
coming to Irving. IL miles
away, on week ends while he
looked for a job. He got the job
with Mrs. Paine's aid on Octo-
Der is.
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scratch the number out Of my
book. He was very angry with
her but she was upset that he
was living under an assumed
name. She didn't know why
and it worried her.
The next day. Wednesday.
he didn't call at all, and this
was unusual because he had
been calling daily. Then on
Thursday, November 81, he
arrived Unexpectedly and had
dinner with us"
Mrs. Paine said this unex-
pected appearance might have
been wondered at except that
she and Marina both took it as
"a peace gesture-that Lee was
making up from the argument.
Il remember that he went
out in the garage" Mrs. Payne
said, because he left the light
on there when he went to bed
at 8 pm. I don't know what
he did out there but I went
out later myself to paint some
furniture"
Mrs. Paine said she had
never seen a rifle or a parcel
like that Lee took to work
next day. Later, Marina told
investigators she had seen her
husbands rifle in the garage
at some earlier time but not
recently.
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Police at Irving

While Oswald was on his
way to police headquarters,
Mrs. Paine said six policemen
arrived at Irving and knocked
on the door about 2 pm.
They told us Lee was in
custody on suspicion of shoot
ing a policeman and wanted to
search the house." Mrs. Paine
said. II asked them If they had
a warrant. They said they
didn't but they could get one
quick enough so I let them
search.
Marina was ashen with
fear. She told them about the
rifle Lee had in the garage a
couple of weeks ago. They
searched but, of course, it was
gone"
1t was here that the search
ers found a chilling photo
graph, still not released by au-
thorities, but which this report
er has seen. Believed to be a
snapshot taken in New Orleans,
1t shows Oswald, dressed in
blark, wearing a holStered SO
on his hip, and holding a rifle
just like the murder weapon in
his right hand. In his other
hand are two publications OF
the extreme left-a copy of the
Worker and an issue of The
Militant. organ of the Socialist
Workers Party.
! The evidence piled up fast
against Oswald after that until
there remained no doubt that
he had killed Pvt. Tippit and
overwhelming evidence accumu
lated that he was the assassin of
John F. Kennedy. That night
ne was charged with both muir
ders and District Attorney
Henry Wade vowed to ask for
OsWald's execution in the cleo
trio chair.
When the FBI crime labora-
tory reported back that BALLS
tic tests had proved the rifle
had fired the bullets that killed
the President. that Oswald's
, handwriting was on the gun
purchase order and that para
fin tests on Oswald's hands in
dicated he had fired a weapon,
there could remain no doubt.
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for Marina" said Mrs. Paine
she was filled with grief for
the President. She said to me
how terrible for Mrs. Kennedy
with no father for the chill
dren.'"
Meanwhile, back at the scene
of the tragedy, police had col
lected their wits and found q
boy who reported seeing a mar
leave the building.
A radio alarm went out to al
police cars at 1886 pm. for g
white man, 5 feet 10 and 16C
to 1855 pounds-remarkably &C.
curate description of Oswald
who was 5 feet 9 and 16C
pounds.
With the aid of Mr.. Truly
police checked all employees OF
the warehouse and found o.
valid was the only one missing
81 got the Irving address from
the files and we completed his
description" Mr.. Truly re-
called.
Less than ten minutes after
the President was shot, Oswald
lost himself in the crowd surg
ing around the area. He walked
a block north of Pacific street
and then turned east for six
blocks before doubling back to
Elm.
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Fishy Prospect

The FBI has found letters
from q man in this organization
among oswald's effects, one
giving advice about how to set
Up q Fair Play for Cuba chap
ter in Dallas. The dates OF
these letters and the identity OF
the writer have been withheld
Oswald styled himself secre-
tary Of the New Orleans chap
ter of Fair Play. He apparently
tried to infiltrate the Student
Revolutionary Directorate, an
exile organization of fiery Cas-
tro-hating students. They
thought him q fishy prospect
despite his offers to teach them
Judo and gave him the brush
off until he was spotted pass
ing out hands-off-C Cuba PAM
phlets on Canal street.
The students engaged in Q
street scuffle with him which
resulted in Oswald being fined
$40 for disorderly conduct. This
was his only known police rec
ord.
On August 81, 1868, Oswald
made a muddled appearance on
a panel conversation show on
New Orleans TV station WDSU
as 9 spokesman for the pro.
Castro outfit.
Beyond disclosing that hi
was a Marxist and denying
that his organization was Com.
munist or subversive. Oswald
gave q poor and stammerine
account Of whatever he had Il
say. His hazy concepts Of what
he believed are quite obvious
from a transcript of the broad
la.zA
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Books Listed

Public library records in
New Orleans show Oswald bor-
rowed books about Huey Longs
assassination. communism, a
word portrait Of President
Kennedy and spy thrillers.
Librarian Jerome Cushman
said that among the books he
borrowed were THE Huey Long
Murder Case" by Hermann
Deutsch: W. j. Manchester's
Portrait Of a President"
which begins with Carl Sand
burg's brooding thoughts about
Abraham Lincoln's assassina-
ton; and spy stories by Ian
Fleming, who was one Of PreSi-
dent Kennedy's favorite au-
thors.
The works on communism
Included: what We Must
Know About Communism" by
Harry and Bonaro Overstreet;
Russia Under Khrushchev, "
by Alexander Werth, and ''Por-
trait Of a Revolutionary" P. s,
r. Payne's book about Chinese
Communist leader Mao-Tse
tung. None Of them is favorable
toward communism.
BY September, Oswald was
broke again and Marina's sec
ond child was about to be born,
At that point Mrs. Paine was
driving back from q vacation in
the East and decided to help
the Oswalds out.
Mrs. Paine said she drove
through New Orleans, picked
up Marina and the baby and
on September % drove them to
her home in Irving. Mrs. Paine,
who is separated from her hus-
band, Michael, said it was de-
cided life would be easier II
there were just two women in
the house along with the three
children and expected fourth
child.
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and then In q photo process
ing plant in Dallas.
Oswald was fired from the
Dallas Job in April. 1858, not
long after Marina told him she
was pregnant again. Her hus-
band was about the only person
Marina could talk to, since he
had become fluent in Russian
while she knew only g little
English.
Oswald took his family, then,
to New Orleans last spring and
got another job In q photo-pro-
cesSing plant. Here he became
involved in the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro
left-wing organization operating
out Of New York on q Cuban
bankroll
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preannounced schedule to the
garage. Dallas Police Chief
Jesse Curry had kept to the
schedule because Of a promise
to the press.
At 11:19 am. a squat little
stripjoint operator originally
from Chicago named Jack
Leon Ruby, So, stepped out Of
the press ranks, jabbed a pis-
toll in Oswald's ribs and killed
him before police could raise
a hand.
How Ruby, a glad-hander
with a hair-trigger temper,
managed to hang around Dali
las police headquarters freely
may emerge when the manifold
investigations start.
Ruby's story is still to be
told. The press only got one
chance to yell, why did you
do 1t, Jack?" to him before
security was belatedly imposed
in Dallas. He is now indicted
for murder and awaiting trial
in January.
But what Of OSwald-what
were his antecedents and how
did he become the arch crimi-
nal in the most notorious and
senseless murder Of modern
times?
Oswald was born on October
Is, 1899, in New Orleans, La.
the son of Robert Oswald, ar
insurance salesman, and Mrs
Marguerite Oswald, who now
lives at 1900 Thomas place in
Arlington Heights, a subdivi
sion Of Fort Worth, Tex.
Mr.. Oswald died of a heart
attack three months before the
younger of his two sons was
born. Left with little money OF
talent for earning more, Mrs
Oswald said she had to sell
their little frame house and
when Lee was 5. they moved to
Fort Worth.
Oswald early showed signs OF
being bright but erratic. His
mother, now a practical nurse
who lives alone, says he learned
to read unaided before he ever
saw the inside of a classroom,
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A Shot Rang. Out

AS the PRESIDENTS car passed
the building toward the Fort
Worth freeway, Mr.. Kennedy
was replying to a pleasantly by
Mrs. Connally when a shot rang
out. The sniper, working the
bolt swiftly and surely. fired
twice more. The range was IS
yards but the sniper's aim was
true. Mr.. Kennedy toppled over.
MORALLY wounded, without ever
knowing what hit him. Gov.
Connally also fell wounded
and the presidential car sped
away toward a hospital.
Mr.. Truly looked around and
concluded that the shots had
come from further down the
street. A news photographer
looked up and saw a man with
drawn rifle from the 9Th floor
window of the depository
Police drew their guns and
raced madly about as many OF
the crowd took cover or fell
to the ground in fear.
Police say Lee Oswald dashed
down one flight Of stairs anc
hid the rifle behind some booE
crates on the fifth floor land.
ing.
Mr.. Truly said a young po
liceman dashed up to him anc
shouted, where's the stair.
way2"
"I'll show you." Mr.. Truly
said, and he led the policeman
up to the second floor. Gun in
hand, the policeman began
checking offices and rooms and
ran squarely into Oswald in
the employees lunchroom.
Mr.. Truly said the policeman
held his gun on Oswald as the
youth leaned against a counter
and said, Does this man work
Ihere?"
II told him yes Mr.. Truly
said. He added that he did moi
know who the officer was anc
has not seen him since.
/ The policeman raced on w
to the roof to search there
Later on, Mr.. Truly said, a
woman employee told him she
saw Oswald saunter through the
second floor offices slipping
from a Soft-drink bottle.
Meanwhile, other police
poured into the building anc
: began a systematic search
Somehow, Oswald eluded them
all and walked out of the
building into the pandemonium
on the street.
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Sighted Gun

Toward the end Of he
month, an Irving gunsmith
named Dial H. Ryder recalls.
Oswald brought q foreign
made rifle to his shop at Irving
boulevard. Mr.. Ryder said os-
valid paid him So to mount and
adjust a telescope sight to the
rifle and to Foresight it. Bore
sighting is done to make a rifle
accurate and involves clamping
the weapon in a wise, aiming 1t
at an object and adjusting the
sights to agree.
On November 81, Oswald
showed up at Irving a day ear
lier than his usual Friday arri-
val. Mrs. Paine and Marina
thought nothing Of it at the
time. They thought he had
come to patch up the quarrel
with Marina about the phone
call to his Dallas roomin g
house. Apparently, he intend
ed for us not to know" said
Mrs. Paine,
Marina Pruskova Oswald last
saw her husband at Dallas po-
lice headquarters the night
President Kennedy and Pvt.
Tippit were killed. What they
said to enc another was not re-
corded.
Next day. Saturday, she went
to stay in Fort Worth with her
husbands mother and Mrs.
Paine said she has not seen
Marina since.
When Oswald was killed by a
bullet from Jack Ruby's gun
Sunday for reasons that still
are far from clear, Marina was
In the home Of Irving Police
Chief c. j. Wirasnik where the
Secret Service had taken her.
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The Motorcode

As Marina and Ruth
watched. 5000 Dallas citizens
gave the Kennedys a Joyous
and uninhibited welcome at
the airport. Mrs. Kennedy got
a bouquet Of red roses from a
reception committee. At 1850
am, the motorcade started
into Dallas.
The rain had stopped near
| ly two hours before and the
bubbletop was taken off the
Presidents Lincoln convertible
In the warm Texas sun. Presi-
dent and Mrs. Kennedy took
the back seats and were Joined
on the jump seats by Gov.
John Connally and his wife,
Nellie.
For half an hour the motor
cade wound its way through
the skyscrapers Of downtown
Dallas at a rs to 80 mph clip.
At noon, Mr.. Truly and his
warehouse crew took their
lunch break, most Of them
going out onto the street
where Texans were lined up
IL deep for many blocks to
cheer the visitors.
No one in the Texas School
Book Depository recalls seeing
Lee Oswald at this time. But
| police have reconstructed his
movements. This is what they
have found:
When the time was near for
the Presidents car to pass, Lee
Oswald quietly made his way
up to the 9Th floor storage
room. He raised a window
nearest the spot where the pa
rade route turned from Hous-
ton street to go beneath ar
underpass. Here the Presidents
car would have to slow down to
about is miles per hour the
turn. Oswald made himself q
sniper's nest of book cartons
unwrapped his rifle an d
waited.
Later, police found his palm
prints on the boxes and found
three empty cartridge castings
amid the remnants of a chick
en- dinner in a bag and soft
drink bottle. Mr.. Truly believes
the lunch was not Oswald's.
At 1880 pm. central stand
ard time, right on schedule,
the encourage swung onto
Houston street and the crowd
roared. Mr.. Truly craned his
neck for a better view.
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Bookish Youth

While his mother worked in
a candy factory to support Lee
and his brother, Robert L. Os-
valid, now 20 and living in
Denton, Tex, Lee developed
into an introverted, bookish
student whose teachers said he
resented authority and gave
him C markings.
He was intelligent enough
but disorganized, swimmin g
against the main stream, deep
ly conscious of his mothers
poor circumstances, often in
volved in fights with school
mates who understood him nc
more than he understood him.
self.
When he was Is, Oswald
somehow got hold of a pamph-
let about the celebrated couple,
Julius and Anna Rosenberg,
who stole Americas atomic Sc.
crets for Russia and were exc.
cuted. Oswald developed g
sympathy and an empathy fol
the RoSenbergs and this lee
him to "Das Kapital."
Men with higher los thar
Lee Oswald have found Kar
Marx tome heavy going, anc
the youths romance with com.
munism never got out of thu
confused state.
He began to consider himselt
a MarXist but made no distinc
ton between the communism
of Lenin, Trotsky or Stain.
He was for the exploited
working masses and against
capitalists and he hewed to thi,
line until he died. 1t seemed Il
make up for his inadequaciei
and gave him a cause, ever
though he little understood it
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Death Again

Oswald remained defiant and
arrogant. Denying everything
he was led Sunday morning to
the sement of police
headquarters to be transferred
to the Dallas County jail.
1t was like a Roman holiday
there, with the clamorous pho
.tographers and radio men
forming double files and shout
ing inanities like, "Why did
you do it?" at Oswald as he
walked in manacles and on
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called for help on the slain
Tippit's radio.
Oswald was seen by some
service station epersonnel in
Oakcliff running from where
he is said to have shot the
policeman. Police later found
his jacket and three pistol
castings in a vacant lot through
which he passed.
1t was las pm. when Julie
Postal, cashier at the Texas
Theater, 231 West Jefferson
street. saw Oswald dart into
the theater without buying a
ticket. She said she was so up
set about the President that
she paid no heed at first.
But five minutes later, when
Johnny Brewer, a shoe store
manager, told her he had seen
somebody fleeing from the
police go into the theater, Mrs
Postal called police.
War is Hell" was on the
screen when the cops charged
into the theater at 1875 pm
and Pvt. N. r. Mcdonald spot.
ted Oswald when the house
lights came on. This is it,
screamed Oswald, raising hi,
gun and pulling the trigger.
For the first time that day
Oswald failed to get his man
The pistol misfired and the
police jumped Oswald. H,
fought and kicked but wa
dragged outside and into {
scout car.
Oswald suffered a cut ovel
the right forehead and a black.
ened left eye. Two policemen
sprained their ankles subduine
him.
Where Oswald obtained the
.38-caliber pistol with which he
is said to have killed Pvt. Tippit
remains a mystery. Investiga-
tors thus far have been unable
to trace the pistol or holster
except that it is believed he hao
the weapon during the New
Orleans phase of his life.
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Trip to Mexico

Actually. the FBI has learned,
he entered Mexico on Septem-
Der 26 by way Of Nuevo Laredo,
using q tourist card, and made
his way to Mexico City where
he visited the consulates Of
Soviet Russia and Cuba. A
Mexican newspaper. Excelsior,
has reported Oswald got into
shouting matches with officials
at both consulates when they
told him he would have to
wait for visas to visit those
countries.
Border patrol records indicate
Oswald crossed from Laredo,
Tex. into Nuevo Laredo, Mexi-
co, while driving a station
wagon.
No source known to the FBI
or Dallas police has reported
anything about Oswald's own
ing a car after he returned to
Texas on October 3 or before
he made the trip.
Investigators say he may
have stolen q car and sold it.
They also are puzzled by Mrs.
Paine's statement that Oswald
had obtained a learners permit
and had asked her to teach
him to drive.
Lee Oswald re-entered the
United States on October g..
He appeared in Dallas and
telephoned Marina that he
was going to get a job and
would send for her as soon
as he could. Then ne went to
q brick rooming house at 1926
North Beckley street, owned
by Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. johnson
who cater to Is young bache-
lors at the going rate Of So a
week.
Mrs. Earlene Roberts, the
housekeeper, said he checked
In on October IA under the
name of 20. H. Lee" one of
two aliases the FBI and police
now know Oswald used. The
other pseudonym is "A. Hidell. !"
The Mannlicher rifle was sent
to "a. Hidell" at a Dallas post
office box last March 20, but
the handwriting on the order
is that Of Lee Oswald.
The youthful roomer came
to the house on foot with one
satchel and some clothes on
hangers, Mrs Roberts recalled.
II showed him two rooms and
he picked this one" she said,
pointing to a 6X14 cubicle
off the dining room and sep
arated from it by double doors.
The room was painted baby
blue with white curtains. 1t
contained a small bed. cramped
against the wall. two dressers,
a floor lamp, a bare ceiling
bulb and two throw rugs.
It was here that police found
a holster for a .38 caliber pistol
and sorna Communist litera-
tire