We lost our innocence as a nation JFK on November 22, 1963, along with a popular young president. We stopped believing in the government. It was lost, and it hasn’t come back.
My life was changed by the rifle shots fired at the president’s motorcade, as I witnessed my “friend” Lee Harvey Oswald being dragged into the Dallas Police Station, covered in blood on TV. The day following the assassination, I received a knock on my door from the Secret Service, who introduced themselves as a “known associate” of the alleged JFK killer.
In June 1962, I got involved with Lee and Marina Oswald. On November 22, 1962, I last saw them running to catch the Fort Worth to Dallas bus. When the Secret Service was questioning Marina about her knowledge of a conspiracy a year later, my father translated for her from Nov. 24 to Nov. 28.
The Warren Commission started looking into JFK’s death circumstances as the country came to a standstill in mourning. I personally testified in front of the commission on March 31, 1964. There was no time wasted by the commission. We had to find out quickly if there had been a conspiracy behind the assassination.
After reviewing hundreds of thousands of pages of testimony and tangible evidence, the Warren Commission, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren and composed of our most esteemed public servants, came to the conclusion that Oswald, a disturbed young man, killed the president alone.
The public largely agreed with the report’s findings when it was released on September 24, 1964, but more than 50 years later, 60% of respondents said there was a conspiracy. Furthermore, disagreement over the commission’s “sole gunman” finding hasn’t diminished over time.
Anticipate a deluge of fresh information, theories, and even eyewitness accounts to add to the nearly 1,500 books that have already been published on the topic in honor of the 60th anniversary. About 90% of these stories advance conspiracy theories, the most of which portray Oswald as a “patsy” working for more sinister and profound forces.
Furthermore, the 14,000 or so JFK-related documents still held by the National Archives are not likely to contain any shocking revelations. The majority of the previously redacted material that addresses CIA operations worldwide but has little to do with the assassination is included in the June and August (2023) releases.
Thus, the Warren report created a lasting legacy of public mistrust towards the government. After fifty years, a startling one-fifth of conspiracy theorists said that “the government”—including the CIA—was to blame for JFK’s demise. Many people now think that the government was either part of other conspiracies, that 9/11 was a government set-up, or that we lied about Iraq’s WMD in order to justify an invasion.
The crowd of lone gunmen and conspirators. The former claimed that Oswald went (by bus) to Mexico City to obtain orders for his murder from the Soviet or Cuban embassies. He was overheard speaking to a KGB agent, subsequently identified as a Soviet embassy official, on a CIA wiretap. He made the acquaintance of a Mexican national employed by the Cuban embassy, who at a party introduced him to a number of friends. Conspiracy theories abound that Oswald received his assassination orders from one or more of these sources before departing Mexico City.
The majority of conspiracy theories revolve around Mexico City. Presumably, that’s where his USSR and Cuban captors let their killer loose. However, the Oswald I knew traveled to Mexico City to clear the path for a new life in Cuba rather than to follow marching orders. Fidel would undoubtedly welcome his obedient servant.
Oswald, the nomad, had already decided Texas was not the right state for him. It was time to go, but to do so he required a Cuban (transit) visa in addition to a USSR visa. He traveled to Mexico City, the closest city housing both embassies, to avoid having to wait a half-year. He attempted to use deception to get past them, claiming that his USSR visa had arrived in the mail. There, he experienced rejection from both embassies and became so irate that he engaged in a verbal altercation with the Cuban embassy.
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