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JFK Book Reviews - "Flashback" The Untold Story Of Lee Harvey Oswald · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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  Speaker 1: What's up everybody welcome into jfk book excuse me jfk
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  Speaker 1: book reviews a division of the loom gum and podcast
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  Speaker 1: i am big bad bobby a.k.a. Rob Clark, here for
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  Speaker 1: another exciting edition, allegedly, of JFK Book Reviews. And today,
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  Speaker 1: we will be reviewing the book Flashback, the untold story
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  Speaker 1: of Lee Harvey Oswald by Ron Lewis. Ron Lewis, Flashback.
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  Speaker 2: It's what.
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  Speaker 1: We call slim thick around here. Flashback, The Untold Story
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  Speaker 1: of Lee Harvey Oswald by Ron Lewis. This book was
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  Speaker 1: published in 1993. 1993. It is 272 pages long. It
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  Speaker 1: was published by Blue Heron Publishing out of Hillsboro, Oregon. Now,
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  Speaker 1: even though it was published in 1993, allegedly, Ron Lewis
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  Speaker 1: started writing this book in the 80s, the mid-80s, to
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  Speaker 1: come out to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the
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  Speaker 1: JFK assassination, which would be 1988. But couldn't find a publisher.
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  Speaker 1: But word had gotten around through various sources to the...
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to mess this up. To, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: Larry Howard down there at the JFK Assassination Information Center
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas. And at the time, of course, Oliver Stone
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  Speaker 1: is filming his movie, JFK, and puts Oliver Stone in
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  Speaker 1: touch with Ron Lewis, who allegedly had some inside information
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  Speaker 1: about Lee Harvey Oswald. And like many of these folks,
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  Speaker 1: was made a.
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  Speaker 1: An inside source for the movie JFK. I forget the
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  Speaker 1: word I'm looking for here. An advisor. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: An advisor on the movie JFK. Which basically means that
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  Speaker 1: he told Oliver Stone some stories. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these stories are contained within this book Flashback. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you remember what was going on in the early 80s
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  Speaker 1: and late 90s, I'm sorry, the late 80s and early 90s,
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  Speaker 1: around Dallas you have a lot of these fantastical stories
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  Speaker 1: coming about, including the Roscoe White story, James Files, and
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  Speaker 1: Ron White's story just seemed to be a continuation of
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  Speaker 1: some of that stuff. But before we get into the
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  Speaker 1: book itself, let's hear from the man himself. Uh, and
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  Speaker 1: this is a little snippet of a video that, uh,
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  Speaker 1: was put out on CNN hosted by, uh, James Earl Jones.
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  Speaker 1: And here we're going to see Ron Lewis beside Victor Marchetti,
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  Speaker 1: the former CIA guy who put out a book, famously.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll hear a little bit from the man himself
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  Speaker 1: before we actually get into the book. It's always good
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  Speaker 1: to set the table with a little context, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: And since this is my own video, there shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: any problems, allegedly, with it. So, here we.
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  Speaker 3: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on, let me make sure I share this with audio.
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  Speaker 1: Let's try this again. Share with audio. Okay. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: cooking with grease, people. Just beware. Don't get popped. Always
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  Speaker 1: wear a shirt when you're frying things. You don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get a grease pop on your nipple. It hurts
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  Speaker 1: like hell. Here we go. Ron Lewis. Where is the
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  Speaker 1: play button?
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  Speaker 2: Oswald was a very mysterious person. To find out more
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  Speaker 2: about him, we have asked Ron Lewis, a friend of Oswald's,
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  Speaker 2: to join us. Oliver Stone, the director of the JFK movie,
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  Speaker 2: told us about Ron in his book, Flashback, the untold
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  Speaker 2: story of Lee Harvey Oswald. Marina Oswald confirmed to me
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  Speaker 2: that Ron Lewis did exist, and she remembered him because
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  Speaker 2: he bumped into her one day in New Orleans when
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  Speaker 2: she followed Lee to work. Mr. Lewis, I understand that
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  Speaker 2: you worked with Oswald in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 3: We both worked for Guy Bannister, but he didn't pay us.
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  Speaker 3: We got paid from another source.
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  Speaker 2: Who was Guy Bannister?
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  Speaker 3: He was the head of the Chicago office of the FBI,
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  Speaker 3: and he also supplied guns for the Cuban refugees. And
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  Speaker 3: Lee told me this was a CIA operation.
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  Speaker 2: What did Oswald do for Guy Bannister?
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  Speaker 3: He went on to college campuses and he gathered information
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  Speaker 3: for the FBI. And he also recruited people to work
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  Speaker 3: for Guy Bannister.
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  Speaker 2: Did Oswald ever handle gun shipments at 544 Camp Street?
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  Speaker 3: He brought in a shipment of ammunition. And part of
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  Speaker 3: those were kept at 544 Camp Street. Part was taken
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  Speaker 3: in a laundry truck to Lake Pontchartrain. I remember this
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  Speaker 3: because the boxes were very heavy, and Lee was not
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  Speaker 3: a muscular person, and he sometimes said he was going
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  Speaker 3: to quit because of it.
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  Speaker 2: Is it true that Oswald had worked with Jack Ruby
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  Speaker 2: in New Orleans?
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  Speaker 3: He told me that Jack Ruby drove the laundry truck.
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  Speaker 2: The Warren Commission said that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack
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  Speaker 2: Ruby never knew each other. Are you saying that they
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  Speaker 2: did know each other?
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  Speaker 3: They knew each other very well.
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  Speaker 2: That makes us wonder how much else in the Warren
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  Speaker 2: Commission report regarding Oswald is incorrect.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Imagine being able to build an app with
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  Speaker 1: your name on it just by thinking about it. There
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  Speaker 1: we go. So there you have it. You just get
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  Speaker 1: a little tiny little snippet of Ron Lewis talking. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's important for context. When you can actually
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  Speaker 1: see the person and hear them speak, see them speak.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he doesn't give away a lot there. Not
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  Speaker 1: a man of many emotions, it doesn't appear. Doesn't appear
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  Speaker 1: like he wanted to be on that show at all.
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  Speaker 1: Quite frankly, but who knows? You know, this is one
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  Speaker 1: of those books that I legitimately don't know what to
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  Speaker 1: do with it. You know, the information contained therein, if
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  Speaker 1: you will. You know, He makes a lot of claims
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  Speaker 1: in this book.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them are very fantastical.
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  Speaker 3: As in....
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  Speaker 1: You know... On the verge of unbelievable. But there is.
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  Speaker 1: At least the only thing that I can see.
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  Speaker 1: After reading this book... Really... Any corroboration... whatsoever is the
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  Speaker 1: fact that that little clip that you saw from Oliver
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  Speaker 1: Stone about allegedly Oliver Stone took Ron Lewis to go
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  Speaker 1: meet Marina Oswald Marina Well, Ron tells a story about
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  Speaker 1: Marina hunting down Oswald because he wasn't coming home or
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  Speaker 1: something when he should have been. And supposedly Marina came
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  Speaker 1: and found them as Ron and Lee were hanging out
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  Speaker 1: at the Crescent City Garage. And apparently... Ron Lewis met
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  Speaker 1: Marina briefly there as he was leaving before, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Lee and Marina got into a fight about him not
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  Speaker 1: coming home and her having to track him down and
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  Speaker 1: all of this stuff. And supposedly, 25 years plus later,
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  Speaker 1: Marina recognizes this man that she met very briefly. Again,
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  Speaker 1: 25 years plus later. In 1963. So take that for
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  Speaker 1: what you will. I mean. I don't know. It seems
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  Speaker 1: a little sus to me. But again. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: this story. Contained in this book. Seems a little sus
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  Speaker 1: to me.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Supposedly.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Lewis was a dishonorably discharged Marine Corps veteran, just
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  Speaker 1: like Lee Harvey Oswald, who at the time was working
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  Speaker 1: in Fort Worth in 1962 and was reading these articles
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  Speaker 1: in the paper about this returning defector.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: And apparently him and one of his buddies named Butch Stone...
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  Speaker 1: no relation to Oliver, allegedly, went to visit and talk
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  Speaker 1: to Lee Harvey Oswald when he was working at Leslie
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  Speaker 1: Welding in the early fall, late summer of 1962. And
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  Speaker 1: here they would become briefly friendly. And at this time,
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  Speaker 1: Oswald became enamored with Ron Lewis's car, which was a
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  Speaker 1: 1958 black Chevy Impala with a white stripe. He really
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  Speaker 1: liked that car, allegedly. This will come into relevance a
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  Speaker 1: little later, but.
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  Speaker 1: After briefly meeting Lee Harvey Oswald in 1962, they would
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  Speaker 1: go their separate ways. And then, eventually in 1963, Ron
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  Speaker 1: Lewis would move to New Orleans. And happened to see
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  Speaker 1: Lee Oswald on the street handing out leaflets. So he
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  Speaker 1: went up and talked to him and said, Hey, remember me?
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  Speaker 1: I met you over in Fort Worth. Blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: And they struck their friendship up again in New Orleans. Allegedly. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's talking to Oswald, asking him what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: And Oswald explains to him about the Bannister operation. And
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  Speaker 1: being an informant for the FBI. And, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: Bannister operation being for the CIA. Meeting folks like David
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  Speaker 1: Ferry and Clay Shaw. Things of this nature. And supposedly
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  Speaker 1: Lee gets Ron Lewis on at Bannister's office doing a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of work for him. Now, let's take a
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  Speaker 1: look at some of the other allegations in this book. So,
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the summer in 1963, Ron learned
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  Speaker 1: a lot about Lee Harvey Oswald and the life that
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  Speaker 1: Lee had been keeping secret from Marina, including a young
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  Speaker 1: girl on the side. allegedly, although Ron Lewis didn't name
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  Speaker 1: her and never met her personally, of course, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Judith very Baker would insert herself into the Ron Lewis story.
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  Speaker 1: That was me. That was me. Uh, Again, take this
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  Speaker 1: for what you will. Ron did meet David Ferry and
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  Speaker 1: Guy Bannister once, he says. He worked for Guy Bannister
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  Speaker 1: through Lee Harvey Oswald on a project to keep tabs
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  Speaker 1: on the political campaigns of Russell Long and his family.
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  Speaker 1: Once at Guy Bannister's offices, Lee showed Ron a cache
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  Speaker 1: of illegal arms and explosives that Bannister and Ferry were
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  Speaker 1: accumulating on behalf of the Cuban exile revolutionary groups in
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans. Ron and Lee remained fairly close during the
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  Speaker 1: summer of 1963, meeting each other in the mornings as
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  Speaker 1: Ron would walk to work and sharing stories about the Marines, politics,
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  Speaker 1: and guns, which were allegedly Lee's favorite topics. Throughout much
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  Speaker 1: of the summer of 1963, Ron Lewis believed that Oswald
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  Speaker 1: was a left-wing activist. However, by the closing weeks of
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  Speaker 1: the summer, Oswald appeared to Lewis to have changed into
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  Speaker 1: a right-wing activist. And this was puzzling to Ron. Ron
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  Speaker 1: was especially puzzled in August 1963 when he saw Oswald
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  Speaker 1: carrying his rifle in a bulky bag to a Russell
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  Speaker 1: Long speech. He could hardly understand Lee's reasoning during this period.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is a not known allegation. So we all
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  Speaker 1: know about the Walker allegations of Oswald taking a shot
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  Speaker 1: at him. In the Ron Lewis book, we also have
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  Speaker 1: an almost assassination of Russell Long by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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  Speaker 1: But he got cold feet, allegedly. Supposedly, Lee... came to
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  Speaker 1: Ron with the idea of hijacking a plane to Cuba
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  Speaker 1: and getting Ron to help him. When Ron pressed Lee,
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  Speaker 1: he learned that Bannister had discovered that Lee was the
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  Speaker 1: shooter at resigned General Edwin Walker's house on April 10th,
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  Speaker 1: and Bannister was using this information to blackmail Oswald to
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  Speaker 1: do anything Bannister demanded. Now back to the car, 1958.
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  Speaker 1: Black Chevy Impala with a white stripe. Allegedly, Ron Lewis
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  Speaker 1: says that he let Oswald borrow his car once. And
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  Speaker 1: it happened to be on April the 10th, 1963. And
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  Speaker 1: that an eyewitness had placed his car, his vehicle, described it, uh,
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  Speaker 1: at the scene of the General Walker shooting the night
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  Speaker 1: of April 10th, 1963. Interesting. Ron claims that after Lee
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  Speaker 1: moved to Dallas, he still saw Lee one more time
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Now remember, once Oswald comes back from
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  Speaker 1: Mexico at the beginning of October, Supposedly, he never went
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  Speaker 1: back to New Orleans that we know about. Because he
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  Speaker 1: was working at the school book depository. Unless he went
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend. It's unclear. Because he doesn't give a date.
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  Speaker 1: But on that occasion, Lee told Ron some vague details
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  Speaker 1: about his trip to Mexico and about Bannister's plans. to
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  Speaker 1: use Roscoe White to murder JFK in Dallas. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Lee also warned Ron in very callous
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  Speaker 1: terms to keep all this information secret. But Lee was
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  Speaker 1: so callous about it that Ron was glad to be
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  Speaker 1: rid of Lee at last. Ron says he would have
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  Speaker 1: forgotten all about Lee, except the world went nuts after
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  Speaker 1: JFK was murdered. And that's the basic story in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 1: Some writers have found Ron Lewis to be believable. Others,
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  Speaker 1: not so much. So, where does the truth lie, folks?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's some interesting things in this book. Including this. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this is from When He Met Marina. Eventually, Marina became
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  Speaker 1: suspicious and decided to check up on him. She had
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  Speaker 1: apparently chosen to do this at the time Lee and
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  Speaker 1: I were in the Crescent City garage holding our morning discussion.
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  Speaker 1: When he arrived, he seemed excited and out of breath.
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  Speaker 1: Marina's going to be out front, he exclaimed. How do
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  Speaker 1: you know she's going to be out there, I asked.
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  Speaker 1: Because she's shadowing me this morning, he replied. I've already
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  Speaker 1: spotted her. Lee kept glancing at his watch nervously. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: he jumped up and exclaimed, She's out there now. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta go. Tell her you haven't seen me. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't speak Russian, I told him. She knows more English
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  Speaker 1: than you think, he yelled hurriedly toward the back door
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  Speaker 1: of the garage. I wondered how he knew Marina was
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  Speaker 1: out there, but I figured he'd already timed her, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because he's like a super spy and noticed tails and
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. I hurried out the front door. where
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  Speaker 1: it seemed bright in contrast to the interior of the garage.
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  Speaker 1: In the process, I stumbled into a baby stroller on
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk. I looked, and there was Marina, big as life,
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  Speaker 1: pushing Junie. To the best of my recollection, I apologized
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  Speaker 1: and said, Oh, excuse me. We looked at each other
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  Speaker 1: with full eye contact as I slowly walked past her.
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  Speaker 1: Then she turned directly facing me as I looked back
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  Speaker 1: before disappearing from her sight. In 1990, while accompanied by
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  Speaker 1: Larry Howard and his wife, Daryl, I visited Marina at
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  Speaker 1: her home in Rockwall, Texas, and I asked about our
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  Speaker 1: close encounter that day in front of the Crescent City Garage.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, I was there that morning, she told me,
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  Speaker 1: confirming the incident, but I never told anyone about it,
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  Speaker 1: not even Lee. So, again, make of it what you will.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you could remember Lee. A very
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  Speaker 1: brief chance encounter on the street. Almost 30 years after
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  Speaker 1: it happened. At a time when things were inconsequential. You know,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the assassination hadn't happened yet. I don't know. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this book.
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  Speaker 1: It will make you go, hmm. And then it will
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  Speaker 1: make you go, ahhh! All in the same paragraph. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know. So, another passage from the book.
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  Speaker 1: When Lee left New Orleans on September 25th, he told
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  Speaker 1: me that he would have a new contact in Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: a man named Jack Ruby. Lee didn't tell me he
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  Speaker 1: was going to Mexico, so I thought he was going
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  Speaker 1: straight to Dallas. My last visit with Lee was on
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  Speaker 1: October 11th, eight days after he had returned to Dallas
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  Speaker 1: from Mexico. He met his new contact, Jack Ruby, as scheduled,
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  Speaker 1: and Ruby was to help him get a job in
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  Speaker 1: Dallas as well as aiding him in other areas, such
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  Speaker 1: as finding a place to stay and introducing him to
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  Speaker 1: new friends. Incidentally, the situation with Ruby was much the
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  Speaker 1: same as it was with DeMoren Shield. A.K.A. a babysitter.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just don't know. Now, apparently, over
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  Speaker 1: here to my right, left, whatever it is, is the
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  Speaker 1: back of a VHS cassette tape. From a 1995 sit down. Interview.
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  Speaker 1: Done with Ron Lewis. Where he goes into a much.
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  Speaker 1: Deeper version of this. With interviewer named Henry Cruter. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot find it anywhere on the interwebs.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: Allegedly, it exists. Somewhere out there. So if anybody has
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  Speaker 1: access to this thing, I'd like to see it. I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to hear more of what he has to say.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, in the Marchetti and Ron Lewis video
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  Speaker 1: that I showed you guys on my channel from many
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  Speaker 1: moons ago, his son, Ron Lewis' son, Kenneth, actually commented
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  Speaker 1: on it and said, that's my daddy. He commented that
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  Speaker 1: like 11 years ago and then again a year ago. So, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things where you have
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  Speaker 1: somebody with an Oswald story A very interesting Oswald story,
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  Speaker 1: but there's absolutely zero, nil, zilch, nada, anything about this
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  Speaker 1: dude in the JFK documents under the name Ron Lewis
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  Speaker 1: or the name Ron Larson or the name Kenneth Mason.
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  Speaker 1: He had a lot of aliases because he was allegedly
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  Speaker 1: on the run from the FBI at the time. But
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  Speaker 1: yet none of these names come up in any of
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  Speaker 1: the JFK documentation from the CIA, from the FBI, from
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  Speaker 1: the DPD, from the NOPD. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: There is absolutely nothing. Now, we do have a different
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  Speaker 1: person named David Lewis, who did have connections with Bannister
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  Speaker 1: and Jack Martin, and does appear in some New Orleans-related files.
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  Speaker 1: And I find it hard to believe, much like I
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  Speaker 1: do with Judith Vary Baker, as intensive as an investigation
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  Speaker 1: that Jim Garrison put on in New Orleans... that these
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  Speaker 1: two folks somehow managed to avoid detection from Jim Garrison's reach.
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  Speaker 1: I find that hard to believe. I really, really do.
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  Speaker 1: And again, this guy didn't come up in any FBI documents.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing like that. So we only really have his word
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  Speaker 1: to go on. And take that for what you will.
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  Speaker 1: Do with it what you will. It's an interesting book.
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  Speaker 1: It presents a story of Lee Harvey Oswald from allegedly
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  Speaker 1: one man's view of having met him and spent time
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  Speaker 1: with him over the course of roughly a little over
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  Speaker 1: a year. Before the assassination. And of course. Supposedly he says.
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  Speaker 1: He started keeping a diary in 1962. And after the assassination.
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  Speaker 1: He moved back to Texas. And immediately burned the portions
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  Speaker 1: of the diary. That related to Lee Harvey Oswald. Of
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: course he says. He didn't speak or say anything. Over
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  Speaker 1: the years. Because he was afraid that he would be killed.
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah blah. The usual excuse.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I don't know what to do with this book. It's...
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  Speaker 1: It's an interesting read. Again, it's just stories. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have any actual factual basis to back up anything that
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  Speaker 1: Ron Lewis says. So take that for what you will.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of people like this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know what my initial... Instincts are. So
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  Speaker 1: with that being said, let's get to the rating. For
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  Speaker 1: what it is, I will say a collection of stories, allegedly, possibly,
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  Speaker 1: about Lee Harvey Oswald prior to the assassination. And for
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  Speaker 1: what it could be, being an insider's look into the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: mind of Lee Harvey Oswald, revealing revelations from behind the
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  Speaker 1: curtain about who Oswald was, what he was doing, and
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  Speaker 1: who he was doing it for, and all of these
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: fantastical revelations about what it could be, But then you
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: run into him inserting things like Roscoe White, Jack Ruby
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  Speaker 1: as his handler, and all these other fantastical things that
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: likely didn't happen. I just don't know where this kernel
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: of truth lies in this book, if there even is
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  Speaker 1: a kernel of truth in this book.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, if you're looking for a good read
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  Speaker 1: on par with a fiction book that has to do
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: with Oswald and the assassination, you'll enjoy yourself. You'll enjoy yourself.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: If you're looking for the truth and revelations in the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: JFK assassination, maybe not so much. But I digress. So
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give this book, for what it is,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: what it was, and what it's supposed to be, a
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: whopping three guns up. Pow, pow, pow. Three guns up, folks.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And again, Kenneth, if you're watching this, don't take it personally, man,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: but There's just no corroboration for your father's story. I'm sorry.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: And if you have any, email me at theloongunmanpodcast at gmail.com.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see it. Until then, this review shall
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: remain as it is. And that is it for your boy.
• 32:26
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  Speaker 1: Live, baby. Do it live. Until next time, folks. Catch
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: me running out the library. All right. Until then, peace out.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Boom.