Lone Gunman: The Man Who Knew Lee Harvey Oswald | Uncommon Knowledge

Recorded on February 10, 2023.
Paul Gregory is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Cullen Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston. He’s also the author of a new book, The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee, a fascinating account of the relationship he developed with Marina and Lee Oswald in the summer of 1963, when Gregory was 21 years old. Paul went off to college at the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 1963 and didn’t see Lee or Marina again. Then one fateful day in late November, Gregory was shocked to see a news report identifying Oswald as the lead suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Gregory soon faced interrogations by the Secret Service. Later he would testify before the Warren Commission. In this interview, Gregory recalls these incidents and, as a scholar and skilled researcher, debunks the vast array of assassination conspiracy theories by demonstrating that Lee Harvey Oswald indeed killed Kennedy and acted alone-that the Oswald he once called a friend had the motive, the intelligence, and the means to commit one of the most shocking crimes in American history. 
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0:15 Introduction
00:28 Paul Gregory
1:49 Gregory’s relationship with the Oswalds
6:42 Lee Oswald’s “Explosion”
7:59 What were the Oswalds like?
12:52 The Oswalds and the Russians in Texas
16:17 Gregory’s parting from the Oswalds
17:11 Gregory learns Oswald shot the President
18:52 How did you feel about knowing the President’s assassin?
25:23 Lee Oswald gets shot
28:02 Secret Service
28:52 Marina Lee’s “Catastrophe”
31:42 Delving into the book, The Oswalds
34:56 Did Lee Oswald conspire with others?
41:28 The President as a victim of “a climate of hate”
45:39 To what extent is Lee Oswald Marxist?
50:15 Gregory’s letter to Marina
51:50 End

[@alejandrovargas7592]

An obvious question would be that if Oswald was the only person involved in any way at all, why has someone in the government found it vital to keep sealed away the many remaining documents about the incident ? Certainly almost everyone that might have been implicated from something that happened sixty years ago, is long gone. President Trump had promised to release thousands of the remaining sealed documents. Then shortly after, he abruptly walked that promise back, saying that he was told that he couldn't do that.

[@cardinalRG]

Yes, it's a fine question, but of course we can't make assumptions about what the sealed data would reveal.

[@Bbos2383]

One small comment. Gregory said that Oswald's wife was not read her Miranda rights but Miranda v Arizona did not happen until 1966

[@fredk9999]

Excellent point. I’m an attorney (retired) and missed that.

[@stddisclaimer8020]

...though she was advised of her "Marina rights."

[@pedazodetorpedo]

​@@stddisclaimer8020 😂

[@thewealthofnations4827]

I think his family name is mentioned in the JFK film as being CIA connected. Am I correct in that?

[@roberthussey595]

I don’t remember the Gregory name being mentioned in the film...I remember that the Paine name was changed to Williams for some reason...

[@44hawk28]

During this time that he paid Marina the $35 for lessons, Oswald up until the day he died was still collecting $200 a month from a government Source because he works for the government. Considering he was sent there, he probably got a good chunk of change when he got back to the country for crying out loud they found $3,000 worth of photography equipment in his possession after he was murdered by Jack Ruby, where strangely enough Richard Nixon was also in Dallas on the date of Jack Kennedy's assassination, and guess who used to work for Richard Nixon, Jack Ruby! That is not a conspiracy theory that is a fact, Jack Ruby was an investigator who was working for Richard Nixon in 1947 when Richard Nixon was still a senator. Further be verified that Lee Harvey Oswald never defected to the Soviet Union. That requires paperwork that he never filled out. Not only that, had he defected, he never would have been allowed to come back to the United States and such an easy fashion. He was signed off to re-enter the country within hours of coming to the u.s. Consulate in Russia. Like the further explained that not only might he be a bit jealous of Marina, Marina is a Form and Function and part of his cover that he is to maintain. Because even in 1962, he is still being used because he was moved to the center of the governmental intelligence area of New Orleans, right next door to an FBI office and a CIA office red he's working in a government facility for Christ's sake, and still getting himself noticed on TV for being pro-communist. Sounds like he's doing his job that he was hired to do quite well. I have been researching the Kennedy assassination every few years since I was about 12 years old I was seven at the time of the shooting cuz I remember it happening in school and hearing the varied accounts on the radio of seven to eight or more shots fired down to as little as three shots fired in Dealey Plaza. That doesn't sound right. But I can show you from the photos in the backyard photograph that the rifle recovered in the school Book Depository is not the rifle that he was photographed with a few weeks earlier. Rifle recovered in the school Book Depository isn't even the same model that he ordered or that he was photographed with. It's the same manufacturer, but it's a different length of firearm at does not have the ability to put a sling on the bottom of the rifle, it goes on the side of that rifle recovered in the school Book Depository where it goes on the bottom of the rifle he's pictured with. That would be called factual evidence of his innocence.

[@hscollier]

Odd that he referred to Minsk as a backwater provincial city, when it was the capital of the Belarusian Soviet Republic and a center of technology for all of the Soviet Union. Also, I was in Minsk in 1994 and met former Soviet intelligence officials who said Oswald spoke perfect Russian with almost no accent. Other contemporary sources also say that Oswald’s Russian was excellent. This guy is either misinformed or spreading misinformation.

[@robinboucherwonderfulflight]

I had heard that there were two Oswalds.

[@joni3503]

Oswald might have worked for the CIA, or Navy Intelligence. Maybe the Soviets wanted Marina into the United States, and that's why they allowed them to leave. This happened just after the Cuban crisis of 1962. The Soviets felt humiliated, and it could easily be explained to the public as an act of revenge. We don't even know if Oswald was a shooter, or one of the shooters. I personally think this was mob related. Robert Kennedy was after them. Maybe more.

[@kxkxkxkx]

Lee Oswald lived in Russia for almost 3 years, just 2 blocks up the street from Belarus main KGB facility in Minsk 🚩 this is where he was trained prior to marrying his KGB wife

[@halColombo]

He's a disinformer. My guess, which seems obvious, is hes cia, as they employ multilingual doctors often. If he's actually connected to the Oswald's than he's most likely cia because we know now, confirmed, of Oswald's training through ONI before the cia and his time in Japan working with the U2 program. We know now that Oswald was cia, on mission, inside the Soviet Union, giving them outdated U2 codes to gain favor with the KGB. A double agent and one of ours, and probably our BEST. A PATRIOT! !!! OSWALD BROKE UP THE CHICAGO PLOT ON KENNEDY'S LIFE 3 WEEKS EARLIER BY PHONING THE CHICAGO FBI AND SECRET SERVICE. HE NEVER SHOT AT WALKER. THAT'S FALSE INFORMATION, PART OF THE RIGHT WINGERS FRAMING OSWALD. YOU'RE SPREADING MAJOR DISINFORMATION AND TAINTING A DEAD MAN'S LEGACY MORE THAN IT ALREADY IS. BEST INVESTIGATIVE, EVIDENCED BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE TODAY IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT THE TRUTH. ANYONE SPEWING THE OLD TEXAS OIL, RACIST EXCUSE THAT LEE WAS A COMMUNIST IS LAUGHABLE AND OUTDATED, AS IT WAS IN '78 WHEN THE HSCA FOUND WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT KENNEDY WAS AMBUSHED AND IT WAS A GOVERNMENT AGENCY CONSPIRACY. This clown "dr" selling propoganda on behalf of the cia, Dallas pd,fbi and secret service, which are the 4 agencies guilty of collusion to murder the President, is a real laugh as he basically put a colorful photo of Marina and Lee on top of the Warren report 😅😂 It's a tragedy what the old racist South pulled off in 63 (Johnson, Connelly, Campbell, Dulles, walker, hunt, bush and their cronies) and that they've tarnished the name and legacy of a Patsy who was more A PATRIOT than any of them and more brave than you and I. Oswald didn't shoot anyone. The same men that framed him shot their own that day as anyone current on the evidence and honest about the facts has known for a long time. Some say Tippit was the greasy knoll shooter which could be (badge man?) And could be why he had to be immediately silenced. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE LEVEL OF CORRUPTION OF THE DALLAS PD IN THE 20S,30S,40S,50S,60S,70S,80S.... And I'm not sure about the 90s onward but they've ALWAYS been bought and paid for, ESPECIALLY in the early 60s lol 🤷‍♂️🤢🤮 A DISGUSTING representation of America. And A SORRY, PATHETIC excuse for men, drunken, racist, crooked cops that traffick narcotics and pimp women. Cops that keep no records of interrogations of the alleged "assassin" of the POTUS. Dallas needs to admit that their "police" helped kill and cover up killing the president. This is the national home of kkk and proud of it if I remember right. Kennedy was a friend of the Blacks so the OLD whites HATED him. They hated desegregation. They hated Kennedy. Johnson pretended to like the Blacks so he could keep shipping them to Vietnam without much blowback at home. He counted on 10s of thousands dying on the front lines. He's the real key to the assassination, lbj and the Bobby Baker bombshell Time Life Magazine cover from 11/7/63 I believe. Baker was an lbj henchman and had all the dirt to send lindo to the joint for perhaps the last years of his life. Naturally, lindo couldn't allow that to happen.....

[@denroy3]

You are a liar. An absolute liar. You did not go to Minsk and talk to people first hand that knew Oswald spoke "perfect" Russian. Your comment is typical of wannabe or fakes.

[@swclar99]

This man seems very credible and I believe his words. The perplexing thing is that he states that he feels Lee Oswald did this to impress Marina, so I can't understand why Lee would go on to say that he was a patsy and not take full credit for the assassination of JFK.

[@vincentvalle783]

Game playing.

[@TNT-km2eg]

All points to Oswald . Frustrated , constipated , sexually inadequate ( his wife's statement ) , weird and mean loser . All , except few things : incredible , and I repeat incredible coincidence to find an ideal nest for his plans ; - His claim "I'm just a patsy" , which he even in his twisted mind couldn't back up with anything , unless he knew something we dont ; - Jim Garrisons statement " he just wanted to be a hero" , statement that comes from the heart , one of Garrisons very emotional moments

[@dianealbrecht496]

Oswald was used as a scapegoat. CIA killed JFK.

[@marceloeguino]

He does seem credible and seems to believe what he is saying, but maybe it is because he believes the Warren report.

[@sandrabbitlane]

This is a crock.

[@thaisilverback]

I've been researching the assassination seriously for more that 15 years, I watch all such videos. I made not one note, a waste of 52 minutes of my valuable time.

[@thewealthofnations4827]

Did you watch Mark Lane's interview with William F. Buckley?

[@peterfraser9070]

you've been looking at conspiracy books and docs for 15 years, congratulations.

[@peterfraser9070]

15 years?? Talk about wasting valuable time.

[@penguin1924]

In the summer of 1962, Oswald was 22 years old, not 24.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

He was born 10-18-39, which would indeed make him 22 in the summer of '62. He was born 2 months after his father died of a heart attack.

[@cwags_7985]

Surprised the host didn’t know who AJ Hidell was. That’s an important historical figure.

[@mike7099]

Concerning the Warren Report, it reminds me of that phrase by Abraham Lincoln,"you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." As someone who was born after the assassin- action I have been able to see things more clearly in hindsight and with all of the little bits of new information that have come out it seems that there are way too many*Asterisks* in the Warren Report and it just doesn't pass the smell test if you know what I mean. There is a reason why 75%(the Majority) of people don't believe that one man pulled it off and further explains why millions of pages of our government's files concerning the assassination have not been released.

[@stddisclaimer8020]

@mike Yours is a typical knee-jerk/follow-the-fad reaction, rife with political paranoia. Now if, in 59+ years, no one can identify an assassin not Oswald, name his weapon, and explain what happened to it and the bullet(s) or bullet fragments therefrom, then you can bet your phantom frame-up there was no other person involved. One may wonder why the conspiracy peddlers have never written their own ~800 page report, to rival that of the Warren Commission. But in view of the decided lack of evidence for the revisionist scenario, it's no wonder they've never completed even Page One. "75%(the Majority) of people don't believe..." ? That's known as the _argumentum ad populum_ fallacy. There's a reason the truth rests not with the perceived number of adherents.

[@janetbell78]

I’d rather see an inquiry into Jack Ruby.

[@richjohnson8777]

Interesting dialog about Ruby at "America's Untold Stories" on KZbin. If you watch it, fasten your seat belt!

[@jackiemartin9737]

@@richjohnson8777 fantastic KZbin channel. Mark Groubert weaves a narrative on one of the players involved in the assassination every few weeks and will do so in the lead up to the sixtieth anniversary of November 22. The final narrative will feature Oswald.

[@lornearmstrong1834]

A factual inquiry or an Oliver Stone inquiry?

[@buzzml8123]

Interesting…I have no doubt that Dr. Gregory is sincere in his beliefs, and that he did, in fact, spend time with the Oswalds, but I heard no convincing evidence for his lone-gunman theory other than his own opinion.

[@aaronz7056]

Don't worry, there is a mountain of credible evidence for Oswald's guilt.

[@pedazodetorpedo]

​@@aaronz7056 😂 how you explain all of the bullet wounds? 7 wounds with 3 bullets? I did think so

[@pedazodetorpedo]

​@@aaronz7056 yes, and Covid came from a wet market in Wuhan 😂

[@kxkxkxkx]

@@pedazodetorpedo you are obviously a complete fool

[@r3b3lvegan89]

Mark Shaw the investigative journalist who’s written about Dorothy Kilgallen the reporter and game show panelist who knew the CIA and Sam Giancana killed Jack. And she was poisoned by Ron Pataki. Oswald was the perfect scapegoat to frame for the intelligence agencies.

[@opalsirius8484]

I kept waiting for Peter to ask Dr. Gregory what does he make of LHO's statement that he was a patsy. His angered statement appeared to me as said by a man that felt betrayed and taken for an unsuspecting idiot by someone really in charge

[@aaronz7056]

No, watch the entire clip and Oswald clearly only says he's a patsy in relation to being hassled by cops for having lived in Russia, not because he thinks some coup is setting him up as an assassin. Asked point blank on live TV if he shot Kennedy, Oswald makes no attempt to blurt out anything about any conspiracy and instead just shrugs a hollow, rambling reply that all but dodges the question.

[@kxkxkxkx]

Lee Oswald was a KGB agent just like his KGB wife, you hapless dupe 🤭

[@Tangentsunset]

How did a Hoover Institution expert get a basic fact wrong? Oswald's attempt to defect and become a Soviet citizen was denied by the Soviet Union, but he was allowed to live in Minsk anyway.

[@vernpascal1531]

I'm reading Gregory's book and it's not bad,but read Joan Mellen's Farewell To Justice, Dick Russell's The Man Who Knew Too Muc,h or Lone Star Speaks Zachary, and do get back to us. The amount of good evidence for conspiracy in JFK's case is a 100 times The Lincoln Assassination.

[@Daniel-sh3os]

He was allowed to live in Minsk after a half-hearted attempt to kill himself.

[@kxkxkxkx]

Shows what you know 🤤 Oswald was a KGB agent with a KGB wife, you hapless dupe...

[@jimbrown9817]

The name ‘Hoover’ should be a big clue. Kind of like researching at the Johnson Library.

[@newcreation2521]

The biggest thing I got out of the interview is that whoever is/was responsible picked the ideal patsy.

[@tenbroeck1958]

A naive wanna be Communist, who did not fit in anywhere. Was not a bad Marine, but didn't fit in, sadly. He was a perpetual outsider.

[@user6008]

You are the patsy.

[@denroy3]

Curious, that Oswald said he was a "patsy"...how did he know that? Most innocent or falsely accused in such a situation, would howl "I'm innocent", I don't know why you think I did this. Not Oswald, he starts claiming he's the patsy in a conspiracy. So he was aware of the conspiracy? Why would he be aware of it?

[@jimmyurban]

The so-called “Dallas Russians” this man never mentions by name are possibly the same people numerous JFK assassination investigators have shown evidence were CIA connected handlers for Oswald. This witness along with the interviewer bias herein show amazingly little awareness of the massive evidence the House Select Committee on Assassinations and countless individual researchers cite for probable conspiracy. Quite frankly, the timing of this man’s book and the lack of doubt or balanced awareness expressed in this interview smells fishy and would suggest to many people another disinformation attempt by you-know-who.

[@easyabc1404]

Are you in favor of Oswald acting alone, Oswald on the sixth floor plus one behind the fence and no Oswald at all? I can't believe the ones saying Oswald acted alone! We saw on the Zapruder film Kennedy's head going backwards after the head shot. And part of his back skull was missing so an exit wound. I will prove it to you in a single second. If i punch you with my fist in your face, your head will go backward!!! Not frontward towards me! You can't deny that!!!! So when he got the bullet from the fence in front, his head went backwards and a powerful bullet is more than my fist... And just after, people were rushing to the fence where they heard the shot, they smelled the gun powder and the saw the gun smoke... EASY as ABC...

[@omnimediaassociatesllc7984]

Great conversation between a guy who knew Lee Oswald and his family and a guy who helped Pres Reagan write the, "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall" speech. Witnesses to two major events and people in the 20th century.

[@user-rz8wn5zu6y]

Is it true that the bullets that were pulled out of tippet's body were from an automatic weapon while the shells found on the ground were from a revolver? Is it also strange to empty a revolver at the scene of a crime?

[@JohnJohnson-pq4qz]

or order a rifle by mail to your own PO box...or go to Mexico to make a scene about what a great Castro supporter you are knowing full well you cant get a Visa that fast...

[@saulgoodman7858]

Always a treasure to see the same host. He has been a constant in the midst of much change.

[@unevilledeslivres]

En même temps, il ne nous apprend pas grand chose.

[@kevinpoveromo6324]

glad you mentioned walker ,nobody ever does.

[@deadonmerc9383]

Gen. Walker is the only reason I feel Oswald was not the lone shooter. He missed him but hit the President in a moving car twice.

[@kxkxkxkx]

@@deadonmerc9383 Oswald probably missed Walker on purpose (otherwise he would have kept shooting) His whole Walker operation was to prove his capability and dedication to the Cuban DGI 🚩 same way he stole secret U2 data to prove his worth to the Russian KGB

[@maureenelliott4986]

One thing from the account of Oswald's experience stuck out for me, the fact that not only did Russia allow him to return to America after defecting, but they even assisted him financially. Were they really that generous?

[@jorbru]

Pretty sure it was US State Dept that gave him funds to return

[@Alvan81]

Probably glad to get rid of someone who was likely a spy. And one has to wonder once he married a Soviet citizen he was probably more valuable back in the United States

[@tad27612]

The Soviets allowed him to return because she was a GRU honey trap for Oswald.

[@SlowLew222]

​@@jorbruyou are right. Besides, where would that Russian info come from? US

[@SlowLew222]

This guy cannot be this ignorant, he has to be a government shill. There is no doubt. And I'm sorry for anyone who watches this that gives it any credibility because you obviously have not been able to spend the time to look into all the information that is freely available.

[@Frankybeanselevators]

Nothing to say about Ruth Paine?? Nothing about Marina's KGB father??

[@kxkxkxkx]

Ruth was American counterintelligence tasked with tracking KGB swallow Marina Oswald... Marina and her father and were known KGB agents just like her husband

[@laurakodet1650]

Didn't Paul Gregory say his father was a petroleum engineer? The same profession of George de Morenschild

[@michaelharlan2531]

Some of this man's descriptions are a little charged. "Came in loaded with high powered books."?

[@peterfraser9070]

I thought that was cute.

[@danielz2131]

Fascinating & how smart your family was in dealing with this "Mess of the Century".

[@billydgb]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[@cml524]

Oh wow... I always wondered why there wasn't much info out there about anybody that knew anything about Oswald.

[@defunctuserchannel]

Not much info because he was surrounded by CIA assets: this family, Ruth Paige, and George de Mohrenschild.

[@tomriedinger6675]

There is an abundance of information about Oswald. For instance he attempted to kill a retired general (Edwin Walker). The bullet was deflected by a window frame. Check out Wikipedia...

[@kxkxkxkx]

You have been duped by Russian disinformation and American incompetence 😂

[@Caeruleo]

"Oh wow... I always wondered why there wasn't much info out there about anybody that knew anything about Oswald." There is plenty of such info, and it has been publicly available for more than half a century. Mr. Gregory is nowhere even remotely close to the only person who knew Oswald who also gave one or more extensive interviews.

[@cobar5342]

@@tomriedinger6675 That claim is very suspect. If true, it supports the view that he was a bad shot!

[@captainnima]

Incredible. Thanks for sharing Paul.

[@marge-bg4zn]

Good grief, Jackie’s suit can’t even be viewed until 2103, when we’re all gone. And then only by certain people. It was never forensically examined. The clothing of the person siting closest to him was never examined for blood spatter patterns, which would likely show exactly where the kill shot came from. Or maybe it HAS been forensically examined and the results don’t support the story we’ve been fed.

[@flash521]

Thank you Paul Gregory for sharing one more piece of an incomplete puzzle. The mystery is often more in what we imagine in place of what we don’t know. From all you shared about Oswald’s personality and he wanting significance and grandeur for himself, he would have admitted in prideful arrogance - or declare - yes he indeed is the one person who killed President Kennedy and then state the reason why for the world to hear. Still a mystery.

[@JohnJohnson-pq4qz]

""There is no mystery here, it was a coup"- Vince Salandria

[@pauldavies5611]

Jim Bishop, in his book The Day Kennedy Was Shot (1968), says that Oswald was waiting to go on trial where then, in front of a worldwide audience he would proclaim his “world-historic” views and that it was he alone who assassinated the president. But the fact is Oswald couldn’t have counted on getting to that trial alive.

[@coryhoggatt7691]

Interesting insights but he’s in no position to say whether Lee was a lone gunman or not. He makes a number of factual misstatements (ie Lee’s revolver was found at arrest to be non-functional, the shell casings recovered from the scene of Tippit’s murder were .38 auto not .38 revolver, Tippit’s partner said he was a lazy officer and did not believe he would have stopped anyone, etc, etc). There are far too many inconsistencies in the official story to accept his opinion based solely on his impression of Lee’s character. One thing he gets right is that a single shot to the stomach should not have been fatal.

[@aaronz7056]

Oswald's revolver worked just fine, a dozen people ID'd him murdering Tippit and fleeing, and he was caught red-handed trying to shoot a second cop minutes later with the same gun for goodness' sake.

[@pedazodetorpedo]

​@@aaronz7056 yes the Warren report was 100% correct and Covid came from a pangolin in a wet market 😂😂😂😂😂

[@dennisharrington3384]

@@pedazodetorpedo the triangulating shooter shot from under a sewer manhole cover, and the car race crowd was shouting, “let’s go Brandon”. I got a million of ‘em.

[@jackiemartin9737]

James Lavelle the police officer handcuffed to Oswald in the police basement on 24 November is on record as saying that the spent bullets found at the site of the Tippett shooting could not be tied to Oswald’s gun. This is the gun that Oswald had with him when he was arrested in the Texas movie theatre.

[@jesse75]

None of us has ever heard your so called facts. Were you there doing the investigation that day ?

[@lsmith6036]

Amazing, fascinating. What a world of strange circumstance.

[@vernpascal1531]

Gregory does not in his book even mention DeMohrenschildt with all his high level Intelligence and Oil Contacts,who leads you right to 2 former Presidents Bush, and LBJ.

[@kxkxkxkx]

@@vernpascal1531 George de mohrenschildt was a known KGB agent along with his wife Jeanne 🚩 he was a great Russian patriot

[@jackmyers1631]

How can you have Miranda rights before such a ruling ever existed?

[@rickcamacho9079]

Oswald was neither a follower or leader but a group playing into his ego would allow for him to be part of a grand scheme. Being made to be part of something BIG would be an easy sell for him.The Secret Srevice turned down help from the Texas Rangers despite knowingly being short on personnel. Open windows galore, the book depository poorly cordoned off. Oswald found on the 2nd floor eating lunch just cool as a cucumber minutes after the assassination. Many witnesses not interviewed. The powder test done to check if Oswald had fired a rifle and it came back that he had not. I believe that he was involved just not the shooter. He missed Gen. Walker sitting there like a statue! I also think the Secret Service and others did not do their best, out drunk til early morning the night before, and were passively complicit. That's why Oswald truthfully said he was a patsy.

[@Kevsadone]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for adding to the historical record, professor.

[@davecruz9893]

Im confused here....This mans father is Russian, speaks Russian....Yet, Mr. Gregory didnt learn Russian from his own father ? He had to learn or schooled more from Marina ???? Something about this guy is bizaar when it comes to this....

[@rollo131]

There’s another interview Dr. Gregory did with Brian Lamb on C Span which goes into more detail about his impressions of the Oswalds, including one aspect of Lee’s character not mentioned here, his relationship with his mother, Marguerite. Gregory didn’t like her, to put it mildly.

[@kxkxkxkx]

Nobody liked Oswald's crazy, negligent mom except for KGB agent Mark Lane (KGB codename KRAM)🤭

[@TheHeavensFellen]

of course not, she knew her son didnt do it.

[@TheHeavensFellen]

@@kxkxkxkx Maybe didn't kill her but someone punched her in the head inside the DPD building.

[@ramblinralph7609]

@@kxkxkxkx So true. Marguerite was the very epitome of "Bitch."

[@termikesmike]

Sounded like O had a brother in Texas - is this correct ?

[@jpjp926]

Wait WHAT! Mercedes Blvd is like less then 3 blocks from my grandmothers house! My mom was in the 6th grade at the time. I would run around in that neighborhood with my cousins growing up. My mother would eventually work at that Montgomery Wards. That building is spitting distance from the Oswald rental. ...and that picture with the rifle is in Fort Worth!? Who knew!! 🤯

[@thanksfernuthin]

Peter! You're so good! But how did you not ask how Marina reacted when his father told her that her husband was dead? Was she shocked? Relieved? Distraught? Neutral? It would be a fascinating window into how a relationship like that shapes the seeming prisoner of it.

[@peterfraser9070]

If you were capable of doing an interview, maybe you could ask the question.

[@kxkxkxkx]

Marina was a KGB swallow, she did not know Oswald's exact mission but she knew what could happen... She is still living her KGB cover today in Dallas 60 years later!

[@tomv4408]

Great interview!

[@kevinjackson746]

Thanks for both of you.

[@KidCity1985]

Thank you for doing this interview.

[@Semper_Iratus]

Allen Dulles.

[@kevinjenner9502]

C.I.A. Criminals In Action

[@alwagner9722]

​@@kevinjenner9502Catholics in Action.

[@martaalvarez4859]

Fantastic! Thank you.

[@Sills71]

Imagine being raised in Siberia and ending up in Texas, you can't win....

[@kenheil3666]

Interesting...the only point that is not explained is why has the US Government refused to release the balance of the investigation. It begs the question...what are they hiding?

[@Ettoredipugnar]

Minsk is the Capitol of Belarus not a backwater town .

[@peterfraser9070]

you're both right; it's the capitol AND a back-water town.

[@kathleendobens6648]

Great story. The true people in their circle that didnt speak for 60 years. What an hon e st man to open up someday. Oblious ly hes telling the truth since he was worried about safety first clue hes for real and never cashed in on his and oswalds family. Great friend to her.

[@winstonsmith3070]

Fascinating discussion. Thank you!

[@VTPSTTU]

Thanks for the video. The presentation is interesting, and I agree with everyone who has encouraged this man to give history his account of what he knew about the Oswalds. On the other hand, he really knows nothing about the details of the assassination except what is publicly available to everyone else. The lack of details is a big part of why people have questions about the assassination. Regarding how people answer polls, I think much depends on the way the questions are asked. One can have doubts about the Warren Commission work without necessarily believing that Oswald didn't act alone. I understand that criminal investigation wasn't the science in 1963 that it is today. We can't blame the people conducting the investigation at the time for not meeting all of today's standards. At the same time, we also accept that an investigation with many holes and mistakes is an investigation that could be wrong. Some of the mistakes just seem incredible. Film shot ten minutes after the assassination show regular traffic on that section of Elm Street. I understand that the motorcade was going to pass regardless. They didn't know that quickly what the situation was. However, they should have closed Elm Street once they realized that they had a major crime scene. One or two police cruisers parked at the intersection of Elm and Houston would have stopped traffic. That would have created a terrible traffic jam, but that would have kept evidence on Elm Street from being obliterated by the traffic. The plaza was never closed to look for evidence. On the next morning, a person just walking along looking at the scene found a piece of the president's skull. He took that piece of skull to the sheriff's office, and the piece was taken to Washington and confirmed to have come from the president. How many other pieces of evidence might have been lying in the grass and not found? How many may have been found by people who just picked them up, took them home, and then decided to throw them away? Luminol was developed in the thirties or forties. I'm sure most police departments weren't familiar with using Luminol, but the FBI should have understood this tool for finding blood evidence. If Dealey Plaza had been cleared and isolated, the FBI could have used Luminol to find the exact blood evidence that was on the street. Instead, that evidence was lost. According to the Warren Commission, Oswald fired three shots. One largely intact bullet was recovered although with a less than clear understanding of how it was recovered. Fragments amounting to about two-thirds of another bullet were recovered with a much clearer understanding of how those fragments came to be where they were. The third bullet disappeared completely. The Warren Commission claims that the third bullet hit the curb near the triple underpass and that a fragment of this bullet hit bystander James Tague. However, a 160 grain bullet going maybe 2,000 fps (give or take) at that point would have fragmented or caused serious fragmenting of the curb. There was no report of fragments hitting Mr. Tague's clothes or body. The curb was not taken into evidence until much later. Even with some fragmenting, the pieces of the bullet should have been in one of those tunnels and on the ground in the grass near the underpass. If investigators had found those fragments, the whole narrative would be much stronger. That no one seems to have looked is just incredible. Many of the people who were in the plaza that day were never identified and questioned by police. At that time, eyewitness testimony was considered important, but no one from the police department thought to ask people for their names and addresses as they wandered around the plaza. As a result, we have people claiming to have been there when they probably weren't. The four closest witnesses were the parents and their two small sons. They were interviewed on live TV before they were interviewed by police. I'm not saying that any of these things point to conspiracy. I don't think they point to conspiracy. I think they point to incompetence, but when there is this much incompetence, people are going to doubt the conclusions of an investigation. This gentleman spoke of Oswald running around in a state of frenzy after the assassination, but that's not true. Tests have established that Oswald could easily have gotten to the break room before Officer Baker encountered him there on entering the building. However, Baker was looking for a potential shooter, and nothing in Oswald's demeanor suggested that he was a shooter. His boss looked at him and saw nothing to suggest that he was a shooter. Granted, Oswald seemed to have an odd affect, but there was no sense of victory, fear, or anxiety that these first people to see him noticed. As Oswald left the building, a reporter encountered him at the door. The reporter asked him where to find a phone, and he directed the reporter to the phones. The reporter didn't notice anything odd about him. When Oswald took a taxi to his rooming house, the cab driver didn't notice anything odd about him. An old lady came to the cab, and Oswald was willing to give her the cab and take the next one. She insisted that Oswald keep the cab, but nothing in his demeanor suggested he was taking anxious flight to reach a bus terminal. The only person who described his behavior as guilty was a woman who had rented him a room for a week and didn't like him. She happened to be on the bus. She only reported him as acting strangely after he'd been identified as the suspect. We don't know why Officer Tippit stopped Oswald. We know that he didn't get out of the car on guard. He wasn't acting as if he were dealing with a dangerous man. If he had been wary, he wouldn't have been killed so easily. None of these things mean that Oswald didn't do it and didn't act alone, but when people try to say that his demeanor showed his guilt, they are speaking without evidence. I still think that Oswald acting alone to kill President Kennedy is a very likely explanation. On the other hand, the evidence is not as solid as many people claim. The Warren Commission didn't answer everything in a complete and convincing way. Much of the most important evidence was lost in he first hours of the aftermath when Dallas law enforcement made mistakes. I accept that maybe Oswald was part of a conspiracy or was a patsy for a conspiracy. I've written my own book trying to figure things out for myself. I haven't found a way to publish, but I have tried hard to understand what happened and how it could have happened.

[@richard8242]

I wonder what Oswald thought he was going to do next, I mean just go home and that was going to be it. He was known to the FBI. Unless he could make a phone call and get some sophisticated help his life was over, he had to know that. Maybe his wife was going to leave him and he figured it was over anyway

[@Bitterrootbackroads]

The fragments making up 2/3 of a bullet you mention, so roughly 100 grains? And those were found where?

[@aaronz7056]

@@richard8242 His wife had indeed rejected his attempt at a reconciliation the previous evening and he was cold as ice with her the rest of the night.

[@aaronz7056]

A) One bullet was deflected by tree branches and seen disintegrating on the road in a spray of dust. B) Bullet that went through both victims is badly crushed at the nose and flattened down one side, perfectly consistent with going through Kennedy without hitting bone, slowing and tumbling on leaving him, and broadsiding its way through Connally's ribs. C) How many modern mass killers go about their sprees without a trace of emotion on their faces? Oswald, after his encounter with Baker and Truly, then immediately fled the plaza, took evasive action to get to his other gun, was ID'd by nearly a dozen witnesses as the man who shot a cop and fled, and was caught red-handed minutes after that trying to shoot a second cop. Oswald's demeanor when his brother visited him in jail was so smug and cool he even convinced him he was guilty.

[@kxkxkxkx]

@@richard8242 Oswald was headed to a Cuban DGI safe house on Harland road... But he missed his flight so Fabian Escalante had to leave without him ☝️ these are known facts, and fit with Oswald's plan to return via Cuba to the Soviet Russia that he loved

[@johnvercellone1988]

Testimony that Oswald had visited Jack ruby bar a few times and talked to ruby. Also evidence has been presented zupruder film altered when under CIA and secret service possession from 5pm November 22nd.

[@aaronz7056]

No evidence Ruby and Oswald knew each other. Film was in custody, processed and copied way too fast to have been screwed with. What, exactly, was Plan B if other films or evidence turn up that contradict an altered Zapruder film and just confirm a conspiracy exists? Better to just leave well enough alone and say Oswald must have had an accomplice who got away, which would have suited any conspiracy just fine.

[@k_DAN]

I guess she did not respond, because although she did initially absolutely believe that Oswald was responsible and acted alone in the assassination, she eventually changed her mind. Does Gregory talk about what Marina had intially said about Oswald as his father would have known all of her beliefs on this as he would have been translating her exact words on this to the authorities ?

[@aseyete]

So Oswald wants to impress the world (and Marina) and assassinate JFK and Tippet. To show the world that that he isn't a "nobody". But after his arrest Oswald never claims to have shot at JFK, Tippet or at Walker. In fact he says "I am a patsy". Also Jack Ruby conveniently kills Oswald days later. WTF? I was a little kid back in 1963 and when I saw Ruby kill Oswald I felt it was "fishy" then. Lastly, Gregory offers a psychological profile of Oswald (we need to take his word at face value?) because he drove them around several times over a few months. This is a joke. Case Closed.

[@ottodetroit]

good points.

[@aaronz7056]

Watch the entire clip and you'll see Oswald only says he's a patsy in relation to being hassled by the cops for having lived in Russia, not because he thinks some coup is setting him up as the assassin of the President. Asked on live TV if he shot Kennedy, Oswald makes no attempt to blurt out anything about any conspiracy and instead just shrugs a hollow and rambling reply that all but dodges the question. If he confessed he was as good as executed. If he denied everything, he could hope to spin his own sick fame out indefinitely, perhaps even beat the rap.

[@peterfraser9070]

"Case Closed" by Gerald Posner is an excellent book, which deals with actual real facts and evidence, not "Oswald said, 'I didn't shoot anybody' so that's good enough for me." Lol.

[@bobdecarlo7778]

Oswald was a twerp & a pathological liar. He had to gulp after he actually succeeded at something: killing Kennedy. The "patsy" line is his truly great accomplishment & utter bs.

[@downtownbrown50]

Read the book " Lee and Me" by Judith Varney Baker. It will tell you a lot more than this will.

[@Dude0000]

If Oswald did have a delusions of grandeur, but he did make those shots and kill the US President, alone, then those weren’t really delusions, were they? He was a great man, not in a good way, like Stalin so example, or Che Guevara. If so, why did he vehemently deny shooting the President if this was the case here 18:22 ? If that was the case, you’d have thought he would have been outwardly proud. Surely he wasn’t delusional enough to believe he’d get away with it, especially with the ‘patsy’ comment.

[@Christiancatholic7]

Because it wasn’t Oswald. This is CIA propaganda

[@fredk9999]

That’s right and LHO said he was a “patsy.” Wouldn’t LHO have sought the limelight to confess?

[@MFK1967]

If Lee Harvey Oswald did not take that shot, why did he flee the book depository? Why did he go hide out in a movie theater?

[@dennisharrington3384]

Circular argument. It’s because he WAS delusional and dysfunctional.

[@patrickdugan2929]

If he fled the TBSD why did he take a bus? A bus that was heading back towards TBSD? And, when exiting the bus why did he give up his cab?

[@danielgregg2530]

This show should have been called, "uncommon REASON". Everybody you will ever see interviewed who knew Oswald prior to his infamy describe him the same way this witness does. He was obviously quite maladjusted at a minimum. A very disturbed individual.

[@arthurjacobs4974]

I HOPE AMERICA ' S UNTOLD STORIES GETS THIS❗️🗽❗️

[@spencerme3486]

Yes, Oswald did it. It was not franz Josef, it was franz Ferdinand who was assassinated. That was his nephew, it was in Sarajevo and in a car

[@raymondlillard1054]

Mr. Gregory, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on two books. The devil's chessboard by David Talbot and the rush to judgment by Mark Lane.

[@aaronz7056]

Mark Lane: - soundly condemned by two commissions for misleading them with conspiracy theories he couldn't back up with evidence - described by Charles Brehm as "a despicable liar" - described by John Connally as "evil" - disgusted interview subjects by twisting their words - his books are filled with demonstrable fabrications - don't miss Bob Katz's Mother Jones article "Mark Lane - The Left's Leading Hearse Chaser..."

[@thewealthofnations4827]

Did you watch Mark Lane on Firing Line with William F. Buckley?

[@roberthussey595]

Buckley was recruited from Yale for insertion into the CIA

[@kxkxkxkx]

@@thewealthofnations4827Mark Lane was a known KGB agent codename KRAM 🚩

[@vernpascal1531]

@@kxkxkxkx Yeah sure that's about as credible as The Magic Bullet Theory or Oswald Alone.

[@isabt4]

Fascinating, I am glad he finally decided to make this story public, and I understand not wanting to earlier. I will read the book. I was a few months old when this tragedy happened, but as an adult I have read and watched almost everything out there. I am not convinced by the conspiracies, but I do believe we will never know what truly happened, which is another tragedy for our country.

[@termikesmike]

re: " I am glad he finally decided to make this story public.." At 17:23 u can see where he had his teeth removed …. super Professor can’t afford a dentist ? draw ur own conclusions !

[@halColombo]

You're "not convinced by the conspiracies" yet believe you'll "never know the truth" of what happened.... Hmmmm....a lil contradicting???

[@TylerVossler]

Great interview, I wish it was longer. I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, but the President Kennedy assassination has always been the one case in which I truly just don’t know. All the circumstantial links between all the parties involved in the crime, CIA, FBI, mob, Kennedy, Oswald, Ruby, military industrial complex, etc. is just weird. This interview makes me think that perhaps life is just stranger than fiction and Oswald really did act alone, and all these connections are just life being random… on the other hand, maybe it’s not… great interview!!

[@bobdecarlo7778]

Life is stranger than fiction. Oswald.... all by his lonesome.

[@jimbrown9817]

@@bobdecarlo7778As Biden would say: One word-magic bullet theory. It’s a fairy tale and the whole WCR revolves around it.

[@Slaphappy-_-]

It’s coming! Truth will be shown!!! 2023

[@fredk9999]

Study, as I have, the James Files interviews. If there is a flaw in his testimony, someone point out to me. Plus, why were he and two bosses at Dealey Plaza on the day?

[@aaronz7056]

Files' claims: a) He was palling around with Oswald in New Orleans in 1961. Oswald, of course, was in Minsk throughout 1961. b) He was present the morning of the assassination at a meeting in Dallas among conspirators where it was discussed how the parade route had been changed. The parade route was never changed. c) He was an assassin on the knoll. Phone records demonstrate Files was in Chicago during the assassination. Confronted with this, he tried to claim he was being confused with his own, non-existent twin brother. No wonder NBC cancelled their planned TV show on this clown after they took a closer look at him.

[@kxkxkxkx]

@@aaronz7056 anyone who is not a complete moron knows the James Files stuff is pure stupidity 💯

[@peterfraser9070]

you would study an interview with "James Files" and believe this guy?? B, puh-leeeze

[@joepalooka2145]

We should add one more person to the discussion, Lee Harvey Oswald's brother Robert. Robert was the first family member to see Lee in jail after his arrest. When he arrived, he stated later that he could see in Lee's face and manner "He had done it". Robert continued to believe this afterwards.

[@r3b3lvegan89]

It’s too bad there’s evidence to show that the CIA assassinated JFK it was not Oswald he was framed. His brother misinterpreted what he experienced and Dorothy Kilgallen had the truth and was murdered along with JFK; both CIA media targets. It’s like pretending the bay of pigs wasn’t by the CIA….stop believing a government that has never told the truth. That’s why we have journalism to expose government corruption and project mockingbird proves that alone.

[@jimbrown9817]

Now that’s strong evidence that will stand up in court. Facts > feelings.

[@stevel9678]

With the 60th anniversary coming up, it's important to keep smearing Oswald. No one can place Oswald on the sixth floor of the TSBD at the time of the shooting, so all they have is character assassination. He was a loner and a loser and beat his wife. Nevermind that the highly experienced doctors at Parkland saw entry wounds in JFK's throat and right temple, proof of shots fired from the front; that a paraffin test administered to Oswald showed that he hadn't fired a rifle that day; that he was seen on the 2nd floor five minutes before and 90 seconds after the shooting. The interviewer and author both say Oswald "defected." He never defected, never gave up his US citizenship. The author says the Russians gave Oswald money to come home; not true, the US sent him $435 to come home and bring his Russian wife, unheard of at the height of the cold war. This is not the place to litigate the case, but smearing Oswald as a dysfunctional loner (he wasn't, he made friends easily, was popular with the neighborhood kids) and saying, "He had delusions of grandeur therefore he shot the President," smacks of, pardon my frankness here, CIA propaganda to deflect from their obvious involvement in this case.

[@peterfraser9070]

"No one can place Oswald on the sixth floor of the TSBD at the time of the shooting, so all they have is...": No one else being on the 6th floor at the same time and seeing him is no match for all the hard evidence against him. The paraffin test was inconclusive, not negative; there's a big difference. The doctors have explained till they were blue in the face how they - he - saw a small roundish - covered in blood and not closely examined - wound and, not having turned Kennedy over and seen the entry on the base of his neck, told reporters it might be an entry. If you think a huge crater-like hole above the right temple is an entry wound and a small round hole on the back of the head is an exit, then all I can say is, Shirley, you can't be serious. Watch the Zapruder Film; that thing by the right ear is a piece of skull attached to skin (given the cute nickname "skin flap"); it is hanging down from the big hole in his head, just above it.

[@peterfraser9070]

"he was seen on the 2nd floor five minutes before' and "he made friends easily" = delusion

[@walterenright8529]

Yeah, better not get into that "sinkhole". I will not even examine the research/evidence and double down on my own "theory".

[@peterfraser9070]

You just sank yourself into a sinkhole.

[@pedazodetorpedo]

It's very funny that I literally just watched the three and a half hour epic film JFK for the first time, and then this interview goes out. Synchronicity.

[@thewealthofnations4827]

I just watched too. What did you think of the JFK film? At first I thought it was purely fiction but after research it was based on actual events as detailed in Garrison's book.

[@kxkxkxkx]

@@thewealthofnations4827Oliver Stones movie is pure KGB disinformation, you hapless dupe

[@jeffclark7888]

@@thewealthofnations4827garbage movie of garbage THEORIES by the liar Oliver Stone.

[@Caeruleo]

@@thewealthofnations4827 "At first I thought it was purely fiction but after research it was based on actual events as detailed in Garrison's book." And much of the "actual events" described in Garrison's book are pure fiction. For example, he mindlessly repeated the silly myth of the "changed" motorcade route that never happened. He also falsely claimed that his private papers were stolen, then after his death his wife released the very papers he claimed had been stolen. He also falsely claimed that Perry Russo and the Clinton witnesses never changed their stories, when in fact there is solid documentation that they changed their stories repeatedly and significantly.

[@peterfraser9070]

I watched JFK several years ago before I clued in to what a huge pile of fiction and fantasy it is. Now I just find that "alternative narrative" nauseating.

[@lawrenceterry9283]

In my lifetime I have heard untold amount of interviews untold hours of video tapes movies it goes on and on in that mass of information interviews documentary I haven’t heard this man’s name once!

[@peterfraser9070]

That's not saying too much

[@cobar5342]

@@peterfraser9070 It says that he may not know much and may be untruthful

[@jimbrown9817]

Another $ seeker crawls from the woodpile.

[@jameshaxby5434]

He claims that Oswald returned from Russia with an infant daughter, but I have read that his daughter wasn't born till a few days after his death.

[@150flivver]

Gregory mentions Oswald's wife was not read her Miranda rights. The Miranda case wasn't heard until 1966 when the SCOTUS ruled people had to be given notice of their right to an attorney.

[@JerryDLTN]

1:51 Yesterday, I just saw a picture of my gr-gr-grandfather (from Germany) and he looks like him.

[@paulanddianathomas3376]

The FBI was tracking Marina, not Lee

[@wendalwarren6131]

Oswald was arrested with a revolver. Is it true that’s Tippit was shot with an automatic?

[@peterfraser9070]

Apparently this story about Oswald's revolver being an automatic is based in part or in full on the theory that; "because revolvers don't automatically eject spent casings, it must have been an automatic because the spent casings were found at the scene - and obviously there's no way anyone would empty out the casings; they would be too busy escaping from the scene of the crime." Isn't that a wonderful way to manufacture a 'fact'? Witnesses saw him empty the revolver of the spent casings, and Oswald wasn't exactly right in the head and acting like a normal person.

[@cobar5342]

@CCRider Incorrect. The nearby cartridges were from an auto

[@jimbrown9817]

@@ccrider4516Oh for f**k sake. Go back to your snack table or blankie for a nap. The adults will be embarrassed for you and explain it after you’ve grown up.

[@johnglass7383]

Excellent. A refreshing and a new piece of history to the entire JFK story. Thank you, Peter!

[@tabithadorcas7763]

Just finished listening via podcast. Fascinating! Takes me right back to my 3rd grade classroom and hearing this broadcast live via the school intercom.

[@BetrayerSlayerMusic]

I'd loik to know, how broad was the said cast..? Like a bk Irish broads Azz?

[@BetrayerSlayerMusic]

Or, possibly, a diss, o' DAT!..???

[@tabithadorcas7763]

@@BetrayerSlayerMusic What?

[@Bitterrootbackroads]

2nd grade for me but I can still see that intercom speaker above the chalkboard next to the clock. We got it in stages over a short time. The gasp from our elderly teacher at the announcement of the shooting brought the days lessons to a stop. We were watching out the window at Mr. K the janitor lowering the flag to 1/2 staff as the intercom buzzed back on announcing the President’s death. Mrs. Ferdig collapsed crying at her desk as 25 little kids sat in stunned silence wondering what to do. A minute later the intercom announced school was closing for the day and the busses would arrive shortly to take us home. Being second graders, school being cancelled & going home early was a BIG DEAL! Excitement took over and the childhood chatter started up. That was the ONLY time Mrs. Ferdig ever yelled at us to be quiet as she sobbed & tried to pull herself together enough to carry on. She was such a kind lady, always soft spoken and in control. Seeing her literally fall to pieces was the first time I witnessed emotion like that from an adult.

[@ottodetroit]

good acting is one of the benefits of KZbin. lol

[@MrRKWRIGHT]

On Friday, November 22nd 1963, as a route salesman for a Dallas/Ft. Worth vending company, I was filling the Coke machine in the Parkland Hospital cafeteria about a half hour before the presidential motorcade rolled in. I was planning to stay and have lunch but the Friday special was liver and onions, and I NEVER order organ meat in a hospital cafeteria. If roast chicken had been the special, I would have been there when Kennedy arrived. By the way, I had filled the Coke machine in the lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository that morning. That means that if Oliver Stone and other conspiracy theorists are correct and Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed in the cafeteria drinking a Coke moments after the assassination, it was placed in the machine by Yours Truly. This gets better. The company I worked for was closed on Saturday , in observance of the national tragedy, so on Sunday, while getting paid double overtime, I had to make up the stops I didn't get to on Saturday - including the Dallas Police Headquarters. I had just pulled my truck into the parking garage when I spotted one of my regular customers, Jack Ruby -owner of the Carousel Nightclub where we had a couple of machines. He waved to me as I drove past. He was on his way on foot to somewhere in the garage.

[@peterfraser9070]

Thank you for your comment, Mr. Gump.

[@kathrync829]

I didn't think there were Moramda rights in those days.

[@kennethbode2017]

great insight. I'd never heard of this guy

[@stevesmith6529]

A couple of things: Does simply wanting to write a book equal "delusions of grandeur?" Many people have published books written in part or in full by paid ghostwriters.

[@SteveAubrey1762]

I think this is a VERY important historical perspective. I greatly appreciate the author for sharing his experiences . I feel sorry for the fact that , through no fault of his own, he has been made to feel " tainted" by association with this moment of history. I used to firmly believe in the conspiracy theories surrounding JFK'S assassination, but over the last 20 years come to believe it was a lone gunmen, Oswald. This settles the issue for me. I'm grateful for this interview.

[@omnimediaassociatesllc7984]

I agree - I know it is difficult for some after all of the books, television documentaries and everything else over the last 60 years, but, here's someone who knew both Marina and Oswald - and Lee's brother Robert who also wrote a book years ago saying that he was totally capable of doing this. As Gerald Posner's 30 years ago says - "case closed." We need to move on from this - yes there were mistakes, but unfortunately a lone nut killed an important historical figure. It's happened in the world before.

[@karenpartain9322]

I always believed what the government said, and now, 60 years later, I don't believe them. But I don't think it was people on the right.

[@maureencrowley6980]

You're lying , Jack. Sounding like a shill for the alphabet agencies. just my opinion

[@Caeruleo]

@@maureencrowley6980 "You're lying , Jack." Oh, you've got proof that he wasn't honestly expressing his own current opinion? What is your supposed "proof" of this then? "Sounding like a shill for the alphabet agencies. just my opinion" Oh, so in other words, just because a person has a different opinion about the JFK assassination than you do, and no other reason, that all by itself means they are a shill for such an agency? So everyone who has a different opinion than you is a shill, just because they believe differently than you and no other reason? You seem to be a very closed-minded person. Anyone with even average common sense would realize that it's entirely possible for someone to honestly believe that Oswald alone shot JFK without that person having ever worked for any "alphabet agency" in any sense. How do you know that Jack didn't come to that conclusion simply because he has studied more of the evidence than you have?

[@davidkemmer]

How is this so important? It doesn't even attempt to address the key issues and contradictions present in this case. It's just a guy basically saying: "I met Oswald and was friends with him for a few months, he was a difficult guy to know with a neutral personality, he had some quirks etc." This is an interesting story but it utterly fails to address the vast number of underlying issues and circumstantial evidence that show that Oswald was not the lone shooter and possibly he was not even a shooter. SMH

[@BarbaraJoanneBJ]

Watching this from Moscow on Orthodox Easter morning. A great interview!

[@thewealthofnations4827]

Any comment on specifics?

[@44hawk28]

That Oswald was taught to speak Russian is not a conspiracy theory as he would not have had time given the job that he had at El Toro to learn Russian on his own. And to be able to speak it on grammatically, would have been exactly the way they would have trained him so that it would appear that he had bought himself Russian. The ability to teach yourself a language that despair it from English would have been near impossible especially considering the workload and the things that he had to know in order to do his other jobs which was an expert in photography and and radar Electronics at the classified level. Along with his buddy in the service Roscoe white, who also happened to have been assigned to the Dallas Police Department in October or September of 1963 and he remain there several years, according to the orders that his son found in the 1980s, to make sure that people who had seen things they shouldn't were dealt with. That's a paraphrasing of the orders, but they were found by the sun I believe in about 1986 or 87. A friend of mine speaks a number of languages, Russian being one of them. I can read Cyrillic and pronounce it properly but I have no idea what I'm reading. To have an understanding of it, he didn't teach himself that by himself, in just a few short months. His ability to get from London to Finland on a night where no civilian aircraft would have flown, is a dead giveaway.

[@cptgulliver]

Marina is still alive?

[@lgude]

Paul Gregory’s noticing that he was not surprised when he recognised Oswald as the person who had been arrested, is just the kind of intuition I, and I believe many people have, a particular moments in their lives. He may be wrong, but I believe he is reporting what he experienced honestly. I’m 80 and accept that I will never know and I would say I never accepted the Warren report as anything more than intended to officially lay the matter to rest. But neither did I think that made the many alternative hypotheses right. I know I just don’t know if Oswald was a lone assassin. So I may get this book because I don’t believe or disbelieve the conspiracy theories and would value a personal account from a thoughtful and genuine witness to Oswald’s character leading up to the assassination.

[@hmrowland6114]

Which Oswald?

[@richardmarshall6751]

Better to get Phillip Nelson’s book, or Roger stones. , for that matter. Nelson stitches together the most plausible explanation of what actually happened

[@jb-vb8un]

@oswald - the one with a hook on his foot & a sixth finger

[@kxkxkxkx]

Yes Oswald was the lone assassin who "acted alone" on the day... But he was a trained KGB agent just like his wife Marina and best friend George (also his wife Jeanne 😂) Oswald was a KGB agent recruited in Japan and trained in Russia and transferred to DGI control in April 1963 🚩 The KGB has been pumping out disinformation about it ever since... Oliver Stone is a lapdog of Castro and Putin, and Mark Lane was a KGB agent codename KRAM ☝️I suspect Roger Stone is a KGB agent himself.

[@capecodder04]

The landlady of Marina, Ruth Paine and her husband Michael Paine come across as just a nice couple too but they are supposedly CIA as well.

[@davidarbuckle7236]

Did he ever meet Ruth Paine? She taught Russian too. Did they know each other?

[@jimbrown9817]

Of course they did.

[@Patrick-il4es]

Happy for the interview, but, in reality, I did not take anything new away from this as solid evidence. I do agree with Paul Gregory that Oswald was the sole assassin and that Oswald's personality was to seek fame, that Oswald had the motive, the attempt to assassinate General Walker, and that Oswald was crafty enough to pull it off.

[@georgemallory797]

Anyone convinced Oswald did this alone or COULD have done this alone has a LOT of reading to do. No excuse. You've had nearly 60 years since Mark Lane's book came out. Get crackin'!

[@aaronz7056]

So, "get crackin'" reading the lie-packed books of demonstrable grifters and crackpots like Mark Lane.... lol

[@peterfraser9070]

"since Mark Lane's book came out": horrible joke groan

[@michaelcavella4597]

never heard anything about general Walker. curious as to that. I'm assuming it was simply a ballistic match after the fact.

[@stevel9678]

The bullet found at the scene of the Walker shooting was identified by the police as a 30-06 round. The Warren commission decided it was fired from the Carcano found in the Texas School Book Depository, which could not have been possible. When Walker testified to the 1977 House Select Committee on Assassinations, he was shown the alleged bullet, and he (a firearms expert) unequivocally stated that it was not the same bullet he'd seen that night. In general, the Warren commission's evidentiary basis that Oswald shot at Walker is extremely thin and could never convict Oswald in a court of law. At the time of the Walker shooting, some people thought that Walker himself had arranged the shooting for publicity. Immediately after the shooting he wasted no time in blaming his left wing enemies.

[@jacobjones5269]

@@stevel9678 And yet, he fled Dallas WITH THE RIFLE 2 days later.. lol.. Keep buying that bullshit, looney tunes..

[@dennisharrington3384]

@@stevel9678 I guess you are unimpressed by Marina’s testimony to the commission, surveillance evidence, the note… I’ve heard Gen. Walker called a lot of things, but never a firearms expert. The Walker bullet was too badly damaged for FBI ballistic comparison to be positive & exclusive, and the Bureau would not assign possibility. A State agent (IN, I think) did opine that it could have come from Oswald’s rifle. Better check your conspiracy theorists before giving any credibility to the DPD.

[@kxkxkxkx]

Oswald wrote a whole report on his assassination attempt against Walker and spoke to several people about it, notably his wife Marina and "best friend" George - all KGB agents just like Valery Kostikov 🚩

[@glenperry2073]

​@@dennisharrington3384 and yet the magic bullet was in pristine condition after causing 7 wounds 😮😮

[@harryallen457]

Fantastic

[@alexbronxify]

Snow job in the video and snow job in the comments...so obvious.. .. the old line is failing....people know too much now

[@kdeltatube]

More like the man who barely knew lee oswand

[@billkeon880]

Not at all. His account jives extremely well with many other independent sources…Pricilla McMillan, Norman Mailer, HSCA, WR, Posner, and even his two brothers have said the same. There is never enough evidence for conspiracy buffs because they’ve reached their conclusion before hearing the evidence

[@unevilledeslivres]

Il a finalement très très peu de choses à dire sur LHO, rien de décisif...quelques impressions d'une vague fréquentation plus d'un an avant l'assassinat de Dallas ...

[@dianekennedy7086]

Fascinating interview. Thanks so much for posting.

[@rsvette99]

There was no trial or conviction of Oswald and my question is still who actually did the shooting.

[@prinzessindianavonbaden787]

What about Dulles - CIA, LeMay and LBJ ? JFK was surrounded by enemies…😢🥀

[@richardpiland912]

I think that Paul, although meaning well, has not studied the evidence sufficiently. I would like to ask him about the bullet hole passing front to back in the limo's windshield happened. How the many witnesses who saw smoke and heard a shot from the grass knoll could have possibly been mistaken. The botched autopsy...the eye witnesses of corpsmen at Bethesda Naval Hospital....the eye witnesses at Parkland that saw a huge hole in the back of the President's skull, that never appeared in the autopsy photos. The bullet that was supposed to have caused so much damage, yet is in remarkably pristine condition. The list goes on and on and on... Oswald was in the Texas School Book Depository...yet nothing really places him on the 6th floor during the shooting. The paraffin tests indicated that he had not shot a rife that day. Had it gone to court...he would have been exonerated. He was probably just a patsy...by Sparky and his ilk made sure he would never go to court. I too thought Oswald did it...but I only believed that because I was 17 years old when it happened. I am older and wiser now.

[@Ekrindul]

Well, he stated he ignores evidence contrary to his own. Frankly, with that attitude, I'd say his book is a wasted effort.

[@peterfraser9070]

You think looking at CT books or docs is studying the "evidence"?? Apparently, you don't know what the word "evidence" means.

[@aaronz7056]

A) Only damage to the windshield, still in the National Archives, is a crack caused by a bullet fragment that also cracked the INSIDE of the chrome plating. B) Plenty of witnesses could have been mistaken in that echo chamber of a plaza. C) Parkland doctors were speculating wildly at their first press conference about the wounds, unable to conjecture about numbers, directions, etc. They looked at the autopsy photos, which demonstrate the shots came from behind, and had no particular problem with them. D) Bullet is NOT "pristine," it is badly crushed at the nose and flattened down one side, perfectly consistent with going through Kennedy without hitting bone, slowing and tumbling on leaving him, then broadsiding its way through Connally's ribs. E) Oswald tested positive on his hands. F) Oswald owned and smuggled the rifle. His prints were on the rifle and on the sniper nest boxes in exactly the spots they would be had he been firing from the nest. A man was seen in the window who could plausibly have been Oswald while no unidentified persons were ever caught inside the building. Oswald lied to police about his whereabouts during the shooting (the people he claimed he was with flatly denied ever seeing him) and when asked on live TV if he shot the President he makes no attempt to blurt out anything about any conspiracy and instead just shrugs a hollow, rambling reply that all but dodges the question. Oswald would have been convicted in an open and shut case.

[@peterfraser9070]

"the bullet hole passing front to back in the limo's windshield": If you believe this, where do you suppose the shooter was positioned? On the triple underpass? Haven't you heard that the doctors agreed with the autopsy photos??

[@mkii1964]

The occupants of the Limo would have been pelted and blinded by glass had there been a shot through the windshield, also none of them testified to that either…. There was NO hole through the windshield, there is no proof! proof!

[@vijay-1]

Important exposure

[@oldfogey4679]

Just learned oregons 3rd most spoken language is russian! Didnt know there are so many russian communities within the state now!

[@e.a.p3174]

The truth is that nobody knows for certain. This gentleman met Oswald in 1962, a year prior to the fateful day. The fact that Jack Rubin was a Mafia associate leaves it very possible that the Mafia was behind it.

[@kxkxkxkx]

Indeed, Kennedy ordered the CIA to pay Carlos Marcello to send hitmen against Castro... But Marcello was working with Castro and told him everything JFK was trying to do to murder him. Like most CIA operations it was totally penetrated by the KGB and their DGI clients 🚩 That is why Castro warned the Americans that if they continue to send assassins against him (which the US agreed not to do after the bay of pigs) then he would retaliate in kind - and he did ☝️ The Cubans gave Oswald several thousand dollars in Mexico City and he had a travel visa to Cuba... In fact Oswald probably visited Cuba himself.

[@karenpartain9322]

The Kennedys were out to get the mafia and the communists.

[@cobar5342]

Jack Ruby was part of the assassination The Mob made him kill Oswald so the truth could be hidden Then the investigators ignored him so they could further the lie

[@justmehello5543]

he wasn't a lone shooter, frame 313 clearly shows a shot in the head from the side.

[@aaronz7056]

It shows Kennedy suffering a massive exit wound exploding at the right temple, completely inconsistent with a shot from the side.

[@richardzion1828]

They promised a press conferance,but they couldn,t let that happen!

[@nomansland4811]

The Secret Service can bad mouth the FBI but they had there own level of incompetence that forever hampered the investigation. Dallas had a competent Forensic Pathologist with the body and preparing to do a proper autopsy, as required by Texas Law. The Secret Service took the body away from him under great threat and took it back to DC. I believe it was a Navy Doctor who ended up doing a post Mortem. Not a forensic pathologist and the wounds and bullet paths did not get proper forensic examination. Just goes to show the arrogance of these federal agencies.

[@christinecarlin3488]

I am sick of this too…way too many interruptions by the host. You can see & hear the guest becoming confused & frustrated as he struggles to pick up where he left off.

[@hal7ter]

Many of us agree!