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1:30 A.M. the next morning. Indeed, at a press conference held at midnight on the 22nd, Oswald upon being asked if he had killed the president, responded 1 that he had not even been charged with that. On November 23, 1963, the Dallas Morning News informed us that according to Henry Wade: " spreliminary reports indicated more than one person was involved in the shooting the electric chair is too good for the killers." If preliminary reports indicated more than one person was involved, how - could the military have been so certain so early there had been no conspiracy? In volume one of the 26 volumes of Hearings and Exhibits, Mrs. Oswald is quoted as asserting: "So we, waited quite a while. One of the men came by and said, I am sorry that we are going to be delayed in letting you see Lee, but we have picked up another suspect. 2 This was on Saturday at: noon! Can there be any doubt that for any taken by surprise by the assassination, and legitimately seeking the truth concerning this, sometinê prior to six o'clock on the day of the assassination was too soon to know there was no conspiracy. Unless White is wrong in what he relates to us concerning this, and he failed to acknowledge error in a note to Salandria, the notification of "no conspiracy" assumes a major importance, coming as early as it did. What is startling about this tape is that it represents the first memoralia ation of the lone assassin myth This premature birth of the Oswald myth came sans benefit of sufficient gestation period to have been the product of any legitimate intercourse between the American military ( the author's of the tape and apparently of the myth) and the assassination evidence. Its importance caused Salandria to expend much effort in trying to procure -4- 1. Lane, Mark, Rush to Judgment, p. 81, Conn: FaWcett Publications Inc., 1966. 2. Hearings before the President's Commission on the Assássination of President Kennedy, Vol. 1, p. 149. United States Frinting Office, Washington, D.C. 1964. References to the Hearing Notes and the Connission Exhibits are designated by the volume number, an "H," followed by a page number. 4

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