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Also, during Thornley's conversation with the New Orleans
authorities, he was questioned about his travel schedule in 1963
when he went (by bus) to visit his parents in California. He
explained that he had left New Orleans at the end of April and
gone by way of Dallas, where he spent a few days visiting (the
first few days of May) By strange coincidence, this was the
very period during which photographs were taken - with Oswald's
head rather clumsily superimposed on them - of a young man
holding in one hand a Communist newspaper and in the other a
rifle (needless to say, it is rather rare in the annals of
assassination for the culprit to so obligingly provide
incriminating evidence against himself in advance).
The photographs were taken in the backyard of the Neely
Street apartment which the Oswalds had occupied in Dallas. They
had moved out of it to New Orleans in early May, leaving a week's
rent still paid for.
Either the Communist newspaper or the rifle would have been
strong enough for a man soon to become a scapegoat - but the
combination of the two leaves a fragrance which is too strong to
be. taken seriously. These "incriminating" photographs of the
designated assassin would be found by Dallas police on the
C
1984
Jim Garrison
NW 12640 DCId:59167984 Page 25
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