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many other people were writing books inspired by Lee Oswald. At
least, not before the murder of President Kennedy.
The D.A.'s office already had learned that Thornley arrived
in New Orleans in early 1961. A routine check of police records
shows that he was in New Orleans in 1962, as well. He was
arrested in August of that year for putting a sign on a telephone
post on Royal Street, in the French Quarter, in violation of a
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city ordinance.
The arresting police officers, when
questioned, could no longer recall the subject of the sign.
Thornley's arrival in New Orleans in January of 1961 could
turn out to be the explanation of the previously unexplainable
"Bolton Ford incident.
.47
While Oswald was still in Russia, a
young man (initiating a bid for ten Ford pick-up trucks for the
C. .-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion) gave his name to the
Bolton Ford company as "Lee Oswald".
The bid- was being made by this "Oswald" in behalf of Guy
Banister's "Citizens for a Democratic Cuba.' The proposed
*Oswald's name, quite apparently, was on the bid form which the
F.B.I. agents -- following the assassination -- so carefully
removed with tweezers from the Bolton Ford files. Although
Thornley must have arrived in Washington almost as soon as the
bid form, there is no indication in the twenty-six Warren
Commission volumes that anyone ever asked him about that -- or
about the number of other instances of the use of Oswald's name
by a young man.
C
1984
Jim Garrison
NW 12640 DocId:59167984 Page 19
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