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    "ocrText": "to this conclusion -\nnu\ninmunist does anything on his own.\nwhole communist world is sh ang that it was a gigantic\nHe waits for orders, and, Tike a roboc, he obeys.\nframe - that a Red was charged and then promptly murdered\nbecause the American government knew it couldn't convict\nAll of the hypocritical denials of Khrushchev and Castro\nhim. Millions are going to believe that. Thus, not only is our\nof collusion with Oswald on the slaying of President Kennedy\nPresident dead, but the ideology that probably killed him has\ndo not sway my thinking. Knowing the communist plans and\na new excuse for self-righteousness.\"\nobjectives as I do, I am convinced, although it may be hidden\nfor eternity from the public, that there was a collusion be-\nWhen the President of the Dallas Bar Association, a Mr.\ntween the heads of the communist world and Lee Oswald.\nNichols, asked Lee Oswald if he wanted legal help, he asked\nfor John Apt, who as I said, refused to help him. Then he\nOswald had been born and raised in New Orleans, Louisi-\nsaid if he couldn't get John Apt, he would take any lawyer\nana. In recent years he lived in Fort Worth, Irving, and Dallas,\naffiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. One tele-\nTexas. Four years ago he turned up in Moscow, renounced his\nvision reporter commented that Oswald said: \"I am a mem-\nAmerican citizenship and asked for Russian citizenship. After\nber of the ACLU.\" The ACLU, which stands for the American\nawhile Oswald asked the United States Embassy in Moscow\nCivil Liberties Union, is a group of lawyers and liberals, for\nto let him return to the United States. There was no break\nthe most part, who in many instances have defended commun-\nwith communism whatsoever since he resumed his communist\nists and subversives, insisting that these \"characters\" should\nactivities on the street corners in New Orleans immediately\nhave freedom of speech in our society, to sow their deadly\nupon arriving there. The irony is that our Embassy actually\npoison.\nloaned Oswald $450.00 so he could return to the United States\nwith his Russian wife. It is little wonder then that Senator\nWHAT IS THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA?\nJohn Tower of Texas has ordered an investigation into why\nour Moscow Embassy loaned Oswald the money to return to\nAnother interesting postscript to this whole sordid story\nthe United States.\nis that the television networks did not identify the organiza-\ntion for which Lee Oswald worked, Fair Play for Cuba. Not\nAs I said, within a matter of days he was distributing anti-\nAmerican and pro-Castro literature on the corners of New\nonce on any of the major television networks did I see any\nOrleans. In the summer of 1962, on a radio debate in that\nreport on the activities of Fair Play for Cuba. One of the\ncity, he admitted he was a communist. His activities in New\nreasons they had to refrain from reporting on this group, ap-\nOrleans were on behalf of the New Orleans chapter of Fair\nparently, was that one of their former colleagues in CBS Tele-\nvision is the head of this group of which Oswald was an\nPlay for Cuba, of which he was an officer.\nofficer. Robert Taber, formerly with CBS News was the ap-\nIn March of this year Oswald ordered, by mail, a high-\nparent head of the Fair Play for Cuba. Senator Keating, in a\npowered rifle from a Chicago mail order firm. He received\nspeech on Thursday, February 16, 1961, identified Taber as\n'one of the Committee's founders\" and editor of the bul-\nthe rifle under an assumed name which he was using at that\ntime in Dallas, Texas. The rifle arrived late in March. It was\nletin for the organization, which is also called \"Fair Play.\"\nOf this CBS News reporter, Robert Taber, Senator Keating\non April 10 that someone fired a similar rifle at the head of\nsaid: \"Taber has a distinguished background as a newspaper\nGeneral Edwin A. Walker at his Dallas residence, 4011 Turtle\nand radio-TV writer. It is hard to understand why anyone in\nCreek. On the day of the President's assassination last Friday,\nDallas police, according to the Dallas Morning News, were\nhis position would flee our country and give such undeserved\n\"not overlooking a possibility that President Kennedy's assas-\nsupport to its avowed enemies in Cuba. Nevertheless, the only\ninference that could reasonably be drawn from his continued\nsin\nLee Oswald, may have been the mystery sniper who\nfailure to return would be that he lied during his previous\nshot at General Walker.\" And, yet, it is interesting to note\nappearance before our Subcommittee and that he functioned\nthat not a single television commentator pointed this out on\nas a foreign agent for Cuba in a betrayal of his nation's\ntheir television presentations. The fact that it might have been\ninterest.\"\nLee Oswald who shot at General Walker was not even dis-\ncussed on the television programs on the three major net-\nCongressman Cramer of St. Petersburg, Florida, went a\nworks.\nstep further than Senator Keating. In his speech before the\nHouse of Representatives, March 15, 1962, Mr. Cramer ex-\nIt is interesting, further, to note that Lee Oswald requested\nposed thoroughly the Fair Play for Cuba group, also how\na known pro-communist attorney in New York City by the\nthis organization had received additional support from CBS\nname of John Apt to defend him. It must have hit Oswald hard\nNews in news presentations, and criticized the Justice Depart-\nwhen Apt responded to the news sources that he was unable\nment for not listing the Fair Play for Cuba Committee as\nto help Oswald because of \"the press of other clients.\" There\nsubversive \"in spite of overwhelming evidence\" to that ef-\nwas every reason to believe that Lee Oswald would ultimately\nfect produced at the several \"hearings by the Senate Subcom-\nbreak, and since it is my theory that there is a connection be-\nmittee.\"\ntween Oswald and Castro, at least, he would have probably ex-\nposed an international conspiracy or linked others who had\nAnother CBS News reporter mixed up with this Fair Play\nparticipated in the planning of the heinous crime.\nfor Cuba, according to Congressman Cramer's report, was\nRichard Gibson. Gibson testified before a Congressional Com-\nConsequently, Lee Oswald had to be shot. I am not sug-\nmittee that during his employment with CBS News, he had\ngesting here that Jack Rubenstein, who assassinated Lee\noccasion to prepare news broadcasts dealing with the Cuban\nHarvey Oswald, was a communist. But, I am suggesting it\nsituation - broadcasts which were very friendly to Fidel Cas-\ncould serve only the cause of communism to assassinate Lee\ntro. Congressman Cramer referred to these programs that\nOswald. It was the best break the Kremlin could have asked\nwere carried by CBS News as an effort to picture \"Fidel\nfor. As the Tulsa Tribune, Monday, November 25, 1963,\nCastro as a regular salt of the earth.\"\npointed out: \"If Lee Harvey Oswald had been fairly tried and\nconvicted of the President's murder the embarrassment for\nChristian Crusade has tried for years to expose these OF-\ninternational communism would have been intense. Now, the\nganizations on the left. Because of our factual exposures, we\n5 -"
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