MRS. OSWALD SAYS SON IS SCAPEGOAT

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 98
• Publication Date: February 13, 1964
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TJRS. OSWYALD SAYS1
SON IS SCAPEGOAT
Thinks He Was C.I.A. Agent
`Set Up to Take Blame'
By WILLIAM M. BLAIR
Special to The New York Times
CPYRGHT
,
The mother of Lee H. Oswal
said today that she believed he
on was a United States "in
elligcncc agent" and that h
was "set up to take the blame'
or the assassination of Presi
ent. Kennedy.
She made the statement t
ewsmen as she finished thre
ays of testimony before th
residential commission inves
igating the assassination. Sli
aid she had told the sam
ping to the commission.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
ommission chairman, said the
year-old mother had pre
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"I still believe my son, Lee,
Harvey Oswald, is innocent,"
she began. She vowed she would
"continue public appearances
and an investigation" to clear;
her son "if it takes another;
year to do so."
The assassin, she contended,,
"is still at large." "My son was a sera
being lie [Oswald] could be
guilty," she said, but added that
she had given the commission
"evidence" that her son was in-
nocent. Some of the documents
she said she gave the commis-
sion were of a nature "the cone-1 o to anyone."
mission did not know before." J Chief Justice Warren said
She said she and Mark Lane,; hotographs that Mrs. Oswald
the Now York lawyer whom ad sought to present to the
she has said she retained with- ommission were of her family
out fee to defend her son, had "early life" and had no bear-
"investigators all over." She hg on the assassination. She
also said that she had receivedl anted the commission to ac-
1,500 letters with information) opt them on the condition that
on the assassination, including fie panel "not show them to
seine from foreigners, and that, nyone," Mr. Warren said, but
she would not pass on "any) he commission would not ac-
tips" to the commission.. pt this limitation. She then
'Set Up to Take the Blame' ! id she would not introduce
Asked whether she had con- iem because "they were
radicted before the commission tuaele to her for use in
he testimony of her daughter- titles or books that she might
ritr
n-law, Mrs. Marina Oswald, .
vho told the panel she believed her leer: Warren Indicated be that
called
her husband had shot the Pres- But he said d "certain would this in witwould
dent, the mother asserted: pe dot
"My daughter-in-IaiJ has the Pend on when "certa-
n ivilcge of- making her own sses can get litre and when
tatement, moved readily to tate rtain members of the commis-
ments and I have the on can be here."
a icrophones set before bans- anhe privilege of making) Asked about a report that a'
?as in the lobby of the Voter- nine." j niter in the Texas 13001C be-
ns of Foreign Wars Building "Lce,Harvey Oswald was not sitory Building in . Dallas
n Capitol Hill, where the com-, ho killer of President Kennedy ould be the next witness,.Mr.
1 hission met. I nd hey was set up to take the arren said: "Maybe , they
She had declined to make a lame, she went on. 't know."
atentent until today on the) In most references to her) iow, I Oswald don alleged to hav
e
' 4.. dvice of her counsel, John F. ?, on, Mrs. Oswald used the; f red the shots a
that lleged Pros, hav
oyle, who was appointed by! resent tense, such as "I be-1 nt Kennedy from a a sTNatriet. of Cnittmhim Rater is!Va Loa le an intallisronna.
anted no evidence to support
icr belief that Oswald was ai
gent for the Central Intelli
once Agency.
"She offered no evidence t
hat effect except her story an
orrespondence that she pre-
cnted, taken together, leads
or to the speculation-I use
he word speculation, as she
iced it-that he was an agent."
"She has not given us any
acts that would change the
icture as we know it up to the
inic she testified," Mr. Warren
aid. She did not profess to
}ve us any facts that would
rove anything in connection
11th tlhe*issassination.
"She did contend that the
orrespondence [with Oswald]
hat she presented and her own
estimony taken together in
heir entirety present a much
iffercnt picture than has been
ivcn to the public up to the
resent time. She says she
ellevcs her son Is innocent,
hat it is possible that he com-
Itted the crime but that It
]so is possible that other Poo-
le could have committed it."
The plump, matronly appear-
. woman, when asked for a
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"Who can prove he, is not
LA. agent?" she said. "I3
n't going to say he's a C.I.A.
gent, and the Government
n't 'going to say lie is. Lee,
cing an agent, would not say