MRS. OSWALD AT TOWN HALL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600170010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK POSE
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By JOSEPH WERSIIBA
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ivirs. Marguerite swa d strongly de fen a her son
I -last night before 1,500 persons at Town Hall against the
accusation that he assassinated President Kennedy.
She said she4accepted the factor
1 that Lee Harvey Oswald "Is
gone. But the way he went I'll
never accept . . .'
She says she has asked to-see
'her daughter-in-law Marina but
that the Secret Service has re.
fused her request.
,No Tears
For the most part she talks
of her son with an air of de-
:tachment. But when she reads
a letter she sent to President
Johnaon-.,YQU lost a friend
;... I lost a son ... We are both
'human beings ... We breathe.
;the same air"-she chokes up
,and for the first time appears
ready to cry. But she recovers
quickly and there are no tears.
And suddenly the reason 1,9
!clear. Public figures -don't cry.
And Mrs. Marguerite Oswald is
a public figure.
She listens to attorney-Mark
Lane and others attempt to
shoot holes through --the FBI
.story of ' the assassination and
4she picks up words like "scape-
,,goat" and. It comes out "scrap-
;-goat." But she is a quick
learner, and very much her own
woman.
"I carried on this fight alone
'from the start and I'm going
to continue to carry the fight,"
she. says. "My son is. innocent
until proved guilty. That's the
'American way of :life. My son
was not on the FBI list of sus.
picious persons In Dallas. There
is every possibility, he worked
for, the CIA. Why else would
he have posed openly as a leftist
land a Marxist, if not. to get in
with these organlratlons and
find out what they. were doing?
h "This l yottng* man whether
;he's my. son or -a stranger
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AIRS. MARGUERITE OSWALD
Defends son.
repeatedly declares, 'I didn't do.
it, I didn't do it.' And he's shot
down. That's not the American
way of life. A man is innocent
until he's proved guilty."
Waiting on Lane
Like the Town Hall audience,
Mrs. Oswald is awaiting further
elaboration by Lane of hill
assertion last night that a!
week before the assassination. j
Dallas right-winger Bernard
Weissman met with Ptln J. D.
Tippit and an unidentified thin','
man in the Carousel, the strip.;
tease club operated by Jack'{
Ruby. Weissman placed the full. i
page anti-Kennedy ad the dayl
the President was assassinated.
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Oficer Tippit was slain, alleged.
ly , by Oswald. Ruby ? Is n",
on trial for' Oswald's murder.-
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