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Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the USSR in 1959 before returning in 1961 A new book claims Oswald was a KGB agent and was told to assassinate Kennedy Author R. James Woolsey, who ran the CIA from 1993-1995, makes the claim He wrote the book with Ion Mihai Pacepa, Nicolae Ceausescus former spy chief Woolsey and Pacepa base their claims on the 1964 Warren Commission Report They say the report has not been properly interpreted until now The authors argue the Soviets changed their minds, but Oswal...

A new book from a former CIA chief and another high-ranking intelligence official from communist Romania has presented a new theory of the assassination of former president John F Kennedy. The new book, seen by The New York Post, claims that Lee Harvey Oswald was instructed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to assassinate President Kennedy. According to the newspaper, the book says the Soviets later changed their minds about the assassination...

States-Item of December 1, 1961). For the last three months in 1961, he had an office at 544 Camp Street in New Orleans. Here is an excerpt from the statement of Sam Newman (who owned the building) to Garrison on January 18, 1967: Arcacha Smith left New Orleans in 1962 after being suspected of stealing money from the organization. He moved to Miami, and then Houston (where he sold advertising), and ultimately settled in Dallas, where he was selling air conditioners. He was not in Dallas then JF...

Book World: Friends knew not to turn their backs on Sybille Bedford. History should, too. Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Feb. 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Selina Hastings - - - Creative people are frequently monsters. As Bernard Shaw provocatively declared, "the true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art." The novelist and journalist Sybille Bedford (1911-2006), the subject of Sel...

Selina Hastings’s new biography delves into the life, loves and books of a brilliant, charismatic writer.

Items signed by Lincoln, Jefferson, Einstein and more will be auctioned by University Archives Two-page letter handwritten and signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, regarding the transportation of troops by rail in the Civil War (est. $20,000-$25,000). WILTON, CONN .- An exceptional handwritten four-page presidential address signed by Thomas Jefferson and directed to the Cherokee Nation in 1806, a spectacular one-page document written and signed by Albert Einstei...

WILTON, Conn. – An exceptional handwritten four-page presidential address signed by Thomas Jefferson and directed to the Cherokee Nation in 1806, a spectacular one-page document written and signed by Albert Einstein regarding his theories on gravity and relativity, and a two-page letter handwritten and signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 concerning the transportation of troops by rail during the Civil War are just a few of the expected top lots in University Archives’ online-only auc...

The full catalog, showing all 408 lots, is up for bidding and viewing now at University Archives’ website (www.UniversityArchives.com) and on three platforms.

  Breck Wall was an entertainer in Dallas who developed, with his partner and lover Joe Peterson, a musical revue called Bottoms Up. For a while, they performed this revue at Jack Rubys Sovereign Club, which later became the Carousel Club. Wall was one of Jack Rubys friends, and Wall visited him in jail after he killed Oswald. Breck Wall during his oral history interview at the Sixth Floor Museum on December 28, 1993. On November...

  Yes, and for $25,000 "Mr. Candy" would deliver information that would tie Clay Shaw with Jack Ruby. Here is Mark Lanes letter to Jim Garrison: I dont think Garrison met "Mr. Candy." Anybody with a modicum of intelligence would have told him to get lost. But, not Mark Lane. He actually wanted to set up a meeting. And, what a missed opportunity for a Mark Lane book about the Jim Garrison investigation! It would have been a blast. ...