Index

AAA Bonding Service, 365

ABC, 242, 452

Abrams, Gus, 271

Abt, John, 131n, 346–47

Accessories After the Fact (Meagher), 13n, 225n, 270n, 416–17

Adams, Victoria, 236, 263n

After the Assassination (Sparrow), 415

AGVA union, 361–364, 389

Alba, Adrian, 130–31

Albert Schweitzer College, 32, 77n

Alcock, James, 441

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Bureau of, 268

Alderman, Harold Gordon, 153n

Aleman, José, 457–58, 463

Alexander, Bill, 215, 365

on conspiracy critics, 464, 468

murder indictments drafted by, 347, 348n

in Oswald’s interrogation, 343n, 344, 345, 347

on Ruby, 354, 356, 359–60, 361, 368n, 372, 392n, 397, 398

Alexander, Vereen, 153n

Alpha 66, 165n

Alsop, Joe, 35

Altgens, Jim, 259

Alvarado, Gilberto, 194

Alvarez, Luis, 314, 321

American Bar Association, 317n

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 100, 205–6, 208–9

American Fact-Finding Committee, 370

American Grotesque (Kirkwood), 453

American Rifleman, 103, 130

Anderson, Andy, 78n

Anderson, Eugene, 21n

Anderson, Jack, 436n, 441

Andrews, Dean, 427–29, 435, 441, 447

Angleton, James Jesus, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 44, 187

Anson, Robert Sam, 103, 249, 270n, 280n, 482n

Appointment in Dallas (McDonald), 465

Arce, Danny, 225, 226, 234, 260

Archer, Don, 395

Armstrong, Andrew, 372, 373, 386

Army, U.S., 35, 62, 90, 338

Arnold, Carolyn, 226, 227

Arnold, Gordon, 255, 482

Aronson, Lev, 96

Arther, Richard, 44

Arthus, James, 141

Aschkenasy, Ernest, 238, 455

Associated Press, 168, 259

Atsugi, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 48

Aynesworth, Hugh, 267n

Ayres, Joseph, 498

Azcue, Eusebio, 181–82, 185–86, 188–89, 191n, 192, 194n

babushka lady, 259, 368n

backyard photographs of Oswald, 106–8

Badeaux, Hubie, 138, 139n, 422, 426, 459n, 462

Baden, Michael, 296, 299n, 302, 308–9, 311, 313, 315, 330n, 334–35, 337, 339n

Bagley, Tennant “Pete,” 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 44

Bagshaw, Thomas, 25

Baker, Marrion, 264–65, 478

Baker, Mrs. Donald, 260

Baker, Robert “Barney,” 363–64, 364n, 365n

Ball, Joseph, 414n15n

Banister, Guy, 123n, 136–38, 139, 140, 141, 147, 176n, 431, 442–43, 444, 445, 459n, 463, 484

Banister, Ross, 141

Barber, Steve, 240

Barnes, W. E., 349

Bastard Bullet, The (Marcus), 413

Bates, Pauline, 76–77

Baxter, Charles, 287, 288, 289, 290–91, 294, 304, 310, 312

Beauboeuf, Alvin, 426–27, 431–32, 434, 439

Becker, Edward, 458, 463

Belin, David, 272n, 415n16n

Belknap, Jerry, 231, 446

Bell, Audrey, 285

Bell, W. H., Mrs., 9

Belli, Melvin, 398–99

Bellocchio, Frank, 383–84

Belmont, Alan, 489

Belorussian Radio and Television Factory, 56

Benavides, Domingo, 273n, 274n, 276–77

Benavides, Eddy, 492

Bennett, Glen, 320

Bentley, Paul, 4

Best Evidence (Lifton), 118n, 294, 297n, 298n

Bethell, Tom, 441

Bethesda Hospital, 295, 298–302

Bethlehem Children’s Home, 6

Billings, Richard, 297n, 430

Birch, Patricia, 358

Bishop, Maurice, 165n

Blakey, G. Robert, 13n, 297n, 412, 413, 425n, 454, 455n, 456, 459, 460n, 463, 469

Blalock, Vance, 150, 151

Bledsoe, Mary, 198–99, 201, 266, 273n, 486

Block, Robert E., 31

Bogard, Albert, 211n, 493

Boggs, Hale, 404, 409n, 496

Bond, Wilma, 251

Bonds, Joe, 357, 359

Boone, Eugene, 269

Boswell, J. Thornton, 296, 299, 306n, 408

Botkinskaya Hospital, 50, 51

Bouhe, George, 82, 83, 84, 89, 93, 95

Bowers, Lee, 237, 253–54, 493

Bowie, A. D., 486

Bowles, Jim, 239, 326n

Bowley, T. F., 273n

Bowron, Diana, 287

Brading, Eugene “Jim,” 367n

Bradley, Edgar Eugene, 441n

Brener, Milton, 422–23, 424, 425n, 429, 440, 442, 443, 446, 450

Brennan, Howard, 246–49, 319, 346, 479

Brewer, Johnny Calvin, 278–80

Brigette, Linda, 424

Bringuier, Carlos, 150–53, 158–59, 180, 345, 433–34, 443

Oswald’s debate with, 159–61, 162

trial of Oswald and, 157

Bronson, Charles, 230n

Brown, Arnold, 81

Brown, Earle, 256

Brown, Joe, 485

Brown, Tom, 383

Bruneau, Emile, 156

Buchanan, Thomas, 412, 415

Bundy, Vernon, 438–39

Burkley, George, 288n, 298, 306n

Burroughs, William “Butch,” 279

Burrows, Francine, 260

Burt, Jimmy Earl, 278n

Butler, Edward, 160–61

Cabell, Charles, 487

Cabell, Earle, 487

Cabell, Mrs. Earle, 245

Cadigan, James, 497

Calderon, Luisa, 193

Callaway, Ted, 275, 276, 278n

Cameron, Dale, 221n

Campbell, Don, 367n, 369

Campisi, Joseph, 367n, 397n

Camp Street, 136–41, 166, 459n

Cancler, John, 439, 441

Carcano rifle, see Mannlicher-Carcano rifle

Carlin, Karen Bennett “Little Lynn,” 372n, 387–88, 389, 391, 392, 395n, 482n

Carlton, Otis, 10

Carona, Vic, 425n

Carousel Club, 259, 354, 360, 361–62, 365, 366, 367, 368, 370n, 371, 372, 373, 374, 378, 379, 381–82, 383, 386, 387

Carr, Waggoner, 402

Carrico, Charles, 287–89, 304, 305, 307, 309

Carro, John, 11–12, 14

Carson, Johnny, 440, 444–45

Carter, B. Tom, 78–79

Casa Roca, 150, 151

Castellano, Lillian, 410–11

Castro, Fidel, 99, 130n, 168, 193, 194n, 403, 465

CIA assassination plots against, 407, 452–53

Oswald’s admiration for, 29, 30, 84, 122n, 125, 127, 128, 132, 156–57, 158–59, 160, 162–63, 198

CBS, 230n, 274n, 314, 317, 322, 407, 408n, 412, 413, 446

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 71, 143, 160n, 183n, 192, 193, 194, 207, 255, 405, 411, 414n, 418, 443, 445

Camp Street connections and, 136, 137

Castro assassination plots of, 407, 452–53

conspiracy critics on, 45n, 465, 466n

Domestic Contact Division of, 78n, 86, 152n, 168n, 169n, 446n

Garrison’s theories on, 440, 449

KGB penetration of, 36–37

Nosenko and, 35–44, 45

Oswald photographed by, 186–87

Oswald’s file at, 52n, 186, 187

Oswald’s ties to, 23, 23n, 26n, 27n, 55n, 86n, 142, 165n, 167n, 442

Oswald’s voice recorded by, 182n, 187–88, 196n

Warren Commission and, 406–7

Chandler, David, 441

Chaney, James, 385, 488

Chapman, Allan, 430, 446

Chavez, Frank, 457

Chayes, Abram, 72n, 133n

Cheramie, Rose, 444n, 493

Chesher, Bill, 484

Chetta, Nicholas, 486

Chicago, Ill., 350–52, 353–54

China, People’s Republic of, 49n

Christie, David, 21n

Civil Air Patrol, 17, 141, 142, 426

Clardy, Barnard, 396

Clark, Comer, 193

Clark, Gali, 79

Clark, Henry Burnell, 145, 146

Clark, Kemp, 290, 292, 307

Clark, Max, 59, 84

Clark, Ramsey, 303, 313

Clemons, Acquilla, 276n

Clinton, La., 141–47, 447

Cocke, Bernard, 423

Coffey, Melvin, 427

COINTELPRO, 143

Coleman, Kay Helen, 379, 380, 389

Coleman, Walter Kirk, 116

Collective, The (Oswald), 77

Collins, Corey, 145, 146

Commager, Henry Steele, 468

Commission on CIA Activities Within the U.S., 303, 313

Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels), 18

Communist party, U.S., 105, 131, 133n, 149, 158, 164, 181, 381

Conforto, Janet “Jada,” 355, 358, 362, 363, 365, 366, 368n

Conforto, Joe, 368n

Congressional Black Caucus, 453

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 143

Connally, John, 99, 237, 253, 259, 293n, 298n, 314n, 317n, 368n, 414n

bullet fragments in, 338–42

emergency treatment of, 285–86, 292–93

on Lane, 412

“magic bullet” and wounding of, 293n, 316, 325–35, 475, 477, 480

in motorcade, 231–32, 233

Oswald’s letter to, 135

reactions of, to wounds, 318n, 321, 326–27, 329–33

Warren Commission testimony of, 321, 331–32

Connally, Nellie, 232, 236, 250, 286, 332–33

Connell, Lucille, 178

Connick, Harry, 449

Connor, Pete, 23, 26

Conspiracy (Summers), 5, 27n, 43, 190, 367n, 369n, 377n, 456n

conspiracy critics, 137n38n, 172n, 227n, 258, 267n, 272, 274n, 280n, 405, 410–17, 451

on assassination attempt against Walker, 118n

on backyard photos of Oswald, 107, 108

on Brennan’s description of gunman, 248n, 248–49

on Camp Street connections, 138n39n

on CIA involvement, 456n, 466, 466n67n

on Clinton meeting, 143

coincidence interpreted as evidence of conspiracy by, 202n

Hartogs’s psychiatric evaluation of Oswald ignored by, 13n

HSCA on, 411–12, 413, 456n

on imposter issue, 175, 176, 186, 188–89, 213n, 413

on Kennedy autopsy, 301, 408

on “magic bullet,” 293n, 326–27, 334–35, 336n, 413

on Marguerite Oswald, 5–6

on Mercer’s testimony, 228n

on motorcade route, 219n

newest theories of, 464–67

Nosenko’s credibility dismissed by, 43

on number of shots, 235, 241n

on Oswald’s diary, 50n

on Oswald’s early interest in Communism, 18n

on Oswald’s intelligence ties, 22n, 23n, 26n, 27n, 29n

on Oswald’s marksmanship, 20n21n

on Oswald’s rifle, 103, 270n, 411

on Oswald’s Soviet defection, 46–47

on Oswald’s transfer to Minsk, 56n57n

on Ruby, 361, 399–400

on source of shots, 235–36, 236n37n, 248–49, 252–54

on swapping of Oswald, 27n28n

Thornley ignored by, 31n

on Tippit’s murder, 273n, 278

see also specific writers and books

Conspiracy of One (Moore), 254n

Conspiracy of Silence (Crenshaw), 280n

Contract on America (Scheim), 118n, 366n, 425n, 457

Contreras, Oscar, 191–92

“Conversation Carte Blanche,” 160

Conway, Hiram, 9

Cooke, Leon, 352

Cooper, John Sherman, 404, 409n

Corsican mercenaries, 255, 466

Couch, Malcolm, 241–42, 244–45

Counterplot (Epstein), 451

Cox, Archibald, 403

Craddock, Gladys, 373

Crafard, Curtis LaVerne “Larry,” 366, 367n, 368, 374, 381, 382

Craig, Roger, 257, 443

Crawford, James, 244–45

Crawford, John, 495

Crenshaw, Charles, 228n, 280n, 293, 311, 312, 396n

Crescent City Garage, 129–30

Cronkite, Walter, 274n, 407, 413

Crossfire (Marrs), 27n, 43, 132n, 155n, 237n, 252, 370n

as JFK source, 5, 482

Crusade to Free Cuba, 152n

Crusado, 152n

Cruz, Miguel, 151–52

Cuba, 29, 119, 125, 162, 206

Kennedy assassination and, 402, 403, 411

Oswald’s attempt to travel to, 157, 162–64, 167, 170–96

Ruby in, 360n

U.S. exiles from, 136, 137, 141, 150, 175, 431, 433, 440

see also Fair Play for Cuba Committee

Cuban embassy, Mexico City, 180–83, 185, 188–89, 190, 193–94

Cuban intelligence, 29n, 54, 193, 194, 195

Cuban Revolutionary Council, 137, 141

Cuban Student Directorate, 150

Cubi Point, 22n

Cunningham, Helen, 89

Curry, Jesse, 116n, 231, 349, 359n, 383n, 384n, 385, 392, 395, 489

Custer, Jerrol, 300n

Cutler, Robert, 258

Dallas, Tex., 76, 82, 145, 165n

assassination conventions in, 467–68

luncheon site for Kennedy’s visit to, 209, 216–17

Marguerite Oswald’s move to, 6–7

Marina Oswald’s return to, 164, 168, 169

motorcade route in, 217, 218–19, 224, 225, 232, 262

Oswald’s residences in, 92–93, 101, 111–12, 117n, 120, 198–99, 201, 217–18, 265, 267, 272, 344

Oswald’s return to, 196, 197

Russian émigré community of, 77, 82–83, 84, 88, 95, 135

see also specific locations and neighborhoods

Dallas County Jail, 228–29

Dallas Morning News, 98, 219, 355, 367n, 375, 376, 382, 389n, 390n, 394n

Ruby at offices of, 258, 368–71, 372

Dallas Police Department, 217, 268, 414n, 417

dictabelt recording by, 237–40, 455

Oswald arrested by, 3–5, 243n44n, 278–81

Oswald interrogated by, 343–50, 377–78, 391–92

Oswald’s rifle discovered and examined by, 269–70, 281–83

planned custody transfer of Oswald by, 384n, 386, 391–95

Ruby at headquarters of, 372, 375–76, 377–78, 385–86, 393–97

Ruby’s relationship with, 359

“three tramps” discovered by, 271

Dallas Times Herald, 217, 218, 244, 251, 371, 379, 380–81, 390

Dal-Tex building, 445

Dannelly, Mrs. Lee, 174–75

David, Christian, 466

Davis, Barbara, 273–74, 276, 277

Davis, Benjamin, 131, 149, 347n

Davis, John, 13n, 31n, 119n, 278, 457

Davis, Thomas, 496

Davis, Virginia, 273–74, 276, 277

Day, Carl, 268–69, 270, 281–83

Dealey Plaza, 3, 201, 202, 219n, 224, 225, 238, 367n, 369, 383n, 384–85, 391, 411, 419, 443, 446

acoustics of, 234, 236

Belknap’s epileptic seizure in, 231, 446

description of, 218n19n, 474

gunmen observed at, 228, 414n, 445–46

de Brueys, Warren, 154, 166

Decker, Bill, 231, 240, 268, 384n, 487

Dedon, Bobbie, 146

Dejanovich, Owen, 28

DeLaune, Gary, 384

Delaune, Henry, 495

Delgado, Nelson, 26, 29

Del Valle, Eladio, 494

de Mohrenschildt, Alexandra, 92

de Mohrenschildt, George, 18, 24, 59, 65, 89, 93–94, 95, 100, 101, 108, 111

intelligence ties of, 85–86, 118n

leftist politics of, 87, 98, 99

Oswald’s friendship with, 84–85, 86, 87–88, 98

suicide of, 118n, 497

Walker assassination attempt guessed by, 117–18

de Mohrenschildt, Jeanne, 65, 85n, 86, 95, 100, 101, 111, 117

dezhurnaya, 49n

Dhority, Chuck, 395

Diaz Verson, Salvador, 191n

Dillard, Tom C., 236, 245n

Dirksen, Everett, 403

Donahue, Howard, 335

Donovan, John, 22n, 26

Dougherty, Jack, 225, 226, 236

Dowe, Ken, 384

Dowling, Richard, 422

Downing, Thomas, 453–54

Doyle, Harold, 271

Dragoo, Betty, 226

Drain, Vince, 282–83

Dulaney, Richard, 309n

Dulles, Allen, 404, 407, 453

Duncan, Glen, 379

Dunn, Andrew, 145

Duran, Silvia, 181, 182, 185, 189, 190–91

Dymitruk, Lydia, 90

Dymond, Irvin, 147, 449–50, 452

Earl Products, 353

Easterling, Robert, 465

Eastern Orthodox church, 77, 89

Eberhardt, A. M., 377–78

Eddowes, Michael, 27n, 345n

Edwards, Robert, 230

Egyptian Lounge, 367, 397n

Einspruch, Burton C., 178, 179

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 17, 51

Ekdahl, Edwin, 6–7, 8

Ellis, Starvis, 324n

English, J. M., 489

Epstein, Edward Jay, 43, 45, 57n, 118n, 254, 414–15, 430, 451

Euins, Amos Lee, 236, 246

Evans, Julian, 15

Evans, Myrtle, 9, 14–15, 123–24

Executive Order No. 11130, 403

Eyewitness to History (Brennan), 248n

Fackler, Martin, 337, 339

Failure Analysis Associates, 316n17n, 329, 333, 339, 476, 480

Fain, John, 78–79, 81

Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 92n, 137, 171, 172, 181, 195n, 208, 346, 349–50, 381, 444

Oswald’s work for, 108, 120, 125–27, 128, 129, 131–32, 136, 140, 141, 149, 152–53, 154, 155, 157, 158, 159, 164, 165, 166, 208

Fatter, Esmond, 437

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 40, 71, 90n, 91, 114n, 116n, 131n, 142, 146, 172n, 175, 180, 186, 194, 199, 218, 224n, 225n, 226, 231, 248, 256, 259, 275n, 277n, 324–25, 342n, 362, 363–64, 367n, 368n, 369n, 383n, 411, 412, 414, 426, 428, 432, 440, 460

advance warning received by, 155n, 216n

backyard photos of Oswald analyzed by, 107

Camp Street connections and, 136, 137, 138, 141

COINTELPRO and, 143

on Dallas County Jail witnesses, 228–29

Freedom of Information Act requests stonewalled by, 417–19

Garrison in, 421

informants of, 108, 154, 179, 359n

initial report of, 402, 404

Nosenko and, 38, 42–43

Odio and, 176–78

O’Neill and Sibert’s report for, 295–96

Oswald interviewed by, 78–79, 80–82, 153–55

Oswald’s file at, 52n, 78–79, 108–9, 154, 155, 161, 207

in Oswald’s interrogation, 343, 347

Oswald’s note to Hosty destroyed by, 214–16, 407, 453

Oswald’s rifle and, 103, 282–83, 317, 349, 408

Oswald’s ties to, 55n, 81n, 130–31, 153–54, 166n, 208n, 210n, 349, 407, 415n, 452

Ruby and, 360n, 371, 378n

Ruth Paine and Marina Oswald interviewed by, 206–8, 209–10

special agent assigned to Oswald’s case at, 150n, 207

Warren Commission and, 405–6

Felde, Allen, 21

Fenner, Nanny, 214, 214n

Ferrell, Mary, 410

Ferrie, David, 131–37, 176n, 259, 368n, 435, 442, 444, 459n, 463, 481n, 494, 495

in Garrison’s investigation, 142–48, 425–27, 429–30, 431–34, 435–36, 446–47

Field, Marjorie, 410, 415

Fifth Amendment, 404, 425n

Finck, Pierre, 299, 448

First-Hand Knowledge (Morrow), 456n

Fischer, Ronald, 230–31

Fitsimmons, Frank, 461

Fleming, Ian, 90

Flusche, Don, 393n

Flynn, Charles, 359n

Fonzi, Gaeton, 137n, 141, 165n, 176n

Ford, Declan, 87, 94, 99

Ford, Gerald R., 404, 409, 415

Ford, Katya, 83, 86, 87, 94, 95, 99, 101

Foreign Affairs Ministry, Soviet, 49, 51, 69

Forgive My Grief (Jones), 413

Fort Worth, Tex., 28, 32, 74, 153

Oswald in, 6–9, 18, 19, 76–88

Russian émigré community of, 77, 82–83, 84, 88, 95, 135

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 78

Foster, J. W., 236, 254

Fowler, Clayton, 487

Franzen, Jack, 324n

Franzen, Mrs. Jack, 324n

Frazier, Robert, 103, 323

Frazier, Wesley Buell, 200, 202–3, 209, 212, 220, 223, 260, 270, 319, 345

Freedom of Information Act, 406, 417–19, 452

Fritz, Will, 5, 257, 268, 270, 280, 343, 345, 347, 349, 384n, 385, 391–92, 393, 394n, 395n

Fruge, Francis L., 444n

Gadash, Clyde, 381n

Gadd, Nina, 193

Gallery, 240

Gangl, Theodore, 197

Garner, Darrell, 275n, 495–96

Garner, Jesse, Mrs., 124, 150n, 167, 170–71

Garrison, Jim, 11n, 13n, 118n, 141n, 150n, 228n, 420, 421–50, 451, 464, 465, 466

Andrews and, 427–29, 435, 441–42, 447

background of, 421–22

bribery acquittal of, 425n

on Camp Street connections, 138n39n

Clinton meeting investigated by, 142–3, 144, 147

criminal defamation conviction of, 423

as district attorney, 422–26, 448

Ferrie in investigation by, 141–47, 425–27, 430, 431–34, 436, 447

on imposter issue, 186, 188n

investigative staff of, 430–31

NBC’s investigation of, 439–40, 441n

organized crime ties of, 424–25

on Oswald’s Communism, 30n31n

on Oswald’s intelligence ties, 123n, 142, 216n, 442

on Oswald’s KGB interrogation, 47

on Oswald’s marksmanship, 20n

on Oswald’s repatriation loan, 72n

on Oswald’s Soviet defection, 46–47

on Oswald’s work at Jaggars, 89–90

paranoia of, 422, 446

on Raikin, 74n

Shaw investigated and prosecuted by, 143n, 145, 429–39, 442–43, 446–50

Garro de Pez, Elena, 191n

Gatlin, Maurice, 492

Gaudet, William, 168n

Gedney, John, 271

Geraci, Philip, 150, 151, 494

German Democratic Republic, 49n

Germann, Ella, 60, 61, 65, 66

Gertsovich, Mayya, 64, 66, 73

Gheesling, W. Marvin, 490

Giancana, Sam, 354, 452n, 461, 462, 497

Giesecke, Adolph, 290, 307, 310, 311

Gill, G. Wray, 136

Gillin, Edward, 167n

Givens, Charles, 224–25, 225n, 226

Globe, 465–66

Glover, Everett, 100–1

Goldbaum, Harry, 258n

Goldstein, David, 484

Golitsyn, Anatoliy, 35, 36, 40, 44

Golovachev, Pavel, 57, 58, 65, 73

Golub, Gregory, 46

Gonzales, Henry, 453, 454

Goodell, Charles, 403

Goodhart, A. L, 414n15n

Goodnight America, 452

Gordievskiy, Oleg, 40

Goulden, Joe, 348n

Graef, John, 109

Granello, Salvatore, 495

Grant, Eva, see Rubenstein, Eva grassy knoll, 219n, 229, 253, 260, 268, 297n, 466

gunmen observed at, 228, 252

as source of shots, 235–37, 252–53, 254–58, 416, 446, 455

Zapruder film shot from, 233n, 237

Grassy Knoll Gazette, 258

Green, David, 236

Greer, Bill, 232, 233, 298, 299, 320

Gregory, Charles, 330, 336, 339–40, 488

Gregory, Paul, 77, 82, 84

Gregory, Peter, 77, 490

Gribanov, Oleg, 37, 54

Griffin, Burt, 356n, 407, 409–10

Griffin, Will, 490

Groden, Robert J., 11n, 13n, 31n, 50n, 52n, 54n, 81n, 175, 301, 307, 308, 311, 339, 456n

GRU (Soviet military intelligence), 54

Gruber, Alex, 374

Guerra, Ricardo, 191

Guinn, Vincent, 340–42

Guinyard, Sam, 275, 276–77, 278n

Gurvich, William, 423–24, 431, 436n, 439, 441, 445n, 446

Guthrie, Steve, 354

Gutierrez, Pedro, 194n

Hall, Elena, 83, 89

Hall, Gus, 131, 149, 347n

Hall, Loran, 177–78

Hallmark, Garnett, 384

Hamlin, Cecil, 375

Hansen, T. M., 369n

Hargis, Billy James, 98

Hargis, Bobby, 233, 236

Harker, Daniel, 168

Harkness, D. V., 384, 479

Harrelson, Charles, 271, 465

Harris, Jones, 430, 446

Hartogs, Renatus, 12–13

Harvey, William, 488

Hayden, Johnnie, 358

Heindel, John, 26

Helmick, Wanda, 388

Helms, Richard, 38, 42, 406

Hemming, Gerry Patrick, 27n

Henchliffe, Margaret, 287

Henderson, Ruby, 227

Hernandez, Celso, 151, 152

High Treason (Groden and Livingstone), 50n, 301, 307, 308, 310n, 311, 339, 456n

Hill, Clint, 233, 286, 289

Hill, Gerald, 280

Hill, Jean, 249–52, 467, 482

Hine, Geneva, 320

Hoffa, Jimmy, 363–64, 456, 457, 460, 461

Hoffiman, Ed, 256, 467, 482

Holbrook, John, 489

Holland, Sam, 254

Holmes, Harry, 324n, 345, 392, 395n

Holt, Chauncey, 271, 465

homosexuality, 41

of Ferrie, 142, 429, 436

Garrison and, 436n

Nosenko’s allegations of, 35

Oswald and, 21n, 427–28, 436, 444n

Ruby and, 356n, 446n

of Shaw, 429–30, 436

Hoover, J. Edgar, 81n, 215–16, 283, 414n, 452n, 462, 487

Nosenko and, 38, 42–43

Warren Commission and, 405–6

Hosty, James, 108–9, 207–8, 209, 210, 211–12, 214–15, 216, 218, 344, 349, 407, 453

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), 27n, 48, 78n, 108n, 142, 147, 155n, 165n, 168n, 179, 187, 189, 192, 230n, 258, 259, 268n, 276, 296, 300n, 306n, 360n, 401n, 417n, 444n, 453–59

Alba’s testimony to, 131

and analysis of shots, 115n, 316, 317–18, 321–22, 326–27, 336–37, 340–42

on attempted assassination of Walker, 118n

backyard photos of Oswald analyzed by, 107

on Camp Street connections, 137–38, 140

on Clinton meeting, 143–44

conclusion of, 137n, 237, 455

on conspiracy critics, 411–12, 413, 456n

on identity of conspirators, 456–59

on imposter issue, 188–89

on Kennedy autopsy, 301, 303, 414

on Kennedy’s wounds, 305, 313, 414, 455

Marina Oswald’s testimony to, 73

Nosenko’s credibility dismissed by, 44

on number and source of shots, 235–41

on Odio, 176

and Oswald-Cuban connection, 193–94, 194n95n

on Oswald’s diary, 51n

Oswald’s security clearance investigated by, 21n

Ramsey Panel review of, 240

on Ruby, 362–64, 368n, 372, 393n94n

House Un-American Activities Committee, 161

Houston, Tex., 171, 366n, 426–27

Howard, Larry, 468n

Howard, Lawrence, 177–78

Howard, Tom, 396n, 484

Howe, Kenneth C., 214n, 215

Howlett, John, 264n

How to Be a Spy, 90, 92

Huber, Oscar, 290, 291

Hudkins, Lonnie, 348n, 454n

Hudson, Emmet, 236

Hughes, H. Stuart, 102n

Hughes, Robert, 230n

Humes, James, 296, 306, 408

Kennedy autopsy performed by, 299–300, 301, 302, 303, 306n7n

Hunt, Bunker, 370n

Hunt, E. Howard, 271, 465

Hunter, Bill, 492

Hurt, Henry, 11n, 13n, 31n, 57, 64n, 118n, 121n22n, 274n, 465

on Oswald’s intelligence ties, 23n, 27n, 210n

on Tippit, 278

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 71

Imperial Reflex camera, 102n, 107

Information Council of the Americas (INCA), 160–61

Ingram, Hiram, 486

Inquest (Epstein), 254, 414–15

Intelligence Digest, 137

Interior Ministry, Soviet, 56n, 69

Intourist, 45, 46, 47, 49, 56, 57, 64, 187n

Irving, Tex., 105, 171, 197–98, 207

Itek Optical Systems, 230n, 314

Ivon, Louis, 432

Izvestiya, 45, 56n, 57n, 82

Jackson, C. D., 484

Jackson, Robert, 241–42, 244–45

Jada (Janet Conforto), 355, 358, 362, 363, 365, 367, 368n

Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall Co., 89–90, 91, 104, 109, 131n, 197

Japan, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28

Jarman, James “Junior,” 224, 226, 227, 241, 263n

Jenkins, James, 300n

Jenkins, Pepper, 285, 287, 288, 290, 291–92, 304–5, 307, 308, 310, 311, 312

Jewish Social Service Bureau, 350

Jews:

Kennedy and, 375

Ruby’s fantasies of persecution of, 399–400

Weissman ad and, 371, 380, 381, 385, 386, 387, 399

JFK (film), 216n, 449n, 450, 451n, 454n, 460, 466, 468n, 469

fingerprint scene in, 282–83

source material for, 5, 138, 249, 444n, 456n, 482

JFK: First Day Evidence, 283

jiggle analysis, 321–22

Joesten, Joachim, 412

John Birch Society, 98, 99, 137, 205, 206, 381, 400

Johnson, Arnold, 149, 158, 164, 204, 208–9

Johnson, Clemon, 255

Johnson, Clyde, 495

Johnson, Gladys, 201, 217

Johnson, Lady Bird, 231, 289

Johnson, Lyndon B., 119n, 194n, 232, 292, 297n, 399, 402, 405, 407, 414n, 417, 440

and removal of Kennedy’s body, 293

swearing-in of, 294, 296

Warren Commission created by, 403–4

Johnson, Priscilla, 47, 63, 65, 210

Johnston, David, 347, 379

Johnston, Frank, 386

Jones, Paul Roland, 353

Jones, Penn, Jr., 413–14, 417, 430, 451, 481

Jones, Ron, 285, 288, 289, 304, 305, 308, 311, 312

Jones Printing Company, 126

Joseph, Milton, 398n

JURE (Junta Revolucionaria), 175

Justice Department, U.S., 79n, 131n, 457

Kaack, Milton, 150n, 209

Kantor, Seth, 370–72, 373, 380n, 456

Kapital, Das (Marx), 18, 29, 47, 84, 155

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 402–3

Kaufman, Stanley, 386

Kaylor, Donald, 489

Kellerman, Roy, 232, 238, 298, 299, 483, 490–91

Kemp, Maxine, 146

Kennedy, Caroline, 384, 390n

Kennedy, Jacqueline, 85, 222, 233, 239n, 250, 254, 299, 321, 328

Kennedy’s autopsy and, 297, 302

at Parkland Hospital, 286–87, 289–92, 308

and removal of Kennedy’s body, 293, 294, 295, 296, 298

Ruby’s sympathy for, 380, 381, 388, 390n, 396n

Kennedy, John, Jr., 384

Kennedy, John F.:

Addison’s disease of, 288n89n

assassination of, see Kennedy assassination

autopsy of, 295, 297–303, 304, 306n, 307n, 407–8, 448, 468

back brace worn by, 287, 304n, 314–15

caskets used for, 294n, 297n, 298–99

emergency treatment of, 285–91, 303–4

head wound of, 306–15

last rites administered to, 290, 291–92

memorial services for, 375–76, 382

missing brain of, 295, 300n, 306n

neck wound of, 293n, 302–5, 316, 326–34, 414, 472, 476–77, 480

Oswald on, 131, 221, 345

reactions of, to wounds, 317n, 321, 326–28, 476

removal of body of, 293–97

Ruby’s reverence for, 357n, 373–74, 375

spine damage of, 327–28

Weissman ad on, 370–71, 380, 381–82, 383, 386, 387, 399

Kennedy, Robert F., 130n31n, 294, 298, 299, 402–3, 439, 440, 453, 456, 457, 458, 461

Kennedy’s autopsy and, 302, 306n, 307n, 407

Nosenko and, 38, 39

Kennedy and Lincoln (Lattimer), 304n, 335n, 340n

Kennedy assassination, 223–61

acoustical reconstruction of, 238

analysis of shots in, 235–43, 316–42, 472, 475–77

bullet analysis and, 115n, 322–23, 338–42

bullet fragments found in, 322–23, 324–26, 33–42

bullet speed in, 318n, 337–38, 476, 477, 480

commercialization of, 467–68

Connally’s views on, 331–32

Cuban and Soviet involvement in, 193–94, 402, 403, 411

ear-witness accounts of, 235–43, 319–21

eyewitness accounts of, 244–61

FBI warned about, 155n, 216n17n

films based on, 466n; see also JFK

films of, 230n, 233n; see also Zapruder film

folklore about, 443

HSCA’s conclusion on, 137n38n, 237

marksmanship and, 20n21n, 103, 471, 472

“mystery deaths” and, 414n, 417, 444, 48198

Nosenko’s defection and, 34, 37n

Oswald’s actions on morning of, 223–29

Oswald’s actions after, 262–67

photographs of, 259–60, 316n, 431

presidential motorcade and, 217, 218–19, 224, 225, 231–32, 262

public opinion on, 402, 439–40, 468–69

release of classified documents on, 454n55n, 469

Ruby’s actions after, 371–98

sound recording of, 242–13

Soviet reaction to, 53–54

“three tramps” discovered after, 271–72, 446, 465n

Kenney, Ed, 299

KGB, 28n, 345n, 443n

CIA penetrated by, 35–36

informants of, 46, 47, 48, 49n, 58, 63n

Nosenko and, 35, 36, 37–38, 40, 42

Oswald’s file at, 45, 47, 50, 51, 53–55, 57n, 58, 60, 63n, 468

Oswald’s Mexico City contacts with, 183–85, 190, 195–96

Oswald’s psychiatric evaluation by, 13n, 50

Oswald’s ties to, 34, 43, 47–48, 55, 79, 85, 195

Khrushchev, Nikita, 18, 51, 84, 403

Kilduff, Mac, 292

Kilgallen, Dorothy, 493

Killiam, Hank, 491–92

King, Coretta Scott, 453

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 453, 455

Kingsley, Rolfe, 42

Kinsley, Eddie, 277n

Kirkwood, James, 451

Kisevalter, George, 35, 36

Kleinlerer, Alex, 92

Kleinman, Abraham, 383n

Klein’s Sporting Goods, 103, 104

KLIF, 377, 378, 379, 384

Klihr, Charles, 117n

Knight, Russ, 379, 387

Koethe, Jim, 492

Kohn, Aaron, 424

Komsomol, 68, 69

Kostikov, Valeriy Vladimirovich, 183, 185, 190, 190n, 217n

Kostyukov, Alexsandr, 58

Kraus, Robert, 323

Krokodil, 109

Krystinik, Frank, 206

Kupcinet, Karen, 491

Kuznetsova, Roza, 56, 57, 58, 64

Labro, Philippe, 385

Landis, Paul, 320

Lane, Mark, 11n, 13n, 31n, 166n, 228n, 241n, 253n, 254n, 349n, 370n, 415, 453, 465, 466

assessments of work by, 412–13

on Brennan, 248–49

as Garrison’s researcher, 429–31

on Oswald’s rifle, 103, 270n

Lanne, John, 139n, 139

Last Dissenting Witness, The (Hill), 249

“Latin Listening Post, The,” 157

Lattimer, John, 305, 314, 325n, 327–28, 335n, 335, 340n, 396

Lawrence, Mary, 368n

Lawson, Winston, 217

Leavelle, Jim, 345

Le Blanc, Charles, 124, 129

Lee, Vincent, 362

Lee, Vincent T., 125, 127, 132, 136, 140, 157–58, 160, 162, 164, 201n, 219

Lee: A Portrait (Oswald), 90n

Legend (Epstein), 43

Lemanns, Fred, 439

Leon Israel Company, 124

Lesar, James, 406, 418–19, 451–52

Leslie Welding Company, 80, 88

Levens, Jimmy, 485

Lewallen, Jim, 437

Lewis, C. L., 489

Lewis, David, 139n40n, 431

Lewis, Richard, 415

L’Hoste, A. J., 242

Liebeler, Wesley, 413n, 415n, 428

Life, 333, 416n, 425n, 430, 441

Lifton, David, 13n, 118n, 294–97, 298n, 310, 411, 415

Linn, Travis, 242–43

Litman, Brian, 183n, 196n

Livingston, Mrs. Clyde, 10

Livingston, R. W. “Rusty,” 283

Livingstone, Harrison, 13n, 31n, 300n, 301, 307, 308, 310n, 339, 456n

Loisel, Lynn, 431–32

London Weekend Television, 192n, 224n, 278n

Lopez, Edwin, 187, 188–89, 465

Lopez, Gilberto, 194n95n

Lorenz, Marita, 465

Lotz, Jeff, 329

Louisiana Division of Employment Security Office, 121–22

Louisiana Employment Commission, 135, 141

Louisiana State Hospital, 146

Louisiana state legislature, 423

Love Field, 217, 294

Lovelady, Billy, 225, 227, 259–60, 263n, 411, 489

LSD, 167n

M-1 rifles, 20, 28

M–14 rifles, 103

McBride, Palmer, 17

McCamy, Calvin, 107

McClelland, Robert, 288, 309n

on Kennedy’s head wound, 311

McCloy, John J., 404, 408n, 409

MacDonald, Betty, 491

McDonald, Hugh, 465

McDonald, M. N., 3–4

Macedo, Joseph, 27

McEwan, Robert, 359

McFarland, John and Meryl, 171, 173n

McGann, George, 495

McGehee, Edward, 144, 145

McHugh, Godfrey, 294, 296

Mclntire, Mel, 258

McKeown, Robert Ray, 360n

McLain, H. B., 238–39, 286, 455

McMillan, Priscilla Johnson, 47, 64, 65, 210n

MacNeil, Robert, 243n, 268n, 479

McVickar, John, 68, 71

McWatters, Cecil, 266

McWillie, Lewis, 359

mafia, see organized crime

Mafia Kingfish (Davis), 118n, 458, 463

“magic” bullet, see “single” bullet

Maheau, Robert, 452n53n

Mailer, Norman, 45n

Mailers’ Service Company, 126

Manchester, John, 145

Manchester, William, 134n, 468

Mancuso’s Restaurant, 138n

Mandel, Paul, 484

Mann, Thomas, 194

Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, 111, 156, 169, 204n, 349, 413, 444, 455

ammunition for, 103, 115n, 262, 268–69, 472

in assassination attempt against Walker, 112, 113, 115n, 118n, 118

assembly time for, 225

in backyard photos of Oswald, 107

neutron-activation tests of bullets fired by, 340–42

Oswald’s disposal of, 263

Oswald’s practice with, 162–63, 473

Oswald’s purchase of, 103, 104, 473

paper bag for, 223, 223n24n, 270, 473

police discovery of, 269–70, 478

prints on, 281–83, 473

speed of bullets fired by, 103, 318n, 337–38, 472

stock of, 245

telescopic sight on, 213, 214n, 270n, 472

timing of firing of, 317–18, 408, 472

Man Who Knew Too Much, The (Russell), 443n, 465

Marcello, Carlos, 136, 141, 156n, 363, 424, 456, 458–59, 460, 461

Marcus, Raymond, 410, 413, 431, 446

Marina and Lee (McMillan), 67n,

Marine Corps, U.S., Oswald in, 20–33, 48, 63, 172n, 473

court-martial proceedings and, 23, 24, 26, 31–32

discharge and, 31–33, 46, 52n, 135, 160, 174, 201, 345, 427

Marine Corps Reserve, 17n

Marino, Mario, 425n

Markham, Helen, 273–74, 276, 278n

Marlin rifles, 18

Marrs, Jim, 13n, 26n, 43, 57, 73n, 132n, 136n, 155n, 228n, 241n, 251–52, 259–60, 369n70n

on Brennan, 248–49

“mystery deaths” listed by, 482, 483

on Oswald’s childhood, 5

on Oswald’s CIA ties, 26n

on Oswald’s defection, 46n47n

Price’s observations and, 252–53

on source of shots, 237n

on swapping of Oswald, 27n28n

on umbrella man, 258–59

Martello, Francis, 152n, 153, 154, 155, 156, 166

Martens, Layton, 427, 441

Martin, Frank, 485

Martin, Jack, 138, 426

Martin, Jim, 397

Martin, John, 352

Martin, Shirley, 410, 415

Martin, William, 443

Maydon, Helio Tuexi, 172

Mayor, Georgia, 369n

Mazzei, Irvin, 362

Meagher, Sylvia, 13n, 175, 225n, 270n, 274n, 410, 415, 416–17, 48182

Melanson, Philip H., 143

Meller, Anna, 82, 83, 84, 85, 93, 94

Mentesana, Charles, 486

Men Who Killed Kennedy, The, 466

Mercer, Julia Ann, 228

Meredith, James, 99

Mexico, 272n

Oswald’s trip to, 170–96, 211–12

Meyer, Mary, 492

Meyers, Eddie, 367

Meyers, Lawrence, 353n, 366, 367, 388

Midgett, Bill, 286, 309

Midnight Ride, Operation, 98, 99

Mikoyan, Anastas, 51

Militant, 91, 102, 106n, 108, 125, 163, 202n

Miller, Austin, 255

Milteer, Joseph, 496–97

Minsk, 45, 50n, 53–54, 56–73

Minutemen, 137, 440

Minyard, Frank, 450

Mirabel Diaz, Alfredo, 182, 189, 194n

Mitchell, Mary Ann, 245

Moffitt, Sandra, 439

Molina, Joe R., 227, 348n

Mooney, Luke, 268, 270n

Moore, Jim, 254n

Moore, J. Walton, 86

Moorman, Mary, 249–50, 251

Morgan, Estes, 145, 146, 147

Morgan, Reeves, 144, 147

Mormon church, 112, 116n

Morrison, DeLesseps, 491

Morrow, Robert, 456n

Mosby, Aline, 18, 47, 63

Moscow, 13n

Oswald in, 46–54, 63, 66–67

U.S. embassy in, 35, 48, 51–52, 61–62, 65, 67, 68–69, 71, 72

Mumford, Pamela, 172–73

Murphy, Paul, 23, 24

Murret, Charles “Dutz,” 121, 123, 124, 127, 135, 155, 156–57, 167, 463

Murret, Eugene, 135

Murret, John, 123

Murret, Joyce, 155–56

Murret, Lillian, 8, 9, 14, 17, 121, 122, 123, 124, 127, 135, 153n, 155, 156, 167

Murret, Marilyn, 9

Nagell, Richard, 443, 465

National Academy of Sciences, 240

National American Bank, 157

National Archives, 210n, 235, 300–1, 306n, 309n, 311, 416n

National Enquirer, 193

National Guard, 421

National Rifle Association (NRA), 130

Naval Intelligence, 136, 186

Nazis, 85, 440

NBC, 242, 243n, 439–10, 441, 482

Nechiporenko, Oleg Maximovich, 183–84, 185, 186n, 190, 196

“Nelson, Little Daddy,” 354–55

neutron-activation tests, 322, 340–42, 408

Newman, Bill, 256n

Newman, John, 365, 369–71, 372

Newman, Sam, 137

New Orleans, La., 14, 18, 21, 33, 92, 108n

anti-Castro activities in, 150, 431, 433

Camp Street connections in, 136–41, 166, 459n

Garrison as district attorney in, 422–26, 448–19

Oswald in, 109, 117, 118, 120, 121- 71, 207

Oswald’s arrest and trial for street fighting in, 152–58, 181

Oswald’s birth in, 5

New Orleans Charity Hospital, 131

New Orleans Police Department, 152–53, 154, 156

New Orleans States-Item, 430

New Orleans Times-Picayune, 136, 158, 168n

New York, N.Y., 10, 11n, 14, 74

New York Daily Worker, 108

New York Department of Welfare, 74, 74n

New York Domestic Relations Court, 13

New Yorker, 415

New York Labor party, 171

New York Times, 410, 425n, 433n, 446

Nichols, Alice, 374

Nichols, H. Louis, 347n, 488

Nichols, John, 335n

Nichols Parking Garage, 383, 384, 387, 389

Nicol, Joseph, 277

Nixon, Richard M., 119, 414n

Norman, Florence, 174, 175

Norman, Harold, 227, 241, 241n, 260, 263n, 317

Norton, Robert, 389–90

Nosenko, Yuriy, 34–5, 187

as CIA prisoner, 38–43

defection of, 34–37

Oswald testimony of, 36, 38, 42, 44, 45–55, 58, 70, 184

Warren Commission and, 35–36, 38

Novel, Gordon, 432, 441

Oak Cliff, 3, 92, 198, 201, 272

Occhipinti, Frank, 425n

O’Connor, Paul, 300n

Odio, Annie, 176–77

Odio, Sylvia, 175–80

O’Donnell, Ken, 291, 293, 488

Ofstein, Dennis, 90, 109

Ogonyok, 132

O’Hara, Malcolm, 424

Okui, Yaeko, 96

Olds, Gregory, 347n

Oliver, Beverly, 258–59, 368n, 483

Oliver, Clarence, 485

Olsen, Harry, 356, 379–80, 389

O’Neill, Francis X., 295–96, 298–99, 300

O’Neill, Tip, 454

On the Trail of the Assassins (Garrison), 31n, 118n, 450, 466

organized crime, 136, 141, 156n, 278, 407

in CIA’s Castro assassination plots, 452–53

Garrison’s ties to, 424–25

HSCA on involvement of, 456–59

Oswald and, 462–64

Ruby’s ties to, 351–52, 352n, 353–54, 359–61, 362–64, 409

Orwell, George, 29

Osborne, Albert, 172

Osborne, Mack, 33

Oswald, Audrey Marina Rachel, 165, 203, 203n4n

Oswald, Hazel, 122

Oswald, June, 71, 76, 82, 83, 84, 88, 93, 99, 101, 105, 106, 112, 120, 124, 156, 159, 164

Oswald, Lee Harvey:

address book of, 171n, 210n, 407, 445

anarchist ideology of, 75, 136

asocial behavior of, 8, 9, 10, 11–12, 13–16, 17, 80, 85, 129, 147, 201, 202–3

autobiographical file compiled by, 167

books as interest of, 9, 16, 25, 29–30, 134n, 165

childhood of, 5–19

Communism as interest of, 16, 18–19, 24–25, 29, 30, 31, 47, 51–52, 61, 75, 81–82, 84, 90–91, 101, 104–5, 122n, 125–32, 135–36, 149, 155–56, 160, 162

court-martial proceedings against, 23, 24, 26–27, 31–32

defection of, 24, 25, 32, 45–52, 60, 67–68, 79, 133n, 159–60, 161

diary of, 49–50, 56n, 58, 59–60, 63–64, 69, 70, 77n

drinking by, 26, 108

dyslexia of, 24n, 69, 119n, 136

employment history of, 17, 56, 80–81, 88, 109–10, 122–23, 129, 134–35, 197

exhumation of, 28n, 345n46n

false names used by, 4, 5, 91–92, 122–23, 126, 128, 154, 166, 201, 211, 218

finances of, 24–25, 32, 46, 97n, 112, 122, 123, 126n, 131, 140, 156, 170, 173n, 222, 271

frugality of, 173, 190, 202n, 208n

guns and rifles owned by, 18, 57, 66, 97, 103–4, 204n, 267; see also Mannlicher-Carcano rifle

hunting by, 29, 67

imposter issue and, 27n28n, 174–80, 186, 188–89, 191, 211n, 212–13, 345n46n, 413

integrationist views of, 99n, 157

interrogation of, 343–50, 378, 391–93

IQ scores of, 10

knife incidents and, 10, 11n

lineup identifications of, 273, 274, 275–76, 346

as Marine, 20–23, 48, 63, 172n, 473

marksmanship of, 20, 66n67n, 225n, 472

mental instability of, 11–12, 13n, 50, 83–84

Mexico trip of, 170–96, 211–12

military discharge of, 31–33, 46, 52n, 135, 160, 174, 201, 345, 427

photographic skills of, 89–91, 122, 131n

post office boxes and false

addresses used by, 92, 97, 120, 125, 129, 141, 208, 392

psychiatric evaluations of, 11–12, 13n, 50

Russian studied by, 28–29, 31, 46, 52–53, 62–64

schools attended by, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13–14, 15, 17, 18

self-image of, 22, 33, 149, 162, 219–20

sexuality and sex life of, 21n, 25n, 26, 65, 82, 88, 94, 98, 127–28, 427–28, 436, 444n

in Soviet Union, 46–73, 192

spelling ability of, 24n, 50n, 70, 102n, 214

suicide attempt of, 13n, 49–50

temper of, 9–10, 12–13, 26, 30, 78–79, 82, 83–84, 101

as Trotskyite, 125–26, 210

U.S. denounced by, 27–28, 29, 47, 51–52, 56n, 67, 74–75, 104–5, 109–10, 129, 133, 135, 155–56

U.S. passports of, 32, 61, 67–68, 73, 128, 132–33

writings of, 6, 76–77, 104–5

Oswald, Marguerite, 18, 28, 32, 33, 140, 252, 259, 344, 412

character of, 5–6, 14–15

death of, 489–90

Ekdahl’s divorce from, 7, 8

Oswald’s relationship with, 5–6, 8–9, 10–11, 11n, 12–13, 14–15, 19n, 76, 80, 90n

Warren Commission testimony of, 6n, 11n, 13n, 18n, 82

Oswald, Marina, 19n, 25n, 28n, 55, 90, 123, 124, 145n, 147, 155–56, 157–58, 159, 186, 190, 202, 205–6, 277, 344, 448, 463

background of, 62

FBI interview of, 206–8, 209–10

HSCA testimony of, 73

on Marguerite Oswald, 7n, 8–9

Oswald briefly left by, 93–94

Oswald photographed by, 106–8

on Oswald’s admiration for Castro, 125, 128, 132

Oswald’s arrest and, 280–81

and Oswald’s attempted assassination of Walker, 111–17

Oswald’s beating of, 79, 80, 82, 84, 89, 92–93, 94–95, 96, 98, 101, 104, 108

Oswald’s first meeting of, 62

on Oswald’s guilt, 345

Oswald’s marriage to, 64–65

on Oswald’s New Orleans home life, 121n, 140

Oswald’s refusal to teach English to, 76n, 95, 105, 156, 167

Oswald’s relationship with, 64–65, 66–67, 71n, 74, 82, 87–88, 95–96, 97–98, 109–10, 111, 124–25, 127–28, 133–34, 168–69, 198, 199, 206–7, 218, 220–22

on Oswald’s rifle practice, 162–63

Oswald’s weekend visits with, 198–99, 203, 204–5, 209, 210–11, 217–18, 220–22

second pregnancy of, 19n, 99, 101, 102, 119, 127, 131, 164, 168, 198, 199, 200

Soviet embassy’s correspondence with, 99–100, 101, 102, 128, 133–34, 150n

Soviet exit process and, 67–72

suicide attempt of, 101

Warren Commission testimony of, 116n, 210n, 213n, 404

Oswald, Robert, 5, 6, 7, 10, 18, 19, 28, 74, 76, 80, 82, 90n, 95, 97, 213n, 344

Oswald’s correspondence with, 24, 47, 52, 61, 69

Oswald, Robert Edward Lee, 5, 122

Oswald, Vada, 76, 79, 95

Oswald Affair, The (Sauvage), 413

Oswald: Assassin or Fall-guy? (Joesten), 412

Padgett Printing Company, 197, 202n

Pago Club, 389

Paine, Michael, 100, 110, 111, 125, 128, 134, 199, 203, 204n, 204–6, 216, 217, 257, 344n, 345–46

Paine, Ruth, 110, 111, 118–19, 124–25, 126, 171, 212, 216, 221, 257, 344, 347n, 463

FBI interview of, 207–8, 209–10

Marina Oswald’s friendship with, 100–2, 105, 120, 127–28, 134–35

Marina Oswald’s stay with, 164, 168, 169, 171, 197–98, 206–7, 208

Oswald’s arrest and, 280–81

Oswald’s Book Depository job and, 200–1, 202n

Oswald’s weekend visits to home of, 198–99, 203, 204–5, 209, 210–11, 217, 221