5/10
How could Oswald be in two places at once when he was not anywhere at all?
9 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
"Former" CIA officer Bob Baer and company head to the Louisiana bayous to find evidence of training camps for anti-Castro Cubans there in the early 1960s. The report of the House Committee that reexamined the Kennedy assassination in the late 1970s mentions a film of Cubans practicing military maneuvers in Louisiana in which Oswald possibly appears. The film is missing according to Baer. He finds evidence that a camp might have existed, but did assassin Lee Harvey Oswald attend such a camp? Inconclusive.

Baer next looks at the testimony of Silvia Odio who lived in Dallas and claimed that a man calling himself Leon Oswald and two Cuban men visited her in September 1963 and talked about assassinating President John F. Kennedy. He assures us that this is a bombshell and he finds her testimony credible even though Ms. Odio's evidence, when presented to the Warren Commission, the first official body to investigate the assassination, was discounted. Baer does not tell why they discounted it, even though the documents that appear on the screen show that Ms. Odio believed that the visit from Oswald occurred on the 27th or 28th of September, which clearly was impossible if one believed that Oswald was in Mexico City on those dates. Baer should understand that argument since he himself believes that Oswald was in Mexico City-unless, of course, Baer would now care to entertain the theory that the man claiming to be Oswald in Mexico City was an imposter.

Finally, Baer looks at the attempt on the life of Major General Edwin Walker in April 1963. (A bullet just missed the general as he stood in his study at home.) Oswald took credit for that failed assassination attempt, telling several people about it. Baer cites an eye witness who saw the gunman get into a car that drove away, followed by another car. The implication is that Oswald, if he was that shooter, had accomplices. Because Oswald never drove a car, he evidently had not one but two accomplices, one of them being the driver of his getaway vehicle.

This is a rather boring episode to me because of all the sloshing about in the swamp without uncovering anything of interest. The only interesting points are the last accounts, which present evidence that Oswald had accomplices. If Odio's testimony is not mistaken, then it suggests that someone went to a great deal of trouble to send an Oswald impersonator to Mexico.
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