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I received this info from Gary Mack.....
"The reporters, whose request led to the midnight press conference, were under the impression from police that Oswald had already been charged with killing JFK. But they didn't know the charge was delayed, so KRLD newsman Bill Mercer, whom I've known for years, simply advised Oswald that he had been charged.
Oswald's slight surprise is due to the fact that he hadn't heard about it....and said so. The formal arraignment, of course, would have been held Sunday or Monday."
I seem to remember, but can't find a source for the following. Henry Wade had intended to charge Oswald with the murder of JFK as part of an "International Communist Conspiracy". However Wade was instructed to remove this before the official arrainment. The reporters were operating under the impression that Oswald had been formally charged but were unaware that Oswald's arrainment had been delayed due to the change in wording.
I can understand now believe that Oswald's reaction can be explained by this circumstance, he had not been charged but is reacting to being told he had been by a reporter.
Edit....update.....
From Henry Wade's WC testimony....
Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Wade, will you give us the substance of what Mr. Carr said to you and what you said to him at that time?
Mr. WADE. All I remember--I don't actually remember or know what night it was I talked to him but I assume it was that night because he did mention that the rumor was out that we were getting ready to file a charge of Oswald being part of an international conspiracy, and I told him that that was not going to be done.
It was late at night and I believe that is----
Mr. DULLES. It must have been Saturday night, wasn't it?
Mr. WADE. No; that was Friday night.
Mr. DULLES. Friday night.
Mr. WADE. And I told him, and then I got a call, since this happened, I talked to Jim Bowie, my first assistant who had talked to, somebody had called him, my phone had been busy and Barefoot Sanders, I talked to him, and he they all told that they were concerned about their having received calls from Washington and somewhere else, and I told them that there wasn't any such crime in Texas, I didn't know where it came from, and that is what prompted me to go down and take the complaint, otherwise I never would have gone down to the police station.
Mr. RANKIN. Did you say anything about whether you had evidence to support such a complaint of a conspiracy?
Mr. WADE. Mr. Rankin, I don't know what evidence we have, we had at that time and actually don't know yet what all the evidence was.
I never did see, I was told they had a lot of Fair Play for Cuba propaganda or correspondence on Oswald, and letters from the Communist Party, and it was probably exaggerated to me.
I was told this. I have never seen any of that personally. Never saw any of it that night. But whether he was a Communist or whether he wasn't, had nothing to do with solving the problem at hand, the filing of the charge.
I also was very, I wasn't sure I was going to take a complaint, and a justice of the peace will take a complaint lots of times because he doesn't have to try it. I knew I would have to try this case and that prompted me to go down and see what kind of evidence they had.
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