Getting inside Oswalds mind - his library books

[Gerry Down]

You can do a search on history-matters:

https://www.history-matters.com/search/search.htm

Thanks. A search for "Abraham Zapruder" got me to this url:

https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh7/pdf/WH7_Zapruder.pdf

I'm guessing the "wh7" in the url means it is volume 7. What do the letters "wh" stand for? Is that definately referring to the volume?

So the way you would reference Zapruders WC testimony would be as follows:

(7 H 569-578)

That correct?

[John Iacoletti]

Yes, exactly!

"WH"....I dunno.  "Warren Hearings"?

[Gerry Down]

Does anyone know what the letters CD mean on some Warren Commission documents? For example at this link:

https://www.history-matters.com/analysis/witness/

if you go to Wilma Bond, an FBI report for her is labelled "CD735".

What do the letters CD stand for?

[Richard Smith]

Oswald's reading list seems fairly consistent with his historical persona.  An interest in politics, history, and spy fantasies.  Standing alone it doesn't mean much as to his guilt but it does reflect the interests of a commie nut job with a not too firm grasp on reality.  He viewed himself as some type of revolutionary counter hero.

[Charles Collins]

Has anyone ever read all the library books Oswald ever took out in his life? In order to help get inside Oswalds mind?

Here is a list of the books Oswald took out in New Orleans in the summer of 1963:

https://historymatters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/pdf/WH25_CE_2650.pdf

Does anyone have a list of the books he took out in 1962 and 1963 in Dallas?

In any attempt to try to understand what might have been going through LHO’s mind, one should not ignore his childhood. His mother put him through a plethora of things that were detrimental to him. None of her three offspring wanted her at their mutual Thanksgiving get together about one year before the assassination. So she wasn’t invited. That alone says a lot about her.

[Gerry Down]

In any attempt to try to understand what might have been going through LHO’s mind, one should not ignore his childhood. His mother put him through a plethora of things that were detrimental to him. None of her three offspring wanted her at their mutual Thanksgiving get together about one year before the assassination. So she wasn’t invited. That alone says a lot about her.

Agreed. That kind of stuff requires the expertise of a psychologist or psychiatrist though. Beyond the scope of most people.

[Louis Earl]

Interesting that both LHO and JFK were readers of Ian Fleming.  Entertaining books, for sure, but also fantasies.  JFK might have imagined himself as Bond and maybe LHO dreamed he could be.  Maybe LHO thought he had a 'license to kill'.