Did the CIA assassinate JFK?

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Does that pass for wit in your world? Wow.

Try to follow along. My point is the fact that Oswald left his wedding ring behind, at times, while working in Russia can be used in court as a precedent regarding any claim that Oswald had never left his wedding ring behind prior to 11.22.63

I understand that you're sort of "spit balling it" (in case you're not familiar, that's American slang for sort of brainstorming things).

Priscilla Johnson McMillan quotes Marina in "Marina and Lee" as saying the Lee never took off his ring off and left it behind even when he was doing the grimiest of manual jobs.

In fact, Marina said this about the incident (from her WC testimony):
Mr. RANKIN. Had your husband ever left his wedding ring at home that way before?
Mrs. OSWALD. At one time while he was still at Fort Worth, it was inconvenient for him to work with his wedding ring on and he would remove it, but at work--he would not leave it at home. His wedding ring was rather wide, and it bothered him.
I don't know now. He would take it off at work.
Mr. RANKIN. Then this is the first time during your married life that he had ever left it at home where you live?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.

Couldn't he, as Marina mentioned, take it off while at work if it got in the way? Put it in his pocket? Why leave it behind? What was he going to do at work day at the TSBD that was different than the other days, days when he wore it?

Yes, besides shoot JFK I mean?

[Bill Chapman]

I understand that you're sort of "spit balling it" (in case you're not familiar, that's American slang for sort of brainstorming things).

Priscilla Johnson McMillan quotes Marina in "Marina and Lee" as saying the Lee never took off his ring off and left it behind even when he was doing the grimiest of manual jobs.

In fact, Marina said this about the incident (from her WC testimony):
Mr. RANKIN. Had your husband ever left his wedding ring at home that way before?
Mrs. OSWALD. At one time while he was still at Fort Worth, it was inconvenient for him to work with his wedding ring on and he would remove it, but at work--he would not leave it at home. His wedding ring was rather wide, and it bothered him.
I don't know now. He would take it off at work.
Mr. RANKIN. Then this is the first time during your married life that he had ever left it at home where you live?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.

Couldn't he, as Marina mentioned, take it off while at work if it got in the way? Put it in his pocket? Why leave it behind? What was he going to do at work day at the TSBD that was different than the other days, days when he wore it?

Yes, besides shoot JFK I mean?

Although I remember something about the wedding ring re work in Russia, I'm down with leaving the ring at home deserving inclusion on the Bug53 list

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Although I remember something about the wedding ring re work in Russia, I'm down with leaving the ring at home deserving inclusion on the Bug53 list

Yes, I was scanning the Mailer book - which goes over in detail his work at the factory - for anything related to it. I also had some vague memory of something along the lines of him taking it off for some reason.

At the factory - radio/TV - he worked in the metal lathe shop as a metal worker. Mailer recites several incidents of workers complaining about Oswald using their equipment without permission and ruining their calibrations of the machines. Some of this, of course, was before he married Marina.

Here he is in Minsk with fellow co-workers. Is that his Marine ring on his right hand?

                   

[Walt Cakebread]

Yes, I was scanning the Mailer book - which goes over in detail his work at the factory - for anything related to it. I also had some vague memory of something along the lines of him taking it off for some reason.

At the factor - radio/TV - he worked in the metal lathe shop as a metal worker. Mailer recites several incidents of workers complaining about Oswald using their equipment without permission and ruining their calibrations of the machines. Some of this, of course, was before he married Marina.

Here he is in Minsk with fellow co-workers. Is that his Marine ring on his right hand?

                 

There's a message being transmitted in this photo......   Do you know what it is?

[Richard Smith]

My point is the fact that Oswald left his wedding ring behind, at times, while working in Russia can be used in court as a precedent regarding any claim that Oswald had never left his wedding ring behind prior to 11.22.63

Marina's testimony indicated that he had never left his wedding ring at home before.  She did say that he sometimes took it off at work. 

Mr. RANKIN. Had your husband ever left his wedding ring at home that way before?
Mrs. OSWALD. At one time while he was still at Fort Worth, it was inconvenient for him to work with his wedding ring on and he would remove it, but at work--he would not leave it at home. His wedding ring was rather wide, and it bothered him.
 I don't know now. He would take it off at work.
Mr. RANKIN. Then this is the first time during your married life that he had ever left it at home where you live?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.

[Richard Smith]

Yes, I was scanning the Mailer book - which goes over in detail his work at the factory - for anything related to it. I also had some vague memory of something along the lines of him taking it off for some reason.

At the factor - radio/TV - he worked in the metal lathe shop as a metal worker. Mailer recites several incidents of workers complaining about Oswald using their equipment without permission and ruining their calibrations of the machines. Some of this, of course, was before he married Marina.

Here he is in Minsk with fellow co-workers. Is that his Marine ring on his right hand?

                 

I can't see the picture but per the Russian tradition, Oswald wore his wedding ring on his right hand.  It is visible in the picture of him waving from a train window with Marina when leaving Russia.

[Craig Coleman]

Who did he say this to? Can we get a name?

Unfortunately there is no real evidence of this JFK quote. However, apparently former President Truman, whose administration established the CIA in 1947, is the one JFK came to to express that he "wanted to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds." Kennedy was frustrated with the failed Bay of Pigs so it seems possible that he would have said such a thing, but there really is nothing to prove it and all we have is word of mouth.