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Luna's Ridiculous Hearing
I must be a glutton for punishment. I watched the complete two hours+ of the Luna hearing and I thought my brain would explode. I don't know what was worse - the silly testimony of the witnesses or the brainless questions of the committee members.
Given his status, Judge Tunheim's comments were particularly awful. Gosh, what is he thinking here?
Here's probably the worst part: "The FBI was following him [i.e., Oswald] in Dallas because he was a suspect in another shooting. All of this suggests that they had a lot of contact with him ahead of time, and the -- I don't know what that suggests, other than the fact that they wanted to cover that up, the fact that they knew a lot about him ahead of time and didn't do much about it."
A "suspect in another shooting?" The Walker attempt? "Suggests that they had a lot of contact with him"? Why is he saying this? There's no evidence at all that they suspected him in that shooting. Or any shooting. Hosty never mentioned anything about it and he would have known. As I argued before, I don't see any evidence at all that the FBI had a "lot of contact with him" in Dallas. Or much contact at all.
Hosty, the sole agent assigned to monitor him (and Marina) at that time, testified that he had no contact with Oswald at all from November 5 to the assassination. In fact, he said he never met Oswald at all before the assassination. That's from October 3, when Oswald arrived in Dallas from Mexico City, to the assassination. Plus he said he had 25-40 other cases he was dealing with. One agent, 40 cases. Moreover, from that October 3 date to the assassination Hosty said he had *no idea* where he lived during the week. And of course Hoover punished 17 agents due to their
failure to keep track of Oswald. So this "lot of contact" claim by Tunheim is just wrong.
From Hosty's WC testimony:
Mr. STERN. Putting that aside for the moment, what was your evaluation of Lee Harvey Oswald based on the work that you had done and the reports that you had made, the information you gathered early in November?
Mr. HOSTY. Well, there were many questions to be resolved. I was quite interested in determining the nature of his contact with the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. I had not resolved that on the 22d of November. We were still waiting to resolve that. Prior to that, I mean that would be the only thing----
Mr. STERN. What had you planned to do after November 5 about this case?
Mr. HOSTY. Well as I had previously stated, I have between 25 and 40 cases assigned to me at any one time. I had other matters to take care of. I had now established that Lee Oswald was not employed in a sensitive industry. I can now afford to wait until New Orleans forwarded the necessary papers to me to show me I now had all the information. It was then my plan to interview Marina Oswald in detail concerning both herself and her husband's background.
Mr. STERN. Had you planned any steps beyond that point?
Mr. HOSTY. No. I would have to wait until I had talked to Marina to see what I could determine, and from there I could make my plans.
Mr. STERN. Did you take any action on this case. between November 5 and November 22?
Mr. HOSTY. No, sir.
And again, Hosty never mentions anything about Oswald being a suspect in a shooting. That's not only not a "lot of contact", that's no contact at all.
