LEE HARVEY OSWALD

The shooting of the suspected murderer by an exhibitionist night-club proprietor is too idiotic to be believed. That the Dallas police should have allowed it to happen is so stupid that the brain reels. Now it will never be satisfactorily proved whether Oswald shot the President or not, and there will be a jungle of rumors …

To this day I have serious doubts as to whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Lee Harvey Oswald was under surveillance by the FBI for months before the assassination.

It was gross negligence…. We failed in carrying through some of the salient aspects of the Oswald investigation. It ought to be a lesson to us all, but I doubt if some even realize it now.

a direct admission that we are responsible for negligence which might have resulted in the assassination of the President [JFK].

In the name of national security, the Commission’s hearings were held in secret, thereby continuing the policy which has marked the entire course of the case. This prompts my second question: If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security? Indeed, precisely the same question must be put here as was posed in France during the Dreyfus case: If the Government is so certain of its case, why has it conducted all its inquiries in the strictest secrecy?

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.

They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.

They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.

I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.

I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you.

No one's going to shoot at me.