Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During that period Oswald became the self-declared chairman of the New Orleans chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro outfit. He also got a card at a New Orleans public library, drew out several spy novels by Ian Fleming (Kennedy's favorite cloak-and-dagger author), a book about Kennedy called Portrait of a President, another about the Berlin Wall, two novels by Aldous Huxley, and several books on Soviet and Chinese Communism-nearly all of which were distinctly anti-Communist in flavor -and a book describing the assassination of Huey Long...
...Motive? But why had he done it? Perhaps it was merely the power of suggestion. Throughout his whole lifetime, Lee Oswald was plainly a man of demonic frustrations and fanaticisms. His idol seems to have been Fidel Castro. In recent broadcasts, Castro called Kennedy a demagogue, a cretin and a member of an oligarchic family. "We are prepared," he declared, "to fight" the U.S. American leaders "should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe." Maybe all Oswald wanted to be was a hero to his depraved hero...
...part of a lot sold to Cuba in 1959 by Belgium's Fabrique Nationale. Chemical tests on a submachine gun brought up the faint outlines of the Cuban armed forces coat of arms. On other weapons, where the markings were obliterated, the position of the scrapings gave Castro away...
Back in Fort Worth, Oswald still headed down the dead-end street, allied himself with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a New York-headquartered pro-Castro outfit that holds a prominent place on the Communist front organization lists of both the State Department and the Department of Justice. In an erratic bit of derring-do, Oswald went to New Orleans last July. There he tried to infiltrate the Cuban Revolutionary Student Directorate, a militant crew of anti-Castro raiders, by offering his Marine experience to teach military tactics to members. Directorate leaders were leary of Oswald-and they were...
Fifty-nine American students who visited Cuba ths summer are testing the travel ban in a manner tactically different from the approaches chosen by Worthy and Zemel. Early in 1962, Castro issued an invitation to the Natonal Student Association. Apparently he felt that a student visit would improve the Cuban image in the eyes of the American public. Although NSA declined the invitation, Castro did not withdraw it. Last fall, a group in New York calling themselves the Ad Hoc Student Committee for Travel to Cuba set about organizing a trip to the island. The Committee finally sent fifty-nine...