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...happened so often before, Oswald was a failure. A rifle shot crashed through the window of Walker's study ?just at the moment that Walker lowered his head to take a closer look at a book he was reading. The bullet missed. Said Marina to the Warren Commission: "When he came back, I asked him what had happened. He was very pale. He only told me he had shot at General Walker." Moreover, in Oswald's effects after the Kennedy assassination, officials found a map of Walker's neighborhood and three photographs?two showing the rear of Walker...
Soon after he shot at Walker, Oswald took an abortive fling at organizing a Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans, but his deepest drive then was to get to Cuba himself...
...case. Rankin recruited a staff of 14 outstanding private lawyers and law professors. All 56 field offices of the FBI lent their help. So did the CIA, the Secret Service, the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service?and even the Soviet government, which sent in sketchy reports of Oswald's 32-month stay in Russia and his visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico last September...
...rely on secondhand reports, the Commission determined to investigate everything afresh. Earl Warren interviewed Jacqueline Kennedy in her Georgetown home and Jack Ruby in his Dallas jail (Ruby called him "Earl"). Every member of the Commission flew to Dallas one or more times, painstakingly retraced the movements that Oswald was known to have made on Nov. 22. They visited the rooming house where he lived, the theater where he was captured, the jail basement where he was shot. At the Texas School Book Depository building, each one went to the sixth-floor spot where Oswald had stood, shouldered...
...York City, Commission staffers interviewed the teachers and psychiatrist who years ago had known the young, tormented Lee Oswald; in New Orleans, they questioned those who had known him more recently from his pro-Castro work. They studied Oswald's rambling diaries and letters, also read every book and major article that had been written on the Kennedy killing. FBI and CIA agents tried to discover and analyze every step that Oswald took during a curious trip to Mexico exactly one year ago. They questioned the drivers of the buses that Oswald rode to Mexico and back, and rounded...