MRS. OSWALD SAYS SON IS SCAPEGOAT

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 4, 1998
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 13, 1964
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s , OSrJALD SAYS
OWN IS SCAPEGOAT;
Thinks He Was C.I.A. Agent
'Sot Up to Take Blame'
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By WILLIAM M. BLAIR
:.y,crial to The New York Times
CPYRGHT
Th :pother of Lee H. Oswald)
said today that she believed her
son was a United States "in-
telligence agent" and that he
was "set up to take the blame"
for the assassination of Presi-
dent Kennedy.
She made the statement to
newsmen as she finished three
clays of testimony before the'
Presidential commission inves-l
tigating the assassination. She
said she had told the same' "I still believe my son, i.ec
1 Harvey Oswald, is innocent,
thing to t:e commission, she began. She vowed she would
}thief Justice Earl Warren, .,continue public appearances
co:nn.ission chairman, said the and an investigation" to clear
b6-year-old mother had Pro- her son "if it takes another,
stinted no evidence to support year to do so."
her belief that Oswald was an The assassin, she contended,
agent for the Central Intclli-I "is still at large." g
,
genet . -gency? ' "I realize that as a human "My son wa a scrap oat,",
,,She offered no evidence to, she said at one veins.
acing he [Oswald] could be "Who can prove he is not a.
that effect except her story and: guilty," she said, but added that
correspondence that she pre-I C.I.A. agent?" she sat I. "H
sensed, taken togethct, )cads)s she had given the commission isn't going to say lie';; a C.I.A.
evidence" that her son was in- agent, and the Govci?runent
her to the speculation--I use t nocent. Some of the documents isn't ' going to say he s. Lee,
the word speculation, as she she said she gave the commis-being an agent, would not say
used it---that he was an agent.
stop were of a nature "the com- so to anyone."
"She has not given its any, mission did not know before." Chief Justice Warren said
facts that would change the, She said she and Mark Lane,; pho to graphs that Mrs. Oswald
picture as We know it up to the' the New York lawyer whom had sought to present to the
time she testified," Mr. Warren she has said she retained with- commission were of her family
said. ''She did not profess to out fee to defend her son, had in "early life" and had no bear-
give us any facts that would, "investigators all over." She ing on the assassination. She
prove anything in connection, also said that she had receivedlwanted the commission to ac-
with the assassination. 1,500 letters with informationlcept them on the condition thatI
)
,,She did contend that the on the assassination, including! the panel "not show them toy
correspondence [with Oswald] some from foreigners, and that! anyone," Mr. Warren said, but
that she presented and her own she would not pass on "any the commission would not ac-
tcstimouy taken together in' ?
their entirety present a much tips" to the commission. ceps this limitatinot Sae then
different picture than has been 'Set Up to Take tho Elaine' said she would not introduce
given to the public up to the` Asked whether she had con- atatuemaele to because her f f " or y h u .p iorn
.Ipr esent time. She says she or tradicted before the commission articles or books that she might
t
believes her son is innocent, the testimony of her daughter-'write."
that it is possible that lie com- in-law, Mrs. Marina Oswald,
}pitted the crime but that it who told the panel she believed Mr. Warren 'indicated that
p called
other witnesses is possible that other peg-;her husband had shot the Pros- soon. But t he said d ai this would
le could have committed it." idcnt, the mother asserted: The plump, matronly appear-' "My daughter-in-latiii has the deepe depend on when ceerta tain ow n whing woman, when asked for a! privilege of making her own certain can get litre and when
mbers of the commis-
statement, moved readily to' statements and I have the I certan me
be ."
microphones set before cam-}same privilege of rA.aking lion Asked can ou a te 4 a
eras in the lobby of the Veter-I mine." janitor or in a b the a Texas report twat -
ans of Foreign Wars Building, "Lee Harvey Oswald was not Book De-
on Capitol Hill, where the cone-, the killer of President Kennedy po Building ildixg in Dallas
.mission met. and he was set up to take the would rb d be the next wybes,hey
Sho. had declined to make a blame," she went on. know. I don't said: know." They
'statement until today on the' In most references to her) know, .
Oswald is alleged to have;
advice of her counsel, John F.'son, Mrs. Oswald used the
Doyle, who was appointed by present tense, such as "I be- fired the shots that killed Presi-
tile District of Columbia Bar lieve Lee is an intelligence dent Kennedy from a si-
Associatoin at her request. agent." floor window of the buildingxth ..
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