Lee Harvey Oswald (1939–1963), named by the Warren Commission as President Kennedy's lone assassin, and shot dead two days later by Jack Ruby. Mae's case on him runs against the official one throughout the broadcasts: an agent rather than a defector, and one of two men, an Oswald and a double. No. 288 sets out the two-Oswald model in full, prompted by Marita Lorenz.
Across the broadcasts
In 1972 still granted a shot of his own, with Mae's case resting on accomplices rather than on his innocence
July 1, 1972
Mae concedes in 1972 that Oswald fired, and rests the conspiracy on the count of bullets instead.
"Even if Oswald shot a weapon, which he did, it would prove he had accomplices, which equals conspiracy."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 1 (1 Jul 1972), 50:14
Returns as precedent: his room in 1963 is the template Mae lays over Bremer's apartment
June 25, 1973
Set out as two men, an agent and a double, with Lorenz's story read as the double's trail from Miami
September 26, 1977
Mae answers ABC's mock trial with the government's own record: on her reading, the 26 volumes cannot carry a single piece of the case.
ABC's two-part docudrama The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald aired that Friday and Sunday.
"Because in the 26 volumes, there isn't any evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald owned a rifle, fired a rifle, every piece of evidence that linked him to the assassination can be proven to be forged and planted."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 18:14
Mae's counter-portrait, as she put it to Time's Hays Gorey: Oswald as a government agent whose Minsk posting is tied to the fall of the U-2.
Describing her debate with Hays Gorey of Time in Eugene, Oregon, the year before.
"Lee Harvey Oswald was an agent of the United States government who helped break the détente in 1960 that embarrassed President Eisenhower."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 13:45
Mae folds Lorenz's account into her two-Oswald model: the man in the car from Miami was the double.
"It's important because Lee Harvey Oswald had a double. One double was in Miami."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 40:06
Mae takes the double thesis to its end: the man Ruby shot was not the one who had been to Russia, and that one may still be alive.
"left the school book depository from the front of the building, I believe is alive and will surface sometime in the future."Mae Brussell, Mae Brussell Research Center, Broadcast 3 (26 Sep 1977), 41:30
Connections
Lorenz says an Oswald rode with her and Sturgis from Miami to Dallas.
Mae says the Commission's own 26 volumes contain no evidence against him.