Post by Rob Caprio on Jan 6, 2019 22:48:33 GMT -5
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This is from Jim Garrison’s investigation into the murder of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) which was told in his book “On The Trail Of The Assassins”.
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It is an early afternoon in New Orleans in mid September 1963 and the scene is the Mexican Consulate building. A young man, accompanied by a woman with a scarf tied around her head, appear at the Mexican Consulate. On this occasion, Mrs. Fennella Farrington happened to be there to try and get her family automobile returned from Mexico. It had been left on a recent visit with her husband.
The young man asked the clerk at the desk, "What is the weather like in Mexico City?"
"It's very hot," she replied. "Just like it is here today."
He then asked her -- now striking the sinister theme repeated throughout these numerous impersonations-- "What do you have to do to take firearms or a gun into Mexico?"
This was a question that would catch almost anyone's ear. The lady at the Consulate asked why he wanted to take a gun, and Fenella Farrington, standing nearby, volunteered that "the hunting's wonderful."
The man, whom Mrs. Farrington described as "tall and very thin", seemed resentful of her contribution, making no effort to show any sign of appreciation. Mrs. Farrington also recalled that he appeared ill-at-ease an not relaxed as were other tourists seeking visas.
Four days after the President's murder, Mrs. Farrington was visiting relatives in Washington D.C. when the F.B.I hunted her down. The F.B.I agent who called her from the Washington office gave her the office number so that she could call back for confirmation of his identity. This done, he informed her that the Bureau had located her because of the scene at the Consulate in New Orleans. The scene had been photographed, he informed her, by an invisible camera. It had been set in operation when the young man mentioned firearms and, inasmuch as she was present, the Bureau had traced her from the photograph. The young man, he added, was Lee Harvey Oswald, whose picture had been taken at the same time.
The FBI agent suggested to Mrs. Farrington that she had ALSO seen in Mexico City, even before the scene at the Consulate. She replied firmly that she had NOT seen Oswald in Mexico City. Nonetheless, the agent insisted – despite her repeated DENIALS -- that she had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico.
Mrs. Farrington, and her cousin, Mrs. Lillian Merilh, who had been with her at the Mexican Consulate, were later questioned again by the same F.B.I agent and others as well. This time the agents produced photographs of Jack Ruby and NOW INSISTED that Jack Ruby had been present at the Mexican Consulate earlier that day, when both Mrs. Farrington and her cousin had been there. Both Mrs. Farrington and Mrs. Merilh informed the agents that the photographs of Ruby did NOT depict anyone they saw at the consulate.
I heard the story from Mort Sahl and Mark Lane, who were working with us at the time. Lane took a statement from her at my request. He showed her 17 photographs, asking if any of them appeared to be the young man at the consulate in New Orleans. She replied that two of the pictures could have been the man. She picked out a picture of Lee Oswald. And she picked out a picture of Kerry Thornley -- Oswalds' friend from the Marine days back at El Toro, who had later moved to New Orleans.
The Farrington affair had raised obvious questions. Why, for example, was the F.B.I. trying to BULLY a witness into saying she saw Oswald in Mexico City? And why was there NO picture of Oswald at the consulate? The hidden camera there was obviously good enough to take an identifiable picture of Fenella Farrington and good enough to have the Bureau on her heels in a short time. The F.B.I. agent told her that it HAD A PHOTOGRAPH of the young man who wanted to take a rifle to Mexico, and that it was Lee Oswald. Yet the government had NEVER released that photo. IF the photograph had been of Oswald, would the government had been so shy about revealing it? (My note -- same goes for the photo allegedly taken at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.)
Jim Garrison -- "On The Trail Of The Assassins" pp. 75-77.
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One more thing about Kerry Thornley, he would give very different testimony from ALL THE OTHER Marines interviewed about Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and his was the ONLY one kept in full in the volumes of the WC hearings. (Volume 11) Thornley moved to New Orleans as early as 1961 and would stay until just a few days after the JFK assassination. He was seen in the company of LHO quite a few times as well and this was confirmed by Barbara Reid who knew both of them. She stated that Thornley usually wore his hair long, but when she saw him, along with LHO, in early September at the Bourbon House he had very short, cropped hair like LHO. Thornley had just come back from a trip out of town.[/font]
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Garrison_Jim.jpg
This is from Jim Garrison’s investigation into the murder of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) which was told in his book “On The Trail Of The Assassins”.
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It is an early afternoon in New Orleans in mid September 1963 and the scene is the Mexican Consulate building. A young man, accompanied by a woman with a scarf tied around her head, appear at the Mexican Consulate. On this occasion, Mrs. Fennella Farrington happened to be there to try and get her family automobile returned from Mexico. It had been left on a recent visit with her husband.
The young man asked the clerk at the desk, "What is the weather like in Mexico City?"
"It's very hot," she replied. "Just like it is here today."
He then asked her -- now striking the sinister theme repeated throughout these numerous impersonations-- "What do you have to do to take firearms or a gun into Mexico?"
This was a question that would catch almost anyone's ear. The lady at the Consulate asked why he wanted to take a gun, and Fenella Farrington, standing nearby, volunteered that "the hunting's wonderful."
The man, whom Mrs. Farrington described as "tall and very thin", seemed resentful of her contribution, making no effort to show any sign of appreciation. Mrs. Farrington also recalled that he appeared ill-at-ease an not relaxed as were other tourists seeking visas.
Four days after the President's murder, Mrs. Farrington was visiting relatives in Washington D.C. when the F.B.I hunted her down. The F.B.I agent who called her from the Washington office gave her the office number so that she could call back for confirmation of his identity. This done, he informed her that the Bureau had located her because of the scene at the Consulate in New Orleans. The scene had been photographed, he informed her, by an invisible camera. It had been set in operation when the young man mentioned firearms and, inasmuch as she was present, the Bureau had traced her from the photograph. The young man, he added, was Lee Harvey Oswald, whose picture had been taken at the same time.
The FBI agent suggested to Mrs. Farrington that she had ALSO seen in Mexico City, even before the scene at the Consulate. She replied firmly that she had NOT seen Oswald in Mexico City. Nonetheless, the agent insisted – despite her repeated DENIALS -- that she had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico.
Mrs. Farrington, and her cousin, Mrs. Lillian Merilh, who had been with her at the Mexican Consulate, were later questioned again by the same F.B.I agent and others as well. This time the agents produced photographs of Jack Ruby and NOW INSISTED that Jack Ruby had been present at the Mexican Consulate earlier that day, when both Mrs. Farrington and her cousin had been there. Both Mrs. Farrington and Mrs. Merilh informed the agents that the photographs of Ruby did NOT depict anyone they saw at the consulate.
I heard the story from Mort Sahl and Mark Lane, who were working with us at the time. Lane took a statement from her at my request. He showed her 17 photographs, asking if any of them appeared to be the young man at the consulate in New Orleans. She replied that two of the pictures could have been the man. She picked out a picture of Lee Oswald. And she picked out a picture of Kerry Thornley -- Oswalds' friend from the Marine days back at El Toro, who had later moved to New Orleans.
The Farrington affair had raised obvious questions. Why, for example, was the F.B.I. trying to BULLY a witness into saying she saw Oswald in Mexico City? And why was there NO picture of Oswald at the consulate? The hidden camera there was obviously good enough to take an identifiable picture of Fenella Farrington and good enough to have the Bureau on her heels in a short time. The F.B.I. agent told her that it HAD A PHOTOGRAPH of the young man who wanted to take a rifle to Mexico, and that it was Lee Oswald. Yet the government had NEVER released that photo. IF the photograph had been of Oswald, would the government had been so shy about revealing it? (My note -- same goes for the photo allegedly taken at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.)
Jim Garrison -- "On The Trail Of The Assassins" pp. 75-77.
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One more thing about Kerry Thornley, he would give very different testimony from ALL THE OTHER Marines interviewed about Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) and his was the ONLY one kept in full in the volumes of the WC hearings. (Volume 11) Thornley moved to New Orleans as early as 1961 and would stay until just a few days after the JFK assassination. He was seen in the company of LHO quite a few times as well and this was confirmed by Barbara Reid who knew both of them. She stated that Thornley usually wore his hair long, but when she saw him, along with LHO, in early September at the Bourbon House he had very short, cropped hair like LHO. Thornley had just come back from a trip out of town.[/font]