by Judyth Baker
25 “Transcript of FPCC Debate Over Station WDSU,” as posted by John McAdams, using the Marquette University server at: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/jfkinfo3/exhibits/stuck3.htm July 18, 2010.
26 Lee Oswald’s close friend, CIA asset George DeMohrenschildt, in his book (its text is in the HSCA) speaks of Oswald’s deep commitment to racial equality: “I would die for my black brothers,” is a typical statement deMohrenschildt attributed to Lee. Lee sat on the “Negro” side of the courtroom when waiting to go before the judge where he paid a $10 fine for his pamphleteer activity on August 9th that ended in an altercation with three anti-Castroites who were also arrested, but not charged with any wrongdoing. Lee and I often sat in the back of New Orleans buses to protest the unwritten rule, despite the law, that blacks were to stay in the back of the bus. Passengers who recognized us as frequent riders on the Magazine Bus line (by which we rode to work most mornings for eleven weeks (my bus stop was right after Lee’s) eventually began saving us a seat on the back bench of the bus.
27 World History Archives: “The Struggle for Civil Rights” http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/641.html
28 Oswald and the CIA, by John Newman, p. 273.
29 US Govt. Document Resume CS 202 871. http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED127608.pdf
30 From: http://hitlergettingpunched.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
31 It should be noted that Lee Oswald described himself to me as trained in passive resistance, a Quaker tactic of non-violence designed to withstand harassment and physical threats.
32 See WC Vol. IX pp. 226, 259., and HSCA’s I Am a Patsy!: http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/03/JA/DR/.dr17.html ; also, my book, Me & Lee.
33 Due to vision problems, which get worse as the day advances until I can no longer focus my eyes, and my various European and Hungarian keyboards, numerous typos appear in my writing. Composing in English, under the circumstances, is a labor of love. I do it for Lee’s sake. I was forced to leave America and live in safe places in Europe and elsewhere for my protection after threats in 2007 forced me to apply for political asylum in Sweden. The Swedes of course could not grant me permanent political asylum, but they allowed me to stay in safe havens for over ten months until my family and donors could assist me. To this day I rely on donations in order to ‘stay legal’ overseas by moving every 89-90 days.
34 “Now It Can Be Foretold” Ann Bayer (assistant editor of Life.) Life Magazine, Sept. 26, 1969.
35 It was extraordinary how the horoscope fit the situation this day: I had to make some practical blood analyses in a very short time span at Jackson, Louisiana, to determine if one or more prisoners had been successfully inoculated with a highly refined, aggressive form of cancer. I had protested the use of unwitting prisoners who did not have cancer for this experiment, but was trapped into having to perform these last tests because nobody else was available, and I felt the victims would die in vain or the experiment might be repeated if I did not obtain the results they asked for.
Just before the tests, I was told I was blackballed by Dr. Alton Ochsner for making a written protest, which was discovered and read aloud over the Intercom at the Clinic by his secretary, a nurse who was taking the place of Ochsner’s usual nurse-secretary, who was on vacation. Outraged because of the announcement and the paper trail it had created, Ochsner ordered me to return to Florida.
My protest against virtually murdering “volunteers” if the bioweapon was successful destroyed my career in cancer research and basically ruined my life, at least the one I thought was awaiting me. Lee Oswald drove me to that hospital near Jackson, Louisiana, where the rapid tests were made; he also rushed blood samples that night for further testing back to New Orleans after purchasing a bus ticket and dropping me off that evening back at 1032 Marengo: we beat my husband home that night by only half an hour or so. Forced to separate, Lee and I were devastated: worse, he, too, had been threatened. We had both been told that we were “expendable.”
36 Due to the horoscope readings, I was aware that Marina’s birthday was in mid-July. Oswald, deeply entrenched in many assignments, had forgotten her birthday (he was now planning to divorce her): I was able to remind him of the birthday in the midst of technical work he was doing. Mortified, he left immediately for home.
37 These magazines were read by Lee Oswald, which we discussed. The “Night of the Iguana” article here and in newspapers helped interest us in thinking about the Belize area or other nearby places in the Yucatan peninsula as exciting places to visit. Eventually, we planned to divorce in Mexico and get married there, probably in Merida. But Lee became so entangled in the plots in Dallas, into which he realized he had been lured, that by November 20-21, our last conversation, he was afraid he would not be able to escape alive. After the assassination, the FBI tried to find Lee’s safety deposit box, which they heard was in San Antonio. Lee told me that he had placed his best clothes in a bus locker in Laredo. David Ferrie and his connections to Laredo have not been studied.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlnp0HfhLvQ Mark Lane’s interview of Pauline Bates. A newspaper article pops in at the beginning of the video saying, “Hinted He Was Secret Agent for the US.”
Acknowledgements
I have other books to write: “THE SSC/ssc” (a social theory treatise), a book about dear friend Lt. Col. Daniel Marvin (a Green Beret), a book of contemporary short fictional stories demonstrating a new literary genre which I invented in 1996 (“The Literature of Denouement” – also known as “The Literature of Surprise”), a book on social theory half-finished and co-written with my precious friend Martha Rose Crow (suddenly and suspiciously deceased after we received simultaneous death threats) and a book soon to be finished with co-author Edward Schwartz about the fundamental historical facts behind the Kennedy assassination. I hesitated to write Letters to the Cyborgs because it is science fiction, and so much of my other writing involves serious history and scholarship. As the author of two non-fiction biographies (Me & Lee, and David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot) it was not an easy decision to bring forth this collection of science fiction. I am not the first writer to bring forth science fiction as well as biographies and books on ethics, history or philosophy: H.G. Wells did the same, and today is best known for his science fiction. Letters to the Cyborgs is designed to both entertain and to serve as a wake-up call regarding Artificial Intelligence and the future of the human race thereby, the demise of which Stephen Hawking has already warned us.
Of all the thousands of people I have met, known and cared about, the most interesting and enigmatic was my beloved soul mate, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was falsely accused of murdering a president he admired (John F. Kennedy). Lee wished to become a writer. He was as enthusiastic about science fiction as I was. He was the first person to read my science fiction story about Monkeys (included in this collection). I own three of Lee’s short stories, but of the three, his science fiction story was the most fascinating. Lee typed it several times over, but I typed the final draft, making a carbon copy so that it could be sent off to a magazine. I thought it was that good, and I believe the reader will see the talent Lee was developing at only 23 years of age. “Her Way” had many spelling errors, and while retyping it, I also removed some run-on sentences and grammar problems so that it might get published. The result was a story that was 75% Lee’s. It is now published with this collection: Lee’s dream to become a published writer of science fiction has now come true, thanks to Kris Millegan of Trine Day. And an extra special thanks to Ed Tatro for his astute eyes and help.
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