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If the records reveal ar FBI informant in Someone can try to restote the confi- eyesand sayto myself, what do I haveo leave
the assassination,I want to know the name denceofthe people in the govemment. It has for you? You can leave money, which I don't
ofthat informant. And I don't want to have to start somewhere.The govemment are ser- have, you can leave fonune, but most of all,
one dead man's name substituted for an- vants ofthe people, and they should be hon- you can leave to your children a decent soci-
other. I absolutely believe that Lee Oswald orably sewed. The public trust should not be ety. And I'm not one who thinks that every-
was the informant on the arrest oflawrence discarded that easily. thing should be perfecr tomorrow. There will
Miller and Donnell Whitter on November The Review Board has been emoowered be stupid people, crazy people, lazy people,
18, 1963.After the assassination, the puzzle by the people, and I thought that was the crime will be there. But the govemment and
of LeeOswalddid not fit for me. But for Lee government. Apparently it's not. Sowe don,t ruling bodies are supposednot only to set up
to be an informant makes everything logical have a leadership,we just have a ruling. Why the standardsfor us, but to set arrexampleas
to me. Specifically, the be- well. And then, maybe
havior of Lee Oswald-all we'll have some kind of
that strangenessdidn't balance in society so
come ftom a crazy lunatic. goodnesscan survive.
That was his mission, a se- All documentswhich '
cretive mission. I would can expose that a man
like to be wrong. But ifl'm was accused wrongly
right, I want an apology ro should be opened. I be-
me and to lhe American lieve that the documents
people. I have requested will be
After twenty-seven eye-openers.After that, if
years,I consciouslymade time is still left, I think a
the choice to become an law should be put on the
American citizen. Of books that if a man is ac-
course, my heritage was cused of murder, and is
never betrayed when I took alliance to the bother with the constitution? We should have dead before a trial is held, that crime should
American constitution and tried to Dro- stayeda colony ofEngland. I cannot empower neverbe closed,and drc family should be able
nounce this counrry as my home, oniy to that Review Board. I cannot make them nor to defend itself ftom accusadons.
find out that thirty-three years later I have to acr dishonesdyor cowardly.This is up to This casehas neverbeen OPENED.The
nothing but the address. I lived in two sys- their conscience,I want to quote something twenry-sixvolumesof the WarrenCommis-
tems which were labeled differently. Slowly that I hope will give them a little bit of sion do not support its conclusions.My fi-
and surely, the names are different but I feel strength and bravery. It is ftom the Declara- nal conclusion is that the man-Lee-was
oppressed, when I have to struggle for ev- tion of Independencel not on the sixth floor. We're not even sure
ery piece of paper. Everytime I have asked And for the support of this declaradon, about the rifle. Accordingto the localpolice
for documents,I have been intimidated. with the firm reliance on the protection of chief,, we never could put the rifle and the
And who gave the media the power to Divine Providence, we mutually pledge ro person (Oswald) together.Lee wascharged
throw insults at me and my children, when each other our life, our fortune, and our sa- with the crime. They showed him a picture,
they don't have the facts? Lee Oswald's face cred honor. said this is a rifle, this is you; he denied it.
is on a dan board,comediansrnakeiokes so I am sure that most Americans feel that But they never showed him the weapon for
freely without knowing the facts, that it is way. I think the same rhing is expeded ftom identification. I'm rhe one who wis sup-
embeddedin the people'spsychesnow. And the govemment. Patriotism should not be Posed to identii,' the rifle, and I did, believ-
we have the ex-president of the country used for the gains ofonly a few. That is when ing in the authorities' goodintentions . But
Gerald Ford, in front of millions of peoole dishonorable things happen. I was the worst of all. I knew nothing of
calling a man never conviccedoftheirime, I definitely think that le Oswald did notweapons or guns; I knew nothing. Now I
"that looney, that lunatic" with no facts to kill PresidentKennedy.I think he was given have to defend not jusr my honor bur my
back it up. I'm listening, and I KNOW. Bur up to pacify people asa patsy.I don,t think he life as well. It is impossible for me to put
who's going ro believe me? They're going was the first one-only the first one we know my dme whele it belongs,to be a normal
to believethe authorities. So many careers, about. And he wasn't crazy. lf he was crazy, wife and mother.
including media careers,have been made how come I havenormal intelligent children? But I finally know the documentary evi-
hiding behind dead Lee Harvey Oswald. If With very good convictions? The thing that dence and I have to demand, not beg, that
those people came forward and told the bothers me the most. You teach your chil- this informadon be released.This evidence
truth, they would never have those positions dren the difference between right and wrong, was itemized in my letter to Mr. Tunheim
for one day.That's my bitter opinion. give to the best of your abilities,how won- and the ARRB. Why hasthis evidencebeen
It's my tum. Whatever few vearsare left derful the country is, how honorable it is to ignored?
in my life, I want to live it. I'm tired ofbare live right here, and yet I no longer believe Thank you, and pleaseforgive my En-
existence.I want also to say I'm not arti- this myself; I'd be lying to you if I say that.glish.
govemment,I'm not revolutionary I'm not And ifI don't believeir I cannotrell it ro my Very sincerely,
communist. I want to believein the govern, childrenor grandchildren. I cannotdisappoint
ment. That entity shouldexist to help people
Marina Oswald Porter
them. I have to believe first.
but not to abusethem. I look at my grandchildren, I look at those Submitted.to theReyiewBoardbyEric Hamburg
l\Iovember-December,
1996 fEfglE