er, Oswald was also being accused of assassinating President Kennedy. Strangely, a rather lengthy article was put on the wire service accusing Oswald of murdering Kennedy before the police had considered him a suspect in Kennedy's assassination. Fletcher Prouty explains that this is pure propaganda "news can be sent around the world instantaneously but news on some young unknown man cannot be collected and collated so quickly. Those who planned the assassination had prepared the scapegoat and all of this intimate information beforehand." Police Chief Curry later explained on television that Oswald was considered a suspect after the police had found the rifle they believed to be used in the assassination. This explanation later proved to be unacceptable because this broadcast was before 12:45 PM and the rifle was not discovered until 1:22 PM (Lane 82). Many strange things about Oswald lack explanation. For example, it is quite bizarre that a semiliterate high school drop out professing Marxism was taken to a top secret Marine air base in Japan. There he was given language courses where he became fluent in writing and speaking Russian. He was then permitted to leave the service on three days' notice, claiming his mother was ill. Shortly after his death, his mother would be the first to make the claim that he worked for American Intelligence (Stone XX). Oswald's CIA personal files are being withheld from the public until the year 2039 (Marrs 69). After JFK was killed, the Warren Commission was appointed by Lyndon Johnson to investigate the assassination. Allen Dulles, the person Kennedy had fired a few months before was appointed a member of the Commission. Instead of investigating the murder of JFK with the objective of finding the assassin or assassins the Warren Commission set out to prove that Lee Oswald was the lone gunman. The Warren Commission found that three shots were fired from the sixth floor of the Book Depository, all by...
