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Opens with Ward H. Lamon (Lincoln’s bodyguard) in the Commission’s presidential protection review. Mark R. Lane: Warren Report critic. James Larkin (witness). Sebastian F. Latona: FBI latent fingerprint examiner. Capt. Perdue W. Lawrence and Winston G. Lawson: Secret Service agents. James R. Leavelle: detective walking Oswald through the Dallas PD basement when Ruby shot him. Vincent T. Lee: New Orleans radio host who interviewed Oswald. Frederick W. Light Jr.: Parkland physician. President Abraham Lincoln is the Commission’s primary historical parallel. “Little Lynn” refers to Karen Bennett Carlin. Billy Nolan Lovelady: Depository worker near the alleged sniper’s nest. Daniel Gutierrez Lujan (witness). Louisiana Department of Labor and Louisiana State Unemployment Commission: Oswald’s summer 1963 employment efforts.
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Among the most extensive. Mc-family: Palmer McBride (Marine with Oswald); Rev. Walter J. McChann; Dr. Robert N. McClelland; John Alex McCone (CIA Director); Danny Patrick McCurdy; M.N. McDonald; John Bryan McFarland; President William McKinley (assassination victim); Felix McKnight; Thomas Donald McMillon; Hon. Robert S. McNamara; John A. McVickar (State Department); Cecil J. McWatters; Louis J. McWillie; Betty MacDonald. Others: Hyman Magia, Katherine Mallory, Ilya A. Mamantov, Dr. Bruno F. Mancuso, Arthur Mandella. Markham family — Helen Louise, James Alfred, William Edward — were Tippit eyewitnesses. U.S. Marine Corps heavily referenced for Oswald’s service. John Herbert Martin photographed the Oswald children. Anna N. Meller befriended the Oswalds in Dallas. Mexico (country) referenced for Oswald’s late September 1963 trip. Michaelis family — Heinz W. Michaelis — hosted Marina and Lee. Austin L. Miller, Mary Ann Mitchell, Joe R. Molina, Deputy Sheriff Luke Mooney catalogued. Russell Lee Moore (witness). Murret family — Charles, Eugene, Lillian — Marina’s New Orleans relatives.
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Brief. Opens with President Martin Van Buren in the presidential assassination survey. Roy Eugene Vaughn: Dallas Police detective. Philip Eugene Vinson referenced. Edward Voebel: Oswald family friend in Dallas. Ann Volpert: Ruby investigation. Closes the alphabetical index, completing the Commission’s catalog of persons, places, and institutions from the year-long inquiry.
Chapter Reference Apparatus
Footnote references A13-1231 through A13-1275 support the chapter. Commission Exhibits include CE 2642, 994, 1949, 834, 15. Depositions: Harry D. Holmes (DE 1), Martin Isaacs (DE 1), Heinz W. Michaelis (DE 2, 5). Hearings volumes: vol. 1 (Marina Oswald, Marguerite Oswald, Robert Oswald); vol. 7 (Michaelis, Holmes, Steele); vol. 8 (Bouhe, Bates, Clark, Meller, Ray, Lillian Murret); vol. 10 (Chester Riggs, Mrs. Mahlon F. Tobias, Colin Barnhorst, Richard L. Hulen, Mrs. Jesse Garner, Charles H. Steele Jr., Mrs. A. C. Johnson, Vincent T. Lee); vol. 11 (Raymond F. Krystinik, Ruth Paine, M. Waldo George, Priscilla Johnson, Virginia James, Carroll Hamilton Seeley Jr., James L. Ritchie, James D. Crowley, A. Kleinlerer, William J. Waldman); vol. 15 (William J. Waldman). Additional depositions: William J. Waldman (DE 7), Farrell Dobbs (DE 1, 2), Vincent T. Lee (DE 3-4, 6), Folsom (DE 1). Sources reconstruct the Paine household’s final days with Marina Oswald and the children.
Marine Corps Service
Oswald’s Marine Corps service spans pages 11, 12, 180, 189-192, 194, 244, 256-258, 262, 322, 326, 376-378, 383-386, 388, 390-391, 393, 395, 397, 402, 422, 434, 440, 569, 571, 645, 656, 660, 672, 675, 678, 680-682, 685, 689-690, 693, 696, 706, 710, 714, 716, 727, 731-732, 746, 748, 763, 766, 775. Fellow Marines Palmer McBride and Nelson Delgado testified; Delgado served with Oswald at Santa Ana and in the USSR. The Marine record intersected with State Department citizenship handling: John A. McVickar testimony (5 H 318-319) and CE 1122 (letter July 15, 1961). Supporting evidence: CE 979, Waterman testimony (5 H 357-358), Carroll Hamilton Seeley Jr. testimony (11 H 198). Kerry Wendell Thornley (385-386, 388-389, 686) and Daniel Powers (385-386, 682, 684) were Marine comrades whose associations were examined, bearing on Oswald’s citizenship reinstatement and repatriation loan.
Ideological Development
Communist Party references: pages 11, 21, 244, 287-289, 293, 302, 304, 345, 367, 376, 384, 393, 398, 410-411, 415, 436-437, 695-696, 699, 703, 722, 729-732, 734, 738, 763, 775, 809-810. Fair Play for Cuba Committee: pages 19, 21-22, 122, 244, 287-292, 301-302, 312-313, 315, 326, 331, 342-344, 390, 402, 404, 406-408, 410-413, 419, 435-436, 441-442, 567, 578, 661, 728-732, 734, 739, 744. Ruth Paine testimony (3 H 118) and Farrell Dobbs deposition (DE 1, 2) documented Oswald’s distribution of The Militant (Socialist Workers Party) after September 1963. His radio appearance on Vincent T. Lee’s New Orleans program (10 H 93; V. T. Lee DE 3-4; CE 1140, 1410) shows further political activity. Arnold Samuel Johnson and Benjamin J. Davis (Communist Party) were examined for Oswald’s contacts, as were the American Factfinding Committee, John Birch Society (which Oswald opposed), and Cuban exiles Carlos Bringuier, Silvia Tirado de Duran, and Horatio Duran, whose testimony illuminated his New Orleans activities and subsequent Mexico City embassies trip.
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