According to Texas law enforcement officials, the reporters had discovered that the supposed "lone nut" Oswald was actually an FBI paid asset from the time he returned to the United States following his sojourn in the Soviet Union through the time of the JFK assassination.
At the conference also, Oswald's friends Buell Wesley Frazier and Dr. Ernst Titovets said they never believed their friend could be guilty of murder. They regarded him as a "patsy," as Oswald claimed before he was murdered by Jack Ruby at a Dallas police station two days after the assassination.
Frazier made his first public appearance to describe his experiences on the day of the assassination. He said that at age 19 he drove his fellow worker Oswald to work at the Texas Book Depository on the fateful day of the assassination. Frazier said a package Oswald carried was too small to contain a rifle, as the Warren Commission claimed. Titovets, a professor of medicine in his native Belarus, has published a new edition of his 2010 memoir: Oswald: Russian Episode.
In other conference news, professor author and former intelligence officer Dr. John Newman traced more than a dozen of the Phillips identities to show his CIA work was so secret that even his internal memos at the CIA, now declassified in part, show that he was trying to fool fellow employees about his activities.
Also, AARC President James Lesar called for an end of obstruction by the National Archives in complying with the provisions of a 1992 law passed unanimously by Congress to make all available records public regarding the JFK murder. Lesar, an attorney fighting freedom of information battles, has argued that the CIA exercises too much influence over the Archives and other Washington officials on the issue.
For further links on the conference, see the links below, most notably in: Washington Post Still Selling Warren Report 50 Years Later, Sept. 22, 2014.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was the former Texas senator and vice president who succeeded Kennedy after the assassination. Johnson named the seven-member Warren Commission to reassure the public. The commission was named for Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and included former CIA Director Allen Dulles.
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