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Lee Harvey Oswald: The True Story of the Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy, by His Lover (v. 1)

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I assisted in getting this book published because I regard it as an important missing piece in our knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald and the months leading up to the JFK assassination. It is also an engrossing human story about a young woman who was a science prodigy until her life was turned upside down that summer of 1963. The book is well-written, well-illustrated, and well-documented.

It's always a shame when someone of the stature of Mr. Palmara resorts to demonizing an opponent, without presenting one shred of information or documentation to back up his very strong opinion.

We have seen so much of this kind of intellectual cowardice for the last five years, when it rears its head in the JFK research community, it somehow seems even uglier.

Here's the challenge to you, Mssrs. Palmara and like-minded gang: exactly which facts do you dispute, how, and why?

Or would a sweeping statement like "anything Mr. Palmara writes is not worth considering" be valid to you, and just as acceptable as whatever pronouncement he might make? Of course not!

Where's the beef?

For me, Judyth's story is going to be 100% true, or it's going to be debunked. Mr. Palmara has not debunked anything. Yet. Step on up. Do it right.

Or don't waste OUR time listening to a pot call a kettle black.

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This is a fascinating book that I just finished reading. It provides an overabundance of information about Lee Harvey Oswald and his associates in the year of 1963, in context up to the assassination. It took a whole lot of courage for the author to write this, I'm sure the same as it did for Mr. Jim Garrison. I look forward to more of what the author has to say in up coming book interviews, and should be on 60 Minutes. This account, if made into a movie needs no dramatic license, or filler to make it a blockbuster. I will read a couple more times and research with other books.

why is this book not available???!?!? I Saw the Judyth Baker story on youtube and i belive her story is credible!!why would she put her self in a danger zone and her family by making up such a story??LHO connections in New Orleans to Castro and anti Castro movements to clay shaw david ferrie and Guy Banister. His trip to Mexico City and why he went there make sense now thanks to Ms.Baker.it is a fascinating and intrigiung story!! we need to fully inform the public why and how JFK was murdered.we need all the infomation we can get our hands on.

Have you read this book? You should read it.

Prior to reading it, I didn't know very much about JFK's assassination. I knew that Oswald got shot in the police station, but I didn't know he cheated on his wife. I knew about beating but not cheating.

Mrs. Baker really lays it on thick, telling you how she and Oswald gave cancerous tumors to mice. They used the mice as guinea pigs so they could help people kill Fidel Castro by giving him cancer.

When Oswald tried to deliver the cancer to an American conspiracy man in a store in Mexico City, that man never showed up. Then Hurricane Flora blocked people from getting to Cuba from Mexico. So the plot against Castro was off. Then the conspirators told Lee to stop a conspiracy against Kennedy, not join it.

Unfortunately, so many people think he joined it!

Judyth never met these people who told Lee to protect Kennedy. She never met them because the last time she saw Lee, the Castro thing was still on. All of her conversations with him after that were on the telephone.

In addition to this book, I recommend watching the DVD of Oliver Stone's "JFK." Have you seen it? You should see it.

An American hero. Worked for his country, then was dumped in the trashcan by the treacherous criminals still ruling America today, with Bushes in the front row.

Ever asked yourself why they pardoned Orlando Bosch and are about to release Luis Posada Carriles? Two guys who blew up a plane when daddy was CIA director (1976). The little secret is they were also on Dealey Plaza.

Judyth is the truth. Period.

Mr. Palamara knows zip about her. Never met her either.

Maybe he should get my DVD first.

Watch Ed Haslam and Anna Lewis corroborating Judyth's story:

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/judyth.htm

Wim Dankbaar

Mrs. Baker has spun a very interesting tale, indeed. But after careful reading, it is clearly a product of both "retroactive fact production" and some "fancy fictional footwork." So, to use Barr McClellan's (author of Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K) term, "faction," "Oswald a True Story" appears to be a blend of both "faction" and "fiction." And while one cannot dismiss it out of hand, as is customary with most of the JFK assassination literature, one has to tread carefully and have a very refined and finely tuned "crap detection system" in order to sort what is "faction" from what is "fiction."

In this regard, it must be said from the start that Mrs. Vary-Baker's story has so many twists and turns that it quickly overwhelms a linear mind. It is a detail-filled microcosm, loaded with names, dates, receipts, recollections, mental recreations, and improbable events -- few of which can be independently verified. In short, it is a unverifiable scatological laundry list that converges, often improbably and always too neatly, with most of New Orleans based JFK assassination lore. But as an integrated whole, these disparate parts seem to add up to much less than the sum of their parts. Put simply, as a self-contained whole that is devoid of her unverifiable "factions," which appear to be a heavily edited memory dump of her stream of consciousness of those times, her story does not hold together very well.

It is strong (excruciatingly so) on inessential and often inane romantic details that supposedly occurred between she and Lee, and weak on everything else - especially on connecting the dots between the motives she attributed to her overseers, their involvement in her own clandestine activities, and their ultimate (perhaps unknown) objectives and roles in any of the plots, including in the possible plot to assassinate JFK.

Basically her story is a chronology of her roughly five-month romantic relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald. According to her, they met accidentally and then discovered together that they were being used as clandestine operatives in larger schemes above their heads - to wit: to develop a "galloping cancer" that Lee would then "hand deliver" to Cuba to kill Castro. Mrs. Vary-Baker alludes to the fact that, at the time, Lee was working on a clandestine project for RFK, although the purpose of this critical mission is never made clear or further elaborated upon. Then, due to a serendipitous event, hurricane Hugo, the "kill Castro" mission was apparently aborted and Lee was reassigned or redirected (or "turned" to either kill JFK or) to "stop" a developing plot to kill JFK. According to Vary-Baker's version, Lee was then double-crossed by his cloak-and-dagger cohorts and became the "pasty" in the crime of the century.

While it is entirely possible that Mrs. Baker could have met such an enormous cast of important players many of whom were implicated in the JFK assassination and the Cuban intrigues. And while it is also possible that she could have been involved in several critical events in the clandestine war against Castro, it is extremely unlikely that they could have all come together in her life, and "on cue," as they repeatedly did in the tale she spins in this book. It may also seem plausible to some that Mrs. Vary-Baker operated under the clandestine control of a coalition of Texas politicians and oil barons; that she worked hand-and-glove with renegade CIA and FBI operatives; that she was a junior (fresh out of high school) researcher in a clandestine and illegal underground research lab with world-class medical experts engaged in leading-edge cancer discoveries; that she moved about on the margins of the Carlos Marcello arm of the Louisiana mob as well as within the circles of anti-Castro fanatics; that she met and had dinner with Jack Ruby; partied at Clay Shaw's residence; worked on cancer research with David Ferrie and renown surgeons Drs. Alton Oschner and Mary Sherman; and that she also met and engaged in a clandestine romance with accused Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Yes, it is possible that Mrs. Vary-Baker was indeed a virtual "Agent Zero" at the center of gravity of the New Orleans wing of the JFK assassination intrigue, but how plausible is it? Can such a story really be independently verified? And most of all can it be as pristine and as "pat" as she has made it out to be?

Where her story gets murky is on "ALL" of the essential details and explicit connections, which she glides over effortlessly. That is, whenever her plot demands direct and explicit connections between the people who she thinks are controlling her, their motives, and her and Lee's relationship to these people and those motives, each time she comes up excruciatingly empty. The reader is left to fill-in these very essential blanks himself, by making the necessary logical leaps in inference based on what her trail of "facts" insinuate. If it were any other issue but the JFK assassination, it would be easy enough to let these matters slide, but since it IS the JFK assassination, it is all the more reason that such connections must be made, and made explicit.

Thus a great deal of her plot is indistinguishable from one that has been created by working backwards from known facts and composing a story to fit the facts retroactively. As a result her facts always dovetailed "just a bit too neatly and too exactly" with known events, known decisions, known personalities, and their known movements during the periods in questions.

Since she has appeared on "60 Minutes," to some, all this must have seemed plausible, but to those like myself willing to suspend judgment and give her the provisional benefit of the doubt (pending substantiation of facts), her tale still stretches credulity.

Alarm bells keep going off in my "crap detection system" to the effect that there is a big problem here with the "retroactively reconstructed and neatly dovetailing pre-determined facts;" never deviating even once from what was previously known. How can this be? And even though her facts are always carefully lined up, the reader is still left to insinuate the connections between them and the larger events and motives that eventually unfolded and which she claims her "facts" are so intimately associated with and attached to.

For instance, although she supposedly works closely with Dr. Mary Sherman, the book reports only one conversation between the two of them, the rest of the connections are to be inferred through insinuations and extrapolation. The same is true with Lee. Although she claims to be in a deep love affair with him, there is little substantive dialogue between the two of them about what Lee himself, was up to. Why for instance did Lee come all the way from Dallas to work for Bannister? Why was Lee such a willing tool of such an obviously evil cabal? Why did he not extricate himself in time to avoid being "played" as a patsy? Did he ever report what he learned to his legitimate authorities? Etc. And the same for her: If she and Lee knew at the time that the JFK assassination was "going down" why not sound an alarm? Go to the newspapers, etc.?

I remain unconvinced that there is any meat here. Two stars.

If you want facts about Oswald, read his own words in "The Autobiography of Lee Harvey Oswald" which was just published. If you want fiction, read this book. Oswald may have been unfaithful to Marina--she was unfaithful to him with an old friend when he was away--and he may have known a woman such as this. But we know too much about his thoughts and plans from reading his own words to give this fantasy any credibility.

So another "breakthrough" in the JFK assassination comes our way. How lucky we are. First Wim Dankbaar with James Files and now Judyth Vary Baker, brought to us by.....oooh Wim Dankbaar.

Well, to be honest, both their stories ARE really fascinating and interesting to listen to. They are also both full of more holes than a colinder and patently untrue. They are interesting as a sociological and/or psychiatric indicator into the levels some people will go to make a buck and associate themselves with the events of the JFK assassination. And yep.....Honest Wim Dankbaar collects all the way to the bank, revelling in our ignorance and thirst for the truth. Avoid this trash and read the serious research out there, of which there are literally BILLIONS of pages and works. I can tell when Files and Baker are lying, it's easy to judge...their lips are moving.