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Oswald Radio Debate,
Aug 1963

Oswald's two radio appearances on WDSU in New Orleans. These interviews helped establish Oswald as a pro-Castroite in the summer of 1963. To many observers, Oswald's actions are better explained as "building a legend" than as genuine expressions of his true nature.

Latin Listening Post Interview with LHO, 17 Aug 1963 (36:06)
Transcript In a tape recording made on 17 Aug 1963, WDSU's Bill Stuckey of Latin Listening Post interviewed Lee Oswald in his role as secretary of the New Orleans chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). In actuality, Oswald's "chapter" was a fictitious one-man operation. Only a small portion of this 37-minute taped interview was actually aired on WDSU.

LHO Radio Debate with Bringuier and Butler, 21 Aug 1963 (24:33)
Transcript Four days after Bill Stuckey's interview with Oswald, Stuckey and Bill Slater of WDSU conducted this debate involving Lee Oswald, Carlos Bringuier of the Cuban Student Directorate (DRE), and Ed Butler of the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). In the debate, Oswald was "exposed" as a defector to the Soviet Union and a Marxist.


Air Force One Transmissions,
Aug 1963

Recordings of Air Force I from November 22, 1963.

Reel 1, Side 1 (30:55)

Reel 1, Side 2 (30:57)
Reel 2, Side 1 (29:42)
Reel 2, Side 2 (30:06)

No transcript available. This audio is taken from cassette tapes made available by the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas. They comprise an edited version of the original communications to and from Air Force One before and during its return flight from Dallas on November 22, 1963. The first segment contains mostly communication between the White House and SAM86972, a plane containing press secretary Pierre Salinger and Cabinet members in the Pacific, just after news was received of JFK's murder in Dallas. The second segment begins prior to the takeoff of Air Force One. Who performed the edits, and the location of the original unedited tapes, are unknown.

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