The of President John F. below the sixth-story window of the ' Kennedy was a meticulously planned and School Book Depository where he had perfectly executed act. Whether Lee only come to work some six' weeks be- Harvey Oswald did it alone, or in a fore? :onspiracy, it was absolutely essential that This question has never been answered. he knew the "secret" route of the Presi- Yet an answer is vitally important for any dent's motorcade far in advance. explanation of how, why and who mur- Otherwise, how could Oswald be sure dered the 35th President of the United OSWALD that John F. Kennedy would pass directly States. How Oswald Knew "Secret Route" On Assassination Day Lee Harvey Oswald knew the exact route of the presidential motorcade through more than six weeks before the By MALCOLM ABRAMS assassination of President John F. Kennedy. And the knew that he knew. MIDNIGHT has In its possession a photostatic copy of a document, which by April of 1964 was in the hands of Warren Commission members. The document details how Oswald obtained the crucial informationneeded to plan the of JFK. Yet the Warren Commission chose not to act on this knowledge. Not to imestigatc further. Not to question.•Not to call a single witness who could hays_ supplied invaluable . clues to the assassination. The Warren Commission even chose not to include this most startling revelation in its official report to the American people. Why not? Perhaps because the information would have pointed directly to a in the murder — a conspiracy involving elements high within the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service and Ameri- ca's business-industrial community. This is what Mae Brussel!, one of the country's leading assassination experts, believes. And there is abundant evidence still around after nearly 14 years to back her up. But before one can fully compre- hend the importance of the evi- dence. it's necessary to examine the "curious" employment record of Lee Harvey Oswald. a record that culminated with his strategic place- ment at the Texas School Book Depository. Oswald's first job in the Dallas Midnight clearance was required for many jobs at the lab. Vol. 23 — No.4 3 April 12, 1E7 Yet Oswald, recently returned PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY: from self-exile in the , M klniord PubihenIng Corp., Ltd., EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION easily secured employment at OFFICES: 204/ R.Rrnad Are., Greenwich, Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall with the help Cann. 06030. his mysterious new friend George Telephone: 21:13-461•2423 of SUBSCRIPTIONS: U.S. end Caned.: !EIS DeMohrenshildt. Pir peer. Foreign: 111.50 per year.. Oswald worked at the photog- ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE: raphy laboratory until April 6,1963. Comp Isle Newspaper Representenwee Inc., 300 Madison Aye., New York, N.Y. 10017. Although there is no mention in SOUTHERN NEWS BUREAU: the final report of the Warren 1050 Pelee; Bench Lakes Bird.. Sue. 1002, Commission, investigators did in- West P•Irn Some h. Flo. 331101. terview employes at the laboratory Telephone 9113-41041SS1 about Oswald. These are docu- Michael Adler, Chief. NORTHERN OFFICE: mented in the 26 volumes of Warren 72 Lake St.. nooses Point. N.Y. 12E79. Commission hearings. One is par- CENTRAL OFFICE: ticularly interesting. 33 N. L.S.O. ST, Chicago, III. 60002. EXECUTIVE EDITOR: John Yoder. .Beginning on Page 196, Vol. 10, is EDITOR,' Soho Wow, an interview with fellow employe ASSOCIATE ARTICLES EDITOR: Ted Mulch. Dennis Ofstein. It was natural for ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Alen 0. Marshall. ARTICLES EDITORS: A.S. Hanley, Moloalm Oswald and Ofstein to become Arriame. friends — they had both been in the COPY AND LAYOUT EDITORS: service and they both spoke Rus- Jennies, Ken, Dann!. O'Brien, Lenore Mint. ter, Maureen O'Brien, Rita Bauer. sian. STAFF WRITERS: Harry Altaholer; Chief, Ofstein made the following state- Bernd Gould, Harry Scan, Art Bentley, Joyce Wixom Harry McCarthy, ment to Warren Commission inves- Sus en BeerIck. Anis Oahe, Leon Freilleh. tigators when asked about Oswald: CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Charlie Pike. "He did admit to me that he had Lynn BOOK EDITOR: Jock Kelley. been in the Soviet Union and my FOOD EDITOR: Adrienne Paradla., assumption was possibly that he PHOTO EDITOR: Alloleit Duncan. had worked as an agent of the PLEGELE EDITORS: Willem Campbell, Shen Schachter. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: Margaret Teloar, Chanel Demi. PRODUCTION. &Cease Vendible, ChM& area, after his return from Russia Keith Gotham. Rene Mauch, OEMs Lidond. DIRECTOR OF CIRCULATION: was at the Leslie Welding Co. in Aubrey P, Berko. Fort Worth. PROMOTION DIRECTOR: Mary Falkine. - Through a friend of his Russian ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE: .1440 St. Ceihmine 91. Weal, Suite 025, Mennen!, wife Marina, Oswald got a better job C•necla 1130 192. at the Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall Photo- Telephone: 514.1011-7744 5ecant:40.os pOonega Timid at Rouse* Paine, graphic Laboratory in Dallas. N.Y. Send address Correction to PA. Boa The man who helped Oswald was 11, Rouses Point. N.Y. 12010. George DeMohrenshildt. Accor- Second CIEs. mall registration number 1558, ding to Miss Brussell. "he is a White CopyrIgoiC10,7 Midnight PIA4shIng Russian with well-known multiple Corp,, Lid. Alt Ft4htS moseyed. piliyieo In Caned.. links to both the American intelli- • gene community and the oil mag- MEMBER OF THE AUDIT BUREAU nates in the Dallas area." In other 4§, OF CIRCULATIONS words, he was an agent for the American government. Page 4 — MIDNIGHT • DeMohrenshildt literally showed up on the Oswald doorstep shortly April 12, 1977 after their arrival in Texas, offering friendship and help to Marina. a fellow Russian. The job that he got Oswald was not with an ordinary laboratory, developing and printing family OSWALD KNEW the route snapshots. Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall was in the business of prinking JFK was to take six weeks bonds, army maps and other docu- before the assassination. X ments for the American govern- marks the spot of the Book ment. In fact, military security Depository. government," how did Oswald know the exact After leaving this job. Oswald route of the presidential motorcade moved to where he so far in advance? became an active member of the The answer may well lie in one anti-Castro group in that city. While short document, a copy of which is there, he worked for the Reilly reproduced on these pages. Dated Coffee Co., which Mae Brussell April 7, 1964, it was sent to chief.. contends was a front for the FBI. counsel of the Warren Commission, It was during this period, in the J. Lee Rankin, by two commission spring and summer, that Oswald investigators, Edward A. Conroy also made his famous trip to Mexico and John J. O'Brien. _City where he visited the Russian The memorandum deals with and Cuban embassies. Oswald's activities while at the His subsequent return to Texas in Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall photo- the fall of 1963 was instigated and graphic laboratory. And in particu- arranged by a friend of Marina's, a lar, his role as a liaison with the Sol Mrs. Ruth Payne. Bloom Agency, a public relations,. Coincidentally, Lee and Marina firm (the agency is wrongly identi- were introduced to Mrs. Payne by fied as the "Sam Bloom" agency in George DeMohrenshildt. the same the memo)„ man who got Oswald his job at the This agency, working with Wash- photo lab. ington officials, planned the route of Now it was Mrs. Payne who got President Kennedy's motorcade. Oswald his job at the Texas School The memorandum states in part: Book Depository. "Although Oswald's employment On October 15, 1963, less than six at Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall, Inc. was weeks before Kennedy's murder, terminated on April 6, 1963, it is Mrs. Payne telephoned Roy Truly, probable that his association with manager of the depository. saying that company may have provided that a close friend needed a job. him with an acquaintance in the Sam A fascinating sidelight in this Bloom Agency. If Oswald had such sequence is that on the very same an acquaintance, there exists a possi- day the Texas Employment bility that he could have used this Agency, at which Oswald was regis- individual as a means of obtaining tered, found him another job at advance information on' the Presi- Love Air Field, as a cargo -carrier. dent's trip to Dallas. That job, according to Warren "In connection with the work Commission documents, paid $310 Oswald was doing at Daggers-Chiles- a month. The job at the book Stovall, Inc., for the Sam Bloom depository paid only $208.82. Yet agency, it is noted that in a period of Oswald accepted the latter. - approximately ten weeks Oswald In the 26 volumes of the Warren worked on Sam Bloom assignments Commission hearings, this "irra- on 60 different days." tionality" is never once questioned. Lee Harvey Oswald was at the But it was questioned — private- right place at the right time. And it's ly, Mae Brussell contends. For apparent now, that the Warren proof, she offers a Warren Commis- Commission knew how he acquired sion memo which she uncovered at the information to get there. the national archives in Washington Yet the commission members — a memo which was "somehow" stopped dead in their tracks when left out of the 26 volumes. they read this memo. They called no Addressed to commission mem- witnesses. They asked no ques- bers from two commission lawyers, tions. They did not act. William Coleman Jr. and W. David Mae Brussell says she knows Slawson • it states: "Standing alone, why. Because Lee Harvey Oswald theft two facts indicate that Oswald could not have got a job at Jagger may have had a non-economic Chiles-Stovall without help. reason for taking the job at the Because Lee Harvey Oswald Texas School Book Depository." could not have got the job at the That "non-economic" reason, Texas School Book Depository says Miss Brussell, is that Oswald without help. was part of the plot to kill President Because Lee Harvey Oswald Kennedy. As such, he had to be could not get- the map of the stationed at the Book Depository on presidential motorcade without , 1963. help. And the help. she says. must So, the question still remains. have come from high up. rthOr / A 'I MiCRAKIrill ipril .15a Tit J. Lae 'Rankin Atharotions Mr. FRtltr Lraard A. Conroy !ono J. (Perish 51113./, L. Horsey 0.0.4 A meritv of the ea teal. tIne'recot-la CV ...IP: D5.4.1)..1.1 esplaineent at Javgara-tlailne-Stovall, inc. ',owe that on macro. date, Cseled •orked it photos:Itch.. Jobs for

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