Oswald tried to call CPUSA lawyer?

[RadioRaheem84]

I really hate to bring up anything conspiratorial about the JFK Assassination but maybe this will shed light on the conspiracy theorists that believe Oswald did not act alone.



http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/defense.txt


Important clues are provided by a phone list Oswald made out on the night
of the assassination (recovered from his pocket after death), with paper
and pencil provided by jail officer Jim Poppelwell when Oswald was
escorted to a telephone. The four numbers on the list and their owners
(CE2073):

- RI 8-9711, Dallas jail.
- CO 7-3110, John Abt, attorney, business number at the offices of David
Freedman and Abraham Unger, 320 Broadway, NY, NY.
- AC 2-4611, John Abt, residence, 444 Central Park West, NY, NY.
- OR 9-9450, The Daily Worker, 23 West 26th St., NY, NY.

Police Captain Will Fritz had told Oswald he could call Abt collect, but
would have to give the operator the number he was calling from, which
explains the presence of the Dallas jail number. (24H505) John Abt was a
staff attorney for the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), and rather
well-known as such. Communism blossomed as an intellectual movement in the
thirties, but in the World War and Cold War periods, fear of communism led
to a bevy of Federal, state, and local laws, enacted to persecute past and
present figures in the movement. In 1948, in one of the biggest of the
concomitant legal showdowns, Abt headed the Hall-Davis Defense Committee
which represented twelve top leaders of the CPUSA charged under 1940's
Smith Act of membership in a subversive organization. As a measure of his
reputation, in 1957, when Soviet spy Rudolph Abel was captured in Brooklyn
with spy paraphernalia, Abt was his attorney of choice (though Abt

declined).

If this is true, then maybe Oswald really was just a nut and wannabe communist?

[Pavlov's House Party]

Oswald lived in the USSR for a while and applied to live in Cuba but was rejected before he shot Kennedy. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Nonetheless he read voraciously, and by age 15 claimed to be a Marxist from his reading on the topic, writing in his diary, "I was looking for a key to my environment, and then I discovered socialist literature. I had to dig for my books in the back dusty shelves of libraries." At 16 Oswald wrote to the Socialist Party of America stating that he had been studying socialist principles for "well over fifteen months", and asking for information about their Young People's Socialist League."

[Wolf Larson]

I think he may have been CIA and I know this is conspiratorial but hey, when a US citizen renounced their citizenship during the cold war and became a citizen of Russia they would not be allowed to come back into the US as a citizen as he did. Also there's the obvious head shot back and to the left thing and the George Herbert Walker CIA connection in Dallas that day. Who knows. If I knew I'd be some voodoo witch doctor.

[chimx]

If this is true, then maybe Oswald really was just a nut and wannabe communist?

It is very clear that Oswald was a slavophile, a communist, and was the assassin of JFK.

[RED DAVE]

If this is true, then maybe Oswald really was just a nut and wannabe communist?There are lots of types like Oswald around, and in the 50s and 60s they were thick as thieves.

Basically, they have unformed personalities, and they're looking for something outside themselves to complete. They are something like the "true believer" type. I met lots of guys for example, who couldn't decide whether they wanted to join the antiwar movement and "Off the Pigs" or join the army and "Kill the Commies."

RED DAVE

[Robocommie]

There are lots of types like Oswald around, and in the 50s and 60s they were thick as thieves.

Basically, they have unformed personalities, and they're looking for something outside themselves to complete. They are something like the "true believer" type. I met lots of guys for example, who couldn't decide whether they wanted to join the antiwar movement and "Off the Pigs" or join the army and "Kill the Commies."

RED DAVE

Man, you're old school, huh? I don't mean that disrespectfully.