Did Oswald make the telephone call to Raliegh ?

[Frenchy]

One of the most interesting and potentially important aspects of the John Kennedy assassination may not have anything to do with the murder itself. A story concerning the actions of the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, has simmered on the back burner of the investigation since its discovery, and is considered by leading assassination authorities to be a key in the unsolved mystery.Oswald's movements and statements inside the Dallas jail up to the time of his murder have always been a huge mystery, and any clues to what happened during that time are vigorously sought by all researchers. So when a story surfaced that Oswald attempted to place a call from the jail to a person whose name had not otherwise entered the assassination investigation, it was big news.In short, it is alleged that Oswald attempted to place a call to a John Hurt in Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday evening, November 23, 1963, but was mysteriously prevented from completing the call. Though there is speculation that the call was incoming rather than outgoing private and Congressional researchers believe Oswald, for whatever reasons, was the one attempting the call. The implications of that call have prompted former U.S. Intelligence officials to speculate on Oswald's possible link with intelligence agencies. John David Hurt was that he was a U.S. Army Counterintelligence officer during World War II. Why would Oswald be attempting to telephone this man ? Robert Blakely in a interview concerning this call said "The call apparently is real and it goes out; it does not come in" Could this man have still been working for Army Intelligence, and Oswald was trying to get a message to someone in Military Intell ?

[ChristophMessner]

Oswald must have regarded John Hurt as somewhat like a last resort. Only the study of the intelligence connections of John Hurt could bring more answers. Didn't he write the book: Reasonable Doubt?

[Bob]

Here is more about the call...http://www.groverproctor.us/jfk/jfk-hur ... umber.html

[Frenchy]

No Chris mate that was Henry Hurt

[ChristophMessner]

Ok, Henry Hurt was the disinfo-alibi-guy for John Hurt then like George William Bush for George Herbert Wlaker Bush. This John Hurt must have been high up in the chain of command, if oswald regarded him as helpful while he felt blown off by such a high rank D. A. Phillips.

[tpfleming]

From James Douglass's excellent work, "JFK And The Unspeakable," pp. 365-367: "That night in the Dallas City Hall, Mrs. Alveeta Treon and Mrs. Louise Sweeney were working as switchboard operators when two law enforcement officials came into the room. The two men said they wanted to listen to a call Oswald was about to make..."At 10:45 p.m. Mrs. Sweeney took a call from the jail...it was Oswald, she wrote down the information he gave her on the number he wanted to reach. What transpired then, apparently in obedience to the men's orders, has been described by Sweeney's co-worker, Alveeta Treon." 'I was dumbfounded at what happened next. Mrs. Sweeney [told Oswald] 'I'm sorry, the number doesn't answer.' She then unplugged and disconnected Oswald without ever really trying to put the call through. A few moments later, Mrs. Sweeney tore the page off her notation pad and threw it into the wastepaper basket.'"After Mrs. Sweeney left work at 11 p.m., Mrs. Treon retrieved the slip... [and] according to the phone message, Oswald was trying to call a 'John Hurt' in Raleigh, North Carolina, at '834-7430 or 833-1253.' In November 1963, John David Hurt was listed as having the first number in Raleigh, and John William Hurt as having the second. Of the two Hurts, the first, John David, had a military intelligence background. During WWII, John David Hurt served as a US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent...John David Hurt denied knowing why Oswald was trying to phone him on the night of November 23, 1963."Former CIA officer Victor Marchetti...said he thought Oswald was following the standard intelligence practice of trying to contact his case officer through a 'cut-out,' a 'clean' intermediary with no direct involvement in an operation. As to why Oswald's call was made to North Carolina, Marchetti pointed out that the Office of Naval Intelligence had an operations center in Nags Head, North Carolina, for agents who had been sent as fake expatriates to the Soviet Union--corresponding to Oswald's background."...Marchetti said, '[Oswald] was probably calling his cut-out. He was calling somebody who could put him in touch with his case officer...[Oswald] had to depend on this person to say, 'Okay, I'll deliver the message'...[but] if [Oswald] got into bad trouble, we're not going to verify [him]. No how, no way.'" Tim Flemingwww.eloquentbooks.com/MurderOfAnAmericanNazi.htmlhttp://leftlooking.blogspot.comwww.AuthorsWebTV.com

[Pasquale DiFabrizio]

tpfleming wrote:From James Douglass's excellent work, "JFK And The Unspeakable," pp. 365-367: "That night in the Dallas City Hall, Mrs. Alveeta Treon and Mrs. Louise Sweeney were working as switchboard operators when two law enforcement officials came into the room. The two men said they wanted to listen to a call Oswald was about to make..."At 10:45 p.m. Mrs. Sweeney took a call from the jail...it was Oswald, she wrote down the information he gave her on the number he wanted to reach. What transpired then, apparently in obedience to the men's orders, has been described by Sweeney's co-worker, Alveeta Treon." 'I was dumbfounded at what happened next. Mrs. Sweeney [told Oswald] 'I'm sorry, the number doesn't answer.' She then unplugged and disconnected Oswald without ever really trying to put the call through. A few moments later, Mrs. Sweeney tore the page off her notation pad and threw it into the wastepaper basket.'"After Mrs. Sweeney left work at 11 p.m., Mrs. Treon retrieved the slip... [and] according to the phone message, Oswald was trying to call a 'John Hurt' in Raleigh, North Carolina, at '834-7430 or 833-1253.' In November 1963, John David Hurt was listed as having the first number in Raleigh, and John William Hurt as having the second. Of the two Hurts, the first, John David, had a military intelligence background. During WWII, John David Hurt served as a US Army Counterintelligence Special Agent...John David Hurt denied knowing why Oswald was trying to phone him on the night of November 23, 1963."Former CIA officer Victor Marchetti...said he thought Oswald was following the standard intelligence practice of trying to contact his case officer through a 'cut-out,' a 'clean' intermediary with no direct involvement in an operation. As to why Oswald's call was made to North Carolina, Marchetti pointed out that the Office of Naval Intelligence had an operations center in Nags Head, North Carolina, for agents who had been sent as fake expatriates to the Soviet Union--corresponding to Oswald's background."...Marchetti said, '[Oswald] was probably calling his cut-out. He was calling somebody who could put him in touch with his case officer...[Oswald] had to depend on this person to say, 'Okay, I'll deliver the message'...[but] if [Oswald] got into bad trouble, we're not going to verify [him]. No how, no way.'" Tim Fleminghttp://www.eloquentbooks.com/MurderOfAnAmerica ... TV.comWell, the fact that the two numbers were listed to two people with the same last name gives serious credibility to the witnesses' accounts of what happened. It figures they'd do that to Oswald. Why let him get in touch with anybody, right?