Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Still later, when questioned by American authorities, “D” claimed that
he had been pressured into retracting his statement by the Mexican
police and that the retraction, rather than his first statement, was
false. A portion of the American questioning was carried on with the
use of a polygraph machine, with the consent of “D.” When told that
the machine indicated that he was probably lying, “D” said words to
the effect that he “must be mistaken.” Investigation in the meantime
had disclosed that the Embassy extension number “D” said he had
called would not have given him the person he said he spoke to, and
that no one at the Embassy--clerks, secretaries, or officers--had
any recollection of his calls. In addition, Oswald spoke little, if
any, Spanish. That he could have carried on the alleged conversation
with the red-headed Negro in the Cuban Embassy, part of which was
supposed to have been in Spanish, was therefore doubtful. “D” now said
that he was uncertain as to the date when he saw “someone who looked
like Oswald” at the Cuban Embassy, and upon reconsideration, he now
thought it was on a Tuesday, September 17, rather than September 18. On
September 17, however, Oswald visited the Louisiana State Unemployment
Commission in New Orleans and also cashed a check from the Texas
Employment Commission at the Winn-Dixie Store No. 1425 in New Orleans.
On the basis of the retractions made by “D” when he heard the results
of the polygraph examination, and on the basis of discrepancies which
appeared in his story, it was concluded that “D” was lying.[C6-578]
The investigation of the Commission has thus produced no evidence that
Oswald’s trip to Mexico was in any way connected with the assassination
of President Kennedy, nor has it uncovered evidence that the Cuban
Government had any involvement in the assassination. To the contrary,
the Commission has been advised by the CIA and FBI that secret and
reliable sources corroborate the statements of Senora Duran in all
material respects, and that the Cuban Government had no relationship
with Lee Harvey Oswald other than that described by Senora Duran.
Secretary of State Rusk also testified that after the assassination
“there was very considerable concern in Cuba as to whether they would
be held responsible and what the effect of that might be on their own
position and their own safety.”[C6-579]
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