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Groden and Livingstone also reported the statements of Beverly Oliver, a Dallas
woman who claimed to know Jack Ruby well and said Ruby introduced her to a man in
his Carousel Club as “my friend Lee.” 619 She claimed the man was Lee Harvey Oswald.
Oliver also claimed to be the so-called “Babushka Lady” – an unidentified woman in a
headscarf who photographed Kennedy’s motorcade in front of the Grassy Knoll. She
said an FBI agent confiscated her film. Groden and Livingstone also mentioned the
incident caught on film, in which Ruby corrected the information being given by Dallas
authorities about Oswald the night of the assassination. The authorities reported
Oswald’s membership in a right-wing Cuban group but Ruby shouted out the correction
that Oswald belong to the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Groden and
Livingstone asked how Ruby knew this, and claimed it showed the nightclub owner was
involved in “Cuban affairs.” 620
Groden and Livingstone wrote that their book built on the work of Anthony
Suimmers, and their ideas also resembled the mass-market book of Jim Marrs. Unlike
Marrs, Groden and Livingstone did not blame Lyndon Johnson. They claimed LBJ was
himself “a captive of the War Party, and he could do nothing after the assassination of
Kennedy” at odds with the Secret Team. 621 He dutifully reversed Kennedy’s order to
withdraw one thousand troops from Vietnam as part of an eventual pull-out. This part of
the “peace thesis” – still hotly debated by historians – would be a key part of the Oliver
Stone movie JFK.
619 Groden and Livingstone, 461.
620 Groden and Livingstone, 310.
621 Groden and Livingstone, 416.
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