[Sample B: Approval/Signature Sheet] - George Mason University

fence on the knoll apparently wearing a badge firing a rifle at the presidential limousine.
This figure was dubbed “Badgeman.” The witnesses and experts all told a tale at odds
with the Warren Commission version of the assassination and Oswald’s life.
The narrator – in the segment of the program called “The Patsy” – described
Oswald as a “figure of mystery” who was murdered before he could tell what he knew.
Ruth Paine, the housewife that Marina lived with, told the camera that people have
forgotten “how ordinary” Oswald was, while Buell Wesley Frazier, who drove Oswald to
work at the book depository, noted that Oswald loved children. The program interviewed
witnesses who questioned whether Oswald was the one to kill Kennedy or Tippit.
Detective Jim Leavelle reported that Oswald answered the investigators’ questions almost
as if the answers were rehearsed. The viewer is shown archival footage of Oswald in
police custody, including his statement that “I’m just a patsy,” until his own murder at the
hands of Jack Ruby.
The program then launched into a discussion of Oswald’s brief life in which the
narrator describes him as being “far more complex” than portrayed in history.
Researchers Gary Mack said he and other experts believe Oswald was not a perennial
loser, and that in the Marine Corps he was trained in Russian to prepare for his apparent
defection to Russia. Jim Garrison flatly stated Oswald “was employed by the Central
Intelligence Agency.” Garrison said before the assassination, Oswald must have thought
he was penetrating the plot, but became the scapegoat and was killed. The former
prosecutor said “disinformation” has made Oswald seem guilty when he “was probably a
hero.” Garrison helped present the familiar tale of Oswald in New Orleans, and his
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