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McMillan told the program about Oswald’s marital difficulties in the United
States and his subscription to Communist and Trotskyite publications. The viewer is told
of Oswald’s attempt on General Walker’s life and shown the infamous backyard
photograph of Oswald dressed in black, with his weapons and leftist literature. Blakey
said Warren Commission critics seized on Oswald’s statement that the photograph was a
fake. Frontline said “The most famous critic is film-maker Oliver Stone.” 745 This leads
to footage from Oliver Stone’s JFK in which Garrison-Costner talks about Oswald as a
U.S. intelligence operative interspersed with someone creating the fake photo. The
program quotes its experts dismissing the idea.
Frontline delved more deeply in Oswald’s activities in New Orleans in the spring
and summer 1963, but ultimately found no evidence linking Oswald to a plot. “If there
was a plot to kill President Kennedy,” the narrator explained, “then it was probably
hatched in New Orleans. It was here that Lee Oswald may have crossed paths with men
that Hated Kennedy and wanted him eliminated.” However, Blakey then says that “If
you want to posit conspiracy, you must show associations. And unfortunately for a
simple explanation, the associations cut in two directions. Ambivalence, ambivalence,
ambivalence.” 746 The program presented information about Oswald’s leftist activities,
his attempt to “infiltrate” the anti-Castro Cubans, his fracas with Bringuier, and the radio
debate in which it is revealed that the former Marine once defected to the Soviet Union.
The narrator tells the viewer “Marxist politics were still his ruling passion,” he “became a
745 Frontline transcript, 17.
746 Frontline transcript, 19.
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