"THE PRESIDENT'S ASSASSIN SPEAKS" - LEE HARVEY OSWALD - 1964 - RARE LP
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(JFK, Oswald) The President's Assassin Speaks - Rare LP
"The President's Assassin Speaks"
is a Truly Rare LP recording of Lee Harvey Oswald's voice during a radio debate with Ed Butler (and others) in New Orleans, August 21, 1963 - LESS than THREE MONTHS BEFORE JFK's assassination! I did a Google search of "The President's Assassin Speaks" which produced only one good reference to the LP and it reaffirms how rare the LP is! Here is the excerpt, be able to decide for yourself who gave the orders to Oswald to take the life of President Kennedy."
My interest in this record, however, was not the propaganda content but rather in a discovery I made of a "slip" Oswald made on that recording while defending his stay in Russia as a "defector." Oswald "slipped" and stated he "was under the protection of the American government," quickly recovering from his "slip" and then saying he was "not under" that protection."
"...The second (personal) reason noted above deals with an event in 1965. A friend, knowing of my deep interest in the JFK case, gave me a record he found at a record store. This record, which I still own, is extremely rare (I've seen only one other copy) and was made around 1964. It is called The President's Assassin Speaks, and has Oswald's actual voice during a radio debate he had with Ed Butler (and others) in New Orleans, August 21, 1963. Produced by "Key Records" in Los Angeles, it is an anti-communist propaganda production of Dr. Billy James Hargis, founder and director of "The Christian Crusade." Naming Oswald as the assassin, the record strives mightily to link Oswald with an (implied) communist conspiracy. If you listen to this record, the back of the record assures us, "you will
To see the quote in context, Click here.
Features a debate between Lee Harvey Oswald and Cuban freedom fighter Carlos Bringuier recorded three months before John F. Kennedy's assassination. A portion of the debate was re-enacted in the Oliver Stone movie JFK.
A very rare item much sought after by people interested in American history and the Kennedy assassination.
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