Lone Gunman: The Man Who Knew Lee Harvey Oswald | Uncommon Knowledge

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Published 2023-04-13
Recorded on February 10, 2023.

Paul Gregory is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Cullen Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston. He’s also the author of a new book, The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee, a fascinating account of the relationship he developed with Marina and Lee Oswald in the summer of 1963, when Gregory was 21 years old. Paul went off to college at the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 1963 and didn’t see Lee or Marina again. Then one fateful day in late November, Gregory was shocked to see a news report identifying Oswald as the lead suspect in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Gregory soon faced interrogations by the Secret Service. Later he would testify before the Warren Commission. In this interview, Gregory recalls these incidents and, as a scholar and skilled researcher, debunks the vast array of assassination conspiracy theories by demonstrating that Lee Harvey Oswald indeed killed Kennedy and acted alone—that the Oswald he once called a friend had the motive, the intelligence, and the means to commit one of the most shocking crimes in American history. 

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0:15 Introduction
00:28 Paul Gregory
1:49 Gregory’s relationship with the Oswalds
6:42 Lee Oswald’s “Explosion”
7:59 What were the Oswalds like?
12:52 The Oswalds and the Russians in Texas
16:17 Gregory’s parting from the Oswalds
17:11 Gregory learns Oswald shot the President
18:52 How did you feel about knowing the President’s assassin?
25:23 Lee Oswald gets shot
28:02 Secret Service
28:52 Marina Lee’s “Catastrophe”
31:42 Delving into the book, The Oswalds
34:56 Did Lee Oswald conspire with others?
41:28 The President as a victim of “a climate of hate”
45:39 To what extent is Lee Oswald Marxist?
50:15 Gregory’s letter to Marina
51:50 End

All Comments (21)
  • An obvious question would be that if Oswald was the only person involved in any way at all, why has someone in the government found it vital to keep sealed away the many remaining documents about the incident ? Certainly almost everyone that might have been implicated from something that happened sixty years ago, is long gone. President Trump had promised to release thousands of the remaining sealed documents. Then shortly after, he abruptly walked that promise back, saying that he was told that he couldn't do that.
  • @Bbos2383
    One small comment. Gregory said that Oswald's wife was not read her Miranda rights but Miranda v Arizona did not happen until 1966
  • @swclar99
    This man seems very credible and I believe his words. The perplexing thing is that he states that he feels Lee Oswald did this to impress Marina, so I can't understand why Lee would go on to say that he was a patsy and not take full credit for the assassination of JFK.
  • @44hawk28
    During this time that he paid Marina the $35 for lessons, Oswald up until the day he died was still collecting $200 a month from a government Source because he works for the government. Considering he was sent there, he probably got a good chunk of change when he got back to the country for crying out loud they found $3,000 worth of photography equipment in his possession after he was murdered by Jack Ruby, where strangely enough Richard Nixon was also in Dallas on the date of Jack Kennedy's assassination, and guess who used to work for Richard Nixon, Jack Ruby! That is not a conspiracy theory that is a fact, Jack Ruby was an investigator who was working for Richard Nixon in 1947 when Richard Nixon was still a senator. Further be verified that Lee Harvey Oswald never defected to the Soviet Union. That requires paperwork that he never filled out. Not only that, had he defected, he never would have been allowed to come back to the United States and such an easy fashion. He was signed off to re-enter the country within hours of coming to the u.s. Consulate in Russia. Like the further explained that not only might he be a bit jealous of Marina, Marina is a Form and Function and part of his cover that he is to maintain. Because even in 1962, he is still being used because he was moved to the center of the governmental intelligence area of New Orleans, right next door to an FBI office and a CIA office red he's working in a government facility for Christ's sake, and still getting himself noticed on TV for being pro-communist. Sounds like he's doing his job that he was hired to do quite well. I have been researching the Kennedy assassination every few years since I was about 12 years old I was seven at the time of the shooting cuz I remember it happening in school and hearing the varied accounts on the radio of seven to eight or more shots fired down to as little as three shots fired in Dealey Plaza. That doesn't sound right. But I can show you from the photos in the backyard photograph that the rifle recovered in the school Book Depository is not the rifle that he was photographed with a few weeks earlier. Rifle recovered in the school Book Depository isn't even the same model that he ordered or that he was photographed with. It's the same manufacturer, but it's a different length of firearm at does not have the ability to put a sling on the bottom of the rifle, it goes on the side of that rifle recovered in the school Book Depository where it goes on the bottom of the rifle he's pictured with. That would be called factual evidence of his innocence.
  • @mike7099
    Concerning the Warren Report, it reminds me of that phrase by Abraham Lincoln,"you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." As someone who was born after the assassin- action I have been able to see things more clearly in hindsight and with all of the little bits of new information that have come out it seems that there are way too many*Asterisks* in the Warren Report and it just doesn't pass the smell test if you know what I mean. There is a reason why 75%(the Majority) of people don't believe that one man pulled it off and further explains why millions of pages of our government's files concerning the assassination have not been released.
  • @penguin1924
    In the summer of 1962, Oswald was 22 years old, not 24.
  • @opalsirius8484
    I kept waiting for Peter to ask Dr. Gregory what does he make of LHO's statement that he was a patsy. His angered statement appeared to me as said by a man that felt betrayed and taken for an unsuspecting idiot by someone really in charge
  • Great conversation between a guy who knew Lee Oswald and his family and a guy who helped Pres Reagan write the, "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall" speech. Witnesses to two major events and people in the 20th century.
  • I've been researching the assassination seriously for more that 15 years, I watch all such videos. I made not one note, a waste of 52 minutes of my valuable time.
  • Always a treasure to see the same host. He has been a constant in the midst of much change.
  • @cwags_7985
    Surprised the host didn’t know who AJ Hidell was. That’s an important historical figure.
  • @Tangentsunset
    How did a Hoover Institution expert get a basic fact wrong? Oswald's attempt to defect and become a Soviet citizen was denied by the Soviet Union, but he was allowed to live in Minsk anyway.
  • @hscollier
    Odd that he referred to Minsk as a backwater provincial city, when it was the capital of the Belarusian Soviet Republic and a center of technology for all of the Soviet Union. Also, I was in Minsk in 1994 and met former Soviet intelligence officials who said Oswald spoke perfect Russian with almost no accent. Other contemporary sources also say that Oswald’s Russian was excellent. This guy is either misinformed or spreading misinformation.
  • @newcreation2521
    The biggest thing I got out of the interview is that whoever is/was responsible picked the ideal patsy.
  • One thing from the account of Oswald's experience stuck out for me, the fact that not only did Russia allow him to return to America after defecting, but they even assisted him financially. Were they really that generous?
  • @buzzml8123
    Interesting…I have no doubt that Dr. Gregory is sincere in his beliefs, and that he did, in fact, spend time with the Oswalds, but I heard no convincing evidence for his lone-gunman theory other than his own opinion.
  • @MrRKWRIGHT
    On Friday, November 22nd 1963, as a route salesman for a Dallas/Ft. Worth vending company, I was filling the Coke machine in the Parkland Hospital cafeteria about a half hour before the presidential motorcade rolled in. I was planning to stay and have lunch but the Friday special was liver and onions, and I NEVER order organ meat in a hospital cafeteria. If roast chicken had been the special, I would have been there when Kennedy arrived. By the way, I had filled the Coke machine in the lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository that morning. That means that if Oliver Stone and other conspiracy theorists are correct and Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed in the cafeteria drinking a Coke moments after the assassination, it was placed in the machine by Yours Truly. This gets better. The company I worked for was closed on Saturday , in observance of the national tragedy, so on Sunday, while getting paid double overtime, I had to make up the stops I didn't get to on Saturday - including the Dallas Police Headquarters. I had just pulled my truck into the parking garage when I spotted one of my regular customers, Jack Ruby -owner of the Carousel Nightclub where we had a couple of machines. He waved to me as I drove past. He was on his way on foot to somewhere in the garage.
  • @marge-bg4zn
    Good grief, Jackie’s suit can’t even be viewed until 2103, when we’re all gone. And then only by certain people. It was never forensically examined. The clothing of the person siting closest to him was never examined for blood spatter patterns, which would likely show exactly where the kill shot came from. Or maybe it HAS been forensically examined and the results don’t support the story we’ve been fed.