Oswald by Kerry Thornley Part 1

if I'm not mistaken, or maybe third. This was written after the assassination, whereas The Idle Warriors, which we'll read at some point, that was written before the assassination by a long time, at like nineteen sixty. So I'm not sure what to expect in this book, but it's gonna be packed full of lies, I'll tell you that much, because carry Thornley is a professional liar. So here we go. I'm just going to read all the text on all

the pages. This exclusive New Classics House original is not available in any other form, including the Warren Commissions, one hundred and six page deposition of the author, a support of psychological analysis by Albert Ellis, PhD. A biographical verification by B. A. Simcoe, a fellow marine of Oswalden Thornley, and an eight page pictorial documentation section and a unique

eulogy to John F. Kennedy by Paul G. Nimark. Just to point out here be a Simcoe is the guy who was named years later as his own handler in the Marines. And Simco worked for a Lieutenant Ballantine, so that would have been like Marine G two, naval intelligence, that kind of thing. Buddy Simco is an interesting character.

So Simco gets suck in intelligence when he's in the Marines, like real early and he worked in intelligence, which Bade he said, is just being in a room and he's doing a lot of filing stuff, a lot of filing paperwork and stuff. I mean, sure there's more to it than that. He's not going to tell us the truth.

But I remember Simco in his own book said that he had been in there, in this room and working in this room, and he went to his boss, who was Lieutenant Valentine, and he said, look, man, this is kind of boring. I want to do something else. And Valentine basically told him that, like this is as high as it gets. There's no there is no promotion from here. There is nothing bigger, better that you're going to get.

This is this is the top. This is the upper echelon of what we do here out of this marine base out at Santa Anna, And so Simko just stayed with it. And then he stays in contact with Kerry Thornley. After Thornley gets out of the Marines. They stay in touch obviously after the assassination. So Thornley is Thornley, Simcoe

and Balentine, Martin mccauliffe, Kent Courtney brother in law. All these characters that we've been made aware of by Carry Thornley are obviously his intelligence handling circle, right, because well, help all CIA guys only hang with CIA guys, right. And from the time that Carry Thornley gets to New Orleans allegedly February sixty one, I don't buy that he starts hanging out with intelligence people right from the jump,

you know what I mean. And the fact that he stays in touch with Buddy Simcoe who was in the Marines with him, who was an intelligence guy in the Marines, that tells me that there's some other connection there, probably between Simcoe and maybe Martin mccauliffe. But I don't know if we can ever figure these things out. I just don't know that there's enough data to be able to

to make these connections and make them stick. So let me continue on an illuminating personal analysis of Wylie Harvey Oswald chose to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, as well as an iconoclastic critique of how America helped Oswald to become what he did. The author, twenty seven year old

Kerry Thornley, began writing at the age of fourteen. He sold his first piece of work to a local newspaper when he was nineteen, and has since had poems, short stories, and articles published in the little magazines, including Innovator, a libertarian newsletter of which he is the editor in chief.

Thornley's interest in philosophy and politics also began early. While attending high school in Whittier, California, he won a number of public speaking competitions, including the Voice of Democracy contests, which I'm telling you that's where he got recruited the Voice of Democracy contest. After attending the University of Southern California for one year as a journalism student, he decided to fulfill a two year active duty obligation assumed earlier

upon joining the Marine Corps Reserve. He was assigned to El Toro Marine air Station in Santa Anna, California, where he was to meet Lee Harvey Oswald. Later, Thornley served in the Far East in the first Marine Aircraft Wing and distinguished himself again as a public speaker on political philosophical issues by winning first place in the Wing Technique of Instruction competition. He was therefore he was therefore sent to Washington to appear in the finals. Mm hm, I

bet he was. It was shortly after his return to overseas duty that Thornley read in a newspaper of Oswald's defection to Russia, and as a result of that, began work on his first novel, The Idol Warriors, featuring a protagonist much modeled after this unusual Oswald personality. Goddamn, that's a long sentence. It shouldn't have been so long. It could have broken that up. All right, let me just cover something real here, real quick here, because something has

caught my attention. So he's over in that Japan and yeah, they're actually this is this is correct, by winning first place in the Wing Technique of Instruction competition. Yes, it was an instructor techniques competition exactly. Let's see. I can't believe this is actually corroborating the data in the marine files because that's been so skewed. He was therefore sent to Washington to appear in the finals. So okay. So he's in fucking Japan, and um he allegedly wins this competition, right,

and gets sent back to Washington. And when you know what caught me about the data this? You know, I don't have it in front of me. Let me see if I can recall when this was, because it struck me as very odd. I think it was. Well, let me see. He is out of the Marines by October of nineteen sixty. This had to been early on, so it had to have been yes, yes, yes, yes, okay. So he goes over to Atsugi. He gets into Oswald's

MCS one unit. He starts asking questions about Oswald. He's taking pictures of people in the unit and things that are associated with Oswald. And when he's questioned by a guy named Ronald Schwinghammer, he gives shwing Hammer the name Rick Thornley. And so he's using an alias for some reason, and he's gathering information on Oswald. Then Oswald does the defection.

Oswald defects. He goes to the Soviet Union. It is almost immediately after this defection of the Soviet Union, maybe within a couple of weeks, that Carrie Thornley will be sent back from at Sugi, Japan to Washington, where he'll be for I think three weeks, two or three weeks, and then he's sent back to Atsugi. That's a really long way to fly some guy just because he won a competition. What kind of competition is this? This is some bullshit. This is some covert ops bullshit. Is what's

going on here? Okay? I want to see the fucking list of everyone else who entered this contest. Motherfucker winning contests his whole goddamn life. Give me a break. So yes, I think that him coming back to Washington has something to do with Oswald's defection. Maybe it was after he got back that he starts doing the investigation into Oswald. That would make a lot more sense. That would make

a lot more sense. Carrie Thornly goes to Atsugi. At some point, he'll take place in Operation strong Back, which was an amphibious assault drill that Oswald had taken part in Operation strong Back, but earlier on it was like a four month exercise or something along like that. It was really it was a big exercise that they did. But Oswald is listed amongst having participated, and so was Carrie Thornley when he is finally there in nineteen sixty.

So yeah, very interesting stuff. Let me continue on. Though he was therefore sent to Washington appear in the finals. It was shortly after his return to overseas duty Thornly read in the newspaper of Oswald's defection to Russia, and as a result of that, began work on his first novel, The Idle Warriors, featuring a protagonist much modeled after unusual Oswald personality. After leaving the Marine Corps, Thornley moved to New Orleans, French Quarter, to finish The Idle Warriors and

to gain background material for future writings. Oh really, background material on what on Oswald? Because that's not that's not the story. We don't really know why he went to New Orleans. He was told to go there, obviously by his handlers. But another thing about Thornley getting to New Orleans is that the bolton Ford incident occurred in January of sixty one, and he claims that he got to New Orleans in February of sixty one. I think he's lying.

I think he was at bolton Ford. At first, I suspected it was Seymour, because it's always Lawrence had Howard and William Symore paired up together. But I realized after Carry Thornley wrote about his association with Leopaldo, who was definitely Lawrence Howard from the Soviet audio incident. Since he

mentioned being associated with Leopoldo, it broke. It totally made me realize that, yes, Carry Thornley was probably associating with Lawrence Howard all the way way back then, which means he was associating with other people in New Orleans all the way way back then, whereas his official timeline on meeting this people is like years later, years later, two years, a year and a half later. So God, it's so hard to find truth when everyone's full of shit, you know.

It really is like picking that shit out of Peppa all right. After leaving the Marine Corps moved, Carry Thornley moved to New Orleans, French Quarter to he see. He never really clarifies why he went to New Orleans. I think maybe he mentioned he had a friend there. I don't recall I don't recall at some point he's gonna meet and hook up with Raymond brough Shears. So yeah, it's very it's cloudy over why he went to New

Orleans in the first place. Obviously he was dispatched there to participate in this operation at President He lives in Los Angeles and is working on a second novel plus a series of philosophical papers for private publication. So that's the biography of Kerry Thornley got I spent way more time on that than I wanted to. The fourth New

Classics House original, And this is funny. It's dedicate dedicated to Clinton Bolton, who first said to me go home and write you bum Clinton Bolton was one of those guys in New Orleans, clearly a CIA guy pops up in a bunch of different circles. But he dedicated this book to a guy who's clearly a CIA operator or an intelligence operator, I'll put it that way. Copyright nineteen sixty five by New Classics House. So he didn't waste

any time in writing this book. His books are tiny, like two of my chapters, all right, so world renowned. I'm gonna read everything. We're going to get every single word in this book. This is like a kind of introduction here, says world renowned doctor Albert Ellis received a MA and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University. They went on to teach at Rutgers University and New

York University. He became chief psychologist of the New Jersey State Diagnostics Center, a fellow of five associations and societies, including the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Diplomat of the American Board of Examiners and Professional Psychology, and Vice President of the

American Academy of Psychotherapists. For the past twenty years, doctor Ellis has maintained a private psychotherapy practice, marriage counseling, and a family counseling in New York City, and is currently the executive director of the Institute for Rational Living, Inc.

In New York. Along with the publication of over two hundred of his scientific papers, he's authored or edited more than twenty books and monographs, including The Art and Science of Love, Sex Without Guilt, Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, WHAT and The Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior, The Art and Science of Love, Sex without sex, without guilt, reason and emotion in Psychotherapy and the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior. M I'm always weirded out by these like PhD sweater Vest

guys who write about sexual behavior. It's like, are you sure, dude, been with like three people in your fucking life and your writing books? Fuck right off seriously. Introduction to Psychology of Assassination by Albert Ellis, pH D. Carry Thornley's first hand portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald's the most valuable document because it gives an illuminate view of the man who almost certainly murdered President John F. Kennedy and presents him as the author saw and lived with him several years

before the assassination occurred. Oh he did. When they live with him, He wasn't in his quantcet hut. Naturally, Mister Thornley had his own subjective reactions to Oswald, and, as he frankly states in this book, he had his personal politico social philosophy which hardly dovetailed with Oswald's. But as abudding a novelist and one who was perspicacious enough to

some words you just don't need to use. Okay, nobody needs to flex their intellect by using words like perspicacious, fuck you, perspicacious enough to see in potential assassin to a unique individual who could well serve as a protagonist for the great American novel which he then hoped to write.

Thornley was beautifully equipped to study and delineate Oswald's character, and is doubtful whether we shall ever have a more faithful picture of this complex and aberated human being than is presented in some of the vignettes of him in this book. I am fortunately in something of the same accurate, predictive, predictive position as Thornley regarding my diagnostic impressions of Oswald.

For immediately after President Kennedy's assassination, Lyle Stewart, who publishes many of my books and who was also the editor and publisher of the unusual monthly periodical The Independent, asked me to do a piece on the psychology of assassination. I quickly wrote such an article, which was then included in the November nineteen sixty three issue of The Independent.

Although at that time I only had a pot pirie of newspaper reports to go by, it was apparent to me Lee Harvey Oswald was an exceptionally disturbed individual, and I had said so in no uncertain terms. Later published material, including that in the report of the Warren Commission, and now the present book by Kerry Thornley, has much more fully documented my original impressions of Oswald and the motives for his crime. So if O were interest in crowing, I could well throw out my chest and say I

told you so. More to the point, however, I am interested in augmenting and substantiating my original thesis on Oswald and the psychology of assassination. So let me now attempt to do this by using some of Thornley's first hand impressions of President Kennedy's presumed assassin, as well as material from other reputable sources. Let me say at the start what I said in my original article that although on the surface assassination may seem to be a cold blooded

result of political choice, it actually rarely is. Contemporary assassins are almost always exceptionally deranged individuals, many of them, in fact, such as Jack Ruby, the murderer of the Oswald, seem to have no political motive whatever, And even the most notorious killer of all time, Adolf Hitler, was obviously not

merely fighting for German or even Aryan interests. When he sent out his trained gunman to exterminate his political foes, he was clearly and unusually just disturbed, terribly anxious and hostile individual who was personally motivated to kill, quite apart from the socioeconomic views which he may have quite sincerely, if benightedly held. You know, this is why I hate these PhD motherfuckers. Dude, for real, they have no idea

what the fuck they're talking about. You want experience to understand, you want to understand the human mind, Go out and deal with people. I don't think I could have gotten a better experience in human psychology than being a cop for the eight years that I was on the road. Oh my god. You see the same patterns over and over and over and over and over and over again. People lying right to your face every fucking day, all day, which is what everyone does when they deal with the cops.

Maybe inadvertently, I don't care if it's witness, suspect, whatever, bystander, doesn't matter. Everyone inserts their own agenda into their observations. It's inevitable, it always happens, and so day after day you really get a hold for the different types of people that are out there, what different bullshit they're going to say to try to cover up for their bullshit. I mean, like, you really get a firm grasp on the human condition, you know, after interviewing ten thousand fucking

witnesses in relation to crime? Right? So yeah, So I read these fucking PhDs and I'm like, dude, you've never interacted with a fucking human being in your life. You're fucking idiot. You can't learn about people from fucking books. You can only learn about people from people. That's why having life experiences so goddamn important to being just a

half decent investigator. All right, let me continue on. So too, is there good reason to believe that most members of revolutionary groups such as the anarchists of the nineteenth century Russia, which openly advocate political assassination, adhere to their creeds of violence because they want to kill, and not merely because they have dispassionately figured out that this is really an effective method of backing up the ideologies in which they believe.

What are some of the main psychological factors that drive people to assassinate political figures. These impotence and self hatred. Assassins such as Lee Harvey Oswald are often individuals who, although they are not basically stupid, have been so seriously emotionally disturbed all their lives that they have been highly

inept in getting what they want out of life. They usually have poor interpersonal relations, They are unable to work steadily on interesting or well paying jobs, and they characteristically get rejected by friends, acquaintances, members of the other sex, and even political groups are countries to which they would

like to swear allegiance. Because of their inherent low estimations of themselves, they keep failing at one task after another, and then they use their failures as evidence that they are really worthless and must necessarily keep failing, rather than consciously admit to themselves, however, that they are wo fully inadequate, and that they therefore better do something drastic to change their ways. They frequently build up defensive hostility against others

and insist that they are being persecuted by these others. Consequently, they hate bosses, official statesmen, and other authority figures and insist that is these bastards who are keeping them down.

They cannot, of course, acknowledge the hard work and refusal to be downed by physical and other handicaps that are characteristic of statesmen such as Kennedy, since such an acknowledgment would spotlight their own tendencies to goof in the face of even minor difficulties, So they often become insanely jealous of outstanding achievers, insists that they do not truly deserve their places of eminence, and bitterly resolve that something must be done to annihilate them and drag them from the

positions they have unfairly won. Typical of the impotence and self hatred that Lee Harvey Oswald felt for himself is that in his case, as Thornleigh Cleary clearly points out, despair it would appear existed, but it was not despair with resignation. Rather, Oswald exhibited something quite prevalent in our culture today, frantic despair. Like so many despairing and self deprecating people, Oswald apparently had to believe that there were special reasons for his not succeeding in life, so he

became defensively paranoid and wishful. Thinkingly got himself to discern that others were deliberately picking on him and blocking his way. Okay, let me comment on this real quick. So we got to remember Oswald died at the age of twenty four. He's in Russia at the age of like twenty or was it even twenty. Yeah, he's about twenty. So what are we talking about, thinking that you're a failure in life.

He was a child, he was just getting started. He goes to Russia, doesn't work out, He's like, okay, great, let me come back. He comes back, He's already got a wife and a child. He's already got a wife and a child, and I don't buy for a split second. He ever lived at any of the boarding houses period, so they were always together. So that's a win in his book. All he needed to do was find steady employment,

you know, and a possible career paths. Right, And so when they say he was a failure in life, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? By the age of twenty four, the guy had done a ton of shit, went into the Marines, went over to Japan, he goes and lives in the Soviet Union. I mean, he did a lot of things by the age of twenty four. So when you hear people say things like he was frustrated because he was a failure. What the fuck are you talking about? What are you talking about?

Zero evidence for any of this stuff? Jesus all right, where was I? As Thornleigh succinctly notes, I don't think he was consciously perhaps aware of the fact that he went out of his way to get in trouble. I think it was kind of necess to him to believe that he was being picked on. It wasn't anything extreme. I wouldn't go so far as to call him a paranoid, but there was a definite tendency in that direction. And again, I think perhaps the feeling of being persecuted was necessary

to his self esteem. This is, I understand, a common thing, and it certainly fits in with everything else I know about him. The more Important Commission, in its official summary of Oswald's condition, concurs he used his Marxist and associated activities as excuses for his difficulties in getting along in the world, which were usually caused by entirely different factors. However, arrogant and superior then Oswald appeared on the surface to be.

It is evident that he always had deep seated feelings of self deprecation and that much of his external swagger and violence was an unconscious attempt to deny or cover up these feelings lack of frustration tolerance. Political change of a profound nature. Invariably it takes a considerable period of

time to achieve. Even long after significant revolution such as the American Revolution and the Russian Revolution have occurred, numerous vestiges of the old regimes survive, and it is only as a result of constant vigilance and action on the part of the revolutionists that many of their aims are

finally achieved. Political assassins, however, usually are individuals with low frustration, tolerance and lack of prolonged discipline, who want, or rather demand what they want when they want it, which means

immediate promto right now. However worthy their causes may be or may seem to them to be, they're not willing to keep working to achieve these goals, and they impatiently and to a large extent mystically, believe that they will be able to attain them one fell dramatic swoop, sudden ass sudden assassination of their foes is therefore their frequent and usually quite unrealistic messa of choice in Oswald's case, it is fairly clear that he was a short range

hedonist who rarely saw difficult projects through, even when he theoretically believed in them. Although he was intelligent and believed in reading and an education, he shirked his school work and as a child never quite finished high school. He never held on to jobs in a steady fashion, and he didn't even stick things out very well when he went to the Soviet Union and tried to become a

citizen there. Thornley significantly notes that Oswald, though a seeker after a better philosophy of world order, heerred in that respect too. He'd been willing to exert the effort. Oswald could have worked out for himself a rational view of the world. At times, according to his notes, he attempted

to formulate what he called a third alternative. That he did not continue this effort, and that he spent his time instead in conspiring to do violence to those with whom he disagreed is the fault of Noah person than Lee Harvey Oswald. Even though Oswald's vaunted political views, Thornley again dictates indicates that were partly realizations for his taking the easy way out and making a great name for

himself without his making any persistent effort. He was concerned with his image in history, and I do that why he chose the particular method he chose, and did it identified with the communist cause in the way he did. It got him in the newspapers, it did broadcast his name out. I think he probably expected the Russians to accept him into much higher capacity than they did. Like so many individuals with low frustration tolerance, Oswald was a

classical injustice collector. To quote Thornley, he was always speaking of the injustices which had been perpetrated against him. And it was the fact that he had lost the clearance and gone out of his way to get into some degree of trouble, and went on to support this. For example, we would stand at Muster in the morning and Sergeants Sparr would call the role and he would say Oswald, and Oswald would step bat of the ranks and spar would send him off to mow the lawn or something.

Oswald did get special treatment, as I say, he had brought it on himself, but he made the most of it too, as far as using it as a means

of getting or attempting to get sympathy. Here, then we have a picture, which I frequently find in my most serious disturbed patients, of an individual who builds up false expectations of how the world should treat him, who goes out of his way to get the world to deal with him unkindly, and who thereby proves, at least to his own satisfaction, that reality is definitely the way it should, by his own unrealistic definition, be naturally the only way

in which such a frustration intolerant person is going to be able to right the wrongs which have been done with him. Is equally trigger happy on realism to harm or to kill those who are more favor than he, and who usually have worked their heads off, as Kennedy did to earn his favor to earn this favor. Magical thinking.

Almost every person who vigorously opposes a pronounced politico economic way of thinking, whether that be extremely right wing, left wing, or even centrist at times, has the distinct inclination to

murder that outstanding spokesman for the view he despises. But since most political oppositionists are reasonably sane and thinking individuals, they quickly calculate that it would be utterly foolish for them to give in to their murderous inclinations, for obviously they would not kill the party they oppose by quickly silencing one or more of its spokesman. In fact, they might well publicize and aid its cause by thereby creating

public martyrs. By resorting to assassination, they easily are able to see, they would only bring down the wrath of officialdom and very likely of the shocked populace itself, on themselves and their own supporters, would do their own cause more harm than good, and would very likely end up

just as dead as their murdered opponents. Consequently, same proponents of even extremist politico economic views frequently think of how nice it would be if they could eradicate their opponents in one huge blood bath, but they practically never take any overt steps to execute such a wishful notion. Political assassins, on the other hand, are not equally sane, and almost always seem to believe that they and their supporters can get away with the bloody deed they at first fantasize

and then actually carry out. John Wilkes Booths of the world seem to be genuinely diluted at the moment they commit their misdeeds, and there will be a massive public uprising in their favor, that the individuals they assassinate with will be universally condemned rather than raised to martyrdom, and

that they, the murderers, won't be caught and punished. These assassins usually seem to make their wishes farther farther to utterly magical kinds of thought, and those among them who do not expect to escape earthly retribution seem to believe that they will be rewarded in some later celestial existence in a heaven, of course, that is somehow ruled by

their own cohorts. This magical thinking on their part, which usually leaves them with enough per spiccaps Oh my god, here's that fucking word again, perspicacity to carry out their death dealing blows effectively, but to fail to make any reasonable plans for escape, is probably the reason why such a high percentage of political assassins are caught so quickly. Oswald's extreme degree of magical thinking was shown in several ways.

He was a Marxist, largely because he believed that communism was the wave of the future, and that he personally would be exalted in stature by his picking this kind of right horse. As thoroughly notes, he looked upon history as God. He looked upon the eyes of future people as some kind of tribunal and he wanted to be on the winning side, so that ten thousand years from now people would look in the history books and say, well, this man was ahead of his time. He wanted to

be looked back upon with honor by future generations. It was, I think a substitute in his case for traditional religion. This is such fucking nonsense. I hope you people all can recognize that. Moreover, quote in his eyes, in his own eyes, he was two conflicting things. On one hand, and perhaps most deeply, while certainly not most obviously, he was Oswald the Oppressed. On the other hand, he was Oswald the Great, the future liberator of the entire human race.

Considering how atheistic Oswald was, by his own statements supposed to be, this high degree of religiosity and grandiosity that he actually felt in practice is indeed remarkable. It should come as no surprise, therefore, when we discover that on the day of Kennedy's assassination, Oswald took with him only thirteen dollars and eighty seven cents and left behind one hundred and seventy which might have well helped them escape

to Cuba or elsewhere. Like so many other assassins, as plans for escape were either magically non existent or totally unrealistic. Like that's completely irrelevant. All this is irrelevant. Remember if the guy's not there at the book depository and a guy didn't do it, everything they say about him being there and his motives are all fucking junk. Extreme moralism

and hostility. Although assassins are palpably immoral since they commit the one act murder, which is almost universally condemned among the various peoples of the world, they invariably seem to be unusually moralistic or blaming. They not only condemned the basic ideologies of their politico economic opponents, but they severely

castigate these opponents themselves for having such ideas. This excoriation of an individual for espousing certain creeds is, of course an act of extreme bigotry, and has little connection with our normal opposition to philosophies, which we think are mistaken for granting that a man, such as the head of a political party, is wrong about holding certain views, as of course his opponents always think he is. He has

inalienable right to be wrong. To be human is to err and unless each of us is given the inaliable right to be errant and not only personally denigrated or cruelly punished for so being, the freedom to think for one's self becomes a mockery and errant Bigotry and obscurantism quickly becomes quickly begins to prevail. The political assassin is essentially unable to see this to distinguish clearly between a person's being wrong and is being blamed, punished, and devalued

as a human for his mistakes. The assassin dogmatically and authoritatively wants to blame, demand that his own views be considered absolutely right and everyone else is utterly fallacious. Insists on making himself the final arbiter of human destiny, while placing all those who dissent from him on an infinitely lower to humanized and preferably non existent level. That Oswald was from his childhood to his death an unusually moralistic and hostile individual, seems to be well attested by the

facts of his existence. Several times during his early years, he got into trouble with school and other authorities in full decade before he was accused of murdering Kennedy, who was suspected of being psychopathic, and a psychiatrist by who examined him. Thornley himself doubts that Oswald was truly potentially dangerous in his youth and at the time he knew him in the Marine Corps, but he also gives several

indications of Oswald's hostility at the time. Thus, in response to Albert Jenners questioning him when he appeared before the Warrant Commission, Thornly admits that Oswald had gotten into difficulty with a staff sergeant and had poured beer on the person on the person of a staff sergeant and gotten into some kind of altercation. As a result of that, he was court martialed and had been subjected to the

loss of clearance. Again. According to Thornley, he seemed to be a person who would go out of his way to get into trouble, get some officer or staff sergeant mad at him. He would make wise remarks. He had a general bitter attitude towards the corps. He used to pull his hat down over his eyes so he wouldn't have to look at anything around him and go walking around the very very beatled Bailey style. In regards to Oswald's relationships camaraderie with others in his Marine Corps unit,

Thornley tells us that these were almost nil. He got along with very few people. As an example of Oswald's bellicosity, Thornley noted that on one occasion, when he finally remarked to Oswald that he when it comes to revolution, you'll change all that, meaning that Oswald's views of military organizations would be revolutionists, screamed at him and he never said anything to me. Again. That's not how the that's not how the conversation went down at all, not even remotely close.

I got three or four witnesses who were witnessed, including Delgado. Uh I think Richard call maybe, and then they're all like no, it was because Thornley made a joke about Oswald being a communist, and then Oswald said you too, Thornley, and then that was it. That's the statements from everyone,

but here he says some other bullshit. It God, professional liars, Jesus, they drive me grays a quite typically then Oswald exhibited lifetime patterns of surliness and unfriendliness, and it is perhaps noteworthy that at the time Kennedy was shot, he was also at serious oz with his wife and appeared to have no close friends. This does not mean, of course, that every negative hostile person is likely to become a murderer.

Potentially yes, but in all likelihood know of those individuals, however, who do kill, and who particularly kill in the senseless

fashion that President Kennedy was assassinated. A long time history of extreme resentment against others will frequently be found severe anxiety because he absolutely cannot tolerate the dissenting views of others, and because he consciously or unconsciously feels himself to be impotent and unable to cope with a world of probability or chance, where it is inevitable that opposing views to his will be heard and will often prevail. The political

assassin is fundamentally an exceptionally anxious person. His grandiosity therefore is to some degree the other side of the coin of his underlying feelings of weakness, and is partially a defense against these feelings. Because he is terribly afraid that others will spot his inadequacies and therefore take advantage of him.

He paranoiically projects onto them his own poor picture of himself, begins to imagine that they are plotting and scheming against him, and feels impelled to kill them before they actually do

him injury. From the picture just painted, it can be seen that the political assassin tends to be a paranoid schizophrenic, and when he is not precisely in that category, nonetheless is an exceptionally disturbed individual who has little capacity to think straight about himself and others, and who usually has led a highly disordered and like as not rebellious and

antisocial life since early childhood. Typically, for example, we find that Lee Harvey Oswald was a loner, was resentful of discipline, was bored and restless in school, shirked his studies although he was well above average intelligence, felt that he and his family were persecuted by society. Was fanatically devoted to Communism, but still unable to be accepted by the Russians when

he decided to give up his United States citizenship. Was quite distressed about losing his hair, which he typically attributed to the cold Russian winters. Was unable to hold some jobs because of incompetence in performing work that should have been easily grasped by him, acted so suspiciously that that causes that he wanted to work for, refuse to have any connection with him, and generally behaved in a withdrawn,

rebellious in their responsible manner. More concretely, we have the first hand evidence of Thornley, who replies to mister Jenner's question, do you think he was emotionally unstable with an unequivocal I think so, that Jenner continues, is an opinion you gathered from your association with him in the Marines, and Thornley again without cavill, Yes, where the fuck uses the word cavill in that manner? Jesus Christ, I hate PhDs.

When Jenner asked Thornley to what do you attribute this inability of is to maintain reasonably cordial or at least service family relations with his fellow Americans, the latter's reply as well. At the time, I just thought, well, the man's a nut. I just thought something's wrong with him. Maybe something is bugging him today, maybe he's crazy. I

don't know what. Later I did reflect on it, and that combined with his general habits in relation to his superiors and to other men in the outfit, caused me to decide that he had a definite tendency toward irrationality

at times and emotional instability. From all this data, we now have an Oswald, including the material in the Warren Commission's report that which was independently unearthed by various newspapers and magazine sources, and Thornley's detailed experiences with Oswald that are exposited in this book, it would appear that although he was never hospitalized for mental illness and might possibly never have had he never have been had he lived to a ripe old age, there is little question that

he was at least a borderline schizophrank oh my god, and that he was seriously aberraated from his early childhood onward. If he was a borderline schizophrenic, they would have caught it when he was in the Marines. Jesus Christ. All right, Well, that was a long ass introduction, and so we're just now getting to chapter one. Let me see what page

won on page thirteen. So well, guys, I know, we just read the introduction, but we're already forty minutes in, so I'm not gonna get started on the next chapter. What we'll do is I will pick up here tomorrow and we'll see how many of these chapters we can knock out. So that's gonna do it for me today, guys, Tomorrow we'll have another episode of Corey Hues, Bloody History, World War Two. We'll be continuing on with Lothrop Stoddards into the Darkness. If you're not a subscriber over at Substack,

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