On Apr 30, 9:58=A0pm, pin head <longiislandh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I wasn't question his ability to travel......rather the ease in which he
> did it during the height of the cold war....i believe he was being
> assisted by a powerful group or goverment.
>
> Do you even REALISE what your saying ?????
> This would be todays equiv of making a PUBLIC statement of defecting
> to Al Queda And coming back here like you Only went to Vegas.
No, it was not like defecting to Al-Qaeda. Not only were we not at war
with the Soviet Union, we had regular diplomatic relations with that
country, and thousands of Americans visited the Soviet Union every
year. Vice President Nixon visited the Soviet Union in July 1959, and
Nikita Khrushchev was the guest of President Eisenhower at Camp David
in September 1959, only a month before Oswald's defection. I don't
think Osama bin Laden will be the guest at the Bush Ranch in Texas
anytime soon.
As for Oswald's return to the U.S.A., this was covered in detail in
Appendix 15 of the Warren Commission Re****t:
"Since he was born in the United States, Oswald was an American
citizen. However, Congress has provided that by performing certain
acts, a person may forfeit his American citizen****p. Thus Oswald would
have become expatriated while in Russia if he obtained naturalization
in the Soviet Union, renounced U.S. nationality, took an oath of
allegiance to the Soviet Union, or voluntarily worked for the Soviet
Government in a post requiring that the employee take an oath of
allegiance. . . .
"Though in 1959 Oswald clearly stated to officials at the American
Embassy, both orally and in writing, that he desired to renounce his
U.S. citizen****p, he at no time took the steps required by the statute
and regulations to effect his renunciation. Oswald did not execute the
proper forms, he did not sign his letter of October 31 or November 3,
1959, in the presence of a consular official, and neither letter was
signed by such an official. Because section 349 (a) (6) [of the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952] in terms requires compliance
with the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, Oswald did not
expatriate himself under that section. . . .
"Though Oswald was known to be 'an unstable character, whose actions
are highly unpredictable,' there was no reasonable basis in 1961 and
1962 for suspecting that upon his readmittance to the country he would
resort to violence against its public officials. The officers of the
Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
acting within the proper limits of their discretion, concluded that
Oswald's return to the United States was in the best interests of the
country; it is only from the vantage of the present that the tragic
irony of their conclusion emerges."
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-re****t/appendix-15.ht=
ml#return
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