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Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald Paperback – October 22, 2011
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- Print length608 pages
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- PublisherTrine Day
- Publication dateOctober 22, 2011
- Dimensions6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101936296373
- ISBN-13978-1936296378
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"A remarkable new book ... exhaustively documented...filled with fascinating detail...unsparingly honest ..."
--Rollin Stearns, henrymakow.com
"Me & Lee" by Judyth Vary Baker... It was stunning to learn that Lee Harvey Oswald had a mistress. Her book shows beyond any doubt that he was clearly a government agent..[Jesse Ventura, The Week Magazine] " Me & Lee...is a phenomenal book." -- Jesse Ventura [to Alex Jones]
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BIOGRAPHY OF JUDYTH VARY BAKER
Judyth Vary Baker (1943 - ) born South Bend, Indiana, is an American artist, writer, poet, and anthropologist with training in medical technology and forensics. Author of "Me & Lee: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald," In Nov. 2019, Oliver Stone recommended "Me & Lee" at the 7th Annual JFK Assassination Conference in Dallas."David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot"--the first definitive biography on Ferrie - and her newest book "Kennedy & Oswald: the Big Picture" (with Edward Schwartz) complete her JFK-and-Oswald trilogy. The futuristic "Letters to the Cyborgs" -- science fiction stories based on today's inventions and the AI crisis, include a short story written by Lee Oswald. Baker, the founder of the annual JFK Assassination Conference and of JFK Conferences, LLC, has opened a museum in Sweden for Europeans to learn more. Recent secret file releases and new witnesses continue emerge that link her to Oswald in New Orleans and Dallas. EARLY LIFE: Judyth, the daughter of electrical engineer Donald Vary and of Gloria Whiting, whose mother was born in Hungary, was 16 when she invented a superior method to obtain magnesium from seawater: through interviews at the International Science Fair, she captured the attention of the CIA, scientists and biochemists when they learned of her cancer research projects, which were being supported by retired military officer and physicist Col. Phillip Doyle and the Florida Suncoast American Cancer Society. Her dream was to cure cancer after her beloved Hungarian grandmother, Anna Nemith Whiting, died of breast cancer in 1954. Judyth's further work in cancer research attracted national attention and widespread support, culminating in the 17-yr-old's inducing lung cancer in mice in only 7 days, using tobacco aerosols and radiation - a feat that had not been accomplished, at the time, in the nation's top laboratories. Newspaper articles chronicled her work, which was investigated, then mentored, by three doctors noted for their crusades linking cancer to tobacco products: Dr. Alton Ochsner of Ochsner Clinic, Dr. Harold Diehl (Vice President of Research, American Cancer Society), and Dr. George Moore, Director of Roswell Park Institute for Cancer Research. These doctors, who had campaigned together against smoking, as well as Nobel Prize winners Dr. Harold Urey and Sir Robert Robinson, gave Judyth assistance and training, with a focus on melanoma and cancer viruses. Newspaper articles described their long-term assignment for Judyth was "to make the cancer more deadly..." The argument was that enhancing cancer growth could be a key to controlling it.
After nearly two years of training at Roswell Park Institute, in laboratories in Indiana, and at the University of Florida, Judyth was invited by Dr. Ochsner to New Orleans to work with noted cancer specialist and surgeon Dr. Mary S. Sherman, having been promised early entry into Tulane Medical School. However, it was the height of the Cold War and Judyth was being steered into a biological warfare project aimed to eliminate Cuba's Fidel Castro, directed by Ochsner, whose organization, INCA, was famed for its anti-communist zeal. Author Edward T. Haslam has linked a linear particle accelerator to the project headed by Drs. Ochsner and Sherman, through a detailed study of Dr. Sherman's brutal, unsolved murder on July 21, 1964, the day the Warren Commission came to New Orleans for testimonies. In 1963, Judyth had met Lee Harvey Oswald, who posed as pro-Castro to help protect the project from Castro's spies. A love affair commenced that ended November 22, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Lee, a CIA operative working with the FBI, and deeply embroiled in efforts to try to save Kennedy (now supported by witness Abraham Bolden and FBI files)was falsely accused of the deed. Shot after only 47 hours in custody by Mafia bagman and nightclub owner Jack Ruby, JFK and Lee were buried the same day, leaving Judyth broken-hearted and terrified as to her own fate.
Judyth says she was ejected from the project to kill Castro weeks earlier because of her ethical objections to use one or more prisoners -- so-clled "volunteers" to test the deadly, SV-40 derived cancer bio-weapon. "They wouldn't have volunteered to be tested for something that would kill them, if it was successful," she states. Forced to return to Florida, Judyth, in whom newspaper were still interested, was placed in a high-end chemistry laboratory, Peninsular ChemResearch, to temporarily hide her being "blackballed" from cancer research. She was then forced to leave the field altogether.
Judyth says she and Lee kept in touch after her return to Florida, and that they planned to divorce (both had unhappy marriages), but first, Lee had to deliver the material, now successfully tested, to a contact in Mexico City. When the contact failed to show, Lee tried to enter Cuba himself with the material, though he then suspected he had been lured to Mexico City to associate him with the Russians and Cubans. "He felt he was getting trapped," Judyth said. "Lee was not stupid."
Bitter over being banned from cancer research, and their plans to marry delayed when Lee, against his wishes, was ordered back to Dallas, Judyth was devastated when she saw him shot on live TV. Judyth says Lee Oswald was part of an "abort team" that he described to her only 37 ½ hours before Kennedy's assassination. When Baker told researcher Jim Marrs about the "abort team" in late 1999 or early 2000, at this time only a handful of insiders knew of its existence. Marrs, after investigating her thoroughly, wrote the Afterword for her book "Me and Lee."
Witnesses and a mass of documents and records support Judyth's statements. She describes herself as a "Crusader" working to clear Lee of a crime he didn't commit, and to reveal the cancer treatment industry's crimes. "They could have cured cancer decades ago--but that would have ruined their cash cow" she declares. Due to death threats as a whistler-blower, Judyth was forced to live overseas, though she returns periodically to continue her crusade. "Almost everything you've been told about Lee Oswald by the government is false," she states. "Lee actually saved Kennedy's life in Chicago. The full truth is in my book Me & Lee. The whole world is now learning the truth."
A History Channel documentary "The Love Affair" (2003- banned for its controversial content after objections from the Lyndon Johnson's family and friends) is available on YouTube. One of Judyth's witnesses, Anna Lewis, is also on YouTube, verifying Judyth's love affair with Lee Oswald. "Me & Lee: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald" (Trine day, 2010) is in hardcover, paperback, kindle,audio book, and is to be published in Spanish. "David Ferrie: Mafia Pilot (Trine Day, 2014)" is about one of the most important and mysterious of JFK assassination suspects ("He saved my life," Judyth says of Ferrie). "Kennedy and Oswald: the Big Picture" (with Edward Schwartz) compiles the best facts with latest secret record releases and Judyth's personal information into a single volume. Her science fiction short story collection, "Letters to the Cyborgs" includes a short story written by Lee Oswald. As a result of her many appearances on TV, radio, in documentaries, and the Internet, Judyth has many supporters who, she says "now understand how they've been lied to by the government--and they want justice for John F. Kennedy, for Lee Oswald, and for those who suffer from cancer. I want everybody to know that the government weaponized cancer back in 1963, that the government has patented cures for cancer--but cancer treatment is such a profitable industry that a cure for cancer is always last in line for funding." Judyth states that Lee, a former fake defector to the USSR, was sent to New Orleans to work with the FBI in anti-Castro activities; loaned to the CIA from the Office of Naval Intelligence, Lee protected Judyth (she was an asset) and reported on the cancer project "...being developed to kill Castro, whose death by a weaponized form of lung cancer would be called a 'death by natural causes,' All previous methods tried by the CIA had failed." Lee's job was to identify pro-Castro spies in New Orleans. His "pro-Castro activities," Judyth says, "were to make him look like a harmless pro-Castro fool." Judyth joins former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden in confirming that Oswald was the informant named "Lee" who saved Kennedy's life in Chicago three weeks prior to the assassination. "I spoke of Lee's attempts to save JFK a decade before Abraham's story reached the public," she says. "Lee also told me the name of the Op to kill JFK was called "The Big Event" which I reported in the History Channel documentary, "The Love Affair" in 2003, several years before the CIA's Howard Hunt used the same term in a secret tape recording that finally reached the public. Besides original witnesses verifying her relationship with Lee Oswald on tape, by letters, and on film, by 2017, more witnesses had emerged, along with released secret records verifying formerly unproven events and statements in her 2010 book. Those defending the Warren Commission's conclusions, which Baker calls "an obsolete failure and an odious obstruction of justice for both Kennedy and Oswald," spread altered emails and smears against her character when she first spoke out. "I can't live in my country because of them: I was harmed four times," she states. "After moving overseas, trips to the hospital for head, back and neck injuries finally stopped." The "accidents" also seriously damaged Judyth's vision. "In 2017, 125 people donated money to save my left eye,"she says. "I'm so grateful for such kindness!"
In 2000 Baker was nearly filmed three times by Sixty Minutes in a 14-month investigation that Sixty Minutes' founder, Don Hewitt, said was the most expensive investigation in the history of the program at that time. He stated to C-Span that "the door was slammed in our faces." But then Judyth flew to meet Gerry Hemming, a legendary name in Kennedy assassination research. After she gave Hemming "insider information" about his own life that had not been published, Judyth says, "he was impressed so much that he asked British documentary maker Nigel Turner to film me." "The Love Affair" [Episode 8: "The Men Who Killed Kennedy"] was aired by The History Channel in Nov. 2003, but Baker's living witnesses were excluded.
Episode 9 ["The Guilty Men"] quickly generated lawsuit threats from former Pres. Lyndon Johnson's widow, and two former Presidents: all three new episodes [7-8-9] were quickly banned, and The History Channel apologized to the Johnsons. Over the next few years, all of the other segments of The Men Who Killed Kennedy filmed by Turner, which had aired for over a decade on the History Channel, were also removed. "Mr. Turner has now vanished," Judyth said. "He's obviously been told to shut up. This happens to many brave souls who dare reveal the truth."
In 2012, a 3-act play by noted playwright Lisa Soland ["The Sniper's Nest"], based on "Me & Lee," began production in the United States and overseas. In 2014, Me & Lee was issued as an audiobook. Judyth, who has lived mostly overseas since 2003 due to death threats, has been hosted by supporters in nation-wide book tours in 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2014, she was asked to host and direct The JFK Assassination Conference (held in Dallas/Arlington Nov. 22-23-24), which was financed by numerous donations from supporters.
Judyth's poetry is collected into two books: When the Clouds Came Flying By (for children) and A Dangerous Thing to Do (both available on Kindle) She was co-author of a three-act play [Castles in the Sky, with John MacLean] for the Texas regional LDS Sesquicentennial. She also composes music. In 1976, Judyth's name was one of those placed on the Bicentennial Monument in Stafford, TX for civic service. Her oil and mixed-media paintings, logos and lithographs sell worldwide.
Judyth eloped with Robert A. Baker, III to Mobile, Alabama in May of 1963, which she regretted almost at once, since he then virtually abandoned her for weeks at a time. However, she rermained with hi after Osswald was shot and killed. They had five children between 1968-1978: Baker says David Ferrie "warned me not to speak of what I knew, if I wished to stay alive. I was told to be 'a vanilla girl.'" She thus remained silent for 35 years. When Baker's last child left home Dec. 26, 1998. she began writing a series of letters for her son to publish. "I felt guilty," she says, "after seeing the film 'JFK.' I had promised Lee I would tell his children the truth about him. I had to do it." Since then, Judyth has continued to gain support as researchers meet her and familiarize themselves with her account.
Today, Judyth lives in various countries overseas. "I regret that I haven't been able to be a good grandma and great-grandma," she says. "Some of my family has not forgiven me for speaking out." Judyth is currently working on three more books - one about Lee Harvey Oswald's writings (Tentative Title: The Mind of Lee Harvey Oswald --Trine Day, 2020) one about her close friend, Lt. Col. Dan Marvin [a Green Beret who worked as an assassin for the CIA] and a third book about social systems and linguistics (The SSC/ssc). She is the coauthor of "Kennedy & Oswald: The Big Picture, with Edward Schwartz (Trine Day, 2017).
Judyth is the founder of JFK Conferences, LLC, seeking non-profit status. She founded and hosts the JFK Assassination Conference and has taken responsibility to continue the traditional Kennedy Remembrance Ceremony at Dealy Plaza, with a period of silence observed, which has been held every Nov. 22 at 12:30 for decades. "Lee Oswald's name must be cleared," Judyth says, "to get justice for Kennedy. Then, we must wake up the public to ban biological warfare and to demand a real cure for cancer that doesn't involve expensive --and often useless-- chemotherapy." Judyth can be contacted on Facebook at "Judyth Baker," by writing to jfkconference@yahoo.com, or by writing Trine Day Publishers.
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About half way through you might become first curious if it is really true, and a week of evenings sifting through confusing and conflicting claims on the internet as I did. Let me suggest you consider first the question of whether the personal experiences Judyth relates are really her experiences. You can enter Judyth Vary Baker into a search engine and find her web page, and also the web pages of a John McAdams, who is her leading critic, and read and compare them for yourself. John is a defender of the lone assassin scenario, and attempts to find inconsistencies in Judy's story as it evolved through time. On John's site you will find links to Black Op Radio interviews with Judyth. Judy has a point by point rebuttal to McAdams on her website. You could hardly ask for a clearer debate. And there is no solid refutation of Judy's evidence.
On Judy's site you will find video of an episode of the History Channel's "The Men Who Killed Kennedy" which is an interview with Judy, and hear a much synopsized version of her story told by herself. You can decide if she seems sincere to you. But this synopsis has only a shadow of the intriguing quality of the book, which reads with first person narrative intensity that begs to be made into a movie.
Quite separate from deciding the author's credibility, you can get lost in deciphering Lee's character, and trying to understand whether Judy really understands this apparently more charismatic character than we previously realized, or whether her view is colored by the fact she is obviously in love with him. There are also opposing analyses of Lee on the web, including articles you can find by Pricilla Johnson MacMillian, a book by his brother Robert Oswald, and interviews and articles on a Lee Oswald website. Was he a clever double agent, taking a Russian wife as part of his cover, charming many women when necessary for his missions, dumping them as carelessly as his hero and idol "I Led Three Lives" Herb Philbrick? Was Judyth just another of these women? Or did Lee really care about the people in his life, and was Judyth someone he loved and had plans to run away with? Even Lee's wife Marina has changed her mind through the years about whether she thinks Lee is guilty. It is impossible to resist this fascinating puzzle, and it is soon clear that whatever he was, Lee was not disconnected from people like the stereotype lone nut assassins we have found in so many other cases.
Whatever you think about who shot Kennedy, and even if you don't particularly care, this book will entertain you, make you think about relationships, take you through a time warp to relive the early 60's if you happen to remember them, and take you into the life of a brilliant, naive and inspiring woman.
When I watched "The men who killed Kennedy", I knew there was an episode about a girlfriend of Lee's, but didn't pay much attention to it at first. I had read quite a lot on the JFK assassination. I couldn't believe a girlfriend no one had heard of would come out suddenly 40 years later. I thought it was a made up story. Only it wasn't. Judyth Vary Baker is a real McCoy and her episode was actually one of the most important of the series.
I'm glad I had read other books on the assassination before this one. If this had been my first, it would have been like going straight for the answer before reading the riddle. I already knew Lee was a patsy, but I thought there were too many things that made no sense in his life. "Me and Lee" connected the dots. I understand why even some good researchers want to discredit Judyth. It's because she knows some things far better than the so-called experts and some of them don't want to lose face and money after researching for many years. Judyth is such an important witness, but most people still know nothing about her. That, too, is quite amazing. The assassination of JFK was such an important event for the US and the world. It was a coup d'état that changed so many things for the worse.
Thanks to Judyth, I learned the following in this book.
- Lee is really innocent.
- He liked Kennedy and tried to save his life.
- He knew he could be used as a patsy, but didn't flee.
- He knew he could be killed because he knew too much, especially about who were involved in the plot to kill Kennedy.
- He was CIA. His stay in Russia was a mission, not a defection.
- He wasn't a lone nut at all.
- He and Marina were going to divorce.
- He knew Ruth Payne was CIA, too, and didn't trust her. (I think she's one of those who set him up.)
- He knew how to drive.
- He did go to Mexico, but only to discover he was being framed.
- He wasn't pro-Castro nor communist.
- His mother worked for gangsters. So did her brother. Lee grew up with mob.
- David Ferrie didn't betray Lee.
- Jack Ruby knew Lee since Lee was a child. They really were friends.
- George DeMorenschild was a CIA handler of Lee (I knew that already), but I'm under the impression that he didn't set Lee up like Ruth Payne did.
One thing I'm still wondering about is if the first meeting of Lee and Judyth at the post office was really a coincidence. Judyth must have wondered, too, but she doesn't say anything definite about it in the book. She arrived in New Orleans much earlier than expected, so there was no way for Lee to know she was in town ... If it was a coincidence, it's another incredible thing in the story.
This book is so full of lively conversations that you almost feel like Lee was a friend of yours. He comes back to life. He's so young and charming. 50 years seems like a long time, but if he was alive today, he would only be 74. So it hasn't been such a long time after all.
Judyth's life itself is very dramatic and interesting. I hope she'll write more about herself and things she didn't include in "Me and Lee". I know her book on David Ferrie is to be released later this year. I also hope Lee's daughters have read this book. I wonder if Judyth has met them.
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Her description into minutia such as exactly what she and Oswald ate at restaurants is troubling. There is too much detail for it to be true. The overuse of adjectives indicates a poor writing style.
The basic tenet that Oswald was working for US Intelligence makes perfect sense but just about everything she states he did and said with her simply does not ring true.
It goes into detail about Lee Oswald's life and actions in the months leading up to the assassination, something most books and official versions fail to do. The official version paints Oswald as a loner, misfit, unable to hold down a job, and disgruntled with society, a picture that was needed in order to fit him into the mold of the lone nut gunman. But here we see a different image of Oswald in 1963: a lover, intelligent, loved children, had a social life, had close connections to the mob, the CIA and the FBI, a man who was assisted in getting his jobs through "higher powers", a man who's every move had purpose. More importantly, he was a man who outright admitted he thought he was being set up to take the fall for Kennedy's assassination. How many people can say they actually knew an attempt on Kennedy's life was going to happen that day? She can, and apparently others knew too. Can we believe this story? Well, you can look at it in three ways. Either Ms. Baker is telling a big lie, or Oswald was lying to her and she totally fell for the lie, or she's telling the truth about events that really happened. When you look at her background, she was always known to be honest and intellectual, and she has references to corroborate a lot of what she says. When you compare what she says to other known facts about Oswald and the assassination, her story fits. She fills in some of the gaps that were always missing in the official story: why Oswald was in New Orleans (a huge missing gap in the official story), why he was in Louisiana and Mexico in the Fall of 1963, and why he ended up in Dallas. She admits she doesn't know all the details leading up to that fateful day, including details in Dallas on that day itself, but the amount of information contained in this account is invaluable. By story's end, one can only conclude that she has told a truthful account, to the best of her ability, of Lee's time in the months leading up to the assassination.
I disagree with the reviewer who thinks Ms. Baker's own life story is a waste of time. I found her career in cancer research to be thoroughly engaging and that background information establishes how she came to know Oswald, and why he himself became involved in covert cancer activity in New Orleans. The book is, after all, called "Me and Lee," so when you read the book, you are obviously going to be reading a bit about her life as well.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will be reading it for a second time soon.
The book, "Me & Lee", is a very personal and detailed (and fascinating!) account of a young woman's experience of being led into a world of intrigues during the summer of 1963 in New Orleans and the period leading up to Kennedy's assassination. We are allowed a glimpse at the real Lee Harvey Oswald - kind and loyal military-man, highly trained CIA / FBI operative, and somewhat reluctant gopher for the mob, which helps us to see how these groups cooperated (and presently still do).
But this is not the only story here - perhaps of equal interest is the back-story of Ms Baker's involvement in the plot to kill Castro by injecting him with a cancer-causing virus, and the contamination of polio vaccines with the same monkey-cancer-causing virus (SV40 - google it) which was given to millions of children in the late 1950's and early 1960's (even after they had discovered the contamination!), something which is still painfully relevant today.
I recommend this book to anyone interested in either the political or the scientific angle.
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Ho avuto la fortuna di parlare personalmente con l'autore, Judyth Vary Baker, e credo la sua è una voce che ci si può fidare, ed è quella che può portarci diversi passi verso capire non solo la verità sull'innocenza di Lee Harvey Oswald, ma su come funzionano le operazioni segrete del governo Americano e la comunità medica dietro le quinte.
Il libro, "Me & Lee", è un racconto molto personale e dettagliato (e affascinante!) dell'esperienza di una giovane donna tirato dentro un mondo di intrighi durante l'estate del 1963 a New Orleans e il periodo precedente l'assassinio di Presidente Kennedy. Ci è concesso uno sguardo alla vera Lee Harvey Oswald - gentile e leale uomo militare, altamente qualificato agente operativo della CIA/FBI, e riluttante galoppino per la mafia, che ci aiuta a vedere come questi gruppi hanno collaborato (e lo fanno ancora).
Ma questa non è l'unica storia qui - forse di pari interesse è la storia di fondo del coinvolgimento della signora Baker nel complotto per uccidere Castro iniettandolo con un virus che provocano il cancro, e la contaminazione di vaccini antipolio con la stessa scimmia-cancro-causando virus (SV40 - cercalo su google) che è stato dato a milioni di bambini alla fine degli anni 50 e i primi anni degli anni 60 (anche dopo aver scoperto la contaminazione!), la quale è ancora dolorosamente attuale.
Consiglio questo libro a chiunque sia interessato sia nel aspetto politica sia quello scientifico.