Lee Harvey Oswald’s mistress speaks out
Posted October 18, 2011 9:17 am.
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TORONTO, ON. (NEWS1130) – Today would have been the 72nd birthday of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man blamed for the assassination of US President John F Kennedy, and the woman who claims to be his mistress is making a rare public appearance in Toronto.
“The last time he had a birthday cake, he turned only 24. It was on the 18th of October, 1963 and he told me, ‘I don’t think I’ll live to see another birthday cake,'” says Judyth Vary Baker.
If you are up on your JFK conspiracy theories, Baker claims Oswald was an agent trying to prevent the assassination, he was framed and then murdered days later to keep it quiet.
Baker wrote about it in her book Me and Lee: How I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald and agreed to speak to News1130 about her experiences.
She suggests she has spent years in hiding overseas, enduring threats, mysterious accidents and illnesses and isolation. She only went public after her children were grown.
“I was frightened; I shook from head to foot when I first realized I had to speak out. There are a lot of other people, not just me, who knew what happened and they have been afraid and they haven’t spoken out,” says Baker. “I finally realized I couldn’t live with myself and I was disgusted with myself. I really felt like I let Lee down, so I had to speak out and I have suffered the consequences.”
Baker says she feels more confident making public appearances since the book was published.
“I have gobs of public support. If anything happens to me now, there will be a big stink. It’s obvious now, it has given me the courage to speak out and I hope my family is now safe, I don’t know,” she muses. “If you ever hear of my committing suicide or something, don’t believe it, alright?”
Baker claims her story puts together all the missing pieces of JFK’s assassination.
There are more than a dozen major conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy’s killing and Oswald’s subsequent shooting.
