Based on 1.) the contents of the note Oswald left for his wife on April 10, 1963, 2.) the photographs found among Oswald’s possessions, 3.) the testimony of firearms identification experts and 4.) the testimony of Marina Oswald, the Commission has concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to take the life of General Edwin A. Walker ( Resigned, U.S.Army ) on April 10, 1963. ( Report, pg. 187 )

General Edwin A. Walker was Commander of NATO forces in Europe and the darling of the radical right, a hero who stood up to a tyrannical President who ordered him to stop indoctrinating his troops in the policies of the John Birch Society. When he refused, Kennedy relieved him from duty. Rather than accept another assignment, he chose instead to resign and settle in Dallas, Texas.
For this, he was seen as a hero, especially in his new hometown.

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The shooting

On the evening of 10 April 1963, Gen. Walker was sitting in his study when a bullet entered his house through a window frame and struck the wall close to his head. At the time, Dallas police were unable to identify the gunman.
The shooting remained unsolved until Ruth Paine, with whom Marina Oswald and her daughters lived, sent Marina a stack of letters and notes that included donations.

Marina was being kept incommunicado by the FBI and Secret Service in a hotel outside Dallas. Mrs. Paine wanted to get the letters to her so she gave them to the Irving Police who gave them to the Secret Service to pass on to her.
The note was written in Russian and not addressed to Marina. In addition, it was undated and did not mention General Walker or for what reason Oswald might find himself under arrest.

But the real proof that this note had nothing to do with the Walker shooting is in its contents.

The Contents

The contents of the note are not consistent with Marina Oswald’s story that the note was written on the occasion of an attempt to take the life of General Walker.

This is the English translation:

Paragraph # 2 assumes that Marina would know what happened to him. This suggests that Marina would have known in advance what he was going to do.

Paragraph # 5 instructs her to “go to the bank and cash the check”, even though her name is not on it and she has no proof of her identity.

Paragraph # 10 says that Oswald left her $60 on the second of the month. But a copy of his paycheck for that week shows that his check was not cashed until April 5th.
( B, below )

Although he could have used the money from the previous week’s check, that check ( A ) was for only $ 74.38, not enough to pay the rent, the water and gas and still leave her with $60.

The rent and water alone for the Neely St. apartment for the month of April, 1963 was $ 62.97.

It becomes evident when looking at the contents of the note that it was not consistent with what was really going on in the week preceding the Walker shooting.

The discovery

The Commission claimed that “on December 2, 1963, Mrs. Ruth Paine turned over to the police some of Oswald’s belongings, including a volume entitled, ‘ Book of Useful Advice’. In this book was an undated note written in Russian.” ( Report, pg. 183 )

There are a couple of reasons to doubt that is true:

1.) Ruth Paine’s home had been searched thoroughly on the day after the assassination, when Paine claimed to have seen officers specifically looking for loose papers within books ( 3 H 87 ).

Yet the inventory of items discovered during that search does not mention the note.

How did the police miss it ?

2. The Bureau’s fingerprint expert ( Sebastian Latona ) found seven sets of fingerprints on the note. None of them belonged to either Lee or Marina Oswald.

How could Oswald write this note without leaving fingerprints on it ? And whose fingerprints WERE on it ?
The Commission never asked those questions.

Living in a dream world

I believe that this note was just a part of a fantasy that never played out. The facts stated in the note do not match the facts as we know them.

And Oswald was known for fantasizing.

In fact, Oswald underwent a psychiatric examination when he was 13 years old and living in New York. The report of that examination said that Oswald, “enjoyed a fantasy life revolving around his omnipotence and power” and “acknowledged fantasies of being powerful and sometimes hurting or killing people.”

Again, these were just fantasies. What 13 year old doesn’t think the world revolves around him ?

Oswald was a little boy who never grew up. There’s plenty of those, just look around you, grown men playing fantasy video games as one example. Oswald’s fantasies continued into adulthood, one of which was of him being “the hunter of fascists”.

Oswald was a dreamer. This note was proof of that. It’s contents prove that it wasn’t real.

A fantasy and nothing more.