Red Bird Lead #2 / Using Lee Oswald?

David Boylan and I just finished our second Red Bird show with Chuck. I will say up front that our work on this second lead is much more of a challenge to communicate than Lead #1. Dealing with Lead #1 was basically a matter of developing the likely identities of the Colonel and the Cuban at Red Bird airfield. Beyond that the questions deal with examining who the “they” who were planning on attacking JFK in Dallas might be.

Lead #2 begins with an approach to rent not only an airplane but to get a pilot (January) to fly it on a long distance trip the week of the assassination – an approach which January rejected because he was suspicious the man and woman involved actually might have the intention of hijacking the aircraft to Cuba.

If Lee Oswald was indeed with the two people, albeit as only an observer from their parked car, getting something from the lead involves reverse engineering what chain of events might have brought him to Red Bird at that point in time – and the relatively implosive implications of that such a chain of events might indicate about Oswald in the fall of 1963 as well as his activities the week of the assassination and on November 22 as well.

We explored both elements with Chuck in a 2 hour conversation – we will also be presenting two “structured” sessions at the Lancer 2021 conference which cover both leads and we anticipate publishing a research monograph which covers both sometime relatively early in 2022.

I’d encourage you to join us at the conference for our presentations but in the interim you might want to take a listen to the show, which you can find at the following link:

JFK January Lead Number 2