The Strange Story of Judyth Baker

Judyth Vary was born in South Bend, Indiana on 15th May,
1943. She attended Manatee High School where she developed
a keen interest in science. Judyth received national
attention for her cancer research while still in high
school, including guidance from two Nobel Prize winners in
biochemistry. After graduating in 1961 Judyth moved to
Buffalo where she worked on a cancer research project. Her
research at the Roswell Park Memorial Institute continued
through to spring of 1963 at the University of Florida.

In 1963 Judyth married Robert Baker and over the next few
years the couple had had five children. Judyth Baker also
studied for a degree in anthropology at the University of
Houston and a degree in creative writing at the University
of Central Florida.

Robert Baker divorced Judyth in 1987. She moved to the
Netherlands where she was involved in running a small art
gallery. Later she established the Lee Harvey Oswald Museum
in Harlem.

In 1999 Judyth privately revealed her involvement in an
anti-Castro conspiracy to individuals outside her family
and to CBS Sixty Minutes investigators. In late 2000,
newsgroups learned who she was and began speculating on
what she had to say. She asserted she had been (at first
unwittingly) recruited by Dr. Alton Ochsner and Dr. Mary
Sherman into a get-Fidel Castro project that had the backing
of the CIA and of the Mafia in New Orleans.

In November, 2003 Judyth Baker appeared in the television
programme made by Nigel Turner, The Men Who Killed Kennedy:
The Love Affair. According to Judyth she was offered a
summer medical internship with Dr. Sherman by Ochsner: she
accepted, and came to New Orleans in April, 1963. Judyth
met Lee Harvey Oswald and became involved on the clandestine
side of the research project. Both had unhappy marriages and
were attracted to each other. She and Oswald began working
together: they were both hired May 10, 1963, at Reily's
Coffee Company, which provided cover jobs for them.

Judyth accidentally learned about the clandestine side of
the project before Ochsner, who was out of town, was able
to steer her to the legitimate side. She then became a
willing participant in the project. At the same time,
Oswald and Judyth began to fall in love. Neither had a happy
marriage (Judyth was recently married to a man who promptly
left her alone in New Orleans, and who in other ways
neglected her). Oswald became linked to the project, partly
to be close to Judyth.

Judyth Baker also met such well-known persons as Guy
Bannister and Jack Ruby, as well as several others, for
whom she has provided documentation, who are new in the
case, including a former Customs officer from Miami who
expedited Oswald's passport on 25th June, 1963. Oswald,
who had defected to the Soviet Union and then was able to
return without a problem to the United States at the height
of the Cold War, obtained his new passport in only 24 hours.

The research into the biological weapon was hidden by
using two or more secret mini-labs which were set up when
Ochsner's Clinic made a massive move into new facilities
in March, 1963. Equipment, animals, etc. were 'misplaced'
during the move, the second-largest in the history of New
Orleans. The basic project was set up March 23, 1962, using
conventional facilities, which then expanded out of the
loop for its final phases. Several labs were involved,
including a tumor and tissue culture processing mini-lab,
at an apartment owned by anti-Castroite Dave Ferrie.

Lee Harvey Oswald learned how to handle the materials safely
and keep them alive. He volunteered to courier the materials
to Mexico City, where a medical student, doctor or intern
was scheduled to take the materials to Cuba. Oswald made
frantic efforts to get the materials, which had a short
shelf-life, into Cuba himself when his contacts failed to
appear. The project, in fact, had been called off because of
Hurricane Flora, which devastated Cuba at this time. Oswald
was ordered to Dallas: his "desire to go to Cuba" was never
mentioned again by him. His transit visa to go to Cuba was
approved in mid-October, but by then, Oswald had no more
need to go to Cuba: he never used the approved visa, which
arrived too late to be of any use in saving the biological
materials.

Judyth and Oswald planned to divorce and marry in Mexico
after he had done all he could to help thwart the plans
of an assassination ring, which he had volunteered to
investigate. He believed he would have the help of the CIA
to escape after providing information, but instead, due to
his Pro-Castro activities in New Orleans, which had been
under the handling of Guy Bannister (in order to identify
Pro-Castroites in New Orleans), Oswald became the perfect
patsy, even though he was on record as having admired John
F. Kennedy.

According to Judyth, Oswald volunteered to continue to
penetrate the ring, even when he realized his life was in
danger. Oswald could only speculate on who organized the
conspiracy. He was aware that Mafia, Texas oil moguls,
and conservative racists put up money to finance an
assassination ring that seemed to include a wide variety of
planners and participants. He was kept from learning the
identities of the leaders, but expressed opinions that
Carlos Marcello (godfather of New Orleans and Dallas) and
his Mafia friends in Chicago and Miami, along with anti-
Castroites and elements of the Secret Service and CIA, were
well able to assassinate Kennedy, if those at the highest
levels in government cooperated to allow the assassination
to take place for their benefit. Oswald told Judyth he would
do what he could to try to get the mission aborted, and that
he had others who were going to help him to abort the
assassination.

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the arrest
of Lee Harvey Oswald, Judyth Baker received a phone-call
from David Ferrie warning her that she would be killed if
she told anyone about her knowledge of these events.

Researchers are divided on Baker's story: a number of
researchers have seen most or all her original evidence
files and defend her (such as Jim Marrs, Martin Shackelford,
Wim Dankbaar, Howard Platzman) while other researchers
attack her story (Jack White, David Lifton, John MacAdams,
Dave Reitzes).




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I've got the DVD set of The Men Who Killed Kennedy but I've never taken the time to watch it...

I'll have to make time to do that and pay particular attention to Baker's story.

Catherine

I always figured the lone gun man story was a bit too convenient for the secret government.
But there are so many theories it;s hard to know which one to hang yer hat on!


If the Feds DO have a hand in this conspiracy,
they were a whole lot smarter and capable then than they are now!

I've read one of David Lifton's books, "Best Evidence" I think, a long while back. In it, he shot down the methodology used by the Warren Commission in their investigations. They came up with a theory first (the lone gunman) and then tried to fit all the observable evidence into that theory.

It is very reminicent of NIST investigation of the WTC building collapse. They started with a theory that the fires brought the buildings down, then kept modifying their models to fit the photos and videos. After three or so iterations of this, they had modified their data to the point where at least some experts think they went too far. Hence the dispute over it, and the generation of a whole new generation of conspiracy theorists.

Lifton was the author that first made me aware of the methodology that they used to come up with their story. Once this is understood, the whole debate is easier to understand from a historical perspective. If they had looked at all the evidence first, then looked for a theory, as any experienced investigator would, then their conclusions may have been very different. They may have actually proved that the lone gunman didn't happen. Of course, if Oswald had been alive to stand trial...