Chapter 9 Summary and Analysis

Lee left New Orleans for Houston on September 25, 1963. From Houston, he took another bus to Laredo and from there to Mexico City. He talked to other passengers on the bus. Other people claimed that Oswald was in Florida at this time which raised the possibility of an Oswald impostor. Others claimed to have seen him in Texas. One woman, Annie Odio, said Oswald and two other men visited her and talked about how Kennedy should have been killed after the Bay of Pigs.

In Mexico City, Oswald visited the Cuba embassy and completed the application for a vise. He is told that the visa could be granted immediately if he had a Soviet visa, so he went to the soviet Embassy where he was interviewed by two KGB agents, Kostikov and Nechiporenko. He told them his usual lies and fantasies trying...