The Ghost of Speculations Present

Reviewing the numerous Mythical Tales of Storyteller Judyth Vary BakeR

The integrity of evidentiary connections is based upon verifiable facts and if the claims are repeated but not verified, they remain merely stories. Yet such claims are not compelling, evidence is. Claims, no matter who offers them, require substantial proof and unbelievable assertions require substantial proof. If they possess evolving mistakes and alterations that are left uncorrected, they often lead to future greater misinformation. Seeking greater answers to past questions regarding the grand claims of Judyth Vary Baker I decided to seek her out and ask her directly. The prior inquiry began publicly conducted in Baker's Vindication Facebook group where I addressed Baker’s own prior claims lacking facts were at times her book’s references. These assertions were not supported by verifiable evidence and relied largely upon faith in the writer.

When I began my polite, if direct questioning, my prior article was offered and no subversion was attempted. I directly challenged her claims, yet also stated if I was wrong, I remain willing to accept any legal corroboration that supports her various accounts. Other reasonable people with verified document also challenged these claims and the evidence to prove her claims is more important than just the stories themselves. No matter how often a person asserts something, repeated assertion is not truth and the truth needs to be proven for effective investigation. Reasonable doubts must be proven or dispelled and myths should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Judyth V. Baker’s idea that Public Claims are proven Sources

Less than ten years ago, Judyth Baker wrote "Me and Lee" and in the book, she offers a number of unlikely ideas "based on her life", primary among them is she had passionate brief romance with Lee Harvey Oswald. Unfortunately, this account is lacking most required proof without firsthand legal corroboration and this absence of evidence renders all of the related claims doubtful at best. The account would later prove that all feasible myths contain their undoing within their own incongruent stories because each at some point defies reason and proof. However, Baker has never allowed facts to get in the way of what she considered a good story.

The first of Baker's many wholly unproven ideas states Oswald knew endless facts about Cuba; she asserts he was told to memorize them by his unproven bosses. The problem is when asked questions about Communism, Marxism, and Cuba during interviews Oswald never offered substantive information. Why would he utilize these asserted skills to her and neglect to on media programs where he could spread his alleged ideas?i Yet this is just the beginning of the later deemed memoir. Baker attests that Oswald had knowledge of a restaurant in the territory of Mafia boss Carlos Marcello with a contact referred to as "Mr. P". She then offers a wholly unsubstantiated tale regarding this unnamed figure and Lee Harvey Oswald never mentions this to a single person in his lifetime verifiably. Baker purports that a message is sent to Oswald's uncle but Charles Murret’s criminal connections are widely known far before her story emerges.ii Evidence proved Charles Murret possessed Mafia connections during official inquires, yet Baker provides none because she prefers to add to her already untenable other claims.

Baker refers to David Ferrie as Dr. Ferrie but he was never a doctor, nor possessed extensive scientific training or a doctoral degree of any sort.iii She claims that the Tulane Monkey Research Center supplied her and the alleged "cancer" bio-weapon project, of which there is no proof. There is no verifiable scientific basis for any of her claims and she is absent the documents, W-2's, prisoner medical records, chemical analysis, schematics of the weaponization method, etal.iv Baker asserts she was assisting Ferrie and Dr. Mary Sherman with cancer research, yet Baker, Ferrie, and Oswald did not possess the necessary scientific training. None of them was qualified to do advanced medical experimentation, nor the weaponization of cancer and they lacked a suitable lab with the necessary devices, experience in handling dangerous material, and no certifications required to obtain such material.v No evidence exists to support any of these farfetched myths that Baker has repeatedly offered despite all the facts which challenge her.

Another myth associated with Baker are her implications that she, Oswald, David Ferrie, and others knew and aided the Castro assassination plots.vi Baker asserts that David Ferrie asked to her to join the Castro plots and claims she waited to talk to Dr. Alton Ochsner before accepting. Yet while there is substantial evidence of the Castro Plots, Ferrie, Baker, Oswald, and Ochsner were never in a position to have knowledge of them.vii The verifiable facts do not support anything Baker suggests but do prove Allen Dulles suppressed this confirmation of the real Castro Plots from the President's Commission. It does offer that some officials were not honest and obstructed justice but we already know that and can prove this with primary documentation absent in the fables offered by some.

Guy Banister is one of many People Baker claims to have met without any evidence

Baker claims she and Oswald went to the Murret home, yet the Murret family, guests, and not a single neighbor ever mentions her and this subsequent account relies on belief alone.viii In one instance, she claims Oswald weeps over her lack of confidence in his ability to protect her. He had physical confrontations with the police, endured accusations, and press coverage implied his guilt as the lone suspect of a presidential murder but he never was observed weeping. When officials ignored his civil rights, he was angry, when the public hated and cursed him at every turn, he still declared his innocence and never cried. It is highly improbable he would over a feasibly mythical short-term girlfriend with greater proven matters on his mind supported by the official record.ix Baker asserts she impersonated Marina Oswald by claiming Oswald wanted to pass her off at Guy Banister's office but there is no feasibly reason why Oswald would do so. If Oswald cared about her or knew her, why bring her and attempt the additional unnecessary deception? No evidence supports this idea and no witness corroborates it. Baker subsequently asserts Oswald drove them elsewhere following the meeting, yet Oswald had no significant driving experience and no car.[x] Baker also claims Oswald made repeated overnight plane trips without access to necessary funds and she never mentions specifics or provides verified details for these added stories.xi

The weight of evidence crashes upon these many insubstantial beliefs shattering them to mere pieces of incongruent evolving tales based largely upon a single person’s unlikely ideas. Often when a criticism of Mrs. Baker's claims emerges, the preferred response is "have you read the book?" I have, it has not helped answer questions, but offers endless new problems. The book merely proves that her ideas are untenable and most offered are lackluster and evidenceless. In a ponderous display, a radio show host Popeye stated he would give a "free t-shirt" to anyone who took a picture of Baker's book next to Lee Harvey Oswald's grave. Baker responded "Fantastic" and explained she collects such pictures and holds gatherings while photographed at Oswald's grave.xii These gruesome promotions support a few of the worst claims made regarding Baker's true intentions. Perhaps Oswald was never the focus, their alleged relationship unproven, her claims without significant facts, and herself the star. She feasibly occupies a role without much verifiable proof of anything based on a myth that has wasted over a decade of people's time and obscured the facts. Yet all myths are undone by reasonable doubts in time and with greater information.
Sincerely,
C.A.A. Savastano

References:
i. Judyth Vary Baker, "Me and Lee", Trine Day Publishing, 2010, p. 126  
ii. Ibid, p. 135
iii. Ibid, p. 137
iv. Ibid, p. 365
v. Ibid, p. 141, 165
vi. Ibid, p. 165-166
vii. House Select Committee on Assassinations, Segregated CIA Files, Roselli, John, Box 1, File 943, February 15, 1972, p. 2, 3, National Archives and Records Administration Identification Number: 1993.07.01.10:13:43:620800
viii. Ibid, p. 137
ix. Ibid, p. 143
x. Me and Lee, p. 171
xi. Ibid, p. 365, citation no. 5
xii. Down the Rabbit Hole w/Popeye, Judyth Vary Baker interview, April 29, 2012, federaljack.com

Edited: January 2020

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