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Yes, I am aware of all of that. But actually the Victory model was a .38 special when manufactured. This particular gun was re-chambered by Seaport Traders, Inc to the slightly larger diameter size. Here is the mail coupon (CE 135):
Notice the price of this gun versus the S&W 38 special that is four line items above it. LHO apparently ordered it because it had a lower price. This is consistent with the rifle, which also was priced lower than most.
There has been speculation those described as listening in to the Saturday night operator at the Dallas city hall assisting Oswald, triggered his shooting death ASAP, once the details of that phone surveillance and the name "John Hurt" reached those in DC in a position to understand Oswald was sending a veiled message to the PTB via the rudimentary means he was reduced to use to communicate with the outside world, given his circumstance on November 23.... IOW, he did not want anyone else to send a wink to the PTB on his behalf and he did not want to play the only card he had, the name "John Hurt" in public, under the glare of cameras and microphones of the representatives of the press he had brief access to.
If he was a patsy, it certainly could have taken him 24 to 39 hours to figure it all out and decide what he had to work with to try to give those who had set him up, second thoughts about following through with burning him.....or not?
In this particular combination of DeMohrenschildt-Oswald background details, Oswald would not be actually attempting to speak directly to John Hurt, merely to alert the right people to some knowledge he had come by, especially if he was the individual who had actually written the unusual name, "Drittal" on the Seaport Traders order form for the revolver purchase.
Coincidentally, Oswald has been linked to the names "Drittal" and John Hurt. What are the odds of that name combination
being inconsequential, random, vs what can actually be found and presented here?
https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/frank_rowlett.pdf
The Signal Intelligence Service about 1935.
Seated: Mrs. Louise Newkirk Nelson. Standing, left to right: Herrick F. Bearce; Solomon Kullback; Captain
Harold G. Miller, USA; William F. Friedman; Abraham Sinkov; Lieutenant L. T. Jones, USCG; Frank B.
Rowlett. John B. Hurt was ill when the picture was taken.
Good thing
nobody reads my posts....
https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-crypto-underwood-typewriter.html
...This 1924 Underwood typewriter connection between Safford and Joerissen has lead to conspiracy theories which reach all the way to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I'm not going to go into that here - it's far too involved - but if anyone is interested in reading further on these theories, simply key in "safford+joerissen" in a Google search. In part, the links relate to the still unsolved shooting death of Joerissen's stepson, Chicago art dealer Paul Lamar Joachim (born Washington DC, 1912), a retired US Navy Rear Admiral, on October 22, 1962, exactly 13 months before Kennedy was killed. ...
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...US Navy veteran, Bush, who was also a longtime acquaintance of George DeMohrenschildt, who happened to be close enough to US Navy Admiral, Chester Bruton, to bring Oswald's family to Adm. Bruton's Dallas home to use his swimming pool....
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=84&relPageId=66&search=joachim_and%20june
2. HSCA Report, Volume XII, pg 62
Found in: HSCA Appendix Volumes
Joachim told the FBI that he was employed at the time in the Navy building. (209) The other occu- pants of the house were Lt. Cdr.
Navy, and Quinton Quines, who Joachim said worked at the British Em- bassy.(210) Joachim said de Mohrenschildt lived at the house during the end of May
and all of June 1942. (211) He said de Mohrenschildt never made any statements about feelings toward any country, and no statements which were pro-Nazi
https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=146006&relPageId=5&search=joachim_and%20quines
Just one month after this was published, George DeM. just happened to arrive as a roomer in the DC family home inherited by
then Navy Lieut. Paul Joachim.":
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/17411-discussing-the-mindset-of-conspiracy-theorists/page/3/?tab=comments#comment-220299
Guest Tom Scully - Posted February 26, 2011 (edited)
I'm posting this here, for the first time, anywhere, as a symbolic, thumb in the eye, of those hobbled by an inability to do anything other than read and parrot official line. The "line" is officially intended to keep any of us from going to places like this, ever! :.....
....Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: how Churchill lured Roosevelt into World ...
James Rusbridger, Eric Nave - 1991 - 302 pages - Snippet view
... was that they only had two radio operators capable of receiving and transcribing kana texts from Morse code transmissions. Safford solved this by designing a typewriter which he called a special code machine.33 On 26 November 1924, he sent details to John T. Underwood of the Underwood Typewriter Company, who examined Safford's specifications with his chief designer, Charles A. Joerissen. Two weeks later, on 10 December, they offered to build Safford four such machines for $645. The makers called them the Underwood Code Machine,....
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Is Oswald not credited with a Saturday evening attempt to place a phone call from the Dallas jail to a John Hurt? Is not
this NSA John Hurt the spouse of a musician named Anna Drittel, sometimes spelled Drittal? Has anyone ever been acquainted with a "Drittal," or seen this or a similarly spelled surname anywhere else than on this Seaport Traders order form?
Is it merely coincidence DeMohrenschildt roomed for five weeks in May-June 1942 in the Washington DC home of future Admiral
Paul Joachim, murdered in October, 1962, still unsolved murder, or that Joachim's step-father built the decoding machine permitting rapid decoding of Japanese diplomatic code in Friedman's pre-WWII NSA "shop" and that McCloy was read in, daily, to the results of the work aka "Purple" of John B. Hurt and Friedman?
Just askin'.....
https://www.nytimes.com/1966/08/09/archives/john-b-hurt-retired-aide-of-national-security-unit.html
John B. Hurt, Retired Aide Of National Security Unit
- New York Times - Aug 9, 1966
Mr. Hurt is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ana Dritell Burt, a Russian-born cellist; his mother, Mrs. Anna Hurt of Wytheville, Va.; two sisters and three ...
https://www.roanoke.com/news/wytheville-linguist-s-world-war-ii-role-is-finally-revealed/article_6ac4ca11-0160-5d94-a5f3-e1afbf7e1ecc.html
Wytheville linguist's World War II role is finally revealed
Paul Dellinger Sep 3, 2005
WYTHEVILLE -- John Hurt was pretty sure a Japanese attack was coming. But he and others at work trying to break Japanese message codes in the days before World War II did not know the target.
Hurt, who grew up in Wytheville, wrote in private recollections declassified in 1983 that they thought it would be at Manila.
Few people knew much about Hurt's wartime work that, though far from the lines of combat, was crucial to the Allied effort. Like others in his agency, Hurt suffered immense stress and even a mental breakdown from the vast amount of secret work he was processing.....
Harrod George Miller and William Friedman, circa mid 1930's
