From pages 249-250 of “History Will Prove Us Right” by Howard Willens:
During May, Slawson followed up on several aspects of Oswald’s trip to Mexico. At his request, Rankin asked the State Department to obtain affidavits or sworn testimony from Mr. and Mrs. John B. McFarland of Liverpool, England, before an official of the US Consular Service. In an earlier interview, the McFarlands said they had traveled to Mexico in September 1963 and that a man later identified as Oswald got on their bus at Houston in the early morning of September 26. Oswald told them that he was the secretary of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee in New Orleans and that he was traveling to Mexico City so that he could go from there to Cuba to meet Castro. In his letter Rankin suggested several questions that might be asked of the McFarlands, including the nature of Oswald’s clothing, the number of suitcases he was carrying, and names or places in Mexico that Oswald might have mentioned.73Just like LHO’s “I’m just a patsy” and his “I didn’t shoot anybody” statements, he just
had to be telling the truth to the McFarlands ….
But then, of course, we have the letter he wrote to the Soviet Embassy in Washington DC that says he was denied the opportunity to go to Cuba by the bureaucrats in MC. And surely, LHO wouldn’t lie about that. Or, would he?
Dang, these mysteries just keep getting more and more difficult to solve….
