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DOPPELGANGER: The Legend of Lee Harvey Oswald
ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES - THE ENIGMA OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD - HAS BEEN SOLVED! TWO 'LEE HARVEY OSWALDS' WERE AT THE TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963 - ONE WAS AN ASSASSIN ON THE SIXTH FLOOR, THE OTHER WAS A PATSY DOWNSTAIRS ON THE FRONT STEPS! INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED - EXPLOSIVE - MATERIAL! The photographs on the cover show the right side of Lee Oswald's face (from a 1959 passport photo of 'Lee Harvey Oswald') and the left side of the face of 'Harvey Oswald' (from his Dallas booking photo in 1963), revealing that these were two different men! The key to JFK's assassination is not the guilt of Lee Oswald, a CIA contract agent - he was guilty of conspiracy, treason and murder - but the innocence of 'Harvey Oswald, ' an employee of the Texas School Book Depository and an agent of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the CIA and the FBI, who was murdered by Jack Ruby. Harvey's innocence demonstrates that there indeed was a conspiracy to murder John Fitzgerald Kennedy. There are 110 photographs/maps/floor plans, showing where everything took place on November 22 in Dallas, including a blowup of Harvey in the TSBD doorway, as well as a blowup of the face of the man in the "backyard photo," clearly showing the picture was a forgery. There also are several photographs of two "Marguerite Oswalds" and two "Lee Harvey Oswalds," revealing the doubles. Exposed also are the lies of Dallas police, the CIA (demonstrating that "Lee Harvey Oswald" never went to the Cuban Consulate and the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City), the FBI (showing 'Harvey' and family never lived on Neely Street in Dallas), the Warren Commission, which altered much testimony to comply with its "lone nut" assertion, as well as the lies of several witnesses. More than 300 sources, including many testimonies & affidavits, were consulted, as well as John Armstrong's massive research project HARVEY AND LEE. One fact led to another, until a coherent picture began to emerge from the immense pile of puzzle pieces. That picture includes the background of Harvey as a juvenile immigrant fluent in Russian, and the creation of the second 'Lee Harvey Oswald' and the second 'Marguerite Oswald.' The picture continues with the recruitment of both Lee Oswald and Harvey Oswald by the ONI and the CIA, followed by Harvey's assumption of Lee's identity, his 'defection' to Russia, and Lee's involvement with the Cuban revolution and the CIA. The legend expands into New Orleans, where Harvey is "sheep-dipped" to seem like a fervent pro-Castro sympathizer and where he begins to be sucked into the Kennedy assassination plot by his renegade CIA handler. Finally, unable to control his destiny, he winds up on the steps of the Dallas School Book Depository, while Lee Oswald is inside on the sixth floor shooting at the president. Harvey's whereabouts on November 22, 1963 are tracked minute by minute, showing that he could not have been where the Warren Commission claimed he was. In the end, of course, Harvey was murdered by the same cabal that killed JFK and was falsely accused by the Warren Commission, the FBI, and the CIA of being a killer and traitor, when it was his accusers who were the killers and traitors. Once you've read this account, you will never again believe that 'Harvey Oswald' shot President Kennedy. Read the free sample. 333 pages, 57,000 words
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323 pages, Paperback
First published June 3, 2015
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November 22, 2022
This challenged the Warren Commission on the ruling of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dr. Schwimmer did a very thorough job of outlining the story to Lee Oswald, the real individual, and Harvey Oswald, the double and patsy. These two individuals were both CIA operatives but worked independently of each other. However, they unknowingly worked codependently to create the illusion of a single individual: Lee Harvey Oswald. There was an imposter of Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother to further push the story.
The narrative was very thought provoking. I don't want to give out any spoilers so I'll refrain from a detailed debate. Dr. Schwimmer provided supportive comparative photographs, single source photographs, interviews, and statements from multiple sources to drive the notion of two Oswalds.
Some standout points of argument were Oswald at multiple locations (while in Mexico City), inconsistent timelines of where Oswald was/should have been, the rifle(s) found inside the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), the analysis of facial features from comparative photos (ears, chin, neck, teeth), the wallet at two locations at the same time (at the scene of police officer J.D. Tippit's shooting and the Texas Theater), the Grassy Knoll shooter team, and Oswald double on the steps of the TSBD and the shooting teams (with the real Oswald) upstairs in the window.
Lee Oswald
Harvey Oswald
The JFK assassination still has people divided on the true motives behind the killing. This narrative certainly falls into the realm of conspiracy theories but the material was presented enough to make one think. Overall I enjoyed reading this in its entirety. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a different angle on the assassination story. Thanks!
The narrative was very thought provoking. I don't want to give out any spoilers so I'll refrain from a detailed debate. Dr. Schwimmer provided supportive comparative photographs, single source photographs, interviews, and statements from multiple sources to drive the notion of two Oswalds.
Some standout points of argument were Oswald at multiple locations (while in Mexico City), inconsistent timelines of where Oswald was/should have been, the rifle(s) found inside the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD), the analysis of facial features from comparative photos (ears, chin, neck, teeth), the wallet at two locations at the same time (at the scene of police officer J.D. Tippit's shooting and the Texas Theater), the Grassy Knoll shooter team, and Oswald double on the steps of the TSBD and the shooting teams (with the real Oswald) upstairs in the window.
Lee Oswald
Harvey Oswald
The JFK assassination still has people divided on the true motives behind the killing. This narrative certainly falls into the realm of conspiracy theories but the material was presented enough to make one think. Overall I enjoyed reading this in its entirety. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a different angle on the assassination story. Thanks!
July 2, 2020
I was given a recommendation for this book, along with another recent publication 'The Other Oswald' written by Gary Hill.
My first impression here was somewhat negative when reading the narration in the words of the deceased accused assassin. Enter Jack Ruby!
However, the author George Schwimmer Phd., is a producer of screen plays, so must have felt at home with this format. 'Doppelganger', closely follows the excellent research of John Armstrong's 'Harvey & Lee' and as the text progressed my appreciation of the book increased. In its concise account this book reduces the conflated facts behind the controversial research that has documented the mysteries behind the two Oswalds. Whatever some may think of the Hungarian 'Harvey' and his lookalike 'Lee', official documents and testimonies DO show us two Oswalds. It is just physically impossible for one man to be in two places at once, and it is clear that these two figures were in two places at once years prior to 1963.
Schwimmer may have put words into the mouth of a dead man, but in doing so has produced a far more viable account of this case than all the official government and MSM fairy stories that have been maintained over the past half century.
Much of the text is reinforced by concrete facts in the Notes. Some disclosures have only come to me recently through the Education Forum that backs up previously unpublished details. Therefore I recommend 'Doppelganger' to anyone interested in the JFK case.
My first impression here was somewhat negative when reading the narration in the words of the deceased accused assassin. Enter Jack Ruby!
However, the author George Schwimmer Phd., is a producer of screen plays, so must have felt at home with this format. 'Doppelganger', closely follows the excellent research of John Armstrong's 'Harvey & Lee' and as the text progressed my appreciation of the book increased. In its concise account this book reduces the conflated facts behind the controversial research that has documented the mysteries behind the two Oswalds. Whatever some may think of the Hungarian 'Harvey' and his lookalike 'Lee', official documents and testimonies DO show us two Oswalds. It is just physically impossible for one man to be in two places at once, and it is clear that these two figures were in two places at once years prior to 1963.
Schwimmer may have put words into the mouth of a dead man, but in doing so has produced a far more viable account of this case than all the official government and MSM fairy stories that have been maintained over the past half century.
Much of the text is reinforced by concrete facts in the Notes. Some disclosures have only come to me recently through the Education Forum that backs up previously unpublished details. Therefore I recommend 'Doppelganger' to anyone interested in the JFK case.
May 4, 2026
[Overall Score: ••2.7-3.0••]
It's hard to figure out how to start this review and even harder to find the literary rhythm of this novel. This reviewer tends to dislike omniscient 1st person perspectives.
Mr. George Schwimmer tried to do something unique with this novel. He tried to get into the mind of a Lee Harvey Oswald and or at least his 'double' named Harvey.
Having studied this case, this commenter is greatly intrigued by the 'theory' that there was a 'look-alike' running around Dallas the day in November, back in 1963. However, much of this novel feels like a hodge-podge assembly of other researchers work. Right out of the gate, the look-alike is named 'Lee' and the narrator is 'Harvey' which is somewhat confusing at first. This confusion subsides towards the middle of the novel, as we mostly follow the character of 'Harvey'.
One troubling aspect for this reader, was one simple word, How? How does Harvey know all this information? How, if he died (like he says he does in the opening of the novel), then how does he know all the research conducted after his death? If Harvey is the 'Lee H. Oswald' standing out front watching the motorcade, how would he know what 'Lee' (the look-alike) was doing inside the building?
Besides the perspective style used, Mr. Schwimmer, does a very decent amount of foot work to get us to the motorcade, but once the reader gets there, he throws almost everything that history has provided to the world, right out the window. One glaring issue this reader found was the claim that 7 shots were fired that day at the president. Harvey, knew where all the shots came from and believed the final kill shot came from James Files, again how did he know that? Additionally, the Umbrella man, being a signal man makes an appearance in this novel. How could he know all this especially when he was sitting on the front stoop/step of the Texas School Book Depository? He didn’t have an eagle’s eye view of Elm street, so again, how did he know 7 shots were fired when he had a limited view of vision?
However, there were a few chapters this reader greatly enjoyed which were "The Murder of J.D. Tippit" and "The Texas Theater". This was where the novel truly redeemed itself and has the power to really get the reader thinking. Especially considering the fact (based on witness testimony) of two people who looked like "LH. Oswald" leaving the building. Harvey after the tussle with the cops, left through the front door. Lee, left through the back fire escape door. These chapters were the crescendo of the novel and the gold star of the whole novel.
Sadly these two amazing chapters of "good-reading" was not enough to raise this book into the clouds. The writing shifted a lot, not in perspective, but rather in topic. Many times Harvey said "more on that in a minute" or "we'll come back to this topic in a moment", which is a nice way of saying Mr. Schwimmer was rambling. This happened way to frequently for this readers taste buds, which meant the narrators Harvey's focus could never stay on point.
The final nail in the coffin for this novel was claiming almost everyone and everything surrounding the case was a lie. The Warren Commission never told a single truth, every person working in the theater was a liar, Marina was a liar, everything about the Paine’s is a lie. Which on one hand, as a researcher, you can somewhat back and support that claim. Yet, everyone even all the cops and all the theater attendant working in Dallas knew about this conspiracy. It’s as if Mr. Schwimmer, believes that there was not a single, lone, honest man or woman involved within this tragic event. If he or Harvey, felt guilty then he would punt his claim with a caveat of ‘most witnesses were coerced or threatened to lie”. That's a very big stretch of the imagination.
We as readers spend all our time following Harvey. But after Harvey’s death and his narration continued. The ending provides wthree possibilities of what could've happened to Lee (the look-alike) and that's it, nothing definitive. Yet Harvey knew exactly where Lee was, leading into the assassination, after the assassination and how he killed Tippit, hell, he even that they were both in the Texas Theater... yet as an omniscient narrator (even after death), he didn’t know what actually happened to the 'look-alike', Lee after the assassination?
All in all, this is not the worst Kennedy-Conspiracy novel out there, but its certainly not the best. If you like 1st person perspective writing than this book might interest you. This reader was expecting something different, but still learned things from the novel. It get’s choppy and meandering at times. This reader never truly felt like Lee Harvey Oswald’s personality came through the pages, very little Russian ideals came through, nor did any Russian phrases come through, hell he never even said "Fubar" (f**ked up beyond all recognition); which is a Marine/military term that his reader has heard spoken from veteran marines before.
Lastly….Mr. George…. If you ever go back into the JFK field again… could you please use the name David Atlee Phillips some more? I don’t think you name dropped enough in this novel. I might be a little crude or callus, but as a reader it felt like you pointed, your finger at Atlee in almost every single chapter of this novel. E Howard Hunt was not mentioned near as much as Lee, Harvey or Atlee. It became a little like “ax-grinding” towards the last chapter of the novel, at least with Atlee Philips.
It's hard to figure out how to start this review and even harder to find the literary rhythm of this novel. This reviewer tends to dislike omniscient 1st person perspectives.
Mr. George Schwimmer tried to do something unique with this novel. He tried to get into the mind of a Lee Harvey Oswald and or at least his 'double' named Harvey.
Having studied this case, this commenter is greatly intrigued by the 'theory' that there was a 'look-alike' running around Dallas the day in November, back in 1963. However, much of this novel feels like a hodge-podge assembly of other researchers work. Right out of the gate, the look-alike is named 'Lee' and the narrator is 'Harvey' which is somewhat confusing at first. This confusion subsides towards the middle of the novel, as we mostly follow the character of 'Harvey'.
One troubling aspect for this reader, was one simple word, How? How does Harvey know all this information? How, if he died (like he says he does in the opening of the novel), then how does he know all the research conducted after his death? If Harvey is the 'Lee H. Oswald' standing out front watching the motorcade, how would he know what 'Lee' (the look-alike) was doing inside the building?
Besides the perspective style used, Mr. Schwimmer, does a very decent amount of foot work to get us to the motorcade, but once the reader gets there, he throws almost everything that history has provided to the world, right out the window. One glaring issue this reader found was the claim that 7 shots were fired that day at the president. Harvey, knew where all the shots came from and believed the final kill shot came from James Files, again how did he know that? Additionally, the Umbrella man, being a signal man makes an appearance in this novel. How could he know all this especially when he was sitting on the front stoop/step of the Texas School Book Depository? He didn’t have an eagle’s eye view of Elm street, so again, how did he know 7 shots were fired when he had a limited view of vision?
However, there were a few chapters this reader greatly enjoyed which were "The Murder of J.D. Tippit" and "The Texas Theater". This was where the novel truly redeemed itself and has the power to really get the reader thinking. Especially considering the fact (based on witness testimony) of two people who looked like "LH. Oswald" leaving the building. Harvey after the tussle with the cops, left through the front door. Lee, left through the back fire escape door. These chapters were the crescendo of the novel and the gold star of the whole novel.
Sadly these two amazing chapters of "good-reading" was not enough to raise this book into the clouds. The writing shifted a lot, not in perspective, but rather in topic. Many times Harvey said "more on that in a minute" or "we'll come back to this topic in a moment", which is a nice way of saying Mr. Schwimmer was rambling. This happened way to frequently for this readers taste buds, which meant the narrators Harvey's focus could never stay on point.
The final nail in the coffin for this novel was claiming almost everyone and everything surrounding the case was a lie. The Warren Commission never told a single truth, every person working in the theater was a liar, Marina was a liar, everything about the Paine’s is a lie. Which on one hand, as a researcher, you can somewhat back and support that claim. Yet, everyone even all the cops and all the theater attendant working in Dallas knew about this conspiracy. It’s as if Mr. Schwimmer, believes that there was not a single, lone, honest man or woman involved within this tragic event. If he or Harvey, felt guilty then he would punt his claim with a caveat of ‘most witnesses were coerced or threatened to lie”. That's a very big stretch of the imagination.
We as readers spend all our time following Harvey. But after Harvey’s death and his narration continued. The ending provides wthree possibilities of what could've happened to Lee (the look-alike) and that's it, nothing definitive. Yet Harvey knew exactly where Lee was, leading into the assassination, after the assassination and how he killed Tippit, hell, he even that they were both in the Texas Theater... yet as an omniscient narrator (even after death), he didn’t know what actually happened to the 'look-alike', Lee after the assassination?
All in all, this is not the worst Kennedy-Conspiracy novel out there, but its certainly not the best. If you like 1st person perspective writing than this book might interest you. This reader was expecting something different, but still learned things from the novel. It get’s choppy and meandering at times. This reader never truly felt like Lee Harvey Oswald’s personality came through the pages, very little Russian ideals came through, nor did any Russian phrases come through, hell he never even said "Fubar" (f**ked up beyond all recognition); which is a Marine/military term that his reader has heard spoken from veteran marines before.
Lastly….Mr. George…. If you ever go back into the JFK field again… could you please use the name David Atlee Phillips some more? I don’t think you name dropped enough in this novel. I might be a little crude or callus, but as a reader it felt like you pointed, your finger at Atlee in almost every single chapter of this novel. E Howard Hunt was not mentioned near as much as Lee, Harvey or Atlee. It became a little like “ax-grinding” towards the last chapter of the novel, at least with Atlee Philips.
October 9, 2020
I wanted something to keep my attention, boy this did. The writer brings up points with pictures I have always questioned. There is also many other points that are discussed that are relevant to the whole conspiracy issue. Born in Dallas and was three when this happened, never believed the WC.
May 14, 2021
engrossing
Astonishing how the pieces we’re starring me in the face the whole time! This is ‘the’ assassination book everyone must read!
Astonishing how the pieces we’re starring me in the face the whole time! This is ‘the’ assassination book everyone must read!
July 1, 2022
Somewhat of a condensed version of John Armstrong’s book Harvey & Lee written in the first person perspective of the alleged assassin, HARVEY Lee Oswald. A good read for the casual JFK assassination aficionado but if you want a much more detailed account read the John Armstrong book. It was a good page turner though and all the information is important in understanding the truth of the event. Like I said in my review of Harvey & Lee, Goodreads needs a higher star rating to rate that book. Out of 10 it would be my only 10 ever given. This book I’d give a solid 8.
July 9, 2024
The true history of the JFK assassination
An excellent rendering of the assassination that has John Armstrong’s Harvey and Lee as it’s source. Told in the person of the dead Harvey Oswald a la “Sunset Boulevard”, it is a page turner recommended for truth seekers of any generation. George pulls no punches in naming the actual plotters and how intelligence agencies control governments, especially the US. The story never goes away, thanks to George and his fellow researchers. A must read.
An excellent rendering of the assassination that has John Armstrong’s Harvey and Lee as it’s source. Told in the person of the dead Harvey Oswald a la “Sunset Boulevard”, it is a page turner recommended for truth seekers of any generation. George pulls no punches in naming the actual plotters and how intelligence agencies control governments, especially the US. The story never goes away, thanks to George and his fellow researchers. A must read.
August 13, 2022
Read it as story
I did not like the 1st person set up of the story. Not much to like. I have read dozens of books on the JFK assassination over the years, but this book did not inform or intrigue me.
I did not like the 1st person set up of the story. Not much to like. I have read dozens of books on the JFK assassination over the years, but this book did not inform or intrigue me.
April 4, 2020
This was so full of junk. Totally full of fiction.
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