Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald

by Judyth Vary Baker, Edward T. Haslam (Foreword), Jim Marrs (Afterword)

A young scientist, Judyth Vary Baker, suddenly finds herself immersed in a life of espionage in New Orleans, involving two the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro, and the successful assassination of President John F. Kennedy. At the heart of the plots is the mysterious Lee Harvey Oswald, who quickly wins Judyth's affection and love. In this true-life story, Judyth offers documentation on page after how she came to be a cancer expert at such a young age, how her relocation to New Orleans was engineered to involve her in the get-Castro plot, how she was manipulated to help develop a biological weapon to eliminate Castro, and how Oswald came to confide in her. Judyth's narrative connects the dots to heretofore shadowy and hidden events in New Orleans and Dallas involving Oswald. She reveals how Oswald, ordered to hand off the biological weapon to a contact in Mexico City, found himself betrayed there. His eyes now opened, the future Patsy went on to sacrifice his life through his efforts to save Kennedy, as well as to protect those he loved from certain death. Judyth, who knew of Kennedy's impending assassination through conversations with Oswald occurring less than two days before Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza, confirms that Oswald was a deep-cover intelligence agent who was framed for an assassination he was actually trying to prevent. Over 600 pages, filled with new photos and rare documents.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, True Crime, Historical

624 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2009

Reviews

[Pete daPixie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've been dreading reading this book. My first exposure to this incredible tale was through You Tube and the nine part series of 'The Men Who Killed Kennedy.' Episode eight, 'The Love Affair' is the story of Lee Oswald and the author of this book Judyth Vary Baker. I also chased this through the podcasts on Jim Fetzer's 'Real Deal'.
'Me and Lee-How I came to love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald' (2010) is totally unlike anything previously written in the JFK conspiracy genre.
There is no defector in Russia, no counting shots in Dealey Plaza, no medical investigation at Parkland or Bethesda, no murder investigations for Tippit and Ruby. Instead we have a mind bewildering autobiography told with a memory full of intricate detail that culminates in New Orleans through the summer of 1963. Part Mills and Boon love story and part covert intelligence op. These Nawlins revelations skipped under the radar of Jim Garrison's investigations in 1967, and have largely remained hidden from the public at large.
Ed Haslam who writes the Foreword, published 'Dr Mary's Monkey' in 2007, an investigation into the death of Dr Mary Sherman in 1964, which is part of Vary Baker's story.
I can't agree with Jim Marrs' Afterword when he writes, "But can we ever really know the truth? I say yes, by studying the wide array of information now available, thinking for ourselves, and listening to the impassioned, unflinching voice of Judy Vary Baker".

Addendum:-I have investigated around this fantastic tale since reading the book, I have also briefly met the author and have had some contact on internet sites.
Just like Ron Lewis' 'Flashback', these 'I was there' tomes lack corroborative detail. I must disagree with Jim Marrs' Afterword. Can we ever really know the truth? I say no. However, if the reader thinks for his or her self, there remains too many fantastic details woven into the time spent by Oswald in New Orleans. In short, I don't accept the 'cancer bioweapon' tale and I don't respect anyone who claims to have assisted in the murder of an innocent prison inmate, while claiming to be in the catholic faith. I do not believe the impassioned, unflinching voice of Judyth Vary Baker. She has a reputation on other internet sites as well as Goodreads of attacking peoples views that do not agree with her story with insults and highly derogatory comments, which in my experience does not happen with any other author of any book of any kind. In short she acts like a full time vicious internet troll. I know of other instances from people who have experienced similar attacks, not just on GR's. She also makes it her business to give 'likes' to all reviews that support her tale. For those reasons I happily further reduce my rating to one star.

[Jim Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

OSWALD DID NOT KILL KENNEDY! That is the title to a book review I just posted on Amazon.com regarding my reading of Me and Lee, written by Judyth Vary Baker. The following is the Amazon post.

I never thought Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Now I don't believe it acted at all! There is no one word to describe my experience in reading Me and Lee; none! I was 18 years old, about the same age as Judyth Vary Baker in 1963 when John F. Kennedy was murdered. I was attending school at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.

It is hard to understand how someone as young as Judyth could be so smart regarding science and cancer based upon my own development. She was truly a very remarkable young lady. If you read Me and Lee you will be first taken back to her high school days and her cancer research, yes that is what I said, her cancer research while still in high school. She then takes you on a whirlwind tour of a couple of years from high school to 1963.

You have three choices as you read this book. First you can believe it 100%. Second you can write it off as fiction. Finally you can believe part of it and disbelieve the rest. Me? I am in the 100% group as I think you will be as well IF you read and check the documentation. There are so many subplots that they are hard to keep track of. There are two main stories in one book. The first caused me to have blood shooting from my eyes as it applied to me. I specifically remember the fears of growing up with reports of a Polio epidemic in America. I remember the photos of the iron lungs and frankly was scared to death. I also remember taking the sugar pill polio vaccine. Now I learn that the vaccines. both the injections and sugar cubes. were infected with live monkey cancer causing viruses. Even more importantly, our government knew they contained these viruses and dispensed them anyway under the guise that only about 1 in 200 would actually come down with cancer sometime in the future. With a population around 300 MILLION people in America, 1/2 percent would be about 15 MILLION PEOPLE who would contract cancer. Is that acceptable to you; not to me. Yet our government did nothing to alert approximately 100,000,000 people who took the vaccine AFTER the government discovered the contamination.

The second story in the book is the love affair between Judyth and Lee Harvey Oswald, yes THAT LEE! The details of the story are truly remarkable and evidence has been provided in the book to substantiate that a major part of the story if not all is true. Frankly I believe all of the story and if you are like me and believe it, then you must also come to the same conclusion that I did; Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with the murder of President John F. Kennedy. NOTHING! In fact a case could be made that he did everything he could to prevent it from happening. What's more, he truly did become a patsy for whoever did murder Kennedy. The book does not say who murdered Kennedy only that Oswald did not. You read it and you decide. There is another book on the market, Dr. Mary's Monkey. I would strongly recommend that you read Dr. Mary's Monkey FIRST and then read Me and Lee and then it will make far more sense to you.

[Duncan MacDonald · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this story and literally read it in two days. I learned a great deal about the man some (but not most) Americans see as a killer. I never agreed with the Warren Omission (not a spelling error) and their ludicrous theories regarding the murder of JFK. Judy Vary Baker's story touched me. It made things personal. It gave a heartbeat to Lee Oswald. Do I believe her story? Yes. Do I recommend this non fiction book? Absolutely! This brave woman has bared her soul so that we the people might know that Lee Oswald is innocent.

[Doris Jean · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes, I truly enjoyed this book. I loved all the documentation, the maps, ticket stubs, letters and all the many photos. I appreciated the footnotes after each chapter which were helpful to explain the many complications. This was quite a complex book which was more complicated because of all the spies and counter-spies. It was well organized. I made a "cast of characters" to refer to as I read the book, and that helped me to enjoy the book.

The first half is the autobiography of the author who is quite an interesting, intelligent, many-talented and educated woman. I think I recall from her book that she later earned a doctoral degree in English and it shows in her well-written authorship. The first half could stand alone as an excellent autobiography of her early life and her summer romance with Lee Oswald when she was nineteen.

Judyth was an artist in grade school and met people who led her into cancer research at a young age. In high school in Florida, she became a renowned cancer researcher and won national awards. At nineteen, she moved to New Orleans for an internship in cancer research at Tulane under Dr. Alton Ochsner along with Dr. Mary Sherman. Both were top cancer experts in the world and Dr. Sherman was expert with their linear particle accelerator.

Judyth met Lee Oswald and they rode the bus together to work at Reily Coffee Company. Both were married and they both cheated with their love affair. Oswald had his pregnant wife Marina who he brought from Russia, and their toddler daughter June. Judyth had her freshly married husband who was not living with her because of his job. Judyth worked on the cancer research Project with Lee and with David Ferrie, pilot, researcher, spy, priest. (Read "David Ferrie" also by Judyth.)

The cancer research to develop an aggressive fast-growing cancer using Dr. Sherman's radiation mutations was successful, first on mice, then on monkeys. When the research advanced to using Louisiana prisoners, Judyth objected that it was unethical murder and was fired by Dr. Ochsner. (Interesting to read "Dr. Mary's Monkey" by Edward T. Haslam – Dr. Ochsner's lab accidentally got viruses into polio vaccine 1955 - 1963 and killed his own grandson with a vaccination. These viruses are in vaccines today: HIV, BIV and SV -simian viruses. They can't get them out, and so now they cover this up so as not to panic the public.)

The second half of the book is a change of pace from the romance into politics and the powerful and the rich in Texas and Louisiana. It gives lots and lots of background and documented information about the murder of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in November, 1963. From the day of the assassination, the scenario looked suspicious to me. LBJ immediately took over all authority and closed down all local investigation. He immediately began the Warren Commission suspiciously fast. It was as though he had it already planned out, he had already spoken to his appointees before the assassination. The public was in shock. I think that there were lots and lots of cover-ups with many of them maintained to this day. There were many strange and very suspicious suicides, murders and early deaths of many people who had any connection to the assassination which began with Lee Oswald two days after JFK was shot and deaths continued regularly until the witnesses were wiped out.

This was in the era right after Fidel Castro took over Cuba and kicked out Meyer Lansky and the mafia and the casinos and put in Communism. These evicted casino owners were mad and wanted Castro assassinated. Unions, mafia, politicians, rich oil men, and others wanted to kill Castro and Judyth's cancer Project turned out to be research to weaponize cancer which would be used to kill Castro.

This book gives reasonable information that rings true. I strongly doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald ever killed anybody. Lucien Sarti is the name of the deadliest one of the JFK assassins. David Atlee Phillips seems to have been the CIA coordinator. But Oswald sure was a convenient excuse for lots of powerful people to use to take over and extend their power. The FBI, the CIA and LBJ, the Vice President, for some? LBJ had the strong ambition to be President and he had the motive and plenty of opportunity for a coup d'etat. Look up the LBJ association with Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes. If Kennedy had lived, LBJ would have gone to prison, Congress was investigating him at the time. These cover-ups secured on-going political power for decades. Even today these shadows control government, in my opinion.

The book was quite interesting even though the characters and events were complicated and convoluted (spies and double agents, after all). The author achieved a delicate balance: she kept it readable and very interesting even though quite detailed. I have never read a book with so much proof (many photos, notes, paycheck stubs, W-2's, and photocopies) that was so interesting and so hard to stop reading. When I had to put it down in the wee hours after midnight, I couldn't wait to get back to this book.

This is a one-of-a-kind book, very well-written and very enjoyable. I give it five stars. Seems like the "conspiracy theories" are not only theories, but also facts.

[Elizabeth Horton-Newton · Rating 1 out of 5]

Judyth Vary Baker and The Lie Heard Round the World
A couple of years ago I was doing research for my current book, “View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale”. It is a work of fiction but I wanted to use some facts to move the story forward. As part of my research I came across a book called “Me and Lee: How I Came to Know, Love, and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald” by Judyth Vary Baker. In spite of the garish cover I opted to give it a read because you never know what you will find when you do research.
By the time I finished that first reading I felt so much sympathy for this woman, no longer a young girl in love but an old woman who had lost the love of her life and had nothing but her memories. I researched her and found varying opinions on the veracity of her tale. This did not surprise me since many researchers and writers have experienced this. After all the assassination of President John F Kennedy is perhaps the biggest unsolved murder in the history of the United States if not the world. I continued reading books both pro and con regarding Lee Oswald’s guilt or innocence in the assassination. I developed my own opinions. I do not believe he was the shooter nor do I believe he knew the assassination was going to take place that day. I suspect he was led to believe something else was going to believe something else was going to happen that might trigger a strike at Cuba thus giving the US military the ability to claim retaliation.
However that is not the point of this review. Back to the book in question “Me and Lee”. I chose to re-read a couple of the books and one of them was Ms Baker’s. As I read these books I would refer to other books covering the same time periods and the memories of other individuals. I also re-read comments and research done by theorists. The more I read the more I became convinced Ms Baker’s book is based on nothing more than the fact she worked at the Reilly Coffee Company in New Orleans during the same brief period Oswald was employed there. The evidence she provides is no more than her words repeated by others. I originally “friended” her on Facebook offering her assistance in finding places to speak on her next tour of the US (this past fall). We developed something of a friendship in private messages which I have kept. This past week I did admit I don’t believe her story and was instantly set upon by her rabid followers. Ms Baker then proceeded to deny we had ever been friends on Facebook, and stated she did not think I had even read her book. This in spite of the fact she provided me a free pre order copy of her book about David Ferrie! I have now been identified as what she and her minions like to call “trolls”, a term reserved for those who express disbelief or disagreement with her story.
Her ability to weave a creative story lacks believability making it even a poor fiction. The book seems more of a self touting tool regarding her high school days as a young science student interested in cancer research. It would have been nice if she stuck to that route. She might have made a positive impact in healthcare. But like many young students she may only have had a flash in the pan idea and went on to marry and have children. I don’t doubt her intelligence. It takes a smart woman to come up with the far-fetched idea she has sold thousands on. But smarter people than she have seen the holes in her story and called her out on them. My own research found she has changed her story more than once usually blaming the changes on others. She claims to live abroad because she is in fear for her life. It amazes me that a group of people who managed to plan and execute the assassination over fifty years ago could not in the ensuing years have managed to remove an unknown and significantly less important person.
If you like a poorly written but amusing fiction about the man accused of assassinating our 35th president you can find better. If you have some empty time on your hands you might be able to get a free copy somewhere. Don’t waste your money on this book. There are far better and more accurate accounts of the events surrounding the assassination and Oswald’s possible involvement.

[Brian Mumford · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book would have been excellent if it were fiction, but it's phenomenal because--IMHO--it's true!

[Christopher Earl · Rating 5 out of 5]

A woman with nothing to lose telling the truth who had been attacked relentlessly usually by lone nut advocates Oswald did it . No he didn't it's plainly obvious

[Natasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to love this book - I have been interested in the assassination of JFK for a long time. Unfortunately this book would be better off labeled fiction then biography in my opinion.

The first few chapters are interesting - well documented - and easily researched. I feel that a book about her early achievements would have been well received. Unfortunately - that is where it started to fall apart.

Judyth Vary Baker expects us to believe that the government hoodwinked a sheltered teenage girl into doing cancer research in a hidden lab in her high school, gave her highly coveted, rare, and documented chemicals - all in the hopes of using her to help come up with a way to kill Castro.

I can believe (and has been proven) that she worked with Lee Harvey Oswald - but the rest seems like it is more of a day dream then reality. His where abouts in the year leading up to the assassination have been thoroughly documented and written about - it would take no more then a Google search to get the dates and locations correct.

The whole things (to me) reads like the daydreams of a young girl with a crush on the maintenance man she meets at work. Anything to escape the life that she does not want for herself, the life that too many women found themselves in in the 1960's.

I would have loved her to reveal the hidden documents she had kept about her and Lee - love letters that were signed to either him or her, the photograph that she never had a copy of etc. but these can't exist - they were secret spies working with the government! And married! So of course we are to take her word as the truth because they could not keep anything to tie them together. And we are also supposed to believe that she has a completed memory of conversations - but please do not ask her what people look like - or even if she needs to turn left or right off a bus stop she takes home for six months! Her memory only works for conversations - the rest is lost to her 'horrible' sense of direction and facial recognition.

I am shelving this book with the other JFK books - some truth, a lot of speculation, and a lot of outright fiction.

[Elliott · Rating 1 out of 5]

Do I think that the CIA was doing some pretty unsettling things in their obsessive desire to kill Fidel Castro? Yes. Do I think Judyth Vary Baker had anything to do with it? No. Likewise do I think that Judyth Vary Baker was Oswald's mistress? Also no.
This book is formatted in such a fashion that it appears to be very highly documented-there are photographs galore. But, these are all photos widely available on the internet, including some of the apparent "personal" pictures of Ferrie, and Oswald. Eliminating these takes away the bulk of the evidence Baker presents. Everything that remains is highly suspect-for instance the love note apparently written to Oswald which he conveniently handed back to her is entirely devoid of any corroborating details. It is a generic run of the mill love note. I also mistrust the amount of dialogue that's recalled by her, and most especially the rather unconvincing way that she supposedly met Oswald. It does seem possible that she did know him, but on a very very minor level.
I do believe though that there was a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, most likely involving rogue elements of the CIA in conjunction with Anti-Castro Cuban members. But, again I don't think Judyth Baker was involved in any way in any part of it.

[Richelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

If the story outlined in this book is true, then this is one of the most frightening books I have ever read. Ms. Baker details her life in New Orleans over the course of several months during which she met, befriended and fell in love with Lee Harvey Oswald. It is a tale of covert agents, government plots, powerful Mob bosses, deadly diseases, and the correlation of all of these elements to the ultimate assassination of President Kennedy. Baker's writing leaves a bit to be desired; sometimes her prose reads like the lovestruck musings of a high school student. However, the story itself is so intense, and Ms. Baker's life and career so extraordinary, that this shortcoming is easily overlooked. This book provides food for much thought and speculation for those interested in various theories concerning the untimely and tragic death of John F. Kennedy...and in the end, most will likely come away from it believing Ms. Baker's chilling tale.

[Mack · Rating 5 out of 5]

A completely believeable account of Judyth and Lee. If she made this up, she is a literary genius. Either way, you must read this.

[Susan Sloate · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'd heard about this book for years and wished I'd read it before finishing my novel FORWARD TO CAMELOT (with Kevin Finn) in 2003, also about the Kennedy assassination. Fortunately I finally read it this summer, as we were preparing FORWARD TO CAMELOT: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION for publication.

This book moved me in many ways, not least of which was the feeling that with all the research we'd done for CAMELOT years ago, we'd gotten several important things right, even without having the tangible proof to back it up. This book is the proof. In fact, this book is one of the most important I've read in all assassination literature: it's an intimate inside look at the New Orleans conspiracy and how it worked, at Oswald himself (who comes across as amazingly likable, intelligent and brave), and how Judyth herself became part of the working mechanism that allowed Oswald to do what he needed to do in New Orleans in the summer of 1963. Her conversations with him hint at all kinds of other mysteries she never fully explains (probably because Oswald never explained it to her) - but does suggest that he was living under a different name from his birth name, that he was operating for years as a double agent and that the man who planned the assassination (who was the basis for one of our main characters) was the notorious David Atlee Phillips, something Oswald told Judyth just before he died.

It's clear also that the man Judyth knew was anything but the lone-nut assassin that the Warren Commission said was so crazy they couldn't even ascribe a motive to him. (Look it up; I'm not kidding.) Even more startling, HE KNEW HE WAS GOING TO BE SET UP FOR IT AND HE ALSO KNEW HE WAS IN TERRIBLE DANGER.

Yet rather than staying away from the Texas Schoolbook Depository, as Judyth begged him to do in their last phone call, he chose to go, because he felt that his presence might help save Kennedy's life. This is a rare moment and should be noted by all readers: this man was anything BUT a psychotic loser. He was facing overhwhelming odds, yet we know he tried to save Kennedy in a variety of ways, and who knew what else he was doing on November 22nd that we will never know about now?

I have one quibble with this book, but it does not involve a conversation between Oswald and Judyth. She mentions late in the book the famous case of the civil-rights workers who were killed in Mississippi and says this happened in 1963. It happened in 1964, and if she had said she and Lee discussed it at length, it would have sent up major red flags for me. She doesn't say that, though, and I'll let it lie.

Otherwise, this book is a hugely valuable contribution to our understanding of who Lee Oswald was and what exactly he was involved with - putting together the cancer research with his planned trip to Cuba now suddenly makes perfect sense. If you have any interest in this subject, I urge you to read ME & LEE. Your understanding of the assassination will be truly lacking without it.

[Patricia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Judyth Vary's own advanced science endeavors and cancer research, as a teen yet, are worth this read in itself. The "big names", intruiging people, and networks behind the scenes of Oswald's work and purposes in New Orleans are astonishing. [Now the next book I must read is Dr. Mary's Monkey.] Judyth recreates in great detail her entangled work and personal life in New Orleans in 1963. Her recreation of Oswald is eye opening, to say the least. I recommend you read it for yourself letting the story, footnotes, and documentation speak fully. Having lived there myself for about 20 years, the culture and locations where the activities took place vividly came to life for me.

I saw a recommendation by author Susan Klopfer to "read this while the book is still available", so I got on it and ended up quite absorbed in the reading. The footnotes and appendix/addendum were equally fascinating. I'm glad that circumstances in the U.S. shifted so that Ms. Baker could finally initiate publication of this material.

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

The most fascinating account yet of the events surrounding the JFK assassination. After decades of silence in fear for her life, Judy Baker reveals her passionate affair with Lee Oswald in the months before the hit, and currently lives in anonymity outside the U.S. Her story confirms details I knew from other sources, and makes sense of lingering puzzles such as why Lee appeared to be both pro- and anti-Cuba and the reason for his trip to Mexico. She and Lee planned to leave their respective spouses and disappear overseas, but first he wanted to try to prevent the assassination, even though he knew he was likely to be set up for it and not live through it. Through Lee, Judy met Jack Ruby, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw, Carlos Marcello, and many other people whose names keep coming up in the investigation. Her story is sometimes overly romantic, but I found it hard to put down. It includes pictures on nearly every page.

[George Presley · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing story told from a perspective that no one else could ever report from. If Judyth Vary Baker is not the most gifted of fiction writers, then this story is a frightening account of the inner workings of powerful people determined to accomplish their own agendas at any cost. After reading this book, I came away feeling sickened by the idea that we are a country that is naive and gullible, governed by a master intelligence that can tell us what we think and see is incorrect. The whole truth will never be allowed to be known but this book surely gives us a good peek at it. The reality of all of this is quite sad and disturbing. An excellent book!

[Beth Hudson · Rating 5 out of 5]

COURAGEOUS INSIGHTFUL POWERFUL and FRIGHTENING

Judith Vary Baker is a true American hero who deserves recognition for her courage; strength; and commitment to the truth. Something sadly lacking in our elected officials who have allowed the growth of disinformation and covert cover-ups and the terrifying CIA projects that threaten not only the world but its' own people.
Thank you Judyth Vary Baker for helping the majority of us who never believed the government's version cementing our disbelief with your truth. And I believe had Oswald succeeded in saving JFK the U.S. would be a different country than it is today. Well done.
I salute you.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ms. Baker is a creative writer who violates the "law of parsimony" for 522 pages constructing the most outlandish theories describing her involvement with the most numerous and unlikely participants (all now dead) to then explain that LBJ was responsible for killing JFK because he was corrupt.

Along the way we learn that Oswald was a modern combination of Machiavelli, James Bond, Aristotle, ML King and Dr. Schweitzer; while she is clearly recognizable as Madame Curie, Jeanne D'arc and Georgette Heyer.

An interesting tale, but not believable.

[Kathi Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love this book. It's a love story and makes me more sure than ever than Oswald did NOT shoot JFK. I was 12 when JFK was shot but clearly remember thinking that Oswald was innocent. Now I think so after reading several books, but especially this one. I'm sure many people will try to find this story a work of fiction and there are those who will always hate Oswald but I love the book and hope Oswald will someday be found innocent.

[Janette · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always thought that the Lone gunman theory was kind of strange, but after I read this book it just blew me away Ms Baker gave me a lot to think about. Lee H. Oswald was used as a scapegoat for killing JFK.

[Beth Cooksey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book tells the truth about Lee Harvey Oswald.

[Ronwetsel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing story, So much going on, A really good read.

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fascinating account of the author's relationship with Lee Oswald. I have read about a dozen books on the JFK assassination and they all left me with uncertain speculation about important details. Here is someone who actually knew many of the important figures, especially Oswald. She has changed my view of him greatly, which I presume was one of her main motives for writing. For skeptics, look at her documentation. She did work with Oswald in New Orleans and she has consistent and detailed inner knowledge. I accept her story, albeit with some license for making up dialogue from decades earlier. thank you Judyth for telling your story! A very important and useful read for those interested in the JFK assassination. it answers many important questions.

[Alrik · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are many books about the JFK assassination out there. Which ones can you trust to be reliable?
The answer is this: do they quote Me & Lee, or ignore/ disparage it? If they do the first, they are to be trusted. It's as simple as that.

Me & Lee for me has become the guiding light for me in JFK research. It is essential reading, because it has a special innocence. The innocence of young love. The love between Lee Harvey Oswald (the man we were taught to hate) and the author, Judyth Baker. If you don't believe the author, I feel sorry for you, because it means you haven't developed that special instinct yet, that intuitive sense that can recognize the truth in a world filled with lies.

[Bobbie Rathjens · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was leery to read this one, perhaps it was the mixed reviews I happened to find online; or it could have been that I'd been overly saturated with JFK assassination reads for a number of years, but I'm extremely glad that I gave this one a try. After reading this novel, I cam away with a respect of Ms. Baker and the experiences she went through and found her story to be remarkably believable and backed up by solid facts. Additionally, it was nice to see a unique and human portrait of the accused assassin.

[Denny Hunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you read some of the other major works like Prouty, Douglass, DiEugenio, Haslam, Marrs, Fonzi, etc. then this is a shoe-in and a remarkable 1rst hand, personal account from a sorely needed female perspective. I think leaving this out of the JFK Assassination reading line-up would be a mistake. I would tend to side with her views about Oswald and his motivations and struggles. She was there and intimately so and somehow survived to tell which might be another incredible story if only we could converse with one of her immensely powerful guardian angels!

[Debi Emerson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting read! Gives us a whole new look at a man we've been taught was a monster for so many years. Also explains a lot & makes a lot of sense.

However, I started reading "Judyth Vary Baker - In Her Own Words: Edited, With Commentary" by Walt Brown, Ph.D. which questions much of what she says & gives good reasons for his scepticism. I'd recommend reading "Me & Lee" 1st, then the Brown book.

[Patsye · Rating 4 out of 5]

Judyth Vary Baker has a lot of evidence presented here that back up her story. This information has been suppressed for a long time, and she has summoned up her courage to relay it. I was fascinated, and it certainly puts a different picture on the facts of the assassination as it was publicly presented.

[C.A.A. Savastano · Rating 1 out of 5]

Her story is lacking most evidence required to support her deficient and wholly mythical claims. It was a poor contrivance of unproven ideas and a slipshod conglomeration of poorly constructed stories that many with evidence have disregarded for years. Mrs.Baker often demands that anyone doubting her claims read her book. I have and color me unimpressed.

[Gary Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you Judith

What led me to this courageous story was my wife died of cancer and the recognition of the epidemic spread of cancer and a possible reason. I am from Gainesville Florida and Judith’s accounts open the real reason about Cancer and the corruption of the time and the same corruption in our government today. Thank you Judith.

[Tam · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this in small doses. There is too much info for me to retain long-term but I have always been fascinated by the Kennedy assassination and the real people behind it. This story makes me think.