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February 22, 2009

I Led Three Lives: Lee Harvey Oswald's Favorite TV Show

I Led Three lives

Lee Harvey Oswald's
Favorite TV show




Triple Agent Oswald
Herbert Philbrick, a Boston advertising executive who infiltrated the U.S. Communist Party on behalf of the FBI in the 1940s, wrote a bestselling book on the life of a double agent, "I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist', Counterspy" (1952).

"I Led Three Lives" was an American television show which was syndicated by Iv Television Programs from 1953 to 1956 and lasted 117 episodes. The part of Philbrick was played by Richard Carlson.

According to Judyth Vary Baker, Lee Harvey Oswald's girlfriend in New Orleans, "I Led Three Lives" was Oswald's favorite TV show.

This particular film was produced before the Bay of Pigs fiasco which Oswald was believed by some to have participated in with David Ferrie, his instructor in the Lousiana Civil Air Patrol.

Conspiracy theorists believe that Oswald was the "lone nut assassin" who killed JFK.

To maintain this farce requires ignoring his family's long involvement with organized crime in New Orleans, his personal involvement with New Orleans-based anti-communists, and his strange status as a US Marine who "defected" to the Soviet Union and was permitted back in the US with the financial support of the US State Department. In the midst of all this, Oswald posed dramatically, though unconvincingly, as a Castro sympathizer; indeed...I Led Three Lives was an American television show
based on thelife of Herbert Philbrick, an advertising executive who infiltrated the American Communist Party on behalf of the FBI in the 1940s.

Philbrick wrote the book I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist, Counterspy' which was published in 1952 by McGraw Hill and became a bestseller.
It was promptly used as the basis for I Led Three Lives which ran from 1953 to 1956.
Lee was 14 years old when the series began, and it became his favorite show.

The part of Philbrick was played by Richard Carlson, a Sci-Fi star whose best known movie was The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Herbert Philbrick personally narrated each episode and served as a technical consultant.

Scripts for all 117 episodes were approved by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.

Most of the plots had very little to do with the actual events of Philbrick's life and frequently involved international intrigue in which Philbrick never participated.

The show was a companion piece of sorts to the radio drama I was a Communist for the FBI which ran from 1952 to 1954.

This is an excellent example of shameless propaganda from this embarrassing period of American history.

In 1963 Herbert Philbrick was brought to New Orleans to speak for an event organized by INCA, an anti-Communist organization headed by Dr. Alton Ochsner. The event was held at the Reily Coffee Company where Lee and Judyth both worked at the time. Lee got to attend the event and meet Philbrick in person. Lee was disappointed by Philbrick's presentation and later told Judyth
"Philbrick let us know Jesus Christ isn't the Savior. It's J. Edgar Hoover."

Judyth says the Lee pretended to be a Communist in New Orleans in the Summer of 1963 as part of his assignment to infiltrate Cuba to deliver a biological weapon to be used to assassinate Cuban leader, Fidel Castro.

Judyth was the laboratory technician who helped develop the cancerous weapon.


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