However Osborne did admit travelling regularly to Mexico - but he said that this was because of his work in the Baptist church - and there were claims his pseudonym John Howard Bowen was found on the passenger list of Oswald's bus.įellow preacher Reverend Lyman Erikkson said that shortly before Osborne died he had stayed with him in San Antonio, Texas, and confided in him: 'I traveled to Mexico with Lee Harvey Oswald, and I was called in and questioned about it'. ![]() We thought that was strange, so that resulted in us doing a rather extensive investigation just about him'. We had enough people on the bus with him. Mr Gemberling said: 'He denied he was sitting next to Oswald. Historians have long been fascinated by Albert Osborne's links to Oswald and whether he was part of a conspiracy to kill the US president.įBI agent Bob Gemberling was charged with looking at whether the Briton was with Oswald before the murder after the links between the two men emerged.Īt the time they were also investigating claims Oswald had been visiting the KGB Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov in Mexico City on the same trip. ![]() Mr Eddowes also argued in his book The Oswald File a Soviet agent imposter took the place of Lee Harvey Oswald after the murder and allowed Jack Ruby to kill him while the true Oswald was hidden in Russia. He said he was helping the Soviets give the impression there was a conspiracy, adding: 'They left every single lead and this call was their final effort.' London lawyer Michael Eddowes, who died in 1992 and dedicated much of his later life to researching JFK's death said in 1981 that he was convinced there was a call to the Cambridge News and that caller was British-born Soviet agent, Albert Osborne. He died in San Antonio Texas on August 31, 1966, with kidney failure given as cause of death.Īt the time of JFK's death Albert Osborne is said to have been with his sister Lillie Featherstone near Grimsby for 'four or five days'.Īround ten days after the assassination he is said to have flown to New York via various European countries. Researchers have said they believe he was in Lincolnshire when the president was shot in Dallas based on evidence from his brother. Osborne denied this in interviews with the FBI a year later his alias, John Howard Bowen, was said to be on the passenger list. Two Australian Pamela Mumford, 21, and Patricia Winston, 22, were on the bus and claimed that Osborne, and Oswald were together 'talking a lot, and laughing.' In 1962 - a year before JFK's death - it was claimed he told a Knoxville pastor that he ‘felt that it is a very dangerous thing for the United States to have a Catholic as president'.Īged 75 was claimed to have been on a bus to Mexico City from Texas with Lee Harvey Oswald around two months before the assassination of John F Kennedy. He became a Baptist preacher and is understood to have started using the alias John Howard Bowen, taken from a man he may have met in North Carolina. People who knew Albert Osborne (pictured in his passport photo) are convinced he was a spy who knew Lee Harvey Oswaldīriton Albert Osborne was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, 1888 and was one of 12 children born to his father James, a fisherman, and his wife Emily.Īged 18 he is believed to stopped working as a grocer and joined the Lincolnshire Rifles regiment, serving across Empire before moving to America on his Canadian passport at the outbreak of the First World War. Osborne was said to have been in Lincolnshire with his sister when JFK died and researcher Dick Russell said in his book The Man Who Knew Too Much that the Cambridge News call was made 'a short distance from Grimsby'.īritish and American spies gave the tip extra credibility because the reporter was 'loyal' - a hint he may have been an existing informant - and MI5 had said that they had a 'strangely coincidental' call when the Profumo affair rocked Britain months earlier. It says a senior reporter told MI5 he was contacted at 6.05pm UK time - just before JFK was shot - and the voice said 'call the American Embassy in London for some big news' before they 'hung up'.Įxperts on the assassination said Albert Osborne, a suspected Soviet agent and Baptist preacher from Grimsby, was on a bus with Lee Harvey Oswald from Texas to Mexico City in the weeks before JFK was shot dead in Dallas. The extraordinary call to the Cambridge News on November 22, 1963, was revealed in a memo made public in a release of files ordered by Donald Trump on the US president's murder. A suspected Soviet spy from Grimsby may have tipped off the British press that JFK would be assassinated 25 minutes before the 'shot heard round the world' in 1963, it emerged today.
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