Jimmy Carter’s attempted assassination by Lee Harvey and Osvaldo
What really is in a name?
by Jim Marrs - 05/25/2000
If one lives long enough and keeps a close eye on news events, eventually
things turn up that present a very different view of the world than that
portrayed on the nightly news.
Take for example the attempted assassination of President Jimmy Carter in
1979. Nothing much was said about it at the time by the mass media,
subsequently, hardly anyone remembers this incident today.
Furthermore, like many news items heard, this event becomes much more
sinister when placed into a context of what happened both before and after
the incident.
Toward mid-1979 Democrat Carter was being chastised by critics within the
media, as well as by the Republicans, as being wishy-washy on a variety of
issues. They said his was a mediocre presidency. The mass media were already
focusing on conservative California Gov. Ronald Reagan as the man of the
hour. His nomination as GOP presidential candidate for the 1980 election
seemed assured.
Carter asked for and was granted a national television spot during prime time
and many media pundits predicted that he was about to announce sweeping
changes in government as well as new initiatives which would move his
upcoming presidential re-election campaign off high center.
But before his televised appearance, Carter journeyed to California where he
was to address a Hispanic crowd in Los Angeles’s Civic Center Mall
celebrating Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican Independence Day.
A few days later, a handful of newspapers carried a small story stating that
a "grubby transient" had been arrested there and was being held on suspicion
of the attempted assassination of the president. A Secret Service spokesman
downplayed the arrest stating the incident was about as "nothing as these
things get."
However, a few days later, another news item appeared which reported that the
35-year-old Anglo suspect was being held in lieu of $50,000 on charges of
conspiring to kill the president.
Finally, a one-time story in the May 21, 1979, edition of Newsweek revealed
more details of the incident.
It seems that the suspect was arrested after Secret Service agents noticed
him "looking nervous." A .22-calibre, eight-shot revolver was found on the
man along with 70 rounds of blank ammunition. A short time later, the suspect
implicated a second man, a 21-year-old Hispanic who also was taken into
custody and subsequently held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
The second suspect at first denied knowing the other man, but finally
admitted that the pair had test fired the blank starter pistol from a nearby
hotel roof the night before Carter’s appearance. Both men said they were
simply local street people who had been hired by two Mexican hit men. They
were to create a diversion with the blank pistol and the two hit men were to
assassinate President Carter with high-powered rifles.
Lending credence to their story, both suspects led authorities to the shabby
Alan Hotel located near the civic center. Here investigators found an empty
rifle case and three rounds of live ammunition in a room rented under than
name Umberto Camacho. Camacho apparently had checked out the day of Carter’s
visit. No further trace of the hit men could be found.
The Anglo suspect was Raymond Lee Harvey and his Hispanic companion was
Osvaldo Ortiz. This oddity of their names prompted Newsweek reporters to
state, "References to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy were unavoidable."
"But it was still far from clear whether the authorities had a real
conspiracy or a wild goose chase on their hands," they added.
No further news stories appeared and the disposition of the case against Lee
Harvey and Osvaldo apparently has never been made public.
What did happen was that President Carter canceled his national TV speech and
went into seclusion at Camp David, MD. After seeking advice from a lengthy
line of consultants, including the Rev. Billy Graham, Carter was reported to
have said, "I have lost control of the government."
It is historical fact that no serious policy changes were made and no
sweeping changes were made in government. Carter remained indecisive in the
public eye and by mid-November the following year, the United States took a
conservative turn under the leadership of Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s victory was
due, in large part, to a failed military rescue attempt and the collapse of
negotiations in mid-October 1980. Both concerned the release of American
hostages seized at the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran, on November 4,
1979, after Carter allowed the deposed Shah to enter the United States for
medical treatment.
Later, it was alleged that Reagan’s running mate, George Bush, along with CIA
Director William Casey had privately cut a deal with Iranian leaders to hold
the hostages until after the November election, thus assuring a Reagan
victory. Despite testimony confirming this "October Surprise" from several
people involved, including the Iranian Foreign Minister, no action was taken
by the Reagan-Bush administration. Yet it is a fact that on January 20, 1981,
just minutes after Reagan was sworn into office, the American hostages were
released and within weeks, military supplies which Carter had withheld from
Iran began moving to that nation.
To any astute observer of national affairs, there is activity happening
behind the scenes, which is rarely reported by the “watchdog” media.
And never mind calculating the odds of two men named Lee Harvey and Osvaldo
being identified in a conspiracy to assassinate an American president. This
information alone should be enough to cause any thinking person to ponder the
hidden machinations which may be taking place in this nation to control
government leaders through fear and intimidation.
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