The John G. Tower Collection includes a number of letters and memos concerning Lee Harvey Oswald’s communication with Senator Tower in early 1962 when Oswald wanted to leave the USSR to return to the US with his wife. Senator Tower forwarded the letters from Oswald to the State Department where they were copied, returned, and then “lost” until they appeared in a 2007 auction that received considerable media attention. Tower’s staff acquired photocopies of the file that had been sent to Washington, and the items below are those copies.
The materials below are also part of the JFK Resource Consortium organized by and hosted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
- July 1961: Letter from the US Embassy in the USSR to Lee Harvey Oswald
- January 1962: Letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to Senator Tower
- January 1962: Letter from Lee Harvey Oswald to the US Embassy in the USSR
- January 1962: Letter from the US Embassy in the USSR to Lee Harvey Oswald
- January 1962: Letter from Senator Tower to Frederick G. Dutton at the State Department
- February 1962: Internal memo from Senator Tower’s office
- February 1962: Letter from Frederick G. Dutton to Senator Tower
- November 1963: Internal memo from Senator Tower’s Office
- April 1964: Collection of newspaper clippings regarding Tower’s involvement with Oswald
- July 1964: Letter from Marguerite Oswald (Lee Harvey’s mother) to Senator Tower
- July 1964: Letter from Senator Tower to Marguerite Oswald
- October 1964: Letter from R. Kenneth Towery (Senator Tower’s Press Secretary) to Walter Winchell