JFK Assassination Chronology-Timeline
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - September 23-24-25 1963
Add: Odio
Incident – Wednesday – September 25?
Monday, September 23
Oswald
- -Oswald returns library books to New
Orleans library.
- -Oswald packs belongings including rifle
into Mrs. Paine’s station wagon.
- --Marina and daughter leave New Orleans
for Texas with Mrs.Ruth Paine,
- -Oswald leaves the Magazine Street
apartment before dawn with two cases.
JFK
- -JFK orders Gen. Maxwell Taylor - Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and Defense Secretary McNamara to Vietnam to
evaluate the situation, leaving General LeMay as temporary Chair, JCS.
- -McGeorge Bundy issues Security Memo on
Covert Cuban Operations. 2
- JFK issues National Security Action Memo
- NSAM 261 - “Project Four Leaves” – and assigns it the highest national
priority category for development and production in response to a request from
the Secretary of Defense. 3)
- -Lisa Howard has a cocktail party at her
Manhattan apartment where Assistant UN Ambassador William Atwood meets with
Cuban UN delegate Carlos Lechuga, setting up a backchannel diplomacy between
JFK and Castro. 4
Tuesday, September 24
Oswald
- -Oswald at the unemployment benefits
claim office in New Orleans
- -Oswald fills out a change order at the
post office closing box 30061 and forwarding mail to 2515 W. 5th
Street, Irving, Mrs. Paine’s address
- -Marina and Mrs. Paine and their children
arrive at Irving. Michael Paine unpacks wagon, including rifle.
- - FBI sends CIA report on Oswald’s
activities.
- -Phone call is made from G. Ray Gill’s
law office in New Orleans to Lawrence Meyers’ friend Jean Aase at Chicago hotel.
[This timeline should be expanded from LHO and JFK to include Jack Ruby’s
activities, and anyone else who fits into the scheme of things.]
JFK
- -The Senate passes the Limited Test Ban
treaty
- -William Attwood reports to RFK on his
meeting with Cubans in New York.
- -JFK departs Washington on Conservation
tour, first stop – rural Northeast Pennsylvania home of the conservative
Republican mother of Mary Pinchot Meyer, who was introduced to JFK by his prep
school classmate William Attwood.
- -JFK flies to Ashland, Wisconsin.
Oswald’s name found in Wisconsin hotel registry.
- -Alexander Rorke and Georffrey Sullivan
leave Miami in twin-engine Beechcraft for Honduras, stop over in -Merida, Mexico
before disappearing over Cuba.
Wednesday, September 25
Oswald
- -Oswald’s check cashed at Winn-Dixie
store
- -Oswald buys Spanish dictionary.
- - Oswald leaves New Orleans by bus for
Houston
- -Oswald calls Socialist-Labor Party
official in Houston, talks to his wife
- -Oswald meets Mrs. Lee Dannelly in
Selective Service office in Austin.
- -Odio incident?
JFK
- -News reports from Wyoming say that
President Kennedy will visit Texas in November
- -Mafia mobster Joseph Valachi testifies
before John McClellan’s Senate subcommittee.
- - William Atwood has second meeting with
Carlos Lechuga in New York.
- -Defense Secretary MacNamara and General
Taylor arrive in Vietnam.
- -LeMay chairs meeting of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff (JCS), briefed by Des Fits on CIA Cuban ops, McElroy’s radio mission
against Cuba, Gen. Krulak and military support to CIA covert maritime missions,
adaption of Valkyrie plot to Cuba, increased security measures on Cuban ops, SACSA
control and contact points - oral orders only - no written communications, Col.
Wyman, Gen. Ingelido, Admiral Riley, Gen. Wheeler, McGeorge Bundy, “Pendulum
system was in being,” all per Higgins Memo.
Thursday September 26
Oswald
- - Oswald takes bus from Houston for Mexico
City at 2:35 am.
- - FBI agent calls Oswald’s New Orleans
landlord, Mr. Garner.
- - Oswald’s New Orleans P.O. Box 30061 is
closed.
- -Oswald buys $32 worth of clothing in
Laredo.
- -Oswald crosses the border at Laredo on
Mexican Red Arrow bus #516
JFK
- -From Jackson Hole, Wyoming, President
Kennedy’s November Texas trip announced.
- - Dallas Morning News announces JFK visit
to Texas.
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