Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Bernard Barker is in Cuba and has been "a regular contact of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," but is "turned over to the Agency [CIA]" around this time as a "source of information" until he is "evacuated" in "early 1960. [NOTE: Only date given for turn-over to CIA is "mid-1959."]
SOURCE: Memorandum of CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters, 6 July 1972, Watergate Committee Exhibit No. 142
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Quoted from the source:
Abraham Zapruder...moved to Dallas, Texas and in 1953 he joined with Jeanne LeGon to form the clothing design firm called, Nardis of Dallas. Jeanne LeGon designed the clothing and Abraham Zapruder cut the patterns and the material for her. ...In 1959 the partnership broke up when Jeanne LeGon married George De Mohrenschildt. Zapruder established his own company manufacturing ladies dresses.
SOURCE: Abraham Zapruder bio on the web at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKzapruder.htm
Wednesday, 1 c. July c. 1959:
Quoted from the source for an entry that has no date, but must be in 1959 and before Zapata Offshore was created:
De Mohrenschildt's...personal address book...contained this entry: "Bush, George H.W. (Poppy) 1412 W. Ohio also Zapata Petroleum Midland." There is of course the problem of dating this reference. George Bush had moved his office and home from Midland to Houston in 1959, when Zapata Offshore was constituted, so perhaps this reference goes back to some time before 1959. There is also the number: "4-6355."
SOURCE: "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Quoted from the source:
Abraham Zapruder...moved to Dallas, Texas and in 1953 he joined with Jeanne LeGon to form the clothing design firm called, Nardis of Dallas. Jeanne LeGon designed the clothing and Abraham Zapruder cut the patterns and the material for her. ...In 1959 the partnership broke up when Jeanne LeGon married George De Mohrenschildt. Zapruder established his own company manufacturing ladies dresses.
SOURCE: Abraham Zapruder bio on the web at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKzapruder.htm
Wednesday, 1 c. July c. 1959:
Quoted from the source, Daniel Ellsberg [date 1959 can only be guessed at]:
As a RAND employee on Air Force contract, I became during 1959-60 a consultant to the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC)
SOURCE: A "Right Livelihood Biography Submission" by Daniel Ellsberg, on the web at http://www.ellsberg.net/content/view/45
Saturday, 4 July 1959:
L. Ron Hubbard reasserts ownership of copyrights and trademarks by HCO.
"L. Ron Hubbard and the Hubbard Communications Office, Ltd are the proprietors of all trademarks, copyrights and materials of Dianetics and Scientology.
"L. RON HUBBARD"
[NOTE: This reference, and the reference for 15 November 1958, specify "HCO Ltd." But, according to later Policy Letters (see, especially, 30 September and 6 November 1964 entries, and their referenced HCO PLs), neither HCO Ltd or HASI Ltd, per se, ever legally had any assets transferred to them, as they never were granted non-profit status.]
SOURCE: HCO PL 4 July 1959, "ACTIONS FOR HCO SECRETARIES FACED WITH ILLEGAL USAGE"
Saturday, 25 July 1959:
According to reports by (unnamed) sources in France, Westinghouse Corporation's Friendship Laboratory allegedly undertakes an experiment with the U.S.S. NAUTILUS, linking one person on Land (the sender or inductor) with another person in the submarine (the receiver or inductee), while the vessel is submerged. Representatives of the U.S. Navy and Air Force are present during the experiment, according to the reports.
The tests continue daily for a total of sixteen days. The person in charge is identified as Colonel William H. Bowers, director of the Biological Department of the Air Force research institute and the man who directs t experiments at Friendship. The sender or inductor is identified only as "Smith," a student at Duke University, who is confined in one of the Westinghouse laboratory buildings during the experiment.
According to the reports, the experiments result in a 70% success rate.
SOURCE: "Amplified Mind Power Research In The Former Soviet Union," by Martin Ebon
Saturday, 15 c. August 1959:
The East Grinstead Courier reports that the experiments being conducted at Saint Hill by the "nuclear scientist, Dr. Hubbard" promise to revolutionize gardening. By treating seeds with "radioactive rays" he is growing tomato plants 16 feet high, with an average of 15 trusses and 45 tomatoes on each truss. He has also discovered that an "infra-red ray lamp" provids complete protection against mildew, a discovery that is likely to save market gardeners "thousands of pounds."
SOURCE: Russell Miller, book: Bare Faced Messiah, Chapter 14
Saturday, 15 c. August c. 1959:
Ruth Hyde Paine and her husband Michael move from Paoli, Pennsylvania to Irving, Texas. They live in a small apartment for several weeks, then rent and move into the house they later will buy. [NOTE: Only date reference is "in the summer" of 1959, but they only are in an apartment "for a few weeks" and move into the house "in the fall," so this is being placed arbitrarily at 15 c. August c. 1959.]
SOURCE: Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine, Warren Commission, file 1
Saturday, 15 c. August c. 1959:
Ruth Hyde Paine and her husband Michael move from Paoli, Pennsylvania to Irving, Texas. They live in a small apartment for several weeks, then rent and move into the house they later will buy. [NOTE: Only date reference is "in the summer" of 1959, but they only are in an apartment "for a few weeks" and move into the house "in the fall," so this is being placed arbitrarily at 15 c. August c. 1959.]
SOURCE: Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine, Warren Commission, file 1
Saturday, 15 c. August 1959:
David Ferrie, calling himself David Ferris, lands in Yale, Michigan at a tiny airport early in the morning, and follows the family of T. Casey Brennan northward to Hopeville, Michigan, where they go to the office of a hypnotist, "Dr. E," later named as being Dr. J.H. Earnshaw. He gives the children red lollipops that knock them out. This Hopeville office is an MK-ULTRA operation called "The Project."
SOURCE: Castle Mirage - The Prelude: Conjurella by T. Casey Brennan
Monday, 17 August 1959:
Quoted from the source regarding control of nuclear weapon deployment by "unified commanders" [NOTE: At the time, Daniel Ellsberg is a consultant via Rand Corporation, on a Navy contract, to Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC), Admiral Harry Felt.]:
Unified commanders--that is, the commanders-in-chief (CINCs) of regional, or theater, commands, such as European or Pacific, that included units from all three services--had control of nuclear bombs and missiles, as did, of course, SAC, the first specified command. The proliferation of nuclear weapons inevitably produced duplication of targets. Coordination conferences and special committee failed to solve this problem, much less resolve inter-service conflicts over the weight of a nuclear attack.
SOURCE: Article and supporting documents, "The Creation of SIOP-62: More Evidence on the Origins of Overkill," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 130, Edited by William Burr, on the web at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/index.htm
Tuesday, 1 c. September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald comes to Yale, Michigan with David Ferrie. T. Casey Brennan has started seventh grade. He is somehow in contact with Oswald. According to Brennan: "He said that Dr. E was going to give him 'almost god-like powers', and that he was doing 'something important for the government'. He said he was going on a trip, but he would be back to see me every so often. He spoke of great authority that he would have on his return, and his explanations of that coming authority vacillated between the governmental and the mystical."
SOURCE: Castle Mirage - The Prelude: Conjurella by T. Casey Brennan
Friday, 4 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald is transferred out of MACS-9 (Marine Air Control Squadron) in preparation for his discharge. He applies for a passport at the Superior Court in Santa Ana, California. His application states that he plans to leave the United States on 21 September to attend the Albert Schweitzer College and the University of Turku in Finland, and to travel in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, and Russia.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm
Thursday, 10 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald's passport, applied for at the Superior Court of Santa Ana, California, is "routinely issued."
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm
Friday, 11 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald is released from active duty. No indication of where he is, but apparently either El Toro, or Santa Ana, California.
SOURCE: Oswald timeline at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/oswald.htm#photos
Monday, 14 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald goes "directly home after his discharge," arriving in Fort Worth, Texas on this date.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm
Thursday, 17 September 1959:
Just three days after arriving in Fort Worth, Texas, Lee Harvey Oswald is in New Orleans. He speaks with a representative of Travel Consultants, Inc., a New Orleans travel bureau. He fills out a "Passenger Immigration Questionnaire" on which he gives his occupation as "shipping export agent." He says he will be abroad for two months on a pleasure trip. He books passage from New Orleans to Le Havre, France on a freighter, the SS Marion Lykes. It is scheduled to sail the next day, 18 September (but won't actually sail until 20 September). He pays $220.75 for passage, then in the evening registers at the Libery Hotel in New Orleans. Apparently, Oswald is in New Orleans for the next two days.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm
Sunday, 20 September 1959:
Lee Harvey Oswald boards the Marion Lykes in New Orleans in the morning, bound for Le Havre, France.
SOURCE: Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia: An Unauthorized History from the Kennedy Assassination; The Journey From USA to USSR--on the web at http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/journey.htm; also, "A Flight of Fancy," by Chris Mills at http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/fancy2.txt
Thursday, 1 c. October 1959:
Michael and Ruth Hyde Paine move into a house in Irving, Texas, at 2515 West Fifth Stree, that they will rent for a year, then buy.
SOURCE: Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine, Warren Commission, file 1