Note from a Friend of Lee Harvey Oswald

Ernest Titovets befriended an young American in Russia 60 years ago and defends his name to this day.

Paul Hoch, a contrarian computer programmer from Berkeley Calfornia, runs an email list-serve where JFK authors of all stripes bicker and bemoan to no end about their favorite subject, while also sharing tips and stories and opinions. It’s a good place to learn. So I sat up and paid attention when Ernst Titovets posted a note about the the late David Lifton, JFK author. Unlike the rest of us, Titovets is not a spectator to the JFK tragedy. He is in the cast of history

Titovets is a biochemist from Minsk, Belarus. As the rare English speaker in that city in the early 1960s, young Titovets became friends with young Lee Harvey Oswald. His book, Oswald Russian Episode in among the most affecting in the JFK literature for its intimate portrait of a young man demonized by history.

Titovets, who still lives in Minsk, had this to day about his friend Lifton.