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3/5/2016 Trump links Cruz’s father to JFK assassin, channeling National Enq uirer | Miami Herald

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POLITICS APRIL 22, 2016 8:06 PM

Trump links Cruz’s father to JFK assassin,channeling National Enquirer

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WASHINGTON —

BY MARIA RECIO

[email protected]

National Enquirer claims photo is proof that Rafael B. Cruz was standing alongside JFKassassin

Cruz responds, "Yes, my dad killed JFK, he is secretly Elvis, and Jimmy Hoffa is buried in hisbackyard."

Cruz’s father had been pro-Castro but had turned on him when Cuban leader said he was a

communist

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Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael B. Cruz, of beingalongside John F. Kennedy’s assassin several months before he shot the president,channeling a National Enquirer story that the Cruz campaign has denounced as false.

Speaking to Fox News Tuesday morning by phone, Trump said Cruz’s father “was withLee Harvey Oswald” prior to Kennedy being shot.

“The whole thing is ridiculous,” Trump said. “What is this? Right prior to his beingshot, and nobody even brings it up. They don't even talk about that. That was reported,and nobody talks about it.”

As the anchor mentioned the photo that allegedly included Cruz, Trump continued: “Imean, what was he doing — what was he doing with Lee Harvey Oswald shortly beforethe death? Before the shooting? It’s horrible.”

The National Enquirer last month published what it said was conclusive evidence thatCruz’s father was the man photographed next to JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in1963, distributing pro-Fidel Castro literature in New Orleans.

The Cruz presidential campaign red back unequivocally. “This is another garbage storyin a tabloid full of garbage,” communications director Alice Stewart told McClatchy.“The story is false; that is not Rafael in the picture.”

August 16, 1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald passing out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets…

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“It's embarrassing that anyone would enable Trump to discuss this. It's a garbage storyand clearly Donald wants to talk about garbage. Ted Cruz will do what he's been doing,talking about jobs, freedom, and security for the American people,” said Stewart in astatement.

At a campaign event in Indiana, Cruz told the press, "Yes, my dad killed JFK, he issecretly Elvis, and Jimmy Hoffa is buried in his backyard."

Ted Cruz responds to Donald Trump connecting his dad, Rafael Cruz, to LeeHarvey Oswald https://t.co/B0oVg3At3N https://t.co/aypEOYCK31

— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) May 3, 2016

The explosive suggestion that Cruz’s father would have had any afliation with Oswald

is not corroborated in any other way. Cuban-born Rafael Cruz is now a fervent anti-communist, but there was a time he supported then-rebel leader Fidel Castro. His son,Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, frequently relates his father’s arrest and torture by governmentofcials and subsequent escape to the United States.

The elder Cruz ended up at the University of Texas at Austin and still supported Castro,who led the revolution that overthrew the Batista regime in 1959. Castro formallydeclared himself Marxist in 1961.

“The U.S. government was duped. The American people were duped. I was duped,”Rafael Cruz wrote in his book, “A Time for Action,” released in January. “When peopleask me why I supported Castro in over-throwing the Cuban government, I readily admitthat I didn’t realize he was a communist.”

There are photos of Rafael Cruz participating in a pro-Castro rally in 1959 and anarticle in the student newspaper where he describes his support for Castro. And onereport questions the extent of the elder Cruz’s connections to Castro before eeingCuba.

The photos of Oswald distributing pro-Castro literature are from August 1963, just a fewmonths before the JFK assassination in Dallas, which the Warren Commission Reporton the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy said was carried out by Oswald.

The tabloid hired photo experts who compared the elder Cruz’s photos from the late1950s and early 1960s with the ones released by the Warren Commission. The man in

the white shirt next to Oswald was never identied by the commission, and the

https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/cuban-peers-dispute-ted-cruzs-fathers-story-of-fighting-for-castro.htmlhttp://newspaperarchive.com/profile/e-e-bud-kennedy/clipnumber/35480/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/castro-declares-himself-a-marxist-leninisthttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/10/us/politics/ted-cruz-cuban-florida-primary.htmlhttps://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/727521246485856260https://t.co/aypEOYCK31https://t.co/B0oVg3At3N


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Enquirer is now saying it was Cruz and blasted on its May 2 cover that “Ted CruzFather Now Linked to JFK Assassination!”

The Enquirer has a testimonial from Mitch Goldstone, president and CEO of ScanMyPhotos, a California-based digitizing photo service, who told the tabloid,“There’s more similarity than dissimilarity. . . . it looks to be the same person and I cansay as much with a high degree of condence.”

And Carole Lieberman, a University of California - Los Angeles forensic psychiatrist andexpert witness based in Beverly Hills, California, compared the photos and told theEnquirer “they seem to match.” Neither Goldstone nor Lieberman returned phone callsfrom McClatchy.

But Gus Russo, an author and journalist who has written extensively about the JFKassassination and Oswald, is dubious. Russo told McClatchy in an interview that

Oswald, who was living in New Orleans in 1963, was not connected to the Cubancommunity there and would not have had a Cuban supporter helping him. “He was theultimate loner,” said Russo. Another man seen in the video handing out leaets hadbeen hired by Oswald to do so at an unemployment ofce, according to the WarrenCommission. Rafael Cruz also lived in New Orleans, but it was later in the 1960s.

As for the photo “evidence,” Russo said, “It’s very subjective. It’s not proof. It’s just anopinion. To charge something this big, you’d better have better proof than that ‘it looks

like him.’”The FBI would not comment about its photo recognition and aging identicationtechniques but referred McClatchy to a web page about its Investigative andProsecutive Graphic Unit.

The Enquirer has focused on Ted Cruz during the presidential campaign withsensational stories about his alleged mistresses and supposed connection to the DCMadam. The tabloid, which has endorsed presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, said

in a “declaration” published on a page of the story that the paper had been approached

THE FEATURE THAT IS MOST INTERESTING AND SIMILAR IS HIS INSINCERE SMILE.Carole Lieberman, expert witness“

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by someone it does not identify during the New York primary with the photos. “In thisinstance, we believe American voters have a right to know the truth about the Cruzfamily,” it says.

LESLEY CLARK CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.

Maria Recio: 202-383-6103, @maria_e_recio

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