Mary Haverstick, author of A Woman I Know on The Spark, January 2, 2024.
Did Oswald act alone? Was CIA involved? Who was Jerrie Cobb? Lancaster author’s new book with surprising answers
Lancaster filmmaker Mary Haverstick finds a link to Kennedy assassination
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Scott LaMar
Mary Haverstick, author of A Woman I Know on The Spark, January 2, 2024.
Aired; January 2nd, 2024.
Lancaster filmmaker Mary Haverstick may have stumbled onto the story of a lifetime. She set out to make a biopic of Jerrie Cobb – one of a group of women who passed the same tests as the male astronauts of the Mercury 7 project in 1960. The women would never fly in space, but they were hailed throughout the nation never-the-less.
But the more Haverstick talked with Cobb and explored her life – the more she realized there was a much bigger story — one that may have changed the narrative of one of the biggest moments in American history.
The would-be film became a book – A Woman I Know – Female Spies, Double Identities and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination.
On The Spark Tuesday, Haverstick admitted there’s a lot to unravel in the book. Much of her research over a 10-12 year period was from Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or Kennedy Assassination files. She talked about how a planned film about Jerrie Cobb became much more and led to the book,”What I thought she was was this wonderful astronaut candidate, tried to become an astronaut before women could and was rejected, but fought for our female rights, which was an awesome, positive story. But I found that she had tremendous overlap biographically and otherwise with a CIA spy named June Cobb, who grew up in (the) same hometowns. They had traveled the world almost in synchronicity, and I came to believe that this overlap was just astronomically impossible to be something other than a double identity. And so basically, I confronted Jerrie. Did she have a double identity with this June Cobb, who, by the way, has thousands of pages of files in the Kennedy assassination documents. That’s who the spy June Cobb is. She’s someone all tied up with the Kennedy assassination investigation. And so I went and confronted Jerrie about being June.”
What did Jerrie Cobb say when confronted?,”Well, here’s what’s in chapter one of the book. A Woman I Know. It starts with that conversation and how Jerrie herself placed herself at basically the scene of the crime in Dallas on the day Kennedy died. She told me an incredible story about how she was there in a twin engine plane, had flown in to cover the event with media and cameras. But how, for some bizarre reason, they did not go in to cover the event. And then she was just desperate to get out of Dallas in the wake of the assassination, which of course, makes zero sense.”
Jerrie Cobb told Haverstick she was on the runway at Redbird Airport in Dallas when President Kennedy was killed, “(Lee Harvey) Oswald is rumored to have been out there at that airport. There were many strange ties at that airport, and Oswald was heading in the direction of that airport as he left Dallas. He even had a bus ticket in his pocket that could have potentially gotten him to that airport. So there are many questions. Before I found what I found about Redbird, what I learned about Redbird Airport was that it was a little executive airport where private planes would come in. Just like what Jerrie Cobb flew. And of course, Jerrie told me the story in chapter one where she was trying to get out of there before Air Force One took off. That would have shut down the airspace when Air Force One took off. And she, for some incredible reason, needed to get out of there. But unfortunately, she was waiting for something. And when she told me that story, I could think of nothing other than a getaway flight. I mean, what was she trying to escape that day in Dallas?”
The book quotes extensively from CIA files and a small group in the agency that was tasked with killing Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Haverstick was asked whether Oswald acted alone in murdering Kennedy,”I do not believe that he did. And that is my result of 12 years of research on the topic, as well as conversations with the woman I came to know. And basically, my views are now in line with the 65% of American citizens who were recently polled who agree with me that there are just too many problems with the story and that Oswald did not act alone.”
