1991 Tosh Plumlee Interview, Part One
- Fred Litwin
- Apr 29
- 3 min read
Updated: May 1
Here is an interview from July 21, 1991 that was conducted in Florida. Gus Russo and associates were thinking of making a film about JFK conspiracy stories and they decided to interview Plumlee. Their documentary never got made.
Harry Moses (formerly with 60 Minutes) was the lead narrator. Jim Marrs was also there.
Here is a listing of the contents of this interview:
0:04 General Background
1:32 CIA relationship
3:05 Minority discharge from the military
4:15 Flight lessons
5:55 1959 and running guns for Castro
6:55 Castro comes to power
8:55 Bay of Pigs
10:10 First met Lee Harvey Oswald at Nags Head, North Carolina
13:08 Met Oswald in Hawaii
13:22 Encounter with Oswald at Nags Head.
14:05 Hawaii radar installation 1959 with Oswald
15:31 Meeting Oswald in Dallas, 1958 - 1959
16:45 Oswald in 1962
17:25 Conversation with Oswald
18:11 Fireworks with Marina Oswald
1942: Safe houses in Dallas
20:30 Oswald as CIA operative
21:52 Oswald was a loner
22:00 Meeting Marina, and her argument with Lee
23:45 David Ferrie came into the picture
24:30 Oswald was well traveled
25:25 de Mohrenschildt
26:00 Plumlee is asked if anybody can confirm his story
27:20 Asked who else can say you and Oswald together; who can confirm story?
29:30 Carlos Bringuier
30:50 Oswald was ONI
32:00 "It was a military operation" referring to JFK assassination
34:00 Oswald and money and trail
35:25 Plumlee asked who else was at Nags Head
36:00 It was a mansion, a farm (building at Nags Head)
36:40 Would Marina remember you?
37:30 Plumlee says he tried to stay away from telling this story
38:20 Plumlee says he doesn't think they find people to come forward
41:50 Before the assassination -- flight.
42:30 Stopping in New Orleans
43:00 Abort attempt on the assassination
44:30 Roselli, and Plumlee says he knew he was mobbed up
45:00 Ruby and Roselli and gun running
45:15 Pick up passengers in New Orleans
46:00 Gator is picked up
47:00 Operation is put together hurriedly; comedy of errors
47:40 It was an assassination abort team
47:50 Cubans had once fired on Air Force One
48:48 Plumlee says they could have been a hit team (to kill JFK?)
50:00 JFK was supposed to be assassinated at the Adolphus Hotel
50:30 Rerouting of the motorcade
51:30 Lands at Garland Airport, then to Redbird
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54:53 Video resumes
55:25 Sergio's role as spotter
56:30 Radios in Dealey Plaza did not work
57:40 The assassination
There is a second part to this interview and that will be available quite soon.
Plumlee cannot really give any names of people who will confirm his various stories. At one point he says he just talked to Rojas, one of the people on the flight to Dallas, but that Rojas doesn't want to talk about what happened that day.
I don't really know what Plumlee was after. Was he trying to get into the Oliver Stone film? In August 1990, Plumlee was in Dallas telling his story to John Stockwell, Jim Marrs and Alex Ho, a producer of Stone's films.
It's hard to imagine that Oliver Stone did not believe Tosh Plumlee. After all, he was a sucker for almost everything else.
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Tosh Plumlee
Some of Plumlee's interesting activities in 1959.
A bizarre story in which Plumlee writes to the FBI that he has provided bad information to an article about him in a Denver magazine.
Plumlee steals a plane and writes some bad checks.
Did Plumlee fly an abort team to Dallas or the actual assassins?
Plumlee writes to Palamara that Dinkin's messages might have been the intelligence to send the abort team to Dallas.
PBS Frontline investigated Plumlee's allegations about Nags Head, North Carolina and could not corroborate any part of his story
