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Ronald L. Lewis (born July 17, 1933) is an American who claims to have befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the summer of 1963, immediately prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Ron Lewis did not come forward with his account until 1992, when he published his memoirs in the book, FLASHBACK: The Untold Story of Lee Harvey Oswald, published by Lewcom Productions, Oregon, USA.

In his book, Ron Lewis describes himself as a single man of 28, a worker at a meat-packing factory, who had originally encountered Oswald in Dallas in 1962, when he ordered business cards for his photography business. In July, 1963, Lewis moved to New Orleans using an alias, Ron Larson, because he was avoiding the police regarding bad checks written in Oregon.

In New Orleans, in late July, 1963, Ron Lewis encountered Oswald on Camp Street, as  Oswald was distributing Fair Play For Cuba Committee (FPCC) fliers. They recognized each other and began a more lasting relationship. Oswald recruited Ron Lewis to spy on the Gubernatorial campaign of Gillis Long, and to bring this information to Oswald to forward to his supervisors, Guy Banister and David Ferrie.

According to Ron Lewis, he would meet Oswald nearly ever working day at 7:30 AM to discuss politics and relay information. During these meetings, Oswald would boast to Ron Lewis about certain aspects of his spy network activities, continually representing himself as a Castro sympathizer, yet serving the paramilitary personnel of the anti-Castro training camp at Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.

This relationship went forward throughout the summer of 1963, until Oswald moved to Dallas around September 25, 1963.

Several JFK assassination researchers have suggested that the memoirs of Ron Lewis are credible, including Oliver Stone, who employed Ron Lewis as a technical adviser during the filming of his Hollywood production of JFK (1991).