by John Armstrong  

In 1978 Warren Commission attorney Samuel Stern told the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), "at the outset we realized that there was no possible way to penetrate any official involvement in a cover-up or conspiracy if there was such complicity... the FBI and CIA could formulate and maintain a cover-up which no one would ever penetrate."  The FBI had known about HARVEY Oswald and about LEE Oswald shortly after HARVEY Oswald "defected" to the Soviet Union in October, 1959. Following the assassination of President Kennedy the existence of two "Lee Harvey Oswalds" had to be covered-up and hidden from the public. If the public knew there were two "Lee Harvey Oswalds" involved in the assassination, the focus of attention would be on "Oswald" and the agency who created two "Lee Harvey Oswalds." What follows is how top FBI officials merged, altered, and destroyed documents relating the historical backgrounds of two teenage boys (HARVEY and LEE in the years 1955 and 1956) and presented their fabricated "evidence" of one "Lee Harvey Oswald" to the Warren Commission and to the public.



In the 1950s two teenage boys with the last name "Oswald" were living in New Orleans, LA. One of these boys was American born LEE Harvey Oswald. The other boy, likely a refugee from WW2, spoke the Russian language and was given the name "HARVEY Oswald." Both boys were of similar age, lived nearby each other for years, and often attended the same schools. While growing up in the USA, HARVEY acquired English language skills, became familiar with the American way of life, and learned about LEE Oswald, his family, and his life. In 1954 both boys attended Beauregard junior high school in New Orleans, but always in different classes, and in 1955-56 both teenage boys were employed by several local businesses.

Three years later, in 1959, nineteen year old Russian-speaking HARVEY assumed LEE Oswald's identity and “defected” to the Soviet Union. The CIA's multi-year "Oswald Project" had managed to place an "American" spy inside the Soviet Union who could speak, read, and write near-perfect Russian.

From late 1959 thru June, 1962 LEE Oswald remained in the USA, and some of his anti-Castro Cuban activities were reported to the FBI. After returning from the Soviet Union in 1962 HARVEY Oswald was now the one and only “Lee Harvey Oswald,” while LEE Oswald continued to work undercover for the CIA. In the summer and fall of 1963 LEE Oswald was instrumental in helping to set up Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald as a "patsy," the man who was falsely accused of assassinating President Kennedy. On November 22, after the Dallas Police arrested "Lee HARVEY Oswald," the early years and backgrounds of both HARVEY and LEE had to be “merged” in order to keep from exposing the two Oswald's, and their undeniable link to the CIA.
 
Several years before before President Kennedy was assassinated, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover knew the true identity of "Lee Harvey Oswald," the man accused of killing President Kennedy. In 1960, Hoover knew that someone may have been using American-born LEE Harvey Oswald's birth certificate, while at the same time Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald was in the Soviet Union. Hoover was aware of numerous reports that (LEE) Oswald was in the USA, while at the same time HARVEY Oswald was in the Soviet Union. In June, 1962, after HARVEY Oswald returned to the USA, FBI agents continually interviewed him and were checking on Oswald's birth records in New Orleans only a month before the assassination. In June, 1963 Hoover knew that HARVEY Oswald was in New Orleans and associating with Guy Banister, Hoover's close friend and the former head of the FBI's Chicago office. On 11/22/63 Hoover knew that it was Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald, and not American-born LEE Harvey Oswald, who was arrested by the Dallas Police and accused of assassinating President Kennedy.

J. Edgar Hoover understood that the American people could never be told there were two "Lee Harvey Oswald's." If the public were to learn that Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald was sent to the Soviet Union as a spy, while American born LEE Oswald remained in the USA, the "Oswald Project" would be exposed. The public would then know that HARVEY Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy, was directly connected to the CIA and was connected to the FBI thru his relationship with Guy Banister in New Orleans. When Hoover first learned the Dallas Police had arrested Lee HARVEY Oswald he knew, immediately, that all records relating to HARVEY Oswald had to be located, confiscated, and withheld from public view. Some of those records would show that LEE Oswald was in one location, while at the same time other records would show that HARVEY Oswald was in different location.    

After locating and confiscating documents, the FBI was able to fabricate and alter some of these documents for the purpose of "merging" the work history and school attendance of HARVEY and LEE. The FBI then photographed these newly created items as "evidence" and gave the photographs to the Warren Commission. The Commission accepted FBI photographs in lieu of original evidence, and then ignored many important witnesses who had known and worked side by side with HARVEY Oswald. The FBI needed to show the Warren Commission, and the American people, that one man-- "Lee Harvey Oswald"--was responsible for assassinating President Kennedy.


We begin  our investigation by reviewing a Secret Service report relating to Oswald's employment as a teenager in 1955-56, as recorded by the Social Security Administration (below). If this report is accurate (IF ??), SS administration records show that LEE Oswald or HARVEY Oswald were working at Tujague's, J.R. Michels, Dolly Shoe, and the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in the year 1956. The FBI  ignored this report, because verifiable tax and employment records would show that while LEE Oswald was working for one company (Tujague's), HARVEY Oswald was employed by other companies and attending school at the same time.

Today, decades later, we can re-read witness statements and interview people who knew and worked with HARVEY and LEE in 1955-56. Where these two young men worked and which companies they worked for in 1955 and 1956 is important. But what is much more important is understanding how the FBI was able to "merge" the work history of HARVEY and LEE into one "Lee Harvey Oswald," and in doing so hide the existence of the CIA's Oswald project.



The Secret Service report relating to Oswald's employment in 1955-56, as allegedly recorded by the Social Security Administration, shows that Oswald worked at Dolly Shoe in 1956. The FBI interviewed the companies Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Moses Brenner, who allegedly provided a W-4 form, handwritten in pencil, that was supposedly signed by fifteen year old (HARVEY) Oswald on February 10, 1955 (below). The FBI provided a photograph of this item to the Warren Commission, which was then used establish Oswald's beginning date of employment for Dolly Shoe.


The FBI failed to provide the Warren Commission with any of Oswald's payroll checks or any documents that could verify his beginning and ending dates of employment and/or income with Dolly Shoe (payroll checks, vouchers, bank statements). I spoke at length with former store manager Maury Goodman, who remembered both (HARVEY) Oswald and his his short, heavy-set caretaker/mother. I sent Mr. Goodman a photo of Marguerite Claverie Oswald (mother of LEE Oswald) taken in late 1957, and asked him if this was the same woman who worked for him at Dolly Shoe in 1955 (see below). Mr. Goodman replied to my letter and said that he "didn't recognize this woman at all" (below). The one thing that Mr. Goodman remembered, more than anything else, was that Mrs. Oswald continually refused to provide personal information required by the companies insurance carrier. A few months later, after continually refusing to provide information, Mrs. Oswald (the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor) was fired. HARVEY Oswald's caretaker/mother (the Marguerite Oswald impostor) avoided working for companies that withheld taxes and sent reports to state and federal agencies, because such reports might conflict with similar reports relating to Marguerite Claverie Oswald (mother of LEE Oswald). This impostor preferred instead to work for cash as a bar maid, caretaker, or practical nurse in order to avoid generating taxation and credit reports.




Store manager Maury Goodman hired Louis Marziale (click here for YouTube interview) the day after Easter. Louis observed Oswald and soon realized that he was doing very little work. Louis terminated young Oswald that afternoon, and later saw his mother/caretaker working as a bar maid at the Tradewinds Bar on Decatur St. The FBI allegedly obtained two W-4 forms (questionable !!), both handwritten and signed in pencil, to show that HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother began work at Dolly Shoe in early 1955 (below). While 15 year old HARVEY Oswald was working at Dolly Shoe (winter/spring, 1955), LEE Oswald was in the 9th grade at Beauregard Junior High with a near perfect attendance record.



Gerard F. Tujague was in the business of import/export and freight forwarding, and was well connected with the intelligence community in New Orleans. On January 9, 1961 former FBI agent Guy Bannister was one of the incorporators of the Friends of Democratic Cuba, while Gerard Tujague was Vice President and a first officer. The stated purpose of the Friends of Democratic Cuba was to raise funds for the CIA-backed Frente Revolucionario Democratica (Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front). The company soon rented an office in Clay Shaw's International Trade Mart building, where Shaw and CIA agent William Gaudet had offices. CIA asset Gordon Novel, in sworn deposition, said that in 1961 he worked with the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front together with Guy Banister and a “Mr. Phillips," who represented a government intelligence agency. Phillips was most likely David Atlee Phillips, the CIA's head of propaganda for Cuban operations. Novel said that Banister reported to and was supervised by Mr. Phillips.

In January, 1961, while HARVEY Oswald was in Russia, a “LEE Harvey Oswald” visited the Bolton Ford Dealership in New Orleans and tried to buy trucks on behalf of the Friends of Democratic Cuba. In February, after existing less than a month, the Friends of Democratic Cuba was merged with the Cuban Revolutionary Council. The Chief Political Officer was E. Howard Hunt (head of the CIA's Domestic Operations Division), a close friend and associate of David Atlee Phillips (head of Cuban Operations) and a frequent visitor to Guy Banister's office in New Orleans. In 1961 the CIA, FBI, and Cuban exiles who frequented Guy Banister's office were united in one common cause—the elimination of Fidel Castro. One individual who was occasionally seen in and around New Orleans during this time (early 1960's) was LEE Oswald, and he was among friends. In 1963, however, it was HARVEY Oswald who was in and around Guy Banister's office, for the express purpose of creating the image that he (HARVEY Oswald) was an avid supporter of Castro, Cuba, and communism.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND, AND REMEMBER, THAT LEE OSWALD JOINED THE CAP IN JUNE,1955; LEE OSWALD WORKED FOR TUJAGUE'S FROM JULY, 1955--AUG, 1956;  IN 1961 LEE OSWALD TRIED TO PURCHASE TRUCKS FROM BOLTON FORD (WHILE HARVEY OSWALD WAS IN RUSSIA) AND WAS IN AND AROUND BANISTER'S OFFICE. BUT IN 1963 IT WAS RUSSIAN-SPEAKING HARVEY OSWALD WHO SHARED OFFICE SPACE WITH GUY BANISTER, AND WAS VERY LIKELY IN CONTACT WITH DAVE FERRIE, CLAY SHAW, AND E. HOWARD HUNT. IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT BOTH GUY BANISTER AND DAVID FERRIE KNEW LEE OSWALD (1955) AND THEY KNEW HARVEY OSWALD (1963).


The Secret Service report (above), allegedly based upon information provided by the Social Security Administration, showed that Oswald worked at Tujague's in 1955 and 1956. However, these dates of employment presented a problem for the FBI. During this time “Lee Harvey Oswald” was supposed to have worked for 3 other companies and attended Warren Easton High School in Sept/Oct, 1955.

In June, 1955 fifteen year old LEE Oswald graduated from Beauregard Junior High and briefly joined the Civil Air Patrol with Ed Voebel. Around the same time he began working full time for the Gerard F. Tujague Co. (LEE) Oswald's supervisor was Frank DiBenedetto, who personally worked with him every day. When Mr. Tujague died Frank took over the company and 40 years later was still working in the same office in the Sanlin Building on Canal St. when I met him in 1995.


In July, 1955 American-born LEE Oswald's brother, Robert Oswald, recently discharged from the Marine Corps, visited his mother and brother for one week at 126 Exchange Place in the French Quarter. Robert said that during his visit LEE was working for an import-export company sending packages around the world (below). That company was the Gerard F. Tujague, Inc. freight forwarding company.


Gloria Callaghan was Tujague's secretary and was on maturnity leave in March and April, 1956 (her daughter was born on March 15). Gloria said that Oswald was working at Tujague's during her maternity leave. I asked Frank if he remembered when Oswald quit working at Tujague's. Frank could not remember the date but said, "it was hot, very hot," and "he quit so that he could join the marines." (LEE) Oswald likely quit Tujague's in August, and then moved to Ft. Worth where he joined the Marines in Oct, 1956.

LEE Oswald working continuously at Tujague's from June, 1955 thru August, 1956 was a problem for the FBI. In the fall of 1955, while LEE Oswald was working at Tujague's, HARVEY Oswald was attending Warren Easton High School from Sept 8 thru Oct 10. The FBI could not ignore Oswald's attendance at Warren Easton because they had his school records and many students and teachers remembered Oswald as a student.  On October 7 a note was delivered to Warren Easton that read, “Becaus (sic) we are moving to San Diego in the middle of this month Lee must quit school now. Also, please send by him any papers such as his birth certificate that you may have. Thank you. Sincirely (sic) ….Mrs. M. Oswald."

The FBI needed to somehow "merge" (LEE) Oswald's employment at Tujague's in the summer and fall of 1955 with (HARVEY) Oswald's attendance at Warren Easton High School in Sept/Oct, 1955. To accomplish this they needed the cooperation of Gerard Tujague, who owned the company where (LEE) Oswald worked continuously for a year to a year and a half--from June, 1955 thru August, 1956. Mr. Tujague's cooperation, thru his close relationship with FBI/CIA connected people like Banister, Shaw and Hunt, was no problem.

On the afternoon of 11/22/63 Mr. Tujague told employee Jimmy Hudnell to gather all company records relating to Oswald. When I met Jimmy at his home in New Orleans, he told me that he had collected "dozens" of Oswald's payroll checks and time cards which he gave to Mr. Tujague. Tujague then gave these records to the FBI, but never testified before the Warren Commission. The FBI photographed five (ONLY FIVE !!) of (LEE) Oswald's time cards which they gave to the Warren Commission, along with photographs of a handwritten ledger, and a photograph of a W-4  form, handwritten in pencil (see below).


These photographs purported to show that (LEE) Oswald was first employed at Tujague's on November 10, 1955, and ended his employment on January 14, 1956. The FBI was now able to tell the Warren Commission that “Lee Harvey Oswald” was unemployed during the summer of 1955, attended Warren Easton High School from Sept 8 thru Oct 10, 1955, then dropped out of school and began working for Tujagues on November 10, 1955. The WC accepted the FBI's report and photographs of Oswald's time cards, but never bothered to interview Mr. Tujague, Frank DiBenedetto, Gloria Callaghan, Jimmy Hudnell or any other Tujague employee. In other words the Warren Commission relied on FBI photographs, but had no testimony and no verifiable documents with which to establish Oswald's beginning and ending dates of employment at Tujague's.

The FBI told the WC that (LEE) Oswald began working for Tujague's on November 10, 1955. But Robert Oswald told the WC that in July, 1955, while visiting his mother and brother for one week, (LEE) Oswald was working for an import/export company (Tujague's-see below). The FBI had good reason to be concerned but the Commission, either knowingly or unknowingly, ignored this portion of Robert's testimony.




The FBI was also concerned with some of Tujague's employees, who could testify they knew and worked with (LEE) Oswald for a year to a year and a half, and not for only 2 months as reported by the FBI. To overcome this problem, the Bureau needed a little help from one or more of the Warren Commission members. The Warren Commission originally listed Frank DiBenedetto and Gloria Callaghan as witnesses. Their testimony would have placed LEE Oswald at Tujague's in 1955 and 1956, while at the same time school records showed that another “Lee HARVEY Oswald” was attending Warren Easton High School. The WC, for reasons never explained, failed to interview Frank DiBenedetto, Gloria Callaghan, Jimmy Hudnell, or any other employee of Tujague's. Someone within the Warren Commission was probably aware that these people's testimony had the potential expose the two Oswalds. Could former CIA Director and Warren Commission member Allen Dulles have interceded and blocked their testimony? Someone did. The Warren Commission, instead of taking testimony from DiBenedetto, Callaghan, Mr. Tujague, Jimmy Hudnell, or other Tujague employees, relied on FBI photographs of five time cards and a handwritten payroll ledger which showed that Oswald worked for Tujague's from November 10, 1955 thru January 14, 1956.



The Secret Service report (above), allegedly based upon information provided by the Social Security Administration, showed that Oswald worked at J.R. Michels in early 1956. However, from January thru August, 1956, according to Tujague employees Frank DiBenedetto and Gloria Callaghan, (LEE) Oswald was working at Tujauge's.  This date  presented another problem for the FBI, and had to be "corrected."

On Monday, November 25, 1963, two unnamed FBI agents arrived at the office of J.R. Michels Co. in New Orleans and asked to speak with the manager. The manager had not yet arrived, so the employee took the elevator to the first floor and waited for office manager Nick Mazza to arrive. When Nick arrived the employee told him that two FBI agents were in the office and wanted to talk with him about Lee Harvey Oswald working at J. R. Michels. When I met Nick in 1995 he said, “They told me (TOLD ME !) that Lee Harvey Oswald had worked for J.R. Michels in January, 1956 and they wanted all of his records. I told them that Oswald had never worked for J.R. Michels at any time.” They said, “go check you records for January, 1956” (how would the FBI know the exact dates of Oswald's employment, because the SS report said he worked at J.R. Michels the "first quarter 1956"). Nick then checked company records and found one item—a company check dated January 20, 1956, in the amount of $34.20, payable to Lee Oswald. Before giving the original check to the FBI agents, Nick copied the front and back side of the check. Thirty two years later Nick gave me a copy of that check (below).


Nick said that he spoke with FBI agents only one time. When I met Nick he said that other than the one visit by the two FBI agents on 11/25/63, I was the only person who had ever asked him about Lee Harvey Oswald working for J.R. Michels.

The FBI's version of events regarding J.R. Michels is very different. An FBI report states that at 9:45 AM, on Tuesday, 11/26/63, Nick Mazza called the FBI's office in New Orleans and said that he found a copy of Oswald's W-2 form dated 1/17/56. However, there are two problems with the FBI report: #1--on 11/26/63 Oswald's W-2 form, created by the FBI, was not in New Orleans, it was among the 455 items of "evidence" returned by the FBI to the Dallas Police; #2--Oswald's W-2 form was not dated. Another FBI reports states that on 11/26/63 FBI agent Merriman Diven picked up a W-4 form, handwritten in pencil, from Nick Mazza. Nick, however, said the only item in Oswald's file was one payroll check. An FBI report of an alleged interview with J.R. Michels President, John Russell of Houston, TX, said that Oswald worked for J. R. Michels in January, 1956 and was paid $80 for one weeks work and one weeks terminal pay, but provided no documentation.


The only document found by Nick Mazza was one payroll check in the amount of $34.20—nothing else, despite what FBI reports claim. HARVEY Oswald may or may not have been employed at J.R. Michels while LEE Oswald was working at Tujauge's. But ending (LEE) Oswald's employment at both Tujague's and J.R. Michels in January, 1956 provided the time necessary for "Lee Harvey Oswald" to work “for several months thereafter” at the Pfisterer Dental Lab before moving to Ft. Worth (July 1, 1956).



The Secret Service report (above), allegedly based upon information provided by the Social Security Administration, showed that "Lee Harvey Oswald" was working at the Pfisterer Dental Lab during the first half of 1956. However, according to Tujague employees Frank DiBenedetto and Gloria Callaghan, (LEE) Oswald was working at Tujauge's during the first half of 1956. To further complicate Oswald's employment history as a teenager, the FBI interviewed Palmer Edwin McBride who reported that he worked with (HARVEY) Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in 1957 and 1958 (while LEE Oswald was in Japan). The FBI now had to "merge" LEE Oswald's employment in 1956 (Tujague's) with HARVEY Oswald's employment in 1957-58 (Pfisterer Dental Lab) and show the Warren Commission that one person, "Lee Harvey Oswald," worked at Dolly Shoe, Tujague's, J.R. Michels, and the Pfisterer Dental Lab before moving to Ft. Worth in June, 1956 and joining the Marines in October, 1956. Nothing but lies, lies, lies, and more lies from the FBI.

On Monday morning, 11/25/63, three days after President Kennedy was assassinated, FBI agents arrived at the dental Lab. The agents took the owners of the company, one by one, into a private room and told them they were not to discuss the “Oswald matter” among themselves or with anyone. The agents then took all records and files relating to Oswald and left the building. Those files disappeared and were never seen again. The FBI provided no verifiable documentation whatsoever to show that Oswald worked for the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in 1956. The Warren Commission, based upon no verifiable documentation and no dates of employment, reported that "Lee Harvey Oswald" worked at the dental lab “for several months thereafter..." (below).



The FBI and Warren Commission's most serious problem, by far, was with (HARVEY) Oswald's employment at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in 1957 and 1958. The day after President Kennedy was murdered airman Palmer Edwin McBride contacted the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. McBride told the air force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) that he had known and worked with (HARVEY) Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in New Orleans in 1957-58. The OSI immediately contacted the FBI who then interviewed McBride on Saturday, November 23, 1963. McBride provided a detailed statement concerning he and Oswald's friendship, their association with the New Orleans Amateur Astronomy Association (NOAAA), and their employment at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans in 1957-58.

The FBI had Oswald's Marine Corps file and knew that in 1957-58 Oswald was in the Marine Corps in Japan, the Philippines, and the South China Sea. The FBI, once again, had to "merge" the background of HARVEY and LEE. But in this case, (HARVEY) Oswald's employment in 1957 and 1958 had to be backdated to the year 1956. The FBI dealt with this problem in two ways. First, the FBI issued a memorandum which stated, "Inasmuch as OSWALD was in the US Marine Corps from Sept, 1956 until November, 1959, this information is unfounded, and no investigation is being conducted" (below).



Second, the FBI had to fabricate documents (they created a w-2 form) in order to "change" the date of Oswald's employment at Pfisterer's from 1957-58 to the winter/spring of 1956. Third, (HARVEY) Oswald's employment at the dental lab had to have occurred before he moved from New Orleans to Ft. Worth on July 1, 1956. With no time cards, no payroll checks, and no verifiable documentation whatsoever the FBI and Warren Commission reported that Oswald had worked “for several months thereafter..." at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory (below).
The Warren Commission knew that Palmer McBride said that he worked with (HARVEY) Oswald in 1957-58. On March 30, 1964, the Commission listed McBride as one of the witnesses they intended to interview (below). Six weeks later, on May 13, 1964, members of the Warren Commission were provided with a list of proposed witnesses. Once again Palmer McBride was on the list. McBride, however, could NEVER be allowed to testify (not to the Warren Commission, not to the HSCA, not to the Church Committee, not to the ARRB). Someone on the Warren Commission was aware that McBride's testimony would place HARVEY Oswald in New Orleans in 1957-58, while at the same time Marine Corps records showed that LEE Oswald was in Japan, the Philippines, and the South China Sea. Someone was responsible for McBride not testifying. Could that someone have been former CIA Director and Warren Commission member Allen Dulles? Very likely.



Understanding and determining the whereabouts of HARVEY Oswald and of LEE Oswald in 1957-58 is not that difficult. We only need to talk with people who knew and worked with HARVEY Oswald in New Orleans in 1957-58 and who served in the Marines in Japan with LEE Oswald at the same time. Every year, for many years, I traveled to Adelphi, MD and shared an apartment for one month with fellow researcher Malcolm Blunt. We walked to the National Archives, arrived when they opened and left when they closed, and spent our evenings reading and re-reading documents that we had copied during the day. One weekend Malcolm and I drove to Rhode Island where we met and spoke with Richard Cyr and his wife (Linda) at their home. Cyr had served with LEE Oswald in Japan in 1957-58 and remembered him well. Cyr was nearby when (LEE) Oswald shot himself in the arm with a .22 derringer. Cyr bunked in the same hut as (LEE) Oswald and was with him on most maneuvers. I also spoke with Zack Stout (El Dorado, KS) who served with LEE Oswald in the Marine Corps in Japan. Zack said that he met LEE Oswald the first day that Oswald arrived in Japan. They shared the same bunk house and were together every day on maneuvers in Japan, the Philippines, and the south China sea in 1957-58. Stout served with LEE Oswald in Japan until the day he departed for the USA. Tall, husky, LEE Oswald was definitely in the Marine Corps in Japan in 1957-58, and remembered by fellow Marines.


I flew to California and met Palmer McBride at his home in Sun Valley. Palmer had recently retired from a 40 year career in the aerospace industry. He was a friendly, serious, down-to-earth, straight-forward type of man with an incredible memory for details. Palmer had a habit of relating most everything in his past life to events that happened in the aerospace industry. For example, on the day Sputnik was launched (October 4, 1957) he and (HARVEY) Oswald discussed recent Russian space successes. A week later Oswald and Palmer attended the Boris Gudenov opera, where McBrides father was working part-time as an usher. Palmer recalled that while working at the dental lab Oswald and his mother lived directly across the street at the Hotel Senator. Yet Palmer wondered how (HARVEY) Oswald and his mother (caretaker) could afford to live month after month in a relatively expensive hotel. Palmer provided the names of Amelda Smith, Walter Gehrke, William Wulf, and Harrison Vance as some of the people who also knew (HARVEY) Oswald in 1957-58. In 1997 I brought Palmer to a JFK Lancer conference in Dallas, where he met attendees and told the audience about his friendship and interaction with (HARVEY) Oswald in 1957-58.

Amelda Smith worked as a receptionist for Pfisterer's, but only in 1957 and 1958 (not in 1956). Amelda told he FBI that Oswald worked as a messenger, which agrees with McBride statement as to the time that (HARVEY) Oswald worked at the dental lab.

In early 1958 Palmer took HARVEY Oswald to a meeting of the New Orleans Amateur Astronomy Association (NOAAA) at the home of Walter Gehrke. Gehrke told the FBI that none of the NOAAA meetings were held at his home until early 1958. Genrke's statement to the FBI agrees with McBride knowing and working with HARVEY Oswald in 1957-58.

In early 1958 McBride brought Oswald to a few of the NOAAA meetings where he was introduced to the association's president, William Wulf. On one occasion Oswald came to Wulf's home late one evening. Oswald's late night visit was well remembered by Wulf, because Oswald and Wulf's father got into a heated argument over communism. Wulf's father was a veteran of WW2 who hated the Russians and despised communism. When he overheard Oswald praising communism, he told Oswald told to leave.

I flew to New Orleans and met William Wulf near his home in Slidell, LA. I asked Mr. Wulf to pinpoint, as close as possible, the date when he first met (HARVEY) Oswald. Wulf related his first meeting with Oswald to the 1956-57 school year (Sept, 1956 to June, 1957), which he missed entirely due to illness. In the fall of 1957 Wulf returned to school and said that he met Oswald shortly after the Christmas/New Year holidays in early 1958. He remembered that McBride brought (HARVEY) Oswald to several meetings of the NOAAA at Walter Gehrke's home.

The Warren Commission had the FBI interview of Palmer McBride (CE 1386) and one or more of their members may have been concerned about Oswald working at Pfisterer's in 1957-58. This problem was solved when the Commission refused to interview McBride, Gehrke, or Amelda Smith, who met and knew Oswald in 1957 and 1958. Instead, the Commission interviewed McBride's friend, William Wulf. The Commission needed to obtain testimony as to the year in which Oswald and McBride worked together in New Orleans—and that year could not be 1957 or 1958 as remembered by McBride. Warren Commission attorney Wesley Liebeler was chosen to interview Wulf. When Liebeler deposed Wulf, he did not bother to ask Wulf when he met or knew Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans. Instead, Liebeler intentionally fixed the date of Oswald's presence in New Orleans as 1954-55, and then quickly changed the subject.

Liebeler said to Wulf, “We want to inquire of you concerning possible knowledge that you have of Lee Harvey Oswald during the time he lived in New Orleans during the period 1954-55. Before we get into the details of that, however, will you please state your name for the record.” (below). Liebeler intentionally and deliberately made sure that the WC record established the date of Oswald in New Orleans as 1954-55 (and NOT 1957-58). This is a clear indication that WC members and staff attorneys were aware, and very concerned, about Palmer McBrides statement that he worked with Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1957-58. Liebeler never once mentioned or suggested that Oswald was in New Orleans in 1957 or 1958.


When I met Mr. Wulf in 1993 I asked him if he remembered agreeing with the WC attorney that he knew Oswald in 1954-55. Wulf said, “I don't remember telling them that, but it's possible.” Wulf said, “It's sketchy. I really cannot say for sure. I told them that I could get it (the date) from the Astronomy Club's records.” The WC never asked for the records of the NOAAA but, thanks to Wesley Liebeler, the WC was now able to report that Oswald worked “a few weeks for the Pfisterer Dental lab" in 1956 (below). The FBI and Warren Commission ignored all of the witnesses from the Pfisterer Dental Lab, ignored members of the NOAAA (except Wulf), and provided no documentation whatsoever to the Warren Commission that showed Oswald's beginning or ending dates of employment. The Warren Commission, however, was very much aware of the 1957-58 time problem, and they chose attorney Wesley Liebeler to fix the date as 1954-55. Problem solved.

A few years later, after meeting William Wulf, I met Linda Faircloth, president of the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory, at their office in Metairie, LA. I was surprised to learn that years before I became interested in JFK, Linda was asked to give a presentation relating to her dental laboratory. The subject of her presentation was "Lee Harvey Oswald" (click here for YouTube video of Linda Faircloth). Linda spoke with the owners and former employees of Pfisterer and determined that (HARVEY) Oswald had worked at the laboratory, first as a waxer and then as a delivery boy, with Palmer McBride in 1957 and 1958. The president of the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory confirmed that (HARVEY) Oswald was employed at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1957 and 1958. 





On the afternoon of 11/22/63 Dallas Police detectives searched Oswald's rooming house (1026 N.Beckley) and Ruth Paine's garage (2515 W. 5th, Irving, TX), where the majority of evidence they collected consisted of Oswald's personal possessions. The police took 225 items, and each and every item was initialed by Dallas Police officers, listed on a handwritten inventory, and listed on a type-written inventory at DPD headquarters (WC-Stoval A, Stoval B, Turner 1). Around midnight all items were photographed on the floor of the Dallas Police station. The Dallas Police had jurisdiction to investigate the murder of JFK in Dallas, but their investigation was soon interrupted and they were ordered to turn over all of their evidence to the FBI.

President Lyndon Johnson told his aide, Cliff Carter, to order Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry to immediately turn over all of the evidence collected by the Dallas Police to the FBI. Curry told the Warren Commission, “We got several calls insisting we send this, and nobody would tell me exactly who it was that was insisting, 'just say I got a call from Washington, and they wanted this evidence up there,' insinuated it was someone in high authority that was requesting this....” When former CIA Director and Warren Commission member Allen Dulles heard Chief Curry's answer, he abruptly adjourned the hearing. When Curry's testimony resumed not another word was mentioned about “someone in high authority.” Chief Curry later said, “about midnight Friday night --- November 22 --- we agreed to let the FBI have all the evidence and they said they would have an agent stand by and when they were finished with it, return it to us.”

During the early morning hours of November 23, FBI agent Vincent Drain took the 225 items of evidence from the Dallas Police, boarded an Air Force C130 at Carswell AFB, and departed at 3:10 am (11/23/63) for Washington, DC. A few hours later, around 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning (11/23/63), FBI document specialist James Cadigan received Oswald's possessions (a total of 225 items) at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. Warren Commission attorney Melvin Eisenberg questioned Cadigan about certain documents that were included among Oswald's possessions. Cadigan said, “On November 23, when the vast bulk of this material came in it was photographed... to select one item out of four or five hundred, I cannot, in all honesty, say I definitely recall seeing this....” The particular item of evidence that Eisenberg was discussing is not important. What is important--very important--is that Eisenberg and the WC now knew the FBI had received all of the evidence gathered by the Dallas Police, in secret--with no written chain of custody--during the early morning hours of November 23.

Even more important is that former CIA Director Allen Dulles, and now a member of the Warren Commission, changed Cadigan's testimony. Read Cadigan's testimony on the right, below. Cadigan told the Warren Commission, "there was a large volume of evidence being examined at the time. Time was of the essence and this material, I believe, was returned to the Dallas Police within two or three days..." Notice the lines, marks, and the notation "delete" that were handwritten on Cadigan's typewritten testimony by Mr. Dulles. Now, look at Cadigan's "revised" testimony as it appears in the Warren Volumes, below on the left. Allen Dulles deleted references to the "large volume of evidence" returned to the Dallas Police in two or three days. Dulles didn't want the record to show that 225 items of Oswald's personal belongings had been secretly sent to the FBI on November 23, and three days later (November 26) the FBI secretly returned an additional 230 items of evidence to to the Dallas Police--a total of 455 items. This is proof positive that a member of the Warren Commission, Allen Dulles, altered testimony.

The Death of top level FBI officials

In 1977, around the same time the House Select Committee on Assassinations was becoming active, numerous top level FBI officials suddenly died. 

1) William C. Sullivan was the third highest ranking FBI official, behind Hoover and Tolson, and played a major role in the in-house investigation of the JFK Assassination. In June, 1972 Sullivan had lunch with his friend, Robert Novak. He told Novak that someday he would probably read about his (Sullivan's) death in some kind of an accident, but not to believe it because he would be murdered. Sullivan had become a critic of the tactics of J Edgar Hoover. He had publicly called Hoover a “master blackmailer” and a man who was suffering from “senility.” Sullivan knew a great deal about the inter workings of the FBI and had likely had most of the inside details on the development of the so called fingerprint evidence. The Committee wanted to question him, but on November 9, 1977, only days before he was to testify to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, he was murdered. Twenty minutes before sunrise sixty-five-year-old Sullivan was walking through the woods near his retirement home in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. He was on his way to meet hunting companions when twenty-two-year-old Robert Daniels, Jr., son of a state policeman, shot and killed him. Daniels had a .30 caliber rifle, with a telescopic sight, and said he mistook Sullivan for a deer. The authorities called it an accident, and Daniels was fined five hundred dollars.

2) Louis Nicholas, special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover and his liaison with the Warren Commission died from heart attack in June, 1977.

3) Alan H. Belmont was head of the FBI's Domestic Intelligence Division Belmont and was in charge of investigating the assassination of JFK. In 1964 Belmont tried to persuade the Warren Commission that the palm print found on the alleged assassination rifle was Oswald's. The HSCA wanted to carefully question him again about his testimony, but before he could testify Belmont died in August of 1977.

4) James Cadigan was a document expert who told the Warren Commission that Oswald's possessions first arrived at FBI headquarters in the early morning hours of November 23. He then said those items were returned to the Dallas Police a few days later (on November 26). Cadigan examined the paper bag from the Texas School Book Depository Building that the alleged Oswald RIFLE was supposed to have been wrapped in along with the tape. In August, 1977, before he was able to tesify to the HSCA, Cadigan died from a so-called "accidental fall" fall in his home.

5) J. M. English was head of the FBI Forensic Sciences Laboratory where Oswald’s rifle and pistol were tested. He was in charge of the FBI forensic lab that had conducted forensic analysis of all of the JFK assassination evidence. English had examined the alleged OSWALD rifle and pistol. The HSCA wanted to know what happened to the evidence pertaining to the rifle and fingerprints, but English died of a heart attack in October, 1977 and never testified.

6) Donald Kaylor was a chemist and fingerprint expert who examined prints found at the assassination scene. In 1964 Kaylor told the Warren Commission that the palm print found on the alleged assassination rifle was Oswald's. The HSCA wanted to carefully question him, as well as Alan Belmont, again about his testimony, but before he could testify Kaylor died of a heart attack in October, 1977.

7) Regis Kennedy was a senior agent in the FBI assigned to New Orleans. He was one of two FBI agents assigned as contact men for Lee Harvey Oswald in his role as FBI informer. Kennedy had been sent to Dallas to help in the JFK investigation and knew a great deal about the fingerprint evidence. Kennedy died of a heart attack in 1978, shortly after testifying before the House Select Committee.

Going back to the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, on November 23, 1963, FBI Associate Director Clyde Tolson sent a memo to FBI official Alan Belmont. Tolson wrote, "Shanklin said results of the investigation have been reduced to written form and consequently the information will all be available for these two supervisors. We can prepare a memorandum to the Attorney General [Robert Kennedy] to set out the evidence showing that Oswald is responsible for the shooting that killed the President. We will show that [HARVEY] Oswald was an avowed Marxist, a former defector to the Soviet Union and an active member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), which has been financed by Castro. We will set forth the items of evidence which make it clear that [HARVEY] Oswald is the man who killed the President."

Within 24 hours of President Kennedy's assassination the FBI had already decided that (HARVEY) Oswald killed President Kennedy. During the next 3 days the FBI manipulated and altered some of the 225 items of evidence collected by the Dallas police. But more significant was the fact that the Bureau added an additional 230 items of "evidence" and then returned a total of 455 items of evidence to the Dallas Police. The FBI's goal was to produce and manipulate "evidence" to show that one person, “Lee Harvey Oswald,” murdered President Kennedy. FBI official William Sullivan said, "Hoover did not like to see the Warren Commission come into existence. He showed marked interest in limiting the scope of it or circumventing the scope of it and taking any action that might result in neutralizing it." Sullivan explained, "When an enormous organization like the FBI with tremendous power still can sit back and shuffle the deck of cards and pick up the card they want to show you it may be you're not going to get the entire picture as fully as you would otherwise.... If there were documents that possibly he [Hoover] didn't want to come to the light of the public, then those documents no longer exist, and the truth will never be known." Warren Commission attorney Samuel Stern was also skeptical and aware of potential problems. Stern told the HSCA, "at the outset we realized that there was no possible way to penetrate any official involvement in a cover-up or conspiracy if there was such complicity... the FBI and CIA could formulate and maintain a cover-up which no one would ever penetrate."  Mr. Stern's skepticism and analysis proved to be correct, but only for a few decades.

FBI document expert James Cadigan told the Warren Commission, “Time was of the essence and this material, I believe, was returned to the Dallas Police within two or three days.....” Cadigan was correct. The FBI returned 455 items of “evidence” to the Dallas Police three days later, on November 26, 1963. Without a written chain of custody, the FBI was able to return many more items than they received on November 23. The 455 items were then jointly inventoried and photographed by the FBI and Dallas police. A summary list of these 455 items was then given to the Warren Commission and identified as Commission Exhibit 2003 (CE 2003).



One of the most important items created by the FBI during this three day period, and added to the original 225 items of evidence found by the Dallas Police, were photographic copies of W-2 forms purporting to show where one person, "Lee Harvey Oswald," had worked in 1955 and 1956. These W-2 forms were not found by the Dallas Police on November 22. These W-2 forms appeared for the first time on the joint FBI/Dallas Police inventory of November 26, only after Oswald's possessions were returned to the Dallas Police from FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. Each of these fabricated W-2 forms has the initials of FBI laboratory technician Robert Frazier on the back side, but none of these W-2 forms were seen, nor initialed, nor inventoried, nor photographed by the Dallas Police on 11/22/63. All of these W-2 forms are forgeries, created for the purpose of supporting the FBI's attempt to “merge” HARVEY and LEE Oswald's work and school attendance from 1955 thru 1958.





The creation of these W-2 forms within days of the assassination is proof positive that top FBI officials knew intimate details of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald's backgrounds as teenagers. The W-2 forms were created in order to help “merge” the backgrounds of HARVEY and LEE and show that one “Lee Harvey Oswald” worked at these companies and attended Warren Easton High School prior to joining the US Marine Corps. Their creation shows that top FBI officials were not only familiar with the backgrounds of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald, but also shows their intent and willingness to keep this information secret. The creation of the W-2 forms momentarily resolved the problem of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald being in different locations at the same time on multiple occasions. But there was still a big problem.


President Johnson told his aide, Cliff Carter, to contact Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade and order him “not to allege a conspiracy”, and then to order Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry to immediately turn over all of the evidence collected by the Dallas Police to the FBI. Curry told the Warren Commission, “We got several calls insisting we send this, and nobody would tell me exactly who it was that was insisting, 'just say I got a call from Washington, and they wanted this evidence up there,' insinuated it was someone in high authority that was requesting this....” When former CIA Director and Warren Commission member Allen Dulles heard Curry's answer, he abruptly adjourned the hearing. When Curry's testimony resumed not another word was mentioned about “someone in high authority.” Curry later said, “about midnight Friday night--November 22--we agreed to let the FBI have all the evidence and they said they would have an agent stand by and when they were finished with it, return it to us.” During the early morning hours of November 23, FBI agent Vincent Drain took the items of evidence from the Dallas Police, boarded an Air Force C130 at Carswell AFB, and departed at 3:10 am (11/23/63) for Washington, DC .

A few hours later, around 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning (11/23/63), FBI document specialist James Cadigan received Oswald's possessions (225 items) at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. Warren Commission attorney Melvin Eisenberg questioned Cadigan about certain documents that were included among Oswald's possessions. Cadigan said, “On November 23, when the vast bulk of this material came in it was photographed......to select one item out of four or five hundred, I cannot, in all honesty, say I definitely recall seeing this....” The item of evidence that Eisenberg was discussing is not important. What is important--very important--is that Eisenberg, and the WC, now knew the FBI had received the evidence gathered by the Dallas Police (Oswald's possessions-225 items) on November 23, several days before the FBI “officially” became involved in the investigation. Less than 24 hours after the assassination all of Oswald's possessions were at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC.


In 1963 the original detailed records at the Social Security Administration showed the dates of Oswald's teenage employment. These records posed a serious problem, could never be made public, and may have been altered. In 1963 Marina Oswald applied for Social Security benefits shortly after her husband's death. She was entitled to receive benefits based upon his lifetime earnings from 1955 through 1963. However, all SSA details of Oswald's employment prior to 1962 were withheld and never made available to Marina, the Warren Commission, the HSCA, the ARRB or the public. The identity of the person or organization responsible for the SSA's refusal to release Oswald's 1955 through 1961 social security records from 1963 onward remains unknown. In 1978 the HSCA wrote to the Social Security Administration and asked for copies of Oswald's file. The SSA responded by providing Oswald's employment records for 1962 and 1963. But for employment records prior to 1962 the SSA advised the HSCA to review the Warren Commission report.


Many items of “evidence”, such as the W-2 forms, were added to Oswald's possessions by the FBI. This fake "evidence" is very easy to identify, if you know what to look for. The original 225 items that belonged to HARVEY Oswald were initialed by Dallas Police officers, all of these items appear on the Dallas Police Department's (DPD) handwritten and type-written inventories (WC exhibits), and were photographed on the floor at DPD headquarters. However, the 230 items of "evidence" that were added by the FBI were NOT initialed by Dallas Police officers, they do NOT appear on either the handwritten or type-written Dallas Police inventories, and were NOT photographed on the floor at DPD headquarters. To determine which items of "evidence" were found by the Dallas Police, simply look for the initials of DPD Officers and then locate the item on the handwritten and typed DPD inventory report (WC exhibits). If not initialed by DPD officers, and not found on the DPD inventories, then such items were added by the FBI and returned to the DPD on 11/26/63.

Why did the FBI add over 230 items of evidence? Many of these items belonged to LEE Oswald, and were added: 1) to help frame HARVEY Oswald for the assassination and 2) were added to help merge the historical background of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald into one fictional “Lee Harvey Oswald”.

In 1964 if the public had known that 225 items of evidence were sent to the FBI on November 23, and three days later the FBI returned 455 items of evidence to the Dallas Police, they would have demanded to know why and how this happened? Did the FBI tamper with evidence? Of course they did.


In the fall of 1955 fifteen year old HARVEY Oswald enrolled in Warren Easton High School in New Orleans as a sophomore. On October 7, 1955, a note was delivered to Warren Easton that read, “Becaus (sic) we are moving to San Diego in the middle of this month Lee must quit school now. Also, please send by him any papers such as his birth certificate that you may have. Thank you. Sincirely (sic) ….Mrs. M. Oswald.”

Eight years later, in October, 1963, HARVEY Oswald visited the Texas Employment Commission and was interviewed by Laura Kittrell, a counselor who had worked at the TEC since 1950. Kittrell was the daughter of Bill Kittrell, a prominent local politician and former secretary of the Texas Democratic Party. Mr. Kittrell was personally acquainted with Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy,  and numerous other national political figures. In early October, 1963 (probably October 8) Laura was interviewing a colored woman who said that she used to work as a maid for a man named Murray Chotiner (a close friend of Richard Nixon) in California. Their conversation was overheard by a young man, wearing a black leather jacket, and sitting nearby at the desk of counselor Donald Brooks. After Laura completed her interview the young man came to her desk and said, “Excuse me, I don't mean to be butting in, or anything like that, but didn't I hear that colored woman tell you that she worked in California for Murray Chotiner? Laura refused to discuss her conversation with the colored woman and the young man left.

A few days later the same young man was referred to Laura by a co-worker (Mrs. Elrod) as “Mr. Oswald.”  He arrived at the TEC and took a seat in the waiting area. Laura recognized the young man as the person who had asked her about Murray Chotiner. Laura introduced herself and began the interview. The young man told Laura that he had just arrived from New Orleans and his wife was about to have a baby. Laura asked "Mr. Oswald" how he knew the name “Murray Chotiner.” She said, “Did you work for Murray Chotiner in California?” The young man replied, “He's a crook.” Laura wondered how the young man could have known the name of a little-known political figure in another state. But if HARVEY Oswald lived in California in late 1955, as suggested in the note found in his file at Warren Easton High School, this would explain how he knew about Murray Chotiner. And the 4/12 "YEARS EXPERIENCE" as shown below listed as one of LHO's "Civilian Occupations" indicates he worked four months (4/12 of a year) as an Office Boy, perhaps for Murray Chotiner in California.

During the interview (HARVEY) Oswald talked about his life in the Soviet Union. He told Laura, “I speak three languages....Russian....I've been to Russia. Matter of fact married a Russian girl...You see, I had this job in a factory there....I worked for months in this electronics factory....I was taking these little bitty metal parts and doing something with them.” (HARVEY) Oswald then expressed his desire to find a white-collar job in Dallas and said, “I used to sell shoes and that is white-collar experience, isn't it?” (HARVEY) Oswald then told Laura about working in an office in California when he was 16 years old. He explained, “It was before I went into the Marines even. It was when I was just sixteen. I had this messenger-boy job in California. It was a motor-scooter messenger-boy job, but I worked in the office too, filing and taking care of the mail. It was for an investment company and I worked there six months. The name of it was the 'ETI Realty Company'.” Laura said, “The ETI Realty Company....I thought you said it was an investment company.” (HARVEY) Oswald replied, “It was, but it was also an investment company.” Laura remember the name of the city as Encino, Calif.

Laura recalled that (HARVEY) Oswald had a “sketchy background in offset printing (Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall?)” and suggested that he pursue that line of work. Laura also recalled that Oswald's wife was about to give birth. Laura remembered this interview with "Mr. Oswald" as the longest interview of her career, which lasted for 1 hour and 42 minutes. A few days later HARVEY Oswald was hired at the Texas School Book Depository.

On or about October 17, while HARVEY Oswald was working at the TSBD, a man closely resembling HARVEY Oswald showed up at Laura Kittrell's office. At first Laura thought this man was "Mr. Oswald," but soon was having second thoughts. Laura remembered this man wore a red and white table-cloth checkered sports shirt, and appeared somewhat "shaggy." The young man said, “The unemployment Claims Office sent me to you. You have to change my Primary Code. I have just joined the Teamsters Union." As their conversation continued Laura began to notice differences between this man (LEE Oswald) and “Mr. (HARVEY) Oswald,” the man she had interviewed a few days earlier. She said, “they were much alike in size, shape, and outline, generally, there was a marked difference between them in bearing and manner. The man I remember as "Mr. Oswald" was a trim, energetic, compact, well-knit person....The man I remember as the 'teamster' was a trifling, shiftless good-for-nothing lout who sprawled over his chair...he was not dirty, but messy looking.” Laura thought that the man wearing the checkered shirt was pretending to be "Mr. Oswald," and had been coached upon how to answer certain questions." Kittrell never realized that she was one of the few people who had met and talked to both HARVEY and LEE Oswald face to face. She was also the only person who recognized the subtle differences between these two young men.



Near the end of October, 1963 Laura mailed a post card to the mailing address on (HARVEY) Oswald's application (2515 W. 5th, Irving, TX) to learn whether or not he had found a job. A few days later a woman (probably Ruth Paine) called Mrs. Kittrell and said, “I wanted to call you and say that he (Oswald) had found a job....He found a job at the Texas School Book Depository.”

The most intriguing portion of Laura Kittrell's story is that she not only met and interviewed two Oswald's in October, 1963, but that she noticed subtle differences between them. After President Kennedy was assassinated Laura repeatedly tried to contact authorities and tell them about the meetings she had with two different men who looked very similar and used the name “Oswald.” On December 26, 1963 she sent a 2-page letter to Attorney General Robert Kennedy and kept the postal receipt for her certified letter. Four months later, in April, 1964, Laura sent a 20 page manuscript about her meeting with the two "Mr. Oswald's" to US Attorney Barefoot Sanders, who forwarded her manuscript to the Warren Commission (see below). Laura's manuscript apparently disappeared, because it cannot be found among Warren Commission documents. A year later, on June 4, 1965, Laura sent a certified, 14-page letter to Robert Kennedy (1965), described her contacts with these two very similar looking young men, and asked that someone in authority contact her. The FBI, in July, 1965 finally interviewed Laura for the first time.



It is important to remember that Laura Kittrell met, identified, and wrote about meeting two “Mr. Oswalds” years before anyone had any notion, thought or idea that there were two young men using the name “Lee Harvey Oswald” in the weeks and months leading up to President Kennedy's assassination. There is no doubt that top FBI officials knew about the two Oswald's, and there are several indications that Warren Commission and a few staff attorneys knew, or should have known, of the possibility of two “Lee Harvey Oswalds.” The Commission however, chose to avoid this most contentious, unexplained, and troublesome issue. Perhaps they were following the advice of WC member Allen Dulles, former Director of the CIA.

The author’s complete file of documents related to Laura Kittrell is nearly 200 pages long, includes many handwritten pages by Miss Kittrell herself, and can be read and downloaded without cost at the Baylor University John Armstrong Collection.  Click here for access.

In the final analysis, the seemingly mundane records of "Lee Harvey Oswald" attending Warren Easton High School, and hiis employment as a 15-16 year old teenager at a shoe store, freight forwarding company, and dental laboratory remain a testament to how the "Crime of the Century" was turned into the "Lie of the Century" by the FBI and the Warren Commission.