The Early Lives of Harvey and Lee

by John Armstrong

In the shadows of post-war America, a Cold War project was quietly taking shape—an intelligence operation so audacious, it would blur the line between fact and fiction, reality and deception. Long before the name Lee Harvey Oswald was etched into the nation’s memory on November 22, 1963, there were two boys—one American-born in New Orleans, and another, a Russian-speaking refugee from Eastern Europe—who would come to share a single identity. Their early lives were carefully manipulated by unseen hands, setting the stage for what would eventually become one of the greatest political crimes in American history.

While young Lee Oswald attended school in Ft. Worth and New Orleans, his double—Russian speaking Harvey Oswald—was quietly living and enrolled in parallel classrooms also in Ft. Worth and New Orleans, within miles of each other. Teachers remembered Harvey Oswald as a shy, short, introverted young man of slight build,  while others recalled LEE Oswald as a tall, brash, all-American youth. Medical records, school files, and eyewitness accounts from those years reveal impossible contradictions: two boys, with two mothers, both answering to the same name. These early years weren’t just formative—they were creating a cover story. This wasn’t a coincidence. This was by design, and well planned. Welcome to the origin story of Harvey and Lee—the Oswald project. The tale of how a young Russian speaking refugee's life was carefully merged with an American boy's life, so years later a 20 year old Russian speaking young man, with an all-American background, could "defect" to the Soviet Union while working with the CIA.

LEE Harvey Oswald

LEE Harvey Oswald's mother, 22 year old Marguerite Claverie, was first married to Edward John Pic, a Certified Public Accountant, on August 8, 1929 in Gulfport, MS.  Marguerite and Pic had one child, a son named John Edward Pic born on January 17, 1932. They were divorced on July 15, 1933. Five days later 26 year old Marguerite married 37 year old Robert Edward Lee Oswald in New Orleans, on July 20, 1933. Nine months later, on April 7, 1934, Robert Oswald was born.

LEE Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939 to Robert E. Lee Oswald and Marguerite Claverie Oswald (shown below from ages 18-38). LEE Oswald's father died shortly after his birth and left his wife with 3 children: step-son John Pic, and sons Robert and LEE. In 1944 LEE Oswald was 5 years old, Robert was 10, John Pic was 12, and the family was living in New Orleans. In 1964 Warren Commission attorneys Albert Jenner and John Ely questioned 31 year old John Pic about different home addresses when the family lived in New Orleans. Pic, who was 12 years old in 1944, was asked about 10 different addresses for Marguerite Oswald during a two year period. Pic, however, recalled only two of these addresses. This was the beginning of many unexplained addresses for Marguerite Oswald during the next 20 years. In June, 1944, Marguerite Oswald left New Orleans and moved into a home that she purchased at 4801 Victor St. in Dallas, Texas. According to John Pic, there was an arrangement between his mother and her future husband, Mr.  Edwin Ekdahl, that afforded her the opportunity to purchase this home (actually a duplex).

Marguerite Claverie Oswald, mother of LEE Oswald, at ages (left to right) 18, 30, 35, and 38.

1945

On January 17, 1945 five year old LEE Oswald had his tonsils removed. On Feb. 1, Marguerite wrote a letter to the Orphans Asylum in New Orleans and said, "Mr. Ekdahls work takes him from city to city. He was only in Dallas a few months when he was transferred to New York, then to Austin, now Ft. Worth. He expects shortly to be transferred to New York." In the Spring Marguerite's close friend of many years, Myrtle Evans from New Orleans, visited her at 4801 Victor for one week. Myrtle and her husband (Julian) remembered Marguerite as a beautiful woman with black hair, a real "fashion plate" who dressed beautifully.

Marguerite Claverie Oswald, mother of LEE Oswald. Close friend of Myrtle and Julian Evans for 30 years.	Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Ekdahl, May 7, 1945

On May 7, 1945 the tall, nice-looking Marguerite married Edwin Ekdahl in Rockwall County, TX. On June 4, 1945, Marguerite sold her house at 4801 Victor and moved into Ekdahl's home at 45 Granbury Road in Benbrook, a small suburb adjacent to Ft. Worth. In September (1945), according to Robert Oswald, the family drove in Ekdahl's car from Dallas to Port Gibson, MS where Robert and John entered the Chamberlain Hunt Military Academy. Robert Oswald told the FBI that his mother, Ekdahl, and LEE then drove to Boston, MA where they resided until June, 1946, but it appears that Robert was mistaken. Records show that LEE Oswald entered the "low first grade" at the Benbrook Common School on October 31, 1945. He was 6 years old and his address was Route 5, Box 567, Benbrook, TX. Young Oswald attended this school for 82 days, was absent 15 days, and his guardian was listed as E. A. Ekdahl.

On December 13, 1945, Marguerite Oswald opened a commercial account at the First National Bank of Ft. Worth in the amount of $1987.35.

On February 8, 1946, LEE Oswald was taken to Harris Hospital in Ft. Worth where he was diagnosed with acute mastoiditis behind his left ear, which was common among children before antibiotics became available. A "simple mastoidectomy" was performed by Dr. C.E. Ball with no complications and Oswald was discharged from the hospital on February 12.

In April, 1946 Marguerite Oswald wrote a letter to the Chamberlain Hunt Academy and said, "We are off on another trip. Will you please write my sister with all the details...." One month later, in May (1946), after experiencing marital difficulties, Marguerite took Ekdahl's car (a 1938 Buick) and together with LEE drove to Covington, LA. She rented an apartment from Mrs. Logan Magruder, 311 Vermont St, who told the FBI that Marguerite Oswald (with son LEE Oswald) rented from her "for about a year." Records of the Covington Grammar School show that on September 19, 1946 LEE Oswald was enrolled in Mrs. Hester Burns' first grade class.  The Oswald family--Marguerite, John, Robert, LEE--spent the Christmas holidays of 1946 in New Orleans. While the Oswald family was living in Covington, LA (May, 1946 thru Jan, 1947), Ekdahl's whereabouts are unknown. By the end of 1946 Ekdahl had rented an apartment on the upper floor of 1505 8th Avenue in Ft. Worth and was apparently living there with another woman.

Christmas, 1947

In January, 1947 Marguerite and Ekdahl ended their 8 month separation and decided to reunite. LEE Oswald left the Covington Grammar School on January 23, 1947 with a note, "moving to Texas." Marguerite and LEE returned to Ft. Worth and moved into Ekdahl's apartment at 1505 8th Avenue. Seven year old LEE, shown above riding his tricycle, was enrolled at nearby Lilly Clayton Elementary school on January 27 in Lois Lowimore's first grade class.  While talking to a neighbor, Marguerite learned that an unknown woman had been living with Ekdahl while she was living in Covington, LA. On Feb 1, 1947 she confronted Ekdahl, accused him of infidelity, and threw a bottle at him. On March 17, while arguing with her husband, Marguerite severely scratched him on his left arm and pounded on his chest. A few weeks later (on or about April 3) in another argument with Ekdahl, she threw a cookie jar at him. On May 9, 1947 Marguerite threw a glass at Edkahl, and narrowly missed striking him on the head. On May 30, 1947 LEE Oswald completed the first grade. His two older brothers returned home to Ft. Worth from the Chamberlain-Hunt Military Academy and the family spent the summer together in Ft. Worth. John Pic told the Warren Commission that he got a summer job at the Tex-Gold Ice Cream Parlor, 5 blocks south of their apartment, and was soon promoted to assistant manager.

NOTE: The dates of arguments and physical confrontation between Marguerite and Ekdahl were noted in Ekdahl's personal diary, which he brought to court during their divorce.

Frank Wisner and World War II Refugees

Frank Wisner was a Wall Street lawyer and during WW II worked for the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the CIA). After World War II ended thousands of Eastern European refugees were brought to the United States under his supervision. National Security Council (NSC) records show that Wisner, the CIA's director of clandestine operations, oversaw the re-location of thousands of anti-Communist exiles to the United States as a means of rewarding them for conducting secret operations against the Soviets. Wisner became the CIA and State Department’s expert on European war refugees, and secretly subsidized the refugee relief organizations that brought these Eastern Bloc refugees to the United States throughout the 1940s and early 1950s.

Wisner and his group recognized they could use these Eastern European immigrant's knowledge, customs, and familiarity with their respective homelands. Wisner asked the National Security Council (NSC) to sanction the “systematic” use of such refugees, and they (the NSC) agreed. The NSC soon issued a top-secret intelligence directive (NSCID No. 14), which even today remains "classified," that authorized both the FBI and the CIA to find and jointly exploit the knowledge, experience, and talents of well over 200,000 Eastern European refugees resettled in the USA. The CIA soon contacted the Displaced Person's Commission (DPC), which worked closely with the leaders of refugee organizations in the USA. DPC chairman Ugo Carusi sent a memorandum to all refugee organizations in the USA that read: “We would like to advise that the U.S. Commission [DPC] has a formal agreement with the CIA to cooperate in every possible way to facilitate their programs. It is, therefore, altogether desirable that local representatives of the voluntary agencies and State Commissions and Committees make available to fully identified CIA agents the addresses of displaced persons.”

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover now had the authority and means by which to contact Eastern European refugees and use them to help identify communists living in the USA and alert the bureau about potential terrorist plots against America. The CIA, however, had broader and more ambitious plans. The CIA’s office of clandestine services, under Frank Wisner, was running hundreds of covert projects. Most of the government documents authorizing the use of refugee organizations to help intelligence agencies remained secret until the ’90s, when they were declassified. Some still remain secret after more than 60 years. And many of the documents have either been lost or deliberately destroyed so that the full truth will never be known.

Many of these Eastern European refugees were resettled in and around New York City, where they learned to speak English and continued their propaganda efforts against the Soviet Union, with help from the CIA. One of these refugees, a young boy, was given the name "HARVEY Oswald" and, along with his caretaker (a woman who was given the name "Margaret/Marguerite Oswald"), may have been subjects of a CIA "security file." In January, 1953, the House Un-American Activities Committee  office in New York had a file on a "Marguerite Oswald." This file contained references to 1941, Nazis, New Jersey, and was eventually discovered in a CIA office of Security file. In 1995 the Assassination Records Review Board requested this file, which obviously contained background information related to a "Marguerite Oswald," but their request was denied.

Following the assassination of President Kennedy a Mrs. Jack Tippit, of Westport, Connecticut, telephoned the FBI and said that she had just received a phone call from an unknown foreign woman. This woman asked if she (Mrs. Tippit) was related to police officer J.D. Tippit who was killed in Dallas. The unknown foreign woman said that she knew Oswald's father and uncle, who were from Hungary, said they used to live near 77th and 2nd Avenue in Yorkville, New York City, were unemployed, and spent all of their time on "Communist activities". The unknown woman could not have known LEE Oswalds father, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, who died on August 19, 1939 in New Orleans, two months before LEE Oswald was born. But she could have known HARVEY Oswald's father, who Mrs. Tippit said was from Hungary and lived near 77th & 2nd Avenue in Yorkville, where many eastern European refugees were then living. We should remember Dr. Renatus Hartog's description of HARVEY Oswald while at the Youth House. Hartogs said "he (13 year old HARVEY Oswald) had an underfed look, reminiscent of the starved children I had seen in concentration camps at the end of WWII." 


If HARVEY Oswald's father and uncle were from Hungary, it is likely that HARVEY Oswald's native language was Hungarian and/or Russian (after the Soviet Union annexed Eastern Block countries, those countries were required to teach the Russian language in all schools). This would explain HARVEY Oswald's proficiency in the Russian language, his ability to pass a Russian language exam at age 19, and his familiarity with communism.

In the early 1950's J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI were fanatic in their efforts to identify and prosecute communists. The FBI was so successful in infiltrating communist and subversive organizations that they often had more undercover FBI agents and informants posing as "members" than there were actual members. In addition, many legitimate members of these organizations became paid government informants. The woman who telephoned Mrs. Tippit may have thought Oswald's father and uncle were communists, but it is far more likely they were working as paid undercover informants for the US government, either for the FBI or CIA.

The unidentified foreign woman said she had two names to give to Mrs. Tippit and mentioned the name "Weinstock," the editor of Woman's World. She also mentioned the name "Emile Kardos" and said something about a "brother-in-law" before ending the conversation. The unidentified woman with a foreign accent could have said Workers World, instead of Woman's World. Workers World was the newspaper of the Workers World Party, which separated from the Socialist Workers Party in 1957. The man referred to as “Emile Kardos” was almost certainly Emil Gardos, a well known Hungarian-American Communist active in New York City. The brother-in-law was Fred Blair, chairman of the Wisconsin Communist Party and the brother of Emil Gardos’s wife, Grace Blair Gardos. All of these people no doubt had substantial FBI files.

In the early 1950's Louis Weinstock was head of the Communist Party in New York City, and one of 25 people arrested and indicted by Robert Kennedy for failing to register as a Communist. Of the 25 people arrested, Weinstock was the only one allowed out on bail, which suggests that he may have been working for the US government. The name "Weinstock" may be familiar to JFK researchers. In the early 1960's Louis Weinstock was General Manager of the Worker, a publication that HARVEY Oswald wrote to in late 1962 requesting literature and pamphlets.

The identity of the woman who telephoned Mrs. Tippit in Connecticut was unknown for many years, but her statements about Oswald's eastern European heritage and the neighborhood in which he lived seem more and more plausible as we study and learn about the life and background of "HARVEY Oswald," the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy in 1963. Researcher Paul Jolliffe has made an airtight case that the anonymous caller was Elizabeth Bentley. Bentley, a spy for the Soviet Union in New York City for a decade beginning in 1935, went to the FBI in late 1945 as a confessed communist. She then became one of the star witnesses before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the summer of 1947 as she publicly  denounced dozens of men connected to the federal government as communist dupes, sympathizers and spies.

Bentley's knowledge of the exact nature of the relationship between young Harvey, Emil Gardos and Louis Weinstock remains unknown, but it clearly compelled her to share her suspicions about a ring of men with whom Bentley had once been associated. Bentley's anonymous call to Tina Tippit (or maybe a short series of calls) on November 30, 1963, was placed from Grace-New Haven Hospital in which she was preparing for surgery on Monday, December 2, 1963. A massive abdominal tumor was discovered, and she died of complications from that surgery early in the morning of December 3, 1963.

Why young LEE Oswald, a US citizen born in New Orleans, LA in 1939, was chosen to share his identity with foreign born HARVEY Oswald is unknown. In the author's opinion, the secret/covert plan for two young boys to share the same identity began either when Marguerite Claverie Oswald was working for the Navy in WW II, or during her relationship/marriage to Edwin Ekdahl, or perhaps both. This was the beginning of the CIA's "Oswald project" which, according to CIA accountant James Wilctott, was code named RX-ZIM. This project was created for the purpose of merging the identities of young foreign speaking people (from Eastern bloc countries) with American youths of similar age. The foreign speaking youths would learn English while living in the USA and, when young adults, act as interpreters and translators of their native language. If recruited and trained by the military or a US intelligence agency, these young adults could then return to their home countries and spy on behalf of the United States government.

The CIA has retained the services of professors and academics at schools throughout the USA for many years. These people acted as covert "spotters," and their role was to identify, assess, and casually question their students for the purpose of recommending those young people who might prove useful to the CIA in the future. For reasons that may never be known LEE Oswald was chosen and likely sent to New York City in the fall of 1952 to begin the process of sharing his identity with a Russian speaking boy from Eastern Europe who was given the name "HARVEY Oswald". Seven years later this 18 year old young man, who read, wrote, and spoke near perfect Russian, as well as English, would assume the identity of LEE Harvey Oswald and "defect" to the Soviet Union.

1947

In the summer of 1947 Marguerite Claverie Ekdahl (Oswald) and her son LEE were living in the upstairs apartment at 1505 8th Avenue in Ft. Worth (the Marguerite Oswald impostor incorrectly told the Warren Commission they lived in the apartment downstairs). In the summer (1947) John Pic worked at Walgreen's for a few weeks and then began work at the Tex Gold Ice Cream parlor. This store was located at 1920 8th Avenue, four blocks south of 1505 8th Avenue. By the end of the summer 15-year-old Pic was promoted to assistant manager. On July 7, 1947 Tarrant County land records show that Marguerite C. Ekdahl purchased a home at 101 San Saba in Benbrook, TX., a suburb of Ft. Worth.

That summer Georgia Bell and her husband Walter were building their home directly across the street when a Mrs. Oswald and her young son moved into 101 San Saba. This is the first known appearance of the "Marguerite Oswald impostor" and young "HARVEY Oswald," and it occurred at the same time Marguerite Claverie Ekdahl (Oswald) and her family were living with Edwin Ekdahl at 1505 8th Avenue in Ft. Worth. When I met Georgia Bell she was still living at 100 San Saba, continuously since 1947. I had a copy of the FBI's interview of Georgia Bell, wherein she said the Oswald's lived across the street at 101 San Saba in 1948. After reading the interview Georgia said, "That's not what I told this man. I told him the Oswalds lived across the street in 1947, not 1948. I then asked Georgia why she was sure the year was 1947. She said, "Because Walter and I built this house in 1947."

Long-time JFK researcher Jack White and I visited Georgia Bell at her home in Benbrook on two occasions. Georgia, who lived at 100 San Saba for more than 50 years, remembered buying groceries for the short, fat Mrs. Oswald, taking her to the store, and remembered that the young boy played with neighborhood children. Georgia said, "Mrs. Oswald often wore a white nurse's uniform, did not have a car, and was not a very nice person." Georgia remembered, "a neighbor, Lucille Hubbard, drove Mrs. Oswald to pick up some clothes from another house when she got a job as a nurse." Mrs. Hubbard said that Marguerite had furniture and lots of clothes stored at this house which was located "across from Stripling School." We shall soon see that this was almost certainly the same house in which 14 year old HARVEY and Marguerite were living in the fall of 1954, when HARVEY was attending Stripling Junior High. This was also the house where the short, fat Marguerite Oswald impostor was living on November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated (2220 Thomas Place). I showed Georgia a photo of the "Marguerite Oswald" impostor standing in front of a kitchen sink. Georgia said, "That's her, short and fat just like I remember her. She was not a very nice person." I then showed Georgia a photo of tall, nice-looking Marguerite Oswald standing next to Edwin Ekdahl on their wedding day in 1945, taken only two years before Georgia met "Mrs. Oswald." Georgia replied, "I don't know who that is."

Neighbor Otis Carleton, a school teacher, said that young Oswald (HARVEY) attended the first grade at the Benbrook Common School, where Carleton's daughter taught 5th and 6th grades. At the same time LEE Oswald was enrolled at the Lilly Clayton Elementary school, 5 blocks west of Ekdahl's apartment in Ft. Worth.

During the summer of 1947 John, Robert, and LEE Oswald were living at 1505 8th Avenue with their mother and Mr. Ekdahl. Marguerite suspected that Mr. Ekdahl was having an affair with another woman. One day Marguerite telephoned Ekdahl's office to advise that Mr. Ekdahl's return from an out-of-town trip would be delayed for 3 or 4 days. The secretary, however, told Marguerite "Mr. Ekdahl is not in, he has gone out to lunch." John Pic told the Warren Commission, "Yes, sir; this is still during the summer, my mother had strong suspicions that Mr. Ekdahl was seeing another woman and she was following him.... she knew where the woman lived. So, one night Marvin, Goldie, Sammy, my mother and I all piled into this young couple’s car, went over to these apartments, and Sammy acted as a messenger, and knocked on the door and said. “Telegram” for this woman, whoever she was. I don’t remember the name. When she opened the door, my mother pushed her way in, this woman was dressed in a nightgown negligee, Mr. Ekdahl was seated in the living room in his shirt sleeves and she made a big fuss about this. She’s got him now and all this stuff. That is about it." While John, Robert, and LEE were living at 1505 8th Avenue, the Marguerite Oswald impostor and HARVEY Oswald were living at 101 San Saba in Benbrook.

NOTE: Following the assassination of President Kennedy the FBI conducted a background search on Edwin Ekdahl. The FBI report states, "Records do not indicate where Ekdahl worked from 1943 to 1953. The company (EBASCO Services) will not be able to furnish this information." The only other identifying information included was Ekdahl's social security number which was 001-09-9471.

In September, 1947, seven year old LEE Oswald enrolled in the second grade at Lilly Clayton Elementary school in Ft. Worth, while John and Robert returned to the Chamberlain-Hunt Academy in Port Gibson, MS. Young HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother were living at 100 San Saba in Benbrook, TX.

Georgia Bell said the Oswalds moved from 101 San Saba around Thanksgiving, 1947, and then a family named "Charbenaur" moved in. The FBI interviewed Otis Carleton, who allegedly said the Oswalds left Benbrook sometime in 1946 or 1947 when he purchased 101 San Saba. However, Georgia Bell said that Carleton purchased the house after Carleton's home burned down. Tarrant County land records show that Carleton did not purchase 101 San Saba until November 6, 1951. Mr. Cartwright, a supervisor with the Benbrook Water Department, recalled that the Oswalds lived in the house next door to where the water department eventually located.

Forty one  year old Marguerite Claverie Ekdahl (Oswald) separated from 53 year old Edwin Ekdahl in March, 1948. Marguerite Claverie Oswald and LEE Oswald left 1505 8th Avenue and moved to 3300 Willing St. On March 18, LEE Oswald transferred from Lilly Clayton Elementary School and began attending the George Clark Elementary school. When John Pic and Robert returned from Chamberlain Hunt to Ft. Worth in June, 1948, Pic's mother and brother LEE were living at 3300 Willing. Unfortunately, neither the FBI nor the Warren Commission interviewed Mrs. Ora Winfrey, the landlord of 3300 Willing, to determine the exact dates of the Oswald's residence. After Marguerite and Ekdahl's divorce was final, on June 24, 1948, Pic said they moved to a little house in Benbrook, probably 101 San Saba in July & August, 1948. In September Marguerite Claverie and her family moved to 7408 Ewing St. in Ft. Worth). Life at 7408 Ewing was the longest period of stability in LEE Oswald's young life. He completed grades 3 through 6, was given several IQ tests, which averaged 102, and was described by his friends as well-built, husky, and the tallest kid in class as remembered by former classmates Phillip Anderson, Frank Norwood, Joe Skiles, Nancy Kuklies and other classmates. Robert Oswald attended Stripling Junior High School, then high school, and joined the Marines in July, 1952. John Pic attended high school and in early 1950 joined the Coast Guard and moved to New York City.

Georgia Bell and her husband, who owned their home across the street, remembered that over the years several families moved in and out of 101 San Saba. Marguerite Claverie Oswald purchased this house on July 7, 1947. The first tenant was the "Marguerite Oswald impostor" and young HARVEY Oswald who lived in this house until Thanksgiving, 1947. After the Marguerite Oswald impostor and young HARVEY Oswald moved out of 101 San Saba, Marguerite C. Ekdahl rented out this property for the next four and a half years. In June, 1950 Marguerite Oswald wrote a letter to her son, John Pic, and said she was renting the house in Benbrook. A week later she listed the property for sale with J. Piner Powell Real Estate. At Christmas, 1949, LEE Oswald's 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Clyde Livingston, gave him a small puppy. The following year, 1950, a photograph was taken of LEE Oswald and this dog at 101 San Saba. Another photo shows the Oswald family car (a 1938 Plymouth) and a small "tourist" building across the street that was being built by Mr. Sells.

Georgia Bell said that after Otis Carleton's home burned down (1951) he purchased and moved into 101 San Saba. Tarrant County land records show that on November 6, 1951, Marguerite Claverie Oswald sold 101 San Saba to Otis Carleton.

NOTE: In 1951, when Carleton purchased 101 San Saba, Mrs. Marguerite Claverie Oswald had been living at 7408 Ewing, in Ft. Worth with her 3 sons, for the past 3 years. There is nothing to suggest or prove that Marguerite Claverie Oswald had any contact with Otis Carleton either before, during, or after her ownership of 101 San Saba (July, 1947 to November, 1951). If Carleton did have contact with "Mrs. Oswald," then he met the Marguerite Oswald impostor.

Nine days after selling 101 San Saba, on November 15, 1951, Marguerite Claverie Oswald purchased a small home at 4833 Birchman in Ft. Worth. She rented this property for a year and a half, and then sold it on April 27, 1953 while she was living in New York. The WC supposedly researched all of the addresses where the Oswald family lived and the properties owned by Mrs. Oswald. But for some unknown reason they never reported, or intentionally failed to report, that Mrs. Oswald owned 4833 Birchman.

The summer and fall of 1947 is the earliest known confirmation that two different Oswald families were living at two different locations at the same time. John Pic told the WC that in the summer of1947 he was living with his mother at 1505 8th Avenue in Ft. Worth and working at the Tex-Gold ice cream store. Robert Oswald discussed family matters in detail during his WC testimony, but when asked about the summer of 1947 commission member Allen Dulles, former Director of the CIA, asked for an adjournment. Dulles was likely concerned that Robert, like John Pic, would confirm that his family was living at 1505 8th avenue during the summer of 1947, which would conflict with a 2nd Oswald family living at 101 San Saba at the same time. Dulles' request for an adjournment strongly suggests that Dulles had intimate, detailed knowledge about the backgrounds of HARVEY and LEE. When Robert Oswald's testimony resumed he was questioned about events that occurred beginning in the fall of 1948. No further questions were asked about the summer of 1947.

FBI SOLUTION

In an FBI interview with the Marguerite Oswald impostor, she allegedly said that on one occasion, while living at 101 San Saba, she "insisted/demanded" that Otis Carleton buy her house, which she said Carleton agreed to do. But this conversation never happened because the woman interviewed by the FBI--the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor--never owned this property. It was owned by the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Claverie Oswald and there is no evidence whatsoever that she ever met Otis Carleton or "insisted or demanded" in 1947 that Carleton buy the property. When interviewed by the FBI neighbor Otis Carleton allegedly said that Mrs. Oswald and her 3 sons lived at 101 San Saba in 1947.

Both FBI reports (interviews of Georgia Bell and Otis Carleton) were altered in an attempt to resolve the conflict of Marguerite Claverie Oswald and her 3 sons living with Mr. Ekdahl at 1505 8th Ave, in Ft. Worth in the summer of 1947, while at the same time the Marguerite Oswald impostor was living with HARVEY Oswald at 101 San Saba in Benbrook, TX. The date on the FBI report/interview of Georgia Bell had to be changed from 1947 to 1948, because in 1947 Marguerite Claverie Oswald was living with Ekdahl at 1505 8th Ave. in Ft. Worth. The number of family members (circa 1947)  on the FBI report/interview of Otis Carleton had to be changed from 1 son to 3 sons. The FBI report/interview of the Marguerite Oswald impostor wherein she allegedly insisted/demanded that Carleton purchase her property was an attempt to confirm that she and her family members had contact with Carleton.

Tarrant County records show that Carleton did purchase 101 San Saba, but not in 1947 as alleged in the FBI interview of the Marguerite Oswald impostor. Carleton purchased the property from Marguerite Claverie Oswald on November 6, 1951--FOUR YEARS AFTER THE FBI'S ALLEGED CONVERSATION between MRS OSWALD AND OTIS CARLETON !!

In  July, 1952 Robert Oswald joined the Marines. A month later, on August 20, Marguerite Claverie Oswald sold her home at 7408 Ewing in Ft. Worth, and drove her 1948 Dodge to New York City with LEE. She and LEE moved in with John Pic and his wife (Marge) in an apartment on 92nd St in Manhattan that was previously occupied by Marge's mother (Mrs. Mary Fuhrman). Mrs. Fuhrman was then living with her sister, Mrs. Emma Parish, in Virginia. This was the first of three occasions when John Pic would have personal contact with his brother, LEE Oswald, while in NYC.

LEE Oswald and HARVEY Oswald in New York City, Fall semester, 1952

John Pic told the WC that his mother enrolled LEE in a school between 89th and 90th Streets and between 2nd and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan (name of school unknown), only a couple of blocks from Pic's apartment. Pic told the Warren Commission that his brother, LEE, did not like this school because negroes were allowed to attend with white children, an understandable attitude for southern born and southern raised LEE Oswald. The FBI never gave any school records from a school near the Pic apartment to the Warren Commission, because these records would conflict with HARVEY Oswald attending the Trinity Lutheran School in the Bronx at the same time.  The WC knew about a school near the Pic apartment from the testimony of John Pic, but never attempted to locate or secure any records from any school in Manhattan. LEE Oswald's days of attendance at a school near the Pic's apartment in Manhattan could never be made public.

After LEE Oswald and his mother left the Pic apartment, and left the unknown school described by John Pic, they moved to an apartment near the Grand Concourse. After their move Robert Oswald, on leave from the Marines, arrived in New York City for a visit. John Pic told the Warren Commission "between September of 1952 and January, 1953, my brother came to New York on leave, and we were all invited up to the Bronx... his leave was probably in October or November 1952, a matter of a month or two after they (LEE and his mother) had moved out. We visited their apartment in the Bronx." During Robert's visit Pic's wife introduced Robert to one of her close friends for a blind date.

Robert  Oswald spent time in New York with his mother, brother LEE, and John Pic and his family. During Robert's first visit he made contact with the short, thin 4 ft 8 inch HARVEY Oswald. We don't know the extent of their activities, but we know that Robert took a photograph of HARVEY Oswald at the Bronx Zoo that appeared in LIFE Magazine (above right). On this photograph is a handwritten notation "1952." Warren Commission attorney Albert Jenner asked Robert Oswald, "Did you have occasion during that period to take any photographs, snapshots, of Lee?" Robert Oswald replied, "I certainly can identify the one appearing in Life--yes, sir; I did."

When John Pic testified before the Warren Commission in 1964 he was asked to identify several photographs of "Lee Harvey Oswald." When Pic was shown a photo of Oswald taken in 1952 at the Bronx Zoo he said, "Sir, from that photo I could not recognize that is Lee Harvey Oswald." Commission attorney Albert Jenner responded to Pic's answer by restating his question, "That young fellow is shown there, he doesn't look like you recall Lee looked in 1952 and 1953 when you saw him in New York City?" John Pic replied, "No, sir." A comparison of Oswald's 6th grade class photo, taken in the spring of 1952, with the "Bronx Zoo" photo, taken in the fall of 1952, shows they are not the same boy. I showed the Bronx Zoo photo of Oswald to several of Oswald's 6th grade classmates from Ft. Worth, and they all agreed the young man in this photo was not the LEE Oswald from their classroom.

Mr. Jenner of the Warren Commission then showed John Pic two photos of HARVEY Oswald, one taken at Santa Ana, California in April, 1959. Jenner said, "do you recognize those?" John Pic said, "No sir, I don't." Jenner then asked John Pic, "Neither one of them?" John Pic replied, "The upper one...unless they tell me that, I would never guess that that would be LEE sir."

The Warren Commission also also asked John Pic to identify a photo of HARVEY Oswald handing out leaflets (FPCC) in New Orleans in 1963. Pic said, "No, sir; I would be unable to recognize him." John Pic told the WC that he did not recognize either of these photos as his brother, the young man who was accused of killing President Kennedy.  John Pic did not recognize this man as his half-brother. If this person was not John Pic's brother, then who was this person?

I personally spoke with John Pic over the telephone during a trip through Lynn Haven, Florida. When I asked Pic about his refusal to identify photos of HARVEY Oswald as his brother he replied, "I gave my testimony to the Warren Commission. I stand by that and have nothing further to say." While John Pic refused to identify photos of HARVEY Oswald as his brother, Robert Oswald always identified photos of HARVEY Oswald as his brother. 

PS 44 Bronx & PS 44 Manhattan, 1952-1953 school year

In 1967 Robert Oswald wrote a book titled LEE, A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald. On page 63 Robert wrote, "Lee entered the 8th grade at P.S. 44 on Columbus Avenue at 76th St." This school is the William J. O'Shea Junior High School, and was known as Public School (PS) 44 in Manhattan.

PS 44 Manhattan (Google)	PS 44 Bronx (Google)

Robert Oswald's memory of LEE Oswald attending PS 44 in Manhattan helps us understand LEE Oswald's school attendance in New York City, while at the same time HARVEY Oswald was continually truanting from PS 117 and PS 44 in the Bronx. It is interesting to note that John Pic said his brother LEE Oswald attended the 7th grade in a school near Pic's apartment in Manhattan. Robert Oswald said LEE Oswald attended PS 44 in Manhattan, but the FBI only gave the WC school records for HARVEY Oswald's attendance at PS 117 and PS 44 in the Bronx. There is no doubt that LEE Oswald attended a school close to the Pic's apartment in Manhattan and, according to Robert Oswald, LEE Oswald also attended PS 44 in Manhattan. What happened to these school records, for John Pic and Robert Oswald's brother, for two different schools  in Manhattan?

LEE Oswald attends school in Manhattan, while at the same
time HARVEY Oswald is truanting from school in the Bronx

It is important to understand that both brothers, John Pic and Robert Oswald, are talking about their brother LEE Oswald attending schools in Manhattan, and not about HARVEY Oswald, who was continually truanting in the Bronx. The FBI focused their attention on HARVEY Oswald, who was accused of killing President Kennedy, and ignored any school records for LEE Oswald from Manhattan. LEE Oswald and his mother briefly resided at the 325 E. 92nd Street address when they first arrived in New York City. I believe the above FBI report describes LEE Oswald attending PS 44 in Manhattan, and using his brother's address in Manhattan. During the 1952-1953 school year HARVEY Oswald truanted continuously from PS 117, never registered at PS 44 in the Bronx, was placed in the Youth House, and then left New York City.

It is well worth remembering that it was LEE Oswald's original school records that were given to Judge Florence Kelley, who gave those records to the FBI. However, weeks later the FBI provided the WC with only photographs (not original records) of Oswald's attendance records. The only school records given to the WC were photographs of school records from PS 117 and PS 44 in the Bronx. There were no school records given to the Warren Commission from Manhattan. It is also worth explaining to researchers that there are five PS 44 schools in New York City: PS 44 Manhattan; PS 44 Bronx; PS 44 Staten Island; PS 44 Brooklyn; PS 44 Queens. Multiple junior high schools identified as "PS 44" in New York City… how convenient to place LEE Oswald at one PS 44 in Manhattan, while at the same time placing HARVEY Oswald at a different PS 44 in the Bronx... and how utterly confusing for researchers and historians who might try to untangle and understand Lee Harvey Oswald's attendance at "PS 44" in New York City.

The FBI and WC ignored the Warren Commission testimony of John Pic and Robert Oswald, who both said their brother (LEE Oswald) attended either one or two junior high schools in Manhattan. The FBI, after receiving Oswald's school records from Judge Kelley, provided the WC with photographs of PS 44 (Bronx) school records, which also showed Oswald's attendance at the Trinity Evangelical School and PS 117 in the Bronx--eight miles away from the Pics' apartment. Mrs. Dorrit Woolf remembered young Oswald as one of her seventh grade students at PS 117 in the fall semester, 1952. She described him as a very intelligent young boy, who was very small, introverted, "slightly deaf," and who constantly truanted--this was HARVEY Oswald--NOT the tall, husky, boisterous LEE Oswald who was likely attending junior high school in Manhattan at the same time. FBI photographs show that HARVEY Oswald attended only 15 days of school at PS 117 while truanting 47 days in the fall semester of 1952. Mrs. Woolf remembered writing "reams" of letters to school counselors requesting help for young Oswald.

(left: Google)

HARVEY Oswald first lived with his caretaker "mother" at 1455 Sheridan Avenue in the Bronx from September thru December, 1952. In January, 1953 they moved into apartment 3C at 825 E. 179th St., also in the Bronx, which was only three blocks from the Bronx Zoo. HARVEY Oswald constantly truanted, while LEE Oswald's attendance record at all schools was always very good.

LEE Oswald & Harvey Oswald, Spring semester, 1953

In January, 1953, 13 year old LEE Oswald began the last half of his 7th grade year at PS 44 in Manhattan. In January, 1953 HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother moved from 1455 Sheridan St. to 179th St. and young HARVEY was automatically transferred from PS 117 to PS 44 in the Bronx. From January thru mid April, 1953, HARVEY never attended PS 44 in the Bronx, but LEE Oswald may have attended in his place on one or two occasions. When HARVEY Oswald was interviewed by Dr. Milton Kurian, young HARVEY said that his "brother" sometimes substituted for him in school. The only person that would have had any reason to substitute for HARVEY Oswald would have been LEE Oswald.

HARVEY Oswald's apartment at 825 E. 179th St.  (marked "A") was just a few blocks  from the Bronx Zoo (Google).	The apartment building at 825 E. 179th St. in the Bronx

In February, 1953 John Pic had his third and final contact with his brother (LEE Oswald) in New York City. Pic's mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald, once again invited Pic and his wife for dinner. Pic told Warren Commission: "So in February 1953, my wife and I were again invited to their apartment. This may or may not have been the same apartment we originally visited. I don’t remember, sir. I know it was up in the Bronx. I think it may have been a different apartment.....As my wife and I walked in, Lee walked out and my mother informed us that he would probably go to the Bronx Zoo." This was the last time John Pic would see his brother in New York City. In September, 1953 Pic was transferred to Norfolk, VA.

HARVEY Oswald arrested, remanded to Youth House, April 16, 1953

HARVEY Oswald's refusal to attend PS 44 in the Bronx came to the attention of the Bureau of Attendance. On April 16, 1953 the small, 4 ft 8 inch HARVEY Oswald was arrested as a "habitual truant," taken to court, and then remanded to the Youth House in Manhattan. Psychologist Irving Sokolow described young Oswald as a slender youngster and gave him an IQ test. HARVEY achieved a score of 118, considerably higher than the IQ score of 102 that LEE Oswald received in Ft. Worth. Probation Officer John Carro interviewed the Marguerite Oswald impostor and HARVEY Oswald. Carro described young Oswald as a small boy, a bright boy, a likeable boy, and remembered that he was extremely guarded when discussing certain areas of his life.

Probation officer John Carro interviews the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor

While Harvey Oswald was in the Youth House, 26 year old probation officer John Carro interviewed the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor. This "Marguerite" told Carro that Oswald's father died at age 45, when in fact he died at age 42. She said that she and her husband were married for the first time on July 19, 1929, when in fact Marguerite Claverie and Robert E. Lee Oswald were married on July 15, 1933 and it was the second marriage for both. This "Marguerite Oswald" impostor told Carro that their family owned a home in Corning, Texas, but there was never a city in Texas with the name "Corning." She mistakenly identified her sister as Lillian Siguorette, when in fact her sister's name was Lillian Murrett. This impostor told Carro that her son was baptized at the Trinity Lutheran Church, but LEE Oswald was baptized at the Redeemer Lutheran Church in New Orleans. When asked if her former husband was right or left handed she said, "I don't remember sir." These are just a few of the errors made by the "Marguerite Oswald" impostor during her interview with John Carro, but she made many, many more errors as we shall see.

Dr. Milton Kurian

click to see 1998 interview of Dr. Kurian

A probation officer at Youth House was uncertain how to prepare a written report about 13 year old HARVEY Oswald for an upcoming court appearance. The probation officer brought Oswald to New York psychiatrist Dr. Milton Kurian for an interview. Dr. Kurian did not know the name of the probation officer, but described him as 'a young man light black in color' who was puzzled by the material he had.

4 ft 8 inch HARVEY Oswald

Dr. Kurian said, “There appeared in the doorway a rather thin, short young man in knickers. I was immediately attracted to his way of entry. He had one foot in the door when he looked about the room in a studied fashion to see if it was all clear. He finally came in and sat down." Dr. Kurian was surprised to learn that Oswald was only 13 years old. Dr. Kurian said, "He appeared quite small for his age and stood no more than 4 ft 6 or 4 ft 8. He was very quiet and introverted.... He spoke of having several stepfathers, and I was informed that his mother had 5 marriages.  So far as the truancy was concerned, he had no motivation to go to school and part of this lack of attachment to school was due to the fact that his family moved many times and he lost interest in having friends.... I've always been about 5 ft 7. He came up to my chest, maybe 4 ft 8 inch. I thought this individual was much more disturbed than others paid attention to. I have never seen a child so paranoid. He looked like an abandoned child, who has not had the opportunity to develop himself, to free himself from interaction with adequate parents. He was full of anger and frustration and he was distrustful and I felt much in need of further review of therapy.” The interview lasted about 45 minutes.

On April 19, 1998 Dr. Kurian wrote me a letter:

Oswald (HARVEY) told Dr. Kurian that he never went to school but, on occasion, his brother would substitute for him and take his place in school. John Pic and Robert Oswald were both in military service, and far too old to be attending junior high school. HARVEY Oswald never attended PS 44 in the Bronx during the spring semester of 1953. Therefore, it was LEE Oswald who substituted for HARVEY Oswald for a few days at PS 44 (Bronx) in the early spring of 1953. HARVEY Oswald, describing to Dr. Kurian how "his brother" sometimes took his place in school, confirms that HARVEY and LEE knew each other at age 13.

Dr. Kurian was a past President of the Brooklyn Psychiatric Society. Following the assassination he wrote a letter to Jackie Kennedy and told her about his meeting with young Oswald in 1953, but Dr. Kurian was never interviewed by the FBI, HSCA, or any government agency.  I met Dr. Kurian and his wife at his home in Leeds, MA. We recorded an on camera interview where Dr. Kurian discussed his memories of meeting Oswald. Dr. Kurian and I became friends and remained in contact until his death in 2007.

On May 1, Youth House Psychiatrist Renatus Hartogs examined Oswald. In his book, The Two Assassins, Dr. Hartogs described Oswald (HARVEY) as "a slender, dark-haired boy with a pale, haunted face.... I remember thinking how slight he seemed for his 13 years. He had an underfed look, reminiscent of the starved children I had seen in concentration camps." All of the people from Youth House who interviewed Harvey Oswald described him as small, thin, skinny, undernourished, and 4 ft 6 to 4 ft 8 in height.

HARVEY Oswald released from Youth House on May 7, 1953

On May 7, 1953, the small, 4 ft 8 inch HARVEY Oswald was released from the Youth House. Before leaving HARVEY and his caretaker/mother met with presiding Justice McClancy. His Honor, after advising the boy (HARVEY) to return to school and attend regularly, paroled Oswald to September 24, 1953. But after his release from Youth House HARVEY Oswald never attended another day of school in New York. It was 5 ft 4 inch LEE Oswald who attended PS 44 in the Bronx from May 5 thru June 19, 1953.

4 ft. 8 inch HARVEY Oswald	5 ft. 4 inch LEE Oswald

After HARVEY Oswald was released from the Youth House he never attended a single day of school at PS 44 Bronx. It was 5 ft 4 inch LEE Oswald who began attending PS 44 in the Bronx on May 5, 1953 and had a good attendance record. And it was LEE Oswald who attended PS 44 in the Bronx in the fall semester of 1953, while HARVEY Oswald was attending Beauregard Junior High in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The school health card shown above is for PS 44 in the Bronx, is dated "May, 1953"  and was published by the Warren Commission (CE1384). LEE Oswald's height was recorded as 5 ft 4 1/2 inches and his weight as 114 lbs--clearly not the 4 ft. 8 inch HARVEY Oswald who was interviewed by Dr. Kurian at Youth House the previous month. Or the malnourished youth remembered by Dr. Hartogs in the Youth House. Or the skinny boy remembered by social worker Evelyn D. Siegel, Or the small boy remembered by probation officer John Carro.  It was the tall, husky LEE Oswald who attended PS 44 in the Bronx in the late spring semester of 1953.

The school progress report on Oswald was prepared by Irene Taub, the Principal of PS 44 in the Bronx. This report, sent to the Children's Court, stated that Oswald's attendance at PS 44 Bronx was from May 5 thru June 19, 1953, for a total of 38 school days.  For the month of May the school progress report shows 16 school days (14 and one half day and 1 absence = 16 school days), with Oswald's first day of school is shown as May 5. However, from May 5 thru May 31 there are 19 school days, not 16 days. For the month of June the school progress report shows 22 school days (13 and 8 half days with 1 abence = 22 school days), yet there are only 15 school days from June 1 thru June 19 (last day of spring semester). Principal Taub reported a total of 38 school days of attendance for Oswald, which does not correspond to Oswald's first day of attendance on May 5. When 38 school days are placed on a 1953 calendar with the ending on June 19, we see that LEE Oswald's first day of school would have been on April 29. Principal Traub's progress report shows that LEE Oswald's first day of attendance at PS 44 Bronx was April 29. This is worth noting, because HARVEY Oswald was not discharged from the Youth House until May 7.

HARVEY Oswald in Stanley, North Dakota, Summer, 1953

After HARVEY Oswald was released from Youth House, on May 7, 1953, HARVEY and his caretaker (the Marguerite Oswald impostor) were still living at 825 E. 179th St. in the Bronx. Louise Robertson told the FBI that she worked for Marguerite Oswald 2 or 3 days a week in the summer of 1953 as a housekeeper for 6 weeks. Mrs. "Oswald" (the impostor) told Louise that she had brought her son to New York so that he could have mental tests performed at the Jacobi Hospital. Could young HARVEY Oswald, instead of truanting, have been spending some of his days at the Jacobi Hospital? Mrs. Robertson told the FBI that Mrs. Oswald (the MO impostor) and her son left New York City in the summer of 1953, but she did not know where they had gone.

On January 4, 1964 The New York Times wrote about Oswald's release from the Youth House. They reported, "Shortly afterward Mrs. Oswald and her son returned to New Orleans, where he entered the eighth grade." The NYT was only partially correct. Shortly after HARVEY Oswald's release from Youth House he and his caretaker/mother moved to Stanley, North Dakota for two months and then to New Orleans, where Oswald entered the 8th grade as a part time student. However, the NYT was unknowingly referring to HARVEY Oswald.

Stanley, North Dakota

Stanley is a small town on the western edge of North Dakota, near the Williston Basin oil field. During the summer vacation of 1953, William Timmer and friends were riding bicycles in the park near the courthouse. Another boy, who Timmer thought to be about about 14 years old, was also riding a bicycle. The young boy introduced himself as Harv or Harvey Oswald, and told the boys he had been a member of a gang in New York City.  This is the first time that young Oswald introduced himself as "Harv" or "Harvey" Oswald. Timmer and Harvey were together about a half dozen times riding their bikes around the city park and over to the reservoir. Harvey told Timmer that he had been all over the country, and said that his father worked in the nearby oil fields. Harvey carried a communist pamphlet in his back pocket and said to Timmer, "I'll bet you've never seen one of these before." Timmer looked at the pamphlet and remembered the pamphlet contained the name "Mark or Marks. Timmer said that young Oswald was in Stanley, North Dakota for "about two months." When summer ended Timmer and his mother remained in North Dakota until 1957, and then moved to Arizona.

After the assassination Timmer's mother sent him some newspaper photos from the Yuma Arizona Sun. One of the photos showed Lee Harvey Oswald as he was led from the Dallas jail, and another photo showed Oswald when he was shot by Jack Ruby. Timmer's mother wrote beneath the photos, "Was he around Stanley? Seems like you knew him." Timmer said that Harvey's face had not changed too much and remembered that Oswald was very thin when he visited Stanley. Timmer wrote a letter to his mother and said this was the same boy he met in Stanley. Timmer's mother then wrote a letter to President Lyndon Johnson on December 11, 1963. She advised that her son knew "Lee Harvey Oswald" when he lived in Stanley, North Dakota. Mrs. Cole's letter was given to the Secret Service, who turned the letter over to the FBI. The FBI sent agents to interview Timmer and to interview his mother.

Nigel Turner

When I located Timmer in 1995, he was living and working near Helena, Montana. I spoke with Timmer many times over the next few years, and carefully recorded his memories. Timmer's mother, to my surprise, was still alive and well in Arizona. In 1995 I was contacted by British film producer Nigel Turner whose film, "The Men Who Killed Kennedy," is well known. Nigel spent five days at my home on three separate occasions and questioned me extensively about my research. Nigel was interested in producing a documentary film based upon my research. In 1995 my research was only a few years old, and far from complete. When I told Nigel that I thought his proposed documentary of two "Oswalds" was premature, he politely requested my permission to interview some of the witnesses I had located. Nigel brought a film crew from England and interviewed, on camera, Palmer McBride, Myra DaRouse, Frank Kudlaty, Frank DiBenedetto, and William Henry Timmer. Nigel interviewed Timmer over the course of two days, during which time Nigel resided in Timmer's home.

LEE Oswald and Marguerite Claverie Oswald move into apartment 3C at 179th St. in NYC

After HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother left New York City, LEE Oswald and his mother moved into their former apartment 3C on 179th St. Lana Greenburg was 12 years old when she met 13-year-old LEE Oswald in the spring of 1953. Lana lived in apartment 1C, occasionally walked to school with him, and remembered LEE Oswald as a "loner." Their small apartments were only a few blocks from the Bronx Zoo.

HARVEY Oswald enters Beauregard JHS as a part time student, Fall semester, 1953

In the fall of 1953 HARVEY Oswald enrolled at Beauregard Junior High school in New Orleans. His caretaker/mother gave their address as 809 French St., the home of Marguerite Claverie Oswald's sister (Lillian Murret). HARVEY Oswald was enrolled as a part time student in the 8th grade, but was not assigned a home room. The Warren Commission published HARVEY Oswald's 8th grade school record at Beauregard for the fall semester of 1953.

1953 Beauregard JHS record showing HARVEY Oswald attended 89 days of school during the fall semester
of 1953, at the same time LEE Oswald attended PS 44 in New York City. See HARVEY's
complete attendance and grade information for the fall 1953 semester directly below.

Wilfred Head, assistant principal at Warren Easton High School in New Orleans, provided HARVEY Oswald's grade and
 attendance records for Beauregard JHS (8th & 9th grade) and Warren Easton HS (10th grade) to the FBI. The record above
 shows HARVEY'S grades under "1953-54 REPORT 1" (General Science & Physical Education), which is the 1st half
 of the 1953-54 school year--the fall semester of 1953.

On page 817 of Warren Volume 22, there is a copy of Oswald's cumulative school record at Beauregard. The first row, highlighted in yellow, is the fall semester of 1953 and shows that 13 year old HARVEY Oswald attended a General Science class, a Physical Education class, and attended 89 days of school with only one absence. The second row is the last half of the 8th grade (spring semester) when HARVEY Oswald became a full time student. The third row shows the final grades, absences, and tardies for the entire 1953-54 school year (8th grade).

LEE Oswald attends PS 44 Bronx. Fall Semester, 1953

In the fall of 1953, with HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker living in New Orleans, LEE Oswald entered the 8th grade at PS 44 in the Bronx (New York) on September 14. LEE Oswald's height was listed on his 8th grade health card at 5 ft. 4 inches, and published by the Warren Commission (CE1384). At the same time, also in September, 1953, 4 ft. 8 inch HARVEY Oswald entered the 8th grade at Beauregard Junior High in New Orleans.

In the spring of 1953 the 4 ft 8 inch HARVEY Oswald and his short, heavy-set caretaker/mother had appeared before the court with probation officer John Carro on several occasions. Three months later "Lee Harvey Oswald" and his mother were due in court on September 24. But if 5 ft 4 inch LEE Oswald and his tall, nice looking mother appeared in court either a judge or probation officer Carro would immediately know these were not the same people they interviewed 3 months earlier. LEE Oswald's mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald, had to find a solution.

LEE Oswald attends PS 44 (Bronx) while his mother works to avoid courts, Fall, 1953

Marguerite Oswald

On  September 14, 1953, with HARVEY Oswald attending school in New Orleans, LEE Oswald entered the 9th grade at PS 44 in the Bronx. LEE was due in court on September, 24, 1953, but his mother called probation officer John Carro and said that she would be unable to appear in court. With Justice Fogarty presiding, LEE Oswald was paroled to October 29, 1953. On the morning of October 29 LEE's mother again called probation officer John Carro and said that she would not be able to appear in court. Carro notified Justice Sicher, who was presiding, and he continued LEE Oswald on parole until November 19, 1953 for a placement planning. Justice Sicher directed John Carro  to make a referral  to Berkshire Industrial Farm. Mrs. Oswald then hired an attorney, Horton Nielson, and on November 19 appeared with her son before Justice Sicher. Sicher, after talking at length with Mrs. Oswald and counselor Nielson, advised probation officer Timothy Dunn to refer the boy to the court treatment clinic. Timothy Dunn was a colleague of probation officer John Carro, who was then on vacation. John Carro was with HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother during interviews, court proceedings, and in the Youth House. But John Carro never met LEE Oswald or his tall, nice looking mother. Justice Sicher, once again, paroled LEE Oswald to January 28, 1954. On December 21, 1953 the family attorney informed the court that the Oswald family was moving to New Jersey.

During the fall school semester of 1953 LEE Oswald maintained a good attendance record at PS 44 Bronx, while his mother had succeeded in avoiding confrontation and possible placement of her son by the court. According to the Board of Education, Oswald's last day of attendance at PS 44 (Bronx) was January 12, 1954. Marguerite Claverie Oswald and LEE Oswald then left New York City, moved to New Orleans, and stayed with Marguerite's sister, Lillian Murret, for a few weeks at 809 French St. At the same time, HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother were living in a small apartment at 126 Exchange in the French Quarter.

The Warren Commission's confusing New York school records

Warren Commission #1384

Some of the most confusing documents published by the Warren Commission were "Lee Harvey Oswald's" school records in New York. All JFK researchers know about Oswald's chronic truancy at PS 117, when he attended only 15 of 62 days in school in the fall of 1952.  In early 1953, Oswald moved to a different school district and supposedly entered PS 44 Bronx on March 23. Oswald, however, never attended PS 44 Bronx and was soon arrested for truancy. On April 16 Oswald appeared before a judge and was remanded to the Youth House until May 7. Oswald was a chronic truant, arrested for truancy and placed in the Youth House, yet Oswald's school record shows that he attended 109 days and 3 1/2 days of school with 15 absences at the same time--a total of 127 school days. How can Oswald be a chronic truant and yet at the same time Oswald attended more than 110 days of school??

LEE Oswald's New York school record

FIVE DAYS after the assassination FBI Agent John Malone, in charge (SAIC) of the FBI's New York Office, inspected Lee Harvey Oswald's original NYC school records in the presence of Judge Florence Kelley of the Domestic Relations Court in New York City. Judge Kelley would not allow Malone to take the school file to the FBI office, but she did allow Malone to take notes. Agent Malone took notes and sent a report to FBI Director Hoover the following day. Malone wrote, "Oswald's attendance record at PS #44  was 171 and 11 half-days present and 18 and 11 half days absent." Malone identified Oswald's school as PS 44 on his memo to Hoover, but did not include the name of the borough (Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn, etc.). The  171 and 11 half-days present and 18 and 11 half days absent, as recorded by agent Malone, was the total of Oswald's attendance in the spring and fall semesters at PS 44, which I have outlined in RED. Photographs of this handwritten school record, created by the FBI and published by the Warren Commission (CE1384), makes it appear that Malone recorded Oswald's school attendance record from only one junior high school, identified as PS 44 with an "X" for the Bronx. However, if we look at the 109 days of school with 15 absences and 3 half days during the spring semester of 1953, this is impossible, There are only 90 days in a school semester. If Oswald first attended PS 44 on March 23, and then spent 3 weeks in the youth house, he could have attended only 34 days of school before the end of the spring semester on June 19. This school record is an obvious fabrication of school attendance for "Lee Harvey Oswald" during the spring semester of 1953.

I want to explain again, in detail, why this school record is a fabrication created by the FBI. There are 90 days in a school semester. The date of March 23 is listed as Oswald's first day of attendance in the spring semester, yet there is no record of Oswald ever attending a single day of school at PS 44 prior to May 5, 1953. The last day of the spring semester in 1953 was June 19.  Therefore, it is impossible for Oswald, or anyone, to have attended 109 days and 3 1/2 days of school from May 5 thru June 19.

How to explain FBI Agent John Malone recording 109 days, 15 and three half days absent (total of 127 days) at PS 44 (Bronx) when HARVEY Oswald never attended PS 44?

LEE Oswald, 15 days, fall semester, 1952

We begin by piecing together Oswald's school records. John Pic told the Warren Commission that his brother, LEE Oswald, attended a school near the Pic apartment in the fall semester of 1952. But neither the FBI nor the Warren Commission bothered to locate any school records from Manhattan. We don't know the number of days that LEE Oswald attended this school, so we offer a guess of 3 weeks, or 15 days of school attendance in the fall semester of 1952. Both fall and  spring semesters are 90 days.

LEE Oswald, 34 days, spring semester, 1953

The next thing is to pinpoint the days of Oswald's attendance at PS 44, after Oswald was released from the Youth House. By looking at Oswald's health record, we see that it was 5 ft. 4 inch LEE Oswald who attended 34 days of school at PS 44 Bronx, from May 5 thru June 19, 1953.

We then place 1952 and 1953 calendars side by side. The 1952 calendar, on the left, shows LEE Oswald's attendance of 15 days at a school near the Pic apartment in the fall of 1952 (BLUE LINES). The 1953 calendar, on the right, shows LEE Oswald's attendance of 34 days at PS 44 Bronx in the spring semester of 1953 (BLUE LINES). We must now ask where LEE Oswald attended school after he left the Pic apartment? (GREEN LINE). FBI agent John Malone recorded 127 school days for Oswald at "PS 44," and sent this information to FBI Director Hoover the following day. I believe that Agent Malone reviewed not one, but two separate school records for PS 44 in Judge Kelley's file. One record was for PS 44 in the Bronx and the other record was for PS 44 in Manhattan. It appears these were the only school records in Judge Kelley's file, from which Malone advised Hoover of Oswald's school attendance. I believe the 109 days of attendance, 15 days absent, and 3 half days absent, as recorded by FBI Agent John Malone on CE 1384 were school days for "LEE Oswald" at PS 44 in Manhattan, the school which Robert Oswald said his brother LEE attended. After LEE Oswald left the Pic apartment he enrolled at PS 44 in Manhattan (GREEN LINE), using Pic's address as his home address. One hundred and twenty seven days later, LEE Oswald transferred from PS 44 Manhattan to PS 44 Bronx on May 5, 1953, where he attended 34 days of school (1953-BLUE LINES). LEE Oswald's school attendance for the 1952-1953 school year is now understood.

The last entry recorded by FBI agent Malone on CE 1384  was 62 and 8 1/2 days of attendance with one absence, which was LEE Oswald's attendance  at PS 44 in the Bronx for the fall of 1953.

LEE Oswald's original cumulative school record

We are fortunate  to have what appears to be an original cumulative record for LEE Oswald from PS 44 that was published by the Warren Commission. A cumulative record is a continuous record of a student's academic, attendance, personal, and health information throughout their school years. This particular cumulative school record is unique among Oswald's New York school records, because it is one of the original and complete school attendance records for LEE Oswald in New York.

This  is the original cumulative school record for LEE Oswald, and only LEE Oswald. It appears to be original, with no indications of fabrication. What first caught my attention were the two columns that I have outlined in BLUE. The first column shows the date of September 13, 1953 as LEE Oswald's first day of attendance at PS 44 Bronx. But September 13 is Sunday, and Oswald's first day of attendance was on Monday, September 14. This first column shows LEE Oswald's attendance at PS 44 Bronx in the fall semester of 1954. The second column outlined in BLUE is early January, 1954. On the right side of this column is a handwritten notation that reads "moved to New Orleans on January 12, 1954." When we look at the bottom of this cumulative record we see LEE Oswald's attendance of 62 days at PS 44 Bronx from September 14 thru January 12, 1953, which are the total days in both BLUE columns above. LEE Oswald's attendance of 62 days is the same number of days as recorded by FBI agent Malone and shown on CE 1384. Outlined in PURPLE is LEE Oswald's attendance of 36 days at PS 44 Bronx in the spring semester of 1953, the same number of days as recorded by Probation officer John Carro. Outlined in RED is LEE Oswald's attendance of 124 and 3 half days (127 days total) during the 1952-53 school year, the same attendance of 109 days and 15 and 3 half day absences (127 days total) as recorded by FBI agent John Malone and recorded on CE 1384. The days of attendance on Oswald's school record, Warren Commission exhibit CE 1384, and the number of days that appear on LEE Oswald's cumulative record are the same. The only unanswered question is where did LEE Oswald attend school for 127 days.

We know that LEE Oswald attended a school in Manhattan when he was living with his brother John Pic. We know that FBI agent John Malone recorded Oswald's attendance and absences as 127 days, and identified this school to FBI Director Hoover as PS 44, but without identifying the borough.Robert Oswald said his brother attended PS 44 in Manhattan. In 1964 Robert Oswald told the Warren Commission that his brother, LEE Oswald, attended Stripling Junior High in Ft. Worth, which proved to be correct. In 1967 Robert wrote in his book "LEE, a Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald," that his brother LEE Oswald attended PS 44 in Manhattan, which also appears to be correct.

Summary of LEE Oswald's school attendance from September, 1952 thru June, 1953

• John Pic said that LEE Oswald briefly attended a school in Manhattan. Let's assume that LEE Oswald attended 15 days of school (fall, 1952).
• After LEE and his mother left the Pic apartment, LEE attended PS 44 in Manhattan (including absences) for 127 days, as recorded by FBI agent John Malone (CE1384).
• HARVEY Oswald released from Youth House on May 7, 1953. LEE transferred to PS 44 in the Bronx and attended  38 days of school (May 5-June 19)                   
  

15 + 127 + 38 = 180 school days during the 1952-1953 school year

Summary of HARVEY Oswald's school attendance from September, 1952 thru June, 1953

• Trinity Evangelical School (Bronx)--allegedly enrolled on September 8, 1952
• Public School 117 Bronx (PS 117)--September 30, 1952 thru January 16, 1963. Attended only 15 of 62 school days
• Public School 44 (Bronx) (PS 44)--January 16 thru April 16, 1953. No attendance, chronic truancy.
• Youth House April 16 thru May 7, 1953
• May 7 thru June 19, 1953. No school attendance.

FBI merged LEE and HARVEY's NYC school records, Warren Commission Exhibit 1384

We now know that the summary page of Oswald's New York school records, identified as CE 1384 and published by the Warren Commission, is an FBI fabrication. Before this summary page was given to the Warren Commission it was created by piecing together LEE Oswald's attendance at Ridglea West Elementary school in Ft. Worth, HARVEY Oswald's attendance at Trinity Lutheran school, HARVEY Oswald's attendance at Public School 117 (Bronx), LEE Oswald's attendance at PS 44 in Manhattan (1952-53 school year), and LEE Oswald's attendance at PS 44 in the Bronx (May/June, 1953; fall, 1954). The FBI then photographed their fabricated summary record and gave only photographs to the Warren Commission. Combining HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald's NYC school records gave the appearance that only one person, "Lee Harvey Oswald," attended schools in New York City. This school record is one example of how the FBI pieced together portions of LEE Oswald and HARVEY Oswald's school records to create a fictitious school record for one and only one "Lee Harvey Oswald."  All original New York City school records disappeared while in FBI custody, and all that remains in the Warren Volumes and the National Archives are photographic copies.

HARVEY Oswald at Beauregard Junior High School, January, 1954

In January, 1954, HARVEY Oswald walked into Myra DaRouse's eighth grade home room in the basement cafeteria at Beauregard Junior High. The 1953-54 school year was the only year during which Myra had a home room, and she remembered the day she met young Oswald. Myra told me, "Well, the first day he came into my homeroom he handed me his file. When I read that his name was Lee Harvey Oswald, I said to him, 'how do you want to be called,' and he told me to call him HARVEY. So, I always called him HARVEY. I knew him only as HARVEY." This was the second time that the thin, 4 ft 8 inch slender young man called himself "HARVEY." In the summer of 1953 and the Spring of 1954 young Oswald wanted to be called "HARVEY," so after talking with Bill Timmer and Myra DaRouse I began referring to the smaller, thinner, quiet Oswald as "HARVEY."

Myra Darouse--Oswald's 8th grade homeroom teacher

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Myra described young HARVEY Oswald as "a little fellow, scrawny, skinny, and quiet. He came to the middle of my chest-about 4 ft 6 inches tall." When LEE Oswald began attending Beauregard JHS in January, 1954, he filled out a personal history sheet and listed his height at 5 ft 5 inches tall and his weight at 135 lbs. LEE Oswald, who never met Myra, was taller than Myra, and much taller than HARVEY Oswald who was very thin. Myra saw HARVEY nearly every day before school, sitting on the front steps waiting for the school to open, and thought he was lonely. She saw HARVEY in her homeroom class every day, in the school library, and after school riding bicycles on the school grounds with his best friend Ed Voebel.

FBI interview of Myra Darouse

On one occasion, after school, Voebel ran up to Myra and shouted, "Miss DaRouse come quick... come quick... a piano fell on HARVEY." Myra and fellow teacher Dorothy Duvic followed Voebel into the basement cafeteria and found HARVEY, on the floor, with a small upright piano lying across his legs. The two women lifted the piano off of HARVEY and then, with the Principal's permission, Myra drove HARVEY to the Monte Lepre Clinic on Canal Street. After examination by a physician, Myra drove HARVEY to his home on Exchange Alley and asked where his mother was. HARVEY replied, "She's working in a bar." A photograph of HARVEY's caretaker, the Marguerite Oswald imposter (photo below left), was taken during the spring of 1954 in the apartment on Exchange Alley.

Marguerite Oswald imposter in 1954 in the apartment at 126 Exchange Place, New Orleans	1994 image of 126 Exchange Alley in New Orleans (J. Armstrong)

March 2, 1954 was Mardi Gras, and young Harvey Oswald was watching the parade on Canal St, a half-block from his home on 126 Exchange. In the National Archives I found and copied several photos that were taken of the parade, and Harvey Oswald is in one of these photos. In 2002 I sent Myra DaRouse a photo of a young boy watching the parade with a handwritten notation on the back of the photo "Mardi Gras, 1954." I asked Myra if she could identify the young boy in the photo. Myra wrote to me and said, "I have had four people look at these photos who knew Oswald at his time at Beauregard and they (and myself) agreed it was a picture of him."

LEE Oswald and his mother leave New York and move to New Orleans, January, 1954

In early January, 1954, LEE Oswald and his mother left New York. They moved to New Orleans and briefly resided with Marguerite's sister, Mrs. Lillian Murrett. On January 13, 1954 LEE Oswald was enrolled in the last half of the 8th grade at Beauregard Junior High school using the Murrett's address of 809 French Street. Within a few weeks, LEE Oswald and his tall, nice-looking mother rented an apartment at 1454 St. Marys St. The apartment building was owned and operated by Julian and Myrtle Evans, who had known the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Claverie Oswald for over 20 years. Mrs. Evans told the FBI that Marguerite and her son (LEE) lived in their building for 8 months (January thru August, 1954). Julian described Marguerite to the Warren Commission as, "a beautiful woman with black hair, a real 'fashion plate' who dressed beautifully." LEE Oswald and his mother were living at 1454 St. Mary's St., which was two school districts removed from Beauregard Junior High. HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother were living 3 1/2 miles away in the small apartment on Exchange Alley, which was one school district removed from Beauregard.

Marguerite Oswald (mother of LEE) in 1957	1994 image of 1454 (and 1452) St. Marys St., New Orleans, owned by Myrtle Evans, Marguerite Oswald's friend for 30 years. Marguerite and LEE lived here from January, 1954 thru April, 1955. (J. Armstrong)

Myrtle Evans  had known Marguerite Claverie Oswald since the early 1930's and visited her in Dallas in 1945 when Marguerite was dating Edwin Ekdahl. On February 19, 1954 Marguerite began working at Burt's Shoe Store and listed her address as 1454 St. Marys. This is the same month that Myra DaRouse drove HARVEY Oswald to his home on Exchange Place, after taking him to the Monte Lepre Clinic because a piano had fallen on his legs. Marguerite Claverie Oswald's former sister in law, Hazel Oswald, visited Marguerite on several occasions at Burt's Shoe Store. The New Orleans Retail Credit Bureau reported that Marguerite Claverie Oswald was living on St. Marys Street from May through September, 1954, while HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother were living at 126 Exchange Place in the French Quarter. In late August, 1954, HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother left New Orleans and moved to Ft. Worth, TX. Marguerite and LEE then moved from 1454 St. Marys to 126 Exchange in the French Quarter.

LEE Oswald in homeroom 303. HARVEY Oswald's homeroom in basement cafeteria, Spring, 1954

In the spring of 1954, HARVEY Oswald was in Myra DaRouse's eighth grade homeroom class in the basement cafeteria. LEE Oswald was in homeroom 303 on the 3rd floor of Beauregard. Each and every one of LEE Oswald's eighth grade report cards, published in the Warren Volumes, has the notation "303" and a student progress report that read, "Lee Oswald, grade 8, homeroom 303." These records show that tall, husky LEE Oswald was in homeroom 303 in the eighth grade at Beauregard in the spring semester of 1954. At the same time the short, thin, quiet HARVEY Oswald was in Myra DaRouse's homeroom class in the basement cafeteria. When I told Myra that "Oswald's" school report cards listed his homeroom as "303" she said, "That's impossible. He was in my homeroom in the basement cafeteria."

4'8" HARVEY Oswald at Bronx Zoo in 1952. John Pic testified this did not appear to be his half-brother.	5'4" LEE Oswald at Beauregard  JHS in 1954, John Pic's real half brother.

I then showed Myra the photo of HARVEY Oswald, taken at the Bronx Zoo in 1952 in New York. Myra said, "That's him, just like I remember him." And then I showed Myra the classroom photo of the tall, husky LEE Oswald taken in October, 1954 at Beauregard that appeared in Life Magazine. She looked at the photo a long time and then said, "That's not HARVEY. That's not the boy from my homeroom. Look at this boy. He looks like a football player and HARVEY was skinny." Myra was looking at a photo of 5 ft 5 inch tall, 135 lb LEE Oswald, not the short, thin HARVEY Oswald. Myra saw HARVEY Oswald every day during the Spring semester of 1954 at Beauregard, before school, in her homeroom, in the school library, and after school. Ed Voebel and HARVEY were good friends, and were always riding their bicycles together after school. Voebel was with HARVEY when the piano fell on his legs. But after school ended in early June, 1954 (8th grade) neither Myra nor Voebel ever saw HARVEY Oswald again.

I now understood why Myra was never asked to testify before the Warren Commission. Myra would have told the Commission that Harvey Oswald was in her homeroom in the basement cafeteria, and not in homeroom "303" as listed on school records published in the Warren Volumes. In addition Myra would have refused to identify the student in the "classroom photo" as Oswald, if she were shown the photo. And imagine if Myra told the Commission that she drove Harvey Oswald to his apartment at 126 Exchange Place in early 1954, when the Commission knew from Myrtle and Julian Evans that Marguerite and LEE were living at 1454 St. Marys Street.

HARVEY Oswald moves to Ft. Worth, June, 1954.

Ed Voebel last saw HARVEY Oswald at Beauregard in the spring semester of 1954. After graduating from the 8th grade at Beauregard (June, 1954), HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother relocated to Ft. Worth, TX and lived in a small duplex apartment at 2220 Thomas Place. LEE Oswald's older brother, Robert, told the Warren Commission that the alleged assassin of President Kennedy attended W.C. Stripling Junior High School in Fort Worth, Texas. Robert also gave two interviews with the Fort Worth Star Telegram, one in October 1959 when Oswald defected, the other in June 1962 when Oswald returned from the Soviet Union. In both interviews Robert said that his brother attended Stripling Junior High. Robert Oswald knew about HARVEY Oswald as early as 1952, when he took the photo of HARVEY Oswald at the Bronx Zoo. Four years later Robert Oswald lived with HARVEY Oswald and the Marguerite Oswald impostor in an apartment at 4936 Collinwood in Ft. Worth for 5 months, prior to his marriage to Vada Mercer in November.

HARVEY Oswald attends Stripling Junior High School in Ft. Worth, Texas, September, 1954

In September 1954, HARVEY Oswald entered the ninth grade at Stripling Junior High in Ft. Worth (while LEE Oswald was in the ninth grade at Beauregard in New Orleans and living at 126 Exchange Place).

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I was very curious about young Oswald attending Stripling Junior High in Ft. Worth. I telephoned Stripling Junior High and asked to speak with the school principal. After introducing myself, I asked Mr. Ricardo Galindo if he was aware that Lee Harvey Oswald may have attended Stripling. Mr. Galindo said, "Yes, most of the teachers know that Oswald attended this school." I then asked Mr. Galindo if any of the current teachers were teaching at this school in 1954, to which he replied "No." Mr. Galindo then suggested that I visit the Ft. Worth independent school district. I soon received a phone call from my friend Robert Groden, who told me that he was going to be interviewed on the Kevin McCarthy radio program in Dallas. Robert asked if there were any questions that I wanted to ask the audience. Yes, I asked Robert to talk about Stripling Junior High school and ask if anyone in the audience remembered Lee Harvey Oswald. Three people called the radio station and said they remembered Oswald at Stripling. One of those people was Francetta Schubert, who agreed to be interviewed on camera.

In Ft. Worth Francetta Schubert was an eighth grade student at Stripling. Franceta ate her lunch on the school grounds every day and watched HARVEY Oswald as he walked across the street to his house at 2220 Thomas Place for lunch. She described Oswald as a skinny, quiet boy who wore a brown leather jacket and blue jeans. Fran used to see Oswald's mother and remembered that she was short, heavy-set, and always wore a white nurse's uniform.

Harvey Oswald and his caretaker/mother lived at 2220 Thomas Place, probably the same house where the Marguerite Oswald impostor stored clothes and furniture when she lived across the street from Georgia Bell in 1947. In the fall of 1954 HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother lived in a small apartment at the rear of this white, one story, wood-frame building. Nine years later, on the day President Kennedy was murdered, the Marguerite Oswald impostor was once again living at 2220 Thomas Place, and wearing a white nurse's uniform.

From 1940 through 1963 the house at 2220 Thomas Place was owned by Mary Anne McCarthy and Martha M McCarthy, close friends with attorney Fred Korth, the attorney who represented Edwin Ekdahl in his divorce with Marguerite Oswald in 1948. Korth would later become secretary of the Navy, and may have assisted in handling HARVEY Oswald's discharge from the Marines in 1959. Korth resigned his position as Secretary of the Navy on October 11, 1963, five weeks before President Kennedy was assassinated. The Marguerite Oswald impostor's repeated contacts with 2220 Thomas Place in 1947, 1954, and 1963, while always wearing a white nurse's uniform, makes this location a possible "safe house." Oswald"s fellow classmate Doug Gann remembered that Oswald (HARVEY) played basketball, shot baskets after school, and lived in a white house across the street. Bobby Pitts used to play touch football in front of 2220 Thomas Place and remembered that Oswald often stood on the front porch and watched. Gym teacher Mark Summers, who began teaching at Stripling Junior High in 1950, remembered that Oswald was in his gym class.

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When I visited the Fort Worth Independant School District I inquired about school records for Lee Harvey Oswald. While reviewing those records I began talking with Mr. Billy Sills, who  was very familiar with the school district. I explained to Mr. Sills that I was interested in Oswald attending Stripling Junior High in Ft. Worth in 1954. A few days later Mr. Sills gave me a handwritten list of teachers who taught at Stripling in 1954. From that list I began contacting former teachers. One by one nearly everyone I spoke with told me the person I should contact was Frank Kudlaty, former assistant principal at Stripling. I telephoned Mr. Kudlaty, who lived in Waco, TX., and asked if he knew of Oswald attending Stripling Junior High. Frank said that Oswald had attended Stripling. I then asked Frank why he was sure that Oswald had attended Stripling. Frank replied, "Because I gave his school records to the FBI the morning after the assassination." Frank's answer took my breath away. I was astonished. I then arranged to meet and interview Frank in his home.

Early Saturday morning, the day after the assassination, Mr. Wylie, principal of Stripling Junior High, called the assistant principal, Frank Kudlaty, at his home. Mr. Wylie told Kudlaty to immediately go to Stripling and meet two FBI agents who would arrive shortly and to give them Oswald's school records. In 1963 school records from prior years were kept at each school. In the mid-1960s school records from all Ft. Worth schools were transferred to a new building at the Ft. Worth Independent School District where they were organized and stored. Frank told me, "I lived close to the school at that time and arrived at the school before they (the FBI agents) got there. I went into the school and located Oswald's records. In fact I found both Lee Harvey and Robert Oswald's records for Stripling. I opened Lee Harvey Oswald's folder and briefly looked over his records and noted that he had attended less than a full semester at Stripling. He had been there long enough to receive grades for a 6-week period, but not long enough to receive semester grades. I think he was in the 9th grade. I put the records back into the folder and waited for the FBI agents. When they arrived, they showed me their badges for identification and asked for the records. I told them that I had located both Lee Harvey and Robert Oswald's records and asked if they wanted both. They told me they only wanted Lee Harvey Oswald's records. After I handed the records to them, they thanked me and left. I locked up the school and went home." A prerequisite for admission to Stripling Junior High, and most schools, were records from the previous school. According to Mr. Kudlaty, there were no records from a previous school in Oswald's file. This may have been the reason that HARVEY Oswald left Stripling before completing a full semester in the fall of 1954. HARVEY Oswald's junior high school records from Stripling, confiscated within 20 hours of the assassination, clearly show that FBI Director Hoover knew those Stripling records could expose the two Oswalds. The confiscation and disappearance of the Stripling records is another indication that shows Hoover probably had prior knowledge of HARVEY and LEE.

In 1996 I filed a Freedom of Information request with the FBI and asked for records from Stripling Junior High School in Ft. Worth. The FBI responded and advised there were "no records responsive to my request" in their files for Stripling JHS. Of course not. HARVEY Oswald attending Stripling Junior High in Fort Worth would conflict with LEE Oswald attending Beauregard Junior High in New Orleans at the same time.

Ed Voebel meets LEE Oswald, Fall semester, 1954

Ed Voebel last saw HARVEY Oswald in the spring semester of 1954. Three months later, in September, 1954 Ed Voebel and LEE Oswald, who did not know each other, entered the ninth grade at Beauregard. Six weeks later, in October, Marguerite Oswald wrote a letter to her son, John Pic, and said that she was working at Burt's Shoe Store, three blocks from her apartment. The return address on the envelope was "126 Exchange Place." From this letter we know that LEE and Marguerite moved from 1452 St. Marys St. to 126 Exchange in late August, 1954, and LEE entered the 9th grade at Beauregard Junior High in September. In October Ed Voebel saw a young boy in a fight with Johnny and Mike Neumeyer. After the fight ended he helped clean up the young man.

Exhumed in 1984, none of Harvey's front teeth were missing.

Voebel thought the boy lost a tooth during the fight, and told the Warren Commission, "Yes, I think he even lost a tooth from that. I think he was cut on the lip, and a tooth was knocked out." A few days later Voebel was with Oswald on the steps of Beauregard when a young man named Robin Reilly suddenly punched LEE Oswald in the mouth and quickly ran away. Oswald's lip was cut badly and, once again, Voebel helped clean up LEE Oswald. Soon after the fight Voebel took a photo of LEE Oswald sitting at his desk in Helen DuFour's 9th grade English class at Beauregard, which he later sold to Life Magazine for $75. A close look at the classroom photo appears to show that LEE Oswald was missing one of his front teeth. The photo above was taken when HARVEY Oswald was exhumed in 1981 and given to Marina Oswald, who gave this photo to me. This photo shows that all of HARVEY Oswald's front teeth were intact, while LEE Oswald lost one of his front teeth.

HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother return to New Orleans, February, 1955

On January 24, 1955 incorporation papers for the Dolly Shoe company were filed with the Louisiana Secretary of State. The principal owners of the company were listed as Abe Pekovar and Maury Goodman. They opened their business at 729 Canal Street and were open Monday thru Saturday from 9:00 am to 5:45 pm.. The first employee hired by Maury Goodman was the short, dumpy, "Marguerite Oswald" imposter who worked as a cashier at the counter near the front of the store. Mr. Goodman hired Richard Landry and Rita Paveur to sell shoes and a student named Francis Mouton to re-stock shoes. Rita and the short, dumpy, heavy-set "Marguerite Oswald" imposter began work the day the store opened. Rita remembered that "Marguerite" was a very unfriendly person who never smiled and seemed to complain constantly about everything. She said, "Marguerite did not seem to be from New Orleans.....she had no accent." Rita remembered that before and after working at Dolly Shoe Marguerite was a bar-maid and worked at several of the local bars.

On February 6, 1955, Oswald applied for a social security number. A few weeks later HARVEY Oswald applied for a work permit on March 11, listing his address as 126 Exchange. However,  HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother were not living at 126 Exchange. LEE Oswald and his mother had been living at 126 Exchange since August, 1954, and continued living at this address until August, 1956. Where were HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother living?

I had several telephone conversations with Maury Goodman and with Rita Paveur. I asked Rita if she knew where Marguerite lived and Rita said "Marguerite lived uptown, to the right of Canal Street as you faced the river, near Magazine Street." This was a 5 minute walk from Dolly Shoe. The Marguerite Oswald impostor gave her address to Dolly Shoe as 126 Exchange, even though she was not living there. Both women, Marguerite Claverie Oswald and the Marguerite Oswald impostor, used the same addresses again and again while in New York, in New Orleans, and in Ft. Worth.

While LEE and his mother were living at 126 Exchange, the address of HARVEY Oswald and the Marguerite Oswald impostor are unknown. HARVEY soon began working full-time at Dolly Shoe, along with his caretaker/mother. A copy of his work permit was sent to Mary Miller, a social worker at Beauregard. Mary recalled handling a case that involved a student who lived on Exchange Alley and remembered there was an attendance problem. HARVEY Oswald had the attendance problem because he was working full time at Dolly Shoe in the Spring of 1955, when he should have been attending junior high school. While HARVEY Oswald was working at Dolly Shoe, LEE Oswald was attending Beauregard Junior High with a near-perfect attendance record. Store manager Maury Goodman and co-worker Rita Paveur remembered that the short, heavy-set Marguerite worked as a bar-maid at local bars both before and after she worked for Dolly Shoe. A year earlier, in the spring of 1954, HARVEY Oswald told his homeroom teacher, Myra DaRouse, that his mother was working at a bar.

5'7" Marguerite Oswald at Pauls Shoe Store in 1957	Marguerite impostor looking up at 5'1" Marina after the assassination of JFK

I sent Mr. Goodman and Rita photographs of the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor taken in 1954 and photographs of HARVEY Oswald from the 1956/57 Arlington Heights High School year book. They immediately recognized HARVEY and the Marguerite Oswald impostor as their former co-workers. They remembered Oswald as a skinny boy-about 4 ft 10 inches tall, and Marguerite as short and heavy-set. I also sent them a photo of the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Claverie Oswald taken at Christmas, 1957, at Pauls Shoe Store in Ft. Worth and the classroom photo of LEE Oswald taken at Beauregard in 1954. Neither Mr. Goodman nor Rita recognized either of these people.

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In April, 1955, Mr. Goodman hired Louis Marziale as store manager. Mr. Marziale's first day at work was Tuesday, April 12--the day his first son was born. Louis arrived at 10:00 am and began observing HARVEY Oswald and other store employees. While having lunch with Mr. Goodman, Louis recommended they fire young Oswald, which they did. Marguerite was also fired because she repeatedly refused to fill out insurance company bonding forms, which if completed may have raised unanswerable questions relating to two different women both using the name "Marguerite Oswald". After Marguerite was fired, Louis recalled that she worked at the Tradewinds Bar on Decatur Street.

It appears as though the Marguerite Oswald impostor did her best to find employment where she could be paid in cash and avoid providing a social security number, personal information, being subject to withholding tax, reporting by the credit bureau--anything to keep from creating duplicate records for Marguerite Oswald. It may come as no surprise that Marguerite Claverie Oswald's federal tax returns remain classified to this day.  HARVEY Oswald's full-time employment at Dolly Shoe from March thru April, 1955, conflicts with LEE Oswald's near perfect attendance record at Beauregard Junior High in the spring of 1955.

LEE Oswald & Ed Voebel at Civil Air Patrol, June, July, 1955

In the spring of 1955 Ed Voebel attended a pre-high school conference at Warren Easton High School. Voebel sat next to LEE Oswald during the presentation and talked with him. Before leaving, LEE Oswald invited Voebel to play pool with him at the poolroom below his apartment (L & A Martin Billiards). Voebel told the Warren Commission that he began to stop by Oswald's apartment "nearly every time he went for his weekly music lesson (piano lessons) at Werlein's Music Store on Canal Street." The two boys often walked downstairs to the pool hall to shoot pool or play darts. While visiting Lee at his apartment on Exchange Place, Ed Voebel met Oswald's mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald. Voebel described Mrs. Oswald as "tall and nice-looking."

Following graduation from Beauregard Junior High Voebel persuaded LEE Oswald to attend meetings of his Civil Air Patrol (CAP) unit at the Lakefront Airport. After attending several meetings at Lakefront, Lee Oswald began attending CAP meetings at Moisant Airport, because it was closer to his apartment. Oswald and Voebel rode the bus to CAP meetings, which were held once or twice a week, and were attended by 20 to 25 members including a few girls. Voebel remembered that David Ferrie had once taken his CAP unit on an overnight bivouac and instructed the cadets to bring their own rifles for shooting practice. Voebel said that Oswald attended two or three, and possibly four drills. He said that Oswald quit attending meetings sometime after he joined the CAP (July 27, 1955). Voebel remained a member of the CAP for a year, but quit after he began attending Fortier High School in 1956. IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT DAVID FERRIE KNEW LEE OSWALD IN 1955. IN 1963 DAVID FERRIE WOULD BEFRIEND HARVEY OSWALD.

When Ed Voebel visited LEE Oswald, at 126 Exchange Place, he saw and met LEE Oswald’s mother, the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Claverie Oswald. Following the assassination of President Kennedy Ed Voebel saw the Marguerite Oswald impostor's photo on television and in the newspapers. Voebel did not recognize this elderly woman, who was short, heavy-set, and always wore horn rim glasses. Voebel remembered LEE Oswald's mother as "tall and nice-looking,” but was confused because he didn't realize this was a different woman. Voebel told the Warren Commission, "I had a picture in my mind which was different from when I saw her in the paper after all of this happened. I didn't recognize her." We now understand Ed Voebel’s confusion.

In 1955 there was no reason for 15 year old Ed Voebel to connect or suspect there was any connection between the short, scrawny HARVEY Oswald, who he met in the 8th grade in the spring of 1954, with the taller, well-built LEE Oswald who he met in the 9th grade in October, 1954.  Unknown to Voebel, these two boys were part of a secret and clandestine CIA project. The multi- year plan was to have an unknown Russian speaking youth (HARVEY) assume the identity of American born LEE Oswald and then "defect" to Russia. After President Kennedy was assassinated, anyone who had known or had come in contact and befriended both HARVEY and LEE was of serious concern to the CIA. Voebel never realized that his coincidental friendship with both HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald would later place his life in danger. After the assassination of President Kennedy, the conspirators worried that someday Ed Voebel might realize that it was his friend HARVEY Oswald who was accused of killing President Kennedy, and not American born "LEE Harvey Oswald." Voebel's knowledge of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald could expose the CIA's merging of a young unknown Russian speaking person with the identity of American born LEE Harvey Oswald. If the public learned there were two "Lee Harvey Oswalds," the focus of attention would then be to expose the true name, identity, and background of Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald, who was accused of killing President Kennedy. In 1993 I gave my first public presentation on HARVEY and LEE in Dallas. I closed my presentation by telling the audience, "If you know who Oswald really was and who created him, then you will know who was responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy."

Ed Voebel's knowledge of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald may have been the reason that he died at the young age of 31, only one day after being admitted to the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans in May, 1971. Voebel's father said that his son, healthy one day and dead the following day, died under mysterious circumstances.  He told the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he thought his son's death had something to do with Oswald and the JFK assassination, but he had no proof.

NOTE:In 1961 Dr. Alton Ochsner, founder of the Ochsner Clinic, set up the Information Council of the Americas (INCA). CIA-connected Ed Butler was appointed executive director and in 1963 conducted a radio interview with HARVEY Oswald on WDSU radio. This radio station was owned by Edgar and Edith Stern, who were major financial contributors to INCA. Another major supporter was Eustis Riley, of the Riley Coffee Company, who hired HARVEY Oswald in June, 1963. Another supporter and close friend of Ochsner's was the CIA's Clay Shaw, director of the International House, the large building where CIA agent William Gaudet watched HARVEY Oswald pass out FPCC literature. Shaw was indicted by DA Jim Garrison and charged with participating in the assassination of President Kennedy. While Clay Shaw was the director of the International House, Dr. Alton Ochsner was president of the International House. The FBI file on Dr. Ochsner shows a long and involved relationship with the US military, the FBI, and other US government agencies. According to Ed Voebel's sister, her brother was admitted to and died at the Ochsner Clinic. The local newspaper, however, reported that Ed Voebel died at the Memorial Hospital--thereby avoiding any connection to the Ochsner Clinic.

Lee Oswald, July 1955

On July 11, 1955 Robert Oswald was discharged from the Marines and returned to Fort Worth. Robert secured a job with Convair and purchased a 1951 Chevrolet. Robert drove his Chevrolet to New Orleans and arrived at 126 Exchange on the morning of July 15th. Robert helped his brother buy a Civil Air Patrol uniform from the Army-Navy surplus store. LEE Oswald joined the cadet squadron at Moisant Airport on July 27, 1955, and was issued service #48-4965.

NOTE: None of the items worn by LEE Oswald in the photograph above, such as the hat, shirt, tie, CAPC medallions, were found by the Dallas Police after the assassination. This was because the CAP items belonged to LEE Oswald-not HARVEY Oswald who was never involved with the CAP.

HARVEY Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Lab, Summer, 1955

While LEE Oswald was working at Tujauge's, there are indications that HARVEY Oswald worked at the Pfisterer Dental Lab on Dauphine Street in 1955.  The long time President of the Pfisterer Dental Lab was Linda Faircloth. When I interviewed Linda in 1995 she related the following story: "Lee Harvey Oswald worked at Pfisterer's on two separate occasions as a messenger. The first time, according to what the owners told me, "was a short period sometime in 1955." He was re-hired in late 1957 in the same position."  If Oswald worked at Pfisterer's in 1955, he could have worked there prior to his employment at Dolly Shoe on March 12 or anytime after he was fired from Dolly Shoe on April 12.

Where were HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother living, January to June, 1955?

HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother returned to New Orleans in early 1955. They were both working at Dolly Shoe in March and April and gave their residence address as 126 Exchange. LEE Oswald was attending Beauregard Junior High while his mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald, was working at Burt's Shoe Store on Canal St.  LEE Oswald and his mother had been living at 126 Exchange since August, 1954, and lived at this address thru August, 1956. Therefore, HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother could not have been living at 126 Exchange while working at Dolly Shoe. Where were they living? I asked Rita Paveur if she knew where Marguerite Oswald lived. Rita said, "Marguerite lived uptown, to the right of Canal Street as you faced the river, near Magazine Street." I went to the New Orleans public library and looked for a "Marguerite Oswald" in the 1956 New Orleans City directory (which provides information on residents in 1955).

One listing is for Marguerite Claverie Oswald, mother of LEE Oswald, who was then working at Kriegers Dept Store and living at 126 Exchange. A second listing shows "Margt. Oswald" at 120 N. Telemachus, with no employment information. 120 N. Telemachus is just off Canal St. and is midway between Beauregard Junior High and Warren Easton High School. I was surprised to find both a "Marguerite Oswald" and a "Margt. Oswald" listed in the 1956 New Orleans City directory. I wanted to know more about Margt Oswald and 120 N. Telemachus.

Recent image of 120 N. Telemachus (Google)	Margaret Keating with her mother at 120 N. Telemachus

I next visited  the Land Records Division of Orleans Parish and located land ownership records for 120 N. Telemachus. What I found, to my amazement, was completely unexpected. This property, since the early 1930's, was owned by Margaret Emma Keating, the first wife of Robert Edward Lee Oswald from 1920 to 1933 (no known children). Soon after their divorce in 1933, Robert Edward Lee Oswald married Marguerite Claverie, and were the parents of Robert Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald. Margaret Emma Keating remained single for the next 33 years and lived at 120 N. Telemachus. The 1940 Orleans Parish census shows Margaret Keating living at 120 N. Telemachus and employed at a local department store. The 1942 and 1944 City Directories shows a Mrs. M Keating living at 120 N. Telemachus with phone number AU 6395. The 1956 New Orleans City Directory shows a Margt Oswald living at 120 N. Telemachus and working at Holmes Dept Store. LEE Oswald's mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald, was working at Kriegers Dept Store. Why, in 1956, does the New Orleans City Directory show Marguerite Oswald living at 126 Exchange and Margt Oswald living at 120 N. Telemachus?

A  year later, in August, 1956, LEE Oswald and Marguerite Claverie Oswald were still living at 126 Exchange. Oswald's neighbor, Mildred Sawyer, told the FBI that Mrs. Oswald was working at Goldrings Dept. Store, while her son LEE Oswald was working at Tujague's, which is correct.

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But where were HARVEY Oswald and the MO impostor living while working on Canal St. at Dolly Shoe (winter/spring, 1955)? Where were they living from Sept thru mid-November, 1955 when HARVEY Oswald attended Warren Easton High School? Is it possible they were living at 120 N. Telemachus, which is midway between Beauregard Junior High and Warren Easton High School?

Following the assassination of President Kennedy, Margaret Keating moved from 120 N. Telemachus to apartment #708 at 1205 St. Charles Street. She lived in this apartment for two years, and then returned to her home at 120 N. Telemachus.

Gerard F. Tujague Company & Warren Easton High School, September 1955

In June, 1955 LEE Oswald graduated from the 9th grade at Beauregard Junior High. Robert Oswald told the Warren Commission that he arrived in New Orleans in July, 1955, and his brother was working for Tujague's export company. LEE Oswald's former supervisor, Frank DiBenedetto, told the HSCA on November 16, 1978, that Oswald worked at Tujague's for "a year to a year and a half" and quit to join the Marines. LEE Oswald working at Tujague's from July, 1955 to September, 1956, when he quit to join the Marines, is 16 months.

The Warren Commission, however, reported that "Lee Harvey Oswald" only worked 2 months at Tujague's, from November 10, 1955 until January 14, 1956. This time discrepancy of "2 months" or "16 months" was enormous and caught my attention. I then travelled to New Orleans to meet and interview Frank DiBenedetto.

Frank purchased the Gerard F. Tujague company after Mr. Tujague died. When I met with Frank, the Tujague office was still in the Sanlin Building on Canal St., where Frank was LEE Oswald's supervisor in 1955 and 1956. Frank's testimony to the HSCA, and Robert Oswald's statement, established the approximate beginning date of LEE Oswald's employment at Tujague's as June, 1955. Frank's secretary, Gloria Callahan, who was working at Tujague's in 1955, said that LEE Oswald was working at Tujague's when she went on maternity leave in the Spring of 1956 (March 15, 1956). Frank described LEE Oswald, then 16 years old, as well-built and about 5 ft 10 inches tall--very different from the skinny, 4 ft 10 inch HARVEY Oswald who worked for Dolly Shoe just a few months earlier.   Frank said that after working at Tujague's a year to a year and a half that (LEE) Oswald quit Tujague's in the late summer or early fall of 1956 to join the USMC. Frank said that Oswald quit "when it was hot." I was now convinced that Frank was correct when he told the HSCA that LEE Oswald worked at Tujague's for a year to a year and a half. LEE Oswald worked at Tujague's from June, 1955 until August or September, 1956. 

Warren Easton High School

The time discrepancy of "2 months" or "16 months," which is the reason I came to New Orleans to meet Frank Dibenedetto, was now solved. Robert Oswald's brother, 15 year old LEE Oswald, began working at Tujague's after graduating from the 9th grade at Beauregard Junior High in June, 1955. For the next 16 months LEE Oswald worked directly under Frank DiBenedetto until he left Tujague's and joined the Marines in October, 1956. Why, then, was Oswald's employment at Tujague's changed from 16 months to 2 months? The answer is in two parts, and is very simple.

The first part is that on September 8, 1955 HARVEY Oswald enrolled at Warren Easton High School, while at the same time LEE Oswald was working at Tujague's. A permanent school record for Oswald was created at Warren Easton High School, which could not be ignored. HARVEY Oswald attended Warren Easton thru October 10, 1955. The FBI simply moved the beginning date of Oswald's employment at Tujague's from June to November 10, one month after Oswald left Warren Easton High School. The FBI then changed the ending date of Oswald's employment at Tujague's from late summer, 1956 to January 14, 1956.

The ending date of January 14, 1956 was the second reason for changing the dates of Oswald's employment at Tujague's. The FBI and the Warren Commission had an interview with Palmer McBride who said that Oswald that he worked with Lee Harvey Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory for 8 months in 1957 and 1958, the same time Lee Harvey Oswald was in Japan. By ending Oswald's employment at Tujague's on January 14, 1956, there were now eight months available for the FBI to report that Oswald  worked at Pfisterers, before he joined the Marines in October.

The FBI changed LEE Oswald's employment at Tujague's from 16 months to 2 months for the purpose of showing that in September, 1955, one and only one "Lee Harvey Oswald" enrolled and attended Warren Easton high school thru October 10, 1955. The FBI then claimed that Oswald worked for Tujague's from November 10, 1955 to January 14, 1956. The FBI then claimed that Oswald worked 3 days for J.R. Michels in January, 1956, and then worked "for several months thereafer for the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory."  The FBI then gave photographic copies of their fabricated documents to the Warren Commission. Thanks to Frank DiBenedetto, Robert Oswald, and the FBI's fabricated documents, we now know the Warren Commission was not only wrong, they were complicit in the coverup by failing to verify the beginning and ending dates of Oswald's employment at Tujague's, JR Michels, or Pfisterers.

In (HARVEY) Oswald's school file, at Warren Easton High School in New Orleans, there is a note that reads, "We are moving to San Diego" and is dated October 8, 1955. This is the first indication that HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother may have moved to California in late 1955 or early 1956.

The second indication comes from Laura Kittrell, who interviewed HARVEY Oswald in early October, 1963 at the Texas Employment Commission. HARVEY Oswald told Mrs. Kittrell that he had lived in California. Oswald said, "It was before I went into the Marines. It was when I was just sixteen [Oswald was 16 on October 18, 1955]. 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" and Laura remembered the name of the city as Encino, Calif. When HARVEY Oswald mentioned the name "Murray Chotiner" Laura asked HARVEY 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. Click here for more about Kittrell.

If HARVEY Oswald lived in California in late 1955, as suggested in the note found in his file at Warren Easton High School, HARVEY Oswald's interview with Laura Kittrell, and the job description shown in the Folsom Exhibit above, this would explain how he knew about Murray Chotiner. The 4/12 "YEARS EXPERIENCE," as shown above and listed as one of LHO's "Civilian Occupations," indicates that he worked three months as an Office Boy, likely for Murray Chotiner in California.

NOTE: In the year 2000, JFK researchers William Weston and Stephen Gaal searched for an “ETI Realty" in Encino, CA in 1955-56. They did not find "ETI Realty," but did find a company named “Encino Escrow Company” and another company named “Escrow Title Insurance” (possibly ETI )  and listed in the 1958 telephone directory white pages. Additional research is needed on this subject, by focusing on companies owned or represented by attorney Murray Chotiner. 

While in New Orleans I met and spoke with former Tujague employee Jimmy Hudnell. Jimmy told me that on the afternoon of November 22, shortly after President Kennedy was shot, Mr. Tujague told his employees "the FBI will be here soon so you all can go home." FBI agents soon arrived and requested all of LEE Oswald's employment records and time cards. Jimmy Hudnell collected "dozens" of Oswald's time cards, Oswald's employment file, and gave them to the FBI.

How did the FBI know, within hours, that LEE Oswald's year and a half employment at Tujague's would conflict with the whereabouts of HARVEY Oswald at the same time? How did they know that while LEE Oswald was working at Tujague's in the fall of 1955, that HARVEY Oswald was attending Warren Easton High School? How did they know that while LEE Oswald was working at Tujague's in January, 1956, that HARVEY Oswald was briefly working for the JR Michels company? How would the FBI explain that when Oswald was working 8 months for the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1957 and 1958, that LEE Oswald was in the Marine Corps in Japan? The FBI, as we shall see, fabricated government forms in an attempt to show that Oswald worked at Tujagues for only two months--after he dropped out of Warren Easton High School, and before he worked for 3 days at JR Michels in January, 1956. The FBI also fabricated government forms  in an attempt to show that Oswald worked at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in 1956. What remains unknown is who in the FBI knew intimate details about the lives of HARVEY and LEE. Who knew or was able to learn quickly, after the assassination, about their schooling and employment as teenagers. Who in the FBI was responsible for fabricating government documents? And who knew enough about HARVEY and LEE to begin sending FBI agents to schools and businesses within 24 hours of the assassination? With the FBI's fabricated government documents the Warren Commission was then able to write a teenage biographical sketch of one and only one Lee Harvey Oswald.

How the FBI changed Oswald's employment records

We now understand why LEE Oswald's employment at Tujague's had to be changed from 16 months to two months. Now we will focus our attention on when and how the FBI fabricated, changed, and destroyed private records and government documents to support their changes to HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald's whereabouts and employment. We will explain how the FBI managed to include their fabricated documents into the Dallas Police file of evidence. We will also show why and how the Warren Commission colluded with the FBI in changing the years HARVEY Oswald worked at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans from 1957 and 1958, when LEE Oswald was in Japan, to the year 1956.

I knew from Frank DiBenedetto and from Robert Oswald's book that LEE Oswald began working at Tujague's in June, 1955. And when I looked at LEE Oswald's Employee Withholding Exemption Certificate I saw the original date was erased and then dated November 12, 1955. Oswald's beginning date of employment at Tujague's was changed from June, 1955 to November 10, 1955. Why? Because LEE Oswald's year and a half employment at Tujague's conflicted with Harvey Oswald's attendance at Warren Easton High School at the same time. The signature on this W-4 form is that of LEE Oswald, but the original date was changed.

I knew the original date on LEE Oswald's Employee Withholding Exemption Certificate had been altered and changed to Saturday, November 12, 1955. I now wanted to know how many of LEE Oswald's time cards were published in the Warren Volumes. On the afternoon of the assassination Mr. Tujague told employee Jimmy Hudnell to gather up Oswald's payroll records, time cards, and canceled checks. Jimmy Hudnell told me he gave "dozens of Oswald's time cards" to the FBI, but there were only 5 time cards printed in the Warren Volumes. The first time card showed LEE Oswald's beginning date of employment as November 10, 1955. The number written on the first time card was "18," and the handwritten name "Lee Harvey Oswald" was totally different from the handwriting on the remaining four cards. The remaining 4 time cards had the number "16" handwritten on the upper left side of the time card, likely the employee number assigned to LEE Oswald. All 4 time cards were signed by LEE Oswald. The last time card shows January 14 (1956) as the ending date of Oswald's employment. These time cards show stamped work hours in the morning and afternoon, but there are no machine stamps to show the month or year of work.

The 4 times cards with the number "16" have the signature of LEE Harvey Oswald at the top of each card. Every one of these handwritten signatures are quite similar, and were written by LEE Oswald. You will soon see that the handwritten signature of LEE Oswald is quite different from the handwritten signature of HARVEY Oswald.

While  LEE Oswald was working full time at Tujague's, from June, 1955 thru September, 1956, HARVEY Oswald  attended Warren Easton High School from September 8 to October 10, 1955. A work record and a school record were created for "Lee Harvey Oswald" at two different locations at the same time. These records threatened to expose HARVEY Oswald, LEE Oswald, and the CIA's "Oswald Project." It was up to the FBI to correct this problem.

The FBI began their charade by destroying LEE Oswald's time cards for the months of June, July, August, September, and October, 1955.  This allowed the FBI to show that one person, "Lee Harvey Oswald," entered Warren Easton High School on September 8, and dropped out on October 10, 1955. A questionable time card with the number 18 indicates that Oswald began work at Tujague's on November 10, 1955. The FBI then created a W-4 Employee Withholding Exemption Certificate with a date of November 12, 1955 to support the beginning date of LEE Oswald's employment at Tujague's. The remaining 4 time cards from Tujague's, which I believe are LEE Oswald's original time cards, showed that LEE Oswald worked at Tujague's until January 14, 1956. The remainder of LEE Oswald's time cards, from January 15, 1956 thru September, 1956 were destroyed. The FBI then photographed the 5 remaining time cards, the W-4 and W-2 forms, and gave those photographs (no original documents) to the Warren Commission. The Warren Commission was then able to report that one and only one "Lee Harvey Oswald" attended Warren Easton high school in September and part of October, 1955 and then worked at Tujague's until January 14, 1956.

Changing the ending date of Oswald's employment at Tujague's

The FBI used the time card dated 1/15  in an attempt to show Lee Harvey Oswald's last day of employment at Tujague's was January 14, 1956. The Warren Commission did nothing whatsoever to verify the beginning or ending dates of Oswald's employment at Tujague's, such as checking federal or state tax withholding reports. The Warren Commission simply relied on photographs of the FBI's fabricated W-4 and W-2 forms and  reported that "Lee Harvey Oswald" entered Warren Easton High School on Sept 8, dropped out on October 10, and then worked at Tujague's from November 10 to January 14, 1956.

To further fix  LEE Oswald's last day of employment at Tujague's both Gerard Tujague and 16 year old LEE Oswald signed a "Release," which released Tujague's from any further claims against the company. This document, in my opinion, was nothing more than an attempt to justify and fix Oswald's last day of employment at Tujague's in January, 1956.

A W-2 form consists of 6 pages, including parts A, B, C, and D, and parts 1 and 2. The Tujague W-2 forms shown above are "Copy C" and were allegedly given to 15 year old LEE Oswald at the end of each year for his records. But in 1963 these seven year old 1955 and 1956  W-2 forms were not found among Oswald's possessions by the Dallas Police, and were not listed on the Dallas Police handwritten or typewritten inventory. Is it reasonable to believe that 15 year old LEE Oswald would keep these W-2 forms in his possession for the next 8 years? These W-2 forms were fabricated by the FBI and first appeared on November 26, 1963 when the FBI returned 455 items of evidence to the Dallas Police. In Dallas they were inventoried and photographed jointly by the FBI and Dallas Police, and appear in the Warren Volumes as Moore Ex. 1. In an honest investigation the FBI would have found a W-2 form "Copy D" in Oswald's file at Tujague's.

The FBI created these fake W-2 forms for 1955 and 1956. The FBI made sure that the wages listed on these forms matched the amount of wages the FBI claims were paid by Tujague's to LEE Oswald in November & December, 1955 and in January, 1956. However, neither of these W-2 forms were found, initialed, or dated by Dallas Police detectives at Oswald's rooming house or at Ruth Paine's. These W-2 forms were created by the FBI in Washington, DC between November 23 and November 25, 1963, and then returned to the Dallas Police on November 26, 1963. In Dallas the W-2 and W-4 forms were inventoried and photographed jointly by the FBI and the Dallas police.

The FBI placed the ending date of Oswald's employment at Tujague's at January 14, three days before he began work at JR Michels on January 17

Lee Harvey Oswald's next employment, according to the FBI, was the JR Michels Company. Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly began work at J.R. Michels on Tuesday, January 17, 1956, which conflicted with LEE Oswald's employment at Tujagues from June 1955 to September, 1956. Three days later, on Friday, January 20, HARVEY Oswald supposedly quit J.R. Michels. Ending Oswald's employment at Tujague's in early 1956 was very important, because the FBI needed a time frame in order to show that Oswald worked at the Pfisterer Dental Lab for a few months before joining the Marines in October, 1956

Frank DiBenedetto had been in the import/export business for over 50 years, in the same office in the Sanlin Building, and likely knew his competitors. When I asked Frank if he knew of the JR Michels company, he smiled and said, "they are directly below us. We are on the third floor and they are below us on the second floor."

I then told Frank that Oswald may have briefly worked for JR Michels. Frank said, "Oswald didn't work there (at J.R. Michels). He couldn't have worked there. We are on the 3rd floor of this building and they were one floor below us. We were in the same business. I was very good friends with Nick, and was in his office nearly every day. We went to lunch often and were good friends. If Oswald had worked for Nick, I would have known it." After talking with Frank, I realized that HARVEY Oswald working for JR Michels in January, 1956, while at the same time LEE Oswald was working at Tujague's was very suspicious.

I then walked down the stairs and met with Nick Mazza, who was the manager of J.R. Michels in 1956. Nick told me that he and Frank were close friends and used to have lunch together most of the time. I asked Nick about Oswald's employment at JR Michels in January, 1956. Nick said that if Oswald worked at Tujague's, and a few days later worked one week at J.R. Michels, that both he and Mr. DiBenedetto would have known.

Nick said that on Monday, following the assassination of President Kennedy, two FBI agents came to his office and asked about Oswald's brief employment. Nick told the agents that he did not remember Oswald, whereupon the agents told Nick to go check his records for January, 1956. How would the FBI know that a check was written to Oswald in 1956 and was in a file in JR Michels office? And why did this check, for $34.20, not match the JR Michels W-2 form that reported Oswald's earnings for 2 weeks as $80.00. Nick personally checked the companies bank records and found a check made out to Lee Harvey Oswald in January, 1956 for $34.20. Nick told me that he was surprised to find a check written to Oswald in his old bank records. Nick made several copies of the $34.20 check and then gave the original check to the FBI agents. Above is an image of the check that Nick gave to me, endorsed by HARVEY Oswald. Nick was the office manager of JR Michels in 1956, but Nick did not sign this check and was apparently unaware that a check had been written to Lee Oswald.

Once again we are looking at an FBI fabricated W-2 form, "Copy C", for JR Michels. This 1956  "Copy C"  was for Oswald's records. JR Michels kept W-2 forms for all of their employees, which were "Copy D" forms, in their company records. The only W-2 form in JR Michels records would have been a Copy D form. If the FBI was really given a W-2 form, as alleged by the FBI, they could have only provided a Copy D form from their records. This Copy C form, shown above, was not found by the Dallas Police, and was not listed on the Dallas Police handwritten or typewritten inventory. This Copy C form was fabricated by the FBI in Washington, DC, photographed, and sent to Dallas on November 26, 1963 when the FBI returned 455 items of evidence to the Dallas Police. In Dallas the FBI photograph of this form was inventoried and photographed jointly by the FBI and Dallas Police, and appears in the Warren Volumes in Moore Ex. 1. In an honest investigation the FBI would have found a W-2 form "Copy D" in the Pfisterer Dental Lab company file.

I asked Nick if J.R. Michels had an employment file for Oswald, which would have contained a W-2 form, Copy D, a W-4 form, employment application, payroll records, and quarterly withholding tax filings. Nick said that he never saw an employment file for Oswald. The only document Nick ever saw was the cancelled check written to Oswald in the amount of $34.20 in the companies bank records. I also asked Nick if he had checked his company's bank statement to see if $34.20 had been charged against the account, but he had not. Nick said the FBI visited his office on only one occasion-Monday morning, November 25. Howerer, there are several FBI reports that claim FBI agents visited Mazza on at least two other occasions. A report by agent Merriman D. Diven indicates that he interviewed Nick Mazza on Tuesday, November 26, 1963. Diven states, "Mazza has searched the records of his firm and was only able to locate a U.S. Treasury form W-4 form which listed the following information: employees name, residence, social security number, exemptions and date." An FBI summary report written on December 17, 1963 states "The only record he (Mazza) had of his employment was a W-2 form which he had given to the FBI." Nick Mazza adamantly disputes the contents of these two FBI reports and insists there was never a W-4 form or a W-2 form for Oswald, because there was never an employee file for Oswald !! Nick Mazza insists that he met with two FBI agents on only one occasion, and gave them only one item--a $34.20 check. This check has never appeared in FBI files or published by the Warren Commission. Therefore, the FBI reports which mention the W-2 and W-4 forms are not genuine. These two FBI reports were created in an attempt to show that Nick gave a W-4 form to one FBI agent and gave a W-2 form to another FBI agent.

The FBI reported that on Tuesday, November 26, Nick Mazza gave a W-4 form to the FBI and gave a W-2 form to an FBI agent in New Orleans. Question: How could FBI agents be collecting documents from Nick Mazza in New Orleans on Tuesday, November 26, when the FBI office in Washington, DC sent 455 items of evidence, including this W-2 form, to the Dallas Police on November 26 that were inventoried and photographed? The FBI photographed these two fabricated government forms, and gave photographs to the Warren Commission. The  Warren Commission used these photographic copies to claim that Oswald worked for J.R. Michels, but did nothing whatsoever to verify Oswald's beginning or ending dates of employment. It is impossible for me to believe that while LEE Oswald was working with Frank DiBenedetto at Tujague's that HARVEY Oswald was working with Nick Mazza at JR Michels. No office file for Oswald, no company copies of an Oswald w-4 form or w-2 form, a payroll check for $34.20 that does not match wages of $80 on a w-2 form, the FBI claiming that agents visited JR Michels three times, which Nick Mazza disputes, and Nick Mazza insisting he gave only one item to the FBI--the $34.20 check. We are left with two fabricated FBI reports of agents receiving w-4 and w-2 forms from Nick Mazza, photographs of FBI fabricated w-4 and w-2 forms, and no FBI report of a $34.20 payroll check given to Oswald. I believe that Oswald's alleged employment at JR Michels was a total fabrication, a ruse, created for the purpose of fixing Oswald's employment at JR Michels ending in January, 1956 in order to create a time period for HARVEY Oswald to have worked at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1956, instead of 1957 and 1958 when LEE Oswald was in Japan.

The FBI, however, was not very careful in creating these documents. Oswald's wages from JR Michels on the W-2 form show $80, but the only check given to Oswald was for $34.80. This W-2 form was not found, initialed, or dated by the Dallas Police at Oswald's rooming house or at Ruth Paine's. This W-2 form and the W-4 form were created by the FBI in Washington, D.C., and then returned to the Dallas Police on November 26th with hundreds of other items. In Dallas these fabricated W-2  and W-4 forms were, for the first time, inventoried and photographed by the FBI and Dallas Police.

LEE Oswald's signature	HARVEY Oswald's signature

Researchers who are interested in Oswald's "handwriting" should look at HARVEY Oswald's signatures on the J.R. Michels Employee Withholding Exemption Certificate and HARVEY Oswald's signature on the back side of JR Michels $34.20 payroll check.  Compare the signatures of HARVEY Oswald with the signatures of LEE Oswald on the Tujagues Employee Withholding Exemption Certificate and LEE Oswald's time cards. These signatures are very different. One difference is in the formation of the letter "L." LEE Oswald normally writes a capital "L" by making a curved loop at the bottom left side of the "L." HARVEY Oswald normally writes a capital "L" by making a sharp "V" at the bottom left side of the "L."

Warren Commission: Oswald worked "for several months thereafter"at the Pfisterer Dental Lab

The single most difficult problem for the FBI and Warren Commission to resolve was Palmer McBride's statement to the FBI that he worked and befriended HARVEY Oswald in New Orleans in 1957 and 1958, when LEE Oswald was in the Marines in Japan. McBride first reported his work and friendship with Oswald in 1957 and 1958 to the Air Force Office of Special Investigation. In 1963 McBride had no idea that his 8 month friendship with Oswald in 1957 and 1958 in New Orleans could expose Harvey Oswald and Lee Oswald to the public. McBride was interviewed one time and only one time by FBI agents, which resulted in a 4 page FBI report. McBride's 4 page FBI interview was given to the Warren Commission, who knew they could never, ever, allow McBride to testify. All employment and payroll records collected by the FBI from the Pfisterer Dental Lab were never given to the Warren Commission, and all records soon disappeared.

In 1992 I read each one of the Warren Commission's 26 volumes of evidence and testimony. As I read through the volumes I began to notice there were unusual discrepancies about Oswald such as his height, his weight, his New York school records, two different records of his attendance at radar school in Biloxi, Mississippi, and two US passports with different photos of Oswald. But there were two things about Oswald that I could not understand. First was Oswald's ability to read and write the Russian language after dropping out of school in the 9th & 10th grades. Nobody has ever been able to show where and when Oswald learned to speak, read, and write the Russian language. George DeMohrenschildt, HARVEY Oswald's friend in Dallas, said that Oswald preferred reading classical Russian literature instead of reading English. The second thing that I could not understand about Oswald was Warren Commission Exhibit 1386. This document was an FBI interview of Palmer McBride, HARVEY Oswald's friend and co-worker for 8 months at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans, while at the same time LEE Oswald was in the Marines in Japan. After reading McBride's FBI interview, I searched for his Warren Commission testimony. I soon learned that McBride was never interviewed by the Warren Commission, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, or the Assassination Records Review Board. In their final report the Warren Commission said that in the spring of 1956, Oswald worked "for several months thereafter" at the Pfisterer Dental Lab." "Several months thereafter" with no beginning and ending dates of employment, no company records, and no interviews of Pfisterer employees. Palmer McBride told FBI agent John Palmer that he worked with (HARVEY) Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Lab for 8 months, from October, 1957 until May, 1958. But in 1957 and 1958 Oswald was in the Marines in Japan. Why had Palmer McBride never appeared before the Warren Commission, or interviewed by any government committee? Why had Palmer McBride been ignored for 30 years? The answer was obvious.... Palmer McBride had exposed a critical 8 month period of Oswald's life that could not be explained. Palmer McBride was not only ignored by the Warren Commission, but his working with Oswald in New Orleans for 8 months in 1957 and 1958 had to be covered up.

The FBI gave the Warren Commission no documentation whatsoever to verify the dates of Oswald's employment at Pfisterers. But the Warren Commission had an FBI report of their interview with Palmer McBride, who said he worked with Oswald in New Orleans in 1957 and 1958, at the same time LEE Oswald was in Japan. The Warren Commission was well aware of this conflict, and knew they had to avoid McBride, avoid employees and records from the Pfisterer Dental Lab, and find a way to avoid the years 1957 and 1958. The Warren Commission had to completely avoid Palmer McBride. The Commission decided to interview McBride's friend, William Wulf, who casually knew Oswald. The Commission then chose Wesley Liebeler, the assistant counsel of the Warren Commission, to question Mr. Wulf. Wesley Liebeler knew there was a serious problem with one Lee Harvey Oswald working in New Orleans for 8 months in 1957 and 1958, while at the same time another Lee Harvey Oswald was in Japan. In preparation for William Wulf's testimony, Liebeler prepared a carefully worded opening statement. At the beginning of Wulf's testimony, attorney Liebeler said to Wulf, "We want to inquire of you concerning possible knowledge that you have of Lee Harvey Oswald during the time that he lived in New Orleans during the period 1954-55." NOT THE YEARS 1957 AND 1958 AS TOLD BY PALMER MCBRIDE, BUT THE YEARS WERE CHANGED BY WESLEY LIEBELER TO 1954/1955. The Warren Commission, thru Wesley Liebeler, had intentionally tried to change Oswald's employment at Pfisterer's from 1957 and 1958 to the years 1954 and1955, which was before Oswald joined the Marines in 1956.  Without any objection, the Warren Commission was then able to claim that after Oswald's employment at JR Michels in 1956, Oswald worked "for several months thereafter" at the Pfisterer Dental Lab, without a shred of evidence.

William E. Wulf, Jr.

For the next year I tried to find Palmer McBride, which was very time consuming and frustrating. I made little progress but read about Palmer's friend, William E. Wulf, who was featured in McBride's 4 page handwritten memo. Wulf met Oswald at a meeting of the New Orleans Amateur Astronomy Association (NOAAA) in January, 1958. In 1993 I located and telephoned Mr. Wulf, who was living in Slidell, LA, 25 miles northeast of New Orleans. When I asked Mr. Wulf if he remembered the year he met Oswald, he thought for a minute and said, "Either late 1957 or early 1958." After discussing his recollections of the NOAAA meeting, I was satisfied that his memory of the date was accurate. Now there were several people who knew that (HARVEY) Oswald was in New Orleans in 1957 and 1958, when Marine Corps records placed (LEE) Oswald in Japan. In 1996 I flew to New Orleans and met Mr. Wulf personally in Slidell, LA., who was then working as a computer analyst. I asked Mr. Wulf to pinpoint the date of his first meeting with Oswald by listing his years of attendance in junior high and high school and then relate those years to his association with the NOAAA. Wulf listed the years of his junior high school attendance and his sophomore year at De La Salle High School in 1955 to 1956. Wulf then recalled that he had missed the entire 1956 to 1957 school year due to an illness. Wulf said that he could only have met and known Oswald after returning to school in the fall of 1957. Wulf said, "When I returned to school I began my junior year at Cor Jesu high school, in the fall of 1957, and again attended meetings of the astronomy club. I met (HARVEY) Oswald sometime after Christmas of 1957, probably in early January, 1958. I met him for the first time at Walter Gehrke's house when he was with McBride." This was the first and only time that (HARVEY) Oswald visited Gehrke's house or attended a NOAAA astronomy meeting, but it was not his last meeting with William Wulf, Jr.

William Eugene Wulf was president of the NOAAA and his close friend, Palmer Edwin McBride, had been a member for two years. Wulf and McBride attended different schools but got to know each other and became close friends through the astronomy association. The association consisted of more than a dozen teenagers from New Orleans and surrounding areas who shared a common interest in astronomy. One evening, in early 1958, McBride took (HARVEY) Oswald with him to William Wulf's house. Wulf told the Warren Commission, "He (McBride) brought (HARVEY) Oswald over to my house one evening about 10:30 pm or so. We got into a very long conversation that lasted maybe until 3:00 am, about 2:30, 3:00 in the morning." A couple of weeks later McBride and (HARVEY) Oswald returned to Wulf's house for a second visit. Wulf recalled, "The second time I met him (HARVEY Oswald) was under the same circumstances, this boy (McBride) brought him (HARVEY Oswald) over. And we had another long conversation and this time I was interested in history, etc., and he brought up, I don't know how we got around to it, communism and he started bringing up his association, he believed in Marxism, Lenin, the Lenin theory, and that he would, he advocated this. He even mentioned that he had tried to join a cell of the communist party in New Orleans. And he couldn't find any apparently....We got into a discussion on communism and he was very vehement about it. And my father, this was about two or three o' clock in the morning and we ended up waking my father up and he came back and he heard the conversation. My father had enough of communism when he was in World War I on the German side and when he got out the Social Communist revolt was going on in Germany....He was not the man to accept someone else's views especially when this boy at his age was very antagonistic to anyone who didn't believe his way. So my father literally threw him out."

Warren Commission Exhibit 1386

Warren Commission Exhibit 1386  is a 4 page FBI report of McBride's memories of (HARVEY) Oswald, the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory, and himself in 1957 and 1958. Originally handwritten, this memo was then typewritten by the FBI. It was later given to the Warren Commission, identified as CE 1386, and printed in the Warren Commission's 26 volumes of evidence. On the day of the assassination Palmer Edwin McBride was serving in the US Air Force and stationed at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. That evening McBride saw and recognized Lee Harvey Oswald from his picture on television. McBride then contacted the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He spoke with a security officer, who then contacted the FBI. FBI agent John R Palmer was immediately dispatched to interview McBride. McBride began the interview by telling agent Palmer that he had worked with Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in New Orleans in 1957 and 1958. McBride explained that his and Oswald's duties were to deliver dental products produced by the lab to local dentists. During breaks from their work the boys discussed astronomy, politics, and communism. McBride told agent Palmer that Oswald visited his home on Barrone St. on several occasions and together they listened to classical music.

McBride said that he visited (HARVEY) Oswald at his apartment in the Hotel Senator, which was located directly across the street from the dental lab on Dauphine Street. McBride's 4 page handwritten memo was typewritten by the FBI, later given to the Warren Commission, identified as CE 1386, and printed in the Warren Commission's 26 volumes of evidence.

Palmer McBride knew (HARVEY) Oswald from October, 1957 thru May, 1958. McBride told the FBI that Oswald lived directly across the street from the dental lab at the Hotel Senator. The FBI then interviewed the manager of the Hotel Senator, and asked for guest registration cards for the year 1956, thereby avoiding 1957 and 1958. No registration cards were found for Oswald during the year 1956, so the FBI had no more interest in the Hotel Senator.

Linda Faircloth, President of Pfisterer Dental Laboratory

Click here to see 1997 interview of Linda Faircloth

In 1995 I called the Pfisterer Dental Lab in Metairie, LA., and asked if anyone at the company knew that Lee Harvey Oswald had worked there. My phone call was directed to Linda Faircloth, then the President of the Pfisterer Dental Lab. Linda told me that Pfisterer was now a nationwide company and held annual meetings of company Presidents. A few years earlier Mz. Faircloth had been chosen as speaker to prepare a talk and discussion at the annual meeting of her company. For Linda the name of her chosen subject was already known to everyone....a former employee of her dental lab named Lee Harvey Oswald. Linda had known about Oswald for a long time after discussing his work at Pfisterer with the owners and employees of the company. Linda said, "Lee Harvey Oswald worked at Pfisterer on two separate occasions as a messenger. The first time, according to what the owners told me, was a short period sometime in 1955. He was re-hired in late 1957 in the same position." I asked Linda if she knew the name Palmer McBride, and said yes, she knew Palmer, and said he was living in Sun Valley, California.

Palmer Edwin McBride

As soon as my conversation with Linda ended, I called Palmer, introduced myself, and we spoke for hours. A few days later I flew to California and met Palmer in person. McBride is a very friendly, loquacious, and kind man-the type of person you'd like to have as a neighbor or friend. It didn't take long to realize that McBride was very intelligent and possessed a superb memory. He remembered dates, times and places from the 1950's and 1960's better than I could remember events from last year. In response to my questions about Oswald, McBride carefully reconstructed his life in the mid-1950's, his work at the Pfisterer Dental Lab, and his association with Oswald. McBride was absolutely certain that he met Oswald shortly after the Russians launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite on October 4, 1957. From Oswald's first day of work at Pfisterer in October, 1957 McBride and Oswald got along well. They quickly became close friends and McBride invited Oswald to his home on Barrone St. to listen to classical music on two or three occasions.

McBride liked to visit the Opera House where his father worked part time and remembered that on one occasion he and Oswald attended the opera "Boris Godounov." During the 1950's "Boris Godounov" played only twice in New Orleans, on October 10 and 12th, 1957, when McBride and Oswald were in attendance. On a few occasions, Oswald took McBride across the street to his room at the Hotel Senator. McBride met Oswald's caretaker/mother, who he described as "short and fat." McBride said that during lunch, (HARVEY) Oswald would always walk across the street to his room at the Hotel Senator and have lunch.

By early 1958 Palmer McBride had been attending bi-monthly meetings of the New Orleans Amateur Astronomy Association (NOAAA) for three years, most recently at the home of Walter Gehrke, who lived at 208 Hector Avenue in Metairie, Louisiana. McBride told the FBI, "In early 1958 I took Oswald with me to a meeting of the New Orleans Amateur Astronomy Association at the home of Walter Gehrke. When interviewed by the FBI Gehrke said, "None of the meetings of the NOAAA were held at my house until 1958." Gehrke's statement meant simply that McBride and (HARVEY) Oswald could not have attended a NOAAA meeting at his house any time prior to 1958. William Wulf, Ralph Hartwell, Palmer McBride and Walter Gehrke's statements leave no doubt that (HARVEY) Oswald attended a meeting of the NOAAA in early 1958. In 1998 Palmer McBride renewed his acquaintance with Gehrke, and asked him if he had any records from their NOAAA meetings in the 1950's. Gehrke did not have any records, but still remembered the day when McBride brought Oswald to an association meeting at his (Gehrke's) home in early 1958. Presiding over the January, 1958 meeting at Gehrke's house was McBride's good friend, William E. Wulf, Jr., a student at Cor Jesu High School in the 11th grade. During the meeting Oswald praised communism and recent Russian space successes, much to the dismay of association members. McBride recalled the members were so annoyed with Oswald's pro-communist talk that Wulf finally told (HARVEY) Oswald, "If you like Russia so damn much why don't you just go over there." This was the first and only time that (HARVEY) Oswald attended a NOAAA meeting, and it occurred at Gehrke's home in early 1958, while LEE Oswald was on maneuvers with fellow Marines in the South China Sea.

James Harrison Vance was Palmer McBride's best friend and a member of the New Orleans Amateur Astronomy Association (NOAAA). On one occasion McBride asked Vance if he would work in his place at the Pfisterer Dental Lab, which Vance agreed to do. When they arrived at the lab, McBride introduced Vance to (HARVEY) Oswald. A few days later, on January 31, 1958, the astronomy association held a special meeting at Vance's house when the first US satellite was placed in orbit aboard Explorer I, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 9:38 pm (CST).

During one of my visits with Palmer, I showed him two photographs of Marguerite Claverie Oswald. The first photo was taken in 1945, on the day of her marriage to Edwin Ekdahl. The second photo was a photo of store employees at Paul's Shoe store in Fort Worth at Christmas, 1957. Both photos show a tall, slender, nice-looking woman, who appeared to be very different from McBride's description of (HARVEY) Oswald's mother. When I showed these photographs to McBride, he said the woman in these photographs was not the woman he met at the Hotel Senator. McBride also pointed out that in December 1957, the woman he knew as Oswald's mother, "Marguerite Oswald," was living in New Orleans at the Hotel Senator and not living and working in Fort Worth.

I then showed McBride a photograph taken in 1954 of the heavy-set, dour-looking "Marguerite Oswald" impostor sitting on a chair in her apartment at 126 Exchange Place. McBride said, "That's her. That's the woman I met."

From my research I realized that if a "Lee Harvey Oswald" was in New Orleans and another "Lee Harvey Oswald" was with Marines in Japan at the same time, then both of these young men were likely connected to US intelligence. They both had mothers, lives, and backgrounds both before 1957 and after 1958. I then began to focus my research on Oswald, locating documents, photographs, and people who met and knew "Lee Harvey Oswald" during the 1950's and early 1960's. I never believed we would know the names of the shooters, their locations, the number of shots fired, and who murdered President Kennedy. However, if we could find out who was responsible for creating two "Lee Harvey Oswalds," then we would learn who was responsible for his assassination.

Palmer, wearing a jacket with the Apollo patches
from his years on the space moon program

In November, 1997, and again in November, 1998, I invited Palmer to attend JFK conferences in Dallas. Palmer told the audience of researchers that Oswald quit Pfisterer's "a month or two before I quit." McBride then explained that he (McBride) "joined the Air Force reserves on August 15, 1958, and recalled that Oswald quit Pfisterer a month or two earlier, in June or July of 1958....he (HARVEY Oswald) said he was moving to Fort Worth where he had a job selling shoes." After moving to Ft. Worth (HARVEY) Oswald wrote a letter to the dental lab that was read aloud to office and staff members. I was very glad to have met and became friends with Palmer McBride for several years. I first met Palmer at his home in Sun Valley, CA, and later visited him on several occasions at his home in Winnetka, CA. Palmer passed away in 2013, but part of his life will remain forever with the Warren Commission.

CLICK on the image above to see Palmer McBride talk to a Dallas audience in 1997.

June, 1956, HARVEY Oswald, Robert Oswald, caretaker/mother live together at 4936 Collinwood, Ft. Worth, TX

4936 Collinwood, Ft. Worth, TX

After dropping out of Warren Easton High School in October, 1955, HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother apparently left New Orleans and moved to California.

HARVEY Oswald told Texas Employment Counselor Laura Kittrell that he had worked at an office in California for six months when he was 16 years old. After leaving California HARVEY and his caretaker/mother returned to New Orleans. On March 1, 1956, the Louisiana Department of Labor issued a work permit to Oswald. Three months later, on July 1, 1956, HARVEY and the Marguerite Oswald impostor relocated to Ft. Worth, in preparation for HARVEY's enlistment in the Marine Corps. HARVEY and his caretaker/mother moved into the upper west apartment in a two-story brick building at 4936 Collinwood. LEE Oswald's brother, Robert Oswald, moved in and lived together with HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother for the next five months. On July 13, 1956 Robert opened a checking account with $220 at the West Side State Bank, and listed his home address as 4936 Collinwood. Robert and his future wife, Vada Mercer, became engaged while Robert was living with HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother.  Robert Oswald's brother, LEE Oswald, who began working at Tujague's in June, 1955, was still working at Tujague's during the summer of 1956 and living with his mother at 126 Exchange in New Orleans.

The landlady at 4936 Collinwood was Mrs. James Taylor. Mrs. Taylor told the FBI that Lee (HARVEY) Oswald lived in this apartment until he joined the Marines in October. Mrs. Taylor said that Robert Oswald stayed in the apartment until he and Vada were married on November 21, 1956. Prior to his marriage to Vada Mercer Robert Oswald never introduced his future wife to HARVEY Oswald or to the Marguerite Oswald imposter, even though he was living with both of them. No need for an introduction, because these people were not related to Robert Oswald.

It should also be noted that John Pic told the FBI that in his estimation Robert Oswald knows considerably more about Lee Harvey Oswald than he does. Yes, of course Robert knows more, much more. Robert took the photo of HARVEY Oswald at the Bronx Zoo in 1952. Robert was in New York and knew that his brother, LEE Oswald, attended PS 44 Manhattan. Robert told the Warren Commission that his brother (HARVEY Oswald) attended Stripling Junior High in Ft. Worth. In July, 1955 Robert Oswald was living with brother LEE and his mother at 126 Exchange in New Orleans. One year later, in 1956, Robert was living with HARVEY Oswald and the Marguerite Oswald impostor at 4936 Collinwood in Ft. Worth for five months. At the same time Robert's mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald, was living 2 miles away at 3830 W. 6th. By 1956 Robert Oswald had knowledge of the plan to have Russian speaking HARVEY Oswald assume the identity of American born LEE Oswald.

The last time John Pic saw his younger brother, 12 year old LEE Oswald was in New York 9 years earlier in 1953. Nine years later, in 1962, Robert Oswald hosted a family gathering for Thanksgiving at his home in Ft. Worth. Robert invited half-brother John Pic and his family, and HARVEY Oswald and his family for dinner.  After not seeing his real brother for 9 years, Robert Oswald was hoping that John Pic would now accept 23 year old HARVEY Oswald as his brother. Pic, after talking and observing HARVEY Oswald, had his doubts and told the Warren Commission, "the Lee Harvey Oswald I met in November of 1962 was not the Lee Harvey Oswald I had known 10 years previous." Robert Oswald was involved and had knowledge of both HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald for 11 years prior to the assassination of President Kennedy, and always said that his brother shot President Kennedy.

While HARVEY Oswald, the Marguerite Oswald imposter, and Robert Oswald were living at 4936 Collinwood in Ft. Worth, the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Claverie Oswald and LEE were still living in New Orleans. On July 31, 1956, Marguerite terminated her employment at Goldrings Department Store. LEE Oswald ended his year-long employment at Tujague's around the same time and mother and son moved to Ft. Worth. John Pic told the Warren Commission, "He (Robert Oswald) told me about a trip that he made to pick them up or something down there. They called him up one time and he drove down and got them and drove back all in the same trip."

3830 W. 6th, Ft. Worth, TX

After moving from New Orleans to Ft. Worth, LEE Oswald's tall, nice-looking mother moved into apartment #3 in a small four-unit building at 3830 W. 6th in Ft. Worth. In November, 1956, after LEE joined the Marine Corps, the Ft. Worth chapter of the Red Cross received a letter from the tall-nice looking Marguerite Oswald who listed her address as 3830 W. 6th and gave her phone number as PErshing 22737. In February, 1957 LEE Oswald took leave from the Marines and stayed with his mother for two weeks. On May 9, 1957, the Retail Merchants Association recorded Mrs. Oswald's employment at Clyde Campbells Mens store and her residence address as 3830 W. 6th. In June, 1957 LEE Oswald again took leave from the Marines and stayed with his mother for two weeks. Two months later, on August 31, 1957, LEE Oswald was en route to Japan aboard the USS Bexar. When the troop transport stopped in Hawaii for a few days, LEE Oswald mailed a postcard from Honolulu, Hawaii to his tall, nice-looking mother at 3830 W. 6th Street in Fort Worth. LEE Oswald wrote, "Well, only one day here but I have been having a lot of fun, 12 more days at sea to Japan. Love, Lee."

During Christmas, 1957, while Marguerite Claverie Oswald was living at 3830 W. 6th, she was working at Paul's Shoe Store in Ft. Worth (see photo above). The fourth person from the left side is Marguerite Claverie Oswald. The tall man standing behind Mrs. Oswald is Gene Watson, the man who gave me this photograph.

On November 25, 1963 FBI agent Arnold Brown interviewed Mr. L.M. McCracken, who said the mother of LEE Harvey Oswald was a neighbor who lived in the same building at 3830 W. 6th. McCracken said that LEE Oswald came home on leave on one or two occasions and stayed around the house for about two weeks on each trip. Marine Corps records show that LEE Oswald took leave from the Marines in February and June, 1957, before he sailed to Japan. The FBI, after interviewing Mr. McCracken, made no attempt to interview the owner of 3830 W. 6th and record the beginning and ending dates of Marguerite Claverie Oswald's tenancy, her place of employment, and additional tenants, if any. However, FBI agent Robley Madland interviewed landlady Mrs. James Taylor who said that Marguerite Oswald and her two sons, Robert Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald, lived in the upper west apartment of her building at 4936 Collinwood from the summer of 1956 thru November, 1956. The FBI now had reports of two Marguerite Oswald's, at two different addresses in Ft. Worth, and each woman with a son named Lee Harvey Oswald.

If the FBI had conducted a thorough investigation of Marguerite Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald in 1956 to 1957 they would have been able to show a short, dumpy, heavy-set "Marguerite Oswald" lived at 4936 Collinwood from July 1, 1956 thru June 1, 1957, while at the same time a tall, nice-looking, well-dressed Marguerite Claverie Oswald lived at 3830 W. 6th from August, 1956, thru early 1958. Once again, the FBI followed their usual pattern of failing to investigate conflicting evidence which would have exposed the two Oswalds.

NOTE: During questioning by the Warren Commission the Marguerite Oswald impostor became confused and disoriented about moving to Ft. Worth in 1956, from her previous address in California. Former CIA Director Allen Dulles, who most likely knew the history of both Oswald families, then interrupted her testimony and said, "I think you moved to Fort Worth with Lee in September 1956.

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While Robert Oswald was living at 4936 Collinwood, with HARVEY Oswald and the Marguerite Oswald impostor, his mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald, was living nearby at 3830 W. 6th, only 1.8 miles from her son.

The short, heavy set Marguerite Oswald impostor lived at 4936 Collinwood (PErshing 87259) for only one year. When she moved out of the apartment, on June 1, 1957, she owed Mrs. Taylor for past due utility bills. Mrs. Taylor (landlady) located her at 1031 W 5th St. on two or three occasions but Marguerite (the impostor) once again refused to pay the past due bills, just as she had refused to pay past due utility bills when she moved out of 126 Exchange in New Orleans.  A couple of months later the short, heavy set Marguerite Oswald impostor and HARVEY Oswald returned to New Orleans, where they lived at the Hotel Senator.

HARVEY Oswald and Janet Bolin, Arlington Heights High School

After relocating to Ft. Worth, HARVEY Oswald enrolled in Arlington Heights High School on September 6, 1956. But the short, thin HARVEY Oswald was not recognized by classmates who knew the much taller, husky LEE Oswald only three years earlier in grammar school. Richard Garrett knew LEE Oswald quite well in grade school and watched as (HARVEY) Oswald walked up to him in the hall at Arlington Heights. Garrett told Life Magazine, "I remember I had to look down to talk to him, and it seemed strange, because he had been the tallest, the most dominant member of our group in grammar school. He looked like he was just lost. He was very different from the way I remember him. And he tried to sell me on communism." Phillip Anderson, who knew LEE Oswald well in grade school and spent the night at his house on several occasions, said the Oswald he met at Arlington Heights High School was "not the same person" that he knew in grade school. On September 28, three weeks after enrolling at Arlington Heights, HARVEY Oswald withdrew from school and joined the Marines.

On October 8, 1956, Robert Oswald wrote a $10.00 check from his account to "Lee H. Oswald," which was cashed at a nearby Seven Eleven store by HARVEY Oswald. On the front of this check Robert wrote his address as 4936 Collinwood, and phone number PE 8-7259.

Fabricated W-2 and W-4 forms created by the FBI for Dolly Shoe, Gerard F. Tujague Co, JR Michels, and Pfisterer Dental Lab

UNDERAGE STATE REGULATIONS. In the state of Louisiana all underage workers were required by law to obtain "underage work permits" from the Division of Women and Child Employment at the Louisiana Department of Labor. This agency should have received several applications from 15 year old Oswald and issued multiple work permits to him in 1956 and 1957 for work at Tujague's, J.R. Michels, and the Pfisterer Dental Lab. Work permits would have been dated prior to his working at any of these companies. But the FBI claimed this state agency had no record of a work permit issued to LEE Oswald for Tujague's, or to HARVEY Oswald for JR Michels, or the Pfisterer Dental Lab, yet the same agency issued HARVEY Oswald underage work permits for Dolly Shoe in 1955 and 1956. We now understand that if an underage work permit had been issued to 15 year old LEE Oswald for his year and a half employment at Tujague's, the work permit would have been dated in June, 1955, and conflicted with HARVEY Oswald attending Warren Easton High School three months later. If an underage work permit had been issued to HARVEY Oswald for work at JR Michels, the work permit would have been dated in early January, 1956, and conflicted with LEE Oswald working at Tujague's. If an underage work permit had been issued to HARVEY Oswald to work at Pfisterer, the work permit would have been dated in September, 1957, and conflicted with LEE Oswald serving in the Marine Corps in Japan. We know that a file existed for HARVEY Oswald because he was given an underage work permit for Dolly Shoe, but this file disappeared. We don't know if an underage work permit was given to LEE Oswald for his work at Tujague's, because there is no record of this file.


U.S. CUSTOMS REGULATIONS. Federal regulations required that employees of customs brokers who handled international cargos be "authenticated." Employees were required to appear in person at the US Customs office where they filled out forms, were questioned, identified, and photographed. An "authentication file" was created that contained information on the employee, the firm he represented, and was held at the US Customs office. Robert Oswald, in his book Lee, recalled that in July, 1955 his brother said, "They're sending an order to Portugal this week.....we received a shipment from Hong Kong just this morning." There is little doubt that US Customs and the Louisiana Department of Labor should have had "authentication" files for Lee Oswald. If the Louisiana Department of Labor and US Customs had an "authentication" file for "Lee Harvey Oswald," they probably turned the files over to the FBI after the assassination.

Mrs. Lucille Laguillon worked in the Export Control Section of US Customs and routinely dealt with customs brokers, including Tujague's and JR Michels. Lucille told the FBI that anyone who worked for a customs broker (including 15 year old Oswald) was required to be "authenticated" by her office. She explained that her section would have photographed Oswald and maintained a file on him, including the beginning and ending dates of his employment and the firm he represented. After speaking with the FBI agents Mrs. Laguillon directed them to her supervisor, Mrs. Doris Naccari, who was in charge of the Export Control Section. Mrs. Naccari told the agents that she had custody of all "authentication" files on companies and their employees who did business with US Customs in New Orleans. But the FBI claimed that Mrs. Naccari had no file on Oswald and did not remember him. If the FBI did confiscate Oswald's "authentication file" from US Customs, and Oswalds file from the Louisiana Dept of Labor, they suppressed information in those files and kept it from the public. The FBI had to suppress this file, because the beginning and ending dates of LEE Oswald's employment at Tujague's would conflict with HARVEY Oswald attending Warren Easton High School and his alleged employment at Pfisterer's in the spring of 1956. If neither US Customs nor the Louisiana Dept of Labor had a file for 15 year old Oswald, then both Tujague's and JR Michels were in violation of both US Customs and Louisiana Department of Labor regulations, which is highly unlikely.

Immediately after the assassination the FBI had to find a way to merge the backgrounds of HARVEY and LEE into one, and only one, LEE HARVEY Oswald. There were three major conflicts for the FBI to sort out. The first conflict was LEE Oswald's year and a half employment at Tujagues from June, 1955 thru August, 1956 which conflicted with HARVEY Oswald working at Pfisterer in 1955, and attending Warren Easton High School in September, 1955. The second conflict was Robert Oswald living with HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker/mother for five months at 4936 Collinwood in Ft. Worth, Texas, while LEE Oswald and his mother were working in New Orleans and residing at 126 Exchange Place. The third conflict was HARVEY Oswald's employment in New Orleans at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1957 and 1958, while LEE Oswald was in the Marine Corps in Japan. In an honest investigation, to learn Oswald's employment history, the FBI would simply have verified the dates of Oswald's employment from business records at Tujague's and Pfisterers. Even without company records the FBI could have interviewed the company owners, staff and co-workers, requested copies of Oswald's payroll checks from their bank, or requested a schedule of payments made to the Social Security Administration on behalf of Oswald by his former employers. They also could have asked the IRS or the Louisiana Dept. of Revenue for a schedule of taxes (federal and/or state) withheld from LEE Oswald's payroll. But such information, from government records, would conflict with HARVEY Oswald attending Warren Easton High School, working at JR Michels, and working at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1957 and 1958 while (LEE) Oswald was in the Marines in Japan. It was obvious that the dates of LEE Oswald's year and a half work history at Tujague's had to be altered.

The FBI had to merge HARVEY Oswald's schooling and employment with LEE Oswald's 16 month employment at Tujague's from June, 1955 thru September, 1956. As previously discussed, LEE Oswald's time cards at Tujague's conflicted with HARVEY Oswald's attending Warren Easton High school in the fall semester of 1955. The FBI destroyed LEE Oswald's time cards at Tujague's from June thru November, 1955, which provided time for Oswald to attend high school from September 8 thru October 10, 1955. After dropping out of high school the five remaining time cards would show that Oswald worked at Tujague's from November 10, 1955 to January 14, 1956. Oswald's next job, allegedly at JR Michels for 3 days, is doutful.

By discarding the remainder of Oswald's time cards from Tujague's, from January 15 thru September, 1956, there was now time for Oswald to have worked "several months thereafter"at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans, before he joined the Marines in October. The FBI made sure there were no verifiable and accurate company records from Tujague's, JR Michels, or Pfisterer to accurately determine Oswald's dates of employment. The FBI then decided to fabricate W-2 and W-4 government forms for each of these 3 companies in an attempt to justify changing the dates of LEE Oswald's employment.... and most important was changing the date of HARVEY Oswald's employment at Pfisterer's from the years 1957 & 1958 to the year 1956. After fabricating W-2 and W-4 government forms for these companies the FBI needed to quietly place these items into evidence.

Dallas Police detectives collect 225 items of evidence

The W-2 forms given to the Warren Commission for Dolly, Tujague's, JR Michels, and Pfisterer's are all noted as "Copy C", and are sent to employees at year end for their personal records. A duplicate copy of all W-2 forms, noted as "Copy D", are kept in the company file. On the afternoon of November 22, 1963, the Dallas Police searched HARVEY Oswald's room at his rooming house on North Beckley and Ruth Paine's house and garage in Irving, Texas.

Each and every item taken was initialed and dated by Dallas Police detectives, listed first on a handwritten inventory, and then listed on a type-written inventory at DPD headquarters. Later these inventory lists were identified by the Warren Commission as Stoval A, Stoval B, and Turner 1. Not a single W-2 form or W-4 form was found by Dallas Police detectives. Around midnight all 225 items of evidence collected by the Dallas Police were photographed on the floor of the Dallas Police station, but there were no W-2 or W-4 forms. On the early morning of November 23, all 225 items collected by the Dallas Police were sent to FBI headquarters in Washington,  DC.

November 23, 1963, 225 items of evidence were sent to the FBI

Once again we are looking at an FBI fabricated W-2 form, "Copy C", for the Pfisterer Dental Lab. A "Copy C"  form was for Oswald's personal records. An identical copy, identified as "Copy D", was kept in the company records file, but all of the Pfisterer company records disappeared after they were collected by the FBI. This "Copy C" form was not found by the Dallas Police and was not listed on the Dallas Police handwritten or typewritten inventory. This "Copy C" form was fabricated by the FBI, then photographed by the FBI, and first appeared on November 26, 1963 when the FBI returned 455 items of evidence to the Dallas Police. In Dallas the FBI's photograph of this form was inventoried and photographed jointly by the FBI and Dallas Police, and appears in the Warren Volumes in Moore Ex. 1. In the National Archives there are no original W-2 forms, only photographs. In an honest investigation the FBI would have found two "Copy D" forms, one for the year 1957 and one for the year 1958 in the Pfisterer Dental Lab company file, and the original W-2 forms would be in the National Archives.

At FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, the FBI began to fabricate W-2 and W-4 government forms with a typewriter, and they used the same typewriter to fabricate all of the W-2 forms above. The Tujague, JR Michels, and the Pfisterer Dental Lab W-2 and W-4 forms were all typed with the same typewriter. And the FBI mistakenly fabricated a W-2 form "Copy C", given to company employees, instead of the "Copy D", which was held in the employers file, for each of these companies. FBI photographs of these fabricated W-2 and W-4 forms were then included with an additional 230 items of evidence that the FBI added to the original 225 items they received from the Dallas Police. On November 26, 1963 the FBI sent a total of 455 items of evidence to the Dallas Police, where each item was inventoried and photographed.

W-2 and W-4 forms for Oswald were typed with the same typewriter

Researchers may want to look closely at the Dolly Shoe and Tujague W-2 forms for 1955, and focus on the social security number "433 54 3937" and "126 Exchange" on both forms. In the mid-1990's I made transparencies of each W-2 form. When these transparencies are overlaid onto one another, the address and social security numbers match perfectly. We then sent copies of the W-2 forms to Dawn Stanford, an archivist at the IBM Corporation. Dawn studied the forms and noted that the characters, pitch and typewriter offsets on each of these W-2 forms are identical. In her words these W-2 forms "were typed with the same typewriter." Government W-2 and W-4 forms from three different companies during two different years that were all typed with the same typewriter is a clear indication of fraud. None of the W-2 and W-4 forms were found, dated, or initialed by Dallas Police detectives, nor were they listed on the original Dallas Police inventory of 225 items, The only initials on these forms were the initials "RF," the initials of FBI document specialist Robert Frazier. Photographs of these fabricated W-2 and W-4 forms were among the 230 "additional" items of evidence the FBI sent to the Dallas Police on November 26, 1963. The first record of these W-2 and W-4 forms were made when the FBI and Dallas Police made a joint inventory and photographed the 455 items of evidence returned by the FBI on November 26, 1963.

November 26, 1963, the FBI included the W-2 and W-4 forms in 455 items of evidence sent to the Dallas Police

The original 225  items of evidence that were initialed, dated, and photographed by Dallas Police detectives, were sent to the FBI on November 23. Three days later, on November 26, the original 225  items of "evidence," and the additional 230 items of evidence added by the FBI, were returned to the Dallas Police. Photographs of the W-2 forms were listed as #168, #169, and #175 on the joint FBI/Dallas Police inventory, and these items were among the 230 additional items of evidence added by the FBI.The 455 items of evidence were then photographed and inventoried jointly by the FBI and Dallas police and given to the Warren Commission.

The FBI's decision to fabricate government tax withholding forms within days of the assassination is proof positive that top FBI officials knew intimate details of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald's schooling and work history as teenagers. The dates and dollar amounts on these tax withholding forms were chosen by the FBI for the purpose of “merging” the backgrounds of HARVEY and LEE in order to show that one person, “Lee Harvey Oswald” attended high school before working at Tujague's, may have worked at JR Michels, and then worked a few months at Pfisterer's in 1956 before joining the US Marine Corps in October. Creating these W-2 and W-4 forms within days of the assassination 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 tax withholding forms momentarily resolved the problem of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald being in different locations at the same time on multiple occasions. But there were still related issues that government officials had to cover up.

Marina Oswald applies for Social Security benefits

The Social Security Administration had complete financial records showing FICA tax payments based upon Oswald's teenage employment. In 1955 Dolly Shoe paid FICA taxes for Oswald. In 1955 and 1956 Tujague paid FICA taxes for Oswald. In 1956 JR Michels paid FICA taxes for Oswald. In 1957 and 1958 Pfisterer Dental lab paid FICA taxes for HARVEY Oswald, while at the same time the US Marines paid FICA taxes for LEE Oswald in 1957, 1958, and 1959. However, duplicate Social Security records for HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald from 1955 thru 1959 posed a serious problem and could never be made public.

On January 9, 1964, six weeks after (HARVEY) Oswald's death, the Social Security Administration Office in Dallas received a completed "Application for Survivors Insurance Benefits" filled out by "Marina M. Oswald." Social Security responded by providing Marina with a Determination of Award. One of the most interesting items on this form is her husband's birth date, which is shown as October 19, 1939. The date of October 19 was often used as the birthday for HARVEY Oswald, while the birthday of LEE Oswald was always October 18. Marina was, of course, married to HARVEY Oswald. Another interesting item is the first base year (item 3), which is shown as 1951 even though Oswald's first job was in 1955 at Dolly Shoe. The last base year is shown as 1963. The base years, 1951 to 1963, were to be used to compute Marina's Social Security benefits.

Social Security was supposed to have based Marina's benefits on Oswald's lifetime earnings from 1951 thru 1963. Yet only two months after the assassination of President Kennedy the Social Security Administration intentionally awarded only 16 months of benefits to Marina based upon (HARVEY) Oswald's earnings in the years 1962 and 1963 which totaled $3,306.85 (item #5). Without any explanation Social Security failed to include 59 months of benefits for Oswald's pre-1962 earnings from his employment at Dolly Shoe (1955), Tujague's (1955-56), J.R. Michaels (1956) the Pfisterer Dental Lab (1957-58), and the Dept. of the Navy (Marines, 1957-1959). Social security should have recorded 75 months of FICA benefits based upon Oswald's life-time employment, from 1955 thru 1963. But instead of awarding 75 months of benefits to Marina, Social Security awarded only 16 months of benefits. This is yet another government bureaucracy corrupted by the need to cover up Social Security records that would expose the existence of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald prior to 1962.

The Social Security Administration withheld details of Oswald's employment prior to 1962 that were never made available to Marina or to the Warren Commission. Why? Because Social Security records would show FICA taxes withheld and paid for both HARVEY Oswald and for LEE Oswald at the same time. The identity of the person at Social Security who made the decision, or was told not to release Oswald's 1955 through 1961 social security records, remains unknown but the coverup continues to this day.

In 1978 the House Select Committee on Assassinations wrote to the Social Security Administration and asked for copies of Oswald's file. The Social Security Administration responded by providing Oswald's employment records for 1962 and 1963. But for Oswald's employment records prior to 1962 the Social Security Administration advised the House Select Committee to review the Warren Commission report. It is very difficult to believe the Social Security Administration would tell the House Select Committee on Assassination to ask the Warren Commission for employment records prior to the Marine Corps. But that is exactly what they did. It is obvious that in 1978 someone at the Social Security Administration knew, or was told, there was a problem with LHO's pre-1962 income. That someone knew there was a big problem and was trying hard to avoid the issue 15 years after the assassination. It is obvious that in 1978 someone at Social Security knew there was a problem with LHO's pre-1962 income. That someone knew there was a big problem and was trying hard to avoid the issue 15 years after the assassination.

The Dolly Shoe company opened for business in February, 1955 and closed their only store in New Orleans in 1957. In 1995 I contacted the former owner of Dolly Shoe, Maury Goodman, who was then living in Memphis and introduced myself. During one of our telephone conversations I asked Maury when the tax identification number for Dolly Shoe was issued. Maury was not sure of the date, and I then suggested that he contact the IRS and ask for the date the tax identification number for Dolly Shoe was created. On September 24, 1995 Mr. Goodman sent a letter to the IRS. Three weeks later, on October 17, 1995, Mr. Goodman received a letter from Internal Revenue, but after reading the letter Mr. Goodman was confused. Internal Revenue told Mr. Goodman the tax identification number for Dolly Shoe was issued in January, 1964, but Mr. Goodman knew this was impossible. Dolly Shoe was issued a tax identification number when their store opened in 1955, and their business closed two years later in 1957. How could a tax identification number be issued to Dolly Shoe in January, 1964, when this business closed in 1957 ?? If the tax identification number for Dolly Shoe was issued in January, 1964, then it appears there are no Internal Revenue Service records for Dolly Shoe before January, 1964. And no way to verify the dates of Oswald's employment, or anyone's employment at Dolly Shoe, from Internal Revenue Service records.

After discussing the confusing letter from Internal Revenue I suggested to Mr. Goodman that he contact Social Security, provide the Dolly Shoe tax identification number, and request Social Security records for 1955 and 1956. Mr. Goodman soon received a letter from Social Security with the records he requested. Now both Mr. Goodman and myself wondered why Social Security would have records available for Dolly Shoe in 1955 and 1956, but internal revenue had no records for Dolly Shoe prior to January, 1964. Our government should explain why the Internal Revenue Service has no record of the Dolly Shoe tax identification number 72-0464241 before January, 1964, yet Social Security provided Mr. Goodman with Dolly Shoe records in 1955 and 1956 with the same tax identification number.

In 1996 I asked Palmer McBride to contact Social Security and ask for his Pfisterer records  from 1955 to 1958. Palmer provided Social Security with the Pfisterer employer number 72-0444599, the same number shown on the 1956 withholding tax form from Pfisterer. Palmer received the information from Social Security as requested, which is shown above. The Pfisterer Employer Number for the years 1955 thru 1958 was 72-0444599. If Palmer had no issue obtaining his Social Security records from 1955-1958, then why did Social Security refuse to give Oswald's Social Security records to the HSCA in 1978?

Linda Faircloth told me that the Pfisterer Dental Lab was founded many years ago, long before Oswald was hired as a messenger. I suggested to Linda that she write to Internal Revenue and ask when Pfisterer was issued a company tax identification number.

On October 17, 1995 Linda received a letter from Internal Revenue, advising that the tax ID for Pfisterer had been issued in January, 1964, which Linda knew was not correct. Why would two companies, Dolly Shoe and Pfisterer's, that employed Lee Harvey Oswald as a teenager, have their tax identification numbers re-issued in January, 1964, if not to cover up the dates of Oswald's employment.

Once again we are looking at an FBI fabricated W-2 form, "Copy C", for the Pfisterer Dental Lab. A "Copy C"  form was for Oswald's personal records. An identical copy, identified as "Copy D", was kept in the company records file, but all of the Pfisterer company records disappeared after they were collected by the FBI. This "Copy C" form was not found by the Dallas Police and was not listed on the Dallas Police handwritten or typewritten inventory. This "Copy C" form was fabricated by the FBI, then photographed by the FBI, and first appeared on November 26, 1963 when the FBI returned 455 items of evidence to the Dallas Police. In Dallas the FBI's photograph of this form was inventoried and photographed jointly by the FBI and Dallas Police, and appears in the Warren Volumes in Moore Ex. 1. In the National Archives there are no original W-2 forms, only photographs. In an honest investigation the FBI would have found two "Copy D" forms, one for the year 1957 and one for the year 1958 in the Pfisterer Dental Lab company file, and the original Copy D forms would be in the National Archives.

The Social Security Administration provided Palmer McBride, in Sun Valley, California, with a summary of his earnings at Pfisterer from 1955 thru 1958. The Internal Revenue Service, however, advised Linda Faircloth, President of Pfisterer's, there was no record of the Pfisterer tax identification number before January, 1964 !! No tax identification number before January, 1964 means there are no IRS records for the Pfisterer Dental Lab before January, 1964. And no way to verify the dates of Oswald's employment at Pfisterer's from Internal Revenue Service records. Our government needs to explain why the Internal Revenue Service has no record of the Pfisterer tax identification number 72-044599 before January, 1964, yet Social Security provided Palmer McBride with his earnings at Pfisterer from 1955 thru 1958 with the same tax identification number.

What  are we supposed to think about our government hiding Internal Revenue Service records for companies that employed Oswald as a 15 and 16 year old teenager? What are we supposed to think when our Social Security Administration refuses to give the House Select Committee on Assassinations Oswald's file. And what are we suppose to think when include Oswald's social security contributions made as a teenager in the years 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959 are withheld when determining Social Security benefits due to Oswald's widow and Oswald's children ??  And how are we supposed to trust the ARRB when they were notified, by letter, concerning issues with IRS tax identification numbers issued in January, 1964, Social Security, Palmer McBride, Pfisterer's, and Marina Oswald's Social Security benefits based on only two years of Oswald's employment, yet none of these issues were addressed?

On November 22, 1996, Marina Oswald Porter and John Tunheim, the former Chairman of the Assassination Record Review Board, appeared on the Oprah Winfrey television program. On that broadcast, Mr. Tunheim asked Marina point blank to release Oswalds tax forms. Tunheim said, "We're asking her to cooperate as well with help getting access to Lee Harvey Oswald's tax files...." Marina refused, and said: "It's not important." Why would Marina make such a comment? HARVEY Oswald's tax returns and social security contributions are very important. We have to wonder WHY Marina refused to allow access to Oswald's tax information. Probably for the same reason that Oswald's Social Security records before 1962 were withheld. The disappearance of government records relating to a teenage "Lee Harvey Oswald" before 1962 was actively managed by our government and continues to this day.

HOWEVER, the disappearance, fabrication and alteration of government records has nothing to do with the assassination of President Kennedy, but has everything to do with HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald and hiding the true identity of the Russian speaking man accused of killing President Kennedy.

Someone in our government knew the truth about duplicate Oswalds and someone in our government still knows the truth.

Within 24 hours of the assassination FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent FBI agents to various cities throughout the USA to collect documents relating to HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald. FBI agents were instructed where to go and precisely which documents to seize. Therefore, we can conclude that Hoover knew about HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald's background long before November 22, 1963. And Hoover knew, or was told on November 22, the American public could never be told the truth about the two Oswalds or the CIA's "Oswald project". The American public would then blame the CIA for the assassination of President Kennedy and demand to know the true identity and background of Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald, who was accused of killing President Kennedy.

When the FBI, or any government agency, collects, destroys, and alters school records (PS44, Stripling & Beauregard), alters employment records (Dolly, JR Michaels, Tujague's, Pfisterer), denies the existence of a valid company tax identification numbers prior to 1964, confiscates LEE Oswald's Texas drivers license and his Department of Public Safety file, employment records for Marguerite Claverie Oswald disappear, W-2 and W-4 forms are fabricated, 230 unknown items are quietly placed into evidence by the FBI, and only photographs of evidence are given to the Warren Commission, then the Commission's ability to correctly piece together Oswald's background is severely limited. With the disappearance of so much evidence and deliberate fabrication of W-2 and W-4 forms, it is reasonable to assume the FBI may have had something to do with the "disappearance" of Oswald's SSA records prior to 1962, and the creation of new tax ID numbers for several companies in January, 1964 who had employed Oswald in the 1950's.

Warren Commission staff attorney John Hart Ely

There was one person on the Warren Commission staff, a young attorney, who was assigned the task of researching the background and history of Lee Harvey Oswald and his family. John Hart Ely, at age 26, was the youngest member to serve on the staff of the Warren Commission. Following the Warren Commission Mr. Ely was a professor of law at Yale for 5 years, at Harvard law for 9 years, Stanford law dean for 14 years, and was recognized as one of the most important constitutional scholars of his generation. As Mr. Ely studied the history and background of Lee Harvey Oswald and his family he slowly began to realize there were Oswald duplicates. As a young staff attorney, Mr. Ely did not openly discuss his thoughts about Oswald with colleagues, but included some of his thoughts in written memoranda. On April 10, 1964 Commission attorney Albert Jenner wrote to General Counsel Rankin, and said “there are details in Mr. Ely’s memoranda which will require alteration and, in some cases, omission.”  Alteration and omission of evidence relating to the background of Lee Harvey Oswald and his family was required. Years later, in 1975, Mr. Ely shared his thoughts and wrote, “devising a coherent and credible theory to explain what happened in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963—one that isn't forced to hypothesize a number of duplicate Lee Harvey Oswalds—has proved quite a different matter.” Warren Commission staff attorney John Hart Ely, in his own words, was telling us there were duplicate Lee Harvey Oswald’s. We can only guess how many other Warren Commission members and staff shared Mr. Ely's thoughts.

Mr. Ely explained, “We were all more innocent a decade ago. Since that time, to our collective sorrow, we have learned many things. We have learned, contrary to what once seemed common sense, that persons in high places will, at substantial risk to themselves, cover up for the misdeeds of subordinates who seem of little consequence. In 1964, one had to be a genuine radical to take seriously the thought that other Federal agencies were withholding significant information from the Warren Commission. In 1975, it would take a person of unusual naiveté to ignore that possibility. We have learned that investigative agencies are not the monoliths we once thought they were. Perhaps there is no realistic possibility that those in possession of the facts bearing on this issue will ever reveal them. But even that is something we are entitled to know. Every American is entitled to be angry about the recent disclosures and accusations, but perhaps our entitlement is the greatest of all.”

Every American is entitled to know the facts, and the truth about the assassination of President Kennedy. Every American is entitled to know and understanad the FBI's massive coverup of evidence, fabrication of documents, disappearance of evidence, and how the FBI merged the lives of HARVEY and LEE into one, and only one "Lee Harvey Oswald." And every American is entitled to know the facts, the biography, and the true identity of the Russian speaking young man who was accused of assassinating President Kennedy.