Marine Corps and Soviet Union

While HARVEY Oswald and Allen Felde were stationed at Camp Pendleton in California (January--May, 1957), LEE Oswald began attending Aviation Fundamentals School in Jacksonville, Florida on March 25, 1957. He graduated on May 2, 1957 and was ranked 46 in a class of 54 marines.

Allen Felde told the FBI that in May, 1957 he and HARVEY Oswald left Camp Pendleton, California. They were assigned to the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida and attended A&P classes (Airframe and Powerplant) in May and June, 1957. HARVEY Oswald wrote in his biography that he was in Jacksonville, Florida in May and June, 1957 (above, underlined in blue). Marine Corps Unit Diary #104-57 (pp 719, 724) 102-528 (pp 720, 721) confirm that on May 2, 1957 Felde and Oswald were at the Aviation Fundamentals School in Jacksonville, Florida.

HARVEY Oswald and Allen Felde left Camp Pendleton and arrived in Jacksonville, Florida on May 2, 1957. The next day, May 3, 1957, LEE Oswald boarded a train in Jacksonville, Florida en route to Biloxi, Mississippi. Sgt. Daniel Patrick Powers supervised a group of 6 marines that included himself, Edward J. Bandoni, James M. Brereton, Donald P. Camarata, Martin E. Shrand, and LEE Oswald. The group arrived in Biloxi on May 4th.

In May and June, 1957, while HARVEY Oswald and Allen Felde were at the Aviation Fundamentals School in Jacksonville, Florida, the group of 6 marines attended radar school in Biloxi, Mississippi from May 4 to June 18, 1957. Above is their graduation photo taken on June 18, 1957, with the 6 marines dressed in fatigues standing on either side of Air Force personnel in dress uniforms. LEE Oswald then took leave from the marines from June 20-June 30, 1957. His leave was remembered by Marguerite Claverie Oswald's neighbor, Lee McCracken, who lived at 3830 W. 6th in Ft. Worth.

On July 1, 1957 the group of 6 marines (including LEE Oswald) departed Biloxi and arrived at the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro, California. Sgt. Powers said they were supposed to report for duty on or before July 12. LEE Oswald reported for duty on July 9, was given a medical examination, and listed his mothers address as 3038 W. 6th St. in Fort Worth, Texas. The following day he was issued an immunization certificate (July 10, 1957) and once again listed his mother's address as 3830 W. 6th St. in Fort Worth.

On July 1, 1957 the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor moved from 4936 Collinwood (Fort Worth) to 1031 W. 5th (Fort Worth) without paying her past due utility bills. Mrs. James Taylor, her former landlady, visited her at 1031 W. 5th and presented her with the utility bills. The short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor refused to pay the past due bills--just like she had done in New Orleans when she moved out of 126 Exchange Place. It is important to know and remember there is no record of employment for the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor in Fort Worth from June, 1956 thru August, 1957. Her last known address in Ft. Worth, in July and August, 1957, was 1031 W. 5th. In September, 1957, the Marguerite Oswald impostor left Fort Worth, and moved to the upscale Hotel Senator in New Orleans.

August, 1957

HARVEY Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory

William Wulf and Harvey Oswald

November 23-25, 1963--the FBI begins a coverup

The FBI gave only one document to the Warren Commission to show that Oswald worked at Pfisterer's. This document was a black and white photograph of a 1956 W-2 form that was fabricated by the FBI. The FBI provided no verifiable documentation whatsoever to show that Oswald worked for the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in 1956.

The Warren Commission, however, with no verifiable documentation and no dates of Oswald's employment at the dental lab, reported that "Lee Harvey Oswald" quit work at J.R. Michels and then worked at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory “for several months thereafter...." More FBI Coverup.

The day after the assassination Oswald's personal possessions from his room at 1026 N. Beckley and Ruth Paine's home in Irving were confiscated by the Dallas Police. Each and every item was dated, initialled and inventoried by police detectives, and then photographed on the floor at Dallas Police Headquarters. The following day these 225 items were secretly sent to FBI headquarters in Washington, DC. Three days later the FBI returned these 225 items, and an additional 230 hundred items, to the Dallas Police. The fabricated W-2 forms for Dolly Shoe, Tujague's, J.R. Michels, and Pfisterers were created by the FBI and were among the 230 additional items the FBI returned to the Dallas Police. The FBI wants us, and the public, to believe these fabricated W-2 forms for the year 1956 were given to 16 year old Oswald, kept by him in pristine condition for the next 7 years, and found by the Dallas Police among his possessions in 1963. However, not one of these W-2 forms were initialled or dated by Dallas Police detectives, none were listed on the inventory of items confiscated from either 1026 N. Beckley or Ruth Paine's home in Irving, and none were photographed by the Dallas police on the evening of November 22. The only initials on these W-2 forms were those of FBI document examiner Robert Frazier. Each and every one of these W-2 forms were fabricated by the FBI, for the express purpose of merging the background and employment of HARVEY and LEE into one person--"Lee Harvey Oswald." None of these W-2 forms were ever verified or matched with state or federal tax records, never verified or matched with Social Security Administration records, and these original fabricated W-2 forms disappeared--only black and white photographs remain at the National Archives. Black and white photographs of the W-2 forms were sent to the Dallas Police on November 25, and were to be listed by the Dallas Police as Oswald's possessions. I sent a copy of each of these W-2 forms to the archivist at the IBM Corporation. The archivist said that all of these W-2 forms were typed with the same typewriter. These W-2 forms are fabrications, created by the FBI in an attempt to merge the teenage employment and school history for both HARVEY and LEE into one fictitious "Lee Harvey Oswald."

Fabricating and destroying Government Records

HARVEY Oswald's employment at Dolly Shoe, Tujague's, J.R. Michaels, Pfisterer's and the Marine Corps (Dept. of the Navy) required that payroll taxes were withheld and sent to the Internal Revenue Service and to the Louisiana Department of Revenue. Deductions were made from Oswald's payroll checks and sent to the Social Security Administration, while numerous records were prepared and sent to the Internal Revenue Service and to the Louisiana Department of Revenue. These records could have confirmed Oswald's beginning and ending dates of employment with each and every company where he worked as a teenager. The FBI, Warren Commission, the HSCA and the ARRB could have requested these records from federal and state governments, but they didn't. Why Not? Because these records would expose two Lee Harvey Oswald's and two Marguerite Oswalds. For example, tax records would show that while HARVEY Oswald was working at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans for 8 months, LEE Oswald was in the Marine Corps in Japan. These records could never be given to the Warren Commission, and could never be made public. Within days of President Kennedy's assassination all of Oswald's original employment records as a teenager were confiscated by the FBI, and nearly all of the original records disappeared. Only black and white photographs of a few questionable records remain at the National Archives. But what about income tax reports and records sent to the Internal Revenue Service and to the Louisiana Department of Revenue? What about payments to the Social Security administration and their records? Surely these government records would remain intact.

After Oswald's death on November 24, 1963 his widow, Marina, applied for "survivors benefits" from Social Security. According to the Social Security Administration, Marina was entitled to benefits based upon her husband's life-time earnings, calculated as though he had reached full retirement age.

Marina was entitled to receive benefits based upon her husband's average lifetime earnings. However, unknown to Marina, Oswald's records at the Social Security Administration had been altered. There was no record of Oswald's employment in the 1950's--no record of his employment or earnings at Dolly Shoe, Tujague's, Pfisterer's, J. R. Michaels or 3 years in the Marine Corps. Why? Why were there no records for Oswald's employment for over 5 years in the 1950's ?? Because these social security records would show LEE Oswald's year long employment at Tujague's in 1955 and 1956, while HARVEY Oswald was attending Warren Easton High School. These records would show LEE Oswald's employment in the Marine Corps in 1957, 1958, and 1959, while at the same time HARVEY Oswald was employed for 8 months at the Pfisterer Dental lab in New Orleans.

Social Security records for Oswald's employment in the 1950's had to disappear, and they did disappear. Oswald's first year of employment, according to social security records, was in 1962, after he returned from the Soviet Union. When Marina applied for social security benefits, the only years of employment found in social security records for Oswald were 1962 and 1963. What we are seeing here is the government covering up government records.

Employer:

Earnings:

William B. Reily & Co.

422.25

"

191.25

Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall, Inc.

727.80

"

945.69

"

121.67

Leslie Welding

636.50

Texas Book Depository

261.68

Grand Total

$3306.85

A month later, after receiving a completed "Application for Survivors Insurance Benefits" filled out by "Marina M. Oswald," the social security office in Dallas had completed a "Determination of Award" form. Below is the first part of that form:

The amount shown under the heading "Total Earnings" is, according to the Social Security Administration, Oswald's total earnings from 1951 (First Base Year or Starting Date) through 1963 (Last Base Year or Closing Date). At the time of his death, Social Security records for Lee Harvey Oswald were safely tucked away in their files from the date of Oswald's first employment in 1955 (Dolly Shoe) to his last employment in November, 1963 (TSBD). Monies were withheld from Oswald's earnings and, along with his employer's contribution, were paid into his account at the Social Security Administration by Dolly Shoe (1955), Tujague's (1955-56), J.R. Michaels (1956), the Pfisterer Dental Lab (1957-58), and 3 years in the Marines (Dept. of the Navy-1957 thru 1959). However, the only contributions to Social Security that were used to calculate the Determination of Award for Oswald's widow, Marina, were those made in 1962-1963 (see above). Why?

How could anyone explain Lee Harvey Oswald's 1957-1958 income for 8 months at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in New Orleans while at the same time Oswald's 1957-1958 income for 8 months of service in the USMC in Japan?

If the Warren Commission, the HSCA, or the ARRB wanted the names of all of Oswald's employers, and a fact based accounting of his earnings, contributions to Social Security, and dates of his employment, they could have requested his records and file from the Social Security Administration. However, if Oswald's original, unredacted records ever became public, or known to the public, they would show that payments and contributions were made by employers of both LEE Oswald and HARVEY Oswald to the Social Security Administration at the same time. How to explain contributions to Social Security from the Dept of the Navy (1956 thru 1959) while at the same time contributions were made by the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans for eight months (1957-1958)? This was the reason neither the Warren Commission, the HSCA, or the ARRB requested such documentation.

The lack of information relating to Oswald's teenage employment, including the dates and income earned in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959, came to the attention of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). On May 15, 1978 Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, requested from the Social Security Administration "access to all files and documents concerning or referring to Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina Oswald." On July 28 the Social Security Administration responded to Mr. Blakey's request and provided dozens of documents, but not a single document relating to Oswald's Social Security file or his employment in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, or 1959.

The Social Security Administration did, however, somehow acquire and provide documents that were not in their files. They provided (see item #23) "Copies of three pages of the Warren Commission Report re employment of Lee Harvey Oswald prior to service in the Marine Corps." In 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1959 monies were withheld from both LEE Oswald and HARVEY Oswald's earnings and, along with employer contributions, were sent to Social Security. If original Social Security records were given to the Warren Commission and/or to the HSCA it would be impossible to explain how HARVEY Oswald could work for Dolly Shoe while at the same time LEE Oswald was attending Beauregard Junior High School (winter/spring, 1955). Original Social Security records would show LEE Oswald working at Tujague's from June, 1955 thru August, 1956, while at the same time HARVEY Oswald was attending Warren Easton High School (Sept/Oct, 1956), working for J.R. Michaels (January, 1956) and, according to the Warren Commission, working for the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in the "spring of 1956." Original Social Security records would show LEE Oswald in the Marine Corps (Japan) in 1957-1958, while at the same time HARVEY Oswald was working at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in New Orleans (October, 1957-June, 1958).

Robert Blakey, and the HSCA, did not pursue their request for "access to all files and documents concerning or referring to Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina Oswald".... documents that would show HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald in different places at the same time. Blakey and the HSCA also failed to request access to documents on another issue, concerning the whereabouts of both HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald in September, 1958.... documents that would show HARVEY Oswald in Taiwan while at the same time LEE Oswald was in the hospital in Atsugi, Japan. People in both the Warren Commission and the HSCA knew enough about HARVEY and LEE to avoid any investigation into Oswald's teenage employment and employers.

Warren Commission coverup of HARVEY Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1957-1958

The FBI gave the Warren Commission a copy of their report of Palmer McBride's interview with the OSI, which the Commission identified as CE 1386 and published in the 26 volumes. The Commission quickly realized that Lee HARVEY Oswald, living in New Orleans in 1957 and 1958 while working at the Pfisterer Dental Lab, was a serious problem and could not be ignored. The Commission knew they could never interview Palmer McBride or Pfisterer employees or owners of the company, because these people knew or could quickly find out the years that Oswald worked at the dental lab. And if McBride were interviewed he would provide the names of Pfisterer Dental Lab owners and employees, members of the New Orleans Amateur Astronomy Association (NOAAA), NOAAA records, William Wulf's father, and friends who would confirm that HARVEY Oswald lived in New Orleans in 1957-58.

The Warren Commission was never serious about finding the exact dates of Oswald's employment at the dental lab. They could have requested copies of his employment application, his W-4 form, W-2 forms, time cards, payroll records, and cancelled checks from the dental lab. They could have requested payroll tax records from the Louisiana Department of Revenue, federal payroll tax records from the IRS, and Social Security Administration records. The Warren Commission could have easily determined the beginning and ending dates of Oswald's employment at the Pfisterer Dental lab, Tujague's, J.R. Michels, and Dolly Shoe. But these records would expose the two Oswalds.

Someone at the Warren Commission, or perhaps someone in the FBI, decided to solve this problem by creating the illusion that Oswald worked at the dental lab BEFORE he joined the Marines in October, 1956. The FBI had given the Commission a black and white photograph of the fabricated 1956 W-2 form for the Pfisterer Dental Lab. The Commission now had a document that showed Oswald worked at the dental lab in 1956. The Commission then needed to find a witness to interview who could confirm that Oswald worked at the dental lab. Someone who knew Oswald on a casual basis. From McBride's FBI interview the Commission learned that his friend, William Wulf had met Oswald. The Commission also knew that the years 1957 and 1958, as reported by McBride, had to be changed. The year of Oswald's employment at Pfisterer had to match the year 1956 as shown on the Pfisterer W-2 form. The Warren Commission avoided Pfisterer's, and their lack of action demonstrates that one or more people within the Commission knew there was a serious problem that had to be avoided. The Commission had to find a way to report HARVEY Oswald's employment at the Pfisterer dental lab, but not during the years 1957 and 1958, because at this time LEE Oswald was in the Marines in Japan. Warren Commission attorney Wesley Liebeler was chosen to "fix" this problem.

Liebeler devised a clever way to deal with and "fix" the 1957 and 1958 problem. In his opening statement to William Wulf, Liebeler said, "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. Before we get into the details of that, however, would you state your full name for the record." Wulf replied, "My name Is William Eugene WuIf. No junior." Liebeler intentionally and dishonestly established, for the Commission's records, that Wulf knew Oswald in 1954-55 instead of 1957-1958 as reported by McBride. When Liebeler asked Wulf if he knew Oswald in 1955, Wulf replied "1955, yes. But it is sketchy." I really cannot say for sure. I could get it (the date) from the Astronomy Club's records." But no one from the Commission asked for the NOAAA records. In fact, the Commission never asked for any documents or records whatsoever that would have established the dates of Oswald's employment at the dental lab. During most of the interview Liebeler focused attention on Oswald's interest in communism. Warren Commission cover up.

NOTE: Warren Commission supporters reject Wulf's claims that he met Oswald in 1958. They point to Wulf's Warren Commission testimony, wherein he surmised that he may have met Oswald in 1955, but said the date "was sketchy." But they have not spoken with Wulf, never allowed Wulf to reconstruct his school years, nor realized that Warren Commission attorney Wesley Liebeler elicited testimony from Wulf with a leading and improper question. Wulf told me, "I was just a kid, and didn't think it mattered whether I met Oswald in 1955 or 1958." The important questions, asked by Wulf and numerous researchers but ignored by Warren Commission supporters is, "Why did the Commission fail to ask for the Pfisterer or the NOAAA records? Why did they fail to request Oswald's state and federal income tax returns, state and federal tax payments, and contributions to social security? Why were neither Vance, Hartwell, McBride or Gehrke interviewed by the Warren Commission, the HSCA in 1978, or the ARRB in 1996?" Because their testimony and the Pfisterer/NOAAA records would have confirmed that all of these young men met and knew HARVEY Oswald in early 1958 in New Orleans, when LEE Oswald was in the Marines and on maneuvers in the South China Sea. If anyone wants to know more about meeting and sharing time with HARVEY Oswald in early 1958, just to talk to them--they were there. In the mid-1990s I wrote to the Assassination Records Review Board and provided them with the names of Palmer McBride, William Wulf, and Linda Faircloth (President of Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in New Orleans). I wrote a short synopsis of their statements and requested they interview these people for the historical record. McBride's name appears on internal ARRB memos but neither he, Wulf, nor Faircloth were contacted. The ARRB's reluctance to contact these people followed the all too familiar pattern of the FBI, Warren Commission, and HSCA, who ignored troublesome witnesses. More government sponsored coverup.

It is worth remembering that the Warren Commission collected documentation, time cards, and interviewed the owners of Dolly Shoe, the Gerard F. Tujague Company, and J.R. Michaels. But the Warren Commission never interviewed the owners of Pfisterer's nor did the Commission request or obtain a single document relating to the date of Oswald's employment at Pfisterer's. Why not? Because the only documents, the only tax reports, the only social security records, and the only person who was a close personal friend HARVEY Oswald at the dental lab, Palmer McBride, would have testified that Oswald was living in New Orleans and working at the dental lab for 8 to 9 months in 1957 and 1958.

We now understand why and how the dates of Oswald's employment at Tujague's and Pfisterer's were changed, and why some of his early school records in New York City had to disappear. And we are now able to understand the true meaning of a memo that Commission attorney Albert Jenner wrote to General Counsel J. Lee Rankin. On April 10, 1964. Jenner wrote, "My purpose was to obtain a chronology...of the life, school, places of residence, etc.--of Mrs. Oswald, her several marriages, her husbands and her three children and, in particular, Lee Harvey Oswald.... Our depositions and examination of records and other data disclose that there are details in Mr. Ely's memoranda which will require material alteration and in some instances omission." Material alteration and omission. The instructions of the Warren Commission's General Counsel were clear--certain background information on Oswald and his mother had to be altered and omitted.

We now know that much of the background information on "Lee Harvey Oswald" was altered and omitted. The most obvious omission and alteration were Oswald's dates of employment with Tujague's in 1955-1956 and with the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory in 1957 and 1958. The Warren Commission provides a good example of this on page 680 of the Warren Report. The Commission, with only a photograph of a fabricated 1956 W-2 form from the Pfisterer Dental Lab, wrote, "In January (1956) he (Oswald) worked briefly as an office boy for J.R. Michaels, Inc. For several months thereafter, he was a messenger for the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory." That's all. Nothing more. Not a single date of employment, not a single document, not a single witness (excluding Palmer McBride) to show the years that Oswald worked at Pfisterer's. No proof whatsoever. Oswald's employment record for 1956, as presented by the WC, is a complete and pure fabrication of the historical record. The year(s) of Oswald's employment at the Pfisterer Dental Lab(1957/1958) had to be changed to the year 1956 for the Warren Commission's historical record, because without this change there was no possible way to explain LEE Oswald in the Marines in Japan and the South China Sea (1957-58) while HARVEY Oswald was working at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans (Oct, 1957 thru Spring, 1958). It is now obvious that at least one or more members of the Warren Commission (most certainly former CIA Director Allen Dulles) knew about HARVEY Oswald's employment at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in 1957-58, and were co-conspirators in covering up the existence of HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald. What the Warren Commission wrote in their final report is proof of their collusion in covering up HARVEY and LEE.

Linda Faircloth, President of the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory

Click here to see 1997 interview of Linda Faircloth

In 1997 I contacted the then current president of the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory, located in Metairie, LA. Linda Faircloth told me that Pfisterer's 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. Her subject of choice was Lee HARVEY Oswald, who she learned had worked for the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans in 1957-1958.

Spring, 1958--LEE Oswald still on maneuvers in the Philippines

In January, 1958 LEE Oswald was in the Philippines and Corregidor, involved with setting up mobile radar stations.

On March 7, 1958 LEE Oswald and his unit left Corregidor (Philippines) aboard the LST USS Wexford County (LST 1168) for Subic Bay. Ten days later, on March 18, they returned to Japan.

On April 11, LEE Oswald was court-martialed and found guilty of possessing an unauthorized weapon.

Closeup of the "PROSTHESIS REQUIRED" field from record above

On May 5, 1958 LEE Oswald visited the base dentist. It should be remembered that LEE Oswald's friend, Ed Voebel, told the Warren Commission that Oswald lost a tooth after fighting with Johnny Neumeyer in October, 1954. After LEE Oswald reached biological adulthood (age 18) he was likely examined and given dental impressions that were sent to a dental lab where a bridge was constructed. Dental prosthesis devices replace or repair missing or damaged teeth. While waiting for the bridge to be made, he would likely have been fitted with a temporary denture that would replicate his missing front tooth. Either a denture or a bridge could have been damaged or loosened that prompted his visit to the dentist. It appears that LEE Oswald had either a dental bridge or a denture fitted in order to replicate a damaged or missing front tooth. On LEE Oswald's dental chart there is a note that states, "Prothesis, FAILED." A "dental prosthesis" is an item made in a dental laboratory that is used to reconstruct defects such as missing teeth, missing parts of teeth, and missing soft or hard structures of the jaw and palate. This note indicates that a previously installed prosthesis, either a laboratory made dental bridge with porcelain tooth, or a denture (unlikely), was no longer properly attached. A dental bridge (prosthesis), in this case, would be used to replicate LEE Oswald's front tooth that was damaged or broken or knocked out (during LEE's fight with Johnny Neumeyer in Oct, 1954, as described by Ed Voebel).


LEE Oswald--1955 Beauregard Junior High missing front teeth	LEE Oswald--1957 Japan

Damage to LEE Oswald's front teeth can be seen in a photo taken by Ed Voebel in October, 1954 in Helen Dufour's English class at Beauregard Junior High. This photograph appears to show that he is missing one or more front teeth (photo above). Voebel, who was Oswald's best friend in the Spring semester at Beauregard Junior High (New Orleans), told the WC that Oswald lost a tooth as a result of the fight. The photo above (right side) was taken of LEE Oswald 3 years later in Atsugi, Japan, in 1958, and shows discoloration and an unnatural and irregular appearance of his upper front teeth.

NOTE: In 1995 I spoke with John Neumeyer, who was then living in Las Vegas, for several hours about Oswald and Beauregard Junior High. Mr. Neumeyer is a successful entrepreneur in the design and development of upscale restaurants. I asked Neumeyer if he knocked out Oswald's front tooth, but said that he could not say for sure. The next day I tried to locate Ed Voebel, and ask him if he was certain that LEE Oswald lost a tooth in his fight with Neumeyer. I telephoned Quality Florists in New Orleans, a long time family business owned by Voebel's parents. Voebel's sister answered the phone and we spoke for over an hour. She explained that one evening, in 1971, her brother Edward called home, said he was in the hospital, and would return home the following morning. The next morning Ed Voebel was dead, but from unknown causes. Voebel's sister told me that her father was convinced that his son's death had something to do with his friendship with Oswald. She then told me something that she did not understand. Voebel's sister said that news of her brother's death appeared in the local newspaper, but the paper reported that he died in the Memorial Hospital. She said this was not correct. Her brother had not died in the Memorial Hospital. Her brother died, at age 31, at the Oschner Clinic. Dr. Alton Ochsner was a fervent anti-communist and a CIA asset.

HARVEY Oswald--autopsy 1981 with natural front teeth

HARVEY Oswald in Yokosuka, Japan

In June, 1958 HARVEY Oswald and his caretaker left New Orleans and moved to 3006 Bristol Road in Fort Worth. In early September, 1958 HARVEY Oswald was in Yokosuka, Japan, and beginning the process of assuming the identity of LEE Harvey Oswald. It was important to establish and show that HARVEY Oswald was in Japan and the South China Sea. On September 14, HARVEY was aboard the USS Skagit en route to Taiwan, accompanied by a group of Marines who were not from Atsugi, and did not know LEE Oswald. However, Marines aboard the USS Skagit would be able to confirm they had been with HARVEY Oswald in the South China Sea and in Taiwan. The Marine Corps Unit Diary 151-58 (744), shows that Lee HARVEY Oswald departed Yokosuka on September 14, en route to Taiwan.

One member of this new group of Marines was William K. Trail, who accompanied HARVEY Oswald and later served with him at MACS 9 in Santa Ana, California. HARVEY Oswald arrived in Taiwan on September 30 and was soon observed by Lt. John Donovan taking photos of troop deployments, fighter aircraft, ammunition bunkers and F-86 aircraft. Lt. Donovan would later become HARVEY Oswald's immediate superior at MACS 9 in Santa Ana, CA. The thought occurred to me that Oswald may have been taking these photos in preparation for his upcoming "defection" to the Soviet Union. This may or may not have been the reason Oswald took the photos, but after President Kennedy's assassination many of these photos, taken in Taiwan by HARVEY Oswald, were found among his possessions by the Dallas Police. On the evening of October 4, three weeks after arriving in Taiwan, HARVEY Oswald was on guard duty. Lt. Charles Rhodes heard four or five rifle shots, ran outside and found HARVEY Oswald slumped against a tree, shaking, and crying while holding his rifle. Oswald kept saying that he just couldn't bear to be on guard duty. Rhodes reported the incident to his commanding officer and two days later Oswald was sent on an 800 mile trip back to Japan. Marine Corps Unit Diary 158-58 lists Oswald in Ping Tung, Taiwan on October 6.

HARVEY Oswald Departed for Taiwan Aboard the
USS Skagit (AKA 105) on Sept. 14, 1958.
Note "AKA 105" Under "Record of Events" near top left above
Unit Diary shows HARVEY Oswald was
in Ping Tung, Taiwan, on Oct. 6, 1958

With HARVEY Oswald aboard, the USS Skagit departed
Yokosuka, Japan bound for Taiwan on Sept. 14, 1958

HARVEY Oswald was in Taiwan from September 14 to October 6. Following his "defection" to the Soviet Union, HARVEY Oswald discussed his assignment in Taiwan with reporter Priscilla Johnson, who wrote news articles about Oswald and his "defection." A naval message of November 4, 1959 reported that Oswald served with Marine Air Control Squadrons in Taiwan. In 1964 the Warren Commission received a memorandum from the Assistant General Counsel for the Department of Defense that stated Oswald had been stationed in Ping Tung, Taiwan.

A Naval Message Dated November 4, 1959, also Confirms
HARVEY Oswald was Stationed in Taiwan.

Photo taken in Taiwan that was found among Harvey Oswald's possessions.

While HARVEY Oswald was in Taiwan (September 14 through October 6), LEE Oswald was in Japan (September 16 through October 6). We know this because medical records for NAS Navy 3835 (Naval Hospital) show numerous entries for visits to the hospital by LEE Oswald which were recorded on Sept 16, 20, 22, 23, 29, and October 6. HARVEY Oswald in Taiwan, while LEE Oswald made numerous visits to the Naval Hospital, is documented placement of two "Oswald's" in different places at the same time.

While HARVEY Oswald was in Taiwan, LEE Oswald was being treated for a Venereal
Disease in Atsugi, Japan, more than One Thousand Four Hundred Miles Away.

A year later, when in Moscow, HARVEY Oswald was interviewed by UPI (United Press International) reporter Ailene Mosby. Oswald told Mosby that he had been in Formosa (Taiwan), and described his thoughts about American technicians instructing the Chinese military on the use of large guns.

Following his return from Taiwan to Japan on October 6, 1958 HARVEY Oswald was sent to a Marine Squadron at Iwakuni, a Marine air base 400 miles southwest of Tokyo. Owen Dejanovich, who first met HARVEY Oswald at radar school in Biloxi, Mississippi, spent time with him at Iwakuni. Dejanovich thought that Oswald had grown bitter toward the Marines and recalled seeing him occasionally talking to a Eurasian girl.

We know that after returning to Japan from Taiwan HARVEY Oswald was in Iwakuni in early October. In Iwakuni HARVEY Oswald met up with Owen Dejanovich, who said that he attended radar school with (HARVEY) Oswald. The Marine Corps Unit Diaries show Dejanovich together with Sherman Cooley (platoon 1068) in radar school in Biloxi. Readers may remember that Cooley told researcher William Weston that platoons in the "1000" series attended radar school either a week before or a week after Marines in the "2000" platoon series. This is the first Marine who said that he attended radar school with (HARVEY) Oswald. If Dejanovich was correct, it would mean that both LEE Oswald and HARVEY Oswald did attend radar school at Biloxi, but with different class schedules. Once again, this could be the reason for several overlapping discrepancies in the Warren Volumes concerning the radar school at Biloxi.

The following day, October 7, 1958, LEE Oswald was admitted to the Naval hospital in Atsugi and on October 10 he had a colon examination for rectal bleeding. LEE was discharged from the hospital on October 13, but returned on October 16th and 27th to have vaccinations that were required before returning to the US. In other words, while HARVEY was at Iwakuni, LEE was over 400 miles away at the Naval hospital in Atsugi.

HARVEY Oswald departed Iwakuni and returned to the United States in October, but the location of his departure, the name of the vessel, and the date of his departure is unknown. During the last half of October, 1958, HARVEY Oswald was assigned to the Marine Corps Air Facility (MACS 9) in Santa Ana, California, a lighter than air base (helicopters) and was home to 600 Marines. Nelson Delgado worked in a radar bubble at MACS 9 with 5 enlisted men, and 3 officers. Delgado told the Warren Commission, "I didn't take no particular notice of him at the time, but later on we had--we started talking, and we got to know each other quite well. This is all before Christmas [1958], before I took my leave.... At the time he was--he was commenting on the fight that Castro was having at Sierra Madres... [Castro, however, had ended the fighting in the Sierra Madre mountains several months earlier, on August 21, 1958]. When I went on leave, it just so happened that my leave coincided with the first of January, when Castro took over. So when I got back, he was the first one to see me, and he said, 'Well, you took a leave and went there and helped them, and they all took over.' It was a big joke."

Sergeant Erwin Lewis told the Warren Commission that Oswald transferred to MACS 9 in either October or November, 1958. Lewis said, "It was a matter of common knowledge that Oswald could read, write, and speak Russian. Read, write, and speak Russian?? This young man, HARVEY Oswald, was certainly not the same Marine who served with Richard Bullock, Zack Stout, Bobby Warren, George Wilkins, and other Marines in the South China Sea. Zack Stout said, "No, he never spoke Russian or had a Russian book or a Russian newspaper. If he had any of those things, all of us would have known about it." Richard Bullock said, "He was NOT the guy I saw in the picture on TV shot by Jack Ruby....It looks nothing like him. That's not the man I knew. The man I knew was 30-40 pounds heavier and 3-4 inches taller than the man accused of killing President Kennedy."

On October 29, 1958 Marine Corps medical records confirm that HARVEY Oswald was at the Marine Corps Air Facility in Santa Ana, California. But on October 29 LEE Oswald was still in Japan, preparing for his return to the USA. On October 29, 1958, with LEE Oswald still in Japan, Marine Corps medical records that show HARVEY Oswald was in California. Four days later, on November 2, LEE Oswald boarded the USS Barrett in Yokosuka, Japan. Thirteen days later the ship arrived in San Francisco, and LEE Oswald took leave, while HARVEY Oswald was stationed in Santa Ana, California.

NOTE: In California LEE Oswald was assigned to the 3rd Marine Air Wing at the large jet base (5000-6000 Marines) in El Toro, CA. HARVEY Oswald was assigned to the much smaller light than air facility at Santa Ana, with 600 Marines.

Late 1958--HARVEY Oswald assumes the identity of LEE Oswald.

HARVEY Oswald and LEE Oswald's activities in the far east ended in October, 1958. In late October HARVEY Oswald returned to the United States and was assigned to MACS 9 at the small Marine Corps Air facility in Santa Ana, California. LEE Oswald left Japan on November 3 en route to San Francisco. In mid-December, after a two week military leave, LEE Oswald was briefly assigned to the large Marine Corps jet base in El Toro, California. HARVEY Oswald, in Santa Ana, began promoting himself as a supporter of all things Russian. But where did he learn Russian? Not in Japan. Nobody in Japan heard LEE Oswald speak Russian, listen to Russian records, or receive Russian newspapers. LEE Oswald never spoke Russian, but HARVEY Oswald knew the Russian language from childhood. Ask any supporter of the Warren Commission to explain and identify when and where Oswald learned to speak, read, and write Russian before he "defected" to Russia. You will never get an honest answer.

After the assassination, the FBI focused their attention on Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald, the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy, and avoided people who knew the taller, huskier, LEE Oswald. They intentionally avoided interviewing Marines who knew the tall, husky LEE Oswald in Japan. On November 27, only four days after the assassination, the FBI send a teletype to agents that read, "the Bureau did not consider it plausible to identify and interview military personnel who served with Oswald during 1958 (this would conflict with HARVEY Oswald living and working in New Orleans at the Pfisterer Dental Lab)." The Marines in Japan (except those stationed at Iwakuni) knew the tall, husky LEE Oswald, but never met the short, thin, Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald. This FBI teletype shows that certain top level FBI officials knew about the two Oswalds and wanted to avoid interviewing Marines who served with the tall, husky LEE Oswald in Japan. I would like to point out that not a single Marine who knew the tall, husky LEE Oswald in Japan was stationed in Santa Ana with Russian speaking HARVEY Oswald.

Author Edward Epstein interviewed over 100 marines who knew the tall, husky, LEE Oswald in Japan. Epstein's interviews and historical records were placed in "special collections" at Georgetown University. I was told they were not available to the public, but contacted Georgetown with the hope that I could obtain copies or read these interviews. After several inquiries I was notified that all of these records had "disappeared."

1958--the Marguerite Oswald impostor assumes the identity of Marguerite Claverie Oswald

From 1956 thru 1958. LEE Oswald's tall, nice-looking mother lived in apartment #3 at 3830 W. 6th in Fort Worth. She worked at Clyde Campbell's Men's Store, the City of Fort Worth, Paul's Shoe Store, Family Publications, and Cox's Department Store. In 1959 Marguerite Claverie Oswald left Ft. Worth, returned to New Orleans, and continued her usual occupation of working in up-scale clothing stores. Mrs. Logan Magruder, who had known Marguerite for nearly 20 years, saw her at Krieger's Dept. store. Mrs. Oris Duane, who had known Marguerite since 1943, saw and spoke with her at Goldrings Dept Store. Top level FBI officials knew this woman was not the short, heavy-set caretaker of HARVEY Oswald. This explains why FBI never interviewed co-workers or employers of Marguerite Claverie Oswald when she worked in Fort Worth from 1956 thru 1958, or in New Orleans from 1959 thru 1961 when she worked for Goldrings, Kreigers, and Holmes Dept Stores. This why the FBI never obtained any employment information, W-4 forms, W-2 forms, payroll records, employment applications or anything from these companies. The FBI could not interview anyone or gather records from any employer who knew the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Claverie Oswald. The FBI's failure to interview these people and their companies is confirmation they were aware of two "Lee Harvey Oswald's." The FBI focused their attention and interviews on people who knew the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor, the caretaker of HARVEY Oswald.

NOTE: We now understand why the tax returns for Marguerite Oswald have never been released.

By the end of October, 1958 LEE Oswald and HARVEY Oswald had "switched" identities. In California HARVEY Oswald assumed the identity of LEE Harvey Oswald and began promoting himself as a Russian speaking supporter of communism. LEE Oswald would leave the Marines and soon be seen in New Orleans, Key West, and Miami with an assortment of anti-Castro mercenaries. The short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald was now living in Fort Worth, where she began to assume the identity of the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Claverie Oswald. She began working for the King Candy Company, operating a candy booth in the Fair Ridglea Department store. On December 5 this impostor, who worked alone, claimed to have suffered a work-related injury when a jar of candy allegedly fell on her face and nose. There were no witnesses to the accident. The following day Dr. Milton N. Goldberg noted a small laceration on her nose with swelling. Two days later she returned for another examination. On December 29 she returned and complained of headaches and pains in her neck. Dr. Goldberg determined that she had suffered no partial or permanent disability. In January, 1959 she once again visited Dr. Milton Goldberg, and told him that her son "wanted to defect to Russia." This impostor, caretaker of HARVEY Oswald, was preparing for his upcoming "defection." From early 1959 onward, the only woman using the name "Marguerite Oswald" in and around Fort Worth was the short, heavy-set impostor. LEE Oswald's mother, Marguerite Claverie Oswald, had moved to New Orleans. Following the assassination of President Kennedy, the FBI, Dallas Police, Warren Commission, and many researchers sought out this woman for interviews, believing that she was the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald.

NOTE: Many people ask me if I have any idea as to the true identity of the Marguerite Oswald impostor. I don't know her true identity, but there was one piece of evidence that sparked my interest. The name Margaret Keating appears in New Orleans City Directories, telephone books, voter registration records, etc., from 1933 thru the early 1960's. In the 1956 New Orleans City Directory, which lists the names, addresses, and phone numbers for 1955, she is listed as "Margt. Oswald." This is the only occasion where the name "Margaret Keating" appears as Margt. Oswald. Who was Marg. Keating? She was the first wife of Robert E.L Oswald, father of LEE Oswald, and her photo has similar features to the Marguerite Oswald impostor. What intrigues me is that during the Spring and fall of 1955 LEE Oswald and his mother were living at 126 Exchange Place. The address of HARVEY Oswald and the Marguerite Oswald impostor, when they were working at Dolly Shoe, and HARVEY Oswald, when was attending Warren Easton High School in the fall of 1955, are unknown. Yet the New Orleans City Directory listed the address of Margt. Oswald at 120 N. Telemachus. This address was just off of Canal Street, halfway between Beauregard Junior High and Warren Easton High School. It also intrigued me that shortly after President Kennedy was murdered, Margt. Keating vacated her home of 30 years on Telemachus St. and temporarily moved into an apartment on St. Charles Street, where she remained for the next two years. More research is needed.

Late 1958 to 1959--HARVEY Oswald in Santa Ana

In October and November, 1958, HARVEY Oswald was becoming very friendly with Sergeant Nelson Delgado at MACS 9 in Santa Ana, CA. Delgado told the Warren Commission that he and Oswald talked continuously about Castro, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Oswald showed Delgado a copy of Das Kapital, which was probably the same book that he had shown to Palmer McBride a year earlier in New Orleans. Delgado, Sergeant Erwin Lewis, Sergeant Camilous Brown, Buddy Simco, Mack Osborne, Neil Tessem, Henry Roussel, Robert Allen, and Paul Hickey all knew and associated with Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald in November and December, 1958--while at the same time LEE Oswald was either aboard ship en route to the USA (11/3/58 to 11/15/58) or on leave in Texas (LEE returned to El Toro on 12/22/58).

HARVEY Oswald, 1958
LEE Oswald, 1958, photo by
Robert Oswald

David Josephs enhanced the b&w image shown above right using Photoshop and new AI filters.

HARVEY Oswald at Santa Ana... LEE Oswald at El Toro....

On December 8, 1958, while on leave in Texas, LEE Oswald opened a bank account at the West Side State Bank in Fort Worth and listed his address as the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro. Robert and LEE went on a short hunting trip and Robert took a photo of the husky, well-built LEE Oswald that appears in Robert's book, LEE, on pages 96-97. LEE was briefly assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), El Toro, CA., a base for jet-aircraft that housed 5-7000 marines (7 miles southeast of Santa Ana, CA).

I hope that everyone understands that the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro (MCAS), and the Marine Corps Air Facility in Santa Ana (MCAF) are two very different bases and are 7 miles apart. LEE Oswald was assigned to MCAS 3 at the much larger Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro, CA, while HARVEY Oswald was assigned to MACS 9 at the much smaller Marine Corps Air Facility in Santa Ana. LEE at MACS 3....HARVEY at MACS 9

In early 1959, after returning from leave, LEE Oswald was sent to the Lake Meade Marine base north of Las Vegas. One of the marines, Gerald Hansen, noticed that one of the supply clerks called out the name "HARVEY" to a marine who had the name Benjamin stencilled on his shirt. Hansen was curious and asked his sergeant why the man was using the name "Harvey" instead of Benjamin. Sergeant Ackerman replied that even though "Benjamin" was stencilled on this mans shirt he was using the name Harvey. Ackermen went on to explain that the man's real name was Oswald and he was from Texas.

On January 23, 1959 Marine Corps records show that LEE Oswald was at Vincent Air Force Base in Yuma, AZ--the same day that Nelson Delgado returned from leave and spoke with HARVEY Oswald about Castro's revolution in Cuba. Six weeks later in March, 1959, Allen Graf arrived at El Toro and soon became a close friend of LEE Oswald. Graf was Oswald's platoon sergeant and they spent a lot of time together and often went to the movies. Graf told Warren Commission attorney John Hart Ely that Oswald (LEE) never studied a foreign language and didn't speak Russian. Sgt. Graf gave Ely the names of several marines who knew and worked with LEE Oswald at El Toro, including John Castle, Raymond Glidden, James King, Abraham Rubenstein, Goutier, Herd, Maulden and Sawchuk. Ely's job at the WC was to gather background information on Oswald, but now he was puzzled because this was the first time that he heard the names of these marines.

After interviewing Allen Graf, Ely wrote a memo to his Warren Commission supervisor that read, "He [Graf] is equally clear that they were stationed together at El Toro and not at Santa Ana. They were, he says, stationed with Marine Wing Headquarters Group III, Airport Radar Team 1, and were not at the Lighter Than Air Station" [in Santa Ana, CA]....moreover, the names he [Graf] mentioned as having been in his unit are not those generally mentioned as having been in the unit after Oswald returned from Japan." The stories and memories of Marines who knew and worked with LEE Oswald at El Toro remain unknown, as do LEE Oswald's Marine Corps records from El Toro. Not one of these marines were interviewed by the FBI or the Warren Commission or the HSCA. The FBI and Warren Commission limited their investigation to Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald and Marines with whom he worked at the lighter than air facility in Santa Ana, CA.

In later life John Hart Ely was a professor of law at Havard, a professor of law at Yale, and dean of the law school at Stanford University. Ely was a brilliant lawyer, and was very close to discovering there were two "Lee Harvey Oswalds." If Ely had interviewed the Marines named by Sgt. Graf at El Toro, and if Ely had interviewed the Provost Marshall at El Toro, then he would have discovered that in the Spring of 1959 a marine named LEE Oswald was at the jet base in El Toro, while at the same time a marine named HARVEY Oswald was stationed at the lighter than air facility at Santa Ana, California.

In the spring of 1959 Major William P Gorsky was the Assistant Provost Marshall at the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro. According to Gorsky's files LEE Oswald had been arrested for hitchhiking and was discharged from the marines in March, 1959. Records of LEE Oswald's discharge in March, 1959!! What happened to these records? It should be remembered that, according to the Warren Commission, Oswald was discharged from the Marine Corps on Sept. 11, 1959, NOT half a year earlier, as the El Toro records apparently indicated. It should also be recalled that Oswald rather infamously worked in the radar bubble at MACS 9 in Santa Ana from October 1958 to August 1959, a period extending well before and well after the March 1959 El Toro discharge date. How can these dates be explained if there was only one Private Lee Harvey Oswald? Once again the FBI and Warren Commission avoided El Toro by failing to conduct a proper investigation and failing to obtain LEE Oswald's discharge papers or to interview Major Gorsky. The FBI and Warren Commission's refusal to investigate and interview Marines who served with LEE Oswald in Japan and marines who served with LEE Oswald in El Toro, is an absolute coverup.

After LEE Oswald was discharged, in March, 1959, he stayed away from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He was, however, seen in several locations on the east coast, including Coral Gables, Key West, New Orleans, and Cuba. His tall, nice-looking mother terminated her employment at Cox's Dept. Store in Ft. Worth and returned to New Orleans. From late 1958 through 1961 the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Oswald worked in the ladies department at Goldrings and Holmes Department Stores and at Kriegers. Mrs. Logan Magruder, who knew the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Oswald for over 20 years, saw and talked with her at Kreigers (circa 1959-60). Mrs. Oris Duane saw and spoke with Marguerite at Goldrings (circa 1960). Marguerite Claverie Oswald remained in New Orleans, undoubtedly changed her name, and never returned to Fort Worth.

In the spring of 1959 the only person serving in the Marine Corps in California, and using the name "Lee Harvey Oswald" was the short, thin, Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald. And he made sure that everyone knew about his interest and ability in the Russian language. He constantly spoke Russian, listened to Russian records, read Russian newspapers, and passed a Russian language exam in February, 1959. HARVEY Oswald's ability to read, write, and speak near-perfect Russian, without any formal training, is irrefutable. The multi-year preparations for Lee HARVEY Oswald's "defection" to Russia were now complete.

LEE Oswald's Photo (with altered hairline) Appeared on HARVEY Oswald's 1959 Passport
1959 Photo of HARVEY holding Cathy

During the spring and summer of 1959 HARVEY Oswald continued to promote communism and anything and everything Russian to fellow marines. On September 4, HARVEY Oswald applied for a passport in Santa Ana, California. On his passport application Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald listed Robert Edward Lee Oswald as his father and gave his birth date as 1908, when in fact the father was born in 1896. HARVEY Oswald listed Marguerite Claverie Oswald as his mother and gave her birth date as 1909, when the correct date was 1907. Robert Edward Lee Oswald and Marguerite Claverie were not HARVEY Oswald's parents, and he was not familiar with either of their backgrounds or their year of birth. HARVEY Oswald listed his date of departure from the United States as September 21 and his port of departure as New Orleans. HARVEY Oswald knew exactly where he was going and how he was going to get there even before he was discharged from the Marines. Only six days later (September 10) the passport was issued, but the photograph on this 1959 passport was of LEE Oswald and would be familiar to people who knew him from New Orleans and Fort Worth, Texas. When the photo of LEE Oswald on the 1959 passport is compared with a photo HARVEY Oswald, taken a week later holding Robert Oswald's daughter Cathy, it is easy to see these are two different people.

We believe that HARVEY Oswald was originally from Hungary, and he may still have had relatives living there. His handlers knew about his background and were likely concerned that when he arrived in Europe he might skip out and return to his relatives in his native Hungary. However, there was a statement in his passport that read: “This passport is not valid for travel in Hungary.”

DOD ID Card Given to HARVEY
Oswald on September 21, 1959

On September 11 HARVEY Oswald was given a Department of Defense photo ID card. Look at the photo on this card; it is a composite--the left half of the photo was of LEE Oswald, while the right half of the photo was of HARVEY Oswald. This allowed either HARVEY Oswald or LEE Oswald to use the ID card. I would like to point out that a nearly identical card was found on Richard Case Nagell in September, 1963--only 2 months before President Kennedy was assassinated.

Richard Case Nagell's Verson of the
"Oswald" ID Card with Different Picture

Richard Case Nagell was a former Army Intelligence officer and CIA agent. He heard rumors about the impending assassination of President Kennedy, and he wanted no part of it. Two months before the assassination Nagel walked into a bank in El Paso, TX, fired shots into the ceiling, and then walked outside and waited for police. He was arrested, charged with attempted bank robbery, and was in jail when President Kennedy was assassinated. It remains unknown why Nagell had a copy of Oswald's Department of Defense Card. But this Department of Defense card, and Nagel's knowledge of Oswald and the impending assassination of JFK, are all links to CIA involvement.

On September 20, 1959 Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald boarded the SS Marion Lykes in New Orleans en route to Europe. But where did Oswald get the money for this trip? The Warren Commission showed that Oswald earned over $3400 while in the marines and claimed that he could have used some of this money for his trip to the Soviet Union. But the Warren Commission never told the public that all marine personnel in Japan were paid in non-convertible military script that could only be used at the base commissary--they were never paid in cash. Where Oswald got the money to pay for his trip remains a mystery, but when he arrived in Europe he reported that he had $700 cash in his possession.

On October 8, 1959 Oswald arrived in France. The following day he arrived in England. One day later he arrived in Helsinki, Finland and quickly obtained a 6-day visa that allowed him to enter the Soviet Union. On October 16 HARVEY Oswald arrived in Moscow by train and was met by Intourist guide Rimma Shirakova. Rimma drove Oswald to the Hotel Berlin where he registered as a student and told Rimma that he didn't know a single word of Russian. Oswald then told Rimma that he wanted to apply for Russian citizenship, and she was shocked.

On October 21, as his VISA was about to expire, HARVEY Oswald met with an official with the Passport and Visa Department who advised him to "go home." That evening, in his hotel room, he cut his left wrist in a futile attempt at suicide. The doctor who examined HARVEY Oswald at Botkinskaya Hospital wrote, "A 'show' suicide,' since he was refused political asylum, which he had been demanding." After a few days in the hospital HARVEY Oswald was taken to the passport office on October 28. Three days later he attempted to renounce his US citizenship at the US Embassy, an incident that was soon reported in various newspapers in the US. The Fort Worth Star Telegram wrote about his "defection," but they published a photograph of LEE Oswald--not HARVEY. The photograph of LEE Oswald was necessary, because people who had grown up with LEE Oswald in Fort Worth would recognize LEE Oswald's photo, but they would not recognize a photo of the short, thin HARVEY Oswald.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram published this washed-out
photo of Lee Oswald when Harvey Oswald "defected."
The photo above was purchased by the author from Wide World Photos. The typed label indicates: "This is a retransmission of FW1 of Nov. 1 to provide better copy." Associated Press/Wide World Photos

If the higher quality "retransmitted" photo had been used by the
Star-Telegram, this is how the article would have appeared.

For more about the manipulation of the 1959 "Defection" photos shown above, including their probable original source, click here.

Composite Image of HARVEY
and LEE Oswald.
Separating the Composite Images, with Lee
on the Left, Harvey on the Right.

On November 16, 1959, the Fort Worth Press published an article about Oswald's "defection" and included a photograph--but this photograph was actually a composite of both HARVEY and LEE. Robert Oswald lived and worked in Fort Worth, but when reporters interviewed him and asked how they could locate his mother Robert always replied, "no comment." Robert's mother, the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Claverie Oswald, was living and working in New Orleans. The short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor, who was not Robert's mother, soon left Fort Worth in order to avoid reporters, publicity, and to avoid people who knew the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Oswald--people who would know that she was not LEE Oswald's mother. For the next couple of years the Marguerite Oswald impostor lived in small towns in Texas, insisted on being paid in cash, and changed residences and employment often.

On January 4, 1960 HARVEY Oswald was taken to the passport office and given a Soviet residence document for people without citizenship and told that he would be sent to the city of Minsk. His CIA-sponsored "defection" to the Soviet Union, years in the making, was now complete. The KGB could check and verify Lee Harvey Oswald's background in the US from his birth in New Orleans, his schooling, his employment, and his military service in the Marines. In all likelihood they would uncover nothing unusual. But US intelligence now had a Russian-speaking agent inside the Soviet Union.

Three days later Oswald left Moscow, arrived in Minsk, and began work at the Minsk Radio and TV factory. Stanislaw Shushkevich, an engineer at the factory, was told by authorities to give Oswald lessons in the Russian language. Shushkevich quickly learned that Oswald knew very few words in Russian and found it nearly impossible to communicate with fellow factory workers in any meaningful way. The few words that he did learn in Russian were the result of common and often repeated words spoken by co-workers, such as hello, good-bye, thank you. It appeared to Shushkevich that Oswald was not very interested in learning the Russian language, but enjoyed being treated as "special" by factory officials. After a month Shushkevich was told, unexpectedly, to discontinue giving Oswald lessons in Russian. He then began to wonder if his job was not really to teach Oswald Russian, but instead to see how much Russian Oswald knew or with whom he had made contact. Click here to see the interview of Stanislaw Shushkevich by author Peter Savodni.

Oswald's boss at the Radio and TV factory was Alejandro Zieger, who lived with his wife and two teenage daughters--Anita and Eleanora--in an apartment near the factory. Oswald was given an apartment close to the Zigers and soon began spending 3 or 4 evenings a week with his new neighbors. For the next two years, nobody spent more time with Oswald than the Zieger family. In 1998 I flew to Buenes Aires, Argentina where I met and interviewed Anita Zeiger for 3 days. Anita, who speaks only Spanish and Russian, invited me to her home along with my friend and interpretor, Eduardo Zuleta. Anita said, "Oswald was not an affectionate person, was not open, and did not express himself often or at all." She said the main reason that her family was never able to learn much about Oswald was his unwillingness to learn or to speak Russian. Anita said, and I quote her, "My father (who spoke English) always interpreted for him, because I never heard him speak Russian." I said, "Anita, you knew Oswald from the time he arrived in Minsk to the day he and Marina left for the United States. During this time he never spoke any Russian, even up to the day he left Minsk?" Ana replied, "No--not a word." These were the words of Anita Zieger. Oswald may or may not have spoken a limited amount of Russian while in Minsk. But it is clear that he hid his fluency in the Russian language during his stay in the Soviet Union, and gave the impression that he was struggling to learn the language.

My conversation with Anita Zieger caused me to remember the constant assertions of Marina Oswald, who told the FBI, Warren Commission, researchers, and anyone who would listen to her that Oswald spoke near-perfect Russian with a Baltic accent. Marina said Oswald always spoke Russian while in Russia. But Anita Zieger, their neighbor in Minsk, said that he never spoke a word of Russian. One of these woman--either Marina or Anita Zeiger--was lying, but why? I could not imagine the calm, sincere, and gracious Anita Zieger lying to anyone. But Marina, who repeatedly changed her story on virtually every subject relating to the Kennedy assassination, was a different matter. In California, 6 months before his "defection" HARVEY Oswald prided himself on his ability to speak Russian to his Marine buddies. Yet here he was in Russia, and apparently speaking very little or no Russian. But maybe Oswald had no choice. As a spy on assignment for US intelligence, in the middle of the cold war, he had to conceal his knowledge of Russian from the Soviet authorities. Therefore, I concluded that it was Marina who lied when she said that Oswald spoke Russian with a Baltic accent. But why?

In July, 1959 17-year old Marina Prusakova met Robert Webster, the second "defector" from the United States at a trade exhibition in Moscow. In the USA Webster worked for Rand Development, a notorious CIA think-tank, and shortly after arriving in Russia he met and talked with Marina for several hours, in English. But where, how, and when did 17-year old Marina learn to speak English?? 17 years old !!! And how was she able to meet and talk for hours with a "defector" from the United States, who was obviously under the watchful eyes of the KGB ?? A year later, in the fall of 1960, Marina travelled to Leningrad and resided for a short time in the same apartment building as Webster. She met with Webster on several occasions and had long conversations with him--all in English. A few months later, in March, 1961 Marina was in Minsk and met the 3rd American "defector," HARVEY Oswald, at a Friday night dance. Oswald walked her home and they agreed to meet the following weekend. However, on the following Thursday Oswald was admitted to the Fourth Clinical Hospital where his adenoids were removed. He remained in the hospital for the next 11 days, during which time Marina visited him, and spoke with him in English. The day that HARVEY Oswald was discharged from the hospital, he and Marina filed a notice of intent to marry at the registrar's office. How is it possible, at the height of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, that a teenage girl can meet the 2nd and 3rd American "defectors" in different cities hundreds of miles apart, and talk with both of them in English. And how likely is it these two people would marry without experiencing any courting, dating, romance, or affection, and then be able to leave the Soviet Union a year later without any difficulty. These details, and other aspects of Marina's background, is what caused CIA analysts to conclude that young Marina Prusakova worked for the KGB. If Oswald did not speak any Russian while he lived with Marina in Minsk, then they must have conversed in English. But when Marina arrived in the United States, she dared not speak a word of English. If she spoke English, our intelligence agencies would want to know when, where, and how this 20 year old Russian woman learned English. They would, quite naturally, suspect her of being a spy for the KGB.

On June 3, 1960, J. Edgar Hoover received an AIRTEL from the FBI's New York office regarding Lee Harvey Oswald's birth certificate. Hoover then wrote a memo to the Office of Security at the State Department that read, "Since there is a possibility that an impostor is using Oswald's birth certificate, any current information the Department of State may have concerning subject will be appreciated." In the winter of 1960, while HARVEY Oswald was in Russia, LEE Oswald was at a CIA safe house in Miami, Florida and at CIA sponsored camps in the everglades. A month later, on January 20, 1961 two men visited the Bolton Ford dealership in New Orleans. They told assistant manager Oscar Deslatte they were interested in purchasing 10 Ford Econoline Trucks for the Friends of Democratic Cuba. One of the incorporators, and vice-president of Friends for Democratic Cuba, was Gerard Tujague, who employed LEE Oswald for a year to a year and a half in 1955-56. When Deslatte asked for their names, one of the men replied, "LEE Oswald." Oswald also visited the Dumas Milner Chevrolet dealership and spoke with James Spencer about purchasing a 1958 Chevrolet. Spencer recalled that when the man returned a second time he talked a lot about Cuba, Castro, and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Spencer wrote "Oswald" on the back of one of his business cards and in 1963 told the FBI that he had no doubt the man he met in 1961 was Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1961, HARVEY Oswald was in Russia.

In the Spring of 1961 LEE Oswald fueled up his 43-foot Chris Craft diesel boat in Key West, Florida but didn't have enough money to pay for the fuel. The owner of the fuel station called Sheriff Thompson, and when Thompson arrived he began questioning Oswald about his unpaid fuel bill. Oswald then made a telephone call to Texas, and within 2 hours a man named "Ruben" arrived and paid for the fuel. The identity of "Ruben" is unknown, but he may have been Jack Ruby who was actively running guns from Florida to Cuba during this period. In 1961, HARVEY Oswald was in Russia.

On May 7,1961 Dr. Enrique Luaces was sitting in a bar in Havana, Cuba when 2 men approached him. One of the men was Robert Tabor, who Dr. Luaces knew as a correspondent for CBS. Tabor introduced his friend as Lieutenant Harvey Oswald, who opened his briefcase and showed Dr. Luaces several brochures that contained information on military hardware. When interviewed by Army intelligence in 1963, Dr. Luaces identified the man introduced to him by Tabor as Lee Harvey Oswald, whose picture recently appeared in the local press as the accused assassin of President Kennedy. But in May, 1961, HARVEY Oswald was in Russia.

In 1961 Ray Carnay was news director for the Balaban Radio Stations in Dallas. He was contacted by a man who asked to meet him at the KBOX news car at the Dallas-Garland airport. Over a period of 7-9 days this man continually expressed his pro-Castro views, and asked Carnay for the names of pilots. Following the assassination of President Kennedy, Carnay recognized and positively identified this man as Lee Harvey Oswald. But in all of 1961, HARVEY Oswald was in Russia.

In October, 1961 New Orleans Levee Board Police Officer Charles Noto and his partner noticed two young men sitting together in a white panel truck late at night. The passenger in the truck identified himself as LEE Oswald and, after being questioned by Noto, asked to see the officer in charge. After a closed-door meeting with Marcel Champon, the officer in charge, Oswald was released. On October 12, 1961, the name LEE Oswald appeared on a CIA document regarding one of their proprietary companies, Transcontinental SA, that was engaged in the import/export business. All of these sightings, and many more, occurred when HARVEY Oswald was in Russia.

In the 1960s there were two young men living in and around Greenwich Village, New York City, named "Steve Landesberg." Although they were similar in age and appearance, there were distinct differences between them. One boy, Stephen Harris Landesberg, was a student from Queens. He was quiet, introverted, kept to himself, a bookworm, and was an honor student. He had black hair, a life-long speech impediment, stuttered profusely when excited, never wore glasses, and had no southern accent. The other boy, Stephen Richard Landesberg was from the Bronx, was outgoing, likable and gregarious. He had reddish brown hair, occasionally wore rimless eyeglasses, enjoyed being around people, had no speech impediment, and acquired a Southern accent that he could use or not use at will. In late 1961 and early 1962 Stephen Richard Landesberg became entangled in activities involving the harassment of liberal and minority-oriented political groups that were active in and around the Village. During this time he befriended and became involved with American-born Lee Oswald, while at the same time Harvey Oswald and Marina were living in Russia. In the 1970's Stephen Richard Landesberg gained notoriety as an actor on the TV show, Barney Miller. The actor's relationship with Oswald motivated a number of JFK researchers, including author Carleton W. Sterling, Professor Stan Weeber (UNT, Denton, TX), attorney Carol Hewitt, author/researcher Joachim Joesten, and myself to investigate the two "Steve Landesbergs." For more information on the Steven Landesberg story, click this link.

In April, 1962 LEE Oswald showed up at the Texas Employment Commission in Fort Worth. He was given a written "General Aptitude Test" that was later forwarded to their Dallas office and noted on documentation published by the Warren Commission. In April, 1962, HARVEY and Marina were still in Russia.

A few weeks later, on May 22, in Russia, the Zieger family accompanied HARVEY Oswald and Marina to the train station to begin their long journey to America. Can you imagine Marina's surprise when her husband, who never spoke Russian while in the Soviet Union, began speaking perfect Russian after arriving in America? In Fort Worth, Texas the Oswald's lived briefly with Robert Oswald and his family. Robert's wife, Vada, who had been introduced to the tall, husky LEE Oswald by her husband in 1957, said of Lee HARVEY Oswald, "he lost his bull neck......" Apparently Vada never realized, or chose to ignore, or was told to ignore, that the tall, husky young man she met in 1957 (LEE) was not the same man she met in 1962 (HARVEY). But Robert Oswald knew that HARVEY Oswald was not his brother. Robert grew up with his tall, nice-looking mother and his brother LEE Oswald prior to joining the Marines in 1952. Following his discharge from the Marines in July, 1955, Robert lived briefly with his mother and brother LEE at 126 Exchange in New Orleans. A year later Robert began living with HARVEY Oswald and the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor at 4936 Collinwood in Fort Worth in July, 1956. It was during this period (summer/fall, 1956) that Robert met and became engaged to his future wife, Vada Mercer. But Robert never introduced his fiance to HARVEY Oswald or to the short, heavy-set Marguerite Oswald impostor prior to their marriage in November, 1956. Why would Robert Oswald dare to introduce his future wife to people to whom he was not related?

HARVEY Oswald, Marina and daughter June left the Soviet Union and arrived in Hoboken, NJ on June 13, 1962. The following day, June 14, the Oswalds arrived in Fort Worth, TX and resided for a short time with Robert Oswald and his family. Four days later, on June 18, HARVEY Oswald met with Pauline Bates, and paid her $10 to type his handwritten notes relating to his 2 1/2 year residency in the Soviet Union. While she was typing HARVEY Oswald remained in her office and made sure that she did not lose or take any of his notes. After typing ten pages, single spaced (about 1/3 of Oswald's handwritten notes), Oswald left and never returned.

A year later HARVEY Oswald applied for a new passport, even though his passport was valid for another 3 years. Why? Because the US passport issued in 1959 had a photograph of LEE Oswald. The new US passport issued in 1962 had a photograph of HARVEY Oswald.

1959 Passport
Photo
1963 Passport

In the 1970's CIA finance officer James B Wilcott testified before the HSCA. He said that in 1959 he worked out of the covert station in Japan and dispensed unvouchered funds for the "Oswald Project." The Oswald project, years in the making, was probably organized and handled by James Angleton of the Counterintelligence/Special Investigations Group at CIA headquarters. But in order to place two Oswalds in the Marine Corps using the same serial number, often at the same time in different locations, it appears that certain members of the Office of Naval Intelligence were also involved. James Wilcott said Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union was phony and that Oswald was on an intelligence operation for the CIA. Wilcott said the cryptonym for the Oswald project was RX-ZIM. (Click here for more on Wilcott)


Sept. 1956--HARVEY Oswald at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth	1957--LEE Oswald in the USMC	1958--LEE Oswald on USMC leave photographed by Robert Oswald	Nov. 1963--HARVEY Oswald in police custody

The TWO Marguerite Oswalds

Lee HARVEY Oswald-Marine Corps enlistment

LEE Oswald, HARVEY Oswald, and Allen Felde--October, 1956 thru September, 1957

August, 1957

September, 1957--LEE Oswald in Japan

October, 1957--HARVEY Oswald and the short, heavy-set "Marguerite Oswald" impostor in New Orleans

November, December, 1957

Palmer McBride--November 22, 1963

HARVEY Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Laboratory

William Wulf and Harvey Oswald

November 23-25, 1963--the FBI begins a coverup

Fabricating and destroying Government Records

HARVEY Oswald at Santa Ana... LEE Oswald at El Toro....


Recent image of Hotel Sentator (long 3-story building on left) where HARVEY Oswald lived when he worked at Pfisterer Dental Lab, the 2-story yellow building at right, in 1957-1958 (Google)	HARVEY Oswald and Palmer McBride attended this production


Marguerite Oswald (4th from left) at Pauls Shoe Store during Christmas, 1957	Close-up of Marguerite Claverie Oswald from the photo at left	Marguerite Oswald Imposter Circa 1960


Marguerite Oswald impostor, circa 1954	Marguerite Claverie Oswald, mother of LEE Harvey Oswald, Christmas, 1957

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HARVEY Oswald Departed for Taiwan Aboard the USS Skagit (AKA 105) on Sept. 14, 1958. Note "AKA 105" Under "Record of Events" near top left above	Unit Diary shows HARVEY Oswald was in Ping Tung, Taiwan, on Oct. 6, 1958


While HARVEY Oswald was in Taiwan, LEE Oswald was being treated for a Venereal Disease in Atsugi, Japan, more than One Thousand Four Hundred Miles Away.


LEE Oswald's Photo (with altered hairline) Appeared on HARVEY Oswald's 1959 Passport	1959 Photo of HARVEY holding Cathy


The Fort Worth Star Telegram published this washed-out photo of Lee Oswald when Harvey Oswald "defected."	The photo above was purchased by the author from Wide World Photos. The typed label indicates: "This is a retransmission of FW1 of Nov. 1 to provide better copy." Associated Press/Wide World Photos


Composite Image of HARVEY and LEE Oswald.	Separating the Composite Images, with Lee on the Left, Harvey on the Right.