John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[Jim Hargrove]

• LEE OSWALD: two scars from a gunshot wound
  
  
  On October 27, 1957 Richard Cyr was standing about 15 yards from his barracks in Atsugi, Japan and heard a gunshot. Cyr and other marines ran into the building and found (LEE) Oswald sitting on his locker with a nickel-plated .22 derringer laying nearby on the floor. (LEE) Oswald said, "It seems as though I've shot myself." Oswald was taken to the sick bay for treatment and then taken to the U.S. Navy Hospital in nearby Yokosuku. A Navy surgeon closed the wound with stitches and allowed the .22 slug, which lay just below the surface on the back side of Oswald's upper left arm, to remain in his arm. A week later, on November 4, Dr. Greenlees made an incision on the back side of Oswald's arm, removed the .22 caliber slug, and closed the wound with stitches which were removed 10 days later.
  
  LEE Oswald had two incisions and now had two scars.
  
  After (HARVEY) Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963, an autopsy was performed by Dr. Earl Rose of Dallas. Dr. Rose listed and described numerous small scars on Oswald's body, including "a pale, white, oblique 1/4 inch scar." But nowhere, in the lengthly and precise autopsy report, did Dr. Rose observe or report any scars on Oswald's left arm. Photographs were taken of Oswalds arms, but show no scars from a bullet wound.
  After the autopsy, (HARVEY) Oswald was taken to the funeral home where he was embalmed and prepared for burial by mortician Paul Groody. Groody was subsequently interviewed by the Secret Service and asked if there were any scars on Oswald's arms and he (Groody) repeatedly said there were no scars on Oswald's upper left arm.
  
  
  LEE OSWALD: three-inch mastoidectomy scar
  
  
  When LEE Oswald was 6 years old, he had a mastoidectomy operation behind his left ear. In 1956, at age 17, LEE Oswald's Marine medical examination report listed a three-inch mastoid scar behind his left ear. When (HARVEY) Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, Dr. Earl Rose performed the autopsy and noted scars in his report as small as one-sixteenth inch. Dr. Rose also took 27 color slides of Oswald's body which are now in the National Archives. There is no three-inch mastoidectomy scar shown on the autopsy report nor can such a scar be seen in any of the color slides. LEE Oswald had the three-inch mastoidectomy scar, but not HARVEY Oswald, who was shot and killed by Jack Ruby (Ruby knew LEE and HARVEY).
  A missing front tooth, scars from a medical operations, and scars from a gunshot wound have long puzzled JFK researchers, but the solution is simple enough. It was LEE Oswald who had a mastoidectomy operation in 1945, lost a tooth from a fight in 1954, and shot himself in the left arm in 1957. But it was HARVEY Oswald who was killed by Jack Ruby, and had no such scars.
  
  
  After his arrest (HARVEY) Oswald told DPD officer Adamcik and FBI agent Clements, "I am 5 ft. 9 in., weight 140 lbs., have brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and have no tattoos or permanent scars." But (LEE) Oswald had a large mastoidectomy scar and upper-arm scars that were both noted in Marine Corps records (Warren Report, pp 614-618).