John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[David Josephs]

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index....ntry258339

Hi, David,

That's a fabulous write-up you linked above. I learned several things about the EARLIEST Oswalds I either had missed before or forgotten. Megathanks!

Jim

Really my pleasure Jim.... I am trying to be sure I have exhausted the available documents related to that time period... when we add back San Saba and the memory of Georgia Bell

The repeated mentioning of HARVEY going back to NINTH grade while LEE was still attending 7-8th is interesting in that HARVEY'S school records are theones missing while the good (yet incorrect) attendance for LEE is what we have in the records.

Add now the WCR incorrectly stating that San Saba was purchased A YEAR OR MORE AFTER IT ACTUALLY WAS (1948 as opposed to 1947; WCR p674) while MO is living at 1505 8th St, 3300 Willing and 7408 Ewing - while ALSO RENTING A HOUSE around the block from STRIPLING JUNIOR HIGH... for a destitute lady with no job or money, she sure has a way with Real Estate !!

The man she ultimately sells 101 San Saba to lived just down the road - Otis Carleton - says she and her three boys lived there for 6-8 months - having bought the house on 7/7/47, and with LEE attending Clayton Elementary in Ft Worth starting September 1947... we must reconcile why Little Oswald would be going over 10 miles to a school in Ft Worth while living in Benbrook... how/why MO buys the house in San Saba BEFORE the divorce settlement

John Pic remembers the summer of 1947 in FT WORTH working for an Ice Cream Parlor... and offer NO RECOLLECTION of San Saba at all... yet there WAS a house in Benbrook years earlier...:

Mr. JENNER - Describe that house.
Mr. PIC - It was an L--shaped house, sir, being the top of the L was her bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and living room with a screened-in porch. She and Lee slept together. My brother and I slept in the living room in the screened-in porch on studio couches. When we moved into this house and after the divorce and everything became final, I was--
Mr. JENNER - Excuse me, was that 101 San Saba?
Mr. PIC - No, sir; I don't know nothing about 101 San Saba.
Mr. JENNER - Do you recall the street you were on in Benbrook; this first house?
Mr. PIC - There were no streets. We used a post office box number up at the post office there. Because I was sending away for stamps at the time from different companies, and I was collecting stamps and I would go pick up the mail at the post office.
Mr. JENNER - The first house in Benbrook was on Granbury Road, that is your recollection? That is the one you have already mentioned heretofore?
Mr. PIC - Granbury Road is familiar, sir, if that is the one that is way far south of town on Granbury Road, then that is it.
Mr. JENNER - Well, there is a letter in the file at the Hunt Military Academy in October of 1945 informing them that a new address would be Granbury Road, Route 5, Box 567 in Benbrook

When theyreturned to Texas, two months later, Ekdahl rented a stone house on GranburyRoad in Benbrook-a small, rural community southwest of Fort Worth. On October29 Mrs. Oswald wrote a letter to Mr. Farrell at the Chamberlain Hunt Academy andinformed him that her new address was "Grandbury Rd- R 5- Box 567, Benbrook,Texas."[/FONT]

On O[B]ctober 31Lee Oswald entered the Benbrook Common School. His age was shown as 6, hisbirthday was listed as July 19, 1939 (his actual birth date was October 18, 1939),his address was given as Box 567, Benbrook, and his guardian was listed as E.A. Ekdahl.

[/B]In the summer of 1947 A SHORT and FAT MO is remembered by the Bells, who built their house at 100 San Saba in the summer of 1947...
At the same time the tall MO with her children are at 1505 8th Street in FT Worth, around the corner from the Lily B Clayton Elem school. The conclusion to be considered here is that the TALL MO bought a house while the SHORT FAT MO is renting it... even though the land records show a Mr Murray leasing the property, none of the neighbors remembers a MURRAY family while remembering that the SHORT FAT MO left around Thanksgiving 1947 to move back to 1505 8th Street and enroll LHO at Clayton... Benbrook Common school's records show LEE there in OCTOBER 1945 when they would have been living on Granbury Rd.

A Mrs Florence Murphy was LEE's 2nd Grade teacher, while fellow student Phil Vinson remembers LEE as the leader of the 7/8 year olds. in a 1963 article.
Who was residing at 101 San Saba thru Nov 1947, as seen and described by Bell and Carleton as a SHORT FAT MO, while not recognizing any photo of the actual MO.


During the Christmas holidays she wasphotographed with store employees June Claybrook, Joe Spence, Gene Watson,James Huff (store manager), Claude Dillard, Betty Rich, (Marguerite Oswald) andGail Hollis. [57-32] NOTE: This was the photograph that I sentor showed to Georgia Bell, Maury Goodman, Rita Paveur, Louis Marzialle andPalmer McBride-all of whom said this was not the Marguerite Oswald they knew.


The women on the far right is supposedly the same as the women in this picture...

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