John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[David Josephs]

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...:

David,

Don't know if he's talked to you about it, but JA is working with a Univ of Minn professor (he's posted a couple of times here) who is digging deep into San Saba. What's really interesting is that it looks like the real Marguerite (Ekdahl at the time--who usually seemed to have at least some money) purchased 101 San Saba in 1947 (John researched the land records) but phoney Marguerite (always without much money) rented it and lived in it, at least for a few months. If that analysis is correct, then it's hard to imagine any way that the two Marguerites didn't know each other, and know each other as long ago as the second half of 1947!

Jim

I too find it hard... at the same time I believe it is only those famous unsigned FBI "he said / she said" reports which stated that MO and THREE CHILDREN were ever seen at San Saba....
Robert was working in Ft Worth at the time...

Could the "Murray" name as leasees at San Saba (although never actually seen at San Saba) been a cover for the SHORT FAT MO?
Let us also not forget the house by STRIPLING where SHORT FAT MO kept her belongings...

When we look at the testimony of ROBERT, MARGARITE, and PIC - this is the ENTIRE reference to San Saba from all three... while Georgia and Lucille remember MO vividly...
you wanna guess whether BELL or HUBBARD were ever questioned?



Mr. JENNER - Excuse me, was that 101 San Saba?
Mr. PIC - No, sir; I don't know nothing about 101 San Saba.

Georgia Bell, who lived directly across the street from the Oswald's at100 San Saba,
remembered Marguerite very well, but said nobody by the name of Murray ever lived
in the house.

Marguerite, who Georgia [Bell] described as "short and fat," often visited her as did Marguerite's neighbor to the east, Mrs. Lucille
Hubbard. Georgia and Lucille often picked up groceries for Mrs. Oswald and chauffeured
her around Benbrook.