John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee

[James Norwood]

David and Magda: Yes, the call placed from Mrs. Jack Tippit (whose husband was a relative of slain officer J. D. Tippit) to the FBI comes to us from an actual FBI report. (David: I regret that I'm not a computer whiz like you; otherwise I would paste up the document right here.) On Saturday, November 23, 1963, an anonymous female caller traveled from New York to Westport, CT to phone Mrs. Tippit in order for the call not to be traced. The caller related the story about the father and uncle of the alleged suspect and still-living Lee Harvey Oswald, who were "Hungarians and Communists" who had lived in Yorkville in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

The story takes on special significance when we come to the time in 1952, when Marguerite and Lee peremptorily move from Fort Worth to New York. The move disrupts the period of Lee's youth in which he had the greatest stability in his home life and continuity in his education. The arrival in New York of Marguerite and Lee brings into focus the research conducted by David into the appearance of two boys named Lee Harvey Oswald in New York. The combination of school records, eyewitness testimony, and photographic evidence reveals for the first time the existence of the two Oswald boys. In this period, a veil is lifted for us to at least glimpse the workings of the Oswald Project, whose objective was to place a Russian-speaking American spy in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. The project was in its embryonic stage in New York City in 1952-53, and it culminated in the defection of the Marine "Harvey" Oswald in 1959.


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