13-12-2013, 11:25 AM
Hey David and James,
You guys have asked a lot of interesting questions about NYC, Ft. Worth, Myra Darouse, Ed Voebel, etc. I'll take a quick break to start responding to your questions, but rather than answer them each fully (which would take a lot of time), I'll answer with what I have from my working hypothesis, a timeline that I have already worked up, and what other additional information I can remember off the top of my head. I will also ask questions that maybe you two might have answers to that could help me sort through the evidence. I will refer to "Lee" and "Harvey" for the time being for the sake of keeping the two distinct, although I am highly suspect of references that claim either one of the Oswalds went by the name "Harvey".
This post I'll address what I have on NYC.
On NYC, my working hypothesis is that "Lee" and the "real" Marguerite moved to NYC in late August 1952 and lived there until January 1954. I further believe that, if you ignore certain pieces of evidence that I find questionable, all the references to LHO in the extant records of NYC refer solely to "Lee". There were no two Oswalds until January 1954. The questionable evidence includes:
(1) Policewoman Felicia Shpritzer of the Youth Division of the 48th detective squad (Bathgate Avenue, Bronx) picks up a boy named Lee Harvey Oswald and serves him with the outstanding warrant for truancy (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 54). Armstrong cites Alfred Robbins, NY Journal American, section 7, p. 1, but I can find no such reference to Shpritzer. The only article I can find by for Robbins related to the JFK assassination supports single gunman [Alfred Robbins, "Who Killed President Kennedy? Who Was the Man in the Doorway?", New York Journal-American, Sun., May 24, 1964, p. 16-L] [http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20M...20119.pdf]
(2) the Bronx Zoo photograph that Robert Oswald claims to have taken of LHO in summer 1953 although back of photo reads "1952" (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 65-66). I have no idea who this person is. If this is "Harvey" from 1952 or 1953, this does not mean that there actually was a "Harvey" in 1952 or 1953, only that Robert Oswald was in on the conspiracy.
(3) Marguerite hires housekeeper Louise Robertson for six weeks to clean apartment 2-3 days per week (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 69). Actually I don't think this bit of evidence actually affects by hypothesis one way or another. I just found it rather spurious.
(4) sightings of Harvey Oswald in Stanley, ND in the Summer of 1953 (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 69-72). I have done a whole bunch of work on North Dakota, especially focusing on what Aline Mosby actually wrote and when she actually wrote it. Mosby first broke the story of LHO going to North Dakota. I have combed all the quotes that she attributes to LHO in the two 1959 UPI articles, the 1963 UPI article, and her subsmission to the Warren Commission. I am still waiting on a copy of L'Express in which she published yet another version of the story of the 1959 interview based on her original notes. I bought a copy a couple of weeks ago from Europe and when it gets here I'll go through it and publish the results. The rest of the claims for North Dakota I find rather suspect and even if "Harvey" had lived in North Dakota, I don't believe he necessarily would have had to have gone by the name Oswald at the time to be able to tell that story. In other words, if the North Dakota reference is real, this might be a pre-"Harvey" "Harvey"!
(5) all the psychiatrists and NYC officials, including Dr. Milton Kurion, who claimed from November 1963 (or a later date) that a decade (or more) earlier they remember a very short, emaciated, concentration camp survivor LHO. I won't go into details about these psychiatrists and NYC officials here or why I think their memory was faulty. But in this instance I prefer to trust the original records (wherever the originals may be in FBI heaven) as more believable and they all describe a healthy boy of average height.
(6) report cards showing LHO attending Beauregard Junior High School in the fall of 1953. I will have to cover the evidence against this in a separate post.
So I have a question for David. You know the NYC records a lot better than I do. If you exclude these "questionable" pieces of evidence, can all the other evidence for LHO from August 1952 through January 1954 be explained by just one Oswald? Or are there records which suggest more than one Oswald at the same time? I would really like to see an exact chronology of what we know about LHO in NYC to see if there are any discrepancies.
You guys have asked a lot of interesting questions about NYC, Ft. Worth, Myra Darouse, Ed Voebel, etc. I'll take a quick break to start responding to your questions, but rather than answer them each fully (which would take a lot of time), I'll answer with what I have from my working hypothesis, a timeline that I have already worked up, and what other additional information I can remember off the top of my head. I will also ask questions that maybe you two might have answers to that could help me sort through the evidence. I will refer to "Lee" and "Harvey" for the time being for the sake of keeping the two distinct, although I am highly suspect of references that claim either one of the Oswalds went by the name "Harvey".
This post I'll address what I have on NYC.
On NYC, my working hypothesis is that "Lee" and the "real" Marguerite moved to NYC in late August 1952 and lived there until January 1954. I further believe that, if you ignore certain pieces of evidence that I find questionable, all the references to LHO in the extant records of NYC refer solely to "Lee". There were no two Oswalds until January 1954. The questionable evidence includes:
(1) Policewoman Felicia Shpritzer of the Youth Division of the 48th detective squad (Bathgate Avenue, Bronx) picks up a boy named Lee Harvey Oswald and serves him with the outstanding warrant for truancy (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 54). Armstrong cites Alfred Robbins, NY Journal American, section 7, p. 1, but I can find no such reference to Shpritzer. The only article I can find by for Robbins related to the JFK assassination supports single gunman [Alfred Robbins, "Who Killed President Kennedy? Who Was the Man in the Doorway?", New York Journal-American, Sun., May 24, 1964, p. 16-L] [http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20M...20119.pdf]
(2) the Bronx Zoo photograph that Robert Oswald claims to have taken of LHO in summer 1953 although back of photo reads "1952" (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 65-66). I have no idea who this person is. If this is "Harvey" from 1952 or 1953, this does not mean that there actually was a "Harvey" in 1952 or 1953, only that Robert Oswald was in on the conspiracy.
(3) Marguerite hires housekeeper Louise Robertson for six weeks to clean apartment 2-3 days per week (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 69). Actually I don't think this bit of evidence actually affects by hypothesis one way or another. I just found it rather spurious.
(4) sightings of Harvey Oswald in Stanley, ND in the Summer of 1953 (Armstrong, Harvey and Lee p. 69-72). I have done a whole bunch of work on North Dakota, especially focusing on what Aline Mosby actually wrote and when she actually wrote it. Mosby first broke the story of LHO going to North Dakota. I have combed all the quotes that she attributes to LHO in the two 1959 UPI articles, the 1963 UPI article, and her subsmission to the Warren Commission. I am still waiting on a copy of L'Express in which she published yet another version of the story of the 1959 interview based on her original notes. I bought a copy a couple of weeks ago from Europe and when it gets here I'll go through it and publish the results. The rest of the claims for North Dakota I find rather suspect and even if "Harvey" had lived in North Dakota, I don't believe he necessarily would have had to have gone by the name Oswald at the time to be able to tell that story. In other words, if the North Dakota reference is real, this might be a pre-"Harvey" "Harvey"!
(5) all the psychiatrists and NYC officials, including Dr. Milton Kurion, who claimed from November 1963 (or a later date) that a decade (or more) earlier they remember a very short, emaciated, concentration camp survivor LHO. I won't go into details about these psychiatrists and NYC officials here or why I think their memory was faulty. But in this instance I prefer to trust the original records (wherever the originals may be in FBI heaven) as more believable and they all describe a healthy boy of average height.
(6) report cards showing LHO attending Beauregard Junior High School in the fall of 1953. I will have to cover the evidence against this in a separate post.
So I have a question for David. You know the NYC records a lot better than I do. If you exclude these "questionable" pieces of evidence, can all the other evidence for LHO from August 1952 through January 1954 be explained by just one Oswald? Or are there records which suggest more than one Oswald at the same time? I would really like to see an exact chronology of what we know about LHO in NYC to see if there are any discrepancies.