19-04-2014, 01:12 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Jim Hargrove Wrote:To me, at least, it speaks volumes that before Oswald was even charged Hoover was concentrating on Oswald's teen-aged employment in New Orleans and his elementary and junior high school records in NYC, New Orleans, and Ft. Worth. Wouldn't most people say those are pretty strange priorities? How 'bout looking for co-conspirators first and looking for elementary school records later?
Not sure on the timing of that, but it is certainly telegraphing those punches.
It certainly strains credulity, but it doesn't seem like much of an exaggeration to me. Will Fritz signed the formal complaint against Oswald for murdering JFK a little before midnight on the 22nd. By 8 am the next morning, Frank Kudlaty, assistant principal at Stripling Jr. High in Ft. Worth, was called by his principal and told to meet FBI agents at the empty school right away, indicating FBI personnel (Hoover?) must have been looking into Oswald's school records even earlier. The Stripling records vanished, leaving only Robert Oswald's testimony in the WC record that his brother ever attended that school. Kudlaty's three-part interview with John Armstrong is here:
All four owners of Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans were interviewed separately by FBI agents on November 23. Pfisterers is one of the earliest employers of Lee Harvey Oswald, part of the employment history that the Social Security Administration refused to confirm to the HSCA, offering instead "three pages from the Warren Commission report." Whether you buy into John Armstrong's analysis of two Oswald's from the mid-1950s onward, the evidence seems to suggest that there was something being covered up about Oswald's youth, and FBI agents were deep into this stuff before the ink was dry on Fritz's complaint.
Jim