Oswald's tax records

[Jim Hargrove]

There is a document purporting to be a 1956 LHO tax return here:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/lho56tax.gif

This is a fine looking document that the good professor is showing us. We used to have this up on the Harvey and Lee website, but since everyone understood how phony it was, we took it down. Here are a few of the problems with this return:

1. "Lee Harvey Oswald" signed this alleged return on Feb. 7, 1957, when he was in the United States Marine Corps. He was also in the Marine Corps in 1956, enlisting in October of that year. So why wasn't his 1956 Marine Corp income listed on that form? The answer is simple, because whoever forged this document did not have access to Oswald's USMC payroll records. In fact, the Department of the Navy did not release Oswald's Marine Corps income records until September 1964, long after this document was forged. I believe there is a long thread somewhere on this forum discussing this very issue and the problems with the forged return.

2. This income does not appear in Oswald's lifetime Social Security income statement. Why?

3. The W-2 forms that this phony tax return was based on were supposedly prepared by three different companies. Yet when I followed John's suggestion to send copies to IBM archivist Dawn Sanford (an expert on typography), she indicated that she thought they were all typed on the same machine, one that had a highly unusual font that she had no examples of, despite the thousands of samples in her files.

Does anyone think it is reasonable to assume that Lee Harvey Oswald, signing a tax return while wearing his Marine Corps uniform, would forget to include his USMC income?

Thank you though for pointing this out. I'm going to put this old stuff back up on the website in case anyone brings it up again.