21-05-2015, 05:12 PM
Jim Hargrove Wrote:I'm just about to go out and spend the day with my granddaughter, so this will be brief....
As most of us know, theories about two Oswalds long pre-date anything published by John Armstrong. Popkin's Second Oswald was published just 2 or 3 years after the WCR. Then there was Eddowes in the 1970s, and Cutler and his partner (can't remember off hand) a decade or so after that.
Jim Garrrison's investigators were actively pursuing evidence of a second Oswald way back in the 1960s. They got the affidavit from Aletha Frair swearing that a Texas driver's license for Lee Harvey Oswald was returned to the Texas Dept. of Public Safety soon after the assassination. Still in the 1960s, Garrison investigator Bill Boxley said at a public conference that he thought evidence of two Oswalds dated back to the Marine Corps.
Much of this does not involve "connecting dots" that do or do not exist. Accidentally, no doubt, the WC published school records showing that Oswald attended public schools full time simultaneously in New York City and New Orleans during the 1953/54 school year. There is so much more, but I'm running out of time.
I have talked to John A. several times about Palmer McBride. Rather than relying on my memory, I'll see tonight or tomorrow if I can find any info that would shed light on David's questions near the end of the post above.
I think Harold Weisberg was upset with Popkin because he believed Popkin got his two-Oswald theory from HW's research. So, the idea has been there since the beginning. The only question is how far to go with the two-Oswald theory (how far back in Oswald's life did it begin).