The Selectice Service card photo

[Peter Lemkin]

Just some thoughts. Just as there were MULTIPLE 'backyard photos' [all forged composites of things/people/times], there may well have been more than one Selective Service card made for Oswald [all forged and fake]. How Nagell came into possession of another or the other is not apparently recorded - but I'd posit a possible guess. Nagell was tasked with covertly shadowing Oswald to find out who he was, what he was up to and who was controlling him really. Giving him a card with a photo and a signature might have helped him in his work. Nagell also, later, wanted to very quietly let some know that he knew an assassination was in the works and he wanted not to be tared with that brush [thus the lame bank shoot up to be arrested et al.] He may well have placed this and other items in his wallet [which makes NO sense to have another man's card in one's wallet - but this also happened very strangely with a library card] to hint to cognoscenti that he knew Oswald's legend was a fake and to let them know he knew. Sadly, Nagell clammed up latter in his life and then was, I believe, murdered and his stash of proofs of what he knew stolen from its hiding place...so we may never know all the details of Nagell's motives and instructions at any given point. To me, however, it is clear that Nagell knew more than the basic outline of the assassination and the forces behind it...and felt this dangerous to both the Nation and himself and wanted 'out' of a game that one is usually not allowed out of.