03-03-2016, 07:00 PM
Jonathan Nolan Wrote:There is a pattern with people saying something along the lines of "the person I knew as Lee Harvey Oswald" rather than just saying "Lee Harvey Oswald" - as though none of them feel or felt that they actually knew him at all, or at least they aren't sure whether they knew the same person as someone else or as was described.
Example:
Buell Wesley Frazier: (Men Who Killed Kennedy, 'The Patsy'): "the individual I know as Lee Harvey Oswald I don't think had it in him to be a person capable of er committing such a uh crime as uh murdering the President of the United States. Um, I'll always believe that. The side I saw to him was a very kind and loving man."
That's a very good point Jon... At the bottom of this post is a letter from John Ely - the man tasked months after the fact to compile Oswald's bio - and the follow-up recommendation. Also included is the report on GORSKY who claims OSWALD was discharged in March 1959, not Sept. (all of this courtesy of Armstrong's Baylor collection - you can even see the "Reproduced at the National Archives" stamp - so even ny April 1964 the FBI and WC Lawyers had not yet decided on who Oswald was....
"the man "X" knows as Lee Harvey Oswald" is a very safe way to put it... It appears to most of us that Ely and the WCR lawyers learned a few things about conflicts in the record which cannot be explained by the existence of only one Lee Harvey.
I find it peculiar that they repeatedly use all three names when referring to him... as opposed to Lee, Mr. Oswald, Lee Oswald or L.H. Oswald
Even his wife uses the compound name - who talks like that about their husband?
Mrs. OSWALD. Why did the Embassy in Washington have to notify the Embassy in Mexico City that Lee Oswald was arriving?
(as opposed to saying "my husband", or just "Lee"
Mr. RANKIN. Are you the widow of the late Lee Harvey Oswald?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Mrs. Oswald, did you write in Russian a story of your experiences in the United States?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes, I have. I think that you are familiar with it.
Mr. RANKIN. You furnished it to the Commission, did you not, or a copy of it?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. Will you describe for the Commission how you prepared this document in Russian that you furnished to us?
Mrs. OSWALD. I wrote this document not specifically for this Commission, but merely for myself. Perhaps there are, therefore, not enough facts for your purpose in that document. This is the story of my life from the time I met him in Minsk up to the very last days.
Mr. RANKIN. And by "him" who did you mean?
Mrs. OSWALD. Lee Harvey Oswald.
Mr. RANKIN. Do you recall whether he stamped his name on the handbills, too?
Mrs. OSWALD. Yes.
Mr. RANKIN. What name did he stamp on them?
Mrs. OSWALD. Lee Harvey Oswald.
(This one not so much... He stamped L.H. OSWALD on the flyers until it was changed to A.J. HIDELL)
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Here is the one and only slip referring to him as Harvey. It looks to me that JENNER and the other lawyers go out of their way to use all three names
Mrs. PAINE - Of course, afternoons we usually spent in rest for the children, having all small children, all of us having small children.
Mr. JENNER - Whenever this doesn't include Lee Harvey Oswald would you be good enough to tell us?
Mrs. PAINE - When he was not present?
Mr. JENNER - That is right.
Mrs. PAINE - My recollection is that he was present most of the weekend. He went out to buy groceries, came in with a cheery call to his two girls, saying, "Yabutchski," which means girls, the Russian word for girls, as he came in the door. It was more like Harvey than I had seen him before. He remembered this time. I saw him reading a pocketbook.
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Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter