Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

This is by John Armstrong, and it concerns what El Toro Marine Alan Graf told Warren Commission Attorney John Hart Ely about his time with Oswald. Graf insisted that he was with Oswald at El Toro, NOT at the smaller facility in Santa Ana. And notice at the end, that Oswald got the years in which each of his parents were born (that is, Robert E. Lee Oswald and Margaret Claverie) WRONG. They weren't his parents. 

On January 23, 1959 Marine Corps records show that LEE Oswald was at Vincent Air Force Base in Yuma, AZ--the same day that Nelson Delgado returned from leave and spoke with HARVEY Oswald about Castro's revolution in Cuba. Six weeks later in March, 1959, Allen Graf arrived at El Toro and soon became a close friend of LEE Oswald. Graf was Oswald's platoon sergeant and they spent a lot of time together and often went to the movies. Graf told Warren Commission attorney John Hart Ely that Oswald (LEE) never studied a foreign language and didn't speak Russian. Graf gave Ely the names of several marines who knew and associated with Oswald at El Toro--John Castle, Raymond Glidden, James King, Abraham Rubenstein, Goutier, Herd, Maulden and Sawchuk. Ely, who's job for the WC was to gather background information on Oswald, was puzzled because this was the first time that he heard the names of any of these marines, including Graf. Ely apparently did not understand that El Toro and Santa Ana were two different bases, he most certainly did not know about HARVEY and LEE, and he never realized that Graf and his fellow marines knew LEE Oswald, and did not know HARVEY. None of the marines named by Graf were ever interviewed by the FBI or the Warren Commission. The FBI avoided nearly all of the marines at El Toro, and focused their investigation exclusively on the MACS 9 facility at Santa Ana, where the short, thin, Russian-speaking HARVEY Oswald had made preparations for his "defection" to Russia.

In the spring of 1959 Major William P Gorsky was the Assistant Provost Marshall at the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro. According to Gorsky's files LEE Oswald had been arrested for hitch hiking and was discharged from the marines in March, 1959. Once again the FBI and Warren Commission avoided this problem by simply failing to conduct a proper investigation and failing to obtain Oswald's discharge papers from Major Gorsky. Their refusal to investigate LEE Oswald in El Toro, or interview Marines who knew him, is another very important "smoking gun."

After LEE Oswald was discharged (March, 1959) he stayed away from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, but was seen in several locations including Coral Gables, Key West, New Orleans, and Cuba. His tall, nice-looking mother terminated her employment at Cox's Dept. Store and moved away from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. She returned to New Orleans and from 1959 through 1961 worked in the ladies department at Goldrings and Holmes Department Stores and at Kriegers. Mrs. Logan Magruder, who knew the tall, nice-looking Marguerite Oswald for over 20 years, saw and talked with her at Kreigers (circa 1959-60). Mrs. Oris Duane saw and spoke with Marguerite at Goldrings (circa 1960). Marguerite Oswald remained in New Orleans, undoubtedly changed her name, and never returned to Ft. Worth.

From the spring of 1959 onward, the only woman using the name "Marguerite Oswald" in Ft. Worth was the short, heavy-set impostor. And, beginning in the spring of 1959, the only person in the Marine Corps using the name "Lee Harvey Oswald" was the short, thin, Russian-speaking impostor--HARVEY Oswald. The multi-year preparations for Oswald's "defection" to Russia were now complete. HARVEY, who allegedly taught himself Russian by listening to Russian records and reading Russian newspapers, passed a Russian language exam in February, 1959. He made sure that everyone knew about his interest and ability in the Russian language. The Marguerite Oswald impostor was also preparing for his upcoming "defection." In January, 1959 she visited Dr. Milton Goldberg in Ft. Worth and told him that her son "wanted to defect to Russia." HARVEY Oswald's ability to speak near-perfect Russian, without any formal training, is an irrefutable "smoking gun."

Throughout the summer of 1959 HARVEY Oswald continued to promote communism and anything and everything Russian to fellow marines. On September 4, HARVEY Oswald applied for a passport in Santa Ana, California. But the passport contained a photo of LEE Oswald--not HARVEY.  If this photo is compared with a photo taken of HARVEY Oswald a week later, standing next to Robert Oswald, you can see they are two different people.

LEE Oswald's Photo (with altered hairline) Appeared on HARVEY Oswald's 1959 Passport	Grainy 1959 Photo of HARVEY standing  next to Robert Oswald

On his passport application HARVEY listed Robert Edward Lee Oswald as his father and gave his birth date as 1908, when in fact the correct date was 1896. And he listed Marguerite Claverie Oswald as his mother and gave her birth date as 1909, when the correct date was 1907.