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

That same period, late '57 and early '58, when Lee was in Japan and shot himself and had to be hospitalized, and then when he got out his until sailed for the Philippines, and he got in trouble and was sent to the brig for taking potshots into the jungle, and then returned with his unit to Japan in March, was exactly the time that Palmer McBride said that Harvey was working with him at the Pfisterer dental lab in New Orleans and listening to classical music together and going to the Astronomy Club together. 

So, how have "they" tried to deal with McBride? And by "they" I mean both the Warren Report devotees and the CTs who just don't like the idea. "They" have tried to say that Palmer McBride was confused, that all those things happened in 1956. 

But, that is ridiculous because McBride said that he and Oswald discussed the Russian space successes, and the first Sputnik didn't happen until October 4, 1957.

Immediately after the assassination, the FBI stormed Pfisterer and confiscated Oswald's employment records, and they swore all the employees there to silence about him. Then, the bastards forged W-2 documents, later exposed as phonies by John Armstrong. Read all about it here:

http://www.mindserpent.com/American_History/books/Armstrong/
Forged/Forged_docs.htm    

This is totally absurd. Nobody can know better than Palmer McBride (now deceased) where he was and what he was doing in 1957/58. And even if he had any confusion about it, he would be able to figure it out working backward from other known events in his life which followed it or other known events which preceded it. I know where I was and what I was doing in '57/'58. Don't you, if you were alive? 

So, is this the reason why Robert Oswald put that phony date of February 1958 on the picture of Lee in his book, to neutralize Palmer McBride?

I don't know, but it may be the reason or one of the reasons. But, what I do know is that the date is wrong. That had to be after Lee got back from the Far East, during his month-long leave before he reported at El Toro for his last gig as a Marine. Hence, it was late 58, probably December. At that time, Harvey was already at Santa Ana. 

Remember, there were two different Marine stations, one at El Toro where Lee wound up, and the other smaller facility at Santa Ana where Harvey was, although they were close together, about 12 miles apart. 

El Toro was a full-fledged military airport, and it's where Presidents would land when the flew to Southern California. 

Marine Corps Air Station El Toro (IATA: NZJ, ICAO: KNZJ, FAA LID: NZJ) was a United States Marine Corps Air Station located near Irvine, California.
Before it was decommissioned in 1999, it was the 4,682 acres (19 km²) home of Marine Corps aviation on the West Coast. Designated as a Master Jet Station, its four runways (two of 8,000 feet (2,400 m) and two of 10,000 feet (3,000 m)) could handle the largest aircraft in the U.S. military inventory. While it was active, all U.S. Presidents in the post-World War II era landed in Air Force One at this airfield. The El Toro "Flying Bull" patch was designed by Walt Disney Studios in 1944.^[2] It survived virtually unchanged until the close of the Air Station.


The place that Harvey was, where he was supposedly teaching himself Russian with Russian newspapers and a Russian dictionary was the "Lighter than Air" Air Station near Tustin.

Marine Corps Air Station Tustin (IATA: NTK, ICAO: KNTK, FAA LID: NTK) is a former United States Marine Corps air station, located in Tustin, California.

The Air Station was established in 1942 as Naval Lighter-Than-Air Station Santa Ana, a base for airship operations in support of the United States Navy's coastal patrol efforts during World War II. NLTAS Santa Ana was decommissioned in 1949. In 1951, the facility was reactivated as Marine Corps Air Facility Santa Ana to support the Korean War. It was the country's first air facility developed solely for helicopter operations. It was renamed Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in 1979.

Notice that it says that back in the 1950s, it was called MCAF Santa Ana, but in 1979 it was renamed and associated with the city of Tustin, which was nearby. It was between the two. 

The larger El Toro Air Field was closer to the city of Irvine. So, Harvey and Lee were only about 12 miles apart during their final stints as Marines.