Height and Shoulders
Posted April 3, 2014
Documents
including photographs show that Lee Harvey Oswald was impersonated over a span
of a several years. This conclusion flows from a comparison of the documented
height and shoulders of subjects represented and misrepresented as Lee Harvey
Oswald.
The official height of Lee Harvey Oswald as determined by the
autopsy differs from the height given on other documents. In itself these
disagreements are no cause for concern. One can almost expect that random errors
would cause the height on one document to differ by an inch or two more or less
than the height on another document. However, in this case the differences in
height are not randomly distributed. Instead the various documents fall into two
distinct categories which have an unchanging two-inch difference in their
heights.
Two documents give the height of Lee Oswald as 5' 9''. These are
a Marine photograph from the late fifties published as JFK
Exhibit F-166 by the
HSCA and the autopsy report of November 24, 1963. The Warren Commission
published this report as CE
1981.
Four documents list the height of Lee Oswald as 5' 11''. The
first document, CE
1989, summarizes the contents of a Department of Defense
identification card. This undated item carries an expiration date of December 7,
1962. An application for admission to the
Some people have squared shoulders and others have drooped
shoulders. In most cases, the shoulder either squared or drooped on one side of
the body matches the shoulder on the opposite side. This is the case for some
photos of Oswald. However, other photos show an Oswald with unequal droops of
the shoulders.
Three photographs show Lee Oswald had shoulders with equal and
moderate droops. These pictures are the Marine photo, JFK
Exhibit F-166, taken when Oswald was stationed in
An unequal droop of the shoulders may occur in two ways. The left
shoulder may be more drooping than the right or the right shoulder may have the
excessive droop. The photographs on the passports of September 10, 1959 - CE
946 and June 24, 1963
- CE
781 show excessive
droops of the right shoulder.
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The various documents describing Oswald enable comparing the
height and shoulders of the subjects.
Height is rounded to the nearest inch. This practice calls
immediate attention to the absence of any document which gives 5' 10'' as the
height of Oswald. The absence of a reported height of one inch less than 5' 9''
or one inch more than 5' 11'' is also noted.
The droop of the shoulders could occur in one of four ways. In
one way an excessive droop of the left shoulder may accompany a normal droop of
the right shoulder. Alternately unequal droops of the shoulders may occur with
the excessive droop on the right side. The photos on both passports illustrate
this second possibility. A third possibility arises from the unobserved case of
an excessive droop of both shoulders. Finally both shoulders may lack an
excessive droop as seen in the mug shots taken by both police departments.
Each reported height of 5' 11'' could have belonged with
excessive droop of both, the left, neither or the right shoulder. However, these
two documents show that the 5' 11' height was accompanied by excessive droop of
the right shoulder. Likewise the 5' 9" height could have been associated
with shoulders behaving in four different manners. The Marine photo provides a
direct link between this 5' 9" height and excessive droop of neither
shoulder. Documents produced by the
The logical inference of these multiple regularities is that two
people used the name of Lee H. Oswald. One stood 5' 11'' tall and had an
excessive droop of their right shoulder. The other Lee H. Oswald was 5' 9'' tall
and had shoulders with equal and normal droops.
A photograph of Lee Oswald appended to the visa application
presented to the Cuban consulate in
These combined results make a convincing case for an Oswald
impersonator who was active over a period of several years.
A letter from Lee H. Oswald dated March 7, 1962 strongly suggests
that he knew an impersonator used a passport bearing his name. He wrote:
Source:
FBI 105-82555 Oswald HQ File, Section 72, page
65
I
have not violated; Section 1544, Title 18, U. S. code, therefore you have no
legal or even moral right to reverse my honorable discharge from the U.S.M.C. of
Sept. 11, 1960 [sic], into a[sic] undiserable [sic] discharge.
The cited law, section 1544 of title 18, pertains to misuse of a
passport.
Source:
Legal Information Institute - 18
U.S. Code 1544
Whoever willfully and knowingly uses, or attempts to use, any
passport issued or designed for the use of another; or
Whoever willfully and knowingly uses or attempts to use any
passport in violation of the conditions or restrictions therein contained, or of
the rules prescribed pursuant to the laws regulating the issuance of passports;
or
Whoever willfully and knowingly furnishes, disposes of, or
delivers a passport to any person, for use by another than the person for whose
use it was originally issued and designed -
Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 25
years (if the offense was committed to facilitate an act of international
terrorism (as defined in section 2331 of this title)), 20 years (if the offense
was committed to facilitate a drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 929
(a) of this title)), 10 years (in the case of the first or second such offense,
if the offense was not committed to facilitate such an act of international
terrorism or a drug trafficking crime), or 15 years (in the case of any other
offense), or both.
Perhaps Oswald learned or surmised the existence of an
impersonator during his unfriendly interrogation by the KBG in
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