Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. KennedyUnited States. Warren Commission
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Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
Oswald’s use of aliases is also well established. In chapter IV, the
evidence relating to his repeated use of the name “A. J. Hidell,”
and close variants thereof, is set forth.[C6-609] Because Oswald’s
use of this pseudonym became known quickly after the assassination,
investigations were conducted with regard to persons using the name
Hidell or names similar to it. Subversive files, public carrier
records, telegraph company records, banking and other commercial
records, and other matters investigated and persons interviewed
have been examined with regard to Oswald’s true name and his known
alias.[C6-610] No evidence has been produced that Oswald ever used the
name Hidell as a means of making undercover contact with any person.
Indeed, though Oswald did prepare a counterfeit selective service card
and other identification using this name, he commonly used “Hidell”
to represent persons other than himself, such as the president of his
nonexistent Fair Play for Cuba Committee chapter, the doctor whose name
appeared on his counterfeit international certificate of vaccination,
and as references on his job applications.[C6-611]
Alwyn Cole, questioned document expert for the Treasury Department,
testified that the false identification found on Oswald upon his arrest
could have been produced by employing elementary techniques used in
a photographic printing plant.[C6-612] (See app. X, pp. 571-578.)
Though to perform the necessary procedures would have been difficult
without the use of expensive photographic equipment, such equipment
and the needed film and photographic paper were available to Oswald
when he was employed from October 1962 through early April 1963 at
Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall, a commercial advertising photography firm in
Dallas.[C6-613] While so employed, Oswald is known to have become
familiar with the mechanics of photographic enlargements, contraction,
and image distortion that would have been necessary to produce his
false identification, and to have used the facilities of his employer
for some personal work.[C6-614] Cole testified that the cards in
Oswald’s wallet did not exhibit a great deal of skill, pointing out
various errors that had been committed.[C6-615] Oswald’s supervisor at
Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall has stated that Oswald seemed unable to perform
photographic work with precision, which was one of the main reasons for
which he was ultimately discharged.[C6-616] The retouched negatives
used to make Oswald’s counterfeit certificate of service identification
were found among Oswald’s personal effects after his arrest, as was
a rubber stamping kit apparently employed to produce his spurious
international certificate of vaccination.[C6-617] There is strong
evidence, therefore, that Oswald himself made the various pieces of
counterfeit identification which he carried, and there is no reason to
believe that he received assistance from any person in establishing his
alias.
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