Post by Michael Capasse on Feb 9, 2019 12:19:15 GMT -5
44 Oswald's drivers license
Five days after the assassination Lee Oswald's driver's license turned up at the Texas Department
of Public Safety (TDPS) in Austin.
Aletha Frair was a TDPS employee who worked in the License Records Department, which was
responsible for IBM computer records of all driver's licenses issued in the state of Texas. On
November 27 (Wednesday) Oswald's well-worn driver's license came into her division.
Mrs. Frair said, "One of the girls working in the file cabinets pulling driver's licenses to be renewed
or because of change of name or because of death ran across a license and exclaimed, 'I have his
license .... .I have Lee Harvey Oswald's driver's license, right here. '"All of the employees within
earshot ( 5 or 6 people) then rushed to see the license, and saw her holding Oswald's pink colored
Texas driver's license.
Mrs. Frair wrote: I saw with my own eyes the pink Texas driver's license (about 2 1/2 inches by 3
1/2 inches). The license had the name 'Lee Harvey Oswald' printed on the card as the licensee.
The license was stained with some sort of brownish discoloration.
Mrs. Frair said the brown stains on the dirty, worn license may have been caused by carrying it in
a brown wallet. The license was the talk of the office since everyone knew who Oswald was, and
the reason his driver's license records and IBM card were being pulled from the active file was due
to the fact that he had been killed.
TDPS employee Mrs. Lee Bozarth stated categorically that she knew from direct personal
experience there was a Texas driver's license and a file for Lee Harvey Oswald, and that it was
pulled and given to a federal agency in early December, 1963.
TDPS procedures for issuing licenses and creating files was confirmed by her supervisor, Mr.
Griffen, to the HSCA in 1978. Six other TDPS employees also saw the file including Ray Sundy,
Joyce Bostic, Inez Leake, Gayle Scott, Peggy Smith, and Mrs. Ernie Isaacs.
In 1978 HSCA investigator Gary Sanders contacted the TDPS for information about Oswald's
driver's license. After having a brief and curt conversation with Mrs. Seay, Sanders wrote "It is
very obvious to me that if there are any records at the DPS pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald they
are not going to release them.”
(John Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, p. 799)
Five days after the assassination Lee Oswald's driver's license turned up at the Texas Department
of Public Safety (TDPS) in Austin.
Aletha Frair was a TDPS employee who worked in the License Records Department, which was
responsible for IBM computer records of all driver's licenses issued in the state of Texas. On
November 27 (Wednesday) Oswald's well-worn driver's license came into her division.
Mrs. Frair said, "One of the girls working in the file cabinets pulling driver's licenses to be renewed
or because of change of name or because of death ran across a license and exclaimed, 'I have his
license .... .I have Lee Harvey Oswald's driver's license, right here. '"All of the employees within
earshot ( 5 or 6 people) then rushed to see the license, and saw her holding Oswald's pink colored
Texas driver's license.
Mrs. Frair wrote: I saw with my own eyes the pink Texas driver's license (about 2 1/2 inches by 3
1/2 inches). The license had the name 'Lee Harvey Oswald' printed on the card as the licensee.
The license was stained with some sort of brownish discoloration.
Mrs. Frair said the brown stains on the dirty, worn license may have been caused by carrying it in
a brown wallet. The license was the talk of the office since everyone knew who Oswald was, and
the reason his driver's license records and IBM card were being pulled from the active file was due
to the fact that he had been killed.
TDPS employee Mrs. Lee Bozarth stated categorically that she knew from direct personal
experience there was a Texas driver's license and a file for Lee Harvey Oswald, and that it was
pulled and given to a federal agency in early December, 1963.
TDPS procedures for issuing licenses and creating files was confirmed by her supervisor, Mr.
Griffen, to the HSCA in 1978. Six other TDPS employees also saw the file including Ray Sundy,
Joyce Bostic, Inez Leake, Gayle Scott, Peggy Smith, and Mrs. Ernie Isaacs.
In 1978 HSCA investigator Gary Sanders contacted the TDPS for information about Oswald's
driver's license. After having a brief and curt conversation with Mrs. Seay, Sanders wrote "It is
very obvious to me that if there are any records at the DPS pertaining to Lee Harvey Oswald they
are not going to release them.”
(John Armstrong, Harvey & Lee, p. 799)
