Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 29, 2019 10:28:45 GMT -5
On February 25, about three months after the assassination, the FBI conducted an inquiry into the books taken out of the Dallas Public Library by Lee Harvey Oswald. During the inquiry, according to a February 25, 1964 FBI report, the bureau was informed by Lillian Bradshaw, Director of the Dallas Public Library, that "the only records maintained by the Library are keyed to delinquencies; therefore it would not be possible to determine a listing of the books read by Oswald."
However, Bradshaw gave the FBI "two copies of a Dallas Public Library delinquency notice which reflects Lee Harvey Oswald, 602 Elsbeth, Dallas, was delinquent on a book entitled, The Shark and the Sardines, by Juan Jose Arevalo." Stated the report: The book was due on November 13, 1963, and, according to Mrs. Bradshaw, it would have been charged out on November 6, 1963. The delinquency notice was never mailed.
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[T]he book was returned point following the assassination, but by whom, and exactly when, we do not know. This overlooked fact was revealed in 1970 by author Albert H. Newman in his equally overlooked and excellent book, The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Reasons Why.
Newman reveals that, "as of the summer of 1966, when I visited Dallas and inquired into the matter with Mrs. Bradshaw's office by telephone, the volume had been mysteriously returned. ( ...) But when and by whom? I asked. The library kept no such records.
(H.P. Albarelli Jr., A Secret Order, 2013, p. 84-86)
However, Bradshaw gave the FBI "two copies of a Dallas Public Library delinquency notice which reflects Lee Harvey Oswald, 602 Elsbeth, Dallas, was delinquent on a book entitled, The Shark and the Sardines, by Juan Jose Arevalo." Stated the report: The book was due on November 13, 1963, and, according to Mrs. Bradshaw, it would have been charged out on November 6, 1963. The delinquency notice was never mailed.
(...)
[T]he book was returned point following the assassination, but by whom, and exactly when, we do not know. This overlooked fact was revealed in 1970 by author Albert H. Newman in his equally overlooked and excellent book, The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Reasons Why.
Newman reveals that, "as of the summer of 1966, when I visited Dallas and inquired into the matter with Mrs. Bradshaw's office by telephone, the volume had been mysteriously returned. ( ...) But when and by whom? I asked. The library kept no such records.
(H.P. Albarelli Jr., A Secret Order, 2013, p. 84-86)
