Post by Arjan Hut on Jan 12, 2020 14:08:55 GMT -5
274. One Baltimore ledger
"A recently discovered FBI memorandum describes a letter from the U.S.
Civil Service Commission, dated October 15, 1964, concerning one of it's
investigators, Patrick F. Tallaro, who'd been conducting a neighborhood
investigation at an apartment house at 915 Saint Paul Street in Baltimore.
The landlady informed Tallaro “that her housekeeper, Mrs. (Georgia) Ward,
had seen Lee Harvey Oswald on television at the time of President Kennedy's
assassination and recognized him as the man who had stayed in a room at
their place for about two weeks in August 1963.”
When the investigator then asked how she could be certain, “Mrs. Ward stated
that she recognized Oswald so quickly because she had seen him frequently
during the two week period, as he rarely left his room and seemed to have no
particular activity or job … Both Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Tarsia (the landlady)
stated that Oswald apparently used an alias instead of his own name.
The investigator did not ask to examine the ledger for names listed in August
1963.”
This incident was only reported after the Warren Commission issued its final report. So the need to
investigate this issue might have not seemed very urgent. Besides, the investigator was at the
apartment house to gather information on another, unrelated case.
Anyway, inspector Tallaro communicated to the FBI that Mrs. Tarsia was a chatty, scatterbrained
woman and Mrs. Ward belonged to a minority and was slow and sometimes unintelligible. So he didn't
really think both women were credible.
That still begs the question, why not have a look at the ledger, just to be sure? Maybe there's an
OH Lee, or Alek Hidell or any other name that would set off alarm bells to someone familiar with the
specifics of the case.
(FBI files from MaryFerrell.org)
"A recently discovered FBI memorandum describes a letter from the U.S.
Civil Service Commission, dated October 15, 1964, concerning one of it's
investigators, Patrick F. Tallaro, who'd been conducting a neighborhood
investigation at an apartment house at 915 Saint Paul Street in Baltimore.
The landlady informed Tallaro “that her housekeeper, Mrs. (Georgia) Ward,
had seen Lee Harvey Oswald on television at the time of President Kennedy's
assassination and recognized him as the man who had stayed in a room at
their place for about two weeks in August 1963.”
When the investigator then asked how she could be certain, “Mrs. Ward stated
that she recognized Oswald so quickly because she had seen him frequently
during the two week period, as he rarely left his room and seemed to have no
particular activity or job … Both Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Tarsia (the landlady)
stated that Oswald apparently used an alias instead of his own name.
The investigator did not ask to examine the ledger for names listed in August
1963.”
This incident was only reported after the Warren Commission issued its final report. So the need to
investigate this issue might have not seemed very urgent. Besides, the investigator was at the
apartment house to gather information on another, unrelated case.
Anyway, inspector Tallaro communicated to the FBI that Mrs. Tarsia was a chatty, scatterbrained
woman and Mrs. Ward belonged to a minority and was slow and sometimes unintelligible. So he didn't
really think both women were credible.
That still begs the question, why not have a look at the ledger, just to be sure? Maybe there's an
OH Lee, or Alek Hidell or any other name that would set off alarm bells to someone familiar with the
specifics of the case.
(FBI files from MaryFerrell.org)
