Rumor Of Lee Harvey Oswald Having Lived At St. Vincent's As A Child... Debunked???

I heard a rumor last night that Lee Harvey Oswald had lived in St. Vincent's Orphanage as a child.  Well, it wasn't actually a rumor, it was one of our local, slightly inebriated (OK.. heavily inebriated... lol) guests telling a new check-in this information as if it were fact.  I had never heard that before so I decided to do a little Googling.  See the below links and snips... which claim that LHO's older brothers were actually placed in a Catholic boarding school in Algiers, LA at some point and then later on, the brothers and eventually LHO were put into a Lutheran orphanage (St. Vincent's was a Catholic orphanage)... so unless there is better evidence found, there is no viable evidence other than an inebriated guest's claim that Lee Harvey Oswald was ever an orphan at St. Vincent's.  Of course, all of these official reports could be wrong and the inebriated guest could be right... wouldn't be the first or last time that happens.  LOL

Lenny Vasbinder

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-13.html

Two months later, on October 18, 1939, a second son was born.31 He was named Lee after his father; Harvey was his paternal grandmother's maiden name. 32 For a while after her husband's death, Mrs. Oswald remained in the Alvar Street house without working; she probably lived on life insurance proceeds. 33 Sometime in 1940, she rented the house to Dr. Bruno F. Mancuso the doctor who had delivered Lee.34 (Dr. Mancuso continued to rent the house until 1944,35 when Marguerite obtained a judgment of possession against him.36 She sold the house for $6,500 to the First Homestead and Savings Association, which resold it to Dr. Mancuso.)37 She herself moved to a rented house at 1242 Congress Street, where she lived for about half a year.38 For part of this period after Oswald's death, the two older boys were placed in the Infant Jesus College, a Catholic boarding school in Algiers, La., a suburb of New Orleans. 39 Neither they nor their mother liked this arrangement, 40 which John thought was intended to save money;41 it lasted for less than a year, after which the boys returned to the school Frantz and then transferred to the George Washington Elementary School. 42

Probably in contemplation of the sale of the house, Mrs. Oswald applied in December 1941 to the Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Orphan Asylum Association for the admission of her two older sons to the orphan asylum, known as the Bethlehem Children's Home; she stated on the application that she could contribute $20 per month to their maintenance and would supply shoes and clothing.51 She had inquired also about Lee, who was too young to be admitted. 52 John and Robert were accepted and entered the home on January 3, 1942.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/orphan.htm

By January 1944, Mrs. Oswald and Ekdahl had decided to marry. She withdrew Lee from the Children's Home and moved with him to Dallas, where Ekdahl expected to be located. They planned to postpone the marriage until the end of the school year so that the older boys could complete the year at the home before they left it. In the meantime, she would care for Ekdahl, who was recovering from a serious illness, probably a heart attack. Mrs. Oswald has testified that when she arrived in Dallas, she decided that she did not want to marry Ekdahl after all. Using part of the proceeds from the sale of the Alvar Street house, she purchased a house at 4801 Victor Street, a portion of which she rented. In June, John and Robert left the Children's Home and joined their mother in Dallas. They entered the nearby Davy Crockett Elementary School the following September.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fos06

OSWALD, LEE HARVEY (1939–1963). Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, the third son of Marguerite Claverie Oswald. His father, Robert Lee Oswald, had died of a heart attack two months earlier. Young Oswald was placed in a Lutheran orphanage at the age of three, but he was removed when his mother left for Dallas in January 1944 and remarried.