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.
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