I have some familiarity with shot guns, shooting skeet with a 12 gauge on occasion.
I don't announce everything I dismiss as mere coincidence in doing my research and choosing what I post, seeming truckloads of disappointing queries
that began prompted by interesting leads reluctantly observed to lead nowhere, do not usually support my posts.
For those unfamiliar with the U.S northeast, it is not what I expect your perceptions of it might be. 90 miles from Manhattan, in the 1990's I was once in a party of six invited to assist in hauling out an adolescent, 300 lbs. black bear, carried by three in front, three in rear by one freshly cut sapling trunk hastily pushed between
the roped together, front and rear paws of the freshly killed bear by a permitted hunter awarded the state issued permit by lottery.
My point is I am familiar with guns and hunting and have always lived in easy driving distance from where metropolitan area gives way to rural.
Yet, I have never seen or held a 20 gauge shot gun, a weapon I imagine is ubiquitous in reaction to noticing Connally's daughter, Kathleen Hale,
George DeMohrenschildt, and Fred Korth's daughter all died reportedly of self inflicted, 20 gauge shot gun injuries.
I traced down Edwin Ekdahl's Roxbury, MA origins and found Ekdahl grew up less than a mile from Col. Lawrence Orloff, companion of DeMohrenschildt who
first suggested making introductions at the Oswald residence.
Maybe many of you are either much better discerners of coincidence or less curious (distracted?) than I.
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Colossal Failure to Research Ekdahl
Who Was Edwin Albert Ekdahl, Stepfather of Lee Harvey Oswald?
The only father figure Lee Oswald ever had was the man pictured below, who appeared on the scene in New Orleans in either late 1942 or the first half of 1943, and disappeared from the Oswalds' life in mid-1948. Yet, Ekdahl has been almost totally ignored as a target of research before now.
Ekdahl's Overlooked Fort Worth Connections
The facts of his marriage to Marguerite Oswald were set out in a divorce petition filed by Edwin A. Ekdahl, signed personally by Fred Korth, whose office was at 812 Neil P. Anderson Building, situated at 411 West Seventh Street in Fort Worth.* Exploring that building's location really gives one a sense of who Ekdahl was during the years Lee Oswald lived in the same house with him. The best way to sense that connection is through Jack White's historic photos.
Ekdahl's office, left; Korth's office, right
Ekdahl's office was nearby in the Texas Electric Service Company (TESCO) Building at 408 West Seventh--the same building which had housed FDR's Works Progress Administration during the depression years leading up to World War II. TESCO used the advertising agency, Witherspoon and Associates, where photographer Jack White was a vice president. White, intriguingly, served as a consultant to the HSCA concerning photo analysis and enhancement and has been an unabashed defender of the work of John Armstrong, author of the book Harvey and Lee, inspired by White's prior photographic work on Oswald. According to Dave Perry, White and Armstrong had in fact worked together "scrutinizing" Marguerite's files. White, at least, should have known, if he did not in fact know, that Oswald's stepfather, Edwin Ekdahl, had worked for one of Witherspoon's most important clients, the Texas Electric Service Company, located across the street for Fred Korth's office when Korth represented Ekdahl in his divorce from Marguerite.....
