Who returned LHOs library books on Oct 3rd 1963?

[Jerry Freeman]

 

The document doesn’t say “date due”, it says ”return date”.

That would be the same thing John---Jerry is correct...

The "Return Date" would have been stamped on the card in the back of the book when it was checked out. Typically a date two weeks from the day it was checked out. It was not necessarily the date the book was actually returned.

So it looks like this whole thread was a chase after wild fowl
Apparently...Oswald was a speed reader.

[Richard Smith]

The memo says: "Card shows return date" rather than just "return date".  A big difference.  It means the "return date" is established from the "card."  And that seems to further confirm Jerry O's theory that it means the due date and not the date actually returned.  Another conspiracy myth busted.

It's interesting that Oswald read "The Huey Long Murder Case" by Hermann B. Deutsch.  A case in which there are disputes over whether Long was killed by an assassin or accidentally shot by his own bodyguards.   

[John Iacoletti]

I’m not sure how Jerry’s photo of a random library book due date slip tells you anything about Oswald’s library books.

[Richard Smith]

LOL.  Do you think Oswald returned every book that he checked out precisely two weeks later?  A logical inference strongly suggests that this reflects the due date. 

[John Iacoletti]

It’s not at all unusual to think that Oswald kept his books until they had to be returned.

[John Tonkovich]

LOL.  Do you think Oswald returned every book that he checked out precisely two weeks later?  A logical inference strongly suggests that this reflects the due date.

The information provided by the WC in the OP is incomplete, and the wording is ambiguous.
"Return date" suggests the date the books were returned. "Due date" would be a different matter.
Reading the entire Commission Exhibit on this matter, we learn that the New Orleans public library system (supposedly) does not keep detailed records on patrons' activities.
No further effort seems to have been made to discover the actual library activity of Oswald. Why?

[Richard Smith]

The information provided by the WC in the OP is incomplete, and the wording is ambiguous.
"Return date" suggests the date the books were returned. "Due date" would be a different matter.
Reading the entire Commission Exhibit on this matter, we learn that the New Orleans public library system (supposedly) does not keep detailed records on patrons' activities.
No further effort seems to have been made to discover the actual library activity of Oswald. Why?

Again, the memo doesn't say "Return Date."  It says "Card Shows Return Date."  The "card" in a library book shows the due date.  That is bolstered by the fact that the dates noted are exactly two weeks from the day that the book was checked out.  The due date would be some fixed period of time like two weeks. Or do you think Oswald returned every book he checked out exactly two weeks later to the day?  LOL.  That seems to resolve this mystery.  How do you know no further effort was made to discover the actual library activity (btw that question seems to presume that this record shows the due date otherwise it would reflect his "actual library activity)?  How would they know, for example, that the NO library didn't keep detailed records if they made no efforts to obtain them?

[John Iacoletti]

Again, the memo doesn't say "Return Date."  It says "Card Shows Return Date."  The "card" in a library book shows the due date.

The memo doesn’t say that the card being referred to was a card inside the book showing a due date. That’s pure speculation.