Several months later I read Warren Commission exhibit #1386, in Volume XXII
of the Warren Volumes, which was an FBI report of an interview of Palmer E. McBride
on November 22, 1963. JFKIOI-ol On the day of the assassination McBride was serving in
the US Air Force and was stationed at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. That evening,
when McBride saw and recognized Lee Harvey Oswald from his picture on television,
he immediately contacted Air Force security officers. The officers spoke with McBride,
notified the FBI, and Special Agent (SA) John R. Palmer was dispatched from Washington,
DC to interview him.
McBride began the interview by telling SA Palmer and the security officers that
he had worked with Oswald at the Pfisterer Dental Lab in New Orleans in 1957 and
1958. McBride explained that his and Oswald's duties were to deliver dental products
produced by the lab to local dentists. During breaks from their work the boys discussed
astronomy, politics, and communism. On one occasion Oswald told McBride that he
would like to kill President Eisenhower. McBride told Palmer that Oswald visited his home
on several occasions and together they listened to classical music. McBride also visited
Oswald at his apartment in the Hotel Senator, which was located directly across the
street from the dental lab on Dauphine Street.
McBride told Palmer that Oswald had introduced him to his mother, who he
remembered as "short and fat." In early 1958 Oswald accompanied McBride to a meeting
of the New Orleans Amateur Astronomy Association (NOAAA) and met some of
the members. McBride and Oswald worked together every day for seven months until
Oswald quit in May 1958 and moved to Fort Worth.
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When I read the Warren Commission's final report on the assassination I was
surprised to learn that they determined Oswald had been in Japan serving in the Marine
Corps in 1957 and 1958, and was not in New Orleans. JFKtot-oz I was confused and searched
the 26 volumes of the Warren Commission hearings to locate McBride's testimony, but
was surprised to find that he was never interviewed by the Commission.
On January 17, 1945 Dr. Phil ben, of Dallas, performed a tonsillectomy on 5-yearold
Lee Harvey Oswald. 52-
05 In 1945 a tonsillectomy was as routine an operation as it is
today. It is performed by anaesthetizing the patient, propping the mouth open, depressing
the tongue, grasping the tonsils with a tenaculum, and then cutting out the tonsils.
The patient is then allowed to awake naturally from anesthesia. The operation is nearly
100% successful and only in extremely rare cases do tonsils re-appear. If and when tonsils
do re-appear, they grow only to no more than 10% of their original size-not large
enough to require removal.
NOTE: The real Lee Harvey Oswald had his tonsils removed in 1945 but, as we shall
see, the "Oswald" imposter was treated for tonsillitis while in the Marines.