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Speculation: It is reasonable to assume that Oswald altered both the DD
1173 and Selective Service cards (by affixing the Minsk photograph)
himself and that they were probably altered by him while he was employed
at the photographic firm of Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall in Dallas, Texas from
autumn 1962 through spring 1963.

Lead # 5/Allegation: That issuance of the DD 1173 I.D. card was not
specifically authorized by the PRAM, the U. S. Marine Corps' Personnel
Records and Accounting Manual.

Findings: Unclear and unresolved; on the administrafive remarks page from
Oswald's USMC enlisted personnel file, an entry dated 11 SEP 59 states
that I. D. Card # N 4, 271, 617 was issued in accordance with paragraph
3014.5 of the PRAM (see attachment 7). A review and analysis of attachment
7 (section 3014, "Identification Cards") reveals on page 3-12, in
paragraph 1 c., that DD Form 2MC (RES) should have been issued to Marines
being discharged from active duty who still had a reserve obligation. [The
DD Form 2MC (RES) is the Marine Corps designation for the so-called "pink"
or "red" reserve I.D. card, which is still the standard format issued
today for reserve members of the armed forces.] The entry in Oswald's
enlisted personnel file citing the PRAM as authority to issue the DD 1173
card is inconsistent with the PRAM itself (attachment 7), which clearly
states that service members in the Marine Corps may legally possess only
one I. D. card, and that it must be either (1) a "green" DD Form 2MC (for
active dutv personnel); (2) a "gray" DD Form 2MC (RET) (for retired
personnel); or (3) a "red" DD Form 2MC (RES) (for members of the Marine
Corps Reserve). The DD 1173 is not listed as one of the 3 authorized
choices in the version of the PRAM provided to the ARRB by the Marine
Corps; unfortunately, the only version presently held by the Marine Corps
which applies to this issue (page 3-12, Section 3014) is change 2, which
was not issued until December, 1959 (see attachment 16)--the Marine Corps
no longer holds the original guidance on I.D. card issuance to reservists
which was promulgated in the base document, the original version of the
PRAM, issued in June, 1959. Thus, study of the pertinent regulatory page
(3-12) from the currently surviving version of the PRAM (change 2, from
December, 1959) only reveals that Marines from December 1959 onward should
have received the "Red" reserve I.D. card, and does not reveal which USMC
regulatory guidance was in effect on 11 September, 1959 when Oswald was
discharged and received his DD 1173 I.D. card. Only if a pristine version
of the PRAM could be found, without incremental changes entered, as it was
originally promulgated in June 1959, could a researcher definitively
determine which I.D. card should, by regulation, have been issued to
Oswald in September 1959.

Lead # 6/Allegation: In Oswald Talked, the La Fontaines expand
considerably upon their


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