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aware of.

                         Oswald's DD 1173


September 11, 1959 (the date typed on the card) is almost certainly the
real issue date of this card, vice the September 4, 1959 date presumed by
Paul Hoch and the La Fontaines (which they have incorrectly assumed simply
because the card's serial number was typed onto Oswald's September 4, 1959
passport application). Author's interpretation follows: Oswald's passport
was created by DOS on September 10, 1959, and the unique serial number on
Oswald's DD 1173 was indeed typed onto Oswald's handwritten passport
application--but to the author this almost certainly means an office
worker at the passport office probably rolled Oswald's passport
application into a typewriter the day his passport was picked up
(September 11, 1959) and typed the number of his new I.D. Card onto the
application as proof that he was "inactive," i.e., no longer on active
duty. If just any' I.D. card would have sufficed for issue of a passport,
then Oswald's "green" active duty card could have been used as proof of
identity the day he applied for his passport on September 4, but instead
we have a typewritten (vice handwritten) notation (which implies a
passport office official verifying identity) which specifies that Oswald
has an "inactive" status; i.e., verification that he has actually achieved
the inactive status promised in the memo delivered to the passport office
on September 9. The point here is that the memo delivered September 9,
1959 promises that he will leave active duty and acquire an inactive
status on September 11, 1959, and the passport issued by the passport
office on September 10, 1959 is almost certainly picked up one day later
(the day Oswald was discharged), for this date, 11 September, 1959, is the
date of issue typed on his DD 1173--which certified (on its front side)
his "MCR/INACT" status.

 


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