Marguerite Oswald

[Dealey Joe]

Marguerite Oswald the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald was a liitle strange to say the least, but raising 3 sons on her own was not an easy task. She always maintained her son innocent of the murder of JFK.She accumulated quite a lot of information about her son and the assassination, about 25 file boxes which is housed at the Texas Southern Christian College Library.When Byron Meyer and his mother were going through papers and pictures at their Chalmette home about a year ago to see what Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters had spared, they came upon a tattered assortment in a dresser drawer in her bedroom.Courtesy of the Meyer familyLora Lee Meyer of Chalmette and her son, Byron Meyer, recently found 1960s mementoes fromt the friendship between Lora Lee Meyer and Marguerite Oswald, shown here, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy.It held yellowed newspaper clippings, fading Christmas cards and a few letters and pictures. In a February 1969 note to Lora Lee Meyer, when she was six months pregnant, the writer says: “I would be so honored to act as ‘Godmother’ for the new baby” — the child who would turn out to be Byron Meyer.What makes this letter more than a routine note is the identity of the writer: Marguerite Oswald, the New Orleans-born mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 and was shot dead two days later.“It’s weird, it’s bizarre, it’s freaky,” Byron Meyer said a few days ago as he was leafing through the trove. “She was going to be my godmother — the mother of the assassin of one of the best presidents in the history of America. It was so close.”Seeking legal helpIt didn’t happen, his mother said, because Oswald told her she felt authorities wouldn’t let her leave Texas, even though more than five years had elapsed since the assassination and she had not been charged with a crime.Marguerite Oswald never met either Meyer in person, but she and Lora Lee Meyer exchanged letters and spoke frequently on the phone.Oswald, who was living in Fort Worth, Texas, found Lora Lee Meyer because her husband, John Meyer, was a lawyer in Jefferson Parish who had planned to represent her in litigation in Texas in which Oswald was fighting back against attacks on her and her son.But that came to naught, Lora Lee Meyer said, because her husband would have had to work with a Texas lawyer, and no one was willing to represent Oswald.“I was hoping he could help her,” Meyer said, “but he couldn’t because the lawyers wouldn’t do a thing to help him.”Women share tearsOswald died in 1981, and John Meyer died in 1998. Meyer’s name “didn’t ring a bell,” said Robert Oswald, Marguerite Oswald’s surviving son, in a telephone interview from his home in Wichita Falls, Texas.

[kenmurray]

Marguerite Oswald Interview:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTo7RM0_ac