John Kowalski

Link is for a story about the Mauser by James Day. https://jamesfday.medium.com/the-jfk-assassination-hunting-down-the-mauser-6c30c8f6c6e5

Do not recall seeing this in your posts. If it was in one of them it was buried in one of your many irrelevant posts about the Cold war and hence I did not see it.

Matt: what is your source for this?

Yes they are different. Much more information in a city directory than there is in the telephone book you found online. A directory will provide the names of all people who live at an address not just the name of the person whose telephone number it is. NYPL got back to me and said that the directories were no produced after 1934.

This forum has many threads in which forum members discuss various aspects of JFK's assassination. Each thread has one topic. Sandy started a separate thread with your posts. You can discuss the Cold War with anyone on this forum who is willing to discuss it with you.

Did not ignore the salient points of what you said. As you can tell by the posts on this thread, what we are trying to achieve here is to determine the identity of the man who was accused of assassinating JFK. Our main lead is the Bentley call. We do not have to understand the Cold War to find his identity, what we must do is search for documents that will lead to his identification.

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You are obviously very interested in the Cold War but this thread is not about that. It is about John A's book Harvey and Lee in which he proves that a man took on Lee Harvey Oswald's identity and then defected to the Soviet Union. In this thread, the significance of the call to me is about what it can tell us about young Harvey, the boy Bentley told Tippit about. This is why Jim, Paul and I have been doing research on the Tippit family in Connecticut and the Gardos in NYC.

Jim: What we need is the NYC City Directory. This directory will provide the names of each person living at an address listed in the directory. NYPL has city directories online up to the year 1934. Contacted them today regarding obtaining copies of the directory for 77nd avenue and 2nd avenue for the years 1945-1949.

What do you think is the significance of the call?

Jim: Checked Ancestry, they do not have the Manhattan 1947 or 1948 telephone directory.

Maybe they wanted to know where all men were even though they may not ask them to serve.

Free digitized copy of Clever Girl is available on Internet Archive.

Do not have anything else on her except her will that is been sent to me by mail.

How did you access 1946? Have you tried Ancestry for the 1948 one?

Paul. Have you know who George and Margaret Paecoast are? According to an FBI document Bentley lived with them in Westport CT for 4 months in 1950. Their address is about 12 miles from where Tina Tippit lived. The document is on pg. 916 of an FBI Bentley file which is over 2,000 pages. https://archive.org/details/bentleyelizabethterrillhqandnyc/page/n915/mode/2up?view=theater

That makes sense, they probably never divorced. When Edwin married Marguerite on May 5, 1945 he became a bigamist.

Jim and Paul: Found Bentley's will. Probate Court will not email it to me but will send it by mail. Will upload it when received.

Did research on Ekdahl years ago. Did not find his divorce record. His WWII draft registration card states that he is living with Rasmina at 109 First Ave in Nyak. The draft card is not dated but at the bottom it says D.S.S. Form 1 Revised 4-1-42. He says his age is 46 and was born on September 26, 1895, which suggests that he signed it sometime before his 47th birthday in 1942. Do not know the name of the woman that he had an affair with but John A in one of his podcasts mentioned that Marguerite caught Ekdahl with a woman.

Paul: She died in Nyak, New York on May 31, 1961.

Thank you Jim.

Found a reference to a Hidell name variant at the Black Vault website. The person's name is Joseph Hydell. Another person with a name variant is Fred Blair. His grandfather's name is Andrew Blais and he was born In Quebec. When they moved to the US their name changed to Blair. After reading about the Tunheim document that suggests that Marguerite Oswald may have had some association with Nazis during WWII, I did some research on right wing activities in that area and found a FBI document regarding Robert Edward Edmonson who was described as sympathetic towards Germany and who received donations from many people, one of which was Joseph Hydell. https://archive.org/details/Hydell

Try your local library, they could have a subscription to Ancestry that you can use for free. My local library has one and the archives has one a as well. The Mormons also have a genealogy website and its free. https://www.familysearch.org/search/?cid=PC-00038602&keyword=family history lds&gad_source=1

Jim: If Bentley had a will it could provide the names of people she knew. It may also mention if she left her personal papers with someone or to a library or archive. If she did leave her papers with someone, they would be invaluable to our research. NYU library should have a copying service for people who can't visit the library. They may also have a list of researchers who will copy documents for a fee. Can you let me know what they tell you about it.

Jim: Had a look at the library document, Series I: Personal, may have information about personal contacts that could mention the Blairs and maybe someone they knew who was taking care of a young boy Series II: Correspondence, Correspondence, 1932-1947, inclusive, may mention Bentley Series VII: Photographs, 1920s-1980s, inclusive, one of the boxes has photographs for 1940-1950