A New Oswald Lookalike

Martin Hay wrote:Do you have a picture for comparison?

Mr. BELIN - Where do you live, Mr. Edwards?
Mr. EDWARDS - Tahlequah, Okla.
Mr. BELIN - What do you do up there?
Mr. EDWARDS - I am going to school, college, Northeastern State College.
Mr. BELIN - What year of school are you in? Are you a freshman?
Mr. EDWARDS - No; I am a senior.
Mr. BELIN - You are a senior.
Mr. EDWARDS - Right.
Mr. BELIN - You have been going up to school there for several years?
Mr. EDWARDS - Two years I went there. I laid out last year and worked here in Dallas.
Mr. BELIN - Are you originally from Dallas?
Mr. EDWARDS - No; Graham, Tex.
Mr. BELIN - Where did you go to school?
Mr. EDWARDS - Graham High School in Graham, Tex.
Mr. BELIN - What did you do when you got out of school?
Mr. EDWARDS - I attended Abilene College.
Mr. BELIN - For a year?
Mr. EDWARDS - One year.
Mr. BELIN - Then what?
Mr. EDWARDS - Decatur Baptist College, which is a junior college.
Mr. BELIN - Then what did you do?
Mr. EDWARDS - Northeastern State College in Tahlequah, Okla.
Mr. BELIN - Laid out last year?
Mr. EDWARDS - Yes; I am finishing up this semester.
Mr. BELIN - What did you do last fall?
Mr. EDWARDS - I worked at the courthouse there.
Mr. BELIN - Is that the Dallas County Courthouse?
Mr. EDWARDS - Right.

Mr. BELIN - What did you do after that, then?
Mr. FISCHER - After that, we went back up to the building where we work--the records building--and went on upstairs to the office. And that's where Bob and I separated and--he had some things to do---I think he had some stuff that had to go down to another office and he left. After we got up there, he got some paper and then left. I stayed there for a little while and---
Mr. BELIN - Well, first of all, about when did you get back to the records building do you feel?
Mr. FISCHER - Uh--it must have been 5--5 minutes after the first shot was fired. Something like that.
Mr. BELIN - All right. When you went back there, did you walk by the front of the Texas School Book Depository Building?
Mr. FISCHER - No; when we went back, we came we went back the same way we came. We went straight across Elm and then up to Houston on the south side of Elm, and then crossed.
Mr. BELIN - Did you notice whether or not people were going in or coming out of the School Book Depository Building?
Mr. FISCHER - There seemed to be a lot of people around--uh--the front; but, of course, there were a lot of people all over the street.
Mr. BELIN - All right. You got back up to the building--the records building--and then what did you do?
Mr. FISCHER - Well, as I said, we went up to the fourth floor to our office. Uh---I stayed there for 5 or 10 minutes. Bob had left. And then I went next door in the purchasing department where they've got a radio. I was trying I didn't---I don't guess I really believed yet that it had happened--that the President had been shot. And--uh--I was trying to find out on the radio just exactly what did happen.
And I stayed in the purchasing department 5 minutes or so--well, 5 or 10 minutes, and then I went back down the hall where some people had a radio standing out in the hall. They had another station on, and still nobody knew anything. Then, I went back to the office about--oh, maybe 5 or 10 minutes till 1, and--uh--we heard a bunch of sirens, police cars, and leaned out the window, and police cars were all surrounding the Texas School Book Depository Building. And when I saw all that and saw the detectives in the window, the officers, I knew that--I realized that the shots--that they must have the assassin in there or the man who did the shooting--or something was wrong with the building.
So, I realized then that it possibly was the man I saw since he was the only one I remember in a window and that it had something to do with the building--that it's possible that the man I saw had something to do with it.
About that time a deputy from the sheriff's office came up and asked me if I was Ronald Fischer, and I said, "Yes ;" and he said that Sheriff Decker wanted to see me in his office right now.
Mr. BELIN - About what time was this now?
Mr. FISCHER - This was at--oh--1 o'clock on or about 1 o'clock.
Mr. BELIN - You then went to Sheriff Decker's office?
Mr. FISCHER - I went to Decker's office and--uh--Bob Edwards was in there. He looked up--and he had given them my name and told them--at least, this is what he told me that he told them that we had both been standing there together and had seen this man in the window of the School Book Depository Building. So, that's why they came to get me because he had told them.
There were a lot of other people in the office 12 or 15 other people. They all seemed to be connected with it in some way or another. And I noticed, too, in Sheriff Decker's office was this man and woman and two boys that we had talked to down the street there on Elm that had hit the ground when the shots started.

Richard Gilbride wrote:That Sheriff's Department photo was taken by Jim Murray:

http://www.jfkassassinationgallery.com/displayimage.php?album=125&pos=19

I'm virtually certain the guy on the extreme right is James Crawford, who is the man in that youtube clip, from outside the TSBD, posted earlier. He just happens to have a similar facial profile to Robert Oswald.

James Richards wrote:Lee,

That photo you posted was also published in one of the Dallas papers at the time. It was claimed to be Lee Oswald. Now whether they just made a mistake and used the wrong photo, who knows?

I checked into this way back and there seemed to be no correction or follow up. I was told a few years back that this guy had been mixing in the Florida anti-Castro scene and was being handled by Hal Feeney.

I was not ever able to find anything to back this up. FWIW.

James