(05-30-2018, 01:14 PM)Wallfire Wrote: This is one of the many stories we will never know the truth about...
I agree, but I think if I'd been a fly on the wall at the famous 'Fort Worth Club', it might've been possible
to get a handle on how it all started.
I apologise for going off topic for a while, but the beginning of the 'Oswald Labyrinth' is a crazy one!
“The Fort Worth Club has historically been the place where the city's most prestigious visitors have
chosen to hang their hats while in Fort Worth.
Chairmen, Presidents and others from the corporate, political, social, and entertainment world have enjoyed
the Club's warmth and hospitality. Stars of the stage and screen have always made themselves at home in
The Fort Worth Club.
The legendary Sid Richardson lived at the Club and one of Texas’ heroes, Will Rogers, made The Fort Worth
Club his second home. Amon Carter, publisher of the city's most powerful newspaper, the Fort Worth Star
Telegram, maintained a suite at The Fort Worth Club and was Club president for over 35 years.
Mr. Carter and his comrades reportedly ran the town from The Fort Worth Club. It was and is the place where
key decisions regarding Fort Worth are made. Meetings at the Club brought General Dynamics, now Lockheed,
the city's largest employer, and Casa Manana, Fort Worth's greatest entertainment attraction of the era.
Other landmark associations consummated at the Club include the General Motors plant in Arlington, the Bell
Helicopter Textron plant in the Mid-Cities, and the Swift and Armour packaging houses.”
Quoted from Fort Worth Club website accessed in 2006.
Do you know who else stayed there from time to time...? Mr. Edwin Albert Ekdahl, his wife -Marguerite and her small
child, Lee. Lee Oswald and his brothers were from a previous marriage of Marguerite and her first late-husband
who was also called Lee.
Ekdahl graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1916, and possibly served in World War 1, but was
certainly a US Navy veteran of that era. He lived several years in China, presumably working for EBASCO, but it could
easily have been for Navy intelligence.
During his second marriage -his first producing a son who lived in New York, Ekdahl travelled around the United States
for EBASCO Services as an electrical engineer and occasionally took his wife and step-kid with him.
Ekdahl rubbed shoudlers with the weathly and the powerful for some reason and it's ironic that matenally-devoted child
who looked towards Ekdahl as a father-figure, would be friends with folk who also were afluent in his later years.
The divorce meant that Marguerite and her family never saw Edwin again and one has to wonder why such a well-educated
and cosmopolitan man-of-means would take-up with a dowdy woman who spent most of her life moving from low-cost
apartments to social housing.
There's even a debate on whether the woman in the photo below is the same Marguerite Oswald that attended her son's
funeral.
Ekdahl and Marguerite.
And that's what makes all of this fascinating, a freckled-nosed kid from Texas who never had money,
George de Mohrenschildt -a well-educated petroleum geologist with international business connections,
Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975 and Richard Nixon, a man
who went to China and caught with his pants down in a public debate about Cuba.
Caught by a young Northerner with a father who used to boot-leg booze with the Mob.
It's never been about countries.
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.