by Judyth Vary Baker
The Spartacus Schoolnet, a popular online website, is used by school children, students and teachers, as well as by the general public, as a trusted resource.
Its lee Harvey Oswald biography is located at
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoswald.htm
As such, it should be an unbiased and accurate biography, written with due care.
It is not.
Beginning with the first few lines, the bias in the biography is evident to those who know the truth:
"Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans on 18th October, 1939. His father, Robert Oswald, died two months before his son was born. At the age of three his mother, Marguerite Oswald, sent him to live in the Bethleham Children's Home."
What’s wrong/missing in these opening lines? Let’s take a look:
There is no mention that Marguerite Oswald had two older sons when Lee was born, and that she was under severe financial distress. Lee stayed with his mother until, due to her financial circumstances, he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle until he was three years old. The biography continues in the same vein, leaving out too much information:
"Oswald went to live with his mother in Benbrook, Texas when she married Edwin Ekdahl. The marriage did not last and Marguerite Oswald took her three sons to a new home in Fort Worth
."
What’s wrong/missing in the above lines? If you access…
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22826466/Lee- ... -Biography
….you would read (see below) a great deal of information left out of the Spartacus biography. Note that in certain sections, as we shall see, the Spartacus biography for Oswald goes into exquisite detail at times; therefore, one must ask Why so much information is missing?
(from the SCRIBD article
EARLY LIFE
"Birthdate: October 18, 1939, Birthplace: The Old French Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Family members: Lee Oswald was the third child and third son of New Orleans native Marguerite Claverie, by her second marriage, to Robert Edward Lee Oswald (married 20 July, 1933).Lee Oswald's full brother, Robert, was born April 7, 1934.Lee's oldest sibling, a half-brother (John Edward Pic) was born January 17, 1932, after Marguerite's previous marriage to Edward John Pic, Jr ended in divorce.
Marguerite described her marriage to Robert E. Lee Oswald, an insurance agent, as a happy one, but he died of a heart attack on August 19th, 1939, two months before Lee Oswald was born. He was named Lee after his father; Harvey was his paternal grandmother's maiden name.
After two years of struggle, Marguerite, financially and emotionally stressed, placed her sons in a Lutheran orphanage, Bethlehem Children's Home, Lee at first being kept by his affectionate Aunt Lillian (Marguerite's sister) and his Uncle Charles Murret until he was old enough to enter the orphanage, where he remained with his brothers for about a year. Their mother visited them on weekends. Marguerite's
third marriage, to Edwin A. Ekdahl, an electrical engineer, allowed Lee to return home, to Dallas, TX. where he was treated as a son by Ekdahl, while Lee's brothers were sent to Chamberlain-Hunt Military Academy at Port Gibson, Miss, their tuition there paid by their mother. The marriage was happy for a time, but after they moved to Fort Worth, TX, problems developed when Ekdahl committed infidelities, and the couple had a bitter divorce in June, 1948.
Lee and his mother moved often in the ensuing years, each move making it more difficult for Lee, who suffered from dyslexia, to catch up on his studies and make friends. Nevertheless, Lee managed to pass his classes and did not fail any grades, and his general behavior was not considered erratic or violent, though there is no doubt that he was a thoughtful and quiet child, whose deep interest in reading, despite his disability, along with a lifelong interest in politics, classical music and chess, would serve to set him apart."
Of course, the Spartacus biography is a limited one, but nevertheless, the information given tends to be negative, without any explanations. You will not find positive remarks in Wikipedia’s "Official Version" biography, either, nor on the popular sites that come up on top in a Google search: they almost always reflect only the Official Version.
To go on a bit further with the Spartacus version:
"The two elder brothers, John and Robert, found work and in 1952 Marguerite and Lee moved to New York."
In fact, the two elder brothers both went into military service upon leaving home. Why is this called ‘found work’? They were serving their country. What we find next is equally negligent in quality of content and in truthfulness:
"Although considered an intelligent boy, Lee Harvey Oswald's behaviour at school deteriorated. He was sent to a detention centre and underwent psychiatric treatment."
The bias at this point in the Spartacus biography is blatantly obvious:
1) Lee Oswald’s behavior at school was not why he was sent to a detention center.
2) Lee Oswald was sent to a detention center for missing too much school. He spent his time at home, traveling on buses and subways, and going to the zoo and to the library instead of to school. He was therefore sent to the detention center.
3) Lee Oswald did not undergo any psychiatric treatment at the detention center. He was given several interviews at the detention center by a psychiatrist to assess his problems as a juvenile who had been a chronic truant.
It was determined that he was emotionally starved, and had been neglected by his mother.
When carefully examined, the testimony of Dr. Renaus Hartogs, who interviewed Lee, as given to the Warren Commission, turned out to not match his statements on record. Yet "Official Versions" continue to cite Hartogs. Hartogs told the Warren Commission he was convinced of Lee Oswald’s belligerent attitude and pronounced him dangerous, but even the Warren Commission decided not to use Hartog’s testimony:
"Posner cited the testimony of Renatus Hartogs, the psychiatrist who examined Oswald as a teenage truant, arguing that Hartog's findings suggested a violent potential. (6) The Warren Commission dismissed Hartog's testimony when an examination of his original report revealed the opposite conclusion. In
fact, the commission concluded, "[c]ontrary to reports that appeared after the assassination, the psychiatric examination did not indicate that Lee Oswald was a potential assassin,potentially
dangerous, that his 'outlook on life had strongly paranoid overtones,' or that he should be institutionalized."
(7)
7 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,
REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN
F. KENNEDY, 379, (1964), [hereinafter
WARREN REPORT].
Ref: Dr.
Gary L. Aguilar, "
Letter to the Federal Bar News and Journal" protesting Gerald Posner’s highly biased book, Case Closed.
So why did the Spartacus biography tell school kids and teachers that Oswald received psychiatric treatment? Who wrote the biography? Who is responsible?
read more here http://www.lee-harvey-oswald.com/biasinthemedia.html
