Auction Date:2013 Nov 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
DS, signed “Lee H. Oswald,” one page, 8 x 10.5, September 2, 1959. Reassignment order issued to “Private First Class (E-2) Lee H. Oswald 1653230/6741 USMC.” Order reads, “1. Delivered for compliance on 3 September 1959. 2. You will report to the Commanding General, MCAS, El Toro (Santa Ana), California for separation. 3. Your service records are entrusted to your care for safe delivery to your new commanding officer.” Signed at the conclusion by Oswald, also filling in the date and time he received the orders. Accompanied by an unsigned related document listing Oswald, along with two others, who are also being reassigned. Punch and staple holes to top edge, slight paper loss to top left corner, and a few wrinkles, otherwise fine condition.
After dropping out of high school, seventeen-year-old Oswald enlisted in the US Marine Corps on October 24, 1956, to be trained as a radar operator. Mediocre at best in his military performance and unpredictable in his behavior, he received a series of reprimands—two appearances before the court-martial, a demotion to private, and a brief imprisonment in the brig—before being transferred to El Toro on September 2, 1959. One week later he was granted a disability discharge, claiming that his mother was in poor health and needed his care, and was put on reserve. Upon leaving the Marines, he quickly defected to the Soviet Union in an attempt to become a citizen there and leave his life in America behind. Visiting the American embassy to renounce his US citizenship, Oswald announced that he planned to make known confidential information concerning the Marine Corps and his position there; such statements led to his ‘hardship’ discharge being changed to ‘undesirable’ shortly thereafter. Uncommon in any form, this document signed by Oswald relates to a tumultuous period in the future assassin’s life, four years before he would take the life of President John F. Kennedy.
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