JFK Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald - Psychiatric Evaluations

JFK Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald - Psychiatric Evaluations

 This collection has 639 pages including:

Transcript of a meeting between members of the Warren Commission staff and psychiatrists held on July 9, 1964.

A 247-page transcript of a meeting concerning a psychiatric evaluation of Lee Harvey Oswald, based upon materials provided to three psychiatrists by the Warren Commission. Present at the meeting were General Counsel J. Lee Rankin, Commission members John J. McCloy and Allen W. Dulles, and doctors Dale C. Cameron, Howard P. Rome, and David A Rothstein. 

The purpose of the meeting was "an informal colloquy, interrogation, and explanation by [Drs. Dale C. Cameron, Howard P. Rome, and David A. Rothstein] in regard to their observations from material furnished to them" relating to a psychiatric interpretation of Lee Harvey Oswald. Includes a general discussion with personal points of view set forth. While this transcript is not numbered, the numbering of the pages (7821-8071) indicates that it was volume 57 of the transcripts of the Commission.

 
Warren Commission Exhibit No. 3134 - September 8, 1964, letter from Dr. Howard P. Rome

Warren Commission, Volume XXVI: CE 3134, a 12-page letter dated September 8, 1964, from Dr. Howard P. Rome, senior consultant, section of psychiatry, Mayo Clinic.

 
Oswald, Lee H.  Pre-Russian Period - Psychiatric Examinations 

79 pages of files from the Records of the John F.  Kennedy Assassination Collection: Key Persons Files. In a file folder marked, "Oswald, Lee H.  Pre-Russian Period 7 Psychiatric Examinations," can be found documents summarizing the experiences various social workers had with a young Lee Harvey Oswald.

 
Oswald, Lee Harvey - Russian Period - Suicide Attempt 

Copies of documents collected by the Warren Commission related to Oswald's suicide attempt while he was living in Minsk, during his defection to the Soviet Union.

This collection also includes:

A Warren Commission file on Dr. Renatus Hartogs. Hartogs was the chief psychiatrist at Youth House - an institution for the psychiatric observation of children in New York City. Hartogs examined Lee Harvey Oswald, in 1953. Oswald at age 13, was sent to Youth House for truancy. Hartog later published two books about his experiences, "The Two Assassins" and "The Warren Report - a Psychiatrist Discusses What it Really Reveals about Oswald and Ruby."