Legal folder containing notes and documents pertaining to the exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald, labeled "Michael Eddowes—Original" on the tab, evidently from the files of attorney Jerry M. Pittman, who assisted Eddowes in his work. Eddowes was a British lawyer, author and investigator, best known for his involvement in the Profumo affair and for his conspiracy theory involving Lee Harvey Oswald, in which he claimed that a Soviet impostor took Oswald's place during his time in the USSR, and that this man had actually been buried in Oswald's grave. Includes many pages of notes, letters, and documents pertaining to Oswald's exhumation and Pittman's efforts on behalf of Eddowes. In overall very good to fine condition.
Eddowes authored The Oswald File in 1977, promulgating his complex Oswald-imposter conspiracy and pointing out discrepancies between known facts about Lee Harvey Oswald and what had been recorded during the autopsy of Kennedy's killer—Marine records had his height at 5´ 11″, but the man autopsied was reportedly 5´ 9″, in addition to some other differences between known scars and markings. Eddowes sought action in Texas courts and the body was exhumed in 1981. The body, in an advanced state of decomposition, proved to be Oswald. The exhumation was reported to have cost Eddowes between $8,000 and $15,000.
