Lee Harvey Oswald's 1962 Income Tax Return – CD 90a by Mary Ferrell

              VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2 SEPTEMBER 22,1977
LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S 1962 INCOME TAX RETURN - CD 90a
By Mary Ferrell
In 1967, the Warren Commission's Index to Basic Source Material was
inadvertently released to a researcher by the National Archives. This
release caused considerable consternation among the various government
agencies that had submitted the material, according to a recently declassi­fied
CIA document. (CIA 1094-414 attachment, dated July 1967, released
under Freedom of Information to Bernard Fensterwald in January 197 7.)
The Index listed each document by number, agency involved, special
agent's name, subject matter of the document, its date and city of origin.
The government agencies included FBI, CIA, Secret Service, IRS, HEW and
State Department.
Practically all income tax returns submitted to the Warren
Commission were shown as originating with the Internal Revenue Service.
The only two exceptions were CD 89, being the income tax returns of Jack
Ruby and his immediate family and CD 90, the income tax returns of Lee
Harvey Oswald and his immediate family. These two documents were furnished
to the Warren Commission by the FBI, according to the Index.
The FBI and/or Internal Revenue Service permitted the Warren
Commission to publish all of Jack Ruby's income tax returns, from 1956
through 1962, in their entirety. They appear in Voliome 23 of the 26
Volumes of Testimony and Exhibits, as CE 1713 through CE 1719.
Jack Ruby lived more than three years following the November 22,
1963, assassination of President Kennedy. Although Lee Harvey Oswald was
dead less than 48 hours after the assassination, his income tax returns are
still classified and withheld from researchers.
All the figures and data necessary to reconstruct Oswald's 1962
Federal Income Tax Return are found in the 26 Volumes.
Oswald returned from Russia on June 13, 1962, and was employed by
Leslie Welding in Fort Worth, Texas, on July 16, 1962, at $1.25 per hour.
By multiplying $1.25 times the hours worked, and multiplying hours of over­time
worked by .625, as reflected by Oswald's time-cards pictured in Volume
20, pages 19-21, then adding the two, we arrive at the figure $636.42 as
his gross earnings during the period July 16 through October 12, 1962.
Oswald's paychecks from Leslie Welding are pictured in Volume 22, pages 273
through 277. By adding the amounts on these checks, we arrive at $579.12
as his "take-home" pay during this period. After subtracting "take-home"
pay from gross earnings, we arrive at a figure of $57.30 which was deducted
for social security and withholding tax. Of this $57.30, social security
should have been $19.89 and v/ithholding tax should have been $37.41.
Oswald went to work for Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall on Friday, October
12 1962. His time cards are pictured in Volume 23, pages 529-625. We are
never told exactly how much per hour Oswald earned at Jaggers-Chiles-