Word: alek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interested to see Lee Oswald's pseudonym, "Alek James Hidell." Note that "Hidell" can be considered a contraction for "Hide" and "Jekell." It seems to me that we have here some evidence-of a speculative psychodynamic sort-that in the adoption of this pseudonym, Oswald gave (unconscious?) recognition to his own mentally unbalanced identity...
...Hidell, P.O. Box 2915" in Dallas. Handwriting experts told the Commission that the coupon ordering the weapon, the signature on a money order to pay for it and the address on the envelope all were written by Oswald's hand. Oswald's wallet contained fake identification cards for "Alek James Hidell"; one such card carried Oswald's own photograph...
Hiram Sherman is a colloquially humorous Touchstone; and Alek Primrose makes a memorable character of the octogenarian servant Adam. Donald Davis has effective moments as Jaques, but his famous "seven ages" speech is not yet acidulous enough and he often substitutes h's for r's in words like "part." Will Geer brings warmth...