I am hoping that punching incident in 1941 will have some document handwritten by GB - a complaint or a statement or something along those lines. I don't expect to gain any other information from the court records, just the handwriting.
My thoughts are:
If we can be sure that Oakland GB and our GB are one and the same, then we will know that our GB claimed to have been born in Russia. It will leave the question of where he was from 1945-1961, what happened that caused what seemed like a fairly ordinary man, listed in directories, calling police, registered to vote, etc. to disappear for several years only to resurface in SF with MK, now a paranoid man who uses aliases and had to rely on others to 'support' him. Since Oakland GB traces back to the 30's, if they turn out to be the same GB, then I think George Brody, or some variation of it, was his real identity. It didn't seem like he was hiding at all while in Oakland.
If it turns out that Oakland GB is NOT our GB, and perhaps is just someone with the same name that died in the 40's (unlikely if he was born in 1905), then I think it's unlikely that George Brody was our GB's real name which would lead me to think he was involved in something shady and was hiding from something.
I am also hindered by the fact that I can't recall if we are missing 1945-1961 because those years weren't online to be searched, or if they were searched and he wasn't there. That's something I plan to go back and double check also, I need to read back through the threads and have started to but it takes awhile. It's a lot to read.
Oakland GB was also registered to vote so he must have become a citizen? I think there were some searches for those records also but can't recall if we found anything. I believe that for naturalization records he would have had to name someone he was going to be staying with or something along those lines. It could lead to where he was prior to Oakland, but it's useless if he was not our GB.
