AIF: Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill Kennedy? Who is Harvey Oswald Who shot Harvey Oswald.
MOSCOW, November 23 - RIA Novosti. Over 200 "absolutely proven" versions of the assassination of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy have been made public in America for half a century, but none of them is 100% convincing.
Why Americans do not believe the official version of the murder, what kind of psychological portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald was made by the KGB, and how attempts to delve into the details of this case can lead to the death of America - these questions were discussed during another discussion on a historical topic in the RIA Novosti multimedia press center.
The discussion "Political Assassinations: John F. Kennedy and Others" was held as part of a joint project between RIA Novosti and Diletant magazine. As usual, the focus of the meeting is a controversial historical fact, versions and historical figures, to whom the key material of the issue is devoted. The moderator of the meeting, editor-in-chief of Diletant, Vitaly Dymarsky, immediately made a reservation that there were so many questions about the Kennedy assassination that it was impossible to find unambiguous answers to them, and suggested that we confine ourselves to discussing the personality of Lee Harvey Oswald and his motives.
What is John Kennedy known for?November 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of 35th US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.“Political assassinations throughout human history are such a leitmotif. Unfortunately, perhaps, but history is what it is,” said Dymarsky, anticipating a conversation about one of the most mysterious murders in the history of the 20th century.
Will the Kennedy assassination be solved?
"In the history of not only America, but also other countries, there are such events, the causes of which cannot always be explained, determined and answered the question of who and why. It will not be possible to give a truthful answer in a lifetime. What happened 50 years ago in Dallas is just such an event," says Professor Valery Garbuzov, Deputy Director of the Institute of the United States of America and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally and their spouses drove through the streets of Dallas in an open car as part of a motorcade. As participants in the discussion noted, questions already arise here: for example, why, in a state that was radically opposed to Kennedy's policies, was he driving in an open car on a route that involved a slow movement of a cortege past many buildings?
“There is an official response from the Warren Commission that lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy. He dismisses all conspiracy theories. This is the official version, and it was confirmed later. This is on the one hand, and on the other, there is a lot of evidence that that people don’t believe in this version. For some reason, the Americans themselves don’t believe,” Garbuzov added.
According to the participants in the discussion, the actions of the president's guards immediately after the shots and the fact that the driver began to slow down look strange. Oleg Nechiporenko, adviser to the Russian National Anti-Terrorist Fund, retired KGB colonel, believes that the question of the effectiveness of the presidential guard may cause documents on the role of the secret service in this matter to be closed for another 75 years, or maybe longer.
The prosecutor of New Orleans, journalists, witnesses, writers and historians conducted their investigations into the murder. Most researchers, in the absence of direct evidence, began to use indirect evidence. Inferences based on the atmosphere of that era, the knots of conflicts between Kennedy and various groups, only led to the emergence of many new versions, including conspiracy theories. “These theories will remain theories that will not lead us to absolute knowledge. It seems to me that this is an event of such a magnitude that it will remain forever a mystery,” Garbuzov is convinced.
In the end, despite the large number of blank spots in the official investigation, in the 50 years since the murder, not a single convincing evidence of a different version has appeared.
Who Framed Lee Harvey Oswald
Available documents and materials of the investigation lead most experts to the conclusion that Kennedy was killed by a 24-year-old book warehouse worker, disillusioned with both the USSR and the USA, Lee Harvey Oswald.
What is Lee Harvey Oswald famous for?November 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the window on the sixth floor of the depository building, and these shots killed Kennedy and wounded Governor John Connelly.Only versions of motives differ: was he a lone killer or a pawn in a large-scale conspiracy against the United States? Or maybe Oswald was telling the truth when he denied any involvement in this case? But since the owner of the nightclub, Jack Ruby, shot Oswald out of good intentions, those who want to get to the bottom of the truth are left with crumbs of declassified documents.
Only the available data does not add up to a single picture, and each new fact only adds questions.
Indeed, why, given the biography of Oswald, was he not included in the list of potentially dangerous people? After all, the US intelligence services probably had information about the whereabouts of the fugitive former marine after his return from Minsk.
Retired Colonel Nechiporenko personally met with Oswald, interrogated him at the KGB. The expert admitted that he is a supporter of the version of a lone killer, but does not believe in large-scale conspiracies.
The KGB filed a case against Oswald when he arrived in the USSR, declaring his pro-communist and socialist views. "We treated him as a potential agent of the enemy, and the American side, after his return from the Soviet Union, and even with his Soviet wife,<…>they also considered him a possible agent," Nechiporenko said. According to him, when Oswald was already suspected of the murder, the KGB offered the help of their experts in the investigation, but the United States refused.
"The manifestation of Oswald's aggression and propensity for violence in our case, the State Security Committee, is reflected.<…>When he was about to return, disillusioned with the realities of our socialism, he suddenly created a container, a grenade, and was looking for an opportunity to find filling for this improvised explosive device, but since he was "under a hood", this became known. He didn't succeed. And he was going to do it on the eve of the visit to Minsk of the country's leadership," Nechiporenko said, referring to the case file.
According to him, Oswald also offered his wife to hijack a plane to Cuba. “He said that he would buy her a gun, she would hold the passengers at gunpoint, and he would command the pilots,” the expert explained.
Nechiporenko also told how, before Richard Nixon's visit to Dallas, Oswald went to meet him and reached for a revolver, but his wife took the revolver away, and his wife locked it in the toilet. The experts also remembered Oswald's assassination attempt on General Walker.
According to Nechiporenko, Oswald had a very unstable psyche. “The impression I had after talking with him and my colleagues was this: he is a neurotic, prone to psychopathy, hysterical. His hands were shaking when he was convinced that he would not receive a visa to the USSR back, he had a tantrum,” he said. The retired colonel mentioned that Oswald drew a revolver at that meeting, illustrating the seriousness of his words that in case of a threat to his life he would use a weapon.
"Damned Conspiracy"
Director of the Foundation for the Study of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt, professor at Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov Yuri Rogulev believes that there will be more questions than answers in the case of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States for a long time to come. If only because there is no explanation why, under apparently natural circumstances, all the "dangerous witnesses" in this case died pretty soon, or because the secret services prevented the doctors in the hospital from saving Kennedy, who was still alive, or because, according to one of the witnesses, there was a video recording of the autopsy at first, and then it was gone.
Was there a "Russian trace" in the assassination of John F. Kennedy?The version about Moscow's hand in the assassination of Kennedy will always exist because Oswald spent almost three years in the Soviet Union, reminds Larisa Saenko.Versions about the “Russian trace”, that Oswald was replaced in the USSR and sent to the States as a double, or that Oswald is a Cuban revolutionary, a triple agent and many others, will exist for a long time, according to film critic Alexander Shpagin, largely thanks to feature films. According to Shpagin, the assassination of Kennedy gave rise to "a few rather rotten matrices" in art. "The first matrix is based on this murder.<…>It turned out the following: that there are some bastards, primarily the CIA, FBI, KGB, FSB, who want evil for their country. And it began to work perfectly, "the film critic believes. The second matrix, according to Shpagin, generated interest in" damned conspiracy theories. "Since the topic was beneficial to commercial cinema, it also became popular.
At the end of the discussion, the participants were invited to watch a feature film by American director Oliver Stone "John F. Kennedy: Shots in Dallas" (JFK) with Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman, and decide for themselves which version is closer to them.
"Don't try to learn history from fiction. Therefore, enjoy a good film, but keep in mind that it's either not true or not the whole truth," Dymarsky traditionally warned viewers.
A new meeting with a discussion on a historical topic will also be devoted to one of the topics of the new issue of "Amateur" - this time the church schism.
Why the best JFK assassination conspiracy theories fail scrutiny
The mystery surrounding who killed John F. Kennedy continues to occupy the whole world.
Lee Harvey Oswald went down in history as the man who shot the president - but one woman who claims to have been Oswald's mistress claims he is innocent.
“I will always love Lee. And I will always protect him,” says 74-year-old Judyth Vary Baker in an exclusive interview with Aftonbladet newspaper.
100 years have passed since the day when one of the most mysterious US presidents, John F. Kennedy, was born in Boston on May 29, 1917.
Kennedy was only 46 years old when he was shot on November 22, 1963 while visiting Dallas, Texas. The question of who did this is often referred to as the most significant mystery in history.
For this murder, 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was detained. There was no trial of him - two days later he himself was killed by the owner of the nightclub Jack Ruby (Jack Ruby), which got into the reporting of journalists and was shown live. But his guilt was later established in a public inquiry by the Warren Commission.
"Lee was a fantastic lover"
However, the book Me & Lee — how I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald states something different. It was written by Judith Varey Baker, who claims to have known Oswald better than anyone else.
According to her, she was Oswald's mistress.
“Lee was a fantastic gentle lover. He also danced well and loved to sing. We often sang together, especially stupid songs," Baker told Aftonbladet in a letter a few days before President Kennedy's centenary.
Judith Varey Baker claims she met Lee Harvey Oswald at the New Orleans post office in April 1963. She was 19, he was four years older. Despite the fact that Oswald was married and had young children - and despite the fact that Judith herself was going to marry her then-boyfriend - they fell in love with each other and began a secret relationship.
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The Wall Street Journal 07.10.2013 In her sensational book, Judith Baker claims that Oswald was a CIA agent. She herself was then a full of ambitions medical student and was engaged in the study of cancer. But through Oswald, she claims, she was dragged into a secret conspiracy, behind which stood the American intelligence service, the CIA, and the local New Orleans mafia. The purpose of the plot was to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro from an ambush.“It was shortly after the Caribbean crisis, when everyone lived in constant fear that a third world war might break out. We hated Castro for what he did against his own people, for the way he tortured his political opponents,” says Baker.
The CIA ordered the assassination of the President
In the summer of 1963, Baker and her scientific colleagues were given the task of isolating cancer cells, which Lee Harvey Oswald was then to smuggle into Cuba. But, according to Baker, the CIA cabal and the Mafia had another figure at gunpoint all along: Kennedy.
In the fall of 1963, instead of the previous assignment, Oswald received an order to shoot the president during his visit to Dallas on November 22. At first he refused, but then, according to Judith, he gave in, because he was afraid that otherwise his wife Marina and two small children would be killed.
“Lee knew what would happen, he knew he would die. During our last conversation, 37 hours before the murder, we cried and said goodbye,” says Baker.
According to her, Oswald was at the scene of the murder, but, in all likelihood, he missed, because Kennedy's motorcade was moving very quickly. The fatal shot was fired by someone else.
The story is dismissed as pure fantasy
The story that Baker tells is, to put it mildly, sensational, and it is not possible to check what is the grain of truth in it. There are no photographs of her with Lee Harvey Oswald, nor any other hard evidence that they even knew each other.
The only thing that can hardly be called proof is a pay stub at the New Orleans coffee factory where she and Oswald worked for a time in 1963; in other words, she can prove that they were colleagues at least for a while.
Many call her story pure fiction, but in conspiracy circles she is a well-known figure who is lauded by people like former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.
Aftonbladet: What do you say to people who don't believe your story?
Judith Varey Baker (in a letter): Now this is not such a problem as before, now many people actively protect me. I have had the opportunity to give many lectures, both in Europe and on the other side of the Atlantic. Many people heard me. Critics are no longer such a big problem - too many now know me and protect me from evil people.
"Me and Lee" will be published in a new, revised version next year, with more evidence and testimonies to support my information. In addition, I am the founder and organizer of the annual John F. Kennedy Assassination Conference, which will be held for the fifth time this year. In 2016, we had 31 speakers from five different countries. So many people came that the firemen had to keep some people out.
Persecution after the publication of the story
Judith Varey Baker didn't speak for a long time about the connection she said she had with Oswald. But in 1999, she removed the seal of silence from her lips and began to tell her story. This, she claims, resulted in countless threats and persecution - and as a result, in 2007, she asked for asylum in Sweden.
According to her, she now lives in Sweden for several months of the year, and spends the rest of the time in Eastern Europe.
“I live in Sweden for as many months of the year as I can, but since I am not a citizen of the country, I have to leave it periodically. They say I'm safe in the US, but that's ridiculous."
I asked Judith Varey Baker how she remembers Lee Harvey Oswald today—nearly 54 years after his death ended their alleged relationship.
“Lee and I were a very good match for each other. We had a lot in common. We deeply loved humanity, which helped me and guided me all these long years that I have to live without him. He used to tell me, “Don't confuse discomfort with pain. Feeling fear is normal, what matters is how you behave, even if you are afraid,” Judith replies.
Lee Harvey Oswald
October 16, 1959: Arrives in Moscow. Oswald had been interested in Marxism for a long time and planned to become a Soviet citizen. He receives a temporary residence permit and settles in Minsk, where he marries Marina Prusakova in April 1961.
June 13, 1962: Gives up his plan to become a Soviet citizen and returns to the US with his wife and newborn daughter, June. The family settled in Fort Worth, where he took on a variety of odd jobs.
October 15, 1963: After a spell of unemployment, he gets a job at a school book warehouse in Dallas.
November 22, 1963: President Kennedy's motorcade passes a textbook warehouse. Kennedy is shot dead at 12:30. 45 minutes later, an unidentified man shot and killed policeman Tippit (J.D Tippit). Signs point to Oswald, who was seized in a car dealership at 13:50. First, he was detained for the murder of Tippit, and a day later he was also charged with the murder of the president.
November 24, 1963: A little after 11 o'clock Oswald is to be transferred from the Dallas County Jail. This event is shown live on television. Nightclub owner Jack Ruby suddenly runs out and shoots Lee Oswald in the stomach. At 13:07, the death of Lee Oswald is announced.
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Marina Prusakova married Lee Harvey Oswald at the age of 19 and was officially married to him at the moment when US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. At the first interrogations, she did not even doubt that her husband had committed the crime, but after a while Marina Prusakova doubted his guilt, and since then her life has turned into a real nightmare.
Marry a foreigner
In 1965, Marina Oswald married a second time to former racing driver Kenneth Porter, to whom she had two sons. Many years after the tragedy, Marina stopped appearing in public, refused fabulous fees for interviews, and was no longer at all sure that the events of that fateful day developed exactly as the investigation presented.
A friend of Marina Prusakova, Kay Morgan, gave an interview to a popular publication in 2013. Kay voiced the position of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald and her doubts about her husband's guilt. The reason for them was a thorough study of the case materials, in which Marina Prusakova could not find irrefutable evidence of the guilt of her Alka, as she called her first husband.
Marina Oswald takes the oath in court.
In addition, at the time of her testimony, Marina was too frightened, she understood English very poorly, and therefore the special services could get anything from her. She herself at some point under pressure believed in the guilt of her husband, but now she is not at all sure that Lee Harvey Oswald actually became a murderer.
On that fateful day, US President John F. Kennedy was shot dead by a sniper while driving down Elm Street. According to the official version, the president fell victim to lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who lived and worked in Minsk for some time, got married, and then returned to the United States again. But in 1979, a special commission of the US Congress issued a verdict - "Kennedy died as a result of a conspiracy." Three years later, the results of this investigation were canceled - at the request of the special services, he was recognized as "incompetent." On the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, the AIF columnist interviewed 63-year-old Robert Jay Groden in Dallas, a photo consultant for the "same" commission, one of the main American apologists for the "conspiracy theory."
"Customers are already dead"
MR. Groden, just before our meeting, another - probably the millionth - version of the Kennedy assassination surfaced. A certain Stephanie Caruana published the book "Jemston's Dossier", which cites FBI archival documents - interrogations of arrested killers of the Sicilian mafia. It follows from her conclusions: Oswald was a member of a brigade of 28 (!) killers, and his task was to shoot Governor Connelly, who was sitting next to the president. Kennedy was killed by another man - Jimmy Fratiano.
It's an interesting theory, but I tend to trust another source. There is evidence that Kennedy's death was organized by the secret services.
- I must confess, I have heard this many times.
Of course, since the conclusions of the parliamentary commission are thirty years old. Our experts were able to calculate that there were four shots (and not three, as the official version insists), there were at least two killers: the second killer fired from behind a wooden fence in the way of the president's motorcade. But no one has slowed down our work and put a spoke in our wheels like the CIA and the FBI. Their employees knew much more than they let on. We recently received new evidence that sheds light on Kennedy's death.
- It seems like there will be no end to such sensations.
I understand your humor, but the case is quite serious. CIA officer Everett Howard Hunt, one of the key figures in the Watergate scandal, died last year. He was the one who planted the bugs under the Democratic headquarters. His son gave the press a recording of his father's voice made on his deathbed, as well as archival files. Hunt narrates that the Kennedy assassination was planned by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, together with a senior CIA official, Kord Meyer. Frenchman shot at Kennedy
Lucien Sarti is the world's highest paid hitman who worked for the largest drug ring. And, of course, not from the window of the building, but from the front, from the side of the wooden fence. I think we've finally found out the truth about who really killed Kennedy.
Has there been any official response to this?
As always, none. Yes, and there is no one to punish. Lyndon Johnson and Meyer died of natural causes, and Lucien Sarti was killed in a shootout with police in 1972. The government did everything to make anyone who doubts the official interpretation of the Kennedy assassination look like an idiot from the category of people abducted by aliens. Therefore, even when a CIA officer, well-intentioned in the highest spheres of politics, makes a sensational statement before his death, this does not cause a scandal. Nellie Connally, wife of a Texas governor, personally saw that the bullet that hit her husband in Kennedy's car was fired "from a completely different direction" than the previous two. But her testimony was not even recorded.
- And so it turns out ... most of the witnesses of the event are already in the grave. Almost all alleged killers - too. Why, then, every year some new exclusive details are pulled out and everyone is on their ears - wow, they finally found the Kennedy assassin!
According to opinion polls, 86% of Americans categorically DO NOT BELIEVE in the version according to which lone maniac Lee Harvey Oswald came with a rifle to the warehouse building, fired three shots in 4.8 seconds, hitting the target, and killed the president. When I was on the Dallas Murder Commission, my phone was hot with threats. "Stop digging through files or you'll die" is the cutest thing I've heard, not to mention a couple of late nights outside my house with guys armed with baseball bats. Why do all this if, as the CIA claimed, only schizophrenics with an irrepressible imagination gathered on the congressional committee? We interviewed dozens of witnesses. 40 eyewitnesses testified under oath: the killer shot the president from the front. Doctor Robert McClelland, who first examined Kennedy's body, wrote: "The bullet hit the throat, the exit hole in the back of the head." After talking to the FBI, he told us he was wrong.
"They are waiting for the witnesses to die"
MAY I say a blasphemous thing? What if Kennedy really was assassinated by Oswald, and all the theories that have been put forward for almost half a century are just fantasies? After all, it's understandable: you tell about the new version of the president's death - and your book is on the bestseller list.
I will say more - I could well believe it.
- Really?!
But with one condition. I shouldn't have served on the congressional committee that determined that Kennedy's death was due to a conspiracy. Then I would not have seen a huge amount of documents, photos and interviews of eyewitnesses. Let's say you are a pure practitioner and do not believe in "conspiracy theories". See. Shooter Oswald kills the president. Oswald himself is killed two days later. His killer Jack Ruby goes to jail and dies of cancer. Before his death, he gives an interview to a journalist, but she does not publish it - she dies from an overdose of drugs, although she had never used them before. Key witness Lee Bowers, who saw "two men" shoot from behind a fence, dies in a car accident. Prostitute Rose Sherami, who spent the night with a drunken CIA officer who told her that "in two days Kennedy will be assassinated," also crashed in a car - the driver who collided with her was not found. Tell me, would you have any questions?
- It would be foolish to argue, of course, there would be a lot of questions.
It's the same with congressional committees. Three-quarters of the eyewitnesses who saw Kennedy's death - policemen, residents of the city, doctors - all say: there were more than three shots, the shooting was carried out in front, not behind, obviously different people shot from different directions. The bullets simply disappeared - no shrapnel, no sheath, nothing. According to the press service of the government, they "disintegrated in the body of the president." But Kennedy is not a terminator at all, so that his flesh has the unique ability to dissolve lead.
Nevertheless, 45 years have passed, and no one knows the whole truth. What do you think: when exactly will the death of the president be brought to an end?
In 2063, the CIA and FBI solemnly promise to declassify the Kennedy dossier. Apparently, they just need to wait until all the witnesses die.
Robert Jay GRODEN
was born November 22, 1945 in New York. In 1978-1979 served on the Congressional Commission Investigating the Death of the President of the United States. He is the author of Kennedy: The Conspiracy Dossier, Assassinate the President, and Looking for Lee Harvey Oswald. It is considered the leading documentary expert among supporters of the version that John F. Kennedy died as a result of an "order" by the special services.
Georgy ZOTOV, AiF
On Sunday, November 24, 1963
The Warren Commission, set up by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the assassination, concluded that Oswald acted alone. The main motive is called "hatred of American society."
Remembering Lee Harvey Oswald
The film “John F. Kennedy. Gunshots in Dallas, directed by Oliver Stone - the film takes a detailed look at the alleged murder plot and subsequent events. Oswald is played by Gary Oldman.
In the film "From World to World" in one of the parallel worlds, Oswald kills President Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald is a character in Naoki Urasawa's Billy Bat manga. According to the plot of the manga, he is not the Kennedy assassin, but allows himself to be caught in order to save a witness who saw the real killers.
The plot of Stephen King's book "11/22/63" is dedicated to the story of the protagonist's attempt to save President Kennedy from assassination by preventing Oswald's fatal shot. In 2016, the novel was made into a TV series, the role of Lee was played by Daniel Webber.
In the television series Dark Skies, there is an episode in which the Kennedy assassination is presented as an alien operation (Oswald is controlled by aliens).
In the television series Quantum Leap, the main character Dr. Sam Beckett in the first and second episodes of the fifth season reincarnates as Lee Harvey Oswald, a man suspected of assassinating President John F. Kennedy.
In Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman admired Lee Harvey Oswald's killer skills and hinted that he was trained to shoot by the Marines.
In an episode from the film "Salt" it is said that instead of Lee Harvey Oswald, a Soviet intelligence agent named Alek returned from the USSR to the USA, who killed John F. Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald family
Father - Robert Edward Lee Oswald Sr. (03/04/1896-09/09/1939)
Mother - Marguerite Francis Claverie (07/19/1907-01/17/1981)
Brothers - Robert Edward Lee Oswald and John Edward Peake
Wife - Marina Oswald, nee. Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova (born July 17, 1941). Married since April 1961
Daughter - June (15.02.1962)
Daughter - Audrey (10/20/1963)
24.11.1963
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald
JFK assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald was born on October 18, 1939 in New Orleans, USA. His father, Robert Edward Lee Oswald Sr., died before the birth of his son, and the boy, along with his older brothers Robert Edward Lee and John Edward Peak, remained in the care of Marguerite's mother, Francis Claverie. It turned out to be difficult to provide for three sons, so the mother sent the children to an orphanage, where the boys spent thirteen months.
In 1944, the Oswald family moved to Dallas, where Lee went to first grade a year later. Teachers described the boy as "withdrawn and aggressive". The last trait manifested itself in the school, because of which twelve institutions had to be changed. As a child, he underwent a psychiatric examination, which revealed "a personality disorder with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies." The boy suffered from dyslexia - he read quickly, but almost could not write.
In 1954, Oswald returned to New Orleans with his family. In October 1955, he left school a month after entering the tenth grade and got a job as a clerk in an office, and then as a courier. To continue his studies, his family returned to Fort Worth in July 1956, and Lee re-enrolled in the tenth grade in September, but left school again in October, this time to join the US Marine Corps.
Lee Harvey Oswald enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on October 24, 1956. Initially trained as a radar station operator. Like all Marines, he trained and took the marksmanship exam, hitting 212 points in December, just above the minimum required to qualify as a sniper. After finishing seventh in a class of thirty people, in July 1957 he was sent to the Macas El Toro base, and then in September to the naval aviation base in Atsugi as part of the Air Control 1 naval squadron.
In December 1958, Lee Harvey was transferred back to El Toro, where his unit was tasked with mission control to train soldiers and officers for overseas service. While serving in the Marine Corps, he studied Russian. In February 1959, he passed the exam for knowledge of written and spoken Russian. His knowledge is rated as weak.
During his service, Oswald was court-martialed three times. First time for shooting himself in the elbow with a pistol. And then for a fight with a sergeant, he was demoted from private first class to private and imprisoned. For the third time, he was punished for firing a rifle into the jungle during a night guard in the Philippines, for unknown reasons.
Lee Harvey Oswald retired on September 11, 1959, citing his mother's need for help. In October, shortly before his twentieth birthday, he comes to the Soviet Union. I planned this trip in advance, submitted several fictitious applications to foreign universities in order to obtain a student visa. Immediately after arriving in the USSR, he declared his desire to obtain Soviet citizenship, but on October 21 his application was rejected. Then he opened the veins on his left arm in the bath of his hotel room, after which he was placed in a psychiatric hospital.
After ten days in a psychiatric hospital, Oswald applied to the US Embassy in Moscow to renounce his American citizenship. He told the diplomats about his service at the radar station and promised to inform the USSR of some interesting information. The proposal did not go unnoticed: he was not deported. The young man was sent to Minsk to work as a turner at the Horizont electronics plant. His salary with bonuses and allowances was 700 rubles - five times more than any Soviet worker. He was given a furnished apartment in a prestigious building, the Russian language was taught by Stanislav Shushkevich, the future head of the Republic of Belarus.
After some time, Lee Harvey Oswald got bored in Minsk, sent a request to the embassy for the return of his American passport and an offer to return to the United States if the charges against him were dropped. In March 1961, he met student Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova, and in less than six weeks the couple got married. In February 1962, their daughter June was born, and on May 24 they received documents from the US Embassy in Moscow allowing her to emigrate to the United States, after which the family left the Soviet Union.
After returning to America, Oswald and his family settled near Dallas. The emigrant George de Mohrenschild became a close friend of the American, with whom they discussed communist and revolutionary ideas, they hated the country in which they live.
In March 1963, under the pseudonym A. Hidell, Lee bought a rifle and a revolver. Later, on April 10, from a distance of thirty meters, he shot Edwin Walker, who was sitting at a table in his house. The bullet pierced the window frame, which saved the soldier's life. It is assumed that Oswald wanted to scare Walker, not kill him, and deliberately misfired. In the following months, he was active in supporting the Cuban Revolution, tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate the island, and eventually returned to Dallas. He got a job at the Texas School Book Depository.
Several days before Kennedy's arrival, several newspapers described the route of the presidential motorcade and indicated that it would pass by the Texas School Book Depository. The day before the murder, on November 21, 1963, Oswald asked Weasley Fraser, an acquaintance, to throw him in the center - he must transport the cornices from Marina's house to a rented apartment, which he rented not far from work. Leaving on the morning of November 22, Lee left his wife $170 and an engagement ring, and took a long paper bag with him, allegedly with cornices. It is assumed that the package contained a rifle.
As John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m., Oswald fired his rifle three times from a sixth-story window in the southeast corner of a schoolbook warehouse, killing the President and seriously injuring Texas Gov. John Connally. Twenty minutes after the murder, the police arrived on the sixth floor of the building, the corner window half open. The shooting area in the corner of the room is fenced off with a wall of cardboard boxes from under the books, so that the sniper can safely operate unnoticed by bystanders.
According to the investigation, immediately after the shots, Lee Harvey walked across the entire floor from the place of the shooting, where the shells were left, and hid the rifle behind cardboard boxes just before the exit. Then he went down the back stairs. A minute and a half after the shooting on the second floor in the dining room, Oswald ran into police officer Marrion Baker and his superior, Roy Trulli. After the latter identified his employee, the killer was released.
Oswald left the warehouse through the main entrance before the police blocked him. At about 12:40 I got on a bus, but got off two blocks before reaching my place of residence. Then at about 13:00 I came home by taxi. Immediately quickly went to his room, left a few minutes later with things and went to the bus stop.
An orientation on the Kennedy assassin, compiled from the words of Howard Brennan, helped Patrolman Tippit stop the suspect. As the policeman got out of the car, Lee Harvey pulled out a revolver and pulled the trigger four times. In an attempt to escape, Oswald slipped into the Texas theater without paying. A janitor from a nearby store who saw this advised the theater controller to contact the police. The killer wanted to fight off the arriving outfit, pointed a gun at them, but he was disarmed.
Around two o'clock in the afternoon, Oswald is taken to the police department building, where he is interrogated by Detective Jim Lavelle in the case of the murder of policeman Tippit. When Capt. D. Will Fritz heard his name, he said he was a bookstore employee who had been reported missing and was a suspect in the Kennedy assassination.
Oswald was interrogated several times during his two days at the Dallas Police Department. Lee denied killing Kennedy and Tippit, denied owning a rifle, said two photographs of him holding a rifle and a pistol were fake, denied telling a colleague that he wanted to go to Irving for the eaves, denied carrying a long, heavy package to work on the morning of the assassination .
On Sunday, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey was led through the basement of the Dallas Police Department to be transferred to the Dallas County Jail. At 11:21 a.m., nightclub owner Jack Ruby stepped out of the crowd and shot Oswald in the stomach. In an unconscious state, the arrested man was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital - the same one where John F. Kennedy had died two days earlier. Cardiac arrest occurred at 13:07. The body is interred on November 25 at Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth.
