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So then what happens, and how does he get to Dallas? We had an old black-and-white. Anytime they brought anything up that pertained to the assassination of the president and the shooting of the police officer, he knew nothing about it. They even asked me if I'd ever been an agent of the federal government or the CIA." It's always a friend or a woman. So he thought hed get a post office box that would be a permanent-type thing. In comparison to yourself, what was Lee missing from his childhood? And he was in the Marines as well. What he did after he left the building is known: bus ride, taxi ride, boardinghouse, pick up the pistol, leave, shoot the police officer. The Cold War was going on. What would it be? It sounds like Oswald's disillusionment stemmed as much from personal as political reasons. Maybe the next time he went to the library, he would follow up on it, and say "Well, let's really see what this is about." When Lee is discharged, early discharge in September 1959, he returns to Fort Worth for about three days. He began to tire of Minsk as his celebrity began to wear off. You dont think that there was any possibility that he was on some mission when he went to Russia? I don't think he had much experience with women, if any, before moving to the Soviet Union. He's always under this impression. You look at the general opportunity he was present. He wanted to get his manuscript published if anybody was interested. As opposed to seeing the Kennedy assassination as the way we ought to see it: as one of the great public tragedies of the twentieth century. I mean, youre his brother; you would want to believe more than anyone. But certainly by age three, he had the sense, I need to be someplace else. Mother would be putting him with a nanny, or a babysitter, or in an orphan home with us, just to get us out of her hair. David Austin Walsh is the editor of the History News Network. Marina had gone over there to live with somebody until he got established over there. I think that, more than anything, sheds a spotlight on the one-dimensionality of his ideological commitments, as it were. Oswald refused to talk to anyone at the U.S. embassy. They wasnt going to convince him to say something. I think this was passed on to Lee. After getting some help with the Secret Service as far as getting a pass up to see Lee, I was allowed to visit with him approximately eight to 10 minutes. He did not and would not talk to any of the interrogators about anything of substance. He never did answer. She is wanting to go back to Russia. They didnt finalize that. He was making fun of how inept they were, and he was making fun of them all the time. Two, Jack Ruby did inestimable harm to the whole process of America coming to terms with what happened. Nothing illustrates the thinness, the superficiality of Oswald's ideology as his growing disillusionment with the Soviet Union. You look at that last year his work, and his family, trying to go to Cuba, trying to go back to Russia. None took him seriously. Killing Oswald: Directed by Shane O'Sullivan. Its good that people raise questions and say, Wait a minute, lets take a second look at this. But when you take the second look and the third and the 40th and the 50th, hey, enoughs enough. I think three major things [were] on his mind at that particular time. Very garrulous, very sexual, very clear about her objectives. Hes thinking about going to Cuba. New York City. Thats the shocker. What do you do with his general opportunity? So then what happens, and how does he get to Dallas? Interview'The defense actually made a pretty good case' Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV, yet his trial was no slam dunk In new book 'Kennedy's Avenger,' Dan Abrams and David. Did he evince any sort of sophisticated understanding of Marxism or communism, or of the Soviet Union in general, before he left for Russia? Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963. . Tell me about his growing problems with Marina. He toyed with the interrogators down at the Dallas police station, all that weekend [after the assassination]. Oswald met and married Marina in the Soviet. . I said, If you told me everything youve done, it seems to me you have a case that you could perhaps get a reversal on that, that you did not do anything that they anticipated you done. I said, If that never came about, if you didnt really betray the country and you only attempted to do it and they didnt let you do it anyway legally, then it seems to me you have a basis. I said, We can look into it. When Lee got back from Russia, the way he talked about the Russian system, he didn't talk about it politically, in the sense that he was wrapped up in communism or Marxism. This was deepened by his friendship with Pavel Golovachev, a few conservations he has with some other friends and associates, and he tends to get rather, not just tired, but really kind of fed up with the whole lifestyle. After Lee's return, approximately two weeks, in the latter part of June 1962, he gets a call from one of the FBI agents -- I believe that was Mr. Fain -- in wanting to have a meeting with him. There are any number of possible outcomes -- or temples, so to speak -- he could have turned to. That was a training ground [for] his imagination. She is wanting to go back to Russia. . Or he just walked the streets, ride the subways. Whereas Ella was rather innocent and timid and curious and prone to a kind of girlishness, Marina was anything but that. I asked him about this lawyer in New York and I told him I would get him one down here, meaning in Texas. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.com.mx: Libros. Conspiracy theories point to purported inconsistencies in the events of Nov. 22, 1963, and in the evidence collected against Oswald. His plans, as we well know now, were already made to go to Russia, rather than to Cuba. But he became disgusted with it and started rebelling against it, because he wanted to go back to a more independent attitude. You've got all the physical evidence that ties together. With each failure to settle in, with each failure to secure a job or hold onto that job, with each failure to secure an apartment or placate his wife, to build any kind of life with each failure, his internal pressure mounts. You could tell by the tone of the language, not that we could understand the Russian language, but the tone and the facial expressions that they were having an argument. We know he owned a rifle. When Lee came back, how did he react to visits from the FBI when they came and saw him here? But then, Oct. 31, we hear that he's in Russia. So youre saying, in a sense, he is the ultimate pragmatist? You look at all the data there, and it comes up to one conclusion as far as I'm concerned -- the Warren Commission was correct. ISIS is in Afghanistan, But Who Are They Really? She had certain characteristics that were so much like Lee: the time and circumstances always seemed to be against her; the world owed her a living; she wanted to be somebody. ISIS is in Afghanistan, But Who Are They Really? He is the older brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, and a former Marine and salesman. So consequently, he calls me up and he tells me that they're moving to Dallas. The big question is why. So from Oswald's vantage point, the Soviet experiment, as he would have seen it, was this marvelous opportunity to transcend where he came from. But then, Oct. 31, we hear that hes in Russia. He told me about it, and I told him Id go with him. It just floors me, it floored me then. That was a training ground [for] his imagination. He was making fun of how inept they were, and he was making fun of them all the time. The continuity there, the lack of stability, I think, entered into that to a large degree. He wants to get some experience and write about it. Among his nine books is the bestseller, Case Closed (1993), which concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Upon his return to the United States, was there a particular moment where Oswald decided to act violently? And this opened up certain avenues or possibilities that would not have been available to him otherwise. We'll look into it.". ES. So you're saying, in a sense, he is the ultimate pragmatist? Seleccionar el departamento en el que deseas buscar. Visitors can watch a large bank of television sets recalling the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald's capture. He was seeming to be pretty adamant about it. Well, it took him a little bit longer than that, but he started trying after a year to come back. But she certainly conveyed it to John and I at very early ages. Living in Fort Worth, TV was making its debut. True, no one saw him actually pull the trigger on the president but his presence in the building was there. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.es: Libros. He had a rifle, he had positioned himself, he prepared in advance to take his shot, after he took the shot he left the rifle there, and then walked away and found his own way home. As far as material goods the car taking her to a grocery store the first time you cant believe how excited she was. This was something all his own. It was wall-to-wall reporters, police officers, FBI, Secret Service. Oswald grew up in very trying circumstances in the early part of his life. He finally got a job that wasnt exactly what he really wanted, but it was a start. There was always a constant move. The third thing was he wanted to look into his dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps, because he felt like that was unwarranted because, i.e., he was released with honorable conditions. Theyve got your rifle. Thompson's new book, "Last Second in Dallas", comes to a startling conclusion about Lee Harvey Oswald, who . Describe a typical day in Oswald's Minsk. This is a struggle that has gone on with me for almost 30 years now. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. This was something all his own. Yes, I think that there is a process here, in the same way there had been a process in the Soviet Union, in the same way there'd been a process in the Marines, and the same way there'd been a process coursing through his adolescence. What he did after he left the building is known: bus ride, taxi ride, boardinghouse, pick up the pistol, leave, shoot the police officer. In fact, she is quick to get moving on the bureaucratic process involved in that to emigrate. Somehow, somebody never realized what the Sam Hill was going on. I mean, you're his brother; you would want to believe more than anyone. The other thing was he wanted to get settled with the job. You look at the general opportunity -- he was present. 2 thoughts on "Stew Peter's interviews Lee Harvey Oswald's Girlfriend about the JFK Assasination". By Melissa De Witte Those alive when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news the president had been shot. He indicated that, if reporters were asking about when he's coming back, to say nothing He wanted not to be bothered by the reporters. I'm sure for a certain minimal fee, you could ride the subways all day, and he would do it just to get around. He was toying with them. I think he just liked the atmosphere that you could do anything that you wanted to do, that you could imagine you could do. Explore FRONTLINEs collected and ongoing reporting on Russia's war on Ukraine. He moves into his own apartment and everything. . The appeal to Lee of something like that Marxism, communism, socialism, would be something unique, something different not [an] everyday occurrence. Oswald met Marina in March of 1961, and he immediately sees in Marina the antidote to Ella German, who had really broken his heart. He found a spot, not very far, from where Walker was. While he does not see Oswald as a Soviet, CIA or FBI recruit, he is careful to point out many of the unanswered questions regarding Oswald's mysterious associations and possible ties to the mob. So if we don't understand something, we assume that there is some sort of plot or conspiracy -- that there is an order, and we're just not seeing it.