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Shortly before Oswald arrived in Mexico City, the incoming FBI reports to the CIA about his activities in Dallas and New Orleans were not put in his 201 file (the one where all previous FBI and ...
It came from a CIA employee regarding the agency’s secret operation to read the mail of Lee Harvey Oswald. ... the FBI, the Dallas Police, the Secret Service and all of the national media, were ...
But Frazier played a defining, if unintentional, role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work that fateful Nov. 22. And the Warren Commission, the ...
Apr 13, 2023 · Paul Gregory is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Cullen Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston. He’s also the author of a new book, The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee, a fascinating account of the relationship he developed with Marina and Lee Oswald in the summer of 1963, when Gregory was 21 years old.
- He Served in The Marines, Where His Nickname Was “Osvaldovich.”
- Oswald Attempted Suicide in Russia.
- He Once Improvised The Role of A Killer.
- His Alias Was “Alek J. Hidell.”
- He Was Linked to An Assassination Attempt Before JFK.
- His Feelings About JFK Were Mixed.
- He Once Considered Hijacking A Plane to Cuba.
- Oswald Told Dallas Police That “Nobody’s Going to Shoot at me.”
Oswald took an early interest in socialism after picking up a leaflet about the coming execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who had been convicted of spying for Russia. “I was looking for a key to my environment, and then I discovered socialist literature,” Oswald wrote in his diary. “I had to dig for my books in the back of dusty shelves of li...
In 1959, Oswald travelled to Moscow, in hopes of becoming a Soviet citizen. “I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker,” he wrote in his request for citizenship. “I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.” When his request was denied, Oswald became despondent. “I am shocked!! My dreams!,” he wrote in...
In 1960, Oswald moved to Minsk and became friends with a group of college students interested in learning English. One of the students, Ernst Titovets, made tape recordings of Oswald in order to study his Southern accent. He had Oswald read passages from Shakespeare and Hemingway, as well as improvise mock dialogues. In one recording, Titovets inte...
By 1962, Oswald was back in the United States and working in a photo lab in downtown Dallas. Using the lab’s photo equipment, he began to forge a new identity, including a Selective Service card, in the name of “Alek J. Hidell.” Oswald went on to open a post office box, where he would have mail sent under both his birth name, as well as his alias. ...
Seven months before the Kennedy assassination, Oswald allegedly fired into the home of an ultra-right wing Army general named Edwin Walker. The bullet, which missed Walker, was linked to Oswald’s ammunition after the Kennedy assassination. Gerald Posner, the author of Case Closed recounted what’s known about Oswald’s actions:
According to an account published in The New York Timesby Paul Gregory, a friend of Oswald’s, Lee and Marina kept a copy of Timemagazine featuring John F. Kennedy as its Man of the Year prominently displayed in their home. “Lee liked Kennedy,” according to Priscilla McMillan, a friend of Oswald’s wife and the author of Marina & Lee. “He liked him i...
According to McMillan, Oswald wanted to help train Castro’s army in Cuba, but because he could not secure a visa, he was forced to devise an alternative plan. As McMillan told FRONTLINE:
The day he was killed by Jack Ruby, Oswald dismissed the idea that his life might be in danger. That’s according to James Leavelle, a former member of the Dallas police force who helped escort Oswald from his cell the morning of the shooting. “I put the handcuffs on him,” Leavelle told FRONTLINE, “and in the process of doing that, I more in jest ki...
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Nov 20, 2003 · The photo, a group shot of several men and teenage boys around a campfire, clearly shows a young Lee Harvey Oswald on one side of the frame and David Ferrie, wearing a military helmet, on the ...
Nov 22, 2013 · Gary Mack, the curator of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza, writes for LightBox on how one rare photo, taken by Jim MacCammon of Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest, suggests that the 24-year-old ...
