Oswald lee harvey biography
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Those alive when John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, , remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news the president had been shot. For Hoover fellow Paul Gregory, then a year-old college student at the University of Oklahoma, the day became particularly memorable – life-changing, even – when he saw television news footage of Kennedy’s killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, being escorted into police headquarters.
“I know that guy,” he said to himself, confused and in disbelief. Gregory had gotten to know Oswald and his Russian wife Marina, whom he had taken Russian lessons with. For much of the summer of , Gregory had been, outside of Lee’s family, the couple’s only friend. Gregory’s new book, The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee (Diversion Books, ) details a story he has kept largely private (with the exception of speaking to the authorities at the time).
Here, Stanford News talks to Gregory about what he knew of Oswald and how the assassi
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Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, – November 24, ) was, according to five government investigations, the sniper who assassinatedU.S. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, [1]
A former U.S. Marine who lived in the Soviet Union[1] for almost 3 years, Oswald was first arrested for the murder of police officerJ. D. Tippit (), who had been shot on a Dallas street shortly after Kennedy was killed. He was also soon suspected in the death of Kennedy as well.
Soon after he was arrested, Oswald talked to reporters in a hallway. Oswald shouted, "I didn't shoot anybody," and, "They've taken me in because of the fact that I lived in the Soviet Union. I'm just a patsy!" (a scapegoat or someone who is blamed for something someone else actually did). Later, at a press meeting, a reporter asked, "Did you kill the President?" and Oswald answered, "No, I have not been charged with that. In fact, nobody has said that to me yet. The first th
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Appendix 13
Appendix Biography of Lee Harvey Oswald
EARLY YEARSMarguerite Claverie, the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, was born in New Orleans in ,1 into a family of French and German extraction. 2 Her mother died a few years after Marguerite was born leaving her and fem other ung children in the care of their father, a streetcar conductor.3 Although Marguerite describes herself as a child of one parent," she recalls being one of the most popular young ladies in the [grammar] school," and thinks of her childhood as a "very full happy" one.4 Her older sister, Mrs. Lillian Murret, remembers Marguerite as "a very pretty child, a very beautiful girl," 5 as does a former acquaintance, Clem H. Sehrt, who knew the Claveries.6 The family was poor but, according to Mrs. Murret, was a "happy family singing all the time."7 Marguerite had 1 year of high school.8 Shortly before she was 17, she went to work as a receptionist for a lag firm in New Orleans?
In August , while she was still wor