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  2. Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 for truancy, during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed", due to a lack ...

  3. Feb 9, 2010 · Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald —the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy —is found guilty of the “murder with malice” of Oswald and sentenced to...

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  4. Apr 3, 2024 · Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. He himself was fatally shot two days later by Jack Ruby in the Dallas County Jail. Whether Oswald acted alone or as part of a conspiracy has been long debated.

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    • Early Life
    • Marine Service and Move to The Soviet Union
    • Radical Behavior Back in America
    • Assassination of JFK
    • Death

    Originally from New Orleans, Lee Harvey Oswald joined the U.S. Marines and later defected to the Soviet Union for a period of time. He returned to America with his family and eventually acquired firearms. Oswald allegedly assassinated President John. F. Kennedyon November 22, 1963, in Dallas. While being taken to county jail two days later, Oswald ...

    FULL NAME: Lee Harvey Oswald BORN: October 18, 1939 DIED: November 24, 1964 BIRTHPLACE: New Orleans, Louisiana SPOUSE: Marina Prusakova CHILDREN: 2 daughters ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Libra

    Lee Harvey Oswald was born on October 18, 1939, in New Orleans to Marguerite and Robert Oswald Sr., who died of a heart attack two months prior to Oswald’s birth. Following her husband’s death, Marguerite sent Oswald and his two older brothers to live in an orphanage. Remarried for a few years, Marguerite eventually moved with her children to the B...

    Marguerite and Oswald eventually moved back to New Orleans, where Oswald continued to develop his interest in socialist literature, which he’d begun to read in New York. In 1956, he joined the U.S. Marines. He was a better-than-average marksman yet was court-martialed twice in 1958 for having an illegal weapon and displaying violent behavior. Oswal...

    The family set up residence in Dallas, with Oswald taking on the post-office alias of Alek J. Hidell. Around this time, Oswald’s interest in communism transformed into support for Cuba. In early 1963, he ordered a .38 handgun via the mail and later acquired a rifle. He had Marina take a picture of him with the weapons—a document that would later be...

    On the afternoon of November 22, 1963—around the time of President John F. Kennedy’s approaching motorcade through Dallas—Oswald was seen on the sixth floor of his work building, holding a rifle. At 12:30 p.m., three shots were fired, with the second and third hitting JFK. Texas Governor John B. Connally was also hit and wounded. The president died...

    Oswald never saw a trial for his alleged crimes. On November 24, 1963, while the 24-year-old was being taken to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a club owner with mob affiliations. Ruby stated that he acted out of outrage over Kennedy’s assassination. There have also been theories that Ruby’s actions might have been part of...

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  5. On November 25, 1963, the nation’s gaze was transfixed by the horse-drawn caisson and final burial of President John F. Kennedy. But in the shadow of this grim but stirring procession—on that same...

  6. Apr 19, 2023 · After Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the Dallas County state's attorney, Henry Wade, took the case to a grand jury that same week. "I am going to seek the death penalty because I think his case is an aggravated one," Wade told The Chicago Tribune. "This was a second assassination.

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