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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 ...
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Lee Harvey Oswald (born 1939) was a former U.S. Marine who had served in Japan and the Philippines and had espoused communism since reading Karl Marx at the age of 14. [18] [19] [20] After accidentally shooting his elbow with an unauthorized handgun and fighting an officer, Oswald was court-martialed twice and demoted. [19]
- November 22, 1963; 59 years ago, 12:30 p.m. (CST)
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Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to five government investigations, the sniper who assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
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- He served in the Marines, where his nickname was “Osvaldovich.” 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.
- Oswald attempted suicide in Russia. 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.
- He once improvised the role of a killer. In 1960, Oswald moved to Minsk and became friends with a group of college students interested in learning English.
- His alias was “Alek J. Hidell.” 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.”
The 20-year-old Lee Oswald defected to Russia in 1959 thinking that he would find there an ideal Marxist society. But he soon became disenchanted with the Soviet Union's centralized state power...
A chronology of Lee Harvey Oswald's life, drawn primarily from FRONTLINE's three-hour investigative biography, with links to photos, writings, and documents gathered by the 1964 Warren...
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