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Curious about “the influences and accidents and loves and antipathies and idiosyncrasies” that shaped Lee Harvey Oswald, the novelist and short story writer Jean Stafford spent nine hours interviewing Marguerite Oswald in May 1965. A Mother in History (1966) is the acerbic result, an indelible portrait of a woman hungry for money, fame, and attention, […]
Nov 19, 2023 · By Alice Bennett / Nov. 19, 2023 9:00 am EST. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, Marguerite Oswald, became an eccentric celebrity. Courting the spotlight despite her son's infamy, she remained deeply devoted to Lee's memory while enduring intense scrutiny from the press.
Nov 6, 2023 · Oswald was like Brutus, the assassin of Julius Caesar, or even Pontius Pilate, who ordered Christ’s killing. Killing JFK was a betrayal of tremendous magnitude, not that Oswald knew Kennedy or ...
Marguerite asked if her son was an agent of the US government: Testimony of Marguerite Oswald, Warren Commission Hearings, Volume I, p. 206. The government finally told Marguerite that her son Lee was alive in the USSR and had an actual address: Id., at p. 207.
Marguerite Claverie Oswald, the Mother of LEE Harvey Oswald. Marguerite Claverie Oswald was born in New Orleans on July 19, 1907. She married Edward Pic in 1929 with whom she had a son (John Pic). Marguerite and Pic divorced, Marguerite soon married Robert E.L. Oswald in 1933 with whom she had two sons (Robert Oswald, LEE Harvey Oswald).
Marguerite Oswald is left alone to care for Lee and his two older brothers -- his half-brother, John Pic, and Robert Jr. 1942 Marguerite sends the boys into an orphanage and later to boarding school.
