Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 â 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.
He was a better-than-average marksman, yet was court-martialed twice in 1958 for having an illegal weapon and displaying violent behavior. Oswald ended his military service the following year and arranged a trip to Moscow, where he informed Russian authorities that he wanted to move to the Soviet Union.
Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 26, p. 709, CE 3099, Certified military pay records for Lee Harvey Oswald for the period October 24, 1956, to September 11, 1959.
^ Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 25, p. 418, CE 2564, Cuban visa application of Lee Harvey Oswald, September 27, 1963. ^ a b Wallace, Gregory (November 5, 2017). "CIA wondered if Oswald sought visas as part of escape plan".
Louis Nichols (November 7, 1916 â April 25, 2010) was an attorney who resided in Dallas, Texas. He is the only known attorney who visited Lee Harvey Oswald while Oswald was in custody by the Dallas Police Department after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Westlawn Cemetery & Mausoleum, ILJack Ruby / Place of burialRuby died of a pulmonary embolism, secondary to bronchogenic carcinoma, on January 3, 1967, less than a month after his cancer diagnosis. He died at Parkland Hospital, the same facility where Oswald died and Kennedy was pronounced dead. He was buried beside his parents in the Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois.
De Mohrenschildt is best known for having befriended Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1962. De Mohrenschildt later alleged that their friendship continued until Oswald's death following the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
He subsequently became involved in other nightclub operations and had varying degrees of success. One of his more lasting ventures was the Vegas Club, of which he became sole owner in 1954. During this period, Ruby engaged in numerous violent incidents, which often involved employees and club patrons.
Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery, Fort Worth, TXLee Harvey Oswald / Place of burial
55Â years (1911â1967)Jack Ruby / Age at death
She is active in Quaker and liberal charities and organizations and lives in Santa Rosa, California. The City of Irving bought the former Paine home in 2009 and has been restoring it to its 1963 condition to be turned into a museum in time for the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination on November 22, 2013.
24Â years (1939â1963)Lee Harvey Oswald / Age at death
John Edward PicRobert OswaldLee Harvey Oswald/Brothers
After her husband was killed, Marina married Kenneth Porter. She worked at an Army Navy Surplus Store in uptown. Eventually, she retired. She's now in her early 70s.
DallasThe Carousel Club in Dallas was the nightclub owned by Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald after learning of Oswald's murder of John F. Kennedy in November 1963.
Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswaldâthe accused assassin of President John F. Kennedyâis found guilty of the âmurder with maliceâ of Oswald and sentenced to die in the electric chair. It was the first courtroom verdict to be televised in U.S. history.
Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old Dallas citizen, was accused of the slaying. Two days later Oswald was shot to death by Jack Ruby, a local night club owner with connections to the criminal underworld, in the basement of a Dallas police station. A presidential commission headedâŚ
Dan Rather reporting on the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby on November 24, 1963, from the CBS News special November 22nd and the Warren Report, September 1964.
At about 1:45 pm Oswald was seized in the Texas Theatre by police officers responding to reports of a suspect. At 1:30 am on November 23 he was formally arraigned for the murder of President Kennedy. Dallas; assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, from which Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired the gunshots ...
In January 1963 Oswald bought a .38 revolver and, in March, a rifle and telescopic sight, through the mails. On April 10 in Dallas he allegedly shot at but missed an ultrarightist, Edwin A. Walker, a former army general. Later that month he left his wife with a friend in Dallas and went to New Orleans, where he set up a one-man branch ...
Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. Subscribe Now. At 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963, from a window on the sixth floor of the depository building, Oswald, using his mail-order rifle, allegedly fired three shots that killed President Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John B.
In October 1956 Oswald dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Marines. A competent sharpshooter but an indifferent marine, he began expressing pro-Soviet and politically radical views and, on a hardship plea, secured release from the corps on September 11, 1959.
In Minsk, where he was assigned to work, he met and married (April 30, 1961) Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova. Thirteen months later, in June 1962, he was able to return to the United States with his wife and three-month-old daughter, June Lee. In January 1963 Oswald bought a .38 revolver and, in March, a rifle and telescopic sight, through the mails.
A former U.S. Marine who lived in the Soviet Union for almost 3 years, Oswald was first arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit (1924-1963), 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).
In 1959, Oswald received a hardship discharge (for mother's health) to quit the Marines, but defected to the Soviet Union, for nearly 3 years. Having married Marina, the daughter of a Soviet security official, he re-defected back to the U.S. with her and their daughter, in June 1962.
Moving back to Texas in July 1956, Oswald entered 10th grade in Fort Worth, but quit school again, at age 17 in October, to join the U.S. Marines, as had his brother Robert, after their half-brother John Pic joined the U.S. Coast Guard.
Oswald had been born in New Orleans, 2 months after his father died, and his mother moved him and 2 brothers to several different towns, while marrying a third husband for 3 years, 1945-48. After attending 12 schools, around Fort Worth, New York City, and New Orleans, Oswald dropped out of 10th grade, at age 16, ...
Two days later, while being moved from police headquarters to the county jail, Oswald was shot and mortally wounded by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, in full view of television cameras broadcasting live.
Oswald died on November 24, 1963, from gunshot wound by Jack Ruby. He was survived by his wife Marina, 2-year-old daughter June, and 1-month-old daughter Rachel. a cry of anguish from Oswald Oswald slumped to the concrete paving, as his manacled hands clutched at his abdomen and writhing with pain, moaning.
When attorney Mark Lane was not allowed to represent Oswaldâs interests before the Warren Commission hearings, he became a pioneer JFK assassination researcher and critic of the Warren Report.
Prosecution â Howard Brennan is the Prosecutionâs star witness and testifies at trial that he saw a man who he believes was Oswald standing at the sixth-floor southeast window of the Book Depository Building and holding a rifle at the time of the assassination.
Prosecution â Oswald demonstrated his guilt by fleeing the Book Depository Building immediately after the assassination and did not appear in a roll call of company employees after the shooting.
The Commission successfully conducted a test to verify Oswaldâs ability to get from the sixth to the second floor in 90 seconds, thus establishing that he could have been at the window at the time JFK passed by the building in Dealey Plaza.
Part II â Medical â In addition to the treatment of President Kennedy and observations of more than a dozen doctors, nurses and trauma room attendants at Parkland Hospital, the highly controversial autopsy performed on the victim would have been a focal point at an Oswald trial.
The judge then agrees to a defense motion to conduct the trial of Oswald in advance of the trial of his accused attempted murderer Jack Ruby so as to not prejudice the proceedings against the accused assassin.
Case for Reasonable Doubt â As described in the book Through the âOswaldâ Window, this reporter conducted the same test in 1979 when granted rare access to the locked and sealed Book Depository and confirmed that this escape route was possible in 90 seconds.
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 a family, and eventually acquired firearms. Oswald allegedly assassinated President John. F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. While being taken to county jail, on November 24, 1963, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby.
In April 1963, Oswald allegedly tried to shoot right-wing ex-general Edwin A. Walker through the window of his home but missed. After returning to New Orleans by himself for a short stint, in September 1963, Oswald took a trip to Mexico City, where he attempted to obtain passage to Cuba and the Soviet Union to no avail.
On the afternoon of November 22, 1963 â around the time of President Kennedyâs approaching motorcade through Dallas â 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 President Kennedy.
He was a better-than-average marksman, yet was court-martialed twice in 1958 for having an illegal weapon and displaying violent behavior. Oswald ended his military service the following year and arranged a trip to Moscow, where he informed Russian authorities that he wanted to move to the Soviet Union.
He had Marina take a picture of him with the weapons â a document that would later be used as criminal evidence, as Oswald's rifle was eventually identified as the firearm used to murder President Kennedy.
Early Life. Oswald was born on October 18, 1939, in New Orleans, Louisiana, 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 ...
Oswald was spotted leaving the scene of the shooting and was later confronted some distance away by police officer J.D. Tippit, who Oswald then allegedly shot and killed.
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 â November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, then 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 tâŚ
Oswald was born at the old French Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, to Robert Edward Lee Oswald Sr. (1896â1939) and Marguerite Frances Claverie (1907â1981). Robert Oswald was a third cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt and a distant cousin of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and served in the Marines during World War I. Robert died of a heart attack two months before Lee was born. Lee's elder brother Robert Jr. (1934â2017) was also a former âŚ
From approximately June 1960 to February 1961, Oswald was in a relationship with a Belarusian woman, Ella German (Belarusian: ĐНа ĐĐľŃПан), a co-worker at the factory.
German was born to a Jewish family in Minsk in 1937. Her mother worked in a chorus line to earn money. Following her father's death when quite young, her grandmother took care of her. In June 1941, she was with her grandparents in Mogilev, southeast of Minsk, for the summer when GermâŚ