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| | [[James Dobson]] wrote a short story speculating about non-ideological reasons for Oswald's crime, but of course millions of people endure similar rejection and yet commit no crimes: | | [[James Dobson]] wrote a short story speculating about non-ideological reasons for Oswald's crime, but of course millions of people endure similar rejection and yet commit no crimes: |
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| − | : "He began his life with all the classic handicaps and disadvantages. His mother was a dominating woman who found it difficult to [[love]] anyone. She gave him no affection, no training and no [[discipline]] during his early years. | + | : "He began his life with all the classic handicaps and disadvantages. His mother was a dominating woman who found it difficult to [[love]] anyone. She gave him no affection, no training and no [[discipline]] during his early years." |
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| − | : "When he was 13, a school psychologist commented that he probably didn't even know the meaning of the word "love." During [[adolescence]], the girls would have nothing to do with him and he fought with the boys. | + | : "When he was 13, a school psychologist commented that he probably didn't even know the meaning of the word "love." During [[adolescence]], the girls would have nothing to do with him and he fought with the boys." |
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| − | : "After failing at every pursuit, including a stint in the [[United States Marine Corps]], he fled the country. He married a Russian girl, but she also began to hold him in contempt. She could outfight him, and she learned to bully him. Finally, she forced him to leave. | + | : "After failing at every pursuit, including a stint in the [[United States Marine Corps]], he fled the country. He married a Russian girl, but she also began to hold him in contempt. She could outfight him, and she learned to bully him. Finally, she forced him to leave." |
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| − | : "After days of loneliness, he went home, fell on his knees and literally begged her to take him back. He wept at her feet, but she laughed at him and made fun of his sexual impotency in front of a friend. Finally, he pleaded no more. No one wanted him. No one had ever wanted him. He was perhaps the most rejected man of his time. | + | : "After days of loneliness, he went home, fell on his knees and literally begged her to take him back. He wept at her feet, but she laughed at him and made fun of his sexual impotency in front of a friend. Finally, he pleaded no more. No one wanted him. No one had ever wanted him. He was perhaps the most rejected man of his time." |
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| − | : "The next day, he was a strangely different man. He arose, went to the garage, and took down a rifle he had hidden there. He carried it with him to his newly acquired job at a book-storage building. And from a window on the sixth floor of that building, shortly after noon, November 22, 1963, he sent two shells crashing into the head of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. | + | : "The next day, he was a strangely different man. He arose, went to the garage, and took down a rifle he had hidden there. He carried it with him to his newly acquired job at a book-storage building. And from a window on the sixth floor of that building, shortly after noon, November 22, 1963, he sent two shells crashing into the head of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy." |
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| − | : "Lee Harvey Oswald, the rejected, unlovable failure, killed the man who, more than any other person on earth -- embodied all the success, beauty, wealth, and family affection which Oswald lacked. In firing that rifle, he utilized the one skill he had learned in his entire, miserable lifetime. | + | : "Lee Harvey Oswald, the rejected, unlovable failure, killed the man who, more than any other person on earth -- embodied all the success, beauty, wealth, and family affection which Oswald lacked. In firing that rifle, he utilized the one skill he had learned in his entire, miserable lifetime." |
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| | Also on November 22, 1963, someone had shot a Dallas policeman, Officer J.D. Tippit, using a handgun, and Oswald was accused of that shooting as well. Evidence revealed that Oswald had received both the rifle and a handgun, through mail-order purchase, and both arrived on the same day. | | Also on November 22, 1963, someone had shot a Dallas policeman, Officer J.D. Tippit, using a handgun, and Oswald was accused of that shooting as well. Evidence revealed that Oswald had received both the rifle and a handgun, through mail-order purchase, and both arrived on the same day. |
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| | == References == | | == References == |