| − | '''Lee Harvey Oswald''' (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) born in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], is was a self-described "Marxist" who became notorious for his assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]]. The [[Warren Commission]], anxious to close the case, declared that Oswald acted alone and was the sole assassin of [[President]] John F. Kennedy in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] on November 22, 1963. Oswald was a lifelong Marxist who at one point defected to the Soviet Union, and yet was inexplicably allowed back into the United States to reside in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 before killing the president later that year. | + | '''Lee Harvey Oswald''' (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) born in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], is was a self-described "[[Marxist]]" who became notorious for his assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]]. The [[Warren Commission]], anxious to close the case, declared that Oswald acted alone and was the sole assassin of [[President]] John F. Kennedy in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]] on November 22, 1963. But Oswald was a lifelong Marxist who at one point defected to the Soviet Union, and yet was inexplicably allowed back into the United States to reside in New Orleans in the summer of 1963 before killing the president later that year. |
| | In April 1963 Oswald stalked the home of Major General Edwin A. Walker, an outspoken anti-communist, and attempted unsuccessfully to murder him with a rifle shot into his home. A few months later, in September in Mexico City, Oswald met with KGB agents and was apparently referring to that incident when he bragged about having "carried out a secret mission."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/11/16/to-kgb-agents-oswald-was-extremely-agitated/4089867a-47b4-4245-a2df-9560e805d1c4/?utm_term=.5704e7259bc7</ref> | | In April 1963 Oswald stalked the home of Major General Edwin A. Walker, an outspoken anti-communist, and attempted unsuccessfully to murder him with a rifle shot into his home. A few months later, in September in Mexico City, Oswald met with KGB agents and was apparently referring to that incident when he bragged about having "carried out a secret mission."<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/11/16/to-kgb-agents-oswald-was-extremely-agitated/4089867a-47b4-4245-a2df-9560e805d1c4/?utm_term=.5704e7259bc7</ref> |