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| | '''Lee Harvey Oswald''' (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) born in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], was a self-proclaimed [[Marxist]] who became notorious as the alleged assassin of President [[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 [[Marxism|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]], was a self-proclaimed [[Marxist]] who became notorious as the alleged assassin of President [[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 [[Marxism|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. |
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| − | 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-[[Communism|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> |
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| | In 1959 Oswald defected to the communist Soviet Union, lived there for 2 1/2 years, and applied to become a Soviet citizen.<ref>https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2012/11/10/kgb-files-on-lee-harvey-oswald-offer-peek-into-accused-assassins-time-as-defector-in-russia</ref> Oswald married the niece of a KGB colonel there.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Guilty-Liberal-Victims-Assault-America/dp/030735346X/</ref> Declassified CIA documents dating back to the assassination that were released in 2015 revealed that, among other things, the CIA found out on September 28, 1963 that Oswald prior to assassinating Kennedy proceeded to pay a visit to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in an attempt to gain visas, indicating he had plans to leave the country very soon.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237770/Declassified-CIA-memo-reveals-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-visited-embassies-Cuba-Soviet-Union-plot-escape-assassinating-John-F-Kennedy.html</ref> Researchers Russo and Molton interviewed a revolutionary companero of Fidel's who went by the name “Oscar Marino,” a senior Cuban spy, a founder of G2, who acknowledged encouraging Oswald to assassinate Kennedy during his 1963 Mexico City visit (and giving him expenses).<ref>Gus Russo and Stephen Molton. '''American Heritage'''. 2008. Volume 58, Issue 6. Did Castro OK The Kennedy Assassination?[http://www.americanheritage.com/content/did-castro-ok-kennedy-assassination]</ref> | | In 1959 Oswald defected to the communist Soviet Union, lived there for 2 1/2 years, and applied to become a Soviet citizen.<ref>https://www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2012/11/10/kgb-files-on-lee-harvey-oswald-offer-peek-into-accused-assassins-time-as-defector-in-russia</ref> Oswald married the niece of a KGB colonel there.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Guilty-Liberal-Victims-Assault-America/dp/030735346X/</ref> Declassified CIA documents dating back to the assassination that were released in 2015 revealed that, among other things, the CIA found out on September 28, 1963 that Oswald prior to assassinating Kennedy proceeded to pay a visit to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in an attempt to gain visas, indicating he had plans to leave the country very soon.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237770/Declassified-CIA-memo-reveals-Lee-Harvey-Oswald-visited-embassies-Cuba-Soviet-Union-plot-escape-assassinating-John-F-Kennedy.html</ref> Researchers Russo and Molton interviewed a revolutionary companero of Fidel's who went by the name “Oscar Marino,” a senior Cuban spy, a founder of G2, who acknowledged encouraging Oswald to assassinate Kennedy during his 1963 Mexico City visit (and giving him expenses).<ref>Gus Russo and Stephen Molton. '''American Heritage'''. 2008. Volume 58, Issue 6. Did Castro OK The Kennedy Assassination?[http://www.americanheritage.com/content/did-castro-ok-kennedy-assassination]</ref> |
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| − | Oswald was then himself murdered in front of live [[television]] cameras on November 24, 1963, by [[Dallas]] nightclub owner Jack Ruby. | + | Oswald was then himself murdered in front of live [[television]] cameras on November 24, 1963, by [[Dallas]] nightclub owner [[Jack Ruby]]. |
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| | ==The Most Rejected Man of His Time== | | ==The Most Rejected Man of His Time== |