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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-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 1959 Oswald defected to the communist Soviet Union, lived their 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>http://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>http://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>

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>http://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>http://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>

Oswald was murdered in front of live [[television]] cameras on November 24, 1963, by [[Dallas]] nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

Oswald was murdered in front of live [[television]] cameras on November 24, 1963, by [[Dallas]] nightclub owner Jack Ruby.