| − | '''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 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. |
| | 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> |