I would love to be able to say that Lee was not involved in any way whatsoever, or much less to the extent that I believe that he was. NL. If they didn't know who worked for them, he could always say he worked for them; he was in control of the FBI then. I'm talking about the police officer being shot and the president. Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey is a recognized expert on organized crime and an authority on the JFK assassination. I think three major things [were] on his mind at that particular time. December 4, 1963: In an interview Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, Marguerite Oswald, says assumes her son is innocent and that President John F. Kennedy would be alive and so would her son if Oswald . About October 1962 things were not going along too good. The third thing was he wanted to look into his dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps, because he felt like that was unwarranted because, i.e., he was released with honorable conditions. I mean, they had asked the wrong man. I don't know at what age Mother verbalized the effect that she felt he was a burden to her. What would it be? A former litigator, Posner is a fulltime investigative writer. And in this place, he would join this much larger-than-life cause, and he would break permanently with the United States, and he would live happily every after in the Soviet Union. I don't know. If they didnt know who worked for them, he could always say he worked for them; he was in control of the FBI then. But you go back to the death of Dad two months before he was born, that's a tremendous impact. Can you summarize what the atmosphere was like there that Saturday, and what you made of it? He had fallen deeply for Ella, and he had proposed to her and she had said no, and he saw in Marina somebody who was meant to distract him and carry him forward. This was unsettling. In 1966, Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother gave an exclusive interview to radio talk show host, Bob Allen. Why did he turn to Marxism as a salve, as opposed to another form of religion? As things progressed down the line the job didn't work out. What do you do with his pistol? He played an awful lot of hooky up there. What do you do with his rifle? If somebody passed out a leaflet on the street that contained a political statement for Marxism or communism or what have you, and if Lee had not run across that before, I could envision him looking at it, keeping it and saying, "Well, I wonder what this is all about." When Lee got back from Russia, the way he talked about the Russian system, he didnt talk about it politically, in the sense that he was wrapped up in communism or Marxism. Best Known For: Lee Harvey Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who was accused of killing President John F. Kennedy. When Lee came back, how did he react to visits from the FBI when they came and saw him here? Whereas Ella was rather innocent and timid and curious and prone to a kind of girlishness, Marina was anything but that. Marxist doctrine is shot through with this furious rant against the bourgeoisie, against capitalism, against the society that had produced him. And it's not surprising, because in many ways Marina was the antithesis of Ella. What kind of a Marxist was he? No, he was a superficial Marxist. He wanted to be an American, to be accepted by the American society, and so wherever he was he wanted to be accepted. He said no, that wasnt necessary, he could take care of it. From Russia, he had written you, saying that he was worried about charges being brought against him when he came back. Lees fantasy life, to me, became apparent in the 1948, 1949, 1950 period. I said, "Lee, they've got you charged with the death of the president, shooting a police officer. As this realization deepens and becomes more omnipresent and more unavoidable, he feels a greater and greater need to get out, to escape. After Lees return, approximately two weeks, in the latter part of June 1962, he gets a call from one of the FBI agents I believe that was Mr. Fain in wanting to have a meeting with him. I think that's an understatement. It didnt seem like a big deal. He only had the Marxist argot. Walker and, still chewing his cigar, Detective Paul Bentley, on Nov. 22, 1963. New York City. He's going to fit in to where he needs to fit in to accomplish what he needs to accomplish what is very essential to get by with, to be somebody. And that process, that pattern was the same one that had occurred over and over in his life, and that was to attempt to settle in. You see him for a few days when he gets out [of the Marines]. Hola, identifcate. This interview was conducted in 1993 in conjunction with the first broadcast of FRONTLINE's "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?". He pressed the lieutenants, he pressed the platoon leaders. He deprived the country of its opportunity for working through all of the evidence, all of the details surrounding the assassination, so there's kind of a breathlessness, an awful void, that's left in the wake of Oswald's assassination. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial.\" At the time of the shooting Ruby said he was taking phenmetrazine, a central nervous system stimulant.Ruby's explanation for killing Oswald would be \"exposed as a fabricated legal ploy\", according to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. But I think he was disappointed. ES. Three, maybe more fundamentally, I think that modern man, especially in modern America, is just congenitally incapable of making sense of tragedy. Oswald grew up in very trying circumstances in the early part of his life. It maybe opened up some doors for him. True, no one saw him actually pull the trigger on the president but his presence in the building was there. When I returned home from work that evening, I asked him about it, and he said, "Well, everything went all right. Even though Oswald says in his diary that Marina was surprised when he informed her he wanted to go back to the United States, she never puts any resistance. I didn't press it any further. Living in Fort Worth, TV was making its debut. I mean, you're his brother; you would want to believe more than anyone. What did he say, and what were you trying to get out of him? Historian Priscilla Johnson McMillan was a reporter in Moscow in the 1950s and interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald shortly after his defection to the Soviet Union. The big question is why. The result of the whole mismanagement was Lees death. [He wanted to] get established and start the American life, live the American dream. He had an interesting experience and he had a Russian wife. I asked him about this lawyer in New York and I told him I would get him one down here, meaning in Texas. This video contains Oswald's complete television interview. Buscar Amazon.com.mx. That was a training ground [for] his imagination. After obtaining a hardship discharge from the Marines, Lee Harvey Oswald left the United States for the Soviet Union in 1959. Oswald met and married Marina in the Soviet. Hed made some contacts within the Russian community in Fort Worth and in Dallas. Killing Oswald: Directed by Shane O'Sullivan. WGBH educational foundation, In Fight Against ISIS, a Lose-Lose Scenario Poses Challenge for West. He toyed with the interrogators down at the Dallas police station, all that weekend [after the assassination]. It's there; put it to rest. Well, it took him a little bit longer than that, but he started trying after a year to come back. People ought to take note of this, that he should be interesting. What do you mean? Historian Priscilla Johnson McMillan was a reporter in Moscow in the 1950s and interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald shortly after his defection to the Soviet Union. First, the $64,000 question: Why did Lee Harvey Oswald kill John F. Kennedy? Tell me about his growing problems with Marina. He'd made some contacts within the Russian community in Fort Worth and in Dallas. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.es: Libros. 49K views 9 years ago WDSU-TV interviews Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 when he was living in New Orleans. I struggled through about 10 or 15 pages of it. The fact that he could put on a facade and pretend to be somebody he wasn't -- to me, it gets down to what happened later on. He was a former Marine who had once defected to the Soviet Union. If we go and get right down to the bottom line, we have to say, really and truly, in all candor, [she did] a lousy job, a lousy job. Interview: Gerald Posner. Lee Harvey Oswald lived just a few minutes away from Walker in Dallas in a rented duplex that he shared with his wife Marina and their baby girl. . We talked about family matters. She has no control over him. Mother would be putting him with a nanny, or a babysitter, or in an orphan home with us, just to get us out of her hair. I tell him it may or may not be. I didnt press it any further. When Lee is discharged, early discharge in September 1959, he returns to Fort Worth for about three days. Buscar Amazon.es. Im talking about the police officer being shot and the president. This was his grand experience at the time. It had everything to do with the fact that he was not good at fitting in, at settling in, so as the realities of day-to-day life began to pile up, as they began to impose on him, he became less enchanted. There is no question in my mind that he also shot Officer Tippit. He had the presence of mind then to do that. I struggled through about 10 or 15 pages of it. She shared her viewpoints as to whether Oswald was guilty, whether he was a government agent and, whether he was pro or against Castro among others. What Lee missed from his childhood in comparison to me was the whole family being together all the time. So then what happens, and how does he get to Dallas? Living in Fort Worth, TV was making its debut. Thats the shocker. He would talk about anything else. Now apparently, for whatever reasons or however they checked it out, they found out whatever he knew wasnt necessarily anything theyd be interested in. He's already tried living with Mother for about a week to 10 days, and that went the way it usually goes. He'd actually applied for Albert Schweitzer's school in Switzerland, and been accepted for that summertime or fall semester. Of course, we can't extricate ourselves permanently or perfectly from wherever it is we come from, no matter how much we try, and we are always functions of our place, even if we wish not to be. Well, he went to do the things he always liked to do got to the movies if he had the money, go to the library and read if he didnt have it. I wasn't real sure what the explanation was. And not only that, but it offered immediate salvation, or immediate asylum. Anytime they brought anything up that pertained to the assassination of the president and the shooting of the police officer, he knew nothing about it. But things were tight at that time. It just floors me, it floored me then. His sense of dislocation, of alienation -- this sense that he's in the wrong place. What would it be? We talked about this at a great length during that first week. That was it. His comment was she is "too much like Maw." Initially, when we started talking, I was concerned about his bruises on his face that he had received at his capture at the Texas theater. He could be somebody from New York that knew a lot of things, somebody that could get around be somebody else. The job's not doing that good. We spent some time together. This is mind over heart. I think the way Lee learned New York was just apply himself to it. But certainly by age three, he had the sense, "I need to be someplace else." We were away from Lee during the three years of military school, only seeing him during the summer vacations or holiday-type things. I know he wanted to travel. Obviously he married in the Soviet Union, and there was the woman, Ella German, with whom he had some sort of relationship. On Nov. 22, [1963] it went way downhill. Tell me about that, and what his attitude is and the kinds of things you talked about. Thats where he started doing a lot of reading and everything. David Austin Walsh is the editor of the History News Network. Did he talk about the Russian system and the American system and comparing the two? This is a struggle that has gone on with me for almost 30 years now. He was seeming to be pretty adamant about it. I don't think he had much experience with women, if any, before moving to the Soviet Union. He said, "I don't know what they're talking about." After the assassination you see Lee in the police station, in the jail. We also talked about her time as a reporter in Moscow in 1959 when she met 20-year-old American defector Lee Harvey Oswald in her hotel. Oswald met Marina in March of 1961, and he immediately sees in Marina the antidote to Ella German, who had really broken his heart. I mean, youre his brother; you would want to believe more than anyone. We were away from Lee during the three years of military school, only seeing him during the summer vacations or holiday-type things. So, to me, that was his back-up plan if everything else failed. It wasn't uncommon, after all, for American communists to experience disillusionment with the Soviet Union. Tell me about his interest in the television show I Led Three Lives and what that says about him and his imagination. You had said that he had very much been on his own in New York. He seemed to really get involved with it and hang onto it after the programs were over. You had said that he had very much been on his own in New York. One was he wanted to get his manuscript typed up and written. It didn't seem like a big deal. Among his nine books is the bestseller, Case Closed (1993), which concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald is dragged from the Texas Theatre by Patrolman C.T. When Lee came back to Fort Worth, what kind of spirits was he in, and what kind of hopes did he have for his new life here? It was always separation, separation, separation. His fellow Marines called him Oswaldskovich, because he never shut up about his admiration for communism or the Soviet Union. That's not to suggest it was in any way any less than that, but it's just that we refuse to see it in its true light. But he became disgusted with it and started rebelling against it, because he wanted to go back to a more independent attitude. He had tapped into or been drawn to the emotions which that politics helped to foment, but did he have a deep understanding of how revolutions unfold, and the relationship between the proletariat and the means of production? We'll look into it.". He's on a downhill run. What prompts him to take the first concrete steps to extricate himself from the Soviet Union is his break with Ella German. Interview'The defense actually made a pretty good case' Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV, yet his trial was no slam dunk In new book 'Kennedy's Avenger,' Dan Abrams and David. . The main thing was getting a job and a manuscript. I recently spoke with Mr. Savodnik over the phone about his book. You've got all kinds of documented evidence. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. Lee's fantasy life, to me, became apparent in the 1948, 1949, 1950 period. We're talking seven, eight, nine, 10 years old. What attracted her to Oswald and why did she come back with him to the United States? The two-hour documentary special traces Oswald's life from his boyhood to that fateful day in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, posing a number of questions: Was Oswald the emotionally disturbed "lone. What did he do? Historically in his life, it was always done by himself. But Lee had that same personality type. Youve talked about Lees character trying to do something, getting frustrated, doing something dramatic. He knew something they didn't know, and he would keep it to himself.