She has lived most of her life in Minsk, the capital of Belarus (until 1992 part of the Soviet Union); in 2013 she was living in the Israeli town of Acre. Life events German was born to a Jewish family in Minsk in 1937.
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a former U.S.
Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories. ==Early life== Oswald was born at the old French Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, to Robert Edward Lee Oswald Sr.
In June 1941, she was with her grandparents in Mogilev, southeast of Minsk, for the summer when German military forces invaded.
were the half-brothers of Air Force veteran John Edward Pic (1932–2000). In 1944, Marguerite moved the family from New Orleans to Dallas, Texas.
After Minsk was liberated in 1944, the family returned. German described her childhood in hindsight as a miserable life, but stated that she never felt unhappy.
Oswald entered the first grade in 1945 and over the next half-dozen years attended several different schools in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas through the sixth grade.
When Oswald was 12 in August 1952, his mother took him to New York City where they lived for a short time with Oswald's half-brother, John.
Hartogs reported that she did not understand that Lee's withdrawal was a form of "violent but silent protest against his neglect by her and represents his reaction to a complete absence of any real family life". When Lee returned to school for the 1953 Fall semester, his disciplinary problems continued.
Before the New York family court system could address their case, the Oswalds left New York in January 1954, and returned to New Orleans. Oswald completed the eighth and ninth grades in New Orleans.
He entered the 10th grade in 1955 but quit school after one month.
Voebel said that "Oswald commonly read 'paperback trash'". As a teenager in 1955, Oswald attended Civil Air Patrol meetings in New Orleans.
In July 1956, Oswald's mother moved the family to Fort Worth, Texas, and Oswald re-enrolled in the 10th grade for the September session at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth.
meetings "three or four" times, or "10 or 12 times" over a one- or two-month period. ==Marine Corps== Oswald enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on October 24, 1956, just a week after his seventeenth birthday; because of his age, his brother Robert Jr.
In December 1956, he scored 212, which was slightly above the requirements for the designation of sharpshooter.
A May 1957 document stated that he was "granted final clearance to handle classified matter up to and including confidential after careful check of local records had disclosed no derogatory data". At Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi, Oswald finished seventh in a class of thirty in the Aircraft Control and Warning Operator Course, which "included instruction in aircraft surveillance and the use of radar".
In November 1958, Oswald transferred back to El Toro where his unit's function "was to serveil for aircraft, but basically to train both enlisted men and officers for later assignment overseas".
He was honorably released from active duty in the Marine Corps into the reserve, then promptly flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959.
In May 1959 he scored 191, which reduced his rating to marksman. Oswald was court-martialed after he accidentally shot himself in the elbow with an unauthorized .22 caliber handgun.
Although this was an unusual endeavor, on February 25, 1959, he was invited to take a Marine proficiency exam in written and spoken Russian.
On September 11, 1959, he received a hardship discharge from active service, claiming his mother needed care.
He was placed on the United States Marine Corps Reserve. ==Adult life and early crimes== ===Defection to the Soviet Union=== Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union just before he turned 20 in October 1959.
Delaying Oswald's departure because of his self-inflicted injury, the Soviets kept him in a Moscow hospital under psychiatric observation for a week, until October 28, 1959. According to Oswald, he met with four more Soviet officials that same day, who asked if he wanted to return to the United States.
Sometime between April and June 1960, she was working in the Experimental Department on the first floor of the factory when she met Oswald, a co-worker in the factory.
The relationship became more serious to Oswald during the summer and fall of 1960. German stated in an interview that he was probably aware from their first meeting that she was Jewish, but that he mentioned it to her only once, when he broached the subject of marriage by remarking it did not matter to him that she was Jewish.
She wrote that she perceived Oswald as a lonely person and continued to date him out of pity, concerned that rejecting him would make him lonelier. German was invited to Oswald's apartment for the first time on October 18, 1960, his twenty-first birthday.
German said she began to stop trusting Oswald after she learned in October 1960 that he had been seeing other women.
According to German, Oswald showed up with a gift of chocolates at her family's house on the evening of December 31, 1960, and spent New Year's Eve with them.
She stated that they had earlier quarreled about New Year's Eve plans. Oswald's diary entry for January 1, 1961 indicated that he had an enjoyable time at the gathering and decided on the way home that he would propose to German.
Oswald formally dated German for the last time in January or February 1961.
As of 2015, German lived in Acre, Israel. ==Return to the U.S.== Oswald wrote in his diary in January 1961: "I am starting to reconsider my desire about staying.
if any charges against him would be dropped. In March 1961, Oswald met Marina Prusakova (b.
In 1961, Walker had been relieved of his command of the 24th Division of the U.S.
In June 1962, he returned to the United States with his wife, and eventually settled in Dallas, where their second daughter was also born. Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
The Oswalds' first child, June, was born on February 15, 1962.
On May 24, 1962, Oswald and Marina applied at the U.S.
Marina, meanwhile, befriended Ruth Paine, a Quaker trying to learn Russian, and her husband Michael Paine, who worked for Bell Helicopter. In July 1962, Oswald was hired by the Leslie Welding Company in Dallas; he disliked the work and quit after three months.
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a former U.S.
Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 for truancy, during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed", due to a lack of normal family life.
In June 1962, he returned to the United States with his wife, and eventually settled in Dallas, where their second daughter was also born. Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository as the President traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Oswald was fired in the first week of April 1963. ===Edwin Walker assassination attempt=== In March 1963, Oswald used the alias "A.
Major General Edwin Walker on April 10, 1963, and that Oswald fired the Carcano rifle at Walker through a window from less than away as Walker sat at a desk in his Dallas home.
The de Mohrenschildts testified that on April 14, 1963, just before Easter Sunday, they were visiting the Oswalds at their new apartment and had brought them a toy Easter bunny to give to their child.
Jeanne de Mohrenschildt testified that this was the last time she or her husband ever saw the Oswalds. ===New Orleans=== Oswald returned to New Orleans on April 24, 1963.
A few days later, Oswald accepted Stuckey's invitation to take part in a radio debate with Carlos Bringuier and Bringuier's associate Edward Scannell Butler, head of the right-wing Information Council of the Americas (INCA). ===Mexico=== Marina's friend Ruth Paine transported Marina and her child by car from New Orleans to the Paine home in Irving, Texas, near Dallas, on September 23, 1963.
On Thursday, November 21, 1963, Oswald asked Frazier for an unusual mid-week lift back to Irving, saying he had to pick up some curtain rods.
The photos were uncovered with other possessions belonging to Oswald in the garage of Ruth Paine in Irving, Texas, on November 24, 1963.
Also in English were added in script: "To my friend George, Lee Oswald, 5/IV/63 [April 5, 1963]." Handwriting experts for the HSCA concluded the English inscription and signature were by Oswald.
Marina Oswald has always maintained she took the photos herself, and the 1963 de Mohrenschildt print bearing Oswald's signature clearly indicate they existed before the assassination.
Two days later, Oswald was fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. In September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone when he assassinated Kennedy.
In March 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy, with the help of Oswald, David Ferrie, and others.
Approximately three percent of its files have yet to be released to the public, which has continued to provoke speculation among researchers. ===Ramsey Clark Panel=== In 1968, the Ramsey Clark Panel examined various photographs, X-ray films, documents, and other evidence.
The trial of Clay Shaw began in January 1969 in Orleans Parish Criminal Court.
After two original photos, one negative and one first-generation copy had been found, the Senate Intelligence Committee located (in 1976) a third backyard photo (CE 133-C) showing Oswald with newspapers held away from his body in his right hand. These photos, widely recognized as some of the most significant evidence against Oswald, have been subjected to rigorous analysis.
Barnes and Company, 1976, hardcover, ==External links== Frontline: Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? American Experience: Oswald's Ghost Kennedy Assassination Home Page by John C.
He told me that he understood photography real well, and that in time, he would be able to show that it was not his picture, and that it had been made by someone else. The HSCA obtained another first-generation print (from CE 133-A) on April 1, 1977, from the widow of George de Mohrenschildt.
Marina and Lee New York: Harper & Row, 1977. Melanson, Philip H.
His mother's body was buried beside his in 1981. A claim that a look-alike Russian agent was buried in place of Oswald led to the body's exhumation on October4, 1981.
McLain asked the Committee, "'If it was my radio on my motorcycle, why did it not record the revving up at high speed plus my siren when we immediately took off for Parkland Hospital?'" In 1982, a panel of twelve scientists appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, including Nobel laureates Norman Ramsey and Luis Alvarez, unanimously concluded that the acoustic evidence submitted to the HSCA was "seriously flawed", was recorded after the shots, and did not indicate additional gunshots.
In 1988, a 21-hour unscripted mock trial was held on television, argued by lawyers before a judge, with unscripted testimony from surviving witnesses to the events surrounding the assassination; the jury returned a verdict of guilty.
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990, hardcover, Nechiporenko, Oleg M.
She has lived most of her life in Minsk, the capital of Belarus (until 1992 part of the Soviet Union); in 2013 she was living in the Israeli town of Acre. Life events German was born to a Jewish family in Minsk in 1937.
In 1992 the American Bar Association conducted two mock Oswald trials.
According to novelist Norman Mailer, she said that Oswald was "so gentle" and that she could not believe he was Kennedy's assassin. Later life German was still a resident of Minsk in 1993.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993, . Roffman, Howard.
She was interviewed by Mailer for his 1995 biography, An American Mystery.
Their conclusions were published in the journal Science. In a 2001 article in the journal Science & Justice, D.B.
In 2005, Thomas's conclusions were rebutted in the same journal.
Thomas challenged the 2005 Science & Justice article and restated his conclusion that there were at least two gunmen. ==Backyard photos== Photos of Oswald holding the rifle that was later determined to be the murder weapon are an important piece of evidence linking Oswald to the crime.
In 2009, after digitally analyzing the photograph of Oswald holding the rifle and paper, computer scientist Hany Farid concluded that the photo "almost certainly was not altered". ==Other investigations and dissenting theories== Some critics have not accepted the conclusions of the Warren Commission and have proposed several other theories, such as that Oswald conspired with others, or was not involved at all and was framed.
The remains were reburied in a new coffin because of water damage to the original. In 2010, Miller Funeral Home employed a Los Angeles auction house to sell the original coffin to an anonymous bidder for $87,468.
She has lived most of her life in Minsk, the capital of Belarus (until 1992 part of the Soviet Union); in 2013 she was living in the Israeli town of Acre. Life events German was born to a Jewish family in Minsk in 1937.
Savodnik also interviewed her for his 2013 book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union.
A Gallup Poll taken in mid-November 2013, showed 61% believed that Kennedy was killed as a result of conspiracy, and only 30% thought Oswald acted alone. Oswald was never prosecuted because he was murdered two days after the assassination.
As of 2015, German lived in Acre, Israel. ==Return to the U.S.== Oswald wrote in his diary in January 1961: "I am starting to reconsider my desire about staying.
In 2015, a district judge in Tarrant County, Texas ruled that the funeral home intentionally concealed the existence of the coffin from Robert Oswald, who had originally purchased it and believed that it had been discarded after the exhumation, and ordered it returned to Robert Oswald along with damages equal to the sale price.
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