Oct. 18 1939

New Orleans

Lee Harvey Oswald, son of Robert & Marina Oswald was born 2 month after his Fathers death.His Mother remarries
twice but was alone again by summer 1952.

Oswald went to Jacksonville FL. to the Naval Air Technical Training Center, where he was trained as a radar air controller. This job required a security clearance of "CONFIDENTIAL".
Oswald spend most of his weekends off in New Orleans,
to visit his mother as he said, but his mother lived in Fort Worth TX. at the time and family in New Orleans only spoke to him once.

After finishing his courses , including a Warning Operations Course at Keesler AFB in Mississippi was a officially a "Aviation Electronic Operator".

He then went through El Toro air-station in California, on his way to Japan by ship. On board he is reported to have been reading "Leaves of Grass" by "Walt Whitman", impressive literature for a High-school drop out and a Marine.

While in Japan Oswald was stationed at "Atsugi Air Base", a place where the U.S. kept watch over Russian and Chinese activity, in that region of the world and the home of the top secret U2 spy plane, the U2 was an ultra modern plane used for photo missions deep in Russian and Chinese air space. The base was also known to have a large C.I.A. facility at that time.

On two other occasions He was disciplined by a court-martial, ne time for shooting him self in an handgun accident, (he was hospitalized for two and a half weeks) and on an other occasion for picking a fight with an Officer at a bar. Oswald was convicted to confinement and a total of 48 days of hard labor.
This could have been the perfect occasion for Oswald to receive training by the CIA operatives at the base, since he had a perfect excuse not to be with his unit.

Court-martialed for fight with Sergeant / Confined until August 13. While in Japan Oswald went to Tokyo on a regular basis, where he supposedly visited a club named the "Queen Bee" a club that catered to Officers and Pilots and could easily cost you $200. a night, Oswald was making $85.-- a month at the time while also supporting his mother.
Many of the girls working at the club where suspected communist spies and oswald said he was dating one of them. Oswald's medical record shows he contracted Gonorrhea (a venereal disease) while in Japan, It also specifically states that it was conducted in the line of duty and NOT due to misconduct (which would be resulting in disciplinary measures).

After his unit returned to the U.S. in November 1958, Oswald was stationed at several bases throughout the U.S.

Oswaldwas released from active duty, a dependency discharge because Oswald's Mother had been injured at work in December 1958 and could not provide for her self.

a week before leaving the Marines Oswald applied for a Passport, stating on his application he wanted to go to college in Finland, and to travel in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, England, France Germany, and Russia. The passport was routinely issued 6 days later.
After visiting with his mother, Oswald went to New Orleans where on Sept. 20th. he boarded a freighter, the SS Marion Lykes, to Le Havre, France for which he paid $220. 75.

Oswald disembarked at Le Havre on October 8. He left for England that same day, and arrived on October 9 from where he left for Helsinki, Finland the same day.
On Oct. 14th., 2 days after applying he got a 6 day visa from the Russian Embassy and left by train for Moscow the same day.

Oswald arrived by train in Moscow on the 16th.
He let the authorities know He wanted to become a Russian citizen, they let him wait in the hotel for almost a week.

Oswald was interviewed on the morning of Oct. 21st., only 2 days after his 20th. birthday. At that same meeting he was notified his 6 day Visa had expired and was given 2 hours to leave Moscow, Oswald responded by cutting himself above his left, wrist, in an apparent suicide attempt.
He was found by his tour-guide and For 8 days Oswald was confined in the psychiatric ward of the hospital, where he was discharged on the 28th.

After talking to Oswald the Russian authorities et him know they would need time to see if he could stay in Russia, but on Oct 31st. after waiting by the phone Oswald got impatient and undertook action.
Oswald went to the U.S. embassy to renounce his U.S. citizenship. Embassy staff spoke with Oswald, but told him to return after 2 days to finalize the procedure, Oswald never returned.
The day after this episode Oswalds family in the U.S. read about his where abouts in the news paper, his mother and his brother tried to call him and send him a telegram but Oswald refused both. He later wrote some letters to his family, but refused to take calls.
For the remainder of his time in Moscow Oswald stayed in his hotel room studying Russian, giving only 2 interviews to American journalists.
On Jan. 4th. he got a Identity Document for Stateless Persons No. 811479, and was told he would be send to Minsk.

Oswald was greeted by the mayor of Minsk, and given a luxurious rent free apartment to live in, where he entertained his new found friend on many occasion. many of these friend moved in the higher circles of Minsk society.

Oswald went to work at the Belorussian Radio and Television Factory, where he worked at the "experimental shop".
His income of 700 to 900 rubles and he was also subsidized by and organization known as the Russia "Red Cross", according to Oswald, his total income was about equal to that of the director of the factory. He was registered under the name "Aleksy Harvey Oswald." (He was called "Alec" by his Russian friends, because "Lee" sounded foreign to them and was difficult for them to pronounce.)

by August Oswald began to feel uneasy with Russian live, but still enjoyed his social life.
On Jan 2nd., out of the blue, he asked a friend, Ella German to marry him. She declined saying she was scared future percussion of foreigners in the USSR.

On January 4, 1961, one year after he had been issued his "stateless" residence permit, Oswald was summoned to the passport office in Minsk and asked if he still wanted to become a Soviet citizen. He replied that he did not, but asked that his residence permit be extended for another year. The entry in his diary for January 4-31 reads: "I am starting to reconsider my desire about staying. The work is drab. The money I get has nowhere to be spent. No nightclubs or bowling alleys, no places of recreation accept the trade union dances. I have had enough."

on Febr. 13 1961 the U.S. Embassy got a letter from Oswald after not hearing from him since Nov.'59. He let them know he wanted to return to the U.S. The Embassy let him know he would have to come to the Embassy in Moscow, to reclaim his passport, several letters went back and forth in the next few weeks.

probably on March 17, Oswald attended a trade union dance where he met Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova, Oswald had a friend introduce him. Oswald was instantly in love.
When Marina met Oswald, she thought he was from one of the Russian-speaking Baltic countries because he spoke with an accent; later that same evening she learned that he was an American.
they met again the next week and started seeing eachother more often. Marina lived with her aunt & uncle in The fist week of April, 3 weeks after they met, Oswald asked Marina to be his fiancé, she would consider it.

thinking he will never be able to return to the U.S., on April 20. Marina agrees to marry Oswald, she is only 19 years old.
The ceremony in conducted on April 30, and they seemed very happy.
Some weeks later he told Marina he wanted to return to the U.S. and also informed the U.S. Embassy he wanted his new wife to come with him to the U.S.
Oswald also picks up contact with his brother and Mother again, letting them know he intends to return.
On 15 Febr. 1962 a daughter named "June Lee" was born to Oswald and Marina, at the Minsk Hospital. It took almost a year for all paper work to be handled to provide them with the necessary Visas and financial loans.

The family boarded a train for the west and crossed the Russia border on June 2nd., two days later they boarded the ship "SS Maasdam", in the port of Rotterdam , The Netherlands.
They arrive in Hoboken NJ, on June 13 where the are helped through Immigrations and Customs without problems by the "Travelers Aid Society" and spend the night at the Time Square Hotel in New York City. After receiving $200.-- from his brother Robert, they flew to
Fort Worth, Texas, on June the 14th.

The family was taken in by Lee's brother, Robert and his wife and shortly after their arrival Lee started working on a manuscript about his Russian experience, but never finishing it.
On June 26 Oswald was interviewed by the F.B.I. in Fort Worth, this was 2 weeks after their arrival in the U.S., Oswald refused to talk about why he had gone to Russia, He did not want to "relive the past".

They stayed with his Brother for about a month , then spend a month with his Mother, before getting their own apartment. Here they lived under poor conditions, having almost no furniture and being low on food. Lee worked as a sheet metal worker from late July making a $ 1.25 an hour, until he quite in Oct.,
On August 16, Oswald was interviewed by the F.B.I. again, there was nothing new to report.
In Aug. and Sept. Marina made some money by teaching Russian to the son of a Russian born geologist who introduced them to the Russian community in the Dallas area, many of these people soon helped them out with food and clothing. During this time the Oswalds were also introduced to the Demohrenschildts who later became close friends.

The Oswalds were already experiencing marital problems in Fort Worth, when on Oct. 9th. Lee moved to Dallas leaving Marina with their new friends. On Oct. 9th. He was hired as a Photo-developer in Dallas, making about 10 cents an hour more then iat his previous job.

The family moved into 604 Elsbeth Street. Shortly after Marina left Lee again because he mistreated her, but after a few days with several of their Russian friends she moved back in with Oswald, after his pleads to return to him. This resulted in the lose of many of their friend who thought Marina should leave him.
They spend thanksgiving with Lee's brother Robert and their half brother John Pic, this was the last time Robert saw Lee before the assassination.
Oswald reads several Russian newspapers, and they write letters to friends in Russia on a regular basis.

The Oswald were introduced to Ruth Paine by the De Mohrenchilds. Marina and Ruth got along well and Marina helped to teach her speak Russian.

Oswald ordered a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver from a firm in Los Angeles (order dated Jan. 27) and a rifle from "Klein's Sporting Goods" in Chicago, (ordered March 12.). He uses the name of
"Alek James Hidel" for which name he also had identification.
Both weapons were send to a P.O.box, meaning Oswald would have to sing for the packages,....However all Post Office documentation on this was destroyed before the legally required term of 2 years to save these documents was out.
They move to 214 West Neely Street.

Oswald supposedly poses for the famous "backyard photo's", these were found at the house the day after the assassination, upon being comforted with these photo's after his arrest Oswald claimed they were fake.
Marina later testifies to taking one photo, later changing her testimony to two. Three different official photo's are known, one only surfacing after 13 years, and reportedly a 4th. was destroyed by Oswald's Mother on the night of the assassination.
Many researchers have stated the photo's have been tampered with.

Oswald tries to shoot Gen. Walker, a former Army General fired for indoctrinating his troops with extreme right political ideas.
Oswald leaves a note for Marina on what to do when thing go wrong.
The reason for this shooting was never clarified by the Warren Commission and ballistic evidence calls for many doubts, whether Oswald took the shot.

On April 6th. Oswald lost his Dallas Job and by the April 24th. Oswald moved to New Orleans where he stayed with his aunt, while Marina Moved in with Ruth Paine, in Irving, Texas.

Oswald gets job with Reily Coffee Company, as an employment reference he used the name of a fictitious "Sgt. Robert Hidell".

Marina Moves in with Lee at 4905 Magazine Street,

Oswald is fired again for poor performance, he spend much of his time at work at the Crescent City Garage, next to the Coffee Company. Even though looking for a new job, he spend much time at home reading and studying again. He wanted to go to Cuba and applied for a new passport. Lee and Marina also got in touch with the Russian Embassy, stating they might wanted to return to Russia again.

Oswald started a New Orleans branch of the Nation wide Pro-Castro organization "Fairplay for Cuba", Oswald was the only member of the New Orleans chapter, the Presidents name was A.J. Hidell (Oswald's Alias).
On Aug. 9th. Lee is passing out Pro-Castro leaflets in the street when he gets into a scuffle with a group of Anti-Castro Cubans. Supposedly Oswald tried to join their organization just days before, and they now feel betrayed by him. Oswald and the three Cuban exiles were arrested for disturbing the peace. While under arrest Oswald requests to speak to an F.B.I. agent.
Many witnesses to this event thought there was something funny about it, stating it looked like a staged fight.
Later Oswald gave an interview and entered in a Discussion with one of his assailants on a New Orleans radio broadcast.

Marina leaves for Dallas with Mrs. Paine and Oswald leaves for Mexico City. According to Marina , Lee had considered Hijacking a plane to fly to Cuba, but decided to try to get there through Mexico-City.
He took the bus to Mexico where he tried to board a plane to Cuba, but He was refused without a visa. Lee visited the Cuban and Russian Embassy on Sept. 27th., but both refused to give him a visa.

After several days Oswald returned to the U.S. , arriving in Dallas on Oct. 3rd. Lee visited his very pregnant wife In Irving, where she still stayed with Ruth Paine, Lee moved around from boarding houses to hotel rooms all over Dallas, while looking for a job.

With the help of Mrs. Paine, Oswald gets a job at the Texas School Book Depository and begins work on the 16th of Oct. On Sunday Oct. 20th., 2 days after Lee's Birthday, Marina gives birth to a 2nd. daughter. In the following weeks he spend the weekends with his family, but stayed in Dallas during the week.
On Nov. 1st. and 5th., F.B.I. agents visited the Paine home and spoke to Ruth Paine and Marina, Oswald claimed that they were intimidating his wife and was very upset about this.
On Thursday Nov. 21. Lee visited his wife again, he spend some time playing with his daughter and asked Marina to move in with him in Dallas. The next morning he returns to Dallas to work at the Texas School Book Depository.

On Friday No. 22. At 12:30 pm. President John F. Kennedy was shot and fatally Wounded while his motorcade past in front of the Texas School Book Depository.

Where was Oswald
at the moment the shots were fired ???????????

Shortly after the shooting Oswald supposedly took a bus and a taxi to return to his boardinghouse, but at least 2 witnesses
(including a Dallas Police Officer) have stated that they saw Oswald get into a car on Dealy Plaza as he was picked up by somebody.

Oswald went home where he changed his clothes and picked up his 38. special revolver. While Oswald was in the house his landlady heard a car horn honk twice, as she looked out she saw a police car stand in front of the house, after a few seconds it drove of.
Shortly after Oswald left the house.

Just a few blocks for Oswalds house Officer J.D. Tippit is seen talking to a man on the sidewalk while sitting in his car. As he gets out of the car shots ring out and Tippit is hit by several bullets in his chest and head.
Witnesses see a man run from the scene but after Oswalds arrest many of them were not able to pick Oswald out of a line-up.

After hearing about the shooting of a police Officer in the area on the radio shoe store clerk J. C. Brewer sees a man trying to hide from a police car, going in to the "Texas Theater" cinema with out buying a ticket, He follows the man into the theater shortly after.
Brewer and a theater employee think the man went up to the balcony and call the Police.

The Police arrived shortly after and as they entered the theater someone in one of the front rows points out Oswald who is sitting in one of the last rows to an Officer. After a short scuffle Oswald is arrested and lead out the front of the building.

But who was and what happened to the man in the balcony?????
According to one witness, while Oswald was being lead out the front of the theater an other man was lead out of the back of the theater in handcuffs.

Other witnesses in the theater stated that Oswald had sat next to almost every person in the theater as if he was looking for someone.

Oswald is brought to the Police station and booked and charged with the killing of Officer J.D. Tippet.
He is interrogated for several hours and a search of his boarding room and Ruth Paine’s house is conducted.
No transcripts or audio recordings were made of the interrogation.

Just before midnight Oswald is presented to the press, where he claims he did not know he had been charged with the killing of the President. Oswald said: "I am just a patsy".

During an other News conference without Oswald present, the police spokesmen stated Oswald was a member of the "FREE CUBA" organization (an Anti Castro Group), But was corrected by a man in the back of the room,....yelling out it was the "Hand off of Cuba" movement (a Pro-Castro group). This man later turned out to be Jack Ruby.

On Sunday Oswald will be transported from the police station to the County Jail. Almost an hour later then planed he is brought out through the basement of the station where a large group of reporters is awaiting him. As they walked through the reporters one man jumped forward and a single shot rang out.
Oswald fell to the ground with a bullet in his stomach as police jumped the shooter. Most Officers immediately recognized the man as Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, well known and befriended with many Dallas Police Officers as well as underworld.

Instead of putting Oswald who was still alive, in the waiting car they brought him back inside the station and waited for an ambulance.
While waiting for the ambulance they tried to reanimate him by pumping his chest. Doing this to someone who is shot in the abdominal area can be fatal as it will only make him bleed out faster and damage internal organs even more.
Shortly after arriving at Parkland Hospital Lee Harvey Oswald dies at the age of 24.

Oswalds body is being kept at the Parkland morgue and an autopsy is performed. as part of the autopsy his skull is lifted to examine his brain. but when his body is exhumed in the 1980's the skull of the body is intact (an other mystery).

Lee Harvey Oswald is being buried at Rose Hill cemetery.