You will be able to leave a comment after signing in, political justice, conspiracy/truth, music, law, Bible prophecy, quote name='John Geraghty' date='May 13 2006, 02:49 PM' post='62308']. He himself was fatally shot two days later by Jack Ruby (1911-67) in the Dallas County Jail. I have a copy of an earlier interview with June from 1983. I want to make sure they understand why I'm so matter-of-fact about it. If someone has it, I would also like to read it again. On these shopping trips, I soon realized, Marina couldnt help noticing that other mothers were buying more, dressing better and even driving their own cars. She apparently didn't know much, but her testimony was enough to convince the commission that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Later in the evening, Bouhe and Meller began to insist that Marina needed to learn English if she was to survive in America. But I don't remember that. A few days later, my father decided to check up on Oswald and his wife, and because I was around their age and home for the summer, he took me along. LEE HARVEY'S OLDEST. didnt want to recruit Oswald. Q: And if someone were to show scientifically that Lee Oswald was or wasn't involved, that wouldn't make a difference to you? She needed a translator fast. The first chapter opens with my family, and he goes way back to my great-grandmother in Russia. l think her physical health and mental health have been damaged in recent years over all of the pressures put on her. MORE THAN 30 YEARS AFTER the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is a name that will not go away. A: I don't have a comment on it as far as its conclusions because I haven't read them, but I did start the book. (The issue, which would curiously remain in the same place during all my visits, was dated Jan. 5, five months before the Oswalds arrival in the U.S.) We sat there uncomfortably for some 20 to 30 minutes until Lee burst in the door, dressed in his customary simple slacks, a plaid shirt with open collar and sleeves rolled up to the elbows, carrying a stack of weighty books from the Fort Worth public library. Moreover, she has an average body weight judging from her pictures. It was just kind of eerie. For all I know it's still tapped. After her husband was killed, Marina married Kenneth Porter. While that five-month period might seem fleeting, it was a significant period in Oswalds life. The Oswald living room was extraordinarily bare; there was a shabby sofa and chair and a worn coffee table where a copy of Time magazine featuring John F. Kennedy as its Man of the Year was prominently displayed. At about 1:45 pm Oswald was seized in the Texas Theatre by police officers responding to reports of a suspect. She stays with her second husband who is called Kenneth Jess Porter. "She never knew when we'd run into someone, and she didn't want us to look like poor white trash"' June says simply. He kept a journal, which he labeled Historic Diary. When he, Marina and little June touched down at Love Field, on June 14, 1962, he greeted his brother Robert by asking where the reporters were. Most Americans believe that Oswald shot Kennedy. These women were left with a horrible legacy and have no doubt tried to separate their father from his legend- father as Lone Nut, a disgrace or Government worker and valiant spy, patsy? Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald was 33 days old when President Kennedy was killed, 35 days old when Jack Ruby killed her father. While in police custody, Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby. Oswald has three children, two daughters, and one son. I found this on page 182 of the forum, well worth a read. From The New York Times Magazine April 30, 1995. They had so little in Minsk anyway, she said, why waste money on a faraway nation that offered her fellow citizens little besides expensive sugar? June is quieter about her own marriage, which ended in 1992. The scene at the Executive Inn was worse than my father had expected. The law said that if they felt that way, then those documents needed to be turned over to the Assassination Records Review Board and those folks would review the records and either concur, release them in blacked out state or release them entirely. We visited the set of "JFK" when it was going on, and somebody said, "Your father was a hero." assassination looming, I sent Marina a personal letter and a written recollection of our time together and followed up this fall with a phone call. She was born in Dallas Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where both Kennedy and her father were transported after being shot. As a 21-year-old college student, I returned to my hometown of Ft. Worth for the summer of 1962. This helped explain why our school bus was sometimes followed by news teams, why our mailbox got shot at, why kids at school would ask, Did your daddy shoot the president? At home we rarely discussed Lee. Oswald met Lee Harvey Oswald in March the year 1961 at a dance in Russia. However, he was arrested for the same by denying the allegations. Its hard having things written about you that arent true. This montage of early 1990s television specials was curated by the JFK Assassination Forum. What it boils down to is that every time I meet someone - every person at a party, every customer I wait on, every classmate, every teacher, every would-be friend - I ask myself: Do they know who I am? The thud was so loud that I feared she might be seriously injured; Lee, however, screamed at her for her clumsiness as she lay curled on the ground clutching for her baby. She kept herself together for us. Moreover, the widow later came to believe that her husband Lee Harvey was innocent. Because that's mostly what I think of when I think of Lee. Through my father, I had become a close or, as Robert Oswald would later say, almost the only friend of Lee and Marina Oswalds from virtually the moment they arrived in Fort Worth, in June 1962, until the end of that November. By age 17, he had already moved some 20 times. Anna Meller could scarcely control her anger over his selfish behavior. The bartenders were closing up, and Rachel said she needed to call it a night. I didn't really want to be the center of gossip in this whole building. Why are 40+ guests suddenly reading this very old thread, as well as a smaller but still significant number reading an old thread on Marina? My secretary in my last job put two and two together based on one of those articles. Well, they say it just takes a second to die. Oswald was born to her parents in Severodvinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. I wrote her a response telling her as much, politely suggesting a few points about punctuation. In my book she belongs where her husband is. Marina asked her husband why he would attempt to murder someone: "I mean how dare you to go and claim somebody's life," she reportedly said. She would get around to it one of these days, she said. . Somehow those boxes came down and she was reading, and I guess she felt it was time to tell us. If he allowed Marina to learn English, he said, his Russian would suffer, and it was very important that he retain his fluency. Included as an exhibit for the Warren. Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends, Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald (2000). I have a bachelors degree in natural sciences. The wall build around Oswald's family women was intense after Dallas. He dressed for the occasion, as I remember it, in dark slacks and a white shirt, but when we arrived, he motioned for Marina and me to wait at a distance while he had a whispered consultation with the woman at a desk. I do blame him for having beat my mother, and not being a good father or a good provider. A: Part of it was the big anniversary, the 30th. Lee, in his curt way, agreed. A new book reveals Oswald was 'humiliated' by wife Marina who mocked him as 'sexually inadequate' and cheated on him with a handsome businessman. I went on a car trip up to the house I had lived in with Lee, Lee's boarding house, another house Mom had lived in with Lee that's still standing, the path of the motorcade, where the bullets hit. Who I am? she asked. Kate is a bit of a tomboy and a . She didn't feel like Kenneth was her dad. Autobiography of Lee Harvey Oswald: My Life in My Words, p.194, iUniverse, Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald (2000). It also gives us information that helps explain Marina Oswalds comments about the assassination. By found it I meant that I was looking back through the forum pages and this was posted first in 2004 so I decided to bring it back up to peoples attention. Marina then told me she was unhappy. That afternoon, the Lutheran minister failed to show up, and a number of reporters pitched in as pallbearers. Just out of the blue. I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you. Marina took a step backward and fell, thumping her head on the hard, dry ground and dropping June. In the 1970s, Mae Brussell, an authority on the Kennedy assassination, compiled every statement she could find made by Lee Harvey Oswald between the time of his arrest for the shooting of President John F. Kennedy and Officer Tippit and the time of his death. My father talked her down, but as the men began packing the car, Agent Howard whispered that Lee Harvey Oswald had just been shot. We were terribly moved by this. [1] He was not, despite whatever you might have heard, a patsy for the CIA / KGB / FBI / LBJ . "Please get her away from Michigan. He got really scared and wanted to take me to a hospital. One would think they would be more anxious to try to, clear his name. He asked Marina if she would offer me Russian lessons. He told the grave diggers that the piles of dirt they were moving were in . My father was taken by Marina. Q: Where do you stand today as far as your perception of what really happened out there in Dealey Plaza? A: Not until recently. Probably the only other people in America who have to routinely see film images of their father being killed are the children of President Kennedy. She blew a long stream of smoke toward the ceiling, Kinda strange, huh?. But I still have problems in that area, because I date a lot. Marina met Lee Harvey Oswald (a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union) at a dance on March 17, 1961. In the year 1980, Marina was convinced by conspiracy buffs that the body in Lees grave was of a Russian spy and not Lees. From The New York Times Magazine April 30, 1995. I hear they burn for murder. On the car ride to the safe house, Marina pleaded with the agents to stop at the house of her friend, Ruth Paine, in Irving, Tex., to pick up extra childrens supplies. But reporters were already camped out in front of Paines yard, so the group was diverted to the home of the citys police chief, C. J. Wirasnik. I mean, things werent completely normal. In fact, Bouhe noted, he had arranged English lessons for many Russian migrs; he could do the same for her. Q: Your childhood doesn't sound like it was easy. Texas. Mailer is such a great writer; I was just so enthralled. Q: Did you see the "Seinfeld" episode in which they're at the ballpark, and they get spat upon, and-. He treated her Russian friends poorly, she said, and tried to keep her isolated in the house, doing the grocery shopping himself. Priscilla was a CIA asset, IMHO, as was June Cobb in Cuba. JUNE OSWALD . Even at 29, she had a tomboyish quality, and when she laughed, she seemed to be all elbows and collarbones. Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) would become infamous for his involvement in the fatal shooting of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. It was a considerable sum (at one time, Lee gave her $2 a week from his earnings), but she refused it immediately friends, she said, did not accept money from one another. Additionally, after two days of Lees arrest, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner while still in police custody. As for what his exact role in the assassination was - well, he'll have to be judged for that before God. I told them simply that, if I were organizing a conspiracy, he would have been the last person I would recruit. Marina did her best to disappear into obscurity once the dust had settled on her husband's crimes and subsequent murder. Reporters came over and she would tell us, "shhhh, go in the other room". Mom would smoke all the time. But she did. Marina Oswald Porter, The Reclusive Wife Of Lee Harvey Oswald And she's just welcoming them with open arms. My biggest concern was that people at the office had my home address and phone number and I didn't want it leaked to The National Enquirer I have two small children, I'm divorced, I didn't want people to harass the kids. Later, on 24 November 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was Killed by Jack Ruby on live television in the basement area of Dallas Police headquarters. 1:10 A.M. Back in Jail Cell.