Interview: Robert Oswald | FRONTLINE There was always a constant move. home+introduction+interviews+forum+twenty-four years+conspiracy Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What did he do? This might have been the first leaflet that he ever got from anybody on the street. According to Robert Oswald, the "hard physical evidence" leads him to one conclusion: "The Warren Commission was correct." He had the presence of mind then to do that. Youve got the backyard picture. Search the history of over 797 billion He started teaching this mans son how to write and talk Russian. 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? Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, on November 22, 1963. Describe a typical day in Oswald's Minsk. Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? | FRONTLINE - pbs.org He wants to get some experience and write about it. But my goodness, this is completely out of the ballpark. Biden Should Remove Cuba from List of State Sponsors of Terrorism, Descendants of Slaveholder Donor Denounce Law School Name Change, How Social Media and Community Schools Could Fill in Gaps Teaching Black History, American Girl Dolls Declare the 1990s Ancient History, Review: DeSantis's Book is a Campaign Tome Written by ChatGPT, Reconsidering Phillis Wheatley's Place in the Revolutionary Era, Philosopher Lewis Gordon's Impact on Black Jewish History, Quintard Taylor's Black Past Project Fights Erasure of History, Review: The Unfinished Business of "Double V", One Reason to Confirm National Archivist Fast? I didn't know -- but I think that was his posture all along, with the interrogators. He seemed to really get involved with it and hang onto it after the programs were over. That distinction belongs to my CBS colleague Bob. I had to ask him very serious questions. We spent some time together. In this interview, Posner talks about the forensic evidence over the years that points to Oswald as the lone assassin and the lack of credible evidence to support the various conspiracy theories. Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963. So, to me, that was his back-up plan if everything else failed. Theyve got the camera. Only weeks earlier, he had visited Soviet. He was assuming everything was being recorded, and, unfortunately, it wasnt. About October 1962 things were not going along too good. Talk about his mother's importance to him. Thompson's new book, "Last Second in Dallas", comes to a startling conclusion about Lee Harvey Oswald, who . They even asked me if Id ever been an agent of the federal government or the CIA. I said, What did you tell them? He says, Well, dont you know? and he just laughed. Very garrulous, very sexual, very clear about her objectives. Lee would rebel against the discipline of the Marine Corps when he had the opportunity to, when the leeway was there. Oswald had lived in Russia for three years at the height of the Cold War.This video, culled from NBC-TV's 11/22/63 coverage, includes Oswald's brief television appearance on New Orleans station WDSU-TV in August of 1963.Portions of this TV interview can be seen in various documentaries and films, but rarely is the entire (but brief) interview ever shown. He began to tire of Minsk as his celebrity began to wear off. He finally got a job that wasnt exactly what he really wanted, but it was a start. He would awaken relatively early in his apartment, and he would walk about eight minutes to the radio factory where he worked in the experimental department, and he probably would have been there until late afternoon or early evening, ate dinner, he might have read a good bit -- he was fond of reading -- visited friends, gone to the conservatory or the opera, which was a short walk away from his apartment, and he probably would have retired early. What would it be? "I Led Three Lives" -- he became really engrossed in that particular TV show, and he was still watching it when I left to go in the Marine Corps in 1952. Hed made some contacts within the Russian community in Fort Worth and in Dallas. The other thing was he wanted to get settled with the job. 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. He wasnt political. In many respects, once he got beyond the superficialities, he found the actual substance, the content, the experience of communism and the Soviet Union very difficult to navigate. The House Where Lee Harvey Oswald Stayed - GoNOMAD Travel I was just completely in the dark. I don't know how you want to express it, but that's the way he characterized her at the time. About October 1962 things were not going along too good. Lee Harvey Oswald did not have any particular animus for John F. Kennedy. There is no question in my mind that Lee was responsible for the three shots fired, two of the shots hitting the president and killing him. So then what happens, and how does he get to Dallas? What do you do with his pistol? So he thought he'd get a post office box that would be a permanent-type thing. He wanted to be an American, to be accepted by the American society, and so wherever he was he wanted to be accepted. But the Marine Corps has got set procedures and so forth to follow. His sense of dislocation, of alienation -- this sense that he's in the wrong place. He was on his own in libraries. His mother had the same type of imagination. This was 1959. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.com.mx: Libros. Lee's fantasy life, to me, became apparent in the 1948, 1949, 1950 period. The planning that Lee did probably at least extended all the way back to the time he was in Japan because of the clothes he purchased at the time. When he first approached the divided cubicles and I picked up the telephone on my side, he picked up his. JFK researcher: 'Oswald did not fire fatal shot' - ABC7 San Francisco I think the way Lee learned New York was just apply himself to it. As far as material goods the car taking her to a grocery store the first time you can't believe how excited she was. Interview: Gerald Posner. But she certainly conveyed it to John and I at very early ages. The National Archives released almost 1,500 documents including CIA cables and memos on Lee Harvey Oswald in the months before the JFK assassination. He had an interesting experience and he had a Russian wife. I think that's an understatement. What do you mean? Ive managed to keep it quiet. That was it. He wanted to get his manuscript published if anybody was interested. I wasn't real sure what the explanation was. LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S COMPLETE AUGUST 1963 WDSU-TV INTERVIEW David Von Pein's JFK Channel 44.3K subscribers Subscribe 415 71K views 9 years ago Three months before he assassinated President. At what age Lee started gathering this, or sensing it, or hearing it and applying it to him, I don't know. Theyve got your rifle. But the Marine Corps has got set procedures and so forth to follow. So consequently, he calls me up and he tells me that theyre moving to Dallas. Living in Fort Worth, TV was making its debut. He said no, that wasnt necessary, he could take care of it. Maybe the next time he went to the library, he would follow up on it, and say "Well, let's really see what this is about." As chief counsel to the 1977 House Select Committee on Assassinations, Blakey led the investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination, reexamining the evidence with a new forensics panel. It's about escaping the status quo and achieving some kind of greatness, as it were. The appeal to Lee of something like that Marxism, communism, socialism, would be something unique, something different not [an] everyday occurrence. She has no control over him. It's there; put it to rest. Then he joins the Marines, and then he has a lot of people barking at him, a lot of discipline. Five or six eyewitnesses there. Saltar al contenido principal.es. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD Pasta blanda - amazon.com.mx Well look into it.. I think this was passed on to Lee. He was, in fact, an American citizen all the time, and still had the rights of the American citizen. Oswald met Marina in March of 1961, and he immediately sees in Marina the antidote to Ella German, who had really broken his heart. The book's findings will catapult you into a trip through a house . Marguerite Oswald, mother of slain accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, is shown in New York with attorney Mark Lane on February 17, 1964, after testifying in Washington before. He was whats convenient to be. I said, "We can look into it. FRONTLINE: WHO WAS LEE HARVEY OSWALD? (TV) - Paley Center for Media You look at the general opportunity -- he was present. Could you describe that process of disillusionment? . The planning that Lee did probably at least extended all the way back to the time he was in Japan because of the clothes he purchased at the time, If it didnt work for Russia, he was going to stay in Europe anyway. Photographs and documents also are on display. 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? Author: 'I Wanted To Explain To Kennedy Why He Died' - WBUR What did he have in the back of his mind? He started teaching this man's son how to write and talk Russian. It maybe opened up some doors for him. We know he owned a rifle. He started becoming more and more independent and out on his own because Mother was working all the time, no brothers around, no father figure around, no adult that he was acquainted with that he could rely on to and talk to. This is mind over heart. For this 2003 publication of the interview, Mr. Blakey has added a notation to those questions touching on the CIA, and refers the reader to a long addendum at the end of the interview that reflects his opinion on the CIA in light of current revelations. We had an old black-and-white. There is no question in my mind that Lee was responsible for the three shots fired, two of the shots hitting the president and killing him. From the Archives: How the World's Deadliest Ebola Outbreak Unfolded, Russias Invasion of Ukraine, One Year Later, War Crimes Watch Ukraine: More Than 650 Documented Events, From the Archives: How the U.N. & World Failed Darfur Amid "the 21st Century's First Genocide". 2 thoughts on "Stew Peter's interviews Lee Harvey Oswald's Girlfriend about the JFK Assasination". In 1966, Marguerite Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother gave an exclusive interview to radio talk show host, Bob Allen. Now, on to his biography and the major point of your book: the biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. Tragically, he accomplished that. 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. But you go back to the death of Dad two months before he was born, that's a tremendous impact. Oswald met and married Marina in the Soviet. I struggled through about 10 or 15 pages of it. He is the older brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, and a former Marine and salesman. But he became disgusted with it and started rebelling against it, because he wanted to go back to a more independent attitude. As I learned later on, he's becoming very belligerent to Mother. ", I became kind of intense at that point, looking into his eyes. Lee. He'd actually applied for Albert Schweitzer's school in Switzerland, and been accepted for that summertime or fall semester. In fact, she is quick to get moving on the bureaucratic process involved in that to emigrate. When he returned to the United States, he didn't want to be a Russian. What do you do with his actions? 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. He didnt elaborate on that. You've got all the physical evidence that ties together. 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. He is the author of the 1981 book, The Plot To Kill the President, and in the late 1960s he campaigned for and helped write much of the anti-racketeering legislation that would usher in the demise of the Mafia. Everything is deteriorating. Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963. It was wall-to-wall reporters, police officers, FBI, Secret Service. 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. This might have been the first leaflet that he ever got from anybody on the street. I dont know how you want to express it, but thats the way he characterized her at the time. Lee Harvey Oswald is dragged from the Texas Theatre by Patrolman C.T. But he would look at it. Can you summarize what the atmosphere was like there that Saturday, and what you made of it? Definitely not. To me, you can't reach but one conclusion. This interview was conducted in 1993 in conjunction with Frontline's first broadcast of "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? But he became disgusted with it and started rebelling against it, because he wanted to go back to a more independent attitude. It just didn't fit. As far as Lee giving any information to the Russians while he was over there, even though he said he would if they had asked, apparently they weren't interested in it. If it was any other murder case other than the president of the United States, it would have been resolved right then. He was in control. Lee had high hopes when he first got back as to what he was going to do. I asked him, I said, "Lee, what in the Sam Hill is going on?" 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. Those are the indications that say he took some thought, some planning over a long period of time. Tracked down in 1977, Marguerite demanded a payday before talking about her son and showed off her 'library' of JFK assassination books. It maybe opened up some doors for him. She had certain characteristics that were so much like Lee: the time and circumstances always seemed to be against her; the world owed her a living; she wanted to be somebody. Lee would rebel against the discipline of the Marine Corps when he had the opportunity to, when the leeway was there. Marina had gone over there to live with somebody until he got established over there. He failed at both. Aline Mosby was one of the first women assigned to cover the Kremlin, while stationed in Moscow in 1959 she interviewed a self-exiled Lee Harvey Oswald, who. He started becoming more and more independent and out on his own because Mother was working all the time, no brothers around, no father figure around, no adult that he was acquainted with that he could rely on to and talk to. But it was not terribly electric, it did not offer a lot in the way of possibility or newness. But you go back to the death of Dad two months before he was born, thats a tremendous impact. This montage of early 1990s television specials was curated by the JFK Assassination Forum. . But certainly by age three, he had the sense, "I need to be someplace else." All these ups and downs he's having, he keeps trying to get up and make it at some level, but he's not succeeding. Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans: TRICENTENNIAL MOMENT They've got the original negative. They didnt know for sure if he was an agent or not. He moves into his own apartment and everything. Also, he was put into an apartment that was a short walk from the Institute for Foreign Languages in Minsk, where one would meet girls who were studying English and were interested in foreigners, and were probably more adventurous, you might say. He just wanted to see what he could do about getting it done. He always enjoyed books, but then he started exploring other areas. He imagined himself taking part in something bold and totally separate from anything he had come from. I asked him about this lawyer in New York and I told him I would get him one down here, meaning in Texas. No. One in this documentary series. 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. What did he say, and what were you trying to get out of him? Oswald's Mother Was a Thoroughly Disagreeable Piece of Work You had said that he had very much been on his own in New York. Selecteer de afdeling waarin je wilt zoeken. So from Oswald's vantage point, the Soviet experiment, as he would have seen it, was this marvelous opportunity to transcend where he came from. The result of the whole mismanagement was Lee's death. 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. They're not progressing at the speed I think he wants to progress. Nobody was telling him whether this was good, bad or indifferent, or what the consequences of what his actions were. He was using his own imagination. We'll look into it.". What would have been the appeal to him about something like Marxism? From Russia, he had written you, saying that he was worried about charges being brought against him when he came back. They even asked me if I'd ever been an agent of the federal government or the CIA." I've managed to keep it quiet." Finally, I guess, I couldn't stand it anymore. Best Known For: Lee Harvey Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who was accused of killing President John F. Kennedy. Our mother was Lees most important person in his life. True, no one saw him actually pull the trigger on the president but his presence in the building was there. You've talked about Lee's character -- trying to do something, getting frustrated, doing something dramatic. Before JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald Tried to Assassinate a Former Army I know he wanted to travel. The big question is why. His plans, as we well know now, were already made to go to Russia, rather than to Cuba. Theyve gone to the extreme measures to prove that he owned that rifle. Can you describe that for me? Somehow, somebody never realized what the Sam Hill was going on. But then, Oct. 31, we hear that hes in Russia. Explore FRONTLINEs collected and ongoing reporting on Russia's war on Ukraine. It just didnt fit. This was unsettling. We were a burden. There's a great deal of self-involvement, there's a great deal of desire to elevate himself, to become this world-historical figure.
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