David Austin Walsh is the editor of the History News Network. This is a lawyer well known for being involved in left-wing causes. Photographs and documents also are on display. There was always a constant move. This edition focuses on accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, wondering whether he was a "lone gunman, conspirator, or patsy." . I've managed to keep it quiet." Youve talked about Lees character trying to do something, getting frustrated, doing something dramatic. Jolly West visited Jack Ruby in jail and gave him an injection and soon after Ruby died from rapid cancer, Jack was also a patsy! I think they're inseparable. He says, "Well, don't you know?" But this had nothing to do with an intellectual or ideological coming to terms with some kind of intellectual maturation, although Oswald tried to explain it that way. Hola Elige tu direccin Libros. Lee's fantasy life, to me, became apparent in the 1948, 1949, 1950 period. Here was a start. This is a must watch till the very end.then another must watch with pen in hand . On Nov. 22, [1963] it went way downhill. Apparently hed been planning this for a long time. What Lee missed from his childhood in comparison to me was the whole family being together all the time. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. When he returned to the United States, he didn't want to be a Russian. Thats where he started doing a lot of reading and everything. And his disenchantment began to morph into a kind of anger and frustration. So it's not surprising that after just a few months, he began to grow tired of it. We had an old black-and-white. Hed made some contacts within the Russian community in Fort Worth and in Dallas. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. He just wanted to see what he could do about getting it done. They didn't finalize that. Our mother was Lee's most important person in his life. We were a burden. I mean, they had asked the wrong man. . One, we tend to think of Kennedy as having been so great and really all-powerful, almost mythological, and at the same time we tend to think of Oswald as so low, that it seems unfathomable that somebody so low, so inconsequential, could topple someone so great. With John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Nigel Barber, Raymond Burns. Usually, it has to do with a man, sometimes it has to do with a job, but the threat that courses through his childhood and adolescence is a frenetic, harried, peripatetic that is entirely his mother's concoction. Then he joins the Marines, and then he has a lot of people barking at him, a lot of discipline. 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 didn't elaborate on that. What do you mean? It features interviews with Rachel Oswald Porter and June Oswald Porter, the daughters of Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald, who were raised by their mother and their adoptive father, Kenneth Jess Porter. One was he wanted to get his manuscript typed up and written. You don't think that there was any possibility that he was on some mission when he went to Russia? Similarly, the committee believed it was less likely that Ruby entered the police basement without assistance, even though the assistance may have been provided with no knowledge of Ruby's intentions The committee was troubled by the apparently unlocked doors along the stairway route and the removal of security guards from the area of the garage nearest the stairway shortly before the shooting There is also evidence that the Dallas Police Department withheld relevant information from the Warren Commission concerning Ruby's entry to the scene of the Oswald transfer.When Ruby was arrested immediately after the shooting, he told several witnesses that he helped the city of Dallas \"redeem\" itself in the eyes of the public, and that Oswald's death would spare \"Mrs. Those are the indications that say he took some thought, some planning over a long period of time. 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And you dont know what the Sam Hill is going on?, I became kind of intense at that point, looking into his eyes. Fingeroth also conducted interviews with Ruby family members and associates. He had an interesting experience and he had a Russian wife. What do you do with his rifle? 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. You've got all kinds of documented evidence. . Aline Mosby was one of the first women assigned to cover the Kremlin, There are no reviews yet. 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. It was a game to him. Tell me about his growing problems with Marina. He was relaxed, but at about the second day, he starts talking about where hes going. So Oswald benefitted from all that. I think he just liked the atmosphere that you could do anything that you wanted to do, that you could imagine you could do. The Cold War was going on. What would have been the appeal to him about something like Marxism? They've got the original negative. His wife is trying to have a second child born in Russia. (TV) Summary. WGBH educational foundation, In Fight Against ISIS, a Lose-Lose Scenario Poses Challenge for West. Hola Elige tu direccin Todos los departamentos. Thats the shocker. The mind tells me one thing, and the heart tells me something else. 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. He planned by himself, he executed by himself, he failed by himself. Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. Follow him on Twitter @davidastinwalsh. We know he owned a rifle. It sounds like Oswald's disillusionment stemmed as much from personal as political reasons. Five or six eyewitnesses there. But I think he was disappointed. He was in control. Tell me about his growing problems with Marina. In this interview, Posner talks . Thats almost unbelievable. Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey is a recognized expert on organized crime and an authority on the JFK assassination. So if we don't understand something, we assume that there is some sort of plot or conspiracy -- that there is an order, and we're just not seeing it. What was going on there? Nobody was telling him whether this was good, bad or indifferent, or what the consequences of what his actions were. He had an interesting experience and he had a Russian wife. With regard to his return home from Russia in June 1962 with his family what did he tell you about reporters meeting him, and what do you think it really meant? And his attempted murder of Edwin Walker is clearly about that. Walker and, still chewing his cigar, Detective Paul Bentley, on Nov. 22, 1963. There is no question in my mind that he also shot Officer Tippit. In comparison to yourself, what was Lee missing from his childhood? Youve got the backyard picture. He said no, that wasn't necessary, he could take care of it. I couldnt believe it. 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. Oswald met Marina in March of 1961, and he immediately sees in Marina the antidote to Ella German, who had really broken his heart. He's always under this impression. If it was any other murder case other than the president of the United States, it would have been resolved right then. Show more Comments are turned off. Gerald Hill.. He toyed with people like that. When he returned to the United States, he didnt want to be a Russian. You dont think that there was any possibility that he was on some mission when he went to Russia? That's the shocker. Hes failing in his marriage and in his attempts to do whatever he wants to do. She is wanting to go back to Russia. Hed actually applied for Albert Schweitzers school in Switzerland, and been accepted for that summertime or fall semester. So youre saying, in a sense, he is the ultimate pragmatist? That was a training ground [for] his imagination. This is mind over heart. I couldn't believe it. Our mother was Lees most important person in his life. He wasn't political. 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." If they didnt know who worked for them, he could always say he worked for them; he was in control of the FBI then. After the assassination you see Lee in the police station, in the jail. FRONTLINE+wgbh+pbsi, web site copyright 1995-2014 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. He could be somebody from New York that knew a lot of things, somebody that could get around be somebody else. 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. At what age Lee started gathering this, or sensing it, or hearing it and applying it to him, I don't know. Can you describe that for me? . Living in Fort Worth, TV was making its debut. We talked about family matters. 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. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.com.mx: Libros. He had a rifle, he had positioned himself, he prepared in advance to take his shot, after he took the shot he left the rifle there, and then walked away and found his own way home. I dont know. Were talking seven, eight, nine, 10 years old. He was making fun of how inept they were, and he was making fun of them all the time. He was toying with them. I think it's fair to say the Kennedy assassination had very little to do with John F. Kennedy. , Finally, I guess, I couldnt stand it anymore. Oswald lacked the historical or political consciousness of a genuine radical. Nobody was telling him whether this was good, bad or indifferent, or what the consequences of what his actions were. You look at the factual data, you look at the rifle, you look at the pistol ownership, you look at his note about the Walker shooting. We're talking seven, eight, nine, 10 years old. Last month Secretary of State John Kerry, commenting in an interview on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, said: "To this day, I have serious doubts that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. 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. He had the presence of mind then to do that. So, to me, that was his back-up plan if everything else failed. So he thought he'd get a post office box that would be a permanent-type thing. We were away from Lee during the three years of military school, only seeing him during the summer vacations or holiday-type things. You look at that last year his work, and his family, trying to go to Cuba, trying to go back to Russia. Hallo, inloggen. Uploaded by Hallo Bestemming kiezen Alle. He went the following day, had the meeting. 49K views 9 years ago WDSU-TV interviews Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 when he was living in New Orleans. I wasnt real sure what the explanation was. Industries Crime and. Thats the way I read him at the time. After the assassination you see Lee in the police station, in the jail. How would he have reacted to that? Nothing illustrates the thinness, the superficiality of Oswald's ideology as his growing disillusionment with the Soviet Union. Tell me about that, and what his attitude is and the kinds of things you talked about. The Soviets executed him on May 17, 1963. When Lee came back, how did he react to visits from the FBI when they came and saw him here? When you do have a human asset in heart . What he did after he left the building is known: bus ride, taxi ride, boardinghouse, pick up the pistol, leave, shoot the police officer. Now, on to his biography and the major point of your book: the biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. There's hard physical evidence there. What do you do with his pistol? His comment was she is too much like Maw. That was our affectionate name for Mother. Apparently he'd been planning this for a long time. This was unsettling. And by the time we get to late 1960, he's beginning to think that maybe he's made a mistake -- he's not quite sure, but he's thinking that. It just didnt fit. But I think he was disappointed. As opposed to seeing the Kennedy assassination as the way we ought to see it: as one of the great public tragedies of the twentieth century. This interview was conducted in 1993 in conjunction with the first broadcast of FRONTLINE's "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?". Tell me about that, and what his attitude is and the kinds of things you talked about. Search the history of over 797 billion 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. Why was he asking for this lawyer, John Abt, up in New York? You look at the factual data, you look at the rifle, you look at the pistol ownership, you look at his note about the Walker shooting. His mother had the same type of imagination. That to me is very plausible for him to do. Best Known For: Lee Harvey Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who was accused of killing President John F. Kennedy. Lee had high hopes when he first got back as to what he was going to do. You look at that last year -- his work, and his family, trying to go to Cuba, trying to go back to Russia. He wants to do like Hemingway. He wants to get some experience and write about it. So then what happens, and how does he get to Dallas? There is no question in my mind that he also shot Officer Tippit. Talk about his mother's importance to him. It was a terrible thing to look at. His wife is trying to have a second child born in Russia. I mean, I watched the deterioration of a human being. He is convinced that his brother was solely responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy and in this interview offers details about Lee's formative years and young adult life, describing how his brother's love of television shows on intrigue and espionage such as "I Led Three Lives," became the "training ground for his imagination." 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. He always enjoyed books, but then he started exploring other areas. Learn more It's cable reimagined No DVR space. You look at the general opportunity -- he was present. But you go back to the death of Dad two months before he was born, thats a tremendous impact. How would he have reacted to that? Buscar Amazon.com.mx. What's the best answer you come to for yourself regarding his motive? Could you describe that process of disillusionment? What would it be? But he had said he was going to give the Russians any information he had, and it seemed like he did. He's on a downhill run. The mind tells me one thing, and the heart tells me something else. I had to ask him very serious questions. My first lawyer Tom Howard told me to say that I shot Oswald so that Caroline and Mrs. Kennedy wouldn't have to come to Dallas to testify. I said, "Yes. In November, 1959, as a reporter in Moscow, she had interviewed a twenty-year-old ex-Marine at the Metropole Hotel in Moscow named Lee Harvey Oswald, who'd announced he wanted to defect to. But he would look at it. How can you explain one without the other? The first thing he says is and he points to it Its tapped. I tell him it may or may not be. But my goodness, this is completely out of the ballpark. I think three major things [were] on his mind at that particular time. Did she let you know and did she let him know that the kids were a burden? , I think Ive come to an understanding of Lee that I have now that I didnt, of course I mean, I watched the deterioration of a human being. 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. We had an old black-and-white. Theres another seed thats planted in him that stayed there forever. ", I became kind of intense at that point, looking into his eyes. You've got all the physical evidence that ties together. He wasn't present when they took a head count [at the Texas School Book Depository]. 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. He started teaching this man's son how to write and talk Russian. Lee would rebel against the discipline of the Marine Corps when he had the opportunity to, when the leeway was there. home+introduction+interviews+forum+twenty-four years+conspiracy
