He went the following day, had the meeting. We spent some time together. He was toying with them. ES. What do you do with his rifle? He was on his own in libraries. Not surprisingly, as his novelty began to wear off, his interest in Minsk began to wear thin. WDSU-TV interviews Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 when he was living in New Orleans. You had said that he had very much been on his own in New York. He told me about it, and I told him Id go with him. FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. But at the same time, he always was trying to get away from her. Soviet officials, puzzled by the sight of Oswald, sent him to Minsk, where he would live until 1962, returning to the United States with a wife and infant daughter, along with a murderous rage that will culminate in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Youve got the backyard picture. I dont know how you want to express it, but thats the way he characterized her at the time. The Dallas Police Department was utter chaos. 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. WGBH educational foundation, In Fight Against ISIS, a Lose-Lose Scenario Poses Challenge for West. He was quickly integrated into the mechanism of daily proletarian life in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. But I think all of Oswald's remarks are included here.To hear Lee Harvey Oswald's two radio interviews, go here:http://Oswald-On-The-Radio.blogspot.com 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. "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. Tell me about his growing problems with Marina. 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. And why it wasnt stopped sooner. When he returned to the United States, he didnt want to be a Russian. But then, Oct. 31, we hear that hes in Russia. Talk about his mother's importance to him. The continuity there, the lack of stability, I think, entered into that to a large degree. If we go and get right down to the bottom line, we have to say, really and truly, in all candor, [she did] a lousy job, a lousy job. There is no question in my mind that he also shot Officer Tippit. I struggled through about 10 or 15 pages of it. But she certainly conveyed it to John and I at very early ages. Consequently, people left it wide open. So he thought he'd get a post office box that would be a permanent-type thing. This was his grand experience at the time. He indicated that, if reporters were asking about when he's coming back, to say nothing He wanted not to be bothered by the reporters. Buscar Amazon.com.mx. To try to understand why Lee did what he did on Nov. 22 is a cumulative effect of all his past plans and efforts and failures. If they didnt know who worked for them, he could always say he worked for them; he was in control of the FBI then. His wife is trying to have a second child born in Russia. He told me about it, and I told him I'd go with him. Well look into it.. 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. What would it be? I said, "Yes. What would have been the appeal to him about something like Marxism? So then what happens, and how does he get to Dallas? When Lee is discharged, early discharge in September 1959, he returns to Fort Worth for about three days. . 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. The main thing was getting a job and a manuscript. I think the way Lee learned New York was just apply himself to it. Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Well, his concern was, was there anything that I was aware of that [there] were going to be charges placed against him from anybody? Finally, I guess, I couldn't stand it anymore. Oswald told Marina that killing Walker would have been like killing Hitler, so clearly Oswald imagined himself playing some kind of grand world-historical role, and it's noteworthy that the way in which he went about attempting to kill Walker was exactly the way he went about successfully killing John F. Kennedy. He was ready. ISIS' growing foothold in Afghanistan is captured on film. 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. This was something all his own. Youve talked about Lees character trying to do something, getting frustrated, doing something dramatic. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.com.mx: Libros. He toyed with the interrogators down at the Dallas police station, all that weekend [after the assassination]. I dont know at what age Mother verbalized the effect that she felt he was a burden to her. What do you mean? You could tell by the tone of the language, not that we could understand the Russian language, but the tone and the facial expressions that they were having an argument. It was always separation, separation, separation. Lee Harvey Oswald Shooting: Interview with Eyewitnesses - Reporters, Police (2012) Way Back 26.4K subscribers 439 185K views 8 years ago Later in the day, after driving into town with his two. I think it's fair to say the Kennedy assassination had very little to do with John F. Kennedy. 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. How can you explain one without the other? [Last Name] 1 Dawson C. Mills [4/26/2017] Ghosts of Mississippi Essay Late on the night of June 13th 1963, Myrlie Evers and her three children were together in the bedroom watching President ( at the time ) John F. Kennedy give a speech on civil rights. Hallo, inloggen. We're talking seven, eight, nine, 10 years old. Everything is deteriorating. What was his concern? He seemed to really get involved with it. For Oswald, he never ever has a sense of home, or rootedness, and it fills him with this sense of rage, which he not surprisingly directs against his mother. 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. But things were tight at that time. Can you summarize what the atmosphere was like there that Saturday, and what you made of it? Everything is deteriorating. He moves into his own apartment and everything. Those are the indications that say he took some thought, some planning over a long period of time. Those are the indications that say he took some thought, some planning over a long period of time. If we go and get right down to the bottom line, we have to say, really and truly, in all candor, [she did] a lousy job, a lousy job. To me, you can't reach but one conclusion. They didn't know for sure if he was an agent or not. As I learned later on, he's becoming very belligerent to Mother. Theyve got your rifle. The Cold War was going on. 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. Our mother was Lees most important person in his life. Convinced that his brother was solely responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Oswald offers details in this interview about Lee's formative years and young adult life, and describes 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." It had everything to do with the fact that he was not good at fitting in, at settling in, so as the realities of day-to-day life began to pile up, as they began to impose on him, he became less enchanted. 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. It's always a friend or a woman. Did she let you know and did she let him know that the kids were a burden? But he became disgusted with it and started rebelling against it, because he wanted to go back to a more independent attitude. While he does not see Oswald as a Soviet, CIA or FBI recruit, he is careful to point out many of the unanswered questions regarding Oswald's mysterious associations and possible ties to the mob. He had acquired the vernacular of radical politics. Hola Elige tu direccin Todos los departamentos. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. Hed actually applied for Albert Schweitzers school in Switzerland, and been accepted for that summertime or fall semester. 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." Lee Harvey Oswald did not have any particular animus for John F. Kennedy. December 4, 1963: In an interview Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, Marguerite Oswald, says assumes her son is innocent and that President John F. Kennedy would be alive and so would her son if Oswald . He gave it to me either the first or second night to read. I would love to be able to say that Lee was not involved in any way whatsoever, or much less to the extent that I believe that he was. The two events -- the failed assassination of Walker and the successful assassination of Kennedy -- just represent a ratcheting up, and eventually there's this culmination of violence, which is meant to enable Oswald's escape from his life, and this way, the homicide is as much a suicide. But at the same time, he always was trying to get away from her. This type of thing would interest him, whether he went to an art museum or a library or a movie theater or just walked around and saw sights. The other thing was he wanted to get settled with the job. Oswald refused to talk to anyone at the U.S. embassy. He would talk about anything else. He would talk about anything else. Living in Fort Worth, TV was making its debut. He moves into his own apartment and everything. There are any number of possible outcomes -- or temples, so to speak -- he could have turned to. He found a spot, not very far, from where Walker was. Although Marina declined to be interviewed for FRONTLINE's program, McMillan talks about the perplexing, troubling events of Oswald's life based on what Marina confided to her. What's the best answer you come to for yourself regarding his motive? He's thinking about going to Cuba. Only weeks earlier, he had visited Soviet. Now apparently, for whatever reasons or however they checked it out, they found out whatever he knew wasnt necessarily anything theyd be interested in. He's already tried living with Mother for about a week to 10 days, and that went the way it usually goes. One was he wanted to get his manuscript typed up and written. If it didn't work for Russia, he was going to stay in Europe anyway. I mean, I watched the deterioration of a human being. Author Norman Mailer, and others, have questioned why Ruby would have left his two beloved dogs in his car if he had planned on killing Oswald at police headquarters.The House Select Committee on Assassinations in its 1979 Final Report opined: Ruby's shooting of Oswald was not a spontaneous act, in that it involved at least some premeditation. I asked him, I said, "Lee, what in the Sam Hill is going on?" While in police custody, Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby. Here was a start. No, he was a superficial Marxist. 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. He deprived the country of its opportunity for working through all of the evidence, all of the details surrounding the assassination, so there's kind of a breathlessness, an awful void, that's left in the wake of Oswald's assassination. To try to understand why Lee did what he did on Nov. 22 is a cumulative effect of all his past plans and efforts and failures. NARRATOR: Within two hours, the police had arrested 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald. Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963. The Dallas Police Department was utter chaos. When Lee came back, how did he react to visits from the FBI when they came and saw him here? He failed at both. I said, "If that never came about, if you didn't really betray the country and you only attempted to do it -- and they didn't let you do it anyway -- legally, then it seems to me you have a basis." This video contains Oswald's complete television interview. Hes already tried living with Mother for about a week to 10 days, and that went the way it usually goes. In his interview with FRONTLINE, Blakey calls the prosecution case against Lee Harvey Oswald "open and shut." I recently spoke with Mr. Savodnik over the phone about his book. and he just laughed. The two-hour documentary special traces Oswald's life from his boyhood to that fateful day in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, posing a number of questions: Was Oswald the emotionally disturbed "lone. This was driven entirely by his own biography and history. Cuenta y listas Devoluciones y . So, to me, that was his back-up plan if everything else failed. What did he do? He was making fun of how inept they were, and he was making fun of them all the time. They've got the original negative. Nothing illustrates the thinness, the superficiality of Oswald's ideology as his growing disillusionment with the Soviet Union. Hes failing at almost every level. And his disenchantment began to morph into a kind of anger and frustration. 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. She is wanting to go back to Russia. What do you do with his actions? After getting some help with the Secret Service as far as getting a pass up to see Lee, I was allowed to visit with him approximately eight to 10 minutes. Well, it took him a little bit longer than that, but he started trying after a year to come back. His plans, as we well know now, were already made to go to Russia, rather than to Cuba. One individual gave him a letter saying he could speak and write Russian at a particular level that he thought was real good. It was always separation, separation, separation. There's a great deal of self-involvement, there's a great deal of desire to elevate himself, to become this world-historical figure. Interview'The defense actually made a pretty good case' Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV, yet his trial was no slam dunk In new book 'Kennedy's Avenger,' Dan Abrams and David. Im sure for a certain minimal fee, you could ride the subways all day, and he would do it just to get around. It didnt seem like a big deal. I don't think he had much experience with women, if any, before moving to the Soviet Union. Five or six eyewitnesses there. Lee's fantasy life, to me, became apparent in the 1948, 1949, 1950 period. But he would look at it. She had been overbearing or whatever. In a private note to one of his attorneys, Joseph Tonahill, Ruby wrote: \"Joe, you should know this. Included is an interview with Abraham Zapruder, the clothing manufacturer and amateur moviemaker who shot the now . Explore FRONTLINEs collected and ongoing reporting on Russia's war on Ukraine. Providing exclusive original content and interviews with some of the best known voices in the world of economics and precious metals. He wanted to be an American, to be accepted by the American society, and so wherever he was he wanted to be accepted. We talked about this at a great length during that first week. He always enjoyed books, but then he started exploring other areas. I said, "Lee, they've got you charged with the death of the president, shooting a police officer. Historically in his life, it was always done by himself. That's the way I read him at the time. He was in control. Talk about his mothers importance to him. You look at that last year his work, and his family, trying to go to Cuba, trying to go back to Russia. . Lee Harvey Oswald is dragged from the Texas Theatre by Patrolman C.T. That was our affectionate name for Mother.