This is a struggle that has gone on with me for almost 30 years now. He just wanted to see what he could do about getting it done. And his attempted murder of Edwin Walker is clearly about that. 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. Hes thinking about going to Cuba. I think thats an understatement. Best Known For: Lee Harvey Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who was accused of killing President John F. Kennedy. Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey is a recognized expert on organized crime and an authority on the JFK assassination. She had been overbearing or whatever. Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963. What Lee missed from his childhood in comparison to me was the whole family being together all the time. During the conversation, Hoffa claimed that Ruby was assigned the task of coordinating police officers who were loyal to Ruby to murder Oswald while he was in their custody. Lees fantasy life, to me, became apparent in the 1948, 1949, 1950 period. Living in Fort Worth, TV was making its debut. What do you say to people who are so convinced or are trying to believe in his innocence? In 1977, McMillan wrote Marina and Lee, an intimate portrait of the Oswalds' life together. What do you mean? It maybe opened up some doors for him. About October 1962 things were not going along too good. He told me about it, and I told him I'd go with him. ISIS' growing foothold in Afghanistan is captured on film. I asked him about this lawyer in New York and I told him I would get him one down here, meaning in Texas. Zoeken Amazon.nl. He began to tire of Minsk as his celebrity began to wear off. I think this was passed on to Lee. He said no, he wanted that one up there. At what age Lee started gathering this, or sensing it, or hearing it and applying it to him, I dont know. Finally, I guess, I couldn't stand it anymore. That influence was just tremendous on him. 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. He wasn't political. Theres hard physical evidence there. Here was a start. Marina had gone over there to live with somebody until he got established over there. 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 He was ready. . NL. In this interview, Posner talks . ** = At least this version is the most \"complete\" version I have ever seen, although a little bit of editing has certainly been done at the very beginning, because we don't hear the interviewer's first question to Oswald. Ive managed to keep it quiet. That was it. 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. This video contains Oswald's complete television interview. There's something about a sort of metaphysical break when it comes to his migration to the Soviet Union, and I think that in a way he set himself up for not only failure but terrible disappointment. We talked about family matters. Five or six eyewitnesses there. Why did he turn to Marxism as a salve, as opposed to another form of religion? He wanted to be an American, to be accepted by the American society, and so wherever he was he wanted to be accepted. Well, his concern was, was there anything that I was aware of that [there] were going to be charges placed against him from anybody? Saltar al contenido principal.com.mx. Hola Elige tu direccin Libros. FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. What was going on there? She clearly saw in Oswald a ticket to ride, an opportunity to leave Russia. So he thought he'd get a post office box that would be a permanent-type thing. On the right right is Sgt. He would tolerate anything for a little bit. But it was not terribly electric, it did not offer a lot in the way of possibility or newness. Even fifty years later, Oswald's Minsk period remains understudied, despite the fact that Oswald's time in the Soviet Union was the longest period of stability in his life. Included is an interview with Abraham Zapruder, the clothing manufacturer and amateur moviemaker who shot the now . Somehow, somebody never realized what the Sam Hill was going on. Lee Oswald poses with his rifle and two Communist newspapers in an infamous backyard photo unearthed in the investigation of JFK's murder. On Nov. 22, [1963] it went way downhill. He says he got that at the theater, and they hadn't been mistreating him since then. His mother had the same type of imagination. I mean, you're his brother; you would want to believe more than anyone. His comment was she is too much like Maw. That was our affectionate name for Mother. I wrote him back that, to my knowledge, nothing he has done warrants any charges, because they did not let him accomplish anything over there, i.e., the U.S. Embassy did not accept his citizenship rejection. Talk about his mothers importance to him. That was it. This is mind over heart. He was expecting the future was going to resolve itself, that history would end. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.nl: Boeken. Youve got all the physical evidence that ties together. This was something all his own. But then, Oct. 31, we hear that hes in Russia. As things progressed down the line the job didn't work out. And not only that, but it offered immediate salvation, or immediate asylum. He only had the Marxist argot. They didnt finalize that. [37]Within hours of Ruby's arrest for shooting Oswald, a telegram was received at the Dallas city jail in support of Ruby, under the names of Hal and Pauline Collins. His comment was she is "too much like Maw." It sounds like Oswald's disillusionment stemmed as much from personal as political reasons. . He said, "I don't know what they're talking about." That's almost unbelievable. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.com.mx: Libros. Account en lijsten Retourzendingen en . I mean, I watched the deterioration of a human being. Thats almost unbelievable. He had fallen deeply for Ella, and he had proposed to her and she had said no, and he saw in Marina somebody who was meant to distract him and carry him forward. He had alluded to some relationships when he was in the Marines, but as far as anyone knows there was no girlfriend, or no evidence of a girlfriend, there was just some kind of bravado or talk. I think three major things [were] on his mind at that particular time. ", I became kind of intense at that point, looking into his eyes. 2 thoughts on "Stew Peter's interviews Lee Harvey Oswald's Girlfriend about the JFK Assasination". 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. He had the presence of mind then to do that. We were a burden. Could you describe Oswald's relationships with women? To me, you cant reach but one conclusion. In comparison to yourself, what was Lee missing from his childhood? I anticipated, and I said to the family, "He'll be back within a year." Only weeks earlier, he had visited Soviet. So consequently, he calls me up and he tells me that they're moving to Dallas. This was a part of his character, that inner self, that we used to say, Me, myself and I will do something.. Three, maybe more fundamentally, I think that modern man, especially in modern America, is just congenitally incapable of making sense of tragedy. 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. I said, "We can look into it. I think he just liked the atmosphere that you could do anything that you wanted to do, that you could imagine you could do. It just didn't fit. He wasnt present when they took a head count [at the Texas School Book Depository]. Chapter 1: Summary and Conclusions Chapter 2: The Assassination Chapter 3: The Shots from the Texas School Book Depository Chapter 4: The Assassin Chapter 5: Detention and Death of Oswald Chapter 6: Investigation of Possible Conspiracy Chapter 7: Lee Harvey Oswald: Background and Possible Motives Chapter 8: The Protection of the President The Cold War was going on. But then, Oct. 31, we hear that he's in Russia. 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. They wasn't going to convince him to say something. 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. He struggled. What was his concern? But Lee had that same personality type. 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? People ought to take note of this, that he should be interesting. I've managed to keep it quiet." The result of the whole mismanagement was Lee's death. WDSU-TV interviews Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 when he was living in New Orleans. Theyre not progressing at the speed I think he wants to progress. Maybe the next time he went to the library, he would follow up on it, and say Well, lets really see what this is about. That to me is very plausible for him to do. But Lee had that same personality type. The continuity there, the lack of stability, I think, entered into that to a large degree. This was something all his own. (TV) Summary. This edition focuses on accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, wondering whether he was a "lone gunman, conspirator, or patsy." . But things were tight at that time. Find out in the 2015 documentary Outbreak, newly available to stream on FRONTLINEs YouTube channel. But the Marine Corps has got set procedures and so forth to follow. 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. Posner also discusses the actions, motivations and mob connections of Jack Ruby, who murdered Oswald. Youve got the backyard picture. That was our affectionate name for Mother. After Lees return, approximately two weeks, in the latter part of June 1962, he gets a call from one of the FBI agents I believe that was Mr. Fain in wanting to have a meeting with him. But when you take the second look and the third and the 40th and the 50th, hey, enough's enough. Visitors can watch a large bank of television sets recalling the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald's capture. Why was he asking for this lawyer, John Abt, up in New York? In your mind, are there questions about whether Lee shot President Kennedy? Apparently hed been planning this for a long time. 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. 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. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. He was making fun of how inept they were, and he was making fun of them all the time. 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 is the older brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, and a former Marine and salesman. He says, "Well, don't you know?" So, to me, that was his back-up plan if everything else failed. And this opened up certain avenues or possibilities that would not have been available to him otherwise. Or he just walked the streets, ride the subways. If they didnt know who worked for them, he could always say he worked for them; he was in control of the FBI then. What he did after he left the building is known: bus ride, taxi ride, boardinghouse, pick up the pistol, leave, shoot the police officer. In your mind, are there questions about whether Lee shot President Kennedy? His fellow Marines called him Oswaldskovich, because he never shut up about his admiration for communism or the Soviet Union. We also talked about her time as a reporter in Moscow in 1959 when she met 20-year-old American defector Lee Harvey Oswald in her hotel. 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. Walker and, still chewing his cigar, Detective Paul Bentley, on Nov. 22, 1963. How can you explain one without the other? But he finally said, "Brother, you won't find anything there.". We talked about this at a great length during that first week. Tracked down in 1977, Marguerite demanded a payday before talking about her son and showed off her 'library' of JFK assassination books. It was wall-to-wall reporters, police officers, FBI, Secret Service. Lee. He had an interesting experience and he had a Russian wife. FRONTLINE: WHO WAS LEE HARVEY OSWALD? That's where he started doing a lot of reading and everything. Im sure for a certain minimal fee, you could ride the subways all day, and he would do it just to get around. FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. and he just laughed. 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. Later in the day, after driving into town with his two pet dogs and sending an emergency money order to one of his employees, Ruby walked to the nearby police headquarters, where he made his way to the basement via the Main Steet ramp. Oswald grew up in very trying circumstances in the early part of his life. He indicated that, if reporters were asking about when hes coming back, to say nothing He wanted not to be bothered by the reporters. There is no question in my mind that he also shot Officer Tippit. Hes on a downhill run. I said, "Yes. home+introduction+interviews+forum+twenty-four years+conspiracy But he became disgusted with it and started rebelling against it, because he wanted to go back to a more independent attitude. What did he have in the back of his mind? But certainly by age three, he had the sense, I need to be someplace else. Mother would be putting him with a nanny, or a babysitter, or in an orphan home with us, just to get us out of her hair. What did he say, and what were you trying to get out of him? There's another seed that's planted in him that stayed there forever. He was toying with them. I say that in all honesty, because he tried to become what he needed to be to achieve his immediate objectives; i.e., he needed to be a Marxist and accept the Russians [to] get the experience in Russia. The Soviets executed him on May 17, 1963. Lee would rebel against the discipline of the Marine Corps when he had the opportunity to, when the leeway was there. He moves into his own apartment and everything. He did not and would not talk to any of the interrogators about anything of substance. He failed at both. I wasnt real sure what the explanation was. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. He didn't elaborate on that. I was just completely in the dark. He had an interesting experience and he had a Russian wife. This interview was conducted in 1993 in conjunction with Frontline's first broadcast of "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" But my goodness, this is completely out of the ballpark. 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. Oswald in a way sort of set up the disaster that was to come before he even arrived in Moscow. So it's not surprising that after just a few months, he began to grow tired of it. Now apparently, for whatever reasons or however they checked it out, they found out whatever he knew wasnt necessarily anything theyd be interested in. I wrote him back that, to my knowledge, nothing he has done warrants any charges, because they did not let him accomplish anything over there, i.e., the U.S. Embassy did not accept his citizenship rejection. We spent some time together. He started teaching this mans son how to write and talk Russian. The two girls grew up in a small Texas town, sheltered . One was he wanted to get his manuscript typed up and written. You dont think that there was any possibility that he was on some mission when he went to Russia? Buscar Amazon.com.mx. So consequently, he calls me up and he tells me that theyre moving to Dallas. You've got all kinds of documented evidence. Can you summarize what the atmosphere was like there that Saturday, and what you made of it? . I'm talking about the police officer being shot and the president. Mobile users: Watch the archive video by clicking here. 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. This might have been the first leaflet that he ever got from anybody on the street. It seemed like we were never in a location [more than] six or seven months, maybe a year at the most. He is the older brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, and a former Marine and salesman. There's a logic in that. The first thing he says is -- and he points to it -- "It's tapped." One individual gave him a letter saying he could speak and write Russian at a particular level that he thought was real good. We're talking seven, eight, nine, 10 years old. Hes failing in his marriage and in his attempts to do whatever he wants to do. 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What do you say to people who are so convinced or are trying to believe in his innocence? 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. Definitely not. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a distraught Dallas nightclub owner. But she certainly conveyed it to John and I at very early ages. I say that in all honesty, because he tried to become what he needed to be to achieve his immediate objectives; i.e., he needed to be a Marxist and accept the Russians [to] get the experience in Russia. Theyve got the original negative. But he became disgusted with it and started rebelling against it, because he wanted to go back to a more independent attitude. Upon his return to the United States, was there a particular moment where Oswald decided to act violently? He had acquired the vernacular of radical politics. He is the older brother of Lee Harvey Oswald, and a former Marine and salesman. 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. As Ruby evidently mismanaged the operation, he was given a choice to either finish the job himself or forfeit his life. Why couldn't he find a sense of purpose or place there? About October 1962 things were not going along too good. He's thinking about going to Cuba. Hed made some contacts within the Russian community in Fort Worth and in Dallas. 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. 49K views 9 years ago WDSU-TV interviews Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 when he was living in New Orleans. . I asked him, I said, "Lee, what in the Sam Hill is going on?" It just floors me, it floored me then. I struggled through about 10 or 15 pages of it. 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." None took him seriously. But he finally said, Brother, you wont find anything there.. When Lee is discharged, early discharge in September 1959, he returns to Fort Worth for about three days. He could be somebody from New York that knew a lot of things, somebody that could get around be somebody else. All these ups and downs hes having, he keeps trying to get up and make it at some level, but hes not succeeding. They've got the original negative. 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. Lee Harvey Oswald did not have any particular animus for John F. Kennedy. One was he wanted to get his manuscript typed up and written. 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. I recently spoke with Mr. Savodnik over the phone about his book. But the diminutive nineteen-year-old Marine was serious. He never did answer. What do you do with his actions? We'll look into it.". What did he do? Sat, Feb 25, 2023 LOGIN Subscribe for $1 Hallo, inloggen. From Russia, he had written you, saying that he was worried about charges being brought against him when he came back. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. The mind tells me one thing, and the heart tells me something else. In comparison to yourself, what was Lee missing from his childhood? He always enjoyed books, but then he started exploring other areas. The main thing was getting a job and a manuscript. . But certainly by age three, he had the sense, "I need to be someplace else." That distinction belongs to my CBS colleague Bob. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.es: Libros. 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. None took him seriously. In a private note to one of his attorneys, Joseph Tonahill, Ruby wrote: \"Joe, you should know this. That was a training ground [for] his imagination. He wasn't political. on the Internet. . You look at that last year his work, and his family, trying to go to Cuba, trying to go back to Russia. You look at all the data there, and it comes up to one conclusion as far as I'm concerned -- the Warren Commission was correct. So hes very upbeat up on it. Oswald refused to talk to anyone at the U.S. embassy. Hola Elige tu direccin Todos los departamentos. Were talking seven, eight, nine, 10 years old. 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. Five or six eyewitnesses there. Consequently, people left it wide open. 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's getting a better opportunity, he thinks, in Dallas, because it's a bigger job market over there than what Fort Worth was at the time. I think theyre inseparable. 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? He played an awful lot of hooky up there. 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. It just floors me, it floored me then. So, to me, that was his back-up plan if everything else failed. He was relaxed, but at about the second day, he starts talking about where hes going. 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." When you do have a human asset in heart . 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.