The Assassination of Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald made three shots from the Texas School Book Depository Building “fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally” (“John F. Kennedy assassinated”). Oswald was born in New Orleans in 1939 and in 1956 joined the U.S. Marines. In 1959 he left for the Soviet Union and tried unsuccessfully to become a Soviet Union citizen. In 1962 he was allowed to return to the U.S. with his Soviet wife and little daughter. He bought a revolver and had precedent of shooting at but missing former U.S. Army general early in 1963. Lately he founded pro-Castro organization.
