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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. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at age 12 for truancy , during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed" due to a lack of ...
Marguerite Frances Claverie Oswald Ekdahl (July 19, 1907 – January 17, 1981), also known as Marguerite Oswald, was the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald. [1] [2] After the Kennedy assassination and subsequent murder of her son, Oswald maintained her son's innocence and claimed that he was an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) was an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family.She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish-American community in Boston.
John F. Kennedy Museum marks president's 1963 assassination with Cape Cod newspapers of the week, a new film and a TV series. 'Loss of one of their own.' JFK was killed 60 years ago.
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [309] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [310]
In new interviews with the Star-Telegram, three reporters who covered Kennedy in Fort Worth and Dallas say the assassination will forever be “The Story” that changed their lives.
The president's mother, Rose Kennedy, was in Paris and was told not to return for the funeral, but the first lady's sister Lee Radziwill had already flown in from Greece before the baby died. Cushing, the Archbishop of Boston, performed the funeral mass, as he would for John F. Kennedy, assassinated 104 days later. [9]
Ethel Kennedy, the formidable widow of Robert F. Kennedy and matriarch to a branch of one of the country's most prominent families, has died. She was 96. Kennedy, died on Thursday, Oct. 10, "from ...