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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 the age of 12 for truancy , during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed" due to a lack ...
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. [306] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [307]
The main suspect in the assassination was Lee Harvey Oswald, who was in police custody. Two days after the assassination, Dallas police made arrangements to transfer Oswald to the county jail. [4] The police had notified news agencies that the scheduled time to move Oswald was 9:15 a.m. so Jackson arrived before 9:00 a.m. to get
J. Edgar Hoover said in a memo two days after John F. Kennedy's assassination that the public must be led to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
The 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination is only four months away, but interest in the event -- "the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century," in the words of ...
Buell Frazier, 19-year-old co-worker of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository “I drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work, because Lee did not own a car…
November 8, 1960: John F. Kennedy wins the 1960 United States presidential election. June 13, 1962: Oswald returns to the United States with the wife Marina and their child to live in Texas. [2] October 9, 1962: Oswald rents P.O. Box 2915 under his real name at the Dallas post office. He will maintain the rental until May 14, 1963. [3]
John William Fritz (June 15, 1896 – April 19, 1984) was the captain of Homicide and Robbery Bureau of the Dallas Police Department.In November 1963, he received nationwide attention as the head of the police investigation of the murder of president John F. Kennedy and the primary interrogator of Lee Harvey Oswald.