He wanted to get his manuscript published if anybody was interested. One was he wanted to get his manuscript typed up and written. Those are the indications that say he took some thought, some planning over a long period of time. What was his wife, Marina, like? 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. He wanted to be an American, to be accepted by the American society, and so wherever he was he wanted to be accepted. As I learned later on, he's becoming very belligerent to Mother. When you learned he had defected, did you have any explanation? What do you do with his general opportunity? I'm sure for a certain minimal fee, you could ride the subways all day, and he would do it just to get around. He's going to fit in to where he needs to fit in to accomplish what he needs to accomplish what is very essential to get by with, to be somebody. He didnt elaborate on that. He just wanted to see what he could do about getting it done. The mind tells me one thing, and the heart tells me something else. From Russia, he had written you, saying that he was worried about charges being brought against him when he came back. When Lee got back from Russia, the way he talked about the Russian system, he didnt talk about it politically, in the sense that he was wrapped up in communism or Marxism. The appeal to Lee of something like that Marxism, communism, socialism, would be something unique, something different not [an] everyday occurrence. . This would have to be at the federal level. That was a training ground [for] his imagination. Five or six eyewitnesses there. There's another seed that's planted in him that stayed there forever. About October 1962 things were not going along too good. Lee Harvey Oswald is dragged from the Texas Theatre by Patrolman C.T. 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. 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. I think that Marina's a very complicated character, and I think it's fair to say in Oswald she saw a very good opportunity. I know he wanted to travel. . The main thing was getting a job and a manuscript. I couldn't believe it. Nothing illustrates the thinness, the superficiality of Oswald's ideology as his growing disillusionment with the Soviet Union. ~Sean Corruption; Deep State; News; NWO Tyranny; Politics; EXCLUSIVE: Lee Harvey Oswald . That was a training ground [for] his imagination. Youve got all kinds of documented evidence. As chief counsel to the 1977 House Select Committee on Assassinations, Blakey led the investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination, reexamining the evidence with a new forensics panel. In your mind, are there questions about whether Lee shot President Kennedy? All these ups and downs hes having, he keeps trying to get up and make it at some level, but hes not succeeding. I anticipated, and I said to the family, "He'll be back within a year." You'll receive access to exclusive information and early alerts about our documentaries and investigations. I mean, I watched the deterioration of a human being. Later, after the Kennedy assassination, McMillan befriended Oswald's widow, Marina, and the two spent considerable time together. But Lee had that same personality type. They even asked me if I'd ever been an agent of the federal government or the CIA." The first thing he says is -- and he points to it -- "It's tapped." . But things were tight at that time. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. So from Oswald's vantage point, the Soviet experiment, as he would have seen it, was this marvelous opportunity to transcend where he came from. 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. I asked him about this lawyer in New York and I told him I would get him one down here, meaning in Texas. She is wanting to go back to Russia. I said, "Yes. 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." The Hartford Files 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? And why it wasnt stopped sooner. When he returned to the United States, he didnt want to be a Russian. The National Archives released almost 1,500 documents including CIA cables and memos on Lee Harvey Oswald in the months before the JFK assassination. His comment was she is too much like Maw. That was our affectionate name for Mother. This is mind over heart. Lee's fantasy life, to me, became apparent in the 1948, 1949, 1950 period. What was going on there? This is mind over heart. It's about escaping the status quo and achieving some kind of greatness, as it were. At what age Lee started gathering this, or sensing it, or hearing it and applying it to him, I don't know. He played an awful lot of hooky up there. I wasn't real sure what the explanation was. And by the time we get to late 1960, he's beginning to think that maybe he's made a mistake -- he's not quite sure, but he's thinking that. He said no, he wanted that one up there. So it's not surprising that after just a few months, he began to grow tired of it. This was 1959. Here was a start. At every step of the way, what leads Oswald to trying to remove himself from the Soviet Union is not anything intellectual or ideological -- nothing substantive in that respect. What would have been the appeal to him about something like Marxism? But this had nothing to do with an intellectual or ideological coming to terms with some kind of intellectual maturation, although Oswald tried to explain it that way. He toyed with people like that. Then he joins the Marines, and then he has a lot of people barking at him, a lot of discipline. He could be somebody from New York that knew a lot of things, somebody that could get around be somebody else. And you don't know what the Sam Hill is going on? Marina had gone over there to live with somebody until he got established over there. This interview was conducted in 1993 in conjunction with Frontline's first broadcast of "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? Why do you think that so many Americans still cannot accept that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy. She is wanting to go back to Russia. Now apparently, for whatever reasons or however they checked it out, they found out whatever he knew wasnt necessarily anything theyd be interested in. Web Site Copyright 1995-2023 WGBH Educational Foundation. I said, "Lee, they've got you charged with the death of the president, shooting a police officer. He wants to get some experience and write about it. Youve talked about Lees character trying to do something, getting frustrated, doing something dramatic. What he did after he left the building is known: bus ride, taxi ride, boardinghouse, pick up the pistol, leave, shoot the police officer. On Nov. 22, [1963] it went way downhill. She could really become somebody from New York real easy when shes in Texas, putting on the air[s], whatever you call it. He knew something they didnt know, and he would keep it to himself. . I was just completely in the dark. When Lee came back, how did he react to visits from the FBI when they came and saw him here? I said, "What did you tell them?" He had tapped into or been drawn to the emotions which that politics helped to foment, but did he have a deep understanding of how revolutions unfold, and the relationship between the proletariat and the means of production? , Finally, I guess, I couldnt stand it anymore. And in this place, he would join this much larger-than-life cause, and he would break permanently with the United States, and he would live happily every after in the Soviet Union. Cuenta y listas Devoluciones y . A former litigator, Posner is a fulltime investigative writer. 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. He really wasn't. He planned by himself, he executed by himself, he failed by himself. New York City. OK?\"Another motive was put forth by Frank Sheeran, allegedly a hitman for the Mafia, in a conversation he had with the then-former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. They're not progressing at the speed I think he wants to progress. He told me about it, and I told him I'd go with him. 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." How can you explain one without the other? Its there; put it to rest. Marina was upbeat on it. " I'm just a patsy!"Lee Harvey Oswald Oswald the Assassin? 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. He began to tire of Minsk as his celebrity began to wear off. Similarly, the committee believed it was less likely that Ruby entered the police basement without assistance, even though the assistance may have been provided with no knowledge of Ruby's intentions The committee was troubled by the apparently unlocked doors along the stairway route and the removal of security guards from the area of the garage nearest the stairway shortly before the shooting There is also evidence that the Dallas Police Department withheld relevant information from the Warren Commission concerning Ruby's entry to the scene of the Oswald transfer.When Ruby was arrested immediately after the shooting, he told several witnesses that he helped the city of Dallas \"redeem\" itself in the eyes of the public, and that Oswald's death would spare \"Mrs. I mean, you're his brother; you would want to believe more than anyone. But the diminutive nineteen-year-old Marine was serious. But Lee had that same personality type. It didn't seem like a big deal. The continuity there, the lack of stability, I think, entered into that to a large degree. But when you take the second look and the third and the 40th and the 50th, hey, enough's enough. Find out in the 2015 documentary Outbreak, newly available to stream on FRONTLINEs YouTube channel. 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. When you learned he had defected, did you have any explanation? FRONTLINE+wgbh+pbsi, web site copyright 1995-2014 He always enjoyed books, but then he started exploring other areas. I think he was surprised when he stepped off the plane in Dallas Field he asked me, What, no reporters? I said, Yes. Youve got all the physical evidence that ties together. Search the history of over 797 billion That influence was just tremendous on him. Show more Comments are turned off. I think thats an understatement. He was using his own imagination. From Russia, he had written you, saying that he was worried about charges being brought against him when he came back. LEGEND: THE SECRET WORLD OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD : Epstein, Edward Jay: Amazon.com.mx: Libros. His wife is trying to have a second child born in Russia. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. 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. He is the author of the 1981 book, The Plot To Kill the President, and in the late 1960s he campaigned for and helped write much of the anti-racketeering legislation that would usher in the demise of the Mafia. I couldnt believe it. He was what's convenient to be. At 11:21 am CST while authorities were escorting Oswald through the police basement to an armored car that was to take him to the nearby county jail Ruby stepped out from a crowd of reporters and fired his .38 revolver into Oswald's abdomen, fatally wounding him. What did he have in the back of his mind?