"He wanted his pregnant wife to take a bus to New Orleans.". Q: How did you feel about being singled out?A: I remember what I did during that time-out was, I plotted how I could run for class president and win! It was a Thursday, and he wasn't due back from Dallas until Friday. Lee Oswald rented a separate room in Dallas and briefly moved to New Orleans during the summer of 1963. By the fall of 1963, they were living with a woman, Ruth Paine, in Irving. Two days later, Marina gave birth to Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald. I made Lee guilty. Oswald then slipped into a movie theater to hide, but he was quickly spotted. June Oswald Porter About PEOPLE PEOPLE, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, delivers the most trustworthy celebrity news and captivating human interest stories, connecting you to the pulse of. This earned the title of "stretcher bullet" due to it only being found once Connally reached the hospital. Im just a regular person. There's a lot of genetic things you can't even control that are inborn in your kids.Q: How are things between you and your mom these days?A: The last two years have been very stressful, because she started doing things that she hasn't let us know about, then all of a sudden I hear about it or see it on TV. From The New York Times Magazine April 30, 1995. September 20, 2019. I drive a beat-up car. But you know, just because you're hanging out with a weird group -- they could have set him up, and he could have had no idea what was going on that day.Q: Did you ever take the so-called assassination tour?A: Not until recently. He never had a fair chance. We were of interest to people. The announcement came yesterday. 1962), Audrey Marina Rachel (b. Wed heard the Oswald name in the house but he was like a mystery man. He said that he just tried to shoot General Walker, Marina Oswald Porter later testified before the House of Representatives. He was the couple's second child, his elder brother Robert had been born in 1934. Tribune Broadcasting. [further explanation needed]. U.S. National ArchivesThe Oswalds pose with the Zieger family and baby June in 1962. Conspiracies would develop and never go away. Investigators took Marina and her children to Dallas, essentially severing the friendship with Paine. Oswald fled after a short stop at his apartment, where he picked up a .38 revolver. T he former wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, now Marina Porter, lives in a rural Texas town, just 20 miles from where her husband shot JFK, forever crushing the country's dreams of a new "Camelot.". Source of Money. She worked as a teacher before training as a school psychologist, focusing on "trying to find out if you can tell someone is dangerous, ahead of time.". He tracked me down. If it were from the right rear, the head would go down and to the left, which it absolutely does not. As the Secret Service surrounded the president, the car sped off to the hospital. News of the preparation for exhumation prompted Oswald's brother, Robert, to request . And, John Connally testified that all the shots came from over and behind his right shoulder. GovernmentA photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle, taken by Marina Oswald Porter in Dallas, March 1963, In the aftermath of the assassination, Marina Oswald Porter, who was just 22, found herself with a toddler and an infant. The next morning, Friday, Nov. 22, Paine awoke to find no sign of him but for a used, plastic coffee cup in the kitchen sink. Among the items was a gold wedding band that Oswald left in a cup on her dresser the morning he assassinated Kennedy. The last indication about what was going on in Rachels life was in a 1995 article where she mentioned that she put herself through nursing school by working at a bar for seven years. Four months later, the young Oswald family moved back to the United States, where they lived in Fort Worth, Texas. We are not here to judge, only to commit for burial Lee Harvey Oswald. I know that in my life, Lee wasn't a good man. 4. Meanwhile, the available narrative released Thursdaythat Oswald was a known entitywas already a well-known . I don't think it's relevant to anything we do here and I appreciate you keeping it to yourself. 2:43. There, she studied to work in a pharmacy. Rachel and June should be assured that their father did not kill JFK. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president. Now, the word father does mean Lee to me. Click on "Watch later" to put videos here. Rachel felt differently. The image shows Marina Oswald, holding her daughter June, leaving Parkland Hospital on Sunday, November 24, 1963, after the death of her husband, suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The Zapruder film clearly shows JFKs head going back and to the left as the 2nd shot hits. This indicates a shot from the front. professional assassins and behind them were major figures in our government, most of whom are already dead of natural causes. Oswald never knew his father because he died of a . And they say: "Oh, we can take pictures? Another car pulls up -- and that's the parents and the little boy. But anonymity exacted a curious price of its own, as June faced myriad graceless references to her father, mother and family. On November 22, 1963, 24 year old Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shot that would change history. JUNE OSWALD . Marina testified that when she saw her husband, he was calm but by his eyes I could tell that he was afraid. JFK Assassination Lee Harvey Oswald's Daughters Interviews With June Oswald And Rachel Oswald 3,000 views Mar 4, 2022 Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy. I have to remind Rachel that this is the man who beat our mother, who didn't provide for his children. There were times when we didn't have milk to drink. In 1965, Oswald Porter moved to Michigan to begin an eight-week English program. But as strange as it would be to tour the home that's becoming a museum, Paine said she likely will do so because Irving intends for it to exhibit factual and authenticated history. And although she testified before Congress, Oswald Porter later questioned whether her husband was truly guilty. As crowds cheered on Dealey Plaza, the former Marine sharpshooter put a bullet through the head of America's telegenic young President. June, the older at 26, is a businesswoman married to a businessman, and they are expecting their first child - Oswald's first grandchild. Any movement after that cannot be due to the force of the bullet, since the bullet is gone. Paine's account, supplemented by Marina Oswald's testimony on the attempted shooting of Walker and other evidence, contributed to the commission's conclusion that Oswald tried to kill the ex-general. Oswald was so moved by the gesture that he had tears in his eyes. And in 1963, just weeks after welcoming their second child, Marinas husband shot the president. Oh great!". The city purchased the house at 2515 West Fifth St. and has restored it to the way it looked in 1963. It is not surprising that the Oswald children are largely private individuals. [6][7] The photograph given to de Mohrenschildt was signed and dated by Lee Oswald on April 5, 1963. I have to admit that when I heard that he used to play with me all the time, that was a nice feeling. Lee Harvey Oswalds widow petitioned the government to declassify materials related to the assassination. In February 1962, Marina gave birth to a daughter named June. child->parent relationship with Oswald, Lee Harvey (born 18 October 1939) Events. The way I finally woke up was, one night he said, "I'm gonna sell an article to Penthouse or Playboy" -- I forget which -- "and it's about your mother. This montage of early 1990s television specials was curated by the JFK Assassination Forum. Why have you started to speak out?A: Well, there was a lot of misinformation being released related to a book, "Case Closed," by Gerald Posner. Local eyewitness news teams would follow her to school. After her husbands assassination, newspapers ran the headline, Now shes a widow, too., What is America going to do about it? wrote editors at one paper. Immediately, witnesses pointed to two locations: the grassy knoll and the book depository. Lee Harvey Oswald was an American Marine who defected to the Soviet Union because he supported communism. New photos show Lee Harvey Oswald's widow as a 72-year-old grandmother living quietly in a suburban Texas town. Porter was born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova in the city of Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk), in Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the northwest of the Soviet Union. She received $70,000 in donations and an offer to study at the University of Michigan. Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 November 24, 1963) would become infamous for his involvement in the fatal shooting of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. 3 Min Read. And there she has stayed for the past seven decades wishing never to have to relive the events of Nov. 22, 1963. I think her physical health and mental health have been damaged in recent years over all of the pressures put on her.Q: After all this time?A: Part of it was the big anniversary, the 30th. She didnt learn about the events until she was seven or so. She has a son, Mark, 47, with Porter, and two children, June, 51, and Rachel, 50, from her marriage to Oswald. Mr. Oswald. The photo, one of the few of her since the 1960s, was taken while she was shopping in her adopted hometown. Send her back to Texas and if she felt any sorrow at all for the horrible thing her husband did to Jackie and all of the decent citizens of the United States, she would go back to Russia (where she belongs), wrote an angry Michigander. So I called my staff in, a group of 10 or so, and I said: "Yes, that is me in the article. She wanted to know Lee; she wants Lee to be a saint. His prints were on the rifle and the book cartons near the window. July 19, 1907: LHO's mother, Marguerite Francis Claverie, is born in New Orleans. [16], She remained at first in Dallas, Texas. In March 1964 and again that July, Paine appeared as a key witness before the Warren Commission, charged by President Lyndon Johnson with investigating the assassination of Kennedy. Reporters came over and she would tell us, "Shhhh, go in the other room.". Well, there's a travel guide she found out about that actually listed the Texas Chili Parlor and said the daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald worked there. A photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina Oswald Porter, and their child June, c. 1962. An investigation led by Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, a . As he began at the book warehouse, Oswald didn't have a driver's license or a car, so he rented a room in a boarding house in Dallas. On Oct. 14, a neighbor mentioned to Paine that the Texas School Book Depository had a staff position open. Her request had so far been ignored. [19] I knew that.[11], She was widowed at age 22, two days after the assassination when Oswald was fatally shot by Jack Ruby as Oswald was being transferred from the City Jail to the County Jail. Like she did a movie and it involved me and Rachel, and she didn't tell us first. Now, Mom does articles that she doesn't bother to tell me she's doing, and sometimes my name comes up. Just a month after that, Oswald surprised Paine by appearing at her home. I believe the kill shot came from the right front. She weighed in on her experiences, stating, Ive tried not to make a big deal about things. They left for America in June 1962 and settled in Texas, where Marina, who spoke no English, hoped to live a cosmopolitan lifestyle. President Kennedy's family leaving his funeral at the U.S. Capitol Building. Days afterward, Lee Harvey Oswald was himself shot and killed by Jack Ruby, as History reports, setting into motion decades of conspiracy theories that maybe there was more to the narrative than meets the eye. The presidential motorcade was scheduled to pass by the depository that afternoon. 15:16. Somehow those boxes came down and she was reading, and I guess she felt it was time to tell us. Your email address will not be published. By that time, Paine said, she actively disliked Oswald "but I really hadn't been worried about his mental stability.".