Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, according to the conclusions of two government investigations into the assassination. The 1964 Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone; the House Select Committee on Assassinations, during the late 1970s, concluded that while Oswald was the shooter, President Kennedy "most likely was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy". Some critics of the official accounts have claimed that Oswald was not involved at all and was framed, and many conspiracy theories have been developed, but no single compelling alternative suspect has emerged.

Dallas

Back in the United States, the Oswald family settled in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Oswald attempted to write a memoir and commentary on Soviet life, a small manuscript called The Collective. Oswald soon abandoned the idea, but searching for literary feedback had soon put him in touch with the area's close-knit community of anti-Communist Russian émigrés. They merely tolerated the belligerent and arrogant Oswald, but they sympathized with Marina, because she was in a foreign country with no knowledge of English, which Oswald refused to teach her, and because Oswald had begun to beat her. They eventually abandoned Marina, however, because she would not leave Oswald. From this group, Oswald found an unlikely best friend, the well-educated and worldly but mysterious petroleum geologist George de Mohrenschildt. Perhaps they took to each other because they were polar opposites, or perhaps de Mohrenschildt, who liked playing the provocateur, enjoyed putting people off with the disagreeable and sullen Marxist Oswald. Marina also befriended a married couple, Ruth and Michael Paine.

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Dallas - Fort Worth - Memoir - English - Petroleum - Geologist - George de Mohrenschildt - Marxist - Ruth

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In Dallas, Oswald worked for the Leslie Welding Company, but he disliked the job and quit after three months. Then he obtained a position at the graphic arts firm of Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall as a photoprint trainee. The company is often cited as doing classified work for the US government, but that work was limited to typesetting for maps and was conducted in a section which Oswald had no access to. Oswald used the equipment he did have access to to create fake identifications and other documents in the name of an alias he created, "Alex James Hidell". After six months, Oswald was fired. His co-workers and supervisors grew frustrated with his inefficency, inattention and rudeness to his co-workers, rudeness to the point where fistfights threatened to break out. His supervisor terminated him after seeing him reading a Russian satiric magazine, Krokodil, in the cafeteria..

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Welding - Company - Graphic art - Typesetting - Alias - Satiric - Magazine

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