Nov 22, 2013 · After obtaining a hardship discharge from the Marines, Lee Harvey Oswald left the United States for the Soviet Union in 1959. Arriving in Moscow on October 16, he declared that he wished to...

Oct 27, 2017 · Weeks before President John F. Kennedy's murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who killed him, met with a Soviet assassination agent, newly released documents show.

In 1959, he was discharged from active duty into the Marine Corps Reserve, then flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union. He lived in Minsk, married a Russian woman named Marina, and had a daughter. In June 1962, he returned to the United States with his wife, and eventually settled in Dallas, Texas, where their second daughter was born.

Jan 6, 2025 · When Lee Harvey Oswald, the future accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, started his two-year journey to the Soviet Union in the fall of 1959, he was not yet 20 years old.

Nov 20, 2013 · One new title examines the Soviet chapter of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot Kennedy. Oswald defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and spent two and a half years living in Minsk...

New details about Lee Harvey Oswald’s connections to the Soviet Union were revealed in a tranche of declassified documents released by the Trump administration concerning the 1963 assassination ...

5 days ago · Oswald, who expressed Communist views, defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 before returning to the United States in 1962. The following year, he unsuccessfully tried to obtain passage to Cuba and ...

May 1, 2020 · A veteran of reporting from the Soviet Union and Russia, Peter Savodnik has provided an extensive account of Lee Harvey Oswald's two-and-a-half years in the Soviet Union. He frames Oswald's Soviet years against the backdrop of Nikita Khrushchev's “Thaw,” as Oswald sought to begin, yet again, a new life.

6 days ago · Lee Harvey Oswald was a "poor shot" during gun practice in the Soviet Union, newly released documents on President John F Kennedy's assassination reviewed by Newsweek have revealed.. Why It Matters

5 days ago · Part of a file from the CIA, dated February 3, 1968, titled Mexico City Chronology, about Lee Harvey Oswald's time in Mexico and contact with the embassy of the Soviet Union in Mexico City [File ...