Warren Commission Hearings, vol. Fellow cadets variously recalled him attending CAP meetings "three or four" times, or "10 or 12 times", over a one- to three-month period. He also attended Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana. He earned a bachelor's degree in English and drama until 1983, after which he moved to New York City to pursue a career as an actor. Hartogs concluded: Lee has to be diagnosed as "personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies". Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository as Kennedy traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. 9th U.S. President. [28] His primary training was in radar operation, which required a security clearance. His commitment to Marxism and communism appears to have been another important factor in his motivation. Warren Commission Hearings, CE 1968, "Two misconceptions about the Warren Commission hearing need to be clarified hearings were closed to the public unless the witness appearing before the Commission requested an open hearing. 25, p. 418, CE 2564. [31], Oswald's enlistment papers recite that he was 5feet 8inches (1.73 meters) tall and weighed 135 pounds (61kg), with hazel eyes and brown hair. He denied telling his co-worker he wanted a ride to Irving to get curtain rods for his apartment (he said that the package contained his lunch). In a secret hearing, the witness is instructed not to disclose his testimony to any third party, and the hearing testimony is not published for public consumption. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. This information is part of McDonald and Potts family tree by Dr Wilton McDonald on Genealogy Online. One shot apparently missed the presidential limousine entirely, another struck both Kennedy and Connally, and a third bullet struck Kennedy in the head,[165] killing him. A May 1957 document stated that he was "granted final clearance to handle classified matter up to and including confidential after careful check of local records had disclosed no derogatory data". McDonald stated that the pistol did not fire because the pistol's hammer came down on the webbing between the thumb and index finger of his hand as he grabbed for the pistol. This information is part of McDonald and Potts family tree by Dr Wilton McDonald on Genealogy Online. Approximately three percent of its files have yet to be released to the public, which has continued to provoke speculation among researchers. Bringuier was the New Orleans delegate for the anti-Castro organization Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil (DRE). This information is part of McDonald Wilton family tree by Dr Wilton McDonald on Genealogy Online. Frazier reported that Oswald told him the bag contained curtain rods. If you don't cease bothering my wife, I will take the appropriate action and report this to the proper authorities." [77][78] In testimony to the Warren Commission, Alexander Kleinlerer said that the Russian migrs sympathized with Marina, while merely tolerating Oswald, whom they regarded as rude and arrogant. Woody Harrelson: "She Gave Me Her Energy" - ESME In November 1958, Oswald transferred back to El Toro[43] where his unit's function "was to serveil [sic] for aircraft, but basically to train both enlisted men and officers for later assignment overseas". 1, p. 16. McDonald said that Oswald pulled out a pistol tucked into the front of his pants, then pointed the pistol at him, and pulled the trigger. [104] Regarding this, de Mohrenschildt and his wife Jeanne recalled an incident that occurred the weekend following the Walker assassination attempt. [238], A claim that a look-alike Russian agent was buried in place of Oswald led to the body's exhumation on October4, 1981. When pressed for identification papers, he provided his Marine Corps discharge papers. Deni Montana Harrelson . but began to deteriorate after German learned in October that Oswald had been seeing other women. Voebel said that "Oswald commonly read 'paperback trash'". Woody Harrelson is an American actor, and playwright. [123] Oswald told the agent that he was a member of the New Orleans branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee which he claimed had 35 members and was led by A. J. [23] Edward Voebel, "whom the Warren Commission had established was Oswald's closest friend during his teenage years in New Orleans", said "reports that Oswald was already 'studying Communism' were a 'lot of baloney.'" Three others (Harold Russell, Pat Patterson, Warren Reynolds) subsequently identified Oswald from a photograph. 18, p. 131, CE 931. [67] [121][122] Prior to leaving the police station, Oswald requested to speak with an FBI agent. Evelyn D. Siegel, a social worker who interviewed both Lee and Marguerite Oswald at Youth House, while describing "a rather pleasant, appealing quality about this emotionally starved, affectionless youngster which grows as one speaks to him", found that he had detached himself from the world around him because "no one in it ever met any of his needs for love". [64], From mid-1960 to early 1961, Oswald was in a relationship with Ella German (Belarusian: ), a Belarusian coworker born in 1937. Diane Lou Oswald Harrelson Obituary Recipes ", "Dartmouth Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked", "Majority in U.S. Bringuier confronted Oswald, claiming he was tipped off about Oswald's leafleting by a friend. [23][24], In 1982 Harrelson told Dallas TV station KDFW-TV, "Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, alone, without any aid from a rogue agency of the US government or at least a portion of that agency? 8, p. 358. [4] Harrelson's son, Woody, then attempted to have his father's conviction overturned in order to secure a new trial, though without success. [35][36][37] Oswald departed for Japan the following month, where he was assigned to Marine Air Control Squadron 1 at Naval Air Facility Atsugi near Tokyo. [205] Oswald denied killing Kennedy and Tippit, denied owning a rifle, and said two photographs of him holding a rifle and a pistol were fakes. Witness Howard Brennan was sitting across the street from the Texas School Book Depository and watching the motorcade go by. [243], In 1979, after a review of the evidence and of prior investigations, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) largely concurred with the Warren Commission and was preparing to issue a finding that Oswald had acted alone in killing Kennedy. German later described Oswald as "a pleasant-looking guy with a good sense of humor not as rough and rude as the men here were back then";[68] I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you don't stop bothering my wife" [signed] "Lee Harvey Oswald". [263], The pictures were shown to Oswald after his arrest, but he insisted that they were forgeries. "[71] Shortly afterwards, Oswald (who had never formally renounced his U.S. citizenship) wrote to the Embassy of the United States, Moscow requesting the return of his American passport, and proposing to return to the U.S. if any charges against him would be dropped. Oswald replied by insisting that he wanted to live in the Soviet Union as a Soviet national. He was honorably released from active duty in the Marine Corps into the Marine Corps Reserve, then flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. 140141. [6], Defended by Percy Foreman, Harrelson was tried for the 1968 murder of Alan Harry Berg. [162] Various workers including Givens, Junior Jarman, Troy West, Danny Arce, Jack Dougherty, Joe Molina, Mrs. Robert Reid, and Bill Lovelady who were either in the first or second floor lunchrooms at times between 12:00 and 12:30 pm reported that Oswald was not present in those rooms during their lunch breaks. Oswald denied knowing an "A. J. Hidell". The first trial ended in a hung jury. President Lyndon B. Johnson issued an executive order that created the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. 1, p. 146. Oswald attended seventh grade in the Bronx, New York, but was often truant, which led to a psychiatric assessment at a juvenile reformatory. [2][28], A 10-episode podcast titled Son of a Hitman[29] was released on May 5, 2020, by Spotify Studios and produced by High Five Content. Versatile, Texas-born actor Woody Harrelson, seen in box office hits like Natural Born Killers, Seven Pounds, and Zombieland along with hit TV shows like True Detective and Cheers, was raised by his single mother, Diane Oswald. [85][n 6] Oswald was fired in the first week of April 1963. Chagra said that he did not believe Harrelson's claim, and the AP reported that the FBI "apparently discounted any involvement by Harrelson in the Kennedy assassination.