Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discharged from the Marine Corps in 1959, Oswald went to the Soviet Union and demanded U.S.S.R. citizenship. He expressed his feelings about the U.S. in a letter to Robert Pic: "In the event of war, I would kill any American who put a uniform on in defense of the American Government? any American." At one point, when the Russian government was threatening to kick Oswald out of the country, he slashed a wrist in an abortive suicide attempt. The Soviet government purportedly took pity, allowed Oswald to stay on, got him a job as a metal worker in Minsk, where...
Open Hostility. But Oswald was not satisfied with his menial state in life, and 18 months after his defection he decided he wanted to go home. Says the Warren Commission: "His attempt to renounce his citizenship had been an open expression of hostility against the U.S. and a profound rejection of his early life. The dramatic break with society in America now had to be undone. His return to the U.S. publicly testified to the utter failure of what had been the most important act of his life...
...Antonio did Humphrey begin to warm up. There he attracted 5,000 people, including many Mexican-Americans, to the Alamo, led them through his now familiar litany. "Most Americans," he said, "thought we should pass a civil rights bill. Most Americans, most Senators, most Congressmen thought that all citizenship should be first-class citizenship. But . . ." The crowd quickly responded ". . . not Senator Goldwater...
...many freedom schools set up this summer as part of the COFO Project in Mississippi. Classes each morning opened with freedom songs (right). The classes were held outdoors after the church in which they had been meeting was burned down on August 10. As part of a citizenship class, the students all wrote to President Johnson, asking for further FBI investigation of this and other church burnings...
...thirds of Canada's 19 million citizens speak English; one-third are fiercely French - in language, culture, temperament. And now some secessionist sentiment is springing up in the province of Quebec, gathering support among French Canadians who have long complained bitterly of second-class citizenship. Pearson has made several concessions giving Quebec more provincial autonomy and French Canadians a stronger voice in the federal government. Many French Canadians consider this too little, too late...