Word: lees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marguerite took Lee out of New York, moved to New Orleans. Not long after that, he began bringing home library copies of Das Kapital and other books dealing with Communism and socialism. "I didn't worry," says his mother. "You can't protect children from everything-just try to help them see things in the right way. Besides, if those books are so bad, why are they where any child can get hold of them...
Ruth and her husband, Michael, 35, were separated, though Michael visited the house frequently. A research engineer with the Bell Helicopter Co., Michael was active in liberal causes, recalls that he and Lee Oswald disagreed on a variety of subjects. Says Paine: "His view of the world seemed to be that the world should fit his view rather than the other way around. He had a certain picture of the world, which he insisted on defending irrespective of evidence. He had little tolerance. He had no respect for religion or the values taught by religion. He wouldn...
Dogged Loyalty. On the night of April 10, Lee Oswald rushed home, exultantly told Marina that he had just killed ex-Army Major General Edwin A. Walker, the right-wing extremist who lives in Dallas. Sure enough, Walker was shot at that night. He had been working on his income tax return. Just as the shot was fired, Walker bent over -and the bullet narrowly missed killing him. Marina now knew that her hus band was terribly sick. But she never told, until much later, that Oswald had fired the shot. Hers was a dogged loyalty. "I am wife...
Ruth Paine landed Oswald his last job. From a neighbor she heard of an opening at the Texas Book Depository on Elm Street in Dallas. She called the warehouse and recommended Lee. That day, Oct. 14, Lee took an $8-a-week room in a boardinghouse on North Beckley Avenue. He gave his name as O. H. Lee. Next day he was hired at the warehouse. On Oct. 20 his second daughter, Rachel, was born...
Curtain Rods. Lee continued to visit Marina only on weekends, but mostly to sleep and to watch television; she once confided to a friend that he had intercourse with her only about once every two months. Also during this time he hid his rifle, wrapped in a blanket, in the Paine garage. Marina knew it was there. But realizing that Ruth, a strong pacifist, would object, she said nothing about...