Word: marinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last day was the most difficult. The commission asked Marina to identify some 145 exhibits, most of them Oswald's personal possessions. There were his letters and notebooks, the mailorder rifle he had bought. She identified them all, including the bloodstained clothes he was wearing when he was shot. From time to time Marina wept, but she quickly regained her composure. And at last it was over...
...Mother. Marina Oswald was the first witness to appear before the Warren Commission. But as the commission continues to delve deeply into the secret life of Lee Harvey Oswald, she may not necessarily be the most important. For there is evidence that the dominating figure in that life was his mother. This week, at her own request, Marguerite Claverie Pic Oswald Ekdahl, 56, a practical nurse, is scheduled to appear before the commission along with her lawyer, Mark Lane, a New Yorker with an unquenchable passion for the defense of underdogs and liberal causes...
...heart goes out to Marina. She is a nice girl, but they are keeping her from me. They whisked her away the other day at the cemetery. They saw me, and they just shoved her in that car and took her away. I was so humiliated. There were a lot of people standing there, and I cried, and got in my car and cried all the way home...
...Friend in Need. Oswald took his wife and his baby to a $59-a-month apartment ten blocks away. Later on, he moved his family to Dallas, where he got another job, this time in a photoengraving plant. Last February he and Marina met Ruth Paine, 31, mother of two children and an energetic Quaker with a deep interest in furthering U.S.Soviet relations. Ruth wanted to learn Russian, and Marina helped her. The two women became close friends...
...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't let his wife talk about actual life in Russia. He was nice to Marina so long as she didn't think counter to him. One time I took him to a meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union. It took him by surprise that people could be concerned about the concepts of freedom of speech. He said, 'I couldn't join such an organization...