Word: marinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain pine coffin was opened. Marina Oswald placed two rings on her dead husband's fingers and kissed him. The coffin was closed and lowered into a 6-ft.-deep vault, which weighed 2,700 lbs., was asphalt-lined and reinforced with steel bars. Said the funeral director: "It would be extremely hard for anyone to break into the grave...
...committed to an institution-but the city Family Court turned down the recommendation. Many of the other details of Oswald's early life-his disgruntled Marine Corps years, his 33-month stay in Moscow during an unsuccessful attempt to get Soviet citizenship, his marriage there to Hospital Pharmacist Marina Prusakova-had become known within hours after his arrest (TIME, Nov. 29). He returned to the U.S. in June 1962, with his wife and four-month-old baby, and drifted among various odd jobs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. There the Oswalds met several Russian immigrants, notably a sympathetic...
...learn the language and hoped to become an American citizen. A nonsmoker and teetotaler, he flew into rages when his wife lit a cigarette. He beat her on several occasions. They both fought furiously, often over tiny differences. Once, at the dinner table, he told her: "Get the catchup." Marina replied: "Quit being a commander." Snapped her husband: "I am the commander...
...Marina frequently spoke of leaving him and once went to stay at a friend's house, where she complained that Oswald was cold toward her, that he would have sexual relations with her only about once every two months. "I felt sorry for him," she told a friend in an effort to explain why she had married him. "Everybody hated him-even in Russia...
Last April Oswald was out of a job and broke. Mrs. Paine took Marina to stay with her while Oswald went job hunting in New Orleans. Two weeks later he found employment, and Mrs. Paine drove Marina and the baby to New Orleans. But in September Oswald was again jobless. Mrs. Paine, whose kindness seems remarkable, once more drove to New Orleans, took the woman and the baby back to Texas...