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...actually talked to Marina about hijacking a plane and flying there...
...Back in the U.S. with Marina, Oswald once more suffered frustrations. "The relations between Lee and Marina Oswald," says the Warren Commission, "are of great importance in any attempt to understand Oswald's possible motivation." Oswald was a wife-beating tyrant, laid down orders that Marina must not smoke, drink or wear cosmetics. But, says the Commission, "although she denied it in some of her testimony before the Commission, it appears that Marina Oswald also complained that her husband was not able to provide more material things for her." Neighbors also recall that Marina complained to them in his presence...
...Marina and Lee Oswald quarreled bitterly over the telephone. Marina was staying with Mrs. Ruth Paine, Oswald had been living in a Dallas boarding house. But now Marina discovered that he was there under a phony name. She furiously scolded him. Still, said Marina to the Warren Commission, "he called several times, but after I hung up on him and didn't want to talk to him, he did not call again...
...Perpetually Discontented." Surprisingly, Oswald arrived at the Paine home on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 21. Marina told the Commission: "He tried to talk to me, but I would not answer him and he was very upset." Oswald left the house for nearly an hour?during which time he was presumably out in the garage, disassembling his rifle and placing it in the brown paper bag he had brought with him to carry "curtain rods" back to his boardinghouse. Next morning he left for his job in Dallas, the "curtain rod" bag in hand...
Oswald's wife Marina identified the weapon in testimony to the Commission as the "fateful rifle of Lee Oswald." In May 1963, she said, she had often seen Oswald holding the rifle while lounging on their screened porch, peering through the cross hairs in the telescopic sight, constantly practicing the use of the bolt mechanism...