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...MARINA AND LEE by Priscilla Johnson McMillan Harper & Row; 527 pages...
...this biography of Oswald, McMillan went to Texas to conduct a series of exhaustive interviews over a seven-month period with Oswald's Russian wife, Marina, and also talked with many of the people who had known Lee after his return to the U.S. in 1962. The author brought together the material on Oswald scattered through the 26 volumes of the Warren Report and in many recently declassified documents. Out of these data, covering all 24 years of Oswald's life, McMillan has constructed a remarkable portrait of a man on his way to a murder...
...truant of 13, reported that he had fantasies of being powerful and killing people. Before he turned 16 he confided to a friend that he would like to kill President Eisenhower "because he was exploiting the working class." After Lee shot at and very nearly killed General Walker, Marina became convinced that he intended to murder Richard Nixon. Her own life was in jeopardy. During the eleven months preceding the Kennedy assassination, Lee repeatedly beat up his wife and raped her when she was in the last stages of her second pregnancy. When she failed to cook a dish...
...Still, Marina was not quite the typical battered wife. She was Oswald's mate, in the strict sense of the term. The squalid tale of their symbiotic relationship - told in excruciating detail by McMillan - makes it difficult to imagine Lee with out Marina. When he proposed to her, she was the belle of the Minsk Culture Palace dance hall and, at 20, a full-grown shrew...
...feel I owe the American people an explanation of what happened," said the frail, blue-eyed woman. After a decade of obscurity in Texas, Marina Oswald Porter, 36, was in New York City to face a press conference and stir up publicity for Marina and Lee, an account of her life with Kennedy Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, written by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. "My regret through the years has been immense," said Marina, who now lives on a 17-acre farm outside Dallas with her three children (two by Oswald) and Kenneth Porter, a sewing-machine salesman. Marina, who will share...