Word: mcmillan
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MARINA AND LEE by Priscilla Johnson McMillan Harper & Row; 527 pages...
Conspiracy theorists beware! Priscilla Johnson McMillan has come forward with the first plausible explanation for Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John...
Kennedy. Plots will doubtless continue to be spun out of the coincidences, contradictions and inconsistencies that surround the crime. But McMillan amply demonstrates that Oswald had no need of any of the world's intelligence services to steady his hand, eye and malevolent will as the Kennedy motorcade rolled into his line of fire in Dallas. He had long before been possessed of the essential preconditions for his crime: abundantly sufficient interior motives and a proven predisposition for homicidal violence...
Sovietologist McMillan knew Oswald...
...news agency correspondent in Moscow in 1959, she interviewed the would-be defector who was then holed up in the Metropole Hotel. Lee was recovering from his first public act of violence-a suicide attempt prompted by the Soviets' initial reluctance to let him stay in Russia. To McMillan, Oswald made the astonishing statement that is the epigraph to her book...