Word: oswald
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David Rockefeller appointed himself to chair the group. E. Howard Hunt, who later became famous in Watergate, was selected to lead "Phase I," the actual murder of the President, and George Bush was chosen to head up "Phase II," the planned invasion of Cuba. Lee Harvey Oswald was to be gunned down in the Texas School Book Depository Building, or at several alternative sites, and then the American public was to be told via television that Cuban leader Fidel Castro had sent Oswald to murder Kennedy. This would supposedly inflame the public, who would demand instant invasion of Cuba. George...
...preoccupation has been his impending oral exam in English, which would test all of his knowledge about literature. The strain of this make-or-break test induced constant nausea and what he calls "social phobia," a fear of performing in social situations. Things were only made worse by roommate Oswald, an anti-social computer programmer with a bad habit of urinating in a glass jar in various parts of the apartment. Oswald is both comic relief and a warning of what Marler could turn into; it's only a short path, he intimates, form his own awkwardness to his roommate...
These witty asides constitute the main entertainment of Posthumous Improvisations precisely because there is no dramatic tension in the events being described; we are never absorbed by Marler's struggles. We know that he will pass his exam in the end. Oswald simply disappears, depriving us of any deeper insight into his problems, or at least the pleasure of a final confrontation...
...something about Libra unsettled Ellroy. It was too good. DeLillo's imagined journeys into the minds of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, among others, had an eerie density and plausibility that Ellroy admired and did not want to emulate. "When I finished the book," he remembers, "I said, 'Now I can never write about that subject...
...VILLAGE IDIOT by Melvin Belli (from his closing statement in the trial of Jack Ruby for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald...