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...Marina Oswald, 22, sat at a table in Parchey's Restaurant in Washington. Ten feet away were two vigilant Secret Service agents. Slight and slim at about 5 ft. 2 in. and 98 Ibs., she had had her .hair set in a beauty parlor-something her late husband would not have allowed. She wore touches of makeup-something her husband had frowned upon. She lit a cigarette and smoked it-something he had disapproved...
...Harvey Oswald had disapproved of drinking too. Now she asked for a vodka gimlet but did not like it. She took a sip from the old-fashioned of a newsman at the table with her, made a face and handed it back, finally settling for a cherry cordial. She was not very hungry, and ate little of her filet mignon with mushroom sauce...
...When Oswald was killed, the news-papers began hinting that the whole business was a right-wing conspiracy. Kennedy became a hero in the Soviet press who had bravely protected the American people from the fanatics who finally...
...Kiev when Kennedy was shot. I heard the news on the radio two hours after he died. The next day's morning and evening news-papers sold out in a few minutes. Everything was fully reported in the Soviet press (even that Oswald had lived in Russia) and the funeral was on television, relayed by Telstar satellite...
Bromberg noted that though Ruby telephoned his sister after Kennedy was killed and said, "I will have to leave Dallas-Dallas is ruined," he cheered up considerably by hanging around police headquarters after Oswald's capture. He felt "like a big guy, being in with the police." Ruby's feeling toward Kennedy, explained Bromberg, approached "a love that passed beyond a rational appreciation of a great man, coming out of his unconscious." His killing of Oswald "was in response to an irresistible impulse. His knowledge of right and wrong was obliterated at the time of the crime...