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...very same day that Oswald left for Mexico-Sept. 26-the White House had announced that President Kennedy would visit Dallas, the precise date unspecified...
...Sept. 26, just a few days after his wife returned to Texas, Oswald got hold of a car (where, no one yet knows) and drove to Mexico City. He showed up at the Cuban consulate and applied for a transit visa for Moscow via Havana. Told that the procedure would take as long as twelve days, Oswald got angry (or so the Cubans claim), walked out slamming the door. Next day he appeared at the offices of the Russian consul-general, described himself as a militant Communist, asked for a visa for the Soviet Union. The consul told Oswald that...
...Oswald returned to his family on Oct. 4. He drew unemployment insurance for a week or so. And then one day Mrs. Paine and Marina heard from friends that there was a job opening at the Texas State Book Depository, a clearinghouse in Dallas for public school textbooks. They told Oswald. He immediately went to the building, which fronts on the main thoroughfares leading into the Dallas business district, and applied for the job. On Oct. 15-at about the time his wife had their second child-he went to work as an order filler at $1.25 an hour...
Though Marina was staying at the Paine house in nearby Irving, Oswald himself took a small $8-a-week room on North Beckley in Dallas, under the name of O. H. Lee-a play on his real name. He visited his wife on weekends. Once Marina found a carbine wrapped in a blanket and hidden in the Paines' garage. It was Oswald's. He had bought it from a Chicago mail-order house on March 20, along with a four-power telescopic sight. He had paid $19.95 for gun and sight and had instructed a gunsmith, located near...
...Murder. Meanwhile Oswald continued working at the warehouse. On Nov. 6 Pierre Salinger disclosed Kennedy's Dallas date: Nov. 22. On the night of Thursday, Nov. 21, Oswald stayed at the Paine house in Irving-a departure from his routine of weekend visits. He went to bed early. Next morning the Dallas Morning News published a map showing the route of the presidential motorcade. On the same morning, Oswald got a ride to work with a neighbor, Wesley Frazier. Oswald was carrying a long package, wrapped in brown paper, told Frazier that it contained window shades...