Word: oswalds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lean prose, Manchester skillfully traces Oswald's mounting frustrations and emphasizes his wife Marina's role in bringing him to the breaking point. "Lee," he writes, "had thought he had found a beautiful, dedicated Communist who would forever be his submissive darling. He had expected her to scorn the world that scorned him and reject the materialism of a capitalist society." Instead, she jeered at all his failures and paid him the ultimate insult of leaving him. Somewhat melodramatically, Manchester pictures Oswald "going mad" while watching a flickering TV set the night before the murder. The author never...
...moment of the killing was a "blur," and he gave a madman's mixture of reasons for the murder: because of his grief at the loss of the President ("I loved that man"), because he did not want Jackie Kennedy to be forced to return to Dallas for Oswald's trial, because he had read a "heartbreaking letter" to Caroline Kennedy in a newspaper that morning. At one point he blurted to cops and federal agents after his arrest: "I guess I just had to show the world a Jew has guts...
When he died last week in Parkland Hospital-where both Kennedy and Oswald died-Ruby was a pathetically shrunken caricature of the swaggering bully boy who had worshiped the "beautiful people" and spent his life wishing he were one of them. The lights that used to shine on the posters of his strippers-Little Lynn, Tammi, Penny Dollar-are still outside the Carousel Club, but they burned out long ago, and Ruby's cherished nightspot is out of business; the space has been rented by the Dallas Police Athletic League as a gymnasium for underprivileged kids...
...sides applauded-but, as Holland saw it, the smaller city (pop. 140,000) was "far enough away not to come under the influence of the Dallas newspapers and TV stations." Moreover, he argued, in the first Dallas trial, "the jurors were within sight of the scene where Ruby killed Oswald as well as the scene where Oswald shot the President. That kind of thing is just not good...
Died. Jack Ruby, 55, convicted slayer of Presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald; of a pulmonary embolism; in Dallas (see THE NATION...