Word: oswalds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Job. With Marina on her way to Dallas, Oswald left New Orleans without paying his apartment rent. A few days later he turned up at the Cuban consulate in Mexico City. He demanded a visa, was told that it would take time, stormed out in anger. Next he went to the Soviet consulate and asked for a Russian visa. Again he was told that there would be a delay, and again he stomped out. On Oct. 4 he called Marina at the Paine house. He was in Dallas and hoped to find a job, and he asked...
...floor, usually dressed in a white T shirt and slacks. He went looking for a job, and I gave him a city map of the Dallas-Fort Worth area -that infamous map-so he could find the places." After Kennedy's death that map was found in Oswald's room...
Ruth Paine landed Oswald his last job. From a neighbor she heard of an opening at the Texas Book Depository on Elm Street in Dallas. She called the warehouse and recommended Lee. That day, Oct. 14, Lee took an $8-a-week room in a boardinghouse on North Beckley Avenue. He gave his name as O. H. Lee. Next day he was hired at the warehouse. On Oct. 20 his second daughter, Rachel, was born...
...Thursday, Nov. 21, Oswald turned up at the house unexpectedly. He went to bed at 9 p.m., while Ruth and Marina stayed up and talked. Next morning Lee was up and gone before anyone else in the household was awake. He caught a ride to Dallas with a coworker, Wesley Frazier. He carried a long object wrapped in brown paper. "Curtain rods," he explained...
Seconds later, three shots were fired -and President Kennedy was dead or dying. Lee Oswald slipped out a rear entrance of the building, walked six blocks, returned to Elm and boarded a bus. The bus bogged down in traffic. Oswald got off, walked a few blocks, got into a cab, ordered the driver to drop him on the 500 block of North Beckley-five blocks beyond his room. He paid the 950 fare, gave the driver a nickel tip, hurried to his room, ran out again with a windbreaker...