Word: oswalds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heartful Sincerity. Strangely enough, for Russian-born Marina Oswald, 22-year-old widow of Kennedy's assassin, this Christmas-and perhaps only this Christmas-seemed "wonderful." Life with Lee Harvey Oswald had always been hard and unpredictable. But last week, after the seclusion imposed upon her by the Secret Service, she became radiant over the opportunity to attend a midnight Christmas Mass and to enjoy a glittering tree surrounded by donated gifts. Inside the 20 large boxes were clothes and toys, including 15 dolls for two-year-old June and two-month-old Rachel. Marina visited with her brother...
...select the "Hatemonger." He should be shown as a young man with two rifles under his arm (Oswald's and Beckwith's), copies of Das Kapital and Mein Kampf in the other hand, and a police dog at his side. This would cover the haters from Southeast Asia to South Africa to Alabama...
Meantime, the seven-member Warren commission moved ponderously ahead with its work. Warren ordered the FBI to add more details to its five-volume report, told the State Department that it too must flesh out its findings about the background of Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. "They are summary reports in more or less skeleton form," said Warren, "and in order to evaluate them, we have to see the materials on which they are based...
...Viva Fidel." National headquarters of the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee in Manhattan also turned up letters from Oswald. The first, written from Dallas last April, said: "I do not like to ask for something for nothing but I am unemployed. Since I am unemployed I stood yesterday for the first time in my life, with a placard around my neck, passing out fair play for Cuba pamphlets, etc. I only had 15 or so. In 40 minutes they were all gone. I was cursed as well as praised by some. My home-make placard said 'Hands...
Meanwhile, Oswald's widow Marina said that she wanted to continue to live in the U.S., preferably in Dallas. Still in protective seclusion, under guard by Secret Service agents, she was described as overwhelmed by the generosity of U.S. residents, who have contributed some $12,000 toward the future support of herself and her two children. Similar contributions to the widow of Patrolman J. D. Tippit, who was slain by Oswald after the President's assassination, now total more than...