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...Commander. Oswald was driven by a storm of black compulsions. He forbade his wife to wear lipstick, insisted that they speak only Russian, refused to let her learn English-though she desperately wanted to learn the language and hoped to become an American citizen. A nonsmoker and teetotaler, he flew into rages when his wife lit a cigarette. He beat her on several occasions. They both fought furiously, often over tiny differences. Once, at the dinner table, he told her: "Get the catchup." Marina replied: "Quit being a commander." Snapped her husband: "I am the commander...
Marina frequently spoke of leaving him and once went to stay at a friend's house, where she complained that Oswald was cold toward her, that he would have sexual relations with her only about once every two months. "I felt sorry for him," she told a friend in an effort to explain why she had married him. "Everybody hated him-even in Russia...
Last April Oswald was out of a job and broke. Mrs. Paine took Marina to stay with her while Oswald went job hunting in New Orleans. Two weeks later he found employment, and Mrs. Paine drove Marina and the baby to New Orleans. But in September Oswald was again jobless. Mrs. Paine, whose kindness seems remarkable, once more drove to New Orleans, took the woman and the baby back to Texas...
During that period Oswald became the self-declared chairman of the New Orleans chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, a pro-Castro outfit. He also got a card at a New Orleans public library, drew out several spy novels by Ian Fleming (Kennedy's favorite cloak-and-dagger author), a book about Kennedy called Portrait of a President, another about the Berlin Wall, two novels by Aldous Huxley, and several books on Soviet and Chinese Communism-nearly all of which were distinctly anti-Communist in flavor -and a book describing the assassination of Huey Long...
...Dallas. Was Oswald even then planning the assassination of the President? The chronology of his later actions tells much-even while leaving the answer tantalizingly beyond reach...