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Working with Lawrence Schiller, the investigator and literary operator, Mailer spent six months in Minsk and Moscow interviewing friends and co-workers who knew the American defector in 1959 and the early '60s, when he worked unhappily in a Soviet radio plant and courted and married Marina Prusakova. Mailer and Schiller also interviewed some of the KGB agents who had the stupefying work of following Oswald around, and they read the KGB transcripts from the electronic bugs installed in the Oswalds' Minsk apartment-the intimacies and banalities of quarreling newlyweds. ("Wife: [yells] ... I'm not going to cook. L.H.O...
When directed to give her name, the pencil-thin, brown-haired woman in the witness chair of a congressional hearing room said nervously: "Marina Prusakova Porter...
...when the Russian government was threatening to kick Oswald out of the country, he slashed a wrist in an abortive suicide attempt. The Soviet government purportedly took pity, allowed Oswald to stay on, got him a job as a metal worker in Minsk, where he met and married Marina Prusakova, then a 19-year-old pharmacist...
...nomadic, neurotic past of Lee Harvey Oswald were still being filled in. Among them were copies of 15 letters Oswald had written to his mother, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, in 1961-62, when he was in Russia, where he unsuccessfully sought Soviet citizenship, and married a Russian girl named Marina Prusakova. What the letters mostly proved was that Oswald was not much on grammar, spelling or punctuation. Excerpts...
...institution-but the city Family Court turned down the recommendation. Many of the other details of Oswald's early life-his disgruntled Marine Corps years, his 33-month stay in Moscow during an unsuccessful attempt to get Soviet citizenship, his marriage there to Hospital Pharmacist Marina Prusakova-had become known within hours after his arrest (TIME, Nov. 29). He returned to the U.S. in June 1962, with his wife and four-month-old baby, and drifted among various odd jobs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. There the Oswalds met several Russian immigrants, notably a sympathetic woman, Mrs. Ruth...