Lee Harvey Oswald: Biography, Facts & Death
Lee Harvey Oswald had a rough childhood. Lee was born on October 18, 1935 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. His father’s name was Robert Oswald jr. his mother’s name was Marguerite Oswald. His father died before he was born. After he was born, his mother remarried and moved to New York City.
While in New York, Lee began an interest in reading. After a few years in the city of New York, he moved back to New Orleans. Nobody really liked or cared about Lee, so he spent time reading throughout his childhood.
Oswald is known for assassinating President John F. Kennedy. This happened in 1963, a year after he had left the Soviet Union. This was unexpected and created controversy around the country. This was a weird assassination because two days after Oswald shot Kennedy, Oswald was shot too by Jack Ruby.
Jack Ruby said he killed Oswald because he was angry, but there are too many conspiracies about why Lee Harvey Oswald was killed and if there was some another shooter. There were three shots fired so it could have been possible.
Oswald does not have many other accomplishments because he did not live a full life. He died at the age of twenty eight. Before he died though, he joined the marines. He dropped out of high school to do so. It has been said Oswald had an accurate shot, so that explains how he did hit the president in the head.
He did not serve full time in the marines because he did have to leave the marines because he had illegal guns in his possession. Also, Lee was not just someone who had nothing to live for. He had a wife and a daughter who he left behind after shooting and killing the president.
Lee Harvey Oswald was interested in communism. That was part of the reason why he shot the president. Lee attempted many times to leave America. After leaving the marines, he tried moving to the Soviet Union. After a few years of trying to get in, the Soviet Union let him in.
He lived there for 3 years and also married Marina Prusakova. He moved back to America because life was not good for him there, but while in America he supported Cuba and was against making Cuba a threat to America. Eventually he just got fed up of living in America and killed JFK.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy was a terrible day for America. It was bad for the time because the Soviet Union was becoming a bigger threat every day and having the president killed was not very good. People are still to this day saying the assassination was set up by more than just Lee Harvey Oswald but others disagree. It is sketchy that Lee was killed, and that a government official was shot too, but that does not really matter anymore.
Lee Harvey Oswald will probably forever be a historical figure forever remembered in America, but not for a good reason.
