1/8: The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee Hardcover – by Paul R. Gregory (Author)
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1/8: The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee Hardcover – by Paul R. Gregory (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Oswalds-Untold-Account-Marina-Lee/dp/1635768217
Merely two hours after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma, watching the coverage in the student center, Paul Gregory scanned the figure in dark trousers and a white, V-neck tee shirt and saw the bruised and battered face of Lee Harvey Oswald. Shocked, Gregory said, “I know that man.” In fact, he knew Oswald and his wife Marina better than almost anyone in America.
After sixty years, Paul Gregory finally tells everything he knows about the Oswalds and how he watched the soul of a killer take shape1
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:11.3 | It is November 22, 1963, a day in infamy. That morning, President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy |
| 0:21.8 | are departing from a hotel in Fort Worth, Texas. A one of our protagonists in the telling |
| 0:28.9 | of a new book, The Oswald's by Paul Gregory. One of our protagonists is Paul's father, |
| 0:35.5 | Pete. |
| 0:38.0 | Piotr Petrovich Gagoriath, an escapee from the Soviet creature many years before, now |
| 0:46.6 | gainfully employed, he has an oil engineer in a booming Texas. His office is in the Continental |
| 0:54.0 | Life Insurance Building nearby the hotel where the Kennedys have stayed overnight. He |
| 1:00.1 | goes down with the other well-wishers to stand in front of the hotel as the President comes |
| 1:07.3 | out and says a few words in a light rain. I welcome Paul Gregory because this story of |
| 1:14.3 | The Oswald from the point of view of Paul as a young man and his father as a mature |
| 1:20.3 | and very capable translator of Russian, take us inside the Oswald marriage and you can |
| 1:27.5 | puzzle for yourself once again what motivated Lee Harvey Oswald to commit this monstrous |
| 1:34.5 | act. Paul, congratulations, good evening. It's an overwhelming story, but I ask you to first |
| 1:41.5 | stand in place of your father. What did he see that morning? What did he think? |
| 1:47.1 | Well, as he say, the Continental Life Building was about half a block from Texas Hotel, so |
| 1:55.7 | he went over, joined the crowd, a very enthusiastic and friendly crowd by the way, which is an important |
| 2:03.3 | point because there was concern of the secret service about sending a Kennedy on this trip to |
| 2:12.8 | Texas, which supposedly was dominated by crazy right-wing forces. So it is important to note |
| 2:22.5 | that the crowd was very friendly. Few words, the President returns to the hotel and there was |
| 2:33.9 | a meeting of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and that's where he delivered a speech, there was |
| 2:41.7 | a demand to see Jackie, so Jackie had to make an appearance in her pink outfit, which became quite |
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