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3/8: The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee Hardcover – by Paul R. Gregory (Author)

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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3/8: 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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Paul Gregory is the author of the new book The Oswalds,

0:40.0

an untold account of Marina and Lee Oswald.

0:43.3

It is the summer of 1962.

0:46.0

Paul's at home with his family and taking Russian conversation lessons for Marina Oswald,

0:54.3

intending to pay Marina for her labor.

0:58.2

They quickly establish a routine where Paul goes over, perhaps twice a week,

1:03.7

about six or anything afternoon after Lee Harvey Oswald has come home from his day labor.

1:09.8

And then they sit and converse.

1:12.0

One of the most vivid parts of the book to me, having read it in manuscript before,

1:18.0

is when Paul comes into their modest room, there are very few conveniences.

1:23.4

There's no fan, there's no air conditioning.

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