5/8: The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee Hardcover – by Paul R. Gregory (Author)
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5/8: 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. |
| 0:08.4 | Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:11.4 | Paul Gregory is the author of The Oswalds. |
| 0:15.1 | An untold account you bet it's untold until this book, Marina and Lee Oswald. |
| 0:20.3 | It is November 23rd, the day after the murder. |
| 0:25.0 | The day after the murder not only of President Kennedy, but officer |
| 0:28.8 | Tippett by Lee Harvey Oswald, who is in custody at the Dallas Police Headquarters, surrounded |
| 0:35.8 | by tall hats and tall men. |
| 0:38.5 | However, in these events of these next days, we're going to introduce one new important |
| 0:44.6 | character, Marguerite. |
| 0:46.9 | Marguerite is 57 years old, as Paul describes her dowry, bespectacled and a nurse. |
| 0:53.5 | However, she's lived what Paul characterizes a vagabond life. |
| 0:57.6 | She was in that class that Pete Gregory gave as a volunteer at the Fort Worth Public Library. |
| 1:06.3 | She knew him to name him to Lee Harvey Oswald, which is how Lee Oswald got to Pete's office |
| 1:12.2 | back in 1962. |
| 1:14.9 | But now she calls Pete Gregory asking for help. |
| 1:19.0 | Paul, this is another momentous detail that lacks verisimilitude. |
| 1:24.8 | The Oswald, Marina Oswald and Marguerite Oswald are abducted by Life Magazine photographers |
| 1:31.1 | in the afternoon of the 22nd, who mean to make them a focus of Life Magazine revelations, |
| 1:36.8 | Time Magazine with Kennedy on the cover from 1962. |
| 1:40.4 | And now Life Magazine spirts them to the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, which you tell me is a luxury |
| 1:45.6 | hotel. |
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