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6/8: The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee Hardcover – by Paul R. Gregory (Author)

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🗓️ 16 April 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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6/8: 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

And John Bachelot Paul Gregory of the Hoover Institution, who is the author of the new book,

0:09.3

The Oswald, filled with stunning facts about the tragedy of the murder of John F. Kennedy,

0:17.3

and then the murder of Officer Tippett and then the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.

0:22.6

These things are overwhelming America that's seeing it on live television as if something

0:28.5

has happened to the world we spun out of control one after another.

0:34.6

We come to the funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald.

0:36.6

The Presidents on television, we buried in Arlington, Marguerite and Marina with two babies

0:43.9

are now going to attempt to bury Lee Harvey Oswald in a cemetery called Rose Hill.

0:50.8

They have difficulty finding a pastor.

0:52.8

They do find a mortuary.

0:55.2

And Lee Harvey Oswald is often is carried to the grave by reporters who were on the scene.

1:01.2

It's a barren scene, wind swept in my imagination, Paul, reading your copy.

1:06.7

Marina at this point is what mood, Paul?

1:10.3

What did your father say about Marina, witnessing all these events, bang, bang, bang?

1:18.0

Well, his story was that she was constantly smoking and drinking coffee.

1:27.5

She was very emotional when they went to park London and she viewed the body.

1:32.1

And there were certain rituals that Russians perform in such situations.

1:37.9

And she performed those rituals.

1:40.9

And she then asked, I want to see the wound, but the attending positions did not allow her

1:47.8

to see the wound.

1:49.6

So there was some emotion at that point.

1:53.0

I would say she was in the in a day.

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