Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Thank you. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is episode 108. I'm sorry it's

taken so long to put out the next episode, but as happens from time to time, life's gotten in the way.

I hope everybody is enjoying this holiday weekend.

And yes, here in the States, it's one of the biggest. It's the 4th of July. And I hope every one of

you here has great plans for some fun and something that's peaceful and gratifying. Because of the delay in getting out that next episode,

we're going to defer chopping the Oswald timeline into smaller pieces.

If time permits at a later date, we'll get back to that.

But you can listen to the comprehensive timeline in episode 107.

Now that we have finished up our work with the Oswald timeline, it's back to Russia,

back to the time when Oswald was living in Minsk.

So it's a very interesting period of his life because Oswald, as a person, was just rounding

the milestone age of 20 and was coming into his own as an adult.

And clearly, some of the social impediments that were so prominent for him in the States

took on a different dynamic when he got to the Soviet Union.

Here, he did make what may have been a first set of adult relationships outside of the military

realm. People who were able to see him and view him and get to know him, they were Russian, of course.

And many of them had things to say about Oswald, and you'll hear from some of them on this

trip to Minsk. And what's relevant about it is their assessment of the type of person that he was,

or at least to them, who he was.

And there are some relatively strong statements and opinions made by these individuals

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