This coming November will mark the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

by Lee Harvey Oswald. Today on Uncommon Knowledge, a man who knew Lee Harvey Oswald. Paul Gregory,

on Uncommon Knowledge, now.

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson. Now a fellow at the Hoover Institution here at

Stanford, Paul Gregory holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma and a doctorate

in economics from Harvard. Dr. Gregory is a leading figure in the study of the Soviet economy

and now the Russian economy, and his textbook on the Russian economy remained for many years

in use in classrooms across the country. But what interests us today is not Dr. Gregory's

academic career, but one summer in 1962. From Dr. Gregory's new book, The Oswald's.

From June through mid-September of 1962, I was the sole companion of Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald

outside of Lee's immediate family. I visited this young married couple often. I drove them around

Fort Worth in my family's yellow Buick as we talked, shopped, and explored the city.

Paul, welcome. Please to be here. How did it come to be that you drove Lee Harvey Oswald and his

wife, Marina, around Fort Worth in your family's yellow Buick? It so happened that when Lee returned

to the United States in June of 1962, with Marina, he had in mind that he would get a high-paying

job. You need to explain here. Return to the United States in 1962 from Minsk, USSR,

sort of a backwater provincial city. He had defected from the United States to the Soviet Union in 1959.

Live there for three years and returned in 1962 with his wife,

a Russian Marina. He returned with Marina and an infant daughter, June. He had in mind that he

would get a high-paying job based upon his experience of three years behind the Iron Curtain

and based upon his knowledge of Russian. My father, who is Russian, taught Russian at the

public library and was known as someone who could attest to knowledge of Russian. So the Texas

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