S8 Ep365: Guest Author: Paul Gregory Headline: A Tale of Two Funerals: Burial and Delusion Summary: While the world watched JFK’s funeral, a small group buried Lee Harvey Oswald, with reporters serving as pallbearers. The Gregory family’s Thanksgiving was overshado
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
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Headline: A Tale of Two Funerals: Burial and Delusion
Summary: While the world watched JFK’s funeral, a small group buried Lee Harvey Oswald, with reporters serving as pallbearers. The Gregory family’s Thanksgiving was overshadowed by the trauma and Margarite Oswald’s erratic behavior, as she clashed with agents and insisted on her son's innocence.
Article: As the nation mourned President Kennedy, Marina and Margarite struggled to bury Lee in a grim ceremony where reporters had to carry the coffin, with Marina devastated by the contrast between her husband's end and the televised images of the Kennedy family. The Gregory family spent a foggy Thanksgiving recovering from the ordeal, discussing Margarite's delusional assertions that she was being persecuted by the very Secret Service agents trying to protect her, behavior that highlighted the dysfunction she passed down to her son.
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| 0:51.9 | I'm John matched with Paul Gregory of the Hoover Institution, who's the author of the new book, The Oswald, filled with stunning facts about the tragedy of the murder of John F. Kennedy, and then the murder of Officer Tippett, and then the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| 1:09.7 | These things are overwhelming America that's seeing it on live television, as if something |
| 1:15.9 | has happened to the world. |
| 1:18.9 | We've spun out of control. |
| 1:20.5 | One after another, we come to the funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| 1:23.9 | The president's on television to be buried in Arlington. |
| 1:27.4 | Marguerite and Marina with two babies are now going to attempt to bury Lee Harvey Oswald in a cemetery called Rose Hill. They have difficulty finding a pastor. They do find a mortuary. And Lee Harvey Oswald, his coffin is carried to the grave by reporters who were on the scene. |
| 1:48.5 | It's a barren scene, wind-swept in my imagination, Paul, reading your copy. |
| 1:53.8 | Marina at this point is, what mood, Paul? |
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