Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald October 18 1939 November 24 1963 was a US Marine veteran who assassinated John F Kennedy the 35th president of the United States on November 22 1963 Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at age twelve for truancy during which he was assessed by a psychiatrist as emotionally disturbed due to a lack of normal family life He attended twelve schools in his youth quitting repeatedly and at age seventeen he joined the Marines where he was courtmartialed twice and jailed In 1959 he was discharged from active duty into the Marine Corps Reserve then flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union He lived in Minsk married a Russian woman named Marina and had a daughter In June 1962 he returned to the United States with his wife and eventually settled in Dallas Texas where their second daughter was born Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22 1963 from a sixthfloor window of the Texas School Book Depository as Kennedy traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas About 45 minutes after assassinating Kennedy Oswald murdered Dallas police officer J D Tippit on a local street He then slipped into a movie theater where he was arrested for Tippits murder Oswald was charged with the assassination of Kennedy but he denied responsibility for the killing claiming that he was a patsy Two days later Oswald himself was murdered by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters In September 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that both Oswald and Ruby had acted alone This conclusion though controversial was supported by investigations from the Dallas Police Department the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI the United States Secret Service and the House Select Committee on Assassinations HSCA Despite forensic ballistic and eyewitness accounts supporting the official findings public opinion polls have shown that most Americans still do not believe that the official version tells the whole truth of the events and the assassination has spawned numerous conspiracy theories Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Harvey Oswald licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia