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Marina and Lee, the tormented love and fatal obsession behind Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John F. Kennedy, Priscilla Johnson McMillan ; foreword by Joseph Finder

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Priscilla Johnson McMillan ; foreword by Joseph Finder

the tormented love and fatal obsession behind Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John F. Kennedy

The inside story of Lee Harvey Oswald's path to killing John. F. Kennedy. Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America's most traumatic events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous, at times even moment by moment, account of Oswald's progress toward the assassination, Priscilla Johnson McMillan takes us inside Oswald's fevered mind and his manic marriage. When Marina, only a few weeks after giving birth to their second child, hears of Kennedy's death and discovers that Lee's rifle is missing from the garage where it was stored, she knows that her husband has killed the President. McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s she had worked for Kennedy and had known him well for a time. Later, working in Moscow as a journalist, she interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald during his attempt to defect to the Soviet Union. When she heard his name again on November 22, 1963, she said, "My God! I know that boy!" Marina and Lee was written with the complete and exclusive cooperation of Oswald's Russian-born wife, Marina Prusakova, whom McMillan debriefed for seven months in the immediate aftermath of the President's assassination and her husband's nationally televised execution at the hands of Jack Ruby. The truth is far more compelling, and unsettling, than the most imaginative conspiracy theory. Marina and Lee is a human drama that is outrageous, heartbreaking, tragic, fascinating. . . and real

Part one: Russia, 1941-1961. Archangel ; Moldavia ; Death of Klavdia ; Farewell to Leningrad ; Meeting in Minsk -- Part two: Russia, 1961-1962. Courtship ; The wedding ; Journey to Moscow ; Marina's ordeal ; The long wait ; Birth of June ; Departure for America -- Part three: Texas, 1962-1963. Family reunion ; Summer in Fort Worth ; The émigrès ; Ingratitude ; Dallas ; George de Mohrenschildt ; Reconciliation ; Lee and George ; The revolver ; The sanction ; "Ready for anything" ; Walker ; Legacies -- Part four: New Orleans, Mexico City, Dallas, 1963. Brief separation ; Magazine Street ; Castro and Kennedy ; Arrest ; "You understand me" ; Parting ; A new disappointment ; Lee and Michael ; Agent Hosty ; The President's visit ; November 22, 1963 ; The wedding ring ; An end and a beginning

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Marina & LeeTormented love and fatal obsession behind Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John F. Kennedy