{"id":1943711,"date":"2023-06-04T05:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T09:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/life-of-a-lone-gunman\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T05:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T09:19:59","slug":"life-of-a-lone-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/life-of-a-lone-gunman\/","title":{"rendered":"The life of a solitary gunman."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flife-of-a-lone-gunman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1943711&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Oswalds: An Untold Account of Marina and Lee<\/h2>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It has been nearly six decades since President John F. Kennedy was cut down on the streets of Dallas by rifle shots fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, a &#8220;nut&#8221; and a &#8220;loser&#8221; by some accounts, but also a Marxist, defector to the Soviet Union, and admirer of Fidel Castro. The event shocked the nation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/life-of-a-lone-gunman\/\" title=\"The life of a solitary gunman.\">disrupted complacent assumptions<\/a> about the stability of the American order. The assassin, whatever his motives might have been, delivered a blow to the American psyche with effects that lingered for years afterwards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Kennedy assassination still provokes heated disagreement about who really killed the president and how the event should be understood. Who was Oswald? Was he capable of carrying out such an act? If so, what were his motives? Was he part of a conspiracy to murder the president?<\/p>\n<p>Paul R. Gregory provides answers to these questions in <em>The Oswalds<\/em>, a personal memoir of his relationship with Lee and Marina Oswald during the summer of 1962 when the couple had few American friends or acquaintances. At that time, Gregory was an undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma studying economics and Russian, and Oswald had only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hungary-takes-lead-as-europe-prepares-to-begin-covid-19-vaccinations\/\" title=\"Hungary takes lead as Europe prepares to begin COVID-19 vaccinations\">recently arrived back<\/a> in the United States with his Russian wife after his earlier defection to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<h3>Gregory&#8217;s Relationship with the Oswalds<\/h3>\n<p>Gregory met the Oswalds through his father, a member of the tight-knit Russian community in the Dallas area, whom Oswald approached as someone who might certify that he was fluent in Russian so that he might <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">find work<\/a> as a translator. The younger Gregory visited the Oswalds twice per week through that summer in their small apartment while taking Russian instruction from Marina and helping the couple adjust to their new surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>He took them on shopping errands (Oswald did not have access to a car) and drove the couple on sightseeing trips through the area. He was aware of Oswald\u2019s Marxist leanings but saw no signs at the time that he might act on those beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory, along with his father, introduced the Oswalds to the Russian community in Dallas, a generally professional, conservative, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cubas-top-spy-freed-by-obama-threatens-dissidents-they-underestimate-the-revolution\/\" title=\"Cuba's Top Spy, Freed by Obama, Threatens Dissidents: 'They Underestimate the Revolution'\">anti-communist group<\/a> (not Oswald\u2019s kind of crowd). The Russian Americans responded warmly to Marina but took a disliking to Oswald, who refused to answer questions about why he defected to the Soviet Union and why he had returned to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In the months that followed, they looked for opportunities to help Marina but preferred to avoid dealing with Lee. Marina and Lee had starkly different personalities and temperaments, so much so that Gregory wondered how they could have been married in the first place.<\/p>\n<h3>Oswald&#8217;s Motives<\/h3>\n<p>Gregory\u2019s overall assessment of the event is hardly novel: He agrees with the main outlines of the Warren Commission report and with Priscilla McMillan\u2019s conclusions about Oswald in her authoritative biography, <em>Marina and Lee<\/em> (1977), written with Marina\u2019s cooperation. McMillan similarly concluded that Oswald shot President Kennedy for personal, not ideological, reasons.<\/p>\n<p>This latter point is an aspect of <em>The Oswalds<\/em> that is still open to debate. Oswald might have been a &#8220;jerk&#8221; or a &#8220;nut,&#8221; but he was also a communist and a dedicated one at that. That combination may have made him a more lethal threat to American leaders than the run-of-the mill outsider or the arm-chair Marxist. He looked for opportunities to act on his beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory recounts in his book many of the facts that might point to ideological motives in the assassination. Oswald, after all, defected to the Soviet Union in 1959, denouncing America and capitalism in the process, and promising the Soviets that he would turn over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-tells-new-york-times-it-hid-covid-data-for-political-reasons\/\" title=\"CDC Tells New York Times It Hid Covid Data For Political Reasons\">secret military information<\/a> that he acquired during his stint in the Marines. He returned in 1962 disillusioned with the Soviet system but now intrigued with third-world revolutionaries like Castro, Mao, and Ho Chi Minh.<\/p>\n<p>Oswald stepped up his political activities toward the end of 1962, perhaps in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis. From that time forward, he invested disproportionate energies in political intrigues.<\/p>\n<p>In early 1963, Oswald ordered a rifle by mail for the purpose of assassinating Gen. Edwin Walker, the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas, then in the news for opposing desegregation in the schools and demanding an American invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost 60 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was described as a &#8220;nut&#8221; and a &#8220;loser.&#8221; Oswald was a Marxist, defected to the Soviet Union, and admired Fidel Castro. 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