Lee Harvey Oswald also was accused of killing Dallas police officer J.D. They said it would depreciate the value of their home. I've wondered what my kids are going to turn out like. I don't know if it's the interview you mean but I have a copy of one with Rachael from 1995 from a publication called 'Texas Monthly'. And she said, "June Oswald?" I hung up the phone shaking my head at Marguerite Oswald's dizzying logic. ", I said I appreciate it, but I really don't get involved in that. She is convinced that her phones are tapped by the Secret Service and the Secret Service wants to kill her. A: Well, there was a lot of misinformation being released related to a book, "Case Closed," by Gerald Posner. I just remember crying a lot because Mom was crying. (1963 - 2013) Photos: 50. For all of Oswalds notoriety, there was little reaction to her being on campus. Another car pulls up -- and that's the parents and the little boy. And I said, "Yes?" He had been covering activities at the Dallas Police Department Building for KRLD and CBS News, standing no more than 11 feet from Oswald when he heard Jack Ruby's .38 revolver and saw Oswald fall. For all I know it's still tapped. Or are we going to provide help simply because here is a human being in trouble who desperately needs help?. Because some people have called me and said, "I knew your father and he really loved you." He beat my mother. In 1965, Marina Oswald [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Oswald_Porter ] got remarried to Kenneth Jess Porter, an electrician who was a neighb See, this is the difference. WebMarina met Lee Harvey Oswald (a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union) at a dance on March 17, 1961. Since I hadn't gotten a response, I toyed with the idea that I might have to go public. There was a bill passed at the end of the Bush Administration that required all Government agencies to review their files for any information related to the assassination and to release it -- unless they felt there were matters of national security or a couple of other issues. He said things when we were together like he really wanted to have children because "that would be the blood of Lee Harvey Oswald that was flowing through the kids.". By The first car was The National Enquirer. I've never seen her act like that, like she needed to become more of a crusader, and it's taking its toll. l think her physical health and mental health have been damaged in recent years over all of the pressures put on her. Are they going to take after some ancestor we don't even know? She implored the audience to question accepted knowledge about the assassination. From The New York Times Magazine April 30, 1995. There were times when we didn't have milk to drink. So he moved to Boston and wanted me to join him. She didn't feel like Kenneth was her dad. The first chapter opens with my family, and he goes way back to my great-grandmother in Russia. Because some people have called me and said, "I knew your father and he really loved you." I can tell you that I am very excited about the book in concept. As for what his exact role in the assassination was - well, he'll have to be judged for that before God. ", Under the watch of the Secret Service, the grieving widow and her children stayed with Marguerite at the Inn of the Six Flags Motel outside Dallas. The next memory I actually have is in second grade. Based on U-M and church records, this may well have been Maurine Hovey Nolan, an ELI lecturer and longtime member of the congregation. A: I don't have a comment on it as far as its conclusions because I haven't read them, but I did start the book. I just remember crying a lot because Mom was crying. John F. Kennedy, on November 24, 1963, as Oswald was being transferred to a county jail. A: I would make a difference in the sense of justice being served. Now, Mom does articles that she doesn't bother to tell me she's doing, and sometimes my name comes up. What investigation? * J Edgar Hoover himself solved the crime within 2 hours or so of the murder * The FBIs sole purpose then was to prove J Edgar The Presidents were all around the walls in the rooms. I also had an interview for Rachel Oswald, but haven't located it. I do blame him for having beat my mother, and not being a good father or a good provider. The first car was The National Enquirer. But I don't remember that. On February 15, 1962 their daughter, June Lee Oswald, was born. For all I know it's still tapped. My husband couldn't have cared less. Cookie Policy We lived in poor housing, or were taken in by others. I'm convinced that your mother and Priscilla had a sexual relationship." We visited the set of "J.F.K." Fitzgerald, JFK Novelist is proudly powered by, In thriller novel SAVING JACKIE K "Everything in my novel is true, except the stuff I made up. Since I hadn't gotten a response, I toyed with the idea that I might have to go public. Scheduled to start classes in January 1965, Oswalds arrival was leaked just days before Christmas, forcing the University to acknowledge her enrollment in a terse news release. She had been in the United States all of 17 months. Q: Do you worry about telling your children as they grow up? "She never knew when we'd run into someone, and she didn't want us to look like poor white trash"' June says simply. At U-M, she would join 29 international students from Mexico, Israel, Greece, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere hoping to improve their English. It's right across from the Capitol, and she was a waitress. If she was led to LHO in Russia and then to his family after Dallas, what does that tell us? Oh great!" A few men sent letters to the ELI office in hopes of striking up a romantic relationship with Oswald. DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) Robert Edward Lee Oswald Jr., the older brother of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, has died in Wichita Falls. He sold an article for an astronomical amount back then - I think it was $25,000. We didn't use the Oswald name, and it didn't come up a lot around the house except when reporters would call. Are you able to maintain the same detachment when you see that? In my book she belongs where her husband is. In 1963, after the assassination of President Kennedy, Oswald was arrested. One would think they would be more anxious to try to, clear his name. The only mention of Nice to see you over here. And she's just welcoming them with open arms. But anonymity exacted a curious price of its own, as June faced myriad graceless references to her father, mother and family. Bentley Historical Library, Vice President for Development records. Oswald's girlfriend offers variation on JFK assassination. by certain people in the critical communiity, so no wonder they are a bit gunshy. Several years later, Ernest Campbell reflected on the episode initiated by one of his congregants. Mom accused me one day of being ashamed of who I was. His oldest daughter, June, I believe attended the Univ. of Texas and graduated first in her class or very high in her class. Shes made some TV app Oswald was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939 to Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. (18961939) and Marguerite Frances Claverie (19071981). Robert Oswald died of a heart attack two months before Lee was born. She had been in the United States all of 17 And there have been public hearings there and in Dallas and Boston. I would have liked for him to have his day in court.Q: Where do you stand today as far as your perception of what really happened out there in Dealey Plaza?A: I've never publicly said one way or the other for sure. Porter is 81 years old. I do blame him for having beat my mother, and not being a good father -- or a good provider. But I still have problems in that area, because I date a lot. It also gives us information that helps explain Marina Oswalds comments about the assassination. Please get her away from Michigan. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. "I am the strongest person in this tragedy because I have lost everything," she told one journalist who came knocking a decade after the assassination. People sent us money following the assassination, because Mom was young with two small children and didn't speak the language. It's not a matter of being ashamed, it's a matter of wanting to be judged as June Oswald and not "the daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald.". We are very close -- except when these kinds of things come up. I started worrying about, first of all, do I have a responsibility to tell them? That didn't set well with me. Are we going to vilify and harass her for what her husband was accused of doing? "I do not think that she is a very sound thinking woman, and I think that part of the guilt is hers," she told the Warren Commission. Q: I assume you've seen the footage of Lee being shot by Jack Ruby. I think she is out to make money than if she has to say he is guilty. [3] They married six weeks later and had a A: I've always called him that. Baker, who said she was a trained nurse, referred to the plot as a cancer research project. They said it would depreciate the value of their home. When my mother came on and this interview went so badly, I decided I really wanted to rebut. I had a conversation like that with her in about 88. I answered every letter, rightly or wrongly feeling it the obligation of my ministry to do so. "A: I've always called him that. Q: I'm sure there must have been a lot of unusual incidents as you were growing up. Just out of the blue. I want to make sure they understand why I'm so matter-of-fact about it. Lee Harvey Oswald Daughters - Rachell and June - The Oswald Mystery of the JFK Files Watch on By all accounts, she was a devoted mom to her two daughters by Oswald June (now 51) and Rachel (now 50), who told The ENQUIRER: Yes, when asked if she believes her father was innocent. Now, the word father does mean Lee to me. Q: Your childhood doesn't sound like it was easy. She managed to evade the media upon arriving (She slipped into our community at night by train while a battery of reporters were waiting hawkishly at the airport, Campbell said), but photographers were waiting when she stepped onto campus the morning of January 5 for ELI orientation. During her talk, Baker criticized newspaper reports that she said inaccurately portrayed Oswald as a mentally unstable communist. Anyone can read what you share. I have a copy of an earlier interview with June from 1983. After her death from cancer on January 17, 1981, Marguerite Claverie Oswald was laid to rest in the Rose Hill Cemetery. The assassination has also been a constant in the life of June Oswald Porter, the 33-year-old daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. The law said that if they felt that way, then those documents needed to be turned over to the Assassination Records Review Board and those folks would review the records and either concur, release them in blacked out state or release them entirely. Because that's mostly what I think of when I think of Lee. I was really supportive. Moreover, Porter gave birth to her daughter, June Lee, on February 15, 1962. ", John Pic, Lees half-brother, took a particularly cynical view toward his mother's behavior after the assassination. She got all caught up, because she wants so badly to have this identification with her father. Click "Submit" to let the Reveille's student journalists know. Oct. 19, 2013 at Loyola University in New Orleans. Porter still lives with her second husband Kenneth, however in private, and is afraid to go out in public. Why are 40+ guests suddenly reading this very old thread, as well as a smaller but still significant number reading an old thread on Marina? Oswald worked sporadically at different jobs, such as a sheet-metal worker and a photoprint trainee. You have permission to edit this article. In addition to attending classes, Oswald made several trips to Detroit, including to a Detroit Pistons game. Q: Where do you stand today as far as your perception of what really happened out there in Dealey Plaza? Oswald with ELI Director Catford on graduation day in February 1965. Great!" The assassination has also been a constant in the life of June Oswald Porter, the 33-year-old daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. I've never seen her act like that, like she needed to become more of a crusader, and it's taking its toll.Q: On your relationship with her as well?A: It has put certain strains on it. My father is Kenneth Porter, the man I grew up with, the man who was there for my mother and Rachel and me. Your email address will not be published. And I'm gonna be in Dallas, and I want to sing it to you. MORE THAN 30 YEARS AFTER the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is a name that will not go away. The reason she is here is that we can teach her more in a shorter period of time, said Catford, the Institutes director. The law said that if they felt that way, then those documents needed to be turned over to the Assassination Records Review Board and those folks would review the records and either concur, release them in blacked-out state or release them entirely. The assassination has also been a constant in the life of June Oswald Porter, the 33-year-old daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. 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