ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? We dig deep into Oswald’s story. Starting with his childhood, talking directly to people who knew him, we explore his time in the military and his curious defection to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. Was he just a disgruntled ex-Marine, a lone wolf who wanted to take down a president? Or was he part of something bigger?
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English
United States
IN THIS EPISODE
TRANSCRIPT 🔗
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Speaker 1: On October twenty first, nineteen fifty nine, four years before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, an next marine by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald sat alone in a hotel room in Moscow, the heart of the Soviet Union, just weeks shy of his twentieth birthday, Oswald was attempting to renounce his American citizenship and defect to the Soviet Union. After a few days of waiting, he finally received a letter informing him that his request had been denied. A Soviet offi…
Speaker 1: On October twenty first, nineteen fifty nine, four years before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, an next marine by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald sat alone in a hotel room in Moscow, the heart of the Soviet Union, just weeks shy of his twentieth birthday, Oswald was attempting to renounce his American citizenship and defect to the Soviet Union. After a few days of waiting, he finally received a letter informing him that his request had been denied. A Soviet offi…
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