It might not have told us very much about the assassination of JFK but it provides an excellent insight into what it must be like to be the child of a much hated historical figure. Mostly I feel bad that Lee was never able to tell his story. ", My biggest concern was that people at the office had my home address and phone number and I didn't want it leaked to The National Enquirer. 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. For many years, the widow has avoided cameras while she tries to live a quiet life in Rockwall, northeast of Dallas. But both reneged after learning that the funeral would be outside by the grave rather than in a chapel, fearing the potential threat of snipers. Well, that's what Rachel wants to believe. The APB [all points bulletin] for the suspect of JFK's assassination was described as an early or mid-twenties caucasian male between 59511 in h So if I'm able to be detached or seem cold and unemotional about it, it's because I look at Lee in those terms.Q: I assume you've seen the footage of Lee being shot by Jack Ruby. They said it would depreciate the value of their home. Dixie DeaApril 28, 2004 in JFK Assassination Debate. Together, they would learn and study five hours every weekday for eight weeks. Q: Do you worry about telling your children as they grow up? He wasn't much of a husband, he wasn't much of a father. Porter is 81 years old. Because that's mostly what I think of when I think of Lee. She was struck by the plight of Marina Oswald, the young Russian wife of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. I have a copy of an earlier interview with June from 1983. Returned to the United States The Oswald family settled in Fort Worth, Texas. A: I've never publicly said one way or the other for sure. It made no mention of his brothers infamous place in history. They said it would depreciate the value of their home. He wasn't much of a husband, he wasn't much of a father. Now, the word father does mean Lee to me. The Gunman and His Mother: Lee Harvey Oswald, Marguerite Oswald, and the Making of an Assassin (Kindle Single), 2023 Smithsonian Magazine So I ended up supporting him. There were some who were quick and hot to say that what we did was unpatriotic. She relied upon Russian interpreters during interviews with the Secret Service, FBI and the Warren Commission that investigated Kennedys assassination. For years, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald has avoided cameras while she tries to live a quiet life in Rockwall, northeast of Dallas. But earlier th I said I appreciate it, but I really don't get involved in that. I hung up the phone shaking my head at Marguerite Oswald's dizzying logic. Rachel loved listening to that. After her husbands death, she said she wanted to stay in the United States and improve her English. Oswald's girlfriend offers variation on JFK assassination. So I called my staff in, a group of 10 or so, and I said: "Yes, that is me in the article. I want to make sure they understand why I'm so matter-of-fact about it. Are we going to vilify and harass her for what her husband was accused of doing? She didn't feel like Kenneth was her dad. The couple wed She had been in the United States all of 17 months. Just out of the blue. MORE THAN 30 YEARS AFTER the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is a name that will not go away. Just out of the blue. Social justice drove Campbell, and he urged worshippers to engage with the world to right its wrongs. If they could prove somehow that he was innocent, he'd still not be a hero, he'd be a martyr. I would have liked for him to have his day in court. And I realize that I'm kind of cold about it, so how do I tell them? If she was led to LHO in Russia and then to his family after Dallas, what does that tell us? The churchs executive committee agreed. Whom do you really think of as dad?A: Kenneth. A: The "second spirter," right. I didn't break down and cry or anything. WebLee Harvey Oswalds youngest daughter, Rachel, was only one month old in 1963 when her father allegedly killed President Kennedy, and was shot to death himself. In the surreal days that followed the 1963 assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as the nation absorbed the dual horror of the presidents murder and the subsequent and very public killing of his alleged assassin, a churchgoer in Ann Arbor looked for a bright spot. Great!" Additionally, Porter told the commission she believed her husband was guilty of shooting President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. I don't think that's true. Since I hadn't gotten a response, I toyed with the idea that I might have to go public. More than a year after the death of her son, Marguerite was still full of self-pity and anger, concocting new schemes to investigate her son's lifeshe told everyone he was a government agent despite a lack of evidenceand raise money. Do I need to be more compassionate' about it? Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina Oswald in 1963, as they prepared to leave Russia for the United States. Anyway, the only person I knew up there was Priscilla Johnson McMillan, who wrote my mother's book. ", 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. Well, we're all waiting and a car pulls up in the driveway, and Mom rushes out to greet these parents, and they happen to be a man and a woman, and they've got a camera and she says, "Oh, you're gonna take pictures! I move all the way up there, and his parents wouldn't even let us stay in his house because I was the daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mailer is such a great writer; I was just so enthralled. 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.". WebFrom left are, Oswald's wife, Marina, holding their daughter June Lee, 22 months; Robert Oswald, brother; and his mother Marguerite Oswald, holding her five-week-old I said in effect to each person who criticized, The one thing you havent shown us is that what we have done is unlike Christ., Sources: English Language Institute records; First Presbyterian Church (Ann Arbor) records; and Harlan Henthorne Hatcher Papers, all at the Bentley Historical Library; A history, the First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1826-1988: incorporating A sesquicentennial history 1976, newly revised and updated, editors Lila Miller, Robert M. Warner, Carl R. Geider; Warren Commission Report and Hearings; Follow Me, by Ernest T. Campbell. 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.". But you know, just because you're hanging out with a weird group - they could have set him up, and he could have had no idea what was going on that day. Almost immediately, she began receiving offers of help money, clothing, food, housing from around the country. Then I find out he's been doing some quote-unquote assassination research. Obviously, if I'd wanted to share that I would have told everyone a long time ago. So I ended up supporting him. I usually end up telling people that I'm seeing very often. And then she was gone. _________________________________________. Lee Harvey Oswalds youngest daughter, Rachel, was only one month old in 1963 when her father allegedly killed President Kennedy, and was shot to death himself. Twenty-eight years later, she granted this TV interview. Raised by her stepfather, Rachel Oswald Porter didnt know who her birth father was as a young child. And I'm gonna be in Dallas, and I want to sing it to you.". 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. We are very close -- except when these kinds of things come up. Just in recent years; but yes. It's right across from the Capitol, and she was a waitress. Just get out. Marina Oswald spent hours before the Warren Commission in early 1964. they went on with their lives as the girls hardly knew their father and are not bothered by others These women were left with a horrible legacy and have no doubt tried to separate their father from his legend- father as Lone Nut, a disgrace or Government worker and valiant spy, patsy? Im just like everybody else, and Ive had more than enough.. Well, I was satisfied with my dad, so I've never felt this big need to connect with Lee or do the daughter-father thing.Q: One can't help but notice that you address him as "Lee. The However, she was not implicated in the assassination but testified against Oswald during the Warren Commission hearings. Lee Harvey Oswald also was accused of killing Dallas police officer J.D. She described Michiganders as like the weather crisp and cool. She made no mention of her young daughters, and said she could not provide any interviews because she had a pending book contract. And we got to President Kennedy and I was told to go across the hall during that one. I do blame him for having beat my mother, and not being a good father -- or a good provider. He tracked me down. Oct. 19, 2013 at Loyola University in New Orleans. She uses her stepfathers name, Porter, to avoid unwanted attention from being related to an infamous character. By So this little boy she was going with, his parents were going to come get her and they were going to go to the dance. My boyfriend would sneak down to Priscilla's basement and read all her old files. June is quieter about her own marriage, which ended in 1992. Oswald has three children, two daughters, and one son. The first car was The National Enquirer. Where is your respect for President Kennedy?. But dad is Dad. There were a lot of things leading up to that that they wanted Mom to do, and Mom in recent years has gotten more and more involved, I guess because she's getting older and trying to rectify some of the things she may have done unintentionally - like stating publicly that Lee did it. He tried to after the arrest but everybody discounted it. ), When commission members presented her with paperwork written in English by her husband, she recognized his handwriting but did not comprehend the words. when it was going on, and somebody said, "Your father was a hero." There's always been this little group that's followed us -- Mom, Rachel and me -- and calls us and is fascinated by anything surrounding us. Q: I assume you've seen the footage of Lee being shot by Jack Ruby. As Oswald was in her final weeks of campus, her name once again made news around the country. She had been in the United States all of 17 months. A: The last two years have been very stressful, because she started doing things that she hasn't let us know about, then all of a sudden I hear about it or see it on TV. She was the aggrieved. 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. Moreover, Porter still lives with her second husband Kenneth, however in private, and is afraid to go out in public. By found it I meant that I was looking back through the forum pages and this was posted first in 2004 so I decided to bring it back up to peoples attention. As she told the Warren Commission during her three days of combative testimony, "It is no crime to sell the pictures. The first car was The National Enquirer. One would think they would be more anxious to try to, clear his name. For me, that is a dark forest, a heap of papers.. Q: What are your thoughts on Norman Mailer's new book? She was born after her family moved to Dallas from Russia. But you have to understand that, aside from what role he had in the assassination, there's the issue of what role he had in our family. In her early years, grocery shopping with her mother, Marina, and sister, Rachel, took place amid stares and finger-pointing; hushed conversations ignited around them like flash fires as they walked the supermarket aisles. The Presidents were all around the walls in the rooms. When I was reading the interview with June and she made the comment abouty getting the, call from someone who had written a song at first I was a little jarred. I have to remind Rachel that this is the man who beat our mother, who didn't provide for his children. Another car pulls up - and that's the parents and the little boy. For years, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald has avoided cameras while she tries to live a quiet life in Rockwall, northeast of Dallas. A: It's only in recent years that I've started to get into all that, mostly as part trying to get the records released. I was really supportive. I know some people can remember vividly like it was yesterday, but I don't do that -- even about yesterday. Bakers talk came in preparation for the 50th anniversary of Kennedys assassination on Nov. 22. She didn't feel like Kenneth was her dad. This photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald was taken in Minsk and was confiscated by the FBI during the Kennedy assassination investigation. This portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald was confiscated by the FBI during the Kennedy assassination investigation. Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova and Lee Harvey Oswald stand in a park in Russia. Hey Dixie! Oswalds wife Marina, two daughters, brother Robert and mother Marguerite were the only mourners. I don't blame him for not being here for me. And she's just welcoming them with open arms. Others told us that our action was unwise, still others that it was unfair. Q: Tell me about growing up in the aftermath of the assassination. I didn't break down and cry or anything. When my mother came on and this interview went so badly, I decided I really wanted to rebut. Suddenly a widow at age 22, with two young children to raise, Marina Oswald seemed overwhelmed by the media maelstrom enveloping her. I don't think that's true. Q: And if someone were to show scientifically that Lee Oswald was or wasn't involved, that wouldn't make a difference to you? This was before wiretapping got more sophisticated. One woman said that she had belonged to a church for forty years and what it had done for her in all that time she could write on the back of a postage stamp, Campbell said. Obviously, if I'd wanted to share that I would have told everyone a long time ago. The other thing is, you just worry genealogically: Lee was illegitimate, and so was my mother. A week later, Campbell met with his congregation and explained the executive committees thinking. Now shes a widow, too, was the headline in newspapers across the country. A few men sent letters to the ELI office in hopes of striking up a romantic relationship with Oswald. Saunders, who came as an observer, was asked by Marguerite to officiate. It would seem a perfect fit for Oswald. It was hilarious. She thoroughly argued Oswald was medically mistreated after he was shot, presenting medical records that stated he was not given oxygen in the ambulance and was beat on his bullet wound to get him to confess. Some of you may not have read June (Oswald) Porter's 1995 interview and might find it of interest. She remains protective of her privacy, distancing herself and her sons, ages 6 and 3, from the oddball clique of assassination cultists who have dogged the Oswald women -- Marina, now 53, June, and Rachel, 31 -- ever since the events of Nov. 22, 1963. If she were in contact with my children nowI do not want her to cripple them.". My husband couldn't have cared less. We didn't use the Oswald name, and it didn't come, up a lot around the house except when reporters would call It was always a big deal in November, when it was very stressful in the house. Mom accused me one day of being ashamed of who I was. The assassination has also been a constant in the life of June Oswald Porter, the 33-year-old daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. She sat us down, with my stepbrother, and started to explain who our father was -- that it wasn't Kenneth -- and who Lee was and what he had done. Anyone can read what you share. During her talk, Baker criticized newspaper reports that she said inaccurately portrayed Oswald as a mentally unstable communist. Whom do you really think of as dad? But I still have problems in that area, because I date a lot. I read this intvu again and if there are two people I'd love to talk to, it's Rachel and June. He tried to after the arrest but everybody discounted it. She kept herself together for us.Q: Was any of this an issue in your marriage?A: No. But see, I'm matter-of-fact about a lot in my life. 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.". We lived in poor housing or were taken in by others. He was 99. Judith Baker, author of "Me and Lee - How I came to know, love, and lose Lee Harvey Oswald," presents an article at a symposium on Sat. For all I know it's still tapped. Two Lutheran ministers had agreed to conduct the service at the request of the Reverend Louis Saunders, an interdenominational Christian minister. A review of Bakers book said Baker and Oswald were attempting to create a cocktail of toxins that would infect Castro with cancer while they worked at cover jobs at the Reily Coffee Company in New Orleans. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Robert Edward Lee Oswald and Marguerite (June has requested that her married name, which she still uses in business, not be printed), Despite privacy concerns, she's pushing for the release of all records pertaining to the assassination. And more: "There were some violent scenes. Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald - Everything You Wanted To Know About Lee Harvey Oswald's Daughter - Ned Hardy Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald was born on Several days after the funeral, Texas radio and TV reporter Bob Huffaker arranged a phone interview with her. These rarely-seen pictures of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, autopsy, and funeral reveal the full story of the shooting that shook the nation in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Upon entering public school, June took the surname of her stepfather, Kenneth Porter, who married Marina in 1965. Accused Assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Records: 281. Somehow those boxes came down and she was reading, and I guess she felt it was time to tell us. WebDespite the fact that the later Warren Commission declared that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin of President Kennedy, and he acted alone, many conspiracies about the assassination abound to the present day. She also said she watched Oswalds shooting by Jack Ruby two days later. It was hilarious.Q: If someone was to ask you today who your father is, what would you say? "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. Reporters came over and she would tell us, "Shhhh, go in the other room.". A: I think there definitely is circumstantial evidence that could imply he had something to do with it because of the characters he was hanging out with in New Orleans. Very interesting. She sat us down, with my stepbrother, and started to explain who our father was- that it wasn't Kenneth - and who Lee was and what he had done. Moreover, Porter learned English and in 1989, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. It's a little bit like opening a family album you didn't know existed before. "She never knew when we'd run into someone, and she didn't want us to look like poor white trash," June says simply. One of the latest authors to wade into the conspiracy waters is Norman Mailer, whose book "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery" will be published next month. You will be able to leave a comment after signing in, political justice, conspiracy/truth, music, law, Bible prophecy, quote name='John Geraghty' date='May 13 2006, 02:49 PM' post='62308']. Given everything above, you'd probably expect his return to be announced by dozens of men in dark glasses bundling him out the airport and into a mobile interrogation chamber. Standing outside the North University Building (located roughly near todays Biological Sciences Building), Oswald agreed to be photographed. She was born after her family moved to Dallas from Russia. Mom would smoke all the time. Earlier in the week, Baker toured sites in New Orleans significant to her relationship with Oswald, such as the former offices of Reily Coffee Company and Oswald and Bakers rendezvous locations. I'm a strong woman, but I don't know if I could've kept myself together. Porter married Oswald during his temporary defection to the Soviet Union and emigrated to the United States with him. Q: If someone was to ask you today who your father is, what would you say? A good person. This was before wiretapping got more sophisticated. I know you were just a toddler, but do you have any recollections of turbulence in the household? According to the story, Rachel was a miserable, lonely child - her dogs had been Flash forward to June 1962, and Oswald was back in the States, this time with a Soviet wife and newborn daughter. Despite his involvement with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and other communist - sympathizing groups, Baker insisted Oswald had always remained loyal to theUnited States. The reason she is here is that we can teach her more in a shorter period of time, said Catford, the Institutes director. A: I remember what I did during that time-out was, I plotted how I could run for class president and win! She left town two days later, an alumna of Michigan. The Michigan Daily made no mention of her presence (We just dont think shes news, the editor said). The Loyola symposium was her first public appearance in 10 years after living in Europe, claiming she moves every 90 days. Oswald. I went on a car trip up to the house I had lived in with Lee, Lee's boarding house, another house Mom had lived in with Lee that's still standing, the path of the motorcade, where the bullets hit. The Presidents were all around the walls in the rooms. I don't blame him for not being here for me. They first met last April in Washington. I can't imagine the burden they've carried over the years, but I hope they have found some peace in their lives. 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. Great!" Lee and Marina Oswald's daughter wants to completely understand what was done to her father and why, perhaps as much or more than the the rest of the world if you believe what she says for herself. I don't think it's relevant to anything we do here and I appreciate you keeping it to yourself. This is material I never would have known about insofar as my mother's side of the family, because my mother was illegitimate, you know. In 1980 she was convinced by conspiracy buffs that the one in Harveys grave was a Russian spy and not Oswald. Two days later, as authorities transferred him to a different jail, Oswald was gunned down by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. I have two small children, I'm divorced, I didn't want people to harass the kids.Q: Give me an example of what you'd consider harassment.A: When I was pregnant with my first, some lady got my phone number and called in the middle of the night. An ELI official described her as an average student. 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. The first chapter opens with my family, and he goes way back to my great-grandmother in Russia. In her early years, grocery shopping with her mother, Marina, and sister, Rachel, took place amid stares and finger-pointing; hushed conversations ignited around them like flash fires as they walked the supermarket aisles. So he moved to Boston and wanted me to join him. Twenty-eight years later, she granted this TV interview. Well, that's what Rachel wants to believe. I know that in my life, Lee wasn't a good man. A: No. On February 15, 1962 their daughter, June Lee Oswald, was born. She remains protective of her privacy, distancing herself and her sons, ages 6 and 3, from the overall clique of assassination cultists who have dogged the Oswald women - Marina, now 53, June, and Rachel, 31 - ever since the events of Nov. 22, 1963. Mailer is such a great writer; I was just so enthralled. Within weeks, donations topped $12,000 and by early 1964 would grow to $70,000 the equivalent of nearly $600,000 today. But the unmovable Marguerite remained unapologetic. She kept herself together for us. I'm a strong woman, but I don't know if I could've kept myself together. Just as many had sympathy and compassion for Oswald, others believed she was somehow complicit in her husbands killing of the president. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Lee Harvey Oswald's youngest daughter, Rachel, was only one month old in 1963 when her father allegedly killed president Kennedy. Upon entering public school, June took the surname of her stepfather, Kenneth Porter, who married Marina in 1965. Marina was stunned by Marguerites aggressive publicity seeking and despised her incessant focus on money. To avoid argument, the gravediggers were told they were digging a hole for William Bobo., As Secret Service, FBI agents, and a heavy police guard stood watch, seven newsmen serving asvolunteerpallbearers carried the pine coffin to the grave. Marina kept to her wordafter the days surrounding the assassination, neither June nor Rachel was ever allowed to see their grandmother again. June is quieter about her own marriage, which ended in 1992. When the executive committee of the church governing body, known as the Session, reached out to Oswald in late 1963, it had done so in secret in order that Mrs. Oswald might be free from the pressure of publicity in considering the offer. Its members never informed the Session or any other congregant of the invitation, or of Oswalds acceptance. I just remember crying a lot because Mom was crying. Nonetheless, during several interviews over the past she reports being content. People sent us money following the assassination, because Mom was young with two small children and didn't speak the language. What do I tell them? The couple later married on April 30, 1961. So she became a sort of tourist attraction. There were a lot of things leading up to that that they wanted Mom to do, and Mom in recent years has gotten more and more involved, I guess because she's getting older and trying to rectify some of the things she may have done unintentionally -- like stating publicly that Lee did it. It was always a big deal in November, when it was very stressful in the house. She didn't want to listen to anyone. Cookie Policy l think her physical health and mental health have been damaged in recent years over all of the pressures put on her. Together, they had a son Mark Porter. She said she understood English better than she was able to speak the language. It also gives us information that helps explain Marina Oswalds comments about the assassination. She discovered his true identity while sifting through newspaper clippings and mementos in the attic. We visited the set of "JFK" when it was going on, and somebody said, "Your father was a hero." At U-M, she would join 29 international students from Mexico, Israel, Greece, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere hoping to improve their English. Porter was born in the city of Molotovsk, in Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the northwest of the USSR. By the end of the year, however, she was ready to travel from Texas to become a student. She was pretty strong. So I called my staff in, a group of 10 or so, and I said: "Yes, that is me in the article. She is a woman of average height. There are a lot of assassination buffs who have analyzed all the technical data and the other available material and even they don't agree about what happened. My secretary in my last job put two and two together based on one of those articles. We were studying the Presidents. So I sat across the hall in a time-out room. Q: On your relationship with her as well? MORE THAN 30 YEARS AFTER the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is a name that will not go away. She his always felt really bogged down by it. She is convinced that her phones are tapped by the Secret Service and the Secret Service wants to kill her. "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. I know that in my life, Lee wasn't a good man. For all of Oswalds notoriety, there was little reaction to her being on campus. And she said: "I'm so-and-so, and I just want you to know that I've written a song about you -- and your child. But see, I'm matter-of-fact about a lot in my life. Her coldness struck me. They had no idea their church had offered to host her, to the point of leaders offering to pay for her transportation, housing and coursework out of their own pockets. Send her back to Texas and if she felt any sorrow at all for the horrible thing her husband did to Jackie and all of the decent citizens of the United States, she would go back to Russia (where she belongs), said a writer from the Upper Peninsula. 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