violent. after starting in high school, he promptly joined the marines. oswald s marine career ended in 1959 when he was dishonorably discharged. a month later, he was in moscow where he announced his decision to renounce his american citizenship. are you an marxist? i would very definitely say that i am a marxist, that is correct. but that does not mean, however, i am a communist. he desperately wants to become a soviet citizen, wants to renounce his american citizenship. they turn him down. what does he do? he slashes his wrists, tries to commit suicide. lee harvey oswald had these dreams or delusions that he d been harboring for a long time of an act that would lift him from his obscurity. a squadmate of his in the marines said that oswald wanted to do something that 10,000 years from now, people would be talking about. it looked to me like a stupid, irrational act.
u.s. history. arthel? arthel: thanks, kristen. this is a man who behaved rationally privately, a little introverted, liked to play video poker, but he was a rational man and yet he prepared over an extended period of time a totally irrational act irrational act. now this sounds like someone either totally demented a behavior which he never evidenced or someone who is sending a message. this is a plan. we don t know what that message is or if there is one, but this behavior according to my employees is as stunning as unexpected as anybody any of them have ever met. those of course chilling words from famed casino owner steve wynn. he says that some of his staff had known las vegas shooter stephen paddock for years but as you heard never saw any signs that he was capable of murder yet alone the carnage that unfolded last week as he was
32nd floor of the hotel they found numbers. those numbers were actually his mathematical calculations, measuring the distance from the concert, the 32 floor drop and the speed of the bullets all done so he could maximize the casualties. it gets police still closer to learning why 64-year-old stephen paddock opened fire on the concert crowd. a retired fbi agent who used to work tough unsolved cases doesn t think they will every know exactly why. what we re trying to do is apply logic to an irrational act. i can t think of anything more irrational than this. and the lawsuits will come soon. we already know there is a lawyer who is representing some of the family. he made a petition with clark county court yesterday to have all of stephen paddock s assets frozen while this investigation is ongoing. we know he might have a lot
it looks to me like a irrational act. he wanted to make his mark on society. people that think oswald was such an ineffectual innocent person said a policeman gets out unarmed to talk to him and oswald shoots him four times in the middle of the body. that plus his previous attack on general locker. interestingly on saturday morning in the dallas morning news it said there may be a connection between this guy just arrested for killing a police officer and president kennedy and this effort to assassinate general walker back in april. oswald used to attend a small discussion group and he began to rail against this right wing general that was coined for the invasion of cuba. general walker was about as right wing as you got in the early 60s and oswald saw walker
1959 when he was dishonorably discharged. a month later, he was in moscow where he announced his decision to renounce his american citizenship. are you an marxist? i would very definitely say that i am a marxist, correct. but that does not mean, however, i am a communist. he desperately wants to become a soviet citizen, renounce his american citizenship. they turn him down. what does he do? he slashes his wrists, tries to commit suicide. lee harvey oswald had these dreams or delusions that he d been harboring for a long time of an act that would lift him from his obscurity. a squad mate of his in the marines said that oswald wanted to do something that 10,000 years from now, people would be talking about. it looked to me like a stupid, irrational act. the opportunity presented itself to him and he probably wanted to make a mark on society and it