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 say that i am a marxist, correct. but that does not mean i am a communist. he des bratly wants to become a soviet citizen, renounce his american citizenship. they turn him down? what does he do? 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.
dallas today had even more to mourn. it held funeral services for one of its own a victim of friday s tragedy. officer j.d.tippit. the funeral of lee harvey oswald. the mourners included his mother, his wife, his brother robert, and oswalt s two children, one with baby in arms. the six pallbearers were news men. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as
russell and john j. mccloy realized at their initial meeting they had to do an independent investigation. they didn t want to be a stamp for the fbi or the secret service. there are three issues the commission had to grapple with. did oswald commit the physical act of the murder? and even if he did the physical act, did he have forces behind him? and then of course, what s ruby s involvement in this? you had various branches of the investigation traveling, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. the time of day was about not very far from two hours from it. there were questions how would they deal with the different stories about shooters from the grassy knoll and shooters from different directions. the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions.
americans in their government all started with the kennedy assassination. by 1966 there s this cultural revolution in the united states. we re deeply enmeshed in vietnam. there s a lot of protests and riots. and there s a sense that things have seriously gone wrong. we ve gone off the rails since november 63, and the warren report is a very important part of that loss of confidence in the government. i don t think that all the facts were brought out. i think something was held back. i think there were more involved anytime than just oswald. i don t know how in the world they could ever reach a conclusion that one person assassinated him. it s ridiculous. i saw the whole thing on television. i just happened to be home at that time. and i don t think that oswald i think that he was working for the cia myself. why doesn t america believe the warren report? because of the conspiracy
walker. he came in the house 11:30. he was so pale, nervous. and i said what happened to you? and he said he told, i tried to shot general walker. will you describe for us just what happened last night? rifle shot was fired into the house, fired through the west window. and hit the sill and hit the wall across the room and went over the desk at which i was sitting. he was very disappointed to find out that he missed by less than an inch. it shows his ability to plan who his target was and that oswald was capable of violence. i think that was kind of the rosetta stone, that if you understood the walker shooting you understood that lee was like a cocked rifle. and he could go off anytime.