Lee Harvey Oswald as I Knew Him

Lee Harvey Oswald as I Knew Him

â€œLet us hope that this book, poorly written and disjointed, but sincere, will help to clear up our relationship with our dear, dead friend Lee.â€ Thus concludes a largely forgotten manuscript appended to Volume XII of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. â€œLee,â€ of course, was Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of having assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963â€”and whose closest friend, many have argued, was Dallas resident George de Mohrenschildt.

For years following Kennedyâ€™s assassination there were rumors and assumptionsâ€”some started by de Mohrenschildt himselfâ€”that this colorful, larger-than-life European Ã©migrÃ© possessed a key to understanding Oswaldâ€™s alleged actions. The reflections presented here, recorded between 1969 and his death in 1977, was de Mohrenschildtâ€™s attempt to recover the humanity of a friend he believed had been demonized as simply an â€œinsane killer.â€ In a series of recollections about his brief friendship with Oswald and his wife Marina between the fall of 1962 and the spring of 1963, de Mohrenschildt recalls conversations about Leeâ€™s time in Minsk, about political issues of the day, particularly Latin America, and the Oswaldsâ€™ turbulent and troubled marriage. He discusses the assassination and its aftermath, including his lengthy 1964 Warren Commission testimony, appearance on NBC television, and concludes with his own speculations about the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy and the question of Oswaldâ€™s involvement. Threaded throughout are de Mohrenschildtâ€™s reflections on the corrosive effects of his friendship with the Oswalds on his and his wife Jeanneâ€™s personal and professional lives, first in 1964 and then echoing right up to the completion of this manuscript in 1976.

Deftly edited and annotated by Michael Rinella, whose introduction also supplies critical background information and context, this once unwieldy, grammatically quirky, and eccentrically organized text can now be seen for the valuable biographical, social, and historical document it actually is.

Country	USA
Author	George de Mohrenschildt
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	De Mohrenschildt, George/ Rinella, Michael A. (EDT)
EAN	9780700620135
Edition	annotated edition
ISBN	0700620133
Label	University Press of Kansas
Manufacturer	University Press of Kansas
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	416
PublicationDate	2014-11-22
Publisher	University Press of Kansas
ReleaseDate	2014-11-03
Studio	University Press of Kansas

Lee Harvey Oswald as I Knew Him

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