LEE HARVEY OSWALD
Name: Lee Harvey Oswald
Born: October 18, 1939 New Orleans, Louisiana
Died: November 24, 1963 Dallas, Texas
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was the accused
assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was
arrested on suspicion of killing Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit and later
connected to the assassination of President Kennedy. Oswald denied any
responsibility for the murders. Two days later, before he could be brought to
trial for the crimes, while being transferred under police custody from the
police station to jail, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby on live
television.
In 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated
President John F. Kennedy single-handedly, a conclusion also reached by prior
investigations of the FBI and the Dallas Police Department. In 1976 the House
Select Committee on Assassinations agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald
assassinated Kennedy, but also concluded, largely based on controversial and
disputed acoustic evidence, that Kennedy was assassinated "probably as a result
of a conspiracy".
According to a 2003 ABC poll, "seven in 10 Americans think the assassination of
John F. Kennedy was the result of a plot, not the act of a lone killer and a
bare majority thinks that plot included a second shooter on Dealey Plaza."
Name: Lee Harvey Oswald
Born: October 18, 1939 New Orleans, Louisiana
Died: November 24, 1963 Dallas, Texas
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was the accused
assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was
arrested on suspicion of killing Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit and later
connected to the assassination of President Kennedy. Oswald denied any
responsibility for the murders. Two days later, before he could be brought to
trial for the crimes, while being transferred under police custody from the
police station to jail, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby on live
television.
In 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated
President John F. Kennedy single-handedly, a conclusion also reached by prior
investigations of the FBI and the Dallas Police Department. In 1976 the House
Select Committee on Assassinations agreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald
assassinated Kennedy, but also concluded, largely based on controversial and
disputed acoustic evidence, that Kennedy was assassinated "probably as a result
of a conspiracy".
According to a 2003 ABC poll, "seven in 10 Americans think the assassination of
John F. Kennedy was the result of a plot, not the act of a lone killer and a
bare majority thinks that plot included a second shooter on Dealey Plaza."