111ELEVISION WOMAN BEHIND the ASSASSIN `Fatal Deception

C 2 THE NEWS JOURNAL • • • MONDAY, NOV 15, 1993 111ELEVISION WOMAN BEHIND THE ASSASSIN `Fatal Deception' looks at puzzling Lee Harvey Oswald sto Ty from wife's eyes. By PATRICIA BRENNAN IF YOU WATCH retired Gen. Edwin A. Walker, The Washington Post who died recently at 84. But the movie does not picture that at- What kind of person was Lee Show: "Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald" tempt, nor does it dramatize the Hatvey Oswald? Even his Rus- shooting of John F. Kennedy or sian-born widow, Marina, who When: 9 tonight Channel's KYW (3), WMAR (2) visit the Texas School Book De- biwied him on the day of John F. pository, from where Oswald is Kennedy's state funeral, was un- said to have shot the president certain about what had been go- he could not turn down. from the sixth floor, now a mu- ing on in Oswald's life. "I became kind of fascinated seum. Tonight's "Fatal Deception: with it when I was doing 'The Mrti. Lee Harvey Oswald" re- Instead, viewers watch events Doors' with Oliver Stone," he of that day on television with Ma- counts the love story of Marina said. "He first mentioned the and Lee Harvey Oswald and their rina Oswald and stay with her as whole 'JFK' project, and he made the Dallas police rush into her life, together in Russia and in innuendoes [about a possible role Texas, where they settled a year house to search for Lee's gun, for Whaley], so I started doing which turns up missing. alter:their marriage. The dramati- some research." zatitM is based on Marina Oswald Still, he has reservations about She is taken to the Dallas Porter's recollections. Stone's conspiracy theory. County jail, where her husband is Arrested by Dallas police for "I believe [Oswald] was in- being held, and talks with him killing Kennedy and Dallas Police volved in some way [in the assas- over a prison telephone, a window Officer J.D. Tippit and wounding sination] — I don't think there's grill between them. He tells her then-Gov. John Connally of any doubt about that — but that he is not guilty, that she Texas, Oswald, 24, was for a long there's no way he could have should not believe "all the so- moment in 1963 the most hated NBC photo been involved alone. It's all such called evidence against me," and man in the nation. But when Jack Frank Whaley and Helena Bonham a web it's almost impossible to get that she should give their daugh- a Dallas nightclub owner, Carter play Lee Harvey and Marina at." I. ters a kiss for him. It is the last shot and killed him before he was Oswald In a new dramatization. Whaley thinks Oswald "was 'a' time she will see him alive. arraigned for Kennedy's murder, very smart guy. He learned a lit- Marina remarried in 1966. Oswald took with him the answer Carter, 27, takes the role of Ma- tle [Russian] in the Marines, and to a grieving country's still unan- = stem • = television premiere rina, and Frank Whaley, 30, plays he had a coach in Russia. It's a (CC) = closed caption ✓ = available on casanne swered question: Why? Oswald. Whaley appeared, un- very difficult language to learn, "Fatal Deception" does not pro- credited, in Oliver Stone's movie and he spoke it almost without vide the answer, but it does offer "JFK" as an Oswald imperson- accent. We can only guess why he a more personal view of the man ator. Gary Oldman played Os- was there." thought to be the lone assassin. wald. In NBC's film, Oswald admits British actress Helena Bonham Whaley viewed the role as one to Marina that he tried to shoot .

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