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But in our new world, its slain leader ar- riving at Andrews Air Force Base from the unlikely lati- tudes of Dallas, we all at once and as a nation knew and felt—were made in this age of media to know and feel, to participate in—a martyrdom for the hand- some, bright, brash Presi- dent who was so brutally murdered right before our eyes. For four days, a great national catharsis swept us UM. (is.......1; ......„...r MN Irrod cr - _ —Jo .._._eslif 7;______ -- • r f__ant Contrary to popular belief, Oswald's Mannlicher77 _ ear-ccielb 91/38 was a deadly v.-Capon-cif irTocreitire H:77- clean of any dream that we were immune to this horror. It filled us with pity for the Olt lovely First Lady, with fear • 1-20a. • . for the future. We wept. t: ,27.1 Most of us, that is. A few did not, were glad John Kennedy was dead. A few were brought to thoughts of vengeance, notably a strip- joint operator in Dallas itself. A few stopped mourn- ing to realize the martyr im- age was only one, a bluish picture that altered John Kennedy as much as the embalmer's cosmetics. Dis- torted the tough Irish poli- tician, the whiskey baron's progeny, the philanderer. Covered over achievements like the Test Ban Treaty, the Missile Crisis, the as- sault on organized crime, Almost immediately, a 24-year- old mon named Oswald was charged with the crime. Two days later, he was shot to death on live television by Jack Ruby, the owner of a sleazy night club. Moscow's Patrice Lutriumba Friend. END OF CAMELOT (continued from page HO) 0 University, unfortunately reserved . the President, right there he'd he riding these defianctm didn't icitisfy, any more citizens of the '1 bird World). In general. OG :thing in an open car. There were 211,000 titan did geographical changes. They he lived what for most Russians would he windows along the motorcade's path, too kept moving, on to New York, then a -pampered life. His pay, as was custom- 4 many to watch, and when on November hack to New Orleans. Though he was ary with defectors, was supplemented. lie 18 the Secret Service's advance man, smart (1.Q. of 118), he quit school after was given a good apartment. But he Winston Lawson, rode it in company the ninth grade and enlisted in the didn't like the authoritarianism of Russia IL with the Dallas office's Forrest V. Sorrels manly Marine Corps, as had his brother. any -better than Marine Corps discipline, and Dallas police.chief Jesse Curry. all Robert. Even in that homogenized perhaps. felt insufficiently rewarded for his three remarked how they'd be sitting milieu. something in him turned people secrets (nothing that threatened U. S. ducks, Toward the end of the ride, turn- Fellow Marines called him "Ozzie security) or his devotion to Marx's cause. ing from Main Street into Houston Rabbit," and thought he was intelligent The difficulties of obtaining exit visas Street, Lawson saw an ungainly tan-brick and well-informed but strangely with- vexed him and he wrote to Senator Julio building with concrete latticework mark- drawn and secretive. Yet. he did his Tower for help. He beseeched his brother ing its first floor and windows marching duties (albeit . court-martialed twice— and mother for financial aid (Marguerite tip Last a ledge and final story to a big. once for possession of an unregistered suggested capitalizing on the story of his blinking-time Hertz Item-a-Car sign. He private firearm, a .22 derringer that as defection—after Ken It's heath1 asked, "What's the Texas School Book cidentally went oil and wounded him, fully remarked. “Moneywise, I got took"). 'repository:" and once for gross insubordination. With their help. patience and $4.35.71 in Lee Harvey Oswald could have told which included spilling a drink on an borrowed State Department funds. Lee him. It was where, since mid-October, he officer—a trick that helped earn him Harvey Oswald. with wile and child. re- made $1.25 an hour as a clerk (not four weeks in the stockade). He acquired. turned to the United States on June 15, enough to buy a rifle. be later told bask military skills. He qualified as 1962. pnlice). which meant pulling books out Sharpshooter with the M-1, became a As we shall see detailed in the second of boxes to match order forms and send- private. first .class—aviation electronics part of the Kennedy story. the days from ing them downstairs to the offices of his operator. which meant he tracked aircraft then until November 22, 1963, spun away boss, Roy Truly. who disliked Ken- on radar and scanned their radio signals. from Oswald in a downward spiral. For nedy. Inside, the warehouse wasn't notably from the Atsugi base in Japan. now, it is enough to see their gross three- what you'd expect of a repository of where some U-2 flights over Russia orig- time Items: A succession of plebeian jobs, learning. Drab offices, a tawdry second- inated. Lee liked Russia. or the idea of the best of which was as a photopriut Hoot lunchroom. two grimy freight Russia. He'd discovered Marxism at 15, trainee for -a graphics company. Between elevators, claustrophobic storage space and two perceptions stuck with him: It jobs, unemployment checks—some ob- crammed with cartons, lit by 60-watt was for the downtrodden, he saw, and tained on spurious grounds. Increasing bulbs, surrounded by brick walls that hence antiestablishment; and it was tension with Marina, who lound him in dropped scabs of paint to the buck- taboo in America. Of Marx's complexity. his native laud to be irritable, reclusive, ling wood Boors. Up in the sixth story, of the moral subtleties of the dialectic. sexually inactive, tyrannical and cruel they were relaying the floor, and the Oswald spoke little, though he diet study Lee beat her and discouraged her attempts 1)01(t!, were moved to the southeastern the Russian language and profess ad to learn English--tussian ma% base been coiner ,JI the building, close to the win- nauseam to the gyrenes the Wonders of their only remaining bond. Separa- dows oterksoking Dealey Plaza's mock- the Soviet system. tions front Marina, then feverish rec- Grecian peristyles and pagodas. Oswald After nearly three years. Oswald-sought onciliations. The interventions of their worked up there sometimes. From the and was granted, oat September I I, 1959. southeast window. von could see straight an early "hardship" discharge to go to fete friends, first in the Russian-speaking out to where Main turns into Houston Fort Worth and take care of his impov- community of Fort Width and Dallas Street, then directly below where Houston erished and disabled mother, now a res- (who, for example, paid for Marina's turned into Elm Street, then travers- ident there. Marguerite was not disabled dental work and once helped her leave ing right, Elm Street curved to go long, apparently, since by October 16 Lee Lee). And last. Mrs. Ruth Paine, who in through a triple underpass, the railroad Harvey Oswald was in Moscow trying to suburban Irving sheltered Marina and tracks on top, and on out to the ramp defect to Russia and become a Soviet cit- her two daughters (the second born up to Stemmuns Freeway; the way to the izen. As it turned out, he was successful October 20, 1963. at Parkland Memorial Trade Mart. A superb view from an at neither. Although he ranted to the U. S. Hospital) during the Oswald? intermit- ugly building, where Lee did his menial Embassy and wrote letters forsaking his tent separations from April until Novem- job. He'd been born in New Orleans on citizenship. he never forfeited his pass- ber. Mrs. Paine was herself estranged October 18. 1939, two months after his port or completed the papers necessary from her leftist husband and, before Nla- father's death, to Marguerite Oswald, a to terminate his citizenship. He didn't rita moved in, the two women often hulking, pinny woman •who resented become a Soviet citizen, either, since. lie wrote loving letters. There were annoying mightily the demise of this. her second tired of their system within 18 months and interviews with the FBI, who were inter- husband. Lee grew up alone in, then out wanted to come home. He was delayed. ested in the Oswalt's' Russian connec- of orphanages and relatives' hums. however, by bureaucratic tangles until tions, particularly midway in 1963, when because his another worked. But even June 1962.