Who is Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald in front of all America, a mafioso or a CIA agent? This question, like the question of who is behind the assassination of the president, is shrouded in mystery. Who shot Kennedy remains the most significant mystery of the 20th century. The hopes that time would put everything in its place melted away like spring snow. The efforts of many people who investigated and tried to solve this crime did not answer the question. Who was behind this?

Assassination of Oswald

On November 24, 1963, Carousel restaurant owner Jack Ruby killed Oswald. In the underground garage of the Dallas police, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot, who was intended to be transported to the county jail. At the same time, there was a live broadcast on TV, and the whole country witnessed this crime. Oswald was formally charged with the assassination of President Kennedy.

From that moment on, the investigation lost the accused, with whom much information went to the grave. It was no longer possible to conduct a full investigation. The investigation into the Jack Ruby case was lightning fast. On March 14, 1964, he was sentenced to death. A cross-appeal was filed and a new trial was ordered. On January 3, 1967, he died of lung cancer, and the case was closed. Why does Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald? This remains a mystery.

The court did not accept Ruby's version that he decided to kill Oswald in order to acquit the city of Dallas and Texas and free Jackie Kennedy from testifying against the killer. After that, he contacted the investigation commission, but received no response. Only after his sister contacted the commission and the letter became public did the commission agree to return to considering some of the facts. But then Jack Ruby himself dies. The investigation was closed.

Three versions of the Kennedy assassination

It is reliably known that Jack Ruby had connections with organized crime and the CIA. There are three versions of Kennedy's assassination:

• The first version, officially recognized by the commission of inquiry, is that the president was killed by a lone Oswald. Why he did this remains a mystery.
• The second version is based on the fact that the assassination of the president was organized by the leaders of organized crime.
• The third version is supported by supporters of the “Conspiracy Theory”, according to which the death of the president was beneficial to very influential individuals out of self-interest, ambition or other group interests.

Supporters of the third version, which includes the majority of Americans and others, have many reasoned questions. However, the official bodies never provided answers to them. This confirms that the authorities deliberately tried not to give them due importance.

Jack Ruby is one of the fragments of "Conspiracy Theory". It is difficult to imagine that a power such as the United States, which has the most powerful investigative system, such services as the CIA and FBI, could not investigate the crime. This can only speak of influential persons who did not want all the secrets to be solved and made public.

Jacob Rubinstein

Jack Ruby is the fifth of eight children of the Rubinstein family. Chicago native. His childhood is marked tragic story his parents, who divorced after fights and scandals. The boy often ran away from home. His mother, left alone with the children, suffered from mental instability. Given the current situation, Jacob Rubenstein was taken into the care of the Jewish Council. There were several foster families in his life.

Ruby's intelligence connections

In this situation, the boy was forced to work selling tickets to sporting events. At the same time, his peer from a family of poor Italian emigrants works with him. The work did not proceed on its own, but under the supervision of members of the Italian mafia, namely Sam Giancana, a young crime boss at that time.

Since 1941, Ruby has been in the candy business with her brothers. During the war, with the help of the same Dzhankan, he receives a contract with the US Army for the supply of dry rations. It was impossible to get it just like that. The intelligence services with which Sam Giancana was associated had a hand in this.

Mafia vs Kennedy

Having earned good money, Jacob Rubinstein, who by that time had officially changed his name to Jack Ruby, moved to Texas, where he invested it in the business of his sister Eva Grant - the construction of a nightclub. His affairs went with varying degrees of success. Soon he becomes the owner of the night strip club "Carousel".

Unofficial investigations conducted by conspiracy theorists showed that his business was under the tutelage of criminals. Did Jack Ruby know Oswald before the murder? Probably yes. The testimony of witnesses who saw them in the Carousel restaurant has been preserved.

It is no secret that the American mafiosi were closely connected with this country through the casinos in Havana before the Cuban Revolution. After the revolution, they continued to maintain contact with Cuban emigrants who were opposed to Fidel. Several American criminal families could not forgive Kennedy for the failure of the American landing operation in the Gulf of Concinos to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro.

Nor could they forgive Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who waged an unprecedented fight against organized crime. But with all the pros in favor of the criminal version, it is impossible to imagine that the mafia would work against the authorities. In any case, crime is part of a conspiracy directed by the CIA and FBI in the right direction.

Lee Harvey Oswald

One of the eyewitnesses, Howard Brennan, who was in front of the book depository at the time of the shooting, told police that after the first shot he looked at the book depository, where he believed the source of the noise was, and saw a man shooting in the sixth floor window. While Brennan was giving his statement to police, an employee named Jarman came out of the book depository and confirmed that he had heard shots from inside. Another employee, Roy Truly, told police that his subordinate Lee Harvey Oswald left the building immediately after the shots were fired. He also gave his name and home address.

As the Warren Commission found, Oswald left the gun behind the boxes and immediately left the building shortly before it was sealed by the police. At about one o'clock in the afternoon, Oswald got home, but stayed there only a short time. As Oswald walked down one street, he was stopped by patrolman J.P. Tippit. He got out of the car and Oswald killed him with several pistol shots. Soon after, Oswald was arrested at a movie theater. An hour and twenty minutes had passed since Kennedy was wounded. Oswald tried to fire a pistol at a policeman, but was subdued. This fact is questionable because There were only two witnesses to this crime, and both of them refused to identify Oswald as the person who shot the policeman. That same night he was charged with the murders of Kennedy and Tippit. He completely denied his guilt. Two days later, on November 24, 1963, Oswald, leaving the police station accompanied by police, was shot and killed by nightclub owner D. Ruby. Therefore, Oswald's guilt was never proven or disproved in court. This is official data.

Oliver Stone, following Jim Garrison, makes Oswald a spy trained to work in the USSR. He claims that Oswald speaks Russian perfectly. Neither one nor the other is true. Naturally, Oswald, as a former infantryman, was in control of the CIA and was an agent for Anti-Castro operations. But he had nothing to do with intelligence in its pure form. Moreover, Oswald more often carried out instructions for CIA contacts with the mafia. It was through this type of activity that Oswald had contacts with D. Ruby. As for the Russian language, these are Garrison’s fantasies; all the testimony speaks of Oswald’s very weak Russian language. Even Marina’s friends, when visiting her, communicated with Oswald in English.

Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 18, 1939, Mother Marguerite Claverie,father, Robert E. Lee Oswald, an insurance broker, had died of a heart attack two months earlier. Lee was the third of three children, all boys. Lee spent most of his childhood years in Texas.The family flourished for a time when Marguerite married for the third time. For Edwin Ekdahl, in 1945. "We all loved Mr. Ekdahl and were in good relations with him," Robert Oswald later recalled, "but I think Lee loved him the most."

Oswald grew up as a solitary and unsociable child. At school, he had problems with his academic performance and every year his performance became worse and worse.In 1952, Marguerite Oswald brought Lee to New York, where her oldest brother, John, was renting an apartment. After 13-year-old Lee threatened John's wife with a jackknife, they were asked to leave and found an apartment in the Bronx. Oswald began to have serious problems at school, both with his academic performance and class attendance. And at the beginning of 1953 he was sent to a school for difficult teenagers.

Lee Harvey Oswald 1954

In 1954, the family returned to their native Orleans where Oswald soon became imbued with the spirit of Marxism and in 1956, at the age of 16, he wrote a letter to the Socialist Party of America:

Dear Sirs.

I am sixteen years of age and would like more information about your youth League, I would like to know if there is a branch in my area, how to join, ect., I am a Marxist, and have been studying socialist principles for well over fifteen months[.] I am very interested in your Y.P.S.L.

Sincerely

Lee Oswald

His second dream is to serve in the Marine Corps. Which he does, but not for long. During his service, he often engages in political discussions and vehemently discusses Khrushchev and Castro.

Lee Harvey Oswald

He leaves the fleet on the pretext of helping his sick mother, but he very quickly leaves for a Swiss college. However, he does not appear at the college itself, but reappears in the USSR and asks for asylum. Initially, the USSR refuses Oswald, but after his attempt to open his veins, they decide to leave him. He is sent to Minsk to a radio electronics factory and given a luxurious apartment, by Soviet standards. Oswald marries a Russian girl, Marina. However, very soon he becomes disillusioned with life in the USSR. He doesn't like the complete lack of entertainment. The money he earns has nowhere to spend and Oswald gets tired of this gray life. He expresses a desire to return to the United States and the whole family moves to Dallas.

After moving to America, Oswald begins to have problems with Marina. The marriage is cracking. Oswald cannot find a normal job and beats his wife. At the same time, he becomes a member of some political movements in defense of Castro and even appears on the radio in a dispute with a Cuban emigrant. During this period, he came to the attention of D. Ruby, who was a member of the Dallas mafia and had contacts with various Cuban organizations for the sale of weapons. In the process of communicating with Oswald, Ruby noted his dislike for Kennedy, and later this served as one of the reasons for involving Oswald in the operation to eliminate Kennedy. Perhaps it was Ruby who subsequently suggested leaving evidence pointing to Oswald and using him workplace for one of the shooters.

Lee Harvey Oswald

Most likely Oswald did not own complete information about the conspiracy and naturally had no idea about the role assigned to him. That is why he was somewhat confused when arrested and stated that he did not admit to any charges. He stated that he had been framed. However, his mental state could lead to Oswald starting to talk about the participants in the conspiracy. Jack Ruby was accused of the fact that Oswald turned out to be his man and was asked to eliminate the potential witness himself without arousing suspicion and under a patriotic pretext, so that nothing would indicate a connection between them. Ruby was taken to police headquarters and while Oswald was being transferred from the department to the state prison, Ruby shot him in the heart. Later, during interrogations, Ruby claimed that he did this for two reasons. To avenge the president and save Jacqueline Kennedy from having to testify in court.

Here are just a few pieces of evidence that Oswald could not have done what was eventually pinned on him:

1. A paraffin test confirmed that Oswald had not fired any firearms for at least two days before the assassination. The fact that Oswald killed police officer JP Tippit also raises many questions.

2. FBI experts refused to conduct any tests with the rifle found on the sixth floor of the book depository until... ATTENTION, the optical sight was adjusted and adjusted and the trigger was replaced with a smoother one, since the hand on the rifle was very tight constantly broke down. In fact, Oswald's rifle was reassembled and at the time of the assassination attempt it was practically unsuitable for shooting.

3. The photo with the rifle and the newspaper, which was presented as evidence that Oswald purchased this rifle, is an obvious fake. At least 18 signs of photomontage were found on it. Most likely, Oswald did not even see this rifle and it was purchased on his behalf specifically to be left at the crime scene. In theory, tests should not have been carried out with her at all. members of the conspiracy at all stages of the investigation had already decided that the killer was a loner and that additional evidence was simply not required. But... A. Zapruder's film became evidence that was not expected. The recording made it possible to record the intervals between shots and gave rise to suspicions about whether this was possible in principle. Well, as a result, there was a clear need for experiments. The Warren Commission could no longer avoid carrying it out.

4. And if we are talking about a rifle, then the rifle that is stored in the US National Archives as a murder weapon is not at all the one that Oswald allegedly purchased. The fact is that if you look at the advertisement for the sale of a rifle in one of the newspapers, you will notice that the length of the rifle purchased, according to investigators by Oswald under the name of A. Haydel, is 102 cm. The rifle from the photograph “in the backyard” has a length of 96 see (we will go into more detail in). These are two different models of the same rifle. It is significant that the Warren Commission report contains a falsified advertisement for the sale of this rifle, where its length is the required 102 cm. But an inquisitive person can dig up a real edition of this newspaper with an advertisement for the sale of a completely different gun.

Advertisement from the Warren Commission report length 40 inches = 102cm.

And this is a real advertisement in that same newspaper. Length 36 inches = 96 cm.

Oswald's guilt was never proven in court, and the evidence collected raises very serious and justifiable doubts that Oswald fired at least one shot at Daily Plaza. Although it is also safe to say that Oswald was directly related to the death of President Kennedy and was in the Book Depository building at 12:30 minutes. November 22, 1963, where he performed his clearly assigned role.

Oswald is buried in a suburb of Dallas. On his grave there is a small stone slab with the inscription OSWALD

Tragically ending attempts on the lives of top officials of states and famous politicians often changed the course of history. Often the killers were never found, and sometimes the blame for such crimes was placed on those who were not involved in them. In particular, to this day there is still controversy over whether Lee Oswald is the “Dallas shooter” or whether he was not involved in the assassination attempt on John Kennedy at all. To understand this issue, hundreds of researchers around the world have carefully studied the biography of this man, which, admittedly, is quite unusual.

Childhood

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in the USA, in New Orleans, in 1939. The boy's father died shortly before his birth, so the mother was forced to raise three sons alone.

When Oswald was only 2 years old, the woman sent all the children to Orphanage, since she did not have the means to support them, but a year later they returned to the family again.

At the age of 16, Harvey left school and went to work first as an office clerk and then as a courier. The young man's mother did everything so that her son would return to school, but in October Oswald left his studies and entered the Corps. Thus, he never received a high school diploma.

Despite this, the young man read a lot and, until the age of 15, liked to tell others that he was a Marxist.

In service in the Marine Corps

As soon as he turned 17, Oswald entered the Corps Marine Corps USA.

At first, he was trained as a radar operator, then was sent first to the Macas El Toro base, and later to the military airfield in Atsugi (Japan).

During this period, he and other Marines underwent sniper training. It is known that Lee Oswald was able to score 1 point less than the value that qualified him as a marksman.

During his service, the young man was repeatedly court-martialed. The first time he shot himself in the hand with a pistol, the second he got into a fight with a sergeant, for which he was imprisoned, and the third time, while on guard duty in the Philippines, he fired a rifle for no reason in the direction of the jungle.

Moving to the USSR

In October 1959, a few days before his 20th birthday, Lee Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union. It is known that he had been preparing for this trip for a long time. In particular, he sent several applications to universities different countries for the purpose of obtaining a student visa. In addition, Oswald spent 2 days with his mother in Fort Worth, and then went from New Orleans to Le Havre, France, from where he crossed to England.

In Southampton, he told customs officials that he intended to stay in England for a week and then leave for Switzerland to study at one of the local universities.

Having thus confused his tracks, on the same day the young man went by plane to Helsinki, where he was given a Soviet visa. A day later he was already in Moscow and declared his desire to obtain Soviet citizenship. It was rejected, which forced Oswald to attempt suicide. He was rescued, but was imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital.

A few days later, the young American was forced to be released, and he appeared at the United States Embassy in Moscow to declare that he intended to renounce his citizenship.

Oswald had a desire to go to study at Moscow State University, but he was sent to Minsk and got a job as a turner at the Minsk Radio Plant. Lenin, who was engaged in the production of household and military space electronics. In the same time Soviet state assigned him an allowance and also allocated him a furnished one-room apartment. Moreover, during his entire stay in the USSR, the young man was constantly under KGB surveillance.

Marriage

Oswald got tired of Soviet “romance” very quickly. He was especially depressed by the “gray work”, as well as the lack of bowling alleys and nightclubs. Soon, the young man, who never officially renounced his American citizenship, wrote to his country’s embassy in Moscow requesting the return of his passport and expressed his desire to return to his homeland if charges were not brought against him.

While Lee Harvey Oswald was waiting for an answer, he wasted no time and met Marina Prusakova. Just a month and a half later, they got married, despite the fact that marriages of Soviet citizens with foreigners were not encouraged. Lee Oswald's wife came from an ordinary family. She was only 19 years old and was studying to become a pharmacist before meeting Harvey.

In February 1962, the couple had a daughter, June, and soon their family received documents from the US Embassy that allowed the couple to emigrate to the United States, which they did immediately.

Life in Dallas

Returning to the United States, the Oswald family settled in Fort Worth, near Harvey's brother and mother. The former Marine soon had the idea of ​​writing a memoir about his life in the USSR. To be more reliable in his descriptions, Oswald began to make acquaintances with emigrants from Soviet Union. As they later recalled, the young man seemed rude and ill-mannered to his wife’s compatriots, so they sympathized with Marina Oswald.

In New Orleans

In 1963, the Oswalds left Fort Worth. Harvey went to work for the New Orleans company of William Reilly, who was a member of an organization opposing the communist regime of Fidel Castro. However, Oswald did not manage to stay there for long, since he showed little diligence and spent a lot of time reading magazines about hunting and weapons.

In Mexico

On September 23, 1963, Oswald's wife left with her daughter to visit a friend in Texas, and he himself went to Mexico. In Mexico City, the former Marine applied to the Cuban Embassy for a transit visa. At the same time, he indicated that he was going to visit this country before returning to the USSR. Diplomats from Liberty Island demanded to provide a document confirming consent Soviet side for Oswald's arrival.

Going to the USSR Embassy in Mexico City, he asked for asylum. During a conversation with a KGB representative, Oswald behaved extremely nervously and was not even able to finish writing a letter to the Presidium of the Supreme Council, as he became hysterical when he learned that he had to wait about 4 months for an answer. Subsequently, whoever communicated with him expressed doubt that Oswald could even fire a sniper rifle, as he was in a state of extreme nervous excitement.

Having run out of the Soviet embassy, ​​the man again went to the Cuban diplomatic mission, but he was kicked out, saying that his help would only harm the revolution.

Return to Dallas

After returning to the United States, Oswald took a job in a book warehouse. Soon after this, his second daughter was born. Lee Harvey Oswald's wife and children lived during this period in Irving, where he visited on weekends.

On the eve of Kennedy's assassination

In November 1963, in the absence of her husband, FBI agents visited Marina Oswald twice, suspecting that she was a KGB agent. Enraged, Harvey went to the Dallas FBI office to meet with special agent J. Hosty. Not catching him on the spot, he left him a note in which he threatened to blow up the bureau office and the police department if any of the feds dared to bother his wife.

Kennedy assassination

According to government commissions investigating the Kennedy assassination, on November 22, at about 12:30 p.m., Harvey fired three times from a rifle from the sixth floor of a school textbook warehouse. As a result, the president was killed and the governor of Texas was wounded.

Immediately after the shots were fired, Oswald allegedly hid his rifle and went down the back stairs. There he encountered a policeman, but he was accompanied by the warehouse owner, who said that he was his employee.

After leaving the building, Oswald drove home and changed clothes. About one o'clock in the afternoon he was stopped by policeman Tippit, whom he killed with four shots.

Arrest

At about 1:40 p.m., Oswald was seen hiding in the Texas theater. These actions seemed suspicious to the personnel, and a police squad was called and arrested and disarmed him.

At the same time, Oswald told reporters that he did not shoot at anyone. He continued to deny everything during interrogations.

Assassination of Lee Oswald

On November 24, as the prime Kennedy assassination suspect was being prepared for transfer to the Dallas County Jail, Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, shot him in the stomach. Oswald was taken to the same hospital where Kennedy died two days earlier. There he died at 13:07.

All this happened live, so the whole world saw how and who killed Lee Harvey Oswald. The only thing left to find out was the motive. As Lee Harvey Oswald's killer said, he did this so that Mrs. Kennedy would not be upset by the consideration of this case in court.

Oswald was buried in a cemetery in Fort Worth.

The commission that investigated Kennedy's assassination never established the motive for the crime.

The assassination of Lee Harvey by Oswald is still questioned by many historians. Perhaps someday the world will learn facts that will allow us to say with confidence who committed this crime and why.

Marina Prusakova married Lee Harvey Oswald at the age of 19 and was officially married to him at the time when US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. At the first interrogations, she did not even doubt that her husband had committed the crime, but after a while Marina Prusakova doubted his guilt, and since then her life has turned into a real nightmare.

Marry a foreigner

She was born in 1941 in Severodvinsk, where she lived with her mother and her husband until her 16th birthday. Later, the girl moved to Minsk and settled in the house of her uncle, who had no children, and the niece was able, in fact, to replace his daughter with his wife. Marina Prusakova studied medicine, planning to become a pharmacist, but at the same time dreamed of a successful marriage. On March 17, 1961, a student met at a dance someone who seemed to be a good match for her.

Lee Harvey Oswald had been living in the Soviet Union for three years. His dreams of life in the country of victorious socialism turned out to be very far from reality. When he sought permission to obtain Soviet citizenship, Lee Harvey Oswald saw himself as a student at Moscow State University, and he was actually exiled to Minsk and forced to work as a simple turner at a radio factory. True, his salary was several times higher than the salary of an ordinary worker, and he was given an apartment only six months later. It is worth noting that it was located in a prestigious house, and surveillance of the strange American was carried out almost around the clock.

Lee Harvey Oswald already realized in January 1961 that he had made a mistake by deciding to move to the USSR. Life here seemed to him extremely boring and monotonous: no nightclubs or bowling alleys, and there was nowhere to spend money. In addition, the work was completely uninteresting, and the only entertainment available was dancing.

Meeting Marina Prusakova brightened up his loneliness, and after just six weeks the American was already leading his chosen one down the aisle. By this time, Oswald had managed to contact the US Embassy, ​​notifying him of his desire to leave for America and return his passport as a US citizen, which he had tried to refuse at one time.

In February 1962, the couple had their first daughter, and at the end of May, Marina and her husband received permission to leave the USSR.

American tragedy

At first, the family settled in Dallas, where her husband's relatives lived, and in April 1963, Marina moved in with her new friend, Ruth Payne. The husband tried to find a permanent source of income, worked in different places and visited his family on weekends.

All the difficulties of staying in a foreign country did not seem so frightening to Marina Prusakova. She believed that everything would be fine with them, especially since in October 1963 the couple’s second daughter, Rachel, was born.

And a little more than a month later, she learned from the media about Kennedy’s assassination and the accusations against her husband. At that moment, she did not even doubt his involvement in the crime. When a policeman arrived at Ruth Payne’s house, Marina showed him exactly where Lee Harvey Oswald kept his rifle in the garage and after all the interrogations she confidently declared his guilt. And she even revealed the details failed assassination attempt Lee Harvey Oswald on General Walker in April 1963.

Two days after the tragedy, Oswald himself was shot. He was supposed to be transferred to the county jail, but as he was transferring from police headquarters, Jack Ruby shot him. Lee Harvey Oswald died in hospital as a result of being shot in the stomach.

Doubts

Marina Prusakova repeatedly spoke before the Warren Commission, where she testified about everything that concerned her husband. All this time she was under guard and never once expressed even a shadow of doubt about the conclusions made by the investigation. Later, the widow of the only suspect often took part in filming programs dedicated to the tragic death of John Kennedy, and again her interviews coincided with the official version.

In 1965, Marina Oswald married for the second time to former racing driver Kenneth Porter, with whom she gave birth to two sons. Many years after the tragedy, Marina stopped appearing in public, refused fabulous fees for interviews, and was no longer at all sure that the events of that fateful day developed exactly as the investigation presented.

Marina Prusakova’s friend Kay Morgan gave an interview to a popular publication in 2013. Kay voiced the position of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald and her doubts about her husband’s guilt. The reason for them was a thorough study of the case materials, in which Marina Prusakova could not find irrefutable evidence of the guilt of her Alka, as she called her first husband.

In addition, at the time of testifying, Marina was too frightened, she understood very poorly English language, and therefore the intelligence services could get anything from her. At some point, under pressure, she herself believed in her husband’s guilt, but now she is not at all sure that Lee Harvey Oswald actually became a murderer.

Having accepted the fact that the investigation could specifically make her first husband guilty on all counts, Marina Oswald-Porter began to fear for her own life. She completely refused to appear in public and talk with journalists. Marina Prusakova has been living in fear for many years; it seems to her that she is constantly being watched, all her conversations are being listened to, and she can even be physically eliminated.

In 2013, she put up for auction an engagement ring that belonged to her husband and ultimately sold for 108 thousand dollars. Marina Prusakova explained her decision by her desire to let go of the past.

Following a year-long investigation, it was concluded that President John Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. therefore Lee Harvey Oswald is not the only one responsible for the assassination of the President. Some believe that Oswald was either a scapegoat or working for the FBI, KGB or Mafia.

The mystery surrounding who killed John Kennedy continues to occupy the whole world.

Lee Harvey Oswald has gone down in history as the man who shot the president - but one woman who claims to have been Oswald's lover says he is innocent.

“I will always love Lee. And I will always protect him,” says 74-year-old Judyth Vary Baker in an exclusive interview with Aftonbladet newspaper.

100 years have passed since the day when one of the most mysterious US presidents, John Kennedy, was born in Boston on May 29, 1917.

Kennedy was only 46 years old when he was shot and killed on November 22, 1963, while visiting Dallas, Texas. The question of who did it is often called the greatest mystery in history.

24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for this murder. There was never a trial against him - two days later he was killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby, which was reported by journalists and shown live. But his guilt was later established during a public inquiry by the Warren Commission.

"Lee was a fantastic lover"

However, the book “Me & Lee - how I came to know, love and lose Lee Harvey Oswald” claims something different. It was written by Judith Vary Baker, who claims to have known Oswald better than anyone else.

According to her, she was Oswald's mistress.

“Lee was a fantastic gentle lover. He also danced well and loved to sing. We often sang together, especially stupid songs,” Baker told Aftonbladet in a letter a few days before President Kennedy’s centenary.

Judith Vary Baker claims she met Lee Harvey Oswald at a post office in New Orleans in April 1963. She was 19, he was four years older. Even though Oswald was married and had young children—and even though Judith was planning to marry her then-boyfriend—they fell in love and began a secret relationship.

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The Wall Street Journal 10/07/2013 In her acclaimed book, Judith Baker claims that Oswald was a CIA agent. She herself was then an ambitious medical student studying cancer. But through Oswald, she claims, she was drawn into a secret conspiracy behind which stood the American intelligence agency CIA and the local New Orleans mafia. The purpose of the plot was to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro from an ambush.

“This was shortly after the Cuban missile crisis, when everyone was living in constant fear that a third one might break out World War. We hated Castro for what he did against his own people, for the way he tortured his political opponents,” Baker says.

The CIA ordered the assassination of the President

In the summer of 1963, Baker and her scientific colleagues were tasked with isolating cancer cells that Lee Harvey Oswald would then smuggle into Cuba. But according to Baker, the CIA and Mafia conspirators had another figure in their sights all along: Kennedy.

In the fall of 1963, instead of his previous assignment, Oswald received orders to shoot the president during his visit to Dallas on November 22. At first he refused, but then, according to Judith, he gave in because he was afraid that otherwise his wife Marina and two small children would be killed.

“Lee knew what would happen, he knew he would die. During our last conversation, 37 hours before the murder, we cried and said goodbye,” Baker says.

According to her, Oswald was at the scene of the assassination, but, in all likelihood, missed, because Kennedy's motorcade was moving very quickly. Someone else fired the fatal shot.

The story is dismissed as pure fantasy

The story that Baker tells is, to put it mildly, sensational, and it is not possible to verify how much truth there is in it. There are no photographs of her together with Lee Harvey Oswald, nor any other irrefutable evidence that they even knew each other.

The only thing that can be called proof is a pay stub from the New Orleans coffee factory where she and Oswald worked briefly in 1963; in other words, she can prove that they were at least some time colleagues.

Many have called her story pure fiction, but she is a well-known figure in conspiracy circles, lauded by people like former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.

Aftonbladet: What do you tell people who don't believe your story?

Judith Vary Baker (in letter): Now this is not such a problem as it used to be, now many people actively defend me. I have had the opportunity to give many lectures, both in Europe and on the other side of the Atlantic. Many people heard me. Critics are no longer such a big problem - too many people know me now and protect me from evil people.

"Me and Lee" will be published in a new, updated version next year, with more evidence and evidence to support my information. I am also the founder and organizer of the annual JFK Assassination Conference, which year will pass for the fifth time. In 2016, we had 31 speakers from five different countries. So many people came that the firefighters had to turn some of them away.

Persecution after the story was published

Judith Vary Baker did not speak for a long time about the connection she said she had with Oswald. But in 1999, she removed the seal of silence from her lips and began to tell her story. This, she claims, resulted in countless threats and persecution - and as a result, in 2007, she asked for asylum in Sweden.

According to her, she now lives in Sweden for several months a year, and spends the rest of the time in Eastern Europe.

“I live in Sweden as many months a year as I can, but since I am not a citizen of the country, I have to leave it periodically. They say I'm safe in the US, but that's ridiculous."

I asked Judith Vary Baker how she remembers Lee Harvey Oswald today, nearly 54 years after his death ended their supposed relationship.

“Lee and I were a very good fit. We had a lot in common. We deeply loved humanity, which helped me and guided me all these long years that I am forced to live without him. He used to tell me “don’t confuse discomfort with pain. It’s normal to be afraid, it’s how you behave, even if you’re afraid, that matters,” Judith replies.

Lee Harvey Oswald

October 16, 1959: Arrives in Moscow. Oswald had long been interested in Marxism and planned to become a Soviet citizen. He receives a temporary residence permit and settles in Minsk, where he marries Marina Prusakova in April 1961.

June 13, 1962: Abandons plan to become a Soviet citizen and returns to the United States with his wife and newborn daughter June. The family settled in Fort Worth, where he took on a variety of casual jobs.

October 15, 1963: After a period of unemployment, gets a job at a school textbook warehouse in Dallas.

November 22, 1963: President Kennedy's motorcade passes the textbook warehouse. Kennedy was shot at 12:30 p.m. 45 minutes later, an unknown man shot and killed Policeman J.D Tippit. Signs point to Oswald, who was captured at a car dealership at 1:50 p.m. He was first detained for the murder of Tippit, and a day later he was also charged with the murder of the president.

November 24, 1963: A little after 11 a.m., Oswald is scheduled to be transferred from Dallas County Jail. This event is shown live on television. Suddenly, nightclub owner Jack Ruby runs out and shoots Lee Oswald in the stomach. At 1:07 p.m., Lee Oswald's death is announced.

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