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'''Lee Harvey Oswald''' (October 18th, 1939 - November 24th, 1963) was a former U.S. Marine (from October 1959 - June 1962) who [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassinated]] [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/John_F._Kennedy John F. Kennedy] on November 22, 1963.

Oswald enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on October 24, 1956, just after his seventeenth birthday. Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union just before he turned 20 in October 1959. According to Oswald, he met with four more Soviet officials that same day, who asked if he wanted to return to the United States. Oswald replied by insisting that he wanted to live in the Soviet Union as a Soviet national. When pressed for identification papers, he provided his Marine Corps discharge papers. There, he studied communism and socialism and married a Russian woman. He also planned an unsuccessful assassination attempt on General Edwin Walker on April 10, 1963, just eight months before Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy.  

At about 12:30 P.M., he fired three shots; the first shot misfired, but the second hit Kennedy in the throat and injured Governor John Connolly. His third shot severely wounded Kennedy in the back of the head, which led to his death at Parkland Hospital, just 30 minutes later.

Oswald was the one charged for the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy]], reportedly and supposedly shooting the 35th U.S. President and for killing Officer Tippit. However, he denied involvement in both killings and was interrogated for two days.

Unfortunately, Lee Harvey Oswald would never live to be put on trial for both [[Murder|murders]]. At 11:21 A.M. on Sunday November 24, 1963, just two days after he committed both murders, Jewish gangster-wannabe [[Jack Ruby]] shot Oswald in the abdoman, while being transfered to the county jail. While Ruby was arrested by the police, the dying Oswald was immediately transferred to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where JFK was pronounced dead 2 days ago. Inside Trauma Room 2, the same doctors who tried to save Kennedy's life were now trying to do the same for his assassin. But once again, their efforts were very unsuccessful. So less than two hours later, at 1:07 P.M., 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald is pronounced dead. The next day, on the same day of the funerals for President Kennedy and Officer Tippet, Oswald is buried in Fort Worth.

**Both men suffered injuries while trying to escape (Oswald got punched in the face by officers whereas Booth allegedly fractured his left leg after either jumping down from the box to the stage at Ford's Theater or a result of him falling off of his horse in the Maryland countryside).

**After killing Kennedy, Oswald fled from a warehouse and was caught in a theater. After killing Lincoln, Booth ran from a theater and was caught in a tobacco barn.

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