Marina and Lee The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswalds Assassination of John F Kennedy

Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America’s most traumatic events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous, at times even moment by moment, account of Oswald’s progress toward the assassination, Priscilla Johnson McMillan takes us inside Oswald’s fevered mind and his manic marriage. When Marina, only a few weeks after giving birth to their second child, hears of Kennedy’s death and discovers that Lee’s rifle is missing from the garage where it was stored, she knows that her husband has killed the President. McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s she had worked for Kennedy and had known him well for a time. Later, working in Moscow as a journalist, she interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald during his attempt to defect to the Soviet Union. When she heard his name again on November 22, 1963, she said, “My God! I know that boy!” Ma...

Author: McMillan Priscilla Johnson
ISBN: 9781586422172
Year of publication: 2013
Genre: Biographies and Memoirs, History
Number of pages: 817
Reading time: 13 h. 37 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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