Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, Volume 10Random House, 1995 - 791 pages In this book, Norman Mailer asks the essential question about the assassination of JFK: not "Who killed Kennedy?" but "Who was Oswald?" for only by answering the latter question can we hope to answer the first. In 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald defected to the Soviet Union and was sent to Minsk, where he lived for two and a half years and remained under constant KGB surveillance, on suspicion of being a CIA agent. In 1993, Norman Mailer spent six months in Russia, where he interviewed Oswald's former friends and sweethearts and obtained exclusive interviews with the KGB officers assigned to monitor Oswald's every move. He was also given exclusive access to the KGB files on Oswald, including transcripts of conversations overheard in the apartment that Lee shared with his Russian wife, Marina. In Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery, Mailer reconstructs the life of this ambitious if doom-laden young man, giving a full account for the first time not only of the Minsk years, a hitherto uncharted period in Oswald's life, but also of Oswald's disastrous childhood, his years in the Marine Corps, and the events leading from his return to the United States in 1961 to his death in Dallas in 1963. The portrait of Oswald that emerges will greatly surprise readers who have thought of Oswald as a hapless loner: socially awkward, inarticulate, and an unremarkable loser. |
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... Sasha Piskalev , seventeen years old in the summer of 1958 , could not pass his exams at Minsk Medical Institute the first time he tried . It was a serious blow . From childhood , Sasha had dreamed of becoming a doctor . He had been an ...
... Sasha Piskalev , seventeen years old in the summer of 1958 , could not pass his exams at Minsk Medical Institute the first time he tried . It was a serious blow . From childhood , Sasha had dreamed of becoming a doctor . He had been an ...
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... Sasha felt small , and a lit- tle afraid . After all , he knew where the Colonel worked , and Sasha was afraid of the Organs . He thought KGB and MVD were both called the Organs , but then KGB and MVD were mixed up in his mind . And ...
... Sasha felt small , and a lit- tle afraid . After all , he knew where the Colonel worked , and Sasha was afraid of the Organs . He thought KGB and MVD were both called the Organs , but then KGB and MVD were mixed up in his mind . And ...
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... Sasha stayed over and awakened with a hangover , he and Konstantin talked next morning about Marina . She was a beauti- ful woman , Sasha said , and he was devoted to her , but Kostya could see that Sasha had an uneasy feeling about ...
... Sasha stayed over and awakened with a hangover , he and Konstantin talked next morning about Marina . She was a beauti- ful woman , Sasha said , and he was devoted to her , but Kostya could see that Sasha had an uneasy feeling about ...
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Oswald in Moscow | 39 |
Oswalds Work Oswalds Sweetheart | 67 |
Marinas Friends Marinas Loves | 135 |
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