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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... nice body , she had nice teeth , but because of her cheek she did not consider herself attractive . And yet there were always men around her . It was strange . She didn't know why she attracted men , but she did . Even when she was ...
... nice body , she had nice teeth , but because of her cheek she did not consider herself attractive . And yet there were always men around her . It was strange . She didn't know why she attracted men , but she did . Even when she was ...
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... nice , very nice , and dressed very neatly . His name was Alik because , as she learned later , nobody could say Lee - it sounded like Li , that is , Chinese - and so it was a while before she learned his full American name was Lee ...
... nice , very nice , and dressed very neatly . His name was Alik because , as she learned later , nobody could say Lee - it sounded like Li , that is , Chinese - and so it was a while before she learned his full American name was Lee ...
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... nice looking , like , uh , I have to say it because I really was .... My complexion was good and my eyes changed with the color of my clothes , you know , blue , they got blue , green , they got green . And my hair was nice and curly ...
... nice looking , like , uh , I have to say it because I really was .... My complexion was good and my eyes changed with the color of my clothes , you know , blue , they got blue , green , they got green . And my hair was nice and curly ...
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Oswald in Moscow | 39 |
Oswalds Work Oswalds Sweetheart | 67 |
Marinas Friends Marinas Loves | 135 |
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