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Warren Commission Report, Chapter 7: Lee Harvey Oswald: Background and Possible Motives, Return to New Orleans and Joining the Marine Corps.

Along with having taught himself rudimentary Russian, he had saved $1,500 of his Marine Corps salary, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 22, p. 705, CE 1385, Notes of interview of Lee Harvey Oswald conducted by Aline Mosby in Moscow in November 1959 . Oswald: "When I was working in the middle of the night on guard duty, I would think how long it would be and how much money I would have to save. It would be like being out of prison. I saved about $1500." During Oswald's 2 years and 10 months of service in the Marine Corps he received $3,452.20, after all taxes, allotments and other deductions. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 26, p. 709, CE 3099, Certified military pay records for Lee Harvey Oswald for the period October 24, 1956, to September 11, 1959.

He left Helsinki by train on the following day, crossed the Finnish-Soviet border at Vainikkala, and arrived in Moscow on October 16. Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia, The Journey From USA to USSR at Russian Books He almost immediately announced to his Intourist guide his intention to become a citizen of the Soviet Union. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 16, p. 94, CE 24, Lee Harvey Oswald's "Historic Diary" , entry of Oct. 16, 1959.

After bandaging his superficial injury, the cautious Soviets kept him under psychiatric observation at a hospital. Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia, Moscow Part 2 at Russian Books Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia, Moscow Part 3 at Russian Books When Oswald showed up unexpectedly at the United States embassy in Moscow on October 31, he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia, Moscow Part 1 at Russian Books Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 18, p. 108, CE 912, Declaration of Lee Harvey Oswald, dated November 3, 1959, requesting that his U.S. citizenship be revoked.

Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 21, p. 633, Stuckey Exhibit 3, Literal transcript of an audio-tape recording of a debate among Lee Harvey Oswald, Carlos Bringuier, and Ed Butler on August 21, 1963 , Radio station WDSU, New Orleans.

Warren Commission Hearings, CE 1968, Location of Eyewitnesses to the Movements of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Vicinity of the Tippit Killing.

Oswald said that he ate lunch in the first-floor lunchroom of the Texas School Book Depository and then went up to the second floor for a Coke, during which he encountered the police officer. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 4, Testimony of James P. Hosty, Jr. , p. 467-468; Testimony of J.W. Fritz , p. 213-214; Commission Exhibit 2003, Dallas Police Department file on investigation of the assassination of the President , "Interrogation of Lee Harvey Oswald", vol. 4, p. 265.

He does not appear to have been able to establish meaningful relationships with other people. He was perpetually discontented with the world around him. Long before the assassination he expressed his hatred for American society and acted in protest against it. Oswald's search for what he conceived to be the perfect society was doomed from the start. He sought for himself a place in history a role as the "great man" who would be recognized as having been in advance of his times. His commitment to Marxism and communism appears to have been another important factor in his motivation. He also had demonstrated a capacity to act decisively and without regard to the consequences when such action would further his aims of the moment. Out of these and the many other factors which may have molded the character of Lee Harvey Oswald there emerged a man capable of assassinating President Kennedy.

The examination positively identified Oswald's corpse through dental records, and also detected a mastoid scar from a childhood operation. W. Tracy Parnell, The Exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald.

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