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Marina Oswald Porter
Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (née Prusakova; born July 17, 1941) is a Russian-born American woman who was the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Born in the Soviet Union, Marina emigrated to the United States after marrying Lee Oswald during his temporary defection to the Soviet Bloc. After the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Oswald's murder, Marina testified against Oswald for the Warren Commission and remarried, becoming a naturalized United States citizen. Although Marina initially publicly supported the Warren Commission's findings, she ultimately expressed doubts and advocated for Oswald's innocence. Notably, she expressed belief that Oswald was the unidentified "Prayer Man" filmed on the steps of the Texas School Book Depository by James Darnell and Dave Wiegman as Kennedy was assassinated.
Marina was born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova (Russian: Марина Николаевна Прусакова) on July 17, 1941, in the city of Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk), in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. She lived there with her mother and stepfather until 1957, when she moved to Minsk in the Byelorussian SSR to live with her uncle Ilya Prusakov, who was a colonel in the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs. While in Minsk, she studied pharmacology. She produced her diploma in her exit visa from the Soviet Union certifying that she graduated secondary pharmaceutical training as a pharmacist from the Leningrad Pharmaceutical School (LFU) on June 29, 1959.
Marina met Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union, at a dance on March 17, 1961. They married six weeks later on April 30 in Minsk and had a daughter, June Lee Oswald, born in February 1962. Lee and Marina arrived in the US on 13 June 1962, onboard the Maasdam and landed at Hoboken in New Jersey. Here they were met by Spas T. Raikin of the Travelers Aid Society, who had been contacted by the US Department of State. He took them to the New York City Department of Welfare where they were processed. They eventually settled in Fort Worth, Texas where Lee's brother Robert lived at the time. At a party in February 1963, George de Mohrenschildt introduced the couple to Ruth Paine, a Quaker and Russian language student. The Oswalds moved to Dallas and then to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1963 before returning to Dallas later in 1963.[citation needed]
The Warren Commission later concluded that in January 1963, Oswald mail-ordered a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver and then, in March, a Mannlicher–Carcano, the rifle used to shoot Kennedy.
On March 2, Lee Oswald was told by his landlord to stop beating his wife or move out. The Oswalds quickly moved to the West Neely Street apartment that would later become famous for the photos taken in the back yard. Later that month, as Marina told the Warren Commission, she took photographs of Oswald dressed in black and holding his weapons along with an issue of The Militant newspaper, which named ex-general Edwin Walker as a "fascist." Two of these photographs were later found in the garage of the Paine household. A third one was in the possession of George de Mohrenschildt.
The photo that had been given to de Mohrenschildt was signed and dated by Lee Oswald on April 5, 1963, five days before his attempted assassination of Walker. De Mohrenschildt eventually revealed this photograph to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1977, shortly before his death. It is similar to the photo published by LIFE magazine in early 1964, except that it has a much more extensive background. The image also has a quote in Russian, the translation of which reads, "Hunter of Fascists, Ha-Ha-Ha!!!"
In April 1963, Marina and her daughter moved in with Paine (who had recently separated from her husband, Michael) at 2515 W. 5th Street in Irving, Texas. Lee Oswald rented a separate room in Dallas and briefly moved to New Orleans during the summer of 1963. He returned to Dallas in early October, eventually renting a room in a boarding house in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas.[citation needed]
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Marina Oswald Porter
Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (née Prusakova; born July 17, 1941) is a Russian-born American woman who was the wife of Lee Harvey Oswald.
Born in the Soviet Union, Marina emigrated to the United States after marrying Lee Oswald during his temporary defection to the Soviet Bloc. After the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Oswald's murder, Marina testified against Oswald for the Warren Commission and remarried, becoming a naturalized United States citizen. Although Marina initially publicly supported the Warren Commission's findings, she ultimately expressed doubts and advocated for Oswald's innocence. Notably, she expressed belief that Oswald was the unidentified "Prayer Man" filmed on the steps of the Texas School Book Depository by James Darnell and Dave Wiegman as Kennedy was assassinated.
Marina was born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova (Russian: Марина Николаевна Прусакова) on July 17, 1941, in the city of Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk), in the Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union. She lived there with her mother and stepfather until 1957, when she moved to Minsk in the Byelorussian SSR to live with her uncle Ilya Prusakov, who was a colonel in the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs. While in Minsk, she studied pharmacology. She produced her diploma in her exit visa from the Soviet Union certifying that she graduated secondary pharmaceutical training as a pharmacist from the Leningrad Pharmaceutical School (LFU) on June 29, 1959.
Marina met Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union, at a dance on March 17, 1961. They married six weeks later on April 30 in Minsk and had a daughter, June Lee Oswald, born in February 1962. Lee and Marina arrived in the US on 13 June 1962, onboard the Maasdam and landed at Hoboken in New Jersey. Here they were met by Spas T. Raikin of the Travelers Aid Society, who had been contacted by the US Department of State. He took them to the New York City Department of Welfare where they were processed. They eventually settled in Fort Worth, Texas where Lee's brother Robert lived at the time. At a party in February 1963, George de Mohrenschildt introduced the couple to Ruth Paine, a Quaker and Russian language student. The Oswalds moved to Dallas and then to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1963 before returning to Dallas later in 1963.[citation needed]
The Warren Commission later concluded that in January 1963, Oswald mail-ordered a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver and then, in March, a Mannlicher–Carcano, the rifle used to shoot Kennedy.
On March 2, Lee Oswald was told by his landlord to stop beating his wife or move out. The Oswalds quickly moved to the West Neely Street apartment that would later become famous for the photos taken in the back yard. Later that month, as Marina told the Warren Commission, she took photographs of Oswald dressed in black and holding his weapons along with an issue of The Militant newspaper, which named ex-general Edwin Walker as a "fascist." Two of these photographs were later found in the garage of the Paine household. A third one was in the possession of George de Mohrenschildt.
The photo that had been given to de Mohrenschildt was signed and dated by Lee Oswald on April 5, 1963, five days before his attempted assassination of Walker. De Mohrenschildt eventually revealed this photograph to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) in 1977, shortly before his death. It is similar to the photo published by LIFE magazine in early 1964, except that it has a much more extensive background. The image also has a quote in Russian, the translation of which reads, "Hunter of Fascists, Ha-Ha-Ha!!!"
In April 1963, Marina and her daughter moved in with Paine (who had recently separated from her husband, Michael) at 2515 W. 5th Street in Irving, Texas. Lee Oswald rented a separate room in Dallas and briefly moved to New Orleans during the summer of 1963. He returned to Dallas in early October, eventually renting a room in a boarding house in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas.[citation needed]