What Lee Harvey Oswald’s Mother Told Me

[zappaman]

“This isn’t some kind of communistic country,” she declared, pounding the table for emphasis. “This isn’t Russia. This is free enterprise. It’s profit-sharing…and if everybody’s making money, well, I’m not about to go penniless.”

It was clear we were never going to get to yes, and I soon bade her farewell. Schieffer had a similar experience. “Oh, yeah,” he says. “Marguerite would call me, even when I was in Vietnam on assignment, and call my mother, saying, ‘Is Bob there? I need to get ahold of him. I’ve got new information.’ And even after I got to CBS, she would ask, ‘Do you think CBS would pay me?’ ‘No, Mrs. Oswald, we just don’t do that. I don’t think we would.’ She lived out her life selling his clothes to souvenir hunters and people like that. I just came to believe she was deranged.”

Deranged? I guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/14/what-lee-harvey-oswald-s-mother-told-me.html

[DefenseLawyer]

1. Trying to get by is deranged?

Seems like someone trying to make the best of a bad situation.

[zappaman]

2. That is not what makes her deranged.

Read "The Gunman and His Mother: Lee Harvey Oswald, Marguerite Oswald, and the Making of an Assassin."
There could have been a very different outcome to history...

[El Supremo]

3. Marguerite Oswald really fucked up her son.

Oswald entered the 1st grade in 1945 and over the next half-dozen years attended several different schools in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas through the 6th grade.

Oswald attended the 7th grade in the Bronx, New York but was often truant, which led to a psychiatric assessment at a juvenile reformatory.

In January 1954, Oswald's mother returned to New Orleans, taking Oswald with her. At the time, there was a question pending before a New York judge as to whether Oswald should be removed from the care of his mother to finish his schooling, although Oswald's behavior appeared to improve during his last months in New York.

In New Orleans, Oswald completed the 8th and 9th grades. He entered the 10th grade in 1955 but quit school after one month.[22] After leaving school, Oswald worked for several months as an office clerk and messenger in New Orleans. In July 1956, Oswald's mother moved the family to Fort Worth, Texas and Oswald re-enrolled in the 10th grade for the September session. A few weeks later in October, Oswald quit school at age 17 to join the Marines; he never received a high school diploma. By the age of 17, he had resided at 22 different locations and attended 12 different schools.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald

[zappaman]

4. She certainly did.

And helped alter history in the process.

[PowerToThePeople]

5. She may have helped to create the tool

but someone else used it. Using it is what changed the world. Was it used to kill or was it used to be set up as a patsy for others. I will leave that for the reader to decide.

[zappaman]

6. "I will leave that for the reader to decide."

I guess that would depend on what they are reading.
FBI did it.
CIA did it.
Mafia did it.
Cubans did it.
LBJ did it.
USSR did it.
Military Industrial Complex did it.
Big oil did it.
Secret Service did it.

Take your pick!

However, if you read the one book that presents the facts, you will come away with the conclusion Oswald acted alone.

http://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-History-Assassination-President-Kennedy/dp/0393045250/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384711575&sr=8-1&keywords=vincent+bugliosi+reclaiming+history

Give it a shot! (no pun intended)