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Subject Organization. He was discharged in and nine days later left for the Soviet Union , where he tried unsuccessfully to become a citizen. He worked in Minsk and married a Soviet woman and in was allowed to return to the United States with his wife and infant daughter. In early , he bought a. Army general Edwin Walker, a figure known for his extreme right-wing views. Less than an hour after Kennedy was shot, Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street near his rooming house in Dallas.
Thirty minutes later, Oswald was arrested in a movie theater by police responding to reports of a suspect. On November 24, Oswald was brought to the basement of the Dallas police headquarters on his way to a more secure county jail. A crowd of police and press with live television cameras rolling gathered to witness his departure.
As Oswald came into the room, Jack Ruby emerged from the crowd and fatally wounded him with a single shot from a concealed. Some called him a hero, but he was nonetheless charged with first-degree murder. Jack Ruby, originally known as Jacob Rubenstein, operated strip joints and dance halls in Dallas and had minor connections to organized crime.
He features prominently in Kennedy-assassination theories, and many believe he killed Oswald to keep him from revealing a larger conspiracy. In October , the Texas Court of Appeals reversed the decision on the grounds of improper admission of testimony and the fact that Ruby could not have received a fair trial in Dallas at the time.
A recent poll by the Associated Press and the public opinion research group GfK reveals that nearly 60 percent of Americans believe the assassination was part of a conspiracy and 24 percent think Oswald acted alone. Of the 30 students who handed in papers last semester, only one concluded that Oswald had acted alone, said Stratton.
Among the litany of red flags students cited:. Yet security in Dallas seemed surprisingly lax, with only two dozen guards escorting the motorcade and a decision made to let the president ride in a convertible. A bureau investigator told the Warren Commission that after the assassination, his superiors ordered him to burn a hand-written letter that Oswald had mailed him earlier that year. That information had never before been shared. Why not?
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