3 Things You May Not Know About Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was the alleged killer of President John F. Kennedy. Learn more about his life before and after Jack Ruby killed him. Lee Harvey Oswald was a former US Marine gunned down by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner in Dallas. His death didn’t leave any doubt as to who killed him, which is less than one can say for the assassination of John F. Kennedy . Here’s a Kennedys and King perspective on the life of the former marksman. 1. He was a sharpshooter in the Marine Corps Lee Harvey Oswald was in the US Marines from 1956–59. He dropped out of high school only to score high enough to be assigned as a sharpshooter in the Marine Corps. Yet, on his second go-round in 1959, he did rather poorly and barely qualified for the lowest category marksman. The Warren Commission tried to insinuate bad weather into that later result, but Mark Lane looked up the US Weather Bureau records. It was sunny and bright that day, with no rain. Oswald ended up ...