A: I've never publicly said one way or the other for sure. Everyone was guilty of everything and no one understood her. Q: To what extent have you followed the various conspiracy theories?A: It's only in recent years that I've started to get involved in all that, mostly as part of trying to get the records released. She should send James Files a letter. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. In the surreal days that followed the 1963 assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as the nation absorbed the dual horror of the presidents murder and the subsequent and very public killing of his alleged assassin, a churchgoer in Ann Arbor looked for a bright spot. As America's obsession with her father goes on, a daughter tries to set the record straight. Wish there were more, by the family of Lee. MORE THAN 30 YEARS AFTER the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is a name that will not go away. A: Yes and no. They said it would depreciate the value of their home. But anonymity exacted a curious price of its own, as June faced myriad graceless references to her father, mother and family. Several years later, Ernest Campbell reflected on the episode initiated by one of his congregants. Mark Porter is the son of Porter together with her second husband Kenneth Jess Porter. Dr. Ernest T. Campbell, welcomed the idea as the one thing we might do to partially redeem the tragedy.. Her grave was next to her son Lee. Just out of the blue. He said things when we were together like he really wanted to have children because "that would be the blood of Lee Harvey Oswald that was flowing through the kids.". Now shes a widow, too, was the headline in newspapers across the country. Q: Did you ever take the so-called assassination tour? (Oswald declined all financial offers.). A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials. Are you able to maintain the same detachment when you see that? In my book she belongs where her husband is. There were a lot of things leading up to that that they wanted Mom to do, and Mom in recent years has gotten more and more involved, I guess because she's getting older and trying to rectify some of the things she may have done unintentionally -- like stating publicly that Lee did it. She was never recognized. Lee Harvey Oswald's youngest daughter, Rachel, was only one month old in 1963 when her father allegedly killed president Kennedy. There was a problem saving your notification. Well, I was satisfied with my dad, so I've never felt this big need to connect with Lee or do the daughter-father thing.Q: One can't help but notice that you address him as "Lee. He beat my mother. Nice to see you over here. From The New York Times Magazine April 30, 1995. Mostly I feel bad that Lee was never able to tell his story. She had been in the United States all of 17 months. Lee loved New Orleans.. Both interviews I found in the JFK collection at the Dallas Public Library last November. We always used my stepfather's name, Porter, growing up, even though we were never legally adopted. WebMarina met Lee Harvey Oswald (a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union) at a dance on March 17, 1961. Ann Arbor police and campus officials vehemently denied the reports; Oswald herself told them she had not been assaulted in any way, physically or verbally. The strongest reaction to Oswalds enrollment came from the people who were sponsoring her visit: the 2,300-member congregation of First Presbyterian Church. And she said: "I'm so and so, and I just want you to know that I've written a song about you - and your child. We always used my stepfather's name, Porter, growing up, even though we were never legally adopted. I went on a car trip up to the house I had lived in with Lee, Lee's boarding house, another house Mom had lived in with Lee that's still standing, the path of the motorcade, where the bullets hit. I do blame him for having beat my mother, and not being a good father or a good provider. JFK assassination revisited and Rachel Oswald Porter. Social justice drove Campbell, and he urged worshippers to engage with the world to right its wrongs. For years, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald has avoided cameras while she tries to live a quiet life in Rockwall, northeast of Dallas. But earlier th When my mother came on and this interview went so badly, I decided I really wanted to rebut. Nonetheless, during several interviews over the past year, she reports being content. She kept herself together for us.Q: Was any of this an issue in your marriage?A: No. Based on U-M and church records, this may well have been Maurine Hovey Nolan, an ELI lecturer and longtime member of the congregation. He encouraged First Presbyterian members to maintain a vital balance between personal religion and constructive involvement in the ongoing life of the world.. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Robert Edward Lee Oswald and Marguerite My husband couldn't have cared less. I move all the way up there, and his parents wouldn't even let us stay in his house because I was the daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. Twenty Q: Do you and Rachel argue much about this? As UPI reporter Preston McGraw noted, "One at a time, quickly, the two women bent down and kissed the corpse.". A: Well, there was a lot of misinformation being released related to a book, "Case Closed," by Gerald Posner. Marina and Lee Oswald had two Those who insist that the church should not become embroiled are really pressing for an irrelevant church, he preached. He wasn't much of a husband, he wasn't much of a father. When the Session convened within a week of Oswalds arrival, half its members upset and embarrassed about being left in the dark were angry to the point of wanting to reprimand the church leadership. But I still have problems in that area, because I date a lot. ", There was no expression of remorse, no regret, only an unceasing drive to carry on, fight on, despite the abandonment of her family and friends. He was 99. Reporters came over and she would tell us, "shhhh, go in the other room". It might not have told us very much about the assassination of JFK but it provides an excellent insight into what it must be like to be the child of a much hated historical figure. They said it would depreciate the value of their home. If the truth can be found that shows Lee had nothing to do with the assassination, I would feel better in that there have been a lot of things said and done regarding my family that all proceeded from an erroneous perception of what he did or didn't do. The Michigan Daily published a special edition with news of President Kennedy's assassination. My secretary in my last job put two and two together based on one of those articles. Q: What are your thoughts on Norman Mailer's new book? I'm a strong woman, but I don't know if I could've kept myself together. He sold an article for an astronomical amount back then -- I think it was $25,000. We always had this really bad connection, and when you'd pick up the phone you'd hear that other click. I started worrying about, first of all, do I have a responsibility to tell them? Bentley Historical Library, Vice President for Development records. Obviously, if I'd wanted to share that I would have told everyone a long time ago. The assassination has also been a constant in the life of June Oswald Porter, the 33-year-old daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. But you know, just because you're hanging out with a weird group -- they could have set him up, and he could have had no idea what was going on that day.Q: Did you ever take the so-called assassination tour?A: Not until recently. If they could prove somehow that he was innocent, he'd still not be a hero, he'd be a martyr. She was pretty strong. Q: I'm sure there must have been a lot of unusual incidents as you were growing up. Tags: Assassination, Conspiracy, JFK, Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marina Oswald, Television, L.D.C. His goal was simple yet demanding. So I ended up supporting him. Great!" I want to make sure they understand why I'm so matter-of-fact about it. And I said, "Yes?" Priscilla was a CIA asset, IMHO, as was June Cobb in Cuba. Just in recent years; but yes. There's always been this little group that's followed us -- Mom, Rachel and me -- and calls us and is fascinated by anything surrounding us. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. The public was prohibited from Rose Hill Cemetery, and no friends or other relatives showed up. I just remember crying a lot because Mom was crying. I didn't break down and cry or anything. When I was reading the interview with June and she made the comment abouty getting the, call from someone who had written a song at first I was a little jarred. A: No. I do remember that our phones were tapped. We didn't use the Oswald name, and it didn't come up a lot around the house except when reporters would call. For me, that is a dark forest, a heap of papers.. Oct. 19, 2013 at Loyola University in New Orleans. He tracked me down. Im sure Mrs. Oswald could conquer English in any school in America. She described Michiganders as like the weather crisp and cool. She made no mention of her young daughters, and said she could not provide any interviews because she had a pending book contract. She came to New Orleans to give the discussion and promote her book, Me and Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald. Audience members received a book with their ticket purchase, and Baker signed copies throughout the day. Now, Mom does articles that she doesn't bother to tell me she's doing, and sometimes my name comes up. I tell her, "Rachel, for all we know, we could have been living in the streets." Well, we're all waiting, and a car pulls up in the driveway, and Mom rushes out to greet these parents, and they happen to be a man and a woman, and they've got a camera, and she says: "Oh, you're gonna take pictures! By the end of the year, however, she was ready to travel from Texas to become a student. But anonymity exacted a curious price of its own, as June faced myriad graceless references to her father, mother and family. My husband couldn't have cared less. thanks for posting that interview I had not read it before. Porter met Lee Harvey Oswald at a dance in March 1961 in Russia. Q: Tell me about growing up in the aftermath of the assassination. Well, I was satisfied with my dad, so I've never felt this big need to connect with Lee or do the daughter-father thing. WebAudrey Marina Rachel. Then I find out he's been doing some quote-unquote assassination research. He sold an article for an astronomical amount back then - I think it was $25,000. I've never seen her act like that, like she needed to become more of a crusader, and it's taking its toll.Q: On your relationship with her as well?A: It has put certain strains on it. So I said, O.K, this is it. And then, they tell a story about how after that I stood up in front of the whole class and said, "My father shot the President." One of the latest authors to wade into the conspiracy waters is Norman Mailer, whose book "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery" will be published next month. It was just kind of eerie.Q: I'm sure there must have been a lot of unusual incidents as you were growing up.A: I remember Rachel's seventh-grade dance. This was before wiretapping got more sophisticated. She uses her stepfathers name, Porter, to avoid unwanted attention from being related to an infamous character. I said in effect to each person who criticized, The one thing you havent shown us is that what we have done is unlike Christ., Sources: English Language Institute records; First Presbyterian Church (Ann Arbor) records; and Harlan Henthorne Hatcher Papers, all at the Bentley Historical Library; A history, the First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1826-1988: incorporating A sesquicentennial history 1976, newly revised and updated, editors Lila Miller, Robert M. Warner, Carl R. Geider; Warren Commission Report and Hearings; Follow Me, by Ernest T. Campbell. Upon entering public school, June took the surname of her stepfather, Kenneth Porter, who married Marina in 1965. Oswalds wife Marina, two daughters, brother Robert and mother Marguerite were the only mourners. For many years, the widow has avoided cameras while she tries to live a quiet life in Rockwall, northeast of Dallas. Just out of the blue. Oswald worked sporadically at different jobs, such as a sheet-metal worker and a photoprint trainee. Well, we're all waiting and a car pulls up in the driveway, and Mom rushes out to greet these parents, and they happen to be a man and a woman, and they've got a camera and she says, "Oh, you're gonna take pictures! Well, there's a travel guide she found out about that actually listed the Texas Chilli Parlor and said the daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald worked there. Six weeks And I'm gonna be in Dallas, and I want to sing it to you. When the executive committee of the church governing body, known as the Session, reached out to Oswald in late 1963, it had done so in secret in order that Mrs. Oswald might be free from the pressure of publicity in considering the offer. Its members never informed the Session or any other congregant of the invitation, or of Oswalds acceptance. And we got to President Kennedy and I was told to go across the hall during that one. She has always felt really bogged down by it. Returned to the United States The Oswald family settled in Fort Worth, Texas. Lee and Marina Oswald's daughter wants to completely understand what was done to her father and why, perhaps as much or more than the the rest of the world if you believe what she says for herself. But you have to understand that, aside from what role he had in the assassination, there's the issue of what role he had in our family. The first of its kind in the country, the ELI was established to provide instruction and support for international students who speak English as a second language. I don't know if I could've done it and kept my sanity: two small children, don't speak the language, dirt poor, everybody in the country pointing their finger at you -- hating you in some cases. It would be great to hear more from Lee's daughters, about the folks who surrounded them as they were growing up. She believes that her phones are tapped by the Secret Service and the Secret Service wants to kill her. We visited the set of "J.F.K." And I'm gonna be in Dallas, and I want to sing it to you.". Please tell a good story, she told reporters. What do I tell them? I believe he's the first writer-researcher to get interviews with sources in the Russian Government and so this is an opportunity to shed new light on the subject from an area that has never been explored in any meaningful depth. Born in Dallas, Texas on October 20, 1963 to Lee Harvey Oswald and Marina Nichola nee Proosakova Porter. Reporters came over and she would tell us, "Shhhh, go in the other room.". Mom was always overprotective of us. Baker, who said she was a trained nurse, referred to the plot as a cancer research project. Lee was illegitimate, and so was my mother. I don't think that's true. [3] They married six weeks later and had a I started worrying about, first of all, do I have a responsibility to tell them? She looks just like her father, with her mother's eyes. I believe he's the first writer-researcher to get interviews with sources in the Russian Government and so this is an opportunity to shed new light on the subject from an area that has never been explored in any meaningful depth. I have to admit that when I heard that he used to play with me all the time, that was a nice feeling. Anyway, the only person I knew up there was Priscilla Johnson McMillan, who wrote my mother's book. People sent us money following the assassination, because Mom was young with two small children and didn't speak the language. they went on with their lives as the girls hardly knew their father and are not bothered by others Yet the CIA never questioned him. Mrs. Not so with Oswald. Q: I guess you must be encouraged that the review board was finally sworn in last year. So I said, O.K., this is it. But see, I'm matter-of-fact about a lot in my life. I move all the way up there, and his parents wouldn't even let us stay in his house because I was the daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. It's not a matter of being ashamed, it's a matter of wanting to be judged as June Oswald and not "the daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald.". The assassination has also been a constant in the life of June Oswald Porter, the 33-year-old daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald. They first met last April in Washington. If they could prove somehow that he was innocent, he'd still not be a hero, he'd be a martyr. Do I need to be more compassionate' about it? I had a conversation like that with her in about 88. People sent us money following the assassination, because Mom was young with two small children and didn't speak the language. The law said that if they felt that way, then those documents needed to be turned over to the Assassination Records Review Board and those folks would review the records and either concur, release them in blacked-out state or release them entirely. I know some people can remember vividly like it was yesterday, but I don't do that - even about yesterday. She is a woman of average height. I have to remind Rachel that this is the man who beat our mother, who didn't provide for his children. I have two small children, I'm divorced, I didn't want people to harass the kids.Q: Give me an example of what you'd consider harassment.A: When I was pregnant with my first, some lady got my phone number and called in the middle of the night. Because Marina Oswald realized that she and her children could become the focus of attention at any time, she made sure June and Rachel were always neatly dressed -- no matter how small the chore, and despite the fact that the family was often financially strapped. She however remarried two years after Oswalds murder. I'm convinced that your mother and Priscilla had a sexual relationship." ", Under the watch of the Secret Service, the grieving widow and her children stayed with Marguerite at the Inn of the Six Flags Motel outside Dallas. There was a bill passed at the end of the Bush Administration that required all Government agencies to review their files for any information related to the assassination and to release it -- unless they felt there were matters of national security or a couple of other issues. The next memory I actually have is in second grade. Whom do you really think of as dad? Just get out. It was just kind of eerie. WebLEE HARVEY OSWALD AUTOPSY & EXHUMATION PHOTOS THE REAPER FILES 218K subscribers 294K views 7 years ago This is the autopsy photos, casket photos & 1981 Or are we going to provide help simply because here is a human being in trouble who desperately needs help?. But she was not too happy that I had found her and at that moment in time was not interested in. Where Does Marina Porter Live Porter still lives with her second husband Kenneth, however in private, and is afraid to go out in public. Furthermore, two days later he was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while still in police custody. Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald passed away on aft July 16, 2013. Scheduled to start classes in January 1965, Oswalds arrival was leaked just days before Christmas, forcing the University to acknowledge her enrollment in a terse news release. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. An obituary in the Wichita Falls Times Record News reported the elder Oswald was 83 at the time of his death. A: Yes. Obviously, if I'd wanted to share that I would have told everyone a long time ago. The first chapter opens with my family, and he goes way back to my great-grandmother in Russia. She was born after her family moved to Dallas from Russia. So I sat across the hall in a time-out room. The next memory I actually have is in second grade. Im just like everybody else, and Ive had more than enough.. A: The last two years have been very stressful, because she started doing things that she hasn't let us know about, then all of a sudden I hear about it or see it on TV. Somehow those boxes came down and she was reading, and I guess she felt it was time to tell us. My secretary in my last job put two and two together based on one of those articles. They first met last April in Washington. He had been covering activities at the Dallas Police Department Building for KRLD and CBS News, standing no more than 11 feet from Oswald when he heard Jack Ruby's .38 revolver and saw Oswald fall. That catches you off guard when you just wake up. But in the shadow of this grim but stirring processionon that same MondayLee Harvey Oswald was quietly buried in Fort Worth, Texas. Oswald with ELI Director Catford on graduation day in February 1965. Mom would smoke all the time. Oswald was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939 to Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. (18961939) and Marguerite Frances Claverie (19071981). Robert Oswald died of a heart attack two months before Lee was born. I went on a car trip up to the house I had lived in with Lee, Lee's boarding house, another house Mom had lived in with Lee that's still standing, the path of the motorcade, where the bullets hit.Q: How did you feel about that?A: It was -- unusual. Want to share an anonymous news tip? So this little boy she was going with, his parents were going to come get her and they were going to go to the dance. Additionally, Porter told the commission she believed her husband was guilty of shooting President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. We are very close - except when these kinds of things come up. And you know, it's not Lee's fault he got killed by Jack Ruby. One of the latest authors to wade into the conspiracy waters is Norman Mailer, whose book "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery" will be published next month. And then, they tell a story about how after that I stood up in front of the whole class and said, "My father shot the President." Porter stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. A: I do. He said he was frankly surprised at her command of English. Are they going to take after some ancestor we don't even know? But see, I'm matter-of-fact about a lot in my life. The public first came to know Marina Oswald through a black-and-white photograph snapped as she left a Dallas jail, where her husband was held after the Kennedy shooting. Q: If someone was to ask you today who your father is, what would you say? There were hysterics. And they say: "Oh, we can take pictures? A: Yes, I'm also very excited about that. During this time, Baker and Oswald became romantically involved, and Oswald gave her details of his defection to the USSR. She didn't want to listen to anyone. A: Kenneth. So I called my staff in, a group of 10 or so, and I said: "Yes, that is me in the article. Q: One can't help but notice that you address him as "Lee.". Mailer is such a great writer; I was just so enthralled. But I still have problems in that area, because I date a lot. 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That catches you off guard when you just wake up. There was a bill passed at the end of the Bush Administration that required all Government agencies to review their files for any information related to the assassination and to release it - unless they felt there were matters of national security or a couple of other issues. Although Baker was not in Dealey Plaza when Kennedy was shot, she said she spoke with Oswald 37 hours before. Given everything above, you'd probably expect his return to be announced by dozens of men in dark glasses bundling him out the airport and into a mobile interrogation chamber. We always had this really bad connection, and when you'd pick up the phone you'd hear that other click. If you are willing to consider me to become your companion, I shall give you my best to make you happy and pull you out of the morass of bitterness, came an offer from Bangalore. Porter was born in the city of Molotovsk, in Arkhangelsk Oblast, in the northwest of the USSR. 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