Why Did Lee Harvey Oswald Defect to the USSR Before He Killed the President?
The troubled former Marine moved there to discover himself. His failure to find peace in the Soviet Union eventually propelled him to Dallas — with a gun.
Dallas, Texas -- Lee Harvey Oswald holds a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and newspapers in a backyard. This photograph is one of the controversial backyard photos used in the assassination of John F. Kennedy investigation in 1963.
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