Why Lee Harvey Oswald's widow doesn't believe her husband shot John F. Kennedy

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Marina Prusakova married Lee Harvey Oswald at the age of 19 and was officially married to him at the time when the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy was committed. At the first interrogations, she did not even doubt that her husband had committed the crime, but after a while Marina Prusakova doubted his guilt, and since then her life has turned into a real nightmare.

Marry a foreigner

She was born in 1941 in Severodvinsk, where she lived with her mother and her husband until her 16th birthday. Later, the girl moved to Minsk and settled in the house of her uncle, who had no children, and her niece was able, in fact, to replace his daughter with his wife. Marina Prusakova studied medicine, intending to become a pharmacist, but at the same time dreamed of a successful marriage. On March 17, 1961, the student met at the dance the one who, it would seem, made a good part for her.

Lee Harvey Oswald lived for the third year in the Soviet Union. His dreams of living in the country of victorious socialism turned out to be very far from reality. When he sought permission to obtain Soviet citizenship, Lee Harvey Oswald saw himself as a student at Moscow State University, and he was actually exiled to Minsk and forced to work as a simple turner at a radio factory. True, his salary was several times higher than that of an ordinary worker, and he was given an apartment six months later. It is worth noting that it was located in a prestigious house, and the strange American was monitored almost around the clock.

Lee Harvey Oswald already in January 1961 realized that he had made a mistake in deciding to move to the USSR. Life here seemed to him utterly boring and monotonous: no nightclubs or bowling, and there was nowhere to spend much money. In addition, the work was completely uninteresting, and of all the entertainment, only dancing was available.

Acquaintance with Marina Prusakova brightened his loneliness, and after only six weeks the American was already leading his chosen one down the aisle. By this time, Oswald managed to contact the US Embassy, notifying of his desire to leave for America and return the passport of a US citizen, from which he tried to give up at one time.

In February 1962, the couple had their first daughter, and at the end of May, Marina and her husband received permission to leave the USSR.

American tragedy

The family first settled in Dallas, where her husband's relatives lived, and in April 1963 Marina moved in with her new friend, Ruth Payne. The husband tried to find a steady source of income, worked in different places and visited his family on weekends.

All the difficulties of staying in a foreign country did not seem so frightening to Marina Prusakova. She believed that everything would be fine with them, especially since in October 1963 the second daughter of the spouses Rachel was born.

A little more than a month later, she learned from the media about the assassination of Kennedy and the accusations against her husband. At that moment, she did not even doubt his involvement in the crime. When a police officer arrived at Ruth Payne's house, Marina showed him exactly where Lee Harvey Oswald kept his rifle in the garage, and after all interrogations she confidently declared his guilt. And even revealed the details of Lee Harvey Oswald's failed assassination attempt on General Walker in April 1963.

Oswald himself was shot two days after the tragedy. He was supposed to be transferred to the county jail, but at the time of the transfer from the police department, Jack Ruby shot him. As a result of a wound in the stomach, Lee Harvey Oswald died in the hospital.

Doubts

Marina Prusakova has repeatedly appeared before the Warren Commission, where she testified about everything that concerned her husband. All this time, she was under guard and never once expressed a shadow of doubt about the conclusions drawn by the investigation. Later, the widow of the only suspect often took part in the filming of programs dedicated to the tragic death of John F. Kennedy, and again her interviews coincided with the official version.

In 1965, Marina Oswald married a second time to former racing driver Kenneth Porter, to whom she gave birth to two sons. Many years after the tragedy that happened, Marina stopped appearing in public, refused fabulous fees for interviews and was no longer at all sure that the events of that fateful day developed exactly as the investigation presented.

Friend of Marina Prusakova Kay Morgan in 2013 gave an interview to a popular publication. Kay voiced the position of Lee's widow Harvey Oswald and her doubts about her husband's guilt. The reason for them was a thorough study of the case materials, in which Marina Prusakova could not find irrefutable evidence of the guilt of her Alka, as she called her first husband.

In addition, at the time of her testimony, Marina was too scared, she understood English very poorly, and therefore the special services could get anything from her. At some point, under pressure, she herself believed in her husband's guilt, but now she is not at all sure that Lee Harvey Oswald actually became a killer.

Accepting the fact that the investigation could deliberately make her first husband guilty on all counts, Marina Oswald-Porter began to fear for her own life. She completely abandoned public appearances and conversations with journalists. Marina Prusakova has been living in fear for many years now, it seems to her that she is constantly being watched, all her conversations are being listened to and even physically eliminated.

In 2013, she put up for auction a wedding ring that belonged to her husband and ended up selling for 108 thousand dollars. Marina Prusakova explained her decision by her desire to let go of the past.

A yearlong investigation concluded that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. However, conspiracy theorists claim there were more than one killer, therefore Lee Harvey Oswald is not the only one responsible for the assassination of the president. Some believe that Oswald was either a scapegoat or worked for the FBI, KGB, or the Mafia.