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Assassin’s mother
Mrs. Oswald remains adamant
in defense of her son, Lee
By MIKE COCHRAN
Associated Press Writer
FORT WORTH, Tex. (AP) -
Alone and without fanfare,
Marguerite Oswald turned 70
last month, saying, “With all
I’ve been through, just being 70
is enough.
“Who needs a birthday
cake?”
As defiant as ever, the silver
haired, self-styled “mother of
history” remains unwavering in
defense of her son, Lee, named
by the Warren Commission as
the lone assassin of President
John F. Kennedy.
"The Warren Commission
was wrong," she snapped.
Sharing a frosty beer with a
visitor in her modest, immacu
late brick home, she launched
at once into the most recent
area of indignation, a published
contention she is “now aging
and in ill health.”
Eyes flashing, she produced a
copy of a letter mailed to news
media, in which she declared:
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“I’ll admit to the aging; it’s a
natural process. But to say I’m
in ill health is a gross error and
I consider it an effort to
discredit me.... “I don’t feel my
age, don’t look it and have never
been sick a day in my life. I’ll
bet the author can’t say the
same thing.”
Indeed, time has taken no ap
parent toll on the stocky fire
brand in the 14 years since the
assassination and subsequent
killing of her son by Jack Ruby
in the basement of the Dallas
County Jail. “I’ve never seen a
doctor, never taken an aspirin,”
she said. “I’ve fooled ‘em all by
living 14 years and remaining in
good health.”
Mrs. Oswald discussed her
way of life reluctantly, pre
ferring to attack authors and
critics who have assailed her
and her son.
“I’ve experienced and sur
vived this trauma,” she said.
“I’ve lived it and I know it.
What do the critics know? ... I
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veiling in May last year. (AP)
may look stupid, but I know ev
erything that’s going on. Don’t
kid yourself about that.”
She is an incessant reader,
and her library overflows with
books on the assassination and
the presidency, on Cuba and
Russia, where Lee Harvey Os
wald visited, and on New Or
leans, where her son spent
much of his youth.
“I’m very interested in ev
erything going on in this case,”
Mrs. Oswald said. “I hope
sometime to have an opportun
ity to change some of the things
that have been said — an op
portunity to write the truth.
“I don’t really have to in
vestigate anymore; it’s just a
matter of keeping on top of
things as they come up. If a
book comes out on the assassi
nation, there’s no putting it
down — even if it takes all night
and the next day.”
She recently read Victor Las
ky’s “It Didn’t Start with Wa
tergate” and Bernard Fenster
wald Jr.’s book on the assassi
nation, “Coincidence or Con
spiracy?” And she said she is
waiting with more than casual
interest for the October release
of “Marina and Lee,” as told by
Lee Oswald’s widow, Marina, to
Priscilla Johnson McMillan.
“I’m glad Marina’s book is
being published, but I wonder
why they waited 14 years,” she
said.
Mrs. Oswald said she has
spoken neither to Mprina nor
another son, Robert Oswald,
since November 1963. “I called
them a couple of times, but they
either wouldn’t talk to me or
hung up.”
She said she doesn’t know
why, adding, “I’ve always been
pretty much or. my own and I’ve
accepted that.
“This is just part of what I’ve
gone through.”
Much more distressing, she
indicated, is the continuing dis
interest of publishers for a book
by Marguerite Oswald.
“Robert had his book, and
Marina’s is coming out in Octo-
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ber. He had a story to tell and
Marina has a story to tell and I
have a story to tell,” she said.
“I can’t understand why I
don’t have a b00k.... I think the
publishers are under the im
pression I’m just a mother
defending her 50n.... I’m going
to defend Lee Harvey Oswald
until the day I die, but I’m not
going to take up for him.
There’s a difference.
“I don’t want to appear I’m
pushing for a book but, after all,
I am the mother of the man
accused of killing the President
of the United States.”
She lives, she said, on Social
Security, occasional fees for in
terviews and the sale of un
specified “personal property.”
Her days, she insisted, are
“simply not long enough. I cook,
clean house, keep the lawn, pay
bills, shampoo my hair, and of
course, read a lot and make
notes.
• “This is not an ordinary case
and I’m not an ordinary person.
But I eat well, I sleep well and I
have a free mind. ... After 14
years of suppression and
distortions, I’m proud to have
survived.
“I do not feel sorry for myself
because I think I’m finally
coming into my own. ... I just
can’t understand why I don’t
have a book. ... ”
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Miss Hall has taught music
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Miss Hall has studied voice
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