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The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Steerforth
August 2013
On Sale: August 6, 2013
527 pages
ISBN: 1586422162
EAN: 9781586422165
Kindle: B00BE24UNQ
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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True Crime
The inside story of Lee Harvey Oswald's path to killing
John. F. Kennedy. Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of
the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an
indispensable account of one of America's most traumatic
events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her
meticulous, at times even moment by moment, account of
Oswald's progress toward the assassination, Priscilla
Johnson McMillan takes us inside Oswald's fevered mind and
his manic marriage. When Marina, only a few weeks after
giving birth to their second child, hears of Kennedy's death
and discovers that Lee's rifle is missing from the garage
where it was stored, she knows that her husband has killed
the President.
McMillan came to the story with a
unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the
1950s she had worked for Kennedy and had known him well for
a time. Later, working in Moscow as a journalist, she
interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald during his attempt to defect
to the Soviet Union. When she heard his name again on
November 22, 1963, she said, "My God! I know that boy!"
Marina and Lee was written with the complete and
exclusive cooperation of Oswald's Russian-born wife, Marina
Prusakova, whom McMillan debriefed for seven months in the
immediate aftermath of the President's assassination and her
husband's nationally televised execution at the hands of
Jack Ruby.
The truth is far more compelling, and
unsettling, than the most imaginative conspiracy theory.
Marina and Lee is a human drama that is outrageous,
heartbreaking, tragic, fascinating. . . and real.
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