Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Chapter 7 1964, p.407.

At 2:45p.m. the same day, an autopsy was performed on Oswald in the Office of the County Medical Examiner. [227] Dallas County medical examiner Earl Rose announced the results of the gross autopsy: "The two things that we could determine were, first, that he died from a hemorrhage from a gunshot wound, and that otherwise he was a physically healthy male." [230] Rose's examination found that the bullet entered Oswald's left side in the front part of the abdomen and caused damage to his spleen, stomach, aorta, vena cava, kidney, liver, diaphragm, and eleventh rib before coming to rest on his right side. [230] Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Chapter 4 1964, p.152. HSCA Final Report: I. Findings – A. Lee Harvey Oswald Fired Three Shots..." (PDF). pp.60–61 . Retrieved September 17, 2010. FBI Special Agent James P. Hosty and Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz (chief of homicide) conducted the first interrogation of Oswald on Friday, November 22. When Oswald was asked to account for himself at the time of the assassination, he replied that he was eating his lunch in the first-floor lounge (known as the "domino room"). He said that he then went to the second-floor lunchroom to buy a Coca-Cola from the soda machine there and was drinking it when he encountered Dallas motorcycle policeman Marrion L. Baker, who had entered the building with his gun drawn. [209] [210] [211] [212] Oswald said that while he was in the domino room, he saw two "Negro employees" walking by, one he recognized as "Junior" and a shorter man whose name he could not recall. [213] Junior Jarman and Harold Norman confirmed to the Warren Commission that they had "walked through" the domino room around noon during their lunch break. When asked if anyone else was in the domino room, Norman testified that somebody else was there, but he could not remember who it was. Jarman testified that Oswald was not in the domino room when he was there. [214] [215]

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Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 16, p. 96, CE 24, Lee Harvey Oswald's "Historic Diary", entries of October 28, 1959, to October 31, 1959. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 11, pp. 214–215, Affidavit of John Bryan McFarland and Meryl McFarland. While Oswald was in the Marines, he taught himself rudimentary Russian. Although this was an unusual endeavor, on February 25, 1959, he was invited to take a Marine proficiency exam in written and spoken Russian. His level at the time was rated "poor" in understanding spoken Russian, though he fared rather reasonably for a Marine private at the time in reading and writing. [46] On September 11, 1959, he received a hardship discharge from active service, claiming his mother needed care. He was placed on the United States Marine Corps Reserve. [20] [47] [48] Defection to the Soviet Union

The buyer, Denver oilman and gun collector John J. King, [77] commenced an action in federal court in May 1965 for the recovery of the weapons from possession of the U.S. government. In response, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service began an in rem forfeiture proceeding against the rifle and the pistol. [76] The U.S. District Court held that Oswald had used fictitious names when purchasing the weapons, in violation of the Federal Firearms Act of 1938, [78] which allowed for immediate seizure and forfeiture of any such illegally obtained weapons.

Oswald, David Ferrie and the Civil Air Patrol, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, Volume 9, 4, pp. 107–115.

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Appendix 13 1964, p.676. a b Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Appendix 13 1964, pp.674–675.a b c Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 16, p. 94, CE 24, Lee Harvey Oswald's "Historic Diary", entries of October 16, 1959, to October 21, 1959. tried to enlist in U.S. Marines using affidavit claiming age 17) (worked as clerk/messenger in New Orleans, rather than school) a b Wallace, Gregory (November 5, 2017). "CIA wondered if Oswald sought visas as part of escape plan". CNN . Retrieved December 17, 2019. Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Appendix 13 1964, p.697. a b Sanders, Bob Ray (November 25, 2013). "A Monday of Funerals, and Learning a Bit More about the Man Who Killed Kennedy". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013 . Retrieved November 25, 2013.

a b Jim Garrison (November 1988). On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy. Sheridan Square Pubns. p.40. ISBN 978-0-941781-02-2. Oswald was never prosecuted because he was murdered two days after the assassination. In March 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested and charged New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw with conspiring to assassinate President Kennedy, with the help of Oswald, David Ferrie, and others. Garrison believed that the men were part of an arms smuggling ring supplying weapons to the anti-Castro Cubans in a conspiracy with elements of the CIA to kill Kennedy. [113] The trial of Clay Shaw began in January 1969 in Orleans Parish Criminal Court. The jury acquitted Shaw. Initially misidentified as being a German-made Mauser rifle, the Dallas police, upon examination in their lab, determined it to be an Italian-made Carcano. The Warren Commission concluded that the initial identification of the rifle as a Mauser was in error. [39] The House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated claims from researchers that the rifle in fact was a Mauser. The Committee compared photos taken by the Dallas police of the rifle in place, a news film of the rifle being recovered, news photos of the rifle being carried from the Depository, numerous news photos and films of the rifle being carried through the halls of the Dallas police headquarters, as well as photos later taken by the FBI and the Dallas police, and compared them to the Carcano rifle held at the National Archives. They concluded the rifle depicted in the photos and films was the same rifle held in the Archives and therefore was the Carcano and not a Mauser. [40] Oswald was later punished for a third incident: while he was on a night-time sentry duty in the Philippines, he inexplicably fired his rifle into the jungle. [41]

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Oswald completed the eighth and ninth grades in New Orleans. He entered the tenth grade in 1955 but quit school after one month. [20] After leaving school, Oswald worked for several months as an office clerk and messenger in New Orleans. In July 1956, Oswald's mother moved the family to Fort Worth, Texas, and Oswald re-enrolled in the tenth grade for the September session at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth. A few weeks later in October, Oswald quit school at age 17 to join the Marines; [21] he never earned a high school diploma. By this point, he had resided at 22 locations and attended 12 schools. [n 2] In 632 things would change, when a coalition between Cadwallon of Gwynedd and Penda of Mercia engaged and managed to kill Edwin at the Battle of Hatfield. In Northumbria, Cadwallon and a Welsh army killed Oswald’s elder half-brother Eanfrith who had claimed Bernicia, and also Edwin’s cousin Osric who had claimed Deira. Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Chapter 4 1964, pp.184–195.