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Oswald By CURTIS B. GANS United Prow International 1 : . DALLAS (UPI Ther is one : gspijig blank in all the informa- - tion Uiat now has been assem bled against Lee Harvey Os-;-vald. I( is tiie complete ah-;-sence of anything to suggest ;-that lie hore any personal ha jTtred 'of John rilzgerald Kcnne ; ' dy. By Its very existence, this ; . gap helps answer the biggest ;' question of all: why would Lee .ltarvey Oswald want to assas ' sinate John F. Kennedy:? .- t)n the basis of' the recollec- tions and records that have -. emerged in bits and pieces over lhe past three weeks, the an :swer lies in tbe strange and ' turbulent pattern of Oswald's : entire life, a pattern of compul ive liostility to authority and ; all its symbols. The evidence that is there, :-4iid the evidence that la miss-I- ing, equally support the conclu sion that it was John F. Ken ;nedy, (he symbol of authority, .-and not John T. Kennedy, the :'man, that Lee Harvey Oswald Was aiming at on Nov. 22. Shoot Any President Put another way, it seems - reasonable to believe that if . someone named John Doe had been (President of the United '. States on that sunny afternoon I;in Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald would have proceeded with the J'tame determination no more '.and no less to pull the trigger jlof bis $19.05 rifle with its tele- ;iscdpic sight. When tiie recollections of Lee ; Harvey Oswald were stirred into action by three rifle shots '. on Nov. 22, they were rcmark .' able for their almost tolal lack . of contradiction. Whether they came from a i. grade school teacher, a high -school classmate, a fellow Ma-, ;rinc, a social worker, a psychi-1-atrist in New York,, a former X-boss or a newspaper reporter ;-in Moscow, they pointed to the ;Jsame kind of persons The product of a broken home ... a problem child in ' 'school who was spotted as a potential danger by a psychia trist 11 years.ago . . . emotional J.ly unstable and given to vio lence, particularly at his own ; failures ... as we will see In LITTLE PEOPLE'S PUZZLE i i it I 13 i I r ial jACRoa JrrR Yi across! 1 : feJ13J .' in' 8 9 15 p W1IJ '01 'H3M01 '6 'AU i 'snasami '9 'asNvmawv 'C 'NOW 'S uMoa 'WIHS Sl "P3M Ml 'AUaaUfU '8 'JWV1S "C 'S1008 't 'a3ZNVdWUO l ,0JSV 'Sa3MSNV t KfeijTiSa.: pi hot I' IffW ? ..... i ' i)0tlf HOLIDAY : lIpmlfrURKEYI ;;!r5Sf!iF at nam fmnDlv J -351 snumttf. smm m u to- Jti , TiTht'fclgrtn'iri'iAKi 1 1 YlWffl'f v ftft&MaJ 1 ' . 1 Hated Kennedy, the episode of live chess games . . . average in intelligence but shallow in intellect . . . poli tically immature but lib with phrases . , , above all, a per son who felt cheated by his country and wronged by its in stitutions, a man with a grudge and a resentment of discipline that was apparent in the sixth grade and developed into a deep hatred of authority by the time be passed through the Ma rine Corps. Psychiatrist Warns Dangerous Probably the first person to recognize the dangerous poten tial of Lee Harvey Oswald was Dr. Itenatus Hartogs. a New York City psychiatrist, when Oswald was 13. He had been picked up for chronic truancy and spent four weeks in the Bronx Youth Hall. Domestic Court Judge Hubert Delany ordered him there be cause tiie boy "seemed dis turbed." Hartogs interviewed Oswald three times and reported back to tiie court he wias a danger ous youth who could grow into a dangerous man unless helped. "He has a schizoid personal ity and passive aggressive ten dencies." the report said. "On the surface, he is calm. But in side him there Is much anger. "The acting out tendencies of his fantasies and the paranoid coloring of his thinking repre sents a serious danger to him self and others." Hartogs recommended treat-, ment for Oswald, and for his mother as well, He said Mrs. Oswald was "an immature and emotionally unstable person." Released to Mother The four judges of the Domes tic Relations Court Delany, Pa trick J. Fogarty, Walter Mc Clancy and Dudley Sicher agreed with the report. But there was nothing they could do to enforce psychiatric treat ment. The boy had violated no criminal law and Airs. Oswald had obtained a lawyer to help keep him from being sent to a mental institution. ' , Oswald was released into her custody. Tiie help so urgently recommended was never ob tained. Even when he was barely nine years old the violence nniiP firnrp wnw i)0Uf HOLIDAY showed. Hiram V. Conway, a neighbor of the Oswald family in Fort Worth, remembers chess games Lee played with his older broth ers Robert and half-brother John, "Lee won occasionally, but when he lost he would explode." Conway said. "He would throw the pieces around. The older boys would attempt to hold him at arm's length, and he would kick them in the shins. They - - - - r ' ,1 tried to push him down and he would bile their hands." It was a part of the pattern; when things went wrong, it nev er occurred to Oswald lo seek the trouble fai himself. The sullen, brooding, resent ful, rebellious nature carried over into the Marine Corps, which Oswald joined seven days after his 17lh birthday. "Ho would always end up in beets with other guys," said former Marine ,Sgt. Donald Goodwin. "He was an officer baiter," said former Lt. John K. Donovan. "He was a trouble maker was kicked off the squadron football team because he argued with the quarter back." Possibly the only porsnii,who ever showered love on 1ee Har vey Oswald was his wife, pret ty, dark-haired Marina Nichola vena, w ho at the age of 1( met him in Russia. She was work ing in a (Minsk Hospital as a Blabber Can't Keep Secrets By ANN LANDERS Dear Ann Landers: I am only 11 years old and al ready I have a very big iron- lem witn my 'M self. It Is my 1 '; great big "A mouth. l wish 1 could keep it shut. There are times w hen I feel like biting off my tongue be cause I am a teller of secrets. Please help me before I 1 0 s e every friend I have in the world. There are five of us girls who go together. We tell each other all sorts of things. Sometimes one of the girls will tell me something that is super secret. I promise not to breath a word and 1 rcajly do mean to keep my promise when 1 make it but the very first time I am alone with one of the other girls I find myself spilling every like a rat, but then it is too lato to take the words back. Please Ann, tell me how to get over this babyish habit. I don't want to be this way. Thank vou. BLABBER MOUTH? Dear Mouth: You seem to think that blabbing is a child hood disease. .Well, you're wrong. Many adults are af flicted with It. Kids ohII t blabbing secrets. Older people call It betraying a confidence, but It's the same thing. People who dii Hits are attempting to make themselves appear Important because they are "In the know." The neit time you are templ ed to hlali a acerct Irll your self, "I am bigger th.in thai. 1 will not betray a friend lo build myself up for the moment." Dear Ann Landers: Will you please answer a question about divorce which is almost as com mon as marriage these days? HtroU .nd Nwi. K '., Ore. Tuti., Dtc, IT, 163. Pen 7 A Sticky-Fingered Shoppers Will Steal S520 Million Between Now And New Years One of tiie solutions, he said, is lo deter shoplifting hy taking away privacy from the long isles, Convex mir rors placed In positions where lliey reflect images from around gondolas or cor ners alert potential thieves to the possibility of being ob served, so fewer persons will take tiie risk of stealing, he Mid. 1 Not Personally, But As Symbol Of Authority pharmacist. Oswald's mother said she loved him. But it may have been difficult for her to dem onstrate it fully because of their problem plagued family life. Social worker John Cairo in New York put it this way: "I a.-kod about Lee and her self. She said she had seen bet ter times. I got the feeling she was so wrapped up in her own problems that she never real ly saw her son. I got the feel ing that the boy needed tome one who cared, especially some one who represented a fattier. "He never really had one. He was just a small lonely with drawn kid who seemed to me like he was headed for trouble." Kven Marina found it diffi cult to live with Oswald. Not long after he returned from Russia and brought her and their baby with him, Marina left him and went to a friend's home, "She had called in October and said that he was mistreat ing hor." the friend said. "Then they came lo a party a few weeks later. She had bruises on her face. "She smoked. She learned tlut in Russia. But when she would pick up a cigarette, he would hit her." Marguerite Oswald, his moth er, was a robust blonde of 33 who already had been divorced and widowed by Oct. 18, 1939, the day she gave birth to her third and last son. Didn't Like. Children She met Edward J. Pic when she was 21 and married him. Less than two years later she became pregnant. She said she walked out on her husband "because he didn't want any children." Thus. Lee's half-brother, John Edward Pic, born ip January, 1932, also never knew his father. -By the middle of 1933 she had divorced Pic and wed Edward Lee Oswald, a New Orleans life insurance salesman. In April, ,1934, had their first child, Rob ert Edward Lee Oswald, Jr. Five years later, less tlian two months before Lee was born, Oswald died leaving noth ing more than a $3,501) in surance policy to cover burial Mouth I'm aware that when a girl breaks an engagement she re turns her ring and also the gifts her fiance gave her. She also returns the gifts from friends and family. Docs the same con vention hold true when there is a divorce? My .daughter recently went through an ugly divorce pro ceeding. She has two children who are old enough to read the papers and it was very humili ating. Another woman was in volved and the woman's hus band is making it as hot for her as he can. The question my daughter poses is this: Should she give her husband back her rings and the other pieces of jewelry ho gave her? There are some rather valuable family heir looms involved f (his mother's) and she wants to know what to do. Please advise DUjEMMA Dear Dilemma: A wife who has been married hmg enough to have two children who can read the papers Is entitled to keep the Jewelry her husband gave her yes, even the heir looms.. She can give them to her children when they are of age. Thai's what heirlooms are for. Dear Ann: I'm a widow who has been going with a nke widower for over a year now. We get along together nicely, but one thing about him makes me wonder if perhaps he is a little odd. The man is superstitious. If he drops the salt sliaker he always losses a iew pinches of salt over his left Moulder. He w ill go blocks out of his way to prevent a black cat from crossing his path. He would neer step on a crack be cause "it would break his mother's back." tllis mother has been dead for 20 years.) What do vou make of this? .H ST WONDERING Dear Just: Nothing. Supers!!- for further infor mation writ or contoct Walt Wiesendanger , DiitribuUr of thf "D!tUr Ctnvti Mirror" TU 4-3641 3032 lirli Si. Klamath Fall costs and, batelv, obstetrical bills. She sold the house and rented an apartment, living for nearly two years on the proceeds. When the money ran out, she put the two older boys in a Lutheran children's home. Her sister, Mrs. Dutz Murret, kept Lee during the day but in less than a year, when he was three, Lee, too, went into the Luther an school. -Mrs. Oswald saw her. sons in frequently during the next two years. Then, on May 5. 1943, she married Edwin A. Eckdahl. an electrical engineer with a $10,000 salary, took her sons out of the school and moved with Eckdahl to Fort Worth. It was far from an ideal home for the boys. The two older ones ware soon put into a Georgia military school. "We never got along," Mrs. Oswald said. "We were married nearly three years, but we lived together as man and wife for eight or nine months. We shared the same house for the rest of the time that's all." Divorces Third Husband Oswald's mother and step-father fought frequently. In 1948, they were divorced. Mrs. Oswald could no longer afford to keep the older boys in military school. A few months later John, te oldest, joined the service. "Lee had little supervision at this time," Mrs. Oswald said. "But both he and Robert knew how to take care of them selves." Robert later also joined the service. On Sept. 8, 1935, about a month before his 16th birthday, Oswald enrolled at Warren Eas ton High School in New Or leans. Approximately two weeks later, as he walked down Canal Street toward the school, a lit tle old lady thrust a pamphlet into his hand. It was a defense of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of espionage in 1951. and executed in 1953, and it al tered Oswald's life. There is no evidence that Os wald had any political klcas be fore this time. But with the phamphM as a catalyst, what ever hazy ideas and thoughts he might have had came surg ing to the surface. Oswald had , PAGE 2C HKRALI) AND Elementary School Demand for Teachers By DAVID NVDICK I P! Education Specialist There is an ( increasing de mand for the leaching of for eign languages in the elemen tary school. This Is due in part lo the increasing ease of trav el and international asmosphere of recent years. During World War II great success was achieved ' in the teaching of foreign languages by the armed forces. Within a matter of months personnel were often able til s)oak and understand a foreign language. The public schools rarely achieved similar results even after several years of courses. Of course the armed forces program was highly concentrat ed and involved many more hour per week than the normal pub lic school program. An addition al major difference was the lion hears no relation lo Intel igence. sanity or anything else. The illustrations are unimpor tant habits hangovers from his early training. Relax. He sounds like a n I c e companion knock on wood. Ann Landers' frank and in formative new book. 'Teen Agcrs end Sex" IS2.951, is now available at your book store. Ann Landers will be glad to help you witli jour problems. Send them to her in care of this newspaper, enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope. hi m J -L n r WOULD YOU BELIEVE THEY'RE MOVING JODAY? ! Smart girl! Sh phood Lyon and told thm hr moving plont. To-! day, school-troincd Lyon movers arrived promptly on tht icen tmdi pocked tvry item clorhts, even the cryitalworo oil her' fomily 1 turnithmgs with heirloom BEND-PORTLAND Klamath Falls, TU 4-4138 r.llf Phent your Lyon) Authoring Motlnf r.....i ' TMiy... been a rebel. Now he had a cause. Five years later in a Moscow hotel h told t'PI reporter Aline Mosby: "I still remember that pam phlet about the Rosenbergs. I don't know why. Then ... I discovered one book in the li brary, 'Das Kapital' It was what I'd been looking for. lt was like a very religious man opening the Bible for the first time. "I started to study Marxist economic theories. 1 could see tiie Impoverishment of the masses before my own eyes in my own mother. I thought the worker's Hfe could be better. ! found some Marxist books on dusty shelves in the New Or leans Library and continued to indoctrinate myself for five years." Learns to Shoot On Oct. 24, 1956. one week after his 17th birthday, he joined the Marines and learned how to shoot a rifle. Oswald had a difficult time in the Marines. He went to Japan as a private first class, lt was not long before he was demot ed to private Che highest rank he was to ever again achieve. On April 11, 1958. Oswald was court martialed (or carry ing an unregistered pistol, de moted and sentenced to a short term in the brig: Two months later, he was court martialed again for using profane lan guage to a superior and got a reprimand. Seven weeks later he was assigned to Che Second 'Marine 'Air Squadron at El Toro, Calif. "He was kind of the outfit janitor," said iKerry Tljornley, "because he had lost his secur ity clearance. What I remember most is his sense of humor. He used to crack jokes about com munism. He was resentful of authority sort of a poor lost soul." Oswald got a Marine Corps hardship discharge because his mother bad injured herself se riously. She could n.ot work and what hospitalization she had ran out. In P'ort Worth, he stayed with his mother three weeks, then told her he had decided to trav el. He booked passage to Eu NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Of Foreign Languages method of teaching. The armed forces used a conversational ap proach. The student actually lived the language. This is com parable to the traveler in a foreign country who picks up the language very quickly due to necessity and constant ex posure. The public schools used a reading and grammar ap proach. The logic of the conversation al approach is based on (he way a child in the United States learns English. He learned to imitate sound which he hears and then identifies these sounds with objects and meaning. He is later laught reading and grammar. It is also true that a real master of a language must learn to think in that language. He cannot understand its real meaning if he must constantly translate it into his mother tongue. In line with these facts, it is difficult lo master a language when a student is only exposed to it during a single period in the school day. He really needs additional exposure and prac tice. , What are the implications of leaching a foreign language in the elementary school? There is no doubt that young children can learn a second language. It has been accomplished in many other nations. As an example, Canada teaches both French and English in the elementary schools. Elementary children cr ond scientific precision, TRUCK SERVICE Lekeview, WH 7-2309 mt w oue w. tooos AGENTS. FOR rTyO M rope and soon arrived in Mos cow. Oswald walked into Hie U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Oct. 31, 1959 and renounced his citizen ship. "Why," an official asked. "Because of imperialism and lack of money. I served imper ialism in the military in for eign lands." Soviets Reject Oswald At his request, the embassy, took up his passport. Oswald s Aw X V Marina Oswald then made formal application for Soviet citizenship. But on Nov. 14, his citizenship applica tion was rejected. He was al lowed to remain as an alien. The Soviet Union turned down the applicaton, it was recent ly learned from official Soviet files turned over to the State Department, because Russians judged him to be more of a "crackpot" than a Communist. Oswald soon learned that if he had managed to escape from one "prison," he had landed himself in another. Russian so ciety far from conformed to his expectations. He could not win the chess game here, either, and he tried to kick over tiie board. In January, 1962, Oswald wrote a letter to Sen. John G. Tower, R-Texas, asking for help and completely overlooking the fact that he had renounced his American citizenship. Sunday, December 22, 1963 Increases (end lo have an aptitude for imitating sounds and also are less self conscious than older children and adults. Opinions differ as lo the best grade level lo start a program, but the feel ing tends towards the primary grades. Based upon the armed forces experience, the conversational method is generally accepted. It is also recommended that short daily periods are more effeclive lhan long and less frequent ses sions. A major question to answer is which language should be of fered. This really depends upon 1 Hie community. In the southern states where Spanish speaking countries are nearby Spanish might he appropriate. Similarly, in the states near Canada, French may be most useful. The national need for under standing Russia makes Russian valuable. The choice depends upon local circumstances. SHARK KILLS YOUTH DURBAN, South Africa lUPD A 15-year-old African youth died Friday of wounds after be ing attacked by a shark at the mouth of the Uvoti River, 50 miles north of Durban, it was reported today. HOUSE DISCOUNT Town & Country Shopping Center Shop till 9 EXTRA CHRISTMAS VALUE" 50 BOXES CHRISTMAS MERCHANDISE RECEIVED TOO LATE! NOW ON SALE half raici 2 GIGANTIC TABLES LOADED WITH CHRISTMAS ITEMS On Jan. 30, Oswald wrote an other letter. He had learned that because of his defection, the Marine Corps had changed his discharge from hardship to undesirable. The letter was to John Cornally, secretary of the Navy and the man wio was lat er to be w ounded by one of his bullets. Connally had resigned the post lo run for governor of Texas. In the letter Oswald complained that the dishonora ble discharge was unfair. The letter said in part: . "I sha.I employ all means to right this gross mistake and in justice to a boni-fied isici U.S. citizen and ex-service man. The U.S. government has no charg es or complaints against me." Returns to U.S. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, notified Oswald that exit visas for him and his wife were be ing processed. Oswald wrote his mother for money. She was unable to get it. The State Department, through the embassy in Mos cow, loaned him $435.71 for re turn passage. Oswald and Marina and their baby landed at Hoboken, N.J., on June 13, 1962. For Lee Harvey Oswald, "turncoat," "Communist sym -pathizer." with a Russian wife and a Russian child, it w as dif ficult to find a job. In Fort Worth, employer after employer turned him down. He iinally landed a factory job, but it last ed less than a month. He was fired for "incompetency." He landed two other jobs which ended in the same manner. Oswald then set himself up as the leader of a "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" in New Or leans, although he had no au thorization from its New York headquarters. He had his 0 w 11 literature printed and stamped "A. J. Hi dell" the same name he had used March 20. 1963, to pur chase his rifle from a Chicago mail order house. He sent a copy of the pamphlet he had print ed to V. Theodore Lee na tional director of the Pro-Castro Committee. On Oct. 16, he went to work at tiie Texas School Book De pository in downtown Dallas. He made $1.23 an hour as an Tired Of Bright Lights? Then Head For Moscow MOSCOW (UPH Anyone who really wants to get away from bright lights, flashing neon signs and billboards could come to Moscow. . Communism and Madison Avenue techniques do not go to gether, so Moscow probably is the world's most signless city advertising speaking. The only signs you see in Mos cow are either public service announcements or propaganda slogans for communism. Most are painted on the sides of buildings. A very few are lit up. Samples of thoe you do see: "Beware of fire," "Put your money in a savings bank," "Take a taxi it's fastest it's fastest and most conven ient" and "Glory to the Com munist party." The nearest thing to a catchy jungle is "Krasnaya svet. Pere choda nvet" which means Special Christmas Dinner ROAST TURKEY With all the trimmings Served from the buffet $1.50 per plate Children's plore 75e BONANZA CAFE order fiiler. Four days later. Marina, who had been staying with friends, went to Parkland Hospital to have her baby.' The state paid the bill. For the first time in his life, Oswald made a hit with his em ployer. Begins Final Week "He was a quiet, rather mod est chap who was doing an ex tremely good job," said Supt. R. S. Truly. Mrs. Ruth Paine, the woman with whom Marina was stay-, ing, said: "He seemed in ex-' ccptionally high spirits." This was when he visited his wife the day prior to President Kennedy's 'arrival in Dallas. Os wald told his wife "things are looking up" and that soon they would have enough to look for an apartment, buy furniture. Oswald had never visited Ma rina at the Paine home on a weekday . . . until the evening of Nov. 21, the day prior to the Kennedy motorcade. He watched television and went lo bed early. The subsequent events have been reconstructed by Dallas police as follows: The next morning he slipped out into the Paine garage, where he had hidden his rifle and wrapped it in brown paper. He rode back to Dallas with Wesley B. Frazier, a neighbor who also worked at the Book Depository. He told Frazier that the oblong package con tained "window shades." ' At noon he picked up his package. and a bottled soft drink. The other employes went outside to watch the mo torcade. He took an elevator to a sixth-floor storeroom over looking the route. , He unwrapped the package rested the rifle on a stack of books, and sighted its four-pnw- , er scope on the center of Elm Street, about 75 yards away. Then he finished the drink. A few minutes later he picked up the rifle. At 12:31 p.m., the limousine carrying President and Mrs. Kennedy. Gov. and Mrs. Connally, slid into the cross-hairs of the scope. It was the symbol of author ity, that he saw. He squeezed off three shots in 6.8 seconds. "Don't cross against a red light." A Jew signs on building that do advertise goods or services are strictly downbeat. They say the Aeroflol, the staterun air line, is "convenient and fast," that such and such is the latest movie, that tomato juice is "healthy" and ice cream "tasty and nourishing." According to the Soviet En cyclopaedia, the development of advertising in capitalist coun tries was stimulated by unre strained competition and over supply. "Huge sums are spent on ad- vertising which ultimately is a burden laid on the backs of con summers," it says, comment ing: "By contrast, in socialist coun tries advertising has been put to the service of the consumer." r
