# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lee-harvey-oswald
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:04:10.272Z

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description: "He killed a president in broad daylight, denied it on camera, and was shot dead two days later on live television — all before turning twenty-four."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born October 18, 1939, Oswald spent his childhood cycling through twelve schools and juvenile detention for truancy, labeled "emotionally disturbed" by a psychiatrist who noted the absence of normal family life. At seventeen he joined the Marines, was court-martialed twice, then defected to the Soviet Union in 1959. He lived in Minsk, married a Russian woman named Marina, and had a daughter before returning to the United States in June 1962 and settling in Dallas, where their second daughter was born. On November 22, 1963, from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository, he shot John F. Kennedy as the presidential motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza. Forty-five minutes later he killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit on a side street, then slipped into a movie theater where he was arrested. Charged with Kennedy's assassination, he told reporters he was a patsy. On November 24, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot him dead in the basement of police headquarters as cameras rolled.