President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza. On the sixth floor of the Texas School Depository Building, he is alleged to have fired three shots with his.38 rifle. J.D. Tippit, a patrolman, was also killed by Oswald in addition to Kennedy, and he was mistakenly identified as the person who killed the President by Tippit. One mile from Oswald's lodgings, at 1:15 pm on the same day, the murder took place.

During Oswald's shooting rampage, Governor John B. Connally also suffered critical injuries. The Republican required surgery for his wounds, which also included three broken ribs, a broken wrist, and a punctured lung. Around 1:45 pm on that day, the police managed to capture Oswald. On November 23, 1963, early in the morning, he was charged with killing the President.

Oswald has always desired to defect to the Soviet Union and identified himself as a communist. This is one of the interesting facts about Lee Harvey Oswald. He carefully thought out this action; while a marine, he began teaching himself, Russian. In fact, his buddies even referred to him as "Oswaldskovich" because of how widely known this was in his battalion.

In the fall of 1959, Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Soviet Union after saving a sizable sum of $1,500 from his modest wage. When he arrived, he was given a tourist visa, and he immediately told his tour guide that he wanted to become a citizen of the Soviet Union. He slashed his left wrist after having his application rejected, and he bled quite a little. He was kept under psychiatric surveillance in a Moscow hospital because of his failed suicide attempt.

He eventually received permission to remain in the Soviet Union. He moved and started working as a lathe operator in Minsk. Stanislau Shushkevich, who would later become the first Belarusian head of state, taught him Russian there. He wrote to the US Embassy in Moscow to request his passport back since he was bored with his employment and the lack of recreational opportunities nearby. In 1962, he and his wife Marina Prusakova, along with their little daughter June, returned to the United States.

After reading a pamphlet about the impending death of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who had been found guilty of espionage for Russia, Lee Harvey Oswald developed an early interest in socialism. Oswald noted in his diary, "I was hunting for a key to my environment, and suddenly I discovered communist literature. I had to search for my books in the back of libraries' dingy shelves.

Oswald joined the Marines despite his socialist leanings, and in 1957 he was posted to Atsugi, Japan. He picked up the moniker "Osvaldovich" there. If you complained about "Oh, we've got to go on a march this morning" or "We've got to do this morning," scrub barracks or whatever we had to do, he would — he would say that that was the capitalist form of government forcing us to do these things, as his fellow Marine Owen Dejanovich explained. Karl Marx's system of governance would lessen that.

Oswald visited Moscow in 1959 in an effort to get Soviet citizenship. "I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker, the applicant stated in his application for citizenship. I was up in a degenerate capitalist culture where laborers are treated like slaves."

Oswald was upset when his plea was turned down. "I'm stunned!" In his journal, which he described as "historic," he wrote, "My fantasies! My most romantic fantasies are crushed... I choose to stop it. To relieve the ache, soak rist [sic] in cold water. Slash my left wrist after that." Shortly after finishing his diary entry, Oswald was discovered in his bathtub unconscious and sent immediately to a nearby hospital. Days later, Russian authorities changed their minds and permitted him to remain in the nation.

By 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald had returned to the country and was employed in a Dallas, Texas, photo lab. He started creating a new identity under the name "Alek J. Hidell," including a Selective Service card, using the lab's picture equipment. Later, Oswald opened a post office box where he could have mail sent using both his real name and his alias. The American Communist Party newspaper The Worker and the Socialist Workers Party periodical The Militant were among the materials he received.

The FBI would later link the purchase of a rifle discovered inside the Texas School Book Depository to an A. Hidell after the Kennedy assassination. Oswald denied ever using the name when the Dallas Police questioned him about it. Oswald's wife Marina reportedly once questioned him about whether he chose the name "Hidell" because of its similarity to "Fidel," according to author Priscilla McMillen (as in Castro). Oswald "told her to shut up" because he was ashamed at being discovered.

A friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's, Paul Gregory, wrote in The New York Times that Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald kept a copy of Time magazine, which featured John F. Kennedy as its Man of the Year, prominently displayed in their house. According to Priscilla McMillan, a close friend of Oswald's wife and the creator of Marina & Lee, "Lee liked Kennedy." "In civil rights, he liked him. Because of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, he didn't like him." One fascinating detail about Lee Harvey Oswald is that whenever he mentioned Kennedy, it was always in a positive light.

Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist, stated that he did not think Oswald had any animosity for Kennedy. Posner stated, "What he did loathe was the system and what Kennedy stood for. He hated America, Capitalism was hated by him. When he finally had the chance to attack Kennedy, he was aiming at that representation of the system."

It's an interesting fact about Lee Harvey Oswald that on the day he was assassinated by Jack Ruby, he discounted the possibility that his life would be in danger. James Leavelle, a retired Dallas police officer who assisted in escorting Oswald from his cell on the morning of the shooting, said that

When placing the handcuffs on Lee, Leavelle jokingly remarked, "If somebody fires at you, I hope they're as good a shooter as you are," obviously referring to the fact that they would miss and instead hit Lee. He then remarked, "Oh, you're being melodramatic," or something of that kind, and he kind of laughed. He said that nobody would shoot at him.

Soon after, Oswald was dead.