Oswald attempted suicide in Russia

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.