#352 | Lee Harvey Oswald | The Man Who Killed A President
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Oswald the Isolated Child
At age 12, Oswald threatened a family member with a knife. By 17 he had dropped out of high school and joined the US Marines. He was known among his fellow Marines as Osvaldovich in reference to his left-wing beliefs. Despite being a US Marine and a soldier during the Cold War, the battle between capitalism and socialism, Oswald developed pro-Soviet sentiment. On the 11th of September, 1959, not even three years after enlisting he was discharged from the Marines. Just nine days later, at the height of the Cold War,. Oswald took his pro-Soviet studying to the next level, and boarded a boat from New Orleans to France. It's believed
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