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Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy

McMillan, Priscilla Johnson
Finder, Joseph

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Biographies General20th Century United States HistoryTrue Crime

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ISBN10: 1586422162
ISBN13: 9781586422165
Publisher: Steerforth Pr
Published: Aug 6 2013
Pages: 688
Weight: 1.83
Height: 1.88 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The single best book ever written on the Kennedy assassination -- Thomas Mallon, author of Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy

It is not at all easy to describe the power of Marina and Lee . . . It is far better than any other book about Kennedy . . . Other books about the Kennedy assassination are all smoke and no fire. Marina and Lee burns. --New York Times Book Review

Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America's most traumatic events and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous--at times even moment by moment--account of Oswald's progress toward the assassination of JFK, Priscilla Johnson McMillan takes us inside Oswald's fevered mind and his manic marriage. Only a few weeks after the birth of their second child, Oswald's wife, Marina, hears of Kennedy's death and discovers that Lee's rifle is missing from the garage where it was stored. She knows that her husband has killed the President.

McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s, she worked for Kennedy and had known him well for a time. Later, working in Moscow as a journalist, she interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald during his attempt to defect to the Soviet Union. When she heard his name again on November 22, 1963, she said, My God! I know that boy!

Marina and Lee was written with the complete and exclusive cooperation of Oswald's Russian-born wife, Marina Prusakova, whom McMillan debriefed for seven months in the immediate aftermath of the President's assassination and her husband's nationally televised execution at the hands of Jack Ruby. The truth is far more compelling, and unsettling, than the most imaginative conspiracy theory. Marina and Lee is a human drama that is outrageous, heartbreaking, tragic, fascinating--and real.

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