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[20] In May 1959 he scored 191, which reduced his rating to marksman. Born in Midland, Texas, Harrelson was raised in Lebanon, Ohio -- his mom Diane Lou Oswald's home town. Failed to subscribe, please contact admin. Police Officer Nick McDonald testified that he was the first to reach Oswald and that Oswald seemed ready to surrender saying, "Well, it is all over now." I look at him as someone who could be a friend more than someone who was a father. she did not love him, but thought he was lonely and continued to date him out of pity. [13], Shortly after Harrelson was paroled in 1978, he and his then-wife, Jo Ann, were implicated in another murder. 79. [61] Stanislau Shushkevich, who later became independent Belarus's first head of state, also worked at Gorizont at the time, and was assigned to help Oswald improve his Russian. Oswald's mother testified that on the day after the assassination she and Marina destroyed another photograph with Oswald holding the rifle with both hands over his head, with "To my daughter June" written on it.[265]. 11, p. 123, Warren Commission Hearings, Testimony of Dennis Hyman Ofstein: "I would say he didn't get along with people and that several people had words with him at times about the way he barged around the plant, and one of the fellows back in the photosetter department almost got in a fight with him one day, and I believe it was Mr. Graef that stepped in and broke it up before it got started", Carolyn Arnold, the secretary to the Vice President of the TSBD, provided conflicting information on Oswald's whereabouts. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. He grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, where his mother was from. On September 22, 1970, he was acquitted by a jury in Angleton, Texas. The note allegedly contained a threat, but accounts vary as to whether Oswald threatened to "blow up the FBI" or merely "report this to higher authorities". He lived in Minsk, Byelorussia, married a Russian woman named Marina, and had a daughter. He told me that he understood photography real well, and that in time, he would be able to show that it was not his picture, and that it had been made by someone else.[266]. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 for truancy, during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed", due to a lack of normal family life. Harrelson claimed at trial that he did not kill Judge Wood, but merely took credit for it so he could claim a large payment from Chagra. [88] The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald attempted to kill retired U.S. Major General Edwin Walker on April 10, 1963, and that Oswald fired the Carcano rifle at Walker through a window from less than 100 feet (30m) away as Walker sat at a desk in his Dallas home. [273], Some critics have not accepted the conclusions of the Warren Commission and have proposed several other theories, such as that Oswald conspired with others, or was not involved at all and was framed. He then slipped into a movie theater, where he was arrested for Tippit's murder. It concluded that Kennedy was struck by two bullets fired from above and behind him: one of which traversed the base of the neck on the right side without striking bone, and the other of which entered the skull from behind and destroyed its right side. She was married to Charles Voyde Harrelson, they gave birth to 1 child. 18, p. 108, CE 912, sfn error: no target: CITEREFMailer2007 (. 3437. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. Truly later pointed out to officers that Oswald was the only employee that he was certain was missing. [216], Oswald asked for legal representation several times during the interrogation, and he also asked for assistance during encounters with reporters. A warning shot was fired at them from the prison's tower, and the trio surrendered. I'm just a patsy! Harrelson worked as an encyclopedia salesman in California and as a professional gambler. McDonald said that Oswald pulled out a pistol tucked into the front of his pants, then pointed the pistol at him, and pulled the trigger. Harrelson has come a long way since his days singing and acting in plays at Lebanon High and being named its class clown and flirt. Kerrion Franklin: What Happened To Kirk Franklins Son? By age 15, he considered himself a socialist. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. Oswald immediately fired his pistol and killed the policeman with four shots. Bringuier was the New Orleans delegate for the anti-Castro organization Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil (DRE). [187][188] Numerous witnesses heard the shots and saw Oswald flee the scene holding a revolver; nine positively identified him as the man who shot Tippit and fled. 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The remains were reburied in a new coffin because of water damage to the original. Reporters covering the burial were asked to act as pallbearers. He was known as an American hitman and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century. [69] Their relationship became more serious in Oswald's eyes during the summer and fall of 1960,[66] [76] The Oswalds also became acquainted with a number of anti-Communist Russian and East European migrs in the area. Harrelson worked as an encyclopedia salesman in California, and as a professional gambler. She is regarded as a very religious Presbyterian and raised her kids in that faith to the extent that Woody feels he could have become a church minister. Hartogs concluded: Lee has to be diagnosed as "personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies". Baker. [176] As they walked past each other, Mrs. Reid said to Oswald, "The President has been shot" to which he mumbled something in response, but Reid did not understand him. A Lutheran reverend reluctantly agreed to officiate but then failed to appear. [28] His primary training was in radar operation, which required a security clearance. He said that the statements made during the standoff were "an effort to elongate my life. The actor attended Lebanon High School and received a scholarship to Hanover College, a Presbyterian institution in Indiana. He was born on July 23, 1961, in Midland, Texas, USA. Diane Lou Harrelson Back to Harrelson surname View Complete Profile Matching family tree profiles for Diane Lou Harrelson Diane L. Harrelson (born Oswald) in WikiTree view all Immediate Family Charles Harrelson ex-husband Woody Harrelson son Private child Private child Kenneth Oswald father Mary Lou Oswald mother view all Oswald shot and killed Kennedy on November 22, 1963, from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository as Kennedy traveled by motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Diane Lou Harrelson mother Charles Harrelson father Private sibling Private sibling Private ex-wife's child Gina Adelle Foster father's ex-wife Jo Ann father's ex-wife About Woody Harrelson Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. Occupation. [152][153] The Warren Commission concluded that the package of "curtain rods" actually contained the rifle that Oswald was going to use for the assassination. 19, Folsom Exhibit No. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. [87] He also purchased a .38 Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver by the same method. Woody Harrelson. Harrelson's wife, Jo Ann, was sentenced to consecutive terms totaling 25 years on multiple convictions of conspiracy and perjury related to the assassination. Quote. Paine. and Oswald who by that time had been advised of the charge of murdering Tippit, but had not yet been arraigned in Kennedy's death answered, "No, I have not been charged with that. HSCA Appendix to Hearings, vol. [86], In March 1963, Oswald used the alias "A. Hidell" to make a mail-order purchase of a secondhand 6.5mm caliber Carcano rifle for $29.95. 2, p. 435. [15][16] The reformatory psychiatrist, Dr. Renatus Hartogs, described Oswald as immersed in a "vivid fantasy life, turning around the topics of omnipotence and power, through which [Oswald] tries to compensate for his present shortcomings and frustrations". According to his housekeeper Earlene Roberts, Oswald immediately went to his room, "walking pretty fast". Harrelson later admitted that he had been involved in dozens of murders beginning in the early 1960s.[4]. As Oswald's wife Marina was showing Jeanne around the apartment, they discovered Oswald's rifle standing upright, leaning against the wall inside a closet. On the same day, he flew to Helsinki, where he checked in at the Hotel Torni, room 309, then moved to Hotel Klaus Kurki, room 429. When asked why by the various Soviet officials he encounteredall of whom, by Oswald's account, found his wish incomprehensiblehe said that he was a communist, and gave what he described in his diary as "vauge [sic] answers about 'Great Soviet Union'". [187] "Shortly after 1:15 p.m.",[n 10] Tippit exited his car. He even attempted to escape with two other inmates, from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary using a makeshift rope on July 4, 1995. According to Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz: He said that the picture was not his, that the face was his face, but that this picture had been made by someone superimposing his face, the other part of the picture was not him at all and that he had never seen the picture before. At 11:21a.m. CST, Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot him once in the abdomen at close range. [221] Oswald also declined his brother Robert's offer on Saturday to obtain a local attorney. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. Jordan Harrelson. "[233], Miller Funeral Home had great difficulty finding a cemetery willing to accept Oswald's remains; Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth eventually agreed. In June 1962, he returned to the United States with his wife, and eventually settled in Dallas, Texas, where their second daughter was born. [134], On October 2, 1963, Oswald left Mexico City by bus and arrived in Dallas the next day. [20][47][48], Oswald traveled to the Soviet Union just before he turned 20 in October 1959. Brother: Brett Harrelson. [196], Oswald was formally arraigned for the murder of Officer Tippit at 7:10p.m.[197][198], Soon after his arrest, Oswald encountered reporters in a hallway. Early life Brett Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas, the son of Diane Lou (ne Oswald) and Charles Voyde Harrelson, who divorced in 1964. As Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza at approximately 12:30p.m. on November 22, Oswald fired three rifle shots from the southeast-corner window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository,[164] killing the President and seriously wounding Texas Governor John Connally. [n 3] Oswald spent two days with his mother in Fort Worth, then embarked by ship on September 20 from New Orleans to Le Havre, France, and immediately traveled to the United Kingdom. Baker later said Oswald did not seem "nervous" or "out of breath". Warren Commission Hearings, vol. Mary Lou Oswald Birth Mother Partner of Diane Harrelson Diane Harrelson Divorced 3 children together married Feb 1959 divorce 1964 Charles Harrelson Diane Harrelson Bio Details Full name Diane Lou Harrelson Maiden name Diane Lou Oswald Gender Female Diane Lou Harrelson Start a FameChain Diane Harrelson Partner (s) Other Children [119], According to anti-Castro militant Carlos Bringuier, Oswald visited him on August 5 and 6 at a store he owned in New Orleans. The silence is wonderful. [106] Jeanne de Mohrenschildt testified that this was the last time she or her husband ever saw the Oswalds. HSCA Appendix to Hearings, vol. [243], In 1979, after a review of the evidence and of prior investigations, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) largely concurred with the Warren Commission and was preparing to issue a finding that Oswald had acted alone in killing Kennedy. He was soon cast . Woody Harrelson was also an enthusiast and supporter of the legalization of marijuana and hemp. [16][19], Oswald completed the eighth and ninth grades in New Orleans. It was there that I read that his mother, Diane Lou Harrelson, had the maiden name of Oswald. In 1960, he was convicted of armed robbery. Thomas challenged the 2005 Science & Justice article and restated his conclusion that there were at least two gunmen. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. [121][122] Prior to leaving the police station, Oswald requested to speak with an FBI agent. 214215. She took care of the entire family in the absence of Harrelson's father. Get all latest content delivered to your email a few times a month. [261] Marina Oswald told the Warren Commission that around March 31, 1963, she had taken pictures of Oswald as he posed with a Carcano rifle, a holstered pistol, and two Marxist newspapers The Militant and The Worker. [64], From mid-1960 to early 1961, Oswald was in a relationship with Ella German (Belarusian: ), a Belarusian coworker born in 1937. [177] Oswald was believed to have left the depository through the front entrance just before police sealed it off. [113] In their 1978 investigation, the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigated a possible connection between Oswald and Banister at the Camp Street address. [75], The Oswalds soon settled in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where Lee's mother and brother lived. ", he replied, "No, I am not a communist. When H. Louis Nichols, President of the Dallas Bar Association, met with him in his cell on Saturday, he declined their services, saying he wanted to be represented by John Abt, chief counsel to the Communist Party USA, or by lawyers associated with the American Civil Liberties Union. [51] Delaying Oswald's departure because of his self-inflicted injury, the Soviets kept him in a Moscow hospital under psychiatric observation for a week, until October 28, 1959. An unconscious Oswald was taken by ambulance to Parkland Memorial Hospitalthe same hospital where Kennedy was pronounced dead two days earlier. [6], Defended by Percy Foreman, Harrelson was tried for the 1968 murder of Alan Harry Berg. [32], At Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi, Oswald finished seventh in a class of thirty in the Aircraft Control and Warning Operator Course, which "included instruction in aircraft surveillance and the use of radar". Charles Voyde Harrelson was married four times, but it was with second wife Diane Lou Oswald that he had children, sons Woodrow (later known professionally as Woody), Brett (who also became an actor) and Jordan. As we just learned, Charles Harrelson may have killed JFK. He also admitted that he changed his clothes and armed himself with a .38 caliber revolver before leaving his house to go to the theater. This was postponed, perhaps partially because his behavior abruptly improved. [23][24], In 1982 Harrelson told Dallas TV station KDFW-TV, "Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, alone, without any aid from a rogue agency of the US government or at least a portion of that agency? 16, p. 95, CE 24. After an analysis by the firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman appeared to indicate more than three gunshots, the HSCA revised its findings to assert a "high probability that two gunmen fired" at Kennedy and that Kennedy "was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy". On May 24, 1962, Oswald and Marina applied at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for documents that enabled her to immigrate to the U.S. On June 1, the U.S. Embassy gave Oswald a repatriation loan of $435.71. Diane Lou Oswald is the mother of Woodrow Tracy Harrelson, a famous actor and also a playwright. Harrelson's father, who was a contract killer, was arrested for the killing of Judge John H. Wood Jr. by rifle fire in 1979 in San Antonio. This conclusion, though controversial, was supported by investigations from the Dallas Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States Secret Service, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations. G. Robert Blakey and Richard N. Billings. [206][207], FBI Special Agent James P. Hosty and Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz (chief of homicide) conducted the first interrogation of Oswald on Friday, November 22. Sal Pacino: How did Al Pacinos father die? With the aid of an anonymous tip and a tape recording of a conversation that occurred during a visit from Joe Chagra to his brother Jamiel Chagra in prison, Harrelson was charged with Judge Wood's murder. Oswald denied knowing an "A. J. Hidell". [194][195] As he was led from the theater, Oswald shouted he was a victim of police brutality. In July 1956, Oswald's mother moved the family to Fort Worth, Texas, and Oswald re-enrolled in the tenth grade for the September session at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth. [54][55] "I have made up my mind", he said; "I'm through. When he failed to cooperate with school authorities, they sought a court order to remove him from his mother's care so he could be placed into a home for boys to complete his education. [237] His mother's body was buried beside his in 1981. Jeanne told George that Oswald had a rifle, and George joked to Oswald, "Were you the one who took a pot-shot at General Walker?" [17], In September 1980, Harrelson surrendered to police after a six-hour standoff in which he was reportedly high on cocaine. Woody lost track of his father until 1981, when news broke of Harrelson's arrest for the murder of Judge Wood. Oswald did not drive a car, but he commuted to and from Dallas on Mondays and Fridays with his co-worker Wesley Frazier. CE 133-A shows the rifle in Oswald's left hand and newspapers in front of his chest in the other, while the rifle is held with the right hand in CE 133-B. Three others (Harold Russell, Pat Patterson, Warren Reynolds) subsequently identified Oswald from a photograph. Also in English were added in script: "To my friend George, Lee Oswald, 5/IV/63 [April 5, 1963]. Harrelson was apprehended when calls were made to the police saying he was firing a gun at imaginary FBI agents while on drugs. This information is part of McDonald and Potts family tree by Dr Wilton McDonald on Genealogy Online. [245] Four of the twelve members of the HSCA dissented from this conclusion. Daughter: Zoe Giordano Harrelson. In the first of two interviews with the FBI in the days following the assassination, Arnold stated that she my have "caught a fleeting glimpse" of someone she believed to be Oswald standing in the first-floor hallway of the building around 12:15 pm. [2][28], A 10-episode podcast titled Son of a Hitman[29] was released on May 5, 2020, by Spotify Studios and produced by High Five Content. In the second trial the jury acquitted Oswald. The Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Woodrow first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (19851993). He was married to Nancy Hillman Harrelson, Diane Lou Oswald, Jo Ann Harrelson, and Gina Adelle Foster. Born Woodrow Tracy Harrelson in Midland, Texas, he moved to Lebanon at age 12 with his mother, Diane Lou Oswald, and his brothers after his parents divorced. 1, p. 16. Diane Lou Oswald: Everything About The Mother Of Actor Woody Harrelson, John Barnes Strictly: Facts About The Life Of John Barnes & Strictly, John T. Melick: Facts About Jennifer Anistons Half-Brother, Makani Ravello Harrelson: Everything About Woody Harrelsons daughter. The apple may not fall too far from the tree. Diane (ne Oswald) is said to be a secretary. 22, Commission Exhibit No. He always felt like a burden that she simply just had to tolerate." Secret Helsinki. [246][247][248][249][250][251] Officer H.B. Oswald was born at the old French Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, to Robert Edward Lee Oswald Sr. (18961939) and Marguerite Frances Claverie (19071981). This information is part of McDonald Wilton family tree by Dr Wilton McDonald on Genealogy Online. She was born to Kenneth Oswald and Mary Lou Oswald but her actual date of birth is unknown. Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas, to Diane Lou (Oswald) and Charles Harrelson. 1, p. 665. The HSCA obtained another first-generation print (from CE 133-A) on April 1, 1977, from the widow of George de Mohrenschildt. The first trial ended in a hung jury. [94][95] She said that Oswald considered Walker to be the leader of a "fascist organization". [186] Tippit pulled alongside Oswald and "apparently exchanged words with [him] through the right front or vent window". Marital Status: Married. Actor: True Detective. He had taught himself Russian and saved $1,500 of his Marine Corps salary (equivalent to $11,100 in 2021). [7] The murder is chronicled in the memoir Run Brother Run by the victim's brother, David Berg. [41], Slightly built, Oswald was nicknamed Ozzie Rabbit after the cartoon character; he was also called Oswaldskovich[42] because he espoused pro-Soviet sentiments. [242], The proceedings of the commission were closed, though not secret. Charles died in prison in 2007. 18, p. 131, CE 931. 23, p. 799, CE 1963. She married convicted hitman Charles Voyde, Harrelson. [123] Oswald told the agent that he was a member of the New Orleans branch of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee which he claimed had 35 members and was led by A. J. German later described Oswald as "a pleasant-looking guy with a good sense of humor not as rough and rude as the men here were back then";[68] [24][25], As a teenager in 1955, Oswald became a cadet member of Civil Air Patrol in New Orleans. Her father, Kenneth was born to his parents Dutch Oswald and Izora Oswald. [n 1][1][2]. Although she signed her statement as correct, in 1978 she told author Anthony Summers that she had been misquoted by the FBI and that she had actually seen Oswald in the second floor lunchroom at 12:15 pm.(. He was married to Nancy Hillman Harrelson, Diane Lou Oswald, Jo Ann Harrelson, and Gina Adelle Foster. [31], Oswald's enlistment papers recite that he was 5feet 8inches (1.73 meters) tall and weighed 135 pounds (61kg), with hazel eyes and brown hair. Thornley wrote the 1962 fictional book The Idle Warriors based on Oswald. [231], Ruby later said he had been distraught over Kennedy's death and that his motive for killing Oswald was "saving Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial". For the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, see, Oswald on November 23, 1963, one day after the assassination of U.S. president, Ruby shooting Oswald, who is being escorted by Dallas police. I am a Marxist. He admitted that he went to his rooming house after leaving the book depository.