Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy , the 35th president of the United States , on November 22, 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. He attended 12 schools in his youth, quitting repeatedly, and at the age of 17 he joined the Marines, where he was court-martialed twice and jailed. In , he was discharged from active duty into the Marine Corps Reserve, then flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union.
He lived in Minsk , married a Russian woman named Marina , and had a daughter. In June , he returned to the United States with his wife, and eventually settled in Dallas, Texas, where their second daughter was born. About 45 minutes after assassinating Kennedy, Oswald shot and killed Dallas police officer J. Tippit on a local street. He then slipped into a movie theater , where he was arrested for Tippit's murder. Oswald was charged with the assassination of Kennedy, but he denied responsibility for the killing, claiming that he was a " patsy " a fall guy.
Two days later, Oswald was fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters. In September , the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald had acted alone when assassinating Kennedy. Lee and served as a sergeant in the U. Army during World War I. Marine during the Korean War. Air Force veteran John Edward Pic β Oswald entered the first grade in and over the next six years attended several different schools in the Fort Worth areas through the sixth grade.
Oswald took an IQ test in the fourth grade and scored , and "on achievement tests in [grades 4 to 6], he twice did best in reading and twice did worst in spelling". As a child, Oswald was described as withdrawn and temperamental by several people who knew him. Oswald and his mother were later asked to leave after an argument in which Oswald allegedly struck his mother and threatened John's wife with a pocket knife.
Oswald attended seventh grade in the Bronx, New York , but was often truant, which led to a psychiatric assessment at a juvenile reformatory. 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". Hartogs concluded:. Lee has to be diagnosed as "personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies".
