Lee Harvey Oswald

In the show Quantum Leap (1989), there was an episode titled "Lee Harvey Oswald,", which was a 2-hour episode, and showed main character Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaping into Oswald's life at various points of significance between 1957 and 1963, beginning in 1963 in Oswald's yard, where Marina is taking the famous photograph of Oswald holding the rifle and "Daily Worker," then to 1957 during his stint in Marines stationed in Japan, then California, all leading up to his hatred of politicians, and his assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The episode was based entirely on actual events.

In a bizarre twist to Oswald's story, his body was exhumed in October of 1981 after a British author, Michael Eddowes, claimed that there were actually two Oswalds, and the man buried in Fort Worth, Texas was NOT the same Oswald as was born and raised in the United States. Forensic pathologists at Baylor University conducted exhaustive tests on the remains and concluded to a 100% degree of certainty that the body buried in Fort Worth, Texas was the same person that was arrested for the assassination of President Kennedy nearly twenty years earlier. Following this revelation Michael Eddowes made a hasty escape into oblivion.

Served in the United States Marines with Magnum, P.I. (1980), Quantum Leap (1989) and JAG (1995) executive producer and creator, Donald P. Bellisario.

However by October 1963 Oswald moved along with his wife and daughter back to the States, and settled in Dallas. Oswald began to publicly express his opinions about Communist regimes like Cuba and China by distributing pamphlets. He was working for the Texas School Depository, a 6 story building located in the now 'infamous' Dealey Plaza area of Dallas, Texas.

On November 22, 1963 when President Kennedy's motorcade passed by the building it is believed that Oswald was in the building. He may shot the president from the 6th floor and then concealed the rifle behind some crates. Whether he acted alone or not is still an ongoing debate. Oswald apparently left the depository when pandemonium broke out after the incident. He then headed home where he picked up a pistol. Oswald returned to the Depository where he is believed to have fired 4 bullets into police officer J. D. Tippit who approached him to ask him a question.

On 23 November 1963 he was charged with the murder of President Kennedy, whom he was alleged to have shot from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, as the President passed by in a motor cavalcade. Oswald however vehemently denied his involvement in both the Kennedy assassination and the shooting of officer Tippit.

Children: June Lee (February 15, 1962 in Minsk, USSR); Audrey Marina Rachel (October 20, 1963 in Dallas, TX).

In 1961 he married a Russian woman, Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova, (Marina Oswald) and was allowed to stay indefinitely.

Oswald then ran into the Texas Theatre where the double bill: War Is Hell (1961) and Cry of Battle (1963) was playing. He had not bought a ticket and the authorities cornered him in the theatre and quickly took him into custody.

He was in the US Marines until 1959 when he was discharged due to hardship as his mother was suffering from physical problems.

Oswald was interested in Marxist ideologies and lived for some time in the USSR (1959-62). He unsuccessfully tried to get Soviet citizenship. When he was initially denied and as his visa was about to expire he even attempted suicide.

Oswald left school in 1954.

Alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, son of Marguerite Frances Claverie Oswald. He never knew his father, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, who had died 2 months before his birth of a heart attack. Oswald had 1 older full brother and another half-brother (from his mother's first marriage). Young Oswald was placed in a Lutheran orphanage at the age of 3, but he was removed when his mother left for Dallas in January 1944 and married her 3rd husband Edwin A. Ekdahl.