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Vol. 9, No. 49 (Broadcast 434) December 9, 1963 Dallas, Texas
DAN SMOOT
A STRANGER IN THEIR MIDST
P resident John F. Kennedy was murdered by a communist in Dallas. Dallasites, both lib-
eral and conservative, were more completely thunderstruck by the crime than any other people in
the world, because many were actual eyewitnesses; all had a feeling of closeness to the deed. Yet,
all over the world, Dallasites were accused of hate-mongering fanaticism, of having molded the
twisted mind of Lee Harvey Oswald, a stranger in their midst.
Lee Harvey Oswald was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 18, 1939- His father died
before he was born. His mother works as a practical nurse.(1)
A part of his boyhood was spent in Fort Worth, Texas, where he went to public schools. In
1953, he and his mother moved to New York. Oswald attended a junior high school in the Bronx
for a few weeks. He was arrested for truancy and given a psychiatric examination. Psychiatrists
recommended that he be committed, saying he was a potentially dangerous schizophrenic. He was
not committed. He and his mother also lived briefly in North Dakota.
Oswald said he became interested in marxism when he was 15, after reading a pamphlet about
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (American communists, executed as spies).
In 1956, at the age of 17, Oswald enrolled as a freshman in Arlington Heights High School,
Fort Worth. He dropped out after 23 days, and joined the Marine Corps. In boot camp, he
qualified as sharpshooter on the rifle range; but he never adjusted to life in the Marines, as he
never adjusted to life anywhere else. He was forever in trouble. He served in the Philippines and
in Japan as a radar operator, with the rank of Private First Class. He was twice court-martialed
while in Japan: the first time for carrying an unregistered pistol; the second time, for swearing at
a non-commissioned officer.
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