- His death was the first murder ever shown on national television.
- Served in the United States Marines with Magnum, P.I. (1980), Quantum Leap (1989) and JAG (1995) executive producer and creator, Donald P. Bellisario.
- 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.
- His funeral time, date, and location were kept a closely-guarded secret during its preparations in order to keep crashers away. To further insure that it would not be disturbed, Oswald's funeral was held at the same time as JFK's because the family and those at the funeral parlor knew that at that time everyone would be attending the president's funeral. Such was the outrage at Oswald, Oswald's brother could not get a minister to conduct the funeral.
- Dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Marines, where he served from October 1956 to 11 September 1959.
- Worked, for less than 2 months, at the Texas School Book Depository (October/November 1963).
- At 1:30 am on November 23, 1963 he was formally arraigned for the murder of President Kennedy.
- Charged with the murder of Dallas policeman J.D. Tippit, and the murder of President John F. Kennedy. A day after Oswald's arrest Jack Ruby shot him in the stomach. Oswald was taken to the same hospital where President Kennedy died. Oswald died an hour later.
- He and President John F. Kennedy both died at Parkland Hospital.
- Jack Ruby reportedly told Lawrence Schiller that he acted alone, and shot Oswald in order to spare John F. Kennedy's widow and family the pain of having to endure Oswald being tried for Kennedy's murder.
- When he tried to defect to the Soviet Union in 1959 he was turned down because the official at the Russian consulate were suspicious of a 20 year old American wanting to defect. Anguished over this, he attempted to commit suicide which some have thought was to gain the sympathies of those who had turned him down. He was given a job in a factory where he met his wife Marina.
- In April of 1963, he felt that he needed to make his mark as a political assassin and attempted to kill retired General Edwin A. Walker, a segregationist and an anti-communist. After planning the shooting for months, he took a shot at Walker while he was sitting in his living room. The bullet bounced off the window pane and a frightened Oswald fled into the night. Information of this event was never released publicly until after his death.
- His funeral took place on the same day as John F. Kennedy and police officer J.D. Tippit.
- Mugshot plaque: 54018 / 11 23 63.
- Was a voracious reader and declared himself a Marxist by the age of 15.
- 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.
- Grew up in New Orleans, Dallas and briefly New York City where he attended school in The Bronx.
- Psychiatrists who interviewed him when he was young believed he suffered from a "personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies".
- His training in the Russian language made him so fluent that his future wife, Marina, reportedly thought that he was a Russian.
- Children: June Lee (February 15, 1962 in Minsk, USSR); Audrey Marina Rachel (October 20, 1963 in Dallas, TX).
- Son of Marguerite Oswald.
- Contrary to popular belief, he was --not shot in the front of the stomach (as it's been widely thought from the infamous photo of Jack Ruby shooting him). The bullet entered through his side, penetrating through several internal organs, which made his chance of being saved (by doctors) very slim.
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