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Oswald

[ oz-wawld ]

noun

  1. Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  2. a male given name.


Oswald

/ ˈɒə /

noun

  1. OswaldLee Harvey19391963MUSCRIME AND POLICING: assassin Lee Harvey. 1939–63, presumed assassin (1963) of US president John F. Kennedy; murdered by Jack Ruby two days later
  2. Oswald, Saint?605641MNorthumbrianPOLITICS: hereditary rulerRELIGION: saint Saint. ?605–41 ad , king of Northumbria (634–41); with St Aidan he restored Christianity to the region. He was killed in battle by Penda of Mercia. Feast day: Aug 5
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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"If we lose but come close, moderate Republicans might take notice," said Buddy Oswald, an attorney and educator.

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Philip Shenon, who wrote a 2013 book about the assassination, told the Associated Press that previously released documents described a trip Oswald took to Mexico City in September 1963, months before the assassination.

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A government commission determined that President Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marine veteran and self-described Marxist who had defected to the Soviet Union and later returned to the US.

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Officials arrested a worker in the book depository building named Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine and Marxist sympathizer who at one point tried to become a citizen of the Soviet Union.

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According to some theories, Oswald was trained for his deadly mission there.

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