Oswald, Lee Harvey

Cultural  

1. The presumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald allegedly shot Kennedy from a high window of a building in Dallas on November 22, 1963, as Kennedy rode down the street in an open car. Oswald was captured the day of the assassination but was never tried; two days after Kennedy's death, as Oswald was being moved by police, a nightclub owner from Dallas, Jack Ruby, shot and killed him. A government commission led by Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded later that Oswald, though active in communist causes, was not part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Many have questioned the findings of the commission.

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Example Sentences

This material is not always effective; asides about Robert Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother, seem gratuitous, and Leahy’s analysis of Los Angeles as a social landscape — particularly the story of Chavez Ravine and Dodger Stadium — often glosses over necessary complexities.

From Washington Post

The situation was more or less at a standstill when Eddowes gained the support of Marina Oswald, Lee Harvey’s widow and legal next of kin.

From Slate