Description: Original Associated Press wire photo dated the day after JFKs murder, containing suspect Oswald's 1961 hand-written letter to John Connally - who was the Secretary of the Navy in '61. Just a tad IRONIC. Oswald, who was in the Soviet Union at the time, having defected earlier, now married and wishing to return to America, was incredibly appealing his dishonorable discharge to the man who would less than 3 years later be Governor of Texas - and shot in the car along with the President! (Never heard a conspiracy theorist suggest Connally was Oswald's target, but here's your evidence...). To me this note does not contradict the idea Oswald was a nut with delusions of grandeur. Neither does it contradict the notion that he was loudly calling attention to himself for years and was ripe for exploitation by others with the means to make him a patsy. FASCINATING Insight into the mind of one of the most notorious figures of the 20th Century, who audaciously compares his defection at the height of the Cold War as going to the Soviet Union to "reside for a short time (much in the same way E. Hemingway resided in Paris.)" He also complains of the 'gross injustice' done to a 'bona fide American citizen and his family.' Another interesting tidbit is his claim that he 'always had the full sanction of the US Embassy... hence the US Government.'
Price: 300 USD
Location: North Hollywood, California
End Time: 2024-09-27T19:28:06.000Z
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President: John F. Kennedy
Type: wire photo
Term in Office: 1961-63
Year: 1963
Signed: No
Theme: Politics
Country/Region: United States
