Friday, 19 August 2022

Ten Odd Things About Lee Harvey Oswald

 1.  He never graduated from high school.  Highest level completed....ninth grade.

2.  He could not spell or write in a coherent fashion.

3.  His IQ level suggested around age 16 was estimated to be 118.

4.  Just about everyone who knew him in high school....said he was temperamental and it took very little to set him off.

5.  The apartment Oswald was given in Minsk (for 13 months of living there) was a 1 room situation, with a bathroom in the hallway.  He never paid any rent.

6.  The 13 months of employment while in Minsk?  He was a lathe-operator for a TV-manufacture operation.  Remember, these were the old fashion TVs with a lot of wood in the system.

7.  Oswald's job in Dallas?  Basically to take book orders....find the books....putting them in a box to be shipped out.

8.  Upon completing bootcamp, Oswald only fired twice for the range.  First time.....middle of the pack.  Second time....marginally passed.

9.  Oswald finished the Marines with a hardship situation, but had a honorable discharge.

10.  The ship that Oswald sailed to Europe, to exit the US, was a freighter.

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