Lee Harvey Oswald, b. New Orleans, La., Oct. 18, 1939, d. Nov. 24, 1963, was the lone assassin of President John F. KENNEDY, according to the WARREN COMMISSION report on the killing. After serving in the U.S. Marines, Oswald lived (1959-62) in the Soviet Union. In October 1963 he began working at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. Shots apparently fired from the Depository on Nov. 22, 1963, killed President Kennedy. Charged with the assassination and the subsequent killing of a policeman, Oswald himself was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, the operator of a Dallas nightclub.
