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| 1911 | Mohrenschildt, George de |  |
| 17th April Birth of George de Mohrenschildt |
| 1911 | Ruby, Jack | |
| 25th Mar Chicago Birth of Jacob Rubenstein |
| 1932 | Paine, Ruth | |
| Birth of Ruth Paine |
| 1939 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 18th Oct Slidell Birth of Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Edward Lee Oswald dies before his son is born |
| 1947 | Ruby, Jack | |
| Dallas Opens the Singapore Supper Club |
| 1955 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Appointed Member of the Civil Air patrol where he serves under David Ferrie |
| 1956 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Appointed Member of the Young People's Socialist League |
| Irvine Oswald trains as a radar operator & assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Irvine, California |
| Oct Oswald enlists in the USA Marine Corps, a week after his 17th birthday |
| 26th Oct San Diego Reports to Marine Corps Basic Training |
| 1957 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
Atsugi Air Base Oswald is posted to the Atsugi Air Base in Japan  |
| Oswald qualifies as an Aviation Electronics Operator |
| 18th Mar Jacksonville Reports to the Naval Air Technical Training Center |
| May Biloxi Reports to Keesler AFB |
| July El Toro Reports to the Marine Corps Air Station |
| Sep Atsugi Air Base Reports to Marine Air Control Squadron No. 1 |
| Nov Atsugi Air Base Oswald shoots himself with a derringer & is Court-martialed |
| 1958 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Found guilty of using "provoking words" in a quarrel with a sergeant |
| 27th June Atsugi Air Base Oswald is Court-martialed for a fight with a Sergeant & confined until August 13th |
| 1959 | Fain, John | |
An FBI agent who opens a case file on Oswald after his defection to the Soviet  Union |
| 1959 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Helsinki After a short stay in Helsinki Oswald gains a 6 day tourist visa to enter the Soviet Union |
| Oswald defects to the Soviet Union |
| Moscow Shows up at the USA Embassy saying he wants to renounce his USA citizenship |
| Helsinki When an application is rejected Oswald attempts suicide by cutting his wrist, is kept in hospital for a week & stays |
| 11th Sep Oswald is released from active duty |
| 10th Oct Helsinki Oswald takes a plane to Helsinki |
| 16th Oct Moscow Oswald arrives in Moscow |
| 21st Oct Oswald attempts suicide in the Hotel Berlin |
| 31st Oct Oswald attempts to renounce his USA citizenship |
| 1960 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Minsk Oswald is sent to Minsk where he is given work as an assembler at a radio & television factory |
| Minsk Oswald & Marina Prusakova get married |
| 7th Jan Minsk Oswald arrives in Minsk where he is surveyed by the KGB |
| 1961 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| Minsk Oswald meets Marina Alexandrovna Prusakova, a 19-year-old pharmacology student from Leningrad |
| Feb Minsk Oswald writes to the USA Embassy wanting to return to the US |
| Feb Moscow Writes a letter to the USA Embassy asking to return to America |
| 30th April Minsk Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina |
| 25th Dec The Russian authorities approve exit visas for both Lee and Marina to live in the USA |
| 1961 | Oswald, Marina | |
| 17th Mar Minsk 1st introduced to Lee Harvey Oswald |
| 1961 | Walker, Edwin | |
| Dallas Accused of indoctrinating his troops with right-wing literature from the John Birch Society |
| Dallas Dismissed for circulating racist literature to his troops |
| Sep Mississippi Organizes the protests against the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi |
| 1962 | Carter, Tom | |
| 26th June Fort Worth FBI Agents Fain & Carter interview Oswald about his activities in Russia |
| 1962 | Fain, John | |
| 26th June Fort Worth FBI Agents Fain & Carter interview Oswald about his activities in Russia |
| 1962 | Mohrenschildt, George de | |
| Oct Fort Worth Mohrenschildt meets Lee Harvey Oswald & introduces him to the Russian Dallas community |
| 1962 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| 14th Feb Birth of June Oswald, daughter of Lee & Marina Oswald |
| Mar Marina recieves her entrance visa into the USA |
| June Dallas newspapers run an article saying Oswald is returning to the USA with Marina |
| June Fort Worth Lee Harvey Oswald is interviewed by John Fain |
| June Fort Worth Oswald lives with Robert Oswald, June to July |
| June Fort Worth Oswald returns to Fort Worth from Russia |
| 1st June Oswald & his familly leave Russia for the USA |
| 1st June Oswald, Marina & their daughter, June, leave Russia for the USA |
| 15th June Fort Worth Lee, Marina & June arrive in Fort Worth |
| 26th June Fort Worth FBI Agents Fain & Carter interview Oswald about his activities in Russia |
| 26th June Fort Worth Walks into the FBI office announcing, "I heard you were looking for me" |
| July Fort Worth Oswald lives with Marguerite Oswald, July to August |
| Aug Fort Worth Oswald moves to 2703 Mercedes Street |
| Nov Becomes disillusioned & isolated even from his own family, seeing them together for the last time on Thanksgiving Day |
| Nov Dallas Oswald moves to Move to 604 Elsbeth Street |
| 1962 | Oswald, Marina | |
| Mar Marina recieves her entrance visa into the USA |
| 15th June Fort Worth Lee, Marina & June arrive in Fort Worth |
| 1962 | Walker, Edwin | |
| Stands for Governor of Texas, although he gained the support of Barry Gold water Walker finishes last |
| 1963 | Alyea, Tom | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas WFAA-TV cameraman Tom Alyea is on the 6th floor of the Depository photographing the recovery Oswald's rifle |
| 1963 | Baker, Marrion | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Stops Oswald in the 2nd floor lunch room 1 min 30 secs after the shooting |
| 1963 | Barret, Bob | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Arrests Lee Harvey Oswald at Oak Cliff Theater |
| 1963 | Bentley, Paul | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas 1 of the officers assisting in Oswald's arrest in the Texas Theatre on West Jefferson |
| 1963 | Boggs | |
| 29th Nov Dallas Member of the Warren Commission, opening day |
| 1963 | Brennan, Howard | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Police radio a description of Oswald based on Brennan's description |
| 1963 | Burkley, George Gregory | |
| 21st Nov Dallas Dr. Burkley observes both the head wound and a wound to the back of the President, and determines the head wound was the cause of death |
| 21st Nov Dallas Dr. Burkley signs President Kennedy's death certificate |
| 21st Nov Dallas Dr. George Gregory Burkley, the President's personal physician arrived at the Parkland emergency room where the President was located, five minutes after the President arrived |
| 1963 | Carlin, Karen | |
| 24th Nov Dallas Carlin phones Ruby for him to wire her $25, had she not phoned, Ruby would not have been in downtown Dallas |
| 1963 | Coleman, Walter | |
| 12th April Dallas Claims to have seen 2 cars & 2 men involved in the shooting of Major-General Walker |
| 1963 | Connally, John | |
| 21st Nov Dallas Texas Governor John Connally says "My God, they are going to kill us all" |
| 21st Nov Dallas Texas Governor John Connally, sitting with his wife in front of the Kennedys in the limousine, also reacted to being shot by a bullet that penetrated his back, chest and right wrist, yelling, "Oh, no, no, no" |
| 1963 | Craig, Roger | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Sees Oswald run from the School Book Depository & get in a Rambler on Elm Street, supposedly belonging to Mrs Paine |
| 1963 | DeBruey, Warren | |
| Sep New Orleans Concludes for the FBI that Oswald is sole member of the FPC Committee in New Orleans |
| Sep New Orleans Discovers Oswald has been using an alias, AJ Hidell |
| 1963 | Frazier, Buell | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm |
| 1963 | Fritz, Will | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Interrogates Oswald, 2pm |
| 1963 | Greer, William | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Driver of Kennedy's limousine |
| 1963 | Hill, Clint | |
| 21st Nov Dallas Pushes Mrs. Kennedy back into her seat, and clings to the car as it exits Dealey Plaza and sped to Parkland Memorial Hospital |
| 21st Nov Dallas Secret Service agent Clint Hill rides on the left front running board of the car behind the Presidential limousine, after the shot that hit the President in the back, Hill jumped off and to overtake the limousine |
| 1963 | Hill, Jean | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas The "Lady in Red" in Zapruder's film, claims smoke was lingering near the grassy knoll picket fence corner |
| 1963 | Hine, Geneva | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm |
| 1963 | Hosty, James | |
| 18th Oct Mexico City Has a CIA report saying Oswald visited Kostikov, the Soviet Embassy Vice Consul |
| 1st Nov Dallas Visits Ruth Paine & learns Oswald's address & job at the Texas School Book Depository |
| 3rd Nov Dallas Requests the FBI Oswald file from New Orleans, established Oswald is living in Dallas |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Receives the New Orleans FBI files & papers on Oswald |
| 1963 | Johnson, Lyndon Baines | |
| 21st Nov Dallas Johnson takes the oath of office on board Air Force One just before it departed Love Field |
| 21st Nov Dallas Vice-President Johnson (who had been riding two cars behind Kennedy in the motorcade through Dallas, and was not injured) become President of the USA upon Kennedy's death. At 2:38 P.M |
| 29th Nov The first official investigation of the Kennedy assassination is established by President Johnson, a week after the assassination |
| 1963 | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald | |
| Arlington Representatives from over 90 countries, including the Soviet Union, attend the funeral, after the service, the casket is taken by caisson to Arlington National Cemetery for burial |
| 19th Nov Dallas The motorcade route is described in both Dallas newspapers |
| 19th Nov Dallas The motorcade route is published is published in both Dallas newspapers |
| 21st Nov Parkland Hospital A few minutes after 2:00 p.m. CST (20:00 UTC), and after a confrontation between Dallas police and Secret Service agents, Kennedy's body is placed in a casket and taken from Parkland Hospital and driven to Air Force One |
| 21st Nov Dallas At 1:00 p.m., CST (19:00 UTC), after all heart activity had ceased and after a priest administered the last rites, the President is pronounced dead |
| 21st Nov Parkland Hospital The body is removed before a forensic examination can be conducted by the Dallas County coroner, which violated Texas state law (the murder was a state crime, and occurred under Texas legal jurisdiction) |
| 22nd Nov Bethesda Naval Hospital After Air Force One lands at Andrews Air Force Base, just outside Washington, D.C., Kennedy's body is taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital for an immediate autopsy |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Assassinated while on a Presidential campaign |
| 22nd Nov Dallas The Warren Commission later concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald is the lone assassin |
| 25th Nov Arlington Representatives from over 90 countries, including the Soviet Union, attend the funeral, after the service, the casket is taken by caisson to Arlington National Cemetery for burial |
| 1963 | Kilduff, Malcolm | |
| 21st Nov Kennedy's death is officially announced by White House Acting Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff at 1:33 p.m. CST (19:33 UTC) |
| 1963 | Knack, Milton | |
O3 New Orleans Conducts FBI investigation into Oswald's Fair Play for Cuba  activities |
| 1963 | Landis, Paul | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas From the 5th floor hears Oswald operate his bolt action twice |
| 1963 | MacNeil, Robert | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Directs Oswald to a phone, 3 mins after the shooting |
| 1963 | Markham, Helen | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Witness to the assassination of Officer Tippit |
| 1963 | Mohrenschildt, George de | |
| April Discovers a photo of Oswald holding his guns prior to the Walker shooting |
| April Inscribed with "Hunter of fascists", discoverred at the end of the Warren Commission |
| 1963 | Moorman, Mary Ann | |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Photograph's the Grassy Knoll with a polaroid which is used to identify the "badge man" |
| 22nd Nov Dallas Stands just behind & to the left of President Kennedy with her friend, Jean Hill, seen in Zapruder's film |
| 1963 | Norman, Harold | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas From the 5th floor hears Oswald operate his bolt action twice |
| 1963 | Oswald, Lee Harvey | |
| The House Select Committee on Assassinations concludes Oswald was the assassin & part of a conspiracy |
| 25th Jan Oswald sends 2 postal money orders totalling $106 to the State Dept as the final installment on hs repatriation loan |
| 28th Jan Sends a mail order coupon with $10 in cash to an LA based Seaport Traders & orders a Smith & Wesson .39 revolver, the order form is signed by A.J. Hidell |
| Mar Dallas Oswald moves to 214 West Neely Street & receives a pistol & rifle |
| Mar Oswald used his alias "A. Hidell" (which he would later use for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and for which he was carrying an I.D. card when arrested after the Kennedy murder) to purchase the Kennedy assassination rifle |
| 9th Mar Dallas Oswald's debt of $396 to the State Dept is cleared in a single payment |
| 12th Mar Dallas Oswald orders a rifle from ad for Klein's Sporting Goods in American Rifleman |
| 12th Mar Dallas Purchases the money order for the Mannlicher-Carcano at a Post Office |
| 20th Mar Dallas The rifle & revolver linked to the killings of Kennedy & Tippit are shipped to Dallas |
| 20th Mar Dallas The surplus Italian military rifle was purchased from Klein's Sporting Goods in Chicago, with a coupon taken from an ad in the February issue of American Rifleman |
| 31st Mar The "backyard photos," taken by Marina Oswald, show Oswald dressed all in black and holding two Marxist newsletters - The Militant and The Worker - in one hand, a rifle in the other |
| 31st Mar When shown the pictures at Dallas Police headquarters after his arrest, Oswald insists they are fakes, however, Marina Oswald testifies in 1964 and 1978 that she took the photographs at Oswald's request |
| April Dallas Oswald in "hunter of fascists" outfit, gives cheap Imperial Reflex camera to Marina, is photographed with rifle & pistol |
| April New Orleans Oswald moves to New Orleans |
| 12th April Dallas 11:30 PM returns home admiting to Marina that he had just shot Major-General Walker |
| 12th April Dallas A commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren decides Oswald acting alone had shot & killed Kennedy |
| 12th April Dallas An attempt is made on the life of Major-General Edwin Walker by Oswald |
| 12th April Dallas Marina Oswald later testifies her husband stayed out late this night |
| 24th April New Orleans Oswald leaves for New Orleans & Marina moves to the Paine's home |
| 11th May New Orleans Marina joins Oswald at 4905 Magazine Street |
| 26th May New Orleans Writes to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee proposing to form a FPCC branch out of his own money |
| June New Orleans Oswald rents an office for the FPCC at 544 Camp Street |
| 19th July New Orleans Oswald is fired by Reily Coffee Company |
| 9th Aug New Orleans Arrested for fighting while passing out fliers for the FPC Committee |
| 9th Aug New Orleans Hands out Fair Play for Cuba Committee & becomes involved in a fight with Carlos Bringuier |
| 9th Aug New Orleans Oswald is arrested in altercation passing out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets |
| 12th Aug New Orleans Found guilty & fined $12 for fighting Carlos Bringuier |
| 17th Aug New Orleans Oswald debates the issue of Fidel Castro and Cuba with Bringuier on the Bill Stuckey Radio Show |
| Sep Dallas Oswald rents a room in Dallas & with the help of Ruth Paine finds a job at the Texas School Book Depository |
| Sep Mexico City Oswald visits the Cuba n Embassy where he attempts to get permission to travel to Cuba but returns to Dallas |
| 15th Oct Dallas Oswald is hired by Roy Truly at Texas School Book Depository |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Escapes through the Elm St entrance, 3 minutes after the shooting |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Oswald is captured in the Texas Theater, where the movie War Is Hell (starring Audie Murphy) is playing |
| 24th Nov Dallas At 11:21 am CST Sunday, November 24, while handcuffed to Detective Leavelle and about to be taken to the Dallas County Jail, Oswald is shot and fatally wounded before live TV cameras in the basement of Dallas police station |
| 24th Nov Dallas Death of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassinated |
| 24th Nov Dallas Oswald is put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where JFK had died two days earlier |
| 25th Nov Originally his headstone read Lee Harvey Oswald, but this marker was stolen and replaced with one which only reads Oswald |
| 25th Nov Oswald's grave is in Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park in Fort Worth, the inexpensive coffin is provided at the expense of the state, the burial and funeral are paid for by Oswald's brother Robert |
| 1963 | Oswald, Marina | |
| 31st Mar The "backyard photos," taken by Marina Oswald, show Oswald dressed all in black and holding two Marxist newsletters - The Militant and The Worker - in one hand, a rifle in the other |
| 31st Mar When shown the pictures at Dallas Police headquarters after his arrest, Oswald insists they are fakes, however, Marina Oswald testifies in 1964 and 1978 that she took the photographs at Oswald's request |
| 10th April Dallas Marina Oswald later claims that Oswald attempted to assassinate General Edwin Walker |
| 11th May New Orleans Marina joins Oswald at 4905 Magazine Street |
| Sep Dallas Marina Oswald moves to Dallas to have her 2nd child |
| 31st Oct Dallas FBI agent James Hosty visits Paine's home to discover where Oswald is living, speaks to both Paine and Marina Oswald |
| 1963 | Paine, Michael | |
| Dallas Separated husband of Ruth Paine who rents a room Marina Oswald |
| 1963 | Paine, Ruth | |
| Dallas Rents out a room to Marina Oswald |
| Ruth Paine is a key witnesses for the Warren Commission with detailed information on the activities of the Oswalds |
| Feb Introduced to Marina Oswald and Lee Harvey Oswald by George De Mohrenschildt |
| 24th April Dallas Lee Harvey Oswald rents a room in Dallas but stores some of his possessions in Ruth Paine's garage |
| 24th April Dallas Marina & her daughter live with Ruth Paine, Lee Harvey Oswald rents a room in Dallas |
| Sep Dallas Oswald rents a room in Dallas & with the help of Ruth Paine finds a job at the Texas School Book Depository |
| 31st Oct Dallas FBI agent James Hosty visits Paine's home to discover where Oswald is living, speaks to both Paine and Marina Oswald |
| 1963 | Reid, Robert | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Sees Oswald on 2nd floor 2 mins after the shooting |
| 1963 | Rose, Gus | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Helps interrogates Oswald, 2pm |
| 1963 | Rowland, Barbara | |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Claims the 1st shot was when Kennedy's car turned from Houston onto Elm |
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