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| 1939 | Assassination |  |
| 18th Oct Slidell Birth of Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Edward Lee Oswald dies before his son is born |
| 1955 | Civil Air Patrol Oswald | |
| Appointed Member of the Civil Air patrol where he serves under David Ferrie |
| 1956 | Enlistment Oswald | |
| Irvine Oswald trains as a radar operator & assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Irvine, California |
| Oct Oswald enlists in the US Marine Corps, a week after his 17th birthday |
| 26th Oct San Diego Reports to Marine Corps Basic Training |
| 1956 | Young People's Socialist League | |
| Appointed Member of the Young People's Socialist League |
| 1957 | Court Martial | |
| Nov Atsugi Air Base Oswald shoots himself with a derringer & is Court-martialed |
| 1957 | Education | |
| Atsugi Air Base Oswald is posted to the Atsugi Air Base in Japan |
| Oswald qualifies as an Aviation Electronics Operator |
| 1957 | Enlistment Oswald | |
| 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 |
| 1958 | Arrest | |
| Found guilty of using "provoking words" in a quarrel with a sergeant |
| 1958 | Court Martial | |
| 27th June Atsugi Air Base Oswald is Court-martialed for a fight with a Sergeant & confined until August 13th |
| 1959 | Citizenship | |
| 31st Oct Oswald attempts to renounce his US citizenship |
| 1959 | Defection | |
| 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 US Embassy saying he wants to renounce his US citizenship |
| Helsinki When an application is rejected Oswald attempts suicide by cutting his wrist, is kept in hospital for a week & stays |
| 10th Oct Helsinki Oswald takes a plane to Helsinki |
| 16th Oct Moscow Oswald arrives in Moscow |
| 1959 | Discharge Oswald | |
| 11th Sep Oswald is released from active duty |
| 1959 | Suicide Attempt of Oswald | |
| 21st Oct Oswald attempts suicide in the Hotel Berlin |
| 1960 | Address of Oswald | |
| 7th Jan Minsk Oswald arrives in Minsk where he is surveyed by the KGB |
| 1960 | Defection | |
| 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 |
| 1961 | Defection | |
| Feb Minsk Oswald writes to the US Embassy wanting to return to the US |
| Feb Moscow Writes a letter to the US Embassy asking to return to America |
| 25th Dec The Russian authorities approve exit visas for both Lee and Marina to live in the USA |
| 1961 | Marriage | |
| Minsk Oswald meets Marina Alexandrovna Prusakova, a 19-year-old pharmacology student from Leningrad |
| 30th April Minsk Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina |
| 1961 | Visa Oswald | |
| 25th Dec The Russian authorities approve exit visas for both Lee and Marina to live in the USA |
| 1962 | Address of Oswald | |
| June Fort Worth Oswald lives with Robert Oswald, June to July |
| June Fort Worth Oswald returns to Fort Worth from Russia |
| 15th June Fort Worth Lee, Marina & June arrive in Fort Worth |
| July Fort Worth Oswald lives with Marguerite Oswald, July to August |
| Aug Fort Worth Oswald moves to 2703 Mercedes Street |
| Nov Dallas Oswald moves to Move to 604 Elsbeth Street |
| 1962 | Birth | |
| 14th Feb Birth of June Oswald, daughter of Lee & Marina Oswald |
| 1962 | Defection | |
| June Dallas newspapers run an article saying Oswald is returning to the US with Marina |
| 1st June Oswald & his familly leave Russia for the USA |
| 1962 | Interview | |
| June Fort Worth Lee Harvey Oswald is interviewed by John Fain |
| 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" |
| 1962 | Marriage | |
| Nov Becomes disillusioned & isolated even from his own family, seeing them together for the last time on Thanksgiving Day |
| 1962 | Visa Oswald | |
| Mar Marina recieves her entrance visa into the USA |
| 1st June Oswald, Marina & their daughter, June, leave Russia for the USA |
| 1963 | Address of Oswald | |
| Mar Dallas Oswald moves to 214 West Neely Street & receives a pistol & rifle |
| April New Orleans Oswald moves to New Orleans |
| 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 |
| Sep Dallas Oswald rents a room in Dallas & with the help of Ruth Paine finds a job at the Texas School Book Depository |
| 1963 | Arrest | |
| 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 |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Oswald is captured in the Texas Theater, where the movie War Is Hell (starring Audie Murphy) is playing |
| 1963 | Assassination | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 12th April Dallas 11:30 PM returns home admiting to Marina that he had just shot Major-General Walker |
| 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 |
| 23rd Nov Dallas Escapes through the Elm St entrance, 3 minutes after the shooting |
| 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 Oswald is put into an ambulance and rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital where JFK had died two days earlier |
| 1963 | Backyard Photos | |
| 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 |
| 1963 | Broadcast | |
| 17th Aug New Orleans Oswald debates the issue of Fidel Castro and Cuba with Bringuier on the Bill Stuckey Radio Show |
| 1963 | Burial | |
| 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 | Commission Warren | |
| 12th April Dallas A commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren decides Oswald acting alone had shot & killed Kennedy |
| 1963 | Committee House Select Assassinations | |
| The House Select Committee on Assassinations concludes Oswald was the assassin & part of a conspiracy |
| 1963 | Death | |
| 24th Nov Dallas Death of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassinated |
| 1963 | Debt Oswald | |
| 9th Mar Dallas Oswald's debt of $396 to the State Dept is cleared in a single payment |
| 1963 | Dismissal | |
| 19th July New Orleans Oswald is fired by Reily Coffee Company |
| 1963 | Employment Oswald | |
| 15th Oct Dallas Oswald is hired by Roy Truly at Texas School Book Depository |
| 1963 | FPCC | |
| 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 |
| 1963 | Mannlicher Carcano | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1963 | Photograph Oswald | |
| April Dallas Oswald in "hunter of fascists" outfit, gives cheap Imperial Reflex camera to Marina, is photographed with rifle & pistol |
| 1963 | Purchase Wesson | |
| 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 |
| 1963 | Repatriation Loan Oswald | |
| 25th Jan Oswald sends 2 postal money orders totalling $106 to the State Dept as the final installment on hs repatriation loan |
| 1963 | Visa Oswald | |
| Sep Mexico City Oswald visits the Cuban Embassy where he attempts to get permission to travel to Cuba but returns to Dallas |
| 1964 | Assassination | |
| 12th April Dallas The Warren Commission concludes that lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Kennedy |
| Sep The Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald |
| 1964 | Warren Commission | |
| Sep The Warren Commission finds that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder of Kennedy, and that Jack Ruby acted alone in the murder of Oswald |
