Lee Harvey Oswald Biography

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NAME: Lee Harvey Oswald
OCCUPATION: Assassin
BIRTH DATE: October 18, 1939
DEATH DATE: November 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH: New Orleans, Louisiana

PLACE OF DEATH: Dallas, Texas

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Lee Harvey Oswald was the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. He himself was fatally shot two days later by Jack Ruby.

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Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy in 1963. He himself was fatally shot two days later by Jack Ruby. A special President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy investigated and concluded that Oswald alone had fired. In 1979 a special U.S. House of Representatives Assassinations Committee reported that there may also have been a second assassin.

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