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Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying and hotly debated crimes in American history. Just as perplexing as the assassination is the assassin himself; the 24-year-old Oswald's hazy background and motivations — and his subsequent murder at the hands of Jack Ruby — make him an intriguing yet frustratingly enigmatic figure. Because Oswald briefly defected to the Soviet Union, some historians allege he was a Soviet agent. But as Peter Savodnik shows in The Interloper , Oswald's time in the U.S.S.R. reveals a stranger, more chilling story. Oswald ventured to Russia at the age of 19, after a failed stint in the U.S. Marine Corps and a childhood spent shuffling from address to address with his unstable, needy mother. Like many of his generation, Oswald struggled for a sense of belonging in postwar American society, which could be materialistic, atomized, and alienating. The Soviet Union, with its promise of collectivism and camaraderie, seemed to offer an alternative. While traveling in Europe, Oswald slipped across the Soviet border, soon settling in Minsk where he worked at a radio and television factory. But Oswald quickly beca

Who reads The Interloper : Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union?

Author

Peter Savodnik [Savodnik, Peter]

Publisher

Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306181297

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Engineering, Social Science

Rating

3.36 / 5 (89 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14