1. Marguerite Frances Claverie Oswald Ekdahl, known as Marguerite Oswald, was the mother of Lee Harvey Oswald.
19 Facts About Marguerite Oswald
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Marguerite Oswald created a shrine in her home to honor his life and military service, and frequently promoted conspiracy theories regarding the assassination.
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Marguerite Oswald wrote a booklet titled Aftermath of an Execution: The Burial and Final Rites of Lee Harvey Oswald, which was never published.
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Marguerite Oswald attended McDonogh High School, but dropped out in her first year.
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Marguerite Oswald told her family that Pic did not want children, and would not support her.
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Marguerite divorced her husband in 1933, by which time Oswald had left his wife, as well.
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Marguerite Oswald described her marriage to Robert Edward as "the only happy part" of her life.
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In 1944, Marguerite Oswald moved her family from New Orleans to Dallas, Texas.
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Marguerite Oswald found a one-room basement apartment at 1455 Sheridan Avenue, and found a job at Lerner Shops.
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Marguerite Oswald always felt like a burden that she simply just had to tolerate.
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On November 22,1963, after Lee had publicly been identified in connection with the assassination of John F Kennedy, Marguerite Oswald phoned the offices of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and asked for a ride to Dallas.
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Feldman writes a meeting he and Marguerite Oswald had with one of witness Helen Markham's sons on June 27,1964.
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Feldman said he and his wife, Vincent Salandria and Marguerite Oswald visited Markham at her home.
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In 1968, Marguerite Oswald sent a telegram to Coretta Scott King, following Martin Luther King's assassination which Coretta regarded as the telegram that touched her the most.
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Marguerite Oswald later expressed her shock over the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
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Marguerite Oswald charged for her signature and would sell expired licenses and library cards for two hundred dollars each.
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Bob Schieffer called Marguerite Oswald "a self-centered, seriously deranged person, whose only interest seemed to be money".
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Marguerite Oswald died of cancer on January 17,1981, and is buried beside her son Lee at the Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Marguerite Oswald is a character in the 1988 historical fiction novel Libra by Don DeLillo.