Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Oswald’s Personal Relations in Texas

Oswald’s Personal Relations in Texas Upon returning to Texas in June 1962, Oswald had no close friends or associates outside of his immediate family, though he came to respect George De Mohrenschildt, a nonconformist peripheral member of the local Russian-speaking community. He connected with the wider community through Peter Gregory, a Russian-speaking petroleum engineer he met via the Texas Employment Commission office in Fort Worth. Oswald generally disliked other members of the Russian community, with particularly hostile relations with George Bouhe, due in large part to his resentment of the substantial financial and material support his wife received from the group, which he felt he could not provide for her himself.

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Chapter VII continues the chronological account of Lee Harvey Oswald’s life following his return from the Soviet Union, examining four interrelated aspects of his conduct in the United States: his strained marital and family relationships, his troubled employment history, his attack on Major General Edwin A. Walker, and his political activities on behalf of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The chapter draws on testimony from family members, friends, employers, and official records to portray a man whose defection, Marxist beliefs, and erratic personal behavior progressively isolated him from those around him while simultaneously feeding a self-image as a committed actor on the world stage. The Walker shooting episode and the Fair Play for Cuba activities are treated as particularly significant because they illuminate characteristics the Commission considers relevant to assessing Oswald’s possible motivation for the assassination of President Kennedy.