Lee Harvey Oswald

By jasanielogan

  • Birth

    Birth
    LHO was born in New Orleans, LA

  • Drop Out

    LHO drops out of school and enlists in the United States Marine Corps at the age of 17.

  • Training Camp

    Training Camp
    LHO reports to Camp Pendleton, California, where he is assigned to the "A" Company of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Training Regiment.

  • Naval Air Training

    Naval Air Training
    LHO reports to the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Jacksonville,Florida.

  • Air Force

    Air Force
    LHO leaves for Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.

  • Arrival in Japan

    He arrives in Japan at Yokosuka, where he is assigned to the
    Marine Air Control Squadron #1, Marine Air Group 11, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, based in Atsugi..

  • derringer

    derringer
    LHO accidentally shoots himself in the arm with a derringer.

  • Release

    LHO is released from the hospital and changes hotels from the Berlin to the Metropole. Later, he is summoned to a meeting at the Passport and Registration Office, where he requests Soviet citizenship. He is told to wait while they decide what to do with him.

  • Depart to Soviet Union

    LHO departs the United States with the Soviet Union as his final
    destination.

  • Arrival in Moscow

    LHO arrives in Moscow, registers at the Hotel Berlin, and meets his
    Intourist guide Rima Shirokova.

  • Suicide attempt

    Rima tells LHO that the Passport and Visa Dept. will see him. LHO is notified that his visa is about to expire, and he tries to commit suicide in his hotel room. He is rushed to the hospital.

  • Psychiatric ward

    Psychiatric ward
    Rima visits LHO at the hospital, where he has been placed in the
    psychiatric ward. He complains about the food.

  • Radio Station

    Bill Stuckey from radio station WDSU visits LHO and asks him to
    appear on the program Latin Listening Post. He arrived at the station at 5:00 PM and taped a 37-minute segment, which was cut to 4 and a half minutes and broadcast at 7:30 that evening.

  • Cuban Embassy

    LHO makes his first visit to the Cuban Embassy, where he fills out the application for a visa to Cuba. In the afternoon, LHO returns with passport photographs he had obtained. When LHO is told that the visa could take up to four months and was
    not possible without a Russian visa as well, he becomes angry. He walks a short distance to the Russian Embassy to inquire about a visa to Russia and is put off until the next day.

  • Death

    LHO is pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital.