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Lee Harvey Oswald drops out of high school and joins the U.S. Marine Corps, where he is trained as a sharpshooter
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Oswald defects to the Soviet Union and is sent to work at an electronics factory in Minsk
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John F Kennedy wins the 1960 presidential election
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John F Kennedy is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States
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Oswald returns to the United States with the wife Marina and their child to live in Texas
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Oswald rents P.O. Box 2915 under his real name at the Dallas post office. He will maintain the rental until May 14, 1963
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Democrat John Connally is elected governor of Texas
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Connally takes the oath as governor of Texas.[5] As governor, he will assist with planning for President Kennedy's trip to Texas and will serve as Kennedy's host
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Ruth Paine meets the Oswalds at a party held at Everett Glover's house
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Klein's Sporting Goods of Chicago receives a mail order in the amount of $21.45 ($19.95 plus $1.50 for postage and handing) for item C20-750, a World War II-surplus Italian 1891 Carcano Model 1938 rifle equipped with a 4× scope by Oswald
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Marina Oswald sends a letter to the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C., asking to be granted an entrance visa to the USSR.[9] Oswald is given notice in the latter part of March that he will be terminated from his job
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Oswald works his last day at Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall
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Oswald fires a bullet that narrowly misses retired general Edwin Walker, a strongly anticommunist right-wing advocate. The police determine that the shot was fired from a distance of less than 40 yards
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VP Johnson, a Texas native, tells reporters in Dallas that President Kennedy may visit Texas sometime that summer. Johnson hopes that Kennedy's schedule would allow him to have a breakfast in Fort Worth, a luncheon in Dallas, and more
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In the late evening, Oswald leaves Dallas by bus for his hometown of New Orleans, seeking better employment opportunities
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President Kennedy, Johnson and Connally are together in a meeting in El Paso when they agree to a second presidential visit to Texas later that year
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Kennedy decides to embark on the Texas trip with three basic goals in mind: to raise more Democratic Party presidential campaign fund contributions,[15] to begin his quest for reelection in November 1964 and, because the Kennedy ticket barely won Texas