The Assassin’s Widow
Kim Clarke | October 8, 2021In the surreal days that followed the 1963 assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, as the nation absorbed the dual horror of the president’s murder and the subsequent and very public killing of his alleged assassin, a churchgoer in Ann Arbor looked for a bright spot. She was struck by the plight of Marina Oswald, the young Russian wife of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Before the year came to a close, the church’s leaders would invite Oswald to Ann Arbor and offer to host her while she studied at U-M.
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