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school to enlist in the marines, Oswald had lived attwenty-two different addresses and attended twelvedifferent schools—including a reform institution. There, acourt-ordered psychiatric evaluation found him to bewithdrawn and socially maladjusted. He was diagnosedas having “a vivid fantasy life, turning around the topicsof omnipotence and power, through which he tries to<strong>com</strong>pensate for his present short<strong>com</strong>ings andfrustrations.”The Soviet Union in 1961 is hardly the place for a manin search of independence and power. For the first time inhis life, Lee Harvey Oswald is stuck. He gets up everymorning and trudges to the factory, where he labors hourafter hour operating a lathe, surrounded by coworkerswhose language he barely understands. His defection in1959 was reported by American newspapers because itwas extremely unusual for a U.S. Marine—even one sopro-Soviet that his fellow marines had nicknamed him“Oswaldskovich”—to violate the Semper Fi (AlwaysFaithful) oath and go over to the enemy. But now he isanonymous, which he finds <strong>com</strong>pletely unacceptable.Defection doesn’t seem like such a good idea anymore.

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