Known Associate: An Intimate View of Lee Harvey Oswald

After Lee Harvey Oswald fired shots from the Dallas Book Depository and killed President John F. Kennedy, Paul Gregory, who knew Oswald better than anyone in America, was identified by the FBI as a known associate of LHO and faced one of many interrogations by the Secret Service. Later he would testify before the Warren Commission. Besides a brief article in the New York Times Magazine, he has remained publicly silent. Sixty years after the assassination, Gregory is telling all.

In intimate detail, Gregory captures his time spent with Lee and wife Marina in their run-down duplex on Mercedes Street in Fort Worth, Texas, being admitted into the inner world of a young marriage and candidly assesses the murder that marked a turning point in our country's history. His riveting recollection includes memories both casual and deadly serious, such as the dinner at his parents' house introducing Marina to the Dallas Russians, a front-yard incident of spousal abuse, and Lee's attempt to assassinate a retired general six months before the Kennedy shooting.

As a scholar and skilled researcher, Gregory answers the questions that collectively demonstrate that Lee Harvey Oswald had the motive, the intelligence, the means, and what Norman Mailer describes as the soul of a killer, to commit the JFK assassination. 

Paul Gregory is a Research Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a pioneer in the study of Soviet and Russian economics. A student of the fabled Harvard Russian Research Center, he received his PhD from Harvard in 1969. His textbook on the Russian economy was used to teach more than two generations of students. In addition to his scholarly work, he has been an active blogger on Russian affairs for Forbes, The Hill, and other media platforms.