November 22 marks the assassination of John F. Kennedy in history. Lee Harvey Oswald, former U.S. Marine was charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy.

Oswald was never put on trial for murder because Jack Ruby, a devastated Dallas nightclub owner, shot and murdered him as he was being moved after being brought into jail.

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Despite findings to the contrary by the Warren Commission (1964), which was established by Kennedy’s successor, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, to investigate the assassination, many Americans believed that the popular young president’s death was the result of a conspiracy rather than a single person. Many people continued to speculate about the tragedy.

Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?

Lee Harvey Oswald was born at the old French Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, to Robert Edward Lee Oswald Sr. and Marguerite Frances Claverie. Robert Oswald was a third cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt and a distant cousin of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and served in the Marines during World War I.

Marguerite relocated the family to Dallas, Texas, from New Orleans in 1944. Oswald started first grade in 1945 and completed sixth grade at a variety of schools in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas throughout the following six years.

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He bought his first gun and telescopic sight through the mail. On April 10 in Dallas he allegedly shot at but missed an ultrarightist, Edwin A. Walker. He left his wife with a friend in Dallas and travelled to New Orleans, where he distributed pro-Castro leaflets.

Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy and Texas Gov. John B. Connally in an open-car motorcade in Dealey Plaza. Oswald killed Patrolman J.D. Tippit with mail-order revolver. On November 23 he was formally arraigned for the murder of President Kennedy.

On November 24, 1963 while Oswald was being moved from a detention cell to an interrogation room, Jack Ruby, the grieving owner of a Dallas nightclub, shot him.