Marina Oswald Porter
| Marina Oswald Porter | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova July 17, 1941 Severodvinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian (formerly Soviet) |
| Occupation | Pharmacist |
| Spouse(s) |
Lee Harvey Oswald (m. 1961–1963; his death) Kenneth Jess Porter (m. 1965) |
| Children | 3 |
Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (née Prusakova; Russian: Марина Николаевна Прусакова on July 17, 1941) is the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She married Oswald during his temporary defection to the Soviet Union, emigrating to the United States with him. She was not implicated in the assassination and remarried following Oswald's death.
Porter was born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova in Severodvinsk, in the northwest section of western Russia, near Arkhangelsk, and lived with her mother and stepfather until 1957, when she moved to Minsk to live with her uncle Ilya Prusakov, a colonel in the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, and to study pharmacy.
Porter met Lee Harvey Oswald (a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union) at a dance on March 17, 1961. They married six weeks later and had a daughter, June Lee, on February 15, 1962. In June of that year, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in Dallas, Texas. In February 1963, at a party, the couple were introduced to Ruth Paine, a Quaker and Russian language student, by George de Mohrenschildt.
In January 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to have ordered a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver and then, in March, a Mannlicher–Carcano rifle. Later that month, as Marina told the Warren Commission, she took photographs of Oswald dressed in black and holding his weapons along with an issue of The Militant newspaper, which named ex-general Edwin Walker as a "fascist". These photos became known as the "backyard photos" of Lee Oswald, which some conspiracy theorists dismiss as faked. The series of photographs were later found in the garage of the Paine household, with the exception of one, which had been given to George de Mohrenschildt. The photograph given to De Mohrenschildt was signed by Lee Oswald, and has a quote attributed to Marina in Russian, the translation of which reads "Hunter of Fascists, Ha-Ha-Ha!!!".
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