Lee Harvey Oswald Quotes

“This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track.”
― Don DeLillo

“Under dictatorship, people are enslaved but they know it,” he told de Mohrenschildt, recalling his days in the Soviet Union. “Here, the politicians constantly lie to people and they become immune to these lies because they have the privilege of voting. But voting is rigged and democracy here is a gigantic profusion of lies and clever brainwashing.” Oswald worried about the FBI’s police-state surveillance tactics. And he believed that America was turning more “militaristic” as it increasingly interfered in the internal affairs of other countries.”
― David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

“Jack Ruby's assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald was the 1963 equivalent of the second plane hitting the Twin Towers on 9/11 - it turned a seemingly random act of violence into an orchestrated conspiracy, imagined in Ruby's case.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Want to know something funny? Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Why do you have a gun in your suitcase?”
― Elizabeth Horton-Newton, View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale

“Fifty years and people are still talking about who did it.”
― Elizabeth Horton-Newton, View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale

“Maybe I should get a gun...”
― Elizabeth Horton-Newton, View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale

“Something about his voice was familiar.”
― Elizabeth Horton-Newton, View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale

“Lee Harvey Oswald fired the starting gun of America's nightmare years. This insignificant man's bullets didn't just echo through Dealey Plaza in 1963. The shockwaves from them arguably fuelled the turbulent events of the rest of the 1960s and only dissipated with Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War.”
― Stewart Stafford