One was the American president, the other was a loner, and yet by chance there was one woman who knew them both. Priscilla Johnson McMillan knew John F. Kennedy as a senator, when she advised him on Asia. She interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald years later when she was a Russian correspondent for the North American News Alliance. Scroll down for video Remembering: Priscilla Johnson McMillan remembers meeting Oswald after she worked for JFK Crossed paths: Ms McMillan explains how Oswald was spurred on by a sense of fate as JFK passed his shop Half a century on, the 85-year-old has spoken out about the assassination.
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Priscilla Johnson McMillan, 85, was an advisor to Kennedy as a senator
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Later, as a reporter in Russia, she interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald in 1959
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Certain he acted alone, spurred by Marxist ideologies and 'sense of fate'
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Like millions of others, she was lost for words on November 22, 1963, when @placeholder was shot.