Ruby and Oswald November 24, 1963. In a review for "The Washington Times", O'Leary wrote: "The actors and the director succeeded only in making a bore of a weekend that was as exciting as it was horrible." Ruby and Oswald Ruby and Oswald is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It stars Michael Lerner and Frederic Forrest. Jack Ruby (Michael Lerner) is a warm-hearted and patriotic nightclub owner, who loves President Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald (Frederic Forrest), a troubled loner with a speckled past is looking to merely acquire fame. On November 22, Oswald
Marina Oswald Porter Marina Oswald Porter Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (née Prusakova; ; born 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 and emigrated to the United States with him. She was not implicated in the assassination and remarried two years after Oswald's murder. Porter was born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova in city of Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk), in Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russian SFSR. She lived there with her mother and stepfather until 1957, when she moved to Minsk to live with her uncle