Lee Harvey Oswald the weekend. Oswald also declined his brother Robert's offer on Saturday to obtain a local attorney. During an interrogation with Captain Fritz, when asked, "Are you a communist?", he replied, "No, I am not a communist. I am a Marxist." On Sunday, November 24, detectives were escorting Oswald through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters toward an armored car that was to take him from the city jail (located on the fourth floor of police headquarters) to the nearby county jail. At 11:21 a.m. CST, Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film) due to his Marxist beliefs, while Oswald's attorney presents an insanity defense, claiming he suffered from untreated paranoid schizophrenia since adolescence. Since the viewer acts as a juror, no verdict is given. Dallas criminal defense attorney Charles W. Tessmer appears after the film to summarize its contents and encourages viewers to debate among themselves. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 film) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is a 1964 American film directed by Larry Buchanan. It is the first speculative trial drama to be produced about Lee Harvey Oswald only a few months after the assassination of John