Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,22 Nov 2012,9 mins

Lee Harvey Oswald and the USSR

Witness History

Available for over a year

Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of killing President John F Kennedy in November 1963 had spent more than two years living in the USSR. He had defected there after serving as a US Marine. He got a job in Minsk, and got married but was then welcomed back to the USA. Photo: Associated Press, Lee Harvey Oswald in police custody.

Programme Website
More episodes