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Who was Lee Harvey Oswald and how did he die?
A NATION experienced tragedy when 35th US President John F Kennedy was assassinated.
Lee Harvey Oswald was the killer responsible for carrying out his plot to murder JFK.
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Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
Oswald was a former US Marine who joined the Marines at the age of 17.
Oswald was court-martialed twice while in the Marines and jailed.
He was honorably released from active duty in the Marine Corps into the reserve.
Then, Oswald promptly flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959.
He lived in Minsk, Belarus, married Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova, and had a daughter named June Lee.
In June 1962, Oswald returned to the with his wife and eventually settled in Dallas, where their second daughter was also born.
On November 22, 1963, Oswald fired three shots from a window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building that killed then-President Kennedy and wounded Texas Governor John B Connally in Dealey Plaza.
After the shooting, Oswald took a bus and a taxi to his rooming house and departed the residence.
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About a mile away, he was stopped by Patrolman JD Tippit, who believed that Oswald resembled the suspect.
Oswald proceeded to kill Tippit and entered the Texas Movie Theatre, where he was eventually arrested by police officers responding to reports of a suspect.
November 23, 1963, he was formally arraigned for the murder of President Kennedy, but he denied responsibility for the killing, stating that he was a "patsy."
How did he die?
On November 24, 1963, Oswald was fatally shot by local nightclub owner Jack Ruby on live television in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.
Detectives were escorting Oswald through the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters toward an armored car that was to take him to the nearby county jail.
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Ruby approached Oswald from the side of the crowd and shot him once in the abdomen at close range.
An unconscious Oswald was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he later died.
Why did Lee Harvey Oswald go viral?
Journalist Ken Klippenstein trolled Republicans, including Florida Congressman , American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp, and conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza into sharing the picture of the infamous killer.
Klippenstein tweeted at the conservative figures and pretended Oswald, who was pictured wearing his army uniform, was a family member.
He asked Gaetz: "Congressman, my grandpa's a big fan of yours and is a veteran, he would be thrilled if you could RT this photo of him for Memorial Day. Here he is as a young Private First Class.
"Happy Memorial Day."
Gaetz retweeted the photo and Klippenstein's comments along with a flag emoji while Schlapp said: "Wow @kenklippenstein it's my honor to retweet the photo of a veteran on a day we remember his fallen friends. God bless your grandfather."
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D'Souza also retweeted the photo along with Klippenstein's comments.
Gaetz, D'Souza, and Schlapp all deleted the photo after it came to their attention that it was of Oswald.
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