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Subject: Oswald's Childhood Author: Steven Veyland [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:25:06 02/27/02 Wed In reply to: Mr Torres 's message, "Miscellaneous" on 11:31:58 02/06/02 Wed this is from: http://www.madbbs.com/~tracy/lho/faq.htm Who were LHO's parents and siblings?   His parents were Robert E. Lee Oswald (who died shortly before his birth) and Marguerite Claverie Oswald. LHO had two brothers-Robert born in 1934, and John Pic (a half brother from Marguerite's previous marriage) born in 1932.   What was LHO's childhood like?   In some ways, LHO had a childhood that was typical considering his family's social and economic level and the time period. However, it differed from the norm in a few significant areas. Lee and his brothers were placed in an orphanage at an early age because their mother, Marguerite, was unable (or perhaps unwilling) to care for them. Lee entered the home when he was three years old and stayed for two years. What effect this had on him will never be fully known but his brothers told the Warren Commission that it made them feel unwanted. Young Oswald also grew up without the benefit of a father figure his own father having died before he was born.   There is considerable evidence to indicate that LHO's relationship with his mother was the primary cause of many of his problems later in life. Marguerite Oswald was a self-centered woman who always felt that life had given her the short end of the stick. According to Robert, money was her "God" and despite her claims of poverty she seems to have made significant profits in Real Estate.   LHO lived a nomadic life having moved 21 times from the time he was born until he left home to enter the military. His brothers were often away at military school leaving he and his mother as the only household members. His mother Marguerite had always favored him and spoiled young Lee to a fault. There is, for example, evidence that they shared the same bed until LHO was almost eleven. However, Marguerite was also a working mother and she left Lee alone for hours on end to fend for himself. Lee probably felt conflicted and somewhat rejected by his mother's behavior and he withdrew into his own world which consisted mostly of reading or watching TV. He preferred this to being with other children and had few friends a pattern that carried over into his adult life.   As he grew older, Lee began a pattern of behavior in which he assumed the role of "head of the household". He gave orders to his mother and sometimes even struck her when he became angry. On other occasions he threatened family members with a knife. At one point after a misguided move by Marguerite to New York (where she hoped her oldest son John would support herself and Lee) he was declared a truant and remanded to a home for problem juveniles. There he was diagnosed as having "personality pattern disturbance with schizoid features and passive-aggressive tendencies". He was placed on probation and ordered to report periodically to the court system. But Marguerite thought she knew what was best for her son and they fled the "Big Apple" for New Orleans.   Although LHO fared somewhat better after returning to Louisiana (and later Texas) than he had in New York city the damage to his psyche had apparently been done. He joined the Marines at the age of seventeen as his brother John put it, "to get out and under … (t)he yoke of oppression from  my mother." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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