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- Alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, son of Marguerite Frances Claverie Oswald. He never knew his father, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, who had died 2 months before his birth of a heart attack. Oswald had 1 older full brother and another half-brother (from his mother's first marriage). Young Oswald was placed in a Lutheran orphanage at the age of 3, but he was removed when his mother left for Dallas in January 1944 and married her 3rd husband Edwin A. Ekdahl. Oswald left school in 1954. He was in the US Marines until 1959 when he was discharged due to hardship as his mother was suffering from physical problems. Oswald was interested in Marxist ideologies and lived for some time in the USSR (1959-62). He unsuccessfully tried to get Soviet citizenship. When he was initially denied and as his visa was about to expire he even attempted suicide. In 1961 he married a Russian woman, Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova, (Marina Oswald) and was allowed to stay indefinitely. However by October 1963 Oswald moved along with his wife and daughter back to the States, and settled in Dallas. Oswald began to publicly express his opinions about Communist regimes like Cuba and China by distributing pamphlets. He was working for the Texas School Depository, a 6 story building located in the now 'infamous' Dealey Plaza area of Dallas, Texas. On November 22, 1963 when President Kennedy's motorcade passed by the building it is believed that Oswald was in the building. He may shot the president from the 6th floor and then concealed the rifle behind some crates. Whether he acted alone or not is still an ongoing debate. Oswald apparently left the depository when pandemonium broke out after the incident. He then headed home where he picked up a pistol. Oswald returned to the Depository where he is believed to have fired 4 bullets into police officer J.D. Tippit who approached him to ask him a question. Oswald then ran into the Texas Theatre where the double bill: War Is Hell (1961) and Cry of Battle (1963) was playing. He had not bought a ticket and the authorities cornered him in the theatre and quickly took him into custody. On 23 November 1963 he was charged with the murder of President Kennedy, whom he was alleged to have shot from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository, as the President passed by in a motor cavalcade. Oswald however vehemently denied his involvement in both the Kennedy assassination and the shooting of officer Tippit. On November 24, 1963 just 2 days later, while authorities were transferring Oswald to the county jail, he was shot dead by night club owner Jack Ruby (1911-67), live before the cameras. Ruby claimed he was avenging Jacqueline Kennedy (Jackie Kennedy Onassis). Claims were made that Oswald had links with the US secret service and with the Mafia. But it seems that there are more conspiracy theories than facts.
- Martha Ostenso was a Norwegian-born American author, screenwriter, poet and teacher, who with her parents, Sigurd and Olina (née Tungeland) Ostenso, immigrated to United States around 1902. She was raised in small towns across North Dakota, Minnesota and Manitoba, Canada. While still a teenager she taught school in Manitoba before attending the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Later she would attend writing classes at Columbia University and work as a social worker in Brooklyn before returning to Minnesota to teach and write.
Ostenso's first works to be published was a compilation of poems entitled "A Far Land" (1924). Her big breakthrough though, came the next year when she won the Dodd Mead First Novel Award along with its $13,500 prize for her submission of "Wild Geese" (originally titled "The Passionate Flight"). The book went on to earn her a very lucrative income in serial and film rights from the co-sponsors of the contest, Pictorial Review Magazine and the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. As an added bonus, the young writer received hundreds of marriage proposals through the mail after the success of her book was reported by the media.
In 1944 Ostenso married her long-time companion, the Canadian writer Douglas Durkin. The couple had first met when she was a high school student in Brandon, Manitoba and he was a professor of English at Brandon College. Early on, Durkin saw her potential as a writer and became her mentor. He would later become her business manager and collaborate on almost every book she wrote, including "Wild Geese". They married after his first wife, whom he had been separated from for many years, passed away.
Martha Ostenso and her husband collaborated on a number of short stories and over a dozen novels over the the years. "O River, Remember", a novel that chronicled the lives of two immigrant families over several generations in Minnesota's Red River Valley, was given a Literary Guild choice award in 1943. Her stories were generally set in the areas she grew up in and tended to reflect her Norwegian values. The couple also authored "The Passionate Flight" (1925), "The Dark Dawn" (1926), "The Mad Carews" (1927), "The Young May Moon" (1929), "The Water's under the Earth" (1930), "Prologue to Love" (1932), "There's Always Another Year" (1933), "The White Reef" (1934), "The Stone Field" (1937), "The Mandrake Root" (1938), "Love Passed This Way" (1942),"The Sunset Tree" (1943) and "Milk Route" (1948).
Ostenso, who became an American citizen in 1931, lived and worked primarily on Gull Lake (near Brainerd, Minnesota) and in Hollywood, California, where she and Durkin became friends with such stars as Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Pickford' and Henry Fonda. Several writers have credited Fonda with starring in a 1940 remake of "Wild Geese". He actually starred in Wild Geese Calling (1941), a film based on the novel by the same name by Stewart Edward White.
In 1963 Ostenso and Durkin retired to Seattle to be close to his two sons. She died there on 23 November, 1963 after a sudden illness. - Additional Crew
Vladimir Rosing was born on 23 January 1890 in St Petersburg, Russia. He is known for Grounds for Marriage (1951), Strictly Dishonorable (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). He died on 24 November 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.