Marina Oswald Porter

She was born in Severodvinsk (formerly named Molotovsk), Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia on 17 July 1941.[3] She met Lee Harvey Oswald at a dance in March 1961 in Russia. They were married on April 30 1961.[3] Their daughter, June Lee, was born on February 15, 1962. Later that year the Oswalds moved from Russia to the United States. In Dallas, Marina gave birth to a second daughter, Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald. After the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, Oswald was arrested. Two days later Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while still in police custody.[4] Porter was under Secret Service protection until she finished giving testimony before the Warren Commission. She told the commission she believed husband was guilty of shooting President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.[5] In 1965, she married Kenneth Jess Porter. They had two sons. In 1989, Porter became a naturalized citizen of the United States.[6]

Porter has said that she now believes that Lee Harvey Oswald was completely innocent of the deaths of Kennedy and Tippit.[7] In 1980 she was convinced by conspiracy buffs that the man in Harvey's grave was a Russian spy and not her husband.[7] She still lives with her second husband but in private and is afraid to go out in public.[8] She believes her phones are tapped by the Secret Service. Porter also believes the Secret Service want to kill her.[8] She also expressed her belief that Oswald was the "prayer man", a man seen standing on the Depository front steps in films taken by Dave Wiegman of NBC-TV and Jimmy Darnell of WBAP-TV during the assassination, an unprompted Marina told Ed LeDoux that the “Prayer Man” was Lee.[9]

• Testimony of Maria Oswald Porter before Congress
• Growing Up As Lee Harvey Oswald's Daughters