His dad was a veteran of world war one. Growing up, he was known as a withdrawn and temperamental child, as he hit his mother and threatened his brothers wife with a knife while in New York. After high school, he enlisted in the marine corps as a 17 year old, he traveled to Russia to become a citizen, he met his wife Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova, and moved back to the United States to Dallas, Texas. Before his assassination on the president, he had a attempt assassinating retired Major General Edwin Walker. He shot him in the arm and got away free. In August of 1963, he was in New Orleans handing out pro-Castro pamphlets to random people out on the street. (“Lee Harvey