Marina Oswald Porter | |
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 Porter (then Prusakova) in Minsk | |
| Born | Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova July 17, 1941 Molotovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Severodvinsk, Russia) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Pharmacist |
| Known for | Testifying for the Warren Commission following Oswald's assassination of John F. Kennedy |
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| Children | 3[1] |
Marina Nikolayevna Oswald Porter (née Prusakova; born July 17, 1941) is a Russian–American former pharmacist. Born in the Soviet Union in 1941, she immigrated to the United States after marrying American military veteran Lee Harvey Oswald in 1961. On November 22, 1963, Oswald, who had left the United States Marine Corps and defected to the Soviet Bloc in 1959, assassinated American president John F. Kennedy in the city of Dallas. Porter was widowed two days later, when Oswald was murdered by American nightclub owner Jack Ruby, and subsequently testified against Oswald for the Warren Commission. However, she ultimately came to believe that Oswald was innocent.
In 1965, Porter married American electronics worker Kenneth Jess Porter and became a naturalized United States citizen in 1989. She has a son with Porter and two daughters from her previous marriage with Oswald.
- ^ Granberry, Michael (November 9, 2013). "As paparazzi stalk her, Kennedy assassin's widow lives quiet Dallas-area life". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved October 26, 2015.