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Russian-born wife of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. February ; Audrey Marina Rachel Oswald b. October ; second marriage Mark Porter b.

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In earliest childhood, she was raised largely by her grandmother, who hated Stalin and showered Marina with love. She later lived with her mother, stepfather and younger siblings in a village in Moldovia where she witnessed the dispossession of local kulaks and then in Leningrad now St. Petersburg , where the family shared a small room with her stepfather's unkind mother.

Even while young, Marina had an uneasy sense that she was "different" from other people and unwanted, feelings that only increased after she learned of her illegitimacy. She never discovered the full name of her real father or the circumstances surrounding her conception, although she heard vague whispers that he had been branded an enemy of the people and punished accordingly.

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Marina's stepfather became increasingly cold to her as she grew older, and she deeply resented her mother's unwillingness to stand up for her, or even to kiss her while he was present. They were almost completely estranged by the time her mother died of cancer when Marina was Her stepfather then began hinting, and finally demanding, that she should find somewhere else to live.

After graduating from the Pharmacy Institute in Leningrad in , she moved in with relatives in Minsk. At a dance in March , Marina met Lee Harvey Oswald, who had been sent to Minsk to live as a "stateless person" after arriving in Moscow in October He had left America planning to become a citizen of the USSR, but Soviet authorities, unsure of his real motivations and believing him to have mental problems, had no intention of granting him citizenship.

As the only American in Minsk, however, he was an object of much curiosity and fascination.