January 27, 1964 - Lee Harvey Oswald's widow Marina Oswald's first interview on television

In her first television interview after her husband was killed, Marina Oswald spoke with KRLD-TV in Dallas. She said she visited his grave once or twice a week.

Did Lee Oswald kill the president?

“I don’t want to believe, but I have too much facts and facts tell me that Lee shot Kennedy,” she said.

She said she wanted to stay in Texas. She didn’t want to go back to Russia. Instead, she wanted to be an American citizen.

She thanked Americans who had sent her cards or donations.

“I want to thank you, American people, thank you from me and from my children,” she said. “American people have very big heart.”

She said she loved her husband.

“I loved Lee,” she said. “I’m sorry for him. Because he died very young.”
(The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963)