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Corps handbook. He remembered Lee “as a bright little boy, asking endless questions
and expecting answers from his older brothers.” 202
Robert also wrote that when he visited the family when they were in New York
City, Lee seemed to be “a normal, healthy, happy thirteen-year-old boy who was
enjoying himself.” 203 However, Robert learned later of Lee’s difficulties there. While
staying with his half-brother John Pic and his wife, the teenaged Lee allegedly became
involved in a violent argument with Mrs. Pic and threatened her with a knife. According
to Robert, John Pic stated that “I was never able to get to the kid again.” For his part,
Robert declared that Lee “was not only playing truant from school. That year he began to
play truant from life.” 204
Throughout the book, Robert attempted to reconcile his first hand observations of
his brother with the enormity of his alleged crime. During Lee’s stint in the Marine
Corps and then his time in the Soviet Union, Robert had limited dealings with his brother,
but looking back on his brother’s “short life,” he detected a pattern: “Try a job. Fail. Do
something dramatic.” 205 In Robert’s view, Lee craved attention, just like his mother.
When he returned to Dallas after leaving the Soviet Union, Robert detected that his
brother “seemed a little disappointed” that no reporters were on hand to record the
moment. 206
202 Oswald, 91.
203 Oswald, 62.
204 Oswald, 53-54.
205 Oswald, 75.
206 Oswald, 116.
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