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een shattered…Somewhere a violin plays, as I watch my life whirl away.” 677 Of course,
Oswald is rescued in time and is allowed to stay in Minsk. There, he meets Marina and
appears to be happy until receiving a letter rejecting his application to study at a
university. When Marina insists on seeing what the letter says, Lee slaps her for the first
time. Once again, Oswald’s personal difficulties are emphasized, and his inability to
move ahead in society. This is clearly more in line with the Warren Commission and its
defenders than the Oswald depicted in the conspiracy literature.
However, some conspiracy-related material is included in the film, including
Marguerite’s insistence that her son is working for the government while in the Soviet
Union. Also, there is a de Mohrenschildt character called Van Kuyper who alleges a
conspiracy only to commit suicide while the defense team seeks to interview him. His
allegations are undermined by the fact that Van Kuyper is in a mental institution at the
time of his suicide. De Mohrenschildt also committed suicide as investigators sought to
interview him, and he was troubled by mental illness in his final days. In the film, there
are a number of witnesses who supposedly would bolster the defenses case, but they
unexpectedly and perhaps mysteriously die. Also, there is a Cuban-American woman
patterned after Sylvia Odio. An “Oswald figure” waits outside the woman’s home as
Cuban-Americans discuss sending the American to kill Fidel Castro. They say the
former Marine is “a little crazy,” “a crack shot,” and would even be prepared to kill
President Kennedy. 678 The defense team probes this incident and other conspiracy
677 Thompson, 20.
678 Thompson, 144.
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