Lee Harvey Oswald (front row, third from left) in grade school in Texas.

Marina (bottom left) at the age of twelve, with classmates in Leningrad.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Ekdahl (Marguerite Oswald), Lee’s mother and stepfather, after their marriage in 1945.

Marina at the age of fourteen and about to enter pharmacy school, in the woods outside Leningrad.

Lee at the Hotel Berlin in Moscow, at the time of his defection in 1959.

Lee in a photograph taken at the Minsk Radio Plant in mid-January, 1960.

Lee in the summer of 1960 relaxes in the courtyard of the Minsk Radio Plant with some of the men who taught him Russian.

Lee on a picnic in Minsk with Eleonora Ziger and a friend in the summer of 1960.

Lee’s birthday, October 18, 1960, with his best friend, Pavel Golovachev, and Ella Germann (upper right), the girl who refused to marry him.

Marina in the spring of 1961, at about the time she met Lee.

Lee just before his marriage.

The Oswalds’ apartment house in Minsk. An arrow indicates the apartment Marina identified as theirs.

Marina on the balcony.

Lee in the summer of 1961.

Marina and Lee with her Aunt Lyuba Axyonova on a picnic in Minsk in the early autumn of 1961.

Marina and June Oswald in the spring of 1962.

The Zigers see the Oswalds off at the Minsk railway station in May 1962.

Lee and Marina say goodbye to Minsk on the first step of their journey to America.

Marguerite Oswald in her uniform as a practical nurse, in a photograph she sent to Lee and Marina in Russia.

Marina, Lee, and June squeezed into a photo booth at the Greyhound Bus Station in Dallas, en route to Robert Oswald’s home in Fort Worth, Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 1962.

Lee posing with his rifle and pistol, holding copies of the Militant and the Worker, in a photograph taken by Marina in the backyard of their apartment on Neely Street in Dallas, March 31, 1963.

Lee in a photograph taken in September 1963, probably in New Orleans.

Marina and the author in Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 1964.