
Marina and Lee
The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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Narrated by:
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R.C. Bray
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Joseph Finder
Foreword written and narrated by best-selling author Joseph Finder. The inside story of Lee Harvey Oswald's path to killing John. F. Kennedy.
Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America's most traumatic events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous, at times even moment by moment, account of Oswald's progress toward the assassination, Priscilla Johnson McMillan takes us inside Oswald's fevered mind and his manic marriage. When Marina, only a few weeks after giving birth to their second child, hears of Kennedy's death and discovers that Lee's rifle is missing from the garage where it was stored, she knows that her husband has killed the president.
McMillan came to the story with a unique knowledge of the two main characters. In the 1950s she had worked for Kennedy and had known him well for a time. Later, working in Moscow as a journalist, she interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald during his attempt to defect to the Soviet Union. When she heard his name again on November 22, 1963, she said, "My God! I know that boy!" Marina and Lee was written with the complete and exclusive cooperation of Oswald's Russian-born wife, Marina Prusakova, whom McMillan debriefed for seven months in the immediate aftermath of the president's assassination and her husband's nationally televised execution at the hands of Jack Ruby.
The truth is far more compelling, and unsettling, than the most imaginative conspiracy theory. Marina and Lee is a human drama that is outrageous, heartbreaking, tragic, fascinating... and real.
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Critic reviews
The vocal shenanigans are beyond distracting, they are an affront to McMillan's life's work and an insult to the listener. There is no need for any type of vocal affectation when narrating an audiobook. With very simple voice inflection it can be made plainly obvious when reading a quote. But the narrator thinks that you would prefer his silly accents. Buy the book, read it yourself and make up your own voices in your head if you want, but skip this abomination.
Cartoonish narration
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Finally, the author really disrupts the flow of the story with her "Interludes," in which she attempts to psychoanalyze the players. Her analysis comes off as mumbo-jumbo nonsense and undermines her credibility. She should have stuck to the chronological history and left the Freudian bullshit out of it.
The KGB Should Send This Narrator To The Gulag!
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Not a history buff
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A good read
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Details that never get boring.
Published in '77. Events were still fresh.
Excellent.
One of my favorite.
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But I never knew why Oswald did it. Then I read Marina and Lee. I can summarize his motives (as I understand them) in four words, but I probably shouldn't. Might ruin the ending for you. What a great book. I never got a round to reading it when t first came out. That's the nice thing about audio books. They make it easy to catch up on your reading.
Now I know why he did it
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Should have been read by a woman
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Worthwhile and interesting, but flawed
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Since the story is told mostly from Marina’s interview with the author, and the story makes clear that Marina doesn’t know Lee as well as she thinks she does, I genuinely question the accuracy of Marina’s take on the events around JFK. How does a wife, who doesn’t ever know her husband’s whereabouts, or even where he lives, provide much insight into this historic event? If anything, this story leaves the reader with more questions.
*note about narration - sounds like the narrator gets confused if Marina is Russian or Irish
Longer than it needed to be
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Outstanding biography
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