Lee Harvey Os-WHAT?
Throughout Libra, Lee Harvey Oswald left me with certain questions about who he truly was. In his novel, DeLillo is trying to highlight the mystery surrounding Oswald and Kennedy's assassination. When attempting to understand Oswald and the murder, it is easy to lose sense of what is coherent in the timeline of events. Both Lee Oswald and Kennedy's assassination are surrounded by ambiguity and confusion, that are keeping historians and writers from reaching a solid conclusion about what unfolded on November 22, 1963. In Libra, DeLillo includes many factors that could influence Oswald's decision. His marriage, his ties to the Soviet Union and Cuba, organized crime, the list goes on. DeLillo does not pave a straight path from Lee to Lee Harvey Oswald. It's known that Lee wasn't always Lee Harvey Oswald, as is shown by his decision to go by different names for different affiliations. The general public did not know about Oswald until the murder, and many did not wan