A Mother in History - First paperback edition

Published by Bantam, 1966 ($.75).

Back cover copy:

"I AM A MOTHER IN HISTORY ... I MUST
DEFEND MYSELF AND DEFEND MY SON LEE"
--Mrs. Marguerite Oswald
"Now maybe Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin," she perused,
stirring the coffee. "But does that make him a louse?
No, no! Killing does not necessarily mean badness. You find killing
in some very fine homes for one reason or another.
And as we all know, President Kennedy was a dying man. So I say
it is possible that my son was chosen to shoot him in a
mercy killing for the security of the cournty. And if this is true,
it was a fine thing to do and my son is a hero." ,,,
She turned to me with her sociable smile and asked,
"Do you take cream and sugar, sweetheart?"

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