New photos show Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow as a 72-year-old grandmother living quietly in a suburban Texas town.
Marina Oswald, the Russian beauty whom the JFK assassin wedded while living in the Soviet Union, has built a new life in Rockwall, with her second husband, Kenneth Porter, 75.
She has a son, Mark, 47, with Porter, and two children, June, 51, and Rachel, 50, from her marriage to Oswald. They have lived in Rockwall since the mid-1970s and have a good reputation in the small Dallas suburb.
“She and Ken are good people, the best neighbors you could ever have,” Fred McCurley, who lives nearby, told the National Enquirer.
Their standing among townspeople was solidified two years ago when she and neighbors joined forces to fight what was described as a sex club that had rented a local house.
“Marina was as horrified as the rest of us when the swingers moved in,” neighbor Sherry Ann Clark told the Enquirer.
The Porters posted a “Keep Out” sign on their driveway to keep out strangers and the legions of Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists who try to reach her.
The photo, one of the few of her since the 1960s, was taken while she was shopping in her adopted hometown.
Marina Porter, as she is known, became an American citizen in 1989.
She remains convinced that Lee Oswald was innocent of the murder in Dallas that stunned the world 50 years ago this month.
“She always told me Lee Harvey Oswald loved President Kennedy,” documentary filmmaker Keya Morgan said.
“Marina says she remembers the day the Kennedy’s premature baby Patrick died [in August 1963] and she found Lee sobbing.”
A grim reminder of Marina’s past was an auction of nearly 300 items linked to President Kennedy that was held in Boston last week.
Among the items was a gold wedding band that Oswald left in a cup on her dresser the morning he assassinated Kennedy.
Marina wrote, in a five-page letter dated last May 13, that the ring only brings back painful memories.
“At this time in my life I don’t wish to have Lee’s ring in my possession because symbolically I want to let go of my past that is connecting with Nov. 22, 1963,” she wrote.
Oswald left the ring and all of his cash, $170, on the dresser the day he shot Kennedy. The ring had been forgotten for decades and was recently found in the files of a Fort Worth lawyer who worked for her at one time.
The ring was sold to anonymous bidder from Texas for $108,000, officials said.