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Lizzie Borden
The supposed assassin of John F. Kennedy, and a veteran of the American military, Lee Harvey Oswald is at the center of a huge number of conspiracy theories concerning the Kennedy assassination. There are those who maintain that Oswald was a “fall guy,” meant to disguise the fact that a powerful organization—maybe the CIA, maybe the Freemasons, maybe the Teamsters—killed Kennedy. The narrator is interested in Oswald because of what he reveals about the psychology of conspiracy theorists.
Lee Harvey Oswald Quotes in In the Lake of the Woods
The In the Lake of the Woods quotes below are all either spoken by Lee Harvey Oswald or refer to Lee Harvey Oswald. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 25
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Why do we care about Lizzie Borden, or Judge Carter, or Lee Harvey Oswald, or the Little Big Horn? Because of all that cannot be known. And what if we did know? What if it were proved—absolutely and purely—that Lizzie Borden took an ax? That Oswald acted alone? That Judge Carter fell into Sicilian hands? Nothing more would beckon, nothing would tantalize.
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Lee Harvey Oswald Quotes in In the Lake of the Woods
The In the Lake of the Woods quotes below are all either spoken by Lee Harvey Oswald or refer to Lee Harvey Oswald. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 25
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Why do we care about Lizzie Borden, or Judge Carter, or Lee Harvey Oswald, or the Little Big Horn? Because of all that cannot be known. And what if we did know? What if it were proved—absolutely and purely—that Lizzie Borden took an ax? That Oswald acted alone? That Judge Carter fell into Sicilian hands? Nothing more would beckon, nothing would tantalize.
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