Rockwall Co., TX - Oswald’s Widow Would Forget Past ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Holli Boone Kees USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** The Marion Star, Marion, Ohio, 1973 Oswald’s Widow Would Forget Past By Mike Cochran Associated Press Writer Rockwall, Tex. (AP) 19 Nov 1973 The sign says “Beware of Dog” and a barbed wire gate suggest that one is not always welcome at the country home of Marina Oswald Porter. “No, no,” she says when a telephone caller requests an interview, “I have talked to Life magazine, and I cannot talk with you, even if I wanted to. They could sue me if I talked to anyone or permitted pictures.” And so it goes with the Russian born widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the surly, wispy man accused of the ambush assassination of President John F. Kenedy 10 years ago in Dallas. Now Mrs. Kenneth Jess Porter, the dark blonde Marina and her three children abandoned city life recently and settled in the rolling farmlands of Rockwall County east of, and adjacent to Dallas. Her two children by Oswald —June, 12 and Rachel, 10 —and her son by Porter, Mark 7, attend school in nearby Rockwall, traveling the nine miles by bus. Marina does not drive a car. School officials, reluctant to discuss the Porter children, say the three youngsters have adapted smoothly and there is no problem of acceptance by other children. “Really, there hasn’t been a whole lot said about it….I think the less we say about it, the better off we are,” said one official. ---