October 1959

Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Moscow by train after crossing the border from Finland, where he had secured a visa for a 6-day stay in the Soviet Union. He immediately applies for Soviet citizenship.

On the afternoon, Lee Harvey Oswald is ordered to leave the Soviet Union by 8 p.m. that evening. That same afternoon in his hotel room Oswald, in an apparent suicide attempt, slashed his left wrist.

3 days after his release from the hospital, Lee Harvey Oswald appears at the American Embassy and announces that he wishes to renounce his U.S. citizenship and become a Russian citizen. When asked his reasons, Oswald replied, "I am a Marxist".