FOOTNOTES
* This must be an error. He started in January of 1960 and quit in May 1962—twenty-eight months.
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* Oswald uses Young Communist or Young Communist League or YCL interchangeably as a translation into English of Komsomol.
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* This “sic!!” is misspelled in the original manuscript as “sich!!”
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