
Once back in the United States, Oswald has a hard time obtaining work and taking care of his family. It does not take long for Oswalds’s interest in Russia to fade and he brings his new wife back to America with him, along with their daughter. There is a U2 plane crash which leads to Oswald being brought to Moscow to aid the Russians in questioning the pilot. Upon leaving the Marines, Oswald makes his way to Russia with the intention of defecting. This would protect the three former agents from being suspected of having committed the deed.

The first step, he believes, is to find a person to use as a stooge who can be manipulated to present as an American who was upset enough to assassinate the president on behalf of Fidel Castro. He suggests that they set in motion an assassination attempt during the president’s motorcade in Miami.

Win comes up with the idea that if it could be shown that Castro was attempting to have Kennedy assassinated it would force the president to rethink his position on Cuba. They have been drawn back together by the idea of rebuilding their reputations and rejoining the CIA. are three old friends, all of whom have been removed from the CIA for reasons connected to the invasion at the Bay of Pigs. Larry Parmenter, T-Jay Mackey, and Walter “Win” Everett, Jr. Dilillo attempts to give a unique perspective to an event that has been forever analyzed by presenting Oswald through an unfamiliar sympathetic lens. The conspirators are unaware that the president will die that day in Dallas, and Oswald is not aware that he is not the only shooter until the moment he witnesses the assassination of the president while peering through the scope of his rifle. Oswald is shown as being used in a plot designed to make it look as if Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is plotting to kill John F. He had a troubled childhood and was involved with communism, and was thus perceived as being against the American government. Oswald is presented as a confused figure being used by three CIA agents who are upset over the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. Delillo presents the Kennedy assassination as a plot by former members of the CIA to prompt the government into war with Cuba. He soon returns to the United States and ultimately takes his infamous place in history.

Later, Oswald defects to the Soviet Union and marries a Russian woman. The narrative begins with the early childhood of Oswald and his time in the United States Marine Corps. The book won The Irish Times’ first International Fiction Prize. Included in the story is a speculative account of the assassination of President Kennedy. Libra is a 1988 novel by Don Delillo that tells of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald.
