Psychological Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald Essay -- Psychological Cap

On November 22nd, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was kill. It was concluded by The Warren Commission that the man who assassinated President Kennedy was 24 year old, Lee Harvey Oswald. Less than 48 hours after Kennedy was shot, while Oswald was being transferred to the county jail, he was assassinated. Lee Harvey Oswald was killed in front he could undergo some(prenominal) psychological or psychiatric analysis, so it is impossible to know for certain what his mental state was at the time of President Kennedys assassination. The Warren Commission states that they were unable to reach any definite conclusions as to whether or not he (Lee Harvey Oswald) was sane under prevailing legal standards (Warren et al., 1964, p. 375). I do not mean that human behavior can ever fully be predicted. However, an analysis of Oswalds childhood, as well as, his actions leading up to the assassination help us to understand the type of person Lee Harvey Oswald was and give us an insight int o his psychological state. Oswald had a troubling childhood to say the least. His father died two months before he was born in 1939 leaving him with no father figure in his life. Not only did the death of Oswalds father leave him with without a father-figure, it robbed him of a home and family life with constant parental figures (Abrahamsen, 1967, p. 869). The death of Oswalds father forced his pay back to go to work, essentially leaving him without a mother as well. His mother sent Oswald, his older brother, Robert Oswald, and his older half-brother, John Pic, to an orphanage. Oswald stayed at the orphanage for thirteen months, until his mother married her third husband (Ewing & McCann, 2006, p. 22). Now that Oswalds mother was remarried there w... ...brahamsen, David. (1967). A Study of Lee Harvey Oswald Psychological Capability of Murder. Bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine, 43, 861-888. Ewing, C.P., & McCann J.T. (2006). Minds on Trial Great Cases in impartiality an d Psychology. New York, NY Oxford University Press. McAdams, John. (1995). Lee Harvey Oswald Troubled Youth - Oswald Assessed by Psychiatrist Renatus Hartogs. Retrived from http//mcadams.posc.mu.edu/hartogs.htm.Simon, Jonathan. (1998). Ghosts of the Disciplinary Machine Lee Harvey Oswald, Life-History, and the Truth of Crime. Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, 10, 75-113.Warren, E., Russell, R. B., Ford, G. R., Cooper, J. S., Dulles, A. W., Boggs, A., McCloy, J. J. (1964). The Warren Commission give out Reports of the Presidents Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York, NY St. Martins Press.