Interview With JFK Assassin's Brother

Nov. 20 -- Robert Oswald first heard the news on the radio that his brother, Lee Harvey Oswald, was in custody for shooting a police officer.

When he arrived at the police station in Dallas, he received more shocking news: FBI agents told him they were about to charge his younger brother with the murder of President John F. Kennedy.

"Words can't express the hit that you take," Oswald told ABCNEWS. "My head just flopped down. The only thing I recall in the whole room, plus those two FBI, was the time, and it was right at midnight." He left, shaking the entire walk back to the hotel.

The following is an excerpt of ABCNEWS' interview with Robert Oswald, who spoke of his brother's attention-starved behavior and troubled childhood.

Robert Oswald: I think more than anything else, if I had an opportunity and the facts that said Lee was innocent, I would be out there shouting it loud and clear. But the facts point in the other direction. If you go right down the line and look at it, all the facts will point to Lee's involvement. Lee actually committed the crime, period.

There's blank spaces in there, i.e. when he went from New Orleans to Mexico City. There's some unanswered questions there. We will never know the answers 'cause he's buried. A lot of people like to speculate. I frankly do not. I like to stick with the facts, what we know.

Lee Harvey Oswald's Opportunity

The reason Lee went after the president is because of opportunity and no other. If he wasn't working where he was working or if the president's car wasn't going by there at that particular time, it wouldn't have happened. It wasn't a master plan or anything. There's no shadowy figures out there.