Lee Harvey Oswald
- "Once the target has been downed, either by Oswald or Z., use PE1 to stage a distraction."
- ―A member of Abstergo Industries in a message to an associate, 1963.[src]
Lee Harvey Oswald (1939 – 1963) was a Templar sleeper agent,[1] who is known to this day as the assassin of 35th American President John F. Kennedy.
Biography
On 22 November 1963, Oswald, acting as the main gunman, was backed by Abraham Zapruder as the second gunman and William Greer as Kennedy's driver, during a secret Templar operation to assassinate the President and obtain his Apple of Eden.[2] Greer was in fact a member of the Bloodstone Unit, an extremist Assassin cell,[3] who had been trained by Abstergo Industries using another Apple of Eden and ordered to retrieve the President's Apple immediately after the assassination.[2]
However, Oswald and Zapruder were unable to kill Kennedy, as the operation was hijacked by Greer's Bloodstone Unit cohorts, who sought the Apple for their own ends and left Oswald to take the fall. In the confusion after the assassination, Greer was able to steal Kennedy's Apple, though former Bloodstone Unit member Alekseï Gavrani intercepted him and took the artifact, delivering it to the Assassins.[3]
Personality and traits
Oswald willingly subjected himself to memory suppression techniques in order to live a falsified life manufactured by Abstergo and no longer had any knowledge of the company itself or his involvement with them.[1]
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed II (photo only)
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (photo only)
- Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone (mentioned only)