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Question:
Who, if anyone, knew that Lee Harvey Oswald was an assassin prior to November 22,1963?
Answer:
On April 10, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald attempted to assassinate General Edwin Walker, a right- wing leader in Dallas with a high-powered rifle, after aborting a previous attempt on April 5th.
The evidence of this assassination attempt includes

the testimony of his wife, Marina Oswald,
a note in his handwriting Russian describing what Marina should do, after the Walker shooting, if he were arrested, killed or had to go into hiding,
photographs of Walker's house from the sniper's position taken by Oswald's camera and pasted into Oswald's scrapbook, and
a Neutron Activation test that showed that the metallic elements found in the bullet that was recovered in Walker's home matched the ammunition used in Oswald's rifle in the assassination of Kennedy (This technology for this test, done in 1977, did not exist in 1963).
Oswald had told a number of people he knew that someone should shoot Walker a month prior to the shooting, and, on April 5th, when he made his first attempt, he had Marina take a photograph of him dressed in black, armed to kill with a rifle and telescopic sight, and holding in his hand the radical newspaper, The Militant. Those who reportedly knew that he was a self-styled assassin include:
1) Marina Oswald. She testified to the Warren Commission that when Oswald returned on the evening of April 10th, he explained to her that he had just attempted to kill General Edwin Walker with his rifle.
2) George De Mohrenschildt. He had seen Oswald's sniper's rifle. He had heard Oswald make rabid threats against Walker the prior month. He had received the photograph which was signed "For George, Lee Harvey Oswald" and dated April 5th, 1963 (Oswald's first attempt on Walker). If he had any doubts why Oswald was holding the rifle in the photo, Marina had scribbled on back in Russian "Hunter of Fascists. Ha. Ha" After he heard on the radio that a sniper had fired a shot at General Walker and, next day, he went over to Oswald's house to find out what had happened to the rifle. According to Marina's testimony, he had rushed up the stairs, and said "Lee, how did you miss General Walker?"
3) Jean De Mohrenschildt. According to Mohrenschildt, he had told his wife in April 1963, when he left Dallas to go to Washington DC.
4) J. Walter Moore, a CIA officer working in the CIA's Domestic Contact Division in Dallas, according to De Mohrenschildt. De Mohrenschildt told me that he had reported the Walker assassination attempt and the telltale "Hunter of Fascists" photograph to Moore.
5)Eusebio Azque, the Cuban counsel in Mexico City. Marina testified that Oswald brought photos of the Walker shooting to Mexico to support his request for a visa to go to Cuba. According to witnesses at the consulate, Oswald showed these photographs to Azque, and became involved in a heated argument with him about his bona fides as a Pro-Castro revolutionary.

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Some references that pertain to the pyschology of Assassins:

ASSASSINS:

James F. Kirkham, Sheldon G. Levy and William J. Crotty,
Assassination and Political Violence: A Report to the National
Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence (New York: Bantam
Books, 1970), pp. 65f.: "Although we cannot unravel the significance
of the similarities between the assassins, we could make this
statement: we could predict after President Kennedy's assassination
that the next assassin would probably be short and slight of build,
foreign born, and from a broken family--most probably with the father
either absent or unresponsive to the child."

Patricia Cayo Sexton, The Feminized Male (New York: Random House,
1969), p. 4: "Sirhan and Oswald, both reared under the maternal
shadow, grew to be quiet, controlled men and dutiful sons. Estranged
from their fellows, fathers, and normal male associations, they
joined a rapidly growing breed--the 'feminized male'--whose normal
male impulses are suppressed or misshaped by overexposure to feminine
norms. Such assassins often pick as their targets the most virile
males, symbols of their own manly deprivation. The assassin risks no
contest with this virility. His victim is caught defenseless by the
sniper's bullet and is unable to strike any blows in self-defense. A
cheap victory--no challenger and no risk of defeat. Their desire to
get out is simply the natural male impulse to cut maternal ties and
become a man. The black revolt is a quest by the black male--whose
social impotence has exceeded even that of the white woman--for
power, status, and manhood. He does not want to be a 'boy' any
longer: I am a man is the slogan of his revolt. These rebellions are
alarms, alerting us to the social forces that dangerously diminish
manhood and spread alienation and violence."

Ibid., p. 67: "David Rothstein, for example, has analyzed twenty-
seven inmates of the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in
Springfield, Mo., who had indicated an intention to attack the
President. The threatmakers bore similarities to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Most came from unhappy homes. They had domineering mothers and weak,
ineffectual fathers. Most joined the military service at an early
age, yet their experiences proved to be unhappy. Rothstein interprets
their actions in threatening the President as the manifestation of a
hostility towards their mother redirected against authority symbols--
the government and, more specifically, the President."

Dr. Fred B. Chartan, "A Psychiatric History: What Assassins Have in
Common," The Birmingham News, 7 July, l968: "The [U.S. presidential]
assassins were all men (there has never been a woman political
assassin), all loners, and all lacking fathers through death,
divorce, work schedule, or at least through a very poor parental
relationship. It is also significant that the assassins were either
bachelors or did not get along with women."