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LHO was born in New Orleans, LA
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LHO drops out of school and enlists in the United States Marine Corps at the age of 17.
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LHO reports to Camp Pendleton, California, where he is assigned to the "A" Company of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Training Regiment.
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LHO reports to the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Jacksonville,Florida.
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LHO leaves for Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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He arrives in Japan at Yokosuka, where he is assigned to the
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LHO accidentally shoots himself in the arm with a derringer.
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LHO is released from the hospital and changes hotels from the Berlin to the Metropole. Later, he is summoned to a meeting at the Passport and Registration Office, where he requests Soviet citizenship. He is told to wait while they decide what to do with him.
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LHO departs the United States with the Soviet Union as his final
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LHO arrives in Moscow, registers at the Hotel Berlin, and meets his
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Rima tells LHO that the Passport and Visa Dept. will see him. LHO is notified that his visa is about to expire, and he tries to commit suicide in his hotel room. He is rushed to the hospital.
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Rima visits LHO at the hospital, where he has been placed in the
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Bill Stuckey from radio station WDSU visits LHO and asks him to
appear on the program Latin Listening Post. He arrived at the station at 5:00 PM and taped a 37-minute segment, which was cut to 4 and a half minutes and broadcast at 7:30 that evening. -
LHO makes his first visit to the Cuban Embassy, where he fills out the application for a visa to Cuba. In the afternoon, LHO returns with passport photographs he had obtained. When LHO is told that the visa could take up to four months and was
not possible without a Russian visa as well, he becomes angry. He walks a short distance to the Russian Embassy to inquire about a visa to Russia and is put off until the next day. -
LHO is pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital.
