"Pictured for the first time in 25 years: The reclusive widow of Lee Harvey Oswald who 'lives in fear of being killed by the Secret Service' and has turned down $3m to talk about the JFK assassination ahead of the 50-year anniversaryShe could be just another pensioner out for her weekly shop. But the guarded and fearful look in this woman's eyes tells a different story.
Fifty years ago, her life changed forever when gunshots rang out across Dallas's Dealey Plaza and John F Kennedy died before a crowd of thousands.
She is the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the former marine who was blamed for the assassination of the U.S.'s most loved president of the modern era.
Astonishingly, these are the first images of reclusive Marina Oswald in 25 years.
ust weeks before the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, allegedly at the hands of Oswald, the now 72-year-old was seen leaving a Walmart superstore near her rural home outside Dallas.
She was with her was second husband, former drag racer Kenneth Porter, 75, whom she married less than two years after her late husband was himself shot dead in full view of the world's media.
Friends say the 72-year-old grandmother and mother-of-three, whose greying brown hair was swept back in a ponytail, has lived as a virtual recluse since after her last television interview a quarter of a century ago.
In it, she vehemently insisted there was no firm evidence against her former Marine husband - a belief she still has today.
Russian-born Marina has lived a quiet life behind closed doors, hiding away from suspicious eyes.
Gripped by fear and facing accusations from those who believe she was a co-conspirator in a KGB plot, the grandmother has lived in Rockwall, Texas, since the mid-Seventies with her second husband and three children.
But as the 50th anniversary of the tragedy approaches, she has been unable to remain out of the public eye.
Now known as Mrs Oswald Porter, she is said to be struggling through a life blighted by illness, made worse by the impending 50th anniversary and the inevitable media frenzy which will ensue.
Immediately after the assassination the then mother-of-two told the Warren Commission investigating the assassination that she thought her 24-year-old husband was guilty.
But after reading some of the 40,000 books and conspiracy theories about the shooting, she - like the majority of U.S. citizens - has changed her mind.
She now believes that the truth of Kennedy's murder has been hidden by a cover up at the highest levels of the U.S. state.
Close friend and documentary film maker Keya Morgan, said Mrs Porter now believes her first husband was set up to take the fall for conspirators in the CIA and Mafia.
The grandmother is said to be convinced her phones are still tapped by the Secret Service and lives in fear of being targeted and killed by spooks herself.
Mr Morgan told the Daily Mirror: 'She has spent half a century fearing for her own life.
'The anniversary is a constant reminder of what happened. Her life now is like a terrifying episode of the Twilight Zone, where every day she is forced to answer the same question about the most traumatic moment of her life.
'She is terrified of what might happen to her if she allowed herself to be thrust back into the limelight.'
He said he fears the 50th anniversary bandwagon is seriously damaging her health - causing her to develop an immune deficiency disorder from the stress.
She is so reluctant to be thrust back in the limelight, says Mr Morgan, she has turned down an offer of $3million to sell her story to a U.S. television network.
Oswald met Marina Prusakova while living in Minsk in 1961. The former U.S. Marine had defected to the Soviet Union two years earlier, but soon began to have second thoughts about his decision.
Six weeks after meeting Marina, then a 19-year-old pharmacology student, they were married. The next year Oswald took his new wife and their four-month-old daughter back to America.
The couple settled in Dallas but struggled to find a place for their young family and Oswald was living apart from Marina and their two young daughters when President Kennedy was shot dead on November 22, 1963.
The night before the assassination she remembers him bringing his rifle to her home and putting it in the garage. The next day, she noticed it was gone.
Due to her relationship with Oswald, Marina found herself the focus of intense scrutiny, so has spent many years hidden away in the small town, where a sign at the end of her driveway warns to 'Keep Out'.
Two years after the JFK assassination, Marina married Kenneth Porter and they moved to Texas around ten years later. The family settled in Rockwall just 20 miles from Dallas.
She has two daughters by Oswald - June and Rachel - who confirmed to the National Enquirer that Marina does believe their father was innocent of the shooting and just a patsy for the Mafia and CIA. The Porters also have a son called Mark.
The 72-year-old Mrs Porter has changed her mind about Oswald's guilt, according to the report, after reading books and watching documentaries casting doubt on the official version of events.
Mr Morgan, told the Enquirer: 'She certainly doesn't believe the official story - she always told me Lee Harvey Oswald loved President Kennedy.
'Marina says she remembers the day the Kennedys' premature baby Patrick died (August 7, 1963) and she found Lee sobbing.'
Despite her change of heart over Oswald, Mrs Porter's neighbours in Rockwall told the National Enquirer that she is a much-loved member of the local community.
Fred McCurley, who lives nearby, told the Enquirer: 'She and Ken are good people, the best neighbours you could ever have.'
In July, Mrs Porter announced that she putting his wedding ring up for auction as she breaks the final ties to what she describes as the 'worst day of my life'.
She had given the band up to be auctioned in New Hampshire after it was returned to her following 50 years lost in an attorney's folder of legal papers from the trial.
The ring sold to an anonymous Texas bidder on October 24 for $108,000.
It is accompanied by a fascinating letter written by Mrs Porter which gives the background to the historical object.
A small section reads: 'At this time of my life, I don’t wish to have Lee’s ring in my possession because symbolicly [sic] I want to let go of my past that is connecting with Nov. 22, 1963.'
Mrs Porter will keep the proceeds from the sale.
In the letter she writes that the ring, which has a tiny engraving of a hammer and sickle, was bought by Oswald in Minsk in 1961 shortly before the couple returned to the U.S.
The ring was left on the couple's bedside table when Oswald set out to kill the President.
Oswald was himself later shot and killed by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby as he was being transferred by police to the county jail, in full view of the press and the public.
The wedding band was discovered in 2004 stuck in a manila folder at a Forth Worth law firm.
It was among the papers of Forrest Markward, a lawyer who represented Mrs Porter following the Kennedy assassination.
After several years of legal tussles, the ring was returned by post to Mrs Porter in an envelope marked 'Treasury Department Secret Service'.
According to the official version of events, as established by the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in downtown Dallas.
Oswald then fatally shot Officer J.D. Tippit and was arrested at the Texas Theatre in the city.
The 50th anniversary has been gaining attention in recent months as everyone from museum curators to musicians have embarked on projects to remember the event.
The city of Dallas will hold a commemoration November 22 in Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy's motorcade was passing as shots rang out.
But Oswald's widow will play no part in it. Mrs Oswald Porter has refused to speak publicly about the grim anniversary - despite being offered massive sums to take part in television features.
Mr Morgan told the Mirror that every day reporters try to contact her to talk to her about her first husband and, although she is not well off, she is terrified of being thrust back into the limelight - no matter the incentive.
He added that her main concern these days is her family, particularly her two daughters who have avoided the long shadow of their father to lead successful lives and start their own families."
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