Marina Oswald Remarries

June 1, 1965 - Mrs. Marina Oswald, Russian-born widow of the man who assassinated President Kennedy, was married to a divorced electronics worker today in Fate, Tex.

Mrs. Oswald, 23, and Kenneth Jess Porter, 27, were married by Justice of the Peace Carl Leonard Jr. The couple, who have been neighbors, met less than two months ago.

Two hours after the ceremony, the couple drove up to the bride’s home in Richardson, Tex., where they were met by a throng of newsmen and photographers.

The bride rushed to the door and refused to talk. In answer to a question as to how she felt, she said: “Wonderful. I just want to be with my husband.”

Justice Leonard said: “It was just another ceremony, but with an important figure involved. I just read the regular double-ring civil ceremony. Afterward, the bride said she knew they’d be very happy. She looked like a very happy bride.”

The deputy clerk at the courthouse said she did not bother to ask Mrs. Oswald the standard question whether she ever had been married before. “I already knew that,” Mrs. Mary Chumbley said.

The couple declined an offer to call a local minister to perform the marriage ceremony. Mr. Porter, a member of the Church of Christ, said they would get their own minister. Mrs. Oswald is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Mrs. Oswald has become financially independent since the assassination of President Kennedy. Testimony at legal hearings in Dallas last summer disclosed that she was worth about $60,000, most of which came from donations from sympathetic Americans. She has also received fees from magazine articles and the book rights to her story.

Mrs. Oswald married Oswald while she was living in Russia.

She has been dating for several months and periodically has been seen at certain Dallas nightclubs.

Less than two months ago, she sold the small ranch house she bought in Richardson, Tex., after the assassination and purchased a three-bedroom brick home in the same suburb. Mr. Porter lived two doors away, and the romance apparently bloomed from neighborhood contacts.

His former wife, Wanda Porter, sobbed today at her Richardson home when a newsman attempted to talk to her about her former husband’s impending marriage.

“I was dumbfounded and surprised,” she said. “I had no idea he was even dating her.”Mrs. Porter said she obtained a divorce from Mr. Porter in January 1964 on grounds of harsh and cruel treatment. A data analyst for the Collins Radio Company, she has two children, a daughter, Wanda, 7, and a son, Connie, 4.

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