Oswald’s Mother

A Mother in History
by Jean Stafford
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966, 121 pp., $3.95

Jean Stafford was sent to interview Mrs. Marguerite Oswald by McCall’s, the ladies’ magazine. Miss Stafford does not pretend to examine in detail the case of Lee Harvey Oswald or to analyze the unhappy history of the Oswald family. Her technique is haphazard, mingling long speeches from Mrs. Oswald with arch com...