More stretch 1 the Pushkin story on which the opera is based Pikovaya Doma or Queen of Spades has as hero an engineer named or Germann with a hard G Lee Harvey Oswald s first girl friend in Minsk before Marina also had the last name 2 WP coverage of Suddenly 1954 film starring Sinatra as an assassin who prepares to shoot from a hidden high place has at times contained disputed claims that Oswald saw that film either in 1954 or 1963 3 A leading character named Shaw appears in both films 4 It is alleged that Oswald bought the assassination weapon in March 1963 five months after Manchurian Candidate was released