page_title: September 1960
section_title: September 13, 1960 (Tuesday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1960 / September 13, 1960 (Tuesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Official USMC portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in September 1960:
context_section_description: Lee Harvey Oswald's honorable discharge from the United States Marines, granted on September 11, 1959, was revised to an "undesirable discharge" (rather than a bad conduct discharge or a dishonorable discharge, which require a court martial), based on bringing "discredit to the Marine Corps through adverse newspaper publicity" since defecting to the Soviet Union.  Although  William B. Franke was the United States Secretary of the Navy at the time the revision was ordered, Oswald would not learn of the action until 1961, when John Connally was appointed to the position by President John F. Kennedy, and would write to Connally several times to seek a reversal.  Connally would later win the office of Governor of Texas, and on November 22, 1963, Oswald would shoot both Kennedy and Connally; at least one author, James Reston Jr., would theorize that Oswald was actually trying to assassinate Governor Connally rather than President Kennedy.
  A total eclipse of the Moon took place and was visible in much of the Pacific Ocean.  Astronomer William M. Sinton used the opportunity to make infrared pyrometric scans of the temperature of the lunar surface.  Sinton confirmed findings, made by Richard W. Shorthill during the eclipse of March 13, that the Tycho crater had a significantly higher temperature than the area around it.
caption: USMC Private Oswald
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