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‘Killing Kennedy’ finds its Lee Harvey Oswald

DOUBLE DOWN: Will Rothhaar (left) will play presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (right). (
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Will Rothhaar

Will Rothhaar (
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‘Killing Kennedy” has found its Oswald.

Supporting actor Will Rothhaar will play presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in National Geographic’s upcoming movie, “Killing Kennedy,” based on Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s best-selling book about the events leading up to JFK’s 1963 assassination in Dallas.

Rothhaar joins previously announced cast members Rob Lowe (JFK), Ginnifer Goodwin (Jackie Kennedy) and Michelle Trachtenberg, who’ll play Oswald’s wife, Marina — speaking her lines completely in Russian.

(Oswald’s wife spoke very little English at the time of his arrest.) “Killing Kennedy” co-executive producer Howard Owens told The Post last month that an “up and coming” actor would be cast as Oswald — and Rothhaar certainly fits the bill.

He’s appeared, mostly in supporting roles, in TV shows including “Last Resort,” “Wild Blue,” “Fringe,” “Ghost Whisperer,” “The Mentalist,” “Cold Case” and “Without a Trace.”

He also recently appeared on the big screen in “Battle: Los Angeles,” opposite Aaron Eckhard and Ramon Rodriguez, and in “Mission Park.”

“Killing Kennedy” covers the period from 1959 — when JFK announced his presidential candidacy and Oswald was renouncing his US citizenship — to Nov. 22, 1963, the day of the assassination.

Also announced yesterday were supporting “Killing Kennedy” cast members Mary Pat Gleason (“1600 Penn,” “Friends,” “Sex and the City”), who’ll play Oswald’s mother, Marguerite; Francis Guinan (“Mike and Molly”) as Vice President Lyndon Johnson; and Boris McGiver (“House of Cards”) as FBI agent John Fain.

Jack Noseworthy (“Event Horizon,” “U-571”) will play JFK’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy.

The two-hour movie, which has already begun production in Virginia, is scheduled to air later this year on Nat Geo before premiering globally.