Oswald was a dedicated communist who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 out of disgust with American capitalism. After becoming disillusioned with Soviet life, he returned to the U.S. in 1962. In early 1963, he bought a scoped rifle through the mail and soon used it to fire a shot (which missed) at retired general Edwin Walker, the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas. In the summer of 1963, Oswald was active in street demonstrations in support of Castro. In September 1963, he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City seeking a travel visa that would allow him to travel to Cuba.
Oswald was among the radicals of the time who saw Third World revolutionaries like Castro as the wave of the communist future. He was well aware of Kennedy's efforts to overthrow Castro's regime. As a Senate investigative committee suggested in 1975, Oswald shot Kennedy to interrupt his administration's plans to assassinate Castro or to overthrow his regime in Cuba.
Ignoring Oswald's communist links, journalists and political leaders quickly claimed the president was a martyr to civil rights. Earl Warren said that Kennedy had "suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Martin Luther King said the assassination had to be viewed against the backdrop of violence against civil rights marchers in the South. James Reston wrote in the New York Times that "something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order."
The consensus opinion was that Kennedy was a victim of hate and bigotry, a casualty of his support for civil rights. The Cold War and Kennedy's ongoing feud with Castro were rarely mentioned as factors behind the assassination. The reasons? Mrs. Kennedy wanted her husband remembered as a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. Lyndon Johnson feared complicating relations with the Soviet Union. Liberals feared a replay of the McCarthy period, when the Wisconsin senator inflamed public opinion about fears of domestic communism.
I remember the blame game very well although I was just a Sophomore in high school. Even back then it struck me as very dishonest of the media to blame white southerners for the assassination.
I guess Oswald technically was a white Southerner but he was the exact opposite of the persona created by the media. His beliefs were the antithesis of White Southerners but it didn’t matter. Also a lot of blame given to gun owners and they used that to pass the Gun Control Act of 1968.
The idea that only in recent American History there'd been conspiracy theories and a partisan divide is foolish nonsense.
Nor was LHO the only lefty assassin in US history.
A coup d’etat that succeeded.
Did anyone see the recent Discovery Channel show on the assassination? It was pretty hard to watch, but they took replica heads and had a sharpshooter (armed with a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle) hit them from various angles based on the locations of possible shooters around Dealey Plaza, including the grassy knoll.
The only shot that produced an exact Zapruder-like plume of stuff from the fake head was the one from the equivalent of the sixth-floor depository window. It was the most convincing thing I’ve ever seen on the assassination.
(The last two names should ring a bell)
Ice Bullet Killed Kennedy
An anonymous physicist on the internet has pieced together an interesting set of circumstances and arrived at a curious conclusion: the driver of the presidential limousine probably killed President Kennedy with an ice bullet coated with shellfish poison that fateful day in November, 1963.
Here’s how it happened:
As the car carrying Kennedy rounded the curve near the book depository, the secret service driver slowed the car, turned around and fired one shot from a handgun at the president. He missed.
Trying to shot while driving, though, is tricky. This first errant shot accounts for the wounds to the passengers.
Those passengers, Gov. Connally and his wife, who were riding in the front seat and obviously in on the assassination plot, shouted duck, and dived down to the floorboard so the driver could swing his pistol over and around the couple and get a clear shot.
But the Connallys weren’t fast enough - the agent’s first bullet went wild and he accidentally shot Connally. However, Connally wasn’t a shellfish, so he didn’t die from the poison-coated bullet. This errant first shot panicked the conspirators. Something needed to be done fast.
Now part II of the plot reveals an additional conspirator - the second secret service agent riding on the passenger side.
Realizing the plot needs more deliberation and care, the second agent yells at the driver to “Stop the damn car and shot him!”
So the driver brakes the car in the middle of the street, in front of 50,000 onlookers lining the presidential route, turns around a second time, takes careful aim and delivers the fatal shot. All this action has been cleverly omitted from the Zapruder assassination film except the gunsmoke from the agent’s gun.
This remarkable theory destroys the idea of a hidden assassin at the grassy knoll. He gets away.
This is not all, says the anonymous physicist. A careful investigation reveals the driver had brown hair at the airport. In the film, though, it can be seen that his hair has turned white, most likely from ice crystals falling on his head while loading the ice bullets in the freezer.
An FBI agent who witnessed the assassination tried to run to the car but another secret service agent knocks him out with a machinegun. This also passed unnoticed by thousands of bystanders, including a few hundred World War II veterans.
Meanwhile, our anonymous physicist reveals that he found George H. Bush at the book depository helping frame Lee Harvey Oswald. His son, George W. Bush, would later drop nuclear bombs on the Twin Towers on 9-11.
So there you have yet another theory behind the Kennedy assassination, done in by ice bullets coated with shellfish poison.
As for the presidential limousine, the Air Force picked up the car, loaded it onto a C5A and dropped it into the Atlantic Ocean, where it’s been floating on an iceburg since.
Seems we’re ignoring the strong commie angle as well. Looks like the media whitewashing was successful.
That was the feeling of such ilk as the dean of journalism the leading Nytimese himself, James "Scotty" Reston. In general the liberals blamed the emerging modern conservative movement's criticism of JFK for causing Oswald to do it.
WE HAD A "FAIRNESS DOCTRINE" BACK THEN, FOLKS. NO MODERN TALK RADIO PERMITTED.
I knew that my memory still worked! See..
The consensus opinion was that Kennedy was a victim of hate and bigotry, a casualty of his support for civil rights. The Cold War and Kennedy's ongoing feud with Castro were rarely mentioned as factors behind the assassination. The reasons? Mrs. Kennedy wanted her husband remembered as a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. Lyndon Johnson feared complicating relations with the Soviet Union. Liberals feared a replay of the McCarthy period, when the Wisconsin senator inflamed public opinion about fears of domestic communism.
WE HAD A "FAIRNESS DOCTRINE" BACK THEN, FOLKS. NO MODERN TALK RADIO PERMITTED.
I did not personally see Walter "The North Vietnamese Communists' most trusted man in America" Cronkite's report but others say he said that Barry Goldwater was asked about the assassination and reacted with a hasty, "No comment." Cronkite was said to have apologized for the false report. That's the way it was. . .
Both Kennedys were killed by Leftists. Its what they do.
Pray for W and Our Troops
The left has never been able to come to terms that it was one of their own that did it...
So it must be a (right wing) conspiracy... this is no different then the 9/11 “conspiracy's” bs
Just think, if Oswald had lived, he could have held a campaign kickoff party for Barack Obama!
I saw an interesting JFK documentary this week.
A world renown sharpshooter examined the evidence regarding the assassination and came to some interesting conclusions.
First of all a car load of paid actors were on the exact spot where the fatal shot was fired. They were in an exact replica of the car. Each one was sitting in the exact position pictured in the Magruder film’s last frame.
The sharpshooter examined the potential shot from every angle suggested by conspiracy buffs. He had no clear shot from any angle, except the grassy knoll.
But if he took the shot from the grassy knoll it would have penetated Kennedy’s head and exited into Mrs. Kennedy.
They also went out into the desert and recreated a shot from each direction wthi skull replicas used by the military to assess damage for soldiers.
The shot from the grassy knoll blew of the opposite side of the head. The shot from the depository shattered the skull in a near identcal way same way as the fatal shot in the Magruder film.
For me, it put to rest any doubts about a single shooter theory.
Kennedy was anti-communist. He was shot by a communist.
Bonus round. What other President was anti-communist, cut taxes to stimulate output and increase tax revenues, and was shot?
Looks to me like there were two shots 1/2 second from each other that struck the head.
The shots from the depository were mostly to distract the crowd from the other sharp shooters in order to frame Oswald, and maybe get a lucky shot in. Looks like all they did was hit Connally and damage the car from the depository windows.
The kill zone was in front of Zapruder, with unbrella man the signaler to go ahead and employ the crossfire. At least 5 nests...the two already mentioned from the depository 6th floor windows...one lower from the police station area...one from the grassy knoll fence...one a longshot chance from the storm sewer.
Looks like the first head wound came from the police station area nest cracking the skull at the back lower right entrance and blowing out the temple at the exit.
The second impact 1/2 second later came from the storm sewer gap...the only reason this guy had a shot was because the driver slowed right at the kill zone rather than speed up. This bullet entered in the already opened temple, blew more of the top of the skull loose, and then blew out the back where the skull had been cracked from the first head shot. You can see Jackie’s right hand suddenly lurch back either due to the force of this second impact against the head, or to try to instinctively catch pieces of the brain and skull that had flew backwards at the very moment of the second impact. On the Zapruder film, you can see 1/2 second after the first impact the back of the head extends out, that’s the tissue blowing backwards forming an opening at the lower right, from the second impact. The reason this impact wasn’t as explosive as the first is because the head was already severely damaged and couldn’t build the bullet shockwave pressure like the first could.
Jackie climbed on the truck to get the piece of tissue and carried it all the way to the hospital. She said she had his brains in her hand, overheard by both Connally and his wife.
The knoll fence nest must’ve missed but the flash and the noise was enough to make everyone run up the knoll after them/him only to be stopped by goons posing as agents.
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