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JFK and the Southern Democrats, with whom the Holy Virgin and Martyr, St. John of Massachusetts, voted every time "Civil rights" came up, resisted the movement until he was President.

He (or his equally cynical entourage) then realized what an enormous source of votes jumping on the Civil Rights bandwagon could be. The Civil Rights parade was quite a way down the street when Marilyn's boyfriends started marching.

Also, most "assassination experts" inexplicably overlook LHO's sojourn in the USSR, seeming to completely buy the KGB story that they "had no interest" in him, which they floated via a series of defectors whose genuine-ness is still the subject of controversy. The internecine warfare over this point wrecked the CIA's effectiveness for quite a while

Me? I think Fidel was in it up to his eyeballs. I seriously consider the possibility that Fidel promised Carlos Marcello and Santo Traficante a better deal than the Kennedys and the CIA. Maybe payback for the Kennedy Brothers trying to bump him off.

Still doesn't solve anything, but it is true that the CIA had been penetrated by the DGI, the Cuban Intelligence Agency, which, although it generally is under everyone's radar, is right up there with the CIA and Mossad in the high level of professionalism in its activities.

I miss your point, but I will say that Kennedy was not the “liberal” Democrat in the race for the 1960 presidential nomination. Humphrey and others were considered much more to the Left. Kennedy's principal interest was foreign policy. Once, he said that he did not run for president to spend his time worrying about the minimum wage, an issue dear to the Left but about which JFK was all but indifferent.

No one yet has mentioned the remarkable fact that Oswald's wife Marina was the daughter of a KGB colonel. People like her and defectors like Oswald didn't move easily out of the Soviet Union just because they felt like it. In fact, almost nobody was allowed out except Party functionaries, diplomats, spies, and the like.

I remember a story by the Reader's Digest which tied Oswald's activities as a Marine in Japan (IIORC) with the shooting down of Francis Gary Powers UT over Russia.

The Left has cunningly tried to finesse away Oswald's obvious commie connections by saying he was a CIA double agent. I don't buy that.