I believe the government did in this case what law enforcement does in LOTS of cases: they pinned it on the one guy they could get their hands on to make the public feel like the government had acted effectively and also to make people feel safer in thinking that one or more shooters were not still at large. I do NOT believe the government in any capacity killed JFK.
Do I care to have this whole thing re-investigated 45 years after the fact? Nope. Not at all.
But do I think Oswald acted alone? No, I do not. I also consider it possible that Oswald was a convenient patsy for local law enforcement and the FBI to pin this on and it would not surprise me in the least to someday find out that Oswald was targeted for suspicion just because no one would be expected to want to defend him from the accusation.
Yes, Oswald may well have done this. But he would also have made the perfect patsy because who in 1963 America would give a damn about an abject failure who couldn't even make a go of living in the USSR?
Isn’t there supposed to be some cache of papers that go public sixty years after his death, or am I remembering some other lame conspiracy theory?
There’s a book I read called the “JFK Assasination tapes” which are just transcripts of tapes from LBJ’s oval office pertaining to the aftermath of the assasination. It’s basically original source history as the words are LBJ’s and his interlocutors, as opposed to some author’s version of what did or didn’t happen.
Having read this book I am sure of one thing - which is that LBJ wanted the Warren Commission to be a blue ribbon rubber stamp of the lone nut theory. The idea was to get as many eminence grise on board as possible, to get it done quickly, and to get the report written and accepted as fact. Truth seeking was not part of the agenda - meaning finding the “truth” was not what the exercise was all about. And LBJ twisted quite a few arms to further that end.
This is not speculation. This is historical fact.
Two things I believe: 1) Oswald was definitely involved. The proof is that he left his wedding ring and his money for his wife before leaving for work that day. If he was an innocent little waif who just happened to be at the wrong place and the wrong time, he wouldn’t have done that the morning he leaves for an assumed ordinary day of work.
2) While there may or may not have been a conspiracy to shoot JFK, there was definitely one to cover it up, fearing the clues might point to the Russians, the Cubans or someone else and start another world war. So, even if there were cohorts involved with Oswald, the Warren Commission’s purpose was to make sure all the evidence pointed only to the “lone nut”. That cover-up may have also included killing off potential talkers.
Hollywood could not have found a guy from central casting to be a conspiracy clearinghouse more than this man, what with his ties to Castro, Russia, the mob and military intelligence.
But, from just about everyone who knew him, Oswald was considered bright but a loner, a screw-up and a loser who longed for political change. The question is: if you were part of an organization plotting to assassinate an American president, would you want a guy like that anywhere near your operation? My answer is “no” and that is my strongest point for believing he did it alone - that no same person would hire Lee Harvey Oswald to do that job. He seemed to have taken it upon himself to do that job.