Thanks for yours too. Hollywood could not have invented a mystery figure as perfectly as Oswald. You could tie him into Russia, Cuba, CIA and Mafia plots thereby allowing all of them to point the finger elsewhere.
But he was also a loser that nobody trusted.
Oswald’s brother Robert told a story that I think demonstrated Oswald’s inflated ego. People marveled at how Oswald was able to get clearance to return from Russia (with Russian wife en tow) when it was insanely difficult for many others to get approved entrance to the U.S. from countries behind the Iron Curtain.
The Soviets said later they simply wanted to be rid of him.
Neither U.S. intelligence or the media was the least bit curious when he arrived in New York either. Robert said when he met Lee that Lee was absolutely stunned that there wasn’t media there to ask him questions and no intelligence agents to debrief him. He seemed to have an entire statement rehearsed but there was no audience to receive him.
Lee believed he was somebody important and that it deflated his ego that nobody cared about him. He was intent on being important.
That’s supposedly why he tried to assassinate Maj. Walker in the spring of 1963 but he missed his target and hit a window frame. Marina says he came back sweating profusely and behaving like the cops would bust down his door at any moment. Again, nobody showed up.
I just don’t see any group thinking “Let’s use this guy to assassinate Kennedy” but I do think any group that wanted Kennedy dead may have helped him get into position and then had their own shooters standing by to finish the job.
You’ve provided some information I wasn’t aware of. I was only 12 at the time of Kennedy’s assassination so I wasn’t doing any adult level investigating of my own.
Jim Garrison in Texas was big in the day, and to be honest, while others dismissed him, there were some things going on down there that hasn’t mentioned in the trashing of him.
Jim related five different deaths of people he felt were potential sources of information regarding the Kennedy event. I forget the particulars now, but in the day it made sense what he was relating.
I heard it as a 15 year old kid, so I didn’t have the discernment of an adult, and the savvy to know some of these characters make things up to lend credence to their theories. Still, it made me sit up and pay attention. Perhaps that was the only goal. Was he a complete kook? I’m sure some folks would have loved to sell that idea too.
Wasn’t it Garison that went on the Carson show one evening, clearly against Carson’s own desire? Carson was a ass to the guy on the show. Didn’t let him get boo out, and Carson just insulted the guy non-stop.
You know, I want to hear what folks have to say. I’ll judge if they’re a wing-nut or not. Carson couldn’t allow that. It was the one thing that soiled Carson for me. I generally liked the guy, but that one night he was a complete jackass.
That ego trip thing sounds reasoned. Oswald was a guy in search of a cause. Evidently he found it in Kennedy.
I don’t know how folks could fall for the Castro regime.
Cuba had been an open nation until Castro. We naturally shut that down once he confiscated American businesses, and went Commie on us.
It is really a hoot to see Rafial Cruz in photos with Oswald. What an amazing coincidence.
Makes you wonder how much people close to Oswald knew at the time. With his venting and loving to talk, it seems they would have become aware he was a potential threat, and reported him.
Oh well...