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Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone?

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Oswald was a person that acted completely alone
Oswald was but a part of a broader conspiracy
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For the younger people here, Oswald was the man who assassinated President John F Kennedy in Dallas in November of 1963. Oswald was arrested a few hours later, and was himself murdered the next day by Jack Ruby in the Dallas police garage.

The question isn't about whether he was a lone gunman or not, but whether he was but the trigger man in a broader conspiracy plot.

Why is this question still important 50+ years later? Well, considering the role of the FBI in creating the Russia-collusion hoax, their effort to shield the president's son, Hunter Biden, from investigation, and the way politicians try to weaponize the FBI, IRS, CIA and other agencies to serve the political interests of those in power rather than the people, I think it's a good time for the people to demand better honesty from their government.

I believe our government has already admitted that it lied to the Warren Commission on some points. Supposedly to avoid admitting that the Kennedy Administration had considered plans to assassinate Fidel Castro, and had possibly made attempts. But that doesn't address whether Oswald acted alone or not. He could have been part of a Mafia plan, or a Cuban plan, or a plan within our CIA or FBI. There were/are numerous investigations and researches to give credibility to all of the above.

So what do you believe?
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Montanaman · M
@SomeMichGuy 🙋‍♀️Best Comment!👍👍
@Montanaman Thanks for your enthusiasm!
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@SomeMichGuy

Thanks. As we learned in the OJ trial, once the evidence has been tampered with it becomes inconclusive. But, just the awareness that it has been tampered with strongly suggests a conspiracy.
ExtremeNext · 31-35
I think Biden was some how involved
graphite · 61-69, M
All the evidence points right at Oswald. The gun that he disguises as curtain rods, at least two witnesses saw him point the gun out of the window, the motorcade route was published in advance, and Oswald high-tailed it out of there right after the assassination. Ask yourself: Did Oswald have the will, the skill and the opportunity to kill JFK? The answer to all 3 questions is an emphatic yes.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@graphite Yes, and he also had connections to Cuba, the mob, and the CIA. And a lot of shady characters.
graphite · 61-69, M
@Heartlander So many sophisticated connections, that he was working at a warehouse filling school book orders, the latest in a long line of nothing jobs for him. Oswald threw himself at the Cubans in Mexico City, and they rightfully didn't want anything to do with him. Mob and CIA connections? With connections like that, you'd think Oswald would have been living in a spacious house instead of being a charity case. Didn't have the money to buy his daughter shoes, apparently. His family was being propped up by Ruth Payne, who knew Oswald was a zero.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@graphite Yes, Oswald was a needy man with specialty skill set.
Slade · 56-60, M
I have been to the shooting perch. It is mind boggling on why there was no Secret Service there.

The kill shot came from a mere 70 yards away. Not a difficult shot at all
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Slade Yes. I recall a few rifle sayvy friends comment that it would not have been a difficult shot. That the Secret Service didn't have that covered suggests a possible conspiracy. That along with the planning that had to go with Oswald being there.
walabby · 70-79, M
The fact that Oswald was silenced the next day strongly suggests that there was a wider conspiracy.
graphite · 61-69, M
@walabby Doesn't suggest anything other than that the Dallas PD had really bad security. Ruby was a regular "visitor" to the PD and, after dropping something off at Western Union, wandered over to the station where Oswald was brought out an hour later than his scheduled exit, after he wanted a sweater. Ruby even left his precious dachsund in his car, never to see the dog or the car again. if he'd planned on killing Oswald rather than it being a spur-of-the-moment thing, he'd have made much better provisions for the dog than leaving it in his parked car. And Oswald was shot 2 days after JFK. (Ruby's rabbi confirmed that Ruby was a certified nutcase.)
Lol. I've actually got a little inside info on this one (nothing earth shattering and they all interviewed with the Warren Commission), and tend to think Oswald wasn't a lone wolf, no matter who was pulling his strings.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@MistyCee My awareness of Garrison was his TV appearances and interviews from when he first ran for New Orleans DA; he was very sincere and honest sounding. But that was before I learned that sounding honest and sincere wasn't the same as being honest and sincere :)
@Heartlander Garrison as DA was before my time, but we've had a bunch of folks in that office who sounded like that on TV but had other issues since, including the latest one, who as near as I can figure, just got acquitted, not because he wasn't guilty of the crime charged, but because the jury liked the job he was doing.

The whole JFK thing is fascinating, but I doubt we'll figure out in our lifetimes all that was going on.

My gut feeling is that Garrison was onto something, but chasing it down was beyond him and it consumed him and ultimately broke him.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@MistyCee

I agree,

I'd just turned 21, graduated, and just a few days earlier had signed in to my 1st military assignment when JFK was assassinated. Beyond the shock and "Oh my God!!" that everyone probably went through, I was more focused on my own priorities at the time. Same when Oswald was murdered. My feelings were like "Got the bastard!", case closed. And there were enough incidents of raging lunatics killing famous people in the 60s, or trying to kill famous people ... King, RFK, Sharon Tate, etc. ... and JFK was one of them.

With Jim Garrison, my initial thoughts then were that he had simply entered that category of clown-act Louisiana politicians, along with the Long brothers, Dudley LeBlanc, Rapollet, Edwin Willis, etc.; but that did bring Oswald to his New Orleans roots and familiar turf for me. And that, along with my own life experiences since then gave cause o say "Hmmm?", and "hummmmm?"
Personally i think the president was killed because he was trying to stop the bankers from embezzling our country's money .. to this day they are unethically ripping our country off with interest .. shady white collar scammers have infiltrated our government offices on all levels
HikingMan · 51-55, M
I do not think that we yet know everything about that day as The General Public.
But from all I've read and seen, I do believe there is a distinct possibility that there was a second shooter.
I do not however believe that there was DEFINITELY a second shooter.

It's very hard to believe that if there were a wider conspiracy that could possibly be uncovered, all these many years later, that any of the past 4 sitting Presidents would not have declassified it and disclosed it publicly by now....

Makes me ponder what Trump was so anxious to take with him for the past 2 years with no accounting of where it was or who saw it....????

I'm honestly astounded that half the country wants to absolve him before they even know what he had.....
RedBaron · M
I believe that it doesn't matter now. Everyone involved is dead.
RedBaron · M
@Heartlander And no way to prove anything, which was my original point and why it doesn't matter.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@RedBaron

:) I would take one or two of the "m"s out of that "Hmmmmmmm?" if Jeff Epstein hadn't committed "suicide".

In a world where we still don't really know what went on with Iran-Contra, or "Fast and Furious', or .... I think we still have to keep asking questions and hope.

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BTW, I'm an old Captain Eddie, Eddie Rickenbacker admirer. Are you Red Baron because you like pizza, or because of von Richthofen?
RedBaron · M
@Heartlander Neither. It's my last name.
graphite · 61-69, M
60+ years and no conspiracy ever proven, despite thousands of people looking for one. Yet people still think there was a conspiracy. Remember the British author who put out a book insisting it was a Russian spy in Oswald's grave? So they dig up the grave in 1981 and it was....Oswald. Wonder if the British author refunded the proceeds of his book sales? Sorry - the check already cleared.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@graphite Considering how little we know about what happened to Jimmy Hoffa, the 60+ years for Kennedy is understandable.

Were some of the dead-ends intentional distractions?
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I believe he was set up as the fall guy.
Montanaman · M
Agreed 💯 % we might never know.
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
I think Martin Scorsese probably hit closer to the truth with "The Irishman" than any of the other prevailing theories... 🤔
BigBulge · 41-45, M
HUNTER BIDEN ??????? Are you serious ?
Slade · 56-60, M
@BigBulge WTF? Wackadoodle
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
We will never know.
Jimmy2016 · 61-69, M
🤔....................................
He acted under orders of J Edgar Hoover

 
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