Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone?

Poll - Total Votes: 22

Oswald was a person that acted completely alone

Oswald was but a part of a broader conspiracy

You can only vote on one answer.

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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MistyCee

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.

HikingMan · 51-55, M

@MistyCee I doubt that you know any more than The General Public that's acquainted with the story and history of it..? The Warren commission records are fairly well documented, and many people believe to this day, that The Warren Commision withheld information to cover the few conspiracies left that people still entertain as possible, I remember reading something somewhere that said Aliens had a hand in it all.....

MistyCee

@HikingMan I probably know less than most of the public who followed it actually.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@MistyCee Aren't you in New Orleans? I recall having a favorable impression of Jim Garrison from long before the assassination. And that probably accounted in part for my belief that he may have been on the right track but was overwhelmed by the pushback which turned him into a mockable figure. Regardless of whether Garrison was fool or a credible investigator, he did bring to the public forefront the relationships between Ruby, Mobster Carlos Marcello, Shaw, the CIA and Oswald himself. Considering all the connections, some of which go back to Oswald's childhood, it's hard to believe that Oswald was a lone wolf.

MistyCee

@Heartlander That's just it. I've spoken with people who knew Oswald as a kid, and while they lost touch with him and didn't really know anything, they all thought he couldn't have done this on his own.

As for Garrison, by the time I met him, he really was out of it.

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 :)

MistyCee

@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?"