For decades the debate over who killed
President John F. Kennedy has involved one group who claims Lee
Harvey Oswald did it and another blaming the CIA. They
continue to ignore the possibility both claims are
correct. The CIA is a spy organization. Some
of its agents masquerade as supporters of the enemy so they can get
inside enemy organizations.
[A few hours after posting on this subject I thought of a major
reason why many of us believe Oswald might have been working for
someone else instead of acting on his own. I'll add it as a
post script.]
Oswald could easily have been such a covert
agent. If so he would have been a logical choice
to kill Kennedy. The CIA might have hoped Oswald's
apparent support for Cuban President Fidel Castro would cause public
opinion to demand retaliation against Castro. Oswald might
have planned "to give into" expected intensive interrogation
and say the Cuban government had told him to shoot Kennedy.
I don't have any information that Oswald was or wasn't associated
with the CIA. Of course the CIA would never admit if he was
with the CIA. His previous flirtations with Russia and
Cuba might have been efforts to gain information for the CIA.
The communists lack of interest in him could have indicated they
were suspicious of his motives.
I have always been troubled by the fact that someone with Oswald's
background was allowed to be where he was on that fateful
day. The previous school year I had done a research
paper on the Secret Service. My research indicated that the
Secret Service would normally have prevented someone like Oswald
from being in a building along the motorcade route.
One fact that wasn't known to the public at the time was that one of
the last actions taken by the CIA's predecessor, the OSS, was the killing
of General George Patton.
I have no interest in pursuing this theory further I'll leave
that decision up to those who are more familiar with the incident
than I am.
P.S. We get our beliefs about subjects such as killers from
related historical events and from fiction events in television
shows and movies. The assassination of John Kennedy
didn't fit the pattern of other presidential assassinations
and assassination attempts. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James
Garfield and William McKinley were all killed at short range.
President Ronald Reagan was shot at short range. Lynette
"Squeaky" Fromme tried to shoot President Gerald Ford at close
range. The Puerto Ricans who attempted to shoot their
way into President Harry Truman's residence wanted to get close
enough to kill him.
The assassination of Kennedy fits the pattern of the assassination
of Dr. Martin Luther King who was shot by paid killer James Earl Ray
from concealment at a distance with a rifle.
Oswald shot Kennedy from concealment at a distance with a
rifle. On television and in movies professional killers.
generally fire at their intended victims from concealment at a
distance with a rifle
Typical presidential assassins seem to want people to know what they
have done. John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln in front of
people attending a play. Professional killers usually want to
get away with their crimes so they try to avoid being identified
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