Behind Frame 313

Moments after the kill shot - Pic courtesy of Wikipedia

by blogSpotter
MACABRE MEMORIAL

We’re approaching the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, and I can’t help but mull over various things about it. When I saw Oliver Stone’s JFK in 1992, I was certain Stone was on to something. I’ve since decided his conspiracy idea is frenzied and has too many moving parts. I more recently saw Parkland, a somber retelling of known events, and it introduced some questions without getting as complex as a John Grisham novel.

GOING WITH A LONE GUNMAN ..

I think Oswald was neck deep in whatever happened -- there’s too much to suggest otherwise. On the morning of November 22nd, a coworker saw him go to the 6th floor of the School Depository with “curtain rods” wrapped in paper. He was seen leaving the building mere seconds before Dallas Police sealed the exits, minutes after the killing. My questions are about background and motive.. Here are some troubling Oswald questions.

1) Oswald renounced the USA and defected to Russia. While in Russia, he was given a cush job (by Soviet standards) and a nice apartment although it was heavily bugged. Mere months later he was readmitted to the USA and even given a repatriation loan of nearly $500. Why did either nation treat him with such kid gloves? This was the height of the cold war -- why was Oswald let back into the USA?

2) To time and stage the assassination would take planning and coordination. Oswald, who had a very poor record of work, just happened to get a job at the Depository in October 1963, working on the upper floors. That was one month after JFK’s travel plans had been publicized and one month before JFK’s murder. Oswald was not a very bright man.. It’s not impossible that he would have such foresight and awareness to plan everything, but it seems unlikely.

3) Oswald’s mother and wife were both of the firm impression that he was an operative working for the US government. Why did they believe this? It’s not necessarily the truth, but they somehow came away with this idea. Out of the mouths of babes come significant truths, and maybe the same can be said for snoopy, eavesdropping relatives. As previously mentioned, Oswald wasn’t a Rhodes Scholar -- he probably didn’t have all his cards concealed.

4) Why did Jack Ruby (a nightclub owner with mob ties) sacrifice his own life and livelihood to perform vigilante justice on a man who was already arrested and likely to see death row? What was possibly gained by that? In the Oliver Stone line of bizarre facts, Ruby died 3 years later from sudden onset lung cancer right before he was to testify. Ruby thought he had been injected with a chemical.

5) What would have been Oswald’s motive to kill Kennedy? As a self-professed “Marxist” (very intentional air quotes) he should’ve liked the fact that Kennedy was backing off of Cuba and suggesting a scale-back in Viet Nam. There is no meaningful motive that could be given to this assassination. Oswald was something of a patsy even before the assassination -- but he wasn’t mentally ill and wouldn’t have done something completely nonsensical. At least not by himself.

In a final analysis, I have to agree with John Kerry’s recent remarks .. I think Oswald was hugely implicated. He may have even been a lone gunman if by lone gunman you mean the one person who actually pulled a trigger. Was he aided, abetted, given cues and instructions by someone else? That also seems very likely to me. Kerry suggested it might’ve been the Cubans. I think Oswald’s crackpot mother (who died in 1981) might have some insights to give. So might J Edgar Hoover but it seems everyone we need to talk to is dead.

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