2006-11-27 11:52:02 · 13 answers · asked by ABC 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
He was killed before that question could be asked of him - So any other answer is pure speculation.
2006-11-27 12:29:59 · answer #1 · answered by davidscottwoodruff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW, a very open-ended question, one that has never been resolved and probably never will be completely. Since Jack Ruby killed Oswald, no one ever had a chance to fully interogate him or do a psychiatric evaluation, so no motive was ever conclusively established. The 2 most common theories are that (1) He was mentally deranged and did as part of some personal crusade. People that knew Oswald in the last few months of his life have testified that he was paranoid, violent, frustrated, craved attention and had bizarre theological / religious beliefs. So it could be that he was just a wacko with very little motive or connection to his target, like the men who shot George Wallace and John Lennon. Or, (2) He was collaborating with the Soviets at some level and was carrying out an assasination order. Oswald had lived in the USSR for a few years before returning to the US and killing Kennedy, and it has been proven that he had contacts with the KGB and was an aspiring Communist. But it's never been proven that he was actually an agent of theirs.
2006-11-27 12:02:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't. He fired the first shot that hit Kennedy from behind but never killed him. The fatal shot came from the front - probably from the so-called "grassy knoll" from an unknown assassin. The whole assassination was a conspiracy between rogue elements of the CIA who didn't want Kennedy to bring the troops home from Vietnam and organized crime. Oswald was just the patsy and fall guy - they needed to put a face on the crime and Oswald was perfect because he had the CIA cover of defecting to Russia and then coming back as an avowed Marxist.
2006-11-27 13:15:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, i do no longer imagine that Oswald acted on my own, all those assassinations of the Sixties are literally not the outcome of lone gunmen. i believe that the CIA and the mafia had lots to do with Kennedy's assassination. RFK and the president made fairly some enemies in the time of that element and that i believe like Malcolm suggested the chickens got here abode to roost...There are a techniques too many unanswered questions that element to a conspiracy, the plan became too idea out for it to were purely one guy. that's purely my opinion....
2016-11-29 20:57:45 · answer #4 · answered by barnas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of these kids need to go back to History class. Lee Harvey Oswald was a known communist sympathiser and also anti-U.S. imperialism. He had visited the USSR on a number of occasions and had known ties with Soviets. He was also troubled psychologically, and was likely attempting to make a name for himself so as to curry favor and respectability with his communist peers, who didn't take him very seriously and wrote him off as just a disgruntled American and a wannabe.
2006-11-27 11:59:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one really knows why. Main reason is because we can't ask Oswald. Jack Ruby killed him before we could get a coherant answer from him. We may never know. Whether he was alone or not. But do understand this though, SOMEBODY knows. Somewhere.
2006-11-27 12:25:41 · answer #6 · answered by dakotaviper 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you believe that then,
Really who knows if he did it. I mean the man was killed right after it happened himself so...we will never really know.
2006-11-27 11:54:35 · answer #7 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he didnt, Elvis did it and framed Oswald.
2006-11-27 12:02:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
u wouldn't like my answer. But i'll tell ya it has something to do with the government.
2006-11-27 11:54:05 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe just what he said...that he was a patsy.
2006-11-27 11:57:35 · answer #10 · answered by spackler 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋