did Lee Harvey Oswald kill President kennedy?

Question

And why did he do it if he did it?

Answer 1

Not one person that has posted an answer before mine has a clue what they are talking about and it is clear that not one of them has read very much about this case. There is a MOUNTAIN of evidence against Oswald and not one drop, not one speck, not one atom of evidence against another single person. Not one. Here is the evidence against Oswald and YOU be the judge:

1. Oswald was seen carrying a mysterious package into work that morning that he claimed contained curtain rods. He was NOT seen leaving with any similar package and NO curtain rods were found anywhere in the Texas School Book Depository. However a rifle belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald WAS found there.
2. Oswald's and ONLY Oswald's prints were found on the rifle.
3. NO other rifle was found in the TSBD and no strangers were witnessed leaving the building after the assassination.
4. Four witnesses saw Oswald firing the rifle from the window during the assassination.
5. Oswald was the ONLY employee who fled the building after the assassination, EVERY other employee of the TSBD returned to work to finish their day's labors. Not Oswald. In fact Oswald fled the building within 90 seconds of the shooting.
6. Oswald was stopped within an hour of the assassination and questioned by Dallas patrolman J.D. Tippit and Oswald shot him four times before Tippit had a chance to complete his questioning. Oswald fled again and hid in a movie theater, where he was arrested after trying to shoot another police officer, Nick McDonald.
7. The above poster who claimed that referred to the Single Bullet Theory was right. The Discovery Channel just three years duplicated the single bullet conclusion PERFECTLY and proved to a historical certainty that one bullet not only could, but DID wound both Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally.
8. ALL of the bullets and fragments, thereof, recovered from the shooting were ALL matched to Oswald's rifle to the exclusion of all other rifles currently on the planet.
9. ALL wounds to President Kennedy and Governor Connally were proven to have come from above and behind. NO wounds entered either man from ANY other direction.
10. Oswald had his wife take photographs of him the previous March holding the murder rifle and the revolver he used to shoot Officer Tippit. These photographs (three of them) were all recovered the day of the assassination in Oswald's wife's garage (they were separated.)

There is more evidence but this is sufficient to show that there is no rational historical doubt about who killed President Kennedy. You will notice that of all the answers you've received to this question, mine is the ONLY one that actually talked about the evidence. Those who believe that Oswald was innocent NEVER bring up evidence that points to someone else--because there isn't any. NONE. All they do is stand with their hands on their hips, wag their heads, and say, "Well we don't know who did it, but we DO know that Oswald DIDN'T do it." When asked what evidence they have that points to someone else, they hang their heads and change the subject. I've dealt with these people for 40 years and ALL of them are firing blanks when it comes to proof. Only those that have read extensively about the case can produce proof and it ALL points to one and only one person--Lee Harvey Oswald.


Now for motive.


We don't know. Oswald was killed two days after the assassination so his motive was never very clear. But in a murder trial or in historical investigation motive doesn't matter. The prosecution doesn't even need to bring up motive in a murder case because unless the guilty person reveals their motive, how can we EVER know why anyone does anything? But Gerald Posner in his book "Case Closed" had investigated Oswald's possible motive(s) extensively and he has concluded that:
1. Oswald wanted to make his name by committing a historically powerful act.
2. Oswald was interested in meeting Fidel Castro (his idol) and thought that assassinating Kennedy would serve nicely as a means to meet him. In fact when Oswald was fleeing after the assassination, it is very likely he was heading to a bus terminal with plans to travel to Mexico and then on to Cuba in hopes of meeting Castro.
3. Oswald had never accomplished anything of merit in his life. He has failed at school, dropped out of the Marines, failed at marriage (he and Marina were separated after his repeated beatings of her), failed in onw job after another after another, and committing a violent act against someone as famous as Kennedy would make him seem important.


And there you have the opinion of someone who has probably read more about the Kennedy assassination than ANYONE that will answer this question. If you have ANY questions feel free to e-mail me privately and I will glady answer ANY question you ask. There is a logical answer to EVERY question about the assassination.

Answer 2

We will never know for sure, being Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby. Jack Ruby was low level mob figure in La. that own a night club, I, for one believe that it was the mob that helped steal the election from Nixon, in retaliation for not giving them a pass by his brother Bobby Kennedy. Robert Kennedy was attorney general under JFK and was pursuing the mob with a vengeance. It you think there was hankie panky the 2000 recall election what were on in the race between JFK and RMN it was considered child's play. Old man Joe Kennedy made deal with the mob that if they would help JFK get elected in Chicago, the newly election president would give them a pass. Then in Texas, where Lyndon Johnson ruled, there were dead people were voting as well a stuffing of the ballot box

Answer 3

That really depends on who you talk to. If it's one of those talking heads in the news media; he did it. But there are mountains of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
My personal opinion is that Oswald was a CIA agent that was set up to take the fall. And Kennedy was also hit from the front. The doctor that first worked on him,now that he is retired, has come out and said so.

Answer 4

You need to watch the history channel's special on the assassination. It was definitely LHO who did it and he alone. Single gunman fact. First of all, it is an impossibility in physics to have a so-called "magic bullet". According to the show, Kennedy was sitting a few inches to the center and lower in the front seat of the specially made car, so the bullet went strait through Gov. Connelly to exactly where it should have. Yes, LHO was a very proficient Marine Corp marksman and he reloaded the bolt action mail order rifle very quickly. He was also a little crazy. He went to Russia, got a wife, and came back to the U.S. with her. Even she was afraid of him!

Answer 5

No way! He thought that he was supposed to and did try but it was a set up deal from the start. I still think that it was either the Vice President's doing or Cuba. There is even a possibility that organized crime had a finger in it. It is so strange that the records were ordered sealed for so long.

Answer 6

I think this will always be controversial. We may never know the whole truth and most of the witnesses and key figures are deceased. Richard Nixon was in Dallas that to!

Answer 7

yes. but an answer above relieves me of the shot at best answer and from the trouble of typing in all the reasons I think so.

Answer 8

no... a secret service agent did

Answer 9

No,a bullet did.

Answer 10

no.