do you believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone? why or why not?

Question

I believe he acted alone in killing President Kennedy and Officer Tippit. The man as a homicidal maniac.

Answer 1

MAYBE THERE WAS ANOTHER PERSON BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE GOT HIT WITH A CARCANO 6.5X52 BULLET TOO.

Answer 2

I dont know if he acted alone, but I do believe heavily that the therory of a conspiracy is much higher then most people realize.

A few years ago i happen to be out in Touscan Arizona and there is a airplane museum there and the last prop driven air fore one is there.

While i was taking a tour, the guide went into the assasination and pointed out something that got my attention.

When Kennedy went to Dallas, they took the prop plane. However the new Jet Air Force One was being readied to send to dallas to replace it and would be the transport for the rest of the trip.

When Kennedy was killed Johnson was waiting on the new Air Force One to go to Dallas.

Very odd that he would be waiting as if he knew.

ok all that sounds like coincidence,,, untill i started looking at the politics of the time.

1960: Bay of Pigs fiasco. The Joit Chiefs and the CIA lead a invasion of Cuba to remove Castro and fail miserable.

1961-62: Cuban Missile Crisis: The Soviet Union puts nuclear missiles on Cuba 90 miles off the Florida Coast. The Joint Chiefs see this as a chance to redeem themselves from the disaster the year before. Kennedy however is not a military president and refuses to go along with their plans.

1962-63: Vietnam: Vietnam is heating up. Joint Chiefs want to send troops there to support the crisis. Kennedy refuses again to send troops. However this time there is someone who does love the military and will help the Joint Chiefs if he's president.

Nov 22nd: Kennedy is killed and Johnson (a yes sir man) takes presidency and soon troops are sent to Vietnam under the control of the Joint Chiefs, the President, and at least two other men (badely lead war).

Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald: Who these two men are is just a guess.
I would probably say that the Joint Chiefs and Johnson needed someone that was a no body. Someone that could get the job done, and hopefully dissapear. A foriegner was perfect.

They contract Oswald to kill Kennedy (and maybe someone else helped), but he got careless after the assasination.

I think the conspiracy also included the CIA.

When Oswald is arrested, the CIA, the Joint Chiefs, and Johnson realize they have a serious problem. He knows who gave him the orders. He can point the finger right at the white house. So he must be silenced before he can

In steps Jack Ruby.

anyway it might all be hogwash

but it all makes sense.

Answer 3

When one studies the history of Political assassins one finds that they are loners. Misguided confused a lot like the student who shot up Virginia Tech. Have you ever seen a wild badger cornered threatened? Frightened it suddenly lashes out. Oswald resembled Charles Guiteau the assassin of James Garfield. Life spiraling into the toilet upset uncertain until an odd notion enters his mind. What is weird is that the mere chance of Presidential motorcade rolling by Oswald's window. Though angered by Oswald's actions I hesitate to use the word 'homicidal maniac.' Reserving that phrase for those that make a career out of killing - - - so happy to be killing they make certain they get more opportunitties. I see Oswald more like the frightened rabbit bearing his name. Oswald had this crazy scheme in his head, he had the rifle in his hand, and he did it. It probably scared Oswald silly when he realized what he had done and running into Officer Tippit sent Oswald into full on panic.

One note - - - - I accept the notion that no 'rational' organization would select Oswald to carry out a comlicated mission. Which is why I equate Oswald with Guiteau and Czolgonz rather than Booth.

Peace

Answer 4

Having seen the assassination on TV the day it happened in Nov. 1963, and seeing the movie "JFK" later on (with Kevin Costner), No I don't think he acted alone. Seeing how the president fell in the car (backwards ), he could not have been shot in the back of the head (this would have caused him to fall forward from the force of it). He had to have been hit from the front. He may have been the only one to shoot Officer Tippit, however. There were rumors he was basically hired by Cuba's Castro to get back at him for the Cuban Missile Crisis (when Russian missiles were found there) in 1962, when he stopped it from going any further. His "15 minutes of fame" didn't last too long--he was murdered by Jack Ruby 2 days later.

Answer 5

I think he acted alone, because the famous "Shooter on the Grassy Knoll" theory doesn't have much going for it in the way of proof, because Kennedy's head jerking back and to the left doesn't mean someone shot at him from the grassy knoll. That conception comes from people who watch too many movies. People don't go flying back 10 feet when you shoot them with a pistol. They usually just fall to the ground in accordance with Newton's Third Law (every action has an equal an opposite reaction, meaning the distance someone goes flying backward or forward would be roughly equal to the recoil of the gun). And Oswald was also more than capable of shooting Kennedy, given the relatively short distance from the book depository to Kennedy, and also because of his training in the Marine Corps, which is well-known for the emphasis that it puts on rifle marksmanship.

Answer 6

So strange to run across this question because earlier, I answer a question that had to do with if you had any subject that you believed could have been involved with a conspiracy. I answered to say that I believe that there was a conspiracy involving JFK's death and possibly Marilyn Monroe as well. I can almost buy that Harvey acted as a lone shooter, but it is all the things that followed. How do you "lose" a dead president's brain? Oswald was obviously delusional, and had a megalomaniac world view. What I as an American resent is that all of the facts have yet to be released. MM was in the way of two of Joe Kennedy's sons. She was a time bomb waiting to go off, and I think something was given to her that caused her death. Sure she was a drunk and taking drugs, but there was always rumors of bungled autopsy reports. I was so young and impressionable that I guess that's why it stays with me. My father was a UAW local President at the time JFK was running for office, and my father went to a convention in NYC and heard him speak. He met him[along with hundreds of other] and came home and said he will be our next president. JFK came to our city during his campaign, and my father had me positioned to shake Jack's hand. That was one of my biggest thrills for many years. Now it thrills me more that my dad, who passed away 30 years ago, thought enough of his little girl to get me there!

Answer 7

Yes. Read "Case Closed" by Gerald Posner and it explains a lot of the fallacy behind many of the "eyewitness" accounts and the understandable confusion of where the shots seemed to come from. Also goes into ballistics and other factors (it has been many years since I read it). Also I saw a neat recreation by Failure Analysis Associates that shows that it was theoretically possible and even probable that a man in the 6th floor of the Depository would have an adequate window and line of sight to get three shots off in the required amount of time.

Answer 8

Jimmy "the Weisel" Frattiano claimed that Giancana (the then Boss of Bosses out of Chicago) gave the go ahead for Marcello (of New Orleans) to carry out the assassination. It involved Castro (who had a grudge after finding out the CIA was behind the Bay of Pigs Invastion) so he got a patsy (Oswald) from the Russians to carry-out the deed. Marcello's beef was a result of RFK's investigations into organized crime. To cover the link to the Mafia, Marcello had Jack Ruby (a two bit night club owner in the Marcello organization) take out Oswald to seal his lips.

Giancana's beef with JFK was his impression that JFK renigged on promises to leave the Mafia alone since he felt he pulled strings in Chicago to get him elected.

Several weeks before the assassination, Oswald met with Cuban agents in Mexico. For inexplicable reasons, the FBI agents who were following up the Cuban connection as a part of the Warren Commission investigation, were recalled

Answer 9

Yes he acted alone, no doubt about it what so ever, the nonsense about the directions Kennedy moved and such are silly, the man was in a back brace for one thing, and for another that is a natural reaction

now did someone put him up to it? possible, probably NOT CIA Johnson and all the others favored by conspiracy theorists, but Cuba maybe USSR maybe.

Answer 10

No, the bullets came from different directions. I do believe that he was in on the plans, that he actually did shoot, but he wasn't the only one. I've read many books on this and seen a lot of the autopsy reports and pictures. I hope that someday, they'll release the classified documents.