Do you believe JFK was killed by Oswald himself and acted alone?

Answer 1

I doubt so. The CIA might be involved seeing that most people in the government back then wanted to have war in Vietnam. Even Johnson wanted war with Vietnam. However, Kennedy declined. The CIA must have shot him so Johnson could be President and they could have war in Vietnam. The mafia could also be involved because under Kennedy's term, a lot of mobsters had been arrested. Robert Kennedy, who was attorney general under John F. Kennedy, was also assassinated. There is also another proof why the mafia might have assassinated Kennedy, and that is because when Oswald was caught, he was assassinated by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner who also has connections with the mafia. Either one of them could have paid Oswald for the assassination or used Oswald as a decoy.

Answer 2

There were so many threats to the presidents life, and it was a reason they canceled a Chicago trip, and Oswald had so many odd friends and a rather odd history, that it makes you think there was probably a conspiracy. The physical evidence points to Oswald, although the House Assignations committee concluded that the noise analysis did indicate a second source of fire.

But it doesn't matter if Oswald acted alone or with a friend, the question is how many friends he had and just how big they were. It could have been two lone nuts!

And why did Oswald do it? He was painted as a communist, but he befriended strident conservative ex-communists and spent time in the military. He was also being handled by the FBI and CIA. Witnesses have claimed the CIA, the mob and various other interests were involved. The House Assignations committee in fact said it was likely the organized crime was involved.

Answer 3

The claim that he was shot from the front is made by people who are scared and don't understand the physics of guns. When a human head is hit by a rifle the contents are shredded and come out the front of the head. As they do they push backwards on the head, Newton's III Law of Motion, this means that when shot from behind the head moves backwards.
I say scared because I think that fear is what motivates most conspiracy theories. These people take the facts and assemble them in a strange way, some because they are mentally unstable and others because they are scared. Scared that, despite all our best efforts, sometimes a madman can ruin our hopes and dreams. It's more believable for some people that our government went to extensive lengths to kill JFK or destroy the WTC towers than to think that one or a few people could do such a thing. Some times the simple, scary explanation is the correct one.

Answer 4

As controversial as this subject can often be I'll still say I do not believe that Oswald acted alone or on his own. I'ce always believed that while he may have had a part in the assassination he wasn't the shooter who fired that fatal shot. Oswald was just an easy mark that someone higher up could easily sway. Oswald was led to believe he was acting in the right course of action when in reality he was just being used as a scapegoat so the real killer or killers could escape unnoticed in the mayhem. As for why all the news networks still deny evidence of the conspiracy, it's probably for the same reason they did back in the original days. Fear of being shut up, shut down and just plain fear. They probably believe a lot of the stories but for their own reputations or for fear of something happening they go along with the popular opinion or the official stance on that day in Dallas.

Answer 5

If you simply want people's opinions, that's what you certainly have gotten here, opinions, and mostly uninformed ones at that.

However, since you posted this in this history section I'll assume you're looking for something more scholarly, something that can be backed up research, evidence, something respected historians would refer to. In that case, let me direct you to the newest book by Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy http://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-History-Assassination-President-Kennedy/dp/0393045250/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-7770793-2145642?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188199194&sr=8-1

Forget conspiracy websites written by people wearing tin foil on their heads, ignore youtube videos put together by amateurs, and for God's sake, don't even mention the Oliver Stone movie JFK with a straight face. It's Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is the best one, a sick man gunned down the President while he rode in an open limo through the streets of Dallas.

When examined, the conspiracy theorists stories hold no water, there is overwhelming evidence which supports Oswald's guilt. The simple truth is, it is in our nature to want there to have been a conspiracy, some powerful reason why the President was killed in such a brutal way in front of all the world to see. We want to believe that only some massive, secret entity could orchestrate something so cruel, that it is impossible for a lone gunman to change the course of history with a single bullet.

The fact is, it is that simple, and on November 22nd, 1963, that is exactly what happened, and if you look at the scholarly evidence, I think you will agree.

Answer 6

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 7

JFK didn't like acting alone where there was a woman to help him.
He was killed by Oswald, though, and Oswald acted alone.
It doesn't make a very good story, though.

Answer 8

No, Oswald was set up by Bigfoot. Its well know in the intelligence community that JFK was having orgies with the aliens who landed at Roswell. One of those aliens was Bigfoot's girlfriend which is why he killed JFK. Bigfoot chose Oswald as the patsy to stop Oswald's blackmailing of Bigfoot with compromising photos of him and a grizzly bear. On a happy note Bigfoot and Bjork got back together after JFK was shot.

Answer 9

I think Oswald killed JFK and was the lone gunman. I would not be surprised to learn he had some "powerful friends", though who they would have been I've no idea. (He traveled a lot for a man with no money.) I also think that it was pointless editing with history when in the rerelease of the Zapruder film Greedo shot first.

Answer 10

no, y do u think someone killed Oswald after he was already in custody, b/c that guy thought he was goin to spill everything about the assassination.

Oswald was probably hired to do it, and he was probably one of the many out on the parade route that day that had guns loaded and were ready to fire if someone missed.

this may be a case that will never be completely figured out. its been 44 years and we don't know much more now than we knew 40 years ago