Bloody Treason: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

[Jan Klimkowski]

Or do you really think he was pure and high minded about his ideological affiliations?

Yes he was, like most assassins throughout history.

C'mon Mark.

The origin of Assassin is Hassan-i-Sabbah and the Hashishin.

My emphasis in bold:

The Assassins (Persian: حشاشين Ḥashshāshīn, also Hashishin, Hassassin, or Hashashiyyin) were an order of Nizari Ismailis, particularly those of Persia and Syria that formed around 1091. Posing a strong military threat to Sunni Seljuq authority within the Persian territories, the Nizari Ismailis captured and inhabited many mountain fortresses under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah.

The name "Assassin" is often said to derive from the Arabic Hashishin or "users of hashish",[1] to have been originally derogatory and used by their adversaries during the Middle Ages.

The Masyaf branch of the Assassins was taken over by the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in 1273. The Mamluks however, continued to use the services of the remaining Assassins: Ibn Battuta reported in the 14th century their fixed rate of pay per murder. In exchange, the higher authorities allowed them to exist. The mention of Assassins were also preserved within European sources, such as the writings of Marco Polo, in which they are depicted as trained killers, responsible for the systematic elimination of opposing figures.

They were killers for hire.

In English, an assassin is a hired gun.

Some of those who Sponsored or Facilitated the murder of JFK may have had ideological motivations.

The Mechanics, the shooters, were almost certainly hired guns.

As for Ruby, I don't believe his reasons for shooting Oswald were ideological.