01-04-2015, 09:33 PM
The "most convincing" motives I have heard attributed to Oswald were:
a) He was shooting at Connally, who (as Secretary of War?) had denied his request to restore his discharge;
b) He was mad at Marina because she wouldn't sleep with him, and also she had expressed a desire to see the handsome young stud President at the parade;
c) He was mad that Ruth Paine and Marina had developed such a warm and close relationship and he was being systematically excluded (and also Ruth Paine was an admirer of JFK); (I must say that this motive is made less likely since the truly most incriminating thing Oswald said during his unrecorded police interrogations was, "Leave her (Ruth Paine) out of this." If he was pissed at RP for developing such an intimately friendly relationship with his wife it seems unlikely that he would choose to attempt to protect her.); and
d) He was "in" the CIA/Mongoose/anti-Castro/C-Day movement far enough to know that the Americans were trying to assassinate Castro.
This is not to say that I agree with any or all of the above, but, in my mind, they are the "most convincing motives" that have been attributed to him to date.
a) He was shooting at Connally, who (as Secretary of War?) had denied his request to restore his discharge;
b) He was mad at Marina because she wouldn't sleep with him, and also she had expressed a desire to see the handsome young stud President at the parade;
c) He was mad that Ruth Paine and Marina had developed such a warm and close relationship and he was being systematically excluded (and also Ruth Paine was an admirer of JFK); (I must say that this motive is made less likely since the truly most incriminating thing Oswald said during his unrecorded police interrogations was, "Leave her (Ruth Paine) out of this." If he was pissed at RP for developing such an intimately friendly relationship with his wife it seems unlikely that he would choose to attempt to protect her.); and
d) He was "in" the CIA/Mongoose/anti-Castro/C-Day movement far enough to know that the Americans were trying to assassinate Castro.
This is not to say that I agree with any or all of the above, but, in my mind, they are the "most convincing motives" that have been attributed to him to date.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."