27-04-2018, 01:04 AM
Here's my take on Lee Harvey Oswald:
1) Oswald may have been the most underrated person in American history.
2) With "but for" causation, LHO may have caused the assassination; ie. "but for Oswald, there would have been no assassination.
3) Oswald attended something like 12 schools in 10 years. By today's legal definition, he would have "no fixed place of abode" and the schools would have classified him as homeless.
4) He was thereby robbed of a normal adolescence (like Senator Joe McCarthy and Senator Pat McCarran). All three of these were political misfits and rejected conventional political beliefs.
5) Oswald's two brothers joined the Marines and his two first cousins joined the Jesuit Order and the CIA respectively. These were social outcasts looking for an immediate, tight-knit connected group. Lee Harvey Oswald went even farther, joining both the Marines and the Communist Party (Socialist Workers).
6) Oswald, Clay Shaw and David Ferrie were all three extremely talented operatives.
7) Oswald was the glue that tied together the Louisiana Segregationists, the American Nazi Party, the CIA, Naval Intelligence, the Dallas Solidarists, the Defense Industry, etc. Not everybody had the talent to be a "liason" or glue to bind these groups together.
8) The plan was for Oswald to be "shot while escaping" by Officer J D Tipitt. LHO had his own plan to defeat this strategy. He shot Tipitt and went to the Dallas Theater to be captured. He must have felt he had a decent chance to beat the plan to murder him on 11-22-63.
9) Like professional informant Roy Frankhouser and right-wing infiltrator Joseph Milteer, Oswald was a professional infiltrator. He really didn't work for anybody. He just wanted to infiltrate. That goes back to his stolen adolescence and his desire for the peer group he never had as a teenager.
10) Oswald may have been working under the personal direction of James O Eastland and/or Robert Kennedy. And all this accomplished by a 10th grade dropout.
It's not clear to me that, without Oswald, there would even have been a JFK assassination.
James Lateer
1) Oswald may have been the most underrated person in American history.
2) With "but for" causation, LHO may have caused the assassination; ie. "but for Oswald, there would have been no assassination.
3) Oswald attended something like 12 schools in 10 years. By today's legal definition, he would have "no fixed place of abode" and the schools would have classified him as homeless.
4) He was thereby robbed of a normal adolescence (like Senator Joe McCarthy and Senator Pat McCarran). All three of these were political misfits and rejected conventional political beliefs.
5) Oswald's two brothers joined the Marines and his two first cousins joined the Jesuit Order and the CIA respectively. These were social outcasts looking for an immediate, tight-knit connected group. Lee Harvey Oswald went even farther, joining both the Marines and the Communist Party (Socialist Workers).
6) Oswald, Clay Shaw and David Ferrie were all three extremely talented operatives.
7) Oswald was the glue that tied together the Louisiana Segregationists, the American Nazi Party, the CIA, Naval Intelligence, the Dallas Solidarists, the Defense Industry, etc. Not everybody had the talent to be a "liason" or glue to bind these groups together.
8) The plan was for Oswald to be "shot while escaping" by Officer J D Tipitt. LHO had his own plan to defeat this strategy. He shot Tipitt and went to the Dallas Theater to be captured. He must have felt he had a decent chance to beat the plan to murder him on 11-22-63.
9) Like professional informant Roy Frankhouser and right-wing infiltrator Joseph Milteer, Oswald was a professional infiltrator. He really didn't work for anybody. He just wanted to infiltrate. That goes back to his stolen adolescence and his desire for the peer group he never had as a teenager.
10) Oswald may have been working under the personal direction of James O Eastland and/or Robert Kennedy. And all this accomplished by a 10th grade dropout.
It's not clear to me that, without Oswald, there would even have been a JFK assassination.
James Lateer