The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Oswald did it.
And he acted alone
Please don't send me any screwball theories, opinions, or even questions.
I've heard them all and I'm tired of it.
Okay — the JFK Files have been released. I have read over much of these files.
Yes, there were many people who were mad at JFK and the CIA did have contacts and activities all over. But in the files there is not one evidence item that proves or supports the idea that the CIA had anything to do with the JFK assassination. There is also nothing that supports the idea that there was anyone else involved besides Oswald.
Consider this fact: Any conspiracy would have required the participation of dozens or more individuals. Anyone involved could now come out with the truth, write a book, and become a media star, a hero. No one has done this. Think about that.
Oswald acted alone. He was driven by the idea of “being someone” — of making a name for himself. In September, two months before the assassination, he traveled to Mexico City because he wanted desperately to get to Cuba where, as he told his wife Marina, he believed his Marxist ideals would be valued. She remembered him saying things like, "They’ll see what I’m worth.”
While in Mexico City, he tried to get a travel visa to Cuba from the Cuban embassy. They told him that it would be impossible since he did not know anyone in Cuba. He then tried to trick them into granting a visa stating that he wanted the visa so he could fly to Havana and from there go back to the Soviet Union. The woman at the Cuban embassy, Silvia Duran, told him that he would have to get the Soviet travel visa first and then he would be granted the visa to Cuba. He went to the Soviet embassy but they told him they would have to forward his request to their embassy in DC for approval. He was very insistent and called them a few days later to see if the approval had been granted and he visited them again, very agitated.
Note: Oswald’s activities at the Cuban and Soviet embassies are very well documented. The CIA had listening devices in the Cuban office and they had telephone intercepts on both the Cuban and Soviet embassies. Oswald’s activity at the Soviet embassy was recently further documented by the actual KGB officers who dealt with him as they wrote a detailed book which is readily available. “Passport to Assassination: The Never-Before-Told Story of Lee Harvey Oswald by the KGB Colonel Who Knew Him”.
Oswald, I believe, lied to the Russians about seeking a visa to return to Russia. He really wanted to use that to get to Cuba where he thought he would — somehow — be appreciated. He had tried to establish himself as an ally of Communist Cuba by creating a “Fair Play for Cuba Committee.” This was his one-man organization in New Orleans, where he lived from April 24 to September 25, 1963 — just before he traveled to Mexico.
If you do an examination of Oswald’s life before November, his pathetic yearning to be an important person is clear. When he learned that JFK’s travel route in Dallas would be right below the building where he worked, he must have been thrilled. This was an opportunity to finally do something important.
The night before, he had left Marina an unexpectedly large amount of money (for him) and even his wedding ring. The $170 stood out because, Marina explained “he never left so much money before.”
Keep in mind that Oswald had used his Mannlicher-Carcano rifle previously in an attempt to assassinate retired Major General Edwin Walker (a right-wing leader) several months earlier. His shot narrowly missed. He told his wife Marina about this. The fired bullet recovered from the window matched Oswald’s rifle — the same he used for JFK.
I know for many people, there is a powerful desire to find some conspiracy — any conspiracy. It makes people feel intelligent and savvy. “How could one unimportant loser in Dallas kill such an important person as JFK all by himself?” This seems to be the motivation for many of the conspiracy believers. But it can happen. It almost happened two other times with Trump: In Butler, PA and at Mar-a-Lago. One man can do it.
As someone with over 30 years working professionally in the field of wound ballistics and shooting reconstruction, I can tell you that most what you hear about such details as the location and size of JFK’s head wound and about what a Mannlicher-Carcano bullet could and could not do is invalid nonsense promoted by people who have no real knowledge of ballistics and wound ballistics. The film director Oliver Stone is absurdly wrong about just pretty much everything.
For all you conspiracy fans and self-declared ballistic experts, I have posted a list (below) with links to the most authoritative, in-depth discussions and ballistic testing regarding the JFK incident. These were prepared by one of the world’s most knowledgeable expert in forensic ballistics.
If you are truly interested in the ballistic aspects of the JFK incident, read these papers to learn that there really is no “impossibility” or “problem” with the single bullet or shooter dynamic:
Part 1-Tracking the Magic Bullet
Part 6 - The Unique and Misunderstood Wound Ballistics in the John F. Kennedy Assassination
PBS Video Show on the JFK Ballistics
Excellent and very well-researched book on the JFK assassination is Gerald Posner’s Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
