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by Cincinnati true crime creator JT Townsend
Killing Presidents
Our historical past of presidential assassins thrives with psychotic losers and lone wolves. Even failed makes an attempt expose the pathetic wannabees on the lunatic fringe – none of them had been related to any subversive group or entangled in any Machiavellian plots.
Richard Lawrence, an itinerant home painter, fired two pistols at President Andrew Jackson on January 30, 1835 on the Capitol Constructing. Each weapons misfired, and he was arrested after Jackson thrashed him together with his cane. Lawrence lived out his days in an insane asylum.
Charles Guiteau was a delusional workplace seeker who shot President James Garfield on July 2, 1881 in Washington after getting snubbed for a diplomatic publish. Garfield lingered for 2-1/2 months earlier than dying, and the zany Guiteau went to the gallows with a tune on his lips.
Leon Czolgosz, a Polish anarchist and social outcast, shot President William McKinley on September 6, 1901 in Buffalo whereas shaking his hand in a receiving line. McKinley died 8 days later, and the slow-witted Czolgosz was electrocuted in October.
John Shrank shot former President Theodore Roosevelt at level clean vary on October 14, 1912, in Milwaukee whereas he was campaigning as a 3rd occasion candidate. The bullet was stopped by the folded speech in Teddy’s pocket. Shrank would later die in a psychological hospital.
Giuseppe Zangara unloaded a fusillade at President-elect Franklin Roosevelt on February 15, 1933 at a political rally in Miami, however not one of the pictures hit FDR. Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was wounded and died three weeks later, and the fanatical Zangara was shortly executed.
Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, two Puerto Rican nationalists, tried to kill President Harry Truman on November 1, 1950 whereas he was staying on the Blair Home in DC. In a hail of gunfire, Torresola and a guard had been killed, and Truman later commuted Collazo’s demise sentence to life.
Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme and Sara Jane Moore bungled their makes an attempt to kill President Gerald Ford lower than three weeks aside in September 1975. Manson disciple Fromme and deranged radical Moore had been each launched from jail after serving greater than 30 years.
William Hinckley wounded President Ronald Reagan and three others in DC on March 30, 1981 in a weird try and punish actress Jodie Foster. Hinckley was discovered not responsible by motive of madness, and was launched from a psychological hospital in 2016.
None of those villains had been ever linked to any cabals or cartels, neither is there proof of collusion or conspiracy. A probe into their sorry lives shortly confirms that no authorities company or radical clique would ever deign to rent them to kill a president.
John Wilkes Sales space stands alone on the pinnacle of presidential assassins, and never as a result of he scavenged up a pitiful band of cartoon conspirators. Sales space was an alpha male, an ardent southerner obsessive about avenging the lately vanquished Accomplice Trigger. Thought of “essentially the most good-looking man in America,” this malevolent, overrated actor possessed the cachet to take down an American King and Secular Saint like Abraham Lincoln.
That leaves Lee Harvey Oswald, the enigma with a gun. Was the previous Marine sharpshooter and Communist defector the pawn of some shadowy, highly effective faction who instigated a coup d’état by killing President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963?
Or was he merely one other wretched stray who secured his place in historical past by daring to take goal at a head of state?
A Complicated Homicide?
No crime in historical past has undergone a extra intense and exhausting scrutiny than the killing of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Each shred of details about that horrifying November day in Dallas has been stirred, shaken and whipped right into a lather. All this dealing with saddled the investigation with distortions, misconceptions, and blatant falsehoods which have stalked this tragedy from the outset.
The scales don’t steadiness. How may Kennedy be toppled by the likes of Oswald? This disparity spawned numerous theories and rampant hypothesis about which of the various teams lining as much as assassinate the president truly carried out the hit. As a result of solely a plot of epic intricacy may deliver down a sovereign like JFK.
How may a pitiful loser with a $20 rifle be the lone wolf killer?
The killing of Oswald by shifty nightclub proprietor Jack Ruby merely closed the conspiracy loop. Ruby’s imprecise mob ties and lax safety throughout Oswald’s switch turned proof optimistic that the “patsy” was placed on the spot to guard no matter alliance killed Kennedy.
Because the conspiracy motion mushroomed their conjectures turned extra outlandish. Even essentially the most minuscule evidentiary inconsistency was overblown as corroboration that the JFK assassination was an elaborate authorities plot to alter historical past.
But this religion is perplexing. Governments should not that intelligent and individuals are not that loyal. Somebody at all times talks.
Even the time period “assassination” imbues the act with lofty motives, conjuring up photos of navy takeovers, rebel upheavals, and secret police intrigues. Usually ignored are primary human wishes to achieve notoriety or avenge a grievance.
However what occurs if we take away the assassination mystique and examine the homicide of JFK like a murder case?
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?
The Warren Fee was essentially the most thorough homicide investigation in historical past. In ten months, they interviewed 552 witnesses, examined 3100 displays, and produced an 888 web page report with unequivocal findings. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President Kennedy and Jack Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald. There was no conspiracy.
LBJ had insisted the Fee findings be made public earlier than the November 1964 election, and their inquiry was shortly maligned as a “rush to judgement.” Every single day Individuals had been hungering for a extra complicated plot behind the crime of the century, and this urge for food for intrigue would by no means be satiated.
Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Born in New Orleans in 1939, Oswald’s father died earlier than he was born and he was raised by a domineering mom. By the age of 10 he had attended six totally different colleges and was a continual truant exhibiting indicators of violent conduct. He dropped out of highschool his sophomore 12 months and enlisted within the Marines when he turned 17.
Oswald would turn into a proficient marksman, however his navy profession was marred by anti-social conduct, stints within the brig and a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Three days earlier than his twentieth birthday, Oswald defected from Finland to the Soviet Union. There he married a Russian lady named Marina in April 1961, returning to the US in Might 1962. He introduced he was a “Marxist” and have become concerned with “Truthful Play for Cuba” committee in the summertime of 1963.
A typical theme all through his brief life was his obsession to be seen. Oswald wished individuals to acknowledge how nice he was – apparently nobody ever had. Already a social misfit, his superior perspective bereft of accomplishment left those that’d simply met him shaking their heads in frustration.
“The mass of males dwell lives of quiet desperation,” Thoreau famously stated, however assassins hardly ever go quietly. These small, pathetic males pursue their misguided passions to keep away from the sting of mediocrity.
So what was Lee Harvey Oswald doing in Dallas on November 22, 1963? And why is he nonetheless our prime suspect 57 years later?
Start of an Murderer
When evaluating the case in opposition to Oswald, we should guard in opposition to affirmation bias by constructing the proof round our suspect, versus cherry-picking handy information whereas ignoring these in contradiction.
Maybe essentially the most astounding reality in Lee Harvey Oswald’s resume is the one no person remembers.
On April 10, 1963, Oswald fired a rifle shot at retired Main Basic Edwin Walker because the right-wing zealot was sitting in his kitchen – the bullet was deflected by a window body and barely missed Walker’s head. Arriving dwelling breathless and agitated, Oswald instructed his spouse Marina “I shot Walker.”
After Oswald’s arrest on November twenty second, his Walker manifesto was discovered, together with surveillance photographs of Walker’s home and detailed plans for his homicide. Ballistics proof on the deformed Walker bullet, although not conclusive, would later point out a “truthful chance” that it was fired from his rifle discovered after the JFK assassination.
Oswald had bought that Mannlicher-Carcano in March 1963 through the use of an alias and having it delivered to a PO Field. Proof would show it was his PO Field and the handwriting on the cash order was verified to be his.
Even earlier than his try on Walker, Lee Oswald was regarded by those that knew him as a particularly disturbed, dysfunctional man. Now he’d proven he was able to murdering one other human being – and he had acquired the mindset of an murderer.
Between the Walker and Kennedy shootings, Oswald meandered between Dallas and New Orleans with the identical sample of failure – getting fired from menial jobs, bodily abusing Marina, and rambling about radical politics. After separating from his spouse, in October Oswald made abortive makes an attempt to go to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico however was rebuffed each occasions.
No matter clandestine plots the communists may presumably be hatching in opposition to JFK, involving a wild card like Oswald was not of their sport plan.
Returning to Dallas, on October fifteenth Oswald started work on the Texas Faculty Ebook Depository (TSBD) in Downtown Dallas. He acquired the job by a good friend of a good friend – Marina was dwelling with their two daughters, one a new child, within the suburb of Irving with Ruth Paine. It was her neighbor’s son Wesley Frazier who labored on the TSBD and instructed Oswald’s spouse that they had been hiring.
For the subsequent 5 weeks, Oswald lived at his rooming home in Oak Cliff through the week and stayed with Marina and their daughters on the Paine’s home on weekends. He would catch a trip after work on Friday with Frazier after which trip again with him to work on Monday morning. Throughout these weekend visits Oswald typically implored Marina to deliver their two youngsters and transfer again in with him, although his rented room was the dimensions of a giant closet.
Throughout the week Oswald, who didn’t drive, had no entry to both private transportation or a personal telephone. He took the bus to and from work, and in line with his landlady he hardly ever went out and by no means obtained any calls on the rooming home telephone. She described him as silent to the purpose of rudeness, and confirmed that he by no means had any guests.
President Kennedy’s journey to Dallas had been introduced on September twenty fifth, but the finalized motorcade route was not publicized till the Dallas Instances-Herald afternoon version on Tuesday November nineteenth. Oswald, who at all times learn the day past’s paper within the TSBD lunchroom, would have first seen the precise route on Wednesday at work. He couldn’t have recognized about it sooner.
Think about the shock of this desolate, hostile psychopath, a former marine sharpshooter, when he discovered essentially the most highly effective man on the earth could be using in an open automobile on Friday afternoon proper beneath the very home windows the place he could be working…
The Day in Query
Lee Harvey Oswald’s actions within the hours main as much as the assassination are enormously incriminating. Even with out the overwhelming bodily proof in opposition to him, the circumstantial case is damning.
Breaking his regular routine, Oswald rode with Wesley Frazier on Thursday evening to go to Marina as a substitute of Friday evening. This was the primary time he ever confirmed up on the Paine dwelling unannounced, and Marina was not comfortable.
That evening, Oswald confirmed no real interest in discussing JFK’s go to to Dallas the subsequent day, out of character for a person immersed in politics and at all times keen to debate authorities officers. He appeared obsessive about convincing Marina to maneuver again in with him so they may “be a household once more.” Based on Ruth Paine, Oswald pleaded together with his spouse three separate occasions to rethink her refusal.
Earlier than he left for work Friday morning, Oswald did one thing else totally out of character. With solely $183 to his identify, the infamous tightwad left $170, plus his wedding ceremony ring, on the dresser for Marina.
He then walked over to Wesley Frazier’s home carrying an extended bundle. Each Frazier and his sister noticed Oswald put the bundle into Frazier’s automobile – he instructed Wesley it contained curtain rods for his rented room. But his room already had curtain rods, and he had not requested Marina for any. And no curtain rods could be discovered on the TSBD.
Once they arrived at work, for the primary time ever Oswald walked forward of Frazier, carrying his odd formed bundle into the TSBD. Additionally for the primary time, that morning Oswald didn’t deliver his lunch and didn’t learn yesterday’s paper within the lunch room.
Round 10AM he nervously requested one other worker which means the motorcade would come, although the route had been publicized. Oswald was final seen on the TSBD sixth flooring 20-Half-hour earlier than JFK was shot, and his clipboard with three unfilled orders could be discovered there.
Minutes earlier than the presidential motorcade arrived in Dealey Plaza, a minimum of 4 witnesses noticed a person becoming Oswald’s description standing within the Depository sixth flooring nook window with a rifle. Most assumed this man was a Secret Service Agent.
At 12:30 PM, Howard Brennan regarded up after the primary shot and noticed a person he later recognized as Oswald firing the rifle. One other witness on the sidewalk straight under the TSBD window regarded up and noticed the rifle prolonged. And Instances-Herald photographer Robert Jackson glanced upward in time to see the rifle drawn in to the six flooring window after the ultimate shot.
Three TSBD staff watching the motorcade from the fifth flooring nook window heard the three pictures from proper above them and heard the shells hitting the ground…
Oswald in Flight
With panic and confusion exterior after the taking pictures, Oswald was the one worker who confirmed no real interest in the unfolding occasions, and didn’t reply when a secretary breathlessly instructed him the president had simply been shot. A later roll name confirmed that Oswald was the one worker to go away the TSBD after the assassination, indicating that he was in flight.
After fleeing the TSBD, for the primary time ever Oswald took a taxi to his rooming home after leaving a bus stalled in site visitors. When the cab driver requested him what all of the commotion downtown was, Oswald didn’t reply him. He requested the motive force go previous his rooming home and drop him off 4 blocks away, and he walked again after ensuring nobody was there on the lookout for him.
He entered his rooming home, ignored a remark from his landlady in regards to the assassination, acquired his revolver, modified his jacket and pants and started strolling towards the world the place Dallas Police officer JD Tippit would gunned down quarter-hour later.
Ten witnesses independently of one another would establish Oswald as the person who shot Tippit and/or fled the scene. This homicide betrayed the mindset of a determined man in flight from a horrible act.
A person recognized as Oswald ducked right into a retailer alcove to cover from police vehicles inside quarter-hour of the Tippit taking pictures. And a cashier recognized Oswald as the person who slipped into the Texas Theatre with out paying.
Confronted by police within the theatre, Oswald stood up and yelled “It’s throughout now!” – confirming he knew the police had been after him. He violently resisted arrest, punching one officer whereas making an attempt to shoot one other. Why would an harmless man act this manner?
Oswald refused to provide his identify to officers after his arrest. Usually an harmless particular person would cooperate totally, but Oswald refused a lie detector take a look at when requested, persisting with a transparent consciousness of guilt.
Regardless of his typically quoted declare that he was “a patsy,” Oswald’s clenched fist salute within the hallway of the Dallas Police Division that night confirmed defiance, satisfaction, and even triumph. This was not the response of a frightened man who was harmless.
Most chillingly, after listening to the pictures might have been fired from the TSBD, Oswald’s spouse checked the Paine’s storage the place he saved his rifle and located it was lacking.
In her September 1964 Warren Fee testimony, Marina Oswald was not evasive. The spouse who knew her husband higher than anybody stated this: “I’ve little question in my thoughts that Lee Oswald killed President Kennedy…”
Circumstantial Proof and Oswald’s Lies
Throughout his seven interrogation periods from Friday afternoon by Sunday morning, Dallas detectives locked Oswald into many clumsy, absurd lies. His provable deceptions, together with the bodily proof in opposition to him, went far past incriminating.
He denied ever proudly owning a rifle, although he bought one underneath the alias A.J. Hidell and had it despatched to his PO Field. When arrested, Oswald was carrying a faux ID with Hidell’s identify on it, but he claimed to know nothing about it.
Oswald asserted that Marina and Ruth Paine had been mendacity after they stated he saved the rifle wrapped in a blanket within the Paine storage, although retrieving the rifle was his apparent motive for him going to the Paine home on Thursday evening.
When proven the notorious photographs of him holding each the rifle and his pistol, Oswald claimed they had been doctored fakes, although Marina admitted taking the images and Oswald had signed the again of one in all them.
He insisted all he introduced with him Friday morning was his lunch bag, disputing Wesley Frazier and his sister, who noticed him place the lengthy, peculiar trying bundle in Frazier’s automobile Oswald claimed had been curtain rods. Neither witness had any motive to lie about it.
He claimed to be consuming lunch with a co-worker within the 2nd flooring lunchroom of the TSBD at 12:30 PM when the pictures had been fired. But that man declared the one time he noticed Oswald that day was on the sixth flooring.
Oswald stated he left the TSBD as a result of his supervisor instructed him there could be no extra work that day, however Roy Actually swore he’d by no means stated that to him.
A detective as soon as instructed me that “a nasty lie is nearly as good as a confession.” Oswald dug himself right into a gap by spewing demonstrable lies and displaying clear consciousness of guilt. Why would an harmless particular person deny he’d purchased a rifle and posed for a photograph with it? Why would he deny carrying an extended bundle into work after telling Wesley Frazier it contained curtain rods?
The lies Oswald used to hide his guilt are exactly what reveal his culpability within the homicide of JFK…
The Bodily Proof
The circumstantial proof in opposition to Lee Oswald and the lies he instructed are devastating. Add the bodily proof in opposition to him, and a beforehand complicated assassination is decreased to a easy homicide case.
The Mannlicher-Carcano rifle discovered on the sixth flooring of the TSBD is the linchpin of Oswald’s guilt. Consultants verified the writing on the cash order was his, and the rifle was shipped to his PO Field. Pictures and fingerprints additional hyperlink him to the weapon, so it’s a indisputable fact that Oswald owned and possessed this rifle.
Firearms consultants from each the Warren Fee and the 1978 Home Choose Committee on Assassinations concluded that the “pristine bullet” discovered on the Parkland stretcher and two giant bullet fragments from JFK’s head wound had been fired from Oswald’s Carcano to the exclusion of all different weapons. These similar consultants decided the three shell casings discovered within the TSBD’s sixth flooring “sniper’s nest” had been fired in and ejected from Oswald’s Carcano to the exclusion of all different weapons.
If that isn’t sufficient, Oswald’s clipboard was discovered close by, and the massive paper bag for “curtain rods” he carried into work was discovered there with Oswald’s fingerprints on it. Plus his left palm print and proper index fingerprint had been discovered on a guide carton the murderer had apparently used as a gun relaxation.
But there’s extra. Ballistics matched one bullet and 4 shells from the Tippit homicide as coming from the revolver Oswald had on him when captured – paraffin checks on his arms indicated he’d lately fired a revolver. And the jacket he was sporting when he killed Tippit was discovered underneath a automobile on his route between the Tippit crime scene and the Texas Theatre the place Oswald was arrested.
If there have been no different proof in opposition to Oswald, the truth that he owned the homicide weapon and was in possession of it on November twenty second, 1963 whereas working by a window overlooking the motorcade route is overwhelming proof of his guilt…
Jack the Conspirator?
When shady nightclub proprietor Jack Ruby slipped by police safety and gunned down Lee Oswald throughout a switch on Sunday morning November twenty fourth, he not solely denied a grieving, vengeful nation the possibility for a trial, however he additionally launched a thousand conspiracy theories round the necessity to silence “the patsy.”
Oswald’s homicide on dwell tv at 11:21 AM prompted wild hypothesis about Ruby’s motive, most centered on his alleged, sketchy mob ties. The concept one conspirator was eradicated whereas one other was captured didn’t appear to hassle a public skeptical {that a} deplorable has-been like Oswald may actually be the lone gunman.
But individuals who knew Jack Ruby stated he was distraught, horrified and indignant that JFK had been shot in his dwelling metropolis of Dallas. Already possessed of a volcanic mood, from the second he discovered of the assassination Ruby was reworked right into a grieving vigilante. He instructed his buddies and staff he wished to spare Jackie Kennedy the ordeal of returning to Dallas for Oswald’s trial.
Jack Ruby was a infamous gate-crasher and blabbermouth – he craved being the place the motion was, and couldn’t preserve a secret for 5 minutes. No conspiracy intent on taking down Kennedy would EVER contemplate hiring a moronic loose-cannon like Ruby to take out Oswald.
A better take a look at Ruby’s timeline on that fateful Sunday morning proves conclusively that his homicide of Oswald was a surprising instance of coincidence – pure likelihood assembly shifting circumstances. After his seize, Ruby instructed police: “If I had deliberate this I couldn’t have had my timing any higher. It was one likelihood in one million!
Contemplate these occasions precluding Oswald’s homicide – any one in all which might have thwarted Ruby from killing the president’s murderer.
- IF the unique Oswald switch time of 10AM is adopted, Ruby remains to be sitting in his house in his underwear.
- IF the Dallas Postmaster doesn’t pop in at DPD headquarters to query Oswald, he’s transferred at 10AM.
- IF one in all his nightclub strippers doesn’t name him that morning to wire her some hire cash, Ruby doesn’t go downtown till afternoon.
- IF the Western Union Workplace is just not on the identical block because the Dallas Metropolis Jail, Ruby could be nowhere close to the switch web site.
- IF Ruby is delayed on the Western Union wiring the cash, the switch happens whereas he’s nonetheless in line.
- IF Oswald doesn’t ask to alter into his black sweater for the TV cameras, the switch happens whereas Ruby remains to be in line.
- IF the automobile to move Oswald is within the right place on time, Ruby’s entry to shoot Oswald is blocked.
Ruby, who at all times carried giant sums of cash alongside together with his gun, took his canine Sheba with him that morning, proving he had no particular plans to homicide Oswald. Everybody who knew Ruby swore he would NEVER have introduced his adored pet with him if he was planning to be arrested.
Ruby was additionally photographed inside 5 toes of Oswald Friday evening within the crowded hallway exterior the Dallas Murder Squad room. If he was employed to kill Oswald, he would have accomplished it proper then, as a result of he couldn’t make certain of getting one other alternative.
From his seize by his trial to his demise in 1967, Ruby at all times insisted he shot Oswald on impulse when he noticed the murderer of his beloved president smirking through the perp stroll.
Oswald and Ruby are without end linked by the irony of that weekend in Dallas – they had been each dismal fiascos who couldn’t stand to be ignored…
Unfastened Ends
There’s not sufficient time and house right here to guage the huge and disjointed cottage trade of JFK assassination conspiracy theories and Warren Fee cynics.
Within the half a century for the reason that crime, they’ve foisted some ridiculous partnerships and laughable assassins. The Mafia working with the CIA? The FBI in mattress with the Russians? Professional and Anti-Castro Cubans in cahoots? J. Edgar Hoover in a costume on the grassy knoll?
Significantly, there may be not one shred of proof that the CIA, Castro, the Mafia, LBJ, or every other group murdered JFK. Any such plan could be reckless, irrational, and unbelievable. Based mostly on when the motorcade route was printed, is it even doable a posh conspiracy to homicide a president could possibly be hatched inside 2-3 days?
However the absence of logic doesn’t deter the fanatics. Nearly all of the conspiracy theories start with one little inconsistency – a vexing unfastened finish, like a gnat on an elephant. But all crimes, even the “smoking gun” selection, embody nagging little particulars that may’t be reconciled.
The issue right here is that none of them go wherever – and so they do nothing to empty the boatload of proof drowning Lee Harvey Oswald.
Gerald Posner’s Case Closed and Vincent Bugliosi’s 4 Days In November are arms down the 2 greatest books and are required studying for any critical pupil of the JFK assassination. These good males methodically demolish the home of playing cards constructed by these predisposed to consider Kennedy’s homicide was an unbelievable excessive stage decapitation of our authorities.
The a lot slandered Warren Fee truly acquired it proper. Bugliosi deftly shatters the parable of their incompetence: “In its remaining kind, the Fee’s report was wonderful in its element, outstanding in its considered warning and restraint, but completely convincing in its main conclusions. The surprise was not that the Fee took such a very long time to finish its report however that it did a lot so swiftly.”
Many of the lingering unfastened ends might be discarded by a easy rationalization.
What about “The Magic Bullet”? Governor Connally was not sitting straight in entrance of Kennedy – he was truly on the limo soar seat, 8 inches inside Kennedy and 4 inches decrease. Given this primary reality, Oswald’s second shot traces up completely with the injuries inflicted on each males.
Why did Kennedy’s head snap backwards from the deadly shot? He was sporting his again brace for his Addison’s illness, which saved him upright and restricted his ahead motion. The brace did its job. If Kennedy is just not sporting it, the 2nd shot places him on the ground of the limo with a single, presumably survivable wound.
How may Oswald hearth three aimed pictures in six seconds with a bolt motion rifle? Since we all know now that his first shot was fired simply after the limo turned the nook and was deflected by a lightweight stanchion, he now has ample time to squeeze off the 2 pictures that hit their goal. As Bugliosi factors out, “Eleven seconds to fireplace three pictures is akin to on a regular basis on the earth. There’s not any query of the way it was so troublesome to do and the way he pulled it off.”
What in regards to the deadly shot from the “Grassy Knoll”? The Dealey Plaza acoustics account for many of that. In addition to, primarily based on the speculative trajectory of such a shot, that bullet would most likely have wounded or killed Jackie Kennedy as effectively.
Briefly, there may be not a scintilla of proof that factors to a conspiracy to homicide JFK – neither is there any credible proof that factors away from Oswald. This crime is basic Occam’s razor stuff the place an evidence should not have any extra assumptions than are essential.
As a result of when you find yourself coping with a homicide case, the best rationalization is nearly at all times the right the one…
A Easy Homicide Case
Folks can lie, however conduct by no means lies. Contemplate two snippets of Lee Oswald’s conduct on November 22, 1963.
Three minutes after the pictures are fired on the president, a secretary on the TSBD tells Oswald in regards to the horrific occasions that simply transpired. Lee is a fanatical political animal, but he has NO curiosity in stopping to debate the truth that essentially the most highly effective man on earth has simply been shot exterior their place of employment. A standard particular person clearly stops to converse in regards to the sensational and tragic developments happening proper exterior.
But Oswald takes no discover of it and shortly leaves the constructing. Does that make any sense? Provided that he’s fleeing the scene of his crime.
When police converge on him within the Texas Theatre, his response is to shout “It’s throughout now!” after which try and shoot yet one more policeman. Does an harmless particular person act that means when approached by the police? Not if he’s simply killed the president and a Dallas cop throughout the final 80 minutes.
Lee Harvey Oswald is not an enigma, as a result of he was by no means actually a thriller. Right here’s Vincent Bugiliosi getting inside Oswald’s head higher than anybody:
“Lee Harvey Oswald not solely had a propensity for violence, but in addition was emotionally and psychologically unhinged; was a bitter, annoyed, and beaten-down loser who felt alienated from society and couldn’t get together with anybody, together with his spouse; irrationally seen himself in a historic gentle, having visions of grandeur and altering the world; was one whose political ideology consumed his day by day life, inflicting him to maintain time to his personal drummer in a lonely obsession with Marxism and Castro’s Cuba; and hated his nation and its representatives to such an extent that he defected to some of the undesirable locations on earth.”
Contemplate that those that knew Oswald personally had been NOT shocked by his arrest and had no downside believing he would kill the president, even earlier than the huge proof in opposition to him was made public. But conspiracy theorists and Warren Fee critics, none of whom knew Oswald and are conscious of the crushing proof in opposition to him, are nonetheless blindly satisfied of his innocence.
At its coronary heart it is a easy homicide case. Oswald goes to the Paine dwelling on Thursday evening to both get his WIFE or his RIFLE. IF Marina agrees to maneuver again with him that evening, Oswald does NOT homicide Kennedy the subsequent day.
So after struggling the ultimate rejection in his lifetime of failure, Lee Harvey Oswald, a nonentity without end needing to be SOMEBODY, acts alone by taking his rifle to work and taking pictures President John F. Kennedy from the window of his sniper’s perch…
About The Creator
JT Townsend is a contract author, self-described armchair detective, true crime creator and lifelong resident of Cincinnati. This text was initially printed on his web site jttownsend.com available here. To learn extra from JT, try his Fb Web page at facebook.com/TrueCrimeDetective and his books available on Amazon.
