Toward a Psychological Understanding of Lee Oswald, Alleged Assassin 

Define "Hate Speech" please!

@@charlesloucks1840 its any speech they do not like , typical leftist bs, leftists like threats

@Desoz Whatever: It's a good thing they don't ban hopeless stupidity. You'd be silenced forever.

Oswald was framed and your museum is pushing lies!! Is that hateful speech ?

@@stevea2488 No, it's just idiotic speech.

The exact play book was demonstrated by Alexander the Great in around 350 B.C.! King Phillip was Alexander's father and the king was planning on divorcing Alexander's Mother and taking a new wife. Around this time at an event attended by the King's family, an assassin emerged from the crowd and killed the King. The assassin in turn was killed by security and Alexander seized on the situation to proclaim himself King of Macedonia and the rest is history.

Oswald would have had to escape to a communist country to get admiration. If he wanted to be a notorious prisoner, he could have admitted that he did it to the cop in the lunchroom. Nothing really adds up, that is why this goes on and on.

@Nick Newman: For the answer to your question, study the case of Charles Manson, who also never admitted his crimes. Yet Charlie did bask in all the attention and perverse adulation, once remarking that he was the most famous person on the planet. Morale: If the attention fits, you don't need to admit.

@@apointofinterest8574 Your use of Manson as an example is just what it is. An example of someone who fits a particular profile. You think Oswald killed Kennedy because his ambition was to be a curiosity? You think Manson had the same ambition? Manson went to jail because he was out of his fucking mind, not because of any pre-meditated ambition. Sure he wanted to be famous but he was totally insane. Comparing the two personalities from the motivational point of view is a waste of time. Sorry.

@@nicknewman7848 Manson & Oswald are the same with regards to both being cagey, wily... smirking criminals who are careful never to admit the deed they obviously had done, though nonetheless enjoy the attention it brought them. (This has nothing to do with insanity or the motivation for the crime.) Don't get your tightie whities in a knot, for the comparison ends there.

Wrong. The HSCA also proved he was the shooter. In addition, there was a trial in London that used a real Dallas jury, real Dallas judge, and real prosecutor and defense attorney. Oswald was found guilty.

Not in the long term interests of the city of Dallas, Texas.

Time for your meds.

No, no! Not "patsy"......"liar".....liar Oswald tells the audience "patsy." Not. Ozzie would never tell the truth when a lie would do.

@Eduardo Venegas Yup. The most popular Lone nut in History with shady characters connected to both as you say.

It's not about Ozzy anyway. He didn't do it.

@@davis7099 *"We cannot except that such an ordinary person could have altered history."* I would gladly accept _that_ rather than it being a coup within our own government that they've lied through their teeth about for the last 50 years. But I'm weird like that.

@@davis7099 said *_"We project many things from many angles at a .... loser. We cannot except that such an ordinary person could have altered history."_* While serving in the US Marines, this "loser" was trained as a radar operator tracking the new U2 spy planes, and was stationed at the top-secret military base in Atsugi, Japan. Lee Oswald was just 24 years old when he was murdered. Yet he had command of the Russian language to such an extent that his Russian wife thought he was native born. "loser"?

@@lunarmodule6419 Agreed. The evidence that he did not is overwhelming

Yes ,the secret service would employ a trustworthy dishonourable discharge. 🤔

Yes, one of the most important things in regards to Oswald is that he was an Orphan...didn't have a father and was very easily manipulated by Ferrie and De Mohrenschildt.

@@vernpascal1531 Yes I believe he probably had a need to find and become part of an ideal system or person in order to idealize and to derive self value from. I suspect he initially idealized the USSR but because they rejected his attempts to gain a position teaching there he came to de idealize the soviets returned to the USA and went to the other political extreme and became part of Ferrie's and De Mohrenschildt's right wing group that wanted to provoke an invasion of Cuba and possibly a war with the Soviets.

During your first 15 words or so, I thought you were referring to the speaker.

@@Penswordman Yes indeed, but really what this guy is saying if you leave out the clinical terminology is that Oswald was a conceited person who wanted to be famous so he he shot the president. It may be true as far as it goes but how far is that ?.

@@stuartschneiderman8517 How far is that? Pretty far in fact. Recall that a fellow Marine of Oswald said that Lee once remarked he wanted to do something that people would talk about about for 1,000 years. Too early to tell if that's a _fait accompli_ ?

Oswald was stationed at a top secret naval base where the U2 plane was based. He was ONI. His defection was a mirror of what Russian intelligence did-why else was he let back in to the US no questions asked. He had a photographic memory, spoke several languages and was very well read. Possibly he was sent there to leak details of the U2 to embarrass JFK since the SR71 was about to fly.

It's a shame the TSBD museum is one sided. Lone nut only.

@@stevemaher7481 There is no credible evidence in support of anything but LN. If you think there is, take it down to the Dallas grand jury. They're open at 8:00am.

@@apointofinterest8574 Sure. The SBT is impossible. In Vince Palamara's, new book Honest Answers, he has close up photos of both JFK's shirt and coat. The hole of the shirt as shown from the inside has the wound exactly as it was measured that day over 5 inches below the Collar. Way too low to exit the neck. End Of Story!

@@vernpascal1531 The photographic record constitutes proof that Kennedy's jacket was raised (bunched up) when he was shot in the back. As a direct result, the "low" bullet holes in John Kennedy's shirt and jacket are not accurate indicators of the entry location, which was higher. The entrance wound in the lower neck (back) was 3.5 cm above the wound in the throat when Kennedy was positioned in the fully upright position. That's per the 1968 Ramsey Clark Panel and their examination of the autopsy photos. The Rockefeller Commission and the HSCA also agreed with this conclusion. SBT confirmed again! (End of story)

@@vernpascal1531 Now, Vince Palamara makes some great pizza, but as a JFK historian, he's even less informed than you; which is a pretty low bar to slide under.

Read "Reclaiming History," by Vincent Bugliosi.

You're quite right. About yourself.

Thanks, you've saved from going further than 8 minutes. He's also a droning bore with the exceptionally trying speech-habit of carrying a sentence across to the next exhalation: "carrying on without a comma".

You need to read both Priscilla Johnson and Norman Mailer’s books on Oswald. I had the same feelings that Oswald was a patsy until I read these two exhaustive accounts of his life. The guy was an unstable marine, like many others who go on shooting sprees. But in his case he wasn’t traumatized in battle...it was his life that did it.

i agree w/ most of what you said. Except that this guy, in his presentation, actually said he had NO evidence that Oswald followed, or even, ever saw one of those particular Comic books. Or heard any of the songs, or singers, mentioned in this guy's 'presentation'. Just that it would 'fit' Oswald's "Type"---or "personality". And, he relies heavily on any number of themes from the "Warren Report", without acknowledging those 'claims' as originating from the 'Warren Report'. Along with other claims, mostly disputed by investigators/researchers. Which means he, basically is doing a profile on a PERSONALITY that was NOT Oswald's PERSONALITY.

emmgeevideo I was replying to you in my comment, above.

@@billkeon880 The best examination of LHOs mediocre life, can be found in "Reclaiming History"...Incredibly well-researched!

Yes. Many groups wanted Kennedy dead. And they got what they wanted

Thank God for those at Conspiracy Central that Oswald didn't call in sick that Friday morning to get a head start on his weekend. Can you imagine the last minute scrambling of trying to frame someone who wasn't even in the building.

Oswald didn't own a rifle and he never lived on Neely Street. (Or so he told the cops.)

@@watermelonlalala there's a picture of him with a rifle. When the Police showed Oswald that picture he said his face was superimposed on another man's body holding the rifle . That's absurd

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 You can tell it was because in one photo his head is straight with the shadow under his nose going straight down. In another photo his head is tilted, but the shadow under his nose is tilted with his head, instead of being slanted sideways as a tilt of the head would cause.

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 Yes, it's absurd. It's not Oswald in that picture.

@Christian Ecker Never heard that. Anyhow, I don't believe he was an actual shooter on either J.F.K or Tippet.

He didn't use a gun that day.

@Christian Ecker Oswald did indeed have a positive reaction on his hands however the nitrate test (or should i say the paraffin test) that was used on his hands had already no longer been used in 1963 . the reason was that the test gave both false positive and false negative results . let me explain . a man who never held or fired a weapon in his life could test positive while a man that did hold and fire a weapon could test negative . certain things that ones hands could come into contact with on a daily basis could cause the nitrate test to give a false positive such as PRINT INK . Oswalds day was spent handling boxes and bundles of books and all covered in PRINT INK . the fbi in testimony in early 64 (it was either frazier or Cunningham ) testified in regards the things that would cause a FALSE positive reaction . another case in point would be the Birmingham 6 who served 15 years in jail in the uk . they had a similar test done on their hands and on the basis of the result they were imprisoned . they have since been found innocent and released . so what happened ? well it was found that they had used playing cards and that the playing cards when tested caused a positive result , in essence the THE PRINT INK . so the nitrate test NO LONGER in use even in 63 cannot be relied upon . it wouldn't have been admissible in any court in any case , so as it stands Oswald was never proven to have had any gun powder residue on him . I do know that some (lone nut advocates ) argue that the carcano wouldn't have let out any residue that could have ended up on oswalds cheek . why ? well because they say the chamber was sealed , yes it was , but then you have to open that chamber and eject the shell . Harold Weisberg found a document that was buried in which some 7 fbi agents fired a rifle and in which all of their cheeks tested positive . now its obvious to see why the fbi would want to bury that information , but I wonder what test they used ??? . we also have to factor in that Oswald was seen on the lower floors , 1st and 2nd floors from around 11.45 am and up a time between 12.30 and 12.20 . jfk was due to pass the depository about 12.15 or 12.20 , if Oswald wanted to kill jfk he didn't seem to be in that much of a hurry to get to the 6th floor . fact is if jfk had been on time and passed the depository at 12.15 to 12.20 Oswald could not have been in place on the 6th floor . Arnold Rowland was on Houston street . he looked at his watch and the hertz clock on the depository roof , his watch said 12.15 and the clock said 12.16 . at that time he looks up and he saw a black man leaning out of the snipers nest window , that's the east end of the building . the only black man officially on the 6th floor at that time was bonny ray Williams who sat feet from the window eating his lunch . at the same time he sees a second man with a rifle in a window at the west end of the floor , it needs noting that the carcano was found in that area . if Oswald was seen still down stairs at that same time logic dictates that he cant have been the man that Rowland saw . the commission decided they didn't want to believe Rowland , to believe Rowland would make it difficult at best if not impossible to find Oswald to be the shooter .

No fingerprints either until Sunday night or Monday morning 24th-25th November

So he was captured shortly after the Tippet murder in possession of a .38 pistol. The bullets taken out of tippet perfectly matched this gun. Multiple witnesses identified Oswald as the the shooter in the Tippet murder. Need I go on?

Maybe not, but if the rifle has Oswald’s prints, even on inner workings, if he is proven to have ordered it, if it is shown that the fatal bullets were fired from it to the exclusion of every other weapon in the world, it was THE choice. (“Reclaiming History” V. Bugliosi.)

@@BarbaraJoanneBJ If that were true (and it is not) we have a man who cannot shoot well, with a crummy gun which is off line amanging ashots that cannot be done by one person in the timeframe. ie multiple shooters

@@cobar5334 The Carcano was used by the Italian NATO rifle team. Oswald qualified as a sharpshooter in the Marines, firing a score of 212. In an analysis of Oswald’s targets and score cards when he fired his M-1 rifle during several days in December of 1956, London trial firearms expert, Monty Lutz, found that Oswald fired better in rapid than in slow fire. For instance, at two hundred yards (six hundred feet, well over twice as far away as Kennedy was on November 22, 1963, when Oswald fired the last shot, the head shot), his proficiency rate, Lutz said, averaged “76 percent slow fire, but 91 percent rapid fire.” Lutz said that “some shooters are better at firing rapid or timed courses once they get into a rhythm or conditioned reflex situation.” He added that “on the day of the assassination, Oswald hit two out of three shots, a 67% proficiency rating. So he was shooting below his average for rapid fire on that day.” And so, despite the erroneous claims of the conspiracy theorists, the evidence is very clear that Oswald, with his background with a rifle, had plenty of time to accurately fire two out of three shots in the 8.4 seconds available to him and at the intervals suggested by the various studies of the Zapruder film. At the time Oswald hit Kennedy with his two shots, Kennedy was relatively close, around fifty-nine yards for the shot that hit him in the back and around eighty-eight yards for the shot in the head. Qualifying with a rifle in the Marines starts at two hundred yards (in the infantry at one hundred), and proceeds to three hundred, then five hundred. Kennedy was almost a stationary target. Major Eugene D. Anderson, assistant head of the Marksmanship Branch of the Marine Corps, testified before the Warren Commission that based on Oswald’s record in the Marines, the shot to the president’s head was “not a particularly difficult shot” and “Oswald had full capabilities to make such a shot.” Sergeant James A. Zahm, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the Marksmanship Training Unit at the Marine Corps school in Quantico, Virginia, told the Warren Commission that compared to the average civilian in America, Oswald was “an excellent shot.” Even in the Marine Corps, Oswald would be considered to be “a good shot, slightly above average.” Zahm went on to say that he considered the shot from the sniper’s nest that hit Kennedy in the back to be a “very easy shot” and the later one that struck him in the head “an easy shot” for a man with the equipment Oswald had and with his ability.”

@@robertromero8692 Evidence I have seen described Oswald's shooting skills as mediocre. As you say "slightly above average". Neither here nor there really as the frontal shot from the knoll killed Kennedy

@@cobar5334 I have shown my evidence. You obviously have none to show, since you didn't do so.

Ah yes, "the authorities".

@@josephconder9074 The first use like this I ever heard was the DOJ, arguing that someone who had never done anything violent should be kept in prison for twenty years or so because he was a narcissist. And I although I never met the guy, I would agree, he probably was a narcissist. As time went by, I began to see women online doing long nutty lessons on how to recognize a narcissist and commenting about all the bad things their narcissist boyfriends had done to them. So, they weren't authorities, but I think they had had indoctrination from somewhere. Last century nobody worried about narcissists or thought they were evil and should be locked up. Narcissists were considered to be conceited, comical, and rare. Show biz stereotypes.

You must know there is a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder in psychology. It’s in the DSM

@@billkeon880 Last century it was a person who looked in the mirror and was sexually attracted to himself. Like the Greek Narcissus. I don't care what it is this century because this century is one big personality disorder.

@@watermelonlalala whether it uses that word in the title or not, it is a collection of characteristics that are involved in a disorder. You may not like science or modern psychology, but it is a thing and it helps people and it also is used in courtroom cases and agreed upon across the entire spectrum of acredited pfoessionals. A lot of creationists deny evolution but that doesn't make their anti-science view more credible. But, getting back to the real topic - if you have even read ten pages about Oswald, you know what kind of disturbed, violent guy he became. Mailer and Pricilla Johnson's books show this laid bare.

Perhaps she meant his service in army and then Russia.

She was really something else haha. Have you read her testimony to the Warren Commission? It's absolutely wild!

@@grobbs666 Exactly whar was so "Wild"??

@ Bravo Sierra I mean "Wild" abt. Marguerite's Testimony?? I don't quite remember her Testimony---is it that her son was in "Intelligence", as she said at other times? Bc., if that was it---later uncovered documents of Oswald's Military Records , showed that he WAS in "Intelligence". It's ALWAYS the Mother made to look 'Crazy'! So of course, then to make the son [or daughter] look 'crazy'. 'Bravo Sierra' seems to imply that you see yourself as in some kind of 'Special Forces', or 'position'. Does that mean you are 'crazy', w/ "Wild" claims?? What's really "Wild" abt. the "Warren Commission claims", is that so many testifying 'witnesses' said their testimony was altered, or even , completely "fabricated" by the Warren Commission".

@@theresefotiou7097 Yep I'm in intelligence too haha. You got me! I'm CIA, Marguerite Oswald was CIA, Lee was CIA, Jim Garrison was CIA, Trump and Biden both CIA, and actually everyone in the world is CIA and in intelligence except you! Your mother, your father, your neighbors, your dog or cat, the flies that occasionally get inside, the ants, the birds, and even the squirrels

Because he was.

@@michalbarcik -How could Oswald be the lone assassin if both wounds were moved several inches posthumously? Ever heard that anywhere in the History of the World?

@@vernpascal1531 They were not, exept exit wound in the throath, that was altered because of traheothomy.

@@vernpascal1531 the wounds didn't move in the xrays or photos

@@johncooper7663 -The Death Certificate,Autopsy Face Sheet,Both FBI Agents report put the back wound at T3 some 4-5 inches below the base of the neck. There is no innocent explanation of the drawings used by The Warren Commission, and endorsed by Dr. Humes, that puts the wound in the neck.

Why even mix your religion into an otherwise rational comment?

I am truly astonished that so many Americans never look at the evidence with an open mind. There just was no conspiracy & in nearly 60 years to the day, no credible alternative evidence has ever came to the fore that anyone other than Lee Oswald acting alone killed president Kennedy & officer Tippet. The rest is wishful thinking & pure fantasy.

You are right. it's called faith. Faith in Authority. But faith is not knowing is it?

@Ricky Bowen Absolutely correct Ricky, does suit my agenda seeking the truth no matter how it played out. After looking at Brennan I realised he was as unreliable as Helen Markham was as a witness in the Tippit shooting. There they are Ricky, Brennan & Markham, the Warren Commission's Star witnesses who both lied or at least handled the truth in a quite bizarre manner.

@@aaronpaterson1615 Mark Lane is the one who lied before the WC about what Helen Markham had told him.

Wrong. during Sunday’s interrogation Oswald slipped up and placed himself on the sixth floor at the time of the assassination, making him the only employee of the Book Depository Building who placed himself on the sixth floor, or was placed there by anyone else, at the time we know an assassin shot Kennedy from the sixth floor. In his Sunday-morning interrogation he said that at lunchtime, one of the “Negro” employees invited him to eat lunch with him and he declined, saying, “You go on down and send the elevator back up and I will join you in a few minutes.” He said before he could finish whatever he was doing, the commotion surrounding the assassination took place and when he “went downstairs,” a policeman questioned him as to his identification, and his boss stated that he was one of their employees. The latter confrontation, of course, refers to Officer Marrion Baker, in Roy Truly’s presence, talking to Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom within two minutes after the shooting. Where was Oswald at the time the Negro employee invited him to lunch, and before he descended to the second-floor lunchroom? The sixth floor. Charles Givens testified that around 11:55 a.m., he went up to the sixth floor to get his jacket with cigarettes in it and saw Oswald on the sixth floor. He said to Oswald, “Boy, are you going downstairs…it’s near lunchtime.” He said Oswald answered, “No, sir. When you get downstairs, close the gate to the elevator.”

@@robertromero8692 Come on Robert! The acoustics experts hired by the House Select Committee analyzed the police radio recordings and concluded there were more than three gunshots fired when JFK was murdered--that means conspiracy. We've been told the police got rid of their interrogation notes; where did you conjure up this "evidence"? I don't think it really matters if Oswald really did take shots at JFK or not--it is fairly certain there were more shooters and a whole lot of people involved in JFK's demise. Hell, the Secret Service agent driving the limo either stopped or slowed down after shots had been fired, looked back at JFK and when JFK's head exploded, then stepped on the gas as Jackie Kennedy's Secret Service agent was climbing on to the back of the limo. So, Secret Service agents are trained to slow down or stop when hearing shots? Give me a break! That driver was in on the assassination and played his part like a pro.

Agree with you. Not sure how this man arrived at his conclusions but if Oswald wanted a glorious last stand it seems that he was in the perfect place from his sniper’s nest so that assertion doesn’t make sense. So next is whether he wanted to get caught & espouse his Marxist views. As you pointed out, claiming he was a patsy was doing the opposite & set him up to be viewed as weak minded. IMHO Oswald decided that if he could get away from the scene then he would flee to Mexico with the hopes of living a life in exile where he would be admired as a hero for the cause. I’ve always wondered if he was part of a conspiracy & felt that he had been set up to get caught & that’s why he claimed that he was a patsy. Imagine how much history would’ve changed if Oswald had blurted out that others were involved & if the police had simply exercised a little caution to prevent him from being murdered.

Well, Lee had said that he wanted to be an important person numerous times throughout his life to many people. He wanted to do important things for leftist causes by taking a shot at the right wing fascist goon, Walker. When he did this he didn’t want to get caught because he fled, hid the rifle and wrote a long revealing note for Marina. So he wanted to do important things but not to get caught. He fled the TSBD, shot Tippit and ducked into the movie theatre. When the enormity of his action hit him after killing JFK he felt he had to shoot Tippit and then deny his actions to police because it was too real. He did what most murderers do when they are caught....deny what they did. It’s only the rare few that are caught red-handed that admit it. If he had a trial and was put on the stand he may have changed tactics when backed into a corner and espoused his political beliefs, but who knows. But when he was arrested, he told lie after provable lie about anything to do with the rifle, pistol, alias, etc...anything to do with the assassination. He also pulled his pistol and pulled the trigger (misfired) against the cops that arrested him. If you really are an innocent patsy and the police come toward you... you don’t try to shoot a cop. That’s a guilty person, there’s no way to refute that

@@geejaybee1970 completely agree. Didn’t realize he beat Marina so often as well.

1 minutes thinking will tell you it was impossible with a WW11 rifle.And then there is the mass of evidence . CIA, MAFIA , George Bush, Johnson, Allan Dulles, Cuba connections, just about everybody was at that party.

@@paulscottfilms in 1963, a WWII rifle was less than 20 years old. Lots of people today use weapons that are 15 or 20 years old, especially when they are inexpensive. That's the main reason Oswald bought it, because it was affordable for him. Since he couldn't hold down a job and was fired from all 3 jobs he got in the year prior to his assassination of JFK. So the Italian army was using a gun that couldn't shoot? Is that believable? No. Italy researched and made sure they used a rifle that was competent, otherwise they couldn't have survived for two days in WWII. Besides, the Warren commission and other investigators found that Oswald's rifle could do the shooting. The original time stamp of the shots - 3 shots in 5 seconds initially seemd improbable but it was bogus because the first shot occured well before frame 225 - actually between frame 130-160 - in the Z film, so Oswald had 8 to 11 seconds to get off his 3 shots. Plenty of time with a solid weapon, which he had been dry-firing the whole summer in New Orleans.

Nick Newman Bravo I agree with all you say here

@@johnbellingham9067 Thanks John.. a conspiracy is highly likely and i think obvious to anyone who is unbiased and looks at the available evidence from witnesses. There's just too much that doesn't fit (on the day and subsequently). The perpetrators, the motives for the cover-up and it's execution are more complex.

Oswald was probably told to shoot to miss just like he did with General Walker to add to his Fake pro Cuban resume - poor misguided patsy

@@johnbellingham9067 Good point. Someone like DeM, or in the network could have paid him 50 bucks or so a good amount in those days to scare the hell out of Walker,yet behind the scenes, according to Dick Russell The Man Who Knew Too Much,the alphabet agencies knew of LHO's attempt prior to the JFK Assassination, and April'63 a lot of strange things begin happening with JFK's announcement of the Texas Trip. Multiple Oswald's in 2 places start appearing etc.

@@johnbellingham9067 But parafin test says otherwise..

What about oswald Killing officer Tippit?? in front of witnesses?? wat abt his assassination attempt on the General and his abusive and aggressive behavior towards Marina his wife?? LHO was a Crack Pot, Loner, Loser .The Guy was a Drop out from God Knows how many schools never had a Life ..Do read the Book Case Closed by POSNER

@@derveshbaba2787 I've not read the book and am curious as to how Mr. Posner explained the spent shells that were found at the scene of Tippit's murder when Oswald was found with a 6 shot revolver. In case you are not aware of the workings of revolver type handguns, they do not eject bullet shells automatically.

@@derveshbaba2787 The witnesses said Oswald was not the man who killed Tippit. They only changed their stories later.

@@432b86ed The same people who witnessed the gunman shooting Tippit, said the shooter purposely stood there n dumped the shells at the scene of the murder. And those people at first described somebody totally different than Oswald.

@@theresefotiou7097 Yeah, Ms. Clemmons said it was two guys who didn't resemble Oswald. And if they were trying to frame him, that would explain why they'd go to the trouble of leaving the revolver shells at the scene.

@Greg Parker Sounds like you're referring to Ruby and why shooting Oswald was his own personal action.

And where did all his money come from? This guy is taking a lot for granted.

Oswald was a spy . He worked for the CIA and FBI when he returned to the USA. A perfect candidate to manipulate as a patsy in the assassination.

Brian you probably nailed it on head, I'm still speculative if he was an assassin or at all.

No discussion of how likely it is someone could even teach themselves Russian. Mrs. Paine had a lot of resources and she felt the need to have Marina live with her so so she could learn to converse in Russian. By the way, according to Oswald's "best friend" George deM. Oswald spoke broken Russian and Marina made fun of his mistakes.

He went to language school in the marine corps

Dude, I can answer that: he wasn't happy to be killed by a local loony toons. I'm pretty sure it wasn't part of his plan.

Dreamingrightnow In that case, it’s good that he got SOME kind of comeuppance.

@@dreamingrightnow1174 Ah, the irony! Oswald did not know much at all. It was Ruby who knew he had to murder Oswald because he was forced do by the conspirators. Equally, Ruby's excuse for doing that was as lame as... He had to or he would have been killed

It is interesting, that Oswald just a minute before he was shot, was asked if he feared being shot by someone..he replied "Aw, nobody is gonna shoot me!"....famous last words, for sure!

@@cobar5334 You people need to stick to the facts..Ruby nearly missed his opportunity to shoot Oswald, as he had slept in that day and was just walking out of the post office one block from the Police Department, when he noticed a commotion, and decided to see what was going on..No one had controlled Ruby in any way that morning--he just shot Oswald on extreme impulse..Ruby was just as unstable as Oswald was, just a different type of weirdo.

Gerald Ford became President and I bet very few people have read it. I've never seen a copy, and I've read over a 140 books on The Assassination and used to peruse used book stores for books on the Assassination.

@GaryGuevara I just saw yer post. That is a very good question, and impossible to address objectively,, as no one book has the whole truth about the Assassination.I'd say Crossfire By Marrs,LBJ Mastermind of The Assassination Nelson,Farewell To Justice Mellen,Innocence of Oswald By Fannin, Lone Star Speaks Zachry and Peterson, JFK And The End Of America By Fleming, Devil's Chessboard Talbot,Man Who Knew Too Much Russell, and JFK And The Unspeakable are all outstanding.

@@vernpascal1531 case closed by Gerald posner..excellent well researched book as it carefully answers all the conspiracy theories one by one ...

That was a weak move by Ford. There was enough evidence to link Oswald to the crime. Ford should have kept the original title.

@@derveshbaba2787 Vincent Bugliosi's book is more comprehensive.

Nick Sandman DID have a 'SMIRK" on his shithead FACE!!!!

why the way to save JFKMLKRFK through our post P.A.S.T. ass-ass-i-nation subconscious dream state complex ..if only

@@JFKMLKRFKGHWB One day we will wake up in 1963 and find JFK never went to Dallas.

@@watermelonlalala that would be the foundation of a Great Movie. ( JFK had a double who was shot in Dallas : you have a powerful imagination thats a fact 🤔

@@watermelonlalala It's Dallas - it's all a dream, Bobby.

anyone who believes this man is deluded. Oswald was not an asasssin but a hero if you check out Judyth Vary Baker and her book. People need to accept their own govmnt did this.

My takeaway on this is a dark one!...It is obvious to me, that most all of us are innocent victims of whatever situation we find ourselves in, as children. Life is just a crapshoot, and if you are treated poorly as a child (many of us are), then as an adult, you are gonna be damaged goods!

@@charissseburchett8353 u b leave in Q??? I THOUGHT so...

We’ll never know who did it, but Oswald was balls deep in the plot either way, and he was a disgusting person who nearly caused WW3.

He didn’t shoot tippit

@@AMC2283 Yes he did. Multiple eye-witnesses said so.

Nobody really knows unfortunately. There's theories he was headed to the Greyhound station, which was in the direction he was generally heading. Another theory is he was just trying to get far enough away from the scene, as he was heading roughly south when downtown was north from his rooming house. Some think even Oswald didn't know and was just running. What we do know is that he first stopped at his rooming house and picked up a coat and his revolver. This seems to imply he didn't plan on returning that night at least. If I had to guess, mostly likely to the bus station. He rode the bus a few times (NOLA to Houston, Houston to Mexico City, Mexico City back to Dallas), so he was familiar with it. I think his plan was to try to go back to Mexico and then get into Cuba.

Oswald had money for a bus, not an airplane.

@@AMC2283 Correct. Tippit was murdered by others. Oswald knew he had been setup and what was going to happen next. He had to leave pronto

At least 20 shooters that day

@@cobar5334 Utter nonsense. The ONLY bullets ever found were from Oswald's rifle.

@@robertromero8692 You are following the coverup line

@@cobar5334 No one dictates what I think, least of all CTers like you.

here's a number of researchers who worked thru a lot of this w/ Marguerite Oswald, herself. And they said that the stories of her n her 'child-rearing' were grossly exaggerated. After all, it's usually the first 'go-to', isn't it? The mother's ALWAYS 'to blame'. And there's another feature here that u see in 'lone nut' scenarios' of all kinds. NOT ONLY, the 'crazy mother', but the "HELPFUL BROTHER" Scenario---where the Brother 'turns on' the 'accused brother' in order to "Save his brother from himself"---.! Or the "Helpful Father" or 'Uncle' who, basically fulfiills the same purpose--burying their 'accused' relative w/ the "Press", the "Public"., n even the Police.

Hello, Peter! Are you related to Perry Russo? And I agree with what you said about going back thru old books, reports, etc. It's usually the best, anyway! Thanks!

Except with a different photo.

​@Greg Parker Since you know so much, why would Nagell do that? I know why I would do it, as a joke.

@@watermelonlalala Why are people on the internet so othered by how much someone knows? I have spent the past 20 years studying Oswald and this case and I have authored a bio on gim with more new information than a 100 other books combined. Unlike other books, I never canibalized other works. It was all new research. bviously I can't know why Nagell or Fensterwald did it, any more than you. But like you, I'll offer best guesses - if Nagle, to help support his claims. If Fensterwalk - because he is a first class asshat.

@@gregparker4532 What's the name of your book?

The issue is can this be shown after so many years Yet, Riddle does a good job in his presentation.

@Phil Silverman so much deflection....STILL.

Lol. It's true! The millisecond the baby pic is shown, the sirens go off. I'm still laughing at that.

He (Robert) was probably forced/bribed to say it.

@@otom20 Prove it.

@@otom20 Rubbish. For some people every person with any connection to this case is dirty, except for Lee Oswald.

"He (Robert) was probably forced/bribed to say it.": But that is just kind of stupid, isn't it?

@@peterfraser9070 Yup...but we see "stupid" being rampant in this comment section!

I live in Turkey and I would love to come to Dealey Plaza. That magical place and that assassination haunt my dreams. I want to see that museum and touch that historical building. Something has been pulling me there very strongly for years. Since my childhood.

Yep - he learned Russian while stationed in Japan. Part of setting him up

She thought he was Russian at first meeting him. That was before he spoke in Russian. His Russian had an accent and there were grammatical errors.

@cobaroonsey - Japan banned all left-handed spin bowlers as an international ' no set-ups ' bowling rule

Marina, from all reports of her Russian friends, was regarded as an airhead, and easy to manipulate...not the brightest bulb in the chandelier!..it is amazing to me, how Oswald managed to have a few girlfriends in his life..he certainly was not a handsome dude, and was obviously screwed up in the head.

@@curbozerboomer1773 If you think O was screwed up in the head, it's because you think he shot someone. He didn't. And you don't believe he did. You are lying to yourself for the sake of sucking up to power for your own gain. People make the mistake of falling for the illusion of power. We all die. No ultimate power. Truth lives on, forever. Stop being silly and live your life right. You'll feel better.

@phil silveclear - dog ate the homework set-up theory

@Phil Silverman The route wasn't diverted to Elm at the last minute, that's just one of many many myths...so is the fuzzy idea that everything was secured except the TSBD or whatever you were on about

@@peterfraser9070 You are wasting your time trying to correct these zealots. You and I and the public record knows that the route was never changed but people like this will never listen to facts.

@@anthonyc7045 They love their favourite "murder mystery".

@@ensconse The actual motorcade route was changed once they selected the Dallas Trade Mart as the location for the luncheon event Kennedy was scheduled to speak at. Kennedy's own staff personally approved the motorcade route after reviewing it and driving over it. Stop reading all kinds of fantasies into the actual facts.

They didnt interview him in supreme depth Cuz, they couldn't of known he would be killed so they thought they'd have all the time in the world. They didnt really press him about the assassination Cuz as several investigators have stated they didnt need to at the time, there was just an overwhelming of evidence against him.

@@andrewhoyle1521 They also denied him legal representation. Nothing he said in custody would be admissible. When asked why they didnt record his interviews they gave the lame excuse they didnt have a tape recorder. The whole police station was full of reporters and TV crews and they say they didnt have a tape recorder. They then said they didnt have a room big enough to have a stenographer. Again that is just a plain lie, they had dozens of rooms big enough for Oswald, 2 questioners and a stenographer. Finally, Oswald was supposedly originally arrested and charged with the murder of Tippit but in the so called notes of Fritz or Bookhout can you find 1 single question relating to Tippit? I cant even find a single question as to whether he had help or not. This is a guy that defected to Russia in the middle of the cold war and supposedly met the head of assassinations, Kostikov, in the soviet embassy in Mexico City and handed out pro Castro leaflets in New Orleans and yet it seems they never once asked him if he was working for the Russians or Cubans.....do you really buy that?

@@andrewhoyle1521 They could have known he was going to be killed, if they were in on the plot to let him be killed, as most people thought when he was shot in police custody.

The evidence was open and shut. A trial would have been superfluous.

@@eameece Evidence has to have a full, unbroken chain of custody and has to be authenticated before it can be even entered in to a trial. Just how much of the so called "evidence" can claim to pass both criteria?

I don't care if you run the assassination through a mixmaster, an osterizer, and an air fryer as well. Oswald, acting alone, murdered President Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit.

Oswald wasn't thrown out of the Marines. He got an honorable discharge early to go to take care of his mom but then he defected and the Marines changed his discharge to dishonorable. Oswald was trying to get that reversed when he was in New Orleans near the end which kind of indicates his mindset as looking to improve his future.

So, you're saying that a proper method of fact checking is whether or not information is popular? Haha. No. If you want to attack the video, why don't you take the time to demonstrate how some of the information is wrong?

Oswald had JUST STARTED working at the TSBD. Coincidence?? I think not

@Phil Silverman Yep The front shot proves a conspiracy. Conveniently covered up - to this very day

@@cobar5334 The shots came from the rear. Autopsy photos and science proved that. The bullets came from Oswald's gun. Any other idea is just a fantasy. And it WAS a coincidence. He started work over 5 weeks before. It was probably destiny, given all the coincidences and cosmic indicators. That is much more plausible and interesting than inventing conspiracies. He needed no-one else to help him. He found the job through a neighbor of his friend where he and Marina were staying. That is well known. Ruth Paine was not a conspirator.

@@eameece The treating doctors were at odds with the (clearly faked) autopsy conclusions. Xrays were obviously of someone else. The overwhelming evidence is for a conspiracy. Even the HSCA found this in 1978. I side with the view of all the evidence.

@@cobar5334 I side with the view of all the evidence. Many treating doctors verified that the autopsy photos were accurate later. They did this for example in the NOVA documentary with Walter Chronkite in 1988. The original autopsy was made by amateurs who only drew inaccurate drawings. The HSCA found this "conspiracy" only because of a police motorcycle tape that later was found to be recorded after the shots. There is no evidence at all of a conspiracy. He did talk to some Cubans in Louisiana, apparently, and maybe Banister, but we know he was trying to infiltrate those opposed to Castro to burnish his credentials as an activist and guerilla fighter for Castro. Oswald only learned of JFK's route a day and a half before the shooting. Most of that time he was at work, driving home or arguing with Marina at Ruth Paine's house. Ruth got him the job at the Depository, not some CIA agent. There's no evidence any Cubans or Mafia men contacted him in that 40-hour period. Oswald needed no help or money at all to commit this crime.

Scott Carroll..I agree with your assessment. So he walks nonchalantly out the front door walks towards the bus station...gets on the bus that is going back towards theTSBD...gets off the bus because it is stalled in traffic and hails a cab back to his rooming house. He gets out of the cab a block or so past his rooming house and walks back to change some clothing..Last seen at the bus stop nearby. He was next seen at the theatre.( not Tippit murder ..I believe he wasn't there) His actions , to say the least, are strange. Why would anybody assassinate someone with out having a getaway plan. One's first impression of Oswald would be..THIS GUY IS INSANE,CRAZY and a NUT. But when you here and see is interview on TV and his demeanor at the jail house you have to wonder. If I was going to assassinate someone I would have a car and not use public transportation. Here is my take. Harvey was working with the FBI or the CIA or military intel or all three. He was told to leave the TSBD and receive further orders at the rendezvous location.[Texas Theatre] He realized he was being set up when be got arrested.(l AM JUST A PATSY). He thought he would be cleared and that someone might come to save him so he was still not going to tell his whole truth. He was acting like a good little spy. He finally realized the contrary when Ruby's bullet hit him in the stomach.

Rubbish..."Harvey" realized he had been framed and went to the Texas Theater rendezvous where he had a half dollar bill in his pocket that his contact had the other half of proving a conspiracy...John Armstrong did a brilliant analysis of Captain Westbrook's involvement of setting up Oswald at the Tippit killing and the Texas Theater...Badge Man is real...

"I think his embryonic escape strategy was to get away from the Depository, grab his gun from the rooming house, and make his way by foot to the local Greyhound bus station and get a ride to the border. He would then make his way to the Cuban embassy and ask for asylum." scott you THINK ? not that you know or you can prove ? sounds like a theory to me lol .

Ye

He clearly was a man running away in desperation, from something awful!...I do not think he expected to get away so easily, but he tried to do so, of course...He only had like thirteen dollars on him, when apprehended. Johnny Brewer, the shoe salesman guy, had just heard on his radio, a vague description of the shooter, and noticed that LHO was standing inside the alcove area of the store, looking inward, while others on the street were watching the police cars whizzing by..he thought Oswald looked stressed out, and was hiding, so he watched him saunter down the street, and sneak into the theatre when the gal taking money had her back turned. Brewer was pretty awesome that day!

Yes. I think some of the dismissive remarks in this comment section might have to do with not relating to the ways being born before the Vietnam war might influence someone with a low sense of self trying to become that version of a man. Not that it was society's fault.

@Joshua Herpoisheimer: The "pasty" remark concerned his (Oswald) being an easy person to accuse for "having lived in the Soviet Union," as Lee himself made clear in the first part of the remark. Did you doze off?

Like apointofinterest85 says... Oswald didn't just say he was a patsy. It was part of a longer statement that conspiracy pushers ALWAYS remove. They never mention that, because it defeats their argument. Oswald himself explains why he said he was a patsy in the first part of the statement... because he had lived in the Soviet Union. Not because he was trying to admit to some crazy CIA conspiracy

That line has always been misconstrued, it was originally “they are targeting me because I lived in the Soviet Union, I’m a patsy”. It maybe slightly paraphrased.

The evidence is overwhelming that Oswald killed JFK.

@@robertromero8692 I certainly agree, however so much tune has passed, so many conspiracies that the truth will never be accepted.

A conspiracy is not necessary to explain why jfk's body was taken to Washington so quickly. They wanted to get the hell out of Dallas.

@@robertromero8692 Yeah, so they could cover their ass.

@@allancove4483 Jackie Kennedy very much wanted to get out of Dallas. Was she part of the conspiracy?

@@robertromero8692 Who's to say? But 80% of Americans don't believe Oswald acted alone number one. And even our own government which includes the House Select Committee have said upon a second investigation, they don't believe the truth was told & lest not forget, there's no statute of limitations on murder, so if in fact the killer is still alive & he happens to be discovered, well it's like I said, there's no statue on limitations when it comes to murder & you can still be brought to trial on that, & I'll leave it at that. So believe what you want kid.

@@allancove4483 "Who's to say?" IOW, you think it's plausible that Jackie Kennedy WAS part of the conspiracy. That speaks volumes about you. "the House Select Committee have said upon a second investigation, they don't believe the truth was told" The HSCA confirmed the conclusions of the WC, with the sole exception of supposed "evidence" of a 4th shot on a recording of a policeman's mike. It was later determined by the National Science Foundation that that recording did NOT have evidence of a 4th shot. But I suppose you think THEY'RE part of the "gigantic conspiracy" too. You're all too typical of conspiracy nuts.

LBJ unleashed JFK's enemies inside and outside Govt. against JFK.

Oswald's response seemed genuine, like he knew something and he was getting framed. Why would he act that way after killing a president? He seemed as perplexed as anybody. If he hated Kennedy why not blatantly spill his true feelings? If he was the shooter he'd probably be pretty open about it I would think.

@@jameskennedy1295 True and they found no blow back nitrates on his face which there would have been if he fired three shots from a rifle with a telescopic sight.

"I'm just a patsy"......he would say that wouldn't he? He was up to his neck in this.

@@alanholloway1264 Yes he was involved and I suspect he planned to take responsibility for it if he escaped as planned but when the phone call never came when he was having his coke on the second floor he panicked. Then he realised he was being used. I don't believe he fired the rifle or even that that was one of the rifle used. The doctors nurses and ambulance personnel at Parkland said the president had a large exit wound at the back of his head so the shots came from the back and the front.

And when Howard Brennan saw him in the 6th floor window with the rifle in his hands what was Oswald doing, showing the real shooter how to use it? And how did the real shooter just vanish into thin air after the shooting, leaving only Oswald to be found trying to duck into the 2nd floor lunchroom after hearing Truly and Baker coming up the stairs?

@@9Ballr He couldn't tell it was Oswald, lol.

@@nickroberts-xf7oq So the guy who did the shooting and Oswald just happened to both fit the same description? Where did the real shooter go?

An untraceable rifle? I have to believe the FBI had all the info they needed on the origin of the rifle once they had the serial number. By early the next morning they had traced the origin of the rifle and sale from Klein’s Sporting Goods to an order placed by and shipped to A. Hidell, Oswald’s alias. The Carcano was not untraceable, and Oswald owned it. Why would he think it was an untraceable rifle???

@@9Ballr I notice you didn’t get an answer… it’s usually just a smart ass comment and then they scurry away lol.

@Kenneth May: The real "lost" people are those who place deep abiding belief in a conspiracy, proof of which after 57 years, is still not forthcoming. Maybe another half-century or two is required. And then, one fine day....!

Well maybe you should do some studying of the assassination for yourself, then you'll discover that truth as well! So many people just watch a couple poorly researched/misleading youtube videos, or hear some out of context facts from people and then they think they KNOW FOR A FACT there was a conspiracy. I use to think there was a conspiracy. I had watched that JFK movie by Stone, watched a few documentaries, read some articles, etc and believed it blindly. That is till I decided to go read full transcripts from witnesses, look into what explanations there were for 'facts' conspiracy believers bring up, etc. Once I did that, my knowledge grew and slowly changed my mind. It was painful and sucked, but couldn't deny it after having read for myself the source information and seeing how conspiracy authors either twisted the facts, or just flat out lied!

@@grobbs666 The very last place you'd want to go for the discovery of the truth in the Kennedy case is O. Stone's movie "JFK," containing as it does more factual errors, omissions, lies, distortions and make-believe elements than an amateur cartoon. That unfortunate film has served to convince the majority of people of something (conspiracy) that the real evidence demonstrates did not happen. It only points up the basic gullibility of the human species, how easily they can be led, seduced.

@@apointofinterest8574 Exactly! I once was talking to someone who believed in a conspiracy, so I asked him what made him think so. He told me Willie OKeefes story! Haha. So clearly he had just watched the movie and based his opinions around it. I had to tell him OKeefe was not a real person, but made up for the movie. But actually, that movie JFK was the beginning for me changing from believing in a conspiracy. I was watching it again ~10 years ago, and saw the part with Ruby in jail saying he couldn't tell the truth in Dallas, he needed to be taken to DC, etc. I thought "well this is absolute damning proof of a conspiracy! How could you deny this?" And I decided to go read the actual testimony from Ruby. Turns out, Ruby gives the reasons why he was saying that, and it wasn't because he wanted to admit to a conspiracy, but the opposite! He thought people in Dallas wanted to make it look like he was part of a conspiracy, but wanted to prove he wasn't! So the exact opposite of how the movie portrayed it! Sorry for long reply, but that was the beginning of me questioning my belief in a conspiracy. I wondered what else might I believe about the case that wasn't true, that was because some manipulative conspiracy author twisted, distorted, took out of context, or just lied about. Turned out, a lot! It's interesting, almost always its someone going from believing in a conspiracy to not thinking there was one. Almost never the other way around. When you actually do the research yourself and not just blindly believe people, it leads you to the truth... that there was no conspiracy.

@@grobbs666 The First day Evidence Screams Conspiracy.

Let's be honest... even DEAN ANDREWS as a defence attorney would have got every piece of "evidence" the WCR presented thrown out of court on first reading. And if someone wants to show the evidence that puts Oswald on the 6th floor at 12.30 then go on, show me and I'll listen. BUT... Don't tell me how you THINK he may have been able to be there. (And if you begin by showing me Lt Day's fingerprint evidence, you'll have to wait a few minutes before I respond because it will take that long to stop laughing.)

@@defunctuserchannel You are quite right. And the O.J Simpson prosecution had much better evidence that he was at the scene of crime and had actually committed the murder. Of course they also had Mark Fuhrman... The DPD's investigation and evidence gathering of the 11/22/63 murders makes Fuhrman look like a paragon of procedural competence.

Even the Dallas Police Chief could tell you that bullets were comimg in from the front. He also said- "Nobody could ever put Oswald in the school book depository with a gun."

What needs to be said here, is the truth. This gentleman has no clue on what he is saying! He is going by the lie of the Warren Commission. He is completely wasting time.

You pinko commie what u talking about willis

“They say he was violent but there is not a single charge of violence in his history.” Oswald made repeated statements showing his willingness to engage in violence. In late 1957 or early 1958, he told a friend of his in New Orleans, Palmer McBride, that he would “like to kill” President Eisenhower because he was exploiting the working class. Palmer told the Warren Commission, “This statement was not made in jest, and Oswald was in a serious frame of mind when this statement was made.” In a letter from Russia to his brother Robert, Oswald wrote, “I…would like to see the present capitalist government of the U.S. overthrown…I fight for communism…In the event of war I would kill any American who put a uniform on in defense of the American government-any American.” Michael Paine, who had several conversations with Oswald about politics, told HSCA investigators in 1978 that it was “Oswald’s belief that the only way the injustices in this society could be corrected was through a violent revolution.” Paine told Frontline in 1993 that Oswald “thought capitalism was rotten, it was a fraud, and it needed to be overthrown. Lee wanted to be an active guerrilla in the effort to bring about a new world order…There’s no doubt in my mind that he believed violence was the only effective tool. He didn’t want to mess around with trying to change the system.” We also know that he was very abusive physically with Marina. They weren’t even living in the same place at the time of the assassination. She said her husband was “an ego-maniac who wanted to be a ‘big man’ but that in failing to be so he decided to show the whole world who he was by killing the president so that the whole world would know his name.” “why on earth did he deny everything if that was the case?” This is a non sequitur predicated on the belief that his wanting to become famous and his denying guilt right after the assassination are mutually exclusive states of mind. They are only so on the surface. Though Oswald’s leaving his wedding ring and most of his money behind on the morning of the assassination shows he thought he probably would not survive his killing of Kennedy, and was willing to sacrifice his own life, if necessary, to accomplish his plan to murder the president, this is not synonymous with saying he wanted to die. His conduct after the shooting clearly showed that he wanted to survive, to see another day. More importantly, just because he wanted to be famous for his deed doesn’t necessarily mean he wanted this to happen immediately, thus ensuring his apprehension and likely execution. It is much more reasonable to assume that he wanted to disclose his identity on his own terms and at a time and place he, not the authorities, chose, such as in Cuba or Russia. There is no indication that Oswald only wanted to be famous after he died. In fact, his outsized grandiose dreams always imply his living to reap the rewards (e.g., his telling Marina that someday “he would be prime minister”). Knowing Oswald as he did from the Marines, Kerry Thornley told the Warren Commission that because Oswald had killed Kennedy, “I think he probably expected the Russians to accept him…in a much higher capacity than they [had]. I think he expected them to, in his dreams, invite him to take a position in their government…that he could go out into the Communist world and distinguish himself and work his way up into the party, perhaps.” Of course, you don’t get that high position if you’ve been arrested, prosecuted, and executed in Dallas. “Everyone believes Jack Ruby (until he said it was a conspiracy.” Ruby said there was no conspiracy.

@@robertromero8692 So, show me a charge of violence committed by Lee Harvey Oswald. I dont want to see, someone said he did this or that...show me a police record of violence. A charge of violence whilst in the Marines? What we could say is your dearly departed great grandfather was a wifebeater and violent man. Slapped a coworker about and stole his neighbours savings. Anyone can say anything when the accused is dead and cannot defend themselves. Oswald also said he didnt shoot anybody and that he was just a patsy. Why do you not believe what you hear him say yourself but then believe what "Palmer McBride" said that he said? In fact, all you want to do is say that someone else said Oswald said something. To say Oswald wanted to be famous is hilarious. Why on earth would he a) try to avoid capture and the b) deny shooting JFK if all he wanted was to be famous? How can he be famous if he isnt caught for doing it or once caught why would he say he didnt do it? They might have just let him go and that would be that. He wasnt the only person arrested that day under suspicion but can you name all the others? You should watch Ruby's brief interview after he was granted a new trial in a near empty court room. He even implicates LBJ. He even told the Earl Warren he couldnt tell him everything in Dallas and that he could get more information out of him if he took him to Washington...Warren refused to. Even his polygraph test was sabotaged by the FBI......The HSCA highlighted many of the issues with it.

@@geoffreyjohnstone5465 “show me a charge of violence committed by Lee Harvey Oswald.” It’s ludicrous to claim that nothing exists unless it has a criminal charge associated with it. Those statements about Oswald’s violent tendencies are a matter of public record. “A charge of violence whilst in the Marines? “ It’s a matter of public record that he got into a fight with a guard while in the brig in the Marines. Both Oswald’s mother and his brother Robert said they saw Marina with a black eye. Several people in the white Russian community said the same sort of thing (black eye, bruised face, etc.) “Oswald also said he didnt shoot anybody and that he was just a patsy.” Conspiracy theorists love to quote Oswald saying he was a “patsy”, but they always leave out the part where he said “they've taken me in because of the fact that I lived in the Soviet Union”, which is what he meant by the “patsy” claim. “Why do you not believe what you hear him say yourself” WTF???? I’m supposed to take a denial from a charged murderer at face value? Murderers RARELY do anything but deny the charge. There is a MOUNTAIN of evidence showing that he did indeed do it. We KNOW that he lied when he was arrested. (he claimed he never said anything about curtain rods, claimed ne never owned a rifle, etc). “but then believe what "Palmer McBride" said that he said?” McBride and the other people I quoted about his pro violence statements weren’t facing a MURDER charge. That’s the difference which you’re incredibly unable to fathom. “all you want to do is say that someone else said Oswald said something. “ All you want to say is that Lee Oswald was the only honest person on the planet, even though what others quoted him as saying doesn’t remotely carry the motivation to lie that he had, namely, escaping a murder charge. “To say Oswald wanted to be famous is hilarious. Why on earth would he a) try to avoid capture and the b) deny shooting JFK if all he wanted was to be famous? How can he be famous if he isnt caught for doing it or once caught why would he say he didnt do it?” As I said, he wanted to be famous for it on HIS TERMS, not on the terms of the Dallas police. He was instantly famous the moment he was arrested. “He wasnt the only person arrested that day under suspicion but can you name all the others?” Name one other person who was arrested and charged with the murder of Kennedy. “He even told the Earl Warren he couldnt tell him everything in Dallas and that he could get more information out of him if he took him to Washington...Warren refused to.” Like many CTers, you conveniently omit certain things. Here is the end of the exchange with Warren: Ruby: “But you [Warren] are the only one that can save me. I think you can.” Warren: “Yes?” Ruby: “But by delaying, you lose the chance. And all I want to do is tell the truth, and that is all. There was no conspiracy.”

@@robertromero8692 You are doing it again. "he said", "she said" Show me a charge of violence against Lee Harvey Oswald. Everything bad said about Oswald was only said AFTER he was dead when he was unable to defend the accusation. There is no police report, no photo, no USMC record and no newspaper report that Oswald was ever violent. There is no medical record, doctors appointment or a single iota of physical evidence or a written record of it. You will go down in history.... "I’m supposed to take a denial from a charged murderer at face value? Murderers RARELY do anything but deny the charge." But then arent you the one that believed Jack Ruby originally saying there was no conspiracy? The huge difference is there is masses of police records showing Jack Ruby was violent. Whilst both men were charged with murder only one of them was found guilty in a genuine trial where a vigorous defence was allowed. I dont say Oswald was anything. I dont say he was violent or non violent, a murderer or a patsy, honest or a liar. I go by the genuine evidence and whilst there are police records of Ruby's arrests for violence and carrying concealed weapons I have been unable to find a single record of Oswald being violent. You want to use motiveless people who said Oswald was violent but then dont want to believe motiveless doctors in relation to the wounds. How about motiveless witnesses that saw someone other than Oswald? Motiveless witnesses that heard 2 shots right on top of each other? Motiveless witnesses that saw smoke in the area of the picket fence? Never say Marina was motiveless because she was threatened with deportation and the loss of her children after she had seen her husband killed whilst surrounded by law enforcement. Its amazing how you think you know the thoughts of Lee Harvey Oswald. You never saw him, never met him, never spoke to him and certainly have no idea what he was thinking in 1963. To say, "As I said, he wanted to be famous for it on HIS TERMS, not on the terms of the Dallas police. He was instantly famous the moment he was arrested." is madness. After all, according to the official version he shot a police officer to avoid arrest. Ruby said you cant get a fair shake out of me in Dallas. Why would he want to be taken to Washington IF he had nothing else to say?

@@geoffreyjohnstone5465 Good comeback on Robert! This guy is either a nut job or a paid agent. He does nothing but self project.

He doesn't say that people with those personality traits/upbringing always lead to going and assassinating a president. In fact the opposite. He mentions how those traits alone weren't enough, but when it combined with his constant failures in his life and specific events that occurred then led him to assassinate Kennedy. He also mentions how things like therapy/consoling could have helped him, and therefore others with those traits as well. Also, his two daughters changed their names. One was interviewed a few years back, she was working at a bar and talked about it. No other living direct relative is left with the name.

We will never know who the killer was. We can just know that it was not Oswald

@@cobar5334 ALL THE FACTS point to him, you sure can't remove him, the word patsy don't cut it anymore it's just a quick come back with little or no merit.

@@leemoore9933 All the LIES point to him. And there is a mountain of them. Magic bullet perhaps being the shining example

@@cobar5334 Mountain of lies, name me 4-5 and the magic bullet has been debunked to death that has zero merit.

Boy are you misinformed, mate! Oswald's Marine Corp. records show him scoring 48 out of 50 bullseyes from 200 yards with a bolt action rifle! That was his best skill. "Maggie's Drawers" shows you watched "JFK" too many times. Your remarks about the backyard photo of the rifle are simply random -- the tiny view of the sling mounts on it "prove" it wasn't the murder weapon? The serial number was traced to the mail order business he bought it from. There is NO evidence of anyone seeing Oswald with Jack Ruby. None. The only thing covered up was how the Warren Commission did not hear about Oswald's trip to the Cuban embassy in Mexico City in Sept. 1963, which was known by LBJ, Robert Kennedy and John Foster Dulles, who did not reveal it while on the Commission. In fact, Oswald's motive to kill JFK came from Oswald's idolization of Fidel Castro, disgust with JFK's covert actions against Cuba, and LBJ et al. did not want that out to avoid revealing the assassination plots against Castro, and perhaps causing a war between the U.S., Cuba and then the USSR. Oswald's mental illness has been documented -- his disturbed mother had to move them many times because he got thrown out of school classes; in 1953 in New York his excessive truancy got him on probation and sent to the Bronx Youth House "for psychiatric study"; in the eighth grade his teachers described him as "quick-tempered," "constantly losing control," and "getting into battles with others"; in the Marines he served time in the brig and later received an "undesirable discharge"; he beat up his wife Marina repeatedly, then tried to kill General Walker, wanted to shoot Richard Nixon but Marina locked him in the bathroom, he could not hold a job more than a few months, he killed JFK, then killed Tippit, then tried to shoot another Dallas cop in the theater. Oswald was very mentally ill, and all but a serial killer. There was no conspiracy in the shooting as no one wanted anything to do with him, and he acted alone from the building where he'd worked for a couple months. Maybe he thought he could escape to Cuba, but then Tippit stopped him and ruined it.

​@@TheAzerVidswhat disorders could have being diagnosed today to Oswald?

He just ran into a cinema and was surrounded by police who he tried to shoot . This was just him having his tea break. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Oh and with the same gun that killed Tibbett. 🤔

Conspiracy does not never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prospers, none dare call it conspiracy.

You took the words out of the mouth of James Files. He said Oswald was in the assassination team, but fired no shots that day.

@@markrymanowski719 Files was proven to be in Chicago (not Dallas) on 11-22-63.

Evidence?

@@alanholloway1264 No gun powder residue on him!

As a stutterer myself, I can tell you that Dr. Riddle is not a stutterer. I don't know why you would say he is.

He is good but, yes, LOTS of "uhhhs" and "ums."

It's quite well known that Taxicab driver William Scoggins heard Oswald muttering what sounded to him like, "poor dumb cop" or "poor damn cop."

@@general_burkhalter I think you've gotten the timeline wrong. From everything I've heard, Oswald's only encounter with a cab driver that day was when he took a cab from downtown Dallas to Oak Cliff. That was after he left the book depository and got off the bus but before he shot Officer Tippit. Therefore, he could not have been talking about Officer Tippit when he muttered whatever he muttered in the cab. Maybe he was talking about Officer Baker, but he didn't shoot Officer Baker. If he said that in the cab, he wasn't talking about shooting a police officer unless he thought one of the rifle shots hit a police officer. After he shot Officer Tippit, he ran along the street and reloaded his revolver. He was in view of people for most of the route between that point and the Texas Theater. I've never heard any suggestion that he got into another taxi. If he didn't get into another taxi, then another taxi driver couldn't have heard him muttering anything related to Officer Tippit.

I think one of the witnesses of the shooting of officer Tippit mentioned that the shooter said that ,as he was leaving the scene. Sorry but wasn't Oswald.

There were a few times that I wasn't all on board with the analysis and wondered what his sources were, especially the family dynamic stuff, which seemed pretty mom-blaming; but then again, maybe his mother was unstable and unloving. It happens. I thought the comment he made about LO's obviously fake id being about a subconscious desire to reveal this secret self. I've had that sense of him, that he wanted to people around him to wonder if he was a secret agent or something.

@@VTPSTTU The cab driver who heard Oswald mutter "poor dumb cop" was named William Scoggins and was simply parked near the murder scene eating a sandwich in his taxi. He was not involved with Oswald in any way other than witnessing Tippit's murder. The cab driver who drove Oswald a few blocks from his rooming house was named William Whaley.

It's actually all bullsh*t. Don't believe anything these liars say.

@@jospenner9503 Triggered! lol

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To escape from his domineering mother.

@@robertromero8692 Good answer and could be true. How about who paid Dr. Riddle to do this work? That's a more poignant question.

@@chriswolney5002 Why would anyone have to pay him?

@@robertromero8692 Did someone pay him?

@@chriswolney5002 No one needed to pay him. Did someone pay YOU to post?

So was it written by Oswald or not ?

@@ShanefromSydneyAustralia was written by Payne or other CIA. The letter was found by Ruth weeks after the house was turned upside down and searched top to bottom. Better question is why did Oswald have a spy camera with pictures of Russian military bases? Why did Payne have an identical spy camera?

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Geez, turn down the mellow drama a couple of notches 😅

He had dyslexia big time. Many intelligent people are also dyslexic.

@@marymagdalene3004Maybe Oswald read Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (The Father of Literature) or the "Coverdale Bible" both of which used the word "axe" (for "ask") whose origins ("acsian") date back to the eighth cent. AD. ⌛📚

@@isabellind1292 But this was 1960s US.

New Orleans pronunciation, Deborah.

Seriously dislexic!

But he didn't do it.

@@otom20 Agreed

Oswald was very tough to please. He argued constantly with everybody. He had his own politics and his own dreams and did not compromise, but he was so hard to please that he got disillusioned with his ideal the Soviet Union after only a year living there. The alleged set-ups are so complicated and involve so many people that the idea that all this could be a secret conspiracy is ludricrous.

@@eameece he wanted to fit in with something is the impression I got. Maybe not with his family but he seemed like he wanted to be a hero.

@@grungetruck8243 Yes, he wanted to fight heroically for socialism. Cuba became his ideal after being disillusioned with the Soviet Union.

Just like I am looking forward to reading the Warren Commission volumes.