Lee Harvey Oswald and the ACLU

Although conspiracy theories abound as to who orchestrated President John F. Kennedy’s murder 50 years ago, there is little doubt regarding who actually pulled the trigger and shot the 35th president: left-wing radical Lee Harvey Oswald.

He was involved with a number of liberal causes and had been a member of the American Civil Liberties Union; he had officially joined just weeks before he took Kennedy’s life, and when questioned after murdering Kennedy, Oswald specifically asked for an ACLU attorney.

Savodink said that Oswald’s fellow marines called him “Oswaldskovich” because of his fascination with communism and the U.S.S.R.

Whatever theories exist about connections to the Soviet Union, Cuba, the mob, the CIA, or anything else, Lee Harvey Oswald was a leftist true believer that wanted to take out the President of the United States and leader of the free world.

Ultimately, Oswald was militantly anti-American, desperately tried to join the country’s enemies, and would have willingly betrayed the United States.

The rifle just arrived that morning, and he hadn’t taken it to a range or farm to sight-it-in? And he made the kill shots with no prior practice? From what accounts I’d read a long time ago, he was a barely average marksman in the USMC.

Oswald picked up the rifle at the house where his estranged wife was living. The guy who drove him to work saw him put it in the car (wrapped in paper). Oswald said they were curtain rods.

Yes he practiced with it. He also shot at a General Walker with it.

Oswald was not a good shot. He shot three times at Kennedy. One missed completely. One hit him in the upper back (I'm sure he was aiming at his head) and like likely would not have been fatal by itself. The third hit him in the upper skull. Two inches high or to the right and it would have been another miss.

Lemme say again, I’m neutral on this topic, usually I call out the Conspiracy side.

I mean, if we go with the Conspiracy side which is exciting, we almost have to discount the murder of J.D. Tippit and the attempted shooting of General Walker.

For the record, General Walker if you research the matter, thinks there was more than one person outside his home or at least, there were two people sizing up his house in the days before the attempt.

Note this from the Pro-Warren Report McAdams website:

” At approximately 9 p.m., on April 10, 1963, in Dallas, Tex.,
Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, an active and controversial figure on
the American political scene since his resignation from the U.S.
Army in 1961, narrowly escaped death when a rifle bullet fired
from outside his home passed near his head as he was seated at
his desk. There were no eyewitnesses, although a 14-year-old boy
in a neighboring house claimed that immediately after the
shooting he saw two men, in separate cars, drive out of a church
parking lot adjacent to Walker’s home. A friend of Walker’s
testified that two nights before the shooting he saw “two men
around the house peeking in windows.”

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/walker.txt

Walker too is in the Warren Report, all online if one wants to search it out. I believe Gen. Walker continued to believe the shooting of the Prez. was a Conspiracy. Just the facts, no judgement on my behalf.

Now the curtain rods?? Official records seem to indicate it probably wasn’t a long bad nor a bag that could even hold a dissassembled rifle.

Buell Wesley Frazier is the one that gave Oswald a ride that morning with the bag, curtain rods or what have you:

Warren Report:

“Mr. BALL - How wide was the package?
Mr. FRAZIER - Well, I would say the package was about that wide.
Mr. BALL - How wide would you say that would be?
Mr. FRAZIER - Oh, say, around 5 inches, something like that. 5, 6 inches or there. I don’t— “

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/frazierb1.htm

Or this:

“Perhaps Oswald had lied to Frazier about the curtain rods, and the bag contained the rifle that was later discovered on the sixth floor of the TSBD. Against this is the testimony of Frazier and (Linnie Mae) Randle, who each stated on two occasions that the bag they saw was much too short to have contained the rifle, even in its disassembled state. Frazier also claimed that the bag Oswald had carried was a standard grocery store bag rather than a hand–made package like the one that the Dallas police brought out of the building”

http://22november1963.org.uk/lee-harvey-oswald-curtain-rods

This link seems somewhat neutral even if I think in a few instances, they side with the conspiracists imho.

So like everything in this case, it’s not clear about the bag. On the size of the bag, I’d tend to side with what Mr. Frazier who gave Oswald a ride had to say.

A long post sorry but the links are there for all to see for themselves.

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