When Oswald lived in Minsk he was expected to actually work for a living. That turned him off from the USSR in addition to the chronic shortages of almost every type of consumer goods. The USSR’s operatives could see that Oswald was an ingrate, a brat, and an unguided missile.
Of course even Oswald could make those shots at those easy distances of less than 75 yards.
So the Left had the problem that a Leftist zip wad killed Kennedy so the Left created these idiotic theories that now half of FR suckles from.
“so the Left created these idiotic theories that now half of FR suckles from.”
Isn’t that the sad truth.
They all parrot Mark Lane, author of “Rush to Judgment”. The same Mark Lane who was a volunteer with the National Lawyer’s Guild, the Communist front group. Mark Lane who was once the VP candidate on a Peace and Freedom Party ticket.
The difference is that Mark Lane and his ilk knew that their theories were garbage, garbage intended to fool people whom they called useful idiots. Apparently that plan worked like a charm.
One thing’s for sure: the modern urge for confiscatory gun control began when they held up Oswald’s surplus rifle & LBJ called it “mail order murder”.
Took five years for LBJ to put teeth in that belief. Thank goodness Ronald Reagan began letting the air out of the gungrabber’s rhetoric while he was President.
>>Of course even Oswald could make those shots at those easy distances of less than 75 yards.
I’m not sure what you mean by “even Oswald.” He had been a Marine, and you didn’t get out of basic not being able to hit with iron sights at much greater distances than that. He would have been in Marine Basic c. 1957, so plenty of his DIs would have been hardened, no-BS Korean war veterans. They’d darn sure make sure he knew how to use a rifle before getting out of Basic.