[ifinnegan]

Thanks for that response.

I myself really couldn’t say. I think, though, the question is the type of response Oswald expected.

Who knows what he thought - revolution or war with Russia.

Yet, the act had serious repercussions on our nation and weakened us greatly. Perhaps even terminally, as we can see now 50 years later.

The left was hugely strengthened as well due to the US weakness.
It really was an effective political assassination.

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I've had a little time to think it over. If you keep Cuba, Castro and the Bay of Pigs in mind (as Oswald probably did), you can say that the assassination was a left wing political act with a clear political goal: to get back at Kennedy for trying to topple Castro.

Greenfield gets into the Weathermen, Czolgosz, Sacco and Vanzetti and a lot else besides but doesn't find time for Castro and Cuba. All the name dropping was impressive at first but then you can ask questions and poke holes about whether they were all the same thing.

If he'd stuck with Castro he'd have made his point much better.