You do realize that he never made a confession to the Dallas PD or FBI, right? Furthermore, every time he was in public he denied it and stated he was a patsy.
Hardly the talk of a commie revolutionary.
Hardly the talk of a commie revolutionary.
He wasn't fighting in the streets or waging guerrilla warfare in the mountains. But he was a communist sympathizer, and those sympathies had a lot to do with why he shot Kennedy.
Oswald probably expected to get away. When he got caught he lost his nerve. He had a wife (barely) and a child and relatives (of a sort) and maybe in the moment he couldn't bear them thinking badly of him.