Posted on 11/22/2020 11:55:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was riding in his open-top motorcade in Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas when he was struck by multiple gunshots and killed.
Former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was believed, by the prevailing accounts, to have been responsible for firing the shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building, which struck Kennedy in the neck and head as his motorcade passed through the plaza at 12:30 p.m. that day. According to History.com, Oswald is believed to have fired three shots, with two hitting and fatally wounding Kennedy and another shot hitting and wounding then-Texas Governor John Connally. Oswald was arrested in connection with the assassination but was shot and killed two days later.
The shots that killed Kennedy were caught on film and the shocking footage has seen decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about what truly happened that day. Witness Abraham Zapruder captured some of the closest footage of the shooting, in what would come to be known as the “Zapruder Film.”
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I was living in the US at the time.
We had lived in Rocky Mount NC for about a year before moving to Waterbury Conn.
I got to see JFK there during a campaign rally in a mall parking lot.
From there we moved to Massachusetts and Newtonville, Lowell and Chelmsford.
I was going to Moody Jr. High in Lowell when the news came.
We were let out of school early and I headed to the nearby Catholic Church to pray.
It was a very traumatic and sad time made more so by the videos of the assassination.
The actual evidence says Oswald did it. Don't know what that has to do with 2020.
Nope. Never said it was. Oswald, as far as we know, knew where he was.
There was one American who said he didn’t remember.
You’re blind.
I vividly remember that photo of LBJ being sworn in.
I was 18 at the time, and thought to myself,
“He looks like the cat that swallowed the canary!”
He was lying of course. The CIA didn't use Oswald for anything.
"How did they come by that much information in two days? Who would have “dossiers” ready to go when needed?"
You made quite a leap there. It was the biggest story in the world, covered by hundreds of reporters actually doing their jobs. In a couple of days it they put together a lot of background. Not really surprising.
Lee Harvey Oswald Archive. An extensive archive of 39 letters (many with the original envelope), totaling 69 pp., written to his mother and brother dated from September 1959 to October 1962. An evocative grouping that collectively provides great insight into Oswald's life and activities in the years prior to his assassination of John F. Kennedy. In fact, 19 of the letters (18 to his mother and one to his brother) were seized as evidence by the Warren Commission. Unfortunately, the letters investigated by the Commission were laminated and many bear the original numbered tags used by the Commission as identification...
Upon final discharge from the Marines, Oswald immediately began to plan his migration to the Soviet Union. He had learned rudimentary Russian. Unable to apply for a visa in the United States to the Soviet Union, he submitted applications to European universities (including Schweitzer University, see lot 12231). After spending three days with his mother, Oswald departed for New Orleans, where he boarded a ship for France on September 20.
In a letter postmarked Sep. 19, 1959, New Orleans, Oswald informed his mother:
“Well, I have booked passage on a ship to Europe. I would of had to sooner or later and I think Its best I go now. Just remember above all else that my values are very different from Roberts or your’s. It is difficult to tell you how I feel. I did not tell you about my plans because you could hardly be expected to understand. . . . Lee”
The letter has been laminated together with the envelope, and appears clean and highly legible. The letter is addressed in Oswald's hand to “Mrs. M. Oswald / 3124 WEST 5th ST. / FORT WORTH, / TEXAS”.
Upon arrival in France, Oswald immediately set upon getting to the Soviet Union. He first made his way to England, and then to Finland where he applied for a visa at the Soviet embassy. Oswald received his Soviet visa on October 14, and promptly departed Finland the next day, arriving in Moscow on October 16. Oswald made immediate his intentions to renounce his American citizenship. The Soviets must have been suspicious of his zeal, because on October 21, Oswald's application for Soviet citizenship was denied. Oswald did not bear the rejection well, and made a half-hearted attempt to take his own life. Soviet authorities cautiously kept him under psychiatric observation at a hospital following this event.
All but one of the remaining letters in the archive were written during his years in the Soviet Union. These particular letters are most interesting because they show his progression from complete enthrallment to Communism and the Soviet Union to disillusionment and paranoia. In an antagonistic two page letter (5.5” x 8”, not laminated) to Robert, dated Nov. 8, 1959, he wrote of his passion for the Soviet Union and his hate for the United States:
“Well, What shall we talk about? The weather perhaps? Certainly you do not wish me to speak of my decision to remain in the Soviet Union and apply for citizenship here, since I'm afraid you would not be able to comprehend my reasons. You really don't know anything about me. Do you know for instance that I have waited to do this for well over a yea r, do you know that I [in parentheses he has written a small phrase in Russian] speak a fair amount of Russian which I have been studying for many months.I have been told that I will not have to leave the Soviet Union if I do not care to. this then is my decision. I will not leave this country, the Soviet Union, under any conditions, I will never return to the United States which is a country I hate.
Someday, perhaps soon, and then again perhaps in a few years, I will become a citizen of the Soviet Union. but it is a very legal process, in any event, I will not have to leave the Soviet Union and I will never leave.
I received your telegram and I was glad to hear from you, only one word bothered me, the word ‘mistake’. I assume you mean that I have made a ‘mistake’ it is not for you to tell me this, you cannot understand my reasons for this very serious action.
I will not speak to anyone from the United States over the telephone since it might be taped by the americans. . . .”
Two weeks later, he wrote again to Robert (8pp., 5.5” x 8”) on November 26, 1959, elaborating on his negative feelings about the U.S. government. Quoted in small part below:
“I shall begin by anserwing [sic] your question on why I and my fellow workers and communist's would like to see the present capitalist government of the U.S. overthrown.Do you remember the time you told me about the efforts of your milk company to form a union? Try to see why workers must from unions against their employers in the U.S..
It is because the government supports an economic system based upon credit which give rise to never ending cycle of depression , inflation, unlimited speculation (which is the phase America is in now) and war.
In this system art, culture, and the spirit of man are subjected to commercial enterprising, religion and education are used as a tool to suppress what would otherwise be a population questioning their government's unfair economic system and plans for war.
Science is neglected unless it can be directly used in making war or producing more profit for the owners of business's.
These are some of the reasons. look around you, and look at yourself. See the Segregation, see the unemployed and what automation is, remember how you were laided [sic] off at convair? I remember well the days we stood off-shore at Indonesia waiting to surpress [sic] yet another population, when they were having a revolution there in Mar. 1958. I can still see Japan and the Phillipines [sic] and their puppet governments. More important I can see the american in uniforms men who were there because they were drafted or because they were adventursom [sic] or unemployed in civilian life.
I will ask you a question Robert. What do you support the American government for? What is the Ideal you put forward? Do not say ‘freedom’ because freedom is a word used by all people through all of time. Ask me and I will tell you I fight for communism. This word brings to your mind slaves or injustice, this is because of american propaganda, look this word up in the dictionary or better still, read the book which I first read when I was 15, ‘CAPiTAl’, which contains economic theorys [sic] and most important the ‘communist manifesto’. . . .
When I talked to a reporter I gave most of my reason's, however the story I found out later was badly slanted and left out my real reason, the reporter was only interested in a colorful story. . .
my Marx’ist [sic] learning brought me here to the Soviet Union. I have always considered this country to be my own. . . .
These people are a good, warm alive people These people would never think of war, they wish to see all peoples live in peace but at the same time they wish to see the economically enslaved people of the west free. . .
I want you to understand what I say now, I do not say lightly, or unknowingly, since I have been in the military as you know, I know what war is like.
1. In the event of war I would kill any american who put on a uniform in defence of the american government - any American -.
2. That in my own mind I have no attachment's of any kind in the U.S.
3. That I want to, and I shall, live a normal happy and peaceful life here in the Soviet Union for the rest of my life.
4. That my mother and you are (in spite of what the newspaper said) not objects of affection, but only examples of workers in the U.S.
. . . If you would give the contents of this letter (except for that which is for your benefit) to some reporter, it will clarify my situation. . . . Lee”
I actually know the evidence. Unlike most people professing to have an opinion.
Throughout 1962 and 1963, the U.S. military extensively tested the AR-15. Positive evaluations emphasized its lightness, “lethality”, and reliability.[17] However, the Army Materiel Command criticized its inaccuracy at longer ranges and lack of penetrating power at higher ranges.[43][37][17] In early 1963, the U.S. Special Forces asked, and was given permission, to make the AR-15 its standard weapon.
The Secret service was using this “new rifle”. In 5.56.
That’s the one. It appears to have gone down the memory hole.
You are thinking of today.
You do realize they didn’t have the Interwebs or Google yet?
Just disseminating it in that amount of time would have been difficult, much less putting it to together.
Somebody had it ready to ship to the wire services.
Brennan and Comey were both admitted “former” Communists who headed Obama’s CIA and FBI
If 2020 has told our government class anything, it’s that this country is fully ready for a Nazi or Soviet style dictatorship...with a smiling feminine face and big boobs.
Kennedy wasn’t elected.
The Mafia stole it for him.
Just like Biden.
Deep State behavior today has me questioning all post war history.
The MoFos baked everything.
Then you are willfully lying.
“However, the Army Materiel Command criticized its inaccuracy at longer ranges and lack of penetrating power at higher ranges.”
Which begs the question as to why conspirators would use an experimental rifle of dubious reliability rather than tried and tested rifle and ammunition variants?
Whitey Bulger and Jeffrey Epstein got whacked and no one even lost their job.
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