On this anniversary a number of articles used to appear talking about Dallas being a center for right-wing extremists. I remember one particular article that said Kennedy was in danger because Dallas was a seething cauldron of right wing hatred. If you were younger and didn’t remember what happened, and who was involved, you would come away believing that the John Birch Society was responsible.
The articles deliberately concealed the fact that Oswald was a Socialist, who had defected to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics earlier in his life, and returned with a Russian wife.
I haven’t seen these articles in the past few years, there’s probably a few that will show up. Tell your kids or grandkids, it was a Socialist who killed JFK.
See post 28.
There were many folks who had the means, motive and opportunity to kill JFK—and most of them had nothing to do with political ideology.
Those who did it had to control both the investigation and the mass media.
That should narrow down the suspects for you.
I remember my boss saying “Look where he was! Dallas!”
But he was not a right-wing figure. He was the first Trump-like figure, defying all concepts of Left and Right—except for any sane person’s dread of the New World Order. Notable that a leftist went after him.
Although I have heard all the conspiracy theories and some of them sound possible, I think it was fear of a strong leader who will stop the drift, even then, toward the New World Order that caused the assassination.