Nov 1963 I lived in off campus Wheaton College. A freind from high school stoppped over on Nov 9, my birthday. He opened his suitcase. it had a long rifle that screwed together and thus fit in the suitcase. And a few had guns. a lot of ammo.
He told me the commies were going to try a coup d’etat in Tx. He and his militia buddies were going to TX to stop them. He had trained with “I Led Three Lives” triple agent in CO. He had led a demonstration at the Minneapolis Airport. He was proud of a photo he has of himself about 20 ft from JFK holding a sign “The troops should be in Cuba, Not Ms”. A big hand gun wasvisible bulging from his pocket in the photo.
Never once had he been questioned by law enforcement. They had enough undercover agents and informants in the militia group to know who everyone was.
I had heard conspiracy stories from him before. So I went to my YPSL far left crazies. They had heard the same rumor. They also were armed to the hilt and headed for TX. But their rumor was that the Far Right was the aggresor.
On Nov 22, 1963 Dallas TX had jundreds of far right and hundred of far left armed to the hilt. Half of them were probably undercover FBI and other alphabet agencies. Half were true believers. We don’t see any of that in the Warren Report, or any other report. Not from the left. Not from the right.
Subsequent to Nov 220,, 1963 both extremes realized they had all chickened out... all but one or two of them. (Jack Ruby?) Both organized extremes fell apart until LBJ escalated JFK’s war to the 1968 level. Then the Left extreme started to organize again. But it was splintered by racial politics and sexual politics. So the extreme left was mostly fighing other extreme left groups and not focused on the riht.
I wonder if we’ll ever find out the truth about that. I still think Oswald acted alone in the assassination itself because some couldn’t believe that a moron could bring down the most powerful man in the world alone....