Weren’t ones like Cronkite disappointed that Oswald turned out to be a devoted Marxist as opposed to being a Republican?
Yep, Cronkite just *knew* it had to be a Right-Winger. He kept bringing up the attack on Adlai Stevenson in Dallas, a few weeks before the assassination, as proof that it just had to be Right-Wingers that did it.
Was not a devoted Marxist. Maybe started that way as a teenager but later was participant in a false defector program sponsored by the CIA. Came back to serve as a patsy. By several accounts associated with and trained anti Castro Cubans.