[Poohbah]

The KGB killed him in retaliation for taking hard lines on Cuba and the Communists in SEA. It's a no brainer.

Yeah, that idea's a no-brainer.

Lee Harvey Oswald was a complete loser. Nobody with an IQ greater than a turnip's entrusts a sensitive operation to someone as messed up as Oswald was.

And Oswald acted alone. That much is easily documented by everyone except the hardcore conspiracy nuts.

Suggested reading: Case Closed by Gerald Posner.

There's a simple reason why no one wants to believe that Oswald acted alone: we don't want to believe that one deranged loser could--and actually did--kill the President.

[WoodstockCat]

much like another loner, John Wilkes Booth.

[Beckwith]

Nobody with an IQ greater than a turnip's entrusts a sensitive operation to someone as messed up as Oswald was.

Oswald, a Marine who was trained as a Russian interpreter, had a Top Secret/Crypto clearance. In the depths of the cold war, he somehow got a visa to go to Russia. The boy was CIA up the ass and no one can convince me otherwise.

I don't know what the clinical evaluation "messed up" means, but Oswald was not an amateur and his behavior in the day of the assination and follwoing was not the behavior of someone who was "messed up."

My own opinion is that we will never know the who, what and why of this tragedy.

[hchutch]

Excellent post.