If that happened today, the first thing that would happen is NBC would brand Oswald “a former marine so obviously a right wing militia type” then they would photoshop an NRA logo on his tee-shirt in that photo of him holding up the rifle, then somehow get racism involved in it, then they would blame Republicans for it while doing everything they could to hide Oswald obsession with Marxism.
I am sure they have tried to blame Republicans for it
Cronkite kept harping on the a “Right Wingers” attacking Adlai Stevenson in Dallas just a few weeks before the assassination. So they just *knew* it had to be right wingers that killed JFK.