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To: Shooter 2.5
Again I'm not much into it and if you say the shot could be made, then maybe it could? But the thing that comes back to bother me about Oswald doing the shooting is WHY? Not the how of it, say he made those shots, that's great(well it's not great considering a man died), but up to that point in history most assassinations had some political purpose behind them and usually a group supporting them. I just don't see a deluded crazed man deciding, Hey I'm going to shoot Kennedy and going to do it.

Let's say Oswald did it. WHY?

59 posted on 12/11/2001 5:44:56 PM PST by billbears
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To: billbears
Let's say Oswald did it. WHY?

I wrote a little essay on that somewhere on FR a while back, giving my own estimation of his motive. The short version is, he was an inadequate person and he had a driving need to compensate for it. He had a deep psychological need to be important. He went through a series of events in his life to try to make himself so, including his defection to the Soviet Union and his adoption of communism. But none of it worked. His frustration combined with his violent tendencies prompted him to resort to shooting at important people, thinking that by such action he would make important changes in the world and therefore be important himself. He shot at General Walker, was prepared to shoot at Nixon, and then one day Kennedy drives right under his window.

69 posted on 12/11/2001 6:43:59 PM PST by mlo
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