[plain talk]

Who knows? Look at what you have. Kennedy tries to invade Cuba via Bay of Pigs, humiliates Krushchev via Cuban Missile Crisis and you have one of the assasins, Oswald, having spent time in the Soviet Union with a Russian wife. It's obvious to me. The details, logistics and connections are a different matter. We'll never know how it was done.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

You are accepting the Kennedy myth-makers' "spin" that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a humiliating "loss" for the Soviet Union. It was emphatically NOT. They got our missiles out of Turkey (look at the map and see how strategically important that was to them).

As well, they got a GUARANTEE from Kennedy that we would cease efforts to topple the Communist Castro government in Cuba. Pretty good chess move on Nikita's part, I would say.

Also, I seriously doubt that the KGB would have used an assassin with such clear and obvious ties to the USSR for an act that could easily end with their cities in smoking ruins- IF the American people really thought that they had murdered our President.

I think that, of all the possibilities, a Soviet-backed political assassination is the least probable.

It is not impossible that Oswald was simply a nutjob who managed to pull off the crime of the century- but I still like LBJ as the prime mover in this. Probably because I hated the SOB.