Posted on 11/23/2003 11:36:02 AM PST by veronica
The shooting of President John F. Kennedy was not a political conspiracy but an almost spontaneous act by a troubled man who wanted attention, the brother of Lee Harvey Oswald says.
Oswald had been depressed, feeling since childhood that he was unwanted, and was looking for a way to grab the spotlight, Robert Oswald said in interviews on NBC's "Today" show Saturday, the 40th anniversary of Kennedy's death, and with ABC News.
"There was no conspiracy," Robert Oswald told NBC. "He made those decisions within himself."
The government-appointed Warren Commission also concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, firing from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building where he worked in Dallas as the president's motorcade drove through Dealey Plaza.
"If you go right down the line and look at it, all the facts will point to Lee's involvement. Lee actually committed the crime, period," Robert Oswald told ABC.
As children, the Oswald brothers had been placed in orphanages by their mother after their father died. Lee Harvey was barely 3 when he was sent away the day after Christmas, Robert Oswald said.
"Very early on, he learned that he wasn't wanted," he told ABC.
The killing of Kennedy, Robert Oswald said, was likely an attempt by his brother to get into the spotlight.
"Lee's political demeanor was simply a method of getting attention. He wanted to stand out, no matter what the crowd was. He was going to be different from the crowd," he told ABC. "If everybody had been Marxist, he would have been an American, vice versa. You know, Russian, whatever, he would have been opposite to stand out.
"The reason Lee went after the president is because of opportunity and no other. If he wasn't working where he was working or if the president's car wasn't going by there at that particular time, it wouldn't have happened. It wasn't a master plan or anything. There's no shadowy figures out there. He wanted to be somebody and this opportunity came about coincidentally, nothing planned, nothing organized."
Asked about his brother's denial after his arrest, Robert Oswald, who wrote "Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald" but rarely gives interviews, said his brother "was basically saying `I'm smarter than you. You gotta catch me.'"
Robert Oswald also described his last meeting with his brother, in jail the morning after Kennedy's death, a day before Lee Harvey Oswald was shot to death by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.
"I was looking into his eyes, searching for some sign," Robert Oswald told NBC. "And he just looked back at me, and finally he said, 'Brother, you won't find anything there.' And he was absolutely correct. there was no emotion. There was no flicker in the eye."
Of course he said that. It's all part of the conspiracy, people!
The BS the conspiracy nuts want people to believe, is that Robert Oswald would ignore evidence that would clear his brother.
It's just plain crazy.
It was physically impossible for it to have been the work of just one man. Consider the physics- look at the Zabruder film. Even better, try to fire three bullets from a bolt-action rifle, and fire accurately over that distance at a moving target. I have friends who are professionals at such skills, and even they can't do it....
Therefore, since Oswald could not have done it alone, it is, by definition, a conspiracy. That you fail to recognize the realities of what I have told you, doesn't mean I'm crazy- just that you are uneducated as to the facts.
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No it wasn't not at all.
WHAT? No recordings? No transcripts? Not even a stenographer's notes on those hours of questioning? Hmmm. The cops must have been too busy finding a way to get Ruby back into a decent shooting position, since Ruby failed to shoot Oswald when the cops let him into Oswald's "press conference".
Your refusal to accept this reality, tells me you don't know much about guns- and nothing about how difficult it is to rapidly fire a bolt-action rifle.
Until you do become educated on such things, you aren't worth talking to.
(((sighing in disgust)))
Another woman who feels, but won't bother to think.
Indeed. I was thinking that this morning...
Lots of conspiracy theories debunked here - and my opinion is based on what I know, from what I have read and studied, including the Warren Commission report.
AND Lee Harvey Oswald's brother agrees with me. He's a man, btw.
Exactly.
So - are we going to discuss the history that made our nation what it is? Or do you want to sit around and debate over shadows on a set of negatives?
My point - our nation changed because of Kennedy and because of his assasination - not because of the mechanics behind the event, but because of the event itself.
This thread, and so many others like it, obsesses over who did it, why they did it - not the effects that the President had on our national history.
Don't make this an issue of sex.
Gerald Posner thinks he ended the controversy with his book, denying a conspiracy.
Some females know a thing or two about rifles.
OH MY G-D! THEY GOT TO HIM, TOO!
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