[Ditter]

He said he did it for Jackie, at least that is what I remember.

[Excellence]

That’s what he said, but the real reason went with him to the grave.

[M1903A1]

Probably his post-shooting justification for what was really an impulsive act. He was known for being impulsive and going off half-cocked, so to speak.

As to Oswald's being critical of the Soviet Union, yet being a "committed Marxist"...is that any surprise? When have we not known a member of the cult of Marx to keep declaring, in the face of another bloody failure, that "true Marxism" has "never been tried" and move on to their next object of collectivist worship? Following the exposure of the Soviet Union as a Stalinist charnel house with its own imperialist ambitions, the next object of unrequited love for leftists was Third World socialism...most notably Castro's Cuba.