My brother never fired a weapon in his life. After OCS at Quantico he could put a a squirrels eye out from a thousand yards(exaggeration here but I think you get my drift).
I never said Oswald was a sniper, just that he certainly
became a Marine. He didn’t wash out. And he was crafty enough to buy the Italian carbine through the mail most likely so some Texas gun dealer wouldn’t be able to say “I sold that guy a Mannlicher Carcano rifle!’’ Again, I don’t buy the conspiracy bit anymore. People talk.
And something like being part of a plot to kill the
President of The United States would make you a liability to someone high up the DC food chain You could even end up dead yourself if you knew too much.
Apparently E. Howard Hunt did talk. His two sons recorded him making (near) deathbed confessions to a conspiracy. E. Howard Hunt's wife discounted them saying the son took advantage of his declining lucidity, but then she would have a motive to protect her husband's legacy given that earlier in life he had denied any involvement under oath before congress, and been involved in a few libel lawsuits.
Does this prove anything? No, it does not, but it does make the contention that, "Somebody would have talked about it," a little more tenuous.