I knew Oswald was the accused assassin, but I had no idea how aggressively he advertised his communist beliefs before November 1963.
The guy literally wrote to the Soviet Union asking for citizenship, saying: “I am a communist and a worker, I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves”. He defected to Russia in 1959 thinking he’d find an ideal Marxist society.
Back in the US, he didn’t exactly keep a low profile:
- July 1963 – Lectured a group of Jesuits in Alabama about Marxism, confirming he was a Marxist (though he admitted he was disillusioned with the USSR)
- August 1963 – Appeared on New Orleans radio debating anti-communists, where he admitted he was a Marxist and defended Castro’s Cuba
- Summer 1963 – Handed out pro-Castro “Hands Off Cuba!” leaflets on the streets of New Orleans and was arrested for disturbing the peace
He also attempted to assassinate anti-communist General Edwin Walker in April 1963—months before Kennedy—and left a note for his wife suggesting he expected to be caught or killed.
Now here’s the twist that blew my mind: many researchers and even some government investigations have suggested Oswald was set up as a fall guy. The House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979 that JFK’s murder was probably the result of a conspiracy. Jim Garrison (the New Orleans DA whose investigation inspired the film JFK) built a case that Oswald was deliberately framed by US intelligence elements. Some conspiracy theories claim Oswald was an “innocent fall guy” who played no knowing role, while others suggest he was a CIA asset set up to take the blame.
The guy was basically walking around telling everyone he was a communist, getting into debates, handing out leaflets, and even trying to kill an anti-communist general—then suddenly he’s the lone gunman who killed the president? And he gets murdered by Jack Ruby before he can talk?
I’m not saying I believe any particular theory, but the timeline is absolutely wild.
Keep reading.
Oswald’s branch of the fair play for Cuba committee had only one member, him. Some of his leaflets were stamped with the offices of a cia asset. His defection to the ussr raised flags by the people processing his entrance but their concern was overruled.
When the story of the loner, directed by outside forces and manipulated into action, is referenced in media they’re using our understanding of Oswald as a baseline to tell that story.
Go listen to the blowback episode about Oswald. It’s one of their Cuba ones.
The guy was basically walking around telling everyone he was a communist, getting into debates, handing out leaflets
This is pretty silly, as its widely suspected that he was a US intelligence asset, and these were thinly veiled actions to build some public communist credentials while actually serving the US empire. All the offices he worked out of were FBI and CIA fronts, all his associates were staunch anti-communists, and he was a US marine.
He was in all probability not the assassin, but one of the cold war pawns chosen for sacrifice that day. IMO it doesn’t really matter who the low-level assassins were anyway, Allen Dulles ordered the hit and the coverup, and that’s the more important story.
That’s a lot of text to not be including any links to sources. Whatcha got?
Though I will concede that a government conspiracy to remove an outspoken public figure advocating for not-capitalism in the 60s isn’t unheard of.
I just heard it on “Michael Parenti - The JFK Assassination: The Gangster Nature of the State”
You are reading a cover story
Kerry Thornleys influence should be involved in this discourse
