Don't blame Dallas; Don't blame Texas (for JFK assassinatin)

[question everything]

we are told. Oswald was not from Dallas, said Bob Schieffer. (well, not exactly), he came to Dallas to assassinate the president.

Fair enough. Though I admit that I've always associated Dallas and Texas with this event.

Still, it will be easier to accept it if the current face of Texas were not Ted Cruz and Rick Perry. If Texas, with the larges uninsured group in the nation did not "decline" to participate in the ACA and the exchange.

[stopbush]

1. Oswald did not "come to Dallas to assassinate the president."

Oswald moved to Dallas in the spring of 1962, a year and half before JFK's trip to Texas was even planned.

Where do people come up with such crap?

[DesertFlower]

2. exactly. nt

[SheilaT]

3. Exactly.

I firmly believe that Oswald did it all by himself, and he was simply a deranged man who decided to take advantage of the opportunity he had, oh the wonderful luck he had in taking a job at the Texas School Book Depository Building that the Presidential motorcade would go by that Friday morning.

It was luck and happnestance. To posit a complicated plot starts involving more complications than are necessary. Keep in mind that Oswald had fired shots at some general (I forget the name and I can't be bothered to do an internet search) a couple of months earlier. He was a classic loser who was looking for some sort of fame and glory. He was also only 23 years old. Twenty-three. That is almost heart-breakingly young, except that he'd crammed a lot into those few years, the defection to Russia, marriage, a child, a return to the U.S.A., another baby. Then his inability to provide for his wife and children. Oh, and how he deliberately kept his wife isolated, not wanting her to learn any English. He was a genuinely disturbed young man who reached out for his moment of glory.

Oh, and for those who would place huge significance on his saying he was just a patsy... I'll ask you, who ever readily admits to such a crime?

[Fumesucker]

4. Someone looking for his moment of "glory"?

[SheilaT]

8. That happens. That's why there are also those who falsely confess

to crimes. Most of the time people deny everything, even when caught on tape or film.

[question everything]

5. Or, who would select such a loser for such an important mission?

Even the Cubans would not allow him to visit.

And with a $12 gun..

[Throd]

6. I blame Sacramento for Squeaky Fromme.

[PlanetaryOrbit]

7. It was always absurd to blame an entire city for the actions of one shooter anyway.

Since when do tens of thousands of people share responsibility for the murder committed by one person?

[CK_John]

9. He grew up in a blue collar neighborhood in Bronx, NY. But the venom of Dallas at the first

Catholic president was thick enough to cut. Dallas helped set the stage.

[Paladin]

10. The present-day, nation-wide venom directed at Obama......

....makes 1963 Dallas look positively genteel by comparison.