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sabrina 1

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5. Just one. The second one you posted. I grew up assuming it was a 'lone wolf' right wing lunatic
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 11:04 PM
Nov 2013

who killed Kennedy and never questioned it until I read Garrison's book. There I learned that Oswald was NOT a lone wolf at all, and more incredible, he was supposedly a Leftie, not a Right Wingnut.

Then I wondered why a Commie would want to kill a Commie President. Aren't all Dems 'commies'?

Then I learned he was a former Marine who at the height of the anti-Communist period in the US defected to the Soviet Union and that this was news at the time.

That made me wonder how it was that a US Marine effectively betrayed his country by renouncing it and worse, publicly defecting to the Enemy.

That led me to try to find out how come he was back in the US and not in some jail somewhere on suspicion of being of a spy.

I'm still wondering about that. I also found out he was married, had two children, lots of friends and 'associates', was an active 'Commie', had a mother who thought he was 'working for the government' when he defected etc etc.

Regardless of JFK, this guy was an amazing story even without that.

So then I wondered why he was protrayed as someone who came out of nowhere, a 'loner' when nothing could have been further from the truth.

I'm still wondering how he, not only got back into the country with virtually no problems, but was allowed to bring his 'enemy' wife here.

At the height of Communist paranoia!

I haven't been able to figure all that out.

And that is all without the assassination itself.

So many lies, so many questions, so few answers.

I read "Oswald" by Norman Mailer. RagAss Nov 2013 #1
None. It makes me too sad. Glad they are out there though. Bobby, too. The last of the great libdem4life Nov 2013 #2
I have read too many to recall... JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #3
I started with those and Livingstone and Groden's "High Treason". Spider Jerusalem Nov 2013 #4
Sounds like my reading as well, and in the same order. stopbush Nov 2013 #9
Just one. The second one you posted. I grew up assuming it was a 'lone wolf' right wing lunatic sabrina 1 Nov 2013 #5
Oswald's tale is definitely an interesting and highly unsual one Fumesucker Nov 2013 #24
How many book have you read on 9/11, ESP, UFOs, Roswell? Same Difference. nt Logical Nov 2013 #6
"I marched down to the local bookstore" PETRUS Nov 2013 #7
I read "Chariots Of The Gods" by Eric Von Daniken 40 years ago. Archae Nov 2013 #8
I guess everybody on this thread is nuts meanit Nov 2013 #10
So You Read Them, Huh ??? WillyT Nov 2013 #11
I have not read one single book on Kennedy's assassination. defacto7 Nov 2013 #12
Check Out Jim Marrs' Crossfire... Even In The Preface He Tells You Not To Trust The Book... WillyT Nov 2013 #13
Thanks WillyT... defacto7 Nov 2013 #15
In 2038 I will be 92. Blue_In_AK Nov 2013 #21
I know what you mean. defacto7 Nov 2013 #30
A shot of less than 100 yards on a slow moving target is not only likely... Gravitycollapse Nov 2013 #36
Posner's Case Closed exboyfil Nov 2013 #14
I still have that paperback edition of On The Trail of the Assassins somewhere. nyquil_man Nov 2013 #16
Does Stephen King's 11/22/63 count? krawhitham Nov 2013 #17
Bizarre that Stephen King used plagiarist Gerald Posner and Edward Epstein MinM Nov 2013 #38
one that influenced me was "Richard Case Nagell: The Man Who Knew Too Much" grasswire Nov 2013 #18
Thank You For That !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #19
Alex Cox with a nice Richard Case Nagell summary (video) MinM Nov 2013 #44
A couple more good books in my bookcase are.. MinM Nov 2013 #45
Many years ago I picked up four or five... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #20
Yeah... I Heard That Gun Was Generally Considered A Piece Of Shit... WillyT Nov 2013 #23
Except the rifle was found to be quite accurate when test-fired. Spider Jerusalem Nov 2013 #31
Keep reading-- the bolt problem is still there... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #32
Not really, no. Spider Jerusalem Nov 2013 #34
Wow. I can't believe I'm actually putting "JFK" on my trashed word list. Iggo Nov 2013 #22
Bye... WillyT Nov 2013 #25
Take it easy... Iggo Nov 2013 #26
None Marrah_G Nov 2013 #27
I read a number of them decades ago but the best one I ever read was Samantha Nov 2013 #28
I have read over 75 books, read the complete Warren Commission report gopiscrap Nov 2013 #29
I probably shouldn't post this, but I will anyway. ZombieHorde Nov 2013 #33
Haven't read any oswaldactedalone Nov 2013 #35
None. I won't put money in CTs pockets. HooptieWagon Nov 2013 #37
I saw that episode of The X-Files with the Cigarette Smoking Man. Does that count? Orrex Nov 2013 #39
Top 10 by Lisa Pease MinM Nov 2013 #40
None. I worked with a couple of pathologists who worked on JFK when it happened mulsh Nov 2013 #41
One less than the number of opinions I have on the subject. Coyotl Nov 2013 #42
JFK was assassinated!? rock Nov 2013 #43
One. Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy ScreamingMeemie Nov 2013 #46
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