10 Facts About Lee Oswald That 70% of Americans Must Not Understand

[Douglas Carpenter]

20. I pretty much agree. He was pretty close to the middle of the cold war bipartisan pre-Vietnam,

post World War II - cold war consensus of the the time which would have been pretty hawkish and supported at that time by the overwhelming majority of Americans of both major parties. It would been unthinkable and politically implausible in the atmosphere of that time with recent memories of having "lost China to the Communist" and forced to a draw in Korea with the Communist for any Commander and Chief to have been seen as surrendering Vietnam to the Communist. People don't realize it today - but aside from a few noble voices and the ravings of a handful of radical academics - the Vietnam War at that point in the early 60's was supported by almost all Americans and certainly backed by virtually the entire media. Any President at that time would have been under overwhelming pressure from almost universal public opinion, the media and the leadership of both parties to prosecute the war in Vietnam aggressively. There would have been few voices to urge otherwise. As with President Obama who like JFK was a centrist by the standards of their era - many on the far right saw JFK as a radical left-wing extremist while many on the left wanted to believe that in spite of all evidence to the contrary JFK was really at least in his heart one of them. Many of the supporters of JFK assassination conspiracy theories hold that same romantic by completely inaccurate view.