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Oswald’s mind, he did not murder Mr. Kennedy as a hated human being, but rather
delivered a most vehement political protest, registering dissent from the administration’s
policy toward the Marxist Cuba he traitorously supported.” 219 Newman diverged from
the Warren Commission in theorizing that Oswald was on his way to attempt to kill
Walker again when he was accosted by officer Tippit.
The strength of Newman’s book is to place Oswald’s life within the framework of
history events, including as noted before the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis.
Although his own Cold War attitudes make the work dated, Newman provided more
context to Oswald’s actions than the Warren Commission. For example, the
Commission’s report provided no background about General Walker, who was both a
right-wing “Birch Society” anti-communist and a staunch segregationist. Walker in fact
was accused of inciting the riot that broke out when federal marshals escorted James
Meredith to enroll as the first African-American at the University of Mississippi on
September 30 and October first, 1962. Newman contended that Oswald, who told several
people that he supported the civil rights struggle, obviously knew of these events, in
addition to the general’s anti-Cuban activism. On April 10, 1963, Oswald allegedly fired
the shot at Walker, months after the Mississippi rioting.
In her 1983 book Oswald’s Game, independent researcher Jean Davison
emphasized Oswald’s work as a pro-Castro agent provocateur. Davison accepted the
official version of Oswald as an avowed Marxist, and she took his ostensibly extreme
219 Newman, 571.
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