Final_Judgment

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What role do you think Oswald played (other than "patsy") in the
JFK assassination? Was Oswald aware, in advance, of a conspiracy to
kill JFK? Is it possible that he was helping the conspiracy, perhaps as a
loyal CIA man, for example, not knowing that he was slated to be the
patsy? Was he a CIA operative or an FBI operative or what?
These are questions that will probably never be resolved. Oswald was
indeed the patsy. It's always been my opinion, however, that there were
probably other people in Dallas on November 22, 1963 who were possible
alternative patsies—others who had already been "sheep-dipped" as had
been done with Oswald. The people responsible for setting up these other
patsies may have been those who had set up Oswald—or perhaps not.
Was Oswald one of the shooters in Dallas? I don't believe that Oswald fired
a loaded round at either John F. Kennedy or John Connally, if indeed he
fired any weapon that day. My general feeling is that Oswald may have been
roped into the conspiracy by being told that it was a "dummy"
assassination attempt to scare the American people into thinking that action
was needed against Fidel Castro.
Oswald may have been instructed to bring a rifle to the Texas School
Book Depository (from where the Warren Commission claims Oswald fired
the fatal shots). Whether it was his own rifle or another rifle or whether that
weapon was actually used to fire any of the shots we will probably never
know. (There are some who question whether or not Oswald was actually
the person who obtained the alleged assassination weapon through the mail
to begin with!)
It seems likely to me that Oswald knew that there was something going on
in Dealey Plaza that day that may have involved, at the very least, the firing
of rifles. I doubt that Oswald actually thought that the rifles would be trained on
either JFK or John Connally. I strongly suspect Oswald was a little bit
surprised, to put it lightly, when he learned that the president had been hit by
gunfire.
Was he aware of a conspiracy to kill JFK? As I've already suggested, I
don't think that he was aware of such a conspiracy. Instead, he probably
believed he was part of some "set up" that had been orchestrated by JFK
himself. Or, as I've suggested, he may have thought it was being arranged
by the CIA to make JFK have second thoughts about Castro. Who knows?
A new book by Professor John Newman, Oswald and the CIA, tells us
very much about Oswald and the CIA, citing many intelligence documents,
but it also tells us very little. All it really tells us is that the CIA and other
government agencies had an interest in Lee Harvey Oswald for some time.
This is no surprise. However, as Newman does make very clear, it was
Angleton's division at the CIA that was ever-present, it seems, when the
CIA was assembling information on Oswald. In short, Angleton knew who
Lee Harvey Oswald was—long before the assassination. (Actually, in
retrospect, it may have been Angleton who dreamed up the idea for
selecting Lee Harvey Oswald as the patsy. Quite likely, I would say.)