re: Watched JFK last night

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Oswald was the lone shooter. Having been there and stood in that window I can tell you that it was an easy shot for anyone with moderate firearms training. The scale you perceive from video and pictures of the scene is way off. It's a much smaller area than you think. He also had a perfect vantage point.

That said, there's waaaaaaay too many oddities about Lee and connections to intelligence services to believe he wasn't put up to it and was just a nut.

A 19 year old with an 8th grade education defects to the Soviet Union and shows up speaking and reading Russian. Well enough that his would-be wife thought he was not a native but most likely from Latvia or Estonia. And then when he becomes "disillusioned" the US State Department gives him a grant to afford to fly back home. And he did this while still in the service but wasn't tried for desertion or as a traitor despite telling American authorities in Moscow that he planned to give the Soviets what secrets he knew about the U2's radar signature. None of that makes sense. Multiple, huge problems with that story. How'd he learn fluent Russian? Why on earth would our own government pay his way home? Why wasn't he prosecuted? His defection was in the NYT. It wasn't a huge national scandal at the time, but it was publicized.

He ran a pro-communist political organization, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which he was the ONLY MEMBER, out of the same small New Orleans office building as Guy Bannister, a right wing radical anti-communist and former FBI agent and rumored CIA associate. That doesn't add up, does it?

His only friend in Dallas was George de Mohrenschildt, a CIA associate and wealthy White Russian (the enemy of the communist Bolsheviks Lee admired). Kind of strange bedfellows, wouldn't you say?

It's all too much to believe he's just some loser acting on his own. The dude was tied to multiple CIA affiliates and ran some sort of intelligence game by going to Russia. Add in his being raised poor by a single mother in a time when that was rare, moving around the country constantly as a kid, precociousness mixed with some kind of defiant streak or learning disability, brothers all in the military, and you have the perfect makings of the kind of person the CIA targeted to do work for them.

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This is what I think, too. Oswald was no angel and he had the ways and means to take out JFK on his own.

However, I do think there's enough smoke to wonder if there was an actual conspiracy and more than person planned the assassination. I think you could argue about the mob connection or even CIA connection. He wasn't some lone loser or nutter.