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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)Oswald killed JFK in a communist revolutionary act of support for Castro's Cuba?
I suppose it is plausible that if Oswald was indeed insane then he might have felt that JFK's death would somehow eiliminate the efforts to remove Castro from power.
The fact is, however, that JFK had many more enemies on the other side of the political spectrum. Hardline, anti-communist Republicans had been leading the charge against Castro, and JFK was in fact hindering their efforts. While Nixon was Vice President under Eisenhower, they had developed plans to invade Cuba. Covert funding was even provided to train militias to overthrow Castro. Nixon was counting on winning the presidential election of 1960 and following through on these plans. Instead, it was JFK who executed the Bay of Pigs operation, and when it failed, hardline conservatives blamed JFK for the failure.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter98_99/art08.html