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In reply to the discussion: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy believed President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)would have been able to listen to broadcasts from Cuban radio while he lived in Dallas and Irving (and probably also New Orleans). These broadcasts routinely (and correctly, as later revelations would reveal) called out the U.S. government and JFK's administration specifically for its ongoing attacks on Castro's Cuba, even after the agreement that such invasion attempts would stop after the Bay of Pigs.
It's not too far of a leap to extrapolate that Oswald, who sought to travel to Cuba to join the revolution, would have seen attacking JFK as in some twisted way advancing the cause of the Cuban revolution, in the process gaining favor with the Cuban government and people. Just one month before the assassination, LHO travelled to Mexico City where he attempted to secure a visa into Cuba and, when that effort stalled, to get a visa to re-enter the USSR (which would have given him transit rights through Cuba).
N.B. Staff for the Warren Commission examined LHO's finances in meticulous and mind-numbing detail. At the time of his death, LHO had a net worth of some $200 U.S., most of which he left with Marina at Ruth Paine's house in Irving the Thursday night before the assassination. If Oswald were in the pay of some nefarious power, one would expect his finances to show some rudimentary sign of it. But every one who knew LHO and Marina constantly commented on the fact that they lived in dire poverty and constantly depended, to quote Tennessee Williams, on the "kindness of strangers."