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1. No Motive. Oswald was by all accounts a devoted and loving father who had a family and a long comfortable life ahead of him. There was no simmering hatred for Kennedy and apparently no delusions of grandeur or aspiration to become famous for killing JFK. No wish to impress Jodi Foster or anything similar. Nothing.
2. Oswald never confessed or took credit. Just the opposite, he asked for legal representation and never confessed to anything. Eventually Oswald said he was "a patsy." They were still trying to get a confession from him after he was shot by Ruby.
3. Oswald was a loyal Marine who given a very high security clearance and worked on the most secretive military projects of the day -- U2 spy flights over the USSR and radar operations.
4. Oswald got a hardship discharge from the USMC, allegedly to care for his mother, but then he went to the USSR instead. His mother was in good health and lived until 1981, age 74.
5. The USSR didn't believe Oswald's story or motivation for wanting to enter the USSR. They rejected his requests to defect. And then stationed him in a snowy hellhole under government observation for 3 years, until...
6. Oswald was welcomed back to the USA after his defection(?) to the USSR. He said he was "bored" and asked for his passport back and got it.
7. There was no official de-briefing of Oswald after his time the USSR. The government was running a USSR defector program to get people into the USSR, much the way Oswald went in but when Oswald came out there is no record of his being de-briefed despite Oswald being an expert on radar and surveillance.
http://jfkassassination.net/russ/jfkinfo4/jfk12/defector.htm
8. Oswald becomes the solo member of "Fair Play for Cuba" and passes out flyers for the group (of one) in one of the most heavily ANTI-Castro areas of the country, New Orleans. He gets reaction only from anti-Castro people. The only address ever given for FPFC was 544 Camp Street -- a building shared with Guy Bannister among a cluster of agency related offices and a garage used by the FBI and other alphabet entities.
9. Oswald didn't have a car and didn't drive. Oswald couldn't even go to the grocery or work without help from someone else.
10. Jack Ruby has no clear motivation to shoot Oswald. Ruby leaves a lucrative business to do so and dies in prison after saying:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby