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In reply to the discussion: 10 Facts about Lee Oswald that make 70% of Americans Wonder... [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)people start with "The Death of A President" by William Manchester. Try very hard to read it in the four days that it covers and you'll get a good sense of what that weekend was actually like for those of us old enough to remember it. I was in high school.
I have never read the Warren Commission Report, but I have read the Bugliosi book. Excellent.
I get so tired of the claim that Oswald couldn't possibly have acted alone, or that there was some incredibly massive conspiracy and cover up, for which no good evidence has ever come to light.
Oswald was a loose cannon. He was unhappily married, could only find work at minimum wage meaning he couldn't actually support his family. He'd fired shots at some general or whatever just a few months before. He got lucky that JKF's motorcade went right past his workplace that day. Yeah, lots of people in Dallas weren't too fond of the President, and there was that nasty ad in the paper, but it's not some vast network of assassins at work, just one lone nutcase, which is all it takes.