Oswald's Motive

[Jon Banks]

How can you possibly let a sicko mother like that off the hook

Oswald was murdered. How is getting murdered being "let off the hook"?

[Jon Banks]

Persecution complex, paranoia...the same general "The world is out to get me" view. His mother held the same sort of view. It's one that, again, I think Marxism made clearer to him, filled in the details. That view divides the world between oppressor and oppressed, the capitalist owners and the ordinary workers. Oswald was one of the latter. But he also mocked the workers, viewed them as dumb and ignorant and unable to see how they were exploited. Thus the loner behavior.

I think "contrarian" is a better description of Oswald's personality and his contradictory views.

Contrarian: opposing or rejecting popular opinion; going against current practice.


And his brother Robert basically said something along the lines of Lee wanting to be "different" and viewing Marxism as a way to achieve that.

What would have been the appeal to him about something like Marxism?

The appeal to Lee of something like that Marxism, communism, socialism, would be something unique, something different — not [an] everyday occurrence.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/interview-robert-oswald/

[John Iacoletti]

What is remarkable, as I said elsewhere, is the conspiracy believers think we are insane. Or incredibly stupid. We don't see that this was all an act, a "history" created by the powerful government, this powerful "they" that can do almost anything. All of this evidence of the man is really a lie that we fall for.

“All of this evidence”. LOL.

[Walt Cakebread]

I think "contrarian" is a better description of Oswald's personality and his contradictory views.

Contrarian: opposing or rejecting popular opinion; going against current practice.


And his brother Robert basically said something along the lines of Lee wanting to be "different" and viewing Marxism as a way to achieve that.

What would have been the appeal to him about something like Marxism?

The appeal to Lee of something like that Marxism, communism, socialism, would be something unique, something different — not [an] everyday occurrence.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/interview-robert-oswald/

And his brother Robert basically said something along the lines of Lee wanting to be "different" and viewing Marxism as a way to achieve that.

You may recall that Lee talked to his brother on Saturday and told Robert that he shouldn't believe the news accounts of the assassination.... Because there were "things "  going on behind the scenes that he could talk about....     That must really have alarmed the eavesdroppers who heard him tell Robert not to believe the BS that was being presented in News reports, because Lee was shot to death less that 24 hours after he told Robert.