Larry Hancock's JFKA Blog

[John Corbett]

JM--

LHO may have considered himself a patsy, in the sense he was "hung out to dry," or left "holding the bag."

That is, LHO participated in the JFKA, and was promised a getaway ride, and then perhaps a trip to Cuba or offshore. Perhaps a lump sum of money too.

Instead, there was no post-JFKA ride, and LHO's erstwhile confederates had vamoosed.

If LHO had been working for Bruce Solie (as theorized by some)...one can see why US authorities would have conducted a very ginger investigation into LHO's confederates.

Or maybe LHO just lied his ass off.

[Michael Capasse]

"They've taken me in because of the fact that I lived in the Soviet Union. I'm just a patsy".

JohnM

So how does that make him any less of a patsy in the killing of the President?

[John Mytton]

JM--

LHO may have considered himself a patsy, in the sense he was "hung out to dry," or left "holding the bag."

That is, LHO participated in the JFKA, and was promised a getaway ride, and then perhaps a trip to Cuba or offshore. Perhaps a lump sum of money too.

Instead, there was no post-JFKA ride, and LHO's erstwhile confederates had vamoosed.

If LHO had been working for Bruce Solie (as theorized by some)...one can see why US authorities would have conducted a very ginger investigation into LHO's confederates.

That sounds like a real bad idea, after Oswald was screwed by his fellow conspirators, they then allow the pissed off Oswald to be captured and potentially rat them all out, makes zero sense!
If Oswald had associates, they wouldn't want Oswald to leave the building alive and perhaps they would kill Oswald with his own rifle and make it look like a suicide, and plant an appropriate suicide note.

JohnM

[Benjamin Cole]

JM--

Maybe so.

But if the pair of G2'ers had met LHO and used false identities, or possibly even disguises, then even if LHO eventually spilled the beans, he could give nothing except a physical description of a pair of bearded Cubans.

In addition, possibly LHO met only one Cuban, the other being the GK smoke-and-bang show perp.

Two Cubans, post-JFKA, back in Cuba by 11/23. And freshly shaved.

Besides that, not all plans are perfect, and the JFKA CT may have been hatched on the run. They were taking some chances. Or maybe they planned to murder LHO post-JFKA, but plans went awry.

Beyond all that, some political zealots regard accomplishing the act as more important than getting away with it.

Only nine years before the JFKA---

On March 1, 1954, four Puerto Rican nationalists, seeking to promote Puerto Rican independence from the United States, attacked the United States Capitol. They fired 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols onto the legislative floor from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber within the United States Capitol.

The four PR nationalists did not have escape in mind.

...

Two lower-level G2'ers, conspiring with LHO, may have regarded the trying a revenge assassination attempt (payback for JFK's attempts to have Castro assassinated) as more important than getting away with it.

Not everyone is rational by standards you have, or I have.

Someone participating in a presidential assassination may indeed be a bent fellow.

[John Corbett]

I have on question for everyone who is fretting about whether LHO was acting on behalf of the Cubans, Soviets, CIA, Mafia, etc. How did any of these entities know in advance that Oswald would end up working in a building overlooking a motorcade route that had not even been planned when he was hired. If you can't answer that simple question, I have no idea why any of you would want to go down any of those rabbit holes.