JFK Assassination Forum

Brennan ran up to the police immediately after the shooting and told them he saw a shooter in the window. This was when many were running around the grassy knoll and fence area.

Did he make that all up? He didn't see anything? And then got lucky about a story he made up? Other people also saw a gunman and/or rifle. He lucked out by being right?

He may have seen the gun being drawn back in, but the rest of his story is wishy washy at best.

Gus Russo's view, primarily detailed in his book Live by the Sword, is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman but was heavily influenced by pro-Castro agents and the climate created by the Kennedys' secret war against Cuba. Russo argues that Cuban intelligence was aware of Oswald's intentions and encouraged him, leading to the assassination.

Key Points of Russo's Theory

Oswald's Motivation: Russo contends that Oswald, a pro-Castro fanatic, acted out of a desire to impress the Cuban regime and secure asylum in Havana. Oswald was enraged by news of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's personal supervision of plots to assassinate Fidel Castro.

Cuban Awareness: According to Russo's research, which included interviews with retired Cuban spies, Cuban intelligence had been aware of Oswald since his time in Minsk (1959-1961), where he interacted with Cuban agents training nearby. They were aware of his visit to the Cuban embassy in Mexico City in September 1963, where he loudly threatened to kill President Kennedy in exchange for a visa.

Encouragement, Not Direction: Russo stops short of saying Oswald was a formally recruited or trained Cuban agent. Instead, he describes Oswald as a "self-generating agent" whose actions were encouraged and potentially facilitated by pro-Castro contacts who saw an opportunity to retaliate against the U.S. for its attempts to overthrow their leader.
The Cover-Up: The subsequent cover-up, Russo argues, was orchestrated by top U.S. officials, including President Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy, to hide the U.S.'s own "secret war against Castro" and prevent a potential nuclear war with Cuba and the Soviet Union if the connection became public.

Russo's theory ties the assassination directly to the heightened Cold War tensions and the clandestine operations against the Castro regime, explaining both Oswald's motive and the government's secrecy in the aftermath.

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As I contend there had to be a second gunsel on 11/22...I wonder if G2'ers were in fact involved on 11/22.

MTG-

Yes, Brennan most likely only saw the TSBD6 sniper, but could not make an ID.

However, Amos Euins also said he saw a sniper in the TSBD6 window, but could not make an ID.

There were three loud gunshots heard inside the TSBD, and heard by multiple witnesses, during the JFKA.

LHO, as an identifiable person, was invisible during the JFKA, although he is the prime suspect as the TSBD6 shooter.

My take: Someone fired a rifle in the direction of the JFK limo from the TSBD6 sniper window, during the JFKA.

Was the someone LHO? Likely, but not beyond reasonable doubt. He might have had an ancillary role to the JFKA, or been an unwitting participant.

The wound patterns to JFK and Gov. JBC seem to imply a second shooter as well, perhaps using a silencer.

The bid to completely exonerate LHO from the JFKA has always struck me as a case of JFKA community ideologues at work. The work of HSCA backed up a lot of the evidence relied upon by the WC.

Nor have LHO's links to G2 or the KGB been explored enough, in part as they cannot be, due to the fact that Moscow and Havana control G2 and KGB files.

Dear Comrade Griffith,

Do you think Brennan didn't see anyone at all, or he did and the evil, evil Deep State bad guys forced him to say it was Oswald?

-- Tom

Fame seeker most likely. People will say or do anything for attention.

   Personally, I believe the absent turn onto Elm St also has to do with the total time the JFK Limo was physically on Elm St. I believe when making that (L) turn, driver Greer was confused as to whether he was supposed to make a lazy (L) turn and proceed down the Elm St Ext, or make a hard (L) and go down Elm St. (There are rumors of the JFK Limo almost jumping/bumping the curb/Island). The longer the JFK Limo is physically on Elm St, then slows down the calculated avg MPH of the car while it was moving down Elm St. And, the calculated MPH of that car is entirely based on the Current Zapruder Film and its' 18+ frames per second. The slowing of the avg MPH of the JFK Limo makes obvious that it was down to a crawl at the minimum. This then validates the "rolling STOP" cited by many eyewitnesses including DPD Motorcycle Officer Hargis. (This "rolling stop" being totally ABSENT from the Current Zapruder Film). Photog Wiegman capturing the JFK Limo going under the Triple Underpass AFTER he jumped out of Camera Car #1, and then ran down Elm St, makes it clear that the JFK Limo was on Elm St longer than the Current Zapruder Film leads us to believe. There is no perfect crime. Wiegman's filming of the JFK Limo going under the Triple Underpass revealed that the JFK Limo was on Elm St much longer than the Current Zapruder Film purposely misleads us to believe.