Carney:
“There is no mystery. Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, did it because he was a Marxist who hated America, and because he was a nutball loser who wanted to make a name for himself. Gerald Posner in “Case Closed”, among others, has exhaustively proven this true, and demolished various conspiracists’ claims.”
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Even if you conclude that Oswald was the only person who fired all the shots, there still are many mysteries.
One mystery is whether Oswald told anyone that he intended to shoot JFK.
* Gus Russo’s book “Live by the Sword” (I think it’s the best book of all) provides many reasons to think that the Cuban intelligence service knew about Oswald’s intention.
* Dick Russell’s book “The Man Who Knew Too Much” provides many reasons to think that Oswald told a former military-intelligence officer Richard Case Nagell, who warned the FBI.
* Ray and Mary La Fontaine’s book “Oswald Talked” provides many reasons to think that Oswald and Ruby were involved in a CIA gun-smuggling operation and that they met as late as four days before the assassination.
If other people did know about Oswald’s intention, then that opens the possibility that the Mafia learned about that intention too and offered Oswald money to carry out his intention. If so, then perhaps Ruby did silence Oswald for the Mafia.
If other people knew about Oswald’s intention, there also is some possibility that someone else shot at the same time, to make sure that Oswald did not fail.
I think also that there is a good possibility that the bullet that hit JFK’s head was shot accidentally by a Secret Service man in the following car. This explanation is argued by Bonar Menninger in “Mortal Error”, published in 1992. This is an excellent, confounding book. Read it, and you will not be able to dismiss it easily.
The books by Gerald Posner and Vincent Bugliosi arguing against conspiracy explanations are excellent.
By the way, Gerald Posner’s book “Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” is a superb book, which deserves much more readership than it has received. If you start reading it, you probably will not be able to put it down.
