Word: oswald
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...suspicion that Castro or his agents could have conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald to kill Kennedy rests chiefly on the fact that the Cuban leader had reason to be angry with the President. There had been the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Additionally, the CIA tried to assassinate Castro in the 1960s, using U.S. mobsters as hit men. There is also some slight circumstantial evidence for the theory. In September 1963 Oswald sought a visa to enter Cuba at the country's consulate in Mexico City. That same year, Oswald was arrested...
There have been reports that Oswald, when seeking his visa to Cuba, told Cuba's Mexican Consul, Eusebio Azcue, of his plans to kill Kennedy and that the information was relayed to Castro, who did not take it seriously. This was contained in a National Enquirer article by British Journalist Comer Clark. Castro scoffed at the report as fictitious. Azcue recalled Oswald as having been "discourteous" when his visa application was rejected but said that they never talked about Kennedy. Nonetheless, the House committee staff cryptically reported to the Congressmen that "the substance of the Clark article is supported...
...committee also heard last week from an assassination buff, Advertising Man Jack White of Fort Worth, who has fed conspiracy theories for a decade by insisting that two famous snapshots of Oswald holding his rifle were fakes. Marina has said all along-and reiterated to the committee-that she had taken the pictures. Moreover, a panel of experts convincingly refuted White. The committee even turned up other prints of Oswald with the weapon, including one that he had signed...
Other experts gave testimony supporting the "single bullet theory," that one bullet fired by Oswald hit both Kennedy and former Texas Governor John Connally. Engineer Tom Canning of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the two were so seated in the car that a trajectory traced from their bodies led to the sixth floor of the book depository, where investigators have established Oswald was perched with his rifle...
There will undoubtedly be some people who will always believe a fourth shot was fired. But at the halfway point of the monthlong hearings on the Kennedy assassination, the overwhelming weight of evidence heard by the committee points to the same conclusion reached by the Warren Commission: Oswald, acting alone, killed Kennedy...