Lee Harvey Oswald goes to trial
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PsihoKekec
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There will always be people who will claim he was brainwashed and/or that the evidence was tempered with.
It would reduce them but I suspect probably not stop them completely.
Yep, just like there are people who believe in JFK Jr.'s impending resurrection:
The Fringe QAnon 'Cult' Is Still Waiting for a JFK Jr. Miracle in Dallas
John F. Kennedy and JFK Jr. weren't resurrected but the Qanon group, led by conspiracy theorist Michael Protzman, isn't going anywhere.
www.rollingstone.com
BTW, I suspect that Lee Harvey Oswald would get executed for assassinating JFK. What do you guys think? He wasn't insane like John Hinckley was and in any case (and unlike Hinckley) actually succeeded in murdering his target.
PsihoKekec
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I read somewhere that at that time murder of police officer carried automatic death penalty in Texas and since he killed a policeman in the cinema, he would get death penalty for it, so it would be a bad form for the court to hand him a lesser penalty for murdering the president.
Which makes Jack Ruby even more of a dumbass for taking the law into his own hands and personally killing Oswald.
Navarro
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It would reduce them but I suspect probably not stop them completely.
Most JFK conspiracies were spread by the Soviets to obscure the fact that Oswald was a communist who had spent time in the USSR and a KGB asset. Oddly enough this fact is rarely taught in schools ...
PsihoKekec
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It's quite likely that he was a GRU asset, rather than KGB though.
Why exactly would the Soviet Union have wanted to kill JFK, though?
Could be any number of reasons. Maybe they thought he would be able to successfully make the case for Vietnam. Maybe they successfully predicted Johnson's Great Society would undermine the black family destroying nearly all the progress made since the Civil War and making a race war a possibility. Maybe Oswald was a precaution in case Kennedy became a problem and slipped his leash.
PsihoKekec
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They didn't, assassinating country leaders was a big nope (unless it is a vassal state, then it is OK). Oswald was considered useless as intelligence source, so he was allowed to return to the USA with his new wife who most likely was a GRU agent, he was her cover, knowingly or not. Whether Oswald really killed the Kennedy is up for debate (he certainly killed the cop), he was nutty enough to do it, but he was also perfect for patsy.
My guess is that once he turned his simping from USSR to Cuba, he became convinced that with the end of Cuban crisis, the USA will try a second invasion of Cuba and with Kennedy coming to Dallas he saw it as his chance to prevent it.
It was quite embarrassing for USSR that a guy who defected to them and they used as a cover for their intelligence agent, killed USA president and they launched a bunch of conspiracy theories to divert the attention to CIA. And the many loony conspiracy theorists within USA then took the matter much further than even the Soviets intended, probably earning some intelligence guys unearned promotions.
Sergeant Foley
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Oswald likely gets the death penalty and executed ASAP via lethal injection.
I can't deny that this sounds nice, even though I am of course against the death penalty.
Sergeant Foley
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I am 100% staunchly Pro-Capital Punishment.