Oswald's "Handcuffed Communist Salute"

[Charles Collins]

Charlie, you're a few french fries short of having a happy meal..... You assume something to be true, based on NOTHING but your imagination and then assume that Lee was imitating Castro.........WEIRD!

The communist salute is the symbol which both LHO and Castro identify with. And Castro's description of himself most definitely describes LHO to a T:



The Cuban leader, in his own words, is "violent, given to tantrums, devious, manipulative, and defiant of all authority."

[Charles Collins]

Yes, Charlie.

How dare you suggest that Oswald was an avowed Marxist?

The nerve!

--  MWT 

Anything that doesn't fit in Walt's fantasy world is weird, to him...

[Walt Cakebread]

The communist salute is the symbol which both LHO and Castro identify with. And Castro's description of himself most definitely describes LHO to a T:



The Cuban leader, in his own words, is "violent, given to tantrums, devious, manipulative, and defiant of all authority."

You're weird, Charlie.....  and blinded by your emotions.

[Charles Collins]

You're weird, Charlie.....  and blinded by your emotions.

That opinion, coming from you, lets me know that I am on the correct path...

[John Iacoletti]

That opinion doesn’t surprise me (coming from one who apparently doesn’t think that there is any evidence whatsoever in the assassination case).

I didn’t say that.

However, it doesn’t surprise me that your confirmation bias would interpret a Castro “communist salute” in a picture of a guy showing a reporter his handcuffed hands.

[John Iacoletti]

The communist salute is the symbol which both LHO and Castro identify with.

What is your evidence that Oswald identified with a “communist salute” or even thought there was such a thing?

And while we’re at it, what does any of this have to do with the assassination?

Marxist somehow equals assassin?

[Walt Cakebread]

I didn’t say that.

However, it doesn’t surprise me that your confirmation bias would interpret a Castro “communist salute” in a picture of a guy showing a reporter his handcuffed hands.

I haven't did a study of human gestures, but it seems to me that it would be natural for a person to close his hand when holding it up ....  Raising an open hand indicates that the person wants to ask, or answer, a question......   

[Walt Cakebread]

I didn’t say that.

However, it doesn’t surprise me that your confirmation bias would interpret a Castro “communist salute” in a picture of a guy showing a reporter his handcuffed hands.

This raises a nagging question.....Why DID, Lee hold his manacled hands up to the reporter?     Did he reply to the question ..."Are you under arrest ?" by holding up his handcuffed hands.....