Oswald once considered hijacking a plane to Cuba

[Richard Rubio]

He once considered hijacking a plane to Cuba

According to McMillan, Oswald wanted to help train Castro?s army in Cuba, but because he could not secure a visa, he was forced to devise an alternative plan. As McMillan told FRONTLINE:
    Lee wanted to go to Cuba to help teach the Cuban army how to shoot. He decided the way to go was to skyjack an airplane. He told Marina that he would sit in the front row of the airplane cabin. She would sit in the back row with June. At a certain point, he would put a gun in the back of the pilot of the aircraft. She would stand up and keep the entire passenger contingent at bay with a pistol, and would speak to them. She would speak to the crowd and tell them to be quiet. Marina laughed at him, and said, ?Well, but I don?t speak English. How am I going to explain to them?? Eventually she laughed him out of the skyjacking plan, and she begged him to find a legal way to get to Cuba. Then he thought of going through Mexico.[/i]
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-lee-harvey-oswald/

[Walt Cakebread]

He once considered hijacking a plane to Cuba

Prior to Lee proposing the idea ( of hijacking an airliner) to Marina, there had been a hijacking in which the hijacker was welcomed to Cuba.....  Lee Oswald was trying to gain entry to Castro's bastion so he could report on what he observed there....

Lee proposed or attempted several schemes in his efforts to gain entry to Cuba.

[Barry Pollard]

"According to McMillan..."   when she's the only source always remember the keyword."alledgedly".

[Jerry Freeman]

According to author Priscilla McMillen, Oswald?s wife Marina once asked him if he chose the name ?Hidell? because of its resemblance to ?Fidel? (as in Castro). Oswald ?was embarrassed to be caught out, and he told her to shut up,?

Right

[Richard Rubio]

"According to McMillan..."   when she's the only source always remember the keyword."alledgedly".

Worked for then Senator  John F.  Kennedy, always remember who she worked for:

McMillan worked for Kennedy on Capitol Hill in the mid-1950s, when he was a U.S. Senator, advising him on foreign policy matters. She then moved into journalism and in 1959 was stationed in the Soviet Union, reporting for The Progressive and the North American Newspaper Alliance. It was there that she met a 20-year-old American called Lee Harvey Oswald. He was staying in her hotel while trying to defect to the Soviet Union.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/the-only-person-who-knew-both-kennedy-and-his-killer/281712/

Met with Marina in Oct. 1964, Yeah, sure, allegedly like every journalist's interview.
More on her: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2511774/The-woman-knew-Kennedy-Lee-Harvey-Oswald.html
Remember, the only person who knew both Oswald and Kennedy? Or might Mohrenschildt have met JFK before? He knew Jackie as a child.

[Richard Rubio]

Right

And there is some other plausible explanation?

[Joffrey van de Wiel]

Oswald's 'plan to hijack a plane to gain entry into Cuba' is just one of Marina's crazy stories. He never had such a plan. He didn't need to. He could have travelled to Cuba by peaceful means, the only limitation imposed by his financial means. The notion that Lee wanted to to Cuba to train the Cuban army (single-handedly?) is ludicrous. The story falls in the same category as his alleged intent to assassinate Richard Nixon: it never happened.

[Richard Rubio]

Oswald's 'plan to hijack a plane to gain entry into Cuba' is just one of Marina's crazy stories. He never had such a plan. He didn't need to. He could have travelled to Cuba by peaceful means, the only limitation imposed by his financial means. The notion that Lee wanted to to Cuba to train the Cuban army (single-handedly?) is ludicrous. The story falls in the same category as his alleged intent to assassinate Richard Nixon: it never happened.

Oh, it was easy to travel to Cuba at the height of the Cold War, after the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis. Thanks for clearing that up!