Oswald's Motive

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Oswald was 24, for what it's worth.

And working at a dead end job - at $1.25 an hour (in today's dollars that minimum wage or less) - that had no possibilities of advancement. He kept getting fired, couldn't hold a manual job, got fired from the one job - the photography one - that he thought had potential. He defected to the USSR, came back, failed at everything he tried, tried to defect to Cuba. He entered the Marines in 1956 as a PFC and left three years later as a PFC. Wife, two kids who have to live apart from him because he couldn't provide for them. He's 24 not 18.

He wants to leave the US because he can't make it here. He's a failure by any measure - he speaks Russian? - but he blamed society, the US, the FBI, for it.

[Steve M. Galbraith]

Shortly after being fired from the Reily Coffee Company due to poor work (as a greaser of the machines), Marina found him one evening in the kitchen sobbing in despair. He didn't know what they were going to do, where he was going to find work, money. This man is failing in life, failing to meet the basic needs of a man and a husband (remember Marina and Oswald had to live apart for long stretches):

[Bill Chapman]

And working at a dead end job - at $1.25 an hour (in today's dollars that minimum wage or less) - that had no possibilities of advancement. He kept getting fired, couldn't hold a manual job, got fired from the one job - the photography one - that he thought had potential. He defected to the USSR, came back, failed at everything he tried, tried to defect to Cuba. He entered the Marines in 1956 as a PFC and left three years later as a PFC. Wife, two kids who have to live apart from him because he couldn't provide for them. He's 24 not 18.

He wants to leave the US because he can't make it here. He's a failure by any measure - he speaks Russian? - but he blamed society, the US, the FBI, for it.

he blamed society, the US
_Thanks for the support


Bill Chapman
Dead Oswald Tour

[Steve M. Galbraith]

he blamed society, the US
_Thanks for the support


Bill Chapman

I set 'em up and you knock them down. Just as our masters at Langley instructed us.

[Bill Chapman]

I set 'em up and you knock them down. Just as our masters at Langley instructed us.

I knew that already because the WC told me so
and you obviously got that memo as well

[John Iacoletti]

Oswald must have been the most unlucky guy in history that day according to the resident contrarians.  He takes a singular trip for him on Thursday instead of the normal Friday to the location where his wife confirms he kept a rifle on the day before the assassination.  He carries his lunch to work in bag over two feet long.  He lies to Frazier about having his lunch that morning for some unknown reason.  He just happens to be the only TSBD to leave his prints on the SN boxes and the long bag next to the SN.  He is not in the presence of any other person at the moment of assassination and also declines to go out on the street to watch the motorcade even though he has read JFK's book and is likely the TSBD employee most interested in politics.  Thus, he has no credible alibi.  Then he decides to knock off for the day even after a cop pulls a gun on him without asking what is going on.  It's off to the movies!

There’s nothing “unlucky” about any of that. Only people who are hopelessly indoctrinated and incapable of independent thought consider any of these things to be evidence of murder.

But it does give you yet another chance to spew the same old tired and contrived narrative as if all of the claims in it are factual.

[John Iacoletti]

Shortly after being fired from the Reily Coffee Company due to poor work (as a greaser of the machines), Marina found him one evening in the kitchen sobbing in despair.

Looks like an excerpt from Priscilla Johnson McMillan‘s novel.

[Jon Banks]

And working at a dead end job - at $1.25 an hour (in today's dollars that minimum wage or less) - that had no possibilities of advancement. He kept getting fired, couldn't hold a manual job, got fired from the one job - the photography one - that he thought had potential. He defected to the USSR, came back, failed at everything he tried, tried to defect to Cuba. He entered the Marines in 1956 as a PFC and left three years later as a PFC. Wife, two kids who have to live apart from him because he couldn't provide for them. He's 24 not 18.

He wants to leave the US because he can't make it here. He's a failure by any measure - he speaks Russian? - but he blamed society, the US, the FBI, for it.

He reportedly got a better paying job offer at the airport before taking the Book Depository job.

Why he chose to work that low paying job at the Book Depository, we don't know. But what evidence is there that he couldn't have gotten a better paying job?

How many Americans who were fluent in Russian language during the Cold War would be "unemployable"?

And again I ask, is it normal for someone to view themselves as a "failure" at such a young age? He didn't know he would be killed at 24.

It seems like you guys are projecting your own biases onto Oswald. Including the conservative implication that his being raised by a single mother somehow turned him into a sociopath. Being raised poor by a single parent isn't easy but 99% of people who grow up like that don't become violent criminals. So it looks like you guys are grasping at straws again...