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Originally Posted by spacemanspiff
As far as Oswald goes everything I've ever heard about him indicates that he was not exactly a stable personality. And this was the president of the US who usualy has an extreme amount of security. I've just always thought it was a pretty expertly executed assasination for Oswald to have doen it himself.
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No, Oswald
wasn't very stable, but his particular instabilities make him a more likely assassin than someone with a clean bill of mental health.
Oswald had a deep-seated need to be the center of attention. His life is full of examples of his expressing that need--certainly being an open Marxist in a Marine barracks in, what, the late 50s wouldn't make you a
lot of friends, but it would make you noticed.
After his rejection by the Soviet Union (he wanted to be a hero; he could be some schmo in an electronics factory just fine in the US), he transferred that hero-worship to Cuba instead. Castro implied that Kennedy should be held accountable in a pretty permanent way for the many failed assassination attempts on him by the CIA, and Oswald took that to heart.
In some ways, the greatest punishment Oswald could have ever had was being considered too pathetic to accomplish anything; it's the only benefit I see to his own death and subsequent treatment by the CTs.