Post by John CorbettPost by Steven M. GalbraithPost by MarkI'm sure Marsh and Harris and the poster who goes by the Delta Airline
seat number from hell, 19efppp, will join me in this.
I want to express my appreciation to the moderator for allowing us to
post so much about the election.
I think John realizes it's THE topic on everyone's mind right now, and
that he's going to allow us to be off-topic for a little while.
Better get it in while you can, because it may not last. Mark
Yes, thanks to John for allowing this venting.
We need to move on - as a country and topically - and the sooner the
better.
As to the assassination: I finished up "Operation Solo", the book about
the Childs brothers. Morris Childs was a serious person engaged in very
dangerous work. His claim that Castro told him Oswald threatened JFK when
he was at the Cuban consulate at Mexico City is very credible. I can't see
how he would make that up.
Maybe Castro was just making it up. But I don't think Childs would.
Somebody made it up because there was no way Oswald could have possibly
known at the time he went to Mexico City that random chance would hand him
the opportunity to assassinate JFK.
Oswald didn't say "I'm going to kill JFK in Dallas as he rides by the
building where I work." Morris said Castro told him:
"First of all, nobody ever goes that way for a visa. Second, it costs
money to go that distance. He [Oswald] stormed into the embassy, demanded
the visa, and when it was refused to him, headed out saying
‘I’m going to kill Kennedy for
this.’…..What is your government doing to catch the other
assassins? It took about three people.”
It was a general threat; not a specific one. According to both the Cubans
and the Soviets, Oswald was acting hysterically and was very distraught
and upset over not getting his way. According to the Soviets he pulled a
revolver out and said he needed it to protect himself from the "notorious
FBI." Why wouldn't he in that condition make some wild-eyed threat against
Kennedy? It makes sense to me.