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| Lee Harvey Oswald's Little Green Book Shows JFK Wasn't The Real Target |
| 2016-11-23 |
| In the hours after the Kennedy assassination, after Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit and was identified as the president's assassin, a Secret Service officer named Mike Howard was dispatched to Oswald's apartment. Howard found a little green address book, and on its 17th page under the heading "I WILL KILL" Oswald listed four men: an FBI agent named James Hosty; a right-wing general, Edwin Walker; and Vice President Richard Nixon. At the top of the list was the governor of Texas, John Connally. Through Connally's name, Oswald had drawn a dagger, with blood drops dripping downward. Special Agent Howard turned the address book over to the FBI and, ultimately, to the Warren Commission. Only some time later did he learn that the list with its hugely important insight into the killer's motive had been torn out of the book. I didn't hear about Howard until after I published my book "The Accidental Victim" three years ago on the 50th anniversary of the assassination. In it I argue a circumstantial case that it was Connally, not John F. Kennedy, who was Oswald's target in Dallas. It is the story of a smoldering grudge in which Oswald came to associate Connally with all the setbacks in his disastrous, hopeless life. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #12 Until see a retraction in The National Enquirer, I'm not gonna' belive this! / sarc |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-11-23 19:07 |
| #11 Would you feel better, little girl, if he was tossed out of a window? |
| Posted by: Archie Bunker 2016-11-23 15:07 |
| #10 Exactly! |
| Posted by: Grarong Spawn of the Heathen Rus2966 2016-11-23 13:38 |
| #9 I too have been to the window. Easy shot. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2016-11-23 11:22 |
| #8 Lee Harvey Oswald was NOT a bad shot. He was a former Marine and a rated "sharpshooter" but was later downgraded to "marksman". Either of the two ratings would have been enough to make the shots needed from where he was positioned. I also have been to the window, (Dallas native) and I could make those shots and I am probably not as skilled as he was. He was targeting JFK. |
| Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 2016-11-23 10:39 |
| #7 OK, he shot Kennedy by mistake. Does that make it all better? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2016-11-23 08:57 |
| #6 Oswald was a lot of bad things, but a bad shot not. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-11-23 08:28 |
| #5 I've been to what might be called Oswald's window. Easy shot. When I recalled he had a scope instead of iron sights.... |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2016-11-23 08:08 |
| #4 So the meme is that Oswald was a poor shot? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-11-23 07:13 |
| #3 forgot, the 2013 reference is to this |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-11-23 06:27 |
| #2 the 'Oswald really wanted to kill Connally' has been around the block before, e.g., in 2013. It is, at least a step down from the more elaborate theories (CIA, mafia, LBJ, etc.). a big problem with this theory is that Oswald had a good view of the vehicle and the people in it for quite a while as the President's car went toward him - Oswald knew who was sitting where and yet two of Oswald's shots hit JFK - if Oswald would have wanted to kill Connally, he presumably would have aimed at Connally. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-11-23 06:26 |
| #1 Vice President Richard Nixon? Oswald was still in Russia raising a family and living the communist dream when Nixon left the Eisenhower administration in 1961. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-11-23 03:57 |