Lee Harvey Oswald

Prove it, please.

The Manchurian Candidate was pulled out of circulation for a little under 30 years after the Kennedy assassination ( I think it was like 28 years)

I seriously doubt the idea that Oswald watched "Suddenly" the day before the assassination. Suddenly was never shelved to my knowledge.

" I just saw this movie for the first time tonight. I hadn't even heard of it. The presenter of the movie said Sinatra pulled it out of circulation (Or was it the Manchurian Candidate, see link below) after learning that Oswald had watched it before the Kennedy assassination. I wish they would provide some proof, like a TV guide from the Dallas stations for October or November 1963 listing the movie as being shown. "


Oswald saw it a month before the assasination on Oct. 18 NOT the night before.

Oswald's brother admitted Lee told him he did it when he visited him in jail.

I watched it on the local PBS station and the presenter said that Sinatra pulled both films but he didn't give any proof. And Low taxes and fighting for our freedoms are two examples of differences between Repubs and Demos. And the right to own guns would be another just like the Sherrif in Suddenly.

Both films were put out of circulation by Sinatra, for many years because he had been close to the Kennedys for many years and felt that the films may have been partly responsible for Oswald's action. Not sure which one was viewed by Oswald, but it's possible he saw both.

For starters, there was no such thing as home video in 1963. In order for Oswald to have seen this film, it would had to have been broadcast on television or run at a local theatre, either of which could have and would have been easily proven by now.

And the point is moot as Oswald did not shoot President Kennedy.

That's funny, Sen Ted Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy were convinced Oswald killed JFK, alone, like the demented dirty little communist he was. All Presidential assassins in the country have always been the same, preoccupied with their misplaced ideas of personal grandeur.

Thank you Gerald Posner. How did Oswald go to the bank when he started work an hour before the bank opened?

Mr.Palka,
I do believe that Lee shot at Kennedy, but there was more involved...
his shot DID NOT kill Kennedy...but naturally he was part of the scene..
many things Lee did NOt know...he found out in a hurry...

Not to pick apart your post, but Oswald was honorably discharged. As for the "shooting from an open window" thing, If someone was going to shoot from hiding in a city or a town, the odds are pretty good they would shoot through an open window.

James Earl Ray's dad didn't die before he was born, but he was not a close father and apparently didn't have much of a relationship with James Earl. Ray fired through an open window.

In addition, the are many disimilarities, Oswald didn't wear a coat and tie, he allegedly worked alone not with a partner or as part of a conspiracy, he positioned himself in a high brick building not a private residence, Baron/Sinatra was doing the job for pay as a professional, Oswald was not.

Here's an excerpt from an article entitled Lee Harvey Oswald’s Motives by Mel Ayton...

In the month before the assassination Oswald may have entered into his revolutionary fantasies whilst watching television. A Secret Service interview with [Oswald's wife] Marina was first recognized by Jean Davison as a telling indication of Oswald’s state of mind. Marina told agents that on Friday, October 18th, [1963,] Oswald had watched two movies on television and he had been “greatly excited.” The first movie was “Suddenly,” in which Frank Sinatra played an ex-soldier who planned to shoot an American president. Sinatra’s character was to shoot the president with a high-powered rifle from the window of a house overlooking a railway station. The second movie “We Were Strangers” was based on the overthrow of Cuba’s Machado regime in 1933. John Garfield had played an American who had gone to Cuba to help a group of rebels assassinate the Cuba leader. Oswald’s reactions to these movies made a strong impression on his wife according to the Secret Service report.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/motives.htm

The confusion arose because Oswald actually saw another presidential assassination film, We Were Strangers, not once but twice on one weekend in October 1963. His twofold viewing of that film came to be understood, in all the chaos immediately following the assassination of Kennedy, as his having seen two different assassination films at that time. Suddenly was naturally but mistakenly believed to have been the "second" one. Vincent Bugliosi, in his 2007 work Reclaiming History, claims that Oswald did see Suddenly on television in October 1963, but Bugliosi misquoted and ignored several other findings, and his claim is not correct.