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This one voting option is in the category of no **** sherlock.
"No, somebody else did the shooting"
Oswald was a communist. He greatly admired Castro. He defected to the Soviet Union. He killed JFK.
Those facts have caused such cognitive dissonance on the left that leftists have ginned up a whole raft of conspiracy theories trying to reconcile those facts with their world view.
The fact of the matter was that Oswald had a furnace for a brain. His mother had messed him up badly by constantly failing with men and jobs and moving him around the country 20 times while he was growing up. Never having been allowed to establish roots anywhere, he felt permanently alienated from American society. Later on, like many such people, he professed to be looking for nothing but a place where he could put down roots but quickly got bored wherever he lived and kept moving around. He thought he'd find peace and a purpose for his life in the USSR. He got into Russia on false pretenses and then got the government to allow him to stay by injuring himself. They at first refused his request for asylum, but later allowed him to stay in Minsk, but then he got bored again. The KGB kept an eye on him but otherwise wouldn't touch him or give him anything to do other than drab factory work. After he returned to the US he was looking for something that would justify his existence. He was a while in Dallas, got bored, to New Orleans, bored again, back to Dallas, on to Mexico. He offered his services to the Cubans but was rebuffed because the Cubans thought he was a nut case. Back to Dallas. Wherever he went he stirred up trouble with his pro-communist activities, more fanatical about his communism than the other communists, seemingly seeking some sort of recognition for himself. At one point he attempted to kill an anti-communist Army General with the same rifle he used on JFK. In all of these things communist organizations kept him at arm's length. They saw him as a liability, and so he always acted alone. And then he settled on doing one big thing; he went after the anti-communist President.
The assassination wasn't the product of a political agenda or of communism. It was the product of one troubled mind.