The ballistic evidence actually supports the fact that Oswald shot Kennedy from the book repository; and the unique weapon matches the unique ammo, that specifically Oswald purchased for cheap. He also used this same weapon in an attempt to kill the governor; and he did kill a police officer in his escape attempt.
People constantly leave this out because it doesn't fit into anything about being a patsy unless we are going to argue that the cop Oswald murdered was actually a second assassin meant to kill him or something. Oswald also tried to kill the Dallas PD that attempted to arrest him (with the same revolver he used to kill the cop that stopped him for a traffic stop), but they tackled him and kept him alive. The Dallas PD didn't even realize that Oswald was the suspected assassin. He was wanted for a separate murder.
Shots from the grassy knoll are ridiculous because it would have made the shooter fully visible to anyone outside of the plaza, and the shot would have deafened and blown the hats off of witnesses that were standing in front of it. None of those witnesses reported rifle fire 5 feet from their heads.
People involved in the Warren Commission actually did say that the Johnson administration was very keen on making sure it was clear that the Russians weren't involved. I don't doubt that the Johnson administration acted in the manner of a coup, that isn't up for dispute, there were arguments with the white house staff from Air Force One, through air traffic control, and fist fights reportedly broke out between Kennedy & Johnson staffers who literally walked into the building and started removing people's things.
Now, the Warren Commission would have had every reason to make sure the USSR wasn't implicated if they didn't want the military (especially under people like LeMay) not to launch a retaliatory strike on Moscow. If they had admitted that Oswald was a die-hard communist, who had spent years agitating and subverting, infiltrated the military, explicitly worked for the KGB, lived in Moscow, and then shot the president... there's no question there would have been a nuclear war, and the American people would have called for it. Frankly, there was a lot of people in the Pentagon that were trying to start it. (TBH, they weren't wrong)
The underlying question here is whether or not the Russians ordered the assassination. I doubt Kruschev would have wanted it, but there's no question that Russian hard-liners were pushing for war. Castro said that Soviet military officials were the ones that offered up the plan to send nukes to Cuba. They also suggested that it could start a nuclear war, and he said he was prepared to start one if the opportunity arose. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, you will remember the story of Vasily Arkhipov, who was commanding the nuclear fleet escorting the missiles. Once under depth charge attack, the captain of the ship he was on, and the political officer agreed to launch nuclear missiles at the American fleet; but were halted by his orders to wait for further information from Moscow. Additionally, there was great concern that a military coup was taking place against Kruschev at this time as different memos kept coming from the government expressing different attitudes.
It's clear that there were people in the USSR who would have been happy for a nuclear exchange, and there were people in the Soviet Union who wanted Kennedy dead. I suspect this may be more likely than the CIA, who had worked with Kennedy multiple times, and whose use was expanded under his administration. The "scattered like the winds" comment isn't even a proper direct quote, and even if it is, it is in the context of his frustration with the CIA's wildly incompetent behavior with the Bay Of Pigs fiasco.
I basically agree with your assessment.
The ballistic evidence actually supports the fact that Oswald shot Kennedy from the book repository; and the unique weapon matches the unique ammo, that specifically Oswald purchased for cheap. He also used this same weapon in an attempt to kill the governor; and he did kill a police officer in his escape attempt.
People constantly leave this out because it doesn't fit into anything about being a patsy unless we are going to argue that the cop Oswald murdered was actually a second assassin meant to kill him or something. Oswald also tried to kill the Dallas PD that attempted to arrest him (with the same revolver he used to kill the cop that stopped him for a traffic stop), but they tackled him and kept him alive. The Dallas PD didn't even realize that Oswald was the suspected assassin. He was wanted for a separate murder.
Shots from the grassy knoll are ridiculous because it would have made the shooter fully visible to anyone outside of the plaza, and the shot would have deafened and blown the hats off of witnesses that were standing in front of it. None of those witnesses reported rifle fire 5 feet from their heads.
People involved in the Warren Commission actually did say that the Johnson administration was very keen on making sure it was clear that the Russians weren't involved. I don't doubt that the Johnson administration acted in the manner of a coup, that isn't up for dispute, there were arguments with the white house staff from Air Force One, through air traffic control, and fist fights reportedly broke out between Kennedy & Johnson staffers who literally walked into the building and started removing people's things.
Now, the Warren Commission would have had every reason to make sure the USSR wasn't implicated if they didn't want the military (especially under people like LeMay) not to launch a retaliatory strike on Moscow. If they had admitted that Oswald was a die-hard communist, who had spent years agitating and subverting, infiltrated the military, explicitly worked for the KGB, lived in Moscow, and then shot the president... there's no question there would have been a nuclear war, and the American people would have called for it. Frankly, there was a lot of people in the Pentagon that were trying to start it. (TBH, they weren't wrong)
The underlying question here is whether or not the Russians ordered the assassination. I doubt Kruschev would have wanted it, but there's no question that Russian hard-liners were pushing for war. Castro said that Soviet military officials were the ones that offered up the plan to send nukes to Cuba. They also suggested that it could start a nuclear war, and he said he was prepared to start one if the opportunity arose. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, you will remember the story of Vasily Arkhipov, who was commanding the nuclear fleet escorting the missiles. Once under depth charge attack, the captain of the ship he was on, and the political officer agreed to launch nuclear missiles at the American fleet; but were halted by his orders to wait for further information from Moscow. Additionally, there was great concern that a military coup was taking place against Kruschev at this time as different memos kept coming from the government expressing different attitudes.
It's clear that there were people in the USSR who would have been happy for a nuclear exchange, and there were people in the Soviet Union who wanted Kennedy dead. I suspect this may be more likely than the CIA, who had worked with Kennedy multiple times, and whose use was expanded under his administration. The "scattered like the winds" comment isn't even a proper direct quote, and even if it is, it is in the context of his frustration with the CIA's wildly incompetent behavior with the Bay Of Pigs fiasco.