And let's look at it the other way, as pointed out in several episodes of 'The Men Who Killed Kennedy' pasted in above -- particularly 'The Guilty Men'.
LBJ had the most to lose if JFK continued to live and remained president. He would be taken off the next ticket as VP, and possibly investigated and jailed as a criminal. A lot of his business associates were looking at losing valuable rebates under JFK, and still others like KBR and weapons manufacturers would not make a killing if the Vietnam War did not proceed. If JFK was killed, on the other hand, LBJ would automatically be made president, he could perpetuate the Vietnam War, continue the handouts to oil producers, continue with his own crooked dealings and kickbacks, and so on. Apart from the incredible executive power he would gain, there was also an automatic reputational enhancement in the public mind with the office of President, even if not elected to the position, thus making any later criminal prosecution increasingly less likely.
It is known LBJ used Mac Wallace for several earlier killings. Mac Wallace was facing the death penalty for murder at one stage and was let off with a 5 year suspended sentence so he could go free immediately and do more hits for LBJ as and when required -- the only way he could be set free under those terms was if someone very important was manipulating the judge and judicial system in the South on his behalf -- the judge's ruling is bizarre, even by Southern standards, and easily viewable on the public record. Further, Mac Wallace's fingerprint was found on a box in the so-called 'sniper's nest', whereas there is no convincing evidence linking LHO to the rifle, except a clumsy single 'palm print' on the barrel which could easily have been planted later -- and was not found in a fingerprint check upfront, and it would be difficult to fire a rifle and run off and only leave a palm print and no other fingerprints. It is also highly unlikely LHO ran down several flights of stairs and appeared unflustered in a lunch room 90 seconds later, where witnesses attested he was standing all along -- and other people who were in the stairwell at the time reported no-one going past, especially not a maniac leaping down the stairs. Then there are the numerous problems of accurately aiming and discharging the single shot poor quality rifle with a misaligned scope in a few seconds -- this is a classic 'plant' rifle. Then there is the further problem of mismatched ammunition throughout the exercise, along with the removal of JFK's brain before the autopsy to disallow trajectory observations to be made. And provably altered photos of the wounds that occurred to Kennedy's skull, where anyone can see huge chunks of skull coming off in the Zapruder footage with Jackie Kennedy actually crawling over the boot of the presidential limousine to retrieve a piece of skull and try to somehow keep JFK alive -- remember this footage was suppressed for public viewing for many years, until its release in the early 70s which prompted a public outcry and a new investigation and the conclusion of a conspiracy to assassinate this time -- Dan Rather simply lied to the public in news reports about what he had seen when he was allowed a 'private viewing' of the footage closer to the time, a very suspicious occurrence in itself. Anyhow, the doctored photos show very little damage to the skull with a single small bullet entrance hole which we know from just viewing the Zapruder footage is not possible.
There is however little doubt LHO was a casual and irregular intelligence operative who believed he was being primed for something important, and who may have liked the intrigue and excitement of believing he was doing something important in intelligence as a career, disguised by being planted in several nothing jobs as a cover -- and all the jobs were through LBJ's southern cronies' businesses. The characters named by Jim Garrison all appear to be involved in the network -- David Ferrie, Guy Banister, Clay Shaw, Jack Ruby, even the CAP itself as a movement is suspicious given its founder, another LBJ crony who more than co-incidentally happened to own the TSBD building as well. Apparently Jack Ruby knew LHO as a child, for instance. David Ferrie was in the same CAP platoon as LHO. LHO was, apparently, asked on occasion to guard and escort other intelligence figures of interest such as Dr Mary Sherman and his to-be lover Judyth Very Baker.
At different times LHO was pro-Castro and anti-Castro. He associated with the mysterious ex-CIA Guy Banister who apparently was his 'handler', handing out various pro-Castro and anti-Castro pamphlets in the street as the situation required. He appears to have been sent to Russia by an American intel program that attempted to 'infiltrate' Russia with fake 'defectors' one at a time, whom the Russians always suspected and never trusted. This program was known to be active at the time he went. The fact he mysteriously spoke fluent Russian (according to his Russian wife) before he arrived in Russia suggests he had been primed in his earlier military service for this role. He was then conveniently tarred later as a 'Communist sympathiser' when using him as a patsy. As Jim Garrett noted, all LHO ever wanted to be was a 'good Marine' and clearly felt he served some useful and patriotic purpose acting as an intelligence irregular -- an impressionable and somewhat lost young man manipulated by discourses of patriotism and service and finally used up as a disposable pawn.
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