Downplaying possible Soviet involvement in JFK murder. Why?

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I have never opined of the JFK assassination here because I am not qualified to post about the subject and what new could possible be found out about arguably the most dissected event in American history. But an ongoing thread about the topic reminded me about something that has always bothered me.

Almost all JFK assassination conspiracy theories revolve around right wingers upset that Kennedy was too weak on the Soviets, or people who were pissed off that his brother the Attorney General was costing them money. The Mafia figures prominently in the financial interest theories.

While these were plausible reasons for murdering Kennedy they ignore the obvious. Oswald spent a whole bunch of time in the Soviet Union and he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba committee. And the assassination occurred a year after the U.S. forced the Soviet Union to back down during the Cuban Missile Crises.

There were and are two main reasons to cover up or downplay left wing motivations one legitimate and one not.

The original wave of conspiracy theories co occurred with the Vietnam War. The anti Vietnam War movement especially before it became somewhat mainstream in the early ‘70s was generally a left of center one. Critics of the war often opined that the real motivation for the war was not the
domino theory given by the government but financial interests such as oil companies wanting to drill in South Vietnam or weapons companies whose business depends on war. Nixon was called a faciast and swastikas did appear at anti war protests

All these decades later the original motivations still predominate and left wing motivations are still downplayed. If the Soviets are mentioned at all it is to note that supposedly the Soviets thought Oswald was too stupid to use. He was too stupid for commies to use but ok for the mob or oil barons to use? Common thinking is bad things are done by people we agree with but is hyped up to deflect from the worse things people we don’t agree with do.


There is a very legitimate reason why the Warren Commission might have covered up possible Soviet involvement. Any proper revenge would have set off World War Three. Why should that matter today with all involved dead or incapacitated? With renewed tensions with Russia now would be a bad time for the U.S. to accuse Russia.

Last edited by ASPartOfMe on 28 May 2025, 12:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I don't see what Soviet would gain by killing JFK. Had they reason to think that his replacement would be any more friendly to Soviet than he was?

They might have thought the Cuban Missile Crises made them look weak and if people thought they did it it would restore credibility.
Killing for revenge is sometimes emotional not logical.
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I hinted at but should have spelled out that Oswald might have done it for his own communist reasons.

Have distantly followed the various conspirascy things on his assasination..And there is many facts and witness accounts
to be that were were at least 2 people who shot Pres Kennedy , obviously both skilled marksman, ( see the grassy knoll theory) but most recently ,people in the media using legal discovery methods (FOIA requests). about his not wanting the US to be involved in a plot with the CIA as a "false flag " event , that the previous President had signed onto, had forgotten the details, but it was a fairly recent discovery . As records became unsealed after a certain amount if time . Kennedy wished to be for the people, and not necessarily for the Military Industrial Complex. So he tried to shut down the plot.Which involved the CIA .Just something I followed up.. Because, I was watching TV ,back in the day when it happened. And I did not understand it . Because, growing up ,I was taught that nothing on TV , was anything but virtual. So I could not figure out why everyone around the TV was shocked? Then I thought about the news broadcasts. that were possibly based on more real things. So I concluded that maybe he was a member of our family , ?? ?? . And asked if this was so.?. And got no answer , so I walked out of the room. Was pretty young then.
And pretty naive . Which people had taken great advantage of, even at that early age.By that same family .To the point of extreme abuse. just btw .So the topic has been a curiousity of mine for a long time

Last edited by Jakki on 28 May 2025, 2:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I thought Soviet response was internal panic over why they didn't know it was going to happen and double-checking that their hands were clean.

the players in the incident seem to have CIA fingerprints all over - Oswald is now confirmed to be a double agent who was clearly being managed by the CIA (not the KGB), there also seems to been involvement of organised crime (yet to be fully revealed) linked to the Cuban mafia who are/were anti-communist.

this theory doesn't seem to have much steam.