months, Lee Harvey Oswald hit President Kennedy in his limousine from the sixth story window of the Texas School Book Depository where he was employed. That doesn't seem like an outrageous claim, but the circumstances surrounding it make it just that. Oswald would have had to hit a moving target, hard enough in itself, but also with a large tree blocking his line of sight. On top of that was that with one shot, he worked a single bullet through Kennedy's throat, in Governor Connally's back and out his chest, in and out Connally's wrist and into his thigh. All of this was supposedly accomplished by a man who barely qualified as a marksman in the marines, and was mocked by his fellow marines for being such a bad shot. This story seemed a little hard to swallow to some people, and that led to all of the theories which were concocted by people who were skeptical of the Warren Report. They wanted to find the real reason and circumstances surrounding the assassination of their president. They couldn't accept that a man like Oswald, who was basically nobody, could have killed President Kennedy. They felt that more had to be behind it, or in the words of William Manchester:
             ". . . if you put the murdered President of the United States on one side of a scale and that wretched waif Oswald on the other side, it doesn't balance. You want to add something weightier to Oswald. It would invest the President's death with meaning, endowing him with martyrdom. He would have died for something... a conspiracy would, of course, do the job nicely." (World Wide Web)
             Lee Harvey Oswald was known to be in support of the Communist party, and his ties to Cuba were soon made national news after the assassination. At the height of the Cold War, and just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it made perfect sense for the U.S. government to pin the crime on him. They released a photograph of Oswald holding a rifle and communist news...