Salon: "the Warren Commission... was stacked with RFK’s political enemies"

[nyquil_man]

139. He did get attention.

Reporters and photographers from all over the world gathered at the Dallas police department just to see him. Every time he was walked down a hallway, they snapped his picture and shouted questions at him. They begged the authorities to let them have a closer look at him. Thus the midnight 'press conference.'

Lee Harvey Oswald became, on that weekend, one of the most famous (infamous might be better suited) people in the world. Who knows what sort of publicity he would have received if he'd made it out of that basement on Sunday morning and lived to stand trial?

Even in death, how many books, magazine articles, television documentaries, and films have been devoted to him? And here we are, 50 years after his death, still talking about him. If he wanted to be considered important, as Marina has said, he certainly got his wish.

Oswald could have lived out the remainder of his life in the quiet desperation of dead end jobs, estrangement from his wife, and distance from his children. Without the intervening event of the assassination, that might well have been the case.

Is that evidence that he killed JFK all by himself? Of course not. But I find it pretty hard to argue that he didn't get attention.