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It is particularly interesting that there was not a national
turmoil when we consider Oswald's background and associations.
Oswald's Background and Associations
The official conclusions about Oswald are that he was a
loner- an insignificant nobody. Yet it has never been estab-
lished that Oswald was insane or psychologically deranged. The
question of motive. thus becomes crucial. There are in our society
many loners, many estranged men and women, but they do not
therefore kill the President. Even if the question of evidence
did not establish a conspiracy, one would have to have been
most concerned over the question of motive. Why did Oswald
do it? If he was so unimportant a person, then' had he done
it, one could expect instead of insisting he was framed, he
would have proglaimed to the world he himself did rid it of
the President of the United States?
An immediate problem which arises involves us in the question
of why Oswald, a man who renounced his citizenship, defected to
the Soviet Union, asserted his intention of giving away radar
secrets, and constituted par excellance by all standards of the
F.B.I. and Secret Service a subversive, was not under surveillance,
contrary to standard procedure, on the day of President Kennedy
motorcade through Dallas. A revealing Dallas Police Report,
February 17, 1964 informs us that a Mrs. Teofil Meller saw
Karl Marx's Capital at Oswald's house. Mr. Meller checked
with the F.B.I. and was told Oswald "was all right. How
could such a person have been "all right" to the F.B.I.: Must
not inaction on the part of. our government in response to
"subersive behavior of Oswald only make sense on the assumption
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