Last July on his blog 20, which is called "Rumors, Myths and Fabrications, Leventhal wrote, "Last week, I did a Web chat on conspiracy theories, in which I was surprised by the number of questions on the Kennedy assassination.
TRANSCRIPT OF WEB CHAT ON CONSPIRACY THEORIES -
FOUR QUESTIONS on JFK Assassination:
Q [Gerak]: Is the assassination of Kennedy a conspiracy?
Q [Olabisi]: the Mafia and US Govt killed Kennedy and not Oswald. That's what I believe
Q [tito]: how about jfk assassination
Q [Alan]: The true story behind the Kenndey assassination. Rumour has it that the CIA plotted the murder.
A [Todd Leventhal]: The true story behind the Kennedy assassination is that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting as a lone assassin, killed President Kennedy.
A [Todd Leventhal]: The most comprehensive book on this subject is "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy" by Vincent Bugliosi, published in 2007. In this 2,700-page book (which includes the attached CD)", Bugliosi establishes clearly that Oswald acted alone.
A [Todd Leventhal]: From an early age, Oswald was a bitter, angry loner, ill-suited to working with, much less taking orders, from others. In grade school, he refused to salute the American flag. At age 13, he told his school psychiatrist "I dislike everybody." He quit or was fired from every job he ever held, except the factory job he had in the Soviet Union. He defected to the USSR in 1959, requesting Soviet citizenship "because I am a Communist," complaining that he "lived in a decadent capitalist society, where the workers are slaves." Even after returning to the United States in 1962, Oswald remained strongly pro-Communist, idealizing Cuban communism--not the type of person who would be likely to want to work for the CIA, or whom they would be likely to entrust with the most sensitive mission imaginable.
A [Todd Leventhal]: The KGB observed Oswald while he was in the USSR and concluded that he was a "mediocre, uninteresting, useless man," in the words of Vladimir Semichastny, who headed the KGB when Oswald lived in the USSR. Semichastny added, "I had always respected the CIA and FBI, and we knew their work and what they were capable of. It was clear that Oswald was not an agent, couldn't be an agent, for the CIA or FBI," noting that "Oswald's actions in Minsk [where he lived in the USSR] were not those of a foreign agent. His primary interest was in attending dances."
A [Todd Leventhal]: Bugliosi cites one of Oswald's friends when he lived in Fort Worth, Texas, George de Mohrenschildt, who wrote: I never would believe that any government would be stupid enough to trust Lee with anything important ... an unstable individual, mixed-up individual, uneducated individual, without background. What government would give him any confidential work? No government would.
A [Todd Leventhal]: In April 1963, Oswald attempted to kill retired General Edwin Walker, a fierce anti-Communist.This was the act characteristic of an unstable individual who hated anti-Communists, not that of a government agent. In August 1963, he planned to hijack a plane to Cuba--not a likely activity for a U.S. government agent. In September, he travelled to Mexico City, visiting both the Cuban and Soviet embassies in an unsuccessful attempt to travel to Cuba--the act of someone who hated America, not a U.S. government agent.
A [Todd Leventhal]: Bugliosi also points out that Oswald had no help from any co-conspirators when attempting to flee after killing President Kennedy, taking a bus and then a cab back to his room in Dallas.
A [Todd Leventhal]: Oswald only had a total of $183.87 to his name when he killed President Kennedy. He lived in a tiny (1.5 meters by four meters) room, which he rented for eight dollars per week. Nobody had paid him big bucks to be a hit man.
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