I always remember my dad talking about his time in the 1956 Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald. He had told me after President John F. Kennedy was shot November 22nd, 1963 that the FBI had come and talked to him. That they had talked to everyone that was in the Marines with Oswald back in 1956. One of the things they had talked to him about was if Oswald was a good shot. Now, when my dad told me this story he laughed. According to him Oswald was not a good marksman at all. So for him to hear the single bullet theory and Oswald shooting JFK on his own was funny. And that's what he told them.
Of course this all came up in 1991 when the JFK movie came out starring Kevin Costner. That's when my dad told me more about his time in the Marines with Oswald. And in that movie they talk about the Magic Bullet Theory. Talking about how a second shooter had to be involved in this murder. So from not only the movie, but reading over information about this event in history and from my dad saying Oswald was not a very good shot, it sounded like a cover up to me. But who knows?
It makes me wonder if this happened nowadays would we know the whole truth? I mean even with the Trump assassination attempt not so long ago we hear lots of different stories. News, depending on who it is, will say lots of different things. Do we ever hear the real truth? Or just what they want us to hear?
If you are into older movies I do recommend watching the JFK movie. Now, while the movie is not totally accurate, it is a good story and can at least give you some knowledge about what happened. Will we ever know what really happened? Probably not. As with most things in life, we just go by what we are told.
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| My father Charles Brogan in top circle and Lee Harvey Oswald in bottom one. |
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