Kennedy's was murdered during the height of the cold war and a potential motivator for the Soviet's ordering Oswald to kill the presidential hit is Nikita Khrushchev's (Leader of USSR) anger at having to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba after the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. This loss could have been seen as a humiliation to Khrushchev as he effectively lost to someone he considered to be small, young, and inexperienced. With all these facts pointing towards the Soviet Union makes it one of the more popularly believed conspiracies. |
One major aspect that conspirators argue is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a defector to the Soviet Union. Oswald actually live in the USSR from 1959 to 1962. Many conspiracy believers think that during this time he was either brainwashed or simply recruited to assassinate the President of the United States. Oswald defected to Russia saying that he hated America but returned back with a Russian wife just a few years later. Adding to the intrigue of the conspiracy is the fact that Oswald visited the Russian Embassy in Mexico in the weeks leading up to the assassination.