Was Oswald a ""Lone Nut?"" For decades the debate has raged over if Lee Harvey Oswald was a "LONE NUT" or a patsy for a larger conspiracy to assassinate a sitting American President. One of the more interesting and controversial figures in Kennedy Assassination was Kerry Thornley. One time friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, having served with him in the Marines at El TORO as well as in the FAR EAST. After the Marines, Thornley visits New Orleans and is believed to have visited the Oswalds, quite possibly believed to have stayed ...
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Was Oswald a ""Lone Nut?"" For decades the debate has raged over if Lee Harvey Oswald was a "LONE NUT" or a patsy for a larger conspiracy to assassinate a sitting American President. One of the more interesting and controversial figures in Kennedy Assassination was Kerry Thornley. One time friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, having served with him in the Marines at El TORO as well as in the FAR EAST. After the Marines, Thornley visits New Orleans and is believed to have visited the Oswalds, quite possibly believed to have stayed with him during this critical period of Lee Harvey Oswald's life as he moved towards the assassination. Now you can read Thornley's initial analysis of Oswald as the LONE NUT, written in a secluded apartment in Washington D.C. just days after Kennedy's assassination! A theory Thornley himself rejected in later life as he became more convinced that Oswald was a pawn in a vast CIA conspiracy. Did Thornley get his initial analysis wrong? Or did he actually get it right....
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Add this copy of Oswald to cart. $200.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by New Classics House.
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First edition. 126, [2] pp. with 8 pages of b/w photos in middle of book. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with subtle creasing to spine, light wear. An ephemeral "lone nutter" work about the assassination of John F. Kennedy published in its wake that incorporates a novel ostensibly written about the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, while he was still a teenage crypto-Marxist in the Marines: The Idle Warriors. New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison would chase down the author in his investigation into conspiracy and cover-up in the assassination, which was recounted in the Oliver Stone film JFK. To this day, like so many facets of the JFK assassination mythos, opinion is sharply divided about Thornley's motivations and the accuracy of Garrison's probe. Thornley would go on to co-found the joke religion of Discordianism and be active in the libertarian right.
