Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Motivations for Oswald’s FPCC Activity and Emigration Attempts

Oswald’s emigration attempts and FPCC activities shared a common motivation: hostility toward the United States and attachment to a country he believed embodied his committed political principles. Marina testified that he engaged in FPCC work “primarily for purposes of self-advertising,” wanting to be arrested and appear in newspapers so he would be known when he got to Cuba; he even asked her to help hijack an airplane for that purpose, abandoning the plan only when she refused. He practiced operating his rifle’s bolt on his apartment’s screened porch, reviewed Spanish in September, and arranged for his family to return to Irving, Texas, to live with Ruth Paine. Mrs. Paine was told Oswald was going to Houston or possibly Philadelphia for work, while Marina knew of his Mexico City and Cuba plans. His interest in Cuba appears to have grown alongside the frustration of successive failures—in jobs, political activity, and personal relationships—making his emigration attempt a final “escape hatch” from the mediocrity and defeat that plagued his life.

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Chapter VII of the Warren Commission Report examines Lee Harvey Oswald’s potential motives for assassinating President Kennedy. The chapter considers three main areas: the possibility that Oswald was motivated by sympathy for Fidel Castro’s Cuba and opposition to Kennedy’s policies toward the Castro regime; the alleged influence of Dallas’s rightwing anti-Kennedy atmosphere; and Oswald’s complicated, often troubled relationship with his wife Marina. The Commission ultimately found no credible evidence linking Oswald to rightwing groups in Dallas, while his relations with Marina were characterized as stormy and unstable, marked by mutual resentment, financial strain, and emotional friction in the weeks before the assassination.