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I've often considered that. Instead of debating who killed Kennedy, the question of WHY rarely gets asked.
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The Warren Commission Report addresses it pretty thoroughly:
The Commission could not make any definitive determination ofOswald's motives. It has endeavored to isolate factors which con-
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tributed to his character and which might have influenced his decision
to assassinate President Kennedy. These factors were:
(a) His deep-rooted resentment of all authority which was
expressed in a hostility toward every society in which he lived
;
(h) His inability to enter into meaningful relationships with
people, and a continuous pattern of rejecting his environment in
favor of new surroundings
;
(c) His urge to try to find a place in history and despair at
times over failures in his various undertakings
;
(d) His capacity for violence as evidenced by his attempt to
kill General Walker
;
(e) His avowed commitment to Marxism and communism, as
he understood the terms and developed his own interpretation of
them; this was expressed by his antagonism toward the United
States, by his defection to the Soviet Union, by his failure to be
reconciled with life in the United States even after his disenchantment
with the Soviet Union, and by his efforts, though frustrated,
to go to Cuba.