Lee Harvey Oswald was no doubt a strange loner. At age seventeen he enlisted in the Marines, worked in top-secret facilities, learned the Russian language, and ultimately renounced his American citizenship and defected to the Soviet Union. The circumstances of his defection and his return are curious and full of fodder for conspiracy theorists.

Lee Harvey Oswald's uncle, a man named Dutz Murret, was a bookie for the New Orleans Mafia. Oswald's mother was linked to several soldiers in the mob. The man who killed Oswald, Jack Ruby, had ties to the Dallas crime family, which was more or less a subsidiary of the Marcello organization. Is it possible that the Mafia used this outcast and oddball Oswald for their hit and then had him whacked to avoid discovery? Future generations will know when the classified files are revealed. Carlos Marcello was conveniently in a New Orleans courtroom being found not guilty of his false birth certificate charges on the afternoon of President Kennedy's murder.