What motive did Lee Harvey Oswald have to kill President Kennedy?

Answer 1

He worked at the Texas School Book Depository warehouse where the shots were fired from. He was seen carrying a long thin package into the TSBD which he claimed were curtain rods. He was seen on the sixth floor of the TSBD 30 minutes before the assassination. He was left alone there. He did none of his assigned work for the day. A witness on the street saw the gun being fired from the sixth floor and gave a description of the gunman which matched Oswald. He left the building minutes after the assassination. He was the only person to leave the TSBD between the assassination and when the police surrounded the building. He killed a cop on the same day, in front of witnesses. And he left his gun and fingerprints at the crime scene. He tried to shoot the arresting officers; an odd thing for an "innocent patsy" to do!

Oswald had no need for curtain rods. His rented room already had them, as did the house where his wife lived. And of course, no curtain rods were found in the TSBD, although the empty package was. Obviously, the rifle was in the package.

Did he do it? Lee Harvey Oswald did do it. He was a man who never fit in; no matter what he tried, he always ended up alienating himself from the "group". The likelihood that he could cooperate or coordinate this activity with another person or persons is very remote. He had the training, the skill, and the means to carry it out all by himself. Most of all, after all of his failures, he had the motivation to make this grand gesture that ensures that his name would always be a part of American history.

Answer 2

Oswald was a Marxist. While living in Russia he became disillusioned of the Russian model of Marxism and concluded that corruption in Russia had prevented the implementation of true Marxist ideology in that nation. Once back in the US Oswald decided that Cuba was the nation that most epitomized Marxism and wanted to move there. Oswald went to Mexico in the Fall of '63 in an attempt to obtain a visa in order to travel to Cuba. However, Mexican authorities denied Oswald's request for a Cuba travel visa. Oswald blamed the Cold War policies of the United States for his inability to obtain a visa from the Mexican government to travel to Cuba. He believed that by killing Kennedy he would eliminate the person most responsible for these policies and that a new US administration might be more tolerant of the communist government in Cuba and of allowing travel to the island nation from other nations in the Western Hemisphere. If Oswald had been allowed to travel to Cuba, then he would have had no motive to kill Kennedy in the first place.
Some think it was because he had different beliefs than JFK. But the prevailing evidence is that his obsession with becoming famous and historical caused him to do it. He even called his diary "Historic Diary".

Answer 3

He'd tried other ways to get famous and they didn't work. He wanted to be famous and historical, you see.

Answer 4

He assassinated JFK only to be famous, he didnt hate Kennedy.