He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.
I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.