[quote=Barry the Pirate]Oswald was a lefty. It's seriously time for society to grow up as far as the JFK hit goes. An insignificant nobody snuffed a POTUS. With the exception of JW Boothe, that's pretty much the pattern of political assassinations in the Great Satan.

I'm sure for every piece of "violent" imagery from the right, a comparable could be found on the left. Of course, the definition of "violent imagery" would be a little subjective from side to side. Pimping fear of "the other side" is always a lucrative project. [/quote}

JW Booth was a white supremacist and active Confederate sympathizer. Guiteau was a "stalwart" Republican, and murdered the "half-breed" Republican president, Garfield, in order to make the "stalwart" Veep, Arthur, POTUS. Guiteau also believed that Garfield ought to have appointed him to a high ambassadorial post. He was more than a little delusional. Czolgosz was pure and simple an anarchist, in modern terms a terrorist, doing what anarchists of the time did, assassinate heads of state.

Oswald was a lefty, he defected to the USSR and was active in the Castroite Fair Play for Cuba Committee. He shot at and missed one of the leading wingnuts of the era, a General Walker IIRC. He might have shot at JFK as a blow against imperialismo Yanqui, but Oswald also had connections to the NO mafia, and may have acted as their dupe (how else can one explain the Jack Ruby hit?).