Was JFK’s assassin inspired by a movie? #jfkfiles #jfk #history #historyshorts #unsolvedmystery

Did a movie inspire the assassination of JFK?
In 1962, The Manchurian Candidate hit theatres — a Cold War thriller about a U.S. soldier brainwashed by the Soviets into assassinating a political leader. It premiered the same month as the Cuban Missile Crisis, when tensions between the U.S. and USSR were at their peak. Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s future assassin, shared several striking similarities with the film’s protagonist. He was also a former Marine, who defected to the Soviet Union, returned with radical communist beliefs. Like the character in the film, he ultimately acted alone.
So did he watch the movie? While the Manchurian Candidate played in Dallas when Oswald lived there and was known to attend movies alone still, there's no definitive evidence he saw — or was influenced by — the movie.
What we do know is that other films appeared to affect him. On October 18, 1963 — Oswald’s 24th birthday one month before assassination of JFK— he watched two movies on television. The first, Suddenly, featured Frank Sinatra as a war veteran attempting to assassinate the president with a rifle from a window. The second, We Were Strangers, depicted a plot to assassinate a Cuban dictator. According to his wife Marina, Oswald became “greatly excited” during the films, even commenting that the old methods of revolution were outdated.
Were these movies an inspiration or just harmless entertainment?

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