On the fateful night in April, the same night three CIA agents plot to make an attempt on Kennedy's life, Oswald takes a shot at Walker and misses.

Oswald and his friend, Bobby Dupard, plot to assassinate Walker.

With this friend, Oswald learns about the political stand of General Walker. During this time, Oswald reconnects with a friend he made in the Marines while they were both prisoners in military prison. Back in America, Oswald finds it difficult to find a job to help support his family. Oswald soon becomes disillusioned with Russia and returns to America with his new wife and daughter. When a U2 plane crashed in Russia and the pilot id recovered, Oswald is brought back to Moscow to help the Russians interrogate the pilot. Oswald's petition to defect to Russia is accepted and he is debriefed regarding the U2 aircraft. This person would fire a few shots at the president and then be arrested, giving the government someone to blame for the incident, thus protecting the three conspirators from further investigation.Īfter his active service in the Marines, Oswald travels to Russia and announces his intentions to defect. Win's plan includes finding a person they can manipulate and cause to appear as a disgruntled American who would be susceptible to assassinating the president on behalf of Castro. Win suggests that they plan and execute an attempted assassination on the president during a motorcade in Miami. Win suggests that Kennedy would be forced to reevaluate his stance on Cuba if he believed Fidel Castro was attempting to have him assassinated. Win has brought these men together with a suggestion of how they might be able to repair their reputations and regain their positions within the CIA. All three men have been forced out of the CIA in one way or another because of the botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs. meets with two friends from his days in the CIA, Larry Parmenter and T-Jay Mackey. Libra is a complicated look at an often analyzed event that gives readers a sympathetic look at a traditional enemy. Even the conspirators do not know that Kennedy is to die on that fateful day in Dallas, Texas and Oswald does not know he is not the single shooter until he sees the assassination of a president through his rifle scope. Oswald, whose disruptive childhood and devotion to Communism make him appear to be disgruntled against the American government, is chosen to be a patsy in a plot to make it seem as though Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, is scheming to kill Kennedy. In this novel, the author suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald, a confused and aimless young man, is a pawn of three CIA agents disgruntled over the bungled invasion at the Bay of Pigs. Libra by Don Delillo is a fictional analysis of a conspiracy behind the assassination of John F.

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