He tried to murder general edwin walker because walker had given speeches attacking communism. So Lee Harvey Oswald never hid his politics. Not for a moment. He talked incessantly about communism to anyone who would listen. And yet Many Americans never really understood what Lee Harvey Oswald believed and they didnt understand it because news outlets didnt tell them. Instead, almost immediately, the media began spinning a different story. President kennedy, they suggested, had been murdered by conservatives, possibly by conservatism itself, by hate, as they often put it. The explanation was never very precise but the idea was the always same. Right wingers killed kennedy. The soviet union, naturally a suspect in this crime, was happy to agree with the assessment. As a soviet spokesman put it, moral responsibility for the Kennedy Assassination lay squarely with Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right. In the end, the coordinated lying paid off. A year later, senator Barry Gold