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[Benton D Struckcheon]

246. The simplest explanation is that Oswald wanted Connally.

The facts are as follows:

1 - Oswald served three years in the Marines, and got a less than honorable discharge.
2 - Oswald, after returning from Russia, wrote to Connally to ask him to make it an honorable discharge. Connally was Sec'y of the Navy, to which the Marines are attached.
3 - Connally rejects this request.
4 - Marina Oswald's first response on being told about the assassination was to blurt out that he shot Connally. ("Marina Oswald, Lee Harvey’s wife, testified three times that Connally was her husband’s target. Several important members of the Dallas Russian émigré community also spoke of the grudge.")

This is by far the most likely explanation. Oswald had an actual, concrete grudge against Connally. If he was aiming for him and missed, that explains the stunning accuracy of his firing at Kennedy: he wasn't aiming for Kennedy. He shot at Connally, and missed. Furthermore, and this is a new one I hadn't considered before, Kennedy wore a back brace, and that kept him sitting upright after he'd already been shot, while Connally, wounded, fell into his wife's lap.
Kennedy was collateral damage.
See the link on the Marina quote above for the new book on this. The theory's been around a long time.
I've always liked this theory, because it solves all of the missing pieces, accounts for Oswald's motive, and perfectly explains his alleged marksmanship. It's easy to hit something you're not aiming at, after all.
It's a perfect fit for Occam's Razor.