Actually being Cuban-American does provides a quite credible motivation in light of recent developments in relations between the US and Cuba.

What I don’t find credible is that “minutes” — only minutes! — before carrying out the plot, the conspirators finally get around to doing the what would absolutely be the first thing on any to-do list for an assassination: 1] Get the weapon. And get it weeks in advance of D-day.

And why don’t they already own weapons? In the US of A, it’s their god-given, constitutional right to bear arms. They can be easily bought legit or on the thriving black market. Where they could obtain far better, far more lethal weapons than in a military academy. And with less chance of their conspiracy being found out.

Either way, I, for one, can’t take as a serious threat a crew of klutzes who get the first item on the to-do list at the last possible moment and in the wrong way.

The best assassination conspiracy movie of all time is “The Day of the Jackal”. The suspense arises from the fact that the assassin is presented as a cunning, intelligent professional killer who knows his “trade”, who plans l-o-n-g in advance for every contingency. There is no doubt in the audience’s mind that he poses a very serious threat, that he has the brains, the discipline, the marksmanship skills to kill President Charles de Gaulle.

Procuring the weapon, the right weapon, to do the job is #1 on his to-do list — not the last. And he doesn’t steal it, either — he orders a custom rifle, one specially designed for the task.