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00:01Previously on Tracking Oswald.
00:05Disappeared. File.
00:06As the saying goes, there's no lost file,
00:08there's just missing files.
00:09Yeah, exactly.
00:11CIA veteran Bob Baer and former police lieutenant
00:14Adam Bercovici discovered a direct connection
00:17between Lee Harvey Oswald and the Cuban government
00:20in the months before the assassination of President Kennedy.
00:24Fidel Castro says that Oswald stormed into the embassy,
00:28demanded the visa, and when it was refused to him,
00:32headed out saying,
00:33I'm going to kill Kennedy for this.
00:35This is incredible.
00:38In Mexico City, the team tracked down an eyewitness
00:41who saw Oswald with Cuban officials
00:44only eight weeks before the president's murder.
00:47100%, 110%, I'm sure that he was him.
00:51Searching for deeper ties to the Cubans,
00:53the team discovered a period of one month in 1963
00:58with no record of Oswald's whereabouts.
01:01Are you seeing what I'm seeing?
01:03I'm seeing a whole month where we cannot account
01:05for Lee Harvey Oswald.
01:08During that dark period,
01:10documents revealed a mysterious CIA operation,
01:13codename JM Move, located near New Orleans.
01:17Oswald lived only 15 minutes away.
01:21My hunch is that facility was in support
01:25of some training activity here in Louisiana.
01:28And I think whatever that training was,
01:30we're going to find a connection with Oswald.
01:33If Bob's theory is right,
01:34the team may prove once and for all
01:37that Lee Harvey Oswald had help in his mission
01:40to murder JFK.
01:43November 22, 1963.
01:48Lee Harvey Oswald opens fire in Dealey Plaza,
01:51forever changing American history.
01:54Unanswered questions linger,
01:56breeding countless conspiracy theories.
01:59Many believe Russia, Cuba,
02:01or even the CIA supported Oswald in his mission.
02:05In 2017, the final documents from the JFK assassination
02:11are scheduled for release.
02:13More than two million files have already been declassified.
02:17No one has analyzed them until now.
02:21A CIA veteran is on the trail
02:24of the most notorious assassin in U.S. history.
02:31Bob Bear and his team are on the ground in southern Louisiana
02:35to search for physical evidence
02:37of a 1960s-era covert training ground.
02:40Earlier in the investigation,
02:42they discovered a declassified document
02:44suggesting that Oswald trained alongside Cuban militants
02:48before murdering JFK.
02:50All right, we've got the testimony of Robert Tannenbaum.
02:53He is the deputy chief counsel
02:56for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
02:59That's the follow-up investigation to JFK
03:01to the Warren Commission.
03:03We had information of Oswald being involved in Louisiana
03:06with anti-Castro individuals
03:08and various soldier of fortune types
03:10who were contracted employees of the CIA.
03:13He's telling us in an official testimony
03:16about anti-Castro Cubans training in Louisiana,
03:19the same Cubans we know Oswald was in the mix with.
03:25In 1959, Fidel Castro rises to power.
03:29Immediately, America begins a secret war against Cuba,
03:33battling communism 90 miles from its shores.
03:37The CIA covertly recruits Cuban exiles
03:40and trains them in secret to overthrow their former leader.
03:43In 1961, President Kennedy orders these men
03:48to invade the Bay of Pigs.
03:51But then withdraws air support during the battle.
03:56Hundreds are killed and more than 1,000 taken prisoner.
03:59In the aftermath, many Cuban exiles turn on Kennedy.
04:04My new working theory is that Oswald may have trained here
04:08with a group of Cuban militants,
04:11anti-Castro fighters who had developed a hatred for John F. Kennedy.
04:15If true, I believe these men may have gone on
04:19to assist his mission to murder the president.
04:25What we're looking for here is an off-the-grid CIA training base.
04:30Does this sound far-fetched?
04:33The CIA would bring a training team up here?
04:37Not at all. It's remote.
04:39The only people that can navigate these areas are local people.
04:42Joining the team is swamp cartographer Blake Jackson.
04:46Blake's family has lived in the basin for three generations,
04:49and his grandfather witnessed mysterious military activity
04:53here in the early 1960s.
04:55This is what we need you for, your expertise.
04:57You know this place like the back of your hand.
04:59So if you were gonna come in temporarily and set up a base,
05:04where would you do it?
05:05The obvious answer for me is high ground.
05:08A lot of times these banks will erode
05:09and can expose things that have been buried for a couple years.
05:13You know, when I say a couple years, a hundred years even.
05:15So if I was going to look for a training camp,
05:18I would start off with looking at the eroded areas
05:21of that high ground.
05:25We are out here looking for a guerrilla-style training ground.
05:32Something isolated, deep in a remote area,
05:35where the sound of gunfire won't draw attention.
05:41In covert actions like this, it was very fast and loose.
05:46These type of operations are called black ops.
05:50The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has a long history
05:54of recruiting foreign fighters to help battle enemies abroad.
05:59Though the CIA funds these black operations,
06:02they often run them from afar with little oversight,
06:06a risk the agency is willing to take
06:08to distance themselves from politically volatile conflicts.
06:13When it comes to black ops, during my 21 years in the CIA,
06:17I've seen almost all of them go sideways.
06:20The best example of this is Osama bin Laden.
06:24In the 1980s, the U.S. helped Afghan fighters
06:28battle the Soviet Union.
06:30After that war ended, we left the Afghans to their own devices.
06:34Some of them went rogue, and they turned on us.
06:37The result was bin Laden leading the attack on 9-11.
06:44Blake leads Bob and Adam into the swamp
06:47to search for evidence of these black ops training grounds,
06:51where Oswald and Cuban militants may have been
06:54only months before the president's murder.
06:57My family's been here for three generations,
06:59and in the old days, it wasn't a common place to come.
07:03It's so far away from everything else.
07:06You go four or five days without seeing another person.
07:09I remember my grandfather telling my father,
07:12you know, seeing boats coming in and out that were unmarked.
07:16People back here are quiet and tight-lipped,
07:18so when you hear rumors from your family,
07:21that's about as far as it's going to go.
07:26Is that dry land over there?
07:27That's all swamp.
07:28That's swamp.
07:29So you look here, there's a little bit of land now.
07:32Next year, that'll be underwater.
07:33So evidence of any crime or evidence of anybody being here,
07:36it's a natural occurrence that it would get covered up
07:39after a while.
07:39That's right.
07:40Yeah. Yeah, it's perfect.
07:41If I were training people,
07:43and I didn't want to do it on a US military base,
07:46this is where I'd come.
07:48Yeah.
07:50The CIA was training militants
07:52who would eventually be fighting in Cuba.
07:54So training in the swamps of Louisiana makes sense.
07:58It's similar terrain.
08:00It's also the perfect place to run military exercises in secret.
08:06If Oswald was in the middle of this activity,
08:09it's possible many of the skills he used to pull off
08:12the assassination were learned right here in this swamp.
08:18The best place to start, I would imagine,
08:20is on the edge of the bank where it's eroding.
08:22This little hole here, this is that spot right there.
08:25And I believe we might have an advantage
08:28in kind of exposing some of those different levels of sediment
08:32and be able to see whatever you guys are looking for.
08:36I'm going to call Marty.
08:38Hey, Marty.
08:39It's Bob.
08:40Hey, we got a nice looking location here.
08:43High ground.
08:44I think we're going to put some sonar in the water
08:46and see what we got.
08:48After our initial assessment,
08:50I'm absolutely convinced that this area
08:52could have served as a covert training ground.
08:55But now we need the hard evidence to prove it.
09:00Bob calls on former Army Ranger Marty Scovelin.
09:03We've got high ground right here.
09:05And sonar specialist Reagan Lipinski,
09:08armed with the most cutting-edge underwater survey equipment.
09:11If somebody left something behind,
09:13we're going to go out here and find it.
09:15What are we going to do to get a good scan
09:17of what's underneath the water here?
09:19This is our towfish.
09:20It's called a side-scan sonar.
09:21Side-scan sonar uses sound waves
09:25to create two-the-millimeter accurate images
09:28of the swamp floor.
09:30An aluminum towfish torpedo scans underwater,
09:33delivering high-resolution images to a console on board.
09:41All of this here is all vegetation.
09:45There's an alligator in the water.
09:47You can definitely see it.
09:52There's a lot of debris in the water,
09:54but it all appears natural so far.
10:00Here we go.
10:02Now we have an anomaly here.
10:05You see those straight lines?
10:06That's an actual object that's man-made.
10:09OK.
10:09All right, so see these little objects coming off?
10:12This is a lot here.
10:13This could really be something.
10:14And it's kind of continuous.
10:16You know, if a camp was submerged,
10:18it could look like this.
10:20From bank to bank,
10:21it looks like we have anomalies right there.
10:24Everywhere else is vacant.
10:26Bob, this is Marty, over.
10:28Go ahead, Marty.
10:29All right, so I really think
10:31that we need to get a diver in here.
10:33OK, we'll ping your GPS and head right out.
10:39The sonar picked it up right in here.
10:42If we can find hard evidence of training grounds here,
10:45we'll be one step closer to proving Oswald was no lone wolf.
10:49The men he was training with here
10:51could be the accomplices we're looking for.
10:55Anything you can see down there that looks out of the ordinary,
10:59pull it up.
11:10After detecting a series of anomalies below the surface,
11:13which the team suspects are man-made,
11:16Bob has called in an expert wreck diver
11:19to probe the swamp floor.
11:25Meanwhile, a quarter mile away,
11:29Marty Scovelin targets dry ground,
11:32searching for evidence of covert military training.
11:40Out here this far, even if you want to sanitize the spot
11:44that you're training at,
11:46if it's this large of an operation,
11:48if you're training for an invasion,
11:54even the most disciplined force
11:56with extreme attention to detail
11:58we'll occasionally miss something.
12:10I mean, you could get a group up here,
12:12train them anything from sniper rifles to explosives
12:16to diving, any number of things.
12:20There he goes.
12:26No, but it's a start.
12:27Look at this.
12:27Yeah.
12:29Someone dropped that.
12:30Machete.
12:30That's a machete.
12:47Oh.
12:54We've got brass casings out here.
12:58Likely what the guerrillas were training with
13:00was AK-47s,
13:01and AK-47s used 7.62 ammunition.
13:07This is a 7.62.
13:13Let's keep going, Kelly.
13:26There he is.
13:31There's a curl bar.
13:39What is that?
13:41An ammo box.
13:45Yeah, this is a military issue.
13:49Been down there a while, hasn't it?
13:51Yeah.
13:59Look at that.
14:01Is that 7.62?
14:03I think so.
14:05Yeah, this is a military issue.
14:08Wait, there's another round.
14:10Look at that.
14:12Yeah, it's the same caliber.
14:16It's exactly what we're looking for.
14:22Everything we found is consistent with our hypothesis.
14:27JM MOVE was a training program for Cuban exiles in a remote area of the Bayou.
14:33The training, the black period in his time in Louisiana, in New Orleans, my gut tells me Oswald was right
14:41in the middle of this.
14:43But JM MOVE is just one link in the chain.
14:47JM MOVE places Oswald with foreign accomplices who are getting military training from the CIA.
14:54This could be huge.
14:56No one's ever looked at it before.
14:57To really understand this program, we have to cast a wider net.
15:01What's the hub of Cuban exile activity in the 1960s?
15:04It's Miami.
15:05Yeah, Miami.
15:06Exactly.
15:06I'm going to narrow the search.
15:08JM MOVE, Miami, see what we come up with.
15:18On 28 February 1961, the following agents from JM MOVE arrived at JM WAVE.
15:25Carlos Hernandez, Frank Bernardin, Benito Clark.
15:29It's a transfer of personnel.
15:31They're finished with their training.
15:33They move them to JM WAVE.
15:36Do you think this is some kind of parent operation?
15:38I mean, what is it?
15:39I don't know.
15:40That's the whole purpose of a crypt in them is to confuse people.
15:44I mean, what else can we find on JM WAVE?
15:46Well, if they're transferring men, there's going to be money involved.
15:51There's going to be payroll.
15:56All right, here we go.
15:57This is a memo.
15:59To director from JM WAVE, please deposit $300,000 bank,
16:05it's a redacted account, First National Miami.
16:09I mean, look at this amount of money.
16:11$300,000 in the early 60s was a lot of money.
16:15Incredible amount of money.
16:17And the other thing you've got to understand here is they're not arguing for a transfer of money.
16:23They're just saying, we need the money now.
16:25Move it.
16:26What this tells me is the guys in the Bayou in Louisiana, they're taking orders.
16:32The guys in Miami are giving the orders.
16:36The paper trail on this tells me that JM WAVE was running the entire JM MOVE operation.
16:42They're in charge of the money.
16:43If we want to get to the bottom of Oswald's connection to these Cuban militants,
16:49we need to talk to the people who are running the whole show.
16:56JM WAVE is the key to this whole operation.
17:00If we can determine exactly what JM WAVE was, we might be able to uncover the accomplices Oswald was working
17:07with.
17:09What it comes down to is in the eight weeks before Oswald kills Kennedy, he's meeting with Cubans at their
17:16embassy in Mexico City, and he's associated with Cuban militants in New Orleans.
17:20So what I want to do is split up and you guys take a look at JM WAVE.
17:26What is JM WAVE?
17:28And I want to go to look up some old contacts.
17:31Based on everything we've seen, my suspicion is that Oswald was working with a network tied to JM WAVE here
17:38in Miami.
17:39The CIA created JM WAVE and funded it, but it took on a life of its own.
17:46All covert operations do.
17:48Once you give money and weapons to Cuban exiles, there's no guarantee they're going to follow your orders.
17:54If Oswald was the fruit of the branch, we're looking for the root of the tree, and I'll bet you
18:00it's here.
18:01My suspicion is that Oswald fell in with a group of these Cuban militants who had plans of their own,
18:07and that plan was to murder the President of the United States.
18:18Four weeks into their investigation of Lee Harvey Oswald, Bob Baer and his team are working on a bold theory.
18:27Newly declassified documents reveal a large-scale, mysterious CIA operation known as JM WAVE.
18:35The team suspects that a group of Cuban exiles associated with the operation may have helped Oswald plan the murder
18:42of President John F. Kennedy.
18:44Bob has tracked down Marshall Golnick, a former CIA contractor with Inside Information, who's willing to talk on camera for
18:54the first time.
18:55I'm here reconstructing what it was like in the 60s, and specifically a CIA operation called JM WAVE.
19:05Put me back in that time.
19:06Well, the CIA was running Cuban exile assets, and they would sail up Cuban rivers, and they would damage Cuban
19:16infrastructure.
19:17Buildings, roads, bridges, anything that they can destroy, they would do that.
19:23It was ridiculous.
19:25So it was an insurgency.
19:27Yes.
19:27And it was an insurgency run out of these waters.
19:30Absolutely here.
19:30This area here was, in effect, kind of a launching point.
19:36Cuban exiles were dropped off by bus right here in front.
19:41Wait, right in front of this restaurant?
19:42Right in front of this restaurant.
19:43And the CIA gave them machine guns and bazookas and gunboats and things like that.
19:49And all of the tourists just looked the other way, laugh, wave.
19:54How many miles is it to Cuba?
19:5790.
19:57So you could stop, get off your boat after doing a raid on Cuba and have a beer?
20:01Oh, absolutely.
20:03Was this illegal?
20:05I mean, we were running a war from the continental United States against a country, Cuba, we were not formally
20:12at war with.
20:13It was extra legal.
20:15It wasn't quite illegal and it wasn't legal.
20:19But that was changed April 17th, 1961.
20:24Bay of Pigs, as you know, was a terrible failure.
20:27The Cuban exiles blamed John F. Kennedy directly for the disaster that happened at the Bay of Pigs because he
20:36did not commit to support them.
20:38The Cuban exiles felt that JFK abandoned them.
20:42Well, he did it in a sense.
20:44Absolutely.
20:45I can imagine all these Cubans, Bay of Pigs, they're furious, they got money, they got weapons, and they're going
20:53out pursuing their own agendas right here.
20:57Sometimes you can be eaten by your own monster that you created.
21:03According to Marshall, J.M. Wave was a large-scale military operation training Cuban militants on American soil.
21:12With so many weapons and such little oversight, that's exactly the type of explosive environment where Oswald could have met
21:19the accomplices he needed to help him with the assassination.
21:24Take a look at Oswald.
21:26Uh, he's in and around this group.
21:30They're armed, bitter, ready to do violence.
21:37Oswald was, in a scientific term, a chemical agent used to accelerate the explosion about to happen amongst the Cuban
21:47exile community.
21:48You just let it go and you don't have to do a thing.
21:52And I don't think that we as a nation was quite prepared for what was about to happen.
22:00Oswald was in a mix that was going to end up in violence one way or another.
22:05It had to happen.
22:06Oswald represented what the exile community seemed to want.
22:10To murder Kennedy?
22:11Yes.
22:14The deeper we get into this investigation, the clearer it is to me that Oswald was gravitating toward violent Cuban
22:21groups.
22:22The question is, who are the most violent groups?
22:26To my knowledge, the fringe groups, Alpha 66, Omega 7.
22:31There were many.
22:34Did they actually have bases down here?
22:36Yes.
22:38If you really want to see something, go out on this road and you will see where many of the
22:44bases were.
22:45And they were hidden in a stealthy way that nobody was the wiser.
22:51OK.
22:51I'm going to send my guys down there.
22:57Former Police Lieutenant Adam Bercovici and former Army Ranger Marty Scovelin head out of Miami to Key Largo on the
23:06southern tip of Florida to investigate the military facility revealed by Marshal Golemick.
23:26Oh, we got something up over here.
23:32Looks like some sort of a guard tower.
23:38If they've got a structure like this just for a watchtower, there's got to be more around here.
23:42I agree.
23:45We got multiple buildings back here.
23:49Is this a barracks?
23:50They could be.
23:52You couldn't see any of this from the road.
23:58Our information tells us that this is a serious place.
24:02Weapons and men were stored and trained at this location.
24:06Yeah, wow.
24:07This is extensive.
24:09What gets me going on this is that this is consistent with what we've seen in Louisiana and here, which
24:14are these self-contained bases operating here in hiding.
24:18When we're looking at a criminal, we have to look at the environment that he was operating in.
24:23And this sends out warning bells to me that this guy was mixed up in some very serious stuff.
24:29The environment that Oswald was involved in.
24:31It was a toxic environment.
24:33It doesn't remind me of a lone wolf.
24:35It reminds me of a wolf pack.
24:41After combing through over 2 million declassified documents and chasing down leads, Bob and Adam reunite in their Miami war
24:49room to take stock of their investigation.
24:52We've got a lot of new evidence from the field, and here's where we are so far.
24:57We started out in Mexico City, where a declassified CIA document reported that Oswald visited the Cuban embassy eight weeks
25:06before the assassination.
25:09We uncovered an eyewitness who places Oswald in the company of high-ranking Cuban officials.
25:16We looked at him several times.
25:19We fixed his face in our head.
25:22Hundred and ten percent, I'm sure that he was him.
25:27Following that new lead, we tracked Oswald's movements to New Orleans.
25:31They're measuring for ammunition.
25:35We got a positive detection.
25:37The trail of evidence suggests that Oswald may have been swept up in a covert operation
25:43that was arming and training Cuban exiles to be used as assets in a secret war against Cuba.
25:51But I believe these assets had ideas of their own.
25:55Angry that Kennedy abandoned them during the Bay of Pigs, they were secretly plotting his murder.
26:00And Oswald was shaping up to be their trigger man.
26:06If Oswald hooked up with one of these groups was Alpha 66, Marshall raised it.
26:12Yeah.
26:14In the early 1960s, the CIA armed and militarized dozens of Cuban exile groups, training them to attack Cuba and
26:23overthrow the Castro regime.
26:24During the Bay of Pigs invasion, more than 1,400 of these fighters were ordered to attack Cuba.
26:32During the battle, President Kennedy withdrew air support, dooming the mission and resulting in hundreds of deaths.
26:39In the aftermath, part of Alpha 66, one of the most radical and violent groups, went rogue.
26:47According to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, leaders of Alpha 66 felt betrayed by JFK and threatened violence against
26:57the U.S. president.
26:59A group like Alpha 66 is the perfect group for Oswald to work with to achieve his goals.
27:06Alpha 66 is violent and angry with Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs.
27:11Oswald is a pronounced Marxist who praised communist ideals.
27:15I believe he wants Kennedy dead because of his stance against Cuba.
27:20Our working theory is that these two work together to achieve a common goal.
27:26Alpha 66, Oswald kept doing stuff to get their attention.
27:30It makes sense because we see this pattern that goes on and on with him where he's looking for validation.
27:36But all along the way, he's rejected.
27:38He gets rejected by the Russians.
27:40The Cubans sort of brush him off.
27:43But then he comes around to Alpha 66.
27:45And they say, I'm going to show you what I can do.
27:48And the Alpha 66, yeah, show us.
27:51What a great asset to have because he's pliable.
27:55You know, he'll do what you tell him to do.
27:56We need to look into Alpha 66 and see who these guys were.
28:00Yeah.
28:01Let's see what we got.
28:09All right.
28:10This is from the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
28:13Alpha 66 became one of the most active of the anti-Castro exile groups.
28:18All the major exile organizations were backing Alpha 66's efforts.
28:23The man behind all of Alpha 66's strategy was Maurice Bishop.
28:29So now we have a name, Maurice Bishop.
28:32Let's see if there's any decent evidence that Oswald met with Bishop,
28:36because that would suggest that there was planning at the top.
28:51Testimony from the founder of Alpha 66, Antonio Vessiana,
28:56to the House Select Committee.
28:57The committee's interest in the relationship between Antonio Vessiana
29:01and Maurice Bishop is, of course, predicated on Vessiana's contention
29:05that he saw Bishop with Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas
29:09a few months before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
29:14Holy .
29:16Here's a group that we've determined that's capable and willing
29:20and motivated to kill the president.
29:22We have a man who did kill the president,
29:25and now we have a witness that puts Lee Harvey Oswald
29:29killed within the inner circle of Alpha 66.
29:33There's your co-conspirator right there.
29:36He had on-the-ground assistance in Dallas.
29:40Do we have any corroboration on this at all?
29:42Let me see if we come up with anything else.
29:44Any other reports of Oswald with Cuban radicals?
29:51This is from the Warren Commission.
29:52It's the testimony of Sylvia Odio.
29:57In late September 1963, three men came to her apartment in Dallas
30:02to solicit funds for JOR, an anti-Castro organization.
30:08Two of the men appeared to be Cubans.
30:11The third man, an American, was introduced to Mrs. Odio as Leon Oswald.
30:20One of them said his name was Leopoldo.
30:27He said that we wanted you to meet this American
30:30who was very much interested in the Cuban cause.
30:33He said he had been a Marine.
30:36He repeated several times he was an expert shot man,
30:40and he was terrific.
30:44I think either that night or the night afterwards,
30:48Leopoldo called me on the phone.
30:50He said, well, you know, Leon Oswald, he's kind of loco.
30:54He's been telling us that the Cubans should have assassinated
30:58President Kennedy right after the Bay of Pigs,
31:01and they didn't have any guts to do it.
31:05It is so easy to do it.
31:10When Oswald came on television,
31:12immediately I realized that there was an assassination idea or plot.
31:28She was certain the American introduced to her as Leon Oswald
31:32was Lee Harvey Oswald.
31:35It's explosive. I mean, where's the FBI?
31:38I mean, why didn't they have this group penetrated in Dallas?
31:41Why didn't they know about it?
31:42Because the fact is they missed it.
31:45Yeah.
31:46Sylvia Odio is the most important eyewitness we found.
31:50Her testimony places Oswald in the company of violent, radical Cubans in Dallas.
31:57The Warren Commission refuted Sylvia Odio's testimony, claiming Oswald could not have been in Dallas at the time of their
32:05meeting.
32:07Fifteen years later, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, a review of the JFK investigation, declared Odio was a credible
32:15source and that the timeline was inconclusive.
32:18This conclusion did not change the official record.
32:23Everything I've seen suggested the Warren Commission did what they could to maintain the narrative, that Oswald acted entirely alone.
32:32The key witness to the JFK case was staring them in the face.
32:36And for some reason, they disregarded her testimony.
32:40Now we're going to look where they never did.
32:42We're getting very close to the truth.
32:50Bob Baer and Adam Bercovici are in Dallas, Texas, to search for evidence of accomplices to Lee Harvey Oswald.
32:59Newly declassified CIA documents reveal that Oswald may have had ties to a violent Cuban fringe group known as Alpha
33:0666.
33:08An eyewitness named Sylvia Odio offered further testimony, solidifying this connection.
33:14The American was introduced as Leon Oswald.
33:18He told us we don't have any guts because President Kennedy should have been assassinated right after the Bay of
33:24Pigs.
33:26It's explosive. I mean, where's the FBI? Why didn't they know about it?
33:30Odio puts Oswald with two Cuban radicals only eight weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy.
33:38Sylvia Odio described the two men with Oswald as Cuban radicals who were interested in killing Kennedy.
33:46There's no proof that these two men were Alpha 66, but my gut tells me they were.
33:52My experience tells me it's only a matter of time before we find Alpha 66 here with Oswald in Dallas.
34:01What we know for certain is Oswald found his way to a group of Cuban exiles, accomplices.
34:09What I'm really interested in, is there anything out there that takes these known associates and puts them in Dallas
34:16leading up to the assassination of the president and afterwards?
34:20What we need to know now is the timeline in Dallas.
34:24What do we have from the Warren Commission?
34:32On October 3rd, 1963, Oswald crossed into Texas.
34:37March 1963, he purchases the Carcano rifle by mail, the same rifle he will eventually use to assassinate President Kennedy.
34:47And look, here a month later, he's making an attempt on Edwin Walker with the same rifle.
34:56I mean, come on, this is huge.
34:59This guy was a political figure, ran for governor of Texas.
35:03Looking at the timeline of Oswald's period in Dallas, there is one event that really stands out,
35:10and that's the attempted assassination of General Edwin Walker.
35:15Major General Edwin Walker was a right-wing anti-communist extremist who called on the U.S. military to liquidate
35:23the communist scourge that has descended upon the island of Cuba.
35:27The program is communistic, in effect. Out and out, communistic, in effect.
35:33In April of 1963, seven and a half months before Kennedy's murder, a gunman attempts to assassinate Walker at his
35:41home in Dallas.
35:42The general survives unscathed.
35:45The case remains unsolved until after JFK's murder, when Marina Oswald testifies to the Warren Commission that her husband was
35:54behind the attempt on Walker's life.
35:58Unbelievably, the Warren Commission never looked into the Walker case.
36:02I believe they intentionally ignored that investigation because it could have brought to light new evidence pointing to his accomplices.
36:10I want to drill down anything associated with the Walker attempt is of high interest.
36:24It's the testimony of Marina Oswald from the Warren Commission.
36:27Following his unsuccessful attack on Walker, Oswald returned home.
36:32He had left a note for his wife telling her what to do in case he was apprehended,
36:36as well as his notebook and the pictures of himself holding the rifle.
36:42Edwin Walker, this guy was a major general.
36:45And you have Oswald taking a shot at him, and that's all we have?
36:49You know, one of the things that was an issue at the time was that this was a local case
36:54with the local homicide detectives handling.
36:56The local police, what do they have on it?
36:58That's a big case.
36:59There's going to be files.
37:01There's going to be reports.
37:02It's going to be in their archives.
37:04Well, that's what we've got to get.
37:06If Oswald was working with Alpha 66 in Dallas, they may have aided his attempt to murder General Walker.
37:15Dallas police files could bring to light new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
37:27In Dallas, Bob and Adam visit the Municipal Archive to dig into the original police files from the attempted assassination
37:34of General Edwin Walker,
37:37another murder attempt by Lee Harvey Oswald less than a year before Kennedy's death.
37:42Newly declassified documents suggest that Oswald may have had ties to a violent Cuban fringe group known as Alpha 66.
37:51The team now searches for any further evidence linking Oswald to these potential accomplices.
37:57This is the police reports on the attempt on Walker.
38:01On the evening of April 10th, 1963, General Edwin Walker is sitting in his study at his home in suburban
38:08Dallas.
38:09A gunman opens fire from an alley on the west side of the property.
38:14The bullet narrowly misses Walker's head.
38:16I mean, look at this. This is a political act.
38:19General Walker is conservative.
38:22Right.
38:22Anti-Cuban. He basically says, we have to invade Cuba now.
38:26Oswald takes a shot at General Walker.
38:29Mm-hmm.
38:29Point is, he can go to whatever group he wants and said, I have put myself at risk and this
38:37is verifiable.
38:39It's plausible that the Walker attempt was a proving ground for Oswald.
38:46He could say, look what I've done. Look what I'm willing to do.
38:50And his accomplices would recognize that dedication.
38:55Look at this supplementary offense report, police department.
39:02This officer contacted Kirk Coleman.
39:06It was a white male.
39:07He stated he was in the back room and heard a noise. He thought it was a blowout.
39:11The boy who was with him, Ronald Andrees, said it was a gunshot.
39:15Kirk stated that he then ran out, climbed the back fence and saw a man getting into a 49 or
39:2150 Ford.
39:22It was light green or light blue and it took off.
39:25This was on the parking lot of the church next to General Walker's house.
39:29Also, on further down the parking lot was another car with an unknown make or model and a man was
39:34in it.
39:34He had the dome light on and Kirk could see him bend over the front as if he was putting
39:38something in the back floorboard.
39:41Oswald didn't drive.
39:42No.
39:44So whose car was that?
39:45Exactly.
39:46One thing we know for sure, Oswald couldn't drive.
39:50Two cars at the scene, it means that multiple people were there with him.
39:54These records are telling us is this is organized political violence, possibly with other people involved.
40:03You have to make the reasonable assumption that he had a getaway driver, that somebody's helping him.
40:09That person has to be an accessory.
40:10There's no doubt in my mind that Oswald had accomplices in the months before he killed Kennedy.
40:17Sylvia Odio testified that she met with Oswald and two Cuban men in her house.
40:23And now it looks like he could have been working with those same men to kill Walker.
40:28The Warren Commission always said Oswald was a lone wolf. The evidence says otherwise.
40:35All this detail, none of it's in the FBI report.
40:38Why didn't the FBI go back to these witnesses?
40:41If you don't want the answer to a question, don't ask the question.
40:44Exactly. Don't ask it.
40:45And that's what the FBI didn't do. They didn't ask the question.
40:48What we need to do is get to Dealey Plaza, look at this the days before and the moments after
40:55for any traces of accessories.
40:58We need to turn our attention to the scene of the crime. We need to find out if he had
41:04help on November 22, 1963.
41:09On the final two episodes of tracking Oswald, an investigation 54 years in the making breaks wide open.
41:20He didn't sit up there in the book depository waiting to be arrested. He had a plan to get away.
41:25We need to reconstruct his exit route.
41:29He can stand there, be unobserved, and make a clear assessment of whether it's safe to approach.
41:34This is not a panicked man. This is evidence like we've never seen before.
41:39Is that it right there? This is it right here.
41:41This looks like a safe house. It does.
41:43Cubans are living here.
41:45Wherever he was going, it's over at this point.
41:50Here's the coast of Cuba right there. It's coming up on the chart.
41:53Oh, . This could be trouble.
41:56Keep the cameras down right now. I don't want to draw attention.
42:01See our ride yet?
42:02Yeah, it looks like us.
42:04You, Bob?
42:05Yep.
42:06Jump on.
42:07We need to find out how deep the rabbit hole goes.
42:11This is our guy. Let's go.
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