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00:00Previously on Tracking Oswald.
00:04All this detail, none of it's in the FBI report.
00:07Former CIA agent Bob Bair and former police lieutenant Adam Bercovici
00:12have found new evidence suggesting Lee Harvey Oswald
00:16may have had accomplices in the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
00:20Fidel Castro says that Oswald stormed into the embassy,
00:24demanded the visa, and when it was refused to him,
00:27headed out saying, I'm going to kill Kennedy for this.
00:30This is incredible.
00:33A declassified CIA document revealed possible connections
00:37between Oswald and Cuban militants operating in the U.S.,
00:41rogue members of a group called Alpha 66.
00:45Antonio Bessiana, he saw a bishop with Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas
00:49a few months before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
00:53Now we have a witness that puts Lee Harvey Oswald
00:57within the inner circle of Alpha 66.
01:00There's your co-conspirator right there.
01:03Following that lead, the team learned that Alpha 66
01:07had potential motive for murdering the president.
01:10The Cuban exiles blamed John F. Kennedy directly
01:14because he did not commit to support them.
01:18After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba,
01:21they're furious, they got money, they got weapons,
01:23and they're going out pursuing their own agendas.
01:26Absolutely.
01:28Some members of Alpha 66 thought JFK was to blame
01:33after the Bay of Pigs invasion,
01:35and they wanted him dead because of it.
01:37I believe that Oswald was working with these men
01:40in the months before the assassination.
01:43Now, I want to look for evidence of these accomplices in Dallas
01:47at the scene of the crime.
01:51November 22, 1963.
01:55Lee Harvey Oswald opens fire in Dealey Plaza,
01:59forever changing American history.
02:02Unanswered questions linger,
02:04breeding countless conspiracy theories.
02:06Many believe Russia, Cuba, or even the CIA
02:10supported Oswald in his mission.
02:13In 2017, the final documents from the JFK assassination
02:18are scheduled for release.
02:21More than 2 million files have already been declassified.
02:25No one has analyzed them until now.
02:28A CIA veteran is on the trail
02:31of the most notorious assassin in U.S. history.
02:41The conspiracy theories start Dealey Plaza.
02:45Grassy, Noel, the second gunman.
02:48Bob and Adam arrive in Dealey Plaza
02:51to search for evidence of Lee Harvey Oswald's potential accomplices,
02:55members of the Cuban fringe group known as Alpha 66.
03:00The evidence we found has convinced me
03:03that members of Alpha 66
03:05helped Oswald in the months before the murder.
03:08The question is,
03:09did they also help him on the day of the assassination?
03:12Could a member of Alpha 66
03:14have been the supposed second shooter?
03:17I've always believed that Oswald was the lone gunman,
03:20and I still do.
03:21But after 21 years in the CIA,
03:24I've learned you need to always question yourself.
03:27At this point in the investigation,
03:28we need to fully analyze the second shooter theory.
03:32In 1963, President John F. Kennedy
03:35embarked on a five-city tour of Texas
03:38to campaign for re-election.
03:40On the morning of November 22nd,
03:42the presidential motorcade heads into downtown Dallas,
03:46on route to a luncheon at the Dallas Trademark.
03:49At 12.30 p.m., the president is shot.
03:55The motorcade races to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
03:5930 minutes later, at 1 p.m., the news shocks the nation.
04:04President Kennedy is dead, Gordon.
04:06This is official word.
04:07The president is dead.
04:09In the years after,
04:10conflicting witness accounts spark conspiracy theories,
04:13many about a second shooter on the grassy knoll
04:16along Elm Street.
04:21Right there is the famous grassy knoll by those trees.
04:26And the book depository is just north of it.
04:31Oswald is up there.
04:33He can see everything from that spot.
04:35He's got a perch.
04:37He's got a place to rest his rifle.
04:39There's the window up there.
04:40Yep.
04:40Sixth floor, right in that corner.
04:42It's the perfect position.
04:45The motorcade makes a left on Elm.
04:47So here's when Oswald makes his move.
04:50The motorcade heads down to the freeway.
04:53And from right there, with a cross in the road,
04:58is where this turns into the crime scene.
05:02The motorcade going 11 miles an hour,
05:04it gives Oswald a fairly steady target.
05:10Theoretically, it's possible that Alpha 66
05:13supplied a second shooter in Dealey Plaza.
05:16So we have to test it before we can definitively rule it out.
05:19The most convincing evidence of a second shooter
05:22is what's called the back and to the left theory.
05:27When President Kennedy was murdered in Dealey Plaza,
05:30he was struck by two separate bullets.
05:33The first entered and exited through the president's neck.
05:37When the second bullet struck his head,
05:39the head went back and to the left.
05:42Many believe that a shot could have only come
05:45from the front right position on the grassy knoll
05:47to cause such a reaction.
05:49We know that Oswald was positioned behind Kennedy.
05:53So I want to know if there's a scientific explanation
05:56for the president's head jerking back and to the left,
05:59if he was only shot from behind.
06:05To test the back and to the left theory,
06:08Bob calls on former Army Ranger Marty Scoveland
06:11and expert sniper George Rhinus.
06:14So we have a human head.
06:15The ordinance gel here,
06:16which is basically mimicking human flesh,
06:18if I take a shot from behind the ballistics gel,
06:21we'll actually get to see
06:22if that movement's going to be recreated
06:24from a rearward shot.
06:25The test is filmed at 2,000 frames per second,
06:29capturing an image 100 times slower than real time.
06:33For accuracy, George will shoot a replica
06:35of the rifle Oswald used.
06:38An original man licker Carcano bolt-action carbine.
06:53George takes position in a perch
06:55at the same elevation, angle, and distance as Oswald
07:00when he fired the fatal shots.
07:02Shooter ready.
07:04Send it.
07:12All right, here we go.
07:15I'm going to hit play here.
07:24Oh, wow, look at that.
07:26Actually comes back.
07:27Oh.
07:28When you have a projectile moving 2,100 feet per second,
07:31a larger caliber, like a 6.5,
07:33when it enters through the back of the head
07:35and then the terminal ballistics will come here,
07:37causing the head to go back into the left
07:39where the impact was.
07:40The head going back into the left
07:41does not mean that you had to have a second shooter.
07:44Right.
07:44It's possible he was the only one.
07:47The ballistics test confirms
07:49the team's working theory
07:51and the findings of the Warren Commission.
07:54Back in Dealey Plaza,
07:56Bob Baer still has one more question
07:58in need of answers.
08:00After Marty's test,
08:02I believe we've removed almost all doubt
08:04about the presence of a second shooter.
08:07But there's still one more angle we need to test
08:10before we can put it to bed once and for all.
08:12There are multiple witnesses
08:14from the day of JFK's murder
08:16who testified they heard a second shooter.
08:19On the day of the assassination,
08:21thousands of people lined the motorcade route
08:23through downtown Dallas.
08:26According to the House Select Committee
08:27on Assassinations,
08:30171 reported earwitness accounts
08:32of shots in Dealey Plaza.
08:34Of those, 46 believe the shots
08:37came only from the Texas School Book Depository.
08:4020 thought gunfire came
08:42from the grassy knoll along Elm.
08:44105 people were either unsure
08:47or identified another point of origin.
08:52A lot of reliable eyewitnesses
08:55claim that shots were fired
08:58from the grassy knoll.
08:59So what did these people hear?
09:01Really, what it comes down to is the acoustics.
09:04So we're going to bring science to this.
09:07To analyze the earwitness accounts
09:09at Dealey Plaza
09:10and evaluate the remaining possible evidence
09:13of a second shooter,
09:14Bob recruits a team of expert sound engineers.
09:18David Marsh, Melvin Saunders,
09:20and Cleve Doyan.
09:22We are looking for accomplices.
09:25Everywhere we go,
09:27we've found traces of them.
09:29But the question is,
09:30did he have accomplices on the grassy knoll?
09:33No one has ever used this 3D computer model
09:37to analyze the JFK assassination.
09:39This state-of-the-art technology
09:41allows us to pinpoint exact spots in the plaza
09:44and determine what each earwitness would have heard.
09:47This next sound reflection,
09:49that's the first time I saw that one.
09:51This is as close as we're going to get
09:53to being there on the day of the crime.
09:55This test could finally help us answer
09:58one of the most infamous questions in history.
10:00Was there a second shooter working with Oswald
10:03to murder President John F. Kennedy?
10:12CIA veteran Bob Baer is working on an explosive theory
10:16that Lee Harvey Oswald may have conspired
10:19with rogue members of a Cuban radical group
10:22called Alpha 66
10:23to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
10:28Now the team is analyzing the scene of the crime
10:31to see if one of those men acted as a second shooter
10:34in Dealey Plaza.
10:36At this point in the investigation,
10:37we're fully analyzing the second shooter theory
10:41to find out if it's possible
10:42that members of Alpha 66 were here in Dealey Plaza.
10:46Send it.
10:49Our ballistics test proves that a single shooter
10:52could have been responsible for the murder.
10:54But now we are going to evaluate earwitness accounts
10:57of gunfire from the Grassy Knoll.
11:01Bob has enlisted a team of sound engineers
11:03to examine the acoustics of Dealey Plaza
11:06to determine if echoes in the square
11:08can explain earwitness accounts of a second shooter.
11:12A lot of earwitnesses over here
11:14that said that they heard it from the Grassy Knoll.
11:16To accurately map the acoustic properties of Dealey Plaza,
11:19the team will collect scientific measurements
11:22of the distance between landmarks
11:24and the material makeup of the environment.
11:26You have these huge reflective surfaces
11:29that's almost like the amphitheater effect.
11:32This information will be fed
11:34into a state-of-the-art program
11:36to construct a computer model of the surrounding area,
11:39which can map how sound echoes in this location.
11:44All I care about is the science.
11:48Forensics is absolutely key to this.
11:51Right now, it's the only thing I trust.
11:53As the team continues their analysis in Dealey Plaza,
11:58Marty and expert sniper George Rhinus
12:00collect recordings from the replica of Oswald's rifle
12:03to measure its audio output
12:05at the moment it fired its fatal blast.
12:09Check clear.
12:10Clear.
12:11Perfect.
12:13One of the most famous murder weapons in history,
12:16Oswald's Mannlicher Carcano rifle
12:18was purchased through a magazine advertisement
12:20for less than $20,
12:22nearly eight months before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
12:26Recovered from the crime scene less than 30 minutes
12:29after the first shots rang out,
12:31the rifle was immediately subjected
12:33to a barrage of forensic testing
12:35by the Dallas Sheriff's Office
12:37before the FBI intervened,
12:39ordering the rifle to be sent
12:41to government-owned laboratories in Washington, D.C.
12:44These are authentic, historic rounds
12:47that would actually be manufactured
12:48at the same time period
12:50of what Oswald would have used in the shooting.
12:52Let's go crack a few rounds off, see how this sounds.
12:54To gauge just how loud Oswald's rifle was
12:58after the fateful shots were fired,
13:00the team will shoot multiple rounds,
13:03measuring the average volume level
13:04on precision recording equipment.
13:06The data gathered here will provide the audio engineers
13:10with an accurate measurement of the Carcano rifle.
13:16All right, setting up.
13:20All right, audio ready?
13:25Ready?
13:26Shader ready.
13:27Send it.
13:34The bullet behaves like a supersonic aircraft,
13:38creating sound from both the explosion of gunpowder
13:40and the sonic boom created by the projectile
13:43as it travels 2,100 feet per second,
13:47two times faster than the speed of sound.
13:50Over large distances,
13:52this difference in velocity can create an illusion
13:54where an observer may witness the impact of the bullet
13:58before hearing the sound of the shot.
14:06Audio ready?
14:07Shader ready.
14:09Send it.
14:12All right.
14:13I think this will be enough to send back
14:15and have them match up with the data in Dealey Plaza.
14:17Perfect.
14:20Back in Dallas,
14:21the acoustic engineers have gathered
14:24all of the information they need
14:25to build their computer model of Dealey Plaza
14:28and measure echoes within the space.
14:31What we specifically want to do
14:33is take all the witnesses
14:35that heard the shots coming from the sixth floor,
14:39others saying they came from somewhere else.
14:42Let's place them geographically on this map
14:45and see if it makes sense.
14:47Is there a reason for that, a scientific reason?
14:50Okay.
14:54The Warren Commission officially ruled
14:57there were three shots on the day of the president's murder.
15:00But for more than 50 years,
15:02there have been conspiracy theories questioning that.
15:04For our audio test, the number of shots is irrelevant.
15:07What I want to find out
15:09is if ear witness accounts of the gunfire
15:12are reliable at all.
15:13This test will tell us if we can trust what they reported
15:17about the number of shots and where they came from
15:19or if echoes distorted the truth.
15:23The model illustrates sound reverberation
15:26within Dealey Plaza
15:27as gunfire from the sixth floor
15:30of the Texas School Book Depository
15:32radiates into the square.
15:34It bounces off of the glass, concrete,
15:37and granite structures
15:38to create large echoes
15:40less than a second after the initial blast.
15:43This is a school book depository.
15:45We've just got one window in it
15:46with a sound source aimed, you know,
15:48down here on the road.
15:49What we can do now,
15:50we can grab a probe
15:52and we can place this anywhere we want
15:54and it will show us
15:55how the sound gets from this point to that listener.
15:58This is maybe one of the most
16:00interesting positions down here.
16:01This would be down there
16:03across from the Grassy Knoll.
16:05The first sound they would hear
16:06would be the direct sound
16:07from here to there.
16:09The next sound they hear
16:10is off the face of the bridge,
16:12about 88 decibels.
16:14The one coming off the bridge
16:15is at 84 decibels.
16:17It's only four decibels less,
16:19almost a negligible difference.
16:21The model illustrates
16:22that a single gunshot
16:24originating at the depository
16:26would produce an echo
16:27off of the overpass
16:28on the opposite end of the plaza
16:30at virtually the same decibel level
16:33as the initial shot.
16:34If someone hears a shot from here,
16:36that's their first one,
16:38and then there would be enough delay
16:40for somebody standing here
16:42to think there was a second shot
16:43from a different part.
16:45Yes.
16:46Virtually anywhere that we probe
16:48into this model
16:48around the viewing area,
16:50we have at least one echo,
16:52sometimes two or three.
16:53So what did those people hear?
16:55Did they hear a shot?
16:57Or did they hear an echo?
16:59A single shot
17:00can create enough confusion
17:02that people will not be sure
17:04where it came from.
17:05In an environment like this
17:05where you have a lot of parallel
17:07reflective surfaces,
17:08echoes can deceive you.
17:09I think they provide
17:10a logical explanation
17:11for why there are so many
17:13varying opinions
17:14about where the sound came from,
17:16how many shots there were,
17:17and what direction, you know,
17:19they heard it from.
17:20Everyone could have been
17:21hearing the same shot,
17:22but because of the echo,
17:24they placed it somewhere else.
17:27Correct.
17:27Multiple echoes.
17:28Their testimony,
17:30the air witnesses,
17:32is, in effect, unreliable.
17:34Yes.
17:36After this acoustics test
17:38and our ballistics test,
17:39I remain convinced
17:41there is no hard evidence
17:42to support the idea
17:43of a second shooter
17:44in Dealey Plaza.
17:45In my mind,
17:47Oswald was the only shooter
17:48on that day.
17:50But that doesn't change
17:51the fact that we found evidence
17:53connecting him to Alpha 66
17:55in the months before
17:56he pulled the trigger.
17:58Now, I want to look
18:00at the aftermath of the crime
18:01to see if they were in Dallas
18:03to help Oswald get away.
18:13The ballistic tests
18:15and the echo tests
18:17confirms my belief
18:19that Oswald was the lone shooter,
18:21but it doesn't address at all
18:23the problem of accomplices.
18:26After ruling out
18:27a second shooter
18:27in Dealey Plaza,
18:29Bob and Adam
18:30now shift their focus
18:31to the aftermath
18:32of Kennedy's murder.
18:34They're searching for evidence
18:36of Oswald's potential accomplices,
18:38rogue members
18:39of a Cuban group
18:40called Alpha 66,
18:41on the day
18:42of the assassination.
18:43They helped him
18:44plan the assassination.
18:46I'll bet they helped
18:47him get away.
18:50Oswald shoots
18:51the president
18:52at 1230
18:53after he shot
18:54the president.
18:55He didn't sit up there
18:56in the book depository
18:57waiting to be arrested.
18:58He had a plan
19:00to get away.
19:01Yeah.
19:02Let's dig
19:02into the documents
19:03and see the timeline
19:05of Oswald's escape plan.
19:07The Warren Commission
19:08cataloged all
19:09of Lee Harvey Oswald's
19:10movements
19:11and possessions
19:12from the day
19:13of the assassination.
19:151236 p.m.,
19:16Oswald takes a bus transfer
19:17near St. Paul
19:18and Elm Street,
19:19roughly around
19:20five minutes
19:21after the shots
19:23were taken.
19:24He knew he had
19:25to get off the street.
19:26At 1236,
19:27he got on the bus.
19:291 p.m.,
19:30Oswald arrives
19:31at his rooming house.
19:32He runs into traffic.
19:34He gets off the bus,
19:36catches a cab.
19:38By one,
19:39he's back
19:40at his rooming house.
19:421.16 p.m.,
19:44Oswald shoots
19:45officer J.D. Tippett
19:46four times.
19:48Tippett stood in his way
19:50wherever he was going.
19:531.51 p.m.,
19:56arrested at the Texas theater.
19:57He clearly was not
19:59heading for a dead end.
20:00He wasn't going
20:01to see a movie.
20:03The hour and 20 minutes
20:05after he shoots
20:06the president
20:06at 1230
20:07are absolutely key
20:10of whether
20:11he had accomplices.
20:12As soon as Oswald
20:14decided to assassinate
20:15the president,
20:16I have no doubt
20:17that he planned
20:18his escape route.
20:19The Warren Commission
20:20looked at the facts,
20:22but they never looked
20:23for accomplices
20:24along that route.
20:25Were other people
20:26hidden along the way
20:27to help him
20:28to get out of Dallas?
20:29That's what we need
20:30to find out.
20:31Adam, look,
20:32you and I
20:33have to put ourselves
20:35in his mind.
20:37We've just committed
20:38the most horrendous
20:40political act
20:41in modern American history.
20:43How do you get away?
20:44We need to reconstruct
20:46his exit route,
20:47and somewhere along
20:49that route,
20:49we're going to find
20:51an answer.
20:53Bob and Adam
20:54begin their analysis
20:56of Oswald's escape route
20:57on the corner
20:58of Houston
20:59and Elm Streets
21:00at the Texas
21:01School Book Depository.
21:02There's a reason
21:03they call us a perch,
21:05an assassin's perch.
21:08There's Dealey Plaza.
21:11See the axe down there?
21:14Yeah, it's as clear
21:15as can be.
21:35After the last
21:36and final shot,
21:38he just dropped the rifle.
21:40He's thinking,
21:41how do I get out of here?
21:43The moment you planned
21:44an operation,
21:45whether it's an assassination
21:47or an ambush,
21:49you're looking
21:50at the roots of egress,
21:52and not just one.
21:53It was part of our tactics
21:55that you enter
21:57by one exit
21:58and depart through another,
22:00and it's never the same.
22:01He wouldn't have left
22:02this building without a plan.
22:03I agree.
22:04In my experience,
22:05there are three things
22:06you need in the aftermath
22:08of any operation.
22:10a concealed route
22:12free from public view
22:13and law enforcement,
22:15a safe house you can use
22:17to get off the street
22:18if necessary,
22:19and accomplices
22:20who are physically able
22:22to aid your escape.
22:23We need to see
22:25if Alpha 66
22:26was providing Oswald
22:27with those three things.
22:30The moment he pulls
22:31that trigger,
22:32he's out of here.
22:33Time is not on his side.
22:35Right.
22:36After Oswald fires
22:38the fatal shots,
22:38he drops his
22:40Mannlicher Carcano rifle
22:41on the sixth floor
22:43of the Texas School Book
22:44Depository.
22:45Approximately 90 seconds later,
22:47he encounters
22:48a Dallas policeman
22:49on the second floor
22:50of the building.
22:51The officer releases Oswald
22:53when he's identified
22:54as an employee.
22:56Approximately three minutes
22:58after the shots,
22:59he exits through the front door
23:01of the depository,
23:02walks east,
23:03and then boards a bus
23:04headed west.
23:05When the bus runs
23:06into traffic
23:07near Dealey Plaza,
23:09Oswald gets off,
23:10walks south,
23:11and then hails a cab
23:13toward his rooming house
23:14two miles away
23:15in Oak Cliff.
23:16At 1 p.m.,
23:1830 minutes after the shooting,
23:20the taxi drops Oswald
23:22one-third of a mile
23:23from his rooming house.
23:25Got a nose in here,
23:26and that's the house
23:27right up there.
23:28All right.
23:28Pull right in here.
23:33Here's where the taxi
23:34drops him off.
23:36A third of a mile
23:37past his house.
23:38There's downtown.
23:40Downtown's two miles away,
23:42catches a cab,
23:44comes barreling
23:45down the street,
23:46past his boarding house,
23:48gets off here.
23:50The fact that he came
23:52so far down the road,
23:53a third of a mile,
23:54let's leave the car here
23:55and walk back.
23:55Kind of put ourselves
23:56back in his shoes.
23:58He's walking down
23:59this street.
24:00Look at this area here.
24:01It's suburban,
24:02wide open.
24:04Here's the boarding house.
24:07He has the taxi
24:08come across this intersection,
24:10go up the street,
24:12and if you look up there
24:14in those trees,
24:15it's impossible
24:17to see somebody standing
24:18simply observing
24:19this location.
24:20He can stand there,
24:22be unobserved,
24:23and make a clear assessment
24:24of whether it's safe
24:26to approach this location.
24:29I've seen this before.
24:30I mean,
24:30this is the training
24:31I got in the CIA,
24:32and I've spent years
24:34and years and years
24:35getting dropped off
24:36near safe houses,
24:37and you never get dropped off
24:39in front of a safe house.
24:40That takes discipline.
24:41The fact that Oswald
24:43was dropped off
24:44a third of a mile
24:46past his boarding house
24:47tells me
24:48he had a plan
24:49to get away.
24:50He wasn't running around
24:52in a panic.
24:52It's standard tradecraft.
24:54He performed surveillance
24:56on his destination
24:57by driving by it.
24:58It says to me
24:59Oswald was deliberate.
25:01He could have stopped
25:02the taxi down there,
25:03but that's not
25:04the best place to look,
25:05and he's thought this through.
25:07This is not a panicked man.
25:09No, this is a man
25:15with a plan.
25:17As the investigation
25:18returns to the scene
25:19of the crime,
25:20in Dallas,
25:21Bob and Adam
25:22are reconstructing
25:24Lee Harvey Oswald's
25:25escape from Dealey Plaza
25:26after he assassinated
25:28President Kennedy.
25:30The Warren Commission
25:31ruled that Oswald
25:32acted alone,
25:33but we found evidence
25:34suggesting he was working
25:36with rogue members
25:37of a Cuban militant group
25:38called Alpha 66
25:40in the months
25:41before JFK's murder.
25:43My suspicion is
25:44they were in Dallas
25:45waiting to help him escape.
25:47We need to examine
25:48his getaway route
25:49or any signs
25:50of these accomplices
25:52on the day of the crime.
25:55On November 22nd, 1963,
25:59Oswald opens fire
26:00in Dealey Plaza
26:01at 12.30 p.m.
26:03Central Time.
26:0430 minutes later,
26:06a taxi drops him
26:07one-third of a mile
26:08away from his rooming house
26:10on North Beckley Avenue.
26:18You were here
26:19when Lee Harvey Oswald
26:20was here?
26:21We were here
26:22almost every single day.
26:23So you knew him?
26:24Yes, I did.
26:25I certainly did.
26:26Lee Harvey Oswald
26:28checked into the rooming house
26:29under the name O.H. Lee
26:31on October 14, 1963.
26:34Patricia Hall
26:35was 11 years old
26:36at the time
26:37and still lives
26:38at the address.
26:39You remember him?
26:40I do.
26:41You used to see him
26:42how often?
26:43We saw him every day.
26:45What was he like?
26:46You know, honestly,
26:47he was just a very nice
26:49young man.
26:51The antisocial,
26:52loner persona
26:54that the government
26:56puts out about him,
26:57this family never saw.
26:59Where did he live
27:00and oppose this?
27:01I mean, where was he?
27:02Yeah, just right
27:03through there.
27:07This is his little room.
27:11He was a private person.
27:14We knew he had
27:15a young family
27:16and that they were separated.
27:17He would go to Irving
27:19to see his wife
27:21and children
27:22every single weekend.
27:25He would get calls
27:27on this phone.
27:29Did he ever use
27:31the phone to call out?
27:32Yes.
27:32He did get calls
27:34from gentlemen.
27:35We heard him
27:37speaking Spanish
27:38and Russian.
27:41Really?
27:42You heard him speaking
27:43both Spanish and Russian
27:44on this telephone
27:45right here?
27:46Yes.
27:47While it was possible
27:48that he was speaking Russian
27:49to his wife, Marina,
27:51who was he speaking Spanish with?
27:53According to the Warren Commission,
27:54he's got no friends.
27:55Was he speaking Spanish
27:57with members of Alpha 66?
27:59Were they discussing
28:00the assassination?
28:02Let me ask you this, Pat,
28:03and we're kind of narrowing
28:04it down a little bit.
28:05We want to kind of see
28:06if you can kind of dig back
28:07in your memory bank
28:08and think about the time
28:10after the assassination.
28:12The only actual eyewitness
28:14we have is the housekeeper,
28:17Earlene Roberts.
28:18She was the only one here.
28:22According to her,
28:24she was sitting down
28:25watching her favorite soap opera.
28:29As the world turns,
28:30a little after it had been on,
28:33Walter Cronkite broke in
28:34and gave the news
28:35about the president being shot.
28:37When Mr. Lee quickly came in,
28:40she turned to him
28:41and said,
28:41Mr. Lee, did you hear
28:43that someone shot our president?
28:44And he didn't say anything to her.
28:48He just came in,
28:50went straight to his room,
28:53grabbed an Eisenhower jacket,
28:57and in the wardrobe closet,
29:00there is a gun
29:01in one of those doors.
29:03Hit it under his jacket
29:05and walked out.
29:06And she again turned to him
29:08and said,
29:09well, you sure seem in a hurry.
29:14Because she was paid
29:16to be a nosy-rosy,
29:17she got up,
29:19went to the windows,
29:20and watched where he went.
29:24And she testified
29:26that he went to the right
29:28and stood at the bus stop.
29:34It was unusual for him
29:36to come home
29:37in the middle of the day,
29:38just in a hurry.
29:40If we're looking for accessories,
29:42we need to look at every detail
29:44of his escape.
29:46Why didn't he bring
29:47his pistol to the depository?
29:49Why take the detour
29:51back to the rooming house?
29:52Where is he planning to go next?
29:54Tell me about the housekeeper.
29:56I mean, when she talked
29:57to the Warren Commission,
29:59did they ask her about?
30:00Oh, yeah.
30:01And she told him
30:02that he went out the door
30:04and went to the right.
30:05But the Warren Commission's
30:07basic route
30:08that they suggest that he took
30:10was he went out the doors
30:12and immediately turned
30:13to the left.
30:14But she told him
30:15he turned right.
30:16And they ignored that.
30:19So you have a witness's statement
30:21that's ignored,
30:22and instead,
30:24a suggestion is made.
30:26I mean, that's what I'm hearing.
30:27Yeah.
30:27A suggestion.
30:28And she was very definite,
30:30went out the door,
30:32turned right.
30:33Every detail means something,
30:35and right now,
30:36we're collecting
30:37a lot of new information.
30:39We now know
30:41that Oswald
30:41was speaking Spanish
30:42on the phone
30:43at his boarding house.
30:45We also know
30:46that he reportedly
30:47didn't look panicked
30:48when he came here
30:49on the day
30:49of the assassination.
30:51Now we're hearing
30:52that the Warren Commission
30:53ignored the eyewitness testimony
30:56about Oswald's actions
30:57after leaving
30:58the boarding house.
30:59It was great meeting you.
31:01It was great meeting you.
31:01My suspicion is
31:03they missed something
31:04along this route.
31:05Oswald had a plan,
31:07and we're going to figure out
31:08what that plan was.
31:15What it comes down to
31:17is there's something
31:18he was going to do
31:20in this area.
31:21Searching through
31:22more than 2 million
31:23declassified government files,
31:25Bob and Adam
31:26have uncovered new evidence
31:28suggesting Lee Harvey Oswald
31:30was working with rogue members
31:32of a Cuban exile group
31:33called Alpha 66
31:35during the months
31:36before JFK's murder.
31:38Everything we've seen
31:39from Oswald right now,
31:41his movements are calculated.
31:42They're orchestrated
31:43to a degree.
31:44Now, the team
31:46is reconstructing
31:47Oswald's getaway route
31:48to look for evidence
31:49that these same men
31:51were accomplices
31:52on the day
31:52of the assassination.
31:54First thing you do
31:56when you're planning
31:56a covert mission
31:57is plan the getaway.
31:59The question is
32:00where was he headed
32:01and who was he going to meet?
32:04Lee Harvey Oswald
32:06began working
32:07at the Texas School Book
32:08Depository
32:09on October 16, 1963,
32:11only 38 days
32:13before JFK's murder.
32:17After shooting Kennedy
32:18from the sixth floor
32:19of the building,
32:20Oswald flees
32:21to his rooming house,
32:22grabs a jacket
32:24and pistol
32:24before walking back
32:26onto the street.
32:27Based on eyewitness accounts
32:29from Dealey Plaza,
32:30Dallas Police Dispatch
32:32puts out an APB
32:33at 1245
32:35for a white male,
32:37slender build,
32:38approximately
32:3830 years of age.
32:42So far,
32:42we've tracked things
32:43that we know.
32:44Here's where things
32:45begin to change.
32:46Yeah.
32:48At 1.16 p.m.,
32:50Officer J.D. Tippett
32:52confronts Oswald
32:53near the corner
32:54of 10th Street
32:55and South Patton Avenue.
32:59At this point,
33:00Oswald is miles
33:01from the crime scene
33:03in a residential neighborhood
33:04and was probably
33:06moving at a rush.
33:07I doubt that Tippett
33:09ever knew
33:09he'd identified
33:10the assassin,
33:11but he matched
33:13the description.
33:15Oswald must have realized
33:16it was all over
33:17when Tippett
33:18gets out of the car.
33:21right at this point
33:23when Oswald
33:24sees Tippett,
33:25that's when he first
33:26starts to panic.
33:33As Tippett lay there
33:34dying,
33:35a witness on the street
33:37grabbed the police radio
33:38and called it in.
33:42I think what's
33:43near certain
33:44is that Oswald
33:46had a getaway plan,
33:47but wherever he was going,
33:49that's over at this point.
33:50He knows
33:51this place
33:52is going to be flooded
33:53with police.
33:55Right at that spot
33:56where Tippett's killed,
33:57that's where his plans
33:59come off the tracks.
34:01If it weren't for Tippett,
34:03Oswald was minutes away
34:05pulling off
34:07the crime of the century.
34:10But what we have
34:11to ask ourselves
34:12is, what if?
34:14What if Officer Tippett
34:16didn't stop him?
34:23We have to imagine
34:25at this point,
34:26Oswald was still
34:27on a mission,
34:28keeping his head down low,
34:30trying not to raise suspicion.
34:32He was going somewhere
34:34with a sense of purpose
34:35that day.
34:37In the absence
34:38of any other evidence,
34:39he was heading
34:40to meet accomplices.
34:42That makes sense to me.
34:43Exactly.
34:43My suspicion is
34:45if we look at this hypothetical,
34:47this alternate timeline
34:48where Officer Tippett
34:49isn't murdered,
34:50we'll find the answers
34:52we're looking for.
34:54To regroup
34:56and examine
34:56this alternate timeline,
34:59Bob and Adam head
35:00for the Texas Theater,
35:01where Oswald fled
35:02after murdering
35:04Officer Tippett.
35:09So this is where
35:10it all ends
35:11for Oswald.
35:12Third row down.
35:15This is where
35:16they grabbed him.
35:17How many people
35:18were here?
35:18Twelve.
35:20Twelve people that day,
35:21not very crowded.
35:24When he goes
35:25to this theater,
35:26he's not thinking
35:28rationally
35:28because his plan
35:30of escape
35:31fell apart.
35:33This is when
35:34he starts
35:34to improvise.
35:36Even he probably
35:38knew it was all over
35:39at that point.
35:40Oswald enters
35:41the theater
35:41without paying,
35:43sneaking into
35:44a screening
35:44of War is Hell.
35:46Police receive
35:48a tip
35:48about a suspicious man
35:50matching the description
35:51of the suspect
35:52in Tippett's murder.
35:54Oswald is arrested
35:55at the Texas Theater
35:56at 1.50 p.m.
35:58Central Time.
36:00The question is,
36:01if Oswald
36:02doesn't kill Tippett,
36:03where was he
36:04going to go?
36:06Let's see
36:07what we've got
36:07about his possible route.
36:09From the time
36:10he leaves
36:10the rooming house
36:11until he shoots
36:12Tippett,
36:13what do you have
36:13from the Warren
36:14Commission?
36:15Warren Commission.
36:16Oswald,
36:17escape.
36:27My God,
36:28not a damn thing.
36:29Look at that.
36:30Not a word.
36:31What we need to do
36:32is widen our scope.
36:35The Warren Commission
36:36never looked for
36:37Oswald's potential
36:38escape route.
36:40They just went
36:41with the easy assumption
36:42he was running around
36:43in a panic.
36:44What we know
36:45of Oswald
36:45is he always
36:50had a plan.
36:50All right,
36:51here we go,
36:51Bob.
36:52There is something
36:53here in the
36:54Secret Service file
36:55right here.
36:56It shows that
36:57Oswald has
36:58a bus transfer ticket
36:59for a stop
37:00very close
37:00to where
37:01the Tippett murder
37:01occurred.
37:02It's only like
37:03a block and a half.
37:05So he could have
37:06used the transfer ticket
37:07to catch a bus.
37:09There was a way
37:10out for him
37:11right down the street.
37:13When Oswald
37:14first flees
37:15the school book
37:16depository
37:16he walks east
37:18and then boards
37:19a bus headed west.
37:20When the bus
37:21runs into traffic
37:22near Dealey Plaza
37:23Oswald gets off
37:25but before he does
37:27he takes
37:28a transfer ticket.
37:29This allows him
37:30to board another bus
37:31within Dallas
37:32for no charge.
37:34According to
37:35Secret Service documents
37:36they believe
37:38that Oswald
37:39was going to take
37:39a 55 bus.
37:40He had the
37:41transfer ticket
37:42to make it happen.
37:43This could have been
37:44Oswald's plan
37:45to get away.
37:46Look at the route
37:47of that bus stop.
37:48That's evidence
37:49as to what he planned
37:50to do.
37:51I think we're
37:52going to have to go
37:53what we can find
37:54along that route
37:54after a murder
37:55like this.
37:56He needed
37:57to get out of sight.
37:59We need to follow
38:00that escape route
38:01and see where it leads.
38:10I mean Oswald
38:12didn't just walk
38:14out of the book
38:14depository stunned
38:16at what he had done.
38:17He had a plan
38:19for leaving.
38:21A declassified
38:22Secret Service file
38:23delivered to the
38:24Warren Commission
38:25but not included
38:26in the official report
38:28reveals that
38:29Lee Harvey Oswald
38:31may have planned
38:32to use the 55 bus route
38:34for his escape
38:35on the day
38:36of the assassination.
38:37The 55 bus
38:39is no longer
38:40in service
38:41so Bob and Adam
38:43drive the old route
38:44to search for evidence
38:46of possible collaborators
38:47along Oswald's getaway.
38:49Here's a city
38:51that's on lockdown.
38:52I mean look
38:53at this bus route.
38:55Easy to intercept
38:56anybody coming
38:57down this way.
38:58It just makes
38:59no sense at all.
39:04The bus route
39:05the Secret Service
39:06suspects he intended
39:07to use
39:08has some big issues.
39:10First off
39:11it goes through
39:11a busy part of town.
39:13On that day
39:14the police would have
39:15been everywhere.
39:16It's extremely exposed.
39:18During my 21 years
39:20in the CIA
39:20we did a lot of training
39:22for covert operations
39:23and we were always taught
39:25that during an escape
39:26you always avoid
39:27the easy exit
39:28and instead
39:29you have a plan
39:30to get off the street
39:31somewhere to lay low.
39:33Oswald
39:34just assassinated
39:35the President
39:36of the United States.
39:37He's got his
39:38transfer.
39:39He's on the run.
39:41And there's
39:42the Greyhound station.
39:43Yeah.
39:45Let's go take a look at it.
39:53Look at this.
39:54What bothers me is
39:56if you look at the bus route
39:57an hour, an hour and a half
39:59it's too long
40:01to get out here
40:02board a bus
40:03and not expect
40:05the Dallas police
40:06to have this place covered.
40:07Yeah.
40:08You're bound
40:09to get caught.
40:10Oswald's too smart
40:11for that.
40:12I mean,
40:12there's something else
40:13out here
40:14that he was after.
40:17Everything we've seen
40:18tells me
40:19that Oswald
40:20meticulously planned
40:21this escape.
40:22He was a Marine
40:23and the evidence tells us
40:25he was connected
40:25to trained militants.
40:27He wouldn't have
40:27hurried to a Greyhound station
40:29and not expect police
40:31to be waiting.
40:31His plan would have
40:32been more calculated.
40:34He would need
40:35out here
40:36some sort of help.
40:39Would he have had
40:40accomplices out here?
40:41Let's do a radius search.
40:43I mean,
40:43I want to see
40:44what's just around here.
40:45I mean,
40:46what's,
40:46where else could he
40:47have gone?
40:48Let me get in
40:48the database.
40:50Two mile radius,
40:521963, Oswald.
40:58County of Dallas,
40:59police report.
41:03Some Cubans
41:04had been having meetings
41:07and were connected
41:08with an organization
41:11of which Oswald
41:12was a member.
41:16Look at this address.
41:17And this was within
41:18a two mile radius.
41:20It's close.
41:21Yeah.
41:21The day of the assassination,
41:22he is near a place
41:24that has Cubans
41:25that he's visited before.
41:28This is what
41:29we've been searching for.
41:30The Warren Commission
41:31never looked for safe houses.
41:33Now we found a house
41:34that could be the answer.
41:36Were these Cubans
41:37in the police report,
41:38members of Alpha 66,
41:40supporting Oswald
41:41in his mission
41:42to kill JFK?
41:44Were they planning
41:45to help him escape?
41:46This house
41:47is the key
41:48to blowing the doors
41:50off this investigation.
41:52Harlandale
41:53is right around the corner.
41:54It's definitely a lead
41:55that's worth running down.
41:56Okay, let's go.
41:58Take a look at it.
41:58All right, sounds good.
42:04On the season finale
42:05of Tracking Oswald.
42:09No one has ever
42:10seen this before.
42:13That's the key piece
42:14of evidence.
42:17This is the best source
42:18we're going to get.
42:19We need to reconstruct
42:21his exit route.
42:22I can't believe this.
42:24Get off the bus,
42:25you'd be inside
42:25within two minutes.
42:27See our ride yet?
42:28Yeah, it looks like us.
42:29We need to find out
42:30how deep the rabbit hole goes.
42:32This is our guy.
42:33The chief of operations
42:35was a double agent.
42:37You ordered things
42:37more terrible than this.
42:39This could be the linchpin
42:40in breaking open this case.
42:42We'll get the radio going,
42:43we'll do this test,
42:44and then we'll get out of there.
42:45All right, so here's
42:46the coast of Cuba right there.
42:47It's coming up on the chart.
42:50Oh, this could be trouble.
42:55Five minutes down the road,
42:57the safe house.
42:59They didn't manage this case.
43:01This is going way
43:03beyond coincidences.
43:04This is evidence.
43:05And as far as I'm concerned,
43:07we're going to find an answer.
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