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00:00:15I'm Jim Mars, author of Crossfire, The Plot That Killed Kennedy, and I'm here today to tell you
00:00:22everything you need to know about the JFK assassination.
00:00:57I'm Jim Mars, author of Crossfire, The Plot That Killed Kennedy, and I'm here today to tell you
00:01:01the truth about the Kennedy assassination.
00:01:01Over the years, I've been asked by many people, will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy
00:01:06assassination?
00:01:07I'm here to tell you, yes.
00:01:10You know it now.
00:01:11It's just that most people do not want to deal with it.
00:01:14All right.
00:01:15What am I talking about?
00:01:16I'm talking about the coup d'etat of 1963.
00:01:19Now, if you think that's some kind of wild conspiracy theory, follow me as we go through the factual
00:01:26evidence, much of which has not been presented to the public, and let's follow the tracks
00:01:32of this conspiracy.
00:01:59Dallas, Texas in 1963 was just an entirely different time in place.
00:02:03There were still white and colored restrooms and public buildings and drinking fountains.
00:02:10It was very conservative, arch-conservative.
00:02:14The Adelaide Stevenson ambassador to the United Nations had actually been attacked and spit
00:02:19on by an angry crowd in Dallas.
00:02:22They were upset over the United Nations.
00:02:24It was a hotbed of right-wing activity, and there wasn't much going on at night times,
00:02:30except for the two after-hours club, Abe's Colony Club and Jack Ruby's Carousel Club.
00:02:36Here, we see a picture of Jack Ruby's Club and a snapshot made by the club photographer
00:02:41of a very suspicious-looking character dancing with one of Jack Ruby's strippers, Kathy Kaye,
00:02:49on the stage of Jack Ruby's Club.
00:02:51That was me as a 21-year-old college student.
00:02:56And it was the place to go, and it was not like the strip joints of today.
00:03:01There were strippers, but there were also musicians, live musicians, comics, ventriloquists.
00:03:08It was kind of a last vestige of vaudeville, and it was the place to go after hours.
00:03:16Just down Commerce Street from the Carousel Club was Dealey Plaza, a triangular-shaped park
00:03:23area on the west end of downtown Dallas, where the three main road intersections, Maine, Commerce,
00:03:30and Elm, come together under a concrete railroad bridge known as the Triple Underpass.
00:03:36And this, of course, was the scene of the assassination.
00:03:40This photograph, made by an Associated Press photographer, James Allgens,
00:03:44we can see the motorcade at the time the shots were being fired.
00:03:48Looking through the window of the presidential limousine,
00:03:51you can see Jackie's white-gloved hand on Kennedy's arm as he clutched towards his throat
00:03:57after being struck by at least one bullet.
00:03:59You notice his Secret Service agents on the car back of him.
00:04:03Only one, Clint Hill, was actually looking at the president.
00:04:07And Clint Hill was not even supposed to be there originally.
00:04:10He was added to the Secret Service team at the last minute at the request of Jackie Kennedy,
00:04:15who he was assigned to.
00:04:17You also notice that while Kennedy's Secret Service men don't seem to be showing any shock,
00:04:23surprise, they're looking around like kind of wondering what was that.
00:04:26And yet, in the white car in the background, we see the door is open.
00:04:30And this was the car carrying the Secret Service men for Lyndon Johnson.
00:04:35They're already reacting.
00:04:37You'd also notice in the doorway of the Texas School Bick Depository,
00:04:41the figure of a man wearing a kind of a dark model shirt with an open to the navel with
00:04:48a white T-shirt on underneath it.
00:04:50Here we've got a close-up of that figure.
00:04:54And Lee Harvey Oswald's mother always claimed that was Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:04:58Today there are others who support that claim.
00:05:01However, the official government investigations have concluded it was actually another depository employee by the name of Billy Lovelady.
00:05:09And here we see a picture of Billy Lovelady in his broad check shirt.
00:05:12And we also see Oswald with his dark model shirt open to the navel with a white T-shirt on.
00:05:18So it's kind of up to individual interpretations as to who that might be.
00:05:23Of course, if it could ever be proven that this was Lee Harvey Oswald, then he couldn't have been on
00:05:28the sixth floor shooting a rifle.
00:05:31So this is actually kind of an important issue.
00:05:37This is a photograph taken of the front of the Texas School Bick Depository at the time of the shooting
00:05:41by James Powell, an Army Intelligence Agent.
00:05:44And we know he was there because he made the mistake of going into the depository building
00:05:49and was caught there when the police sealed the building off and he had to show his identification to get
00:05:54out.
00:05:54Now, you may be asking yourself, what is an Army Intelligence Agent doing taking pictures of the School Bick Depository
00:06:01before it became prominent in the news?
00:06:04And it's a very good question, and it's never been answered.
00:06:09The color photograph here is a photograph that I made from the sixth floor of the School Bick Depository,
00:06:14that southeast corner window, before the sixth floor museum was put into place.
00:06:19So you could actually get to the window.
00:06:21If you notice, it's only about a foot off the floor.
00:06:23You notice the window is only about half open, and there's two two-inch pipes to the left side of
00:06:29the window,
00:06:29creating a problem for someone who needs to either kneel or lay flat and try to aim a rifle off
00:06:36down the street.
00:06:37But the key problem here is you'll notice you can barely see an overhead highway sign, which is new,
00:06:45is at the location of where the first shots reached the presidential limousine.
00:06:50And as you can see, there's a tree intervening in the line of sight.
00:06:54That tree is an evergreen tree, an oak tree, live oak tree.
00:06:58It stays evergreen year-round.
00:07:01And it was in full leaf that day and stays leafy pretty much all year.
00:07:07You could not get a line of sight into the center lane from that sixth floor window in 1963.
00:07:14To the right of this picture are two photographs, one of the Warren Commission showing what they said was the
00:07:22sniper's nest,
00:07:23how the boxes were arranged, and yet a Dallas News photograph taken that same day shows a whole different configuration.
00:07:31All of the evidence is in total disarray.
00:07:34The three shell cases that were found, according to a news photographer, one of the police officials took them in
00:07:41his hand,
00:07:42showed them to the camera, and then just tossed them back on the floor.
00:07:45So their position, being used as evidence, is irrelevant.
00:07:50Same thing with the boxes. They were moved around.
00:07:52In fact, the official photographer for the government, a man by the name of Studebaker, testified that as late as
00:08:00Monday,
00:08:00following the Friday assassination, he was still moving boxes around and taking different shots up on the sixth floor.
00:08:07So the physical evidence was already in disarray.
00:08:11In this photograph, we see the arrows pointing to the various witnesses to the assassination,
00:08:18and more on them later, but you can see there was not very many people in the western end of
00:08:24Dealey Plaza.
00:08:25This is kind of interesting, particularly where we see people in the foreground moving along the grassy area in the
00:08:31median of the park there.
00:08:34They were kept away from this area for some time by police.
00:08:38It said no one was allowed in that area, and it was only after the motorcade began to arrive that
00:08:42people filtered down
00:08:43from Main Street and Commerce Street and moved into that area.
00:08:48And I've often wondered why is it that they didn't want people standing in that area,
00:08:52because the whole purpose of the visit was to see the President and to welcome him to Dallas.
00:09:00And the only possible reason I can think of keeping people off the south curb of Elm Street
00:09:07was that somewhere someone knew that bullets might be impacting there, and they didn't want a civilian to be hit
00:09:14by a stray bullet,
00:09:15which would then cause a more detailed investigation there in Dallas.
00:09:20Here we see Kennedy approaching the Stimmons Freeway sign, and he's waving and everything seems to be okay.
00:09:26As he passes from view of the camera of Abraham Zapruder, he is struck.
00:09:32In this photograph, as he emerges from the sign, you can see he's already clutching towards his throat.
00:09:37He's been struck by a bullet.
00:09:39You also notice the circles.
00:09:40There is a man with an umbrella who begins pumping an umbrella, and a dark-complected fellow who raises his
00:09:47arm.
00:09:48These men were perpendicular to the car, and we feel like that they were signal men.
00:09:56It was a visual signal to shooters that they could not tell that the President was dead and more shots
00:10:04were called for.
00:10:05In the upper left, you can see the two men with the umbrella at the bottom of the sign,
00:10:10which begins to pump up and down as Kennedy gets opposite him.
00:10:14Then these two men, who apparently were not associated with each other, nevertheless go and sit down beside each other
00:10:20on the curb.
00:10:21In the picture, in the bottom, it certainly appears like the dark-complected man has something under his jacket,
00:10:29perhaps a weapon, perhaps something else.
00:10:34The something else might be a radio, because in these pictures, and keep in mind these are blurry because they're
00:10:41just in the background of photographs.
00:10:43Nobody thought to actually take their pictures.
00:10:46But we see the dark-complected man holding something up to his face and an antenna sticking out from behind
00:10:52his head,
00:10:53apparently talking on a radio.
00:10:57In the bottom left, we see him get up and stick the radio back into his pocket and saunter off
00:11:02towards the triple underpass,
00:11:04while the rest of the crowd are rushing up the grassy knoll, where all the people in that end of
00:11:08the plaza said the shots came from.
00:11:11Not shown here is the umbrella man who takes one look at everybody rushing up the knoll and then turns
00:11:16and walks the other way.
00:11:38Here's a shot about the time of the fatal headshot.
00:11:41In the red coat is Jean Hill, a witness, and next to her is Mary Moorman, who is taking a
00:11:47very crucial photograph right at this moment.
00:11:51Across the way on the steps of the grassy knoll, we see Emmett Hudson, the groundskeepers for that area,
00:11:57who said the shots came from up behind him where the police patrols were, although there were no policemen officially
00:12:03stationed in that area.
00:12:05We also noticed that the only Secret Service agent to respond to the shooting was Clint Hill, who was assigned
00:12:11to Jackie Kennedy
00:12:12and not even supposed to be on this trip.
00:12:15And he rushes up to get on the back of the car.
00:12:20This is a frame from the famous Zapruder film that shows Jackie Kennedy crawling out on the rear deck of
00:12:25the car.
00:12:26There's been a lot of misinformation about this action.
00:12:29It's been said she was trying to escape the shooting and said she was trying to help Clint Hill get
00:12:34on the car.
00:12:34None of this is true.
00:12:36The truth is, based on her testimony as well as the testimony of a doctor and nurse at Parkland,
00:12:41was that she crawled on the rear deck of the car under her own volition, reached out and picked up
00:12:47a piece of the President's head.
00:12:48She still crawled back into the car under her own power.
00:12:52Clint Hill was doing all he could do to hang on to the car that was beginning to accelerate.
00:12:57She still had this piece of skull in her hand at Parkland Hospital,
00:13:01and when a doctor approached her quite pathetically said,
00:13:04here will this help, and offered it to the doctor.
00:13:08Why the misinformation about this?
00:13:13Because if she picked up a piece of his head on the rear deck of the car,
00:13:17that indicates a shot from the front, the grassy knoll.
00:13:30Various people in the motorcade, including John Connelly's wife and Senator Ralph Yarborough,
00:13:36others have told me they smelled gunpowder as they passed through the lower end of Dealey Plaza
00:13:42and into the triple underpass.
00:13:44Others reported seeing a puff of white smoke drifting off the grassy knoll behind the picket fence.
00:13:53The debunkers say, no, that couldn't happen.
00:13:55Modern rifles don't smoke.
00:13:57Well, they do, especially if they're freshly oiled,
00:14:00and that there couldn't have been any smoke that day.
00:14:03And yet here we see a frame from a news photographer
00:14:08that clearly shows the puff of smoke drifting off the grassy knoll.
00:14:12Again, more evidence of a shot from that direction.
00:14:16At the bottom you see, from a film, the number of people that are rushed to the grassy knoll.
00:14:23Everyone in that end of the plaza said they believe that's where the shots came from.
00:14:28Behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll, everything was just chaotic.
00:14:31People poured back in there and they were all looking around.
00:14:36Jean Hill, who was one of the first ones to lead the rush up the grassy knoll,
00:14:40said she was looking for someone running with a gun.
00:14:43Instead, she said all she saw was some policemen and railroad workers,
00:14:48although there were no policemen officially stationed in that area at that time.
00:14:52But this crowd of people rushing up to the back end of the knoll obliterated any potential evidence.
00:14:59The railroad workers on the bridge said they thought a shot came from behind the picket fence,
00:15:04and they rushed around there, and they found footprints near the fence with cigarette butts,
00:15:10as though somebody had stood there for some period of time.
00:15:13But yet most of this got obliterated when the crowd showed up,
00:15:16and the Warren Commission, the government investigations have all just ignored it.
00:15:22Not only were policemen seen on the grassy knoll, but also men were encountered in suits and ties
00:15:28who showed Secret Service identification and identified themselves as Secret Service agents,
00:15:34although there were none officially stationed.
00:15:36All of the Secret Service agents were either already at the trademark where Kennedy was to make a noon speech,
00:15:42or traveling in the motorcade.
00:15:45So who were these men with Secret Service identification that were good enough to fool Dallas police officers?
00:15:50That question has never been adequately answered.
00:16:18Today we are beginning to see documentaries that present computer analysis of the Kennedy assassination.
00:16:26And oh, they can prove this, they can prove that, they can prove that Oswald could have been the only
00:16:31lone gunman.
00:16:31But let's face it, computer analysis is only as good as the information that goes into it.
00:16:38It's the old garbage in, garbage out axiom.
00:16:42And unfortunately we've had garbage in.
00:16:45And what am I talking about, okay?
00:16:47To have an adequate computer analysis of the Kennedy assassination would require absolutely correct data from Dealey Plaza.
00:16:57The topography, the elevations, the distances, and this was done.
00:17:03On the Monday following the Friday assassination, Life Magazine hired Dallas surveyor Robert West
00:17:10and his associate Chester Brennaman to take still frames of each frame of the Zapruder film
00:17:17and then do survey work in Digny Plaza measuring all the distances, elevations, etc.
00:17:23This was done.
00:17:25Both of these men told me they did not feel like the assassination could have been done by one man.
00:17:31Later in the spring of 1964, both men again performed survey work for the Warren Commission,
00:17:38the government's official investigation.
00:17:40And what they found was pretty amazing.
00:17:43This is a copy of their original plat map for Dealey Plaza that was done for the Warren Commission in
00:17:49the spring of 1964.
00:17:52And Chester Brennaman gave me a copy of it.
00:17:55As you can see, they've marked a yellow mark on the curb.
00:17:59There were two yellow swashes on the curb of the south side of Elm Street,
00:18:04which doesn't make any sense.
00:18:06If it was there to say no parking, then the whole curb should have been painted yellow.
00:18:10Instead they were just two little brief stripes.
00:18:12And what happened right in between them?
00:18:15The fatal headshot.
00:18:17Some of the researchers believed these were visual markers to aid snipers in targeting the president inside of this kill
00:18:27zone.
00:18:28It was marked on this map.
00:18:30Further up we have something marked that says the area of where a bullet struck the curb.
00:18:37They marked this extraneous bullet.
00:18:39They also marked where the first shots took place and made a note that said this area hid behind tree
00:18:45for any shot from the depository as of this date, May 1964.
00:18:50So the surveyors clearly showed that the assassination could not have happened as the government claims with Lee Harvey Oswald
00:18:57three shots from the school book depository.
00:19:00And yet when the Warren Commission published this version of the survey map, they had deleted all of these references.
00:19:07That's suppression of evidence.
00:19:09Worse than that, we see here that the Warren Commission altered their numbers of the frame numbers from the Zapruder
00:19:16film.
00:19:17Well this throws the whole survey into question.
00:19:20This means that any computer analysis made from the data presented by the Warren Commission is not correct,
00:19:28which means it doesn't prove anything.
00:19:32Lieutenant Jack Revel was the intelligence officer for the Dallas police and according to his testimony,
00:19:40he left the Texas School Book Depository, rode back to the Dallas police station with a military intelligence agent,
00:19:46a man from the Office of Naval Intelligence.
00:19:49And upon arriving at the police station, he met with FBI agent James Hostie, who had been in charge of
00:19:55Oswald's case.
00:19:57No telling what he learned from both these men, but what we do know is he then went and immediately
00:20:03made out this report,
00:20:04which is a list of the employees of the Texas School Book Depository.
00:20:08Heading his list is a Harvey Lee Oswald of 605 Elspeth.
00:20:14Now, Lee Harvey Oswald had only lived at 602 Elspeth and this address could not be found anywhere on his
00:20:21employment records at the Texas School Book Depository.
00:20:25He had lived there in the fall of 1962.
00:20:28So, where did Jack Revel get this information?
00:20:32At the time of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, they interviewed a Colonel Robert Jones of the 4th Army
00:20:40Command out of San Antonio,
00:20:43and he told that on the day of the assassination, he got word from Dallas that they had arrested a
00:20:48suspect and his name was Alex James Heidel.
00:20:51And he said he went to the Army military intelligence files and found a Alex James Heidel,
00:20:58who cross-referenced to a Harvey Lee Oswald of 605 Elspeth.
00:21:04So, this was a mistake that had been made in military intelligence files,
00:21:08and what it tells us is that it was the U.S. military who tipped off the Dallas police as
00:21:13to the identity of their suspect.
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00:21:44So about an hour and a half after the 12.30 p.m. shooting on Friday, November the 22nd,
00:21:52the police got a call that someone had sneaked into the Texas Theater in South Dallas.
00:21:58And they rushed out there with squad cars, assistant district attorney, FBI people,
00:22:02and even men who identified themselves as CIA.
00:22:06And we see our first picture of the key suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:22:12So the slightly built Lee Harvey Oswald was taken into custody and taken to the Dallas police station.
00:22:19When he arrived at the police station, he had two sets of identification on him.
00:22:23One said he was Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:22:25The other said he was Alex James Heidel, as we can see from this selective service card,
00:22:30which apparently is some sort of phony document because the selective service cards at that time did not have photographs
00:22:37on them.
00:22:37So this is something that was put together.
00:22:41The police were saying, well, you know, who are you?
00:22:45And Oswald was being uncooperative.
00:22:47He said, essentially, you're the cops.
00:22:49Figure it out.
00:22:50But we now know that at that exact time, less than two hours after the shooting,
00:22:55FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is on the telephone to Attorney General Robert Kennedy saying,
00:23:01we have our man in Dallas.
00:23:02It's Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:23:03He's an ex-Marine.
00:23:04He defected to Russia.
00:23:05He's a mean-spirited individual in the category of a nut.
00:23:10So Hoover already had the lone nut scenario worked out less than two hours after the shooting at a time
00:23:18when the Dallas authorities weren't even certain of who they had in custody.
00:23:23Circumstances can't lie.
00:23:25Circumstances are the circumstances.
00:23:27And although this is circumstantial evidence, I think it's clear that somebody in position authority knew more about what was
00:23:34happening than the Dallas authorities or the media or the public at that time.
00:24:02Circumstances are the ones that were being uncooperative.
00:24:03When it comes to the idea of more than one Oswald, you really get into a morass.
00:24:08And yet there is clear evidence that, at the very least, someone was impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald leading up to
00:24:15the time of the assassination.
00:24:16In this document, dated June 1960, this is three years before the assassination,
00:24:25FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was personally aware of Lee Harvey Oswald and sent this memo to the Security Division
00:24:32of the State Department
00:24:33warning that an imposter might be using Oswald's birth certificate.
00:24:37In other words, someone had substituted themselves for Oswald.
00:24:42This is very, very important.
00:24:45Here we see a composite of photographs of Oswald.
00:24:49The top four are the two, first two, are pictures of Oswald about the time he entered the Marines.
00:24:56The second two pictures are pictures supposedly taken of Oswald in Russia.
00:25:00And the bottom four pictures are all of the Oswald who returned to the United States.
00:25:05Two of them are his passport photographs.
00:25:07One, his arrest photograph from New Orleans.
00:25:10And finally, at the lower right is his arrest photograph taken in the Dallas Police Headquarters.
00:25:17As we can see, the bottom four pictures, this fellow all pretty much looks alike.
00:25:22But the guy on the top doesn't quite look right.
00:25:26The Warren Commission published this photograph of Oswald, and they said taken about the time of his attempted defection to
00:25:34Russia.
00:25:35As we can see, it's really an odd-looking photograph because we see the light source coming from his right
00:25:42with heavy shadow on the left side of his face.
00:25:46And yet, look behind him on the wall, his shadow goes to the right as if there was a light
00:25:51source from the left.
00:25:53One shoulder seems broad, and the other shoulder is very slopey.
00:25:57And there's an odd notch in his hairline.
00:26:00The eyebrow and the side of his mouth on his right side appears to be retouched or painted in.
00:26:08And when you draw a line down through this picture, it seems like it's a composite picture of two separate
00:26:16individuals.
00:26:18Lee Oswald on the right and Harvey Oswald on the left.
00:26:22This was a common practice among the intelligence operatives to combine photographs like this so that someone who's impersonating someone
00:26:31can pass through customs and surveillance,
00:26:34and they look pretty close to the original person.
00:26:40Here again, we see evidence that these photos have been faked of two different people.
00:26:44We see the Moscow photograph on the right, and on the left, we see the Mintz photograph.
00:26:50And we see the same problem.
00:26:52They seem to be of two separate people.
00:26:55And yet, when combined, we have a person that looks somewhat like Lee Oswald.
00:26:59At the bottom center, we have two of the photographs, one when he was in the Marines and one later
00:27:05in Russia.
00:27:06And when you match up the eyes, nose, and mouth to the proper proportions, you find one of them is
00:27:11shorter than the other.
00:27:13And this was confirmed by his medical records in the Marines, which showed Oswald to be 5'11, and yet
00:27:19at the autopsy, it showed him to be 5'9.
00:27:24Even his own mother, in 1967, asked to have the grave exhumed, questioning marks and scars on the body and
00:27:33questioning the identity of the person in the grave, and she was not the only one.
00:27:37Paul Grudy, who was the funeral home director who buried Oswald, told me that about a week after they buried
00:27:43Oswald, a Secret Service representative showed up, was asking him questions about scars, marks on the body, and one of
00:27:51them finally commented that we don't know who we have buried in that grave.
00:27:55So there's considerable doubt over the identity of the man identified as Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:28:23A cover-up of this crime began almost immediately, even before the echoes of the shots died away.
00:28:30Here we see the limousine at Parkland Hospital.
00:28:32The top has been placed back onto the limousine.
00:28:35You see a bucket of water there.
00:28:36They were washing off the seats.
00:28:39They destroyed this as evidence.
00:28:41It should have been left alone.
00:28:43The car then was sent on orders of Lyndon Johnson off to be rebuilt before there was any forensic study
00:28:49made of the car.
00:28:51It was bulletproof glass was put in, and it was painted black, and it is now on display in Dearborn,
00:28:58Michigan.
00:28:58But, ironically enough, the new president, Lyndon Johnson, refused to write in it.
00:29:04What I consider a smoking gun is the testimony of an FBI fingerprint expert named James C. Cadigan.
00:29:13Someone altered this official statement and testimony, and it's interesting to see why.
00:29:21It also explains why so much of the evidence is in controversy.
00:29:27In his testimony, James Cadigan was asked why Exhibit 820 was not de-silvered.
00:29:36It's a process for bringing out fingerprints on various things.
00:29:40And he replied, I could only speculate.
00:29:46And they said yes.
00:29:48And he went on to say that all of the evidence was taken from the Dallas police the night of
00:29:55the assassination against the wishes of the Dallas police.
00:30:00Captain Fritz, who was in charge of the investigation, said, well, I need to get people to identify the weapons.
00:30:05I need to talk to people about this evidence.
00:30:07And how can I do that when you take it away from me?
00:30:10But they sent it all to Washington.
00:30:13And according to Cadigan, there was a huge number of higher echelon FBI officials and security people pouring over this
00:30:22evidence that whole weekend.
00:30:25Police Chief Curry said that they wanted the evidence up in Washington, the laboratory.
00:30:33And Captain Fritz said, I need to get some people to try to identify the gun, to try to identify
00:30:38the pistol and these things.
00:30:39If it's in Washington, how can I do that?
00:30:42And he said, but somebody in high authority was requesting this.
00:30:47And we finally agreed as a matter of trying to cooperate with the Federals.
00:30:51Then Chief Curry said to the Warren Commission, he says, as far as I know, we have never received any
00:30:56of that evidence back.
00:30:58It's still in Washington, I guess.
00:30:59J. Lee Rankin, the chief counsel of the Warren Commission, said, yes, the commission is still working with it.
00:31:07So the government kept all the evidence to begin with, totally illegally, totally against all the procedures at that time,
00:31:14because there were no laws, federal laws, about assassinating the president.
00:31:21On November the 26th, several days after the assassination, there was a meeting held with the Dallas Police, Dallas County
00:31:28Sheriff's Office, and the FBI.
00:31:30And it was announced that they had asked the FBI to come into the case.
00:31:33And on this day, this is when it became the official government evidence.
00:31:38So what am I saying?
00:31:40I'm saying that the FBI had all the evidence beginning the night of the assassination and for three full days
00:31:48before it became the official evidence.
00:31:50They could have taken anything out.
00:31:51They could have put any fabricated evidence in.
00:31:54There was no oversight and no legal chain of evidence in custody.
00:31:59This is the cause for the controversy that still rages over the evidence in the Kennedy assassination, and it could
00:32:09all be laid at the feet of federal officials.
00:32:32All of the evidence was in the hands of the FBI with no public oversight, no chain of evidence, is
00:32:40only one example of evidence that was skewed, changed, altered, fabricated.
00:32:48Here we see on the right the commission exhibit 2003 of the Warren Commission, which is the Dallas Police evidence
00:32:58sheet.
00:32:59This is the sheet that listed all the evidence that they had in the assassination, and you'll notice at the
00:33:04era that it shows three spent rounds were found, okay?
00:33:09Three shots, three spent rounds, and at the bottom it's blank there except for the page number.
00:33:14On the left is the Dallas Police evidence sheet as recovered in Texas, and it shows spent rounds found two.
00:33:24They only had two rounds.
00:33:27And at the bottom it says paraffin tests made on Oswald was positive on both hands, negative on the face.
00:33:34As soon as Oswald arrived at the police station, they put paraffin on his hands and face to see if
00:33:40they could detect nitrates or gunpowder.
00:33:42I have copies of that report, and it states that there were no gunpowder on his hands or face and
00:33:50only traces of nitrates on his hands but none on his face.
00:33:54This is pretty good evidence that he had not fired a rifle that day, because if he had fired that
00:34:01loose bolt Mandlicker Carcano in 5.6 seconds, he would have had to have done it from a rifle position
00:34:08like this.
00:34:10He couldn't lower it.
00:34:11Had to be like this, and he had to cock it like that to stay within the time frame.
00:34:15And when he pulled the bolt back, he would have been hit with gases, nitrates, and gunpowder from that rifle.
00:34:22And yet, just less than two hours after the shooting, there was no trace of that on his cheeks.
00:34:28But again, we see in the evidence sheet presented to the public through the Warren Commission,
00:34:34instead of explaining this or explaining why there was no gunpowder on his face or hands,
00:34:39they simply delete that.
00:34:42They hide the evidence away from you.
00:34:44Here we see what appears to be two identical FBI reports.
00:34:49They both have the same file number and dated the same date and signed by the same agent, Vincent Drain.
00:34:56One says that the wrapping paper found at the book depository matches the same paper that they said was used
00:35:05as a gun case to bring the rifle into the depository by Oswald.
00:35:09Since Oswald worked at the depository and had access to the wrapping paper there,
00:35:14this is incriminating evidence to show that Oswald may have gotten the paper from the depository, his place of work,
00:35:20and used it to bring in the rifle.
00:35:23However, the other document says that the paper does not match the paper bag that they said contained the rifle.
00:35:33So now, which one of these documents is correct?
00:35:35Do they say the exact opposite thing?
00:35:38When the FBI was questioned about this back in the 1980s, a spokesman said,
00:35:43well, the one that says the paper did not match is a phony document,
00:35:47which leads me to wonder how many other phony documents are in FBI files.
00:35:53Again, another clear example of chicanery taking place over the evidence in the Kennedy assassination.
00:36:00Here we have the evidence as presented in the National Archives today,
00:36:03and we find that now there are three empty shell cases.
00:36:07Dallas police said one of the police officials carried a third cartridge around in his pocket for a few days,
00:36:12didn't think to turn in as evidence,
00:36:14and it suddenly turned up days later after they had decided that the scenario would call for three shots.
00:36:20You notice that three of the cartridges here, two empties and one live round,
00:36:26have a dent on the shoulder of the cartridge.
00:36:29This, they said, was a peculiarity of Oswald's Mandlicker Carcano rifle.
00:36:34The third shell casing that turned up belatedly has no such crimp,
00:36:39indicating it was never loaded into the Oswald rifle.
00:36:42So we just see more and more strange inconsistencies in the evidence.
00:36:48A Ronald Simmons of the Army Ballistic Test Center told the Warren Commission
00:36:52that they could not sight in the Oswald rifle using the telescopic sight
00:36:56because it was misaligned,
00:36:58and they had to add three metal shims under the telescopic sight to make it accurate enough to test.
00:37:05The Warren Commission even graciously showed us photographs of the three metal shims
00:37:11they had to put in under the telescopic sight to make the Oswald rifle accurate enough to test.
00:37:18Couldn't have hit anybody with it.
00:37:20This is a photograph of the evidence they had against Oswald,
00:37:24including up here in a black circle his Minox spy camera,
00:37:28which carried a five-digit serial number,
00:37:31which meant it was not commercially available in the United States.
00:37:34So the question remains is what intelligence service issued him a small Minox camera,
00:37:42commonly known as a spy camera.
00:37:44In the lower left-hand corner,
00:37:47you notice a photograph of the back of General Walker's house,
00:37:51who the government says Oswald took a shot at in the spring of 1963.
00:37:56And you'll notice that there was a car parked there,
00:37:59and although you cannot read it, it's very small,
00:38:02you can see that there was no hole or destruction to this photograph.
00:38:07Yet when the Warren Commission published this photograph,
00:38:12somebody had punched a hole in the license plate
00:38:14so that you couldn't read the license plate
00:38:16and find out whose car this actually belonged to.
00:38:19And this hole was punched while this photograph was in official custody.
00:38:24This is destruction of evidence,
00:38:27and under our legal system, it's considered a crime.
00:38:30Probably the strongest piece of evidence that convicted Oswald
00:38:34in the minds of the public was the fact that on Monday night,
00:38:38after the Friday assassination,
00:38:40Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas,
00:38:43mentioned to the news media, says,
00:38:45Oh, have I said we found his fingerprints on the rifle?
00:38:48Well, fingerprints on the rifle,
00:38:50that's, you know, pretty well cinched it in the public's mind.
00:38:53But let's take a close look at this serious piece of evidence.
00:38:56Again, all of the evidence, including the rifle,
00:39:00was taken from Dallas the night of the assassination
00:39:02and sent to Washington and to the FBI.
00:39:05The next day, under this document,
00:39:08signed by J. Edgar Hoover himself,
00:39:10it clearly states,
00:39:11No latent prints of value were developed on Oswald's revolver,
00:39:14the cartridge cases, the unfired cartridge,
00:39:17the clip of the rifle, or the inner parts of the rifle.
00:39:21So, in other words, Saturday, following the Friday assassination,
00:39:24there were no fingerprints available on that rifle.
00:39:27On Sunday, the rifle was shipped back to Dallas.
00:39:31On Monday morning, it was taken by two FBI agents
00:39:34to the Miller Funeral Home in Fort Worth,
00:39:36where they were preparing Oswald for burial.
00:39:39According to the Funeral Home Director, Paul Grudy,
00:39:42who has publicly stated this,
00:39:45he was there and present
00:39:47when the FBI put Oswald's dead hand on the rifle.
00:39:51In fact, he told me he had a hard time
00:39:54getting the fingerprint ink off of Oswald's dead hand
00:39:56in time for the burial.
00:39:58And that evening, Henry Wade says,
00:40:01Have I mentioned we've got his fingerprints on the rifle?
00:40:04Well, again, serious question about so-called hard evidence.
00:40:11Even when it came to the official result,
00:40:13the government investigation was also skewing the evidence,
00:40:18shading the testimony.
00:40:20And according to this memorandum,
00:40:22from Attorney Albert Jenner to the Chief Counsel, J. Lee Rankin,
00:40:29he says,
00:40:31Our depositions and examination of records and other data
00:40:34disclose that there are details in Mr. Eli's memorandum
00:40:38which will require material alteration
00:40:42and, in some instances, omission.
00:40:45So they're admitting here that they're changing,
00:40:48altering things,
00:40:49and that they're leaving out facts and data
00:40:52about Oswald's background.
00:40:53So much for a competent, in-depth investigation.
00:41:18So, with so much evidence missing, altered, changed,
00:41:23no telling what,
00:41:25nevertheless, the Warren Commission concluded
00:41:27that one shot struck Kennedy in the back of the neck,
00:41:31passed through, did not strike any bone,
00:41:33went on to strike Governor Conley,
00:41:35causing seven wounds of these two men,
00:41:37removed, the slug, you know,
00:41:40was recovered intact from a stretcher in Parkland Hospital.
00:41:43The second shot missed,
00:41:45and the third shot struck Kennedy
00:41:46in the right side of the head, killing him.
00:41:48That was the official version,
00:41:49and actually remains the official version,
00:41:52although the House Committee in 1980 concluded
00:41:55that there was at least one shot from the grassy knoll,
00:41:58but it probably missed.
00:42:00So you can see the confusion now
00:42:02over what's happened,
00:42:04and this confusion can all be laid
00:42:06at the feet of federal officials.
00:42:09Kennedy was never shot in the neck.
00:42:11How can I say that?
00:42:13Well, here is the official autopsy report,
00:42:16which clearly states a second wound occurred
00:42:19in the posterior back
00:42:20at about the level of the third thoracic vertebra.
00:42:22Well, that's below your shoulder blades,
00:42:25to the right of the baseline.
00:42:28And, by the way,
00:42:29that's signed by Dr. George Berkeley,
00:42:31Kennedy's personal physician.
00:42:34Here on the autopsy face sheet,
00:42:37on the left,
00:42:38we see the bullet mark in the back,
00:42:41to the right of the backbone,
00:42:43below the shoulder blades.
00:42:45But you notice the bottom left-hand portion
00:42:48of this diagram is blank.
00:42:51And that has allowed them to argue
00:42:53that this is just a sketch,
00:42:55and it's not to scale,
00:42:56and it's not in proper proportion,
00:42:58and actually the wound was much higher up on the neck.
00:43:01And yet, on to the right,
00:43:03you see the original document,
00:43:05and it was marked verified
00:43:07by his personal physician, Dr. George Berkeley.
00:43:10Again, more cover-up
00:43:11of important and critical information.
00:43:16The two things they could not alter
00:43:18are the bullet holes in his jacket
00:43:19and the bullet hole in his shirt,
00:43:21which are now still available
00:43:23in the National Archives.
00:43:24And they locate the wound
00:43:25exactly where the autopsy said,
00:43:27third thoracic vertebra,
00:43:29below the shoulder blades,
00:43:30to the right of the backbone.
00:43:31Now, it was argued that,
00:43:33well, he was waving,
00:43:33and his shirt, his coat jacket rode up,
00:43:37and therefore the bullet hole
00:43:38was actually much higher
00:43:41than it shows on the jacket.
00:43:43But, hey, the same bullet hole
00:43:45is on the shirt,
00:43:45and your shirt doesn't rise up
00:43:47no matter how much you want to raise.
00:43:49So these are all specious arguments
00:43:51trying to explain
00:43:52why there was a bullet hole
00:43:55in the neck and not in the back.
00:43:59But to simply go back
00:44:00to some of the testimony
00:44:02of people who were there,
00:44:03we find that the autopsy doctor,
00:44:05Dr. Humes,
00:44:07said a bullet hole located
00:44:08below the shoulders,
00:44:09two inches to the right
00:44:10of the midline of the backbone.
00:44:13We also see from Secret Service agents,
00:44:16Clint Hill said,
00:44:17I saw an opening in the back
00:44:18about six inches below the neckline
00:44:20to the right-hand side
00:44:21of the spinal column.
00:44:24Glenn Bennett,
00:44:25another Secret Service agent,
00:44:27testified I saw the shot
00:44:29hit the president
00:44:29about four inches down
00:44:30from the right shoulder.
00:44:32So they all located the wound
00:44:34at the same location
00:44:36as the autopsy,
00:44:37in the back.
00:44:38So please understand,
00:44:40Kennedy was never shot
00:44:42through the neck.
00:44:43And that, of course,
00:44:44destroys the single bullet theory.
00:44:46And if the single bullet theory
00:44:47does not hold up,
00:44:48then the lone assassin theory
00:44:50does not hold up.
00:44:53So in this diagram,
00:44:54if we take the actual point
00:44:56of the back wound,
00:44:58the third thoracic vertebra,
00:44:59and connect it to the throat wound
00:45:01at the Adam's apple in front,
00:45:03we've got an upward trajectory,
00:45:05which makes no sense
00:45:06because supposedly the assassin
00:45:09was 60 feet in the air
00:45:11shooting downward.
00:45:13Perhaps this is a new
00:45:15conspiracy theory,
00:45:16the hidden assassin
00:45:18in the trunk of the car.
00:45:20But I don't think so.
00:45:21But it just shows the disarray
00:45:23of the evidence in this case
00:45:24and the fact that none of this
00:45:26is ever adequately presented
00:45:27to the public.
00:45:29Where did the idea come from
00:45:30that Kennedy was shot
00:45:31through the neck
00:45:32and not the back?
00:45:33It came from
00:45:34Gerald R. Ford,
00:45:35our only unelected president.
00:45:37He was appointed vice president
00:45:39by Nixon,
00:45:40and then when Spiro Agnew resigned
00:45:44under threat of prosecution,
00:45:47and then with the promise
00:45:50that when Nixon was
00:45:51about to be impeached,
00:45:53he pardoned him of all crimes.
00:45:56And so Gerald Ford,
00:45:58who was a member
00:45:59of the Warren Commission,
00:46:01ordered the authors
00:46:02of the Warren Commission report
00:46:03to change the wording
00:46:05from Kennedy was shot
00:46:06in the back
00:46:06to Kennedy was shot
00:46:08through the neck.
00:46:09This allowed them to argue
00:46:10that cockamamie
00:46:11single bullet theory.
00:46:25The foundation
00:46:27of the single bullet theory
00:46:28is this slug right here,
00:46:30Commission Exhibit 399.
00:46:32They said this was a slug
00:46:35found on a stretcher
00:46:36at Parkland Hospital,
00:46:37although they never could
00:46:38nail down whose stretcher it was.
00:46:40They tried to say
00:46:41it was Governor Connolly's stretcher,
00:46:43and yet there's evidence
00:46:44to indicate that's not true.
00:46:46The hospital technician,
00:46:48Daryl Tomlinson,
00:46:50said, I'm not going to say
00:46:52it came from that stretcher.
00:46:53In fact, he said quite the opposite.
00:46:55It seems actually
00:46:56it was planted there.
00:46:57And who could have planted
00:46:59this slug in Parkland Hospital?
00:47:01Well, Jack Ruby was seen
00:47:02at Parkland Hospital
00:47:03about one o'clock
00:47:04that afternoon of the shooting.
00:47:07and going into the hospital
00:47:09carrying television equipment.
00:47:11So it's entirely possible
00:47:12that Jack Ruby played a role
00:47:14in all of this
00:47:15even before he shot Oswald.
00:47:17In this news clipping,
00:47:18we see that John Connolly's doctor
00:47:20clearly stated
00:47:21that he was not struck
00:47:22by the same bullet
00:47:23that hit President Kennedy.
00:47:26But the real proof
00:47:27came in this X-ray
00:47:29of Governor Connolly's wrist.
00:47:31And as you can see,
00:47:33there's more bright bits of metal
00:47:34that stayed in Connolly's wrist
00:47:37than are missing
00:47:38from the bullet
00:47:38that the government says
00:47:40caused the wound.
00:47:41That's how ridiculous
00:47:44some of the so-called evidence is.
00:47:47So what we have here then
00:47:49is the theory
00:47:50that one shot
00:47:51coming from 60 feet in the air
00:47:53struck Kennedy in the back,
00:47:55third thoracic vertebrate,
00:47:56didn't hit a bone
00:47:57but somehow coursed upwards
00:47:58through his body,
00:47:59exited out his throat,
00:48:00somehow twisted around
00:48:02in midair,
00:48:03came back down,
00:48:04struck Connolly
00:48:05near the right armpit,
00:48:07shattered his fifth rib,
00:48:08came out the front of his chest,
00:48:12shattered his right wrist
00:48:14and lended up in his left leg.
00:48:17It's impossible.
00:48:19It didn't happen.
00:48:20But you're expected
00:48:22to believe it happened.
00:48:23And they've got experts
00:48:24who will tell you
00:48:25how many angels
00:48:25dance on the head of a...
00:48:26I mean,
00:48:27how many shots
00:48:29could actually do this.
00:48:32This is a transcription
00:48:34of the Warren Commission meeting
00:48:36for January the 27th, 1964.
00:48:39They were just beginning
00:48:40their investigation.
00:48:42And yet,
00:48:43even at this early date,
00:48:44they knew
00:48:45that this single bullet theory
00:48:46did not work.
00:48:48Here we see
00:48:49their own chief counsel,
00:48:50J. Lee Rankin,
00:48:51as he ruminates
00:48:53and says,
00:48:54well,
00:48:54it seems quite apparent now
00:48:55since we have a picture
00:48:56of where the bullet
00:48:57entered in the back,
00:48:59that the bullet
00:49:00entered below
00:49:00the shoulder blade
00:49:01to the right of the backbone,
00:49:02which is below the place
00:49:03where the picture shows
00:49:04the bullet came out
00:49:05the neck band,
00:49:06the shirt in front.
00:49:07And that bullet,
00:49:08according to autopsy,
00:49:09didn't strike any bone at all,
00:49:11that particular bullet,
00:49:12and go through.
00:49:13So how it could turn
00:49:15and he suddenly realizes
00:49:17he's saying,
00:49:18how could it turn in midair
00:49:19and go strike Connolly?
00:49:20And he realized
00:49:20it doesn't work,
00:49:21so he stops.
00:49:22And that's the end of that.
00:49:23They knew better,
00:49:25but still they came out
00:49:26and lied to the American people
00:49:27and told them
00:49:28that this one bullet
00:49:28passed through Kennedy's neck
00:49:30caused all the wounds.
00:49:31It's a fairy tale.
00:49:33Here we see
00:49:34former Senator
00:49:37Arlen Spector,
00:49:39who in 1964
00:49:40was a young attorney
00:49:42for the Warren Commission
00:49:43and came up
00:49:44with this single bullet theory.
00:49:47And here he is
00:49:48demonstrating
00:49:48how the bullet
00:49:49went through Kennedy's neck
00:49:51and struck Connolly
00:49:52in front.
00:49:52And it seems
00:49:54fairly reasonable
00:49:55until you actually
00:49:56look closely.
00:49:57You'll see in the red circle
00:49:58they marked with chalk
00:50:00on the back
00:50:01of this fellow,
00:50:02and you'll see
00:50:02that he has to hold
00:50:03his straight edge
00:50:04about six inches
00:50:05above the shoulder
00:50:06to make it line up
00:50:08with Connolly.
00:50:10It just didn't work.
00:50:11It didn't work then,
00:50:12it doesn't work now,
00:50:12but nevertheless,
00:50:13they say,
00:50:15well,
00:50:15that's what happened.
00:50:18Further evidence
00:50:19of manipulation
00:50:20and obfuscation
00:50:22of the evidence
00:50:23comes in the medical evidence.
00:50:26Here we see
00:50:28testimony
00:50:29from all the medical people
00:50:30in Dallas
00:50:31who all said
00:50:32Kennedy suffered
00:50:33a gaping wound
00:50:34in the right rear portion
00:50:35of his head.
00:50:36This would indicate
00:50:37a shot from the front
00:50:38and blowing out
00:50:40the right rear portion
00:50:41of his head.
00:50:42At the time
00:50:43of the House Select Committee
00:50:44on Assassinations,
00:50:45they showed us
00:50:46a drawing reportedly
00:50:47of the autopsy photograph,
00:50:49and we see
00:50:50that the back
00:50:50of his head
00:50:51seems to be
00:50:52perfectly intact,
00:50:53but we do see
00:50:54a small,
00:50:55what appears
00:50:56to be a hole
00:50:56up there,
00:50:59and they said
00:51:00this was the entrance wound
00:51:01coming from the rear
00:51:02of his head,
00:51:03and yet,
00:51:04a few years later
00:51:06when the autopsy photographs
00:51:07themselves
00:51:08became publicly available,
00:51:10we find that
00:51:11there is no hole
00:51:12back there,
00:51:13only what appears
00:51:14perhaps to be
00:51:15a little splotch
00:51:17of dried blood,
00:51:18and there's even hairs
00:51:19growing through it.
00:51:21So, again,
00:51:21there was lies
00:51:22and deceit
00:51:23with the medical evidence.
00:51:25Again,
00:51:26the drawings
00:51:27that the House Committee
00:51:28showed us
00:51:28shows this bullet hole.
00:51:30Now it's not in the neck
00:51:32and it's not in the back,
00:51:33it's kind of on the shoulder,
00:51:35and it is not consistent
00:51:37at all
00:51:38with the bullet hole
00:51:39in the jacket.
00:51:40So it's nothing
00:51:41but lies and deceit.
00:51:43Most telling of all
00:51:44is this story
00:51:46which got very little play
00:51:48in the mass media.
00:51:49Here we see
00:51:50Gerald Custer
00:51:51who was the X-ray technician
00:51:53who took the X-rays
00:51:55of Kennedy
00:51:55at the autopsy.
00:51:57Also,
00:51:58at this same news conference
00:51:59was Floyd Reby,
00:52:00the photographer
00:52:02who took
00:52:02the autopsy photographs.
00:52:04And both of these men
00:52:05today say
00:52:06that the X-rays
00:52:07and the photographs
00:52:08being shown to the public
00:52:10and being kept
00:52:10in the National Archives
00:52:11are not the ones
00:52:13they took.
00:52:15So we have, again,
00:52:16manipulation,
00:52:18obfuscation
00:52:18of the evidence
00:52:19at the federal level.
00:52:21Here we see
00:52:22what purports
00:52:23to be an X-ray
00:52:24of Kennedy's skull
00:52:25and as you can see
00:52:27the whole
00:52:29front right portion
00:52:31of his head
00:52:31seems to be missing.
00:52:33And yet in this
00:52:33autopsy photograph
00:52:34we plainly see
00:52:35that his forehead
00:52:36is perfectly intact.
00:52:37Gerald Custer,
00:52:38the man who took
00:52:39the original X-rays
00:52:41said that
00:52:42there was no damage
00:52:42to his face,
00:52:43no part of his skull
00:52:44was missing.
00:52:45These are fake X-rays.
00:52:47So we've got fake X-rays
00:52:48and fake photographs
00:52:49now resting
00:52:50in the government archives.
00:52:52Does this explain
00:52:53why there is so much
00:52:54controversy
00:52:55over the Kennedy assassination?
00:52:57But there was not
00:52:58very much controversy
00:53:00in 1964,
00:53:02particularly after
00:53:02this February,
00:53:03the 21st edition
00:53:05of Life magazine,
00:53:07which everybody
00:53:07in the country saw.
00:53:09And we've got
00:53:09a backyard photograph
00:53:11of Lee Harvey Oswald
00:53:12holding a communist
00:53:13newspaper and a rifle,
00:53:15pistol on his belt,
00:53:17and the headline says,
00:53:18Lee Oswald
00:53:19with the weapons
00:53:20he used to kill
00:53:21President Kennedy
00:53:22and Officer Tibbett.
00:53:23Now this was published
00:53:24months before
00:53:25the Warren Commission
00:53:26came out
00:53:27from behind closed doors
00:53:28and concluded
00:53:30that Oswald
00:53:30was probably
00:53:31the lone assassin.
00:53:32This is convicting
00:53:35someone
00:53:36even before
00:53:37they get a fair hearing.
00:53:38But it certainly
00:53:39cemented the idea
00:53:40that Oswald
00:53:41was the killer
00:53:41in the minds
00:53:42of the American public.
00:53:45But was the backyard
00:53:46photograph legitimate?
00:53:49Right there
00:53:50in the Warren report,
00:53:51Captain Fritz
00:53:52tells that Oswald
00:53:55was shown a picture
00:53:57of him holding a rifle
00:53:58and wearing a pistol.
00:54:00and he says
00:54:01this picture had been
00:54:02enlarged by a crime lab
00:54:03from a picture
00:54:04found in the garage
00:54:05at Mrs. Payne's house.
00:54:06He, meaning Oswald,
00:54:08said the picture
00:54:08was not his,
00:54:09that the face
00:54:10was his face,
00:54:11but this picture
00:54:12was made by someone
00:54:13superimposing his face.
00:54:14The other part
00:54:15of the picture
00:54:16was not him at all
00:54:17and he had never
00:54:17seen the picture before.
00:54:20A phony picture,
00:54:22a composite picture.
00:54:23Could this be true?
00:54:26Well, we take
00:54:27the two known examples
00:54:29of the backyard photograph
00:54:32and we turn them
00:54:33into a color transparency,
00:54:35one red and one blue
00:54:37and these are supposedly
00:54:38two separate photographs
00:54:40made with a handheld camera.
00:54:42Nothing should match
00:54:43and yet when you blow them up
00:54:45to the same proportion,
00:54:47lay one on top of the other,
00:54:49you can see that Oswald's face
00:54:52is an exact match
00:54:53on both photographs.
00:54:54This is an impossibility
00:54:56unless, exactly as he said,
00:54:59it's a composite photograph
00:55:00with one picture of his face
00:55:02pasted over someone else's body.
00:55:05Is there even more evidence
00:55:06of this?
00:55:07Yes.
00:55:08Here we see on either side
00:55:11the backyard photograph,
00:55:13which is essentially
00:55:14the same picture of Oswald's face,
00:55:17only done to a different,
00:55:20slightly different angle
00:55:21and someone has retouched
00:55:22the mouth slightly.
00:55:23But you can see
00:55:24that there's a line running
00:55:26from the one corner of his neck
00:55:27to the other corner of his neck
00:55:29and we see a broad, flat chin.
00:55:31And yet, in the center,
00:55:33we have Oswald's police mugshot,
00:55:36which shows that Oswald
00:55:37had a little pointy cliff chin.
00:55:40More evidence that this was
00:55:41a fabricated photograph
00:55:43intended to implicate Oswald.
00:55:45But did the federal authorities
00:55:47at that time realize
00:55:48that this photograph,
00:55:50there was something funny
00:55:51going on here?
00:55:52And I submit to you,
00:55:54yes, they did.
00:55:54And here's why.
00:55:56To the extreme right
00:55:57is a third backyard photograph
00:55:59that turned up 15 years
00:56:01after the assassination
00:56:02in the hands of a Dallas
00:56:04policeman's widow.
00:56:05And she said,
00:56:06her husband, the policeman,
00:56:08said, hang on to this,
00:56:09it'll be worth something someday.
00:56:11And we see that this pose
00:56:13is holding a rifle
00:56:14in the left hand,
00:56:15holding the paper up
00:56:16in the right hand.
00:56:17And yet, the Warren Commission,
00:56:19Exhibit 3737,
00:56:22shows a federal officer
00:56:26posing in the pose
00:56:27of the third photograph,
00:56:29the one that was never
00:56:30accounted for
00:56:31and never explained
00:56:32and never seen
00:56:33for 15 years.
00:56:34This is suppression of evidence.
00:56:37Again, a criminal offense.
00:56:39I make mention of these stills
00:56:43from the Zapruder film
00:56:44for a couple of reasons.
00:56:45Number one,
00:56:46on frame 257,
00:56:48we can see
00:56:48what the back of Kennedy's head
00:56:50should look like
00:56:51with normal shadowing.
00:56:53And then on frame 317,
00:56:55we find what 11 Hollywood experts
00:56:57have said
00:56:58was a painted-on black spot
00:57:00on the back of his head.
00:57:02This is to cover up
00:57:03the massive exit wound
00:57:05on the rear of his head,
00:57:06indicating a shot
00:57:07from the right front.
00:57:09This is tampering
00:57:10with the evidence
00:57:11and with the basic evidence,
00:57:13with the Zapruder film,
00:57:14which has been called
00:57:15probably the best piece
00:57:17of evidence in the case.
00:57:19The lower center,
00:57:20we have a blow-up of 314,
00:57:23frame 314,
00:57:25which clearly shows
00:57:26the driver, Greer,
00:57:29turning to look back
00:57:30over his right shoulder,
00:57:31but his hand remains
00:57:32on the steering wheel.
00:57:33What some people have said
00:57:35is a gun
00:57:36is actually just
00:57:37the sunlight reflecting
00:57:39off of Kellerman's
00:57:40greased hair
00:57:41because in the 1960s,
00:57:43men were still
00:57:44wearing hair grease.
00:57:45All right?
00:57:46And so I would like
00:57:47to put to rest
00:57:48the story
00:57:48that the driver shot Kennedy.
00:57:50It simply didn't happen.
00:57:52Although there is
00:57:53some question
00:57:54as to the activities
00:57:55of the Secret Service
00:57:56because as we've seen,
00:57:58they were very slow
00:57:58to react,
00:57:59having stayed up drinking
00:58:00the night before
00:58:01at the Cellar Club
00:58:02in Fort Worth.
00:58:05And the driver, Greer,
00:58:06who was the oldest man
00:58:07on the Secret Service detail,
00:58:09testified that
00:58:10he never looked around,
00:58:11didn't even know
00:58:12the assassination
00:58:12had taken place
00:58:13until Roy Kellerman
00:58:15next to him said,
00:58:15we're hit,
00:58:16get us out of here,
00:58:17and he stepped on the gas
00:58:18and accelerated
00:58:19out of Deevy Plaza.
00:58:20But as can be seen plainly,
00:58:22he did turn
00:58:22and look back at Kennedy
00:58:23at the time
00:58:24of the fatal headshot.
00:58:26The brake lights come on
00:58:27as the car slowed down,
00:58:28Kennedy was shot in the head,
00:58:29and then the car
00:58:31accelerated forward.
00:58:34Here we see
00:58:35a Polaroid snapshot
00:58:36made by bystander
00:58:38Mary Moorman
00:58:39right about the time
00:58:41of the fatal headshot.
00:58:42In the upper right-hand corner,
00:58:43we can see Abraham Zapruder
00:58:45and his receptionist,
00:58:47Marilyn Sisman,
00:58:48making his famous film.
00:58:51And then we can see
00:58:52Kennedy slumped in the car
00:58:53with Jackie
00:58:54kind of bending over him.
00:58:56But in the background,
00:58:58behind the picket fence,
00:58:59behind the concrete wall,
00:59:01we see this figure
00:59:02of a man.
00:59:03And this has not been doctored,
00:59:06has not been photoshopped,
00:59:07has not been tampered with.
00:59:08This is strictly a blow-up
00:59:10of the image in the background.
00:59:11And a similar Polaroid camera
00:59:13has been tested,
00:59:14and it is found
00:59:15that they do have
00:59:16sharp enough detail
00:59:18and focus
00:59:18to get a picture like this.
00:59:20And what we see
00:59:22is this blow-up,
00:59:24which clearly shows a man.
00:59:26You can see his two eyes,
00:59:27his hairline,
00:59:28his left ear.
00:59:32You can see a white flash
00:59:34in front of his face,
00:59:36either smoke or flash from a gun.
00:59:38And his arms are in the
00:59:40classic rifle-holding position.
00:59:42And he's wearing a dark shirt
00:59:44with a semicircular patch
00:59:46on the left shoulder
00:59:49and a bright object
00:59:51on his chest,
00:59:52which by computer analysis
00:59:53is shown to be metal.
00:59:55Here on the right
00:59:56is the blow-up
00:59:57of the figure
00:59:58that has come to be known
00:59:59as the Badge Man.
01:00:00Next to that,
01:00:01we can see
01:00:02a Dallas police uniform
01:00:03with a semicircular patch
01:00:05on the left arm
01:00:05and the badge
01:00:06on the right chest.
01:00:08And then at the extreme left,
01:00:11you can see
01:00:12an artist's representation
01:00:13of what you're seeing here,
01:00:15the Badge Man photograph.
01:00:16So now we have a photograph
01:00:19of a man firing a weapon
01:00:21from behind the fence
01:00:23on the grassy knoll.
01:00:24The House Select Committee
01:00:25on Assassinations
01:00:26finally concluded
01:00:27that there was a conspiracy
01:00:29because at least one shot
01:00:31came from behind
01:00:32the picket fence
01:00:32on the grassy knoll
01:00:33and based on two separate sets
01:00:36of acoustical scientists
01:00:37who used sound signatures
01:00:39to identify the grassy knoll
01:00:42as a place
01:00:43for one of the shots.
01:00:44Now, if this was
01:00:45any other case
01:00:46other than the Kennedy assassination
01:00:48and I tried to tell you
01:00:49that we have a photograph
01:00:51of a man firing
01:00:52from behind the fence
01:00:53on the grassy knoll,
01:00:54we have the majority
01:00:55of witnesses in that area
01:00:56saying a shot came
01:00:57from behind the fence
01:00:58on the grassy knoll.
01:00:59We got a picture
01:01:00of smoke drifting out
01:01:01from behind the fence
01:01:02on the grassy knoll
01:01:04and we got acoustical studies
01:01:06pinpointing the behind
01:01:08the fence
01:01:08on the grassy knoll
01:01:09as a source
01:01:09for at least one shot.
01:01:11Then if I tried to tell you
01:01:13there was nobody there,
01:01:14you would think
01:01:15I was an absolute fool
01:01:16and yet this is
01:01:17the Kennedy assassination
01:01:18and there are still people
01:01:19who seriously argue
01:01:20there was nobody
01:01:21behind the picket fence
01:01:23on the grassy knoll.
01:01:48So what we see is
01:01:49that there has been
01:01:50a tremendous cover-up
01:01:53at the level
01:01:54of the federal government
01:01:55of the United States
01:01:56and it's this cover-up,
01:01:58this suppression of evidence,
01:02:00destruction of evidence,
01:02:01fabrication of evidence,
01:02:02alteration of evidence,
01:02:04intimidation of witnesses.
01:02:05These are all crimes
01:02:06in connection
01:02:07with the capital murder
01:02:08and they all were committed
01:02:10at the level
01:02:11of the federal government.
01:02:12This is what transforms
01:02:13what at that time
01:02:15was nothing but another
01:02:16Texas homicide
01:02:17to a national coup d'etat.
01:02:22Now why would they want
01:02:23to get rid of the chief executive?
01:02:25Because John F. Kennedy
01:02:27was shaking up
01:02:28the status quo.
01:02:29Let's go back
01:02:30and look at some of the things
01:02:32that he was doing.
01:02:35To begin with,
01:02:36he forced the steel manufacturers
01:02:37to roll back
01:02:38their price increases
01:02:39that they promised
01:02:40they were not going to do
01:02:41and they did anyway
01:02:43and he went on television
01:02:45and said this is not right
01:02:47and the public got with him
01:02:49and they forced
01:02:50the steel manufacturers
01:02:51to roll back their prices.
01:02:53His brother,
01:02:54Attorney General Robert Kennedy,
01:02:56was prosecuting organized crime
01:02:57as never before or since.
01:02:59In fact,
01:02:59on the morning of the assassination,
01:03:01he met with his
01:03:02organized crime task force
01:03:03and then about noontime,
01:03:05of course,
01:03:06his brother was killed
01:03:07and the task force
01:03:08never met again.
01:03:11President Kennedy
01:03:12also was trying
01:03:14to put a stop
01:03:15to the CIA
01:03:16and the military
01:03:17making raids on Cuba.
01:03:18After the failed
01:03:19Bay of Pigs invasion,
01:03:21they continued to push
01:03:22for another invasion of Cuba.
01:03:24In fact,
01:03:25in the spring of 1962,
01:03:27the Joint Chiefs of Staff
01:03:29approved a plan
01:03:30called Operation Northwoods
01:03:32and this horrendous plan
01:03:34called for assassinating
01:03:36American citizens
01:03:37in some of our cities,
01:03:39setting off bombs
01:03:40in major American cities,
01:03:42hijacking planes and ships
01:03:44and blaming it all on Castro
01:03:46so they could stir up support
01:03:48for another invasion of Cuba.
01:03:52Probably the ranking officials
01:03:56of the CIA,
01:03:56the military,
01:03:57they did not realize
01:03:58that there had been
01:03:59secret agreements made
01:04:00at the time
01:04:01of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
01:04:03Kennedy and Khrushchev
01:04:05worked out a deal
01:04:05where Khrushchev agreed
01:04:07to withdraw
01:04:07the offensive missiles
01:04:09from Cuba.
01:04:10In exchange,
01:04:11we agreed to withdraw
01:04:12our offensive missiles
01:04:14from Turkey
01:04:14and pledged
01:04:16that we would not invade
01:04:18or support
01:04:19a military invasion of Cuba,
01:04:20which we have not.
01:04:22But a lot of the lower echelon people
01:04:24were not aware
01:04:25of these agreements
01:04:26and so they were still pushing
01:04:27for an invasion of Cuba.
01:04:32Kennedy and Khrushchev
01:04:33were also reaching agreements
01:04:35on a ban on above-ground
01:04:39nuclear testing.
01:04:40They put in the hotline
01:04:41to Moscow.
01:04:42They were actually working
01:04:43to try to end the Cold War,
01:04:45which did not set well
01:04:46with the military bases
01:04:48in either country.
01:04:50Kennedy may have also
01:04:51sealed his fate
01:04:52when he talked about
01:04:53doing away
01:04:54with the oil depletion allowance,
01:04:56which was the bedrock
01:04:58of Texas oil money,
01:05:00got all the oil
01:05:01and gas people mad at him,
01:05:02the Mafia's mad at him,
01:05:04the military's mad at him.
01:05:06And then in the summer
01:05:08of 1963,
01:05:10he ordered $4.2 billion
01:05:13of interest-free money
01:05:15issued through
01:05:16the Treasury Department,
01:05:18not the interest-bearing
01:05:20Federal Reserve System,
01:05:22thus becoming
01:05:23the second president
01:05:24in American history
01:05:25to try to issue money
01:05:27that was free of interest
01:05:29from the international bankers.
01:05:30The first president
01:05:31being Abraham Lincoln,
01:05:33who printed his own greenbacks
01:05:35to finance the war
01:05:37between the states.
01:05:38And I, for one,
01:05:39do not feel like
01:05:40that it was just
01:05:41sheer coincidence
01:05:42that both of those presidents
01:05:44were shot in the head
01:05:45in public.
01:05:47This is a $5 bill,
01:05:49series 1963,
01:05:50and you'll notice
01:05:51it says United States Note
01:05:53and has red ink on it.
01:05:54This was part of the money
01:05:56that Kennedy issued
01:05:57that was interest-free
01:05:58because it was issued
01:06:00through the Treasury Department,
01:06:01not the Federal Reserve System.
01:06:03One thing that definitely changed
01:06:05with the death
01:06:06of John F. Kennedy
01:06:07was our involvement
01:06:08in Vietnam.
01:06:10Here we see
01:06:10National Security Action Memorandum
01:06:12number 263,
01:06:13issued on October the 11th,
01:06:151963,
01:06:16just about a week
01:06:17after the Diem brothers
01:06:18were killed,
01:06:18and the Vietnam struggle
01:06:22was beginning
01:06:23to reach a turning point.
01:06:25In this document,
01:06:26it says the president
01:06:27approved the military
01:06:29recommendations contained
01:06:31in the report
01:06:32of McNamara
01:06:34and Maxwell Taylor,
01:06:36who had gone to report
01:06:38on the situation in Vietnam,
01:06:39and they reported
01:06:40that they thought
01:06:42we had a handle
01:06:43on the situation
01:06:43and that we might be able
01:06:45to withdraw all troops
01:06:46by the end of 1965.
01:06:48The president approved this
01:06:50and then,
01:06:50according to this,
01:06:51directed no formal announcement
01:06:53be made
01:06:54but to withdraw
01:06:551,000 U.S. military personnel
01:06:58by the end of 1963.
01:07:00So Kennedy was going
01:07:01to disengage us
01:07:02from Vietnam.
01:07:03No Vietnam War
01:07:05with the attendant
01:07:07raping of our budget,
01:07:11the conflict
01:07:12between the generations,
01:07:14the 58,000 deaths,
01:07:17the people who were maimed,
01:07:18the families
01:07:19that were toned apart.
01:07:20None of that would have happened
01:07:21if Kennedy had lived.
01:07:22But there were people
01:07:23who wanted that war.
01:07:25Just three days
01:07:26after his assassination,
01:07:28then-president
01:07:29Lyndon Johnson
01:07:30issued this
01:07:31National Security Action Memorandum,
01:07:33number 273.
01:07:35And although it starts off saying
01:07:37the objectives
01:07:37of the United States
01:07:38with respect to the withdrawal
01:07:39of U.S. military personnel
01:07:41remain as stated
01:07:43in the White House
01:07:44statement of October 2.
01:07:46And it says
01:07:49everything's going
01:07:49to stay the same.
01:07:50Here under item 6,
01:07:53we find programs
01:07:53of military
01:07:54and economic assistance
01:07:55should be maintained
01:07:57at such levels
01:07:58that their magnitude
01:07:59and effectiveness
01:08:00in the eyes
01:08:01of the Vietnam government
01:08:02do not fall below
01:08:03the levels
01:08:04sustained by the United States
01:08:06at the time
01:08:07of the DiEM government.
01:08:08Well, this is
01:08:08a convoluted way
01:08:10of saying
01:08:10we're not going
01:08:11to drop the financial
01:08:12of the military aid
01:08:13to South Vietnam.
01:08:14So in other words,
01:08:15this stopped
01:08:16these pull-out orders.
01:08:17The thousand men
01:08:19that Kennedy said
01:08:20he was going to withdraw
01:08:21did not withdraw.
01:08:23The document
01:08:23goes on to state
01:08:24the plausibility
01:08:25of denial,
01:08:26that they could deny
01:08:27what was really going on,
01:08:30damage to North Vietnam,
01:08:31we're going to start
01:08:32bombing the North,
01:08:33we're going to widen the war,
01:08:34and even spread
01:08:35to drawing up plans
01:08:37against Laos, okay?
01:08:39It's really fascinating,
01:08:41but the most fascinating thing
01:08:44appears here
01:08:46in this document
01:08:47which was taken
01:08:48from the LBJ Library
01:08:51in Austin, Texas.
01:08:52This is the draft
01:08:54of Johnson's
01:08:55National Security Action
01:08:57Memorandum 273
01:08:59which blocked
01:09:00Kennedy's pull-out order
01:09:01and set us on the course
01:09:03for full-time involvement
01:09:04in Vietnam
01:09:05and what you notice is
01:09:08is that this draft
01:09:09was written
01:09:10on November the 21st, 1963,
01:09:13the day before
01:09:14Kennedy went to Dallas
01:09:16and was assassinated.
01:09:18Somebody knew
01:09:19the day before
01:09:20that he wasn't
01:09:21going to be there
01:09:23to implement
01:09:23his pull-out orders
01:09:24in Vietnam
01:09:25and instead
01:09:26we were going to be
01:09:27launching a full-bore effort
01:09:29for war in Southeast Asia.
01:09:50One final piece of evidence
01:09:53has to do with
01:09:55President Kennedy's
01:09:56personal secretary,
01:09:57Evelyn Lincoln.
01:09:59She was at his elbow
01:10:01almost day and night.
01:10:03If there was anyone
01:10:04who knew
01:10:05what his real thoughts were,
01:10:06what was really going on
01:10:08within the government,
01:10:09it was probably
01:10:09Evelyn Lincoln
01:10:10and yet I doubt
01:10:11any of us
01:10:12have ever seen
01:10:13an interview
01:10:13with Evelyn Lincoln.
01:10:15Why not?
01:10:17Was she not
01:10:18talking to anyone?
01:10:19No.
01:10:20Here's a letter
01:10:20from 1994
01:10:23where Evelyn Lincoln
01:10:24states,
01:10:25as far as
01:10:26the assassination
01:10:26is concerned,
01:10:27it's my belief
01:10:28that there was
01:10:28a conspiracy
01:10:29because there were
01:10:30those who disliked
01:10:31him and felt
01:10:32the only way
01:10:32to get rid of him
01:10:33was to assassinate him.
01:10:34These five conspirators,
01:10:36in my opinion,
01:10:37were Lyndon B. Johnson,
01:10:38J. Edgar Hoover,
01:10:39the mafia,
01:10:39the CIA,
01:10:40and the Cubans
01:10:41in Florida.
01:10:43Very good guess,
01:10:45Evelyn.
01:10:46She knew
01:10:47what was happening
01:10:48and it's time
01:10:49the American public knew.
01:10:51John J. McCloy
01:10:52was former CEO
01:10:54of National Citibank,
01:10:55which is now Citicorp,
01:10:57and during the 1930s
01:10:59presided over
01:10:59a lot of loans
01:11:00to the Nazis
01:11:01in Germany.
01:11:03At the end of the war,
01:11:04he was made
01:11:05High Commissioner
01:11:06of Germany
01:11:07and shipped
01:11:07a lot of
01:11:08unrepentant Nazis
01:11:09over to this country
01:11:10where his protege,
01:11:11Alan Dulles,
01:11:12was head of the CIA
01:11:13and whitewashed
01:11:14their Nazi backgrounds.
01:11:16And then John J. McCloy
01:11:18ended up sitting
01:11:19on the Warren Commission
01:11:20to determine
01:11:20what happened
01:11:21to President Kennedy.
01:11:22While serving
01:11:23on that commission,
01:11:24he stated,
01:11:26it was of paramount
01:11:27importance
01:11:27to show the world
01:11:28that America
01:11:29is not a banana republic
01:11:31where a government
01:11:32can be changed
01:11:33by conspiracy.
01:11:35And that was
01:11:36their objective,
01:11:38is to try to scotch
01:11:39any talk of conspiracy.
01:11:41And that's been going
01:11:42on to this very day.
01:11:43And there are still
01:11:44those in the
01:11:46status quo establishment
01:11:47who do not want
01:11:49to mention
01:11:49the coup of 1963.
01:11:52But unfortunately,
01:11:53my fellow Americans,
01:11:55America is just
01:11:56another banana republic
01:11:57because in November
01:11:59of 1963,
01:12:00our nation
01:12:01and our future
01:12:03was altered
01:12:04by a murderous
01:12:06conspiracy
01:12:08accomplished
01:12:09at the highest levels
01:12:11of the federal government
01:12:12of the United States.
01:12:14And that's all
01:12:15you need to know
01:12:16about the Kennedy assassination.
01:12:19As you can see,
01:12:21the evidence
01:12:21for a conspiracy
01:12:23at the highest levels
01:12:25of the federal government
01:12:25of the United States
01:12:26is quite compelling,
01:12:28if not overwhelming.
01:12:29In fact,
01:12:30if you want to name
01:12:31two people
01:12:32who could be
01:12:33considered guilty,
01:12:34it would be
01:12:35Lyndon Johnson
01:12:35and his next-door neighbor
01:12:37and old buddy,
01:12:38J. Edgar Hoover,
01:12:39head of the FBI.
01:12:40How can I say that?
01:12:41Can I prove
01:12:42that they ordered
01:12:42the assassination?
01:12:44No.
01:12:44But what I can prove,
01:12:45beyond any reasonable
01:12:46shadow of a doubt,
01:12:47is that these two men
01:12:49took steps
01:12:50to confuse,
01:12:52confound,
01:12:52and block
01:12:53any legitimate investigation
01:12:55into Kennedy's death.
01:12:57Under our legal system,
01:12:58that makes them
01:12:59accessories after the fact.
01:13:01And there have been
01:13:02people executed
01:13:03for murder
01:13:04who the facts of the case show
01:13:06did not pull the trigger,
01:13:08were not the killers,
01:13:09but they were there.
01:13:10They had knowledge
01:13:11of the crime
01:13:11and they didn't report it,
01:13:13they didn't turn in
01:13:14the true culprits,
01:13:15and therefore,
01:13:16they were accessories
01:13:17after the fact
01:13:18and are considered
01:13:19under our legal system
01:13:20as guilty as the person
01:13:22who pulls the trigger.
01:13:24And under that criteria,
01:13:26Lyndon Johnson,
01:13:26J. Edgar Hoover,
01:13:28are guilty.
01:13:29But they didn't act alone.
01:13:30There was a whole raft
01:13:32of Americans
01:13:33who had no direct connection
01:13:36to the assassination,
01:13:37but the end result,
01:13:38the elimination of John F. Kennedy
01:13:40and his policies
01:13:41to curtail the power
01:13:43of the banks
01:13:44and the corporations
01:13:45and the military-industrial complex
01:13:48and to try to bring
01:13:49the United States
01:13:50into a more peaceful
01:13:52and progressive country.
01:13:55They couldn't stand the idea
01:13:57and they felt like
01:13:58the only way
01:13:59they could protect the country
01:14:01was to get rid of the leader.
01:14:03And therefore,
01:14:03as we see
01:14:05and much to the chagrin
01:14:07of John J. McCloy,
01:14:09America is
01:14:10simply another banana republic.
01:14:28Thank you very much.
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