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Crossfire The Plot That Killed Kennedy 2014
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00:00:16I'm Jim Mars, author of Crossfire, The Plot That Killed Kennedy, and I'm here today to
00:00:22tell you everything you need to know about the JFK assassination.
00:00:56I'm Jim Mars, author of Crossfire, The Plot That Killed Kennedy, and I'm here today to
00:01:01tell you, yes.
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
00:01:25evidence, 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, Cathy 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.
00:03:02There 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,
00:03:21a triangular-shaped park area on the west end of downtown Dallas,
00:03:26where the three main road intersections, Maine, Commerce, and Elm,
00:03:30come together under a concrete railroad bridge known as the Triple Underpass.
00:03:35And 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, only one, Clint Hill,
00:04:05was 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, surprise,
00:04:23as they're looking around like kind of wondering what was that.
00:04:27And 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 Book Depository,
00:04:41the figure of a man wearing a kind of a dark model shirt with an open to the navel
00:04:48with a white t-shirt on underneath it.
00:04:50And here we've got a close-up of that figure.
00:04:53And 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
00:05:04it 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.
00:05:13And 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,
00:05:27then he couldn't have been on the 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 Book 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 Book Depository
00:06:01before it became prominent in the news?
00:06:04And it's a very good question.
00:06:06And it's never been answered.
00:06:09The color photograph here is a photograph that I made from the sixth floor of the School Book 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.
00:06:24You notice the window is only about half open.
00:06:26And there's two two-inch pipes to the left side of the 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.
00:06:59It 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.
00:07:15To the right of this picture are two photographs.
00:07:18One of the Warren Commission showing what they said was the sniper's nest, how the boxes were arranged.
00:07:25And yet, a Dallas News photograph taken that same day shows a whole different configuration.
00:07:30All of the evidence is in total disarray.
00:07:34The three shell cases that were found, according to a news photographer,
00:07:39one of the police officials took them in his hand, showed them to the camera,
00:07:43and 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.
00:07:51They were moved around.
00:07:52In fact, the official photographer for the government, a man by the name of Studebaker,
00:07:58testified that as late as Monday following the Friday assassination,
00:08:02he 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.
00:08:20But you can see there was not very many people in the western end of Dealey Plaza.
00:08:24This is kind of interesting, particularly where we see people in the foreground moving along the grassy area
00:08:31and the median 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.
00:08:40And it was only after the motorcade began to arrive that people filtered down from Main Street and Cummer Street
00:08:46and 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
00:09:11and they didn't want a civilian to be hit by 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.
00:09:24And he's waving and everything seems to be okay.
00:09:26As he passes from view of the camera of Abraham Zepruder, 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
00:09:43and a dark-complected fellow who raises his arm.
00:09:48These men were perpendicular to the car and we feel like that they were signalmen.
00:09:57It was a visual signal to shooters that they could not tell that the president was dead
00:10:03and more shots were 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.
00:10:13Then these two men, who apparently were not associated with each other,
00:10:17nevertheless go and sit down beside each other on the curb.
00:10:21And in 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,
00:10:39and keep in mind these are blurry because they're just 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
00:10:50and an antenna sticking out from behind his head, apparently talking on a radio.
00:10:57In the bottom left, we see him get up and stick the radio back into his pocket
00:11:01and saunter off towards the triple underpass while the rest of the crowd are rushing up the grassy knoll,
00:11:06where all the people in that end of the 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
00:11:16and then turns and 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,
00:11:46who is taking a very 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,
00:12:01although there were no policemen officially stationed in that area.
00:12:05We also noticed that the only Secret Service agent to respond to the shooting was Clint Hill,
00:12:11who was assigned to Jackie Kennedy and 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.
00:12:31It's said she was trying to help Clint Hill get on the car.
00:12:34None of this is true.
00:12:35The 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,
00:12:47and picked up a piece of the president's head.
00:12:49She 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.
00:13:43Others 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. Modern 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.
00:14:42Instead, 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
00:15:40where Kennedy was to make a noon speech or traveling in the motorcade.
00:15:44So 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.
00:16:32But 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.
00:16:41And unfortunately we've had garbage in, and what am I talking about?
00:16:47Okay, to have an adequate computer analysis of the Kennedy assassination would require absolutely correct data from Dealey Plaza.
00:16:58The topography, the elevations, the distances, and this was done.
00:17:02On the Monday following the Friday assassination, Life Magazine hired Dallas surveyor Robert West and his associate Chester Brennaman
00:17:12to take still frames of each frame of the Zapruder film and then do survey work in Dealey Plaza,
00:17:20measuring 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.
00:17:30Later in the spring of 1964, both men again performed survey work for the Warren Commission, the 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, which 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, there 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,
00:18:58three 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.
00:19:08That'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, which means
00:19:29it doesn't prove anything.
00:19:32Lieutenant Jack Revel was the intelligence officer for the Dallas police.
00:19:37And according to his testimony, he left the Texas School Book Depository, rode back to the Dallas police station with
00:19:44a military intelligence agent, a 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
00:19:56Oswald'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.
00:20:13Now, 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, who cross-referenced
00:20:59to a Harvey Lee Oswald of 605 Elspeth.
00:21:04So, this was a mistake that had been made in military intelligence files, and what it tells us is that
00:21:09it was the U.S. military who tipped off the Dallas police as to the identity of their suspect.
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00:21:45So 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,
00:22:33because the selective service cards at that time did not have photographs on them.
00:22:37So this is something that was put together.
00:22:41The police were saying, well, you know, who are you?
00:22:44And 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,
00:23:00saying, we 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.
00:23:06He's a mean-spirited individual in the category of a nut.
00:23:11So Hoover already had the lone nut scenario worked out less than two hours after the shooting,
00:23:17at a time when 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,
00:23:30I think it's clear that somebody in position of authority knew more about what was happening
00:23:35than the Dallas authorities or the media or the public at that time.
00:24:02When it comes to the idea of more than one Oswald, you really get into a morass.
00:24:09And yet there is clear evidence that, at the very least,
00:24:11someone was impersonating Lee Harvey Oswald leading up to the time of the assassination.
00:24:17And 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
00:24:29and sent this memo to the Security Division of 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
00:24:54about 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.
00:25:23But the guy on the top doesn't quite look right.
00:25:26The Warren Commission published this photograph of Oswald.
00:25:30They said taken about the time of his attempted defection to Russia.
00:25:35As we can see, it's really an odd-looking photograph
00:25:38because we see the light source coming from his right
00:25:43with heavy shadow on the left side of his face.
00:25:46And yet, look behind him on the wall.
00:25:48His shadow goes to the right as if there was a light source from the left.
00:25:53One shoulder seems broad.
00:25:55And 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,
00:26:13it seems like it's a composite picture of two separate individuals.
00:26:18Lee Oswald on the right and Harvey Oswald on the left.
00:26:22This was a common practice among the intelligence operatives
00:26:25to 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.
00:26:48And on the left, we see the men's photograph.
00:26:51And 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.
00:27:03One when he was in the Marines and one later in Russia.
00:27:06And when you match up the eyes, nose, and mouth to the proper proportions,
00:27:10you find one of them is shorter than the other.
00:27:13And this was confirmed by his medical records in the Marines,
00:27:17which showed Oswald to be 5'11.
00:27:19And yet, at the autopsy, it showed him to be 5'9.
00:27:24Even his own mother, in 1967, asked to have the grave exhumed,
00:27:29questioning marks and scars on the body
00:27:32and questioning the identity of the person in the grave.
00:27:35And she was not the only one.
00:27:37Paul Grudy, who was the funeral home director who buried Oswald,
00:27:41told me that about a week after they buried Oswald,
00:27:44a Secret Service representative showed up,
00:27:46was asking him questions about scars, marks on the body.
00:27:50And one of them finally commented that,
00:27:53we don't know who we have buried in that grave.
00:27:56So there's considerable doubt over the identity of the man
00:28:00identified as Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:28:23A cover-up of this crime began almost immediately,
00:28:27even 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
00:28:47before there was any forensic study made of the car.
00:28:51Bulletproof glass was put in, and it was painted black,
00:28:55and it is now on display in Dearborn, Michigan.
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,
00:29:19and 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 desilvered.
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
00:29:54the night of the assassination against the wishes of the Dallas police.
00:30:00Captain Fritz, who was in charge of the investigation, said,
00:30:03well, 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
00:30:20and security people pouring over this evidence 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,
00:30:37to try to identify the 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,
00:30:54as far as I know, we have never received any of 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,
00:31:11totally 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,
00:31:26there was a meeting held with the Dallas Police, Dallas County Sheriff'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,
00:31:46and for three full days before 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,
00:32:08and it could all 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.
00:32:39There's only 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,
00:32:56which is the Dallas Police evidence sheet.
00:32:59This is the sheet that listed all the evidence that they had in the assassination.
00:33:02And you'll notice at the era that it shows three spent rounds were found, okay?
00:33:09Three shots, three spent rounds.
00:33:10And 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,
00:33:21and 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
00:33:39to see if they 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
00:33:49and only traces of nitrates on his hands but none on his face.
00:33:55This is pretty good evidence that he had not fired a rifle that day
00:33:59because if he had fired that loose bolt Mandlicker Carcano in 5.6 seconds,
00:34:05he would have had to have done it from a rifle position like this.
00:34:10He couldn't lower it.
00:34:11It had 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
00:34:20from that rifle, and yet just less than two hours after the shooting,
00:34:25there 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,
00:34:40they 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.
00:34:48They both have the same file number and dated the same date
00:34:52and signed by the same agent, Vincent Drain.
00:34:56One says that the wrapping paper found at the book depository matches the same paper
00:35:03that they said was used as 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
00:35:18from the depository, his place of work, and used it to bring in the rifle.
00:35:23However, the other document says that the paper does not match the paper bag
00:35:31that they said contained the rifle.
00:35:33So now, which one of these documents is correct?
00:35:35They say the exact opposite thing.
00:35:38When 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, and it suddenly turned up days later
00:36:16after 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.
00:36:30This, 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.
00:36:47A 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, and they had to add three metal shims under the telescopic sight
00:37:02to 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.
00:37:19This is a photograph of the evidence they had against Oswald, including up here in a black circle,
00:37:26his Minox spy camera, which carried a five-digit serial number,
00:37:31which meant it was not commercially available in the United States.
00:37:35So 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, you 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.
00:37:57And you'll notice that there was a car parked there, and although you cannot read it,
00:38:01it's very small, you can see that there was no hole or destruction to this photograph.
00:38:06Yet, when the Warren Commission published this photograph, somebody had punched a hole in the license plate
00:38:15so that you couldn't read the license plate and find out whose car this actually belonged to.
00:38:19And this hole was punched while this photograph was in official custody.
00:38:25This is destruction of evidence, and under our legal system, it's considered a crime.
00:38:30Probably the strongest piece of evidence that convicted Oswald in the minds of the public
00:38:35was the fact that on Monday night, after the Friday assassination,
00:38:40Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas, mentioned 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, that'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, was 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, signed by J. Edgar Hoover himself, it clearly states,
00:39:11No latent prints of value were developed on Oswald's revolver, the cartridge cases,
00:39:16the unfired cartridge, the clip of the rifle, or the inner parts of the rifle.
00:39:21So, in other words, Saturday, following the Friday assassination, there were no fingerprints available on that rifle.
00:39:28On Sunday, the rifle was shipped back to Dallas.
00:39:31On Monday morning, it was taken by two FBI agents to 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, who has publicly stated this,
00:39:45he was there and present when the FBI put Oswald's dead hand on the rifle.
00:39:51In fact, he told me he had a hard time getting the fingerprint ink off of Oswald's dead hand in
00:39:57time for the burial.
00:39:58And that evening, Henry Wade says,
00:40:01Have I mentioned we've got his fingerprints on the rifle?
00:40:04Again, 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, shading the testimony.
00:40:19And according to this memorandum from Attorney Albert Jenner to the Chief Counsel, J. Lee Rankin,
00:40:29he says,
00:40:30Our depositions and examination of records and other data disclose that there are details in Mr. Eli's memorandum
00:40:38which will require material alteration and, in some instances, omission.
00:40:45So they're admitting here that they're changing, altering things and that they're leaving out facts and data about Oswald's background.
00:40:53So much for a confident, in-depth investigation.
00:41:18So, with so much evidence missing, altered, changed, no telling what,
00:41:25nevertheless, the Warren Commission concluded that one shot struck Kennedy in the back of the neck,
00:41:31passed through, did not strike any bone, went on to strike Governor Conley,
00:41:35causing seven wounds of these two men,
00:41:38removed the slug, you know, was recovered intact from a stretcher in Parkland Hospital,
00:41:43the second shot missed, and the third shot struck Kennedy in the right side of the head, killing him.
00:41:48That was the official version, and actually remains the official version,
00:41:52although the House Committee, in 1980, concluded that 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 over what's happened,
00:42:04and this confusion can all be laid at 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, which clearly states,
00:42:18a second wound occurred in the posterior back at about the level of the third thoracic vertebra.
00:42:22Well, that's below your shoulder blades, to the right of the baseline.
00:42:28And, by the way, that's signed by Dr. George Berkeley, Kennedy's personal physician.
00:42:34Here on the autopsy face sheet, on the left, we see the bullet mark in the back,
00:42:41to the right of the backbone below the shoulder blades.
00:42:45But you notice the bottom left-hand portion of this diagram is blank,
00:42:51and that has allowed them to argue that this is just a sketch,
00:42:55and it's not to scale, and it's not in proper proportion,
00:42:58and actually the wound was much higher up on the neck.
00:43:02And yet, on to the right, you see the original document,
00:43:05and it was marked verified by his personal physician, Dr. George Berkeley.
00:43:10Again, more cover-up of important and critical information.
00:43:16The two things they could not alter are the bullet holes in his jacket
00:43:19and the bullet hole in his shirt, which are now still available in the National Archives.
00:43:24And they locate the wound exactly where the autopsy said,
00:43:27third thoracic vertebra below the shoulder blades to the right of the backbone.
00:43:31Now, it was argued that, well, he was waving, and his shirt, his coat jacket rode up,
00:43:37and therefore the bullet hole was actually much higher than it shows on the jacket.
00:43:42But, hey, the same bullet hole is on the shirt,
00:43:45and your shirt doesn't rise up no matter how much you want to raise.
00:43:49So these are all specious arguments trying to explain why there was a bullet hole in the neck and not
00:43:57in the back.
00:43:59But to simply go back to some of the testimony of people who were there,
00:44:03we find that the autopsy doctor, Dr. Humes,
00:44:07said a bullet hole located below the shoulders two inches to the right of the midline
00:44:11of the backbone.
00:44:13We also see from Secret Service agents, Clint Hill said,
00:44:17I saw an opening in the back about six inches below the neckline to the right-hand side of the
00:44:21spinal column.
00:44:24Glenn Bennett, another Secret Service agent, testified,
00:44:28I saw the shot hit the president about four inches down from the right shoulder.
00:44:31So they all located the wound at the same location as the autopsy, in the back.
00:44:38So please understand, Kennedy was never shot through the neck.
00:44:43And that, of course, destroys the single bullet theory.
00:44:46And if the single bullet theory does not hold up,
00:44:48then the lone assassin theory does not hold up.
00:44:52So in this diagram, if we take the actual point of the back wound of the third thoracic vertebra
00:44:59and connect it to the throat wound at the Adam's apple in front,
00:45:03we've got an upward trajectory, which makes no sense
00:45:06because supposedly the assassin was 60 feet in the air shooting downward.
00:45:13Perhaps this is a new conspiracy theory,
00:45:16the hidden assassin in the trunk of the car, but I don't think so.
00:45:21But it just shows the disarray of the evidence in this case
00:45:24and the fact that none of this is ever adequately presented to the public.
00:45:29Where did the idea come from that Kennedy was shot through the neck and not in the back?
00:45:33It came from Gerald R. Ford, our only unelected president.
00:45:37He was appointed vice president by Nixon, and then when Spiro Agnew resigned under threat of prosecution,
00:45:47and then with the promise that when Nixon was about to be impeached, he pardoned him of all crimes.
00:45:57And so Gerald Ford, who was a member of the Warren Commission,
00:46:01ordered the authors of the Warren Commission report to change the wording from Kennedy was shot in the back
00:46:07until Kennedy was shot through the neck.
00:46:09This allowed them to argue that cockamamie single bullet theory.
00:46:26The foundation of the single bullet theory is this slug right here, Commission Exhibit 399.
00:46:32They said this was a slug found on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital,
00:46:37although they never could nail down whose stretcher it was.
00:46:41They tried to say it was Governor Conley's stretcher, and yet there's evidence to indicate that's not true.
00:46:46The hospital technician, Darrell Tomlinson, said, I'm not going to say it came from that stretcher.
00:46:53In fact, he said quite the opposite.
00:46:55It seems actually it was planted there.
00:46:57And who could have planted this slug in Parkland Hospital?
00:47:00Well, Jack Ruby was seen at Parkland Hospital about 1 o'clock that afternoon of the shooting,
00:47:07and going into the hospital carrying television equipment.
00:47:11So it's entirely possible that Jack Ruby played a role in all of this even before he shot Oswald.
00:47:17In this news clipping, we see that John Conley's doctor clearly stated that he was not struck by the same
00:47:23bullet that hit President Kennedy.
00:47:26But the real proof came in this X-ray of Governor Conley's wrist.
00:47:31And as you can see, there's more bright bits of metal that stayed in Conley's wrist than are missing from
00:47:38the bullet that the government says caused the wound.
00:47:41That's how ridiculous some of the so-called evidence is.
00:47:47So what we have here, then, is the theory that one shot coming from 60 feet in the air struck
00:47:53Kennedy in the back, third thoracic vertebrate,
00:47:56didn't hit a bone, but somehow coursed upwards through his body, exited out his throat, somehow twisted around in midair,
00:48:03came back down, struck Conley near the right armpit, shattered his fifth rib, came out the front of his chest,
00:48:12shattered his right wrist, and lended up in his left leg.
00:48:18It's impossible. It didn't happen.
00:48:21But you're expected to believe it happened.
00:48:23And they've got experts who will tell you how many angels dance on the head of a...
00:48:26I mean, how many shots could actually do this.
00:48:32This is a transcription of the Warren Commission meeting for January the 27th, 1964.
00:48:39They were just beginning their investigation.
00:48:42And yet, even at this early date, they knew that this single bullet theory did not work.
00:48:48Here we see their own chief counsel, J. Lee Rankin, as he ruminates and says,
00:48:53Well, it seems quite apparent now, since we have a picture of where the bullet entered in the back,
00:48:59that the bullet entered below the shoulder blade to the right of the backbone,
00:49:02which is below the place where the picture shows the bullet came out the neckband, the shirt in front.
00:49:07And that bullet, according to autopsy, didn't strike any bone at all, that particular bullet, and go through.
00:49:13So how it could turn, and he suddenly realizes he's saying,
00:49:18How could it turn in midair and go strike Conley?
00:49:20And he realized it doesn't work, so he stops.
00:49:22And that's the end of that.
00:49:24They knew better, but still they came out and lied to the American people
00:49:27and told them that this one bullet passed through Kennedy's neck, caused all the wounds.
00:49:32It's a fairy tale.
00:49:33Here we see former Senator Arlen Spector, who in 1964 was a young attorney for the Warren Commission,
00:49:44and came up with this single bullet theory.
00:49:47And here he is demonstrating how the bullet went through Kennedy's neck
00:49:51and struck Conley in front.
00:49:52And it seems fairly reasonable until you actually look closely.
00:49:57You'll see in the red circle, they marked with chalk on the back of this fellow,
00:50:02and you'll see that he has to hold his straight edge about six inches above the shoulder
00:50:06to make it line up with Conley.
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, they say, well, that's what happened.
00:50:18Further evidence of manipulation and obfuscation of the evidence comes in the medical evidence.
00:50:26Here we see testimony from all the medical people in Dallas who all said Kennedy suffered a gaping wound
00:50:34in the right rear portion of his head.
00:50:36This would indicate a shot from the front and blowing out the right rear portion of his head.
00:50:42At the time of the House Select Committee on Assassinations,
00:50:45they showed us a drawing reportedly of the autopsy photograph.
00:50:48And we see that the back of his head seems to be perfectly intact.
00:50:53But we do see a small, what appears to be a hole up there.
00:50:59And they said this was the entrance wound coming from the rear of his head.
00:51:03And yet, a few years later, when the autopsy photographs themselves became publicly available,
00:51:10we find that there is no hole back there.
00:51:12Only what appears perhaps to be a little splotch of dried blood,
00:51:18and there's even hairs growing through it.
00:51:21So, again, there was lies and deceit with the medical evidence.
00:51:25Again, the drawings that the House Committee showed us shows this bullet hole.
00:51:30Now it's not in the neck and it's not in the back.
00:51:33It's kind of on the shoulder.
00:51:35And it is not consistent at all with the bullet hole in the jacket.
00:51:40So it's nothing but lies and deceit.
00:51:43Most telling of all is this story, which got very little play in the mass media.
00:51:49Here we see Gerald Custer, who was the x-ray technician
00:51:53who took the x-rays of Kennedy at the autopsy.
00:51:57Also at this same news conference was Floyd Reby,
00:52:00the photographer who took the autopsy photographs.
00:52:04And both of these men today say that the x-rays and the photographs
00:52:08being shown to the public and being kept in the National Archives
00:52:11are not the ones they took.
00:52:15So we have, again, manipulation,
00:52:18obfuscation of the evidence at the federal level.
00:52:21Here we see what purports to be an x-ray of Kennedy's skull.
00:52:25And as you can see, the whole front right portion of his head seems to be missing.
00:52:32And yet in this autopsy photograph, we plainly see that his forehead is perfectly intact.
00:52:38Gerald Custer, the man who took the original x-rays,
00:52:41said that there was no damage to his face, no part of his skull was missing.
00:52:45These are fake x-rays.
00:52:47So we've got fake x-rays and fake photographs now resting in the government archives.
00:52:52Does this explain why there is so much controversy over the Kennedy assassination?
00:52:57But there was not very much controversy in 1964,
00:53:02particularly after this February, the 21st edition of Life magazine,
00:53:07which everybody in the country saw.
00:53:09And we've got a backyard photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a communist newspaper
00:53:14and a rifle, pistol on his belt.
00:53:17And the headline says,
00:53:18Lee Oswald with the weapons he used to kill President Kennedy and Officer Tibbitt.
00:53:23Now this was published months before the Warren Commission came out from behind closed doors
00:53:28and concluded that Oswald was probably the lone assassin.
00:53:33This is convicting someone even before they get a fair hearing.
00:53:38But it certainly cemented the idea that Oswald was the killer
00:53:42in the minds of the American public.
00:53:45But was the backyard photograph legitimate?
00:53:49Right there in the Warren Report,
00:53:51Captain Fritz tells that Oswald was shown a picture of him holding a rifle and wearing a pistol.
00:54:00And he says this picture had been enlarged by a crime lab from a fixture found in the garage at
00:54:05Mrs. Payne's house.
00:54:06He, meaning Oswald, said the picture was not his,
00:54:09that the face was his face, but this picture was made by someone superimposing his face.
00:54:15The other part of the picture was not him at all, and he had never seen the picture before.
00:54:20A phony picture, a composite picture.
00:54:23Could this be true?
00:54:26Well, we take the two known examples of the backyard photograph and we turn them into a color transparency,
00:54:35one red and one blue, and these are supposedly two separate photographs made with a handheld camera.
00:54:42Nothing should match.
00:54:43And yet when you blow them up to the same proportion, lay one on top of the other,
00:54:49you can see that Oswald's face is an exact match on both photographs.
00:54:54This is an impossibility unless, exactly as he said, it's a composite photograph with one picture of his face pasted
00:55:02over someone else's body.
00:55:05Is there even more evidence of this?
00:55:07Yes.
00:55:08Here we see on either side the backyard photograph, which is essentially the same picture of Oswald's face,
00:55:17only done to a different, slightly different angle, and someone has retouched the mouth slightly.
00:55:23But you can see that there is a line running from the one corner of his neck to the other
00:55:28corner of his neck,
00:55:29and we see a broad, flat chin, and yet in the center we have Oswald's police mugshot,
00:55:36which shows that Oswald had a little pointy cliff chin.
00:55:40More evidence that this was a fabricated photograph intended to implicate Oswald.
00:55:45But did the federal authorities at that time realize that this photograph, there was something funny going on here?
00:55:52And I submit to you, yes, they did, and here's why.
00:55:56To the extreme right is a third backyard photograph that turned up 15 years after the assassination in the hands
00:56:03of a Dallas policeman's widow.
00:56:05And she said her husband, the policeman, said, hang on to this, it'll be worth something someday.
00:56:11And we see that this pose is holding a rifle in the left hand, holding the paper up in the
00:56:16right hand.
00:56:17And yet the Warren Commission, Exhibit 3737, shows a federal officer posing in the pose of the third photograph,
00:56:29the one that was never accounted for and never explained and never seen for 15 years.
00:56:34This is suppression of evidence, again, a criminal offense.
00:56:39I make mention of these stills from the Zapruder film for a couple reasons.
00:56:45Number one, on frame 257, we can see what the back of Kennedy's head should look like with normal shadowing.
00:56:53And then on frame 317, we find what 11 Hollywood experts have said was a painted-on black spotch on
00:57:01the back of his head.
00:57:02This is to cover up the massive exit wound on the rear of his head, indicating a shot from the
00:57:08right front.
00:57:09This is tampering with the evidence and with the basic evidence, with the Zapruder film,
00:57:14which has been called probably the best piece of evidence in the case.
00:57:19The lower center, we have a blow-up of 314, frame 314,
00:57:25which clearly shows the driver, Greer, turning to look back over his right shoulder,
00:57:31but his hand remains on the steering wheel.
00:57:33What some people have said is a gun is actually just the sunlight reflecting off of Kellerman's greased hair
00:57:41because in the 1960s, men were still wearing hair grease.
00:57:45All right?
00:57:46And so I would like to put to rest the story that the driver shot Kennedy.
00:57:50It simply didn't happen.
00:57:52Although there is some question as to the activities of the Secret Service
00:57:56because as we've seen, they were very slow to react,
00:57:59having stayed up drinking the night before at the Cellar Club in Fort Worth.
00:58:05And the driver, Greer, who was the oldest man on the Secret Service detail,
00:58:09testified that he never looked around,
00:58:11didn't even know the assassination had taken place until Roy Kellerman next to him said,
00:58:15we're hit, get us out of here.
00:58:17And he stepped on the gas and accelerated out of Davey Plaza.
00:58:20But as can be seen plainly, he did turn and look back at Kennedy at the time of the fatal
00:58:25headshot.
00:58:26The brake lights come on, the car slowed down,
00:58:28Kennedy was shot in the head, and then the car accelerated forward.
00:58:34Here we see a Polaroid snapshot made by bystander Mary Moorman right about the time of the fatal headshot.
00:58:42In the upper right-hand corner, we can see Abraham Zapruder and his receptionist, Merlin Sitzman,
00:58:48making his famous film.
00:58:51And then we can see Kennedy slumped in the car with Jackie kind of bending over him.
00:58:56But in the background, behind the picket fence, behind the concrete wall, we see this figure of a man.
00:59:03And this is not, has not been doctored, has not been photoshopped, has not been tampered with.
00:59:08This is strictly a blow-up of the image in the background.
00:59:11And a similar Polaroid camera has been tested.
00:59:14And it is found that they do have sharp enough detail and focus to get a picture like this.
00:59:20And what we see is this blow-up, which clearly shows a man.
00:59:26You can see his two eyes, his hairline, his left ear.
00:59:32You can see a white flash in front of his face, either smoke or flash from a gun.
00:59:38And his arms are in the classic rifle-holding position.
00:59:42And he's wearing a dark shirt with a similar semicircular patch on the left shoulder
00:59:49and a bright object on his chest, which by computer analysis is shown to be metal.
00:59:55Here on the right is the blow-up of the figure that has come to be known as the Badge
01:00:00Man.
01:00:00Next to that, we can see a Dallas police uniform with a semicircular patch on the left arm
01:00:06and the badge on the right chest.
01:00:08And then at the extreme left, you can see an artist's representation of what you're seeing here,
01:00:15the Badge Man photograph.
01:00:17So now we have a photograph of a man firing a weapon from behind the fence on the grassy knoll.
01:00:24The House Select Committee on Assassinations finally concluded that there was a conspiracy
01:00:29because at least one shot came from behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll.
01:00:34And based on two separate sets of acoustical scientists who used sound signatures
01:00:39to identify the grassy knoll as a place for one of the shots.
01:00:44Now, if this was any other case other than the Kennedy assassination,
01:00:48and I tried to tell you that we have a photograph of a man firing from behind the fence on
01:00:53the grassy knoll.
01:00:54We have the majority of witnesses in that area saying a shot came from behind the fence on the grassy
01:00:59knoll.
01:00:59We got a picture of smoke drifting out from behind the fence on the grassy knoll.
01:01:04And we got acoustical studies pinpointing the behind the fence on the grassy knoll as a source for at least
01:01:10one shot.
01:01:11Then if I tried to tell you there was nobody there, you would think I was an absolute fool.
01:01:16And yet this is the Kennedy assassination, and there are still people who seriously argue
01:01:21there was nobody behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll.
01:01:48So what we see is that there has been a tremendous cover-up.
01:01:53At the level of the federal government of the United States.
01:01:57And it's this cover-up, this suppression of evidence, destruction of evidence, fabrication of evidence,
01:02:02alteration of evidence, intimidation of witnesses.
01:02:05These are all crimes in connection with a capital murder.
01:02:09And they all were committed at the level of the federal government.
01:02:12This is what transforms what at that time was nothing but another Texas homicide
01:02:17to a national coup d'etat.
01:02:22Now why would they want to get rid of the chief executive?
01:02:25Because John F. Kennedy was shaking up the status quo.
01:02:29Let's go back and look at some of the things that he was doing.
01:02:35To begin with, he forced the steel manufacturers to roll back their price increases
01:02:39that they promised they were not going to do, and they did anyway.
01:02:43And he went on television and said, this is not right.
01:02:48And the public got with him, and they forced the steel manufacturers to roll back their prices.
01:02:53His brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, was prosecuting organized crime as never before or since.
01:02:59In fact, on the morning of the assassination, he met with his organized crime task force.
01:03:04And then about noontime, of course, his brother was killed, and the task force never met again.
01:03:12President Kennedy also was trying to put a stop to the CIA and the military making raids on Cuba.
01:03:18After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, they continued to push for another invasion of Cuba.
01:03:24In fact, in the spring of 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff approved a plan called Operation Northwoods.
01:03:32And this horrendous plan called for assassinating American citizens in some of our cities,
01:03:39setting off bombs in major American cities, hijacking planes and ships,
01:03:44and blaming it all on Castro so they could stir up support for another invasion of Cuba.
01:03:52They probably, the ranking officials of the CIA, the military,
01:03:57they did not realize that there had been secret agreements made at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
01:04:03Kennedy and Khrushchev worked out a deal where Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the offensive missiles from Cuba.
01:04:09In exchange, we agreed to withdraw our offensive missiles from Turkey
01:04:14and pledged that we would not invade or support a military invasion of Cuba, which we have not.
01:04:22But a lot of the lower echelon people were not aware of these agreements,
01:04:26and so they were still pushing for an invasion of Cuba.
01:04:32Kennedy and Khrushchev were also reaching agreements on a ban on above-ground nuclear testing.
01:04:40They put in the hotline to Moscow.
01:04:42They were actually working to try to end the Cold War,
01:04:45which did not set well with the military bases in either country.
01:04:50Kennedy may have also sealed his fate when he talked about doing away with the oil depletion allowance,
01:04:56which was the bedrock of Texas oil money,
01:05:00got all the oil and gas people mad at him,
01:05:02the mafias mad at him, the military's mad at him.
01:05:06And then in the summer of 1963,
01:05:10he ordered $4.2 billion of interest-free money
01:05:15issued through the Treasury Department,
01:05:18not the interest-bearing Federal Reserve System,
01:05:22thus becoming the second president in American history
01:05:25to try to issue money that was free of interest from the international bankers,
01:05:30the first president being Abraham Lincoln,
01:05:33who printed his own greenbacks to finance the war between the states.
01:05:38And I, for one, do not feel like that it was just sheer coincidence
01:05:42that both of those presidents were shot in the head in public.
01:05:47This is a $5 bill, series 1963,
01:05:50and you'll notice it says United States Note and has red ink on it.
01:05:54This was part of the money that Kennedy issued that was interest-free
01:05:58because it was issued through the Treasury Department,
01:06:01not the Federal Reserve System.
01:06:03One thing that definitely changed with the death of John F. Kennedy
01:06:07was our involvement in Vietnam.
01:06:10Here we see National Security Action Memorandum No. 263,
01:06:13issued on October the 11th of 1963,
01:06:16just about a week after the Diem brothers were killed,
01:06:18and the Vietnam struggle was beginning to reach a turning point.
01:06:25In this document, it says the president approved the military recommendations
01:06:30contained in the report of McNamara and Maxwell Taylor,
01:06:36who had gone to report on the situation in Vietnam,
01:06:39and they reported that they thought we had a handle on the situation
01:06:43and that we might be able to withdraw all troops by the end of 1965.
01:06:48The president approved this and then, according to this,
01:06:51directed no formal announcement be made
01:06:54but to withdraw 1,000 U.S. military personnel by the end of 1963.
01:07:00So Kennedy was going to disengage us from Vietnam.
01:07:03No Vietnam War, with the attendant raping of our budget,
01:07:10the conflict between the generations, the 58,000 deaths,
01:07:17the people who were maimed, the families that were toned apart.
01:07:20None of that would have happened if Kennedy had lived.
01:07:22But there were people who wanted that war.
01:07:25Just three days after his assassination,
01:07:28then-President Lyndon Johnson issued this National Security Action Memorandum.
01:07:33Number 273.
01:07:35And although it starts off saying the objectives of the United States
01:07:38with respect to the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel
01:07:41remain as stated in the White House statement of October 2nd,
01:07:47it says everything's going to stay the same.
01:07:50Here under item 6, we find programs of military and economic assistance
01:07:56should be maintained at such levels that their magnitude and effectiveness
01:08:00in the eyes of the Vietnam government do not fall below the levels
01:08:05sustained by the United States at the time of the DiEM government.
01:08:08Well, this is a convoluted way of saying
01:08:10we're not going to drop the financial or the military aid to South Vietnam.
01:08:14So in other words, this stopped these pull-out orders.
01:08:17The 1,000 men that Kennedy said he was going to withdraw did not withdraw.
01:08:22The document goes on to state the plausibility of denial,
01:08:26that they could deny what was really going on, damage to North Vietnam,
01:08:31we're going to start bombing the North, we're going to widen the war,
01:08:34and even spread to drawing up plans against Laos.
01:08:39It's really fascinating, but the most fascinating thing appears here in this document,
01:08:47which was taken from the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas.
01:08:52This is the draft of Johnson's National Security Action Memorandum 273,
01:08:59which blocked Kennedy's pull-out order and set us on a course
01:09:03for full-time involvement in Vietnam.
01:09:05And what you notice is, is that this draft was written on November the 21st, 1963,
01:09:13the day before Kennedy went to Dallas and was assassinated.
01:09:18Somebody knew the day before that he wasn't going to be there
01:09:23to implement his pull-out orders in Vietnam,
01:09:25and instead we were going to be launching a full-bore effort for war in Southeast Asia.
01:09:50One final piece of evidence has to do with President Kennedy's personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln.
01:09:59She was at his elbow almost day and night.
01:10:03If it was anyone who knew what his real thoughts were,
01:10:06what was really going on within the government, it was probably Evelyn Lincoln.
01:10:10And yet, I doubt any of us have ever seen an interview with Evelyn Lincoln.
01:10:15Why not?
01:10:17Was she not talking to anyone?
01:10:19No.
01:10:20No.
01:10:20Here's a letter from 1994 where Evelyn Lincoln states,
01:10:25As far as the assassination is concerned,
01:10:27it's my belief that there was a conspiracy
01:10:29because there were those who disliked him
01:10:31and felt the only way to get rid of him was to assassinate him.
01:10:34These five conspirators, in my opinion,
01:10:37were Lyndon B. Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover,
01:10:39the mafia, the CIA, and the Cubans in Florida.
01:10:43Very good guess, Evelyn.
01:10:46But she knew what was happening,
01:10:48and it's time the American public knew.
01:10:51John J. McCloy was former CEO of National Citibank,
01:10:55which is now Citicorp,
01:10:57and during the 1930s presided over a lot of loans to the Nazis in Germany.
01:11:03At the end of the war, he was made high commissioner of Germany
01:11:07and shipped a lot of unrepentant Nazis over to this country
01:11:10where his protege, Alan Dulles,
01:11:12was head of the CIA and whitewashed their Nazi backgrounds.
01:11:16And then John J. McCloy ended up sitting on the Warren Commission
01:11:20to determine what happened to President Kennedy.
01:11:22While serving on that commission, he stated,
01:11:25It was of paramount importance to show the world
01:11:29that America is not a banana republic
01:11:31where a government can be changed by conspiracy.
01:11:35And that was their objective,
01:11:38is to try to scotch any talk of conspiracy.
01:11:41And that's been going on to this very day,
01:11:43and there are still those in the status quo establishment
01:11:47who do not want to mention the coup of 1963.
01:11:52But unfortunately, my fellow Americans,
01:11:55America is just another banana republic
01:11:57because in November of 1963,
01:12:00our nation and our future
01:12:03was altered by a murderous conspiracy
01:12:08accomplished at the highest levels
01:12:11of the federal government of the United States.
01:12:14And that's all you need to know
01:12:16about the Kennedy assassination.
01:12:19As you can see,
01:12:21the evidence for a conspiracy
01:12:23at the highest levels of the federal government
01:12:25of the United States is quite compelling,
01:12:28if not overwhelming.
01:12:29In fact, if you want to name two people
01:12:32who could be considered guilty,
01:12:34it would be Lyndon Johnson
01:12:36and his next-door neighbor and old buddy,
01:12:38J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI.
01:12:40How can I say that?
01:12:41Can I prove that they ordered the assassination?
01:12:44No.
01:12:44But what I can prove,
01:12:45beyond any reasonable shadow of a doubt,
01:12:47is that these two men took steps
01:12:50to confuse, confound,
01:12:52and block any legitimate investigation
01:12:55into Kennedy's death.
01:12:57Under our legal system,
01:12:59that makes them accessories after the fact.
01:13:01And there have been people executed
01:13:04for murder who 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 of the crime
01:13:12and they didn't report it.
01:13:13They didn't turn in the true culprits.
01:13:15And therefore,
01:13:16they were accessories after the fact
01:13:18and are considered under our legal system
01:13:20as guilty as the person who pulls the trigger.
01:13:23And under that criteria,
01:13:26Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover
01:13:27are guilty.
01:13:28But they didn't act alone.
01:13:30There was a whole raft of Americans
01:13:33who had no direct connection
01:13:36to the assassination,
01:13:37but the end result,
01:13:39the elimination of John F. Kennedy
01:13:40and his policies
01:13:42to curtail the power of the banks
01:13:44and the corporations
01:13:45and the military-industrial complex
01:13:48and to try to bring the 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 the only way
01:13:59they could protect the country
01:14:01was to get rid of the leader.
01:14:03And therefore,
01:14:04as we see,
01:14:06and much to the chagrin
01:14:07of John J. McCloy,
01:14:09America is simply another banana republic.
01:14:29And we'll see you next time.
01:14:29You
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