1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 The President of the United States is dead. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Tonight, the assassination that shook our country to its core. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:16,000 It was just a shock that caused everybody to stop and think for a moment about how the world had changed. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Police quickly catch the culprit, but many believe there's more to the story. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,000 The first question any good theorist asks is who wants Kennedy dead? 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Now, we'll explore the top theories surrounding one of America's most shocking events. 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,000 So he was convinced that Kennedy was killed by enemies high in his own government. 8 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,000 He believed that Fidel Castro orchestrated the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Is there a conspiracy behind John F. Kennedy's assassination? 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 And if so, who is really responsible for his death? 11 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 The President of the United States 12 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,000 The President of the United States 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,000 The President of the United States 14 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,000 Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963. 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:19,000 At 11.25 a.m., President John F. Kennedy arrives on Air Force One. 16 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:27,000 President Kennedy goes to Dallas to give a lunchtime speech at a convention center known as the trademark. 17 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Between his arrival at Love Field and his speech, he's to lead a motorcade through the center of downtown Dallas. 18 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 The motorcade has over 12 cars. 19 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Kennedy is riding in a three-road Lincoln Continental convertible limousine with the top down. 20 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy are in the back seat. 21 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 President Kennedy on the right side, Mrs. Kennedy on the left. 22 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Ahead of them are Texas Governor John Connolly and his wife Nelly. 23 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 And ahead of them are two secret service agents. One of them is driving. 24 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,000 It's a very warm reception for Kennedy. 25 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 There are something like 200,000 people lining the route, so it is no small turnout. 26 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 And at one point Mrs. Connolly in the car says, 27 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 You can't say Dallas doesn't love you, can you? 28 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 And President Kennedy replies, No, you certainly can't. 29 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Those are his last words. 30 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 The motorcade comes down Main Street to the end of Main Street where it hits Dealey Plaza, 31 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 takes a sharp right turn on Commerce Street, 32 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 and then a sharp left turn in front of the Texas schoolbook depository. 33 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 And it's at that moment that the first gunshots are heard. 34 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Something I repeat has happened in the motorcade route. 35 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:42,000 A gunshot rings out, and then two more, both President Kennedy and Governor Connolly are hit. 36 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Two shots hit Kennedy. The first enters his upper back and comes out through his throat, 37 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 and then the second enters the back of his skull. 38 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 He is rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital. 39 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 That's where he would soon be declared dead at the age of 46. 40 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Connolly is also gravely injured but survives. 41 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:07,000 One hour after the shooting, Kennedy's death is officially announced to the media. 42 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:12,000 As word spreads of this, everybody stops where they are. People are crying. 43 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,000 There's a lot of screaming, there's chaos, and just a lot of fear and confusion. 44 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:23,000 It was just a shock that caused everybody to stop and think for a moment about how the world had changed. 45 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Any divisiveness or any fractions within the country, everybody just comes together in this moment to grieve. 46 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 As the world stops to mourn, a manhunt begins. 47 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,000 As soon as it's clear that President Kennedy's been hit and the motorcade rushes out of Dealey Plaza, 48 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:45,000 the police go interview eyewitnesses, and perhaps the most important witness of that day was a steamfitter 49 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:54,000 at the Alice Man named Howard Brennan, who says that he saw a man with a rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. 50 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman and Deputy Sheriff Eugene Boone rush inside the book depository. 51 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,000 And there they find quite literally the smoking gun. 52 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:14,000 They find a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, an Italian-made rifle, and they also find three spent cartridges 53 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,000 suggesting that somebody had just fired three bullets from the sixth floor. 54 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,000 They find the books have been moved around to create sort of a sniper's perch. 55 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 They also find a 38-inch brown paper bag. 56 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 The shooter escapes, but building staff identify a prime suspect. 57 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:40,000 An employee at the Texas School Book Depository, Kuhl Wesley Frazier, offers a colleague a trip into downtown Dallas on the morning of the assassination. 58 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 And the colleague is carrying a long brown paper bag in which he says he has curtain rods. 59 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:52,000 A manager in the building, Roy Trulie, looks around and he sees that one of his employees is actually missing. 60 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,000 It's the same man who brought in that suspicious brown paper bag that morning. 61 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:03,000 It's Lee Harvey Oswald. Police radio his description to all city units. 62 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 So it's been less than an hour since President Kennedy was shot. 63 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,000 And thanks to the quick work of the Dallas PD, they actually have a promising lead. 64 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Three shots fired, three spent shell casings, found next to a rifle that they believe was brought in by Lee Harvey Oswald, 65 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 who is the only person who has fled that book depository. 66 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Every other employee is there still actually talking to investigators. 67 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:32,000 It appears that Oswald is the man responsible for the assassination. 68 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:41,000 The Dallas Police Department sends out a message to be on the lookout for somebody who looks like Lee Harvey Oswald. 69 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 And Officer JD Tippett is in a patrol car about three miles away. 70 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:54,000 He sees a man on the side of the road who appears to fit the description of the man who's been identified in Dealey Plaza as the president's assassin. 71 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 The police officer tries to stop this man and is gunned down by him. 72 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 And this man, according to many witnesses, is Lee Harvey Oswald. 73 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:10,000 If police had any doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy, that doubt is gone the moment he killed Officer Tippett. 74 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:16,000 A local merchant named Johnny Brewer has seen this man duck into the local movie theater. 75 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:22,000 A little bit before 2 p.m., police officers find Oswald seated there. He's armed. 76 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 He puts up a struggle before he's arrested. 77 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:32,000 One of the arresting officers, Nick McDonald, testifies that as they reach him, Oswald raises his pistol and pulls the trigger. 78 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:41,000 But McDonald grabs the gun just as the hammer falls, hitting the webbing between his thumb and index finger, probably saving his life. 79 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:49,000 Oswald is brought to the police and courts building in downtown Dallas and charged for both murders. 80 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Subsequent investigation uncovers a lot more evidence that actually implicates Oswald. 81 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:01,000 They find a photo of Oswald that was taken by his wife, where he's holding a rifle that matches the murder weapon. 82 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Oswald had made a fake ID in the name of Alec Heidel. 83 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:17,000 The rifle that was found in the schoolbook depository had been ordered in the name of Alec Heidel and sent to a post office box in that name. 84 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Virtually all of the ballistics evidence points to Oswald as the gunman in Dealey Plaza. 85 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:32,000 His palm prints are found on the weapons and the bullets fired in Dealey Plaza almost certainly came out of the rifle that's found on the sixth floor. 86 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 But none of this evidence is ever presented in court. 87 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:46,000 So Oswald is held in custody downtown. He's interrogated by the FBI, the Secret Service, the Dallas Police Department, the Dallas District Attorney's Office. 88 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:56,000 He goes through rounds of questioning. What we know from those interrogations that he lies again and again and again, and he insists he had nothing to do with the president's murder. 89 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:06,000 Then something absolutely crazy happens. Sunday morning, November 24th, police are actually ready to transfer Oswald to the county jail. 90 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 They have an armored car ready in the basement of the building. 91 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:22,000 And as he's being brought out in front of the TV cameras, Jack Ruby, owner of a local nightclub, steps out of the crowd with a .45 and shoots Oswald once in the stomach on national TV. 92 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Ruby is arrested and Oswald is taken to the same hospital as Kennedy, where, less than 48 hours after the president, he's declared dead as well. 93 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:45,000 Oswald's death on November 24th means that there will never be a trial, never an opportunity to resolve an awful lot of the evidence that points to Oswald as the gunman in Dealey Plaza. 94 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:54,000 New president, Lyndon Johnson, establishes a commission to investigate the assassination. It becomes known as the Warren Commission. 95 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:07,000 It's sort of the ultimate blue ribbon commission among the other members, or the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Alan Dulles, as well as a young congressman from Michigan by the name of Gerald Ford. 96 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:21,000 The Warren Commission works for nearly a year, compiling evidence gathering information. And on September 24th, 1964, they present an 888 page report to President Johnson. 97 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:30,000 The Warren Commission expresses no doubt. They state that Lee Harvey Oswald is the only man responsible for JFK's death. 98 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:42,000 They also find that Jack Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald. But over the years, a lot of people have questioned these findings, saying that they might appear to be a little too neat. 99 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Making this report, far from the last word on JFK. 100 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:59,000 When the Warren Commission releases its findings in 1964, it marks the end of the official investigation into the JFK assassination. 101 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:05,000 They find that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy. 102 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 But that answer doesn't satisfy the public for long. 103 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Skeptics write books, first a trickle of books and then a flood of books, questioning the findings of the report and leading to a larger distrust both in the commission itself and in the sort of firmament of American government. 104 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,000 After 12 years of scrutiny, the U.S. government takes action. 105 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:33,000 The House Select Committee on Assassinations was created in 1976. 106 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 The committee takes a closer look at the Warren Commission report. 107 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:44,000 They agree with most of what the Warren Commission says, particularly regarding the evidence against Oswald. 108 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:49,000 They're confident that Oswald did shoot Kennedy from the sixth floor of the book depository. 109 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,000 But they uncover a new piece of evidence. 110 00:10:52,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Assassination researchers in Dallas came to the committee and said it may be that the sound of the gunshots was captured on this policeman's radio recording. 111 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:15,000 So the committee has multiple acoustic experts go over this recording and upon first listen, they think actually there weren't three shots, as previously thought, but four. 112 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Three shots did in fact come from the Texas School Book Depository, but that one shot came from a grassy knoll in front of the motorcade. 113 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 In other words, Oswald didn't act alone. 114 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 If he didn't act alone, someone planned this killing with him. 115 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 And if so, who was it? 116 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:39,000 The House Committee uses a word that will become connected to the Kennedy assassination from then on. 117 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,000 The word they use is conspiracy. 118 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:49,000 So the audio evidence that seems to point to a conspiracy is later disputed. 119 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 And in many minds, it is found to be completely an error. 120 00:11:53,000 --> 00:12:02,000 It's almost too late to put the toothpaste back in the tube that the idea of conspiracy is now even further cemented in the minds of millions of Americans. 121 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:07,000 If the JFK assassination is a conspiracy, who's behind it? 122 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Almost immediately after the shooting, one conspiracy theory rises to the top. 123 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,000 So while there's only circumstantial evidence to prove it, there's a lot of circumstantial evidence. 124 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Even Lyndon Johnson did at some point make an aside to an ABC News reporter that he believed that Fidel Castro orchestrated the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 125 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Why is Fidel Castro a suspect? Let's start with motive. 126 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:37,000 At the time of the assassination, there is no foreign power with a bigger grudge against Kennedy than Castro. 127 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:48,000 President Kennedy is so determined to get rid of Castro that he tells the CIA to go forward with an invasion of Cuba that becomes known as the Bay of Peaks operation. 128 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:54,000 They send Cuban exiles into Cuba with the CIA support to oust Castro. 129 00:12:54,000 --> 00:13:05,000 It's a debacle and afterwards, certainly Castro knows that President Kennedy is so determined to remove him from power that he had actually ordered an invasion of his country. 130 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 Documents that are later declassified reveal more evidence. 131 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:18,000 After the Bay of Peaks invasion fails, the Kennedy administration through the CIA tried to kill Castro in the most exotic of ways. 132 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Everything from poisoned cigars to poisoned skin diving suits to exploding seashells. 133 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,000 But yes, certainly Castro knew the presidency was plotting against him. 134 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:36,000 So we know that Fidel Castro has reason to want to see President Kennedy dead. 135 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:45,000 And the question in all the years since is what role did Lee Harvey Oswald play in whatever plot was developed to try to kill the president? 136 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,000 During their investigation, the Warren Commission conducts a thorough background check on Oswald. 137 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:58,000 Even when he's serving in the Marine Corps for three years, Lee Harvey Oswald is not shy about the fact that he's a Marxist. 138 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,000 So much so his colleagues in the Marine Corps used to refer to him as Oswaldovich. 139 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:11,000 In 1959, he defects to the Soviet Union and marries 19-year-old Soviet citizen Marina Prusakova, and they have a child. 140 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:19,000 They live there until 1962 in an apartment just a few blocks away from where the Soviets are training Cuban spies and soldiers. 141 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Back in the U.S. in April of 1963, Oswald goes down to New Orleans. 142 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 There he tries to start up a pro-Castro activist group. 143 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:39,000 It's clear that Oswald likes communism, but the biggest revelation for investigators is that it turns out that Oswald went to Mexico City in September of 1963, 144 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:46,000 which of course is just two months before JFK's assassination, and while there had contact with officials at the Cuban Embassy. 145 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:52,000 According to author Gus Russo, during these meetings Oswald makes a chilling offer. 146 00:14:52,000 --> 00:15:01,000 Russo talks to various sources, including an FBI case officer who has two high-level informants within the Communist Party, 147 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:06,000 and these two informants are two brothers by the names of Morris and Jack Childs. 148 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:17,000 The Child's brothers meet with Fidel Castro after the Kennedy assassination and learn just how much Fidel Castro knew about Lee Harvey Oswald in the weeks before the assassination. 149 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,000 According to Russo's research, Oswald tells embassy officials, 150 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 I'll kill that bastard Kennedy when he goes to Dallas. 151 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Castro is immediately informed about this. The embassy staff calls him up and they ask him, what do we do? 152 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Castro denies taking Oswald up on his offer. 153 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:42,000 I don't think there's any credible evidence that Fidel Castro played any role in ordering President Kennedy's assassination, 154 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:51,000 but I think it's clear that he was well aware before the assassination that Lee Harvey Oswald had marched into a Cuban embassy in Mexico City 155 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,000 and made the statement that he was going to kill Kennedy. 156 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Russo keeps digging. 157 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Russo speaks to some former Cuban spies that tell him that when Oswald makes this offer, they actually encourage him. 158 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:12,000 One officer tells Russo that they offer Oswald money and then tell him that they'll help him evacuate if he's successful doing this. 159 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Oswald's end goal is to get a visa to get either to Cuba or to the Soviet Union or both, 160 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:25,000 and eventually the Cubans do give him some form of temporary visa in October of 1963. 161 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,000 But according to Russo's findings, they don't actually intend to bring Oswald to Cuba. 162 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:35,000 They plan to pick him up and kill him and then dump his body in the Gulf of Mexico. 163 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:40,000 According to Gus Russo, there's more evidence to support this claim. 164 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Russo finds reports of a private plane sitting on an airfield in Dallas on November 22nd, 165 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 and that plane takes off for Havana after the assassination. 166 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:56,000 As we know, Oswald is not on that plane, but that might be where he's headed when he encounters Officer Tipit, 167 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 and the entire Cuban plan changes after that. 168 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:05,000 So that's the theory. The Warren Commission and also the later House Committee on Assassinations 169 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:12,000 dismiss the idea that Castro or the Cuban government could have been responsible for the killing of JFK. 170 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:20,000 And today Oswald, Castro, Johnson, they're all dead. So I say any hopes of proving this theory are gone. 171 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:33,000 When Lee Harvey Oswald visits Mexico City in the fall of 1963, investigators are desperate to know what he's up to. 172 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:40,000 He makes several visits to the Cuban Embassy. What happens there? Are the Cubans involved? You have to ask, right? 173 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:45,000 But the Cuban Embassy isn't the only place Oswald visits in Mexico. 174 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,000 While in Mexico City, he also goes to the Soviet Embassy in his quest for a visa, 175 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:56,000 and he ends up kind of bouncing back and forth between the Cuban Embassy and the Soviet Embassy. 176 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:03,000 So Oswald, in visiting the Soviet Embassy, is taken to meet with a Valery Kostakov. 177 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Oswald has one meeting on September 28th with Kostakov, and they have a subsequent telephone conversation on October 1st. 178 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:16,000 Authorities dig into Kostakov's background, and they make a chilling discovery. 179 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Valery Kostakov is actually a KGB agent and a KGB assassinations expert. 180 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Doesn't that suggest that this man, Lee Harvey Oswald, is up to no good? 181 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:36,000 So that leads us to the next big question, which is, is the Soviet Union, led by Premier Nikita Khrushchev, involved in JFK's assassination? 182 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Khrushchev may have a motive to kill Kennedy that's just as strong as Fidel Castro's. 183 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:51,000 As we know, Kennedy is on a crusade against communism, and communism is represented on the world stage by its biggest superpower, the USSR. 184 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Premier Khrushchev is trying to promote revolution and communism around the world, and JFK is trying to do the exact opposite. 185 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,000 So these two are pitted against each other at a geopolitical level. 186 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:11,000 And unfortunately for JFK, 90 miles from the Florida coastline, the Soviets have a communist nation in the form of Cuba. 187 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Communist Cuba would not have happened without the Soviets. They give the Cubans straining, financial and military support. 188 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Castro's victory is also a victory for Khrushchev. 189 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Then in 1962, Khrushchev experiences a very public defeat, thanks to President Kennedy. 190 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:41,000 A year before Kennedy's death, the United States and the Soviet Union had almost gone toward when the Soviet Union attempts to set up missile launch pads in Cuba that can be used for nuclear weapons. 191 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:53,000 Kennedy isn't okay with Soviet nukes 90 miles away, and this begins what's known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, which ultimately, after a lot of back-and-forth political posturing, Kennedy wins. 192 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:59,000 Two years later, in 1964, Khrushchev is removed from office. 193 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:07,000 But before he's removed in 1963, Khrushchev is still clinging to power, looking for a way to redeem himself among the communists. 194 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:15,000 That would certainly add some logic to the idea that maybe the Khrushchev wants to see Kennedy dead. 195 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:21,000 If Oswald walks right into the embassy and offers to kill Kennedy and Dallas, maybe the Soviets go for it. 196 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Otherwise, why is he meeting with a KGB assassinations expert? 197 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:35,000 There is an even further out theory, which is that Khrushchev started plotting to kill Kennedy even before the Mexico City machinations. 198 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Author and attorney Michael Edoz shares details of his investigation in the 1977 book The Oswald File. 199 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Michael Edoz comes up with this theory that Khrushchev conceives of this plot to kill Kennedy when Oswald is still living in the Soviet Union beginning in 1959. 200 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,000 Khrushchev realizes he's got a golden opportunity on his hands. 201 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:05,000 Here, he's got an American citizen, a former Marine, an avowed communist who speaks Russian. 202 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:11,000 And everybody knows he's there in the USSR. The Associated Press had reported on his defection. 203 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Edoz believes that Khrushchev detains and kills Oswald while in the USSR, then replaces him with a KGB agent, someone who looks very similar. 204 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:32,000 So it's not Lee Harvey Oswald who lands back in the United States in 1962. It's an imposter whose mission it is to kill John F. Kennedy. 205 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Edoz believes he has definitive proof that Oswald was replaced. 206 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:47,000 On his Marine records, Oswald is listed as being 5'11", but that the person who killed Kennedy is actually 5'9". 207 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:56,000 The original Oswald also had a cranial operation as a child, leaving him with an indentation behind his ear and a dime-sized hole in his skull. 208 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:01,000 But according to Edoz, the autopsy on the Kennedy assassin shows no such features. 209 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:08,000 It does however show that the assassin has a large scar on his wrist, which Edoz notes the original Oswald did not have. 210 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:16,000 His argument persuades the Texas courts and Oswald's widow Marina to have his body exhumed. 211 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 So this is huge news. 212 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Edoz has managed to convince authorities and Lee Harvey Oswald's widow that there's something to this theory. 213 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:32,000 So in 1981, they dig up the body and it's in an advanced state of decomposition. 214 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:39,000 Edoz and widow Marina Oswald agree to have the Dallas County medical examiner Linda Norton do the examination. 215 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Dr. Norton is able to match dental records and also identify the evidence of the childhood cranial surgery, 216 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:53,000 which together show that actually the body in the grave really is that of Lee Harvey Oswald. 217 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,000 So Khrushchev didn't replace Lee Harvey Oswald with another killer, that much we know. 218 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:09,000 But the Soviet conspiracy theory is still alive and well, because it does improve that Oswald himself didn't work with the USSR to plan and execute the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 219 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 But that's not what the House committee says. 220 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:19,000 In their 1976 report, they find that neither the Cubans nor the Soviets are behind the assassination. 221 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,000 But they do think that somebody else could be involved. 222 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:32,000 For almost 60 years, one detail in the JFK investigation remains undisputed. 223 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Lee Harvey Oswald's Communist Ties. 224 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:46,000 But in 2017, thanks to newly declassified documents, fresh evidence comes to light that could change everything we think we know about Oswald. 225 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Recently declassified intelligence reports reveal that the KGB does their own investigation into Oswald. 226 00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:00,000 They have him under very tight surveillance from the moment he enters the USSR, so they have a lot of intelligence on him. 227 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:08,000 And according to the KGB report, contrary to what we've all been led to believe, Oswald stops being a communist sympathizer. 228 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:15,000 The KGB reports that over his time in the Soviet Union, Oswald actually becomes disillusioned with the cause. 229 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,000 And by the time he leaves in 1962, he is not a communist anymore. 230 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:25,000 This goes against decades of conventional thinking about Oswald and the assassination. 231 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 If he's not a communist, then who killed JFK? 232 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,000 So the KGB does believe that Oswald killed Kennedy. 233 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:37,000 They do say that they think he's part of a conspiracy. It's just not the conspiracy you think. 234 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:53,000 So instead, the KGB theory is that Oswald is part of a militant anti-communist conspiracy group whose intent is to poison relations between the Soviet Union and the United States by killing Kennedy and framing the communists for it. 235 00:24:53,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Khrushchev will say in an interview in 1964 that in fact Oswald was working with extremist anti-communist forces in the United States. 236 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Many wonder if this theory is simply Soviet propaganda. 237 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Of course, Khrushchev wants to take suspicion off himself, but independently of the KGB, a U.S. investigator also looks into this theory. 238 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:28,000 Jim Garrison, the district attorney of New Orleans, comes to believe that a murky conspiracy involving business leaders and Lee Harvey Oswald has brought together all these right-wing anti-communist elements to kill JFK. 239 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:34,000 To prove his theory, Garrison spends six years interviewing witnesses. 240 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Through the 1960s, Jim Garrison's investigation leads to a man by the name of David Ferry. 241 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Back in the 1950s, David Ferry serves in the Civil Air Patrol, which also has as a member Lee Harvey Oswald. 242 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Dave Ferry was a rapidly anti-communist and heavily involved in the anti-Castro movement in New Orleans. 243 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:02,000 So you might be thinking, now wait a minute, someone who's anti-Castro should like Kennedy. 244 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:10,000 But David Ferry was disappointed in Kennedy for not being staunch enough in their opposition to Castro. 245 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:16,000 He thinks that Kennedy's attempts at a peaceful outcome are weak, that he's essentially handed Cuba to the Communists. 246 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:23,000 In fact, he gives a fiery speech in 1961 where he says that Kennedy should be shot. 247 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:27,000 According to Garrison, Ferry follows through with that threat. 248 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:40,000 In September of 1963, a few weeks before the assassination of JFK, insurance agent named Perry Russo would state that he was at a party with a businessman from New Orleans named Clay Shaw, 249 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:47,000 Lee Harvey Oswald and David Ferry, where the assassination of JFK would be discussed. 250 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Russo testifies that he remembers them saying that they were going to kill Kennedy and that they were going to use something called a triangulation of shooters. 251 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,000 They also discussed alibis for the people involved in this conspiracy. 252 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:05,000 By February of 1967, Garrison is ready to reveal his finding. 253 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Newspapers in New Orleans break Garrison's story. 254 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:16,000 He's convinced that David Ferry and Lee Harvey Oswald are longtime friends since their days together in the Civil Air Patrol. 255 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:21,000 He believes they want to take out Kennedy and frame the Communists. 256 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:30,000 David Ferry and Lee Harvey Oswald work together to plan the assassination with the support of Clay Shaw and the help of another man behind the scenes named Guy Bannister. 257 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Ferry and Bannister were both adamant supporters of the anti-Castro movement, which included arming people to go stage attacks in Cuba. 258 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:44,000 And Ferry, as a pilot, was moving the weapons and Bannister was supplying them. 259 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,000 So these men did have a hard right background that involved guns. 260 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000 Garrison was certainly correct about that. 261 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Garrison's theory has Bannister and Ferry as the brains behind this operation. 262 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Clay Shaw would be handling logistics and financial backing. 263 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,000 And then in this scenario, there are two shooters involved in a crossfire. 264 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Oswald, as we know in the book depository, and then another unnamed shooter on the grassy knoll. 265 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Armed with the evidence, Garrison's ready for his day in court. 266 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Oswald is already dead and then Bannister has died of a heart attack by 1964, so there are already two alleged conspirators gone. 267 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,000 Then something more unusual happens. 268 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Less than a week after the Garrison investigation goes public, Dave Ferry is found dead. 269 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,000 David Ferry is found in his apartment with two typed up suicide notes, 270 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:49,000 but the autopsy finds no evidence either of suicide or of murder and that David Ferry has died of a brain hemorrhage. 271 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Garrison is flummoxed. 272 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:58,000 He says, I suppose it could be just a weird coincidence that the night Ferry penned two suicide notes, he dies of natural causes. 273 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:05,000 On March 1st, 1967, the last alleged co-conspirator alive is arrested. 274 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:14,000 Clay Shaw is finally tried in 1969 and it remains the only trial in American history associated with the assassination of JFK. 275 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:24,000 But Garrison is unsuccessful, with few witnesses remaining alive and others deemed unreliable, Shaw is acquitted in 45 minutes. 276 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:31,000 Ten years later in 1979, the House Select Committee wonders publicly if justice was served. 277 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:38,000 The House Committee's final report states that they believe the Louisiana witnesses were both quote, credible and significant 278 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:43,000 and that they were telling the truth about Ferry and Oswald's meetings in 1963. 279 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:50,000 So Garrison's theories cause for a lot of sensational reporting and a lot of excitement on the part of the public 280 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,000 and you know maybe swayed some people in the court of public opinion. 281 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:00,000 In actual court where evidence is required, they were found to fall apart pretty quickly. 282 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:09,000 After decades of pressure from the American public, Congress passes the JFK Records Act in 1992. 283 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,000 The act mandates the release of all files relating to the case. 284 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:19,000 So even all these decades later, people still want answers and are now hopeful that maybe we'll start to get them. 285 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:27,000 These documents aren't released all at once, but during the 1990s, millions and millions of pages of documents are made public. 286 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:34,000 The law had a deadline. It said that everything in the government's files had to be made public in 2017. 287 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Well guess what? That does not happen. 288 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:44,000 But by 2017, tens of thousands of records have been released and one of them gets a lot of attention 289 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:52,000 because it appears to confirm a long-standing theory that the mafia was involved in the assassination of JFK. 290 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:59,000 From the moment Kennedy dies, conspiracy theorists are asking the right question, which is who wants him dead? 291 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000 The communists in a lot of minds feature really high on that list, 292 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:09,000 but there's another group who might want Kennedy dead even more and that is the Cosa Nostra, the American mafia. 293 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:19,000 In 1962, JFK, along with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, are on a crusade to wipe out organized crime in America. 294 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,000 One of the biggest revenue streams the mob had, obviously, were the casinos in Cuba. 295 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000 The mob was kicked out of Cuba by Castro. 296 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,000 So they were angry with President Kennedy for not having done more. 297 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:39,000 So they wanted to see Castro overthrown so they could get back into Cuba, reopen their casinos and their liquor operations and get going again. 298 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,000 And one way of doing that might be by killing President Kennedy. 299 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:50,000 In the minds of some mobsters, Kennedy took billions of dollars out of their pockets and they have killed for a lot less. 300 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:56,000 And wouldn't you know it, right in the middle of the Kennedy case, there's a man who could be the key to a mafia connection. 301 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,000 That man is Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby. 302 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,000 Jack Ruby was a tough guy from Chicago. 303 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:12,000 Jack Rubenstein originally, a thug, a pimp, moves to Dallas, opens up his nightclub there 304 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,000 and quickly becomes a kind of fixture among organized crime figures. 305 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000 He was what you would call a wannabe. 306 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,000 He gets these nightclubs up and running and they become a conduit for all the things we know the mafia for. 307 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,000 Gambling, running narcotics and eventually sex work. 308 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,000 Theorists long speculated that Jack Ruby and the mafia worked together to kill Kennedy. 309 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:41,000 They say by 1963, Jack Ruby is heavily indebted to the mafia and they forced him to find a patsy to assassinate the president. 310 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,000 And afterwards they make him kill that fall guy so that he can't talk. 311 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,000 A lot more evidence came out in the 1970s with the House Select Committee investigation 312 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,000 and that strengthened the notion that there wasn't organized crime connection to the assassination. 313 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000 Did Ruby hire Oswald on behalf of the mafia? 314 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:06,000 Dallas police have two witnesses report that on October 4th, 1963, seven weeks before the assassination, 315 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,000 they see Ruby and Oswald meet in Ruby's Carousel Club on Commerce Street in Dallas. 316 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:18,000 There they argue over a large sum of money for an undisclosed job that Oswald will be doing for Ruby. 317 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,000 But the Warren Commission fails to interview these witnesses. 318 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:30,000 After he's arrested, Ruby denies ever having known Oswald and that he didn't know beforehand that the assassination was going to happen. 319 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Ruby says that he was several blocks away, busy placing some newspaper ads. 320 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:40,000 And killed Oswald because of grief, because of patriotism, and because he felt for the First Lady 321 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:44,000 and wanted to keep her from having to suffer through a prolonged trial. 322 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:49,000 For over 50 years, no one can prove otherwise. 323 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:59,000 But then in 2017 as part of another large dump of declassified Kennedy files, we see document 321-49267. 324 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,000 It's a report from the FBI's Intelligence Division about Jack Ruby. 325 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:10,000 In it, an informant named Bob Vanderslice says that Ruby calls him up on the day of the assassination. 326 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000 He asks if he, quote, would like to watch the fireworks. 327 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:22,000 Vanderslice goes with Ruby to a location right across from the Texas School Book Depository, and together they watch the president get shot. 328 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:28,000 When it happens, Ruby says nothing. He just turns calmly and walks south towards the newspaper office, 329 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,000 where he places the ads and thereby creates an alibi. 330 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:37,000 If this is true, then Jack Ruby knew there were going to be, quote, fireworks, 331 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:41,000 and he knew exactly where and when the assassination was going to happen. 332 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,000 In other words, Ruby lied, and he knew about the whole thing. 333 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:50,000 After months in custody, Ruby himself claims there's more to his story. 334 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,000 At first, Ruby sticks to his alibi, but then he changes his tune. 335 00:34:55,000 --> 00:35:03,000 He writes letters, he makes statements to police, and then even testifies to the Warrant Commission that he knows some things he's not saying. 336 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:10,000 But he believes that his life is in danger. He wants to tell the whole truth, but he can't, unless he can get some protection from the government. 337 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:19,000 But he never gets that protection, and he dies in 1967, taking with him to the grave any potential secrets about a mafia assassination plot. 338 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:25,000 Some believe that members of the mafia work quickly to cover their tracks after JFK's death. 339 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:31,000 Over a dozen witnesses and participants die mysteriously in the aftermath of the shooting. 340 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Oswald, Ruby, Dorothy Kilgallan, she's the only reporter to interview Jack Ruby at his trial. 341 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:44,000 She then openly questions the Warrant Commission and then dies of a mysterious overdose in 1965. 342 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:55,000 So, following this trail of murders, it reaches its apex in 1968 when Robert F. Kennedy, who also could be seen as an enemy of the mafia, is killed in Los Angeles. 343 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:03,000 What kind of organization would be willing to leave behind such a long string of bodies to keep hold of their power and their secrets? 344 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:10,000 The mafia, that's who. And if they did, then it worked, because there is no one left to confirm this theory. 345 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:23,000 December 20th, 1991, Oliver Stone's film about the Kennedy assassination, JFK, is released in theaters. 346 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Almost immediately, it causes an uproar. 347 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:34,000 The film combines a number of conspiracy theories, including the alleged New Orleans plot and the second shooter on the grassy knoll. 348 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,000 But more important than the film's plot is the impact it has on this country. 349 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:45,000 After the film is released, we see a tidal wave of other publications associated with the JFK assassination. 350 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Including one from a man who says he was directly involved. 351 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Robert Moro claimed to be a former CIA operative active in the anti-Castro movement in the 1960s, 352 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:08,000 and he alleged in a book that he was asked by Tracy Barnes, a senior CIA official, to buy guns that he said were later used in the assassination. 353 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:14,000 Moro's cast of characters in the alleged CIA plot might sound familiar. 354 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:24,000 Moro actually names the same co-conspirators that are in the movie JFK, and also those that were pursued by Jim Garrison in his New Orleans case. 355 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:35,000 He claims that Clay Shaw, Guy Bannister, and Dave Ferry were helping in the operations against Castro in Cuba before the assassination. 356 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,000 Moro says they also enlisted the help of the mafia through Jack Ruby. 357 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,000 On November 22nd in Dallas, they placed four shooters. 358 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,000 Oswald in the book depository, another on the grassy knoll, and two more, all with Moro's rifles. 359 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,000 The month prior, they laid some groundwork. They sent Oswald to Mexico to meet with the Cubans. 360 00:37:54,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Their goal is to frame Castro for the crime, and therefore bring about a full-scale invasion of Cuba. 361 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:13,000 According to Moro, the CIA wants redemption from their failed Bay of Pigs operation, and the mafia, as hopes of being able, returned to reopen their casinos in Cuba. 362 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000 It's quite a story, a complicated CIA plot with dozens of participants. 363 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:28,000 And yet, with all those people, including government agents and known criminals that are under surveillance, the Warren Commission finds no evidence that any of this actually happened. 364 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Moro offers a potential explanation for that as well. 365 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:38,000 Many have speculated that the Warren Commission never adequately looked into the Cuban connection or the CIA. 366 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:44,000 Moro believes that that's due to the presence on the commission of the former CIA director, Alan Dulles. 367 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:50,000 When the commission is formed, they don't put the current CIA director on it, or anyone from the FBI. 368 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,000 The only one on the commission with intelligence experience is Alan Dulles, 369 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:00,000 who just happens to be the man that Kennedy fired from his position after the Bay of Pigs failed. 370 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:06,000 At the time of the Warren Commission, CIA involvement in the Bay of Pigs is classified. 371 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:13,000 The government didn't want that getting out. They also didn't want any information getting out related to Operation Mongoose, 372 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:21,000 which at the time was top secret, but we now know was a Kennedy-sanctioned CIA operation to assassinate Castro, led by Alan Dulles. 373 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:28,000 As more documents have been declassified, more information has been revealed about the CIA. 374 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:35,000 It is clear that they were withholding information from the Warren Commission, information that Alan Dulles knew and kept hidden. 375 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:40,000 Some theorists believe that information could have even saved Kennedy's life. 376 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:49,000 In 2013 and 2014, some very damaging records are released about the CIA as per the JFK Records Act. 377 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:56,000 They reveal that the CIA actually knew about Oswald's trip to Mexico City before the assassination. 378 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,000 The agency claimed to the Warren Commission that they only found out afterwards. That was a lie. 379 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:07,000 They had an eye on Oswald since his defection to the USSR. They were reading his mail, tracking his movements. 380 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:13,000 The CIA field office in Mexico City reported Oswald's meeting with the Cubans almost immediately. 381 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,000 And the CIA had Soviet agent Valery Kostakov under surveillance during the time he was meeting with Oswald. 382 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:25,000 Does that mean the CIA killed Kennedy? No, absolutely not. 383 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,000 But should the CIA have known that Oswald was a threat? Yes, they probably should have. 384 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:37,000 And could an earlier intervention have prevented Oswald from killing the president? Again, I would say the answer is yes. 385 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:48,000 In a now declassified 2013 report, CIA historian David Robarch finds that the agency is complicit in keeping incendiary information from the Warren Commission. 386 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,000 He says they intended to keep the commission focused on, quote, 387 00:40:52,000 --> 00:41:00,000 What the agency believed was the best truth that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing John Kennedy. 388 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:08,000 I think all of the most credible evidence suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the bullets that killed President Kennedy. 389 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:19,000 That he probably is the only gunman. But whether or not other people knew whether or not other people helped him, those are mysteries that will probably linger forever. 390 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:26,000 The National Archives recently released thousands of newly declassified documents. 391 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,000 Now almost all of these nearly five million pages are available to the public. 392 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:37,000 Perhaps they will provide some closure to this enduring mystery. 393 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:43,000 I'm Lawrence Fishburne. Thank you for watching. History's Greatest Mysteries.