All language subtitles for Chasing.Conspiracies.S01E06.The.Kennedy.Killings.720p.WEBRip.x264-DHD

Narrator:
FROM PREACHERS TO PRESIDENTS,

FROM CELEBRITIES TO SPIES,

THE SHADOWS OF CONSPIRACIES
ARE EVERYWHERE,

ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COME
TO ASSASSINATIONS.

[ WOMAN SCREAMS ]

Narrator: EVEN WHEN A KILLER
IS CAUGHT RED-HANDED,

THERE WILL BE MANY WHO CLAIM
THEY WERE INNOCENT --

TOOLS OF SOME DARK POWER.

IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT
WHO'S BEHIND THIS
ASSASSINATION,

IT'S THE SAME CABAL
THAT WAS BEHIND

THE ASSASSINATION
OF JOHN F. KENNEDY.

Narrator:
IN THIS EPISODE OF
"CONSPIRACY,"

WE LOOK INTO SOME
OF THOSE INCREDIBLE CLAIMS.

WAS NATIONAL TREASURE JILL
DANDO
THE VICTIM OF A REVENGE
ATTACK?

TO ME, THIS IMMEDIATELY LOOKED
LIKE A POLITICAL
ASSASSINATION.

Narrator:
DID TONY BLAIR SEEK TO COVER
UP

THE MURDER
OF A TOP BRITISH SCIENTIST.

DR. KELLY HAD THE KNOWLEDGE
THAT COULD HAVE POTENTIALLY

HAULED THE PRIME MINISTER
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

BEFORE THE HAGUE
CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL.

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

Narrator:
AND WAS PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S

KILLED BY THE CIA SO THEY
COULD
CONTINUE THE WAR IN VIETNAM.

ALL THE EVIDENCE SHOWS
THAT IT WAS A CIA HIT.

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GOOD EVENING,
THE TV PERSONALITY, JILL
DANDO,

WHO, AS "CRIMEWATCH"
PRESENTER,

HELPED TO SEND DOZENS
OF CRIMINALS TO JAIL,

WAS MURDERED
ON HER OWN DOORSTEP TODAY.

[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]

Narrator: A NATIONAL ICON,
JILL DANDO HAD BEEN ONE

OF THE NATION'S FAVORITE
TV PERSONALITY'S

SINCE THE LATE 1980's
AND PRESENTED

THE BBC'S "CRIMEWATCH"
PROGRAM,

TRYING TO FIND JUSTICE
FOR INNOCENT VICTIMS.

BUT ON THE 26th OF APRIL
IN 1999,

SHE BECAME THE BIGGEST
CRIME STORY OF THE DECADE.

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

HER COLD-BLOODED KILLING
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

LEFT THE NATION IN SHOCK.

WELL, OBVIOUSLY I'M ABSOLUTELY
DEVASTATED BY THE MURDER,

AS IS EVERYBODY ACROSS THE BBC
AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

I THINK JILL DANDO
TOUCHED A POPULAR NERVE

THAT NONE OF US QUITE REALIZED
WHEN SHE WAS STILL ALIVE.

I MEAN,
IT BECAME ALMOST DIANAESQUE.

Narrator: THE OFFICIAL STORY
WAS THAT JILL DANDO,

THE NATION'S DARLING,
WAS KILLED BY AN OBSESSED FAN.

BUT JOURNALIST FRANK FISHER,

WHO'S WRITTEN FOR THE GUARDIAN
AND OTHER PAPERS,

BELIEVES JILL DANDO WAS
MURDERED
FOR A FAR MORE SINISTER
REASON.

JILL DANDO WAS SHOT
IN THE BACK OF HER HEAD

ON A QUITE LONDON STREET.

[ SCREAMING ]

[ GUNSHOT ]

IT WASN'T THE ACT OF A MADMAN.

IT WAS A MEASURED, CONTROLLED,
PREPARED ASSASSINATION.

THE PATHOLOGIST
WHO EXAMINED HER BODY

CALLED IT
A VERY PROFESSIONAL MANNER.

ANYONE WHO KNOWS
ANYTHING ABOUT FIREARMS

WOULD SAY
IT WAS VERY PROFESSIONAL.

[ SIREN WAILS ]

Narrator: NOTHING LIKE THIS
HAD EVER HAPPENED

IN A LEAFY
NORTH LONDON STREET BEFORE.

IT TOOK A WHOLE YEAR BEFORE
POLICE HAD A BREAKTHROUGH.

IN THE END, THEY PINNED THIS
SEEMINGLY PROFESSIONAL HIT

ON LOCAL MAN BARRY GEORGE,
WHO FRANK FISHER BELIEVES

WAS THE MOST UNLIKELY
OF SUSPECTS.

BARRY GEORGE WAS CONSIDERED
BY PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM LOCALLY

TO BE SOMETHING
OF A WALTER MITTY FIGURE.

HE WAS PRONE TO FANTASIES.

HE SAID HE WAS RELATED,
FIRST TO GARY GLITTER,

THEN TO FREDDIE MERCURY,
CLAIMED HE'D BEEN

IN THE MILITARY
AND SPECIAL FORCES.

SO HE WAS KNOWN AS A FANTASIST
AND A BIT OF AN ODDBALL.

Narrator: IN 2001, GEORGE WAS
SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON,

BUT FRANK FISHER WAS CONVINCED
THE POLICE HAD THE WRONG MAN.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STRUCK
ME
WAS THAT THE JUDGE

WHO SENTENCED HIM SAID,
"NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW

WHY YOU COMMITTED THIS CRIME."

WELL, HANG ON A MINUTE.

IF YOU'VE NOT GOT A MOTIVE...

THAT SHOULD SET A LOT
OF BELLS RINGING.

I'M OLD-FASHIONED.

I WANT MEANS, I WANT MOTIVES,
I WANT OPPORTUNITY.

BARRY GEORGE DID NOT HAVE ANY.

THE CROWN WAS UNABLE
TO ESTABLISH ANY.

HIS CONVICTION WAS LAUGHABLE.

Narrator: IN ALL, BARRY GEORGE
SPENT EIGHT YEARS IN PRISON

FOR HER MURDER BEFORE
BEING FREED ON APPEAL.

BUT IF IT WAS NOT GEORGE
WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER,

WHO WAS IT?

TO ME, THIS IMMEDIATELY LOOKED
LIKE A POLITICAL
ASSASSINATION.

Narrator:
AN ASSASSINATION HE CLAIMS

WAS LINKED TO NATO'S
WAR IN THE BALKANS --

A CONTROVERSIAL OPERATION
BEING UNDERTAKEN

TO CURB SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC'S
CLEANSING OF ETHNIC ALBANIANS

FROM LARGE PARTS
OF NEIGHBORING KOSOVO.

AS MILITARY HISTORIAN
LYNETTE NUSBACHER EXPLAINS,

"THE WAR WAS UNDERTAKEN
FOR HUMANITARIAN ENDS."

WE WENT INTO KOSOVO IN 1999
BECAUSE THERE WERE MASS
KILLINGS

THAT LOOKED AN AWFUL LOT
LIKE GENOCIDE.

WE HAD IN BILL CLINTON
AND IN TONY BLAIR --

WE HAD HUTS OF GOVERNMENT

WHO WERE PREPARED TO USE
THE MUSCLE OF NATO

TO SUPPORT HUMANITARIAN
INTERVENTION

TO STOP GENOCIDE.

IT IS IN THIS TOWN OF GJAKOVA
RIGHT BELOW US

THAT SOME OF THE WORST ETHNIC

CLEANSING WAS PERPETRATED
BY THE SERBS.

WE WATCHED AS JETS STREAKED
ACROSS THE DISTANT SKIES.

Narrator: INITIALLY STRIKING
SERBIAN ARMY UNITS IN KOSOVO,

THE BOMBING RAIDS
WERE SOON EXTENDED

TO INFRASTRUCTURE TARGETS
WITHIN SERBIA ITSELF.

Man: THE MISSILES SMASHED
INTO THE HEART OF THE COMPLEX,

WHICH NATO REGARDS AS A KEY
PROP
OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC'S
REGIME.

OUR TARGETEERS,
THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE

OF SELECTING TARGETS,
CHOOSE THINGS TO BOMB

THAT WOULD MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE
FOR SERBIA TO RULE KOSOVO.

Narrator: MOST CONTROVERSIAL
WAS THEIR DECISION

TO DESTROY THE MAIN
STATE-OWNED TV STUDIOS

IN THE SERBIAN CAPITAL
OF BELGRADE.

Nusbacher: WE DESTROYED THE
SERB
TELEVISION STATION

IN ORDER TO PREVENT IT
BEING USED

TO WHIP UP THE PASSIONS
OF THE KOSOVO SERBS

TO CREATE A GENOCIDE.

Fisher:
16 PEOPLE WERE KILLED --

MAKE-UP GIRLS,
TECHNICIANS, CAMERAMEN.

TONY BLAIR FULLY ENDORSED IT,

SAYING THAT THIS WAS AN ATTACK
ON A PROPAGANDA MACHINE

AND THAT THE PROPAGANDA
MACHINE

WAS A KEY PART
OF MILOSEVIC'S APPARATUS.

Narrator: IT WAS THIS ATTACK
ON THE SERBIAN TV STUDIOS

THAT FRANK FISHER THINKS COST
JILL DANDO HER LIFE.

Fisher: LOOKING AT IT
FROM A SERB POINT OF VIEW,

THEY MUST HAVE LOOKED
AT THE WESTERN LEADERS

AS PUSHING OUT
A PARTISAN MESSAGE, GENOCIDE,

AND MASS GRAVES,
AND SAY, "WELL...

YOU'RE PROPAGANDIST, TOO.

IF YOU'RE GOING
TO COME OVER HERE

AND KILL OUR PEOPLE
WITH CRUISE MISSILES,

WE'RE GOING TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.

WE'RE GOING TO -- WE'RE GOING
TO REPLY IN THE SAME VEIN."

Narrator: WAS BRITAIN'S MOST
TREASURED TV PRESENTER

ABOUT TO GET CAUGHT UP
IN THE CROSSFIRE?

[ WOMAN SCREAMS ]

[ GUNSHOT ]

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Narrator:
ON THE 23rd OF APRIL, 1999,

NATO JETS DESTROYED THE
SERBIAN
TV STUDIOS IN BELGRADE

AS PART OF THE KOSOVO WAR.

LESS THAN A WEEK LATER,

ONE OF BRITAIN'S FAVORITE
TV PERSONALITY'S,

JILL DANDO, WAS SHOT
ON HER OWN DOORSTEP.

MANY PEOPLE THINK
THIS WAS A REVENGE ATTACK.

BUT WHY WAS
JILL DANDO THE TARGET?

JILL DANDO WAS NO PERSONAL
THREAT TO THE MILOSEVIC
REGIME,

BUSHE HAD APPEARED ON THE BBC
THREE OR FOUR WEEKS

BEFORE HER MURDER
MAKING AN APPEAL ON BEHALF

OF THE KOSOVAN REFUGEES

WITH THE BACKDROP
OF VERY EMOTIVE PICTURES

OF PEOPLE FLEEING FROM WHAT
WE WERE TOLD WAS GENOCIDE --

FROM WHAT SHE ALMOST CERTAINLY
HERSELF BELIEVED WAS GENOCIDE.

THIS EASTER WEEKEND,

WE'VE ALL BECOME AWARE
OF THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

FACING THE BALKANS,
AS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

FROM KOSOVO HAVE LEFT
THEIR HOMES

AND ARRIVED ON THE BORDERS
OF NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES.

THIS IS A MASSIVE EXODUS.

AROUND 600,000 PEOPLE
ARE ON THE MOVE.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO FRANK FISHER,

THIS INNOCENT
HUMANITARIAN GESTURE

PROVIDED THE SERBS
WITH THE TARGET

THEY WERE LOOKING FOR TO
AVENGE
THE ATTACK ON THEIR TV
STUDIOS.

THEY WILL HAVE FELT
UNFAIRLY PERSECUTED.

THEY WILL HAVE SEEN THE MEDIA
AS LEGITIMATE TARGETS.

AND NOT HAVING CRUISE MISSILES
TO FIRE BACK THEMSELVES,

I BELIEVE THEY WOULD HAVE
ADOPTED THE SAME TECHNIQUES

AGAINST OUR JOURNALIST
AS THEY HAD ALREADY USED

FOR YEARS AND YEARS
IN BELGRADE, IN SERBIA --

A TARGETED POLITICAL
ASSASSINATION.

[ WOMAN SCREAMS ]

[ GUNSHOT ]

WE KNOW SHE WAS KILLED
WITH A SINGLE SHOT TO THE
HEAD.

WE THIS WAS AFTER BEING
FORCED TO HER KNEES

BY ONE MAN FROM BEHIND.

THIS INDICATES HE WAS USING
ONE HAND FOR THE WEAPON,

ONE HAND TO FORCE HER DOWN.

IT'S A VERY PRECISE,

A VERY EXPERIENCED PERSON
WHO IS DOING THIS --

SOMEONE WHO HAS, I BELIEVE,
DONE IT BEFORE.

Narrator: DANDO'S MURDER
IN LONDON WAS ALMOST IDENTICAL

TO A HIT IN BELGRADE
EXACTLY TWO WEEKS BEFORE.

THE KILLING OF SLAVKO
CURUVIJA,

EDITOR OF A SERBIAN
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER,

SHOT WHILE WALKING HOME
WITH HIS PARTNER, BRANKA.

KILLERS WERE BEHIND US,
NOT IN FRONT OF US.

SLAVKO HAS MY HAND IN HIS
HAND.

[ ELEVATOR BELL DINGS ]

HE START TO SLOWLY FALLING
DOWN,

AND IN THIS MOMENT,
I HIT IN THE HEAD

AND WE TOGETHER FALLING DOWN.

[ WOMAN SCREAMING ]

[ GUNSHOT ]

SLAVKO WAS DEAD IMMEDIATELY
WITH FIVE BULLETS.

AND I WAS --
I LAY DOWN IN THE GROUND.

AND KILLER CAME.

AND IN ONE MOMENT,
HE TURN AROUND

AND WALK AWAY.

Narrator: FOR IVAN JOVANOVIC,
BRANKA'S SON,

THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN
THE TWO KILLINGS ARE OBVIOUS.

BOTH ASSASSINATIONS
ARE DONE IN DAYLIGHT,

THEY'RE DONE BY PROFESSIONALS.

AND THEY'RE DONE IN THAT
KIND OF A SYMBOLICAL WAY,

BECAUSE BOTH OF THEM ARE
KILLED
ON THEIR DOORSTEPS

AS A MESSAGE TO SOMEONE ELSE
FOR CONTROL BY FEAR.

Narrator: DESPITE THE
ACQUITTAL
OF BARRY GEORGE,

THE POLICE HAVE NOT
REOPENED THE FILE.

SO THE SERBIAN
CONNECTION REMAINS

NO MORE THEN
A CONSPIRACY THEORY.

BUT FRANK FISHER REMAINS
CONVINCED THAT THE BOMBING

OF THE TV STATION
IN BELGRADE LEAD

DIRECTLY TO THE KILLING
OF A INNOCENT WOMAN

OUTSIDE HER HOME
ON WEST LONDON STREET.

Fisher:
TONY BLAIR, BILL CLINTON,

DID NOT KILL JILL DANDO.

THEY DIDN'T INTEND HER TO DIE.

THEY PROBABLY DIDN'T INTEND

TO KILL MAKE-UP GIRLS
IN BELGRADE.

BUT THEIR POLITICAL DECISIONS
TO GO TO WAR LED

TO THOUSANDS OF DEATHS
IN SERBIA AND KOSOVO

AND TO ONE IN WESTLAND.

Narrator: A LEAFY LONDON
STREET
AS THE SCENE

OF A VICIOUS
POLITICAL ASSASSINATION

STILL SEAMS UNBELIEVABLE.

BUT IN AMERICA,
POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS

BY LONE GUNMEN
HAVE A LONG HISTORY.

DURING THE 1960's,
OVER THE SPACE

OF JUST A FEW YEARS,
THREE OF THE MOST CHARISMATIC

AND IMPORTANT LEADERS
IN AMERICAN HISTORY

WERE KILLED THIS WAY --

EACH ON THE CUSP
OF CHANGING AMERICA.

THOSE DEATHS HAVE LEAD
TO SOME OF THE MOST

COMPELLING CONSPIRACY
THEORIES EVER,

THOUGH THEY REMAIN
JUST THEORIES.

MARTIN LUTHER KING,

THE FOREMOST
CIVIL RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER,

WAS SHOT DEAD
IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

MOST FAMOUSLY,
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY

WAS GUNNED DOWN IN DALLAS --
A KILLING THAT ROCKS THE
WORLD.

[ GUNSHOT ]
[ SCREAMING ]

[ GUNSHOT ]
I HAVE A DREAM.

Narrator:
BOTH THOSE ASSASSINATIONS,

MANY BELIEVE, WERE CARRIED OUT
ON BEHALF OF FEDERAL AGENCIES,

SUCH AS THE CIA, WHO WANTED
TO PROTECT THEIR POWER BASE.

[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ]

IT'S A KILLING SPREE
THAT MANY CLAIM ALSO

TOOK THE LIFE OF A THIRD
GREAT AMERICAN LEADER.

[ GUNSHOT ]

Man: SOMEBODY SHOT ROBERT.

Narrator: ROBERT KENNEDY,

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY'S
BROTHER AND HEIR APPARENT.

Robert: WHAT WE NEED IN THE
UNITED STATES IS NOT DIVISION.

WHAT WE NEED IN THE
UNITED STATES IS NOT HATRED.

WHAT WE NEED
IN THE UNITED STATES

IS NOT VIOLENCE AND
LAWLESSNESS,

BUT IS LOVE, AND WISDOM,

AND COMPASSION
TOWARD ONE ANOTHER.

[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING ]

Narrator: THE OFFICIAL STORY
HAS ALWAYS BEEN

THAT BOBBY KENNEDY
WAS KILLED BY A GUNSHOT

WOUND TO THE HEAD,
FIRED BY A LONE, CRAZED
GUNMAN.

JUST MOMENTS BEFORE
HIS DEATH, KENNEDY,

A LEADING
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE,

WAS CELEBRATING VICTORY

IN THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS
IN CALIFORNIA.

MAYOR YORTY HAS JUST
SENT ME A MESSAGE

THAT WE'VE BEEN HERE
TOO LONG ALREADY.

Narrator:
AS THE CELEBRATIONS BEGAN,

KENNEDY LEFT THE AUDITORIUM
VIA A BACK KITCHEN.

WRITER AND FILMMAKER
SHANE O'SULLIVAN

HAS SPENT YEARS
RESEARCH WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.

O'Sullivan: SIRHAN SIRHAN
EMERGED FROM THE CROWDS,

STARTS FIRING THE SHOTS.

HE HAD EIGHT BULLETS
IN HIS IVER JOHNSON

.22 CALIBER REVOLVER.

Narrator: THE ALLEGED KILLER

WAS A 24-YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN,
SIRHAN SIRHAN --

A FORMER JOCKEY
WITH A LOVE OF GAMBLING

AND THE HIGH-LIFE.

OVERPOWERED AT THE SCENE,
HE WAS CONVICTED OF THE CRIME

AND IS STILL SERVING TIME
IN A SAN DIEGO JAIL.

BUT DESPITE DOZENS OF PEOPLE
WHO SAW SIRHAN SHOOT HIM,

THERE ARE SOME LIKE
FORENSIC HISTORIAN

PATRICK NOLAN WHO BELIEVE
HE WAS INNOCENT.

THE UNWITTING FALL GUY
IS AT THE SCENE,

GETS BLAMED FOR THE CRIME,
BUT DIDN'T DO IT.

HIDDEN GUNMAN ON THE SIDELINES
TOOK CARE OF THAT.

Narrator: NOLAN'S THEORY IS
THAT SIRHAN WAS DISTRACTION

TO AVERT PEOPLE'S EYES
FROM THE REAL KILLER,

AND HE BELIEVES HE KNOWS
WHO WAS BEHIND IT.

ALL THE EVIDENCE SHOWS
THAT IT WAS A CIA HIT

BECAUSE ONLY THE CIA
HAD THE MEANS

AND THE OPPORTUNITY
AND THE MOTIVE.

AND THEIR MOTIVE, OBVIOUSLY,
WAS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES,

TO KEEP THEIR OWN POWER,

AND TO STOP THE KENNEDYS'
MOVE TOWARDS PEACE.

Narrator: FOUR AND HALF YEARS
AFTER THE ASSASSINATION

OF HIS BROTHER JOHN,
ROBERT KENNEDY WAS

RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
IN A DIVIDED AMERICA.

I AM ANNOUNCING TODAY
MY CANDIDACY

FOR THE PRESIDENCY
OF THE UNITED STATES.

I RUN BECAUSE I AM CONVINCED

THAT THIS COUNTRY
IS ON PERILOUS COURSE

AND BECAUSE I HAVE
SUCH STRONG FEELINGS

ABOUT WHAT MUST BE DONE.

Schrade: THE CAMPAIGN IN
CALIFORNIA FOR BOB WAS
CRUCIAL,

BECAUSE IF HE COULDN'T
WIN CALIFORNIA,

HE COULDN'T WIN ANYWHERE.

BECAUSE CALIFORNIA IS
PRIMARILY
A STATE OF DEMOCRATS.

Narrator: CATCHING THE MOOD
OF THE COUNTRY,

KENNEDY'S VICTORY
IN THE CALIFORNIAN PRIMARY

WAS ANNOUNCED LATE
IN THE EVENING

IN THE AMBASSADOR
HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN L.A.

[ SCREAMING ]

BUT A FEW MOMENTS AFTER
THANKING
HIS SUPPORTERS,

KENNEDY WAS ASSASSINATED --

SHOT IN THE HEAD
IN THE HOTEL'S KITCHENS.

HE'S AID, PAUL SCHRADE,
WAS STANDING RIGHT BEHIND HIM.

WHEN YOU TAKE A LOOK
AT THE CRIME SCENE,

THE SHOOTING ACTUALLY TOOK
PLACE

IN ABOUT A SIX-FOOT-WIDE SPACE

WITH A STEAM TABLE OVER HERE
AND THE ICE MACHINE OVER HERE.

Narrator: KENNEDY ENTERED
THE PANTRY AREA,

SHAKING HANDS
WITH KITCHEN STAFF.

SUDDENLY, SHOTS RANG OUT,

AND PAUL SCHRADE
WAS THE FIRST TO BE HIT.

SIRHAN WAS TO THE EAST OF US,

MAYBE 10 OR 12 FEET,

AND HE WALKED TOWARDS
BOB KENNEDY AND STARTED
FIRING.

HE FIRED TWO SHOTS
AT BOB KENNEDY,

DIDN'T HIT BOB.

HIT ME IN THE HEAD BECAUSE
I WAS STANDING RIGHT BEHIND
BOB.

I THOUGHT I WAS
BEING ELECTROCUTED

'CAUSE I -- JUST SHAKING
VIOLENTLY AND FELL.

I CAME TO ON THE FLOOR,
BLEEDING FROM MY HEAD.

Narrator:
BOBBY KENNEDY WASN'T SO LUCKY.

HE TOOK THREE BULLETS
AT POINT-BLANK RANGE,

ONE OF THEM TO THE HEAD.

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE,
BUT HOTEL WORKER

KARL UECKER MANAGED
TO GRAB SIRHAN.

[ INDISTINCT SHOUTING ]

KARL UECKER,
THE ASSISTANT MAITRE D'

GOT A CHOKE HOLD ON SIRHAN,
GRAB HIS GUN HAND,

PUSHED HIM OVER A STEAM TABLE.

HE POUNDED HIS GUN HAND
ON THE STEAM TABLE,

HE KEPT FIRING -- SIX SHOTS.

[ GUNSHOTS ]

Narrator:
THE ATTACK WAS OVER IN
SECONDS.

BOBBY KENNEDY HAD SUFFERED
LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES,

AND WITHIN 24 HOURS, WAS DEAD.

HIS DEATH SHOCKED THE NATION.

AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
LINED THE RAIL TRACKS

AS A TRAIN CARRIED HIS BODY
FROM NEW YORK TO WASHINGTON

WHERE HE WOULD BE BURIED.

AND THERE WAS NO DOUBT
WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE.

WELL, ON THE FACE OF IT,

IT SEEMED LIKE
AN OPEN-AND-SHUT CASE

BECAUSE ALL THE WITNESSES
SAW SIRHAN FIRING.

AND THEY SAW HE HAD A GUN.

IT CONTAINED EIGHT BULLETS.

AND KENNEDY FELL
IN CLOSE PROXIMITY

WHERE SIRHAN STARTED FIRING.

Narrator: WHEN POLICE
SEARCHED SIRHAN'S HOME,

THEY UNCOVERED YET
MORE DAMNING EVIDENCE.

O'Sullivan: THEY ALSO FOUND
A NOTEBOOK IN WHICH WAS
WRITTEN,

"RFK MUST DIE.
RFK MUST DIE.

RFK MUST BE ASSASSINATED."

Narrator: BUT DESPITE THIS
DAMNING EVIDENCE

AND THE DOZENS
OF EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS,

SOME STILL MAKE
THE INCREDIBLE CLAIM

THAT THE EVIDENCE
THAT SIRHAN WAS THE KILLER

DOES NOT STACK UP.

KENNEDY WAS SHOT
TWICE IN THE BACK,

ONCE IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD
RIGHT BEHIND THE RIGHT EAR.

THAT'S THE FATAL SHOT
RIGHT THERE.

THERE WAS A FOURTH SHOT THAT
WENT THROUGH HIS SHOULDER PAD,

BUT THEY'RE ALL FROM THE BACK.

SIRHAN WAS IN FRONT.

Narrator: IF SIRHAN WAS
IN FRONT OF KENNEDY,

WAS THERE ANOTHER GUN BEHIND?

AND IF SO, WHO WAS IT?

[ GUNSHOTS ]

404

Narrator: IN 1968,
IN FRONT OF DOZENS OF WITNESS,

A 24-YEAR-OLD EX-JOCKEY,
SIRHAN SIRHAN,

KILLED BOBBY KENNEDY,

WHO WAS RUNNING
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE USA.

BUT DESPITE
THE COMPELLING EVIDENCE,

SOME STILL BELIEVE SIRHAN
SIRHAN
DID NOT FIRE THE FATAL SHOT.

KENNEDY WAS SHOT
TWICE IN THE BACK,

ONCE IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD
RIGHT BEHIND THE RIGHT EAR.

THAT'S THE FATAL SHOT
RIGHT THERE.

THEY'RE ALL FROM THE BACK.

SIRHAN WAS IN FRONT.

Narrator: SO, DID THE SHOTS
COME FROM ANOTHER GUN?

AN ACCIDENTAL RECORDING
OF THE ASSASSINATION MADE

BY A POLISH REPORTER
COVERING THE CAMPAIGN

MIGHT HOLD THE PROOF.

ENGINEER PHIL VAN PRAAG
IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S

FOREMOST EXPERTS
ON RECORDING TECHNIQUES

AND HAS SPENT YEARS
WORKING ON THE TAPE.

THE MICROPHONE THAT PRUSZYNSKI

USED WAS SIMILAR
TO THIS MICROPHONE.

HAD A SIMPLE ON/OFF SWITCH,

AND IT IS BECAUSE OF THE FACT
THAT HE INADVERTENTLY LEFT

THAT MICROPHONE
IN THE "ON" POSITION

THAT WE NOW HAVE
THE ONLY KNOWN AUDIO RECORDING

OF THE SHOOTING THAT OCCURRED
IN THE KITCHEN PANTRY

THERE AT THE EMBASSY ROOM.

Narrator:
THE SHOTS IN THE ORIGINAL
RECORDING ARE ALMOST IN

BUT USING MODERN
DIGITAL FILTERING,

PHIL HAS MANAGED TO ISOLATE
MUCH OF THE BACKGROUND NOISE.

OKAY, WHAT WE'RE HEARING HERE
IS A FILTERED --

SO, AS TO ACCENTUATE
THE SHOT SOUND

AND MINIMIZE THE CROWD NOISE
AND BACKGROUND SOUNDS

OF SHOTS 7, 8, AND 9.

[ GUNSHOTS ]

AND THIS IS PRETTY
MUCH REAL TIME.

[ GUNSHOTS ]

OKAY?

NOW, THERE ARE ACTUALLY
THREE SHOTS IN THERE,

BUT, AGAIN, MOST PEOPLE,

AT LEAST IN THE BEGINNING,
WILL HEAR THEM AS TWO SHOTS.

Narrator:
BY ANALYZING THE ENTIRE TAPE,

PHIL WAS ABLE TO ISOLATE
FAR MORE SHOTS

THAN THE EIGHT THAT SIRHAN'S
GUN
COULD OF FIRED.

Praag: FROM MY ANALYSIS, I WAS
ABLE TO DISCERN 13 GUNSHOTS.

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN MORE,
BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO
RECOGNIZE

THAT THERE WERE 13 GUNSHOTS

OVER A VERY SHORT
PERIOD OF TIME.

Narrator: IF PHIL HAS
IDENTIFIED
A SECOND GUN AT THE SCENE,

DOES THAT MEAN ANOTHER KILLER?

MY RESEARCH DOES NOT PROVE
OR DISPROVE A CONSPIRACY.

THE MERE FACT THAT TWO GUNS
WERE FIRED DOES NOT,

IN ITSELF, PROVE A CONSPIRACY.

Narrator: BUT FORENSIC
HISTORIAN
PATRICK NOLAN

HAS NO DOUBT THE 13 SHOTS
PROVE THAT SIRHAN SIRHAN

WAS NOT ACTING ALONE,
BUT WAS AN UNWITTING MEMBER

OF A CRACK CIA
ASSASSINATION TEAM.

AND HE GOES FURTHER,
SPECULATING THAT THE CIA

MAY HAVE PUT SIRHAN UNDER
THE INFLUENCE OF MIND CONTROL.

Nolan: SIRHAN ONLY REMEMBERS
DECIDING TO GO TO A PARTY

BECAUSE HE HAD HEARD
THERE WOULD BE

A BIG CELEBRATION
AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL.

Narrator:
DESPITE BEING OVERPOWERED

WITH THE GUN STILL IN HIS
HAND,

SIRHAN STILL CLAIMS HE
REMEMBERS
NOTHING OF THAT NIGHT.

THIS HAS LED MEAN TO CLAIM
THAT HAD BEEN TURNED INTO

A SO-CALLED MANCHURIAN
CANDIDATE.

KATHY OLMSTED IS
A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA.

THE TERM "MANCHURIAN
CANDIDATE"

COMES FROM A NOVEL THAT WAS
WRITTEN IN THE 1950's

AND THEN MADE INTO A VERY
POPULAR MOVIE IN THE 1960's.

AND IT REFERS TO A PERSON
WHO HAS BEEN BRAINWASHED

BY CONSPIRATORS
INTO DOING SOMETHING

AGAINST HIS WILL,
INTO BEING AN ASSASSIN,

A TOOL OF A GROUP OF
ASSASSINS.

THERE WAS ONLY ONE GROUP
THAT HAD THE CAPABILITY

AT THAT TIME TO DO THIS
CONDITIONING AND PROGRAMMING
--

HYPNO-PROGRAMMING.

THAT WAS THE AGENCY -- THE
CIA.

Man: [ Whispering ]
KILL, KILL, KILL.

Narrator: AS PART OF THE CIA'S
SO-CALLED MKUltra PROGRAM,

IT'S CLAIMED
A SCOTTISH PSYCHOLOGIST

DR. DONALD CAMERON
SPENT MUCH THE '60s

PERFECTING MIND CONTROL
FOR THE AGENCY.

THEY HAD STARTED THIS WORK
BACK IN THE '50s,

AND THEY HAD PROGRESSED
TO THE POINT WHERE, BY 1968,

THEY HAD ALL OF
THE EXPERTISE NEEDED

TO INDUCE A TRANCE-LIKE
STATE...

Man: [ Whispering ]
KILL, KILL, KILL.

Nolan: ...TO FOLLOW
POST-HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS...

[ Whispering ] KILL, KILL.
Man:

Nolan: ...AND TO HAVE
NO RECALL LATER -- AMNESIA.

YOU BASICALLY NEED
A VERY HYPNOTIZABLE PERSON,

AND 5% TO 7% OF THE POPULATION

CAN BE HYPNOTIZED TO THE
EXTENT
THAT YOU CAN CARRY OUT AN ACT

THAT IS AGAINST
YOUR MORAL GRAIN.

IN THE CASE WITH SIRHAN,

EXPLAINING THAT WHEN
YOU SEE BOBBY KENNEDY,

YOU'LL SEE A TARGET,
AND YOU'LL START SHOOTING.

Narrator:
IF SIRHAN WAS BRAINWASHED

INTO BEING A DECOY SHOOTER...

THE QUESTION STILL REMAINS,

WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE THREE SHOTS

FROM BEHIND THAT ENDED
BOBBY KENNEDY'S LIFE.

I THINK IT'S BEYOND
A REASONABLE DOUBT

IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE
NAME

WHO WAS BEHIND
THIS ASSASSINATION,

IT'S THE SAME CABAL
THAT WAS BEHIND

THE ASSASSINATION
OF JOHN F. KENNEDY --

A GROUP WITHIN THE CIA.

Narrator: WHATEVER THE TRUTH,

IT'S LOCKED AWAY INSIDE
THE HEAD OF SIRHAN SIRHAN,

WHO, FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS,

HAS CLAIMED
HE CAN'T REMEMBER IT.

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Narrator:
ON THE 18th OF JULY, 2003,

THE BODY OF A MIDDLE-AGE MAN
WAS FOUND NEAR WOODS

ON HARROWDOWN HILL
IN OXFORDSHIRE.

IT WAS THAT OF DR. DAVID
KELLY,

ONE OF BRITAIN'S TOP
SCIENTISTS
AND A GOVERNMENT SPY.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
WAYNE MADSEN

HAS INVESTIGATED DOZENS
OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES

AND BELIEVES IN THE THEORY
THAT DR. KELLY WAS KILLED

BY THE VERY PEOPLE
HE WAS WORKING FOR.

Madsen: DR. KELLY,
BECAUSE OF WHAT HE KNEW

ABOUT HIGH CRIMES
AND MISDEMEANORS

NOT ONLY CARRIED OUT
BY HIS OWN GOVERNMENT,

BUT BY THE AMERICAN
AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS,

BECAME A PROBLEM AND WAS
ORDERED

TAKEN OUT
BY AN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE.

Narrator:
LESS THAT TWO WEEKS BEFORE

ALMOST NO ONE HAD HEARD
THE NAME DAVID KELLY.

BUT HE WAS A KEY MEMBER
OF THE U.N. BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS

INSPECTORATE IN IRAQ
AND HELD IN SUCH ESTEEM

THAT HIS WORK HAD BEEN
NOMINATED
FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

Madsen: DAVID KELLY WAS
THE PREEMINENT EXPERT

IN THE BRITISH MINISTRY
OF DEFENSE

ON WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION,
SPECIFICALLY

SADDAM HUSSEIN'S COMPLIANCE
WITH INTERNATIONAL
REQUIREMENTS

LEVIED ON IRAQ NOT TO PRODUCE
OR, IN ANY WAY, ACQUIRE WMDs.

Narrator: FOR YEARS, IRAQ HAD
BEEN PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1,

NOT JUST BECAUSE ITS LEADER,

SADDAM HUSSEIN POSSESSED
CHEMICAL WEAPONS,

BUT BECAUSE HE WAS PREPARED
TO USE THEM ON HIS OWN PEOPLE.

AFTER HIS DEFEAT
IN THE FIRST GULF WAR,

SADDAM HAD AGREED TO GIVE UP

ALL HIS SO-CALLED WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

AND PART OF DR. KELLY'S JOB
WAS TO ENSURE HE WAS COMPLYING

WITH THAT AGREEMENT.

BUT MANY WESTERN GOVERNMENTS
INSISTED THAT SADDAM

NOT ONLY STILL HAD
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION,

BUT WAS ACTIVELY ACQUIRING
MORE.

AS A RESULT IN THE EARLY YEARS
OF THIS CENTURY,

THE USA BEGAN TO FORM
A COALITION

TO INVADE THE COUNTRY
WITH THE AIM OF OUSTING
SADDAM.

IN SEPTEMBER 2002,

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
TONY BLAIR PUBLISHED

A DOCUMENT WHICH MADE
THE CASE FOR BRITAIN

JOINING THE COALITION.

ONE OF THE KEY REASONS
GIVEN WAS THAT

SADDAM COULD LAUNCH HIS
WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION

WITH IN 45 MINUTES.

TO DESTROY THOSE WEAPONS,

BRITAIN AND AMERICA INVADED
ON THE 19th OF MARCH, 2003.

OVER 200,000 COALITION TROOPS
WERE TASKED WITH DESTROYING

SADDAM'S WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

THAT JUSTIFICATION
SORT OF FELL APART

WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED
THAT SADDAM HAD

NO WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION.

Narrator: TWO MONTHS LATER,
IT WAS REVEALED

THAT THE GOVERNMENT
MAY HAVE KNOWN THE WEAPONS

DID NOT EXIST LONG
BEFORE THE INVASION.

ON THE 29th OF MAY,
BBC REPORTER ANDREW GILLIGAN

LIVE ON RADIO 4'S
"TODAY" PROGRAM QUOTED

WHAT HE CLAIMED WAS ONE
OF THE DOSSIER'S AUTHORS

AS SAYING THAT THE 45 MINUTE
CLAIM WAS DELIBERATELY PLANTED

TO SEX IT UP,

EVEN THOUGH MANY IN
THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

DID NOT BELIEVE IT AS TRUE.

AND THE REASON MANY PEOPLE
THINK IT WAS INSERTED WAS

TO MAKE SURE THE GOVERNMENT
WON
THE BACKING FOR THE WAR,

BOTH FROM PARLIAMENT
AND THE PUBLIC.

IT WAS A GRAVE ALLEGATION,

AND WITHIN DAYS
OF THE BROADCAST,

THERE WAS SPECULATION
THAT DAVID KELLY

WAS GILLIGAN'S SOURCE.

AND THE WEAPONS INSPECTOR WAS
SUDDENLY THRUST IN THE
LIMELIGHT

AND BROUGHT BEFORE
THE COMMONS SELECT COMMITTEE

TO EXPLAIN HIMSELF.

AFTER LESS THAN TWO WEEKS
IN THE MEDIA SPOTLIGHT,

ON THE AFTERNOON
OF THE 17th OF JULY,

DAVID KELLY TOLD HIS WIFE
HE WAS GOING FOR A WALK.

HE NEVER RETURNED.

EARLY THE NEXT MORNING,
HIS BODY WAS FOUND, AND WHAT

FOR SOME IS EVIDENCE
OF A COVER-UP, BEGAN.

ALMOST IMMEDIATELY,
THAMES VALLEY POLICE

PUBLICLY SUGGESTED
HE'D TAKEN HIS OWN LIFE,

EVEN THOUGH NO AUTOPSY
HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT.

IN THE PUBLIC MIND,
DR. KELLY'S DEATH

WAS THOUGHT TO BE
ALL ABOUT HIS HOUNDING

WHEN HE WAS SAID TO BE THE
SOURCE OF A REPORT ON THE BBC

THAT THE SEPTEMBER DOSSIER
HAD BEEN SEXED UP.

Narrator:
ALMOST AS SOON AS KELLY'S DE

A VISIBLY SHOCKED
TONY BLAIR TOLD THE MEDIA

HE WOULD BE HOLDING
A PUBLIC INQUIRY,

BYPASSING THE CORONERS COURTS.

THERE IS NOW, HOWEVER,
GOING TO BE A DUE PROCESS

AND A PROPER
AND INDEPENDENT INQUIRY.

AND I BELIEVE THAT SHOULD BE
ALLOWED TO ESTABLISH THE
FACTS.

Narrator: BY LAW, CORONERS
COURTS HAVE TO INVESTIGATE

EVERY VIOLENT DEATH
IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

MILES GOSLETT, A JOURNALIST

WHO WRITES FOR THE
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH THINKS

BLAIR'S DECISION
TO BYPASS IT IN FAVOR

OF A PUBLIC INQUIRY
IS HIGHLY SUSPECT.

HIS BODY WAS FOUND
AT ABOUT 9:00, 9:15.

AND BY MIDDAY,
THE GOVERNMENT HAD DECIDED

THAT THEY WERE GONNA HOLD
A PUBLIC INQUIRY

INTO DR. KELLY'S DEATH
AND HAD EVEN FOUND

A SENIOR MEMBER
OF THE JUDICIARY, LORD HUTTON,

WHO WOULD INVESTIGATE
DR. DAVID KELLY'S DEATH.

WELL, BY THAT POINT,

NO MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
HAD PRONOUNCED UPON HIS DEATH.

HE HAD NOT BEEN
OFFICIALLY IDENTIFIED,

AND IT WAS THEREFORE
IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANYBODY

TO SAY EXACTLY HOW, WHERE,
AND WHEN HE HAD DIED.

AND YET, THE GOVERNMENT
HAD ALREADY DETERMINED

IN LESS THREE HOURS

THAT THEY WERE NOT GONNA
HAVE A CORONER'S INQUEST.

BUT THEY WANTED TO HAVE
A PUBLIC INQUIRY INSTEAD,

WHICH IS A COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT THING.

Narrator: A CORONERS COURT CAN
EXAMINE WITNESSES UNDER OATH.

MANY BELIEVE
BYPASSING THAT PROCESS

MEANT ONLY ONE THING --

THE GOVERNMENT HAD
SOMETHING TO HIDE.

IT'S QUITE EASY TO SEE
THAT SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE

TOOK AN ACTIVE DECISION

THAT THERE WERE THINGS
ABOUT DAVID KELLY'S DEATH

WHICH THE PUBLIC
SHOULD NEVER KNOW.

Narrator: KEY TO THEIR
CONCERNS IS THE ALLEGATION

THAT LORD HUTTON ACCEPTED
THE VERDICT OF THE AUTOPSY,

WHICH WAS CARRIED OUT
BY HOME-OFFICE PATHOLOGIST

DR. NICHOLAS HUNT
WITH LITTLE QUESTIONING.

DR. KELLY TOOK HIS OWN LIFE

BY CUTTING HIS LEFT WRIST,
AND THAT HIS DEATH

WAS HASTENED BY HIS TAKING
CO-PROXIMAL TABLETS.

I AM FURTHER SATISFIED
THAT THERE WAS NO INVOLVEMENT

BY A THIRD PERSON
IN DR. KELLY'S DEATH.

Narrator: BUT MANY
IN THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT

QUESTION DR. HUNT'S FINDINGS,

ESPECIALLY THAT HE BLED OUT
THROUGH THE CUT TO HIS WRIST

AND STARTED LETTER-WRITING
CAMPAIGN IN NEWSPAPERS

LIKE THE GUARDIAN.

ONE OF THOSE
IS DR. DAVID HALPIN,

WHO, FOR 30 YEARS,
WAS A LEADING TRAUMA SURGEON.

THE HUTTON INQUIRY CONCLUDED

THAT HE HAD DIED
FROM BLEEDING OUT

FROM THE CUTTING OF HIS ULNAR
ARTERY IN THE LEFT WRIST.

AND HAVING OPERATED ON SOME
THOUSANDS OF PATIENTS

AND HAVING REPAIRED
SOME YOUNG PEOPLE

WHO HAD CUT THEIR WRISTS,

I KNEW THAT IT WAS MOST
UNLIKELY HE HAD BLED TO DEATH.

SO I FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT
TO ACCEPT THIS MAN

HAD DIED OF EXSANGUINATION --
BLEEDING OUT FROM HIS WRIST.

Narrator: MORE DOUBTS CAME
FROM THE EVIDENCE

OF DR. ALLAN,
A FORENSIC TOXICOLOGIST

WHO GAVE EVIDENCE
AT THE INQUIRY.

IN HIS OPINION,

DR. KELLY HAD NOT TAKEN
ENOUGH PAINKILLERS

FOR THEM TO HAVE
CONTRIBUTED TO HIS DEATH.

DR. ALLAN SAID THAT THE LEVEL
OF DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE

WAS ABOUT 1/3
OF WHAT HE HAD SEEN

IN ASSOCIATION WITH DEATH
CAUSED BY THIS DRUG.

I'VE COME TO THE CONCLUSION
THAT SUICIDE

WAS HIGHLY UNLIKELY
IN THIS MAN, DR. KELLY.

I, THEREFORE, HAVE TO CONSIDER

THE OTHER ONLY POSSIBILITY --

THAT HE WAS ASSASSINATED.

Narrator: FOR MANY,
THERE IS ONLY ONE REASON

WHY DR. KELLY WOULD
HAVE BEEN ASSASSINATED --

TO HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
LACK
OF WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION.

DR. KELLY HAD THE KNOWLEDGE

THAT COULD HAVE
POTENTIALLY HAULED

THE PRIME MINISTER
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

BEFORE
THE HAGUE CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL

FOR STARTING A WAR
BASED ON FALSE REASONS.

Narrator: SOME BELIEVE
THE FINAL PROOF OF A
CONSPIRACY

TO COVER UP THE REAL CAUSE
OF DR. KELLY'S DEATH

WAS THE FACT THAT LORD HUTTON
ORDERED ALL RECORDS

RELATING TO THE CASE
TO BE SEALED FOR 70 YEARS.

BUT MILITARY HISTORIAN
AND FORMER INTELLIGENCE
OFFICER

LYNETTE NUSBACHER
DOES NOT AGREE.

WE'VE SEEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN
IN THE EARLY 21st CENTURY

THAT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

HAVE MADE THE
GOVERNMENT VERY UNHAPPY

AND HAVE BROUGHT DOWN THE
WRATH

OF THE NUMBER-10 BRIEFING
MACHINE AGAINST THEM.

BUT NO MATTER HOW
UNCOMFORTABLE
THEY MAKE THE GOVERNMENT,

THE GOVERNMENT CAN'T JUST
KNOCK
THEM OFF IN A QUIET ALLEY.

THERE IS NO QUESTION IN MY
MIND

THAT DR. KELLY
WAS THE VICTIM OF A CRUEL

AND INDIFFERENT GOVERNMENT,

BUT THAT HE DIED
AT HIS OWN HAND.

Narrator: IF DARK FORCES
FROM WITHIN GOVERNMENTS

REALLY WERE BEHIND THE DEATHS
OF KELLY, DANDO, AND KENNEDY,

THEN THEY ALL CHOSE
VIOLENT MEANS.

BUT THERE ARE SOME
CONSPIRACISTS

WHO CLAIM EVEN THE MOST
INNOCENT
DEATHS ARE CONSPIRACIES.

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Narrator: MANY ACADEMICS
BELIEVE
OUR LOVE OF CONSPIRACY
THEORIES

SURROUNDING
ASSASSINATIONS FULFILLS

A DEEP PSYCHOLOGICAL NEED.

Olmsted: CONSPIRACY THEORIES
CAN MAKE THE WORLD

SEEM SAFER AND MORE
PREDICTABLE

BECAUSE IT'S A SCARY THING
TO CONTEMPLATE

HOW CONTINGENCY CAN PLAY
SUCH A LARGE ROLE IN HISTORY.

AND SO, IT'S MUCH MORE
COMFORTING TO BELIEVE

THAT THERE IS ORDER,
THERE IS REASON,

THERE IS SOMEONE IN CHARGE,

EVEN IF IT'S EVIL PEOPLE
WHO ARE IN CHARGE.

Narrator: PERHAPS THERE IS
NO BETTER EXAMPLE OF THE IDEA

THAT HISTORY IS CONTROLLED
BY EVIL PEOPLE THAN AMERICA'S

SEEMING PARANOIA
OF THE COUNTRIES

OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA,
WHO THEY SEEM CONVINCED

ARE ABOUT
TO DESTROY THEIR WAY OF LIFE.

EVER SINCE THE CUBAN
REVOLUTION ENDED IN 1959,

THE MIGHT OF THE CIA HAS
BEEN FOCUSED ON THE ONE MAN --

FIDEL CASTRO.

THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT CLAIMS
THAT THERE WERE MORE

THAN 600 ATTEMPTS
ON THE LIFE OF FIDEL CASTRO.

MORE THAN 600.

Narrator: WE NOW KNOW FOR A
FACT
THAT OPERATION MONGOOSE,

AS THOSE ASSASSINATION
ATTEMPTS
ON CASTRO WERE KNOWN,

WERE SANCTIONED BY
PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN 1961

AND REMAINED SECRET UNTIL
1975.

PROPOSED PLOTS INCLUDED

IMPLANTING HIS CIGARS
WITH HIGH EXPLOSIVES.

MORE OUTLANDISHLY,

IMPREGNATING HIS WETSUIT
WITH DEADLY BACTERIA.

AND EVEN LACING HIS SHOES

WITH THALLIUM SALTS,
WHICH WOULD CAUSE HIS HAIR

AND BEARD TO FALL OUT,
WHICH THE CIA HOPED

WOULD CAUSE HIM
TO LOSE HIS MYSTIQUE

IN THE EYES OF THE CUBAN
PEOPLE.

UNSURPRISINGLY, NONE OF
THE SUPPOSED 600 CIA

ATTEMPTS
ON CASTRO'S LIFE SUCCEEDED.

BUT MANY THINK THAT THE CIA

HAS BEEN
MORE SUCCESSFUL IN KILLING

OTHER LATIN AMERICAN LEADERS
USING AN INCREDIBLE WEAPON --

CANCER PANTS.

ON THE 8th OF MARCH, 2013,

10s OF THOUSANDS OF
VENEZUELANS
TOOK TO THE STREETS

TO MOURN THE DEATH OF ONE
OF THE CIA's ALLEGED VICTIMS.

HUGO CHAVEZ DIED OF A VERY
VIRULENT FORM OF CANCER.

IT STRUCK HIS PELVIC AREA

AND THEN WORKED ITS WAY
EVENTUALLY

THROUGH THE REST OF HIS BODY.

Narrator: BUT COULD CHAVEZ'S
TERMINAL CANCER

REALLY BE THE WORK
OF CIA OPERATIVES?

IT'S CLAIMED CHAVEZ'S FRIEND,
FIDEL CASTRO,

BELIEVED THE AGENCY
HAD SUCH A CAPABILITY,

AND ACCORDING TO HISTORY
WILLIAM BLUM,

HAD EVEN WARNED CHAVEZ THE USA

WOULD TARGET HIM
WITH AN UNTRACEABLE AGENT.

Blum:
HE SAID, "HUGO, WATCH OUT.

THEY'LL GIVE YOU TINY
PINPRICK."

WHICH CAN BE ANYBODY
WHO COMES CLOSE TO CHAVEZ,

USING A PINPRICK WHICH
IS TO INJECT HIM

SOME KIND OF CHEMICAL.

THAT WOULD BE SO EASY
TO OBSCURE.

Narrator: BY THE 1990's,
CHAVEZ HAD TAKEN OVER

FROM FIDEL CASTRO
AS THE USA's ULTIMATE
BOGEYMAN.

WELL, IN THE UNITED STATES,
HE WAS A WIDELY HATED FIGURE,

ESPECIALLY ON THE RIGHT,

BECAUSE HE WAS SEEN AS A LOT
LIKE FIDEL CASTRO

AND A LEFT-WING
LATIN AMERICAN STRONGMAN

WHO WAS VERY ANTI-UNITED
STATES.

SINCE THERE'S THIS EVIDENCE
THAT THE CIA

DID TRY AND OBVIOUSLY
FAILED TO KILL CASTRO,

IT LENDS CREDIBILITY
TO THE PEOPLE

WHO SUPPORT CHAVEZ
TO THE NOTION THAT THE CIA

TRIED TO KILL CHAVEZ OR
ACTUALLY
SUCCEEDED IN THIS CASE.

Narrator:
DURING HIS 14 YEARS IN POWER,

HUGO CHAVEZ ENRAGED
THE UNITED STATES

BY NATIONALIZING MANY
OF THE U.S. OIL INTERESTS

IN THE COUNTRY.

IN 2006, HE ADDRESSED
THE UNITED NATIONS,

OPENLY ACCUSING
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT,

GEORGE BUSH, OF BEING THE
DEVIL.

[ SPEAKING SPANISH ]

Blum: CHAVEZ VERY PURPOSELY
AND CONSCIOUSLY

MADE HIMSELF
ENEMY NUMBER 1 OF U.S. --

INTERNATIONAL ENEMY NUMBER 1.

YOU COULD SAY
HE WAS ASKING FOR IT,

MORE SO THAN ANY OTHER
LEADER OF THE MANY,

MANY FOREIGN LEADERS
WHOM THE U.S.

HAS ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE.

THERE WASN'T ONE
WHO CAME EVEN CLOSE

TO CHAVEZ IN ASKING FOR IT.

Narrator:
ACCORDING WAYNE MADSEN, THE

A YEAR BEFORE CHAVEZ ANNOUNCED
HE WAS SUFFERING FROM CANCER.

IN 2010, THE SECRETARY OF
STATE,

WHO WAS HILLARY CLINTON,
SENT OUT A MESSAGE

TO U.S. EMBASSIES, CONSULATES,
AND MISSIONS

TO, AMONG OTHER THINGS,
COLLECT DNA ON FOREIGN
LEADERS.

NOW, DNA MEANS
A BIOLOGICAL SAMPLE.

YOU CAN GET IT FROM HAIR,

FROM A TOOTHBRUSH,
FROM A DRINKING GLASS.

Narrator: THANKS TO LEAKS FROM
THE STATE DEPARTMENT,

IT'S KNOWN THAT TARGETS
FOR DNA PROFILING INCLUDED

MOST OF THE AMBASSADORS
AT THE UNITED NATIONS,

AS WELL AS MANY
AFRICAN LEADERS.

Madsen:
ONE OF THE POSSIBLE REASONS

FOR THAT WAS TO CREATE
DNA DESIGNER DISEASES,

BECAUSE IF KNOW
WHAT SOMEBODY'S DNA IS,

YOU KNOW WHAT THEIR WEAKNESSES
ARE, YOU KNOW ABOUT

THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM
OF THEIR OWN BODIES.

SO YOU'RE GONNA CREATE
A CANCER WEAPON, POTENTIALLY,

THAT WILL ATTACK THE WEAK
AREAS

OF THIS TARGET
INDIVIDUAL'S BODY.

Narrator: THE CLAIM
IS THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT

ALSO TARGETED CHAVEZ.

AND BY KNOWING HIS DNA,

THE CIA WAS THEN ABLE
TO DEVELOP A WEAPON

THAT WOULD CAUSE HIM TO
DEVELOP
A VIRULENT FORM OF CANCER.

BUT HOW WAS
THE WEAPON DELIVERED?

OBVIOUSLY
THERE ARE VARIOUS METHODS

YOU COULD USE TO DELIVER A
TOXIN
OR A POISON TO A TARGET.

AND THERE HAVE BEEN
SUGGESTIONS
THAT PERHAPS PRESIDENT
CHAVEZ'S

UNDERPANTS
WERE SOMEHOW LACED WITH SOME

SORT OF CANCER PATHOGEN
THAT CAUSED A TUMOR.

Narrator:
IF THE KILLER-UNDERPANTS

THEN IT EXPLAINS WHY THE
CANCER

THAT KILLED HUGO
CHAVEZ BEGAN IN HIS GROIN.

BUT WAYNE MADSEN IS
CONVINCED THAT HUGO CHAVEZ

WAS NOT THE ONLY VICTIM
OF THIS DEADLY FASHION.

Madsen:
IN THE CASE OF HUGO CHAVEZ,

IN A SERIES
OF LATIN AMERICAN LEADERS

WHO HAD BEEN TARGETED
BY A CANCER WEAPON.

CANCER STRIKES MANY PEOPLE,

ALL AGES, ALL NATIONALITIES.

AND WE KNOW THAT,

BUT THE MERE FACT
THAT AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME

THAT HUGO CHAVEZ
DEVELOPED HIS SYMPTOMS,

WE HAD TWO PRESIDENTS
OF BRAZIL --

FORMER PRESIDENT LULA,
WHO WAS VERY CLOSE TO CHAVEZ,

HE DEVELOPED CANCER.

HIS SUCCESSOR, DILMA ROUSSEFF
ALSO DEVELOPED CANCER.

Narrator:
IN ALL, WAYNE CLAIMS THAT
SEVEN

LATIN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
DEVELOPED CANCER

AT AROUND THE SAME TIME
AS PRESIDENT CHAVEZ.

NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE IDEA
THAT THIS CLUSTER OF CANCERS

IS EVIDENCE OF A CIA PLOT
IS NOT ACCEPTED

BY MANY MAINSTREAM HISTORIANS.

WELL, PEOPLE GET CANCER,
AND THEY GET IT

IN VERY RANDOM
AND UNPREDICTABLE WAYS.

SO JUST BECAUSE
THERE ARE SEVERAL

LATIN AMERICAN FIGURES
WHO GET CANCER,

IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT,
THEREFORE,

THE CIA GAVE THEM CANCER.

I THINK IT'S VERY HUMAN
TO LOOK FOR PATTERNS

AND FOR REASON AND PURPOSES
AND SPECIFIC VILLAINS,

RATHER THAN JUST ACCEPTING
THAT RANDOM THINGS HAPPEN.

AND BAD THINGS HAPPEN,
AND YOU CAN'T CONTROL THEM.

Narrator:
FOR LYNETTE NUSBACHER,

THIS DESIRE TO FIND PATTERNS
TO RANDOM EVENTS IS KEY

TO ALL CONSPIRACY THINKING.

Nusbacher: CONSPIRACY THEORIES
MAKE SENSE OF THE PAST

BY CREATING A PLAUSIBLE
PATTERN
THAT CONNECTS EVENTS

THAT WE KNOW OF OR SUPPOSE
IN A MEANINGFUL WAY.

CONSPIRACY THEORIES ARE WAY
THAT WE CREATE

MEANING OUT OF THE CHAOS
OF OUR LIVES

AND OF THE PAST.

Narrator:
BUT FOR CONSPIRACISTS,

IT'S ALL ABOUT FINDING WHAT
THEY CLAIM IS THE REAL TRUTH.