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November 22, 1963 the event that shook the world

from Dallas, Texas. The Flash.

Apparently official president Kennedy died at 01:00 P.M.

Central Standard Time.

Cover ups, mystery and conspiracy draw

a veil over this event.

Clearly. See, he goes like this.

He places something on his right cheek.

He brings the hand down and you

can clearly see right here.

The most highly debated event in history.

Lee Harvey Oswald killed two

people that day on November 22.

The most convoluted assassination of all time.

What are they hiding?

So they told no one that there

was two splices in the Zapruder film.

From a lone gunman to multiple shooters.

The mob and CIA involvement of the President of the

United States.

And this evidence has been altered.

The event that some have dedicated to researching

their entire lives.

They know what happened and they don't care.

Why bother following up on leads when you know that's

not what happened?

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(intense music)

(mysterious music)

We have the right to know the truth.

If we don't have the truth,

everything we build on is a lie.

It's like building a building on a false found nation.

Sooner or later, it's going to crumble.

On October 26, 2017, President Donald Trump,

after promising to release all

of the documents being kept secret by the government on

the JFK assassination, suddenly did an about face and

decided to withhold many files

related to the assassination of the 35th president of

the United States.

President Trump said he had no

choice but to heed warnings from

the CIA and FBI to keep some of the files secret for

further review.

Releasing them unredacted could pose.

Irreversible harm to our national security.

What evidence did he see that

was so important to national

security that he decided even

after 54 years of secrecy, it was still better to hide

documents about the assassination from the

American people?

What really happened that day so long ago?

On November 22, 1963, the 35th president of the United

States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK,

and his beautiful wife Jacqueline Kennedy,

also known as Jackie, left Washington, DC.

For a trip to Texas.

Texas was important to his

upcoming 1964 election campaign.

Although his vice president, Lyndon Baines Johnson,

also known as LBJ, was from Texas, the state was still

up for grabs.

JFK.

And his wife arrived in Fort Worth where they were met

by jubilant crowds.

They then took a short flight to

Dallas where again the crowds were huge and happy.

But underneath the cheering and waving from the crowds,

there was also an ominous undertone to the America

of 1963.

There were many dark forces that

were rising up against JFK and his Attorney general,

who was also his brother Robert

Kennedy, also known as RFK.

Many people in the Central

Intelligence Agency, the CIA, thought that the Kennedy

brothers had betrayed them in the Bay of Pigs incident,

in which JFK, withheld support for the

anti-Castro revolutionaries and

their CIA counterparts in Cuba.

I have emphasized before that this was a struggle of

Cuban patriots against a Cuban dictator.

While we could not be expected to hide our sympathies.

We made it repeatedly clear that

the armed forces of this country

would not intervene in any way.

After the Bay of Pigs episode,

Kennedy was so upset with the

situation that he famously said,

I want to destroy the CIA and

splinter it into a thousand pieces and scatter it

into the wind.

(machine guns firing)

The Pentagon was ramping up their war in Vietnam,

and Kennedy's announcement of a

troop withdrawal from that war

angered many people in the military industrial complex,

whose income was threatened by

Kennedy's reticence to get

involved in a foreign civil war.

Many right wing groups hated JFK

for his support of civil rights and his support for

desegregation in the south.

But perhaps most importantly,

Robert Kennedy had angered organized crime.

The picture is an ugly one.

It shows what has been.

Napoli described as a private

government of organized crime.

His relentless pursuit of

organized crime in America was his primary mission as

Attorney General, he often said evidence

concerning their clandestine operations is particularly

hard to uncover.

Robert Kennedy touted the fact that prosecutions for

racketeering by his organized

crime section in the Justice Department rose by

300% above 1961.

Federal investigative agencies

are now pulling information on

more than 1100 major racketeers.

He celebrated the coordination

of the FBI, Secret Service,

IRS and 23 other federal law enforcement agencies.

The organized crime and racketeering section of the

department's Criminal Division

has been enlarged in revitalized and it has been given

increasingly powerful help in

prosecuting cases from the

various federal investigative agencies.

Five of the administrative.

Nation's anti racketeering bills

pushed by RFK and passed into law by Congress.

First six months of this year we

secured indictments of 171

racketeering figures compared

with 24 for the same period three years ago. This year,

the number of convictions was

163. Years ago, it was 35.

Working in coordination with Senator John McClellan of

Arkansas Robert Kennedy

succeeded in getting Mobster Joe

Vilachi on the stand before the

Senate to not only admit the

existence of the mob but also its inner machinations.

Thus we have been able to make

inroads into the hierarchy personnel and operations

of organized crime.

We know that Cosa Nostra is run

by a commission and that the

leaders of Cosa Nostra in most

major cities are responsible to the commission.

We know that membership in the

commission varies from nine and

twelve to twelve active members.

And we know.

Who the active members of the commission are today.

We know that in the past two

years at least three carefully

planned commission meetings had

to be called off because the leaders learned that we

uncovered their well concealed plan.

One has to remember that in the

early 1960s there was not a

mention of the Mob or organized

crime in American culture.

The first director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover,

seemed to avoid the subject at all costs.

It was thought by some that the

mob must have had something on

Hoover and that is why he never went after the mob.

Ironically, it was a well-known fact that JFK.

Had been elected because of the help from the mob.

The vote in Illinois, but especially Chicago,

appeared to have been thrown for

Kennedy in the 1960 election.

It is thought that Kennedy's father, Joe Kennedy,

used his mob connections to get

the Chicago organized crime

families to throw the election.

In JFK's favor.

Joe Kennedy made millions running booze out of Canada

during Prohibition.

Illinois did go for Kennedy,

helping him win the election.

All Americans.

I say that the next four years

are going to be difficult and

challenging years for us all.

The election may have been a close one,

but perhaps the greatest enemy

that JFK's attorney General made

was a quiet and shy mobster named Sidney Korshak.

At that time, the FBI called Korshak the most

powerful lawyer in the world.

In the book Super Mob by Gus Russo,

he details how Sidney Korshak

was a major fixer for the mob both in Chicago and later

in Los Angeles.

Russo reveals that had a huge influence on Hollywood,

the unions and many politicians.

It was well known that if you

needed something to happen, Sidney Korsach could

make it happen.

As long as you complied with his

usual payment of $50,000

in cash.

Robert Kennedy called Sidney

Korshak to appear before his committee looking into

organized crime.

Korsack did not like his face to

be seen in public and would frequently remove film from

cameras by photographers who had photographed him.

He did not like appearing on national television.

But Kennedy's moves against the mob

but especially the Chicago mob must have seemed like a

treacherous act of backstabbing to the mob. After all,

they had helped Kennedy get elected.

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Before the Kennedy brothers,

there had been no major federal investigations into

organized crime.

Since the Kennedy brothers,

there have been no major federal investigations into

organized crime.

There was a deal struck, and they didn't live up to it.

And Bobby. Kennedy went even further.

I mean, he started prosecuting the mob.

People were very upset.

The government will never I mean,

all these documents that are under seal that were never

been released, the government is never going to

want to admit to the fact that the mob had a hit on the

President of the United States

and was able to carry it out.

Right wing activist James

Milteer was recorded by an FBI,

informed it in early 1963 saying

that there had been a hit ordered on Kennedy.

The best way would be to get it

from an office building

with a high powered.

You think he knows he's a marked man??

I'm sure he does, yes.

They gonna really try to kill him?

Get this Kennedy. I mean, get this Kennedy.

I'm telling you. Gonna be a hard conversation, I believe. Me.

You may have it figured out.

How to get him from an office building.

I don't know how.

Them secret Service.

They never cover.

Do you know whether to do that or not?

If they have any suspicion, they would, of course,

take it up in pieces.

Take it out of pieces.

All of these guns come knocked

down. And you take them apart

Boy if Kennedy is getting shot we got to know where we at.

They'll pick up somebody within hours after

to throw the public off. Yeah, that's right.

Somebody going to have to go to jail.

Forces were rising up against the Kennedys that he

could not control.

Very real threats were beginning

to manifest themselves as the

motorcade left the airport and made its way to sunny

downtown Dallas.

On that early afternoon of November 22,

1963 with the very real concerns

of many enemies stacking up

against them Kennedy and his wife were met by thousands

of adoring fans.

It is important to emphasize that JFK.

And his beautiful wife despite

having many deplorable enemies

were absolutely adored by the American public.

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His limousine contained six people.

The driver and the secret

service agent were in the front

seat. The governor of Texas, John Connolly,

and his wife were in the middle seats and JFK.

And his wife Jackie were in the

back seat. Because it was sunny,

the top had been taken off the

limousine and the six people were open to the public

to be seen by all.

As the limousine drove down Houston Street, it took.

Steep left turn onto Elm Street

and entered Dealey Plaza.

Although the crowds had been large in Fort Worth and at

the airport in Dallas, the crowd in downtown Dallas at

lunchtime was surprisingly sparse.

Even though there were three

network affiliates in Dallas at that time, ABC, NBC,

CBS all had affiliates in Dallas.

It seems that not one of these

network affiliates sent a camera

person to the parade in Dealey

Plaza to get the president and his wife on film.

It seems odd that there is no

film of the assassination shot by one or all of the

local affiliates.

Given how popular the Kennedys were with crowds,

this is a strange anomaly.

As the limousine slowly drove through the plaza,

something very odd occurred.

Many people witnessed the

president's head exploding with blood and brain matter.

Before he tumbled into the seat of the limousine.

They saw his wife, Jackie get out of the seat and

apparently retrieve something from the top of the trunk

of the limousine.

The limousine then speedily

headed toward Parkland Hospital,

about eight minutes away,

to tend to the wounded president

after emergency surgery.

JFK is pronounced dead by the

doctors at Parkland Hospital

from Dallas, Texas. The flash,

apparently official president

Kennedy died at 01:00 p.m..

Central Standard Time.

The wound to his head was so devastating that there was

nothing that could be done to save him.

Many people reported seeing

nightclub owner Jack Ruby that

day at Parkland Hospital.

Later that day, a pristine bullet from an

Italian carcano 30 caliber rifle

was found on the stretcher.

ARL inspector, a counselor to the commission,

created the single bullet theory known to.

Critics as the Magic Bullet.

This bullet would later be known as the Magic bullet.

It was later discovered that the

rifle used in the assassination was an Italian carcano.

An argument broke out at the

hospital when the Dallas coroner

attempted to take control of the

body of the president to perform an autopsy.

State authorities want to do an autopsy,

which is state law in state

Texas and the federal people wanted to take it back

to Washington DC.

Try to roll the casket out.

Someone would grab it and try to roll it back.

The secret service and the FBI

insisted that the body be taken back to Washington

DC to be autopsied.

The Dallas coroner replied that he had jurisdiction

over the body, which he did through the

threat of force.

The government won the argument

and FK's body was quickly

whisked away from the hospital

and taken to Air Force One at Dallas airport.

Once back in Washington DC.

The body was taken to Bethesda Naval.

Hospital where it was autopsied.

The autopsy was performed by doctors who normally did

not do autopsies, who had little forensic science

in their background.

The doctors were career military.

There were admirals and generals

attending the autopsy and ordering the doctors to stop

particular operations and procedures.

Most experts agree that the autopsy was botched.

The main doctor at the autopsy burned his notes soon

afterwards.

Three years after the autopsy,

the brain and tissue samples of

the body were stolen from the National Archives.

So somewhere between April of 65

and the end of October 66, these things were literally

taken, illegally,

stolen, removed from the National

Archives. And to this day, as we sit and talk,

nobody in the United States

government has ever accounted for these missing items.

(thunder)

Please, sir.

My name is Abraham Zapruder.

Was a tailor and a fan of the Kennedys.

He arrived in Dealey Plaza a few

minutes before the parade entered with the intention of

filming the president on his

eight millimeter Bell and Howell

movie camera getting up on the

ledge near the grassy knoll a

few feet away from the Pergola,

which was the centerpiece of the city park.

He pointed his camera at the

limousine carrying the president

and his wife and created the most sensational Home

movie of all time.

Being in the perfect position

to film the events that day.

His 27 second film shows the

President's limousine passing through Dealey Plaza,

then going behind the Stemmons

Freeway sign and seconds later, after emerging from

behind the sign, the apparent assassination of

the 35th President of the United States

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the Dallas.

Police instantly responded to

the killing of the president.

Even though no one had seen

anything happening at the Texas School Book Depository,

that building became the first object of interest.

Almost immediately, an all point bulletin was sent

out from Dallas police describing someone who looked

just like Lee Harvey Oswald.

Attention all squad.

The suspect in the shooting at Elm and

Houston is reported to be an unknown white male,

approximately 30, slender build, height 5ft ten inches,

weight 165 pounds.

Report to be armed with what is thought to be a 30

caliber rifle.

The bulletin also correctly

described the 30 caliber rifle, which had not been

discovered yet.

Where this exact description

came from so soon after the

assassination remains a mystery,

possibly because of the police bulletin.

A Dallas police officer named Jefferson. Davis Tippett,

also known as J. D.

Tippett stopped a man who he

thought was acting suspicious.

The man shot J. D.

Tippett, killing him ironically, or maybe not. J. D.

Tippett's nickname on the Dallas Police Force was JFK.

Because of his striking resemblance to the

young president.

But there are numerous discrepancies with the witness

accounts to the murder of J.

D. Tippett.

Witness Helen Markham was

walking down the street when she saw a man walking in front of her.

A police car pulled up and a discussion ensued.

She said as soon as the

policeman got out of the car the man shot the policeman

several times.

Markham says that the man she

saw was wearing a light shirt, light brown jacket,

it and light gray trousers.

She says he had light hair and was short and had a

ruddy complexion.

Witness Callaway describes the assailant as.

Wearing black trousers and a

light gray windbreaker with black hair and a very pale

complexion. The man ran away.

Someone, we don't know whom saw a man

run into a movie theater.

This unknown person called police and reported this.

Police entered the movie theater

where they discovered Lee Harvey

Oswald watching the movie.

After a brief struggle, they arrested him for the

murder of Tippit.

They discovered that Oswald worked at the Texas Book

Depository owned an Italian

caricano rifle exactly as the police bulletin had

earlier described.

I work in that building.

Were you in the building at the time? Naturally,

if I work in that building, yes, sir.

And he soon became the number

one suspect in the Kennedy assassination.

The Dallas police held press

conference that Friday night

presenting Oswald to the world for the first time.

I didn't shoot anybody, sir.

I haven't been told what I'm

here for. You have a lawyer?

No, sir, I don't.

Oswald denied the charge of murdering Officer Tippit.

And when he was told about the

murder of JFK he denied it and

said he was just a patsy.

Concerning the killing of the

President what the situation is about?

Nobody has told me anything except that I'm accused of

murdering a policeman.

I know nothing more than that.

I do request to someone to come forward to give me a

legal assistance.

Did you kill the president?

No, I've not been charged with that.

In fact, nobody has said that to me yet.

First thing I heard about it was

when the newspaper reporters in

the hall asked me that question.

You have been nobody said what, sir? You have.

Later it would be discovered

that Oswald had lived in Russia

which at the time was the number

one enemy of the United States.

Now they've taken me in because of the fact that.

Lived in the Soviet Union.

He married a Russian woman and

moved back to the United States.

There are a number of researchers who have reached the

conclusion that Oswald was working for intelligence and

that he was very likely a spy.

Kennedy's vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson,

also Known as LBJ, was Sworn In as The New

President on Air Force One before Departing Dallas.

On Sunday morning, November 24, 1963.

As he was being moved from a smaller jail to a larger,

more secure jail, Oswald was gunned down by local

nightclub owner Jack Rubenstein,

also known as Jack Ruby.

There is Leon.

He's been shot. Shut, rang up.

Jack Ruby was from Chicago and

had extensive ties to the Chicago mob. Oswald died,

and the world never heard his side of the story.

These people have given me a hearing without legal

representation or anything.

I didn't shoot anybody.

No sir

Ruby would die of cancer in jail

just a few years later.

Never revealing his story either.

The world will never know the true facts

what occurred my motives.

I'm the only person in the

background that knows the truth

pertaining to everything relating to my circumstance.

Do you think it'll ever come out?

No. Because

unfortunately the people that have so much to gain

and have such a material motive

to put me in a position I'm in

we'll never let the true facts

come about to the world.

These people are very.

High positions Jack? yes,

the entire world mourned the loss of the young,

handsome president.

His funeral on Monday, November 25,

was viewed by millions of people all over the world.

His wife, her face covered in a veil with

her two young children close by,

watched as the 35th president of

the United States was laid to

rest in Arlington Cemetery.

A permanent flame would burn at

the graveside commemorating his life.

Almost immediately,

conspiracies theories started who had

shot the president and why?

The new president.

LBJ tried to ignore the swirling rumors,

but they would not go away.

Finally, after months of continuous pressure,

he gave in and created the

Warren Commission to investigate

the murder headed by Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren.

The committee spent months examining the evidence,

speaking to witnesses, and collecting data.

The eight millimeter film made by Abraham Zapruder,

and hereafter called the Zapruder film,

was one of the key bits of

evidence used by the Commission.

Using the film as a clock or a

timeline coupled with audio taken at the scene,

the Warren Commission concluded that three shots rang

out that day

(gun shots)

the first hit JFK in the back of the neck.

The second shot missed completely, and the third shot,

later named the Magic bullet by conspiracy theorists,

hit Kennedy in the back of the head, spun away,

and then hit Governor Connolly in the back.

The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald,

acting alone, used an Italian carcano rifle

to assassinate John F.

Kennedy from the 6th floor.

Of the Book Depository building

an internal memo and the Warren Commission's documents

contradict this.

The document reports that the

Dallas police had performed

paraffin tests on Oswald's face,

arms and hands soon after the assassination. Chief,

we understand you the results of

the paraffin test which are made

to determine whether Oswald had fired a weapon.

What does that mean?

It only means that he fired a gun.

Were there powder burns or powder marks on his cheek?

I don't know that

he fired a gun.

Not the rifle or the pistol?

That's right.

These tests pick up chemical

traces left behind by gunpowder.

When a spectrographic analysis

was done on the paraffin it was

found that Oswald could not have

fired a rifle that day.

People have been given, but I emphatically deny

these charts.

The unlikely explanation that

Oswald alone was responsible

for the killing only fueled conspiracy theories more.

While the Warren Commission had

hoped their examination would quiet the rumors,

it actually only made the theories grow more adamant.

Soon, entire industries would be born

around the assassination will.

Books, documentaries, films and even comic books would

be created questioning the government's line.

Conspiracy theories ran wild.

Many speculations were flying

around. Who killed Kennedy?

Became the number one question on everyone's lips.

Was it the military?

Was it the intelligence agencies Was it the Russians?

Was it the mob?

Was it right wing hate groups?

Was it the driver of the limousine?

Hours and hours were spent arguing and discussing

all of these issues.

Hollywood even explored all of this in the hit movie

Oliver Stone's JFK, starring Kevin Costner.

How are you?

The Zapruder film became the main center of interest.

Life printed many of the frames

from the film and the November

29, 1963 issue of the magazine.

Just seven days after the assassination,

life kept the film under wraps and refused to show

it to anyone.

A copy of the film was smuggled out of Life magazine

in the late 1960s, eventually being shown on

national television on Geraldo

Rivera's show Goodnight America.

On March 6, 1975, almost twelve years after

the assassination, the nation viewed the film

for the first time, and it shocked the world.

There was JFK and his wife in a limousine,

rolling through Dealey plaza.

Then, a few seconds after passing by the freeway sign,

JFK's head is seen to explode.

His body moves back and to the left.

His body quickly falls into the

seat of the car as Jackie springs up and moves to the

trunk of the limousine, seemingly in a panic over the

shooting. There she is, met by Clint Hill,

a secret service agent.

Jackie then moves back to her seat.

As the limousine speeds away,

it is difficult to exaggerate

the effect that showing the Zupruder film had on

the United States.

It was all anyone was talking

about. Everyone was upset.

They had been told that the president had been

shot from behind, but the film looked like the

shot came from Kennedy's right side.

With the entire country up in arms,

congress ordered a new commission to look into

the JFK assassination.

New rounds of books, films and talk shows would begin,

with even more conspiracy theories being touted.

The consipracy industry grew by leaps and

bounds until it became a normal part of the American

cultural landscape.

Whole groups of people were consumed by the question

of who killed JFK.

A lot of money was made by publishers selling every

kind of conspiracy.

Soon after the assassination,

many members of the mob or

organized crime were asked if they knew who killed the

president. They responded, by pointing fingers

at other mobsters, saying that it must have

been them that did it.

No one was copping to knowing

exactly who made the decision to pull the trigger and

kill the president.

(gun shot)

Conspiracy theorists pointed out

that the FBI must be involved

also because it failed to follow up on many leads in

the assassination.

Why was the FBI ignoring the

mountain of evidence that the conspiracy community

had gathered?

The FBI had taken over the investigation from the

Dallas police, and they seemed uninterested

in following up on.

Most of theories and evidence

being put forth by private investigators.

It was as if the investigation

was over with the findings of the Warren Commission

and that was it.

They would spend no more time

after that looking into the killing. Of course,

all lack of interest in further

investigation by the FBI only

fueled more conspiracy theories.

Was the FBI involved in the cover up of the murder?

Murder of the president.

It seemed like it might be true.

It was well known that J.

Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI,

hated the Kennedys.

Was he involved somehow in the murder?

There is a film taken that day

at Dealey Plaza where it appears

that the Secret Service agents

who were there to protect JFK

and the other occupants of the

limousine seemingly being told

to stay back from the car by their superiors.

Was it possible that the Secret

Service was also involved in a conspiracy to have the

President shot?

Many people have pointed.

Out the lack of security at Dealey Plaza that day.

With open office windows in the buildings,

it was as if the Secret Service

had neglected to do their duty that day.

This lack of interest by the law

enforcement community shattered

many people's faith in the country's institutions.

It has been said that the Kennedy assassination created

a despair among Americans, causing them to lose their

optimistic attitude and impossibly.

America never really recovered

his sense of place in the world

after Kennedy left the scene.

It has been a long fall downwards ever since.

After almost 60 years, and the assassination is still

not solved. In 1997, JFK researcher James Fetzer

headed a symposium of well known researchers to examine

the Zapruder film.

It was the first full scale

examination of the film itself

and what it contained. Later,

a book would come from this symposium called the Great

Zebruder Film Hoax. The.

Very talented researchers gave

the film its closest examination

ever and they concluded that the film is a hoax.

They can't quite explain why it is a hoax,

but they came up against enough high,

strangeness and anomalies

concerning the film to reach the

conclusion that something was very wrong.

Some of the researchers speculate that the film looks

like it was put through an optical printer and

somehow altered.

Others in the book think that

the film has been airbrushed to hide things.

Great lengths are gone to prove the film is a hoax,

but nothing that is presented actually sticks.

That is not to say that everything they found is wrong,

far from it.

Many of the things that these

very good researchers discovered

has merit, as we shall see.

They misinterpret this odd evidence.

One of the largest problems

working with the Zapruder film is that there were no

good prints of it.

All the purloined films were copies of copies and they.

A massive grain buildup, making the film difficult

to view.

This was cleared up slightly with the release of

the DVD in 1997.

But even that copy was filled with imperfections.

As James Fetzer has pointed out in recent years,

technology has been created that

allows filmmakers to take very

old films and process them to

get rid of flaws of age and time fading scratches.

These technologies can even fill

in lost and missing frames.

Many old films are being saved by this newly emerging

technology.

What would happen if the Zapruder film was recreated

using this new technology?

Jay Weidner is a filmmaker and

writer and has been making films for over 50 years.

He has been involved in over a

thousand hours of production.

He is also so very familiar with the physical effects

used in movies.

We asked him to look at the Zapruder film.

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I not only made films, but I was an expert on physical.

Effects been making films for over 50 years.

And what we call in the camera effects,

a person will have a car accident.

And so you have a real car accident.

You have two cars that run into each other.

That's a physical effect.

There's nothing done in post.

It's not digital.

The cars are really getting wrecked.

Same thing with a person falling from a building.

You don't see them hit the ground,

but they fall onto a bunch bunch

of boxes or mattresses.

That's what a physical effect is.

And so physical effects are now

kind of going by the wayside as

digital effects are taking over.

They're cheaper, safer.

My knowledge of physical effects

gave me a peculiar ability to

see things in the Zapruder film that I think a lot of

other people miss.

A lot of experts and conspiracy researchers.

If there's a splice in a film, that means that probably

something has been altered and

they're trying to remove it.

So there is a splice in the Zapruder film.

There's two splices in the Zapruder film.

Time Life magazine, which owned the Zapruder film,

did not tell the Warren Commission,

when they gave them a copy of the Zapruder film,

that there were two splices in it. Now,

this is evidence being used in

the murder of the President of the United States.

And this evidence has been altered.

There's five frames missing from

the Zebruder film at splice 212

Earth. Frames 207, 208,209,

210 and 211 are missing from the Zapruder film.

And this is obstruction of justice.

This is interfering with evidence, interfering with an

investigation.

They have to tell the Warren

Commission that there's two splices in that film.

They have to tell the Warren

Commission exactly how those two splices occurred.

And who was responsible for it.

We do not know the name of the

technician who caused the damage. And furthermore,

it took them four years.

After the assassination for Time

Life to admit there was any

splices in the Zapruder film.

I considered it an egregious

crime that Time Life, first off, did the splice,

and then secondly, didn't tell us about it.

Didn't tell the Warren Commission about it.

And the Warren Commission used

the Zapruder film as their timeline, their clock.

So even your clock is screwed up.

It's missing by a quarter of a second.

At least time Life has to tell

the Warren Commission that the

Zapruder film has been altered.

However, this slice at 212, at frame 212 is a very

convenient splice.

It occurs exactly when JFK's limousine goes behind the

STEMMINs Freeway sign.

So researcher Fred Newcomb, who is a JFK researcher,

he did an examination of the Zapruder film and he was

fascinated by the splice, as I was,

and he did a color balance reading on the Film.

He noticed there was definitely

a color balance change in the film after the Splice.

He noticed that that color

balance was a bluer hue than the

redder hue before the Splice.

What that tells me is that Zapruder was using daylight

Kodacrome film.

Kodak made two kinds of film for Kodacrome.

They made daylight Kodacrome and

they made indoor Kodacrome.

The daylight Kodochrome is more

balanced towards the red.

The indoor Kodacrome is more balanced towards the blue.

Fred Newcomb finding that the

color balance has shifted to

blue after the Splice tells me

that all the film after the

Splice has been run through some

kind of optical printer because

the light that's used in an optical printer is

an indoor light.

Therefore you'd want to use

indoor Kodachrome for your copy.

The Lord caused his face to shine upon you and

give you peace.

Both now so the Kennedys fly from.

To Fort Worth for a meeting.

When they landed in Fort Worth,

at the airport at Fort Worth,

there are literally thousands of people.

It was like the Beatles first landing in New York City.

It was that crazy.

People were screaming and

cheering and must have made the

Kennedys actually very happy,

because it was an incredibly jubilant crowd.

And then later they took a short

flight from Fort Worth, to Dallas.

And at the airport at Dallas again,

there's thousands of people screaming and cheering,

and everybody's really happy and

the Kennedys are really happy.

And then they take their limousine to go extensively to

Dealey Plaza, to the parade.

And we can see there's no more

than maybe 100 to 200 people.

It's lunchtime.

Sunny day in Dallas.

Downtown Dallas.

There's literally thousands of people working in the

office buildings, and yet they can only muster

up a couple of hundred, maybe people to watch the rock

star president and his wife and then.

The Splice at 212.

We hardly see anyone in Dealy

Plaza watching the president,

maybe eight people or nine

people behind him in that little park behind the limo.

But that's all we see.

It's not only the crowd that did a vanishing act here

in Dealey Plaza, but Dallas had three network

affiliates. They had NBC, CBS, and ABC,

and they did the vanishing act too.

It's absolutely stunning that

neither of those three networks

with affiliates in Dallas would

not have sent a cameraman down to film the president,

the rock star president, and his wife,

his beautiful wife.

But they didn't. Otherwise, we'd have four films of

the assassination.

We'd have Zapruder and then the ABC.

The CBS and the NBC cameraman

would be would have their film,

too. But we don't. But they did.

There is a cameraman.

He's clearly a news cameraman.

He has a 16 millimeter Bolex.

And he's filming bystanders

right after the assassination.

Why wasn't this cameraman shooting the parade which

is right behind him?

But he doesn't.

He shoots the bystanders who are panicking because of

the assassination.

I'd seen the Zapruder film many times,

but they're all low quality versions.

All of the copies of the Zapruder film were terrible.

There are copies of copies and high grain.

And it was almost like watching like an Impressionistic painting.

You could kind of detach your

own interpretation of what you

were seeing because you really couldn't understand what

it was you're seeing.

But eventually I did get a high

quality copy of the Zapruder film and I watched it.

So there's two versions of the Zapruder film.

The government version, the official version.

The Warren Commission version says John F.

Kennedy's limo emerges from

behind the STEMMINs Freeway sign

Lee Harvey Oswald from the 6th floor.

Book Depository, uses a high powered rifle,

shoots John F.

Kennedy in the back of the neck.

A couple seconds later, he gets off another round and

shoots Kennedy in the back of the head.

He fires a round in between

those two shots that misses.

This is the official government

line. Three shots, two hit, one miss.

A bold action rifle

(mimicks gun cocking)

in 6 seconds three times is

unbelievable. Period.

The conspiracy theorists say

that as the limousine emerges from behind the Stemmans

Freeway sign, a person who's behind the fence

behind the Pergola, uses a high

powered rifle and shoots Kennedy

in the front of the neck here

and then a couple of seconds later,

fires another round and hits him on the side of the head.

They say that there was only two shots fired.

Not one person in Dealey Plaza or

anywhere else in Dallas that day

saw a man firing a rifle.

Not from the book depository,

not from behind the pergola, not from anywhere.

No one saw a man firing a rifle

anywhere that day. Period.

30 caliber rifle.

A high powered rifle is really loud.

The cutting through the air that

the gigantic bullet makes is one

of the scariest sounds that the human ear can hear.

Bullet traveling at 800

or 900 miles an hour,

cutting through the air right over your head or right

near your ear.

No one reacts to the guns going off.

If you look at Google Earth, at Dealey Plaza,

you'll see that the conspiracy.

Theorists say that the shooter was behind the fence.

That's behind the pergola.

If you look on Google Earth,

you'll see that that's only about 40ft away from where

the car is on Elm Street.

40ft away is 13 yards.

Okay? That is not very far.

Everybody in Dealey Plaza would

have heard the gun going off.

They would have all been hitting

the ground and tried to see who was firing the gun.

So the shooter would have been

identified almost immediately.

As soon as he fired the gun,

people would have looked in his direction. Zapruder,

filming at the grassy knoll, had the bullets flying

right past his head.

If the shooter was behind the pergola,

he shows no reaction to the bullets flying.

You watch the film, you don't see the camera jerk around.

You don't see any kind of sudden movements when the

bullets go off.

Anybody else but Abraham

Zapruder would have been flat on

the ground as soon as the bullets started flying.

But somehow this guy maintains

his cool through the entire time

that all the bullets are flying

and keeps his camera on the

President and the First Lady.

And I don't buy it.

The reason that no one is reacting to the bullets being

fired is because there are no bullets being fired.

We in the Zapruder film.

The limousine turns off Houston

and comes up Elm Street and the crowds are cheering

and everything.

And then it passes in front of

the Stemmins Freeway sign.

And as it comes out, Kennedy's doing something

like putting his hands up to about here.

That gesture of putting his

hands here is what makes all of

the theories say that he had a wound to the neck and

he was gripping it.

If you watch carefully, though,

his hands actually don't go to

the neck and. Then I watch, and you can clearly see

he goes like this.

He places something on his right

cheek. He brings the hand down,

and you can clearly see right

here, there's something there.

And it's casting a shadow in the high noon sun.

Then Jackie, who's really not paying any

attention to John, suddenly, after a couple of seconds

with this thing, his face on his cheek,

she comes around and now they're kind of face to face

with each other.

And you see her shoulder coming

up and lifting the limousine kind of drifts below the

bottom of the frame.

And just as it drifts below the

bottom of the frame and then his head explodes.

Jackie gets out of the car, does something strange on

the trunk of the car, gets back into the car,

and the car speeds away, presumably going to Parkland

Hospital double.

(gunshots)

Well, squibs have been around for

hundreds of years that were used

in stage plays in Europe,

you know, for explosions and stab wounds or whatever,

make it look more real.

But squibs for movies really started in the 1940s.

Polish filmmaker used it for the first time.

Then it were used a few times in the early 60s.

So what a squib is it's a device

that simulates a gunshot wound to the body.

How a squib works is this.

It has the metal plate, which is at the bottom,

that is here.

This protects the actor from the slight explosion

of the gunpowder.

Then over the top of the plate

is a thin layer of gunpowder with a triggering device.

Creates a spark.

And then over that is, you place your fake blood and a

prophylactic that surrounds the whole thing.

What happens is that you'll put stick them on the back

of the metal plate.

You'll place it on the body.

Here. And then the string is strung

down frequently through the leg.

And a technician will be down on

the floor on his belly and he'll

pull the squib at the right

moments and the actor reacts.

The squib goes off, and it looks very effective.

People screaming in the theaters

from it and thinking they actually saw somebody get

their brains blown out.

(guns blasting)

When I watch the Zapruder film,

what I see is that as the car emerges from the Stemmans

Freeway sign, I see that Jack is already in

the process of placing this thing on his cheek.

This thing that he's placing on his cheek, to me,

looks like a device that they

use in Hollywood to simulate a gunshot with own.

It's called a squib.

Has a string on it that, when pulled,

activates the squib and causes it to explode and fake

blood comes out.

What I see is Jackie coming around to the front of JFK,

reaching forward. Then, conveniently,

everything drops to the bottom

of the frame so we can't see her

left hand and what it's doing.

And I see that she's pulling the

string on the squib that JFK has

just placed on his right cheek, causing it to explode.

JFK conveniently falls down into the well of the car.

But before he falls into the

well of the car and after the

explosion, for a brief second, you can see the side

of his head.

And what you see is you see reflecting in the afternoon

sunlight.

You can see the squib roll up

like a window shade up his cheek

and flying off his cheek.

And that's what Jackie is retrieving.

She's retrieving the plate from

the squib because it's evidence of fakery. She gets up.

She doesn't even care that her

husband has just been shot in

the head right next to her.

She lets him fall into the seat.

And then she gets up and she grabs what I believe

is the metal plate.

I believe Secret service agent Clint Hill also saw the

metal plate flying.

So he must have known what was going on.

He may have even retrieved the

plate and hands it to it.

Either way, she grabs it and then jumps back

in the car and it speeds away.

Somehow JFK became acquainted

with this squib technology

and used it. Jackie came by,

she pulled the string. Nowadays,

squibs have remote control,

so you don't need the string

anymore more. But in those days,

something that would get the flint to spark,

to ignite the gunpowder,

to cause the minor explosion and

cause the blood and whatever

things you have mixed in with

the blood to explode outward.

Looking very effective.

If you look at the Zapruder film, you will see that.

Kennedy's head does not start moving exactly when the

explosion happens.

It's a frame or two after.

(ambient music)

It's a frame or two after.

That cannot be.

His head would have moved,

started moving the minute that that thing exploded.

If it was a bullet, it would have pushed

him immediately.

There would been no resistance by him.

He could not have listed a fast moving bullet.

And there would been probably

six or seven quarts of blood all

splattered all through that car.

Jackie would be drenched in blood.

It would be serious.

That's just the neck wound.

You couple that with a head wound,

now you've got blood everywhere, okay?

And yet you don't see any blood.

John Connolly gets interviewed

about five days after the assassination from his

hospital room.

Says that he looked back after

the shot rang out and he saw

blood and brain matter all over

the back trunk of the limousine.

Well, first off, if he watches the Zapruder film,

he never turns his head all the

way around in order to be able

to see what's on the trunk.

All right? So he makes no motions of

looking at the trunk. Secondly, you can see the trunk,

and there's no brain matter.

There's no blood anywhere.

In fact, there's no blood anywhere

anywhere in the whole frame outside of the explosion.

You, James Fetzer sees.

The squib on the side of Kennedy's face and thinks that

it's been airbrushed there, that he calls it the Blob,

and he thinks that somehow it's been airbrushed. Well,

an eight millimeter film frame is about this big.

How you're going to airbrush

something that small so that's

clearly it's not airbrushed.

He would say, oh, they blew it up,

and then they airbrushed,

and then they reduced it again.

I'm sure you would say that, but it's not that.

It's the squib.

And because James Fetzer doesn't know what a squib is,

he can't tell you what it is.

What they did was they concluded it was a hoax,

because they kept seeing all the high weirdness that

I'm describing to you.

But because they weren't

associated or have any knowledge

of squib technology and motion picture technology,

they didn't know what they were looking at.

And the same thing is true with

all the conspiracy theorists and

all of the government theorists,

including the Warren Commission.

They didn't know in 1963.

What a squib was.

There might have been eight or

nine people on earth that

actually knew what a squib was

or how it operated at the time.

So they reached the conclusion

the symposium and the book

reached the conclusion that the

Zapruder film had been hoaxed.

But it hasn't been hoaxed.

It's been changed.

It's been optically after the

splice it's been optically

changed the changes that were

made to the Zapruder film after

the splice were done to hide Jackie pulling the string.

So what they did is they created

what they call a traveling mat.

They matted out the entire background,

isolated the limousine and then

slightly reduced it in size so they could lower it

into the frame.

The reason that you can see that

this is what happened is is because the people in the

background behind the limousine

are as big as the people in the

limousine or maybe bigger.

And that can't be because if

you're further away from the camera, you're smaller.

It wasn't the Zapruder that didn't

keep the Kennedys in the center

of the frame. He probably did.

But later, when they saw the string being pulled,

they realized that they had to

optically recreate the film,

lower the limousine down in the

frame to hide Jackie doing that

and hide the film forever and hope no one ever saw it,

which is what they thought.

And they were hiding the film so

anyone who did know how a squib operated would not be

able to see it.

Because Time Life had kept the film under wraps for

over 30 years,

(ambient music)

the autopsy pictures of the JFK assassination were

finally released.

And

they were completely at variance

with what the Zapruder film

showed. Zapruder film shows, of course,

bullet hitting the right side of JFK's head.

But the autopsy pictures show

the wound here and no wound.

Here.

So that kind of upset a lot of

people and also caused people to

think that the Zapruder film was a hoax.

But I emphatically deny these charges.

Lee Harvey Oswald killed two

people that day on November 22.

One was, of course, John F.

Kennedy, they say.

And the second one was Dallas

Police Officer Jefferson Davis

or J. D. Tippitt. J D tippitt.

It had a nickname on the Dallas police force,

and his nickname was JFK.

Why? Because J. D.

Tippitt looked exactly like John F. Kennedy.

He was what they call a dead ringer.

Quite a coincidence that Lee

Harvey Oswald kills two people

that day in Dallas that look exactly like each other.

The body in the autopsy, the body that gets examined at

Parkland is not John F.

Kennedy, but is in fact, J.

D. Tippitt. That J. D.

Tippitt was murdered.

Earlier the facts around his

murder, which are so muddled.

They are muddled because the murder that the witnesses

saw was staged.

Dallas police mysteriously receive a phone call from an

anonymous source saying that a

mysterious man has ducked into this movie theater right

near where JD.

Tippitt was supposedly shot.

The Dallas police go into the

movie theater and they find Lee Harvey Oswald in there

watching a movie.

There's a brief scuffle.

Oswald gets punched.

They arrest Lee Harvey Oswald.

And then that night, they bring him out for

a press conference.

He comes out and he makes a statement that he denies

shooting J. D. Tippitt.

Then a reporter says, yeah, but what about shooting

the President?

And you can clearly see that Oswald does not know the

President's been shot.

He says that he isn't involved

in shooting the President. Well,

in between the time he was arrested and that press

conference.

They gave Oswald a paraffin test

in which it was proven they had not fired a rifle.

The Dallas police knew that he

didn't fire a rifle but they

kept the charges on him anyway.

Oswald's death itself is quite strange. On Sunday,

two days after the assassination

and as he's being moved and

going through the parking lot

nightclub owner Jack Ruby has

ties to the Chicago mob suddenly

comes in and kills Oswald by

shooting him in the abdomen.

That famous shot of Ruby shooting Oswald.

There's another shot of Ruby shooting Oswald that no

one ever talks about.

And that's this shot.

And if we look to the right and

the upper frame we see a very

professional microphone has been placed there. Now,

why would a microphone be placed there?

If Oswald is just passing through,

what would be the point?

You would only put a microphone

there if something significant

was going to happen below that microphone.

So whoever put the microphone there knew that something

significant was going to happen.

And that thing that happened is

Ruby shooting Oswald. Now,

somewhere between Oswald's press

conference and the walk through the garage Oswald gets

a black sweater.

I don't know where he got it from,

but he gets a black sweater.

So he's got a black sweater on.

But that's very convenient.

It because in those days

everything was black and white.

All the newsreel footage and everything.

So when the cameras are cranking

and they show Ruby shooting

Oswald with his black sweater

you're not going to see any

blood because the black sweater

is going to absorb it all.

And again, Oswald just falls backwards and

again disappears completely.

We never see him again.

Oswald was given an autopsy the

next day, Monday, November 25.

And there were no photographs

taken of Oswald's autopsy.

It.

Very strange.

Attention all squad.

The suspect in the shooting at Elman,

Houston is reported to be an unknown white male,

approximately 30, slender bills by 5ft ten inches.

Weight 165 pounds.

Report to be armed with what is

thought to be a 30 caliber rifle. Well,

it was a 30 caliber rifle used in the shooting,

that's for sure.

The problem here is that they

didn't discover the 30 caliber

rifle until a couple of hours after the assassination,

not a couple of seconds after it.

So how did the person who wrote the bulletin get this

information?

Oswald never left with the gun either.

The gun was stashed in a box on

the 6th floor depository.

So he didn't have the gun with him.

This is believe this bulletin is

probably very likely the reason why J. D.

Tippitt pulled over whoever it was that was walking

down the street.

Because everybody was suspicious.

Because the president.

Had just been shot.

So that in itself is an amazing thing.

That bulletin got out and with all that really valuable

information on it that no one could have known.

Situation is about nobody has told me anything except

the ease of

murdering a policeman

I know nothing more than that.

I do request

someone to come.

Oswald was originally arrested for the murder of J. D.

Tippitt based on the call from

the anonymous source that he was in the movie theater.

And Oswald also says during his press conference that

he uses the word.

He calls himself a patsy,

which is a very interesting word

to use because it has a very

specific meaning and that you're

being put up for a crime that you didn't commit.

These people have given me a hearing without legal

representation or anything.

I didn't shoot anybody.

Notice I'm just a patsy I'M JUST A PATSY.

Tippitt had already been murdered before that.

Murdered in the back of the head and shot in the neck.

Two shots.

They wanted to make it look like J. D.

Tippitt had been killed by Oswald. Make it look like J. D.

Tippitt was killed after Kennedy,

when actually he was killed before Kennedy.

It would make total sense for

the Secret Service to put a

little bulletproof chamber in

there with a trap door through

the seat to allow the President

to escape danger in the middle

of a very bad circumstance,

say a bomb going off or somebody

shooting or someone trying to

kidnap the President, right?

Of course, if there is a panic room or a

secret room in the trunk of the car,

then you would have to keep it secret because otherwise

it's useless.

Tippitt was killed somewhere between Dallas airport

and Dealey Plaza.

They picked up Tippitt's body, put it in the in the.

Little chamber in the trunk of the limousine.

Kennedy goes through the plaza.

He puts the squib on his cheek.

Jackie pulls the string.

It goes off.

He falls into the car.

The car speeds away. And now, in the eight minute drive

between Dealey Plaza and Parkland Hospital,

Tippitt is brought out from the panic room. JFK.

Is put back in the panic room.

Mud on the seat and on Jackie

are from Tippitt because no one was actually shot.

By the time they get to Parkland

Hospital, the body is Tippitt.

They say that he's got a giant

wound in the back of the head.

They put the body on the airplane on Air Force One.

It's taken to Bethesda Hospital again.

It's autopsied at Bethesda

Hospital by doctors who really don't know what they're

doing anyway, and the whole time it's Tippitt.

Anybody do a fingerprint check on that body?

See if it was really JFK?

Anybody do teeth check?

Make sure it's him? No they didn't do do that?

It was a closed casket.

Nobody saw it ever again.

And J. D. Tippitt is, sadly enough,

the only person that died that day.

(ambient music)

Yeah. So in 1991, Oliver Stone made his fantastic

movie, JFK, which examines a lot of the

theories around the Kennedy assassination.

It's just a really well made film. Like,

one of the best made films ever,

I have to say. And, um,

he

Has to have seen the squib.

He did Platoon just a few years earlier than this.

There's literally hundreds of scribbs going off,

and so he had to know that it was a squib. Now,

I'm cutting Oliver a break here, okay?

Because the way that a film works is you write the

screenplay and then you go get money.

And then you make the film.

So he did not have a high quality version of the

Zapruder film.

None of us did until he was

months into production. Okay?

So what he did was he paid Time Life $80,000 to have

a really good, high quality version of

the Brooder film made.

This took a while.

So he's in pre-production, working, making the film.

He wrote the script fully

thinking that there had been a

killer or shooter in the grassy

knoll and he was writing it that way. And then finally,

he gets the high quality version of the Zapruder film

and he watches it.

He's already millions of dollars

into this project. Right?

He sees the Zapruder film.

This is what I think happened.

He sees the squib.

He's probably flabbergasted,

probably deflated because it's Kennedy faking.

His death is much more deflating

than a violent assassination in the town square.

And he was kind of forced to stick with the original

storyline.

I would really like to talk to Oliver Stone about this.

The secret service and the FBI

quickly gather up all the photographs, the movie films,

everything taken by the bystanders near the point where

the assassination supposedly took place, all right?

They're doing that because they

want to make sure nobody gets a

photograph of Kennedy putting

the squib on and everything.

The only person that's allowed

to have their film be seen is Abraham Zapruder. Okay?

We don't know about all the rest of stuff.

Fell into a black hole, disappeared forever.

We'll never know what was taken that day.

We know that there's a film of the secret service being

instructed by their superior to

back away from the limousine, which they're not supposed to do.

They're supposed to be on all sides of the limousine

protecting the president from

any bullets coming through,

and they aren't. I believe that.

Did that to

protect the Secret Service from seeing Kennedy putting

on the squib, so therefore they wouldn't

be witnesses to it.

So the late Gary Mack was a really good researcher who

started out as a conspiracy

theorist and then later became

the non conspiracy theorist.

But what he did was he took one

of the photographs that had not

been confiscated from the Kennedy assassination and

he started examining it.

And he took one little part of this Polaroid,

black and white Polaroid photograph about this

big of an area,

and he blew it up and he started looking.

And then he added color he

thought he saw a grainy and

Impressionistic photo of a police

officer or someone with a badge

on shooting a gun right towards

the President. Gary Mack.

This is his work.

Gary Mack later said that that wasn't true.

There wasn't enough information

in the photograph for him to reach those conclusions.

And him changing the color, of course,

who knew what the colors were?

So he was just arbitrarily

choosing what colors he wanted to make, everything.

And he eventually realized that

he kind of cheated a little bit

with the Badge Man photo.

And I think that was one of the

things that caused him to turn on the conspiracy.

And he realized, first off, that you could take a scant

amount of evidence and build a

gigantic conspiracy around it,

and then hundreds of other conspirators join in.

And soon this thing, which is based on flimsy evidence,

is now religious doctrine in the conspiracy community.

But the FBI

absolutely refuses to follow up

on hundreds of different leads

after the assassin. Nation.

Everything from the guy that got

supposedly got a chip hit from a bullet fragment.

They don't follow up on that one.

They don't follow up on many witnesses and what

they had to say.

Leading conspiracy theorists to

believe that the FBI must be

involved in a cover up of the Kennedy assassination.

But they're not.

They know what happened and they don't care.

Why bother following up on leads when you know that's

not what happened?

So the reason that the FBI is

not following up on all these

great leads is because the FBI

doesn't want to waste their energy and their resources

following up on stuff that isn't true.

Kennedy had already been warned

earlier that somebody was going

to try to do a hit on him from

a high rise office building.

So it would make you think that

the Secret Service would even be

more willing and ready to make sure that every window

was closed.

It's almost as if they didn't really care.

That's what the whole scene looks like.

But they were definitely told to. Back away.

And so procedures for Secret

Service when a car is in the

open like that Clint Eastwood

actually made a movie about this

is you run the Secret Service

agent runs with the car right next to the President.

So it should have been a Secret Service agent running

with the car, blocking the President's body

from any projectiles coming through,

sacrificing their own life to protect the President,

which is what they're supposed to be doing.

But this is the only time that

the Secret Service is called

completely off from protecting

the perimeter of the limousine.

And they're hanging actually way

back behind the limousine.

And the conspiracy theorists say, oh,

they knew that there was going to be an assassination,

and they didn't want to get hit by the bullets,

so they went and backed up.

But that's not what happened.

What happened is they were being

protected from being witnesses to the squib.

You wanted as few people to see.

Squib being put on the face and going off as possible,

which is also why the crowds are so sparse.

They purposely made sure that

only certain number of people

got into that area where this was going to happen,

and so that there would be fewer witnesses.

They did ask members of the mob

after the assassination,

high ranking members of the mob, not low guys,

if they knew who shot Kennedy. Right.

And every mobster points at other mobsters.

And so it must have been them, must have been Johnny

Rosselini who did it, because I didn't do it, right?

But he must have done it.

He had a gripe against the Kennedys.

And so the mobs all pointing at each other.

But here's the thing.

The mob is really mad at the Kennedys for investigating

organized crime, so they have a motive in

shooting and killing Kennedy,

right? Kennedy. Knows this.

His father was in the mob.

They know everything that's going on, all right?

Kennedy knows that the mob has

a hit out on him, all right?

Maybe several hits out on him.

So what I think he did was he decided to supersede the

mob and do it himself, get out of the presidency.

And the mob would not really know what happened,

except that one of them had done it.

But everyone was keeping their mouth shut,

and so no one knew who did it.

And the mob people themselves

expressed surprise that they

haven't heard the rumors about who actually did it,

because they're all talking to each other.

They all know everything's going on.

And so they knew that there was a hit on Kennedy.

They thought that one of them

had done the hit on Kennedy and

had successfully kept it hidden from even them.

Kennedy's great benefit is that

his family is protected. Now, they would frequently.

Kill your wife and kids before they killed you,

just to really rub it in on you.

So Kennedy was probably really afraid of that, right?

So he decided to do it himself for whatever reason.

But whatever reason it was, it stopped the mob from

going any further.

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I just want to reiterate that

the people who have been examining the Kennedy

assassination, no matter who they are,

they are wrong.

Wrong not because they did a bad investigation.

They're wrong because they're ignorant of what a squib

is and how it works.

I hope that my explanation for

how a squib works will make them

see be that Kennedy faked his

own death for whatever reason.

It.

Is there any other evidence that

the entire event was faked?

On November 27, just five days after being shot

in the back with a high powered rifle,

governor John Connolly gave this interview.

What other reflections have you had, Governor?

Only that maybe,

Martin, that the President of the United States

has resolved for this great tragedy

It is nothing more than a manifestation of an extremism

on both sides.

That basically is the genesis of our self destruction.

If we're ever going to be destroyed.

I am not the least fearful of

any foreign enemy so long as we have within ourselves

not hate, but human understanding,

not passion, prejudice, but reason.

Intolerance and not ignorance,

but knowledge and the willingness to give

that knowledge.

This is the only answer I can

give. Martin Wang. He's gone.

Thank you.

He appears to be in fairly good

condition considering what he

claims to have had happened.

One would think that he would

have been on painkillers and

other drugs having been shot in

the back by a high powered rifle

just a few days earlier.

But he appears very sober, clear headed and healthy

Listen to this phone call made

ten days after the assassination

between Jacqueline Kennedy and the new president, LBJ.

Mr. President.

I just wanted you to know you were loved and by so

many ends so much.

I'm one of them. I tried.

I didn't dare bother you again.

But I got Kenny O'Donnell over

here to give you a message if he ever saw you.

Did he give to yet about my

letter that was waiting for me

last night? Listen sweetie.

Now first thing you got to learn

you got some things to learn.

And one of them is that you don't. Bother me,

give me strength.

But I wasn't going to send you in one more letter.

And I wish don't send me anything.

You just come over and put your arm around me.

That's all you do when you

haven't got anything else to do.

Let's take a walk.

Let's walk around the backyard

and just let me tell you how

much you mean to all of us and

how we can carry on if you give us a little strength.

You know what I want to say to you about that letter?

I Know how rare a letter is in

a president's handwriting?

Do you know that I've got more in your handwriting than

I do in Jack's now?

And for you to write it at this

time and then to send me that thing today of your tape

announcement and everything,

I want you to just know this,

that I told my mama a long time

ago when everybody else gave

up about my election in 48.

My mother and my wife and my

sisters and you females got a lot of courage that

we men don't have.

And so we have to rely on you and depend on you and.

Got something to do.

You got the President relying on you,

and this is not the first thing you have,

so they're not many women, you know,

run around with a good many presidents.

So you just bear that in mind.

You got the biggest job of your life.

I ran around with two presidents.

That's what they'll say about me.

Okay. Anytime. Goodbye.

Thank you for calling, Mr.

President. Goodbye. Do come by.

I will.

But this is the first time they

have spoken since the killing of her husband. LBJ.

Doesn't spend a moment consoling her about her loss.

Even weirder, she isn't sad and doesn't

appear to be mourning.

But perhaps the strangest part

of this phone call is that

President Lyndon Johnson LBJ.

Is apparently coming on to Jackie Kennedy and is trying

to have sex with her.

As he was being sworn in for president on Air Force

One in Dallas, LBJ was given a wink and a smile

by Congressman Albert Thomas.

Many found.

Rude and inappropriate, especially with Jackie standing

right next to LBJ.

Perhaps in the context of actually understanding what

really just occurred, the wink may have been

appropriate.

Boston University history professor Robert Dalek was

visiting the Kennedys at the

White House shortly after the

Bay of Pigs incident. Quote.

He had heard a lecture at the

White House by distinguished

historian David Herbert Donald,

a Lincoln Civil War expert.

Unquote. Professor Dalek said.

Quote at that lecture, Kennedy asked Donald if Lincoln

would his reputation had lived be as great as it is.

Donald said probably not, because he would have had to

wrestle with the post Civil War era unquote.

Dalek remembers that this information had a profound

effect on JFK.

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Perhaps he wanted a legacy also similar to Lincoln's.

On March 14, 1967, JFK's body was quietly exhumed

from his grave at Arlington Cemetery and moved to

another location.

What was the real reason for

exhuming the President's body in

the middle of the night without telling anyone?

No reason has ever been given for this action.

If JFK faked his death, the question becomes why?

Perhaps it was for number of reasons.

Perhaps the mob had put out a hit on him in early 1963.

Perhaps there were other rumors

of assassinations that we have never heard about.

It is not well known, but JFK was suffering from

Addison's disease.

He was in constant pain and had

to wear a brace on his neck.

Possibly he had been told he had

a limited period of time left

and he didn't want to spend that time being President.

It was also well known that the

marriage between JFK and Jackie was on the rocks.

Things had cooled considerably over the course of

the Presidency.

With both of them having affairs.

JFK's sexual escapades are legendary.

It was said that he bedded Marilyn Monroe,

Judith Exner, who had mob ties, and other women.

But there was one woman that JFK.

Was seen in private that he may

have fallen in love with.

It was well known that one of JFK's mistresses was

Mary Pinchot Meyer, a beautiful socialite in the

Washington, DC. Setting.

In 1945, Mary married Cord Meyer, who later became head

of the CIA.

Her sister Tony would marry CIA

asset and eventual editor of the Washington Post,

Benjamin Bradley.

Ben Bradley would later bring down another president,

president Nixon, when he published damaging

information information concerning the Watergate

burglary leading eventually to Nixon's resignation

on October 12, 1964. Just the.

Eleven months after JFK's fake assassination,

Mary Pinchot Meyer was murdered.

And her murder has many odd elements to it.

It was around 1230 on a sunny afternoon,

and Mary was taking her usual

afternoon walk on the DC towpath.

Two men, Henry Wiggins and William Branch,

who were working near the towpath on a car,

heard two gunshots and a woman

crying out, Someone help me.

They looked across the canal and saw a man with a gun

standing over a woman laying on the path.

Wiggins ran to call the police.

The man was later arrested by police and identified

as Ray Crump, Jr.

This is where things start to get weird.

Wiggins made the call to the

police at between 1223 in 1225,

but the prosecutor reports that

the police arrived at 1224.

It is as if they knew about the

murder before it occurred.

Furthermore, no ambulance was called in.

How could they know she was 100%

dead if there was a remote chance at saving her life?

Shouldn't they try and do everything they can?

The police are not doctors.

Why was just the homicide squad

called in after getting notified by the police?

Other high weirdness is the fact

that they could not find the car

that Wiggins claims he was working on. The two men,

Wiggins and Branch, were joined by a third witness,

William Mitchell, who passed by Mary while jogging.

These are the only three people who witnessed anything

close to the event.

It turns out later that Mitchell

was an alias for a man who worked at the CIA.

No record of his identity was ever found,

and we don't know why he was near her when she was

supposedly murdered.

Did both JFK and Mary Pinchot

Meyer fake their deaths so they could be together?

The fact that she has serious

connections with the Washington, DC.

Establishment and that her ex

husband had been the head of the

CIA would give one pause to

consider also the idea that an

ex-wife of the head of the CIA

can be mysteriously murdered in

public in broad daylight and no one is ever convicted.

But the strangest part of the story,

and one pertinent to the narrative being constructed,

is the story of young journalist Vance morrow.

Vance heard the police report of

Wiggins phone call concerning the murder right nearby.

He ran to the scene, getting there before anybody else.

He reported seeing no blood on

Mary Pinchot Meyer's body.

He wrote about this in the Smithsonian magazine.

She was shot twice, and yet no blood at the scene.

Frankly, the photos that were taken look staged.

It has also been reported that CIA counterintelligence.

Officer James Jesus Angleton

broke into Mary's house that same afternoon and

stole her diary.

Did Mary fake her death also so

that she could join her lover in some faraway land?

There is enough strangeness

around the death of Mary Pinchot

Meyer to give one pause for reflection.

There were rumors at the time, mostly in the tabloids,

that JFK was live and well and

living on Aristotle Onnasus'

island Scorpius.

The fact that soon after the

assassination his wife Jackie

would marry Aristotle Onassus lends some credence

to these rumors.

We will probably never figure out exactly why JFK

faked his death.

We do know that this event had a very negative effect,

both on the citizens of the

country and on the political system as well.

It is a tragedy that a leader.

With the charisma and charm of John F. Kennedy,

decided to leave his position as

president and also leave behind his past life.

Perhaps after almost 60 years of pain and struggle,

we as a country can finally put the issue to rest.

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(soft piano music)