1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:21,400 A grief stricken family mourns the death of its favorite son, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 2 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:27,519 Their anguish is shared by a disbelieving world, appalled at the brutality of the... 3 00:00:27,519 --> 00:00:30,519 of the 35th President of the United States. 4 00:01:27,519 --> 00:01:40,519 I feel based upon what I know now there was what I would call a benign cover-up. Yes, 5 00:01:40,519 --> 00:01:47,640 there was. They were concerned about Oswald's connections to the Soviet Union and to... 6 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:53,199 and they were fearful that if the American public were to find this out, they could... 7 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,480 incensed that it could have possibly led to an atomic war. We have the right to know t... 8 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:04,359 If we don't have the truth, everything we build on is a lie. It's like building a... 9 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:10,520 false foundation. Sooner or later, it's going to crumble. I think we must know what... 10 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:19,599 November 22, 1963, in order to be a democracy today. And until the truth is told about that 11 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:25,680 day, then we don't know that they're telling the truth today. Alan Dulles, director of ... 12 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:31,319 until Kennedy fired him, was one of the commissioners responsible for producing th... 13 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:36,199 report on the President's assassination. The American media were glowing in their prais... 14 00:02:36,199 --> 00:02:41,959 the report that concluded Lee Harvey Oswald was alone responsible. It was only under... 15 00:02:41,959 --> 00:02:47,719 scrutiny that the superficiality of its findings became clear. The Warren Commissi... 16 00:02:47,759 --> 00:02:52,800 there were three shots fired. The first shot struck the President in the back, exited h... 17 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,159 strike Governor Connolly in the back and exited in his right chest, and then went... 18 00:02:58,159 --> 00:03:03,800 and then wound up embedded in his thigh and the bullet fell out at Parkland Hospital. ... 19 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,960 Commission also decided the second shot probably missed and flew off into Dealey... 20 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,560 And the Commission decided that the third shot struck the President in the head and... 21 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:17,639 And that's the official version of what happened. And it's interesting, one of the... 22 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:24,479 pointed out that no witness at any time has ever described the assassinations having... 23 00:03:24,479 --> 00:03:30,359 way. Only the Warren Commission came up with that interpretation and it's the single... 24 00:03:30,359 --> 00:03:38,279 On the morning of the assassination, Bill and Gail Newman had gone down to Dealey Plaza... 25 00:03:38,279 --> 00:03:43,979 their children to watch the presidential motorcade pass. They were the closest... 26 00:03:43,979 --> 00:03:49,079 tragedy and their account is echoed by many others who were there. The first two shots... 27 00:03:49,079 --> 00:03:56,060 realize what they were, but the third shot after it was fired, I heard Mrs. Kennedy... 28 00:03:56,060 --> 00:04:01,620 oh no they have shot Jack and it was just sort of sent a chill over you. It was just... 29 00:04:01,620 --> 00:04:09,739 I can remember seeing the side of the President's ear and head come off. I remem... 30 00:04:09,740 --> 00:04:16,340 and the red and just bits and pieces of flesh exploding from the President's head. At th... 31 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:22,819 I turned to Gail and said, that's it, hit the ground. And we turned and hit the ground and 32 00:04:22,819 --> 00:04:30,500 covered our children. When the third shot was fired, I thought it came from directly behind 33 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:39,899 towards the grassy knoll behind me. I based that primarily on the third shot from what... 34 00:04:39,899 --> 00:04:45,860 the side of the President's head coming off and from the sound of the rifle, the repor... 35 00:04:45,860 --> 00:04:50,779 rifle. As the official story started coming out and hearing that the shots came from t... 36 00:04:50,779 --> 00:04:56,220 these witnesses started to doubt their own ears. So as the days went by, fewer and fe... 37 00:04:56,220 --> 00:05:00,540 witnesses would come forward because they just all of a sudden weren't really sure... 38 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:05,620 had heard. They were convinced on November 22, 63, that at least one shot came from t... 39 00:05:05,620 --> 00:05:09,580 but by four or five days later, then they weren't sure and they didn't come forward ... 40 00:05:09,580 --> 00:05:15,580 Mary Woodward was a junior reporter on the Dallas Morning News who had joined the... 41 00:05:15,580 --> 00:05:21,300 in Dealey Plaza to watch the Kennedy motorcade. She was the journalist closest ... 42 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:26,860 rushed back to her office to file the story in a state of great consternation. They fi... 43 00:05:26,860 --> 00:05:33,500 took me to the office nurse and had me have a tranquilizer because they thought was... 44 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:39,139 hysterical. I think I was behaving quite rationally under the circumstances, but... 45 00:05:39,139 --> 00:05:45,939 down and wrote the story immediately and actually had completed the story before th... 46 00:05:45,939 --> 00:05:53,259 absolutely confirmed that he was even dead. So the story was absolutely my own... 47 00:05:53,259 --> 00:05:59,139 not from anything anyone had said or what I had read or heard. Some things I have ofte... 48 00:05:59,139 --> 00:06:04,579 would hate to swear before a court of law or before God, but one thing I am totally... 49 00:06:04,579 --> 00:06:10,620 of in my own mind is how many shots there were and there were three shots. The secon... 50 00:06:10,660 --> 00:06:16,620 were immediate. It was almost as if one were an echo of the other. They came so quickly... 51 00:06:16,620 --> 00:06:24,180 of one did not cease until the second shot. With the second and third shots I did see ... 52 00:06:24,180 --> 00:06:33,620 being hit. I literally saw his head explode. So I felt that the shots had come as I wro... 53 00:06:33,620 --> 00:06:39,579 article from behind me and to my right which would have been in the direction of the... 54 00:06:39,579 --> 00:06:46,060 and the railroad overpass. Because it contradicted the sole assassin theory, Mar... 55 00:06:46,060 --> 00:06:51,500 account was quickly pulled and her version discounted. Civic leaders, responsible... 56 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:56,620 whether it be the mayor, the managing editor, the paper, almost felt it a responsibility to 57 00:06:56,620 --> 00:07:02,899 kind of not rock the boat perhaps. The neat answer was the version that came to be the... 58 00:07:02,899 --> 00:07:08,459 accepted that there were three shots and they had all come from the school but depositor... 59 00:07:08,459 --> 00:07:14,939 and they were all fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. We do know that the FBI as the official... 60 00:07:14,939 --> 00:07:19,859 body for the Warren Commission apparently collected all the possible evidence it cou... 61 00:07:19,859 --> 00:07:24,579 indicated Lee Harvey Oswald did it and did it alone. Other evidence that pointed to perhaps 62 00:07:24,579 --> 00:07:30,259 other people or other locations for shooters was either ignored or deemed to be mistake... 63 00:07:30,259 --> 00:07:37,259 misinterpreted. I was interviewed by the FBI but I did not testify before the Warren... 64 00:07:38,219 --> 00:07:44,300 It's my understanding the reason I did not go before the Warren Commission was because i... 65 00:07:45,019 --> 00:07:51,420 statement that I thought the shots came from directly behind implied the shots were coming 66 00:07:51,420 --> 00:07:57,579 from the grassy knoll. This is something apparently the Warren Commission did not w... 67 00:07:58,459 --> 00:08:04,620 They wanted to keep the direction of the assassination in the direction of the scho... 68 00:08:08,219 --> 00:08:13,180 On that tragic day in Dallas the routine protection of the President of the United... 69 00:08:13,180 --> 00:08:18,139 was compromised from the very beginning according to military expert Colonel Fletc... 70 00:08:18,139 --> 00:08:24,300 What they call protection of the President is an old skill. I went to Mexico City in 195... 71 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:29,219 President Eisenhower went to Mexico City and by that I mean the security people went th... 72 00:08:29,219 --> 00:08:35,779 than a month early to look at every angle of the trip. There are rules and manuals on w... 73 00:08:35,779 --> 00:08:41,939 protection. The Secret Service that is an organization of limited size is authorized to 74 00:08:41,939 --> 00:08:46,980 call any number of military people. There's a military people who are already training to 75 00:08:46,980 --> 00:08:52,980 augment their forces in a case like this. There's no shortage of people. Ordinarily ... 76 00:08:52,980 --> 00:08:58,579 military I think was called a special group number 113 would have come up from San... 77 00:08:58,579 --> 00:09:02,419 and would have been deployed all through the streets of Dallas the important streets of... 78 00:09:02,419 --> 00:09:07,379 That was not done. In fact the commander was specifically told he wasn't needed. You've... 79 00:09:07,379 --> 00:09:12,099 seen the picture of the school book building you know where Oswald is supposed to have... 80 00:09:12,099 --> 00:09:18,019 President. You notice in those pictures there are open windows. If the Secret Service ha... 81 00:09:18,019 --> 00:09:23,379 and had done their usual job none of those windows would have been open. And had anyo... 82 00:09:23,379 --> 00:09:27,539 of those windows at that time they would have been on the radio they would have had a ma... 83 00:09:27,539 --> 00:09:32,740 that room immediately and the window would have been closed. You see that's protectio... 84 00:09:32,740 --> 00:09:37,379 take place. In fact there were no Secret Service people on the ground around Dealey... 85 00:09:37,379 --> 00:09:44,099 afternoon. They were told they were not needed. There was further unprofessional... 86 00:09:44,099 --> 00:09:49,939 at the time. The night before the assassination most of the presidential... 87 00:09:49,940 --> 00:09:54,500 evening at this notorious Fort Worth nightclub. Some staying until 5 a.m. 88 00:10:03,780 --> 00:10:08,260 Drinking alcohol while on a tour of duty contravened all Secret Service regulations. 89 00:10:12,820 --> 00:10:17,620 It could well explain their failure to react when the deadly shots strafed the... 90 00:10:17,620 --> 00:10:21,299 car only hours later in what was to be a classic ambush. 91 00:10:28,259 --> 00:10:34,259 Instead of going straight down the street and then to the trademark he made this 90 degr... 92 00:10:34,259 --> 00:10:39,060 then another very sharp turn in front of the school book depository building. Now the... 93 00:10:39,060 --> 00:10:45,700 Service have rules against that. The rules are that if the car is slowed down below 4... 94 00:10:46,259 --> 00:10:52,660 you must then protect it fully in other ways such as not digressing and going around... 95 00:10:52,660 --> 00:10:57,140 and all that because when you slowed him around that corner you opened up field of... 96 00:10:57,140 --> 00:11:02,420 three directions behind him to the side and from in front and of course he was killed... 97 00:11:02,420 --> 00:11:10,259 position that had been set up by the selection of that room. To this day the... 98 00:11:10,259 --> 00:11:13,620 Kennedy's killing haunts those who were closest to the president. 99 00:11:23,220 --> 00:11:29,620 Riding a few feet from the limousine was Dallas police outrider Bobby Hargis. There... 100 00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:34,259 motorcycle officer by the name of Buddy Brewer that came up to me and said Bob you... 101 00:11:34,259 --> 00:11:39,379 your lip and he took his finger like that and it was a piece of the president's brain an... 102 00:11:39,379 --> 00:11:47,779 of his skull bone that had hit me on the lip. The watery blood and stuff that came from ... 103 00:11:47,779 --> 00:11:53,139 was expiring my motorcycle and all over my uniform and my helmet and my face 104 00:11:55,139 --> 00:12:01,220 and all of us felt real bad. Every single soul on the police department felt bad 105 00:12:03,139 --> 00:12:04,259 and you could tell it by 106 00:12:04,259 --> 00:12:07,379 just looking at them. 107 00:12:09,939 --> 00:12:17,139 That's why I had all the bad dreams. One of the nightmares is as we're turning off of... 108 00:12:17,139 --> 00:12:25,139 onto Houston Street I can see up at the school book depository I can see something... 109 00:12:25,779 --> 00:12:34,100 one of the windows and then the shine goes off and becomes a gun barrel and I turn... 110 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:39,460 motorcycle I try to tell the secret service people that there's something up there and... 111 00:12:39,460 --> 00:12:47,940 I yell and they don't hear me and I do this all the way until the president gets shot ... 112 00:12:48,420 --> 00:13:09,780 In the ensuing chaos police officers at first acted independently but within minutes the... 113 00:13:09,779 --> 00:13:19,860 All the floors were systematically searched but the first hard evidence was discovered... 114 00:13:19,860 --> 00:13:28,819 Immediately saw the area with some books had been stacked up and the window was half op... 115 00:13:28,819 --> 00:13:35,379 pane open which is something of this nature high up off the window sill 116 00:13:35,779 --> 00:13:43,539 and I spotted the spent cottages they were lying approximately in this position the... 117 00:13:43,539 --> 00:13:58,659 They were lying approximately in this position the first one was here the second... 118 00:13:58,659 --> 00:14:05,299 approximate position which the open window was like this more so to speak but it's in... 119 00:14:05,779 --> 00:14:22,019 I secured the area and let no one into that particular spot where the sniper's nest wa... 120 00:14:22,019 --> 00:14:27,139 And at that time you could have heard a pin drop you talk about touching your heart it... 121 00:14:27,139 --> 00:14:55,620 And pardon me we were standing there talking and trying to reach our composure and this... 122 00:14:57,220 --> 00:14:59,059 And it says Christ leads the way. 123 00:15:04,980 --> 00:15:14,500 Outside Parkland hospital grief overcame the waiting crowd as the president's death was... 124 00:15:15,299 --> 00:15:24,179 I knew he was dead I'd been around enough violence in my life to know he was a dead ... 125 00:15:24,819 --> 00:15:29,379 So I said there's been a deed of horror and exacabular has sunk beneath the waves. 126 00:15:30,899 --> 00:15:35,779 I thought that would tell them in effect what had happened without my saying he was dead. 127 00:15:39,539 --> 00:15:52,899 We've made valiant and unceasing efforts to resuscitate this man who was mortally woun... 128 00:15:52,980 --> 00:16:00,899 That even today people would be questioning and telling us stories about mortally woun... 129 00:16:01,379 --> 00:16:11,539 So instead of taking that approach we took the approach let's save this man if we can... 130 00:16:11,779 --> 00:16:20,179 State authorities wanted to do an autopsy which is a state law in state Texas and th... 131 00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:34,019 And there was a lot of pushing shoving cursing they would pull we would try to ro... 132 00:16:34,659 --> 00:16:40,579 This went on for quite a while it was push and shove type thing quite a bit of like I... 133 00:16:41,220 --> 00:16:54,100 I had to hold on to the cross on the casket because of the friction that you know wher... 134 00:16:54,740 --> 00:17:03,700 I believe that if Dr. Rose had been allowed to perform the examination here since his... 135 00:17:04,660 --> 00:17:20,900 That much of the early confusion surrounding the wounds and the questions as to the... 136 00:17:21,860 --> 00:17:25,700 But we didn't have the opportunity to examine President Kennedy here. 137 00:17:27,620 --> 00:17:38,500 At Parkland hospital the Secret Service had won the battle for the President's body wi... 138 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:43,140 The new President had been sworn in on the plane and now made his first address to th... 139 00:17:43,940 --> 00:17:50,580 I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. 140 00:17:51,860 --> 00:18:02,420 But as Kennedy's coffin was unloaded into a hearse in full public view it seems his bo... 141 00:18:03,460 --> 00:18:07,780 I ask for your help and God. 142 00:18:08,740 --> 00:18:17,379 Its most likely destination was Walter Reed Army Hospital for a covert examination of ... 143 00:18:17,379 --> 00:18:22,980 This prevented a proper investigation of the fatal headshot at the official autopsy. 144 00:18:22,980 --> 00:18:32,740 Only a five minute flight from Walter Reed the helicopter padded Bethesda Naval Hospi... 145 00:18:32,740 --> 00:18:35,460 Medical technician Paul O'Connor was there. 146 00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:41,220 I remember it being about eight o'clock in the evening that we heard helicopters. I... 147 00:18:42,420 --> 00:18:49,220 And it sounded to me like there were two helicopters. Couldn't tell where they were... 148 00:18:50,340 --> 00:18:58,259 A few minutes later the door burst open in the back of the hospital and in came six o... 149 00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:05,619 America's finest forensic pathologists were not appointed to perform the autopsy of th... 150 00:19:05,619 --> 00:19:10,099 Instead naval career men with meager experience of such work were chosen. 151 00:19:10,099 --> 00:19:13,539 As forensic pathologist Dr Cyril Wecht explains. 152 00:19:13,539 --> 00:19:18,900 Humes and Boswell were in charge of hospital pathology at Bethesda. 153 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:21,940 Just like hospital pathologists in civilian life. 154 00:19:21,940 --> 00:19:27,140 They had had no formal training or experience or practice in forensic pathology. 155 00:19:27,380 --> 00:19:34,340 It was incredible that Humes and Boswell should have been selected to perform this... 156 00:19:34,340 --> 00:19:41,860 Actually these two doctors Dr Boswell and Dr Humes were commanding officers of a... 157 00:19:42,980 --> 00:19:54,340 And their jobs in those days was more administrative than it was actually laying... 158 00:19:54,980 --> 00:19:57,939 I'd never seen them do autopsies all the time that I was there. 159 00:19:58,579 --> 00:20:01,299 As a matter of fact I never even saw them ever come in the morgue. 160 00:20:02,019 --> 00:20:07,699 There were we know about 33 people officially logged in the autopsy room that night. 161 00:20:07,699 --> 00:20:11,939 We know that there was an admiral there was a general there were FBI and secret service... 162 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:19,539 And these people Humes and Boswell were career military people just a couple of ye... 163 00:20:19,539 --> 00:20:25,619 They were not about to stand up and say to their superior officers we're going to do ... 164 00:20:26,339 --> 00:20:27,779 No way would they say that. 165 00:20:28,579 --> 00:20:32,259 There were that kind of mysterious civilian people and civilian clothes were there. 166 00:20:33,299 --> 00:20:38,259 It seemed like they commanded a lot of respect and attention. 167 00:20:38,259 --> 00:20:46,500 Sinister looking people that they would come up and look over my shoulder or look over ... 168 00:20:47,299 --> 00:20:51,059 And so run back and they'd have a little conference in the corner. 169 00:20:51,940 --> 00:20:56,980 Then all once we said there's nowhere it comes down and says stop what you're doing... 170 00:20:58,500 --> 00:20:59,859 And that's the way it was all night. 171 00:21:00,579 --> 00:21:06,019 And we just jumped back and forth back and forth there was no smooth flow of the... 172 00:21:06,660 --> 00:21:10,180 So we see that Humes and Boswell were indeed controlled. 173 00:21:10,259 --> 00:21:19,620 And we know from their own records that they Humes and Boswell were not professionally... 174 00:21:19,620 --> 00:21:32,180 And that's how you got a botched horribly inadequate inept in an inadequate superfic... 175 00:21:33,620 --> 00:21:37,539 But manipulation of the evidence did not end with the legal autopsy. 176 00:21:37,539 --> 00:21:45,940 The National Archives in Washington received a metal tray containing all the vital medi... 177 00:21:45,940 --> 00:21:51,779 An inventory check three years after the assassination revealed that these items ha... 178 00:21:51,779 --> 00:22:01,779 In that inventory of October 30th 1966 that metal tray containing the brain and the... 179 00:22:02,180 --> 00:22:16,099 So somewhere between April of 65 and the end of October 66 these things were literally... 180 00:22:16,099 --> 00:22:24,579 And to this day as we sit and talk nobody in the United States government has ever... 181 00:22:24,659 --> 00:22:31,539 Can you imagine? Can you imagine what this would mean in a routine murder case? 182 00:22:31,539 --> 00:22:44,259 I can tell you as a forensic pathologist testifying in a courtroom if I came in in ... 183 00:22:44,259 --> 00:22:49,859 And I said well I chose not to examine it. Where is it? Can you examine it today or a... 184 00:22:49,939 --> 00:22:57,219 Well I don't have any longer. It was discarded or so on. You know what would... 185 00:22:57,219 --> 00:23:03,859 But in this case the government hasn't been concerned and my colleagues in forensic... 186 00:23:03,859 --> 00:23:14,419 And yet there's not one of them would ever tolerate that kind of aberrant unacceptabl... 187 00:23:14,420 --> 00:23:22,580 Not one of them but in this case it just rolls off their back along with the... 188 00:23:26,980 --> 00:23:33,380 In the confusion following the assassination the police arrested a dozen suspects in an... 189 00:23:33,380 --> 00:23:34,660 All were later released. 190 00:23:38,019 --> 00:23:43,060 Three of those taken into custody were discovered in the marshaling yards close t... 191 00:23:43,059 --> 00:23:46,419 Hiding in a railroad boxcar which was about to leave the area. 192 00:23:46,980 --> 00:23:51,139 No official record exists of who they were or what they were doing. 193 00:23:51,139 --> 00:23:56,500 Yet their arrest was widely photographed by the press. They have become known as the... 194 00:23:57,779 --> 00:24:05,940 It was determined in the late 1970s and early 1980s that one of the three tramps the tal... 195 00:24:06,019 --> 00:24:09,940 Bore a striking resemblance to a man by the name of Charles V. Harrelson. 196 00:24:10,820 --> 00:24:16,259 Who was convicted of killing a federal judge in San Antonio Texas. 197 00:24:16,980 --> 00:24:24,100 A man who claims to have killed at least five people previously has been tried for some ... 198 00:24:24,660 --> 00:24:26,740 And a man who has all of the right connections. 199 00:24:27,539 --> 00:24:30,820 Charles Harrelson is one of America's most notorious criminals. 200 00:24:31,380 --> 00:24:35,620 He's currently serving a life sentence for murder in a maximum security jail. 201 00:24:35,940 --> 00:24:44,740 On November 22nd 1963 I was with a friend at 1230 in the afternoon having lunch at a... 202 00:24:45,299 --> 00:24:50,500 It wouldn't be the first time I've been accused of being somewhere I wasn't and I... 203 00:24:52,420 --> 00:24:55,059 But no I did not kill John Kennedy. 204 00:24:56,580 --> 00:25:00,500 He's connected to organized crime figures the Dallas underworld. 205 00:25:00,740 --> 00:25:09,859 Santos Trofecani, Carlos Marchello, R.D. Matthews considered the strong arm man in... 206 00:25:10,819 --> 00:25:12,819 And Ruby claimed that he was his best friend. 207 00:25:13,619 --> 00:25:23,619 So you have all of these connections and though they don't say specifically hey... 208 00:25:24,579 --> 00:25:33,779 But there is significant evidence that would make I think any investigator want to look... 209 00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:48,099 That is a photograph of one of three so-called tramps who were apprehended and... 210 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:58,099 And the fellow was I'm told at one time positively identified as myself which is... 211 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:07,699 I was 25 the day Kennedy was assassinated and I would say that gentleman is probably in ... 212 00:26:08,259 --> 00:26:12,980 But the facial structures isn't even close. 213 00:26:13,940 --> 00:26:24,819 Mr. Harrelson's photograph was given along with the tall tramp photographs to forensi... 214 00:26:25,620 --> 00:26:38,180 And they came back with a report that there was a 90 to 95 percent probability that th... 215 00:26:38,740 --> 00:26:45,539 And Charles V. Harrelson arrested for the death of a federal judge were one in the... 216 00:26:47,620 --> 00:26:51,620 Now that's amazing isn't it. I would say the. 217 00:26:57,460 --> 00:27:03,779 That is closer much closer but I'm sure that. 218 00:27:08,980 --> 00:27:16,980 Here again the person is probably in his 30s and the brow ridge isn't isn't the same here. 219 00:27:17,860 --> 00:27:26,420 But it is it does look very it looks a lot more like me I would say this view than do... 220 00:27:28,420 --> 00:27:29,460 Are they the same person. 221 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:32,500 Yeah. Big Bird. Yes. 222 00:27:33,460 --> 00:27:37,940 It's amazing but no I I don't know the gentleman and. 223 00:27:39,460 --> 00:27:40,259 Never did know. 224 00:27:42,019 --> 00:27:53,700 Everyone who was involved in that thing has been eliminated had I been involved in it ... 225 00:27:54,100 --> 00:28:15,299 Because it's obviously a case of emulation you're going to destroy yourself by doing... 226 00:28:15,539 --> 00:28:22,899 Also kept under wraps and not investigated was the criminal underworld of strip club... 227 00:28:29,539 --> 00:28:35,940 Vital areas of these illicit operations in Dallas New Orleans and Cuba went unexplore... 228 00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:41,539 But Ruby's twilight world held many of the secrets behind the assassination. 229 00:28:43,539 --> 00:28:53,220 At Parkland Hospital minutes after the tragedy one member of the press corps who... 230 00:28:53,620 --> 00:29:03,380 Just after I entered there was a group of nurses and doctors standing around with a ... 231 00:29:04,740 --> 00:29:12,420 He said something to the effect that isn't this just terrible and he looked he looked... 232 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:22,580 I shook hands with him and I had known him previously and Ruby asked me what I though... 233 00:29:23,620 --> 00:29:28,420 And I told him I thought that was a good idea and to please excuse me I had to go on. 234 00:29:28,420 --> 00:29:31,620 I guess that encounter with Ruby took maybe 25-30 seconds. 235 00:29:33,060 --> 00:29:42,019 It was very clear to me who I had talked to and who I had called by name and who had... 236 00:29:42,019 --> 00:29:45,700 But one of the things that I knew was that I had to go on. 237 00:29:45,779 --> 00:30:02,980 But when the Warren Commission report came out they said that probably under the stre... 238 00:30:02,980 --> 00:30:06,980 Ruby denied he'd been at Parkland and said that he was going to be there. 239 00:30:07,059 --> 00:30:15,140 I was dismayed when I picked up my copy of the Warren Commission report and discovere... 240 00:30:15,140 --> 00:30:23,140 And among other things I immediately began to wonder who else they had talked to, who th... 241 00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:31,300 A pristine bullet which the Commission was to allege had wounded both Kennedy and Connol... 242 00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:37,300 Jack Ruby's coincidental appearance inside the hospital was not the only fact the... 243 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:41,300 They certainly did not want to see me there. 244 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:43,300 They did not want to see me there. 245 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:45,300 They did not want to see me there. 246 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:47,300 They did not want to see me there. 247 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:49,300 They did not want to see me there. 248 00:30:49,460 --> 00:31:05,460 The fact that they were not going to go into the fact that members of the American, of ... 249 00:31:05,620 --> 00:31:11,620 Lyndon Johnson was very anxious for the Warren Commission to complete its work, to... 250 00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:19,620 And they were not anxious at all to open up areas of doubt or areas which needed furth... 251 00:31:19,620 --> 00:31:23,620 And one of those areas was the Jack Ruby business. 252 00:31:23,620 --> 00:31:29,620 Ruby claimed he acted on impulse when he shot Oswald. 253 00:31:29,620 --> 00:31:33,620 His real motives were never explored. 254 00:31:33,779 --> 00:31:41,779 The Warren Commission believed everything Jack Ruby chose to tell them, including ho... 255 00:31:41,779 --> 00:31:53,779 I don't believe that Ruby entered the basement of the Dallas Police Station by w... 256 00:31:53,779 --> 00:31:59,779 The policeman on duty at the top of the ramp was given a lie detector test. 257 00:31:59,940 --> 00:32:03,940 And he insisted that Ruby did not pass him at any time. 258 00:32:03,940 --> 00:32:07,940 And the lie detector test given by the police department bore that out. 259 00:32:07,940 --> 00:32:11,940 Jack Ruby did not come down that ramp. 260 00:32:11,940 --> 00:32:15,940 I'll go to my grave saying he didn't come down that ramp. 261 00:32:15,940 --> 00:32:25,940 If anybody could have ever proved to me beyond a reasonable doubt that he came dow... 262 00:32:26,100 --> 00:32:34,100 I feel that I was man enough to admit that maybe I made a mistake or was negligent in... 263 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:40,100 But no, nobody's ever proven that to me and I'll go to my grave saying that man did no... 264 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:48,100 Only four minutes before he gunned down Oswald in the basement, Ruby had been at t... 265 00:32:48,259 --> 00:32:58,259 According to the commission account, he then walked down the street and simply slipped... 266 00:32:58,259 --> 00:33:04,259 Well clearly, Jack Ruby did not enter the basement via the Main Street ramp, as the... 267 00:33:04,259 --> 00:33:10,259 And indeed, when Congress reopened the investigation in the late 1970s, they... 268 00:33:10,259 --> 00:33:14,259 And they cited eight witnesses who stated that Ruby did not come down the ramp. 269 00:33:14,420 --> 00:33:18,420 And several of these witnesses knew Ruby personally. 270 00:33:18,420 --> 00:33:26,420 The Congressional Committee concluded that Ruby most likely used an obscure entrance... 271 00:33:26,580 --> 00:33:32,580 From there, he would have proceeded into the lobby to an unlocked door that led directl... 272 00:33:42,580 --> 00:33:48,580 People would have gone down that stairwell and actually entered into the basement. 273 00:33:48,740 --> 00:33:52,740 People would have gone down that stairwell and actually entered into the parking gara... 274 00:33:52,740 --> 00:34:00,740 And proceeded toward the railing, up through the railing and into the spot where he was... 275 00:34:00,740 --> 00:34:08,739 Clearly, it looked better for the department to say that Vaughan had accidentally enter... 276 00:34:08,899 --> 00:34:14,899 Pauli's back was turned rather than admit that a key area within the garage had been... 277 00:34:14,899 --> 00:34:20,899 permitting Jack Ruby unchallenged access to the spot where he killed Oswald. 278 00:34:20,899 --> 00:34:28,899 Larry's conclusions are supported by the immediate comments of several police offic... 279 00:34:28,899 --> 00:34:13,399 And the 280 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,559 And the 281 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,559 And the 282 00:35:13,559 --> 00:35:15,559 And the 283 00:35:17,559 --> 00:35:19,559 And the 284 00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:23,559 And the 285 00:35:25,559 --> 00:35:27,559 And the 286 00:35:33,559 --> 00:35:35,559 And the 287 00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:39,559 And the 288 00:35:43,559 --> 00:35:45,559 And the 289 00:35:51,559 --> 00:35:53,559 And the 290 00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:01,559 And the 291 00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:09,559 And the 292 00:36:13,559 --> 00:36:15,559 And the 293 00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:25,559 The 294 00:36:39,559 --> 00:36:41,559 And the 295 00:36:43,559 --> 00:36:45,559 And the 296 00:36:49,559 --> 00:36:51,559 And the 297 00:36:55,559 --> 00:36:57,559 And the 298 00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:05,559 And the 299 00:37:09,559 --> 00:37:11,559 And the 300 00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:15,559 And the 301 00:37:19,559 --> 00:37:21,559 And the 302 00:37:25,559 --> 00:37:27,559 And the 303 00:37:33,559 --> 00:37:35,559 And the 304 00:37:39,559 --> 00:37:41,559 And the 305 00:37:43,559 --> 00:37:45,559 And the 306 00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:49,559 And the 307 00:37:53,559 --> 00:37:55,559 And the 308 00:37:59,559 --> 00:38:01,559 And the 309 00:38:05,559 --> 00:38:07,559 And the 310 00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:15,559 The 311 00:38:21,559 --> 00:38:23,559 That's about as high as you can get. 312 00:38:23,559 --> 00:38:29,559 Hosties Washington superiors knew much more about Oswald than they were willing to... 313 00:38:29,559 --> 00:38:35,559 Consequently, his surveillance of Oswald had also been based on incomplete information. 314 00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:42,559 I was not aware of the fact that President Kennedy, through the CIA, was attempting t... 315 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,719 and that Fidel Castro had threatened President Kennedy. 316 00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:54,719 Had I known this, I would have immediately been concerned about Lee Oswald, because w... 317 00:38:54,719 --> 00:39:00,719 Had I known this, then we could have put a whole different light on the situation. 318 00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:08,719 It was here in Neely Street that Hostie first attempted to contact the Oswalds in March... 319 00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,719 His visit was routine because of their links with Russia. 320 00:39:11,879 --> 00:39:13,879 But they had moved on. 321 00:39:13,879 --> 00:39:16,879 Later in the year, Hostie spoke to Marina alone, 322 00:39:16,879 --> 00:39:22,879 prompting an angry note from Oswald, hand-delivered to the FBI three weeks befo... 323 00:39:22,879 --> 00:39:27,879 The note which I subsequently determined was of Lee Oswald was unsigned. 324 00:39:27,879 --> 00:39:33,879 It was quite short. It just said, if you want to talk to me, come talk to me. Don't both... 325 00:39:33,879 --> 00:39:36,879 I don't want you talking to her without my being there. 326 00:39:37,039 --> 00:39:43,039 If you don't cease and desist on this, I will take this up with the proper authorities o... 327 00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:51,039 I had thought it was somebody else at first and just put it into my file drawer until ... 328 00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:57,039 Late on the afternoon of November 24th, the day Oswald was killed, 329 00:39:57,039 --> 00:40:04,039 I was told by Supervisor Ken Howe to go to the office of Gordon Shanklin, the agent i... 330 00:40:04,039 --> 00:40:06,039 He wanted to see me. 331 00:40:06,199 --> 00:40:14,199 I was called in there and Gordon Shanklin reached down into one of his desk drawers ... 332 00:40:14,199 --> 00:40:17,199 and handed it to me and said, here, I don't want to ever see this again. 333 00:40:17,199 --> 00:40:21,199 He said, Oswald is dead now. There can't be any trial. 334 00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:27,199 Now, this was the reason why it was legal to get rid of this note at this time, 335 00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:33,199 since there was no trial and President Johnson was adamantly opposed to any... 336 00:40:33,359 --> 00:40:38,359 The FBI then felt it was all right to dispose of this note. 337 00:40:38,359 --> 00:40:43,359 I then tried to tear it up and throw it in the wastebasket. 338 00:40:43,359 --> 00:40:46,359 Gordon Shanklin said, don't get it out of here. I don't want to ever see it again. 339 00:40:46,359 --> 00:40:51,359 So I then took it out and I was going to burn it, but that would have been a little bit... 340 00:40:51,359 --> 00:40:56,359 so I thought it would be much easier to flush it down the toilet and that would get rid ... 341 00:40:56,519 --> 00:41:01,519 It wasn't until a week later that President Johnson gave into congressional pressure 342 00:41:01,519 --> 00:41:04,519 and called the Warren Commission together. 343 00:41:04,519 --> 00:41:09,519 Of course, by this time, the FBI and probably the CIA and the Navy Department 344 00:41:09,519 --> 00:41:13,519 and the State Department had suppressed a lot of different things, 345 00:41:13,519 --> 00:41:16,519 and this was one of probably many of them. 346 00:41:16,679 --> 00:41:21,679 Miami, Florida was the city visited by President Kennedy 347 00:41:21,679 --> 00:41:24,679 four days before his death in Dallas. 348 00:41:26,679 --> 00:41:32,679 It was also the unlikely location for a bizarre meeting 13 days before the... 349 00:41:32,679 --> 00:41:37,679 in which details of the plot to kill Kennedy were set out with stunning accuracy. 350 00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:45,679 A Miami police informant secretly taped a conversation 351 00:41:45,839 --> 00:41:50,839 with a visiting right-wing activist in the ECD downtown apartment. 352 00:41:50,839 --> 00:41:53,839 It is broadcast here for the first time. 353 00:41:56,839 --> 00:42:00,839 I don't know, Kennedy's coming here, I think, on the 18th or something like that 354 00:42:00,839 --> 00:42:02,839 to make some kind of speech. 355 00:42:02,839 --> 00:42:05,839 I think it's the 18th he's supposed to be here to make a speech. 356 00:42:05,839 --> 00:42:08,839 I don't know what you're going to know what it's about. 357 00:42:08,839 --> 00:42:11,839 You can bet you want to know, you're going to never understand what's given, 358 00:42:11,839 --> 00:42:13,839 because there's so many of them here. 359 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:18,000 Willie Somerset, a union organiser with extensive right-wing political ties, 360 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,000 was the Miami police informant. 361 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:25,000 Joseph Miltier was the wealthy, rabble-rousing racist from Quitman, Georgia. 362 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000 In charge of the surveillance operation was Miami detective Everett Kaye. 363 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:34,000 Well, we had to set up the tape recorder in Somerset's apartment 364 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:41,000 in order to make the recording where he met with this other man, Miltier. 365 00:42:41,159 --> 00:42:48,159 In order to do so, it was a very large tape recorder that was made especially for... 366 00:42:48,159 --> 00:42:50,159 weighing approximately 40 pounds. 367 00:42:50,159 --> 00:42:56,159 I carried it to the third floor of his apartment, placed it in a closet, 368 00:42:56,159 --> 00:43:00,159 and then ran the microphone around the baseboard in the kitchen, 369 00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:07,159 and the microphone was hidden by the chairs where Miltier and Somerset were. 370 00:43:07,159 --> 00:43:10,319 They have their meeting room. 371 00:43:37,319 --> 00:43:40,319 They're going to be a hard cause, I believe. 372 00:43:40,319 --> 00:43:42,319 You may have it figured out in the beginning. 373 00:43:42,319 --> 00:43:45,319 You may have figured out, give them all the good and that, 374 00:43:45,319 --> 00:43:49,319 but I don't know how them secret service, they've never covered all the good and that, 375 00:43:49,319 --> 00:43:52,319 and anywhere he's going, you know, whether to do that or not. 376 00:43:52,319 --> 00:43:56,319 Well, if they had any suspicions, they would, of course. 377 00:43:56,319 --> 00:43:59,319 That's the last suspicion that's been sent out of it. 378 00:43:59,319 --> 00:44:02,319 They've been out there taking up their pieces. 379 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,480 They've been out there taking up their pieces. 380 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,480 December, take it up in pieces. 381 00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,480 They've been out there taking up their pieces. 382 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:24,480 Astoundingly, the conversation came up that this man wanted to know 383 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:31,480 how many people that President Kennedy had that was his lookalike that went with him. 384 00:44:31,639 --> 00:44:34,639 And the higher informant wanted to know why, and he said, 385 00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:37,639 well, there was plans to assassinate him. 386 00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:43,639 The further conversation on the tape revealed that the assassination 387 00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:48,639 was to take place from an office building with a high-powered rifle. 388 00:44:48,639 --> 00:44:51,639 There was no particular city mentioned, 389 00:44:51,639 --> 00:44:56,639 nor was there any particular person mentioned that was to do the assassination. 390 00:44:56,799 --> 00:44:59,799 The tape was made on November the 9th, 391 00:44:59,799 --> 00:45:07,799 and John F. Kennedy, President Kennedy, was due in Miami on the 18th of November, 1963. 392 00:45:07,799 --> 00:45:14,799 So the close proximity of the tape being made and his visit 393 00:45:14,799 --> 00:45:19,799 made quite a few changes in the security. 394 00:45:19,799 --> 00:45:25,799 They changed the motorcade, and I believe that the tape was made 395 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:30,960 and I believe that he was helicoptered, and rather than have a motorcade. 396 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:35,960 Additional men were secured. 397 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:42,960 Everyone was made aware that there may be a problem, 398 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:47,960 so there was a drastic change in the procedures. 399 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:54,960 He wasn't as accessible in this city as he might have been in the past. 400 00:45:55,119 --> 00:46:00,119 Boy, if that canister could get shut, we'd have to know where we are. 401 00:46:00,119 --> 00:46:05,119 If you know, boy, that would be a real shame to do that. 402 00:46:05,119 --> 00:46:10,119 They would leave a stone unfurned there, and tell on the lake. 403 00:46:10,119 --> 00:46:17,119 They'll pick up somebody within hours after. 404 00:46:17,119 --> 00:46:20,119 They might get one half an hour. 405 00:46:20,279 --> 00:46:23,279 So that's the point of the dog. 406 00:46:23,279 --> 00:46:26,279 Yeah, that's right. 407 00:46:26,279 --> 00:46:29,279 Well, somebody could have to go to jail. 408 00:46:29,279 --> 00:46:34,279 Miltier later boasted to Somerset that he went to witness the assassination in Dallas. 409 00:46:34,279 --> 00:46:38,279 The question was, was Joseph Miltier in Dilley Plaza? 410 00:46:38,279 --> 00:46:42,279 Was he in Dallas to witness the execution of the President? 411 00:46:42,279 --> 00:46:45,279 And if so, was he photographed? 412 00:46:45,279 --> 00:46:48,279 I looked at some of the photographs of the crowd, 413 00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:51,440 in Dilley Plaza, around Houston Street and Elm Street, 414 00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:56,440 and I did find in several photographs of one spot on Houston Street, 415 00:46:56,440 --> 00:47:01,440 a white-haired man who looked amazingly like Joseph Miltier. 416 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:06,440 In my opinion, given the measurements of the ears, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, 417 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:11,440 I'm convinced that the man in the photographs is Joseph Miltier. 418 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,440 We know that he made a phone call from Dallas to Uli Somerset, 419 00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:20,599 the informant that day, saying that President Kennedy would never again return to Miami. 420 00:47:20,599 --> 00:47:23,599 Therefore, it is likely that he was there. 421 00:47:23,599 --> 00:47:27,599 And given the nature of this and the way Miltier felt about the President, 422 00:47:27,599 --> 00:47:31,599 it seemed very likely that he would indeed be in Dallas. 423 00:47:31,599 --> 00:47:34,599 We thought we did a good job, and we were very grateful 424 00:47:34,599 --> 00:47:37,599 the fact that it did not happen in Miami. 425 00:47:37,599 --> 00:47:42,599 It could have very well happened in Miami, as it did in Dallas. 426 00:47:42,759 --> 00:47:47,759 So it touched each of us very, very closely, particularly myself, 427 00:47:47,759 --> 00:47:52,759 as hearing the words that they were going to assassinate President Kennedy. 428 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:57,920 Miltier was interviewed by the FBI and then released. 429 00:47:57,920 --> 00:48:01,920 He perished in a mysterious house fire a few years later. 430 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,920 The Warren Commission ignored the Miami connection, 431 00:48:04,920 --> 00:47:54,560 and the Warren Commission was forced to 432 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:09,560 ! 433 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,560 The Warren Commission was forced to 434 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:15,560 kill President Kennedy. 435 00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:20,560 The Warren Commission was forced to kill President Kennedy. 436 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,360 The Warren Commission ignored the Miami connection, 437 00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:26,360 and a further opportunity to determine the truth. 438 00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:31,360 It is important to all of us to find out what really happened to President Kennedy. 439 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,360 Because what happened to him could happen to anybody else. 440 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,360 If a conspiracy can kill the President of the United States, 441 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,360 who among us is safe? 442 00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:45,360 The people who know something, why don't they just bring it out and tell the truth? 443 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,360 Why lie about something? 444 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:52,160 Somebody knows they're lying. I know they're lying. Why? 445 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:57,160 If they lied to us, how much are they lying to us in other areas? 446 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:02,160 And if they're lying to us, can they do it again, and again, and again? 447 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,160 And if so, this is not a democracy. 448 00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,160 This is a hierarchy. 449 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:13,160 A government or a people ran by certain powerful individuals 450 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:18,960 who have the ability to dispose of anyone who's not going along the party line, so t... 451 00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,960 who have the ability to dispose of anyone who's not going along the party line, so t... 452 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,960 Not a whole lot different from what I was taught 453 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:29,960 occurred in the USSR all these many years. 454 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,960 The truth is the most important thing. 455 00:49:43,159 --> 00:49:46,960 The truth is the most important thing. 456 00:50:13,159 --> 00:50:16,960 The truth is the most important thing. 457 00:50:43,159 --> 00:50:46,960 The truth is the most important thing.