Hoover was forced by Kennedy to go head to head with the CIA. Although no arrests were made, Hoover located the camps and shut them down. The question remains: how did Hoover locate these camps? Their location was secret even to the president of the United States ... Oswald was in fact Hoover’s most important agent in the field. So that on November 22nd Hoover not only learnt that the CIA had murdered the president of the United States, but that they had framed his top agent, Lee Harvey Oswald, as the lone assassin for the murder. This news sent a very direct and personal message to Hoover from the CIA: mess with us and you die ... Oswald had infiltrated the CIA’s Operation 40 ... Oswald was in the room with Hunt as he was passing out the money. Oswald was reporting to Hoover, so Hoover knew that the misguided anti-Castro Cubans were working with Hunt and helped to kill the President. ibid.
In October 1962, the Soviet Union was constructing nuclear launch-sites in Cuba. JFK: A New Perspective I, PBS
Kennedy did manage to get his crew rescued. ibid.
He campaigned from sunrise to midnight. ibid.
‘Politics was sort of my enemy,’ she [Jackie] confided. ‘We had no home life whatsoever.’ JFK: A New Perspective II
By 1954 the drug he took to control his Addison’s Disease was eating away at his spine. ibid.
When he [Kennedy] addressed a rare joint session of Congress four days later the president mentioned civil rights only glancingly. JFK: A New Perspective III
He was popular enough to bridge the yawning gap between politics and celebrity. JFK: A New Perspective IV
Ordinarily, a unit of military I think was called Special Group #113 would have come up from San Antonio Texas and would have been deployed all though the streets of Dallas – the important streets of Dallas. That was not done. In fact the commander was specifically told he wasn’t needed. Col Fletcher Prouty, Pentagon liaison to CIA and Secret Services
They were sworn to protect the president but they couldn’t. A tragedy that’s haunted them ever since. For years they have kept their silence. The Kennedy Detail, Discovery 2010
‘It looks a lot closer than one would think.’ ibid. agent at book depository window
The men of the Kennedy Detail came from working class towns and small families. ibid.
‘About that time there was a large explosive noise to my right rear.’ ibid. agent
The White House took on the idealised feeling of Camelot. ibid.
Russian nuclear missiles spotted in Castro’s Cuba were within easy reach of the east coast of the United States. ibid.
There were only forty agents on the Presidential Detail. ibid.
‘We have eleven agents who had left, and something like sixteen agents off on advanced assignments.’ ibid. agent
The next stop was Texas, but the already overstretched Detail faced a new challenge: this time the First Lady had joined the motorcade. ibid.
But it was Dallas that worried the men the most. Trouble had been brewing there for weeks in advance of the president’s visit. ibid.
‘She came out this vision in pink.’ ibid. agent
‘I saw the President’s head explode – just like a melon.’ ibid. agent
‘Now Mrs Kennedy had the President in her lap and she wouldn’t release him.’ ibid. agent
‘When we went into the hospital it was chaos.’ ibid. agent
‘He was an arrogant little nothing that wanted to be something.’ ibid. agent of Lee Harvey Oswald
‘That little boy as the funeral procession came by.’ ibid. agent
‘We felt like we’d let the country down.’ ibid. agent
‘Psychiatric help – I probably should have had some.’ ibid. agent
One of the conspiracy theories is that the agents left the President’s car unguarded just before the shots were fired. ibid.
‘There were three ... That shot came from the School Book Depository.’ ibid. agent
‘Was there anything I could have done better?’ ibid. agent
‘It was an assault on our country ... And we were supposed to have protected it, and we failed.’ ibid. agent
The assassination of President Kennedy is one of the most debated incidents in living memory. As recently as 2003 polls say that more than 70% of Americans believe that if Lee Harvey Oswald did kill JFK, he did not act alone. JFK: The Lost Bullet, National Geographic 2011
One bullet has never been accounted for. The lost bullet of the JFK assassination. ibid.
If Oswald fired all three bullets as the Warren report concluded, what exactly happened to each of them? ibid.
The Zapruder Film ... It’s become the iconic record of the assassination. ibid.
The driver of JFK’s limousine pulls out a pistol and shoots the president in the head. ibid.
hat Bullet C – the dead shot to the President’s head – came from an area in front of him ... the Grassy Knoll. ibid.
The Bell Film – distinctly shows bystanders rushing to the grassy knoll in the aftermath of the shooting. ibid.
The Nix Film ... A fine mist can be seen pushing forward from the front of President Kennedy’s head. ibid.
B: the Magic Bullet: so Holland has shown Bullet B could have hit both men. But only if it came from Oswald’s location in the Book Depository. ibid.
This missing bullet is Bullet A – leaves Oswald’s gun and seems to vanish into thin air. ibid.
The time it took to fire the bullets is at the heart of this investigation. ibid.
The Hughes Film: you can see the shape in the window. ibid.
Euins recalled a particular sequence of shots ... Bullet A came measurably earlier than the two that hit their mark. ibid.
There were two distinct firing positions. ibid.
The [Elsie] Dorman Film: it could be that Bullet A was deflected by an obstruction [traffic pole] ... If the lost bullet of the JFK assassination deflected off a traffic mask in Dealey Plaza it might have left a tell-tale mark. ibid.
Tina Towner Film: Did a traffic light deflect the first attempt to kill the president? ibid.
The defect appears in the same place. If Holland is correct, this location for Bullet A changes the entire time line for the three shots at JFK: Eleven seconds or more. ibid.
A handful of spectators brought their cameras ... Using these films Max Holland has built a case for ... a clear explanation for the missing bullet fired by Lee Harvey Oswald. ibid.
Well over 2,000 books have been published about the assassination of John F Kennedy. Estimates are that over a million tourists visit Dealey Plaza every year. 70% of Americans continue to believe JFK’s killing was the result of a conspiracy. Oswald’s Ghost, PBS 2008
We have a man here who says he saw a fellow pull a weapon back through a window of that depository building. APB bulletin cited Oswald’s Ghost
We have an officer involved in a shooting at 10th and Patton. ibid.
Confusion reigned inside the Dallas Police Station. Dan Rather, interview Oswald’s Ghost
Somebody organised a conspiracy to wipe out Oswald. Tom Hayden, interview Oswald’s Ghost
Well I have studied Marxist philosophy, yes sir, and also other philosophers. Well I would definitely say that I am a Marxist, correct, but that doesn’t mean that I’m a communist. There’s a great deal of difference. Lee Harvey Oswald, interview New Orleans television
I believe that Lee was a government agent. Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother, cited Oswald’s Ghost
I really don’t know what the situation is. No-one has told me anything. I’m accused of murdering a policeman. I know nothing more than that. I do request someone to come forward to give me er legal assistance. No, I’ve not been charged with that. In fact no-one has said that to me yet. The first thing I heard about it was when the newspaper reporter in the hall asked me that question. A policeman hit me. Lee Harvey Oswald, televised interview
I didn’t shoot anybody. No, sir. Lee Harvey Oswald
I’m just a patsy. Lee Harvey Oswald