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13: The Trial of Clay Shaw (Part 1)
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To this day, the late New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw remains the only person ever to have been criminally prosecuted in connection with the murder of JFK. His trial began in New Orleans in January, 1969. On March 1st, a jury found him Not Guilty in just 54 minutes, but Shaw's life and reputation were destroyed by his very public prosecution. How was it that an entirely innocent man came to be prosecuted for conspiring to murder the President of the United States? The answer has nothing to do with Shaw, and everything to do with the warped mind of the man who prosecuted him: the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison was drunk on conspiracy theory; when the early conspiratorial books about the case came out, he fell disastrously under the spell. And before he tried to pin Kennedy's murder on Clay Shaw, he tried to pin it on another innocent man: the eccentric, wig-wearing David W. Ferrie ...
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
12: The Odio Incident (Part 2)
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Sylvia Odio's claim that she encountered Lee Harvey Oswald in late September of 1963 was compelling - so compelling that we have almost no choice but to believe it, unless we can find rock-solid evidence proving that Oswald couldn't have been at her apartment when she claimed he was. The Warren Commission believed that there was rock-solid evidence to that effect. It concluded that the man at Odio's apartment couldn't possibly have been Oswald. But how rock-solid, really, were the Warren Commission's reasons for believing that? And if we find that those reasons were not as impressive as the Commission thought - if we find that the real Oswald could indeed have been present at Sylvia Odio's apartment that night - then what the hell did his presence there mean? And who were the two men in his company? Clearly, they were not who they claimed to be. So who were they? Was it possible that they were agents of the Castro regime? And if they were, did Oswald know that? The more you look at the Odio incident, the more you see why it has been called "the strongest human evidence of conspiracy."
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Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
11: The Odio Incident (Part 1)
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
One night in late September of 1963, two months before the Kennedy assassination, three mysterious men paid a visit to the Dallas apartment of Sylvia Odio, a Cuban-American woman who was active in anti-Castro politics. One of these men was introduced to her as Leon Oswald - and when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested after the assassination, Sylvia Odio instantly recognized him as the man who had come to her apartment. But why had the "Oswald" who visited Sylvia Odio portrayed himself as a bitter enemy of the Castro regime, when the real Oswald was a big-time fan of Castro's? Who were the two men he was with? And why had this "Oswald" told one of those men that it would be an excellent idea to shoot President Kennedy?
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Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
10: The Magic of Reality
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Within a few years of its appearance in 1964, the Warren Report had become a joke, a punchline. And the funniest thing about it, according to the critics, was the Single-Bullet Theory: the idea that a single bullet fired by Oswald had gone through both President Kennedy and Governor John Connally. The conspiracy theorists had a name for this bullet. They called it the Magic Bullet, because they believed that no bullet in the real world could possibly have behaved the way the Warren Commission said this bullet had behaved. If the conspiracy theorists were right to believe that, then the whole Warren Report was a fiction. If on the other hand the Warren Commission was right about the single bullet, that would tell us something important about conspiracy theory. It would tell us that the conspiratorial worldview is too limited and one-dimensional, and that it fails to grasp how rich and surprising the world can sometimes be. If a single bullet did go through both Kennedy and Connally, then reality itself is more magical than conspiracy theorists are capable of imagining …
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Thursday Sep 07, 2023
9: The Single-Bullet Theory
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
On the afternoon of John F. Kennedy's assassination, Abraham Zapruder shot the most famous home movie ever made. Was the proof of a JFK conspiracy concealed somewhere in the Zapruder film's 486 frames? After watching the film over and over, one young investigator became sure that he'd stumbled on the secret of Kennedy's murder. Oswald couldn't possibly have acted alone. There had to have been a second gunman. The proof of it was right there on film ...
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Friday Jul 07, 2023
8: The Throat Wound
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
When John F. Kennedy arrived in the Emergency Room of Parkland Memorial Hospital at 12:40 on the afternoon of his assassination, he had two visible wounds on his body. One of them was a small neat hole in the center of his throat. "It looked like an entrance wound," one of the surgeons who treated him told the press later that afternoon. Asked which direction the bullet had come from, he said: "It appeared to be coming at him." Two more of the emergency surgeons shared that view. But hadn't Kennedy been shot from behind, by Oswald, hunched over in his perch on the 6th floor of the Book Depository? If the throat wound was an entrance wound, the official story about the assassination was in deep trouble. As one reporter wrote at the time, "The question that suggests itself is, how could the President have been shot in the front from the back?"
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Monday Jun 19, 2023
7: Three-Ring Circus
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
A week after the Kennedy assassination, President Lyndon Johnson established the Warren Commission, a blue-ribbon Presidential Commission that aimed to get to the bottom of the crime. Right from the start, the Commission found itself fighting a losing battle on two fronts. On one side of it were the early conspiracy theorists, led by the opportunistic New York lawyer Mark Lane. On the other side was the FBI, led by the devious and relentless J. Edgar Hoover ...
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Friday May 05, 2023
6: A Sick Man
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
In light of what we know about Jack Ruby's movements on the morning of November 24, 1963, is it remotely plausible that he was involved in ANY kind of conspiracy to murder Oswald? If not, why he do it? What was the state of Ruby's mental health at the time he shot Oswald? Given the clear evidence that Ruby became a "grossly delusional" man while serving his sentence for murdering Oswald, is it possible that his mental decline had already begun at the time of the Kennedy assassination?
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Thursday Mar 09, 2023
5: The Wild Card
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Thursday Mar 09, 2023
Lee Harvey Oswald was shot dead in police custody on the morning of November 24, 1963, less than 48 hours after the assassination of President Kennedy. Oswald's murder was broadcast live on TV; around 80 million eyewitnesses saw it happen. The killer was a 52-year-old Dallas nightclub owner named Jack Ruby. Who was Ruby? Why did he shoot Oswald? Ruby is the Wild Card in the Kennedy assassination story. Maybe he's the single best card the conspiracy theorists have to play. Or maybe he's the second Joker in the pack: the second lone assassin who brings the whole conspiratorial house of cards crashing down ...
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Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
4: Cuba, Cuba, Cuba
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
“His basic desire was to get to Cuba by any means, and all the rest of it was window dressing for that purpose.” That was how Lee Harvey Oswald’s wife Marina described the five turbulent months that she and husband spent living in New Orleans between April and September of 1963. How strong, exactly, was Oswald’s desire to get to Cuba? When Marina said he was ready to get there “by any means”, what did she mean? Was there anything Oswald wouldn’t do in pursuit of his Cuban fantasies? If we want to understand why Oswald shot Kennedy on November 22, 1963, the five months he spent in New Orleans provide the final piece of the puzzle.
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