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Why People Think The Government Killed JFK
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(dramatic music begins)
- [Newsman] The president's car is now turning
on to Elm Street in open limousine parade.
(gunshot fires)
- [Johnny] There's a cover-up that's about to happen here.
- [Newsman] This is a situation and I read,
"Kennedy is shot in head."
- [Johnny] The assassination of a president
and then a scramble by the U.S. government
to hide information from its people.
- So much information was hid from the American public.
- [Lyndon] How many, how many, how many shots were fired?
- [J. Edgar] Three.
- [Johnny] The question of who shot JFK and why
has riveted America since that horrifying day 60 years ago.
But over time, it's become clear that the FBI and CIA
kept information hidden,
not just from the public, but from the commission
in charge of investigating the assassination.
This has fueled an understandable doubt
in the official account,
including, by the way, Lyndon B. Johnson,
the president who took JFK's place.
Congress even came out in the '80s saying that
this was probably a conspiracy,
and the public ran wild with this.
They came up with hundreds of suspects
of who could have been involved in the assassination.
Theories like this thrive when government authorities
aren't transparent with their people.
So let me show you how this happened.
Let me explain the official story
and why that story has been hit with a wave of doubt
over the decades
and explain that unlike a lot of conspiracy theories,
doubting the official story here
isn't as crazy as you might think.
(tense dramatic music)
- [Journalist] This was a turning point in American history.
People all of a sudden decided,
"I'm not sure they're telling us the truth."
People loved John Kennedy.
He was this good-looking guy
who was always hanging out with his beautiful family
and he just seemed to instill a sense of confidence
in people.
Kennedy rode this positive perception up the ranks
of American politics to become the 35th president.
This was in the early '60s
when America was in a giant time of transition.
- Oh, this is a revolution, of course,
that is sweeping our country now.
- The U.S. was the global superpower
and was locked in a Cold War with another empire
a world away.
So JFK walks into the presidency
to find his military and intelligence leaders
causing a lot of trouble around the world.
They had become very comfortable with dangerous secrets.
They were funding wars,
they were overthrowing governments in faraway countries,
they were assassinating leaders
that threatened American interests,
and they were doing most of this totally in secret.
By the way,
if you wanna know more about those CIA shenanigans,
go watch the video where we map all the U.S. coups.
Anyway, JFK walks in and sees this as "too much."
He wants to reign in these spy and military leaders
from what he sees as an abuse of American power.
He ended up firing and demoting a bunch of these leaders,
a lot of these intel and military guys
who were plotting and executing covert operations
around the world,
and he continued to pursue like his ideal of world peace.
He chose diplomacy over violence.
When nuclear-armed missiles were found in Cuba,
he slowed down the momentum
towards a full-scale presence in Vietnam
and he shut down several of these covert operations
that were being planned by the leaders around him.
This caused great tension between JFK
and America's military and spy leadership.
All of this context is important
when we look back on that day in November 1963.
- [Newsman] Friday morning, 11:37,
the President's jet lands at the Dallas Airport.
(typewriter keyboard clacking) (tense suspenseful music)
- [Johnny] President Kennedy
and the Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
arrived to Dallas for a speech
that the President was to give.
He got in this open-top limousine with his wife, Jackie,
and the Texas governor, John Connally,
along with his wife, Nellie.
They rode through these streets,
downtown Dallas lined with cheering spectators,
and then gunshots rang out.
(gunshot fires)
- [Newsman] Kennedy apparently shot in head.
Blood was on his head.
- [Johnny] The shots hit the President in the neck and head,
also wounding Governor Connally.
The President was rushed to the hospital
where he was pronounced dead.
- And very often, you'll find a zipper hidden in the arm.
- Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
You'll excuse the fact that I'm out of breath,
but President Kennedy and Governor John Connally
have been cut down by assassins' bullets in downtown Dallas.
The President has rushed to Parkland Hospital.
(tense suspenseful music)
(tense suspenseful music) (typewriter keyboard clacking)
- [Johnny] Within hours of the assassination,
the prime suspect became this 24-year-old former Marine,
a self-declared communist
who had renounced his American citizenship
and moved to the Soviet Union,
where he then fell disenchanted with life in Russia
and move back to the U.S.
Eventually, ending up on the sixth story
of this building in Dallas where he worked
and where he was on that morning in November
where he aimed a rifle and shot the President.
His name was Lee Harvey Oswald.
And after these shots rang out, he fled.
While on the run, he shot and killed a Dallas police officer
before hiding in a movie theater
and then eventually being arrested
at around 2:15 PM that day.
- I didn't shoot anybody, no, Sir.
- There was to be a trial,
and Oswald planned to plead not guilty,
claiming the whole thing was actually a setup.
- I'm just a patsy.
- Patsy, which is like an old-timey term
for like the fall guy, the one who was setup.
That same day, the vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson,
was rushed back to the presidential plane
and sworn in as the new president of the United States
before taking off and heading back to Washington.
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