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B1 Mittelstufe Englisch 28:21 Educational

Why People Think The Government Killed JFK

Johnny Harris · 15,753,391 Aufrufe · Hinzugefügt vor 2 Tagen

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Untertitel (704 Segmente)

00:03

(dramatic music begins)

00:06

- [Newsman] The president's car is now turning

00:07

on to Elm Street in open limousine parade.

00:11

(gunshot fires)

00:13

- [Johnny] There's a cover-up that's about to happen here.

00:15

- [Newsman] This is a situation and I read,

00:18

"Kennedy is shot in head."

00:20

- [Johnny] The assassination of a president

00:22

and then a scramble by the U.S. government

00:24

to hide information from its people.

00:26

- So much information was hid from the American public.

00:30

- [Lyndon] How many, how many, how many shots were fired?

00:32

- [J. Edgar] Three.

00:34

- [Johnny] The question of who shot JFK and why

00:37

has riveted America since that horrifying day 60 years ago.

00:42

But over time, it's become clear that the FBI and CIA

00:46

kept information hidden,

00:48

not just from the public, but from the commission

00:51

in charge of investigating the assassination.

00:53

This has fueled an understandable doubt

00:56

in the official account,

00:57

including, by the way, Lyndon B. Johnson,

00:59

the president who took JFK's place.

01:02

Congress even came out in the '80s saying that

01:04

this was probably a conspiracy,

01:07

and the public ran wild with this.

01:09

They came up with hundreds of suspects

01:11

of who could have been involved in the assassination.

01:14

Theories like this thrive when government authorities

01:17

aren't transparent with their people.

01:22

So let me show you how this happened.

01:24

Let me explain the official story

01:26

and why that story has been hit with a wave of doubt

01:28

over the decades

01:30

and explain that unlike a lot of conspiracy theories,

01:33

doubting the official story here

01:35

isn't as crazy as you might think.

01:37

(tense dramatic music)

01:47

- [Journalist] This was a turning point in American history.

01:52

People all of a sudden decided,

01:53

"I'm not sure they're telling us the truth."

02:02

People loved John Kennedy.

02:04

He was this good-looking guy

02:06

who was always hanging out with his beautiful family

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and he just seemed to instill a sense of confidence

02:11

in people.

02:12

Kennedy rode this positive perception up the ranks

02:14

of American politics to become the 35th president.

02:17

This was in the early '60s

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when America was in a giant time of transition.

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- Oh, this is a revolution, of course,

02:23

that is sweeping our country now.

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- The U.S. was the global superpower

02:27

and was locked in a Cold War with another empire

02:29

a world away.

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So JFK walks into the presidency

02:32

to find his military and intelligence leaders

02:36

causing a lot of trouble around the world.

02:38

They had become very comfortable with dangerous secrets.

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They were funding wars,

02:43

they were overthrowing governments in faraway countries,

02:46

they were assassinating leaders

02:48

that threatened American interests,

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and they were doing most of this totally in secret.

02:52

By the way,

02:53

if you wanna know more about those CIA shenanigans,

02:54

go watch the video where we map all the U.S. coups.

02:57

Anyway, JFK walks in and sees this as "too much."

03:00

He wants to reign in these spy and military leaders

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from what he sees as an abuse of American power.

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He ended up firing and demoting a bunch of these leaders,

03:08

a lot of these intel and military guys

03:10

who were plotting and executing covert operations

03:13

around the world,

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and he continued to pursue like his ideal of world peace.

03:17

He chose diplomacy over violence.

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When nuclear-armed missiles were found in Cuba,

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he slowed down the momentum

03:22

towards a full-scale presence in Vietnam

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and he shut down several of these covert operations

03:28

that were being planned by the leaders around him.

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This caused great tension between JFK

03:33

and America's military and spy leadership.

03:35

All of this context is important

03:37

when we look back on that day in November 1963.

03:42

- [Newsman] Friday morning, 11:37,

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the President's jet lands at the Dallas Airport.

03:47

(typewriter keyboard clacking) (tense suspenseful music)

03:55

- [Johnny] President Kennedy

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and the Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson

03:57

arrived to Dallas for a speech

03:59

that the President was to give.

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He got in this open-top limousine with his wife, Jackie,

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and the Texas governor, John Connally,

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along with his wife, Nellie.

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They rode through these streets,

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downtown Dallas lined with cheering spectators,

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and then gunshots rang out.

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(gunshot fires)

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- [Newsman] Kennedy apparently shot in head.

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Blood was on his head.

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- [Johnny] The shots hit the President in the neck and head,

04:28

also wounding Governor Connally.

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The President was rushed to the hospital

04:34

where he was pronounced dead.

04:39

- And very often, you'll find a zipper hidden in the arm.

04:47

- Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

04:48

You'll excuse the fact that I'm out of breath,

04:50

but President Kennedy and Governor John Connally

04:52

have been cut down by assassins' bullets in downtown Dallas.

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The President has rushed to Parkland Hospital.

04:58

(tense suspenseful music)

05:03

(tense suspenseful music) (typewriter keyboard clacking)

05:06

- [Johnny] Within hours of the assassination,

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the prime suspect became this 24-year-old former Marine,

05:12

a self-declared communist

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who had renounced his American citizenship

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and moved to the Soviet Union,

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where he then fell disenchanted with life in Russia

05:20

and move back to the U.S.

05:21

Eventually, ending up on the sixth story

05:23

of this building in Dallas where he worked

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and where he was on that morning in November

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where he aimed a rifle and shot the President.

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His name was Lee Harvey Oswald.

05:34

And after these shots rang out, he fled.

05:36

While on the run, he shot and killed a Dallas police officer

05:39

before hiding in a movie theater

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and then eventually being arrested

05:43

at around 2:15 PM that day.

05:45

- I didn't shoot anybody, no, Sir.

05:47

- There was to be a trial,

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and Oswald planned to plead not guilty,

05:51

claiming the whole thing was actually a setup.

05:53

- I'm just a patsy.

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- Patsy, which is like an old-timey term

05:57

for like the fall guy, the one who was setup.

06:00

That same day, the vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson,

06:03

was rushed back to the presidential plane

06:05

and sworn in as the new president of the United States

06:08

before taking off and heading back to Washington.

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