396. JFK: The Second Assassin Strikes (Part 5)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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“Jack, you son of a bitch, don’t do it!” Just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, in the full glare of the world’s media, the Dallas police are confident they have solved the case. They have found the murder weapon, and are poised to charge their chief suspect, a strange loner called Lee Harvey Oswald. But as they prepare to move him to the county jail, one local businessman has other ideas. As they are leading Oswald into the station garage, an eccentric nightclub owner Jack Ruby steps forward. And as he aims his pistol at Oswald’s chest, the course of American history is about to take another dizzying turn … Join Dominic and Tom as they trace the footsteps of two erratic nobodies, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, in the days before Kennedy’s assassination, leading up to the critical moment on 24th November when the two men finally came face to face, changing both of their lives and the course of the investigation forever… *Dominic’s book The Fall of the Aztecs is available now from bookshops across the UK - the perfect Christmas present!* Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Rest is History.
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0:10.7	That's rest is History Pod. attendance. The Dallas police have done an incredible, some would even say a near impossible job over the last 11 and a half hours.
0:34.0	In that short span since the President's murder, they have apprehended the man they believe is responsible
0:39.0	and amassed evidence against him that is destined to withstand years of intense scrutiny.
0:43.8	Despite the thousands of government man hours yet to come, the basis of the case against
0:48.6	Oswald is collected and assembled by the Dallas police in these first crucial hours.
0:54.3	It is a feat the world will soon forget.
0:58.9	That is Vincent Bugliosi in Parkland,
1:02.2	his account of Kelsey's and the three days that follow it, and it is his judgment on the performance of the Dallas police on the 22nd of November the day that Kennedy is shot.
1:14.0	But Dominic, we have now reached the 23rd of November.
1:19.0	So it's the day after Kennedy's assassination.
1:23.0	And I know the Bugge has spent years and years investigating this,
1:28.0	but I'm sure that listeners would like to know
1:30.0	whether you concur with his judgment on the performance of the Dallas police.
1:34.4	Do you feel qualified to pass judgment on it?
1:37.6	Tom, regularness to the rest of his history will know that we feel qualified to pronounce
1:42.1	and all kinds of historical fields of inquiry.
1:47.0	And this is no different.
1:48.0	There is one thing I would certainly quibble with Vincent Bergiossi on there.
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