397. JFK: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 6)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“We can’t accept very comfortably that two nobodies, two nothings - Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby - were able to change the course of world history.” The murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK’s apparent assassin, by the night club owner Jack Ruby on 24th November 1963 changed everything. Right from the start, rumours had circulated that Oswald had not been acting alone, building on the deep anxieties of American society in the 1950s and 1960s. Some blamed Communist states such as Cuba or the Soviet Union; others anti-Castro exiles, or the Ku Klux Klan. As the years passed, the CIA and FBI came under suspicion. Did Lyndon Johnson know more about the conspiracy than he pretended? Just what was Richard Nixon doing on that fateful day? And how did Frank Sinatra’s drummer fit in? Join Tom and Dominic as they explore the background to the Kennedy conspiracy theories, from umbrella men to grassy knolls, discussing the wider context and investigating every last clue in their tireless search for the truth. *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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0:47.8	Oswald, Ruby, Cooper, the mafia.
0:51.8	Keeps them guessing like some kind of parlor game prevents him from asking the most important question why?
0:57.7	Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up?
1:03.2	Who? The organizing principle of any society, Mr Garrison, is for war.
1:09.0	The authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers.
1:14.0	Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term.
1:17.0	He wanted to call off the Moon Race, cooperate with the Soviets.
1:21.0	He signed a treaty to ban nuclear testing. He refused to invade
1:25.4	Cuba in 1962. He said he set out to withdraw from Vietnam but all that ended on the 22nd November 1963. So that
1:38.9	Dominic was Mr X played by Donald Sutherland in Oliver Stone's JFK,
1:45.0	which came out in 1991 and is a very serious and sober documentary
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