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Conspiracy Revisited: The JFK assassination – 95 per cent certain?

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The killing of President John F Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963 is one of the defining events of the 20th century and the subject of multiple conspiracy theories. In part one of a special bonus episode of our Conspiracy series, Rob Attar rejoins the investigative journalist Gerald Posner to tackle your questions about the assassination and the web of intrigue that surrounds it. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to this bonus episode of our History Extra conspiracy series. A few weeks ago, we released an interview with the investigative journalist Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed, Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK, and it was all about the conspiracy theories surrounding

0:21.6

the JFK assassination. Well, as we expected, we had a lot of responses from you all, and a good

0:27.1

deal more questions. So, we've decided to get Gerald back in to answer a few of those questions,

0:32.7

as well as some more of my own. If you've not yet heard the first interview, then stop right now and go and listen to that

0:40.2

first, as it goes through the key events of President Kennedy's killing and the main

0:44.9

conspiracy theories surrounding it. Just search for Who Killed JFK on our website, or any major

0:51.0

podcast platform, or you can find the link in the episode description.

0:55.6

Now, there was a lot to cover in my second conversation with Gerald,

0:58.8

and so we've decided to split it into two episodes.

1:01.8

But you won't have to wait too long for the second episode,

1:04.8

so that will be arriving on your feeds next week.

1:07.6

Okay, so that's enough preamble.

1:09.3

Let's jump into the interview.

1:13.6

I began by asking Gerald a question from Franchise 505 on Instagram, which was, what is

1:20.3

the wildest conspiracy theory that he's heard about the JFK assassination?

1:24.6

Boy, I'll tell you, there's very good competition for the wildest theory I've heard about the JFK assassination. Boy, I'll tell you, there's very good competition for the wildest theory. I've

1:29.4

heard about the JFK assassination. I think that my personal favorite is probably that the president

1:39.2

was killed by the driver of the presidential limousine, who was a secret service member, that that driver turned around, which he does on the home movie of the assassination.

1:50.8

You can see the driver turning around to look at the president after the second shot.

1:55.4

He hears the shot that there's motion in the back of the car and looks at the president.

2:00.2

Now, there's a frame, a still frame of the home movie in which it appears that there's a glint of light for that from the area of the driver's hand.

2:09.6

And there are a number of people that have concluded over the years the driver had a small revolver in his hand that was basically hidden, shot the president from the front,

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