Did The CIA Kill JFK?

The Rest Is Classified

Goalhanger

History

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

*Declassified Club exclusive: SUBSCRIBE⁠⁠ to listen to the full series* Who really killed John F. Kennedy in Dallas on 22 November 1963? Did the CIA have a vendetta against the 35th President of the United States after their failure against Castro in Cuba? Or was Lee Harvey Oswald just a lone gunman with a need for "justice"? Listen as David and Gordon begin a 3-part exclusive mini-series for Declassified Club members on the conspiracy theories surrounding who killed JFK. ------------------- Join The Declassified Club: Start your free trial at ⁠⁠therestisclassified.com⁠⁠ - go deeper into the world of espionage with exclusive Q&As, interviews with top intelligence insiders, quarterly livestreams, ad-free listening, early access to episodes and live show tickets, and weekly deep dives into original spy stories. Members also get curated reading lists, special book discounts, prize draws, and access to our private chat community. To sign up to the free newsletter, go to: ⁠⁠https://mailchi.mp/goalhanger.com/tric-free-newsletter-sign-up⁠ ⁠ ------------------- Order a signed edition of Gordon's latest book, The Spy in the Archive, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via this link.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Order a signed edition of David's latest book, The Seventh Floor, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via this link.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------------------- Email: [email protected] Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@triclassified⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Social Producer: Emma Jackson Producer: Becki Hills Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	For exclusive interviews, bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to series,
0:09.0	first look at live show tickets, a weekly newsletter, and discounted books.
0:13.1	Join the declassified club at the rest is classified.com.
0:17.2	One in ten Americans believe that the central intelligence agency killed a sitting U.S. president.
0:23.3	It was all massive disinformation.
0:25.4	The CIA had nothing to do with that hit.
0:27.5	It's not that the CIA did it or that the mob did it or even the castor did it.
0:31.7	The CIA and FBI had information that would have put Lee Harvey Oswald onto the Secret Services watch list.
0:38.8	He's still a communist, isn't it? His Marxism compels him to get a visa to visit the Soviet
0:44.7	Union. He would have seen a map of the route that John F. Kennedy is going to take.
0:49.0	You have distraction shots, then you have a kill shot. Oswald was a patsy, and he was shooting distraction shots. Jack
0:56.4	Ruby, a nightclub owner, this is the most wanted fugitive in the United States in John Wilkes
1:01.7	booth. Do you mean to tell me a nightclub owner with a loaded gun is sauntering into the basement
1:07.1	of the Dallas Police Department? He's going to put three holes in his stomach and kill the suspect on national television. We should say that Anthony does claim to have some
1:17.3	information from his time in the White House. All I'm going to talk about is what's available
1:21.2	in the public domain. Don't underestimate the budget cuts that Kennedy called for in March of 1963.
1:35.8	Nearly 52 military installations in 25 states.
1:39.6	21 overseas bases, big money.
1:42.7	You know how many helicopters have been lost in Vietnam? Nearly
1:45.9	3,000 so far. Who makes them? Bell helicopter. Who owns Bell? Bell was nearly bankrupt when
1:53.4	First National Bank of Boston asked the CIA to use the helicopter in Indochina. How about the
1:59.9	F-111-11 fighter? General Dynamics of Fort Worth, Texas.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Goalhanger, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Goalhanger and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.