Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.

I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.

Today's episode is episode 313, and of course, it's the continuation of the Sylvia

Odeo story.

It's part three.

In our last episode, we explored the dramatic and affluent background of Sylvia

Odio.

We learned how she went from being a

daughter of Cuba's wealthy aristocracy, a young woman educated in the United States and accustomed to

high society to a penniless exile. We saw how her parents, Amador and Sarah, threw their vast

resources behind the anti-Castro underground,

leading to their arrest and imprisonment by Fidel Castro's regime.

Today, we pick up the story in the aftermath of that devastating blow.

This episode is about survival.

It's about a young mother trying to hold her shattered mind and her

fractured family together in a strange city. But more importantly, for our investigation, this episode

establishes the critical, psychological, and physical setting for the event that is about to occur.

If we are to evaluate the credibility of Sylvia Odio as a

witness to one of the most important pre-assassassination sightings of Lee Harvey Oswald,

we have to look closely at her mental state, the people surrounding her, and exactly where she was

in the final days of September, 1963. And of course, once we do that,

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