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 315. And of course,

it's a continuation of the Sylvia Odeo's story. It's part five. The vow of silence was broken.

The FBI was coming. And what happened next would become one of the most

controversial and highly debated aspects of the investigation that was undertaken by both the

FBI and the Warren Commission. How did the FBI handle Sylvia Odio's explosive claim?

And how did the Warren Commission use a highly questionable story from a soldier of

fortune to prematurely close the book on the mother of all Oswald's sightings? Well, that's what

we're going to begin to cover today. When we left off in the last episode, it was the darkest weekend

in American history. Sylvia Odeo and her teenage sister Annie were sitting in a

Dallas hospital room, staring at a television set, paralyzed by the horrifying realization that the

man accused of killing the president, Lee Harvey Oswald, was the very same Leon who had stood in

their doorway weeks earlier. Terrified for their

lives and for the safety of their parents imprisoned in Cuba and the rest of their family,

the sisters made a solemn vow. They would tell absolutely no one. But secrets of that magnitude

have a way of finding the light.

Through a winding Dallas grapevine, starting with Sylvia's sister, Sarita,

passing to a wealthy benefactor named Lucille Connell, then to a friend in a law office,

then to a Spanish teacher, and eventually to a student who just happened to be the son

of FBI agent James

Hostie. Well, the vow of silence was broken. The FBI was alerted, and they came knocking at

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