WEBVTT - Forensics 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:12.280 It's the evening of Friday, November twenty second, nineteen sixty three. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:16.040 Earlier that day in Dallas, President Kennedy had been shot. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.680 After the doctors at Parkland Hospital feverishly tried to save 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:26.040 his life. At approximately one pm, he was officially pronounced dead. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:31.040 The president's body was then loaded onto Air Force one, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:36.040 flown to Washington, and taken to Bethesda Naval Medical Center, 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.440 where a team of pathologists began not just the most 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:44.360 important autopsy of their careers, but the most important autopsy 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:53.120 in American history. Thirty six hours later, pathologists doctor j 0:00:53.479 --> 0:01:00.720 Thornton Boswell and doctor James Humes concluded their work. Humes 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:06.600 finished the autopsy report at home. Now he fully understands 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.520 the importance of this report. It'll be a central piece 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.759 of the official record that describes how the president was killed. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.760 It will be part of history, and it has to 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.520 be precise. But here's what he tells the Warrant Commission 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.039 the following year. Now, Sola, Dad, could you read this. 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.160 It's doctor Humes describing what he did that evening. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.039 Doctor Hume says, quote, in the privacy of my own 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.720 home early in the morning of Sunday, November twenty fourth. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.200 I made a draft of this report which I later revised, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.240 and of which this represents the revision that draft I 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.640 personally burned in the fireplace of my recreation room. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.160 Okay, could you repeat that last. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:59.600 Sentence, that draft I personally burned in the fireplace of 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:04.320 my recreation room. So he's admitting to the Warrant Commission 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.440 that he burned the original draft of the report, then 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.240 made a revised draft, and. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.000 Once the revelation that Humes had burned the original copy 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.760 of the autopsy, he had to continue to defend himself. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.239 In nineteen ninety two, doctor Humes told The New York 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.520 Times that the original copy was stained with blood and 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.959 he didn't want it to become a quote ghoulish collector's item. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:32.120 He insisted that the second report was copied verbatim, word 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.320 for word from the draft he burned. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.440 If it was only about accepting the lame excuse of 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.240 preserving the president's dignity, we might buy it. But burning 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.720 the autopsy report wasn't the only thing about the forensic 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.720 investigation that was suspicious, starting with the two so called 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.440 forensic pathologists that were in charge. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.800 Humes and Boswell were not forensic pathologists. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:58.000 That's Doug Horn. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.840 From nineteen ninety five to eight, he was a senior 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:06.000 staff member of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.280 Review Board, and he's an expert on the case. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.320 Now, it should be troubling to everybody who studies this 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.280 case that the two people selected to be the number 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.880 one and number two pathologist, these guys were pathologists who 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.480 did deaths due to natural causes. So Hume's and Boswell 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.720 really weren't qualified to be doing this autopsy, and yet 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:27.840 they were picked. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.680 So you have two doctors who are not certified nor 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:36.400 qualified in forensic pathology, and the lead doctor throws his 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.640 notes into the fireplace before handing in a revised draft. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.760 And that's just the tip of the iceberg. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.800 This is who killed JFK. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.560 Sixty years later, What can we uncover about the greatest 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.400 murder mystery in American history? And why does it still 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.560 matter today? I'm your host, Solidad O'Brien. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.280 In the last episode, we learned that it was the 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.720 intent of the Warren Commission to prove that Lee Harvey 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:15.760 Oswald was the lone assassin of President Kennedy. Alan Dulles, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.560 the godfather of the CIA was placed on the Commission 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.400 to make sure that any damning information about the CIA 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:28.440 was kept hidden. J Edgar Hoover ignored evidence that might 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:34.080 implicate anyone other than Oswald. Then, in nineteen seventy six, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.960 after learning that the Warren Commission had been compromised, the 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:44.400 House Select Committee on Assassinations launched a new investigation, and 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.240 though they were able to expose more than the Warren 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:54.039 Commission had, they too learned afterwards that their efforts had 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:58.680 been compromised because the liaison to the CIA that they 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.200 were given there was a man named George Joannedes. He 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:08.040 was a retired CIA agent who oversaw the special ops 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:15.640 program that had recruited Lejarvey. Oswald and joan Edes made 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:20.240 sure that the new committee never knew about that. And 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:25.040 although the House investigation concluded that Kennedy was killed as 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.400 a result of a conspiracy, they came to no conclusion 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.000 as to who took part in it. The result two 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:37.520 flawed government investigations with two completely different conclusions. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.680 So where does it leave us. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:44.320 Well, first, let's look at the forensics how the victim died. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.000 After that we'll take a look at the man who 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:52.080 they claimed did it. We'll dive into Oswald's world. We'll 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.960 find out who he really was, who he may have 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:58.719 been working for, how he was set up, and who 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.880 could have pulled this off. Then we'll have it all 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.480 unfold again, from the days leading up to the assassination 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.880 to the moment that Jack Ruby silenced Oswald, except this time, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.280 when we ultimately relive it, we'll know the forces hiding 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:21.440 in the shadows behind it all. Okay, so let's get 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:26.760 into this. In any murder case, the forensic evidence is critical. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.719 It paints the picture of how the victim died, and 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.400 in this case, to prove a single gunman, the forensic 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:39.680 evidence should be straightforward. But trust me, it's far from that. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:45.000 The bullets, the gun, the photographs, the doctor's first hand 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:50.839 reports are all heavily disputed, and in this episode we're 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.320 going to go through all of that. As I said, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:59.400 like any other murder, you need to understand the forensic evidence. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.640 Forensic evidence it mattered because it was essential in determining 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.320 the site from which the shot was fired. 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.000 That's the key to the case. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.160 That's doctor Cyril wet renowned forensic pathologists. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.680 The Warren commissioned report saying that Lee Harvey Oswald was 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:21.480 the sole assassin, the sole shooter, and that he fired 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.720 from behind from the sixth fur window of the Texas 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.480 school Book Depository building, and that there were no other shooters. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.280 That's the essence of the case, because once you showed 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:39.040 two shooters, then you've got, of course, a conspiracy. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.400 So let's take a look. According to the Warren report, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.960 Oswald fired three shots. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.000 How did they arrive at that number? 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.360 It was based on two initial pieces of evidence. One 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.840 was the Dallas police report and the second was the 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:56.760 Subruder film. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.840 Remember the Dallas dressmaker Abraham's a Bruder, the whole thing 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:01.440 on camera. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.360 The Saprudi film has no sound, so you can't hear 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:10.520 the shots, but you can see the President being hit twice, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.840 and you can also see Governor Connolly sitting in the 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:19.520 passenger seat in front of Kennedy also getting hit. The 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:24.520 Zapruda film clearly shows three hits. So the Warren Commission 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.680 established three shots. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:31.360 Unfortunately for them, there was a bystander named James tag. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.080 That's doctor David Mantick. Doctor Mantick has made nine visits 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:39.400 to the National Archives where the President's x rays, autopsy photos, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.520 and other critical evidence sits available for select members of 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.520 the public to review. You could try to get an 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.360 appointment to see them, or you could read any of 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.840 the three books doctor Mantick has written about them. According 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.000 to doctor Mantick, this bystander was about to create a 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.280 huge problem for the Warren Commission. 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.200 James Tag was standing under the overpass to the left 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.600 front of the limousine who was hit by some debris 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.360 that may have been a piece of concrete. 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.560 He's watching the motorcade when the first shot rings out 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.000 and he feels something sharp hit him in the cheek. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.839 It was a piece of cement from the curb, and 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.800 all of a sudden his cheek starts bleeding. So clearly 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.640 the first shot completely missed the motorcade. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.120 So this left the Warrant Commission only two shots to 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.960 work with to explain all the woods. So they knew 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.400 that one bullet had to kill Kennedy via a headshot, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.600 So there goes one. You're only left with one more shot. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.040 With that one shot, you have to explain everything else. 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.400 So that's where Arlen Spector rode to the rescue on 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.720 his shining white Horse and invented the magic bullet theory. 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.920 Otherwise known as the single bullet. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.840 Theory, and so now begins the saga of the single 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:01.960 bullet theory. 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.079 That's doctor Weckt again, and he deserves a full introduction. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.959 He's a highly decorated forensic expert who's done more than 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:13.800 seventeen thousand autopsies and who's been probing the jfk assassination 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.920 since the nineteen sixties. He's one of the most vocal 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.280 critics of the Warren Report and the single bullet theory. 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.480 Enter Arlen Spector, at that time junior legal consul for 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:29.560 the Warren Commission. Spector, to his credit, came up with 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.560 which seems to be a solution for them, and that 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.520 is known as the single bullet theory. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:39.079 You'll remember Arlen Spector from our last episode. The journalist 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:43.080 Gayton Fonsie pressed him on his single bullet theory, and 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:47.440 when he gave Fonsie an evasive answer, Fonsie published a 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:48.800 scathing article. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.960 The single bullet theory holds that one bullet entered the 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:58.440 president's back to begin with, moved upward, moving then inside 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.680 the president's chest eleven and a half degrees upward. How 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.679 in the hell is that possible? When the bullet comes out. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.840 It's moving again downward, leftward, and forward, turns in midair, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:16.840 comes back eighteen twenty inches and hits calmly behind the 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.880 right armpit, exiting below nipple level. The bullet in midair 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:25.000 turns upward sweeping motion, goes into the wrist presses a 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.160 common manufacture of one of the two line bones from 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.920 the elbow to the wrist. Exits from the wrist, re 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:38.319 enters the Governor's left thigh, and that is the pathway 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.080 of the single bullet. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.240 The bullet presumably leaves the gun from the sixth floor 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:48.719 of the building that's now above and behind Kennedy, and 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.320 the bullet enters President Kennedy's back. Looking at a picture 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.640 of the president's jacket which you can easily find online, 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.560 the bullet hole is in the upper middle part of 0:11:58.600 --> 0:11:59.560 his suit coat. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:05.520 Right then it supposedly turns upward and comes out of 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:06.120 his throat. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.599 Well, my colleagues are others who try to defend that 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.600 Singapore theory. They say, well, what if the president were 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.640 bent over tying his shoe. No, he wasn't doing that. 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.760 He was looking at the crowd and cheering and waving. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.760 It's pretty clear when you watch the Subbruder film, he 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.920 is not hunched over. The president is poised upward toward 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:27.440 the crowd. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.520 When Governor Connolly testified to the Warren Commission. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:32.200 That's Dick Russell. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.360 He repeated multiple times that he was not hit but 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.320 the same bullet that had hit JFK. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.040 As a matter of fact, if you look at the 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.240 Zapruta film, you'll see that when Kennedy reacts to getting 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.560 hit in the throat, Connelly then turns around to see 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:50.160 what happened. Then moments later he gets hit. There's no 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.480 way that it can be the same bullet that hit Kennedy. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.000 The surgeons who operated on Governor Connolly's wrist and chest 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.480 wounds at Parkland also noted that they did not think 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.240 all of his wounds had been made by the same bullet. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.920 It seems to me people are divided into two camps. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.280 Right There are people who believe the single bullet theory 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.559 and people who think the single bullet theory is crazy. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.520 If you believe it, then you believe that one bullet 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:13.880 caused all that damage. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.319 But it's not just about the path of the bullet. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.880 To fully consider the single bullet theory, you have to 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.480 ask yourself two questions. The first question, how did the 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.600 bullet look when it was recovered? 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.880 If God came to me and said, what I want 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.240 you to get rid of every single piece of evidence, 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.600 and I'll allow you to keep one thing, one thing only, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.240 that would be the bullet as it was recovered. 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.920 It is nearly perfect condition. You can see a picture 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.920 of that bullet in the National Archives. It's listed as 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.800 a Warrant Commission Exhibit three ninety nine. A bullet that 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:57.720 went in and out of both Kennedy and Connolly breaking 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:02.400 Connolly's bones still look pristine, which brings us to the 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.160 second question, where did they find the magic bullet? 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.640 What happened later on was that a maintenance man, finding 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:15.160 the er corridor blocked by a stretcher, bent down to 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.360 move the stretcher and level Behold, there was a bullet. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.000 The bullets Christine. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.160 Nobody had seen this bullet, missed Y, everybody h Dallas, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.440 missed by everybody at Parkland before then. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.520 And so on. That was the official story. This pristine 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:37.360 bullet just appeared on a stretcher in Parkland, a mystery 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:43.680 that has confused researches for decades until in September twenty 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:49.440 twenty three, there was a bombshell. A Secret Service agent 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.040 named Paul Landis was on the running board of the 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.320 car behind Kennedy. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.880 New bombshell claims tonight by one of the Secret Service 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.640 agents was closest to John F. Kennedy when he was 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:00.640 a sund Fascinated the. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:05.160 New version of what might have happened to the magic bullet. 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.400 Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, who was with the 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.360 president that day, is opening up for the first time 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.160 about what he witnessed that. 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.520 According to The New York Times, could quote change the 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.680 understanding of what happened in Dallas in nineteen sixty three. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.840 So Rob I saw this story in primetime on CNN, 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.760 on NBC, it was in People Magazine, it was in 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.960 Vanity Fair, it was in the New York Times. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:31.320 They all covered it. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:36.720 Right, and Paul Landis was kind enough to talk with us. Paul, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.920 from where the president was sitting, how far behind were you? 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.400 Probably fifteen, no more than twenty eighty feet. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:51.200 Can you just describe what you saw at the moment 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:52.960 that the president was hit. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.440 Shortly after the second shot I had heard the third shot, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:03.320 I saw the tribals had split wide ope on the 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.640 midst of blood and fleshed and green matter flew into 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:12.240 the air. I ducked to avoid getting splattered, and at 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.440 that point we assumed under the underpass and. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:19.160 We were on our way to Party Memorial Hospital. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.600 I raced to the President's and Missus Kennedy was sitting 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.600 on left center of the rear seat. There was a 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.960 pool of blood next to Missus Kennedy. As soon as 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.960 she stood up, right behind where she had been sitting, 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.880 there was a pristine bullet. I picked this bullet up. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:46.040 It was not just formed, other than it had recognized 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.440 striations on that it had been fired. And looking around, 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.320 everybody was concentrating on the President. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.040 I didn't know what to do right away, but I 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:02.880 was afraid this bullet an important piece of evidence and 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.520 I didn't want to get lost. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.760 So I stepped it in my pocket and the raised in. 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.480 Journey carrying the President's body and were right at trauma 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:15.200 Room one. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.000 People were shoving, pushing, shouting. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.160 I happened to be pushed up right next to his feet, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.320 so I reached into my pocket, took it out and 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.800 placed it by the president. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:29.720 Slashed true. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.479 So what does this tell us unless the single bullet 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.320 theorists are going to claim that the bullet, after going 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.360 through Kennedy and Connolly, was able to bounce back from 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.359 where it allegedly exited Connolly's body in the front seat 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.919 and somehow wound up in the backseat. It can't be 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:54.360 the same bullet. What Landis is telling us finally makes sense. First, 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.359 it explains how a bullet got onto a gurney at Parkland. 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.240 He put it there, And second explains why the bullet 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.320 was in near pristine condition. It never broke any bones 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:10.600 on its path through two people. This completely destroys the 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.760 single bullet theory. There is no magic bullet, which means 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:19.000 that there had to have been at least a fourth shot, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.119 which means there had to have been another shooter. And 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.200 we know conclusively that Oswald could not have fired four 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:31.359 shots in that time span. This points directly at a conspiracy. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:33.879 So then what's weird to me as a journalist is 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.240 this new testimony, Like he never mentioned this when he 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:38.640 was questioned sixty years ago. 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.840 He was never questioned sixty years ago. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.320 Nobody ever asked Warren. 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.520 Commission never interviewed any of the other agents that were 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:49.879 in the filow up car. 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.600 Now let's talk about the number of shots fired. Remember, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.600 the Warren report said that three shots were fired. 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:01.240 The manlier car Kano, a non automatic carbeam, which was 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:06.960 the alleged murder weapon used by Oswald, was tested by 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.119 top marksmen and it was determined that it took two 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.280 point three seconds from shot to shot, without allowing time 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:19.600 for reaiming and repositioning at a moving target. They determined 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.320 that the first shot that hit Kennedy was followed by 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:27.160 a second shot at one point five seconds. Well, how 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.880 was that possible when it was determined that it took 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.360 two point three seconds from shot to shot. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:37.280 As they say, do the math the single bullet. The 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:51.960 timing of the shots were just getting started. Now, let's 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.960 take a look at some of the testimonies from the 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.360 Parkland doctors who tried to save Kennedy's life. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.200 According to the war report, JFK's car raced from Dealey 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.919 Plaza to Parkland Hospital and it arrived at twelve thirty 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:06.800 five pm. 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.800 Everyone at Parkland was on high alert getting ready for 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:15.479 Kennedy's arrival. Among them was doctor Malcolm Perry, a trauma 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:20.320 room physician. He worked feverishly trying to keep the President alive, 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:25.320 but once the president was pronounced dead later that day, 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:29.359 he talked to the press and he described the shot 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.879 to Kennedy's neck as an entrance wound. 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.920 The New York Times published the transcript from that press conference. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:43.280 It goes, reporter, where was the entrance wound, Doctor Perry? 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.000 There was an entrance wound in the neck. Reporter, Which 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.760 way was the bullet coming on the neck wound? Madam, 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.360 doctor Perry. It appeared to be coming at him. Reporter, 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.760 You think from the front in the throat. Dr Perry, 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.600 the wound appeared to be an entrance wound in the 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:06.000 front of the throat. Yes, that is correct. Well, so 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:07.280 that's pretty clear. 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:12.040 Yeah, one would think. But it's not the way doctor 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:13.719 Perry's story ends. 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:18.640 According to information we have just received from a recently 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:24.040 discovered notebook kept by Martin Steadman, we've learned a little 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.640 more about this story about doctor Perry. 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.600 That's doctor Mantick again now talking about the journalist Martin Steadman. 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:34.440 Steadman covered this story for decades. 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:39.560 A week after the assassination, Steedman and a few colleagues 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.720 went to visit doctor Perry at his home in Dallas, 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.159 and they asked him well, doctor Perry, what do you 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:49.440 really believe you think this was an entry wound? And 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.720 he said, absolutely, it was an entry wound. And he 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.760 told them what had happened the night of the autopsy 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.959 and the morning after. He said he had gotten several 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:05.240 calls from the autopsy room from the autopsy doctors who 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.199 told him that if he didn't change his mind about 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.800 the entry wound, he was probably going to lose his 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:16.639 medical license. And so the journalist finished up by asking him, well, 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.320 doctor Perry, after all of this, what do you really 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:21.680 think he said it was an entry wound. 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.320 So he says again, it's an entry wound. 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:32.320 After a long, long paragraph of assumptions, he finally admitted 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:34.760 to the Warrant Commission that it could have been a 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:35.800 shot from the rear. 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:39.480 But this is the guy who repeated three times that 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:41.960 the bullet entered from the front of the throat. 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:44.280 Right, why would he change his mind. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.600 In the nineteen seventies, that's Dick Russell. A Dallas Secret 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:54.440 Service agent named Elmer Moore confessed that he quote had 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:58.400 badgered doctor Perry into making a flat statement that there 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:01.040 was no entrance wound in the net. He said he 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.479 was operating under orders from Washington and the Secret Service. 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:08.200 He said he regretted it, but that we all did 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.320 everything we were told, or we'd got our heads cut off. 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.679 Perry wasn't the only one that day who said that 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.639 the shots that hit Kennedy were fired from the front. 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:21.720 Statements from twenty one witnesses at Parkland Hospital that day 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:25.520 reported seeing a massive head wound in the back of 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:26.399 Kennedy's skull. 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:31.280 The doctors at Parkland described a big wound that reached 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:35.560 into the posterior part of the skull on the right side. 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.840 The journalist Connie Chritzberg interviewed some of those doctors at 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:42.400 Parkland in the immediate aftermath of that day. She got 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.680 testimony from one of the neurosurgeons, doctor Kemp Clark, who 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:48.720 also said that there was a huge wound in the 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:50.440 right rear of the president's head. 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:54.439 And then there's doctor McClellan, one of the surgeons that 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.160 worked to save the president's life that day. 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:00.919 Doctor McClellan testified to the Warren Commission that part of 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:03.000 the cerebellum was blasted away. 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:06.760 There was a big hole in the back of his head. 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:08.800 That's doctor Mantick again. 0:24:09.320 --> 0:24:11.600 It was the size of an orange at least, if 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:16.720 not even a little larger. And dozens, literally dozens of 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:18.760 witnesses have said the same thing. 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:22.119 So the shot that killed the president came from the front. 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:24.920 It's totally consistent with a big hole in the back 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:25.400 of the head. 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:31.080 So were the doctor's testimonies just ignored by investigators and 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:33.000 by the folks on the Warren commission. 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:37.720 One of the doctors, Ron Jones, said that assassination investigators 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:41.080 knew of reports of a second shooter but ignored them. 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:44.440 A Warren commissioned investigator is said to have told him, quote, 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.040 we have people who had testified that they saw somebody 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.880 shoot the president from the front, but we don't want 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:52.719 to interview them, and I don't want you saying anything 0:24:52.720 --> 0:24:53.480 about that either. 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:55.879 And who was that investigator? 0:24:56.200 --> 0:25:01.679 Who arlinspector the creator of the single theory the same. 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:05.600 Now, let's dig deeper into what happened during the autopsy 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:11.240 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. The Dallas doctors were unanimous. 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:13.840