WEBVTT - 48 Hours After 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:09.680 On Monday, November twenty fifth, nineteen sixty three, President Kennedy 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.960 was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery at the 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:18.159 First Lady's request. The ceremony followed the same protocols for 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.720 Abraham Lincoln's funeral nearly one hundred years earlier. The flag 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.599 drape casket was drawn by six gray horses. It was 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:31.520 followed by one riderless black horse. Crowds line Pennsylvania Avenue 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.920 as the procession passed, Only the sounds of the drums 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.600 and the clacking of horses hoofs on the pavement could 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:44.160 be heard. I'll never forget the rhythm bum bum bum 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.800 bump up bup bum bum bum bup up up bum 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:53.000 bum bum bump bup, bup bum bum bum bum. Missus Kennedy, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:58.560 surrounded by family, friends, official dignitaries, and a military escort, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.240 walked to Saint Matthew's Cathedral for the service. Heads of 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.399 state and representatives from more than one hundred countries attended 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.800 the funeral. Millions of people around the world tuned in 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.360 to watch on television. After the service, the president's remains 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.800 were laid to rest at Arlington Memorial Cemetery, where Missus 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:25.399 Kennedy lit an eternal flame. Two hundred and fifty thousand 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:30.280 people waited up to ten hours in freezing temperatures to 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:35.880 pay their respects. The nation was in mourning at virtually 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.000 the same time, Lee Harvey Oswald, who had been murdered 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.440 twenty four hours earlier on live television by nightclub owner 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:49.160 Jack Ruby, was also being put to rest. Along with 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.880 Oswald's remains, secrets were buried. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:02.080 This is who killed JFK. Sixty years later? What can 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:06.320 we uncover about the greatest murder mystery in American history? 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.080 And why does it still matter today? I'm your host, 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:11.200 Solidad O'Brien. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.920 We've shown evidence that indicates that at the time of 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.520 the shooting, Oswald was not on the sixth floor of 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.440 the Texas school Book Depository building. He seemed to know 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.040 that he was part of something, but likely didn't know 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.520 exactly what it was. But when he heard that the 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.920 president had been shot, he realized at that point that 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.520 he was in danger. He fled the scene, and he 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.519 was ultimately arrested at the Texas Movie Theater. At the 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.280 Dallas police station, he claimed his innocence when he spoke 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.919 this phrase, I'm just a Patsy. Within forty eight hours 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.120 of his arrest, Jack Ruby saw to it that Lee 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.760 Harvey Oswald would never speak again. A year later, the 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.600 Warren Commission report was released to the public. It set 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.880 out with goal of pinning it all on Oswald, and 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.040 it did. They wanted him to look like a lone gunman. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.840 Here's what they had to say about Jack Ruby. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.080 The Warren Commission report says, quote, no direct or indirect 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.720 relationship between Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby has been 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.760 discovered by the Commission, nor has it been able to 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.720 find any credible evidence that either knew the other. The 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.720 Commission has found no evidence that Jack Ruby acted with 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.320 any other person in the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.280 And they took Ruby at his word when he told 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.880 them that he had killed Oswald out of sympathy for Jackie. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.840 He wanted to spare her the pain of having to 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:43.920 return to Dallas for a trial. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:49.200 That seems just a bit absurd as an excuse. 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.000 Yes it does, but it wasn't all that Jack Ruby 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.560 had to say. He said something to his jailer after 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.880 being arrested for killing Oswald, and it speaks to some 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.400 something much much bigger. Solo, Dad, Could you read this? 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.640 Sure quote? Now they're going to find out about Cuba, 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.320 the guns, New Orleans and everything. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.640 Ruby was concerned that his connection to the CIA funded 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.680 anti castro operations would be uncovered. 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.039 How exactly is a guy like Jack Ruby connected to 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.239 what's happening in Cuba and New Orleans. 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.080 Well to understand that, we need to understand who exactly 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:33.159 Jack Ruby was. Jack Ruby was born in Chicago. He 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.800 was born Jacob Leon Rubinstein. At eleven, he was arrested 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.880 for truancy. He spent time in foster homes. He dropped 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.799 out of school and eventually joined the Teamsters Union. After 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.520 serving in World War Two, he moved to Dallas. He 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.800 changed his name to Jack Ruby, and he started managing 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.480 nightclubs and strip joints around town. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:05:00.560 There's evidence he also became involved in narcotics, prostitution, and 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.880 obviously these are all businesses that are connected to the mob. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.520 The Dallas County Sheriff, Steve Guthrie told the FBI that 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:14.320 he believed quote Ruby operated some prostitution activities and other 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.880 vices in his club. He was cozy with the Dallas police. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.000 Officers would come into his club and he'd give them 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.040 free booze, and he'd make sure that the women paid 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:25.560 proper attention. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:26.880 Hum quite the host. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.200 Along with running his clubs, Ruby became involved in running 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:33.400 guns for the mob. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.720 A friend of Ruby's named James E. Baird spoke to 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.599 the Dallas Morning News and testified to the FBI saying 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:45.279 that Jack Ruby quote stored guns and ammunition in a 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.320 two story house between the waterfront and the railroad tracks 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.800 in Kema, Texas. Baird personally saw Ruby and his associates 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:59.080 load quote many boxes of new guns, including automatic rifles 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:04.360 and handguns. Where exactly was he running these guns too? 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:10.560 Cuba. In September nineteen fifty nine, Ruby traveled to Havana 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.960 as a guest of a close friend named Louis J. Mcwilly. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:21.200 Before Castro took over, Florida, mob boss Santos Traficanti chose 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:25.040 mcwilly to run his casino in Havana, and after Castro 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.600 came to power, mcwilly was arrested and thrown out of 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:33.160 the country. Back in the US, mcwilly was hired by Meyer, Lanski, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.000 and Sam Giancana to run their casinos in Las Vegas. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.200 Five days before Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas. Ruby 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.279 was seen at the Thunderbird in Vegas with mcwilly. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.160 You know, people often get lost in the semantics of 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.720 whether or not Ruby was a mobster. Well, he wasn't 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.080 a made man himself, but he had clear connections to 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.800 the mob It's the world he grew up in and 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.400 the world he operated from in Dallas. They say you 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.160 can tell a lot about a person by the company 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:08.799 they keep. The House Select Committee looked at Ruby's phone 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.080 records in the days leading up to November twenty second, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.120 and they discovered that he had made numerous phone calls 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:17.520 to known mobsters. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.840 Their report showed that weeks prior to the assassination, Ruby 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.160 made approximately one hundred and twenty calls to mobsters associated 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.800 with Sam g and Kanna and Carlos Marcello. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.680 So how does this relate back to Oswald. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.800 Well, just like we saw an uptick in activity around 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.360 Oswald leading up to the assassination, the same was true 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:44.600 of Ruby. Ruby and Oswald operated in the same sphere. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.800 So it should come as no surprise when I tell 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.960 you that, contrary to the Warrant Commission's conclusion that there 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.120 was no direct or indirect relationship between Lee Harvey Oswald 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.720 and Jack Ruby. There is plenty of evidence that the 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.280 two some of them knew each other. How do we 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.680 know that, Well, there are eyewitnesses who talked on the 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.480 record about Ruby and Oswald's relationship. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.040 Dorothy Markham, a woman who dated Ruby, told the FBI 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:18.600 that Oswald worked for Ruby during June and July. Clyde 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.840 Malcolm Limbaugh, who worked for Ruby for three years, said 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.800 he saw Oswald in Ruby's office on several occasions. Helen K. Smith, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.239 who worked at the Carousel Club, told the Dallas Police 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.480 that she saw Ruby and Oswald together on many occasions. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.640 And Robert Roy, Ruby's auto mechanic, said that Oswald used 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.240 to drop off Ruby's car for repairs. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.080 And then there's Sharry Angel, one of the most popular 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:49.320 strippers at Ruby's club. Dick interviewed her years ago. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.319 I heard that you remember Oswald being in the club 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.360 as well. Yeah, what do you remember about that. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.320 Nancy carrying twist been hitting ruin town? 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.920 Got my husband of communist, called your husband a common 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:06.920 for an audience. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:11.080 Yeah, if you miss that. She said that she remembers 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.599 Oswald doing the twist with a woman named Kathy k 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:19.119 and her husband hitting him because Oswald called him a communist. 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.000 So Oswald and Ruby definitely knew each other in the 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.360 club before it happened. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:25.000 Oh yeah. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:30.000 And none of those witnesses testified to the Warren Commission. 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.679 None. And it wasn't until seven months after he killed 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:39.160 Oswald that Ruby was even interviewed by the Commission. And 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.599 what he said and didn't get to say will shock you. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.880 Why did the Warren Commission wait so long to interview 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.480 Jack Ruby? How was he not at the top of 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:01.880 the list? 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.760 You tell me? Before being interviewed by the Commission, Ruby 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.200 insisted on taking a lie detector test. 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:12.520 In the Warren Commission report, it says that quote as 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.640 early as December of nineteen sixty three, Jack Ruby expressed 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.360 his desire to be examined with a polygraph, truth serum 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.679 or any other scientific device which would test his veracity. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:26.400 And did they give him one? 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.719 Well, no, not at first. Eventually they did. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:31.000 What did it show? 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.840 The Warren Commission said that they found it inconclusive. 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.360 What does inconclusive mean? 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.199 Well, they said that they couldn't verify the answers as 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.400 true or false based on concerns they had over Ruby's 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.240 mental state it was an excuse that they used for 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.480 other witnesses that didn't perfectly fit into the predetermined narrative. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.600 Ruby was frustrated, and when the war report came out, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:58.680 this is what he said to the press. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.079 Ruby said, quote, the Warren Report never gave me the 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.719 true authentity when I requested a polygraph test. He then 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.680 goes on to say, why they held back the answers 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.120 the results, whether they're true or false, that's for you 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:16.880 to find out. That's for you to find out. That's 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:18.000 pretty ominous. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.240 I think he wanted to tell the truth about why 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.120 he killed Oswald, but he knew that his life would 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.000 be in danger if he did so. Ruby told the 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.400 Warren Commission that if they got him out of Dallas, 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.640 he would tell them everything he knew. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.440 He would tell them everything. Kind of can't get more 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:36.040 loaded than that. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.560 No, no, you can't. And he said, quote, gentlemen, unless 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.320 you take me to Washington, you can't get a fair 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.800 shake out of me. If you want to hear any 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.880 further testimony out of me, you'll have to get me 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.400 to Washington soon. I want to tell the truth, and 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.319 I can't tell it here. This isn't the place for 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.720 me to tell you what I want to tell. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:11:59.600 Did they take him to DC? 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:01.600 He never left Dallas. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.720 After he was denied his trip to Washington. Ruby said quote, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.480 I may not live tomorrow to give any further testimony. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:12.880 I want to get out to the public, and I 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:13.800 can't say it here. 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.640 Why couldn't he speak in Dallas? Why do you think 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.560 he wanted to move so badly? 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.439 He was terrified for his life, He said, quote, I 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.160 tell you, gentlemen, my whole family is in jeopardy. He 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.199 didn't want to end up like George de Mornshield, who 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.760 mysteriously died the day he was subpoenaed to testify to 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.720 the House Select Committee, or Johnny Roselli, who was found 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.440 chopped up and stuffed in an oil drum right before 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.600 he was supposed to appear before the committee, or Richard K. Snagel, 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.319 who died the day he received a subpoena to testify 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.920 to the Assassination Record's Review Board. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.920 Here is how Robert Blakey, head of the House Select 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.439 Committee on Assassinations, interpreted Ruby's remarks. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.199 Blakey said, quote, Ruby, I was trying to tell the 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:05.200 truth about the conspiracy he knew existed, but he feared 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.199 for his life. You'll remember that Robert Blakey had a 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.880 background in targeting organized crime. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.280 No Mah kills witnesses who are potential people who can 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.800 tell the true story. And that's the reason I think 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.600 Jack Ruby shortly Harvey Osweoll. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.959 From the time Kennedy was shot and killed until he 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.719 himself was shot and killed, Oswald was in custody for 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.839 just under forty eight hours. Here's a transcript from a 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.600 press conference during that period. Sola ed, could you read. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:43.920 This sure, reporter, did you kill the President Oswald? No, sir, 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.079 I didn't. People keep asking me that, reporter, did you 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:51.319 shoot the President Oswald? I work in that building? Reporter? 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.199 Were you in the building at the time? Oswald? Naturally 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.640 if I work in that building, yes, sir, reporter, did 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.079 you shoot the President Oswald? 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:01.559 No? 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.719 They are taking me in because of the fact that 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.880 I lived in the Soviet Union. I'm just a patsy. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.560 It's remarkable that he's just out there fending for himself. Usually, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.880 you know, in any press conference with a suspected criminal, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:16.840 their lawyer would speak for them. 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.360 Oswald was never granted a lawyer. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.160 Did he get to make any phone calls? 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.280 He called Marina at Ruth Paynes, and there's evidence that 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:29.880 he made one other call and it's significant. He placed 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:34.120 a call to a military counter intelligence officer in North 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.200 Carolina named John Hurt. And how do we know that 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.280 because there's a receipt showing that the operator placed the call. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.560 The switchboard operators who placed long distance calls for people 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.000 inside the jail were required to fill out a slip. 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.200 A researcher found the slip with the date eleven twenty 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.680 three sixty three and John Hurt's name and telephone number. 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.680 The woman working the switchboard evening said that the call 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.840 was never answered and that the two men in suits 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.320 that were in the room likely made sure that the 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:09.640 call never went through. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.960 Researchers found John Hurd decades later to ask him about 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.240 the call. He claimed he never knew Oswald and was 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.880 completely unaware that Oswald had tried to call him, But 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:25.400 he also didn't share the fact that he was military counterintelligence. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.640 What do you think he was hoping to accomplish with 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.160 the call? If he actually got Hurt on the line, 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:32.440 it was likely, and. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:36.960 This process has been confirmed by XCIA agents, that Oswald 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.200 was trying to reach a cutout a go between to 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.320 get a message to his case officer. He was going 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.320 through a process designed for people on intelligence missions to 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.400 get help, but since the call was never put through, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.920 Oswald was hung out to dry. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.720 In another press conference at the police station, a reporter 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:00.320 asks did you kill the president? And Oswald says, quote, no, 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.120 I have not been charged with that. In fact, nobody 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:08.200 has said that to me yet. The reporter then tells Oswald, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.560 you have been charged, and Oswald is absolutely stunned. 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.440 In the televised report of this moment, you can really 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.560 see his shock reaction to this in real time. 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:24.200 He's realizing the implications of it all, that this horrific 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.200 crime is going to be pinned on him. And again, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.520 he didn't just say that he was innocent. He said 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.400 he was a patsy. He knew that the men responsible 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.840 for this had used him. That's why from the moment 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:42.200 Oswald is brought to the police station, Jack Ruby starts 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.560 to stalk him. Ruby's movements just before he kills Oswald 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:51.440 show that this was not a spontaneous emotional decision. Ruby 0:16:51.600 --> 0:17:07.480 was part of something much bigger. Jack Ruby showed up 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:11.280 at the police station at least twice before he found 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.400 the opportunity on his third visit to take Oswald out. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.280 He was there during a press conference. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:22.560 At DA Henry Wade's press conference when Wade mistakenly identified 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.480 Oswald as a member of the anti Castro Free Cuba Committee. 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.880 Ruby corrected the DA saying, quote, no, sir, mister District Attorney, 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.040 Oswald was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.400 None of the press, or police or FBI there caught 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:43.040 the DA's mistake, but nightclub owner Jack Ruby did. It's 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.600 just so bizarre. First of all, why is a nightclub 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.320 owner at this press conference to begin with? And second, 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.200 how does he know the difference between the Free Cuba 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.520 and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee? 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.399 So what exactly is the implication there. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.880 That Ruby knew all about Oswald. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.280 We spoke with a man named John Currington about the 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.359 time leading up to Oswald's death. Now, John Currington, for 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.080 years was the right hand man for oil Baron hl Hunt. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.000 Hunt was one of the richest men in America, with 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.680 influence at the highest levels of government and the mafia. 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.000 Now Here is John Carrington talking about a call he 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.200 received on Saturday, November twenty third from hl Hunt. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.840 He called me about four or five Clark and asked 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.520 me to go down to the police station and check 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.919 on what security, if any, there was around Lee Harvey 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.080 orwoll And he said, whenever you find out what I 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.280 won't know about security, come to the house. 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:45.440 So what did you find? 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.040 I go down to police station and I had no 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.560 trouble walking in walking out. I did have a briefcase 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.159 with me. Nobody looked in that brafcase and I was 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.919 satisfied that there was no security or whatsoever surrounding Lee 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:01.119 Harvey ol Waldt. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.280 And why did mister Hunt ask you to check out 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:05.560 the security situation? 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.280 He wroted Lee Harvey ol wall of silence without having 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.560 any kind of court here or any something else. 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.679 They knew that they could easily get to oswald They 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.840 just needed the right guy to handle the job, and 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.760 Hunt knew just who to turn to. 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:27.000 I went after mister Holt's house and he said, I 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.639 want to get a hold of Joe Savello and have 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:32.240 him here as early as they can Sunday morning. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.600 Joseph Ello was the head of the mob in Dallas. 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.480 It's the morning of the twenty fourth, two days after 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.359 the assassination at. 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:46.960 Ten thirty five, Ira Walker, a television technician, is inside 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.920 the station's news van outside the city hall. Jack Ruby 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.320 comes up to the window and asks has he been 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:54.080 brought down yet? 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:59.520 The he is Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby knows that Oswald 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.080 is going to be moved that day, and he hangs 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.400 around to make sure that he is there when it happens. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:11.520 At eleven seventeen, Ruby walks up an alley, passes through 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:14.840 the crowd, and enters the ramp into the police station. 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:19.240 Within minutes, he's positioned directly in front of Oswald and 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.520 then he shoots Oswald. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.480 Here's David Talbot again. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.800 He's a mafia eron boy. That's why he killed Oswald. 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.320 In the mafia was the Aeron boys for the CIA. 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.000 They used the mafia to do their dirty work. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.400 And here's the head of the House Select Committee, Robert Blakey. 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:46.359 Jack Ruby was the perfect guy to do it. Mob connected, 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:47.240 but loosely. 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.800 Ruby gave an interview in March of nineteen sixty five, 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:52.600 a year after his conviction. 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.040 In the interview, Ruby said, quote, everything pertaining to what's 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.240 happening has never come to the surface. The world will 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.400 never know the true facts of what occurred my motives. 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.400 The people who had so much to gain and had 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.879 such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.159 I'm in will never let the true facts come above 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:13.200 board to the world. 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.760 In nineteen sixty six, Jack Ruby died in prison, three 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.560 years after the assassination of President Kennedy. He died of 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:27.080 a pulmonary embolism caused by complications from a cancer that 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:35.320 came on suddenly and aggressively. In the next episode, we'll 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:39.320 lay out in detail how we think the assassination took place. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.320 We will name the shooters and give you their locations. 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.400 But before we finished this episode, we need to talk 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.880 about something that for the most part, has been ignored, 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:55.200 and that's the impact that Kennedy's death had on the 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:56.080 rest of the world. 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:00.520 On the day of the assassination, Fidel Castro was lunch 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.399 with a French reporter named Jean Danielle. Danielle reported that 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:07.280 when Castro got word that the president had been shot, 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:13.720 he said, sunamala noisia, this is bad news. He said 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:17.560 it three times. Then when he got confirmation that Kennedy 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:22.240 had died, he said, quote, everything is going to change. Then, 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:26.399 as he processed the situation, Castro said, quote, now they 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.840 will have to find the assassin quickly, but very quickly. 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.040 Otherwise you watch and see, I know them. They will 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:36.480 try to put the blame on us for this thing. 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:38.520 Which is exactly what they did. 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:43.520 Reports that were declassified in twenty seventeen show that the 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:47.400 KGB held a series of emergency meetings when they heard 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:52.119 the news. Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita's son wrote in a memoir 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.159 about his father that when his father heard the news, 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:59.360 he quote fell to his knees and sobbed. The Soviet 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:03.960 parties knew newspaper Pravda ran a biography depicting Kennedy as 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:05.280 a champion of peace. 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:10.200 It's completely counterintuitive to think that the Soviets or the 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:14.000 Cubans had anything to do with this. Kennedy was trying 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.840 to forge a path towards peace with them. He was 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:17.639 their great hope. 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:20.560 Then who did these foreigners think? 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:21.040 Did it? 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:23.920 I believe that the answer to your question can be 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:27.040 provided by French President Charles de gaull. 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:31.080 Degall shared his thoughts about the assassination with his Information 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:35.439 Minister Roger Parafiet, who then shared these thoughts in. 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:40.520 His memoir Degall says, quote what happened to Kennedy is 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.639 what nearly happened to me. The security forces were in 0:23:43.800 --> 0:23:48.760 cahoots with extremists. Then Paraft asked a Gaull, do you 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:53.040 think Oswald was affront Everything leads me to believe it. 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:57.080 De Gaull replied, they got their hands on this communist 0:23:57.200 --> 0:24:00.560 who wasn't one while still being one. He had a 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:04.640 subpar intellect and was an exalted fanatic, just the man 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.480 they needed, the perfect one to be accused. The guy 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:11.639 ran away because he probably became suspicious. They wanted to 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:14.000 kill him on the spot before he could be grabbed 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:19.520 by the judicial system. Degall continued, security forces all over 0:24:19.600 --> 0:24:22.120 the world are the same when they do this kind 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:25.200 of dirty work. As soon as they succeed in wiping 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:29.240 out the false assassin, they declare that the justice system 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:33.000