John F. Kennedy Revisited - Stuff They Don't Want You to Know

According to a 2003 poll, 70% of Americans don't believe the official account of the Kennedy assassination. Various researchers have accused everyone from China to Cuba of killing the president, but what actually happened? Why does one author believe there was an entirely different conspiracy at play? Tune in for a new look at the continuing debate over the death of President Kennedy.

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From US probes to psychic powers and government conspiracies,
(text about Illuminati's conspiracy + "It starts here!" sticker)

history is riddled with unexplained events.
[doorbell rings]

You can turn back now,
(Stuff they don't want you to know - howstuffworks.com)

or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

Here are the facts.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated

in Dallas, Texas, on November 22nd, 1963.

In the ensuing chaos, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in,

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, and the nation mourned.

Congress formed the Warren Commission

to discern the facts of the case.
(Warren Report)

Although they concluded that Oswald was a lone gunman,

holes indicate that a majority of Americans today

either question or reject these findings.

In the decades since, historians, researchers,

conspiracy buffs and skeptics alike

have tried to tackle this story.

This story remains one of the most enduring

and controversial moments in American history.

Given the unreasonably combative, emotional tone

so common among both theorists and skeptics,

it's often been difficult for people with differing views

to listen to each other's arguments.

One author believes that both sides may be correct,

that there was a conspiracy at play,

but not, perhaps, the one you'd expect.

Here's where it gets crazy.

Conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination

finger everyone from the CIA to the Mafia,

and even members of Congress have appeared to sign on.

But, according to author Seymour Morris, Jr.,

most of these theories miss the true conspiracy at hand.

In his book, American History Revised,

Morris examines some lesser-known facts

about the assassination and the ensuing investigations.

First, Morris notes that the Warren Report
(Warren's letter to the President, submitting the commission's final report)

missed some important points:

being both unable to establish a political motive

or adequately explain how Oswald managed the job.

Public distrust of the Warren Report led

to a new Congressional investigation in the mid-70s,

when Congress formed the House of Representatives'

Select Committee on Assassinations, or HSCA.

Between the Warren Commission's work and the HSCA investigation,

four other governmental groups exhaustively investigated the incident.

But the HSCA found a new piece of evidence:

a police dictabell (?) recording.

On this recording, it sounded like 4 shots were fired, rather than 3.

While it's within the realm of plausibility that Oswald could fire 3 shots,

4 shots were taken to be proof of a second gunman.

Although virtually every witness claimed to have heard 3 shots during the murder,

the HSCA still changed the report,

claiming that there probably was some sort of conspiracy,

although they could not name any specific conspirators.

The story of this mysterious recording doesn't stop here.

In 1979, a percussionist named Steve Barber listened to it,
(Search: Steve Barber, JFK, Zepruder)

and recognized that there might be a cross-over of sounds.

In other words, that what sounded like 4 shots was actually noise from two different sources.

By the time this information came to light, the public had already decided that the 4 shots were legitimate.

So, if as Morse argues, the conspiracy theories based on this recording are flawed

in what - if any - conspiracy was at play,

Morse named one that you might not expect:

after the assassination, he claimed, the CIA and FBI participated in an intelligence cover-up

at the highest levels, refusing to inform the Warren Commission

about the Kennedy brothers' secret operations to remove Castro.(3:39)