conspiracy theories of their own. namely, that johnson himself was behind kennedy s death. the source saying ussr believed there was well-organized conspiracy on the part of the ultra right in the united states to affect a cou approximate. they received a direct warning before oswald s own murder before a jail transfer. a day before oswald was killed, hoover says the fbi office in dallas received a phone call from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill oswald and shared that information with the dallas police chief who assured us adequate protection would be given. however, this was not done. oswald s killer, jack ruby, maintained he acted alone and denied making the call. and more may be coming. a white house official telling cnn the president was unhappy with the level of redactions
back, is having something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. two days later, professor julian, he thinks it will be difficult to convince america that oswald is a lone assassin, which by the way, has to be before he knew he was the lone assassin. this is the height of the cold war. instantly lbj is scrambling to figure out what was happening. there are all kinds of theories out there. did the soviets do it. did cuba do it. we see this in the documents that right wing in america that was in dallas that time was also responsible. so part of the effort was to find out what happened. but part of it was to contain what the response would be. we learned in one document that the soviets are very worried that some general is going to unleash on the soviets after this happened. so that s part of the scramble that you re seeing. the president is is assassinated at the height of the cold war.
they don t only want to find out what happened, they want to contain the damage. here s another intriguing part that julian had first referred to. that is somehow the fbi knew oswald would be killed. here is the excerpt from j. edgar hoover. there is nothing further on the oswald case except that he is dead. we received a call in our dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee on organized to kill oswald. what s your thinking behind that one? that to me is the most important document to come to light so far. one thing that becomes abundantly clear, we remind ourselves that the fbi and cia didn t collaborate together very well, for starters. you know, neither did navy and army in the 1950s, by the way. but it comes shining through these documents. in this case, hoover comes out to be kind of the interesting good guy, oddly.
for decades, conspiracy theories have questioned whether lee harvey oswald acted alone in killing john f. kennedy in dallas 54 years ago. in a newly released memo, j. edgar hoover suppressed concern they wouldn t believe he was the lone gunman. the thing i m concerned about is that mr. catsen back and having something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. one document reveals the cia intercepted a call on oswald made to a kgb officer at the russian embassy in moscow less than two months before oswald shot kennedy. oswald spoken in broken russia. and documenting a separate conversation about oswald and two cubans. one said oswald must have been a good shot. a cuban intelligence officer
records. army and navy intel. this is big information. it is big information. we need to remember part of what happened is the cia didn t give all of its information as soon as the commission started because they didn t want to reveal all the different operations they were involved in in that period. not necessarily as an effort to protect oswald. so there is more information. my guess is a lot of that is going to be more of efforts to kill castro, for example. information, which before the mid-70s, america had no idea this is what our government did. my guess is there will be more of that, which won t be a total surprise. more information out there fuels the conspiracy theories and lets everyone say we re missing that one document that proves there is a smoking gun that he was involved in something bigger. more to come in april. this discussion will continue throughout the morning, guys. thanks so much. thank you. sources tell cnn president trump directed his senior staff to h