embassies and that would disappear, as well. 50 years since the president died. do you think what we will ever really know exactly what happened, particular lay about his time in mexico city? that s a good question. maybe. i m not sure we ll get it on the 50th anniversary. the question is what does russia have in their archives? a lot of materials in a lot of other places and the soviet union contributed things but there might be more documents down the line. as of now, i think this whole anniversary is going to end and people will still be unclear on who killed kennedy, although i would say 70, 80% of scholars think oswalt acted alone. phil, do you think there was involvement by russia and cuba? we ll never know because those questions really should have been asked aggressively 49
watched it turn to ash. that s just the start. in mexico city there may have been photographs of oswalt taken by the cia and tape recordings with the soviet and cuban embassies and that would disappear, as well. 50 years since the president died. do you think what we will ever really know exactly what happened, particular lay about his time in mexico city? that s a good question. maybe. i m not sure we ll get it on the 50th anniversary. the question is what does russia have in their archives? a lot of materials in a lot of other places and the soviet union contributed things but there might be more documents down the line. as of now, i think this whole anniversary is going to end and people will still be unclear on who killed kennedy, although i would say 70, 80% of scholars think oswalt acted alone. phil, do you think there was
there s nothing crazier than the government. conspiracies come about when we are scared at a people. when america gets scared, we start pointing fingers, we start fighting. it s when they are born. you want an answer. we want an answer. you feel like the world is about to end. wouldn t it be easier to blame it on something. let s start with the kennedy assassination. for some reason, that fascinates everybody. you know why it fascinates us? john f. kennedy isn t the only thing that died that day. we lost the american dream that day. a part of the american dream died. here is a man with the perfect life, the perfect wife and family and the big, beautiful white house gone in one day by a high school drop out. it lingers. if you want to know who killed kennedy, it s interesting. historically in the 1960s, you know who we thought killed kennedy, a communist, the russians, the enemy of the cold
really happened. so who killed kennedy, do you think? you can t answer that question because it s been 50 years and there s no way to say specifically who. i can tell you this let me tell you what i think. it wasn t lee harvey oswald. i think it was. i interviewed a guy called clint hill who was the bodyguard in you see footage of the cavalcade. he jumps on the back. he was actually jackie kennedy bodyguard. why weren t secret service on the the bumper that day? they were removed. that s not what he told me. the secret service says what? they took him off the bumper. why did they change for dallas only the way the motorcycles were lined up? they put four of them way in front and the others all behind. they didn t go in the standard wedge which was used in the two previous days before? but in dallas that changed. they got them out of the way to give a clear shooting lane.
kennedy made a tremendous amount of enemies. the military industrial complex hated him because he wouldn t go to war in cuba. he was already with drawing troops from vietnam. there would have been no vietnam war. him and krushchev were back channel communicating and both planned on ending the cold war by 65. krushchev was taken out of power. they were doing it via pope john and the vatican. we have the cold war for 20 years. what does your brain tell you also kennedy was going to take away the oil depletion allowance which what is all oil guys use to make big money so that they can make 30 million a year and pay no taxes. so he had big oil mad at him, he had the military industrial complex mad at him, plus he was doing the first move towards human rights in this country, which the south hated him for. so you ve got multiple choices of many you ve written a book about it.