and fbi had gathered on lee harvey oswald until the assassination. we saw a memo written by j. edgar hoover saying he was very concerned about the lack of security for oswald by the dallas police department. you ll recall oswald was shot by jack ruby being moved from the basement of the dallas police headquarters. according to this memo, hoover heard of potential threats to oswald and repeatedly urged the police in dallas to give more security and was very disappointed when they didn t. and finally, a memo to the fbi director about the world reaction, including from top officials in the soef union who said their assumption after the assassination was that kennedy was killed by what they called an ultrafar right conspiracy and that the russians were worri worried the soefr yets were worried in days after the
indeed, we learned the warren commission was not told important information they should have known to do a more thorough job. then vietnam and watergate and a thousand scandals since. i think people are suspicious of what the government has said about it. and, look, there are a lot of other reasons, too. i wanted to focus on what pete identified with with j. edgar hoover. hoover was clearly angry at the dallas police department for the reasons he suggested. that is, he had warned them, asked them if their security was airtight. they absolutely needed to keep oswald alive. oh, yes, the dallas police department said, everything s fine. it s going to be okay. we all know what happened. and hoover recently recognized with oswald s demise, conspiracy theories were going to sprout like daisies in a field, and they have. what else struck you in the