the danger of political despair and john podesta on joe biden s battle against rising gas prices. it will take time but you should see the price of gas drop when you fill up your tank. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. you know, this week we mark 58 years since the assassination of president john f. kennedy. as his motorcade drove through dealey plaza in dallas, texas. yesterday this was the scene. a small crowd gathered. this red pickup truck drove in circles, proclaiming trump won 2020, along with a bunch of qanon slogans. now, we ve mentioned this group before. it s a small group. they re a splinter faction from the fringes of the far-right qanon movement. three weeks ago hundreds of members of this cult, for lack of a better word, assembled at dealey plaza awaiting the return of john f. kennedy and his son, jfk jr. who died in a plane crash tragically in 1999. they believe the kennedys are not actually dead and will reveal
that with secretary clinton. we will talk with her a lot about what is going on in the country right now. i m really looking forward to that interview. but before we get there, i want to give you an important update tonight on a story we have been covering closely. this is a story that is more than four decades in the making. we have been covering it for a while now just because it is a through-the-looking-glass, absolutely bizarre, impossible to believe story out of missouri related to a man named kevin strickland. kevin strickland was 18 years old in 1978 when he was arrested in kansas city, missouri. he was put on trial for a triple murder he insisted he had nothing to do with. he had an al buy. it didn t matter. he had people who corroborated his alibi, it didn t matter. there was no physical evidence connecting him to the crime. it didn t matter either. it was an all-white jury. he was 18 years old. he was convicted on all counts. he was sentenced to life in prison. to
praetorian. bennie thompson said in a statement, we believe these groups have relevant information on the leadup to the violent attack. yesterday, roger stone and alex jones were subpoenaed. not surprisingly, today we heard from both. the january 6th witch hunt committee makes joe mccarthy blush from his grave. it is a complete and absolute fishing expedition, trying to demonize populist americans. i m probably going to declare the fifth. not because i ve done anything wrong. but these people are political criminals with an ax to grind. i m going to make a decision between now and december 17th, but it s very dangerous to go into this forum, because they re not honest. this is a partisan witch hunt. it s worth noting that the subpoena to roger stone says he reportedly used members of the oath keepers as private security while in washington before january 6th. today was the deadline for several people including steven miller, kayleigh mcenany, and others to turn over doc
i m really looking forward to that interview. but before we get there, i want to give you an important update tonight on a story that we have been covering closely. this is a story that is more than four decades in the making. as i said, we have been covering it for a while now just because it is a through the looking glass absolutely bizarre impossible to believe story out of missouri. and it s related to a man name kevin strikland. kevin strikland was years old when he was arrested in kansas city, they put him on trial for a triple murder that he insisted he had nothing to do with. he had an alibi, didn t matter, he had people who cooperated his alibi. did it matter. there was no physical evidence at all connecting him to the crime. that did not matter either. it wasn t all white jury, he was 18 years old. he was convicted on all counts. he was sentenced to life in prison. well today he is 62 years old. and for the entirety of the more than four decades that kevin strikla
yesterday on the anniversary of that assassination, a small crowd gathered. this red pick up truck drove in circles, proclaiming trump won 2020, along with a bunch of qanon slogans. we ve mentioned this group before, it s a small group, they re splinter faction from the fringes of the far-right qanon movement. in fact, three weeks ago hundreds of members of this cult, for lack of a better word, assembled at daily plaza awaiting the return of john f. kennedy and his son, jfk junior, who of course died in a plane crash, tragically, in 1999. they believe that the kind of these are not actually dead, and will receive veal themselves in order to help reinstate donald trump as president. now, it s supposed to happen at 12:29 pm on november 2nd. obviously, that did not happen. but a hard-core group remains in daily plaza, still waiting for something to happen. the leader of this called promised, quote, something big yesterday. you can look at all this and be forgiven for thinking th