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JFK : Beyond Conspiracy: Day 2

1. On Monday, November 25, JFK’s body was sent to Arlington National Cemetery; in Texas Lee Harvey Oswald was buried, and _______________________ was transferred to county jail.

2. Jack Ruby swore on the Bible in front of his rabbi that he did not know Lee Harvey Oswald and that he had acted __________________.

3. President Johnson wanted a report to end the conspiracy talk, so he appointed a commission to investigate, with Earl ______________ to lead it.

4. The Warren Commission was supposed to do two things: to settle the mood in the US, and to dispel any rumors of ____________________ intrigue (involvement).

5. The Warren Commission worked quickly and conducted 25,000 _______________, including ones with Marina and Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother and brother. The commission had 3,000 pieces of _______________________.

6. Firearms test show that bullets could only have come from ________________ gun, and his fingerprints were on the stock and on the sniper’s nest boxes in the Depository.

7. The commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted ___________________.

8. When the report came out, many Americans didn’t _________________ it. The Warren Commission wanted to find a conspiracy, but just couldn’t prove it.

9. The report had in it some inconsistencies and mistakes that fueled the conspiracies theories. The main thing it was missing that they didn’t even know, was that the Kennedy administration had the policy to go after and kill _______________.

10. On September 9, 1963, Castro threatened American leaders, “if they are aiding _______________ plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.”

11. The Warren Commission didn’t know why Castro made the statement. LBJ publicly supported the Warren Commission’s findings, but privately he said Kennedy tried to get Castro and Castro got him __________________.

12. During Vietnam and Watergate, it became clear that the government lied on a grand scale, so it was possible that they may have lied about JFK too. So in ____________, the House created the Select Committee on Assassination to reexamine evidence, and it said Oswald acted alone.

13. A Russian KGB (spy) defector said the KGB would have never recruited someone like Oswald, because it was too ____________________.

14. A year before this committee began to do its work, the CIA plot to kill Castro became public and they investigated Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to __________________ and found nothing.

15. They even interviewed Castro, who said it would have been ___________________ for him to attack Kennedy, because it would have given the most perfect pretext for the US to invade.

16. The Special Committee spent two years and was about to say that the Warren Commission was right, when scientists brought in an analysis of a ____________________ recording.

17. They said they could identify _______ shots, which was more than Oswald had time to fire.

18. One of the investigators, Blakey began to believe it and thought the ________ killed JFK.

19. Robert Kennedy had been leading a war on organized crime and Carlos Marcello boss of New Orleans was picked up and deported to Guatemala, and Blakey said Marcello was so angry that he conspired to kill __________.

20. A mob expert, named Salerno, said it doesn’t make sense. If Ruby killed Oswald to keep him quiet, then someone would have to kill _________, and so on.

21. For the sound to be correct, the cop who recorded it would have to be in a specific location on the street, but he said he was ______________ away.

22. The acoustics evidence was rejected by the __________ and an independent panel from the National Academy of the ___________________.

23. Then in 1991, Oliver Stone released his movie, JFK, which had Kevin Costner playing the district attorney from New Orleans, named Jim ____________________.

24. Garrison was obsessed with proving a conspiracy, even if the evidence doesn’t show it. He portrayed himself as the only one brave enough to pursue the _______________ in the face of a government that was bent on covering up the assassination.

25. Garrison put Clay ___________ up on trial, but never explained why Clay would want to kill the president or what his role was that day.

26. Garrison rested his entire case on the testimony of Harry Raymond Russo, but under a lie detector, it was shown that this testimony was a __________.

27. The film took other liberties with history, saying Oswald couldn’t make the shot, when in reality, he could easily do it, because Lee Harvey Oswald was a good __________________________.

28. The film relies on the “Magic Bullet” theory, but Governor Connally was sitting _____ inches in front of the president and turned toward his right, and he was sitting ____ inches lower.

29. The film also says this bullet is pristine (undamaged) and was planted on a guerney at Parkland Hospital by Jack Ruby, but this is not true, because lead fragments from this bullet were found in _______________ wrist and it was fired from Oswald’s gun.

30. “Back and to the left” does not tell where the bullet came from, because bodies hit sometimes go forward or backward, and the entry wound is in the ___________ of the head.

31. In 1992, Congress established the assassination records review board, which unsealed and declassified documents, amounting to _____________ of pages.

32. No credible evidence has yet to be found to prove that there was a _________________________.