xNovember 18th, 1991. Geraldo Rivera’s namesake talk show investigates the killing of America’s youngest president as conspiracy continues to swirl 28 years later.
“…that to many people is an example of just how slipshod the official version of history the Warren Commission was…”
This episode begins with historical footage and background, Lee Harvey Oswald is heard saying he emphatically denies these charges, and the scuffle around the time of his shooting is shown. Stasticially, the audience and likely the country largely believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK.
Three eyewitnesses, attendees of the parade, are later interviewed. Linda Willis describes the pandemonium breaking out as the shots were heard and the graphic detail of what she saw. Marilyn Sitzman stands in the exact spot where she was that day describing it was the best place to do the filming. She was directly next to Mr. Zapruder.
Back in studio we hear from Mark Lane who believes the CIA was behind this assassination. He claims it was his willingness to reach out to Fidel Castro and make peace, as well his ending the war in the Vietnam, that were the real reasons for this. Of course hist stance of demolishing the CIA was the final straw for that agency.
A clip of Marita Lorenz is shown claiming she heard agents bragging about the successful assassination, as Mark Lane carries the story on and ties it to when Robert Kennedy was shot. Dick Gregory claims the family must know by now not to mess with the big boys, and he’ll never believe the plane that carried Ted Kennedy crashed by accident.
Robert Groden, a Photoanalyst claims that some of the photographs released by the Warren Commission were fraudulent. Every nurse claimed to see a massive exit wound in the back of JFK’s head, but he carries the actual photograph and the head is clearly intact.
Moving into audience questions, Mark Lane does not think that Lyndon B Johnson was involved. The ‘magic bullet’ is discussed after an audience member asks, why can’t they run ballistics on the rifle itself? Robert Groden explains the discrepencies and says Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifle did not kill the president.
Mark North says FBI head J Edgar Hoover was involved in the assassination. There was a mandatory retirement coming up for J Edgar Hoover, unless JFK signed an executive order, which he made very clear he was not going to do. He references the House Select findings in 1979, which point the family at the mafia Marcello organization and Santo Trafficante.
An audience member has always felt the killing has been a coverup, but all these year laters what purpose does it serve? Any time the truth can be revealed is good for society. It may be too late for justice but it’s never too late for the truth.
The grandaughter of Orville Nix, who took the only footage of the grassy knoll, says she feels her grandfather’s film shows something the government doesn’t want us to see. But there must be a higher reason for the film to have survived. Orville claimed the his film was taken from him by the secret service and when he got it back a number of the frames were missing.
This day, Geraldo’s Television History.