JFK
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:14:01
...when the President was killed.
:14:06
Oswald was charged at 7:00 p.m.,
Dallas time...

:14:08
...with Tippes murder.
:14:10
Thas 2:00 p.m. the next day
in New Zealand.

:14:13
But already their papers
had the entire history...

:14:17
...of this unknown, 24-year-old Oswald.
:14:19
Studio picture, detailed biography,
Russian information...

:14:22
...and were sure that he killed
the President alone...

:14:25
...although it took them four more hours
to charge him with that crime in Dallas.

:14:32
It felt to me as if...
:14:35
...a cover story was being put out.
:14:37
Like we would in a Black Op.
:14:41
After I came back...
:14:42
...I asked myself, why was I,
the chief of Special Ops...

:14:46
...sent to the South Pole to do a job...
:14:49
...many others could have done?
:14:51
I wondered if it could've been because...
:14:53
...one of my routine duties,
if I'd been in Washington...

:14:56
...would've been to order
additional security in Texas.

:14:58
I checked it out and found that someone...
:15:02
...told the 112th Military Intelligence Group
at Fort Sam Houston...

:15:07
...to stand down that day,
over the protests of Colonel Reich.

:15:11
I believe is a mistake.
:15:13
Is standard procedure, especially
in a known hostile city like Dallas...

:15:18
...to supplement the Secret Service.
:15:20
Even if we hadn't let him ride
with the bubble-top off...

:15:24
...we would've put 100 to 200 agents
on the sidewalk without question.

:15:28
A month before, in Dallas, UN Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson was spit on and hit.

:15:33
There had been attempts
on De Gaulle's life in France.

:15:36
We'd have arrived days ahead,
studied the route...

:15:38
...checked all the buildings.
:15:40
Never would've allowed open windows
overlooking Dealey. Never!

:15:43
Our own snipers
would've covered the area.

:15:45
If a window went up,
they'd have been on the radio!

:15:47
We'd be watching the crowd:
packages, rolled-up newspapers, coats.

:15:51
Never would've let a man
open an umbrella.

:15:53
Never would've let the car slow down
to ten miles an hour.

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Or take that unusual curve
at Houston and Elm.

:15:59
You'd have felt an Army presence
in the streets that day.


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