Lee Harvey Oswald - The Man who Killed a President
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Oswald in Mexico City: www.npr.org/2013/11/10/243981...
Oswald in the USSR: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cs...
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The Vice President and his buds, CIA and killed kennedy. I'm about to watch you're video now.
The shot to the head was from the grassy knoll, hideing behind the frence.
There was a man who had real proof on who and how Kennedy was murdered but on the way to meeting with a reporter he was in a 'car accident', all the records were taken out of the car.
They even gave the President the wrong blood type at the hospital. CK the records, most anyone who treated Kennedy at the hospital had died of 'cancer'.
Prob. a radiation iceatobe was put in the nurse's & doctor's lounge. frige
have you ever been to Chisinau?????? what kind of "night life" you think goes down there?
do grigori perelman next
Man who allegedly killed the president
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After watching too many biographics I start to hear Simon narrating my life: "He could have gone to the gym.....but he chose not to."
_SIMON:_ "You should TOTALLY support the guy on Patreon and throw down enough to get his lovely British voice to give you SATNAV/GPS Turn-By-Turn Directions, *"Mr. Bananas in Pajamas"*
He emphasizes the not, and then deepens his voice/draws it out at the last “to”
PabloPeekaboo yeah it’s funny but amazing lol
lol
Totally relate to this lmao
“I’m tired of people telling me what to do, I’m moving to Soviet Russia.”
I think that was the opposite of what he wanted. I think his decision to move to the USSR was more due to the fact that he had no one to tell him what to do, His absent mother being the main culprit! He lacked order, direction and meaning in his life. Something he thought he could find in a heavily regulated society such as in Soviet Russia
He was a part of the false defector program, with little money he stayed in the best hotels in Europe and caught a military hop back to the US and you think he wasn't an intelligence asset lol
@@georgeduke2752 u av hit the nail on the head there dude.......
Better to find an island know one else knows about if you want no one to tell you what to do.
Wah wah
"The Man who Killed a President"
John Wilkes Booth: Am I a joke to you?
Hahah
Yeah but that wasn’t a modern killing and didn’t really effect our country to the extent Kennedy’s death did JFK was one of the most real presidents we’ve had he cared for everyone no matter race upbringing he really wanted to turn America into the type of country other people used to see us as a country of hope and opportunity JFK dying was proof American politicians only want to serve themselves even his brother was killed after running for president and trying to continue his brothers work
Charles J. Guiteau and Leon Czolgosz - Are we a joke to all of u?
@@vkingcaesar lmao are you saying Lincoln wasn't one of the most real presidents himself?
"John Wilkes Booth: Am I a joke to you?" I amuse you? Like a clown?
1:40 - Chapter 1 - The wanderer
5:25 - Chapter 2 - Defection
8:55 - Chapter 3 - A lonely exile
12:35 - Mid roll ads
14:05 - Chapter 4 - Dreams of cuba
18:05 - Chapter 5 - City of spies
21:10 - Chapter 6 - The shot that changed the world
23:35 - Chapter 7 - "I'm happy that i got him"
You overlooked the small fact that Oswald was killed on live TV. I was watching
lots of facts missing but fun bedtime story lol
I watched it, too, Mr. Gus. Craziest thing on tv I’ve ever seen.
Right, my dad said he saw it as well. And it was just the most surprising and confusing thing - he said he and his dad just looked at each other and let out a surprised laugh - like what the hell else is going to happen?!
This is gross and totally un-pc, but I remember kids in the playground the next day clutching their stomachs and groaning - the way Oswald had when he was shot on TV.
The next day was Kennedy’s funeral. School wasn’t in session for us. Where did you go to school?
Conspiracy Theory #23,924: JFK hired Oswald to kill John Connelly but forgot to duck.
That’s really funny. I lol’d
"where's my evidence, well...um... The cia burned it?"
Sansaboy Brutal “Source?”
“Dude trust me”
Real funny idiot
John Connelly was the one who survived though, making this theory even more ironic.
"One man can make a difference."
-Lee Harvey Oswald
Brought to you by Quotes That Never Were.
"one man can make a difference"
-Wilton Knight....Knight Rider, 1982
I don’t believe he acted alone. Not at all. 17 and I’m so deep into history. You have to be an idiot to believe he did this all alone. Yea he was a marksman excellent shot but the front bullet just does not. Add. Up.
@@clownnig3414 you clearly need to research this
"You can't say now that Dallas doesn't love you" Mrs. Connelly. A real quote 😁
It is interesting, there could be arguments made that he was CIA all along, was a Russian spy all along, or a Cuban defector or even a mob man all along.
I was in school in 2nd grade when President Kennedy was assassinated. Another teacher came to our classroom, said something to our teacher and she cried. We were sent home from school.
It was all confusing to me, 7 years old and I didn't understand what was going on. Walking home from school a girl a grade above me said, 'The father of our country was killed.' I I couldn't comprehend what that meant and somehow thought she was talking about my father was dead and I ran home crying. Mom told me Dad was fine.
I recall seeing Oswald killed on live TV. I don't know if I created that memory from other broadcasts later in the day, I'm pretty sure I saw it though because I remember waiting to see him, the camera noting much for a long time ( ten minutes was a long time for me at that age. Then a lot of people about the room, then he was shot, and all the action that happened. Oswald was killed on a Sunday morning NY time, I would have been watching TV, and regular programming, Wonderama or Chiller Theater or whatever junk I watched might have postponed or cut into for a news story with a look at Oswald.
Why didn't the girl just say "the president was killed"
'The father of our country was killed.': That was George Washington
“You miss all the shots you don’t take” Lee Harvey Oswald
Lmafaooo
Lmfao WOW
Off to make a meme now...
Funny because Lee missed quite a few shots. Including the General he tried to assassinate before JFK.
Unless you take a shot and miss your fucking plane flight.
Dude your ending phrase sends chills down the spine. He finally found the home he was looking for. Potent
deep!
He got what he wanted to be somebody the guy who killed the president not some little nobidy who nobidy appreciated poor deranged soul
True in a sense!
Put yourself in Oswald;s place living from hand to Mouth......
@@richardzion1828 he still had a choice
My paternal grandfather was there. He worked for the local news network as a cameraman and caught the whole thing on film. A lot of the footage you see if the event was taken by him. However, after witnessing that and the University of Texas shooting, he had a breakdown and quit the TV news business.
What do you mean? There’s only one video of the assassination… the Zapruder film.
Clearly a liar.
@@joeylantis22 Nice, another internet expert- clearly a fool.
@@joeylantis22 there is definitely more than one view of the assassination. The film you speak of is the most famous.
@@joeylantis22 He is talking about news footage and b-roll footage you absolute baboon.
I don't like this fella for some reason.... He just doesn't sit well with me
Try to have an open mind about him
Oof, shots fired
You ever meet up with Marilyn in the after life? How is she doing?
Lunar Butterfly good question. How is MARILYN DOING? Oh, and go speak to Jackie, she died in the nineties.
Your very open minded huh
Sounds like Oswald always wanted to join the Rouble Shave Club....
He did. Then he realised that it sucked. So went back to dollar.
Ruble
@@kcbh24 meh, it's a translation from the Cyrillic alphabet, either is fine
Harry's Razors is still better though.
@@Biographics HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!
The irony of a man with a full beard advertising shavers.
🤣😂🤣
and a fully bald head?
Can you trust a clean-shaven man with a full head of hair? I think the only men who could really represent the Dollar Shave club would be Yul Brynner and Telly Savalas.
Every time someone mentions this... I wonder what aspect ratio they watch these videos on.
Look at that shiny smooth head though
10:18 Lee Harvey Oswald discovers he lives in a society.
Bruh, this guy FORCED the KGB to let him defect.
Connelly personally urinating on him and seduced his mother...
That’s a hell of a phrase 😂
If only Oswald's father, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr., had not died of a heart attack...
I love peeing on people, i do it every chance i get. I piss on a croud from balconies, and sometimes on sleeping people. 😌😌😌😌
@@ilkkarautio2449 you are trying
@@ilkkarautio2449 I do this also, nothing like giving the unsuspecting people a golden shower
@@c.r.f.4412 😠 ewww , not without consent
When you want to be a communist, but they keep telling you no.
He was a former marine, sheep dipped and associated with the FBI and CIA. He was a closet communist, but only one piece of Kennedys assassin's.
MisterK Plane tickets cost a lot mate, lot of them don’t have that money.
Pft story of my life... I MEAN UHHHH... I LOVE DEMOCRACY AND THE UNITED STATES
MisterK lmao what
@@benjaminphelps561 nice try, u dirty commie.
“Oswald collapsed into a pool of blood “ Despite the fact he died with multiple internal injuries and massive blood loss there was none on the ground where he lay.
You werent there
@@guangxi1654 Neither were any of the millions of people who have seen the news footage.
Just being poetic.
Exactly
@@guangxi1654 you didn't need to b there. There was little, if any, blood on the ground
This man was the poster child for “poor lost soul”.
I've been to Oswald's grave..it's just a short drive from Dealey Plaza....
And a wife and two children to support on low wage.
Can you say patsy. Watch the videos closer around the part where his head snapped back.
@@jasonvoorhees1316 u can clearly see frontal spray when shot in the back of the head. He's head snapping back could've been a multitude of reasons, the car moving at 30mph, the way he was positioned in the seat, & obviously the momentum of a bullet going thru ur face
Actually he was enlightened and not brainwashed like you
Not Fun Fact: Aldous Huxley died on the same day as JFK
I can see that someone did a « Google search » 😉
Me too, fact checking about your comment 🤭
Mac Berg
I can see that someone did a « Google search » 😉
Me too, fact checking about your comment 🤭
Coincidence? I think not!
Conspiracy theory? The Illuminati taking out the heads of the intelligencia families on the same day?
The no 1 hit that week was I'm Leaving It Up To You by Dale and Grace. Robert Dale Houston, "Dale" was on Main St that day and waved to Kennedy. Or so they say.
Actually he is only the alleged killer. He was never tried or convicted, since he was murdered in the police station handcuffed to a police detective. Nothing at all suspicious about that....
Less than 2hrs caught and the police had him on 2 murders quick work.Witnesses described Tibbets killer as heavy set with curly hair.Merely a patsy.We lived in Grapevine 20 miles from Dallas.The next door neighbor was my mother's friend and my babysitter occasionally the whole family moved without a word in one night.They were on the grassy knoll and saw too much.
Nope, totally normal. Nothing to see here.
@Edd 1 riiiiiiiiiiiight......
Please, for everyone's sake, just save it
Thank you! It's such a major injustice to young people to lie to them about how our justice system is supposed to work! I'm not saying that it does work as it should. But to have these self-appointed experts on social media lying about "innocent until proven guilty" as a founding ideal of our democracy enrages me. Not because of one person unjustly branded a killer without the opportunity to defend himself, but an injustice committed against our justice system. For almost 56 years now.
I am not, by any means, an Alex Jones conspiracy nut; I am someone who respects the ideals of our supposed democratic republic. And this video is enormously disrespectful to that.
Shame.
Because there may come a time when ANY OF US is accused of a crime we didn't commit. And if we are very young and hearing and seeing this for the first time, we may think that there's no difference in "alleged" perpetrator and convicted perpetrator. (Which, it should be pointed out, still doesn't make one factually guilty. It makes one guilty by the legal process.)
Please click on my profile. I have the credentials and experience to know how impressionable young students can be. This branding of Lee Oswald "a killer" continues to be intolerable. I am just old enough to remember the events as they unfolded on our TV when I was very, very little. Including the murder of Oswald on TV. The whole thing was very traumatic for someone my age at the time, but I nonetheless remember it and I am glad I do.
Oswald was never convicted of anything, and never had his day in court.
Neither did Hitler...that doesn’t make him an innocent little lamb.
ckom0007 he was an innocent little lamb, actually scientists found his body and his skeletal shape was one of a baby lamb, they also proved he did nothing wrong and just ate grass, people just made him out too be bad for UA-cam videos and clout
Chad
Yeah, he was a lone-goofball-crazy-mixed-up-wife-beating-kid-with a complex psyche that both Jung and Freud would have labeled “nuts!”
If you look up “crazy” in the DSM you’ll see his picture. The guy wore a full discount-store wool suit in the middle of Texas summer heat and didn’t sweat a drop-he was definitely a different breed of cat!
But there was a mountain if evidence he was the killer even more than they had against Oj
I have questions about the head shot that looks like it came from the front. Did he act alone?
24:31 “his eyes, bugging out of his head”
Me: his eyes are closed
Ok Simon, this was good! so now that you’ve done “the man who killed a president” how about you do a biographics on “the man who killed the assassin” or in other words: the guy who killed Oswald, cause that would be very interesting if you asked me!
My mom knew Jack Ruby. She said he was very well known in Dallas and had ties to the mafia. He also had just been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer right before he shot Oswald. He died before his trial. Those are all facts.
Now for my moms thoughts. She said Kennedy had ties to the mafia as well which got him into office, the mafia thinking they could "run" things via JFK. But once in office he didn't play by the maffias rules. This pissed them off so they got Oswald to shoot him. Scared Oswald would rat them out they got Jack to off Oswald. Jack agreed because he was gonna die anyway of cancer.
Mom's UA-cam
I’m Italian, so...I can see it🤷♂️
@@tallulahmars2577damn thats insane.
@@tallulahmars2577 Oswald was taken out to make it appear he did it.
@@tallulahmars2577 everything you said everyone has known for years. It's nothing new
Happy Fourth, fellow Americans.
Cupcake for All nyet.
🇺🇸🇺🇸
👍🏻
Happy 4th
I stood on the curb, next to my mother, an eight year old excited to see the President.
The men standing on either side of and those behind me, patting my head, excited for me that the President had pointed and said something to me that I couldn’t hear.
A little less than a block later, the happy crowd erupted into a panicked pushing mob.
My mother wrapped her coat around me and pushed through the crowd, all the way to our parked car.
Besides my mother crying, that’s about all I remember of that day.
Wow what a story!
A Marine Sharpshooter is a damned good shot. Better than a Marksman. And that comes from Oswald's service records. Pretty good account.
My stepmother went to elementary school with LHO around Fort Worth. She said he was an odd kid. Her mother said she always felt sorry for him. My step grandmother said one day when she was working in the yard, LHO was walking home from school and had a black eye (he was often bullied), his mother drove up and asked what happened? He told his mother he was in a fight. She simply asked “well did you win?” She could care less, and drove off. He never had a chance.
Lee Oswald's older brother said, that Lee never had a chance, once his dad was gone, because their mother was so screwed up in the head. LHO moved to NYC & went to high school there, which is probably why he never learned to drive, btw. Not everyone realizes, that he fled Dealy Plaza by non-chalantly taking a city bus.
Sparky
I know when I pull off the crime of the century, I’m going to courteously step out of my getaway cab for an old lady. That way everyone will know I’m an arrogant lone nut who also denies killing anyone.
I thought he went to school in new york.
@@samwilson2797 his mother moved around a lot. He went to school in NYC as well.
He was apparently uncoordinated. That's why he couldn't drive. Dyslexic as well but that does not prevent people nowadays.
People I'm hoping you'll do:
Nicolae Ceausescu
Rafael Trujillo
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Erich von Manstein
William T. Sherman
Jackson Rushing Ceausescu would be really interesting!
I’m a Russian marine
And I’m living in 1959!!!!!!
I think you meant Sherwin Williams, the paint king
There is so much more to this story....
I will never believe. How could Oswald could be exacting. The question who was behind it and how did Jack Ruby get so close to shoot him. Complete cover up.
What are you talking about? It was an easy assassination for him. Short distance, no wind, no rain, nothing blocking his view, excellent rifle, telescopic scope, target moving slowly away from him.
We DON'T have time for theories, the Warren Commission, and so on.....but what we DO have time for is DOLLAR SHAVE CLUB!
Love your channels AND Dollar Shave Club (no joke; they sell a good product). Love to the whole team, not just Simon! 😘
That segue at 12:35 into the Dollar Shave Club sponsorship was my first smile and chuckle of the day! Good job, Mr. Whistler!
"Nothing is more deadly then a marine and his rifle"
Allegedly
"I Led Three Lives" - Oswald's favorite TV show when he was a teenager
Can we just appreciate how haunting the dollar shave advert was ? 😂
Leon Czolgosz: “am I a joke to you”
McKinley: “Yea, am I as well?”
My grandmother worked for Jack Ruby at his club in Dallas at this time, and she over heard him talking about how Oswald was going to squeal so they had to silence him.
Why do you think they took no notes no recordings , nothing . He was squealing on Warren Caster and Zapruder.
Sure
@@diarmuidastoir4920 Both of these men were lying .And the W.C. vindicated both of them!
Whenever Simon called Lee a sharpshooter, I couldn't help but hear Lee saying, "Shawpshoota!"
As a former Marine, I can attest that we moved around constantly, about every 6 months.
Could you have been dishonorably discharged, defect to a country that we are all but at war with, only to come back to the u.s and not be investigated by any of the alphabet agencies we have? Would that be a realistic scenario?
You know what they say?
When your great, its not murder, its assassinate.
You’re *
@@rufust.firefly6744 * assassination
And to nitpick, it's the prominence, title, or role of the target that makes it an assassination instead of a murder.
@@MosoKaiser in french penal law, assassination is different from murder in one aspect: an assassination is premeditated and planned, a murder is not. a serial killer is not an assassin, but a stalker is (if there's intent to kill).
i think it's a bit more complicated in the american system, what with the degrees of murder. but iirc, first degree murder (premeditated) is a true assassination.
Assassin comes from the Arabic hasisin,they were murderers for hire( hitmen) that would get stoned out of their minds with hashish to do their dirty work.(hits on politicians or prominent figures.)
You're not your.
Seriously, how do people get this wrong? I really want to know.
It baffles me.
This is easily the most interesting channel on youtube. So much history and knowledge.
Has anyone ever thought that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't aiming for JFK, but for Connolly?
highly unlikely when he shot jfk twice
@@paulmatthews5664 when you miss you try again. Not saying that's what happened.
A man wrote a book claiming that.
Nope.. lol.. I must admit, that ridiculous thought never crossed my mind..
"Has anyone ever thought that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't aiming for JFK, but for Connolly?": He was trying to shoot thru Kennedy to get Connolly.
That is Alleged Killer , The guy was Never put on Trial & never convicted of any thing .......
Convicted not conficted.
Duu really and what would have been the outcome if he had been put in trial actually he was put on trial in the trial of Lee Harvey oswald
That’s a lot of capital letters.
That’s a lot of capital letters.
He can't sue me so I'll say it....Oswald was the killer.
If there are any strange biographics similar to Rasputin please do that next
They have
He is my all time favorite from them. Dude was brilliant!
The Reverend Jim Jones yeah I’m asking for similar ones...?
Fun fact Barbera Bush was Rasputins grand daughter.
@@lawrencecarpenter638 I dont get the Rasputin and Crowley- Bush connection, but I clearly get the Putin- Rasputin connection.
Best Biographics video yet. Thanks for putting it together.
I've been to Minsk several times.(Was there just 2 weeks ago) It is now a beautiful city, with people that are amazing too.
Thank you, Simon, and everyone involved. Your videos are my favorite things, and your channels are all great. Thank you for teaching me about so many people I never would have truly learned about or maybe even heard of. I tell everyone I know about your channel, you deserve the views and attention, and people deserve a voice for history.
marry him then
It's just such an incredibly sad story. I look at Oswald and basically see a child.
same❤
Ive been wanting to watch this for a while, great work guys
My first Bio vid of the day and i already know im gonna be bingeing the next few hours:P
He was not a Marine sharpshooter, that implies he was a sniper. He earned the grade of marksmanship in the Marine Corps of sharpshooter. This is the medium qualification.
And????
Seems you never earned any type of shooting qualification. Apparently you know nothing about firearms. The classifications are Marksman, Sharpshooter, Expert, Master. High Master. You know nothing.
The point is that he could shoot a rifle quite well, better than he needed to do to be considered up to the job of Marine. He wasn't specially trained as a sniper but then again he wouldn't need to be in order to have a go at shooting one or two men he wanted dead. His middling competence and training fit the lone loser gunman theory quite well.
I can't help feeling that a super powerful conspiracy wouldn't be so messy and would have any patsy shoot himself through the roof of his mouth after appearing to be cornered rather than being shot on live television.
The sergeant who trained Oswald how to shoot testified that Oswald was more than capable of making that shot.
@@1952creswellThat is incorrect, he said he could qualify with his weapon but his statement said he couldn't make that shot. The FBI couldn't make that shot with that rifle, distance, and time.
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Me: "A gun?"
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*Surprised Pikachu face*
Shh be quiet
WTF is wrong with you and your generation ?
5$ shave club. False advertising that
Alex Kid shut up boomer
i always feel more sad because of things like him trying 3 times but she wouldn’t change her mind. there’s always a point where someone who does something so incredibly drastic has died mentally beforehand it seems, and i wish that never happened
Your channel is simply amazing! thanks you a lot!
My grandchildren use you're videos as a jumping off base for there reports. It's fun to watch them get interested in all parts of history. Thank you!
The fact that Oswald was killed screams set up.
“I’m just a Patsy” those 3 words are so important and people over look it. He’s openly admitting that there is a conspiracy and that he isn’t the only one involved! Look how calm he is! He was acting like he didn’t kill the president, and that he was going to get off and be let go! Oswald was sooo calm and composed. He wasn’t nervous at all! Unless he pooped some Xanax and Valium. And I forgot the video of Jack Ruby speaking in jail when he’s basically saying there’s more to the story then we all know!!
He didn’t just use those three words though. Why don’t you quote the entire sentence?
Typical conspiracy theorist, quoting out of context.
(A) He only said he was a patsy in relation to his having lived in Russia (to those who can be bothered to watch the entire clip before using it as proof of his knowledge of a plot), *not* because he thought he was being set up as a fall guy for the assassination of the President of the United States by a gang of evil traitors.
(B) Oh, we did look at how calm he is. Indeed, he was so calm his own wife and brother took one look at him in jail and knew he was guilty. Even when he's on camera he can barely keep the cat-that-swallowed-the-canary smirk off his face, and his mugshot is chilling to look at.
(C) When he addresses a live TV audience of millions, does he jump up and down in a panic, screaming his innocence? No. Does he express any horror or sympathy for the victims? No. Does he beg protection for his family, thus making them untouchable? No. Does he try spilling what he knows or suspects about a conspiracy, hence making himself untouchable? No. Does re restrict himself to rather passively talking of legal representation and complain the cop he tried to shoot punched him while disarming him? Yes.
(D) Jack Ruby said a lot of things. He was nuts. Oddly he made no attempt to say anything about a conspiracy during his public trial.
@@Rohilla313 Back and to the left …
"He only said he was a patsy in relation to his having lived in Russia..." No, he said that he was a patsy in reply to being asked "Did you shoot the President?"
He also insisted that he was a patsy during a police lineup. So Oswald is saying that he is being framed for the assassination and the DP just needs a worthless shitty excuse to bring him in (such as that they hate "dirty commies" or whatever, wtf cares). But of course WC shills have to spin it.
There were other instances in which Oswald asserted his innocence quite forcefully, publicly and during interrogation.
Where you see a smirk I see a look of determination, almost anger.
"... his mugshot is chilling to look at." Yeah, some of us even shriek in horror at this monster's appearance.
Only a fool would start yapping without a lawyer.
His demeanor is usually quite calm which means that it's likely that he was trained regarding how to handle interrogations.
It's such a pity that Oswald wasn't the wild-eyed maniac that you want him to be.
"Oddly he made no attempt to say anything about a conspiracy during his public trial." If you believed that your life was in danger, would you try to defend yourself by claiming that others were involved in a conspiracy?
Ruby said "I want to tell the truth, and I can't tell it here." But still there are a few interesting things that he says while questioned in his Dallas jail cell. WC Vol. V, Pp. 191-198.
Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone.
53 pieces of evidence vs Oswald, zero evidence for anyone else.
I'm impressed... you actually got pictures of his apartment building in Minsk (09:34 shows his street, 10:05 appears to show the balcony of the apartment, which is adjacent to a TV tower these days). But as another former US Marine who spent time in Belarus (and also married a Linguistics University graduate named Marina), I have to say that the description of the country is rather unfair. It's certainly a very retro-Soviet country even today, the architecture is certainly very Stalin Imperial-esque, and politically the government is not the most progressive, but all that's not to say that you'd be lucky if you didn't see the country. The countryside in the north and west is quite green, the people are quite friendly to visitors, and they're at least trying to put together something for tourists to go see - even going so far as to provide options for Westerners to visit visa-free for periods under 30 days. I'm not sure it's a place to defect to, but it's not that ugly a place either. Granted, Prague is more picturesque, but do go see Minsk before knocking it.
Nevertheless, elsewhere in the biography, interesting details. Given that "Sharpshooter" is actually the intermediate ranking for shooting expertise (between "Expert" - the top ranking, and "Marksman" - my ranking), it would make some kind of sense that he intended to hit Connally and missed, shooting Kennedy instead.
I've been waiting on this for a long time!!!!!
Good info, plus i love how you "meld" the product in the middle of the video. Old time radio were masters at this technique :)
I am a huge fan of this biography series. Thish was the best biography yet.
With all the JFK assassination documentaries I've seen, I have never heard the Connaly info before. Connaly was always presented as collateral damage. Is this Connaly angle new to anyone else?
If he was obsessed with Connaly and JFK, what an opportunity the route through Dealey plaza presented. Who was the primary target? One or both?
It seems like Connaly was the target.
Yea what if Connaly was the only target and he accidentally just killed JFK. Damn good video btw
Despite personally not being convinced that Oswald actually was the assassin, I must sat that you have done a very good job with this video.
Why would the government trick us into thinking Oswald did it. If the government killed JFK...ok then....what could we do about it...
@@stevewalther2293 This is the exact attitude that allows the government to walk all over its people
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Do you think it was the CIA too?
@@helnkel3814 Indeed.
Hey Simon, can you do a video of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? Love your videos.
I grew up in Dallas & have been to the Texas theater, where Lee Harvey Oswald ran to. They have the seat he was in roped off, or did years ago when I went to actually watch a movie. When I was a teen in the 80's, it was still an active movie theater.
Did they still show "War is Hell?"
Grandpa said he was a scapegoat for the real shooter, his troubled background was perfect to use him.
I heard the same thing from the voices in my head and they never lie.
The real shooter was sitting in the driver's seat of jfk's car.
@@justintyler4693 maybe you should rewatch the zapruder film. Its obvious once you see it
@@justintyler4693 hahaha CIA could've said that and people would have believed them.
James Doble well as long as your grandpa said it
I didn't see that plug coming but nonetheless, it was indeed a smooth transition. Well done, Simon.
Great presentation, as usual.
Very nice and informative video
Please do a biography on Peter Ortiz. He's probably the most interesting man in the world. He was an American that spoke a bunch of languages. During WWII he joined the French Foreign Legion to fight the Nazis. He later went back to the USA and joined the Marines and was sent to Europe to fight. He was one of just a few Marines to serve in Europe during WWII since most Marines were fighting in the Pacific. In Europe he was a OSS officer and conducted sabotage on Nazi troops.
I remember it well. I can remember where I was when the news broke, on the grounds of my high school. "The President has just been shot!" we were told. "Who did it?" I asked. "Some fanatic!" was the reply. Later I found out he had died. We were called into the auditorium. The principal gave an account of what had happened and dismissed us to go hime.
We did not have a working TV at the time. However I did have a radio. I caught Oswald being moved from City to county on my radio. It seemed that I heard and angry man yell and then a gun shot. The loudness of the shot caused a ringing sound like feedback over the microphone. "Oswald's been shot!" "He definitely has been shot!" Oswald died in about an hour. There was too much organ damage for him to survive.
Yeah the way he damaged Kennedy's Organs
as oswald said himself "im just the patsy"
are you wearing your tin foil hat?
When he said that he was pretty damn calm and composed! Did he seem nervous at all? For someone that just assassinated the president and shot him in the head and then murdered a police officer as well!!
And I’m not saying Oswald wasn’t involved because he obviously was, I am just not convinced he actually pulled the trigger! When I watch the footage of him saying “I’m just a pasty” he just seems so calm. And that’s the biggest clue of all the footage you watch. Is those 3 words he is saying he isn’t the only one involved in the assassination.
Yes because I'm so sure that he was going to own up to it.
@@tysonthomas6029 Calm?
He looks like trying to reassure himself to me.
Thanks for the deep dive
I think a Biographic of Lee Iacocca would make a great video
After hearing his name every time I watch Robocop, I would really be interested to know who he actually was.
indeed Huxley died on the same day. A biography of him would also have great merit!
This is awesome ..Well Done ..
I’m a Vietnamese and I would love 💕 to see your observations of Ho Chi Minh in a video like this.
His already done that
I still have the hardest time believe that Oswald was the only single person involved in this assassination plot. I'm not saying that the CIA, Hoover and H. W. Bush were necessarily involved or even that Clay Shaw was involved even though things really seem to point in that direction. All I'm saying is that I have a very hard time believing that Oswald wasn't surveilled adequately by the FBI given his past and that he did this all by himself. Why have they never transferred Ruby to a prison out of Texas considering he said he'd explain what he knew about the conspiracy if they got him out of Texas. Why on earth does the government still keep certain files classified to this day even though they were supposed to release them all.......Plus, according to what has been declassified, Oswald was supposed to be on U.S.'s radar. Americans shouldn't accept the government keeping secrets from them just as they should not agree to detention camps imprisoning migrants including 100% legal asylum seeker and denying them basic needs therefore breaking international laws and human rights. Americans need to do better, this administration and everything they are hiding is shameful and their supporter need to ask for more.
Can I say it?
Okay. As long as you can admit that it is at least possible for Oswald to pull off what he did, alone.... and that the Earth is round then I can accept it is possible Oswald had co conspirators
@@partysugar519 The chances Oswald Acted Alone are Less Than Zero! Do mindless Lone Nutters actually read anything beyond the surface? Such easily disproven conclusions?
@@vernpascal1531 .... Oswald did indeed act alone. If you can prove different I'm all ears.
The evidence all points to Oswald. The bullets that were recovered and struck Kennedy and Connolly traced back to Oswald's rifle. The rifle was found on the 6th floor of the book depository building with three spent cartridges and Oswald's palm print. Oswald went to work that day and when the police did a head count after the shooting, he was the only one missing. Oswald was found in a movie theater after he had shot officer Tippett, clearly he was on the run. He would be the last person on earth to work for the CIA, the mob, or the Russians. He was simply too unstable and unreliable and if he was an asset, he would have not been arrested after the fact. He was a miserable person searching for significance.
Guys it would be awesome to see you do a Biographic of the JFK assassination just like video you did of the Chernobyl disaster
The world doesn't need ANOTHER JFK assassination video. Ok?
@@kcbh24 This is exactly what the CIA would say...
Why?.. The DPD solved that crime in 12 hours.. A cop killing too..
And that’s exactly what a conspiracy loon would say.. Smh..
Jack Ruby isn’t a hero. Sure Oswald deserved to die for his crime but Ruby prevented him from properly facing justice, a proper trial that could have been very illuminating. What Ruby denied us all was closure.
I think the whole situation is best summed up by Homer Henderson singing "Lee Harvey Was a Friend of Mine."
He had absolutely nothing to do with the assassination.
Not sure of the accuracy, but 11/22/63 (Stephen King) is a good watch / read.
His details were amazing. Lots of really great research
A truly great book by the master .
Having used an old Carcano extensively, I've been convinced that there had to be someone besides Oswald involved. That rifle, even in the hands of an expert marksman, is simply not capable of firing from the distances, angles, and quickness it would have taken to get that many shots off that accurately. Even when they were new guns they were known to be inaccurate.
You hsve been proven wrong on that.
Wrong. Oswald's shots were duplicated using the Carcano. It was in use by the Italian NATO rifle team.
He got an accurate one. Dozens have demonstrated how possible this is. He missed twice. It doesn’t take an expert.
Stop the lies.
The Carcano is an excellent rifle, possibly the best milsurp bolt-action of all. You have never owned one.
And the presidential limousine was an extremely easy target, only 60-80m away, moving away at less than 20km/h, below him and with almost nothing obstructing his view nor any winds nor rain. There were more than 8 seconds between the three shots, ample time for the Carcano with its easy bolt action.
I don't know why you people repeat this utter laughable nonsense for. Do you believe it just because you saw it in that Oliver Stone movie?
I went to Minsk as a tourist last July and it is a beautiful city. Times have changed I guess... And BTW I went to Oswald's apartment while I was there and it has been kept up very well. Nobody I could find knew who he was, or that he had lived there, even the people who lived or worked there now...
5:20 yeah fun fact, he was a cadet in the civil air patrol too.
Blimey you should have done a 3 part series on this including the theory's
There are hundreds of conspiracy theories on this but only one set of facts. Simon covered it well.
@@1952creswell true but some of the CIA MKultra theories have some serious credibility, such as when he was missing on record for 1 whols year after the CIA first made contact with him. It's become such a mess now that we will probably never know the truth, but some conspiracies have some credence for sure
You mean including the "facts"? And "the video in which we can clearly see the driver in the front seat kill Kennedy"? Yeah well that would be better than promoting a fairy tale like Oswald's.
@@jacobmortimore What happens when all those conspiracy theories conflict with each other. I guess we're supposed to "pick" one that sounds good and make it our favorite. Conspiracy theories with regards to the assassination are like brain candy. If you offer a child a plate of spinach or a Snickers bar, 99% of them will choose the candy. It's just no fun to accept the cold, hard evidence that the case is solved. Much more appealing to spend a lifetime of wondering.
@@1952creswell There was no conspiracy. All the conspiracy advocates have are a bunch of sound bites they string together to try to prove such. All the hard evidence points to LHO...period..
Thank you Dallas! Good night!
Oswald COULDN'T have landed the fatal shot. The fatal shot came from Kennedy's FRONT, rather than rear where Oswald is alleged to have been in the repository. Look at the video of the assassination and you'll clearly see what I've said. Oswald and Ruby were just tools for something we'll likely never know about.
My father knew Jack Ruby. He even believed that it was mafia related.
My mom knew Mr. Ruby through her work as a Night Desk Manager at a motel just outside of Downtown Dallas in North Oak Cliff. She regularly helped him set his "dancers" up with rooms (although not always allowed). She also arranged for him to get rooms for his shady business associates and there were arrangements for "dancers" to socialize with local politicians. Mom thought Mr. Ruby was a pimp who "talked too damn much" to be included in a conspiracy. My stepfather worked with Oswald at the School Book Depository. Through my stepfather and his co-workers Bonnie Ray Williams, Ed Shields and James Jarman I heard that Oswald didn't seem bright enough to be a part of any conspiracy.
Well he was wrong
@@calvinndallas3289 oswald wasnt part of a conspiracy. He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, used as a scape goat.
@@scott19087 research is needed for you..
My father knew Jack Ruby. He even believed that it was mafia related.: Of course he did.
A Marine Sharpshooter is not some major award or distinction,
It only means you are you are a proficient shooter. There are 3 shooting badges.
Marksman, Sharpshooter, and Expert.
Sharpshooter being in the middle.
Does anyone else notice how calm he seems at the police station after putting 2 bullets into the president and then killing a policeman right after!!! Seems very odd. Almost seems like he thought he was going to get off!
Officer J.D. Tippit was buried at Laurel Land Memorial Park, Dallas, TX on November 25, 1963, making it so that there were 3 funerals that took place on the same day. President Kennedy's, Arlington, VA, J.D. Tippit's, Dallas, TX and Lee Harvey Oswald's, Fort Worth, TX.
Dam you guys I’ve got to go to work and you drop a video what to do? what to do ?
Love your content cuzz, natch we have Subbed, with Bell of course!
I used to believe that Oswald acted alone, until i stood on the X in the street that marks the spot Kennedy was shot and looked up at the window and realize that the angle is all wrong and Oswald would had to have hung out the window and operated a bolt action rifle. But then again I could be wrong. The government never lies to us.
"I used to believe that Oswald acted alone, until i stood on the X in the street that marks the spot Kennedy was shot and looked up at the window and realize that the angle is all wrong and Oswald would had to have hung out the window": It's not that you're wrong, so much as you are a lying sack of sh%t .