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male narrator: Previously on "Tracking Oswald"...

- Disappeared file.

- As the saying goes, there's no lost file;

there's just missing files.

- Yeah, exactly.

narrator: CIA veteran Bob Baer and former police lieutenant

Adam Bercovici discovered a direct connection

between Lee Harvey Oswald and the Cuban government

in the months before the assassination

of President Kennedy.

- Fidel Castro says that Oswald stormed into the embassy,

demanded the visa, and when it was refused to him,

headed out saying, "I'm going to kill Kennedy for this."

This is incredible.

narrator: In Mexico City, the team tracked down

an eyewitness who saw Oswald with Cuban officials

only eight weeks before the president's murder.

narrator: Searching for deeper ties to the Cubans,

the team discovered a period of one month in 1963

with no record of Oswald's whereabouts.

- Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

- I'm seeing a whole month where we cannot account

for Lee Harvey Oswald.

narrator: During that dark period,

documents revealed a mysterious CIA operation,

code name JMMOVE, located near New Orleans.

Oswald lived only 15 minutes away.

- My hunch is, that facility was in support of some training

activity here in Louisiana.

And I think, whatever that training was,

we're gonna find a connection with Oswald.

narrator: If Bob's theory is right,

the team may prove once and for all

that Lee Harvey Oswald had help

in his mission to murder JFK.

November 22, 1963.

Lee Harvey Oswald opens fire in Dealey Plaza,

forever changing American history.

Unanswered questions linger,

breeding countless conspiracy theories.

Many believe Russia, Cuba, or even the CIA

supported Oswald in his mission.

In 2017, the final documents from the JFK assassination

are scheduled for release.

More than 2 million files have already been declassified.

No one has analyzed them until now.

A CIA veteran is on the trail of the most

notorious assassin in U.S. history.

Bob Baer and his team are on the ground in central Louisiana

to search for physical evidence of a 1960s-era

covert training ground.

Earlier in the investigation,

they discovered a declassified document

suggesting that Oswald trained alongside

Cuban militants before murdering JFK.

- All right, we've got the testimony of Robert Tanenbaum.

He is the deputy chief council

for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

That's the follow-up investigation to JFK

to the Warren Commission.

- "We had information of Oswald being involved in Louisiana with

"anti-Castro individuals,

"and various soldier-of-fortune types

who were contracted employees of the CIA."

- He's telling us in an official testimony

about anti-Castro Cubans training in Louisiana,

the same Cubans we know Oswald was in the mix with.

narrator: In 1959, Fidel Castro rises to power.

Immediately, America begins a secret war against Cuba,

battling Communism 90 miles from its shores.

The CIA covertly recruits Cuban exiles

and trains them in secret

to overthrow their former leader.

In 1961, President Kennedy orders these men

to invade the Bay of Pigs...

[loud explosions]

But then withdraws air support during the battle.

Hundreds are killed and more than 1,000 taken prisoner.

In the aftermath, many Cuban exiles turn on Kennedy.

- My new working theory is that Oswald may have trained here

with a group of Cuban militants,

anti-Castro fighters who had developed a hatred

for John F. Kennedy.

If true, I believe these men may have gone on

to assist his mission to murder the president.

[dramatic music]

What we're looking for here is an off-the-grid

CIA training base.

Does this sound far-fetched,

the CIA would bring a training team up here?

- Not at all. It's remote.

The only people that can navigate these areas

are local people.

narrator: Joining the team is swamp cartographer

Blake Jackson.

Blake's family has lived in the basin for three generations,

and his grandfather witnessed mysterious military activity

here in the early 1960s.

- And this is what we need you for, your expertise.

You know this place like the back of your hand,

so if you were gonna come in temporarily

and set up a base, where would you do it?

- The obvious answer for me is high ground.

A lot of times these banks will erode and can expose

things that have been buried for a couple years, you know.

When I say "a couple years," 100 years even.

So if I was going to look for a training camp,

I would start off with looking at the eroded areas

of that high ground.

[dramatic music]

- We are out here looking for a guerilla-style training ground,

something isolated deep in a remote area

where the sound of gunfire won't draw attention.

[gunshot]

In covert actions like this, it was very fast and loose.

These type of operations are called black ops.

narrator: The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

has a long history of recruiting foreign fighters

to help battle enemies abroad.

[gunshot]

Though the CIA funds these black operations,

they often run them from afar with little oversight,

a risk the agency is willing to take

to distance themselves from politically volatile conflicts.

- When it comes to black ops, during my 21 years in the CIA,

I've seen almost all of them go sideways.

The best example of this is Osama bin Laden.

In the 1980s, the U.S. helped Afghan fighters

battle the Soviet Union.

After that war ended,

we left the Afghans to their own devices.

Some of them went rogue, and they turned on us.

The result was bin Laden leading the attack on 9/11.

narrator: Blake leads Bob and Adam into the swamp

to search for evidence of these black ops training grounds

where Oswald and Cuban militants may have been

only months before the president's murder.

- My family has been here for three generations,

and in the old days

where it wasn't a common place to come.

It's so far away from everything else.

You can go four or five days without seeing another person.

I remember my grandfather telling my father,

you know, seeing boats coming in and out that were unmarked.

People back here, you know, are quiet and tight-lipped.

So when you hear rumors from your family,

that's about as far as it's gonna go.

[tense music]

- Is that dry land over there?

- That's all swamp. - That's swamp.

- So you look here, there's a little bit of land now.

Next year, that will be under water.

- So evidence of any crime or evidence of anybody being here,

it's a natural occurrence that it would get covered up

after a while?

- That's right. - Yeah, yeah, it's perfect.

- If I were training people and I didn't want to do it on a U.S.

military base, this is where I'd come.

- Yeah.

- The CIA was training militants who would eventually

be fighting in Cuba.

So training in the swamps of Louisiana makes sense.

It's similar terrain.

It's also the perfect place to run

military exercises in secret.

If Oswald was in the middle of this activity,

it's possible that many of the skills he used

to pull off the assassination

were learned right here in this swamp.

- The best places to start, I would imagine,

are on the edge of the bank where it's eroding.

This little hole here, this is that spot right there,

and I believe we might have an advantage

in kind of exposing some of those--

those different levels of sediment

and being able to see whatever you guys are looking for.

- I'm gonna call Marty.

Hey, Marty, it's Bob.

Hey, we got a nice-looking location here, high ground.

I think we're gonna put some sonar out in the water

and see what we got.

After our initial assessment, I'm absolutely convinced

that this area could have served

as a covert training ground.

But now we need the hard evidence to prove it.

narrator: Bob calls on former army ranger

Marty Skovlund...

- We've got high ground right here.

narrator: And sonar specialist, Regan Lipinski,

armed with the most cutting edge

underwater survey equipment.

- If somebody left something behind,

we're gonna go out here and find it.

What are we gonna do to get a good scan

of what's underneath the water here?

- This is a tow fish. It's called a side scan sonar.

narrator: Side scan sonar uses sound waves

to create to-the-millimeter accurate images

of the swamp floor.

An aluminum tow fish torpedo scans under water

delivering high-resolution images to a console on board.

[ominous music]

- All of this here is all vegetations.

- There's an alligator in the water.

- You can definitely see it.

*

There is a lot of debris in the water,

but it all appears natural so far.

*

Here we go.

Now, we have an anomaly here.

You see those straight lines?

That's an actual object that's manmade.

- Okay, wow. - All right, so see these

little objects coming off?

- This is a lot here.

This could really be something.

- And it's kind of continuous.

- You know, if a camp was submerged,

it could look like this.

- From bank to bank, it looks like we have

anomalies right there.

Everywhere else is vacant.

- Bob, this is Marty, over.

- Go ahead, Marty.

- All right, so I really think that we need

to get a diver in here.

- Okay, we'll pin your GPS and head right out.

*

The sonar picked it up right in here.

If we can find hard evidence of training grounds here,

we'll be one step closer

to proving Oswald was no lone wolf.

The men he was training with here with could be

the accomplices we're looking for.

Anything you can see down there

that looks out of the ordinary, pull it up.

narrator: After detecting a series of anomalies

below the surface, which the team suspects are manmade,

Bob has called in an expert wreck diver

to probe the swamp floor.

Meanwhile, a quarter mile away,

Marty Skovlund targets dry ground,

searching for evidence of covert military training.

[tense music]

[metal detector beeping]

- Out here this far, even if you want to sanitize the spot

that you're training at,

if it's this large of an operation,

if you're training for an invasion...

[metal detector beeping]

Even the most disciplined force

with extreme attention to detail

will occasionally miss something.

*

[metal detector beeping]

- And you could get a group up here,

train them, anything from sniper rifles to explosives

to diving, any number of things.

There he goes.

- No but it's a start; look at this.

- Yeah.

- Someone dropped that. - A machete.

- That a machete.

*

[metal detector beeping]

Ahh...[bleep].

*

We've got brass casings out here.

Likely what the guerrillas were training with was AK-47s

and AK-47s use 7.62 ammunition.

This is 7.62.

- Let's keep going, Kelly.

[tense music]

*

- There he is.

- There's a crowbar.

- What is that?

- An ammo box.

Yeah this is military-issue.

- Been down there a while, hasn't it?

- Yeah.

Look at that.

- Is that 7.62?

- I think so.

Yeah this is military-issue.

Wait, there is another round; look at that.

Yeah it's the same caliber.

It's exactly what we were looking for.

Everything we found is consistent with our hypothesis.

JMMOVE was a training program for Cuban exiles

in the remote area of the bayou.

The training, the black period in his time in Louisiana,

in New Orleans, my gut tells me Oswald

was right in the middle of this.

But JMMOVE is just one link in the chain.

JMMOVE places Oswald with foreign accomplices

who were getting military training from the CIA.

This could be huge.

No one's ever looked at it before.

To really understand this program,

we have to cast a wider net.

- What's the hub of Cuban exile activity in the 1960s?

It's Miami. - Yeah, Miami, exactly.

- So I'm gonna narrow the search,

"JMMOVE, Miami," see what we come up with.

[tense music]

*

"On 28 February, 1961, the following agents from JMMOVE

"arrived at JMWAVE...

Carlos Hernandez, Frank Bernardine, Benito Clark."

It's a transfer of personnel.

- They're finished with their training.

They move them to JMWAVE.

- Do you think this is some kind of parent operation?

I mean, what is it?

- I don't know. That's the whole purpose of a

cryptonym, is to confuse people.

But, I mean, what else can we find on JMWAVE?

- Well, if they're transferring men,

there's gonna be money involved.

There's gonna be payroll.

*

All right, here we go. This is a memo.

"To director from JMWAVE,

"please deposit $300,000 bank"--

it's redacted-- "account 1st National Miami."

- I mean, look at this amount of money.

$300,000 in the early '60s was a lot of money.

- Incredible amount of money.

- And the other thing you've got to understand here is,

they're not arguing for a transfer of money.

They're just saying, "We need the money now; move it."

What this tells me is the guys in the bayou in Louisiana,

they're taking orders.

The guys in Miami are giving the orders.

The paper trail on this tells me that

JMWAVE was running the entire JMMOVE operation.

They're in charge of the money.

If we want to get to the bottom of Oswald's connection

to these Cuban militants,

we need to talk to the people who are running

the whole show.

[dramatic music]

*

JMWAVE is the key to this whole operation.

If we can determine exactly what JMWAVE was,

we might be able to uncover the accomplices

Oswald was working with.

What it comes down to is,

in the eight weeks before Oswald kills Kennedy,

he's meeting with Cubans at their embassy in Mexico City,

and he's associated with Cuban militants in New Orleans.

So what I want to do is split up

and you guys take a look at the JMWAVE.

What is JMWAVE?

And I want to go look up some old contacts.

Based on everything we've seen, my suspicion is

that Oswald was working with a network

tied to JMWAVE here in Miami.

The CIA created JMWAVE and funded it,

but it took on a life of its own; all covert operations do.

Once you give money and weapons to Cuban exiles,

there's no guarantee they're gonna follow your orders.

If Oswald was the fruit of the branch,

we're looking for the root of the tree,

and I'll bet you it's here.

My suspicion is that Oswald fell in with a group of these

Cuban militants, who had plans of their own.

And that plan was to murder the president of the United States.

[gunshot]

narrator: Four weeks into their investigation of Lee Harvey

Oswald, Bob Baer and his team are working on a bold theory.

Newly declassified documents reveal a large-scale

mysterious CIA operation known as JMWAVE.

The team suspects that a group of Cuban exiles associated

with the operation may have helped Oswald plan the murder

of President John F. Kennedy.

Bob has tracked down Marshall Golnick,

a former CIA contractor with inside information,

who's willing to talk on camera for the first time.

- I'm here reconstructing what it was like in the '60s,

and specifically a CIA operation called JMWAVE.

Put me back in that time.

- Well, the CIA was running Cuban exile assets,

and they would sail up Cuban rivers,

and they would damage the Cuban infrastructure,

buildings, roads, bridges.

Anything that they can destroy, they would do that.

It was ridiculous.

- So it was an insurgency. - Yes.

- And it was an insurgency run out of these waters.

- Absolutely here.

This area here was, in effect, kind of a launching point.

Cuban exiles were dropped off by bus right here in front.

- Wait, right in front of this restaurant?

- Right in front of this restaurant.

And the CIA gave them machine guns and bazookas

and gunboats and things like that,

and all the tourists just looked the other way, laughed, waved.

- And how many miles is it to Cuba?

- 90.

- So you could stop, get off your boat

after doing a raid on Cuba and have a beer.

- Oh, absolutely.

- Was this illegal?

I mean, we were running a war from the continental

United States against a country, Cuba,

we were not formally at war with.

- It was extra-legal.

It wasn't quite illegal, and it wasn't legal.

But that was changed April 17, 1961.

Bay of Pigs, as you know, was a terrible failure.

The Cuban exiles blamed John F. Kennedy directly

for the disaster that happened at the Bay of Pigs,

because he did not commit to support them.

The Cuban exiles felt that JFK abandoned them.

- Well, he did in a sense.

- Absolutely.

- So I can imagine all these Cubans, Bay of Pigs,

they're furious, they got money, they got weapons,

and they're going out pursuing their own agendas right here.

- Sometimes you can be eaten by your own monster

that you created.

- According to Marshall,

JMWAVE was a large-scale military operation

training Cuban militants on American soil.

With so many weapons and such little oversight,

that's exactly the type of explosive environment

where Oswald could have met the accomplices he needed

to help him with the assassination.

Take a look at Oswald.

He's in and around this group.

They're armed, bitter,

ready to do violence.

- Oswald was, in a scientific term,

a chemical agent used to accelerate the explosion

about to happen amongst the Cuban exile community.

You just let it go, and you don't have to do a thing.

And I don't think that we as a nation

was quite prepared for what was about to happen.

- Oswald was in a mix that was gonna end up

in violence one way or another.

- It had to happen.

Oswald represented what the exile community seemed to want.

- To murder Kennedy.

- Yes.

- The deeper we get into this investigation,

the clearer it is to me that Oswald

was gravitating toward violent Cuban groups.

The question is, who are the most violent groups?

- To my knowledge, the fringe groups.

Alpha 66, Omega 7.

There were many.

- Did they actually have bases down here?

- Yes.

But if you really want to see something, go out on this road,

and you will see where many of the bases were,

and they were hidden in a stealthy way

that nobody was the wiser.

- Okay, I'm gonna send my guys down there.

[tense music]

*

narrator: Former police lieutenant Adam Bercovici

and former army ranger Marty Skovlund head out of Miami

to Key Largo on the southern tip of Florida

to investigate the military facility

revealed by Marshall Golnick.

*

- Ah, we got something up over here.

*

Looks like some sort of a guard tower.

If they've got a structure like this just for a watch tower,

there's got to be more around here.

- Yeah, I agree.

- We've got multiple buildings back here.

- Is this a barracks?

- It could be.

You couldn't see any of this from the road.

- Our information tells us that this is a serious place.

Weapons and men were stored and trained at this location.

- Yeah, wow, this is extensive.

- Well, what gets me going on this is that this is

consistent with what we've seen in Louisiana and here,

which are these self-contained bases operating here in hiding.

When we're looking at a criminal,

we have to look at the environment

that he was operating in.

And this sends out warning bells to me

that this guy was mixed up in some very serious stuff.

The environment that Oswald was involved in,

it was a toxic environment.

Doesn't remind me of a lone wolf.

It reminds me of a wolf pack.

narrator: After combing through over 2 million

declassified documents and chasing down leads,

Bob and Adam reunite in their Miami war room

to take stock of their investigation.

- We've got a lot of new evidence from the field.

And here's where we are so far.

We started out in Mexico City where a declassified CIA

document reported that Oswald visited the Cuban embassy

eight weeks before the assassination.

We uncovered an eyewitness who places Oswald in the company

of high-ranking Cuban officials.

- Following that new lead,

we tracked Oswald's movements to New Orleans.

They're measuring for ammunition.

[machine beeps] - We got a positive detection.

- The trail of evidence suggest that Oswald got swept up

in a covert operation that was arming and training Cuban

exiles to be used as assets in a secret war against the Cuba.

[gunshot]

But I believe these assets had ideas on their own.

Angry that Kennedy abandoned them during the Bay of Pigs,

they were secretly plotting his murder,

and Oswald was shaping up to be their triggerman.

If Oswald hooked up with one of these groups,

it was Alpha 66; Marshall raised it.

- Yeah.

narrator: In the early 1960s, the CIA armed and militarized

dozens of Cuban exile groups training them

to attack Cuba and overthrow the Castro regime.

During the Bay of Pigs invasion,

more than 1,400 of these fighters

were ordered to attack Cuba.

During the battle, President Kennedy withdrew air support,

dooming the mission and resulting

in hundreds of deaths.

In the aftermath, part of Alpha 66,

one of the most radical and violent groups, went rogue.

According to the House Select Committee on Assassinations,

Alpha 66 proclaimed JFK a traitor

and vowed to avenge the perceived betrayal

by any means necessary.

- A group like Alpha 66 is the perfect group

for Oswald to work with to achieve his own goals.

Alpha 66 is violent and angry with Kennedy

after the Bay of Pigs.

Oswald is a pronounced Marxist who praised Communist ideals.

I believe he wants Kennedy dead

because of his stance against Cuba.

Our working theory is that these two worked together

to achieve a common goal.

Alpha 66, Oswald kept doing stuff

to get their attention.

- It makes sense, because we see this pattern that goes on and on

with him where he's looking for validation,

but all along the way, he's rejected.

- He gets rejected by the Russians,

the Cubans sort of brush him off,

but then he comes around to Alpha 66, and he's,

"I'm gonna show you what I can do."

- Exactly. - And then Alpha 66,

"Yeah, show us."

- What a great asset to have, because he's--

he's pliable, you know?

He'll do what you tell him to do.

- We need to look into Alpha 66 and see who these guys were.

- Yeah.

- Let's see what we got.

- All right, this is from the

House Select Committee on Assassinations.

"Alpha 66 became one of the most active

"of the anti-Castro exile groups.

"All the major exile organizations

"were backing Alpha 66's efforts.

"The man behind all of Alpha 66's strategy

was Maurice Bishop."

So now we have a name, Maurice Bishop.

- Let's see if there's any decent evidence

that Oswald met with Bishop,

because that would suggest that there was planning at the top.

[tense music]

*

Testimony from the founder of Alpha 66,

Antonio Veciana, to the House Select Committee.

- "The Committee's interest in the relationship between

"Antonio Veciana and Maurice Bishop is of course predicated

"on Veciana's contention that he saw Bishop

"with Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas

"a few months before the assassination

of John F. Kennedy."

Holy [bleep].

- Here's a group that we've determined

that's capable and willing and motivated to kill the president.

We have a man who did kill the president, and

now we have a witness that puts

Lee Harvey Oswald within the inner circle of Alpha 66.

There's your co-conspirator right there.

He had on-the-ground assistance in Dallas.

- Do we have any corroboration on this at all?

- Let me see if we come up with anything else.

- Any other reports of Oswald with Cuban radicals?

- This is from the Warren Commission.

It's the testimony of Silvia Odio.

"In late September 1963,

"three men came to her apartment in Dallas

"to solicit funds for JURE,

"an anti-Castro organization.

"Two of the men appeared to be Cubans.

"The third man, an American, was introduced

to Mrs. Odio as Leon Oswald."

- To my apartment in Dallas.

The American was introduced as Leon Oswald.

One of them said his name was Leopoldo.

He said that, "We wanted you to meet this American

who was very much interested in the Cuban cause."

He said he had been a marine.

He repeated several times he was an expert shotman

and he was terrific.

I think either that night or the night afterwards,

Leopoldo called me on the phone.

He said, "Well you know, Leon Oswald, he's kind of local.

"He's been telling us that the Cubans should have assassinated

"President Kennedy right after the Bay of Pigs,

"and they didn't have any guts to do it.

It is so easy to do it."

When Oswald came on television,

immediately I realized that there was

an assassination idea or plot.

- "She was certain the American introduced to her as Leon Oswald

was Lee Harvey Oswald."

- It's explosive. I mean, where is the FBI?

I mean, why didn't they have this group penetrated in Dallas?

Why didn't they know about it?

Because the fact is, they missed it.

- Yeah.

- Silvia Odio is the most important

eyewitness we've found.

Her testimony places Oswald in the company of violent,

radical Cubans in Dallas.

narrator: The Warren Commission refuted

Silvia Odio's testimony claiming Oswald

could not have been in Dallas at the time of their meeting.

15 years later, the House Select Committee

on Assassinations, a review of the JFK investigation,

declared Odio was a credible source

and that the timeline was inconclusive.

This conclusion did not change the official record.

- Everything I've seen suggests that the Warren Commission did

what they could to maintain the narrative

that Oswald acted entirely alone.

The key witness to the JFK case was staring them in the face,

and for some reason, they disregarded her testimony.

Now we're gonna look where they never did.

We're getting very close to the truth.

narrator: Bob Baer and Adam Bercovici

are in Dallas, Texas, to search for evidence

of accomplices to Lee Harvey Oswald.

Newly declassified CIA documents

reveal that Oswald may have had ties

to a violent Cuban fringe group known as Alpha 66.

An eyewitness named Silvia Odio

offered further testimony solidifying this connection.

"The American was introduced as Leon Oswald.

"He told us we don't have any guts,

"because President Kennedy should have been assassinated

right after the Bay of Pigs."

- It's explosive. I mean, where is the FBI?

Why didn't they know about it?

narrator: Odio puts Oswald with two Cuban radicals

only eight weeks before the assassination

of President Kennedy.

- Silvia Odio described the two men with Oswald

as Cuban radicals who were interested in killing Kennedy.

There's no proof that these men were Alpha 66,

but my gut tells me they were.

My experience tells me it's only a matter of time

before we find Alpha 66 here with Oswald in Dallas.

What we know for certain is,

Oswald found his way to a group of Cuban exiles, accomplices.

What I'm really interested in,

is there anything out there that takes these known associates

and puts them in Dallas leading up to the assassination

of the president and afterwards?

What we need to know now is the timeline in Dallas.

I mean, what do we have from the Warren Commission?

[tense music]

*

- On October 3, 1963, Oswald crossed into Texas.

March 1963 he purchases the Carcano rifle by mail,

the same rifle he will eventually use

to assassinate President Kennedy.

- And look.

Here, a month later, he's making an attempt

on Edwin Walker with the same rifle.

I mean, come on. This is huge.

This guy was a political figure, ran for governor of Texas.

Looking at the timeline of Oswald's period in Dallas,

there is one event that really stands out,

and that's the attempted assassination

of General Edwin Walker.

narrator: Major General Edwin Walker was a right-wing,

anti-communist extremist, who called on the U.S. military to,

"Liquidate the communist scourge

that has descended upon the island of Cuba."

- The problem is communistic in effect,

out and out communistic in effect.

narrator: In April of 1963, 7 1/2 months before

Kennedy's murder, a gunman attempts to assassinate Walker

at his home in Dallas.

The general survives unscathed.

The case remains unsolved until after JFK's murder

when Marina Oswald testifies to the Warren Commission

that her husband was behind the attempt on Walker's life.

- Unbelievably, the Warren Commission never looked into

the Walker case.

I believe they intentionally ignored that investigation,

because it could have brought to light

new evidence pointing to his accomplices.

I want to drill down.

Anything associated with the Walker attempt

is of high interest.

- It's the testimony of Marina Oswald

from the Warren Commission.

"Following his unsuccessful attack on Walker,

"Oswald returned home.

"He had left a note for his wife telling her what to do

"in case he was apprehended,

"as well as his notebook and the pictures

of himself holding the rifle."

- Edwin Walker, this guy was a Major General.

And you have Oswald taking a shot at him,

and that's all we have?

- You know, one of the things that was an issue at the time

was that this was a local case with the local homicide

detectives handling it.

- The local police, what do they have on it?

- That's a big case.

There's gonna be files, there's gonna be reports.

It's gonna be in their archives.

- Well, that's what we've got to get.

narrator: If Oswald was working with Alpha 66 in Dallas,

they may have aided his attempt to murder General Walker.

Dallas police files could bring to light new evidence

in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

- In Dallas, Bob and Adam visit the Municipal Archive

to dig into the original police files

from the attempted assassination

of General Edwin Walker,

another murder attempt by Lee Harvey Oswald

less than a year before Kennedy's death.

Newly declassified documents suggest

that Oswald may have had ties

to a violent Cuban fringe group known as Alpha 66.

The team now searches for any further evidence

linking Oswald to these potential accomplices.

- This is the police reports on the attempt on Walker.

narrator: On the evening of April 10, 1963,

General Edwin Walker is sitting in his study

at his home in suburban Dallas.

A gunman opens fire from an alley

on the west side of the property.

The bullet narrowly misses Walker's head.

- I mean, look at this. This is a political act.

General Walker is a conservative...

- Right. - Anti-Cuban.

He basically says, "We have to invade Cuba now."

Oswald takes a shot at General Walker.

- Mm-hmm. - Point is,

he can go to whatever group he wants and said,

"I have put myself at risk," and this is verifiable.

It's plausible that the Walker attempt

was a proving ground for Oswald.

He could say, "Look what I've done.

Look what I'm willing to do."

And his accomplices would recognize that dedication.

Look at this supplementary offense report,

police department.

- "This officer contacted Kirk Coleman.

"There's a white male.

"He stated he was in the back room and heard a noise.

"He thought it was a blowout.

"The boy who was with him, Ronald Andries,

"said it was a gunshot.

"Kirk stated that he then ran out, climbed the back fence

"and saw a man getting into a '49 or a '50 Ford.

"It was light green or light blue, and it took off.

"This was on the parking lot of the church

"next to General Walker's house.

"Also, on further down the parking lot was another car

"with an unknown make or model, and a man was in it.

"He had the dome light on, and Kirk could see him bend over the

"front as if he was putting something

in the back floorboard."

Oswald didn't drive.

- No. So whose car was that?

- Exactly.

- One thing we know for sure, Oswald couldn't drive.

Two cars at the scene.

It means that multiple people were there with him.

What these records are telling us is

that this is organized political violence

possibly with other people involved.

- You have to make the reasonable assumption

that he had a getaway driver. that somebody's helping him.

That person has to be an accessory.

- There's no doubt in my mind Oswald had accomplices

in the months before he killed Kennedy.

Silvia Odio testified that she met with Oswald

and two Cuban men in her house.

And now it looks like he could have been working

with those same men to kill Walker.

The Warren Commission always said Oswald was a lone wolf.

The evidence says otherwise.

All this detail, none of it's in the FBI report.

Why didn't the FBI go back to these witnesses?

- If you don't want the answer to a question,

don't ask the question.

- Exactly, don't ask it, and that's what the FBI didn't do.

They didn't ask the question.

What we need to do is get to Dealey Plaza,

look at this the days before

and the moments after for any traces of accessories.

We need to turn our attention to the scene of the crime.

We need to find out if he had help

on November 22, 1963.

narrator: On the final two episodes

of "Tracking Oswald"...

- Shooter ready.

narrator: An investigation 54 years in the making...

[gunshot]

Breaks wide open.

- He didn't sit up there in the book depository

waiting to be arrested.

He had a plan to get away.

We need to reconstruct his exit route.

- He can stand there, be unobserved,

and make a clear assessment of whether it's safe to approach.

- This is not a panicked man.

This is evidence like we've never seen before.

- Is that it right there? - This is it here.

This looks like a safe house. - It does.

- Cubans are living here.

Wherever he was going, it's over at this point.

[dramatic music]

- Here's the coast of Cuba right there.

It's coming up on the chart.

- Oh, [bleep].

- This could be trouble.

- Keep the cameras down right now.

I don't want to draw attention.

[all speaking Spanish]

- You see our ride yet?

- Yeah, it looks like us.

- You Bob?

- Yep.

- Jump on.

- We need to find out how deep the rabbit hole goes.

This is our guy.

Let's go.