Original subtitles

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

- Send it.

[gunshot]

narrator: Following newly declassified government files,

CIA veteran Bob Baer

and former police lieutenant Adam Bercovici

discovered new evidence suggesting Lee Harvey Oswald

was working with rogue members of the Cuban group Alpha 66

in the months before President Kennedy's murder.

- Anything that they can destroy, they would do that.

narrator: After an investigation

that covered ground from Mexico City to Moscow,

New Orleans to Miami,

the team descended upon Dallas

to search for signs of these potential accomplices

near the scene of the crime.

- So, you knew him. - Yes, I did.

We heard him speaking Spanish and Russian.

- On this telephone right here? - Yes.

- This is not a panicked man. This is a man with a plan.

narrator: Analyzing Oswald's potential escape route,

Bob made a staggering discovery.

A house on the outskirts of Dallas

where Oswald reportedly met with Cuban exiles

only days before Kennedy's murder.

[gunshot]

- According to a sheriff's report,

Oswald has been visiting a house

at 3128 Harlandale.

This is exactly it.

- Every piece of evidence we've been following

has led to this.

- Let's go.

narrator: 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 US history.

[dramatic music]

*

- After assassinating the president,

there's now way Oswald's gonna get

out of Dallas without help of somebody.

For 50 years, everybody's focused on Dealey Plaza.

But no one's looked at what Lee Harvey Oswald

would have done had he gotten away.

The official investigation concludes

that after shooting the president...

[gunshots, screaming]

*

Oswald goes back to his boarding house,

changes his clothes, grabs his gun...

*

Then leaves the boarding house

and walks west.

And then runs into Officer Tippit.

He panics, shoots Tippit...

[gunshot]

And then runs into the Texas Theater,

where he's quickly found

and apprehended by the Dallas PD.

- There is Lee Oswald.

[gunshot] Lee Oswald has been shot.

- Less than 48 hours later,

Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby,

so police were never able to find out

what his escape plan was.

But in his pocket, there was a bus transfer ticket,

which suggests he was headed for a bus stop.

*

narrator: Searching their database,

the team's also discovered

a declassified Dallas Sheriff's report

offering new information

about Oswald's possible escape route.

The document reveals a house

located at 3128 Harlandale,

where Oswald reportedly met

with several Cuban exiles before the assassination.

The deputy sheriff later corrected the address

to 3126 Harlandale Street.

- After shooting the president of the United States,

Oswald would have wanted a place

to law low until things cooled down.

And that's why this Harlandale address

is so interesting to me.

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

*

This looks like a safe house. - It does.

A safe house is a pre-established secure location

where an asset can go where he's not gonna be compromised,

not gonna be captured by anybody that's looking for him.

- Look at this. This is a sheriff's report.

Local law enforcement at 3128 Harlandale.

Some Cubans had been having meetings

and were connected with an organization

of which Oswald was a member.

"My informant stated

that Oswald had been to this house before."

*

According to the sheriff's report,

Cubans are living here, and Oswald is showing up,

pre-assassination, for some unexplained reason.

My gut tells me that the Cubans in this report are Alpha 66.

It just makes sense based on the evidence we've gathered.

The deputy goes on to say,

"I don't know what action the Secret Service has taken,

"but I learned today that the day after

the president was shot, these Cubans moved from this house."

*

They move out of the safe house the day after the assassination?

*

And the fact is, nobody even showed up

to verify the report.

- They didn't manage this case.

This is part of a larger crime scene.

- Yeah, if this had been in the field in Iraq or Afghanistan,

and the special forces had this lead,

you would have had Black Hawks up,

people fast-roping, and you would have been

kicking down doors here.

- And none of that was done.

None of that was done.

- For whatever reason, neither the CIA nor the FBI

looked into this Harlandale safe house.

I'm not sure how it was associated

with the assassination, but my gut tells me

there's a link here.

That bus ticket transfer,

that's the key piece of evidence.

Where could that transfer take him as quickly as possible?

- I think we need to look at a two-block radius of this,

and we need to search it, and we need to see if

possible locations or routes

that he could have got here or left from here.

narrator: Bob and Adam begin a search of the neighborhood,

looking for any evidence linking the house

to Oswald's bus transfer ticket

from the day of the assassination.

- There's got to be some connection,

this neighborhood, that would make sense going to.

We've looked through all the information,

and a declassified Secret Service document indicates

that Oswald may have intended to take

the 55 bus to get away.

But it didn't add up for me.

It went through a busy part of town

where Oswald could have easily been spotted,

and it ended up at the Greyhound station,

which would have been crawling with police

on the day of the assassination.

After all of Oswald's training and careful planning,

there's no way he would have allowed himself

to be that exposed.

I want to see if there's another bus route

closer to this safe house

that could have worked better for Oswald's getaway.

Look at this.

Very suburban.

There's nothing here except houses.

Where else could he have gone?

What's that over there?

- That is a bus stop.

- A half a block from a safe house,

get off a bus, you'd be inside within two minutes.

*

The 515.

*

There's two things I want to know.

One, did this bus route exist in 1963?

And if so,

did Oswald's transfer work on this line?

I'm gonna see what I can find on this route here.

[electronic beeping]

Are you kidding me?

Look at this route.

It goes right to where Tippit was shot.

*

And it looks like the 515 hasn't changed since 1963.

It was called something else back then,

but the route here is the same.

The same transfer ticket in his pocket

gets him on the 515.

The 55 route, it's over that way a couple miles.

But it doesn't provide the cover this place does.

This is a country road back here.

- Yeah. - Not traveled.

Not patrolled, and we're within

two minutes of a safe house.

So if he hadn't run into Tippit,

my bet is he would have got on this bus,

coming out here.

To my knowledge, no one's ever looked at this bus route before.

Oswald killed Tippit one block away

from a stop on this 515 route.

If he gets on that bus, he could have gotten off

only a block away from the safe house on Harlandale.

A house we know he was seen at just before the assassination.

Look, if Lee Harvey Oswald doesn't get arrested,

this is the bus he would have taken, I'm convinced.

I've always believed that a larger network

was supporting Oswald's mission to kill Kennedy.

Now I believe we've found evidence that could prove it.

narrator: Bob Baer and Adam Bercovici

believe they've uncovered new evidence

suggesting Lee Harvey Oswald was working with

a group of Cuban militants to murder JFK,

and that these men were in Dallas

to help him escape on the day of the assassination.

- If Lee Harvey wald doesn't get arrested,

this is the bus he would have taken, I'm convinced.

No one has ever seen this before.

narrator: The team discovered a bus route

they suspect Oswald planned to use for his getaway.

A declassified Dallas Sheriff's report

indicates that along that same route,

Oswald visited a house belonging

to Cuban men before the president's murder.

[dramatic music]

- Look, Adam, we're going as we always have

with the evidence at hand.

Official police documents. FBI, CIA.

The bus transfer is the one piece of evidence

that puts us in Oswald's mind

how he intended to escape,

and that's the 515 bus route.

Whenever I'm working a case,

I take everything into account

before reaching any conclusions.

For me, the bus route we found

fits too perfectly not to take seriously.

I've studied this case for years,

and this is the kind of discovery I've been looking for.

Look, here we go: Dealey Plaza, shoots the president.

Tippit shooting, Harlandale safe house...

Look at that. The 515 bus route.

You don't need to be a genius to figure this out.

He could have gotten away

had he made it to the Harlandale house.

It's someplace that he could go

after killing the president.

Now what we need to find out is who was at

this house on Harlandale, and why did Oswald feel

that he could hide with them?

It's key to figuring out who his accomplices were.

*

[electronic beeping]

*

- Take a look at that.

"Review of Dallas file reflects

"that the organization known as 'Alpha 66'

"held meetings during early 1963

"at the residence of one Jorge Salazar,

3126 Harlandale Street, Dallas, Texas."

- This is where Oswald was.

He's going to an Alpha 66 safe house.

*

Earlier in the investigation,

we found declassified documents

exposing a connection between

Oswald and Alpha 66.

We suspected they were working together,

but this is incredible.

This is Oswald, in Dallas,

in the middle of a violent and motivated group

who can help him murder the president.

narrator: In the early 1960s,

the CIA armed and militarized

dozens of Cuban exile groups,

training them to overthrow the Castro regime.

In 1961, President Kennedy orders these men

to invade the Bay of Pigs,

nearly 120 miles from Havana,

but then withdraws air support during the battle.

[explosions]

Hundreds are killed, and more than 1,000

are taken prisoner.

In the aftermath, part of Alpha 66,

one of the most radical and violent

Cuban groups, goes rogue.

According to the House Select Committee on Assassinations,

the leaders of Alpha 66 felt betrayed by JFK

and threatened violence against the US president.

- We've been looking for Oswald's accomplices.

We've found 'em.

But what I want to know is what kind of network,

how extensive was the Dallas network.

*

[computer beeping]

*

- My God. Look at that.

They have 300-plus results.

- 300? That's like a battalion.

Any one of these people could have helped Oswald.

- Yeah.

- We have to narrow that

to see what's around the bus route.

- I'm gonna look at a two-mile radius

around the Harlandale house.

[computer beeping]

- Okay, here we have Jorge Salazar.

We've got five other names here.

All of these houses are all within

a two-mile radius of the Harlandale house.

That's way too much. - Yeah. Yeah.

*

- Let's plot these on a map and see where they are in Dallas.

I want to see if they're connected.

[computer beeping]

*

The six addresses, they're all in a line.

There's not scattered around an area

in a circle of two-mile radius.

What--I mean, what's going on here?

I want to see these houses

on the same map as the bus route.

All right, here we have the bus route.

515.

Here we have the safe houses.

Let's overlay 'em.

*

Look at this.

*

- Holy [bleep].

- Every single house is right on that bus route.

It looks like we've uncovered a potential sleeper cell

right in the heart of Dallas,

active on the day of the assassination.

The Warren Commission, the FBI,

and the CIA all missed this,

either because they wanted Oswald

to look like a lone wolf, or because

they weren't sharing information with each other.

Without documents from the Dallas police,

the Secret Service, the FBI, and the CIA,

this puzzle wouldn't have come together so clearly.

I am now convinced that Oswald was tied up

with Alpha 66, both before the assassination

and in the hours afterwards.

If we want to prove this working theory,

we need more information.

We have to find someone that can further corroborate

Oswald's connection to Alpha 66.

narrator: The team sets out to corroborate

their explosive discovery in Dallas,

to find a source with inside information

about Alpha 66.

*

Bob reaches out to his network and manages to track down

a former Cuban intelligence officer

who defected to the United States.

The team is in Miami to try and arrange

a face-to-face meeting.

- My colleague at the Defense Intelligence Agency

found me a reputable source

who might know something about Alpha 66.

I'll do it at any time.

For years, Cuban intelligence officers

who have defected to the US

have lived by an unwritten code of silence.

They simply don't talk about their work

for fear that if they reveal classified information

about the Cuban government,

their lives would be at risk.

He'll do it. - All right. Sounds good.

- I don't know what he's gonna tell us,

but the fact that he'll talk to us?

He's got something to say. - Yeah.

narrator: The former Cuban intelligence officer

agrees to speak on camera with the investigation.

[suspenseful music]

Bob and Adam are picked up at a designated spot

along the Miami River

to deliver them to the meeting location.

- Yep.

When I was in the CIA,

I dealt with a lot of sensitive sources.

Our Cuban source is following

every rule I learned at the agency.

To set a meeting where you're in control of every variable.

It's classic tradecraft.

You think that's him?

- Yeah.

- This is our guy.

Let's go.

narrator: Examining newly-declassified

government files, Bob and Adam believe

they've uncovered new evidence

suggesting Lee Harvey Oswald was working

with a group of Cuban militants to murder JFK,

and that these men were in Dallas

to help him escape.

- I'm certain Oswald was working with Alpha 66.

There's just too much evidence to ignore.

We need to corroborate everything we've discovered.

We need someone with inside information.

- The team has managed to track down

a former Cuban intelligence officer

who's agreed to speak with the investigation.

[suspenseful music]

*

- Enrique? Bob Baer.

- This is Adam. - Nice to meet you.

- Thanks for coming out.

- I have to ask you: this is a very dangerous interview.

Do you want your identity concealed?

- Why are you saying this?

- You're doing it for Cuba.

narrator: Bob's contact reveals himself to be Enrique Garcia,

a former Cuban intelligence officer

who defected from Cuba to the United States in 1989.

- Let me tell you where we are.

We've just come back from Dallas.

We've been looking at the assassination,

and what we keep on coming up with

are Oswald's ties to Alpha 66,

before the assassination and after.

*

- So the chief of operations for Alpha 66

was working for Cuban intelligence?

- Who in fact was not anti-Castro,

was a double-agent.

- That Alpha 66 guy reports back to Castro.

*

- The anti-Castro Cubans had no secrets, effectively.

*

- That is a very sophisticated operation.

Do you think Castro knew about

the assassination attempt coming?

- All along, we assumed that Oswald

was working with anti-Castro militants,

who turned on Kennedy because they felt

he betrayed them after the Bay of Pigs.

But if this new information is true,

some members of Alpha 66

were double agents reporting to Castro himself.

*

Let's put ourselves in Castro's shoes for a minute.

It makes sense that he's monitoring

any exile group that's against him.

If this same group is plotting to kill Kennedy,

his sworn enemy, then he would almost certainly

let them do the dirty work.

His hands are clean.

It makes perfect sense.

*

- Do you have any evidence

that Castro knew about the assassination in advance?

*

- Before Oswald shot Kennedy?

*

- Who gave those orders?

*

- So Castro wakes up on the morning of the 22nd,

calls up the minister, and says "Redirect your antennas

from Virginia," major collection area--

Pentagon, the CIA--

to Dallas, Texas.

- I mean, do you realize what this means?

- There's only one reason why he would do it.

- Yeah. - I mean, he knew.

*

- Do you think Castro

ordered the assassination?

- If this is true, it changes everything

we think we knew about the Kennedy assassination.

After 54 years, we are finally getting close to the truth.

All right, thanks. - Yeah.

- I believe that members of Alpha 66

were working with Oswald,

and that they were reporting to Fidel Castro.

And if that's true, Castro was aware

of the plot to kill JFK in advance.

Now, I'm gonna prove it.

narrator: Bob and Adam have uncovered explosive evidence

suggesting that Lee Harvey Oswald's possible accomplices,

rogue members of a Cuban exile group called Alpha 66,

were in fact double agents,

working for Fidel Castro all along.

- This could be the linchpin in breaking open this case.

Enrique is a very credible source.

He's offered good intel since he defected in 1989,

and everything he said lines up with my knowledge

of Cuban intelligence from my time with the CIA.

We're not gonna get a better source out of Cuba, period.

According to Enrique, Castro was listening

on the morning of the assassination,

intercepting radio transmissions from Dallas

in anticipation of the president's murder.

I want to prove it's possible.

If we do, it only strengthens our theory

that Alpha 66 was complicit in the assassination plans

and worked directly with Oswald.

narrator: To determine if Alpha 66

helped Castro eavesdrop from Cuba

on the day of the assassination, Bob and his team

will conduct a transmission simulation test,

recreating the plan Bob believes Castro implemented

in anticipation of the president's murder.

In 1963, a police radio broadcast from Dallas

would've emitted a low-power, high-frequency signal,

detectable only over short distances.

In order for Castro to listen to Dallas radio

on the day of the assassination,

he would've required someone in Dallas

to relay the signal, a job that Bob believes

was carried out by members of Alpha 66.

These men would have utilized a low-frequency transmitter

to boost the local signal to the Earth's upper atmosphere,

where radio waves can reflect hundreds of miles,

reaching a radio tower near Havana.

*

To test Castro's potential plan,

former Army Ranger Marty Skovlund

joins Captain Don Abadielo in Miami.

- Don! Good to see you again, buddy.

- Hey, brother.

- We're gonna run a boat down to Cuba,

as close as we can get.

If we can receive that transmission

that Bob and Adam are gonna send from Dallas,

that's pretty heavy evidence that Castro could have been

monitoring the entire assassination attempt.

narrator: The Cuban government has denied

access to the investigation.

Instead, Marty departs Miami

to travel in range of the radio tower

that Enrique Garcia reports Fidel Castro used

to eavesdrop on the day of the assassination.

- All right, so we're here. Havana's here.

We'll take off from here. We'll follow the Keys around.

We'll be in the Florida Straights,

rowing international waters,

so we're good all in here.

- Once we start getting close to Cuba

and Havana, do we have to worry about, like,

their coast guard or anything like that?

- Um, they're there.

We may run into something, we may not,

but that's where they base out of.

- Okay. We'll get the radio going.

We'll do this test, and then we'll get out of there.

[dramatic music]

Our visas got denied, so we don't have

permission to be there,

so we're gonna go down there and sneak in.

We need to be very careful with how we go about this.

I don't want to cause an international incident.

*

- Yeah, it says particularly sensitive area

right there, so, uh...

- Let's stay on our toes here.

*

We're coming in close to Cuba here.

*

These radio towers should be somewhere

right down in here.

How much further do we got to go to where

we can't go any further, do you think?

- We're getting there.

We got a particularly sensitive area line

we're crossing right about here.

*

Oh, [bleep].

Keep an eye on that boat over there.

*

Grab a fishing rod, just get it in your hand.

Climb up there, grab a rod.

This could be trouble.

I don't know who they are.

Your Spanish is good, right?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Hey, guys, we're just fishermen.

Let's just keep the cameras down right now.

I don't want to draw attention.

*

[horn blaring]

[dramatic music]

narrator: According to testimony

from a former Cuban intelligence officer,

on the day of the Kennedy assassination,

hours before Lee Harvey Oswald pulled the trigger...

[gunshot, screaming]

Fidel Castro gave an order

to his men in Cuba to intercept

radio transmissions out of Dallas,

evidence that suggests he expected

the president's murder before it happened.

- Declassified documents link Oswald

to a violent Cuban group called Alpha 66.

We have a source that says that elements of Alpha 66,

including its leader,

were double agents working with Castro.

He says that Castro knew what was about to happen.

I want to put it to the test and prove

that Castro could have been listening

in Cuba in 1963.

If I can, it will only fuel my belief

that Oswald was working directly with Alpha 66,

and that these accomplices were possibly

backed by Castro himself.

It will be explosive.

*

narrator: Former Army Ranger Marty Skovlund

is in international waters,

getting in position to perform the test.

- Oh, [bleep].

Keep an eye on that boat over there.

This could be trouble.

- Keep the cameras down right now.

I don't want to draw attention. We're just fishermen.

- Your Spanish is good, right?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Hopefully they're friendly.

[horn blaring]

- Hey, let's just gun it out of here.

- All right. - Let's just get out of here.

- Hold on, I'm gonna hit the throttle and get out of here.

- Just gun it.

[tense music]

*

All right, we got to get out of here.

[dramatic music]

I have no idea if these guys were government officials

or military of some sort,

but I do know we need to be careful.

If they send people out to apprehend us,

they're gonna get us, and they're gonna

take us into custody.

narrator: With the team no longer in sight of the boat,

Marty makes the decision to continue their mission,

and instructs the captain to make a fast approach

toward the location of the radio tower

west of Havana, the original site where

Castro's men reportedly intercepted

American transmissions at the moment of the assassination.

*

- You think that's our tower there?

- That's got to be it.

- I don't see anybody around. Anybody chasing us?

*

- So far, so good.

- All right.

I think we stop in here,

and let's do our business.

*

- Let's get the radio out. Let's get this thing going.

narrator: To simulate the radio tower,

Marty will utilize a low-frequency radio

and a six-foot antenna.

- We got a short wave radio here.

Basically, what we got to do is

point this radio out towards Dallas.

Bob is gonna transmit signals.

We're gonna see if we can pick it up here.

- All right, we got it. - All right, yeah.

- All right.

narrator: As Marty gets into position,

1,100 miles away, back in Dallas,

Bob prepares to begin

the transmission simulation test.

- Here's what we got here.

This is a Motorola radio from the era 1963.

Any spy worth his salt would have one of these radios.

This antenna right here

would have received police communications.

The problem is this radio

transmits a very short distance.

What they would have needed

is a long-range transmitter like this

in order to relay the message

a thousand miles away to Havana.

narrator: When the test begins,

Adam will be in position to broadcast a signal

through a local police dispatch.

He will air a broadcast reporting news

from the day of the assassination

over local Dallas airwaves.

Bob, acting as a member of Alpha 66 in Dallas,

will use his equipment to boost that signal

to the Earth's upper atmosphere.

From his position near Cuba,

Marty will attempt to retrieve that signal

as Castro's radio tower would have in 1963.

*

- What we want to do is see if Marty

can pick up the signal from this amateur radio

in Havana, and that's key.

That will prove Enrique's story

that Castro was listening in to police communications

that morning before the assassination.

If it turns out that in fact they could have

transmitted the police communications to Havana,

we're right on the doorstep of the conclusion

that Castro was complicit in the murder

of the president of the United States.

[dramatic music]

Hey, Marty, uh, we got the setup here.

What we're gonna do is start transmitting

the communications from that morning at 12:30.

- Yeah, start sending it now. We're short on time.

- Let's do it. - All right. Roger.

*

narrator: With a long-range transmitter ready to go,

Bob heads down to Dealey Plaza

to listen in with a hand-held radio

as many did on that fateful day in November.

[buzzing]

- Bob? - Hey, Adam.

- I'm ready to go whenever you are.

- In the next five seconds,

start broadcasting the coms.

- Okay. Roger that.

Five, four, three,

two, and one.

[static]

- We bring you a special report on the arrival

of President John F. Kennedy.

The eyes of Texas and the nation are focused on Dallas.

- There we go. I can hear it.

- Here comes the president of the United States.

There's a big cheer going up.

[applause]

And what a crowd.

[static]

- Come on, Bob.

[static]

Nothing.

- And now the entire Main Street is completely filled

from building to building with people,

and the latter part of the motorcade has just passed.

- Here comes the rest of the motorcade.

[dramatic music]

*

- Hey, try--try twisting that.

[static]

All right. Stop, stop, stop.

narrator: In Dallas, Bob is using

1960s-era technology to try and relay

a radio signal to Marty, who's in position

in international waters off the coast of Cuba.

They're trying to see if Castro

could have intercepted local Dallas radio

on the day of the Kennedy assassination.

[static]

[dramatic music]

*

- Hey, try twisting that.

*

All right. Stop, stop, stop.

- Somewhat on the leading car.

[static]

There are five, six, seven motorcycles.

- Yes.

Yeah, this is it. - The president's car--

- This is the transmission. - Awesome.

- Yeah, we got it.

- Here comes the president of the United States.

*

There are people actually looking from every window

here in downtown Dallas,

and the crowd is absolutely going wild.

[gunshot]

There has been a shooting.

I repeat, a shooting in the motorcade

in the downtown area.

[phone ringing]

- Marty?

- Bob. Yeah. We got it.

- Amazing. Way to go.

*

The fact that our transmission test was successful

means that Fidel Castro could have been listening live

as our president was assassinated.

It means that Lee Harvey Oswald could have been

working with members of Alpha 66 as we suspected.

Double agents who informed Castro

about the plot beforehand.

It brings to mind Barack Obama monitoring

the Navy SEAL raid that ended

in the death of Osama bin Laden.

Castro could have had a front row seat

to his enemy's demise.

*

narrator: As Bob and Adam wrap up their investigation,

they reunite in the war room to assess their findings.

- This is totally beyond coincidence.

It's totally beyond conspiracy theories.

This is evidence, and it was not followed up on.

- No. - From day one

of this investigation, I've always believed

that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone shooter,

but that he didn't act alone.

Now, after piecing together evidence

and talking to key witnesses,

I firmly believe that we've proved

that Oswald had accomplices.

We are rewriting history here. There's no doubt about it.

And it's gonna be really hard for anybody

who looks at this objectively to dismiss it.

- We found a series of independent witnesses,

and every one of them is saying the same thing.

- Oswald did not act alone.

*

- A man may die, nations may rise and fall,

but an idea lives on.

Ideas have endurance, without death.

- My fascination with the JFK assassination

began decades ago, when I was still at the CIA,

when I requested case files

and I was told they went missing.

Now, I feel like we've found

the answers I was after.

Declassified documents paint a clear picture

that begins when a 19-year-old Oswald

attempts to defect to the Soviet Union,

looking for communist allies.

- When the KGB rejects him,

Oswald returns to the United States,

angry but undeterred.

He moves to New Orleans,

and seems to find his way

into another communist front.

- I would very definitely say that I, uh,

I, uh, I'm a Marxist. That is correct.

- The underground movement of Cuban exiles.

Within this group, I believe that Oswald found

accomplices that would help him pull off the assassination.

His collaborators: members of a group called Alpha 66,

furious with Kennedy for abandoning their cause

during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

They're armed, bitter, ready to do violence.

- Oswald represented what the exile community seemed to want.

- To murder Kennedy.

- Yes.

- Eight weeks before the assassination,

he leaves New Orleans and travels to Dallas,

where a witness reports a meeting

with Oswald and two Cuban radicals,

who boast of his intentions to murder the president.

- This American, 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.

- From there, Oswald visits Mexico City,

where he attempts to obtain a visa

and relocate to Cuba.

When he's denied, he openly threatens the president

inside the Cuban embassy.

Oswald stormed into the embassy

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

This is incredible.

On November 22, 1963,

Oswald makes good on his promise to kill JFK.

[rifle cocking, gunshot]

In the aftermath of the assassination,

Oswald flees the School Book Depository

and makes his way across town

with a bus transfer ticket in his pocket.

Everything we've found suggests he intended

to take the 515 southbound bus to get away.

along that route, we found multiple houses

belonging to several members of Alpha 66,

safe houses that Oswald could have used

to hide out and escape capture.

This is where Oswald was.

He's going to an Alpha 66 safe house.

Testimony from a Cuban intelligence officer

tells us that members of that same group

were working with Castro all along.

Our radio test confirmed that Castro could have been

listening on the morning of the assassination,

complicit to the crime of the century.

[gunshot]

[screaming]

[dramatic music]

But questions still remain.

Why was Oswald murdered

only 48 hours after President Kennedy?

Who was Jack Ruby?

Who sent him to kill Lee Harvey Oswald?

And what secrets did they want

Lee Harvey Oswald to take to his grave?