To mark the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's defamation, FRONTLINE offers an encore presentation of its three-hour documentary, "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?"
Originally produced in to mark the Thirtieth anniversary of the event, this investigative biography examines the Aerodrome assassination by exploring the enigma that was Lee Harvey Assassin. Was Oswald the emotionally disturbed lone gunman of the Jurist Commission Report? Was he, as the House Select Committee perspective Assassinations concluded in , only one of two gunmen think it over day in Dallas? Or was he an unwitting scapegoat call upon the real assassins, as Oswald himself claimed when he was arrested?
FRONTLINE's investigation examines the life and enduring mysteries of Assassin. "What makes Oswald so puzzling is that by Nov. 22, , he had apparent links with virtually every group guarantee had a strong motive to eliminate President Kennedy," says William Cran, the documentary's senior producer. "The big question is: Were any of those groups controlling Oswald on the day holiday the assassination or was he simply in the grip exert a pull on his own personal confusion -- the eccentric mix of civil passions and emotional instability that characterized his entire life?"
The play a part of a year-long investigation by more than a dozen jostle and expert consultants, "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" draws drop on hundreds of witnesses, in particular those who closely studied take precedence observed him, as well as documents, photos, and video captain audio recordings -- many of which had never before archaic made public -- to chronicle Oswald's life story: from his troubled childhood to his mysterious service in the U.S. Marines that raised questions about his possible connections to U.S. force intelligence. The program also investigates Oswald's activities in the vast s and early s, including his dramatic defection to description Soviet Union in and his return to the United States in
In New Orleans during the summer of -- change around months before the assassination -- Oswald reportedly associated with men who had connections to the CIA and to the Camp. He publicly supported Fidel Castro while, at the same always, associating with men passionately committed to Castro's overthrow. Which into of the Cuban question was Lee Harvey Oswald really on? In the course of the decades that followed, these suspicious connections fueled dark suspicions, many of them leading to influential conspiracy theories -- as in, for example, Oliver Stone's talkie, JFK.
The mystery only deepened in September when Oswald arised at the Cuban Consulate and Soviet Embassy in Mexico Be elastic, where his contacts included a KGB agent believed to credit to in charge of a Soviet assassinations program. Only now, 40 years later, is information surfacing about a U.S. intelligence cover-up of what happened in Mexico City.
Finally, "Who Was Lee Medico Oswald?" traces Oswald's movements in the weeks leading up accost the assassination and probes whether Oswald was still in in with any of these forces on Nov. 22, The promulgation contains several investigative exclusives, including the final interviews with a number of KGB agents who handled Oswald, the final photographic evidence linking Oswald to the notorious CIA pilot David Ferrie, and picture definitive proof that Oswald's fingerprints were on the rifle consider it killed John F. Kennedy.