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Just let me know.
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Right about here, in Dallas, Texas,
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American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
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The accused assassin was a man named Lee Harvey Oswald.
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After being held in custody for less than two days,
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Oswald himself would meet a violent end.
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According to a subsequent investigation,
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Oswald had fired three rounds from the Texas school book depot story,
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police recovered three shell casings,
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and a bolt-action rifle from the sixth floor of the building.
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But the shooting of Oswald sparked immediate suspicions of conspiracy.
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Suspicions that persist to this day and have driven most Americans
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to reject the government's conclusion that Oswald acted alone.
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The arguments for and against conspiracy take many shapes and forms.
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Far too many, in fact, to do them all justice in a single video.
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Instead, in this video, I want to zoom in and focus on a very narrow slice of this case.
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Specifically, the events surrounding the Texas school book depot story.
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What exactly happened inside this building
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from where the shots that killed the president are believed to have been fired?
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In September of 1963, a young man named Wesley Frazier
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received a call from an employment agency.
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There was a potential job opening at the Texas school book depot story.
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On September the 13th, Frazier made his way from Irving, Texas...
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...down to central Dallas.
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He met with Roy Truly, the superintendent of the building, and was hired on the spot.
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Back in Irving, Frazier lived with his older sister, Leni Randall.
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A few houses down the street lived a woman named Ruth Payne.
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On October the 14th, both Randall and Payne had a cup of coffee at the house of a neighbor.
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Payne brought along a friend and Russian immigrant named Marina Oswald, the wife of Lee Oswald.
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Marina could barely speak any English.
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She had been staying with Payne for a few weeks, partly due to her husband's unemployment.
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The subject of Lee looking for work and that he hadn't found work for a week
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came up while we were having coffee.
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And Mrs. Randall mentioned that her younger brother, Wesley Frazier,
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thought they needed another person at the Texas school book depository where Wesley worked.
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Payne and Marina returned home, spoke with Roy Truly over the phone,
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and secured a job interview on behalf of Lee Oswald.
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The following morning, he went down to the book depository and began his first day of work on October the 16th.
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So, an acquaintance with whom Oswald's wife was currently staying
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had a casual conversation with a neighbor.
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That neighbor happened to have a brother who recently got employed at the book depository.
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This prompted his wife to ask the acquaintance to call the superintendent of the building
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to inquire about any vacancies.
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I told Mrs. Payne that to send Oswald down and I would talk to him,
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that I didn't have anything in mind for him of a permanent nature,
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but if he was suited, we could possibly use him for a brief time.
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The position was not only temporary, but only existed due to a temporary shortage of staff.
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It was the end of our fall rush.
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If it hadn't existed a week or two weeks longer,
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or if we had not been using some of our regular staff,
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putting down this plywood floor, we would not have had any need for Lee Oswald at that time,
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which is a tragic thing for me to think about.
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But it gets even more tragic because Oswald was not the only one to apply for a job.
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I might have sent Oswald to work in a warehouse two blocks away.
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Oswald and another fellow reported for work on the same day,
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and I needed one of them for the depository building.
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I picked Oswald, and he was the one I sent.
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If Oswald was somehow entangled in a conspiracy,
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and the aim of that conspiracy was for him to become employed at the Book Depository,
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this roundabout sequence of events is a very strange way to go about it.
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As the name implies, the Texas School Book Depository was in the business of selling books.
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For $1.25 an hour, Oswald's job was to prepare the books for shipping.
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He did so by filling out forms and transporting cartons of books
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between the upper floors and the first.
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The building had three elevators, two staircases, and was seven stories tall.
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In the northwest corner, one stairway and two freight elevators
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provided access to all seven floors.
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A small passenger elevator near the front entrance stopped at level four,
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while stories one and two were connected by a second flight of stairs.
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Lacking a driver's license, Oswald relied on Wesley Frazier
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to carpool between Irving and Dallas every Friday evening and Monday morning.
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He spent workdays at the rooming house in Dallas
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while spending the weekends with his wife and daughters in Irving.
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But on Thursday morning, November 21st, the day before the assassination,
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Oswald decided to deviate from this routine.
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I was standing there on the first floor getting the orders in,
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and Lee said, could I ride with you?
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And I said, sure, you know, like I told you,
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you can go home with me anytime you want to.
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Like I say, anytime you want to go see your wife, that is all right with me.
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Lee had never gone home in the middle of the week before,
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so I asked him why, and he stated that he was going home
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to get some curtain rods for his apartment.
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I asked if he was going home on Friday as well, and he said no.
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Frazier drove Oswald back to Irving,
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where he arrived unannounced at the household of Ruth Payne.
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Both Payne and Marina were surprised to see Oswald,
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on a Thursday. They assumed he'd come to make amends with Marina
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due to an argument they had had a few days before.
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Did your husband give any reason for coming home on Thursday?
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He said that he was lonely because he hadn't come the preceding weekend,
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and he wanted to make his peace with me.
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Was anything said about curtain rods,
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or his taking curtain rods to town the following day?
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No, I didn't have any.
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He didn't say anything like that?
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No.
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The next day, Oswald said goodbye to his wife
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and left the Payne residence about a quarter past seven.
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Atop a dresser in the bedroom, he left behind his wedding ring.
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Oswald was next seen walking down the street by Leni Randall,
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carrying a package.
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He was soon joined by Frazier,
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and the two of them took a seat in his car to begin their commute.
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When you got in the car, did you say anything to Oswald?
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Did you say anything to Oswald, or did he say anything to you?
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I noticed there was a package lying on the back seat.
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I didn't pay too much attention, and I said,
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what's the package, Lee?
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And he said, curtain rods.
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And I said, oh yes, you told me you were going to bring some today.
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Not only was Oswald carrying a large package,
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but he'd forgotten to bring a lunch bag.
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When he rode with me, I say he always brought lunch,
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except that one day on November 22nd.
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He didn't bring his lunch that day.
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Right when I got in the car, I asked him where was his lunch,
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and he said he was going to buy his lunch that day.
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They arrived in Dallas a few minutes before 8 o'clock.
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Typically, they would walk together from the parking lot to the Book the Paw store.
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But on this particular Friday,
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Oswald grabbed his curtain rods and rushed ahead into the building.
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Working on the ground floor,
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in view of the rear entrance was their colleague, Jack Doherty.
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Frazier and Doherty are the only two people
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