On November 22, 1963, Air Force One landed at Love Field in Dallas. A small number of people knew that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, surrounded by roaring crowds, had only a few hours left to live.
As the presidential motorcade moved toward Dealey Plaza, the killers were already in position. At exactly 12:30 p.m., several shots rang out.
Very quickly, a man was arrested. His name was Lee Harvey Oswald. The alleged weapon and the evidence of the crime were presented to the press while Oswald was still at the Dallas airport. On board the plane, Lyndon Johnson was about to become the thirty-sixth President of the United States.
Twenty-eight years later, new details emerged. On the morning of the assassination, Johnson had called his mistress, as he did every day. He told her that the day before, Kennedy, whom he hated, had humiliated him in front of his advisers.
Johnson was furious. He said, "At the end of the day, the Kennedy family will never embarrass me again." It was not an empty threat. It was a promise. He knew what was going to happen.
In the new year, questions about his responsibility gave him no rest. He was told that Jack Ruby was talking everywhere, saying his name was involved in the case. People in Dallas had begun to talk. They said he was responsible. It was Jack Ruby who mentioned his name.
Johnson flew into a huge rage. He struck the wall with his fists, as he sometimes did. He said it was impossible, that he was not responsible, but that it was the fat cats, as he called them, the Texas oil men and the people of the CIA.
Oswald, the man who forcefully denied killing the President, was shot by Jack Ruby as he was about to be transferred to another prison. We will never know the role he played in the assassination of President Kennedy.
A quarter of a century after the Dallas drama, the majority of Americans said they were satisfied with the Warren Report, which supports the lone gunman theory. But Mark Lane, a lawyer, called the Warren Report into question. According to him, we cannot speak of an assassination, but of a conspiracy.
Immediately before the assassination, and after the failure of the Bay of Pigs, the situation was terrible for Langley, the headquarters of the CIA. They thought they were doomed to failure and believed everything was over.
Kennedy had begun a peace process, the beginning of a rapprochement with Cuba, and military disengagement in Vietnam. It was, in this view, an execution order issued by the CIA.
At that time, America was at the dawn of a new era. Kennedy would be re-elected in 1964. Bobby was on the rise. His brother had appointed him for four years at the head of international intelligence organizations. Who could predict what Teddy would become and do? A Kennedy dynasty meant the end of the CIA.
Then there was a shooting in Dallas. That was the end of Kennedy. Bobby was eliminated shortly afterward. Teddy destroyed himself. In all cases, the Kennedy family was finished.
Today, the CIA rules America. After all, who is the President of the United States? The former director of the CIA.
A few hours before his death, Kennedy, in front of Texas oilmen, smilingly refused to put on the hat they gave him. Kennedy needed the votes of the voters of that state for his re-election. What he did not know was that the big cats, as Johnson called them, no longer needed him.
All the shadow people have enormous power. We all know they exist. Anyone who ignores them lacks experience in this environment. From this angle, there was an operation sponsored by this kind of organization.
At that time, there was a need to remove Kennedy from the political scene, perhaps to ensure that the Vietnam War would continue. Let us not forget that about a month earlier, Kennedy had announced that he would bring the Americans back from Vietnam. That meant a loss of 220 billion dollars for the lobbies.
I believe these are very important reasons. There had to be a very important reason to justify the assassination of the President of the United States. 220 billion dollars is important, of course, for American lobbies.
Also important, because it was unimaginable at the time, was the rapprochement that Kennedy wanted to bring about with Cuba. Jean Daniel, of the New Observer, was accused of informing Fidel Castro.
Kennedy wanted me to develop with Castro, and that is what I did. First, to the extent that you want to be an independent, social, justice-loving, clean state, we are behind you. I, John Kennedy, am behind you. If you even want to become a communist, I am not one. I am sorry. But after all, I do not care.
And I completely agree with Tito, including with Sekou Toure. He often said that. They are communists, there is no need to worry. But I cannot have him near me, a few miles from Florida, a state that has become a pawn in the hands of the Soviet Union. This, never, he must know that. Never, never, never.
Castro asked Jean Daniel, "Tell me again what Kennedy said about a socialist state in this hemisphere." He made him repeat it three times. And then Castro said, "This man will become the greatest president. He understands the history of America."
As for our relations with the Soviet Union, Castro continued, we are an independent state and no one can dictate to us what we should do. He also considered an agreement with the United States. Later, he suggested to Jean Daniel, "Let us have lunch tomorrow at my villa."
It was on the day of that lunch that the radio announced the assassination of Kennedy. Castro turned to Jean Daniel and asked, "Who runs the CIA?" He added, "The rapprochement with America is dead."
I had the impression he said to himself, deep down, that at the time when we could try for rapprochement, we kill this man. It is suspicious. Moreover, we will put it on my back. He felt there was a conspiracy.
The conspiracy hypothesis did not leave him even after my return two days later. They are people who are not only Kennedy's internal enemies. Although he basically said to himself that in the United States, presidents were assassinated very quickly.
Moreover, because he was completely selfish, and for good reason, since his involvement in an affair, he had the impression that things could happen between him and Kennedy, and that there were those who opposed it. This was one of the hypotheses that Castro formulated at the time.
The CIA is part of the government. That is why it is called an agency. Many other organizations have governments with the same powers. In fact, there are also non-governmental organizations that had the same means as the CIA.
We need an organization of this kind, with enormous powers and using the same operations, trained killers for this kind of work. It alone is capable of killing Kennedy, and especially not just one man. It is crazy to make people believe that a single man is the one who could assassinate Kennedy.
This man on the left of this picture is called Frank Sturgis. He is a CIA agent who was infiltrated with Castro. This is also the time when Marita Lorenz, a young German woman of 19, fell in love with Castro.
Marita Lorenz was a beautiful young woman. During her meeting with Castro, she shared a moment of her life. She even had a child with him. She was German, the daughter of an ocean ship captain.
When she lived in Cuba, Frank Sturgis, who became famous after the Watergate scandal, was head of security in the Cuban Air Force. He was already a CIA agent who worked for Castro. It is clear that Castro did not know at the time that Sturgis belonged to the CIA.
Sturgis went to see Marita Lorenz to tell her that Castro wanted to kill her and her child. He took her to the American embassy, and then to Miami, where the CIA recruited her. At that time, Marita hated Castro, because she thought he would kill her. It was a story invented from scratch.
Marita Lorenz fell into the clutches of Sturgis, the spy she dreamed of being. She would find herself one evening in November 1963 in Dallas. Since then, she has been in hiding. Only Mark Lane can gather her testimony.
I cannot say that I suffered pressure forcing me to leave, but one day Sturgis said to me, "I would like you to do something for me." I did not accept immediately.
I left. Yes. Later I discovered that Frank Sturgis was from the CIA. Yes. Was he there during his work for Castro? Yes. Did he tell you? Yes. I went to the United States. Yes, I went there.
Did you work for government institutions? Yes. Which one? The FBI and the CIA.
Marita left Miami heading to Dallas in a convoy of two cars loaded with weapons. In Dallas, they stayed in a hotel to meet Jack Ruby, the man who would kill Oswald. Then they saw Howard Hunt. According to Marita Lorenz, he gave cash to pay for the operation.
Was she told what it was? No, she thought they had to go find someone, take additional weapons. It seemed strange to her, because they had brought long-range rifles. They were complete tools for an assassination.
Marita said, "It is really too big for me. It overwhelmed me." They told him, and they felt his disapproval of leaving, which she did.
The conspirators set the scenario in which Oswald remained an essential element. He was the ideal suspect that the local police, FBI agents, and the Secret Service would look at, and they stopped in less than three hours after the assassination of Kennedy.
This man, police officer Roscoe White, according to secret notebooks, was discovered by his son to be the real killer of Kennedy. My father fired at the limousine where the motorcade took that turn. The first bullet hit Kennedy in the throat. It was there, at the height of these barriers. The second bullet was fired from this position and was also the fatal blow.
There were two other shooters here with my father. In total, there were three shooters in Dealey Plaza that day.
While the presidential limousine rushed toward the hospital, people and the police officer went to the place where the shots had been fired from. The witness remembers. I had the impression that the shots came from behind us, from the small hill called the grassy knoll. I felt the shots over our heads.
After the panic, there is shock, then tears. America is stunned. This president who once said to them, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," this president no longer exists.
Johnson, the new president, decided to form an investigation committee headed by a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, Earl Warren. The CIA told Judge Warren that Oswald had gone to Mexico in September 1963, two months before the assassination. He was supposedly there until the first day of October. He would have surrendered at the Soviet embassy.
Then the CIA added that if the truth appeared, it would cause the death of 40 million people by starting World War III, a nuclear war. Warren said, "We must set aside our principles considering what happened." This case is completely extraordinary. We must face it.
So Warren meant that he was the one who had to lie to the American people. It is difficult to say in all this which is the most pathetic. Is Warren the one who decided to lie to the American people? Or his foolishness because he believed the story told by the CIA?
Oswald did not go to Mexico. He did not meet Kosta Kuk of the KGB. He was not at the Soviet embassy, nor at the Cuban embassy. The conspirators needed a scapegoat. Oswald said it himself: "It is a group!"
But who was Oswald? A very good young man when he joined the Navy. He was an extraordinary good sailor, sent to the Atsugi base in Japan. For many people, this name means nothing, but for me, yes. Atsugi was one of the CIA's most secret bases in Japan.
Oswald was trapped beyond all these fears. He knew he was going to serve as a scapegoat.
On November 24 at 11:23 a.m., in the Dallas police parking lot, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby. His killer would never speak. Only Marita Lorenz today lifts a corner of the veil.
After the Dallas events, I was questioned at length by the FBI. Then they left me alone. Two years later, Sturgis came to see me. He said to me, "Do you remember this work, that mission we did in Dallas? Not me, you." He said to me, "We got Kennedy."
I answered, "You are joking!" And that is why I was there, when you brought me home? He answered, "Yes!"
Who could know? Who could prove it? Who really stood behind the murder weapon? And who sponsored it? Will we ever know?
Until now, 80 troublesome witnesses who could have spoken have died. Officially, it was only in 2013 that the truth about Kennedy would be announced. In 2022.