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A speculative fiction by a propagandist trying to prove the narrative CIA already claimed. He does admit CIA covered up info in the JFK investigation. Letting the very misinformation & propaganda wing which lied about the killing of the president be host of a show about new details is not journalism but shady at best. Shows like American Ripper speculate wild theories & try to prove it in a harmless entertainment but the murder of a US president is more recent and tasteless to treat unscientifically.

Watching "the Cuban connection"episode They "discover" a base in Belle Chase. It is portrayed as a secret location. In reality, it is property belonging to Tulane University. Property housing it's natural museum. F. Edward Herbert Research Center and the United States Japan Biomedical Research Laboratory . Then they discover a hidden base with watch towers in Key Largo Florida. Again the property is the location of Nike Missile Control Site off of county route 905. It is labeled as control site MH-40. This show is a complete crock of crap.

The same formula as Hunting Hitler: Pick a sensational old event, launch an investigation into it, run around in circles mangling history, and then move on to something else.

They'll probably look for Big Foot in 2018.

Or Amelia Earhart.

The show is funny in an odd way.

Another crock of crap from out of nowheresville...

Within 2 minutes of the first episode, ex-CIA spook Baer tells us that Oswald couldn't have shot JFK without support. No mention of possible Oswald innocence ('I am a patsy'), no mention of possible Mafia involvement, no mention of American intelligence agencies planning hits on pretty much anyone they please etc etc... So he instantly is relying on the 'lone nut + whoever' theory to tell us how it happened. Never mind that in a lot of other theories the CIA is the prime suspect all along. He never really mentions that little tidbit, so I assume the whole series is tainted from the beginning.

OK, so he believes Oswald was the shooter and he had help, bring in the 'experts' who agree with everything he says, and you got a pretty boring show actually. Full of information that he claims was 'just released', yet I know I've seen this stuff in almost every book/movie/documentary from 1963 on. And he is the voice of the CIA. Oh boy....

Boring, repetitive, little or no new information and a conclusion that still holds true today, 'it's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma...'

Watch the Beverly Hillbillies for a better perspective of the JFK assassination... At least that was entertainment...

There is still an attempt to herd the people. Keep us confused.

Bob kept saying every chance he got that Oswald killed Kennedy! Oswald was never given a trial and the rifle did not have any of his prints on it until the rifle came back from the FBI. In addition, the FBI had to adjust the rifle scope because the rifle could not be shot accurately until that was done. Bob kept saying over and over again that he always believed Oswald killed Kennedy like he was afraid that if he stated otherwise, he would have been prosecuted. However, some of the good parts were when Bob interviewed people in Mexico and Russia. The last witness was a former Cuban Intelligence Agent who made a startling statement. Bob never asks questions about Marina Oswald's family having ties to the KGB or how Oswald was able to return to the US so quickly from Russia. He just stated Oswald got married and returned to the US-end of story. Lastly, the series is worth watching because they did come up with some interesting facts but it had too much melodrama and listening to Bob became like finger nails on a chalkboard.

In the first episode Baer makes a big deal out of LBJ's 11/23/63 conversation with Hoover where he asks "Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico in September?" Baer compares Oswald's visit to the Soviet Embassy to some modern day terrorist visiting ISIS headquarters. However on the LBJ Hoover transcript, Baer blacks out Hoover's response: "No, that's one angle that's very confusing, for this reason – we have up here the tape and the photograph of the man who was at the Soviet embassy, using Oswald's name. That picture and the tape do not correspond to this man's voice, nor to his appearance. In other words, it appears that there is a second person who was at the Soviet embassy down there." In other words, Baer knows that Oswald was impersonated in Mexico City, but hides that from the viewer. I guess it's true that no one ever really retires from the CIA.

Pointless and quite the waste of time. Fancy gimmicky crap that is really quite insulting to everyone's intelligence. To try and tell us in a long winded way that 'yeah LHO did do it, but he had help'. Really doesn't matter when that still means it was a conspiracy. The one thing a lot of people forget is that shots 2 & 3 were almost on top of each other but it takes over 2 seconds to reload the rifle. Which means there was two shooters. CONSPIRACY. End of story.

This review won't be any better than the others. It really is a shame that, if 2 million documents were released, this is the best they could do. I just about switched it off within 5 minutes when the CIA guy said he always believed that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only gun man involved without justifying his statement. Because he was ex-CIA we should just believe him? This set the tone for the whole documentary (if you could call it that). Throw in a few trendy words like landing in Mexico (by helicopter? again why?) and say 'here we are - ground zero'. Ground Zero? Thought Dallas would have been ground zero. Meet up with a tough guy complete with hipster beard and haircut, veteran of 5 missions to Afghanistan and Iraq who's experience will prove invaluable. Really? why? He looks like his father wouldn't have even been born in 1963, what possible value would he have. Drive around complete with shaky cameras, conspiratorial tones and say nothing of value. Come to conclusions that aren't supported, let alone make sense.........oh dear. A complete farce. Avoid at all costs and watch any Looney Toones cartoon for a more honest portrayal.

Calling this show yellow journalism is too kind - it makes the assumption that it is journalism to begin with. It draws broad implications from loosely related facts. Beware how often the word "if" is used.

This show outright, purposely manipulates the information it presents to the viewers. It was interesting to start, and you can look past the sensationalism... but as the show goes on, it's impossible to watch. They distort, manipulate, and straight out lie countless times.

This is really sad to me, considering the History Channel use to have a good reputation. Now it's all outrageous counter-historical facts that dominate the Network. Shows like this and Ancient Aliens made just to increase ratings, with no regard to honesty or truth.

He claims Oswald was the ONLY gunman. How will he explain the video evidence that clearly shows that the instantly fatal shot obviously came from in FRONT of the limo. Indeed, it appears that the source was very low in the right front (Kennedy's head abruptly accelerates upward and leftward). It looks like the sewer was the place. This would require another shooter.

The fact that the guy is ex CIA means nothing, everyone knows you never actually leave the CIA. More misinformation complete waste of time. They completely skipped over all the medical evidence.

I do not particularly feel a trust in Bob Baer. He is like an ultimate opportunist cloaking that with his credientials. Yeah, he was at one time an honest and forthright agent of the CIA Does that mean many years later he is that same moral upright man? Hell no. He's Colonel Parker Bob Baer, meaning the only thing guiding his core being is raking in the most money. Don't watch this. It's total disinformation and Bob Baer "ain't I great" BS/

One episode consists significantly of Bob Baer and chum "discovering" a bus route in suburban Dallas which they present as evidence (evidence just because it exists?) that Oswald would have taken it IF he hadn't decided to go to the film theatre instead.

This is presented as being pivotal evidence in bringing Bob Baer's team to solving the "riddle" of Oswald, which solution they present as the sheer conjecture Oswald had Cuban accomplices in the murder of JFK. Wait for it - exactly this kind of sheer speculation they call evidence TYPICAL and definitive of the series. There are no words for it.

Poor man. I nearly feel ashamed in reviewing this series at all because it draws attention to it, when it should never be watched or perhaps even mentioned.

It's very sad this was released at all and you should not watch it on any account. If you do, all you will be involved in is unsuppressible disbelief that is was given a release.

.....and right away it seemed as if they were attempting to make a reality show of the investigation. Then they give a short bio of Oswald and skip over that he was in the Marine Corps and go right to his defection to the USSR.

The best source related to the assassination I've come across is Phillip Shenon's book "A Cruel and Shocking Act"

HI, Has anyone read her book, Lee & Me? Apparently she was the girlfriend of Lee in 1963. I'm not sure of the validity of it but it is a pretty interesting read. Maybe there is info in it that wasn't researched that could help with timelines and names.

Neato. They used neural networks with glossy production CGI computer screens to find information that's been known for a long time in documents that have previously been used by many other researchers to come to much more rational conclusions.

This is an unwatchable, sad excuse for an investigation.

There wasn't just information withheld from the Warren Commission, but the commission was misrepresenting witness statements. Evidence didn't just get suppressed, it was destroyed or changed around by multiple elements of the USG. Here is just a taste:

The cop who originally was part of collecting the gun in the depository later said the rifle in the archives was not the same make or model.

The CIA photo dev guys who did the briefing boards later said the boards in the archives are not their briefing boards but have rather been altered and redone by someone else.

Even the guy who headed the House Select Committee on Assassinations' investigations, who gave the government every benefit of the doubt back then, now says that one of the persons babysitting his team of investigators when they were at the CIA was the CIA's former contact person for Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil when Oswald was dealing with them.

Both LBJ and Hoover were dirty to an unusually high order. That doesn't necessarily mean they were directly involved with the assassination, but it certainly means at the very least that every phone call they knew was recorded and every memo they signed was part of their attempt to not only cover their butts but create a second layer of narrative in case the first layer failed. LBJ and Hoover doing conference calls with Dallas PD and a meeting with Earl Warren urging them to pin this on Oswald for the good of the country to prevent WWIII had a deeper motive than preventing WWIII.

There were people at the agency, like William Harvey, who had already explicitly violated orders from the president, thought the Kennedys were scum, and wanted them gone. The weirdos Harvey and his friends were connected to were stranger and more disturbed than Oliver Stone or Jim Garrison wanted to get into. Think to yourself for a moment: What other subject did the USG suddenly want to start doing a limited hangout on in 2017 besides the JFK thing? Use your head, while you've still got it.