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The Sixth Floor: What the Evidence Really Shows
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The JFK assassination evidence under a microscope — the paper bag, the sniper's nest, and the eyewitness accounts from Dealey Plaza that still divide historians sixty years on. This episode separates what the physical record actually proves from what remains genuinely contested.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Before November twenty-second, nineteen sixty-three, the Texas School Book Depository was just a building. A warehouse.
Start with the rifle itself. In March of nineteen sixty-three, Lee Harvey Oswald ordered a Mannlicher-Carcano, model C-two-seven-six-six, through a mail-order coupon.
From the street, people were watching. Howard Brennan was standing across from the Depository as the motorcade passed.
The Warren Commission's own most contested claim is the single-bullet theory. The Commission concluded that one bullet caused seven wounds across two men: passing through Kennedy's neck and then striking Governor John Connally, who was seated in front of Kennedy in the limousine, hitting his back, shattering a rib, exiting his chest, passing through his wrist, and lodging in his thigh.
Now consider what Oswald did immediately after the shooting. He left the Depository before police sealed the exits.
The sealed files are part of the unresolved picture. Classified materials related to the assassination have been released in stages across the decades, each release generating new scrutiny and new claims.
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