By Steven M. Gillon
What did Lee Harvey Oswald do within the forty eight hours after he shot President John F. Kennedy? This riveting better half to the impending heritage Channel documentary follows Oswald within the instant aftermath of the assassination, trying to find the solutions to the questions that experience bothered the US for a part century: Did he really pull the set off? was once he by myself? And if that is so, why?
Steven M. Gillon, Scholar-in-Residence on the heritage Channel, explores the prospect that Cuban intelligence officers could have inspired Oswald to devote the crime and promised to assist him break out. Gillon recreates in painstaking element the lengthy interrogation classes and divulges that a number of the cops who witnessed the classes have been confident that Oswald had bought particular education. He was once just too sturdy at deflecting questions, too shrewdpermanent, too convinced. With new details from lately declassified records, and revealing photographs and records, those pages supply a refreshingly new and intricate portrait of the guy who assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
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They know the toll temptation can take on even a good cop. Yet these hardened LAPD officers could not conceive of Bill Leasure as crooked. Not a single cop who knew him leaned back and said, I knew it—I always suspected he was up to no good. Other officers in the division might have drawn such comments, but not Bill. 1 Of course, to say otherwise would be to acknowledge that, all these years, a chameleon had been in their midst, fooling them, mocking them, enforcing the law by day, crossing the line by night.
We’ll wash up, then go get something to eat,” he called to Leasure. ” Leasure nodded and watched his friend make the long walk from their slip—the farthest from the pier gate, carefully chosen for its privacy and its ease of entry and exit. The sun glinted off Kuns’s hairless head as he wound through the rows of sailboats and yachts, and Leasure had to chuckle: He always told Kuns he cut quite a figure, with his shining, shaven scalp, Lincolnesque whiskers, and calloused bare feet. As unobtrusive as Leasure might be, Kuns always stood out.
Leasure’s friend Barbara Sanchez often asked. A. and the ex-wife of one of Leasure’s childhood friends. Leasure would spend as long as two hours a day, one or two days a week, visiting with her when he was supposed to be out on patrol. ” Leasure would just laugh and ignore her half-joking, half-serious digs, then tell her about his yachts, or his latest trip to Europe, or the alligators he had bought and installed in his swimming pool. For some reason, the silent Bill Leasure became positively chatty around Sanchez, who liked the guy, but always resisted his gentle attempts to pick her up.