Interview · moment 9 of 23
The JFK Interview Where Bush Forgets Where He Was
from Incompetence and Ruthlessness · #8
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3 minGuest
Baker recounts the Japanese TV interview where Vice President Bush blanches and can't answer where he was when JFK was shot, and describes years of research this question sent him down.
- 23:07Tim asks how the question about JFK's assassination even came up in the interview.
- 23:51Bush was asked where he was when Kennedy was shot and went white, unable to answer.
- 24:10The guest spent years trying to figure out where Bush actually was, since Bush couldn't remember.
- 24:37Tim notes that spotting inconsistencies like this in other books made him suspicious enough to dig deeper.
- 25:05The research led down a rabbit hole into a subterranean level of American history and politics the guest didn't know existed.