E. Howard Hunt's Deathbed Confession and the JFK Assassination Team

• 42:03Rolling Stone published a deathbed confession from E. Howard Hunt, the CIA agent and Watergate break-in leader, dictated through his son St. John Hunt, claiming involvement in the JFK assassination.
• 43:05Tim's guest describes assembling evidence of a CIA assassination operation run by William Harvey, who led the agency's Castro assassination attempts and other targeted kills.
• 43:46Harvey's own deputy told his children and a European journalist that he saw his boss headed to Dallas in early November 1963, weeks before Kennedy's death, with no stated reason.
• 44:31Multiple CIA assassins were placed in Dallas before the assassination: Howard Hunt, David Morales, and others, with Hunt later describing a Miami meeting where people discussed 'the big event'—the plan to assassinate JFK.
• 45:05The common objection that 'somebody would have talked' misses that the people involved actually were talking—Hunt, Harvey's deputy—but the media wasn't listening and didn't want to know.
• 45:42Ben Bradley, the legendary Washington Post editor who covered Watergate and was JFK's close friend, told the author before dying that he was too afraid to investigate the Kennedy assassination because it would have ruined his career.
• 46:06Don Hewitt, creator of 60 Minutes, admitted before his death that he knew there was a conspiracy, that the Lee Harvey Oswald lone-gunman story was false, and that the CIA and possibly the mafia were involved—but claimed he could never crack the story.

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