Thought not Phil, we quite often can't play videos from different zones, some form of protection for shows not aired yet perhaps?
It's all laid out in pics and text down the page anyway.
Just found another way to get to the page, at the bottom of the 'watch now' box in white text is "Interactive:view the evidence" which takes you to the page I mentioned.
Seems to me that it's usually the simplest, and dumbest cause that comes closest to solving history's mysteries.
All the red herring Mafia, Reds, or LBJ plots (LBJ ? really? He couldn't organize a picnic could he?) conspiracies don't come as near believable as some clutzy, gung ho, highly agitated, rookie Secret Service space cadet with a big gun in the following vehicle accidentally squeezing off a round in the million to one wrong direction when the car lurched or hit a bump.
(Did you know he was little more than a jumped up car polisher seconded from the car maintenance and allocation department because they were short handed that day? Hell, anyone would give that guy an assault rifle and the job of protecting the current leading light on the planet right?)
It's no stretch of the imagination to envisage the highly tuned cover-your-arse reflexes of the FBI kicking in to avoid blame falling on them.
The real conspiracy came after the shots, not before.
Who is the most likely contender to have concocted the deal that explains Jack Ruby's actions? Who was in a position to set that up at such short notice? The commos? the Mafia, not their style, LBJ? nup... the FBI witness protection crew gets my bet. That kind of thing was their stock in trade.
Who else had higher motivation to shut Oswald up than the FBI? If they had snuffed him quietly in custody it would have focused attention on them. The public performance of an apparently random 'patriot' shifted suspicion elsewhere.
Could you imagine the effect on the American public's psyche in that time of Cold War tension that the revelation of their 'infallible' Secret Service spooks being about as much protection as the Keystone Cops would have had? That fantasy had to be protected at any cost.
Those of us who were old enough to remember it all, ask yourself how you would have reacted to the news that JFK had been accidentally blown away by his own security detail? How gutted would you have felt?
And even more importantly, just how embarrassed would the US itself have been??
It would have been the laughing stock of the world. Nikita would have popped a vein rofling over it.
'The Emperor's new clothes' syndrome would have kicked in. The US' power would have been revealed as largely bravado and smoke and mirrors propaganda, just like everyone else's. The World would lose faith in their 'policeman.'
That JFK was killed rocked the World. But if it had known how he really died it would have knocked it fair off the tracks.
Can anyone think of a better reason for an instant and total cover-up?
I guess LBJ was involved to an extent in the subsequent cover up, he'd have to be, it was his Government's arse that was exposed to the blowtorch, but he would have been along for the ride, not orchestrating it.
I file most conspiracy theories under 'entertainment' but I really like this one. The 'Doh!' aspect especially appeals, and the ballistics evidence, if it's true as presented, convinces me.
Oswald's ammo was metal jacket which would have drilled a hole. The round that blew Kennedy's head apart had to be not only hollow point, but was found to be a different calibre. The calibre of the rifle the Security detail carried. Nuff said?
Personally, and don't take it wrong, I was massively relieved that day that someone had taken JFK out before he started WWIII.
I'd just turned 18 and wanted to live a bit longer. All we got were newspaper and rudimentary TV reports of JFK playing chicken with Kruschev without much explanation of background that an 18 yo girl was apt to investigate or understand.
To me, and my peers, he was the most dangerous man on the planet. I/we saw him much how Kim Jong appears to us now, a posturing egotistical, chest beating nut job. Not sayin' we were right, just telling it as we saw it at the time.
We were still used to politicians doing things differently here I guess, and weren't clued up yet to the bias and headline fetish of the press.
We still swallowed everything at face value and it, and he, all looked pretty damned scary from here.
Anyway, that's got the rambling cobwebs blown away for the morning. Americans no doubt viewed it all in a different light and I'd be interested to hear how you, personally, 'saw' it.