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around with trying to change the system.” 750 McMillan also told the story of Oswald’s
failed attempt to reconcile with his wife and have them live together again the night
before the assassination, thus emphasizing Oswald’s alleged personal motive for killing
Kennedy. The program received the witness testimony from the Warren Commission
about the killing of Kennedy and Tippit. Posner then claimed that “There is no credible
evidence to show that Jack Ruby acted at the behest of anyone in organized crime. [He]
was personally motivated from day one” to kill Oswald. 751
The narrator said Oswald’s “death meant the evidence against him would never be
tested in court. But 30 years later, the strength of that case continues to grow.” 752 The
program presented evidence of a fingerprint near the trigger guard of Oswald’s rifle that
an expert tied to Oswald based on multiple photographs of the print that he patched
together. Frontline solemnly concluded that “In the end, there is only Oswald, a man
who chose his own politics, invented his own secret life and made himself into an
assassin…There will always be one final mystery: Why did Oswald choose Kennedy?
But the solution cannot be found in the dark corridors of crime, espionage and power.
That question can only be answered by one young man and his answer will always be
silence.” 753 In the end, Frontline stuck with the Warren Commission concluding even
though the program had uncovered one piece of evidence that indicated Oswald and
Ferrie knew each other. Blakey was the only conspiracy theorist allowed much time, but
750 Frontline transcript, 32.
751 Frontline transcript, 42.
752 Frontline transcript, 44.
753 Frontline transcript, 46.
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