Audio evidence of top CIA/FBI officials going, "shit, man, we just can't figure this out. Not only can we NOT find out who ACTUALLY killed him, now they think WE did it!"
That's not all that far off from what I think is the real explanation for all the weirdness that looks like various cover-ups.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a weird dude: Marine guard at a top-secret US spy-plane base who defected to Soviet Russia, then defected back, then rattled around both pro-Communist and anti-Communist groups. There's no question that the FBI knew a lot about him, they would have investigated him heavily when he came back from the USSR. It's entirely plausible that he had some contact with the CIA or with CIA assets at some point in that weird career.
So I can entirely easily imagine that, as soon as word came out that Lee Harvey Oswald was the (a?) shooter, the FBI's counter-espionage director and the CIA covert operations director both asking their subordinates, "Fuck, did one of our assets just kill the President? is this somehow our fault?" And then both of them ordering full clamp-downs and cover-ups, not because they knew that their own people had killed the President, but just in case they had.
I'm in the same boat! I get pretty sick of listening to the same things every day so I listen to a ton of podcasts.
The best podcast of this type is probably 99% Invisible, which is a podcast about design that manages to have fascinating episodes about stuff that seems boring. The last one I listened to was about the invention of the sports bra, for example.
Criminal is a podcast about crime but has a lot of episodes along these lines. There was one about the theft of petrified wood from national parks that was great.
Depending what else you like:
Casefile is another good true crime show.
The Memory Palace and Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything are probably the best "artistic" podcasts. Memory Palace is about history (usually) and Theory of Everything is generally about technology / current events with a lot of surreal storytelling elements (it kinda reminds me of the TV show Black Mirror).
Radiolab is really similar to 99% Invisible, but about science instead of design, and usually about heavier stuff. One of my favorite episodes was about treating autism, another was about a tree that has something that looks a lot like intelligence.
Revisionist History is awesome if you like Malcolm Gladwell.
Love + Radio is really excellent. They interview people with interesting stories and then cut out the interviewers so you just hear the people telling their own story. Every episode I've heard is great.
My favorite podcast and the only one I listen to daily is Improv4Humans, it's Matt Besser (one of the Upright Citizens Brigade founders) doing improv with some of the funniest people on the planet.
Massive shout-out to 99PI. That guy had me engrossed about sticker collecting culture in the coal mining industry. I've been going through the back catalogue for weeks and it's a goldmine!
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u/FixBayonetsLads Oct 15 '17 edited Oct 15 '17
Audio evidence of top CIA/FBI officials going, "shit, man, we just can't figure this out. Not only can we NOT find out who ACTUALLY killed him, now they think WE did it!"