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S2 Episode 9 - "Cuba Libra"

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The Rise and Fall of Fidel Castro

On November 17, 1963, the FBI sent out a warning concerning a threat to President Kennedy in Dallas. On November 18, JFK went to campaign in Miami and spoke publicly a few different times. The next day, the paper approvingly noted the strident tone JFK took at the Inter-American Press Association dinner. on November 19, Dallas club owner, Jack Ruby, who'd been at war with the Internal Revenue Service for a while now, told his lawyer not to worry.

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