What makes "former" CIA officer Bob Baer's reality show exciting and entertaining is that every new angle of his investigation into the movements of Lee Harvey Oswald, leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is presented as "a bombshell"-at least until it is proven wanting in some way and replaced by another hypothesis.
Baer reminds me of Wiley Coyote from the old Looney Tunes cartoons: When one device does not work perfectly to help him capture the Road Runner, instead of fine-tuning that device or using it in a different way, Wiley Coyote abandons it entirely and sends away to the Acme company for a completely different device.
The possibility that Oswald met with a KGB officer named Kostikov at a bullfight in Mexico City on 29 September 1963 is "recreated" to prove that, given the venue's capacity to hold 40,000 fans, it would have so crowded that a clandestine rendezvous (or "iron meeting" in Baer's spy terminology) could have taken place without being detected by the CIA. Having gone to the painstaking trouble of outlining this possibility, however, Baer subsequently doubts that the meeting ever took place at all. (Oh, well, never mind.)
Baer reminds me of Wiley Coyote from the old Looney Tunes cartoons: When one device does not work perfectly to help him capture the Road Runner, instead of fine-tuning that device or using it in a different way, Wiley Coyote abandons it entirely and sends away to the Acme company for a completely different device.
The possibility that Oswald met with a KGB officer named Kostikov at a bullfight in Mexico City on 29 September 1963 is "recreated" to prove that, given the venue's capacity to hold 40,000 fans, it would have so crowded that a clandestine rendezvous (or "iron meeting" in Baer's spy terminology) could have taken place without being detected by the CIA. Having gone to the painstaking trouble of outlining this possibility, however, Baer subsequently doubts that the meeting ever took place at all. (Oh, well, never mind.)