Hello friends and listeners! Well I am back at it. And today, we pivot back to (finally) finishing off the Mexico series, I tell the story of something tangential to Mexico but vastly important overall. It's the story of Sylvia Odio. No...it's not time yet for Sylvia Duran...that is coming next. But let's get Sylvia Odio out of the way first.

In this gripping mini-series premiere, we lay the groundwork for what has become known as the most explosive Oswald sighting of the Kennedy assassination. We journey from the aristocratic circles of pre-Castro Cuba to a modest garden-style apartment in Dallas, Texas, following the tragic trajectory of Sylvia Odio. As a young, recently divorced mother of four, Sylvia’s world had already been shattered by the political imprisonment of her parents in Fidel Castro's dungeons, including her father's imprisonment on the infamous Isle of Pines. Struggling with the emotional toll of her exile and sudden poverty, she sought only a quiet life—unaware that the darkest mystery of the 20th century was about to walk right up to her front door.

This prelude sets the stage for a chilling late-September evening in 1963 that would forever alter American history. We explore the shadowy world of the anti-Castro underground to understand the terrifying context of a sudden knock at Sylvia's door on Magellan Circle. Waiting in her vestibule were two militant Latin operatives using the underground "war names" Leopoldo and Angelo, accompanied by a pale, quiet American. The American was introduced to Sylvia by a name that would soon echo across the globe: "Leon Oswald". And what happened next goes directly to the assassination question itself. Join us as we begin to unravel the Odio incident, an enduring paradox that completely shatters the official narrative but also adds as many questions as it answers.