. >> i team reporter dan noyes joins us to talk about the findings of the marin county researcher anduthor dan dan's documentary, which is so well researched and has so much new information. never before seen material. i am excited for it. >> it was a huge project. >> i know you worked on it for over a year. i was stunned. official government conclusion is that lee harvey oswald was the lone gunman who killed resident kennedy. tell us about this local author who has reached a very different and very controversial conclusion. >> he is a fascinating guy. he is 86 years old. he lives in bolinas. the originl researchers enter the 1960's on the assassination. he worked for a life magazine and was in dallas at he questions all the people involved. the witnesses, the police. everybody who was there at the time. he has this breadth of knowledge that is amazing. he goes on to a long career as a private detective. he worked at huberty book on the assassination. that book is seen as one of the seminal books to this day on the assassination. he goes on to this a long career as a private detective

dan noyes has more. >> an initial screening of 1491 documents confirmed what we already knew. the cia and fbi had lee harvey oswald under surveillance in the months before the assassination of kennedy. >> what is your reaction? >> yawn. >> josias thompson was one of the early assassination researchers. we based our new documentary on his latest book that concludes lee harvey oswald did not fire the fatal shot. a gunman on the grassy knoll did and the u.s. government engaged in a cover-up. >> why would we expect t evidence about what really happened would be released to the public now? >> the documents detail and fbi field reports from miami . a diplomat claiming the jfk assassination was prepared and executed by the chinese communists and fidel castro through intermediaries. a phone call one year before the assassination warning about a russian plot to pay $100,000 for the assassination of president kennedy. we already had one of the documents from this release in our documentary. department, responsible for sabotage and assassination. >> we have to keep in mind that critical

reporter dan noyes with the latest. dan i've learned the three key witnesses in the trial have:, to show omitting facts. one homeless man testified he saw two police officers me him. when investigators concluded he was not at the scene. two other witnesses, including convicted drug dealer, did not depose on the stand that they served as police informants before the altercation. americans are appealing. hearings are expected this coming february or march. i spoke with one who says this could help the defense to move for appeal, saying the charges would demonstrate what the defense always argued, that many people involved in the story lied and the truth is yet to be clarified. for the i team, dan noyes, abc 7 news. ama: and dan traveled to rome to cover the story and put together a documentary of the case. it's available on our abc 7 app, which you can download for apple tv, android tv, fire tv, and roku. new developments as a man seen kicking and 84-year-old man out of a walker made a return to court after being let out.

ama: dan noyes chronicles the work of a world-renowned researcher and officer from the marin county who has written a new book on the assassination. you can see it on hulu and our streaming platforms, abc7news.com, apple tv, roku, amazon fire, and to, and youtube. dan: let's turn over to this category 2 storm on the impact scale that is hitting us right now. ama: perfect weather to sit inside and watch tv. dan: watch the seven-day forecast. spencer: we have wind driven rain in some parts of the bay area. the wind is right around us but the heaviest wind is in various pockets and you can see the area that appears to travel through the north bay and is headed over towards sacramento. we have another batch of drenching downpours moving to the north bay and to marin county and we just had some heavy rain over in the livermore areas, winding down a little bit. you can see just north of 580 in the livermore area, pockets of drenching downpours. the santa cruz mountains are getting drenched at this moment and it is windy out there. surface wind speeds are gusts up to 36 miles per hour all arou