“there was the phone call to federal agents from a motel manager concerning what she’d seen in a room rented by two Cuban nationals.”
“Had seen lying on the bed several automatic rifles with telescopic sights, with an outline of the route that President Kennedy was supposed to take in Chicago that would bring him past that building...”
If so, then they were pretty stupid assassins.
...Secret Service agents kept watch on two of the four-man assassin team. But, as Agent Bolden later told Congressional investigators, 'through a series of blunders, the surveillance' of the two assassins 'was blown.' (footnote: HSCA 180-10070-10273 interview with Abraham Bolden 1-19-78, declassified 1-5-96)....With their surreptitious surveillance blown, the Secret Service felt it had no choice but to go ahead and detain the men, so 'the two subjects were apprehended and brought to the Chicago Secret Service office,' Bolden told investigators. [Investigative journalist Edwin] Black writes that 'the two men were taken into custody (but not actually arrested or booked) in the very early Friday hours and brought to the Secret Service headquarters. There are no records that any weapons were found in their possession or back at the rooming house."