in the average man's life, there are two or three emotional experiences burned into his heart and his brain. and no matter what happens to me, i'll remember november the 22nd as long as i live. >> there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> they are combing the floors of the texas depository building to find the assassin. >> i'm just a patsy! [ gunshots ] >> oswald has been shot at point blank range fired into the stomach. >> police are working to the

assumption oswald's murder was to shut him up. >> an element of the central intelligence agency killed john kennedy. >> the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. we have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. >> i stand here tonight on what was once the last frontier. the pioneers gave up their safety, and sometimes their lives to build our new west. beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and faith, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered promise of ignorance and prejudice. but i believe that the times require imagination and courage. i'm asking each of you to be

pioneers towards that new frontier. in dallas, preparations were already underway for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. >> do you anticipate any trouble on the president's arrival? >> because of what has happened here previously, we would be foolish i think not to anticipate some trouble. i don't, really, i don't anticipate any violence. >> here comes air force number one, the president's plane now touching down. there is mrs. kennedy, and the crowd yells and the president of the united states. i can see his suntan all the way from here. >> looking at how things actually went, it wasn't just a trip to dallas.

it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 elections. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. conley. governor conally on your left. >> it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and influence to get the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now, in fact, he's not in his limousine. he's departed the limousine and reached across the fence shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes this eggshells even thinner for the secret service, whose job it is to guard the man. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better.

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>> this bulletin just into the kilt terminal. three shots were fired at the motorcade of president kennedy today in downtown dallas. >> police radios are carrying that the president has been hit. >> the hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound. >> this is walter cronkite in our newsroom. there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> turn the mic on. i can't hear you, johnny. you want me to move back a little bit? is it all right now? is this all right? ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce the chief camera man and assistant news director of wfaa television,

this is burt schiff. burt, we have brought the people pretty much up to date. would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point? >> jay, i was standing at the trade mart waiting his arrival there. all of a sudden, we saw them approaching. they didn't slow down, matter of fact they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us and i jumped in the police car and went to park land. these two men came running in, one had a large machine gun and they was hauling stretchers and cots and everything and the governor, they brought him in first. >> what happened after this? >> the president come in behind him and they took them, both of them back. >> albert thomas, democratic texas is standing outside the corridor of the emergency room, said he's been told the president was still alive but in very critical condition. >> the president has not arrived here. a group of secret servicemen and other officials has gathered

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the studio i'm meeting for the first time, as well as you, this is wfaa tv in dallas, texas. may i have your name, sir. >> my name is abraham zapruda. >> zapruda? >> yes, sir. >> tell us your story, sir? >> i get out to shoot some pictures. >> 5-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves on the grass there by palmer street and joe waved and i waved and -- and -- and the man -- >> it's all right, sir. go ahead. >> he was waving back. he was waving back and then the shot rang out and he slumped down in his seat. >> all of a sudden, this next one popped and governor connally grabbed his stomach and went to the side and another one and it was all so fast, and president kennedy grabbed rea reached up and grabbed his ear

and blood started gushing out. >> i didn't see any person fire the weapon. >> you only heard it? >> i only heard it and looked up and saw a man running up this hill. >> if it's a conspiracy, not only the president was hit, the governor was hit, who knows if the next shot would have been for lyndon johnson. johnson's car pulls into the emergency bay at the hospital. four agents reach in and grab johnson and pull him out and start to run him down one corridor looking for a safe place. >> mr. johnson's whereabouts are being kept secret for security reasons. if anybody knows where mr. johnson is, it is not us at this moment. >> there was a signal moment in the cultural history. suddenly it occurred the right thing to do is turn on television. >> the reports continue to come in, but in a confused fashion. >> president kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at parkland hospital here in dallas in an effort to save his life.

>> it was odd, because there were no commercials, it was just a continuous experience. >> two priests have entered the emergency room at parkland hospital where he rests after the assassination attempt, which now was about a half hour ago. >> what are your feelings right now, ma'am? >> i am absolutely shocked, stunned. we have the same birthday and i'm just crazy about him. >> who would want to shoot the president? what did he do? i mean, he's been doing so much for the country and somebody goes and shoots him? >> a flash from dallas. two priests who were with president kennedy say he is dead. >> bullet wounds. this is the latest information we have from dallas. i will repeat with the greatest regret two priests who were with president kennedy say he has died of bullet wounds.

>> malcolm, the assistant press secretary was filling in for the regular press secretary and then he had to draw himself up to give the most fateful announcement that a press secretary might have ever had to give. >> all the cameras were rolling and i remember he put his fingers like this on the desk and pressed very hard to stop his hands trembling. >> president john f. kennedy died at approximately 1:00, central standard time today here in dallas. he died of a gunshot wound in the brain. i have no other details regarding the assassination of the president. >> the people standing here are stunned just as all of us are

beyond belief, but the president of the united states is dead. >> all over the world, people are going to remember all their lives what they were doing when they first heard that president kennedy had been killed. >> the crowds are standing around in silence and sorrow in the rain, and the strange thing is, you don't even notice it's raining. and if you do notice, you don't care. >> i just can't believe it. i feel like someone in my own family has died. i just can't believe it. >> ma'am? >> i can't -- >> you don't know what is going on, why? why did it happen? who would have done such a thing is the question? >> in the first minutes and hours chaos and confusion was radiating out from the scene itself.

it was very pervasive. >> secret service agents thought the gunfire was fired from an automatic weapon, fired possibly from a grassy knoll. >> i saw police run, i thought they are chasing a gunman, i ran with them. >> the report is, the attempted assassins, we now hear it was a man and a woman. >> i got up, looked around, a policeman went over the fence. i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> the television news man said he looked up after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> they originally thought the shots came from in here, but now it's believed that the shots came from this building here. >> he's running back towards the texas school depository building. they'll continue to search in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> the center of downtown dallas

is at a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors to find the suspected assassin. >> the building on the sixth floor we found an area near a window that had partially been blocked off by boxes of books and also, the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. >> climb lab lieutenant j.c. dade just came out of that building with a british 303 rifle. >> it was a 7.65 mauzer. >> a high powered army or japanese rifle of .25 caliber. >> a 30/30 rifle. >> much of the first things you hear will be wrong, and to some degree you are consciously trying to separate out what seems to be a fact. >> in dallas, a dallas policeman just a short while ago was shot. and killed while chasing a suspect. >> j.d. tippet, a good experience ed police officer wa

shot three times in the chest in the oak cliff section of dallas. then the manager of a shoe store saw the suspect walk into the texas theater. >> someone has been arrested in one of the downtown theaters. they don't know if it was the man who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. >> police suddenly jumped this man and started to drag him out of the theater, hustled him out to the car. as the crowd broke and started to maul the police officers, trying to run with him. they hustled him into the car and ran away just as fast as they could. as we mentioned a short while ago, a number of arrests have been made in dallas in the wake of president kennedy's death. we have scenes of one of those arrests in the downtown area. this was just after a dallas policeman was shot in the vicinity of a downtown movie house. >> bently. paul bentley. >> approaching --

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this is a picture of him. he probably does not look exactly like this now after he's been questioned. that's lee oswald. >> the president is shot and a police officer is shot, then

someone name lee harvey oswald is arrested. oswald may be a suspect in the assassination. who is he? >> lee oswald of dallas, a former marine, who spent some time in russia, who at one time applied for soviet citizenship. >> the description that we have of the suspect in oak cliff was not similar to the description that we had and the man that we were looking for as the assassin, but at that time we had not been able to connect the two in any way. >> down there in this third floor corridor, a crowd of cameramen and reporters wait for a possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a dallas police officer. >> apparently a great deal of confusion. mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him. oswald lives at 1026 meckley. he is an employee of a book binding firm in the building in

which the police and secret servicemen believe the president was shot today. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in the ambulance from the hospital to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> the emergency room at the hospital on the first floor there and they come out and told us that we would have to help her move the remains into a gas casket. >> lyndon johnson had ordered that the body be brought immediately to air force one so there was a little tug-of-war. almost shook the crucifix off of the top of the coffin as they were trying to get that coffin out of the hospital. >> took him out and put him into the hearse and one of the secret servicemen, well, about two or three of them, got into the hearse and just drove off and left mr. o'neil and the rest of u.s. just standing there.

>> vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation's capitol. >> not everyone realized that johnson was already the president, because he, in fact, had taken the oath in january '61, the same oath the president takes. >> johnson wanted to show the american people that the government was functioning without interruption. also, perhaps, he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination. >> lyndon banes johnson is flying back to washington to take the reins of government. at which time president johnson will have to take into his hands the reins of the most powerful nation in the world. >> we think november 22nd, 1963 as a date when a president was killed. but it was also a day when the

president was created. >> is there any doubt in your mind, chief, that oswald is the man who killed the president? >> i think this is the man that killed the president, yes, sir. >> is there any evidence any one else may have been linked with oswald to this shooting? >> at this time, we don't believe so. >> i don't know what this is all about. >> sir? >> did you kill the president? sir? did you shoot the president? >> i work in that building. >> were now in the building at the time? >> naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. >> back up, man! >> did you shoot the president? >> no, they're taking me in because of the fact that i lived in the soviet union. i'm just a patsy! >> did you kill the president? >> this is room 317, homicide

burough here at the dallas police station. as you see, they are bringing the weapon allegedly used in the assassination of john f. kennedy this afternoon at 12:30 here in dallas. >> 6.5 made in italy in 1940. >> police have traced a rifle purchased in chicago by mail order to oswald. he bought it under the alias, a. hidel, and the price of $12.78, the price of the life of the president of united states apparently was bought. >> in the wake of the kennedy assassination, the dallas police on the one hand were committing all of their resources to try to solve a crime. >> hold it in the doorway when you get it in the doorway. hold it right there. >> there they had -- they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters. >> well, i was questioned by

a judge, by protesters, at that time, i was not allowed to leave -- >> in bringing oswald out, they were of course doing something that you would never see happen today, but they were trying to cooperate with the press, with the understanding that there would not be questions shouted to him. >> did you kill the president? >> no, i have not been charged with that. in fact, nobody has said that to me yet. the first thing i heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question. >> you have been charged. >> nobody said what? >> sir? >> nobody said what? >> what did you do in russia? >> a policeman hit me. >> at 1:35 this morning, a complaint was read. it charged that quote, lee harvey oswald did voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill john f. kennedy by shooting

him with a gun end quote following the reading of the complaint oswald said that's ridiculous. >> within hours of the assassination, it was very obvious to virtually everyone in dallas law enforcement that oswald had killed kennedy. >> chief, can you tell us in summary, what directly links oswald to the killing of the president? >> well, the fact that he was on the floor where the shots were fired from immediately before the shots were fired. the fact he was seen carrying a package to the building. the fact that -- >> what was in there? >> yesterday morning. >> after the shooting in dealey plaza, oswald was the only employee at the book depository that fled the building. 45 minutes later he shoots kills officer j.d. tippet. a half hour later, he resisted

arrest and pulled his gun on the arrests officer. during 12 hours of interrogation by the dallas police department over the weekend, he told one provable lie after another. >> did you buy that rifle? >> that's the facts you people have been given, but i emphatically deny these charges. >> within a day or so thereafter when they discovered what a complete nut this guy was, they were satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that oswald had acted alone. >> there's only one thing that i can tell you without going into the evidence, that this case has cinched, that this man killed the president and there are no questions in my mind about it. >> we plan to transfer this man, not tonight, he will be here by no later than 10:00 in the morning. that will be early enough. >> chief, do you have any concern for the safety of your prisoner in due of the high feeling among the people of dallas over the assassination of the president? >> no, but courses will be taken

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all right. let's move. >> lee oswald is to be taken

soon to the county jail. >> that's true. >> and you are going to take him there how, sir? >> we are going to use an armored motor vehicle to take him. >> dallas police meant to transfer lee into the regular prison during the night to avoid the press, and then someone must have overruled them, so that lee could be photographed by the press during the transfer. >> we're standing by awaiting the transfer of oswald from city jail to county jail. and for that report, here is abc's bill lord at the city jail. >> bill, what's the situation? >> well, i'm presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it is like an armed camp. police officials are frankly worried. they don't want anything to happen to oswald.

>> there are newsmen, photographers, and policemen, that lee oswald will be brought to a vehicle for transfer to the dallas county jail, a distance of about 15 blocks, which ironically is just across from the scene where president kennedy was assassinated on friday. >> anticipation has built up here in downtown dallas in front of the county jail. they are waiting for a glimpse of lee oswald. >> there he is. here he comes. >> the prisoner. >> let me have it. i want it. >> he went out by captain fritz. >> there he is! >> there's lee. [ gunshot ] >> he's been shot! he's been shot! lee oswald has been shot! there's a man with a gun. absolute panic. absolute panic here in the

basement of dallas police headquarters. detectives have their guns drawn. there is no question about it. oswald has been shot, at point-blank range, fired into his stomach. >> he is shot. he is shot. oswald is shot. >> it is oswald. >> do you know if that's the man that shot the man? >> that is the man that shot the man. >> immediately after the shooting, our only witnesses that we could talk to were other reporters. >> where did he go, pierre? >> well, he was here. they just put the gun there. i saw the flash -- >> right in his belly? >> yeah. >> did you see it in his stomach? >> i saw he was in the group of men right here. >> one of us or what? >> i thought he was one of the detectives. you know, he had a hat. >> the situation is now that lee harvey oswald has been shot. the man who saw the shot fired said it was fired by a man wearing a black hat, a brown coat. a man that everyone down here

thought was a secret service agent. we can hear sirens outside and an ambulance, apparently is moving down now into the basement. here comes the ambulance. and oswald will be removed now. the ambulance is being pulled up in front of us here. here comes oswald he's -- he is ashen and unconscious at this time, now being moved in. he's not moving. he's in the ambulance now. police are quickly trying again -- the ambulance is leaving dallas police headquarters. where will he be taken? >> i'm assuming parkland hospital. >> parkland hospital. the irony of ironies. the place where president john f. kennedy died.

>> i believe the man -- >> don't take the microphone. just keep your head up. let's start again. what is your reaction to the shooting of oswald? >> well, i think it's a deplorable situation. the man is entitled to a fair trial. >> they should give him a fair trial, because killing him just like that ain't -- that ain't going to bring president kennedy back to life. and after they get a trial, they should let him out on the street and let the people kill him. >> they should not only shoot him, but cut him up in pieces. >> put everyone out in the fire and put him up for one day and then the next day, start again. >> thank you! >> the man, i believe -- i didn't see it, but i think that's the man. >> you got him? what's he look like? >> i can't give you a description now. he is known locally. >> immediately after the ambulance left, somehow i had begun to suspect that maybe the shooter was somehow who was known to the police. >> do you know this subject, you

know him? have you seen him before? >> yes, i do. >> is he from dallas? >> yes. >> i couldn't tell you. >> do you know what kind of business he happens to be in? >> bob, i wouldn't want to say right now. >> dallas city hall is normally a public building, but today it was really under armed guard. >> jack, the carousel, the carousel is shot -- >> we -- is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? >> stars i know. i just got it. >> dick robertson from city hall reports that jack ruby, the owner of the carousel, which is a bar in dallas did the shooting. >> my statement will be very brief. oswald expired at 1:07 p.m..

>> he died? >> he died at 1:07 p.m. we have arrested the man. the man will be charged with murder. >> who is he? >> the man -- the suspect's name is jack rubenstein, i believe. he goes by the name of jack ruby. >> here at the associated press, a still picture of the moment, the split second, as the shot was fired. this is the man dallas police have identified as jack rubenstein, and this, of course, is lee harvey oswald. you see the gun in the hand of ruby and just about to be fired. >> i know my own feelings were, and i think they were widely shared by many, if not most americans. this can't be coincidental. the assassin is assassinated in the police station. what in the hell is going on? >> just learned from city hall

from a very authoritative source that police are working on the assumption that there is, indeed, a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald and that in some manner of speaking, oswald's murder was to shut him up. >> captain wolfowitz has just told me that ruby has said that he did it, that it was his gun, and that he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the president. >> in jack ruby's small mind, he thought he was going to become a big, big hero. i mean, he killed the guy who killed the president. >> i commend what he did. i think he ought to win the congressional medal of honor for it. and a lot of other good american citizens think he did exactly the right thing in shooting down this communist. >> word also in just now from dallas that homicide chief, captain will fritz, has now said that the case of president kennedy's assassination is now closed with the death of oswald.

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the whole world is poorer because of his loss. but we can all be better americans because john fitzgerald kennedy has passed our way. because he has been our chosen leader at a time in history when his character, his vision, and his quiet courage have enabled him to chart a course for us, a safe course for us, through the souls of treachoerous seas that encompass the worlds. and now that he is relieved of almost superhuman burden we imposed on him, may he rest in peace.

>> dallas today had even more to mourn. it held funeral services for one of its known who was a victim of friday's tragedy. officer j.d. tippet. it was a funeral of a very different sort today in nearby ft. worth. this was the very funeral of lee harvey oswald, alleged murerer of president kennedy. the pathetic group of mourners included oswald's mother, marguerite, his wife, marina, his brother, robert, and oswald's two children, one of them a babe in arms. the six pallbearers you see here are newsmen. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pallbearers. >> now there is a new flag of the president of the united

states flying in the white house. in president kennedy's old oval office, mrs. evelyn lincoln, his secretary and her aides, have removed every scrap, effervesve vestige, every sign of the president kennedy. >> we know from history that one test of societies is how do we handle the transfer of power at the top. lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, a lot of people disliked him greatly, some even hated him, would be the president of the united states. i think it shouted about the strength of the country and that we squared by the rule of law. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ]

>> my fellow americans, all i have, i would have given gladly not to be standing here today. >> johnson knows, he has to show the country that the ship of state is sailing on under a new captain. but at the same time, he can't appear to be too anxious to assume power, and he has to keep the kennedy people on board with him. so that speech means everything. >> no words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the borrowed trust of america that he began. [ applause ]

>> the people of europe just cannot believe that a lone avenger made his way into a major police station and killed without difficulty the most celebrated and infamous criminal in the united states. >> one of the most important things that happened after oswald's murder was that we, you know, were forever denied the why. i mean, people at the time believed he did it. the question was, why? >> there are questions continuingly coming up about the possibility of an international plot. >> there's still all this thought that the russians might be behind it, or cuba might be behind it. johnson sees there's a real danger in that you want to put these rumors to rest. >> investigations into all the facts of these last four days the might be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen already have suggested a congressional investigation. >> killing a president wasn't the federal crime at the time,

so you had the federal government intervening in what still was a local murder. >> there certainly was a concern of competing investigations. there was the dallas kcriminal investigation, the texas state of inquiry, and committees on both sides of congress, while the fbi had been given the job to conduct a full-scale investigation. >> johnson realizes something has to be done. he realizes that he has to appoint a body that the public will respect to look into this. >> this is the president. >> i've got to have a top ribbon presidential commission to investigate this assassination. i want to ask claude and dulles, ford and bob, and chief justice warren. >> if there's one public governmental official in the united states universally respected for his integrity, it is the chief justice of the supreme court, earl warren. if there's one person in congress that everyone respects,

it's richard russell of georgia. he has to get them both on the commission. there is, however, a problem. russell is a segregationist, through and through, and despises warren for the decisions that he's made on the court. >> johnson thought if they can agree on a verdict, then it ought to be satisfying 90% of american public opinion. >> direct them to 191. >> if you think about it, i couldn't do that with chief justice warren. i don't like that man. >> you can serve with anybody for the good of america and you're going to do it! i can't arrest you, and i'm not going to put the fbi on you, but you're goddamned going to serve, i'll tell you that. >> lyndon johnson was known as the greatest salesman one on one who ever lived. so he meets first with warren and he says, if i asked you to put on your uniform and fight for america, you do it. i'm asking you to fight for

america in a different way. then johnson has to get richard russell. >> mr. president, please -- >> no, it's already done. it's been announced. >> you mean you've given -- >> yes, sir, i've made the announcement. it's already in the papers with you on it. >> well, i think you did wrong getting warren, and i know damn well you did wrong getting me. >> no, i think that's what you do for america.

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produced by nbc news, which is solely responsible for its content. >> the warren commission appointed friday night will investigate and make a report on the murder. as yet, it has said nothing about how it will proceed or when. in the meantime, again, the fbi is investigating every lead it can find and will turn its report over to president johnson probably this week. >> it was the fbi's hope that its report would be, if not the final word, the semi-final word, and that the commission's job would be to read it and then essentially endorse the findings of the report. >> the members of the warren commission, earl warren, john sherman cooper, jerry ford, hale boggs, richard russo, and john j. mccloy realized at their

initial meeting that they had to do an independent investigation. they didn't want to be a stamp for the fbi or the secret service. >> there are three issues that the commission had to grapple with. you know, did oswald commit the physical act of the murder? and even if he did the physical act, did he have forces behind him? and then, of course, what's ruby's involvement in this? >> you had various branches of the investigation traveling, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. >> let's see, the time of day was about -- well, we're not very far from -- about two hours from it. >> there were questions, how would they deal with the different stories about shooters from the grassy knoll and shooters from different directions. >> the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions. and there were 94

lyndon johnson wants the report out so that it doesn't interfere with the election in november. >> warren spent his early career as a prosecutor. he understood the crime scene. he wanted to stand at the window and see if this was a shot a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there was all these suggestions that ruby had killed oswald to silence him. >> the commission realized they would have to invest a lot more time than was anticipated. it was maybe a two to three-month operation to the concession it would probably take six months. >> the hourglass of time was running out on them. >> can you still say if you think it's one man? >> i think we should probably not get in that area, you know. the report will cover all that in great detail. >> labor ten months. then brought forth a document

close to 1,000 pages. lyndon johnson received that report today. >> what the public understood and what i understood was these were very honorable men. they thought that the commission had done a good job and they would come up with an answer. >> when the warren commission report came out, i believed it. we were still in a time when you tended to believe what officials told you. >> it is now 15 seconds after 6:30 p.m. eastern daylight time, sunday, september 27. as of this moment, the report of the president's commission is public record. for the next half hour, we will search it for answers. first must come the answers to the two great overriding questions: who killed john f. kennedy? the commission answers unequivocally lee harvey oswald.

was oswald acting alone or was he a member of a conspiracy? the commission says he acted alone. >> we're not going to read all the commission report, so cbs news needed to tear an understandable reform from the commission at large. >> there was nothing to support the speculation that oswald was an agent, employee or informant of the fbi, or the cia, or any other governmental agency. oswald owned the murder right. the mail order slip for that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald's hand print was found on the surface of the gun. >> the media had already concluded this was the most exhaustive investigation. case closed. oswald did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired, all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas book

depository. >> the evidence suggested that the shots were fired behind the depository on john f. kennedy. >> a majority of the americans accepted the findings of the warren commission. >> the bullet entered here came out just below the president's adam's apple. the commission believes the same bullet then entered the right shoulder of governor connell y, passed out through his wrist, and to his thigh. >> i think it reflects the thoroughness which they went into it, and i think at least it has disspelled many of the rumors and speculations that surrounded this very tragic event. >> i'm quite satisfied, and it's been very well covered entirely. it leaves no doubt in my mind that lee acted alone.

>> in the end we find confronting each other the liar, the misfit, the defector, and distinguished americans on the other. yet we must be careful we do not say too much. oswald was never tried for any crime, and perhaps, therefore, there will forever be questions of substance and detail raised by amateur detectives and serious students as well. we are the jury, all of us, in america and throughout the world. >> the reaction to the report initially was very positive. but that didn't last very long. >> this book is the number one bestseller on the non-fiction list in the country, "reflection." it gained a vast number of readers in the skepticism of the findings of the warren report. >> we did not envision the breadth and the scope of the criticism. >> the mayor has some highly controversial things to say, so please greet mr. mark lane.

>> no matter how illustrious the members were, we were not going to be reassured by a commission. >> we're already having a little disagreement here. >> well, the commercial's run. >> i think i almost disagree totally with mark lane on several counts. i don't know where to begin. >> let me show you while we have a chance. that is a picture of mr. jack ruby. this was taken five minutes after the assassination in front of the texas school depository book building. the commission said ruby was not there. he wasn't there when they published the picture because -- >> chief justice warren and that commission -- >> tell us some facts instead of about the chief justice. you were part of the media which presented the american people from finding out what happened until now. >> you are alarming the american people. >> the american people should be alarmed. >> the american public had been kept in the dark for so long about this, but had an undying

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warren report has the whole story. >> when you have a great number of people devoting their lives to looking at every word, every comma, they can create a lot of mischief. >> i believe very firmly that ruby and oswald knew each other and certainly tippet and ruby knew each other. >> before we proceed with that kind of questioning, let me ask you, what kind of conspiracy? it was a communist, left wing, right wing conspiracy? >> i am convinced there were two riflemen. >> the warren commission was set up, as you know, at the request and perjuryi ipurging of the co party. >> it's obvious he was working for someone else at that moment, and it couldn't be anyone else. >> there is no question oswald was in the sixth-floor window of the texas depository. >> there was an entire world of

assassination, but some raised valid questions. >> he'll come out looking like bullet 399. >> it is another one of the very many highly improbables that we are asked to accept by the warren commission if we are to accept the validity of their full report. >> some have completely mad theorie theories. >> oswald was killed by a karate chop to the throat in 1974. >> but everyone had the right to give their views. >> you have apparently succeeded in persuading the majority of the american people that we cannot trust the conceivable panel to do an honest job. >> you act as if it's a religious experience to read the warren report. i think to have faith in the democracy is in our own ability to look at the facts and reach

our own conclusions. >> the decreasing trust by americans in their government all started with the kennedy assassination. >> by 1966, there is this cultural revolution in the united states. we're deeply enmeshed in vietnam, there is a lot of protests, there had been riots, and there is a sense that things have seriously gone wrong. we've gone off the rails since november '63, and the warren report is a very important part of that loss of confidence in the government. >> i don't think all the facts were brought out. i think something was held back. >> i think that we'ere were mor involved in it than just oswald. >> i don't know how they can reach the conclusion that there was just one person involved. i saw the whole thing on television, i just happened to be home at that time, and i think oswald was working for the cia myself. >> why doesn't america believe

the warren report? >> because of the conspiracy theories who have put this case under a high-powered microscope, splitting hairs and then proceeding to split the split hairs. the kennedy case is now the most complex murder case by far in world history. nothing even remotely comes close. >> we are left with a series of critical questions about the assassination, questions which have not been answered to the satisfaction of the people of the united states. >> when president kennedy was killed, he was not killed by one man. he was shot from a number of different directions by different guns. the story has been suppressed, witnesses have been killed, and this is your country. >> we aren't trying to hide a thing from you or from mr. epstein or mr. lane or the world. we are laying it all out. that's right here in the notes of testimony. and if we have transposed possibly into a probably, then we are delighted to have you

point it out to us, but you do so only because we laid it on the line. >> the warren report said that lee harvey oswald shot the president from his window in the texas school book depository. three years after kennedy's assassination, the major question is still a simple one. did the warren commission, with all that time and all these resources, get its answers right? tonight we'll go over those arguments one by one, area by area. as the assassination was taking place, a dallas businessman called abraham zabruda stood behind that concrete wall looking down on elm street. >> as the president was coming down the street making good time, about halfway down, i heard a shot. i heard another shot or two, i couldn't tell you if it was one or two, and i saw his head practically open up, all blood and everything, and i kept on

shooting. >> the warren commission could use the film and each frame to reconstruct each moment of the assassination. >> part of the reason why i think the film captured the american imagination is because it pushes us to think about something more complex. and each person who looks at -- people see different things. >> where did the shots come from if the shots did not all come from the book depository window, then there was most likely some form of conspiracy. >> i think that the massive head wound where the president's head was literally blown apart came from a quarter angle on the grassy knoll. he's struck and his head goes back and over this way, which would be consistent with the shot from that direction in newton's law of motion. >> seven men on the railroad bridge right here said when the shots were fired, they looked toward the wooden fence, and each of the seven said they saw puffs of white smoke coming from

here. >> underneath that green tree, you could see a little puff of smoke, a little stream of cigarette smoke. >> if anyone saw anyone with a gun on a grassy knoll, no spent cartridges were found there, not one bullet, other than the one from oswald's rifle has ever been found linked to the assassination. >> there were two men who said there were entrance wounds in the president's neck. >> if the wound in the president's throat was an entrance wound, then clearly this would be proof that the bullet came from the front. >> they have suggested this wasn't an exit wound by the president's tie, but an entry wound. but kennedy was hit in the throat from the front. >> dr. parkland didn't want to talk about the president's injuries, but the press more or less forced him to. and the wound in the president's

throat was pretty clean. he thought it was an entrance wound. >> what about this wound that you observed in the front of the president's neck? >> actually, i didn't really give it much thought and realized that perhaps it would have been better had i done so. >> there was a wound in the back of the neck that had not been seen by the parkland doctors because they never turned the body over. >> you did not turn the president over. >> no, there was really no reason to. it made little difference to me since my immediate concern was an attempt at resuscitation. >> you can explain this ad infinitum, and people will only remember that a dr. parkland will remember that he had been shot possibly from the front. so it's kind of trying to put the genie back in the bottle. >> a bullet hit the president from the back, a bullet hit him from the front. the bullet which killed him came

from the ligright front. unless the laws of physics were not working that day, the reactions of the president tells us where that shot came from. >> some critics say by the very fact that in the picture you can clearly see the explosion of the bullet on the front side of the president that that certainly indicates that the bullet came from the front. >> i don't believe any physicist has ever said that. quite the contrary, it does indicate the bullet was coming from behind. it's a minor explosion where pieces of material go generally in the direction of the bullet. >> if you look at the individual frames of the zabruda film, at 312, frame 312, the president is okay. at frame 318, 1/18 of a second later, the president is struck in the head. and what direction is the president's head pushed? not backwards but slightly forward. >> is there any doubt that the wound at the back of the

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>> cbs news inquiry, the warren report continues. >> the time span between shots is a point upon which the critics have seized. could oswald have fired three shots in 5.6 second? >> there was a lot of attention

being given to the zapruder film and when exactly the president was hit first and hit second. >> cbs news had a tower and target track constructed to match exactly the heights and distances in dealey plaza. >> if there wasn't enough time, then you would have a second shooter. oswald was not an expert shot. he was a good shot. but making the shots was not that tough at all. cbs did it. a guy from the military did it. >> three shots he got off in 2.6 seconds. >> the zapruder film became the lens through which the assassination was seen. if it didn't happen on the zapruder film it didn't happen. zapruder started his camera after the limousine was about 70 feet into dealey plaza. well, oswald had the president in his sights for many seconds before that. and this gets into the whole questions, how much time did oswald have to shoot the president?

>> there are so many interesting questions and problems that come from the film. we believe so much in the image. we believe so much in the sort of ultimate truth of film and of images. then they become our memory. >> is it impossible that the bullet would have gone through president kennedy, gone through governor connally and not suffered any more damage than is shown in this photograph? >> i would hesitate really to say that it is absolutely 100% impossible. but it is highly improbable. >> could a single bullet have wounded both president kennedy and governor connally? the single bullet theory has perhaps become the most controversial aspect of the report. >> if the warren commission couldn't prove that one bullet could shoot both men, it meant there were two shooters, and that there was a conspiracy. >> the conspiracy theorists claim the second shot was a magic bullet. they argue a bullet would have had to mike a right turn then a

left turn in mid-air. the reality is that connally was not seated directly in front of kennedy. >> if you figure out the alignment of where the men sat, and if you look down as i did and as the others did who conducted the on-site tests and had the automobile placed in the position, it is perfectly plain, i submit to you, that the bullet that exited from president kennedy's throat would have to strike either the automobile which it did not or someone else in the automobile. >> to believe that it didn't hit governor connally, that would be a real magic bullet, one that disappeared in thin air. >> the dallas county courthouse for more developments on the jack ruby verdict. jack ruby has just been found guilty of murder with malice and has been given the maximum sentence, death in the electric chair after the jury deliberated 2 hours and 25 minutes.

>> what do you think of this verdict? >> i believe that jack ruby was a paid killer to close the mouth of my son, lee harvey oswald. >> the question of whether ruby knew oswald before or was in cahoots to kill him is one of the most important questions. because ruby knew people in criminal activities, there was a lot of investigation about a potential conspiracy. >> ruby would have been one of the most unlikely and worst hit men that the mob could ever get. >> on november 24th, 1963, lee harvey oswald is supposed to have been transferred at 10:00. at 10:00, the evidence is undisputed that jack ruby was at home asleep. then he got dressed and drove downtown. >> the receipt shows that ruby was sending a money order to one of his strippers from a western union office across from the courthouse at 11:17 a.m. >> we know that at 11:20, three

minutes later, a block away, jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evidence showed that he was down there anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds. 5 to 15 seconds. if this is a hired assassin who is supposed to have some advanced information, he is the world's best gunman. >> what type of man is he? >> jack is a very emotional-type person. and as i was saying awhile ago, he's the type man that probably would give you the shirt off his back at one moment and then turn around and do something as nutty as this in the next. >> i never used the term "angry." that's not in my vocabulary. >> he was known for a quick temper. and later as it turned out, he was hooked on two kinds of speed at the time of the shooting. >> he had been here at the police station during the past

two days talking with newsmen and distributing his card, also making friends. >> jack ruby was a police and media groupie. ruby thought he was our friend. >> so i'm in this very same room friday night when we had the defendant up here. some of you will recall he asked a question from out here. no, standing right back here. i didn't know who he was. i thought he was a member of the press. and he told me as we walked out of here that he was a nightclub operator. >> ruby's act was that of a vigilante. he wanted nothing more to be known -- people to flock to his nightclub to shake the hand of the man who killed the man who killed the president. i might add, if ruby silenced oswald for the mob, who was supposed to silence jack ruby? he died of normal causes over three years later. now, one would think that the conspiracy community would fold its tent and go home.

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>> the most recent, most spectacular development in the oswald case involves the cia. it involves, too, the spectacular district attorney of new orleans, a man they call the jolly green giant. >> you believe that lee harvey oswald did not shoot president kennedy? >> i don't want to get involved in the speculations as to individuals, but i will say that there's no question about the fact that there was a plot and there were a number of individuals involved. >> in 1967, he announced "i've solved the case. i've found the real assassin." >> we will make arrests based on that, and we will make charges based on that. and we will obtain convictions based on that. >> now, you wouldn't have paid much attention to this except he was district attorney of new orleans. >> i've spent hour after hour

with tim garrison. he has presented his case to me, detail by detail. >> the mark lanes and the conspiracy theorists all flocked initially to garrison. >> and i can report that a powerful domestic force, a force that is still part of the american structure, planned and initiated those acts that resulted in the assassination of president kennedy. >> they all thought here's a guy who's finally going to bring the case that we've been arguing about for years. >> if i seem somewhat confident, it is because our office is in its fifth year and has never lost a murder case. >> the press initially built garrison up, because everybody believes no district attorney in his right mind would do this unless he had something. >> arrested this evening in the district attorney's office was clay shah, age 54, from new orleans, louisiana. mr. shaw will be charged with

participation in a conspiracy to murder john f. kennedy. >> the charges filed against me have no foundation in fact or in law. i have not been apprised of the basis of these fantastic charges, and assume that in due course i'll be afforded an opportunity to prove my innocence. >> clay shaw was a very well-respected businessman in new orleans. he had been a distinguished soldier during world war ii. >> i knew clay shaw and the concept of clay shaw being part of an assassination conspiracy was just too weird to be believed. >> clay shaw was also a homosexual and closeted and i think that played a part. >> this decision to arrest clay shaw, i believe, was intended to get the national media back to town. as soon as he arrested clay shaw they all came back. >> and then they realized the truth that there isn't anything

there. >> garrison has based his case on the certainty that he can prove clay shaw is clay or clem bertrand. the name clem bertrand was first introduced by a lawyer named dean andrews who told the warren commission a person by that telephoned him suggesting he provide legal defense for lee harvey oswald. >> dean described clem as having gay tendencies and representing gays as a lawyer. therefore, garrison believed clem bertrand must be clay shaw. that was the extent of garrison's investigation. >> do you have enough evidence now to go to trial? >> if i answered that, i shouldn't be district attorney. >> the case he has built against clay shaw is based on testimony that did not pass a lie detector test that garrison ordered and garrison knew it. >> can you say positively that the person younew as cla rtra is t the person you

have seen as clay shaw? >> scout's honor, he is not. >> garrison started bribing witnesses, intimidating witnesses. >> he said i could be made to serve this whole nine-year sentence. or i could be cut loose right away. >> hypnotizing witnesses. >> we decided to give objectifying machinery to make sure he was telling the truth. >> leon. >> leon. does leon have a last name. >> oswald. >> would you say these methods were illegal? >> i would very say illegal and unethical. >> he had everyone and their grandmother involved in the assassination. at one time it was oil millionaires. then it was the minutemen. then it was a homosexual killing. >> yes, sir. >> you feel that homosexuality or the coercion of homosexuality was a factor in the planning or the assassination of john f. kennedy? >> no comment. >> at one point he had 15 assassins in dealey plaza. with that many assassins, i don't know how kennedy made it to the autopsy table. >> garrison announced he had

discovered a code. >> garrison says jack ruby's unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> so if you take the "p" and the "o" and use a telephone dial, "p" gives you 7 and "o" gives you 6. >> he just changed the digits around, added digits, added letters. >> you reconstruct the numbers, and then you subtract 1300 and that gives you ruby's unlisted telephone number. >> mr. garrison, if the p.o. didn't exist until late '65, how could it then be jack ruby's phone number? >> well, that's a problem for you to think over, because you obviously missed the point. >> anyone who exposed garrison, he would say they're cia agents and supporting a conspiracy. >> who's suppressing this on whose order? >> the federal government is suppressing it. >> who in the federal government? >> the administration. the administration of your government is suppressing it because they know that the central intelligence agency -- >> on whose order? >> on the order of the president

of the united states. >> mr. garrison has come up with no credible evidence to support any of his theories. >> i think that it's unfortunate that the media of this country has become so hysterical for fear of what it might see that it spends a good deal of its time and energy attacking the one serious investigation. >> the results of this four months of public investigation have been to damage reputations, to spread fear and suspicion and worst of all, to exploit the nation's sorrow and doubt of president kennedy's death. >> i can't make any more comments about the case except to say anybody that thinks it's just a theory is going to be awfully surprised when it comes to trial. >> roll one sound on film clay shaw trial. clay shaw came to court in good spirit today. with his long-a waited trial under way, shaw seems almost relieved that his case is

finally being heard. shaw sits quietly in this courthouse, chain smoking cigarettes. he does not react when the state talks about things like conspiracy. >> the trial went on for six weeks. it's important to note that not one witness produced by garrison survived cross-examination. they were all proven to be unreliable at best. >> the most shameful thing you've ever seen. everyone knew in the courtroom that clay shaw couldn't possibly have been more innocent. >> in a unanimous verdict by a 12-man jury, shaw was found not guilty of charges that he conspired to kill the late president john kennedy. >> why did you do it? [ laughter ] >> after the not guilty verdict, editorials around the country, one of the darkest chapters in american jurisprudence history. it's just a crime. >> from what i saw and heard, i don't think he had proved clay shaw's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

i would have voted not guilty for clay shaw. >> i think that garrison feels that the end justifies the means. he felt if he could bring to the american people what he considered the truth about the death of their president, any means whatsoever was supposed to be used. it didn't matter much who got hurt in the process. >> i would sum it up by saying that any society which allows a man like jack kennedy to have the top of his head torn off and then protects the assassins and obstructs any inquiry and attempt to find the truth is not a great society. honestly, i'm a little old fashioned. i love chalk and erasers. but change is coming.

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>> as a reporter, the greatest story for us would have been to find out somebody other than oswald did it. and we tried hard to do that. but at every turn with the kennedy assassination, things pointed to oswald as not only a shooter but the shooter and the only shooter. >> at its core, this is a very simple case. >> did you kill the president? >> i don't know what this is all about. >> if a person is innocent of a crime, chances are there isn't going to be any evidence pointing toward his guilt. why? because he's innocent. but with oswald, the physical evidence, circumstantial evidence, scientific evidence, everything points towards his guilt. we'll never know why lee harvey oswald killed kennedy because he's dead. but there are certain things we do know. >> at the age of 13, a probation

officer said he remembered oswald as a truant, a troubled boy in need of psychiatric help without which he might turn violent. >> after starting in high school he promptly joined the marines. oswald's marine career ended in 1959 when he was dishonorably discharged. a month later he was in moscow where he announced his decision to renounce his american citizenship. >> are you an marxist? >> i would very definitely say that i am a marxist, that is correct. but that does not mean i am a communist. >> he desperately wants to become a soviet citizen, he wants to renounce his american citizenship. they turn him down? what does he do? slashes his wrists, tries to commit suicide. >> lee harvey oswald had these dreams or delusions that he'd been harboring for a long time of an act that would lift him from his obscurity. >> a squad mate of his in the marines said that oswald wanted to do something that 10,000 years from now people would be talking about. >> it looked to me like a stupid, irrational act.

the opportunity presented itself to him and he probably wanted to make a mark on society and it suddenly occurred to him that he could. >> people who think oswald was sort of a patsy and such an ineffectual, innocent person forgot that when oswald was stopped by a police car and a policeman gets out unarmed to talk to him, oswald shoots him four times in the middle of the body. that plus his previous attempt on general walker. interestingly on saturday morning in "the dallas morning news" it said that there may be a connection between this guy who was just arrested for killing a police officer and president kennedy. and this effort to assassinate general walker back in april. >> oswald used to attend a small discussion group. and he began to rail against this right wing general, edwin walker, who was calling for the invasion of cuba.

>> general walker was about as right wing as you got in the early '60s. and oswald saw walker as an american adolf hitler. and oswald said someone should kill walker. he then ordered a rifle with a sniper scope, and he planned very meticulously his assassination of general walker. he took photographs from different angles, he figured out how to get his rifle there and how to escape. >> on march 31st, a sunday, he asked marina to come out and take his photograph. >> all in black, pistol, rifle in his hand, holding a few radical newspapers, and marina writes on the back "hunter of fascists" and dates it april 6th, 1963. >> and then he went on the night of the 10th of april, took up his place and shot at general

walker. >> he came in the house 11:30. he was so pale, nervous. and i said what happened to you? and he said -- he told, "i tried to shot general walker." >> will you describe for us just what happened last night? >> rifle shot was fired into the house, fired through the west window. and hit the sill and hit the wall across the room and went over the desk at which i was sitting. >> he was very disappointed to find out that he missed by less than an inch. >> it shows his ability to plan who his target was and that oswald was capable of violence. >> i think that was kind of the rosetta stone, that if you understood the walker shooting you understood that lee was like a cocked rifle. and he could go off anytime.

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it is true that the answers to some questions leave us restless. the theory that a single bullet struck down both the president and the governor, for example, has too much of the long arm of coincidence about it for us to be entirely comfortable. >> it doesn't satisfy our sense of narrative or justice that a small person of no distinction can be of such historical consequences to kill the president of the united states. >> but what would be more comfortable? believing that a shot was fired by a second assassin that materialized out of thin air for

the purpose, fired a shot, and then vanished again into thin air, leaving behind no trace of himself, his rifle, his bullet, or any other sign of existence? >> there were two groups of people. there's one group that will look at an extraordinary coincidence, a cataclysmic circumstance and say yes, that's the way the world works. there's another group of people for whom that's quite unsettling. >> they don't want to believe that something so random could have occurred. can you believe that you could step off a curb someday and be killed by an oncoming car? nobody believes in that kind of possibility for themselves, but it happens. is life that fortuitous, that uncertain? >> and for them, oddly, the notion of a conspiracy is more comforting than the absence of it. because if there's a conspiracy, at least there's a plan.

>> i think the five bullets fired from at least two different directions were the result of a conspiracy. >> kennedy's killing touches off a belief in the idea, you can't trust government. >> there has been a loss of morale, a loss of confidence among the american people toward their own government and the men who serve it. that is perhaps more wounding than the assassination itself. >> they've lost so much faith in government that they actually think that the government is an accessory after the fact for the president's murder. can't get too much worse than that. >> the assassination changed the trajectory of the '60s. america was a different place on the day before john f. kennedy was killed. so when you look at america as a whole in the 20th century, you look at america in the '60s, you

really say, that day was a dividing point. >> i guess in the average man's life there are two or three emotional experiences that he doesn't forget because they're burned into his heart and his brain. and no matter what happens to me, i'll remember november 22nd as long as i live. and it's impossible for me now to this day, and i'm sure ten years from now, to go to dallas without looking at the sixth floor of the depository building, and it's impossible for me to drive by the texas hotel today and not think of that morning when president kennedy spoke there. it will always be with us. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, the two bushes, even bill clinton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images.

>> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy.

he changed tv news forever. >> most of my colleagues thought ted was nuts. >> sailing, media, environment, the united nations. >> a billion is a good round number, you know? >> you know you changed the world. >> yeah, i know. >> they