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 book depository building to find the -- >> mr. president -- >> oswald has been shot at point blank range fired into his stomach. >> police are working on the assumption that oswald's murder

was to shut him up. >> elements 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.

in dallas, preparations were already under way 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 not to anticipate some trouble. i don't really anticipate any violence. >> here comes air force number one, the president's plane now touching down. >> there's 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. connelly. >> it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and his influence to get all 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 has departed the limousine and is reaching out shaking hands. >> in those hands everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy, and i saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children now swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes the egg shells 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. >> thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now which will be downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone. they were at the parade. my father had been invited to have lunch with kennedy at the trade center. there was a mood, a climate of excitement. >> the speech of president kennedy at the dallas trade mart will be broadcast by 507 radio. stay tuned for the president's dallas speech at the trade mart on 570 radio. ♪ ♪

>> in dallas three shots were fired at the motorcade 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. >> just turn the mike on. what do you want? you want me to move back a little bit? is it all right now? is this all right? ladies and gentlemen, i'll introduce to you the chief cameraman and assistant news

director of wfaa television. this is burt ship. we have brought the people pretty much up to date. would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point? >> i was standing at the trade mart waiting for his arrival there. all of a sudden, the -- we saw them approaching. they didn't slow down. as a matter of fact, they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us. then i jumped in the police car and went to the hospital. these two men came running in. one of them had a large machine gun and they were hollering for stretchers and cots and everything. the governor, they brought him in first. >> what happened after this? >> well, then the president come in behind him and they took both of them. >> albert thomas, democrat of 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 hags not arrived here. a group of secret servicemen and other officials has gathered where the president would normally enter and discussing heatedly with one another some subject or other. of course we have no idea what. >> here is an announcement from the platform. mr. eric johnson with an announcement. >> it is true that our president and governor connally in the motorcade have been shot. we shall tell you as much as we know as soon as we know anything. thank you.

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a gentleman just walked in our studio that i am meeting for the first time as well as you, wfae tv in dallas, texas. may i have your name please? >> my name is abraham zapruder. >> would you tell us your story please sir? >> i got out about a half hour earlier, getting a good shot to shoot some pictures. >> my little boy and myself were on the grass by ourselves on parma street and i asked joe to wave to him and joe waved and i waved. and a man -- that's all right, sir. >> as he was waving back, he was -- the shot came and he slumped on the seat. >> all of a sudden the next one popped and governor connally grabbed his stomach and kind of laid over to the side and another one, it was just all so quick and president kennedy reached up and grabbed, looked like grabbed his ear and blood just started gushing out. >> did you see the person who

fired? >> no, i didn't see any person fire the weapon. >> you only heard it. >> i only heard it. i 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 around looking for a safe place. >> mr. johnson's whereabouts are being kept secret for security reasons. if anyone knows where mr. johnson is, it is not us at this moment. >> there was a signal moment in our cultural history. suddenly it occurred to us the right thing to do is to turn on television. >> reports continue to come in in a confused and fragmentary 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? >> absolutely shocked. stunned. we have the same birthday. i was 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 so someone shoots him? >> a flash on dallas. two priests who were with president kennedy say he is dead. 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 kilduff, 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. i remember he put his fingers like this on the desk and pressed very hard to stop his hands trembling. >> john f. kennedy died at approximately 1:00 central standard time today here in dallas. he died from 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. that 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 krounds acrowds are stan stunned silence and sorrow in the rain. 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 died. i just can't believe it. >> ma'am? >> i can't. >> like a daze. you don't know what's 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 were radiating out from the scene, itself. it was very pervasive. >> secret service agents thought the gun fire was from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. >> i saw police run up the grassy surface. i thought they're chasing a gunman. i ran with them. >> the report is that the attempted asassins, we now hear it was a man and a woman. >> i got to the top, looked around. a policeman went over the fence, so i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> the television newsman said that he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> it was originally thought the shots came from in here and now it is believed the shots came from this building here. >> police officers running back toward the depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> the center of downtown dallas

is in a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors of the texas book depository building in an effort to find the suspected assassin. >> in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near a window partially blocked off by boxes of books and also the shells fired from a rifle. >> lieutenant j.c. day just came out of that building with a british 303 rifle. >> it was a 7.65 mauzer. >> high powered army or japanese rifle of 25 caliber. >> a 30/30 rifle. >> much of the first things you hear are going to be wrong. and to some degree, you are constantly trying to separate out what seemed to be a fact. >> in dallas a dallas policeman a short while ago was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. >> j.d. tippet a good,

experienced police officer was 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 the 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 and grab this man trying to run with him. they shouted murderer and the officers hustled him into the car and ran away with him 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.

>> paul bentley. >> approached him and as he approached me, the man hit mcconnell in the face with his left hand, reached for the pistol with his right hand and i grabbed him along with two or three other officers. >> what did he say to you after he was arrested? >> he just said, this is it. it's all over with now.

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this is a picture of him. he probably does not look exactly like this now after he has been questioned. that's lee oswald.

>> the president was shot and a police officer was shot. then someone named 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 had applied for soviet citizenship. >> the description that we have of the suspect in oak cliff was singular to the description we had and the man 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, 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 was put through the door. i don't know if you saw him. oswald lives at 1026 north beckly. he's an employee of a book firm

in the building which the police and secret servicemen believe the president was shot from today. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance from the hospital to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> they come out and told us that we would have to help remove the remains into a kentucky. >> lyndon johnson had ordered that the body be brought immediately to airforce one, so there was a little tug of war that 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. one of the secret servicemen, well, about two or three of them got into the hearse and just

drove off and left mr. o'neill and the rest of us just standing there. >> vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation's capital. >> not everyone realized that johnson was already the president because he had in fact 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 and also, perhaps, he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination. >> lyndon baines johnson is flying back to washington to take the rains eins of governme 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 date when a president was created. >> is there any doubt in your mind that oswald is the man who killed the president? >> i think this is the man who killed the president. >> is there any evidence anyone 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 shoot the president? >> i work in that building. >> were you in the building at the time? >> naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. >> back up, man. >> did you kill the president? >> no. they're taking me in because of the fact that i lived in the soviet union. i'm just a patsy. >> this is room 317, homicide, here at the dallas police station. as you see, they are bringing

the weapon allegedly used in the assassination of president john f. kennedy this afternoon at 12:30 here in dallas. >> 6.5 apparently made in 1940. >> police have traced a rifle purchased in chicago by mail order to oswald. he bought it under the alias of a. huddle. handwriting experts have established that the handwriting on the purchase order was in fact made by oswald. at the price of $12.78, the life of the president of the 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 trying to solve the crime. >> can you hold him in the doorway? >> they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters.

>> well, i was questioned by a judge. however, i protested at that time that i was not allowed legal representation. >> in bringing oswald out, they were, of course, doing something 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 at him. >> did you kill the president? >> no, i've 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. >> sir? >> what did you do in russia? >> a policeman hit me. >> at 1:35 this morning a complaint was read that charged, quote, lee harvey oswald did

voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill john fr. 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 that virtually everyone in dallas law enforcement knew oswald had killed kennedy. >> chief, can you tell us in summary whatirectly 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 and the fact he was seen carrying a package to the building. >> after the shooting, oswald was the only employee at the book depository that fled the building. 45 minutes later he shoots and kills officer j.d. tippet. half hour later at the texas theater he resisted arrest by

pulling his gun on the arresting officer. >> just opened. >> during 12 hours of interrogation by the dallas police department over the weekend, he told one provable lie after another. >> did you fire that rifle? >> that's the information you people have been given but i emphatically deny these charges. >> within a day or so they'r thr they discovered what a complete nut this guy was. they were satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that oswald had acted alone. >> only one thing that i can tell you without going into the evidence, that this case has cinched that this man killed the preside president. there is no question in my mind about it. >> we plan to transfer this man not tonight. by no later than 10:00 in the morning, that will be early enough. >> chief, do you have any concerns for the safety of your prisoner in view of the high feeling of the people of dallas over the assassination of the

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all right. let's go. >> 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 usain 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 are 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 am presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building. it is like an armed camp. police officials are, frankly, worried. they don't want anything to happen to oswald. >> through this corridor of 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. >> let me have it. i want it. >> being led out by captain prince. there is the prisoner. there is -- [ gunshot ] >> he's been shot. he's been shot. lee oswald has been shot. there's a man with a gun. 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. >> yes. >> commander, do you know? >> 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? >> he was here. they put the gun there. i could see the flash on the belly. >> point blank range. >> yes. >> in the group of men right here. >> i thought he was one of the detectives. he had a hat. >> the situation is now that lee oswald has been shot. the man who saw the shot fired said it was fired by a man wearing a black hat, 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 is ashen and unconscious at this time now being moved in. he's not moving. he's in the ambulance now. police are quickly climbing in. the ambulance is leaving dallas police headquarters. >> where will he be taken? >> parkland hospital. the irony of ironies, the place where president john f. kennedy died. >> i believe the man -- >> don't take the microphone. 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. trial because killing him just - like that ain't nothing because it ain't going to bring president kennedy back to life. after he gets a trial they should let him out on the street and let the people kill him. >> they should not only have killed him but cut him up in pieces. >> put him in the fire for one day and then the next day start again. >> thank you. >> a man that i believe i didn't see it. i think it's the man. >> what does 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 someone who was known to the police. >> do you know the subject? do you know him? have you seen him? >> yes, i do. >> is he from dallas? >> yes. >> he is. 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. >> dallas city hall is normally a public building, but today it was really under armed guard. is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? >> as far as i know. i just got it from vick robertson. >> vick 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 at 1:07 p.m. we have arrested the man. the man will be charged with murder. >> who is he?

>> the suspect's name is jack rubenstein, i believe. he goes by the name of jack ruby. >> and here an associated press 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 was going on? >> just learned from city hall from a very authoritative source that police are working on the assumption that there indeed is a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald and that in some manner of speaking, oswald's

murder was to shut him up. >> he 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. >> to commend what he did, i think he ought to win the congressional medal of honor and a lot of other good american citizens think he did the right thing shooting down this communist. word also now from dallas that the homicide chief has now said that the case of president kennedy's assassination is closed with the death of oswald. it may not, however, be the opinion of the u.s. secret service or the federal bureau of investigation. een called the bek of its class. really, guys, i thought...

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our nation is bereaved. 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 shoals of treacherous seas that encompass the world. and now that he is relieved of the almost super human 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 own who was a victim of friday's tragedy, officer j. j.d.tippit. >> there was a funeral of a very different sort today in nearby ft. worth. this was the dreary funeral of lee harvey oswald, alleged murderer of president kennedy. the pathetic group of mourners included oswald's mother, margarette, his wife marina, his brother robert, and oswald's two children, one of them a babe in arms. the six pall bearers you see here are newsmen. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pall bearers.

>> 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, every vestige of the signs of the personal touches of president kennedy. >> we know from history that one test of societies is how do they handle transfer of power at the top? lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, and 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 swear by the rule of law. >> the president of the united states.

>> 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 onboard with him. so that speech means everything. >> no words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began.

>> 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 were forever denied the why. people at the time believed he did it. the question was, why? >> there are questions continui continuing about the coming out of the possibility of an international plot. >> there was still all this that the russians might be behind it or cuba might be behind it. johnson sees it as a real danger in that you want to put these rumors to rest investigations into all of the facts of these last four days may not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen have already suggested a congressional

investigation. >> killing a president wasn't a federal crime at the time, so you had the federal government intervening in still what was a local murder. there certainly was a concern of competing investigations. there was the dallas criminal investigation, the state of texas court of inquiry, and committees on both sides of congress while, of course, 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. i've got to have a top blue ribbon presidential commission to investigate this assassination. i want to ask chief justice warren to be chairman. >> 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 is 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 they ought to be satisfying 90% of the american public opinion. >> if you'd think about it but i couldn't sit with chief justice warren. i don't like that man. >> you'd 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 damn sure are 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'd 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 now, still. >> you mean you gave the announcement? >> yes, sir. i gave the announcement. it's already in the papers. you're on it. >> i think you did wrong getting warren. no way you did wrong getting me. >> i think that's what you'll do. that's the kind of american both of you are. i don't want to think about the alternative. i don't even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last. i try not to worry, but you worry. what happens when your paychecks stop? because everyone has retirement questions. ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. to get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today.

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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 semifinal word and that the commission's job would be to read it and essentially endorse the findings of the report. >> the members of the warren commission, earl warren, john sherman cooper, jerry ford, hale boggs, richard russell, and john

j. mccloy realized at their initial meet theg 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 the commission had to grapple with. did oswald commit the physical act of the murder and if he did, 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 -- well, not very far, about two hours from it. >> there were questions, how would they deal with the different stories about the shooters from the grassy knoll and shooters from different directions? >> the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions. there were 94 witnesses that

appeared before the commission. >> lyndon johnson wants the report out so it doesn't interfere with the election in november. >> warren left for dallas because he was a man who had spent his early career as a prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in 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 were all the suggestions ruby killed oswald to silence him. i think warren wanted to hear from ruby himself. >> the warren commission realized they'd have to invest a lot more time than anticipated. maybe a two or three-month operation to the conception that it would probably take six months. >> the hour glass of time was running out on them. >> can you say if you still think it was one man? >> i think we better not get into that area, you know. the report will cover all of that in great detail. >> labored ten months then

brought forth a document close to a thousand pages. president johnson received that report today. >> what the public understood and what i understood is 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 the 27th. 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 answers he acted alo alone. >> we knew most people aren't going to read all the commission report so cbs news brought to the public what the commission itself found. >> 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 rifle. the mail order purchase slip for that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald's palm print was found on a surface of the gun. >> the media had all concluded that 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 school book depository

the cumulative evidence of eyewitness, firearms, and ballistics experts and medical authorities demonstrated that the shots were fired from above and behind president kennedy and governor connally. >> when the warren commission came out with their report, the majority of americans accepted the findings of the warren commission. >> the bullet entered here, came out just below the president's adams apple. the commission believes that the same bullet then entered the right shoulder of governor connally, passed out through his chest, continued through his right wrist, and on into his left thigh. >> the report has been generally accepted throughout the country. i think it reflects the tlurness with which they went into it and it has dispeld many rumors and speculations that surrounded this very tragic event. >> i'm quite satisfied it has been very well covered entirely and leaves no doubt in my mind that lee actually did assassinate the president of the

united states. >> in the end we find confronting each other the liar, the misfit, the defector on the one hand and seven distinguished americans on the other. and yet exactly here we must be careful that 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, professional skeptics, 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 best seller on the nonfiction list in the country. "rush to judgment" by mark lane. it has gained a vast number of readers in the ground swell of skepticism about the findings of the warren report. >> we did not envision the breadth and the scope of the criticism. >> the author has some highly provocative and 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 while the commercials were on. >> what are you saying, david? >> well, i think i disagree almost totally with mark lane on several counts. i don't know where to begin. >> let me show you some just in case we have a chance. that is a picture of jack ruby. this was taken five minutes after the assassination from the texas school book depository building. the commission said ruby was not there. this is a picture showing how the commission published it. he wasn't there when they published the picture. >> you know what you're doing? >> they cropped him out. >> chief justice warren and that commission -- >> tell me some facts instead of your deep faith in the chief justice. how about that? >> you are accusing them of deliberate malfeasance. >> you are part of the media which prevented the american people from find ougt what happened until now. >> you are alarming the american people. >> i say they should be alarmed. >> the public had been kept in the dark for so long about this but had an undying thirst which

can only be quenched by getting facts. >> we have a right to know who killed our president and why he died and we can't get that by reading the warren report. >> the critics of the warren commission have three different points of view. one, we were simply incompetent. two, we were thoroughly corrupt. and then there's those that say both of the above. >> i want someone to tell me that to my face. that's a man interviewino.for a job. not that one. that one. the one who seems like he's already got the job 'cause he studied all the right courses from the get-go. and that's an accountant, a mom, a university of phoenix scholarship recipient, who used our unique --scratch that-- awesome career-planning tool. and that's a student, working late, with a day job, taking courses aligned with the industry he's aiming to be in. ready to build an education around the career that you want?

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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, they can create a lot of mischief. >> i believe very firmly that ruby and oswald knew each other and certainly tippit and ruby knew each other. >> before we proceed with that questioning let me ask you what kind of conspiracy, do you think it was a communist, left wing, right wing conspiracy? >> i am convinced that there were two riflemen. >> the warren commission was set up as you know at the request and urging of the communist party. >> he told us he was working for somebody else at that moment and that somebody else would not be anyone else than fidel castro. >> there is no possibility of oswald having been in the sixth floor window of the texas school book depository. >> might have been the servant

of the communist school of violence. >> there was an entire world of assassination buffs. some raised valid questions. >> could a bullet come out looking like this? >> another one of the very many highly improbables that we are asked to accept by the warren commission if we are to accepted the validity of their full report. >> some had completely mad series. >> killed by a karate chop to the throat in september i believe of 1964. >> but everyone i believed had a right to give their views. >> you have apparently succeeded in persuading the majority of the american people that we cannot trust the most august conceivable panel to do a responsible job. >> you talk about faith in these institutions or faith in the fbi as if it's a religious experience to read the warren report. i think to the contrary to have faith in a 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. i mean, we're deeply enmeshed in vietnam. a lot of protests and riots and a sense that things have seriously gone wrong. we've gone off the rails since november '63. 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 there's more involved in it than just oswald. >> i don't know how in the world we could ever reach a conclusion that one person assassinated him. this is ridiculous. i saw the whole thing on television. i just happened to be home at that time. >> i don't think oswald -- i think he was working for the cia.

>> why doesn't america believe the warren report? >> because of the conspiracy theorists 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 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. this is your country. >> we aren't trying to hide a thing from you or mr. epstein or mr. lane or the world. we are laying it all out. it's right here in the notes of testimony. if we have transposed in error a possibly into a possibly, then

we are delighted to have you point out to us but you can do so only because we've 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 zapruder stood behind that low concrete wall looking down at elm street. >> as the president is coming down from houston street making his turn he was about half way down and had a shot. another shot or two. i couldn't tell if it was one or two. i saw his head practically open up. all blood and everything.

i kept on shooting. >> the warren commission would use the film and each frame to reconstruct each moment of the assassination. >> part of the irene 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 it, you know, 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 quartering angle on the grassy knoll. he struck and his head didn't go directly back this way but goes back and over this way, which would be consistent with the shot from that direction and newton's law of motion. >> seven men on a railroad bridge right here said when the shots were fired they looked toward the wooden fence. each of the seven said he saw puffs of white smoke come from

here. >> underneath that green tree, you can see a little puff of smoke. it looked like a puff of steam or cigarette smoke. >> when you stop to think about it, did he see anyone with a gun or rifle on the grassy knoll? no expended cartridges were found there. not one bullet other than those fired from oswald's rifle has ever been found and linked to the assassination. >> now, there were two doctors and one priest who claimed that, who said flatly there were entrance wounds in the president's neck. >> if the wound in the president's throat was an entrance point, then, clearly, this would be proof that the bullet came from the front. >> mr. lane has suggested that this wasn't an exit wound by the president's tie but an entry wound. that kennedy was hit in the throat from the front. >> the doctor of 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 to 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 very little difference to me since my immediate concern was the attempted resuscitation. >> you can explain this ad infinitum and people will only remember that a doctor at parkland said he had been shot from possibly the front. so it's, you know, kind of trying to put the genie back in the bottle. a bullet hit the president from the back. the bullet hit him from the front. the bullet which killed him came

from the right front. unless the laws of physics were not working that day, the reaction of the president tells us where that shot came from. >> some critics say in the picture you can clearly see the explosion on the front of the president, that clearly indicates the bullet came from the front. >> i don't believe any physicist ever said that. quite contrary it indicates the bullet came 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 zapruder film, at frame 312 the president's head is okay. at frame 313, 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

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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 seconds? >> there was a lot of attention given to the zapruder film and when exactly the president was hit first and then hit second. >> cbs news had a target and tower tract constructed to measure exactly heights and distances in deeley 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. the 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. he started his camera after the limousine was about 70 feet into deeley plaza. oswald had the president in his sites for many seconds before

that. and this gets into the whole question 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. and 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 that wounded both president kennedy and governor connally, the single bullet has become perhaps the most controversial aspect of the report. >> if the warren commission couldn't prove that one shot had hit both men, that meant there were two shooters ipso facto there is a conspiracy. >> the conspiracy theorists claim the second shot was a

magic bullet. they argue that a bullet would have had to make a right turn and 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 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 it didn't hit governor connally, that would be a real magic bullet that disappeared in thin air. >> to 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 two 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 was supposed to have been transferred at 10:00. at 10:00. the evidence is undisputed that jack ruby was home asleep. then he got dressed and drove downtown. >> the receipt shows 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 at 11:20 three mints later a block away jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evidence showed that he was there anywhere from five to 15 seconds. if this is a hired assassin who is supposed to have some advanced information, he is the world's best --. >> what type of man is he? >> jack is a very emotional type person. as i was saying a while ago he is a type of man who would give you the shirt off his back one moment and turn around and do something as nutty as this next. >> i never get the term angry. it'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 and distributing his card and 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. if some of you will recall he asked a question from out here. i didn't know who he was. i thought he was a member of the press. he told me as we walked out of here he was the night club operator here ruby's act was that of a vigilante. he wanted nothing more to be known, people to flock to his night club to shake the hand of the man who killed the president. -- the man who killed the man who killed the president. >> who was supposed to silence jack ruby? he died of normal causes or three years later. one would think that the conspiracy community would fold

its hat and go home but they continued undaunted and unfazed with this obsession. >> their game is to fool you. these people want the investigation stopped. they don't want a trial at all. please believe me. jake and i have been best friends for years. one of our favorite things to do is going to the dog park together. sometimes my copd makes it hard to breathe. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes.

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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. >> do you believe lee harvey oswald did not shoot president kennedy? >> i don't want to get involved in the speculation of individuals but i will say that there is 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 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 spent hour after hour with jim garrison.

he has presented his case to me detail by detail. >> the mark lanes and the conspiracy theorists all flocked initially to garrison. >> 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 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 shaw, age 54, of 1313 north

beam street, new orleans, louisiana. mr. shaw will be charged with participation in a conspiracy to murder john f. kennedy. >> 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 will be faced with this information and 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. the concept of clay shaw as be ing part of the assassination conspiracy was 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 clin berkelin first introduced by a lawyer named dean andrews who told the warren commission a person by that name telephoned him suggesting he provide legal defense for lee oswald. >> he had described clem berkeelin as having guy tendencies and representing guys 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? >> well, if i answered that, i shouldn't be district attorney. >> the case he has built is based on testimony that didn't pass a lie detector test garrison ordered and garrison

knew it. >> are you saying positively the person you knew was not the person you see as clay shaw? >> scout's honor. >> garrison started bribing witnesses, intimidating witnesses. >> he said i'd be made to serve the whole nine-year sentence or i could be cut loose right away. >> hypnotising witnesses. >> we decided to give him objectifying machinery to make sure he was telling the truth. >> leon. does leon have a last name? >> oswald. >> would you say these methods were illegal? >> i would say very illegal and unethic unethical. >> he had everyone and their grandmother involved in the assassination. at one time it was oil millionaires. then it was the minute men. then it was a homosexual killing. >> yes, sir. >> do you feel that homosexuality or coercion for homosexuality was a factor in the assassination of john f. kennedy? >> no comment. >> at one point he had 16 assassins in deeley plaza. with that many, 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. >> sir, you take the p. and o. and use the telephone, p. gives you 7. o. gives you 6. >> he just changed the digits around, added digits, added letters. >> and you reconstruct the numbers than, then you subtract 1300, and that gives you ruby's unlisted telephone number. >> well, mr. garrison, if the p.o. didn't exist until late '65 how could it then be jack ruby's phone number? >> that's a problem for you to think over because you obviously miss the point. >> whenever anyone would expose garrison he would then say they're cia agents. because he's part of the conspiracy. >> who is suppressing all this information on whose order? >> i'll tell you who. 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 it is 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 the four months of public investigation have been damaged reputations, to spread fear and suspicion. worst of all, to exploit the nation's sorrow and doubts about president kennedy's death. >> i can't make any more comments about the case except to say if anybody thinks it's just a theory is going to be awful surprised twle comes to trial. >> roll one on film. clay shaw trial. >> clay shaw came to court in good spirits today. with his long awaited trial under way shaw seems almost relieved 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 >> clay, my first question. why did you do it? >> 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 didn't think he had proven clay

shaw's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. i would have voted not guilty for clay shaw. >> i think that mr. garrison feels that the end justifies the means. and he felt that if he could bring to the american people what he considered the truth about the death of their president, any means whatsoever was to be used and 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 in an attempt to find the truth, is not a great society.

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information concerning the cause of the death of your president has been withheld from you. >> to show you how uncredible the con spirsists are, over the last 50 years at one time or another, they have accused 42 groups, 82 assassins, and 214 people of being involved in the assassination. >> could oswald really have done

there? >> 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 is not going to be any evidence pointing toward guilt. why? because he's innocent. but with oswald, the physical evidence, the direct and circumstantial evidence, scientific evidence, everything points toward his guilt. we'll never know why lee harvey oswald killed kennedy because he is dead. but there are certain things we do know. >> at the age of 13, a probation officer said he remembered oswald as a truant, 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. >> i would very definitely say that i am a marxist. that is correct. but that does not mean, however, i'm 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? he slashes his wrist and tries to commit suicide. >> lee harvey oswald had these dreams or delusions that he had 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 an -- a

stupid, irrational act. the opportunity presented itself to him and he probably wanted to make a mark on society by proving 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 lawker. interestingly on saturday morning in "the dallas morning news" it said there may be a connection between this guy 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 who was calling for the

invasion of cuba. >> general walker was about as right wing as you got in the early '60s. oswald saw walker as an american adolph hitler. >> 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 of 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 come in the house 11:30. he was so pale, nervous, and i said, what happened? he said -- he told -- i tried to shot general walker. >> will you describe for us just what happened last night? >> rifle shot, fired into the house. fired through the west window. and hit the cell 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 any time.

♪ >> what set the conspiracy notion about the kennedy assassination among many americans was the sheer incongruity of the affair. all of it wiped out in one instance by a skinny weak little character.

>> it is true that the answers to some questions leave us restless. the theory that a single bullet struck down 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 killed the president of the united states. >> but would we be more comfortable believing that a

second shot was fired by a second assassin who 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 cataclysm of circumstance and say, yes, that's the way the world works. there's another group of people for whom that is quite unsettling. >> they don't want to believe that something so random could have occurred. can you believe that you can step off a curb some day 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 the 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, 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. and 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 to 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 this america as a whole in the 20th century, you look at america in the 60s, you really say, that day was the

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 will remember november the 22nd as long as i live. it is impossible for me to this day, and i'm sure ten years from now to drive through dallas and look at the book dismissouri tour building and impossible to drive by this morning and not think about the day president kennedy died there. it will always be with us. >> kennedy, along side other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan and two bushes, even bill clinton, people, they don't remember what they did, but they remember their rhetoric.

and 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 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. feel about kennedy. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com thursday on the sixties. ♪ ♪ nobody's right if everybody's wrong young people speaking their minds ♪ ♪ getting so much resistance from behind it's time we stop ♪

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