>> in 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 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 demissouri tour building to find assassin. >> did you shoot the president? >> i'm just a patsy. >> oswald has been fired at point blank range, fired into his stomach. >> police are working on the assumption that oswald's murder was to shut him up.

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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, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. i don't really -- 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. and i can see his sun tan 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. connolly, governor connolly on your left. >> it was whether kennedy, using all his charisma and 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 is not in his limo, he is reaching across the fence shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get a lot 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 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 was 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 in 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 radio. stay tuned for the dallas speech at the trade mart. on 570 radio. ♪ ♪ ♪ work hard in the daytime rest easy at night ♪ ♪ big boss man won't you hear me when i call ♪ ♪ yeah big boss man won't you hear me when i call ♪ ♪ well you ain't so big you just

tall and that's all ♪ >> this bulletin just into the news. three shots were fired at the motorcade of president kennedy. today in downtown dallas. >> police radios are carrying that the president has been hit. >> parkland hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound. >> this is walter cronkite, in our newsroom. and -- there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> just turn the mic on. i can't hear you, johnny. 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 would like to introduce to you the chief cameraman. and assistant news director. bert, we have brought the people pretty much up to date.

would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point? >> well, i was standing at the trade mart, waiting for his arrival there. all of a sudden we saw them approaching, they didn't slow down, as a matter of fact, they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us. and then i jumped into a police car and went to parkland. >> these two men come in and one of them had a large machine gun and they were hollering for the cots and the stretcher and everything. >> what happened? >> then the president came in behind him and they took both of them back -- >> albert thomas, democrat of texas is standing outside the corridor of the emergency room said he has been told the president was still alive but in very critical condition. >> the president has not arrived here. a group of secret service men and other officials has gathered where the president normally would enter and discussing

heatedly with one another some subject or other, of course we have no idea what. >> now, here is an announcement from the platform. mr. eric johnson with an announcement. >> it is true, our president, governor connolly in the motorcade, have been shot. we shall tell you as much as we know as soon as we know anything. thank you. i live in a luxury penthouse overlooking central park. when the guests arrive, they're greeted by my butler, larry. my helipad is being re-surfaced so tonight we travel by more humble means. at my country club, we play parlor games with members of the royal family. yes i am rich. that's why i drink the champagne of beers.

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this is wfaa tv in dallas, texas. >> my name is abraham zapruder. >> zapruder? >> yes, sir. >> will you tell us your story. >> i got up about a half hour earlier, in order to shoot some pictures. five-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves on the grass on palmer street. and i asked joe to wave to him. and joe waved and i waved -- >> that is all right, sir. >> as he was waving back he was -- the shot rang out and he slumped down in his seat. >> and then this next one popped and governor connelly grabbed his stomach and kind of laid over to the side. and then another one. it was just all so fast 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 it? >> no, i didn't see the person who fired the weapon. >> you only heard it? >> i only heard it and i looked up and saw this 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 parkland 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, his whereabouts are being kept secret for security reasons. if anyone knows where mr. johnson is, it is not us at this moment. >> it was a signal moment in our cultural history. suddenly it occurred to us the right thing to do is turn on the television. >> reports continue to come in but in a confused and fragmentary fashion. >> president kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at parkland hospital here in dallas

in an attempt 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'm absolutely shocked. stunned. we have the same birthday. i am just crazy about him. >> who would want to shoot the president? what did he do? i mean, he has been doing so much for the country. someone goes ahead and shoots him. >> a flash from dallas, who priests who were with president kennedy say he is dead of 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. >> 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. >> 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.

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 crowds are standing around in silence and sorrow in the rain. the strange thing is you don't even notice it is 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 -- like a daze, 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. >> the secret service agents thought the gunfire came from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. >> i thought they were chasing a gunman and i ran with them. >> the report is that the attempted assassin, 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. >> a television newsman said 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 that the shots came from here, and now it is believed the shots came from this building here. >> the police officers are running back to the texas school depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> in the federal downtown building, they are combing the area in an effort to find the suspected assassin.

>> in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near an area that had been partially blocked off by boxes of books and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. >> crime lab lieutenant day came out of that building with a british .303 rifle. >> it was a 7.65 mauser. >> a high-powered army or japanese rifle pt >> a .3030 rifle. >> much of the first things you hear are going to be wrong and to some degree you were constantly trying to separate out what seemed to be a fact. >> in dallas, just a short while ago, a police officer was shot. and killed while chasing a suspect. >> j.d.tippit 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 person who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. >> the police dragged him out of theater. as the crowd started to break they grabbed this man and tried to run with him. they shouted "murder" and the officers 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 is just after a dallas policeman was shot in the vicinity of a downtown movie house. >> paul bentley. >> how did you approach him? >> i approached him and as he

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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 is shot. and 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 had of the suspect in oak cliff was similar 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 it to him in any way. >> down in the third floor corridor, a crowd of cameramen reporters wait for the possibility to see the man accused of killing the president and a dallas police officer. >> now, 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 which the police and

sect servicemen believe the president was shot today. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> everybody in the emergency room, the hospital was -- on the first floor they came and said we would have to remove the remains to a casket. >> lyndon johnson ordered that body be brought immediately to air force one. so there was a little tug of war. they almost shook the crucifix off the top of the coffin as they were trying to get him into the hearse from the hospital. >> one of the secret service men, well, about two or three of them got into the hearse and just drove off and left the rest of them 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 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. and also perhaps he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination. >> lyndon 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 see november 22nd, 1963 as a date the president was killed. but it was also a date when the

president was created. >> is there any doubt in your mind chief that oswald is the man that 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 in this shooting. >> at this time we don't believe so. >> i don't know what this is all about. >> did you kill the president? >> no, sir, i didn't. >> sir? >> did you shoot the president? >> i work in that building. >> were you in that building at the time? >> naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. >> back up, man. >> taken in because of the fact that i lived in the -- >> did you shoot the president? >> i'm just a patsy. >> this is room 317, homicide burro 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 made in italy in 1940. >> police have traced a rifle purchased in chicago by mail order to oswald. he bought it under the alias, of a.heidel. handwriting analysts have confirmed that the handwriting on the purchase order was in fact made by oswald. 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 try and solve a crime. >> move in the doorway, get him in the doorway. >> on the other hand they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters. >> well, i was questioned by

a guj, but i protested at that time that i was not allowed legal representation. >> 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. >> sir? >> you have been charged? >> nobody said what? >> okay. >> what did you do in russian? >> oswald. >> how did you hurt your eye? >> 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 summery 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 -- >> when was he carrying that package? >> yesterday morning. >> yesterday morning in the dilly plaza he was the only one in the book depository that fled the building. 45 minutes later he shoots and kills officer j.d. tippit. by pulling a gun on an officer. during 12 hours of

interrogationy 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 i can tell you without going into the evidence that this case is cinched, that this man killed the president. there is no question 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. why, it will -- that will be early enough for him. >> chief, do you have any concern for the safety of your prisoner in due of the high feeling of the people in dallas over the assassination of the president? >> no, but cautions will be

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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 waiting 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 is the situation? >> i'm presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it's like an armed camp. police officials are frankly worried. they don't want anything to happen to oswald. >> it is through this corridor of newsmen, photographers and

policement 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. >> being led out by captain prince. >> he went out by captain fritz. >> there is lee. he's been shot. he's been shot. lee oswald has been shot. there is a man with a gun. it's absolute panic. absolute panic here in the

basement of the 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's shot. he is shot. oswald -- >> it is oswald. >> did he shoot the man? >> or do you know? >> that's 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? >> he was here. they just put the gun there. i saw the flash on the black sweater. >> did you see the gun to his stomach? >> i saw right here. he was in a group of men right here. >> masquerading as one of us or what? >> i thought it was one of the detective. he had a hat. >> the situation is now that lee harold 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 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 is not moving. he's in the ambulance now. attendanlt -- attendanlts -- attendants, police are quickly moving in. the ambulance is leaving dallas police headquarters. where will he be taken? >> i'm assuming parkland hospital. >> parkland hospital. ironies of ironies, the place where john f. kennedy died. >> roll. >> 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. >> they should give him a fair trial because killing him just like that ain't nothing. because that ain't going to bring president kennedy back to life. and after you get him, let him out and on the street and let the people kill him. >> they should not only shoot him but cut him up in the pieces. >> put him everywhere in the fire and set it up and for a next day and the next day start again. >> thank you. >> the man that i believe i didn't see it. i think it's the man. >> you got him? what does he look like? >> i can't give you a description now. he is known locally. >> immediately after the ambulance left, somehow i begun to suspect that maybe the shooter was someone who was known to the police. >> do you know this subject? do you know him? have you seen him before? >> 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? >> bob, i wouldn't want to say. >> right. >> dallas city hall is normally a public building, but today it was really under armed guard. >> we -- is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? >> as far as i know. >> vic robertson from city hall hall reports that jack ruby, the owner of the carousal, 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. >> and here at associated press, a still picture of the moment, the splint 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 an authoritative source,

that police are working on the assumption that there, 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 fritz has just told me that ruby said 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 would be a hero. he killed the guy who killed the president. >> i commend what he did. i think he ought to win the congressional honor for it and a lot of other good american citizens think he did 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

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the 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 own who was a victim of friday's tragedy. officer j.d. tippit. >> it was a funeral of a very different sort today in nearby fort worth. it was the funeral of lee harvey oswald. the mourners included his mother, his wife, his brother robert, and oswald's two

children, one was a babe in arms. the six pallbearers were news men. 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 aids removed every scrap, every vestige of the signs of the personal touches of president kennedy. >> we know from history that one test of society is how do they handle the transfer of power at the top? lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, a lot of people disliked him greatly, some 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. [ 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 the 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

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facts of these last four days may not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen already have 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. there was the state of texas court of inquiry and there were 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. >> yes, mr. president. >> i've got to have a top blue ribbon presidential commission to investigate this assassination. i want to ask several and chief

justice warren as chairman. >> if there is one public governmental personal universally respected for his integrity 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, that ought to be satisfying 90% of american public opinion. >> going to direct you to 911. >> i'm highly honored you'd think about me in connection with it. but i couldn't sit there with chief justice warren. >> 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

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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 then essentially endorse the findings of the report. >> the members of the warren commission, earl warren, john sherman cooper, jerry ford,

alal dulles, hale boggs, richard russell, and john j. mccoy realized at their initial meeting 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 the commission had to grapple with. 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, 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 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 courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that window and see warren felled he should talk to rub ee. there was all of these suggestions that he had kill him. the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time that was anticipated. the hourglass 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. >> this committee labored ten months and then brought forth a document close to a thousand pages. >> president johnson received that report today. >> twhat 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 the 27th. as of this moment the report on the public commission is public report. for the next hour hour we will

search it for answers. who killed john f. kennedy. the commission answers aun ekle harvey oswald. was he acting alone or was he part of a conspiracy. the commission answers he acted alone. >> we knew we weren't going to do all of the report but there was nothing to support the speculation that he was an agent, employee, or informant of the fbi, cia or any governmental agency. his palm print was found on a surface of the gun. >> the media had all concluded that this was the most

exhaustive investigation. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from the sixth floor window in the texas school composit compository. experts temon straighted that shots were fired above and to the side of president kennedy. >> the bullet entered here. came just just below the president's adam's apple. the commission believes that the same bullet then entered the right shoulder of governor connelly, passed through his chest and 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 thoroughness with which they went into it and at least it has dispelled many of the rumors and speculations that sounded this

very tragic event. >> it has been very well covered entirely. it leaves no doubt in my mind that we actually did assassinate the president of the united states. in the end we find confronting each other, the liar, the miss fit, the detector on the one had aed and seven distinguished american on the other. o oswald was never tried for any crime therefore there will always be questions raised by professionals, skeptics and 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. it has gained a vast number of readers in the recent ground swell of skepticism in the

feignedings of the warren report. >> we did not envision the breadth and scope of it. >> the author has some controversial things to say. >> no matter how illustrious they were, we were not going to be assured by a commission. >> we were having a little disagreement here. what were you saying? i think i disagree with mark lane on several counts. >> that is a picture of jack ruby. the commission said ruby was not there. this is a picture showing how the commission published it. he wasn't there when he published the picture because they cropped him out. >> chief justice warren -- you're accusing them of deliberate malfeasance.

>> you are alarming the american people. >> i think the american people should be alarmed. >> the public had been kept in the dark for so long about this but had an undying thirst that it only be quenched by facts. >> 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 who say both of the above. i want someone to tell me that to my face. naming names. the fact is, it comes standard with an engine that's been called the benchmark of its class. really, guys, i thought... it also has more rear legroom than other midsize sedans. and the volkswagen passat has a lower starting price than... much better. vo: hurry in and get 0% apr for 60 months on 2014 passat gasoline models plus a $1000 contract bonus.

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growing band of doubters. their booksant articles are on the newsstands. according to a recent poll, only one in three americans remains convinced that the warren report has the whole story. >> when you have a great number of people devoting their lives to looking at every word, every coma, they can create a lot of mischief. >> i believe very firmly that ruby and oswald knew each other. >> before we pursue that kind of questioning, let me ask you what kind of consear assy. was it communist. right wing, left wing. >> i'm convinced there were 2 rifle men. >> it is obvious that he was working for somebody else at that moment and that nobody else could not be anyone else than

fidel castro. >> he may have been the servient of the castro communist violence. >> there was an entire world of assassination buffs. some raised valid questions. >> could a bullet that had done that much come out looking like bullet 399. it is one of the very many highly improbables that we are asked to accept by the warren decision if we are to accept the validity of their report. >> some had completely mad theories. he was killed by a karate chop to the throat in september of 1964. evan had a right to give their views. >> you have apparently succeeded in persuading the majority of the american people that we cannot just the most 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. the only way to have faith in a democracy is to read the facts and reach our own conclusions. the deep mistrust of our own government all started wlt kennedy assassinatiassassinatio. in 1966 there's some cultural revolution. there's a sense that things have seriously gone wrong. the warren report is a very important part of that also of confident in the government. >> i don't think that all of the facts were brought out. i think something was held back. >> i think there were more involved in it than just oswald. >> i don't know how they cover

reach the report that only one person assassinated him. i saw the whole thing on television. i just happened to be home at the time. >> i think oswald was working for the cia, myself. >> why doesn't america believe the warren report. >> because of conspiracy theories, we've put it it mr a microscope. we are left with a series of critical questions about the assassinations. questions who have not been answered to the satisfaction of the people of the ut. >> when president kennedy was killed, he was not killed by one man, he was shot from a number of different directions from 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 the worldment we are laying it all out. right here in the notes of testimony. if we have transposed in error a possibly into a probability than we are delighted to have you point it out to us. 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 the window. three years after the kennedy assassination the same question is a important one did the commission get all of its answers right. tonight we will go over those arguments one by one, area by area. as the assassination was taking place, a dallas businessman called abraham supreta stood behind that low concrete wall looking down at elm street. it was 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 frame and each frame to reconstruct each moment of the assassinati assassination. >> part of the reason it catches our imaginations is because it causes us to look at things more and more complex. >> 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 is struck and his head doesn't go directly back this way but it 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 rage said when the shots were fired they looked to the against and they saw puffs of smoke coming from here. >> you see a little puff of smoke or steam like cigarette smoke. >> no one found anything other than the one found from oswald's rifle has ever been found and linked to the assassination. >> there were two doctors and one priest who said bluntly that there were entrance wounds in the president's neck. >> if the wound in the president's throat was an entrance wound than clearly this would be prove that the wound came from the front.

>> he has suggested that kennedy was hit in the front in the throat. >> the wound in the president's throat was pretty clear. 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. i 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 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 he because my interest was resuscitation. >> people will only remember that dr. parkland said he had

been shot possibly from the front so it's kind of trying to put the genie babck in the bottle. >> 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 by the very fact that in the picture you can clearly see the explosion of the bullet on the front side of the president and that that clearly indicates that the bullet came from the front. >> i don't believe that any physicist has ever said that. while contrary, it indicates that the bullet came from behind. >> if you look at the individual frames in the film, at 312, frame 312, the president's head is okay. at frame 313, 1/18th of a second

later, the president is struck in the head. what zre what direction is the president's head pushed. not backward but slightly forward. >> there is absolutely no doubt, sir. >> so at the all important moment of impact, the president's head is pushed forward indicating a shot from the rear where lee harvey oswald was. ♪ ♪fame, makes a man take things over♪ ♪fame, lets him loose, hard to swallow♪

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>> cbs news, 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 being given to the film and exactly when the president was hit first and then hit second. >> cbs news had a tower and target track constructed exactly to match the heights and distances in the plaza. >> if there wasn't enough time then you would have a second shooter. >> oswadl was not an expert shot. he was a good shot. cbs did it. the guy from the military did it. >> those three shots he got off in 2.6 seconds. >> the film became the lens to which the assassination was seen. if it didn't happen on the film, it didn't happen.

>> he started his camera after the limousine was about 70 feet into the plaza. oswald had the president's in his sights for many he cans before that. that gets into the question of 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 and the ultimate truth of film and images and they become our memory. >> is it impossible that the bullet would have gone through president kep kennedy, gone through governor connelly and not suffered any more damage that is shown in this photograph. >> i would hesitate to say that it is absolutely 100% impossible but it is highly improbable. >> could a single but theet that wounded kennedy and connelly.

if the warren commission couldn't prove that one shot hit both men it meant that there were two shooter and a conspira conspiracy. >> the conspiracy shooters claim that the second shot was a magic bullet. they argue that the bullet would have had to make a right turn and left turn in mid-air. the reality is that connelly was not seated directly in front of kennedy. if you figure out the alignment of where the men sat and if you look down 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 chf automobile, which it did not or someone else in the automobile. >> do believe that it did not hit governor connelly 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 with death in the electric chair. >> what do you think of this verdi verdict. >> i believe ruby was a paid killer to close the mouth of lee harvey oswald. the question of whether ruby question oswald remains a mystery. ruby would have been one of the most unlikely and moist hit men that the mob cover get. >> lee harvey oswald is supposed

to be potransported at 11:00. we know that at 11:20, three minutes later, a block away, jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evident showed that he stood there for anywhere of 5 to 15 seconds. if this is a hired assassin who is supposed to have some advanced information, he is the world's best timer. >> what type of man does he? >> jack is a very emotional type person. as i was saying, a while ago he would give you the shirt off his back at one moment and then do something as nutty the next.

>> 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 day talking with news men and distributing his card and also paking friends. >> jack ruby was a police and media groupie. he thought he was our friend. >> so i'm in this very same room friday night when we had the defendant up here. if you recall, he asked a question from out here. he was standing back here. i didn't know who he was. i thought he was a member of the press. he told me that he was a nightclub operator. >> ruby's act was out of a vigilante. he wanted nothing more to be known -- he wanted people to flock to his nightclub as the man who killed the man who killed the president.

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the most recent most spectacular development in the oswadl case involves the cia the spectacular district attorney of new orleans, the man they call the jolly green giant. >> do you believe that lee harvey oswald did not shoot president kennedy. >> i don't want to get involved in specialinglation but there's no question that there was a plot and there were a number of individuals involved. >> in 1967, he announced he solved the case. he found the real assassin. we will makes arrests.

he will obtain convictions. >> you wouldn't have paid attention to this accept he was the attorney general of new orleans. >> the mark lanes and conspiracy theorists all flocked initially to garrison. >> i can note 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 is a guy who is 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 builds 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, new orleans louisiana, he will be charged in participation in a conspiracy to murder john f. kennedy. the charges filed against me have no foundation. i have not be pried by the basis of these fantastic charges. i assume that in court i will be afforded an opportunity to approve my innocence clay shaw was a very well respected businessman in new oer lean, the kept of clay shaw has being part of an assassination consepiracy was too weird to believe. >> shaw was also a homosexual

and closeted. 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 fact that he could claim that he is mr. berk man. >> dean had described bertrand as having gayanci tendencies an representing gay as a lawyer. therefore garrison believed that he 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 against clay shaw is based on testimony that did not pass a lie detector test that garrison ordered and he knew it. >> did you say that the person that you knew is the person that you have seen as clay shaw. >> scouts honor, he is not. >> garrison started describing witnesses. intimidating witnesses. he said i will be made to serve a whole nine year sentence or i could be cut loose right away. >> hidoes leon have a last name? >> oswald. >> would you say these methods were illegal. >> i would very illegal and unethical. he had everyone involved in the assassination. he was the oil millionaires and

then it was the minute men. >> at one point he had 16 assassins in the deely plaza. with that many assassins, i don't know how he made it to the autopsy table. >> garrison said ruby's unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> he just changed the digits around, added digits, added letters. you reconstruct the numbers and that -- and then you subtract 1,300 that gives you ruby's unlist telephone number. >> mr. garrison if the p.o. didn't exist until late 1965. >> well that's a problem that you think to think over because you obviously missed the point. >> who is suppressing all of

this information. >> i will tell you who is suppressing it. the federal government is suppressing it. >> who in the federal government, 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 united states. >> mr. garrison has come up with no credible evident to support any of his theories. >> i think it's unfortunate that the media in this country has become so hysterical for fear of what it might see that it sepens all of its time and energy attacking the one serious portion of this investigation. >> i can't make any more comments about the case accept to say anybody who thinks it's just a theory is going to the awfully surprised at trial.

>> clay shaw came to court in good smepirits with his long awaited trial under way shaw seems almost relieved that his case is finally being heard. shaw sits quietly in this courthouse. he does not react when the state talks about things like kop spear assy. >> the trial went on for six weeks. it is important to know that not one witness produced by garrison survived cross-examination. >> the most shameful thing you've ever seen. everyone in the courtroom knew that shaw couldn't have been more innocent. >> in a unanimous vote by the 12 jury, shaw was found not guilty that he conspired to kill the late president john f. kennedy. >> why did you do it? >> after the not guilty verdict,

editorials around the country said it's one of the darkest chapters in america's jurisprudence history. it's just a crime. >> from what i saw and heard, hi, 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 garrison feels that the end justifies the means. he felt that if he could bring to the american people what he considered the truth of their president, any means whatsoever, it was to be used. it didn't matter who got hurt in the process. >> i would sum it up by saying any society which allows any man like jack kennedy to have the top of his head torn off and then protects the assassins and obstructs any inquiry in attempting to find the truth is not a great society. spokesperson: the volkswagen passat is heads above the competition, but we're not in the business of naming names. the fact is, it comes standard with an engine

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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 conspiracy theorists are over the last 50 years. at one time or another, they had accused 42 groups, 82 assassins and 214 people of being involved in the assassination. >> could oswald have won this.

>> as a reporter, the greatest story would have been to find out that somebody other than him did it. we tried to do it. but at every turn, things pointed to oswald as the shooter but also the only shooter. >> at its core, this is a very simple case. i don't know what this is all about. >> if a person is innocent of a crime, chances there is not going to be any evidence pointing towards guilt why? because he's innocent. >> but with oswald, the physical evidence, the circumstantial evidence, scientific evident, everything points towards his guilt. we'll never know why lee harvey oswadl 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 troubled boy who needed psychiatric help.

without which, he might turn violent. >> after hooi soigh school he py joined the marines. he was dishonorably discharged from the marines. >> are you a marks man. >> i would definitely say i am a marks man that is correct. that doesn't mean that i'm a communist. >> he desperately wants to become a soviet citizen. they turn him down. what does he do? he slashes his wrist and tries to commit suicide. >> lee harvey oswald had these dreams or dilutions that he had been harboring for a long time of an act that would lift him of his obscure it. a squad made of his in the marines said that oswald wants to do something that 10,000 years from now people would be talking about. it looked to me like a stupid r

irrational act. he felt like he wanted to make a mark on society by doing what he could. >> people who want to think that oswald was a patsy and oin innocent person. they forgot that when a policeman jumped out of the car to talk to him. oswald shoots him in the body plus his previous encounter with general walker. >> in the dallas morning news, interestingly it said there may be a connection between this guy who was arrested for killing a police officer and president kennedy -- >> oswald used to attend a small discussion group and he began to rail against his right wing general edwin walker who was calling for the invasion of

cuba. >> walker was about as right winged as you got in the early 60s. he saw walker as an american hit the hitler. >> oswald said someone should kill general walker. he planned very meticulously plan the attack. >> on march 31st, the 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 marine writing on the back hunter of fascists, april 6th, 1963. >> and then he went on the night of the 10th of april, took up his place and shot at general

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

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it is true that the answers to some questions leave us restless. the theory about the single bullet struck down both the president and the governor has too much about the long arm of coincidence 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 would be more comfortable? believing that a 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 cataclysmic circumstance and say, yes, that's the way the world works. for another group, that is quite insettling. >> they don't want to believe that something to random with occurred. can you believe that you could step off the curb someday and be killed by an oncoming car? nobody believes in that kind of stuff for themselves but it happens. for them, oddly, the notion of a conspiracy is more comforting than the absence of it. if there's a conspiracy, at

least there's a plan. i think the five bullets fired from at least two different directions is the result of a conspiracy. >> kennedy's killing touches off a believe in the idea, you can't trust government. >> there has been a loss of mora morale, a loss of confidence among the american people and the men and women who serve it. that is perhaps more wounding than the assassination itself. >> they lost so much faith in government, they actually think that the government is an accessory after the fact for the president's murder. the ain ssassination changes th 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

look at america in the 60s. you really say that day was a dividing point. i guess in the average man's life two or three emotional experiences that you doesn't forget because they are burned into his heart and his brain. no matter what happens to me, i remember november the 22nd as long as i live. it's impossible for me now to this day and i'm sure ten years from now, it will be impossible without looking at the sup suppository building. it's impossible to drive past that building and not think of president kennedy speaking there. >> kennedy will always be remembered alongside all the other presidents, even bill clinton. people 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'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. thursday on the 60s. ♪ ♪

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